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Comprehensible changelog of the linux kernel, inspired by [http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.php/DragonFly_Status Dragonfly's status]. Other places to get news about the linux kernel are [http://www.kernel-traffic.org Kernel traffic], [http://lwn.net/Kernel/ LWN kernel status], [http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/ LWN driver porting guide] and [http://lwn.net/Articles/2.6-kernel-api/ LWN list of API changes in 2.6] - many articles here link to LWN and much of the 2.6.x changelog was restored from them (you may be be interested in subscribing so Jonathan can keep up the good work ;) ) Changes made to the 2.5.x-2.6.0 development series can be found in the Linux25Changes page. Before adding things here look at the RULES section at the end of the page!! | #pragma keywords Linux, Kernel, Operating System, Linus Torvalds, Open Source, drivers, filesystems, network, memory management, scheduler, preemption, locking #pragma description Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux Kernel during the 2.6.x and 3.x development Changes done in each Linux kernel release. Other places to get news about the Linux kernel are [[http://lwn.net/Kernel/|LWN kernel status]] or the Linux Kernel mailing list (there is a web interface in [[http://www.lkml.org|www.lkml.org]] or [[https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/|lore.kernel.org/lkml]]). The lore.kernel.org/lkml/ archive is also available via NTTP if you prefer to use a newsreader: use `nntp://nntp.lore.kernel.org/org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel` for that. List of changes of older releases can be found at LinuxVersions. If you're going to add something here look first at LinuxChangesRules! |
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===== 2.6.15 ===== * '''STILL NOT RELEASED!''' * Page table scalability improvements: Currently, a single page table lock is used to protect all operations on an address space's page tables. This has been detected to cause scalability problems in largue multiprocessor systems ej: 512-cpu SGI altix, specially in heavily multithreaded workloads (threads of a same process share the same address space and hence the same page table lock). With this patch, a separate spinlock per page-table page is used, to guard the page table entries in that page. Splitting the lock is not quite for free: another cacheline access. So for now enable it by config for machines with 4 or more CPUs. While this (and many other scalability changes) may look high-end oriented now, remember that cheap multi-core desktops CPUs are there. [http://lwn.net/Articles/157151/ (LWN article)] [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112603203327134&w=2 (benchmark vs SGI's "reduced locking by using atomic page table operations" non-merged approach)] [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4c21e2f2441dc5fbb957b030333f5a3f2d02dea7 (commit)] * .text page fault SMP scalability optimization: This fixes a case where large systems wouldn't scale well while faulting in the .text. The reason was a useless overwrite of the same pte from all cpu [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1a44e149084d772a1bcf4cdbdde8a013a8a1cfde (commit)] * Swaptoken tuning: It turns out that the original swap token implementation, by Song Jiang, only enforced the swap token while the task holding the token is handling a page fault, this patch approximates that, like the page fault code does. It has the effect of automatically, and gradually, disabling the enforcement of the swap token when there is little or no paging going on, and "turning up" the intensity of the swap token code the more the task holding the token is thrashing [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fcdae29aa7a5c79f245110f6680afdc1858d3626 (commit)] * Demand faulting for huge pages [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4c887265977213985091476be40ab11dfdcb4caf (commit)] * ppc64: support 64k pages. Adds a new CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES which, when enabled, changes the kernel base page size to 64K. The resulting kernel still boots on any hardware. On current machines with 4K pages support only, the kernel will maintain 16 "subpages" for each 64K page transparently [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3c726f8dee6f55e96475574e9f645327e461884c (commit)] * Add generic memory add/remove and supporting functions for memory hotplug [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3947be1969a9ce455ec30f60ef51efb10e4323d1 (commit)] * "Cooperating processes" for the anticipatory I/O scheduler: Introduce the notion of cooperating processes (those that submit requests close to one another), and use these statistics to make better choices about whether or not to do anticipatory waiting [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f5b3db0017f8415301f3427b30263186e8478c3f (commit)] * IPv4/IPv6: UFO (UDP Fragmentation Offload) Scatter-gather approach: UFO is a feature wherein the Linux kernel network stack will offload the IP fragmentation functionality of large UDP datagram to hardware. This will reduce the overhead of stack in fragmenting the large UDP datagram to MTU sized packets [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e89e9cf539a28df7d0eb1d0a545368e9920b34ac (commit)] * Add the infrastructure to support hotplug CPU on ARM [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a054a811597a17ffbe92bc4db04a4dc2f1b1ea55 (commit)] * x86 hot plug CPU support of physical add of new processors (hotplug add/remove of already existing CPUs was already supported) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9f40a72a7e819789f66910c8cd60aab005cdb413 (commit)] * Add LSM hooks for key management facilities (see link) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=29db9190634067c5a328ee5fcc2890251b836b4b (commit)] * RCU torture-testing kernel module: This adds a tristate CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST, which enables an intense torture test of the RCU infratructure. This is needed for testing due to the continued changes to the RCU infrastructure [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a241ec65aeac3d69a08a7b153cccbdb7ea35063f (commit)] * Support for shared HPET interrupts: The driver previously acknowledged interrupts for both edge and level interrupts, but didn't actually allow a shared interrupt in the latter case [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0d29086177aaa1e7d14e6ebb7fc067b3ca6d5c11 (commit)] * Driver Core: add the ability for class_device structures to be nested: Allows struct class_device to be nested, so that another struct class_device can be the parent of a new one, instead of only having the struct class be the parent [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=51d172d5f3a193e4b8f76179b2e55d7a36b94117 (commit)] * Add vmalloc_node(size, node) (allocate necessary memory on the specified node) and get_vm_area_node(size, flags, node) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=930fc45a49ddebe7555cc5c837d82b9c27e65ff4 (commit)] * Generic dispatch queue: Implements generic dispatch queue which can replace all dispatch queues implemented by each iosched [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112238633622498&w=2 (mailing list)] [http://lwn.net/Articles/157208/ (LWN article)] [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8922e16cf6269e668123acb1ae1fdc62b7a3a4fc (commit)] * Reimplement elevator online switching code [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cb98fc8bb9c141009e2bda99c0db39d387e142cf (commit)] * Process Events Connector: It reports fork, exec, id change, and exit events for all processes to userspace. Applications that may find these events useful include accounting/auditing (e.g. ELSA), system activity monitoring (e.g. top), security, and resource management (e.g. CKRM) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9f46080c41d5f3f7c00b4e169ba4b0b2865258bf (commit)] * Optimized SHA1 implementation for ARM [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c09f98271f685af349d3f0199360f1c0e85550e0 (commit)] * Add sysfs support for ide tape [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d5dee80ad69439ad8dccf8fa4d7fed0068aec9cf (commit)] * Add "revision" support for having multiple revisions for each match/target in arp_tables and ip6_tables [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6b7d31fcdda5938e5d3f1f8b0922cc25aa200dfc (commit)] * Support for the Artemis and ATIK astronomical based USB CCD cameras [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c9c7746dd333c12f482af2f1e63ea7eafc7cd529 (commit)] * USB: delete the bluetty driver [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a6c82600d4058346ea6fd801bc21d7abcc1350d8 (commit)] * Nokia 7600/6230(i)/6170/66x0 DKU2 USB driver [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=50260b69bbec383058875de26dbde28b1a6f8d00 (commit)] * Nvidia Geforce 7800 series (7800, 7800 GTX, 7800 GO and 7800 GTX GO cards) framebuffer support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7015faa7df829876a0f931cd18aa6d7c24a1b581 (commit)], Mystique AGP support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=63921fbfbd87ec745e65d2e9aecdfdc9a4ce73f2 (commit)], add partial support for GMA900 within the i915GM chipset [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3a59026ba111d85b1a86af0f1c4e5a8ef1242d82 (commit)] * MPC8xx PCMCIA support (PowerPC 8xx series PCMCIA controller) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=de957c89b7dadb3147e885d7b6eb9db73d0eea57 (commit)] * Adds a RapidIO subsystem to the kernel. RIO is a switched fabric interconnect used in higher-end embedded applications [http://www.rapidio.org http://www.rapidio.org] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=394b701ce4fbfde919a9bcbf84cb4820a7c6d47c (commit)] * Support for SA1100 Jornada flash device support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=183e1a349466a1b90430a58f3efad25a3e555cb2 (commit)] * Resurrect Cobalt (MIPS-based) support for 2.6 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c4ed38a0c6e2e5c4906296758f816ee71373792f (commit)] * Base Au1200 (MIPS-based) 2.6 support [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e3ad1c23ba72214669b364c6fa304531dc768c3e (commit)] * Add support for BCM1480 family of chips (MIPS-based) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f137e463b50aadba91bd116f99c59ccb9c15a12f (commit)] * Support for sharp zaurus sl-5500 touchscreen [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1753298947afe5eb56da755bc057f1868f345ec1 (commit)] and its PCMCIA slot [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=77bb86a1b9f8b872d8efc33c4f4359f809220252 (commit)] * Add support for the Sharp SL-6000x (Tosa) series of PDAs [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8459c159f7de832eaf888398d2abf466c388dfa6 (commit)] * SuperHyway support for SH4-202 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d5cb9783536a41df9f9cba5b0a1d78047ed787f7 (commit)] * Add support for the AMCC PowerPC 440SPe SoC, including PCI Express in root port mode [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b0f7b8bc57ee90138a7c429951457027a90c326f (commit)] * SHM_NORESERVE flags for shmget(): Similar to MAP_NORESERVE for shared memory segments. This is mainly to avoid abuse of OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS and this flag is ignored for OVERCOMMIT_NEVER [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bf8f972d3a1daf969cf44f64cc36d53bfd76441f (commit)] |
You can discuss the latest Linux kernel changes on the [[http://forum.kernelnewbies.org/list.php?4|New Linux Kernel Features Forum]]. |
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===== 2.6.14 ===== * Released October 27, 2005 [http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.14 changelog] * Numa-aware slab allocator: It creates slabs on multiple nodes and manages slabs in such a way that locality of allocations is optimized. Each node has its own list of partial, free and full slabs. All object allocations for a node occur from node specific slab lists [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e498be7dafd72fd68848c1eef1575aa7c5d658df (commit - benchmarks)] * Lazy page table copies in fork() for VMAs without anonymous pages (the ones with anonymous pages are still copied): Defer copying of ptes until fault time when it is possible to reconstruct the pte from backing store, speeding up fork() greatly specially for processes using lots of shared memory [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d992895ba2b27cf5adf1ba0ad6d27662adc54c5e (commit)] * Add /proc/$PID/smaps: This file will shows how much memory is resident in each mapping. Useful for people who want to perform memory consumption analysis [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e070ad49f31155d872d8e96cab2142840993e3c0 (commit)] * Add /proc/$PID/numa_maps: This file will show on which nodes pages reside [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6e21c8f145f5052c1c2fb4a4b41bee01c848159b (commit)] * Lock-free file descriptor look-up [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ab2af1f5005069321c5d130f09cce577b03f43ef (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b835996f628eadb55c5fb222ba46fe9395bf73c7 (commit)] * Four-level page table support for the ppc64 architecture: extends the usable user address range to 44 bits (16T). [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e28f7faf05159f1cfd564596f5e6178edba6bd49 (commit)] * Support hotplug cpu on 32-bit SMP powermacs: When a cpu is off-lined, it is put into sleep mode with interrupts disabled. It can be on-lined again by asserting its soft-reset pin, which is connected to a GPIO pin [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=31139971b3dc9fbb2e8a8572fb81e6e8470f363a (commit)] * Add TASK_NONINTERACTIVE task state bit to the cpu scheduler: It can be used by blocking points to mark the task's wait as "non-interactive". This does not mean the task will be considered a CPU-hog - the wait will simply not have an effect on the waiting task's priority - positive or negative alike [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d79fc0fc6645b0cf5cd980da76942ca6d6300fa4 (commit)] * [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2637.txt PPTP] (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) conntrack support and NAT helper added to allow proper management of multiple NAT'd PPTP connections. PPTP, a Microsoft-designed protocol, is used in many places to provide VPN access due to the native support in Microsoft Windows. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPTP Wikipedia article] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=926b50f92a30090da2c1a8675de954c2d9b09732 (commit)] * DCCP: "Datagram Congestion Control Protocol". Datagram protocol (like UDP), but with a congestion control mechanism. [http://lwn.net/Articles/149756/ (LWN article)] Currently a [http://www.icir.org/kohler/dcp/draft-ietf-dccp-spec-11.txt RFC draft] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7c657876b63cb1d8a2ec06f8fc6c37bb8412e66c (commit)] * Implement SKB fast cloning: Protocols that make extensive use of SKB cloning, for example TCP, eat at least 2 allocations per packet sent as a result. To cut the kmalloc() count in half, we implement a pre-allocation scheme wherein we allocate 2 sk_buff objects in advance, then use a simple reference count to free up the memory at the correct time [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d179cd12928443f3ec29cfbc3567439644bd0afc (commit)] * Add netlink connector: userspace <-> kernel space easy to use communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional message bus using netlink as its backend [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7672d0b54411371e0b6a831c1cb2f0ce615de6dc (commit)], also a "async connector mode" [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=acd042bb2de50d4e6fb969281a00cc8b8b71e46d (commit)] * IPV6: Support several new sockopt / ancillary data in Advanced API (RFC3542): IPV6_RECVPKTINFO, IPV6_PKTINFO, IPV6_RECVHOPOPTS, IPV6_HOPOPTS, IPV6_RECVDSTOPTS, IPV6_DSTOPTS, IPV6_RTHDRDSTOPTS, IPV6_RECVRTHDR, IPV6_RTHDR, IPV6_RECVHOPOPTS, IPV6_HOPOPTS, IPV6_{RECV,}TCLASS [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=333fad5364d6b457c8d837f7d05802d2aaf8a961 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=41a1f8ea4fbfcdc4232f023732584aae2220de31 (commit)] * [http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ FUSE]: Allows to implement a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d8a5ba45457e4a22aa39c939121efd7bb6c76672 (commit)] * [http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/ 9P support]: Linux port of the [http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html Plan9]'s [http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html 9P protocol] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=93fa58cb831337fdf5d36b3b913441100a484dae (commit)] * [http://relayfs.sourceforge.net/ RelayFS]: Relayfs is just a bunch of per-cpu kernel buffers that can be efficiently written into from kernel code. These buffers are represented as files which can be mmap'ed and directly read from in user space. The purpose of this setup is to provide the simplest possible mechanism allowing potentially large amounts of data to be logged in the kernel and 'relayed' to user space." [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e82894f84dbba130ab46c97748c03647f8204f92 (commit)] * securityfs filesystem [http://lwn.net/Articles/153366/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b67dbf9d4c1987c370fd18fdc4cf9d8aaea604c2 (commit)] * Suspend support for CIFS filesystem [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ede1327ea4ca8019ec6df24b3e837def091c26b8 (commit)] * Enable atomic inode security labeling on ext3 and ext2: it enables atomic security labeling of newly created inodes by altering the fs code to invoke a new LSM hook to obtain the security attribute to apply to a newly created inode and to set up the incore inode security state during the inode creation transaction. This parallels the existing processing for setting ACLs on newly created inodes [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5e41ff9e0650f327a6c819841fa412da95d57319 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=10f47e6a1b8b276323b652053945c87a63a5812d (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ac50960afa31877493add6d941d8402fa879c452 (commit)] * SELinux memory improvements: Reduce access rules memory usage by 20x [http://www.livejournal.com/users/james_morris/6197.html James Morris explanation] [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=782ebb992ec20b5afdd5786ee8c2f1b58b631f24 (commit)] * NTFS: Support journals ($Logfile) which have been modified by chkdsk. This means users can boot into Windows after we marked the volume dirty. The Windows boot will run chkdsk and then reboot. The user can then immediately boot into Linux rather than having to do a full Windows boot first before rebooting into Linux [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e7a1033b946f4f2622f2b338ab107f559aad542c (commit)] * SAS transport class [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c7ebbbce366c02e5657ac6b6059933fe0353b175 (commit)] * Remove ACPI S4 BIOS support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b01d8684e9e5b04270970c97df856d47668267e3 (commit)] * [http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ ipw2100] and [http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ ipw2200] wireless drivers (intel centrino) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2c86c275015c880e810830304a3a4ab94803b38b (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=43f66a6ce8da299344cf1bc2ac2311889cc88555 (commit)] * [http://hostap.epitest.fi/ HostAP]: Adds support to work as "Wireless Access Point" [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ff1d2767d5a43c85f944e86a45284b721f66196c (commit)] * [http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.Extensions.html Wireless extensions] API update to version 19 [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=112568599006559&w=2 (mail)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6582c164f2b3b6e58d1f13c1c031b19ee691eb14 (commit)] * ISA DMA suspend for x86/x86-64 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=795312e763569ce4df67e7a0ca726a9901358fa2 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7dc24db1757f950f8bd21b7191106d4bf5134be7 (commit)] * PCI: Support PCI PM CAP version 3 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3fe9d19f9e86a55679f5f2b38ec0a43a1a510cee (commit)] * Keys: Add possessor permissions to keys. It adds extra permission grants to keys for the possessor of a key in addition to the owner, group and other permissions bits. This makes SUID binaries easier to support without going as far as labelling keys and key targets using the LSM facilities [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=664cceb0093b755739e56572b836a99104ee8a75 (commit)] * Driver for the IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS), an accelerometer found in most modern Thinkpads [http://lwn.net/Articles/155440/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=860e1d6b46bd4cbc67d8d065f0f682143513382f (commit)] * Add Apple USB touchpad driver for the USB touchpad which can be found on post-February 2005 Apple Powerbooks [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f7214ff4e8248513ec626212b2c1a3ca0b2a0888 (commit)] * Spinlock consolidation [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fb1c8f93d869b34cacb8b8932e2b83d96a19d720 (commit)] * Largefile support for accounting: The accounting subsystem in the kernel can not correctly handle files larger than 2GB. This fixes it by adding the O_LARGEFILE flag [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6c9c0b52b8c6b68b05bb06efd7079a8fc5e9ba60 (commit)] * Detect soft lockups, new debug feature (CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP). When enabled then per-CPU watchdog threads are started, which try to run once per second. If they get delayed for more than 10 seconds then a callback from the timer interrupt detects this condition and prints out a warning message and a stack dump [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8446f1d391f3d27e6bf9c43d4cbcdac0ca720417 (commit)] * Add kzalloc(): new function, it allows to obtain pre-zeroed memory [http://lwn.net/Articles/147014/ (LWN article)] [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dd3927105b6f65afb7dac17682172cdfb86d3f00 (commit)] * Add schedule_timeout_{,un}interruptible() [http://lwn.net/Articles/149019 (LWN article)] [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=64ed93a268bc18fa6f72f61420d0e0022c5e38d1 (commit)] ===== 2.6.13 ===== * Released August 29, 2005 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.13 changelog] * Execute-in-place support: Traditionally, programs are loaded from disk to memory to be executed. However, the current wave of embedded devices store programs in a ROM/flash chip. XIP allows the kernel executing programs directly from that ROM, without being copied to RAM (saving RAM space), and bypassing the page cache/io scheduler layers (since they're not needed). [http://lwn.net/Articles/135472/ (LWN article)] [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d763b7a4736e219528f77bf6bc75dd78b1d75c03 (commit)] * i386 CPU hotplug support: provides i386 architecture support for safely unregistering and registering processors during runtime [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f370513640492641b4046bfd9a6e4714f6ae530d (commit)] * Add /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable to provide system-wide control over whether or not set-user-ID and set-group-ID processes produce core dumps. The values accepted are: 0 (default) - traditional behaviour, any process which has changed privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped. 1 - (debug) - all processes dump core when possible. The core dump is owned by the current user and no security is applied. This is intended for system debugging situations only. Ptrace is unchecked. 2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped readable by root only. This allows the end user to remove such a dump but not access it directly. For security reasons core dumps in this mode will not overwrite one another or other files. This mode is appropriate when adminstrators are attempting to debug problems in a normal environment [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d6e711448137ca3301512cec41a2c2ce852b3d0a (commit)] * x86 now uses the generic PCI bus setup code for assigning unassigned resources * Voluntary preemption patches * build-time configurable clock interrupt frequency: Now HZ defaults to 250 in x86. 1000 is better for "interactivity" (desktops) and 100 is good for performance (servers) and saves some energy in laptops. [http://lwn.net/Articles/145973/ (LWN article)] * inotify [http://lwn.net/Articles/104343/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443 (commit)] * Support for the Xtensa architecture: [http://www.tensilica.com/products/xtensa_architecture.htm 32-bit architecture] used in embedded devices [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8e1a6dd2fddcc73c9e933758361e3d9c076c688a (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4bedea94545165364618d403d03b61d797acba0b (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5a0015d62668e64c8b6e02e360fbbea121bfd5e6 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=249ac17e96811acc3c6402317dd5d5c89d2cbf68 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3f65ce4d141e435e54c20ed2379d983d362a2cb5 (commit)] * Improved CFQ IO scheduler: With support for I/O priorities [http://lwn.net/Articles/143474/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=22e2c507c301c3dbbcf91b4948b88f78842ee6c9 (commit)] * kexec and kdump: Kexec allows users to load a new kernel from another running kernel. By preserving the memory contents in a crash scenario, kexec allows to implement kdump. Kdump is able to get a memory dump of the previous kernel, and be used as a debugging tool. [http://lwn.net/Articles/108595/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dc009d92435f99498cbc579ce76bf28e837e2c14 (commit)] * Runtime selectable TCP congestion algorithm: Allow using setsockopt to set TCP congestion control to use on a per socket basis. [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5f8ef48d240963093451bcf83df89f1a1364f51d (commit)] - [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=317a76f9a44b437d6301718f4e5d08bd93f98da7 (commit)] [http://lwn.net/Articles/128681/ (LWN article)] * Add several TCP congestion modules: H-TCP [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a7868ea68d29eb2c037952aeb3b549cf05749a18 commit], TCP Hybla [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=835b3f0c0d7e1f716c45ec576662eac7a68b8548 (commit)], High Speed TCP (HS-TCP) [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a628d29b56d3f420bf3ff1d7543a9caf3ce3b994 (commit)], TCP Westwood [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8727076289ec55298a05cabddf02b374d13c1624 (commit)], TCP BIC [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=83803034f4233d810c4adc52008921da060c55d1 (commit)] * Add Direct Rendering Manager device driver for VIA Unichrome chipsets [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=22f579c621e2f264e6d093b07d75f99bc97d5df2 (commit)] * 32/64-bit DRM ioctl compatibility: 64 bit architectures running 32 bit software have to be compatible with 32-bit ioctl calls [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9a18664506dbce5e23f3c5de7b1c5a042dd26520 (commit)] * Add ACL support for NFSv3 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b7fa0554cf1ba6d6895cd0a5b02989a26e0bc704 (commit)] - [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a257cdd0e2179630d3201c32ba14d7fcb3c3a055 (commit)] and NFSv4 [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4b580ee3dc00f9828a9a7aad2724f448fdc94075 (commit)] - [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=aa1870af92d8f6d6db0883696516a83ff2b695a6 (commit)] * New driver for the "trusted computing" (TPM) crap^Wchip [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ebb81fdb3dd0be7514b84197c4f8388a17130f04 (commit)] * Removal of the devfs configuration option ===== 2.6.12 ===== * Released June 17, 2005 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.12 changelog] * Pageout throttling: With silly pageout testcases it is possible to place huge amounts of memory under I/O. With a large request queue (CFQ uses 8192 requests) it is possible to place _all_ memory under I/O at the same time. This means that all memory is pinned and unreclaimable and the VM gets upset and goes oom. This patch limits the amount of memory which is under pageout writeout to be a little more than the amount of memory at which balance_dirty_pages() callers will synchronously throttle. This means that heavy pageout activity can starve heavy writeback activity completely, but heavy writeback activity will not cause starvation of pageout [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=3799f8fcebf940f21c69e80ded882245a8bc67a7 (commit)] * Address space randomization: With these patches applied, each process's stack will begin at a random location, and the beginning of the memory area used for mmap() (which is where shared libraries go, among other things) will be randomized as well [http://lwn.net/Articles/121845/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=6a638354be1afb0a134558869e05ddc414707205 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=f1a6b09deaee24b90b1fab42f93ce1b90f0d319b (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=6562d1975c95c8d6817e373c54f256013d062c5c (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=ad4f9c53a04ce077ae2dde82029bb20a6db705ab (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=c0e5a50b1f28e83b1563453f90f6f0866f3a9a90 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=42a172a814759a29020e5d1ee580bf4eb86afed2 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=6833da342273d41d059333e7b6ae81f18dbe6dde (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=9bdac354e0bea82ce76ebdf51d6bbd3993782f78 (commit)] * Cpusets [http://lwn.net/Articles/127936/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=263c0646931c7259ce59188190e0822a121fc0ad (commit)] * "resource limits": RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO added to allow non-root tasks to raise nice and rt priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior [http://lwn.net/Articles/134460/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e43379f10b42194b8a6e1de342cfb44463c0f6da (commit)] * Multilevel security implementation for SELinux * Support for Cyrix MediaGX (aka GEODE) CPUs. Linux and GCC treat this chip as a 586TSC with some extended instructions and alignment reqirements [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=5576007ac28bdd68800ba5816d30ec393c5765ff (commit)] * I/O barrier support for serial ATA drives * Block I/O barrier rewrite (enables full barrier support on serial ATA drives) * Annotate /proc/$PID/maps with [heap]/[stack]/[vdso] markers [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=1d39bbb3d2b67ef76d1aaa1bdef39aee2971015b (commit)] * [http://www.superh.com/products/shyway.htm SuperHyway bus support] * Device mapper multipath support [http://lwn.net/Articles/124703/ (LWN article)] * Hot-pluggable parallel ports [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=2a6c1160578808ec4ef927ccd811791d1635f264 (commit)] * Updated FAT attributes: This updates the FAT attributes as well as corrects the handling of VFAT ctime [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=71b60d7133806152284b3507a901bda2ae645ab0 (commit)] * Handle MS_SYNCHRONOUS flag in FAT: FAT filesystem has been ignoring the "sync" mount option for ages. This patches fixes this, but (obviously) degrades performance unless you mount your FAT filesystem as asynchronous ("async mount option) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=3e261a474262b622709d4851a1f26123e61ab13c (commit)] * Add timing information to printk messages [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=bd0ac8842ea3484a090fd30507c80ae4cb22de3b (commit)] * Allow admin to enable only some of the Magic-Sysrq functions [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=ea59ccebb3a5a8e76bf9505047e7706027ccf35a (commit)] * Loglevel boot option [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=5d65f423092e68ab44a2a6386c0b3f1985f79c41 (commit)] * Remove IPV6 "experimental" status ===== 2.6.11 ===== * Released March 2, 2005 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11 changelog] * Conversion to 4-level page tables [http://lwn.net/Articles/117749/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=fcbb3756afbe9a4703c45cab86f947412a0358cf (commit)] * New Pipe implementation [http://lwn.net/Articles/118750/ (LWN article)] * "Big Kernel Semaphore": Turns the Big Kernel Lock into a semaphore [http://lwn.net/Articles/102253/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=deac7335cecb3c1e23a032a3f56a34c643871d3b (commit)] * Introduces the CAP_AUDIT_WRITE and CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL capabilities [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=324689781d5d305903f86578b71596fb2a96dd05 (commit)] * Simplify readahead code [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=e8eb956c01529eccc6d7407ab9529ccc6522600f (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=af006eae66249e03d1024fb71cdfae58e7fa7b7e (commit)] * Support for Extended Attributes in the body of large inode in ext3: saves space and improves performance in some cases [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=f0d1dbed7714ea06242c180c215641a92e655414 (commit)] * Add /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=11e4268cffc468b60d2b756dc8eb455112b52308 (commit)] * Remove bitmaps from the buddy allocator [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=dda3a6ba68c264b2c850f2d9500b18d0c407a443 (commit)] * Enhanced I/O and memory accounting [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=c3adb238a7557416a3aa472038343d59c986d062 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=cb6850ae19e4f6bf8ccec0ca770c7b4d1c5f9669 (commit)] * AMD Dual-core support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=7bd66939b746c4c5a69eb74e2f83f967540e4691 (commit)] * Add Fujitsu FR-V CPU architecture [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=e003366285ac6c770b59cc618f9716c2e0ac0430 (commit)] * TCP port randomization [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=97f941fb4ca03c60da6f466721cc99f576f35877 (commit)] * SATA support for Intel ICH7 * DebugFS [http://lwn.net/Articles/115405/ (LWN article)] * Infiniband support [http://lwn.net/Articles/112531/ (LWN article)] * Remove UMSDOS [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=0512a33a91dbe2241a9a39ddeb3af1c27180aabd (commit)] * Major problems with TCP/IP BIC (the default congestion control) are resolved ===== 2.6.10 ===== * Released December 24, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.10 changelog] * Accounting: report single record for multithreaded process. In kernels before 2.6.10, a separate process accounting record was written for each thread created using NTPL. Since 2.6.10, a single accounting record is written for the entire process [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=fa4c8b605c3313de9e3170b68b9e4576a6a5d45e (commit)] * x86-64 clustered APIC support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=7f8b8c2a84d1098aec520d1f701c752f10bc5396 (commit)] * Make rlimit settings per-process instead of per-thread for POSIX compliance [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=f1a81f9149ac2321978e1357eb697f95cc31e989 (commit)] * POSIX compliant CPU clocks [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=5842ca68fe016d84f5e9a247fa4d7bdd54ff4ee4 (commit)] * Show aggregate per-process counters in /proc/$PID/stat: Add up resource usage counters for live and dead threads to show aggregate per-process usage. This mirrors the new getrusage() semantics. /proc/$PID/task/$TID/stat still has the per-thread usage [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=99ae4bcef104d602d790eb7da7cfc241ca6eefee (commit)] * Report the pages used for pagetables in /proc/$PID/status [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=713a7e3b7505f501892f031c5a51f7d6c0b89c11 (commit)] * Display committed memory limit (per the current overcommit ratio) and the amount of memory remaining under this limit in meminfo [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=2fdc35b54263b69e695334e465210a8db55a4cfa (commit)] * Thrashing control tuning [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=146f46fa1ec0b76fa76bced34b4849934791532c (commit)] * Big Kernel Lock preemption * IRQ subsystem code rework [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=133bb1db6e22ec5c8b4d0d015deed5b2fa3e447c (commit)] * Removal of the "BIO walking" helper functions * Generic circular buffer type [http://lwn.net/Articles/107314/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=2dbf22c09c31b815202b2ffd6ba2efbfa66c0f72 (commit)] * Ext3 block reservation [http://lwn.net/Articles/81357/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=75e03cd329884cf024993a2d61c4c32bf7bf6c49 (commit)] * Ext3 online resizing patches [http://lwn.net/Articles/89560/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=05a7a2e19ecde7b7c559bdf5009327cff3504d9b (commit)] * Add I/O error handling to journal operations in reiserfs [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=ee0bc517002dcc9e80de36ba0a75bba39d951da9 (commit)] * sysfs backing store [http://lwn.net/Articles/69523/ (LWN article)] * I/O space write barriers [http://lwn.net/Articles/103183/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=50ff053344ac1afbed10f2d5ef0749f816401890 (commit)] * Modular, on-the-fly switchable I/O schedulers [http://lwn.net/Articles/102976/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=d35eec28b8b0da58d9e7d16548fc9105535fa7fe (commit)] * CFQ v2 update [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=579eef5fa2be5ed12bc8d3df3555f4e2d725af64 (commit)] * BSD secure levels module [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=05f59528b1256613657b6f7fdd7d5bd4b20cb902 (commit)] * In-kernel cryptographic key management [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=33a2761288241488ccccedc24688cf33acfba0c9 (commit)] * DVD+RW support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=dcc573b12a9d623a13ef156bbde6b116507b437a (commit)] * CDRW packet writing support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=23cabaea5ba85ddaba415e1d5e12073e2ce7f8e3 (commit)] * kernel events notification mechanism * Lock initializater unification [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=e09813fb9c74241a00883e6411e6e3cf66d63339 (commit)] * Panick blinking: Makes the keyboard blink when a oops happens - useful to know if the kernel has really oopsed or not (ej: X.org bugs) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=5234bcafa9747f78ef723cb8bad14635cf17a811 (commit)] * Reworking of spin lock initialization [http://lwn.net/Articles/109505 (LWN article)] * Configurable /proc/kcore [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=71f16058e2ff1a154e6ed685a66819322c4cdf21 (commit)] ===== 2.6.9 ===== * Released October 19, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.9 changelog] * Token-based thrashing control [http://lwn.net/Articles/96621 (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=e6a32818710d24cc910ec4d4333f99972b3cf563 (commit)] * Concurrent O_SYNC write support: In databases it is common to have multiple threads or processes performing O_SYNC writes against different parts of the same file.[http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=96deebee4470587bc1a855c787d6919df681cdac (commit)] * Reiserfs v3 barrier support: Add reiserfs support for flush barriers, mount with -o barrier=flush to enable them. Barriers are triggered on fsync and for log commits [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=b736095823b073209ef38622227c64c593260b73 (commit)] * ext3 barrier support: Mount with "mount -o barrier=1" to enable barriers [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=52a75614f1f753e01a5a9610c5390b5b7f795912 (commit)] * Support of disk barriers: [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=74c50b2c1af1b3535cf6c39ce684e60fa9f5dfdb (commit)] * m32r architecture support * Scheduler statistics: adds lots of CPU scheduler stats in /proc/$PID/stat [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=34b334118622daae225ab8fd56c79f54f6e15774 (commit)] * RLIMIT_MEMLOCK semantics change: In Linux kernels before 2.6.9, only privileged processes (CAP_IPC_LOCK) could lock memory, and the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK soft resource limit placed an upper limit on the number of bytes that a privileged process can lock. Since kernel 2.6.9: no limits are placed on the amount of memory that a privileged process can lock; and an unprivileged process is now able to lock memory up to the soft limit defined by RLIMIT_MEMLOC [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=adaeb8014406050050cf09416d1b0e3c23838fdb (commit)] * Tunable "max sectors" limit for block I/O requests (can help latency reduction) * New prctl() option allowing programs to change their name (PR_GET_NAME) * AMD dual-core support * Out-of-line spinlocks [http://lwn.net/Articles/97537/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=2ea380e357f23ad37c1a06c6af509b68e9d57bb6 (commit)] * Support for POSIX's waitid() Also, now linux now supports the POSIX specification that SIGCHLD is sent to the parent when one of its children resumes as a consequence of receiving a SIGCONT signal. Also, WCONTINUED flag is added to waitpid() and waitid() [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=8e81583bfd488bb0b10aa799f7ec5f7b4a79fe73 (commit)]. * Shared memory scalability improvements * "flex mmap" user-space memory layout [http://lwn.net/Articles/91829/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=0f7c9b1849d5365d27d4553e471a8e721c8dabb7 (commit)] * x86 PAE swapspace expansion. PAE is artificially limited in terms of swapspace to the same bitsplit as ordinary i386, a 5/24 split (32 swapfiles, 64GB max swapfile size), when a 5/27 split (32 swapfiles, 512GB max swapfile size) is feasible. This patch transparently removes that limitation by using more of the space available in PAE's wider ptes for swap ptes [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=7c1c60d14d175c41c5db03f20f44c80c4d683e52 (commit)] * Show Active/Inactive on per-node meminfo: The patch below enable to display the size of Active/Inactive pages on per-node meminfo (/sys/devices/system/node/node%d/meminfo) like /proc/meminfo [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=6d4a504b45abc756eac6374591f74c7afb722b6a (commit)] * Change in TCP ICMP source quench behavior * [http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget/h2-otg.html USB "on the go" support] * New USB storage driver * Support for more than eight partitions on BSD-labeled disks * Ethtool support in the loopback driver * NETIF_F_LLTX interface [http://lwn.net/Articles/101215/ (LWN article)] * DSCP decapsulation for IPsec [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=cac8c9f3e6cd37a3dd079e12a01fc41d2650bf39 (commit)] * Removal of the ancient "busmouse" driver * Infrastructure for cluster-wide file locking * DRM subsystem cleanups * "fake NUMA" mode for x86-64 testing * Small-footprint tmpfs implementation * Support for scheduler profiling (seeing where context switches come from) * Automatic TCP window scaling calculation * Some VFS interface improvements * Executable support in hugetlb mappings * The Whirlpool digest algorithm * Removal of the very last suser() call ===== 2.6.8 ===== * Released August 14, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.8 changelog] * Allow x86 to reenable interrupts on lock contention [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=e61229e7fab63f09bcab5f6d54477453ca98684c (commit)] * VFS shrinkage tuning: This adds /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure, which tunes the vfs cache versus pagecache scanning pressure. At vfs_cache_pressure=0 we don't shrink dcache and icache at all, at vfs_cache_pressure=100 there is no change in behaviour, at vfs_cache_pressure > 100 we reclaim dentries and inodes harder [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=95afb3658a8217ff2c262e202601340323ef2803 (commit)] * Conversion to the new symbolic link resolution code (which will eventually allow an increase in the maximum link depth) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=c989bc66ec92aabcf88f429da52a798003edc505 (commit)] * Add O_NOATIME open flag support (GNU extension): If this bit is set, read will not update the access time of the file. It is useful if you want to do something with the file atime (for instance, moving files that have not been accessed in a while to somewhere else, or something like Debian's popularity-contest) but you also want to read all files periodically (for instance, tripwire or debsums) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=037c5577398a9d87f0b9f8d68cbf17324b5b05fe (commit)] * MNT_EXPIRE for umount(): Intrinsic automount and mountpoint degradation support. This adds support for a filesystem (such as kAFS) to perform automounting intrinsically without the need for a userspace daemon. It also adds support for such mountpoints to be degraded at the filesystem's behest until they've been untouched long enough that they'll be removed [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=92b2af55e9bd44724700c8eef889c7b368df6c94 (commit)] * Process Accounting Version 3 format added [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=f0743e893fb6ede7126ee6bb9ebad092fc2e346c (commit)] * RLIMIT_SIGPENDING added, introducing per user rlimits for both queued signals and POSIX message queues [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=05eecc7a8a3765f2dd4b4d5d8a2e928f27c620f0 (commit)], and remove unused queued_signals global accounting - rtsig-max and rtsig-nr /proc interfaces went away [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=31c7f302112bb18a7fd93cf07f52478a2688f62b (commit)] * support for 64-bit Super-H hardware * Removal of the PC9800 subarchitecture (lack of mainteinance) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=3f7da6b29ad4612b09ddb39dd7938d11e9551ba6 (commit)] * Preemptible kernel support for the PPC64 architecture [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=5cc01b3b2ec3228457146904098dbaed01fbe0f8 (commit)] * Oprofile support for ppc32 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=1383f594343b33211e1755524ecfd6c70ea8d1c9 (commit)] * Support for new Apple Powerbooks [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=eb5b2db2e449555fb06da1a6c81506f7593a7ad3 (commit)] * x86 no-execute support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=3d543a2d0ce112d99d584fa99a5005629bc3c871 (commit)] * Asynchronous I/O support for USB gadgets * HPET (High Precision Event Timer) support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=d4e2cce3c8d7a766e474e9643514f1e6be7d758d (commit)] * Reworked symbolic link lookup implementation [http://lwn.net/Articles/91959/ (LWN article)] * Lockless loopback [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=b2079a04d5b73b7cf82bb88897e86e2aee91bbc4 (commit)] * New "CPU mask" implementation * RCU performance improvements [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=48adcee8afd0838517a7e3150daa617f5b0a0c25 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=2321dce287dbaf69028be4678956451c9f1157b1 (commit)] * New wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() macro * Sysfs knobs for tuning the CFQ I/O scheduler [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=cde1f64d5ecbc78bc605937540421914b4f8cb8f (commit)] * Mirroring, snapshot and dm-zero targets for the device mapper [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=82fe372266fddf32677a7e0b4e2908bbcecf90dd (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=9665bd2e2f0ac296d7e4c40a50978dfa9f6dce07 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=db40a292b7da5640a8a464b1e8a8251eaf175fd8 (commit)] * Reiserfs data=journal support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=e4861db92ba98c0280abf75bbbe344a14254997b (commit)] * Added permissions checking on raw SCSI commands from user space [http://lwn.net/Articles/98379/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=edfbc0a1c7df14728a31734ecafbbcacac85ac20 (commit)] * Removal of the fcntl() file operations method * New internal infrastructure for handling file positioning and seekability [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=9286c49cc35e0a5a4ed240a80ae9ef17b37948d8 (commit)] * Removal of the (non-functional) "fastroute" networking option * TEA, XTEA, Khazad crypto algorithms [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=ca28e25885ef28aeb01553d46e225805f9f26b10 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=1dbd347b7c1f8d879361609eabed7100b5f30754 (commit)] * Add deb-pkg build option [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=4c25efaec1f969b16102dea37a38f33a2848cca5 (commit)] * TCP/IP congestion control changes from Reno to BIC ===== 2.6.7 ===== * Released June 16, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.7 changelog]: * Scheduling Domains [http://lwn.net/Articles/80911/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=5a2bc24fc647c9dfb10faae4b3a86ef05fc6f596 (commit)] * Full object-based reverse-mapping scheme and removal of the per-page PTE chains [http://lwn.net/Articles/86715/ (LWN article)] * Filtered Wakeups [http://lwn.net/Articles/83633/ (LWN article)] * Ability to re-enable interrupts while waiting in spin_lock_irqsave() (for all architectures now) * msleep() function for millisecond-scale waits * del_singleshot_timer(): Deleting timers quickly [http://lwn.net/Articles/84836/ (LWN article)] * shrink "dentry" structure * Speedup readahead for seeky workloads [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=ef12b3c1abce83e8e25d27bdaab6380238e792ff (commit)] * Support for quotas, extended attributes, ACLs, SELinux in reiserfs [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=783206fcd4123700cf1bdced342dcd44d1b18e20 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=c6df36c4c37c02dc45d390f7e78cbae51e4dcb2c (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=c86d577034339a7f7c149320be204d2ad0e3dbe2 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=98ca2698e94ce62fa4f34ed6256019cabb74c8a5 (commit)] * Removal of the Intermezzo filesystem (lack of mainteinance) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=4b18ece918a95d42904ea80a7dd62075e90d2f84 (commit)] * Remove IDE PATA TCQ support: It's been disabled some time ago, PATA TCQ has so many technical short comings, that it was never really interesting [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=066298b9347991e663ab9b0005e5fe36bad1b22c (commit)] * Dynamic addition of virtual disks on PPC64 iSeries [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=280fbb169c2d81004d866fdd6d51fc73b85b8210 (commit)] * Implement separate per-cpu stacks for processing interrupts and softirqs, along the lines of the CONFIG_4KSTACKS stuff on x86 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=93836954c881c4c70d5cd8e64440ec17a841bfa8 (commit)] * PowerPC 750GX support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=19f21bf97946de6637ff9d788f6fa0f5956e2597 (commit)] * new API for NUMA systems * Debugging option to put data symbols in kallsyms [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=e9bc643950e4125f25c73a12abf07669074709f5 (commit)] ===== 2.6.6 ===== * Released May 10, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.6 changelog] * Removal of (struct page)->list and page dirty/clean/free lists, replaced by radix-tree tagging [http://lwn.net/Articles/80472/ (LWN article)] * Network packet timestamping optimization * Binary Increase Control (BIC) TCP developed by NCSU. It is yet another TCP congestion control algorithm for handling big fat pipes. For normal size congestion windows it behaves the same as existing TCP Reno, but when window is large it uses additive increase to ensure fairness and when window is small it uses binary search increase [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=d009df2d52345441873340c5b75ecc09b9343a22 (commit)] * [http://www.geocities.com/wronski12/posix_ipc/index.html POSIX message queues] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=3bc45e612c620d7477b9ed3f285c9222b3bb558b (commit)] * fsync() and fdatasync() speed improvements to ext2/3 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=c67ebc7f2644d612f7838a7f3aee1b766ce11e69 (commit)] * Addition of the fcntl() method to the file_operations structure [http://lwn.net/Articles/77190/ (LWN article)] * Laptop Mode [http://lwn.net/Articles/65437/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=166054344dda21795e3735af51edf1a261177e7e (commit)] * Oprofile for s390 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=f42022413a50489115f36c5e9a16f5d13e4831a4 (commit)] * 4KB kernel stacks option for the i386 architecture [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=f061c2ccd81f62b777327aa3696d652b5fb34c6f (commit)] * Non-executable stack support for several architectures [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=9abd312fda38fb2ba7b3dfe147ecbadf5cf8f57f (commit)] * Make sysfs configurable [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=7aa1fb8cb5813bfe0a33e49975f1cceb0740251f (commit)] * Reiserfs updates: data=ordered support, space preallocation, laptop mode support, logging rework, support for nested transactions [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=d4265dd282789d98d47f2febea1e60ff2a494b82 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=502c984ae4ddae1964c5aae6625e56516106c396 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=050ff9c100d0a9e9cb45f575783ca801d2ca42c3 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=3b0970c6144b4e5cb777d8b54926c1dbeb2e2b64 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=46d1f3648ddccf15793a057f7aef3e2ce5be4f0e (commit)] * Reiserfs and ext3 "commit=0 support": Restores commit interval to the default value [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=9a9b4f749ce975a57994207e7c0c5fe57148ef60 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=a4fe3fb94e6ea2e27d61abd8b141856f9d662fbd (commit)] * Ext3 journalled quotas [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=c69e3890a7a5d8c0587d958e618d303fad9d941a (commit)] * NFS v4: Implement server-side reboot recovery (mostly) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=82107aa303e744b0e67f9daa44748c5abbf01d69 (commit)] * IPv6 support in SELinux [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=bdee92e07efd44da1dc87d47485c3f9ffaf0d976 (commit)] * The lightweight auditing framework [http://lwn.net/Articles/79326/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=4527a30f157fca45c102ea49a2fb34a4502264eb (commit)] * A mechanism which allows block drivers to respond to queries about the congestion state of their queues * "per-device unplugging patch" [http://lwn.net/Articles/75233/ (LWN article)] * CFQ scheduler [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=a7c3e7eee4fe04953547e408f8db0d615c4c1afe (commmit)] * External module support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=eeb0e992ae01bc7c68628c20df6df0bdc1c7fd28 (commit)] * Generic snapshot support code for filesystems (taken from XFS) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=9a6f9f9177e7403e661eb876500d57d139c0d034 (commit)] ===== 2.6.5 ===== * Released April 4, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.5 changelog] * Adaptative lazy readahead [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=87698a351b86822dabbd8c1a34c8a6d3e62e5a77 (commit)] * CDROMREADAUDIO dma support: support DMA for extrating audio [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=6cea839a9cb769215c2a3cf2056ff1b09ea08378 (commit)] * Netpoll infrastructure [http://lwn.net/Articles/75944 (LWN article)] * New "kref" reference counting mechanism [http://lwn.net/Articles/75920 (LWN article)] * AIO support for reiserfs [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=71b95e3ebaa658cdb361c78b613267776957995b (commit)] * Read-only support for UFS2 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=e935d5b963465e88c09896056578d8ece381dc9a (commit)] * Display number of slab, mapped and pagetable pages in the sysrq-M output [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=53c3a164bde6946bb9ca65eb021b0cf96035b5d3 (commit)] ===== 2.6.4 ===== * Released March 11, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.4 changelog] * NGROUPS_MAX, which sets the maximum number of groups a user can belong to has increased the value to 65536 (was previously 32). This limit is also visible via the read-only /proc/sys/kernel/ngroups_max file. [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=60f095f22d9325fc88f128df204242f932c261dc (commit)] * HFS rewrite and HFS+ support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=b20f09ad0ab9e8ef215b5c6e0ead9effc6b80aee (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=367a470ffe60c58c69ae8bf288cbb4615002729b (commit)] * Add SOCK_SEQPACKET for Unix domain sockets [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=32b46f96d41dfc67ad9d81c39487242ecc84be16 (commit)] * Support for the Intel "ia32e" arch * PPC64 iommu and TBL flush rework [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=aeb9bd1688d76c938acc4b17da8db33e8cbe1133 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=7fb3b50550a866099fc8ea34b8565f12a104e2fa (commit)] * UTF-8 tty mode [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=8026954da2b98a1a97af65d82c492816681c0faa (commit)] * Dynamic PTY allocation (up to a million PTY devices) * Sysfs support for SCSI tapes and bluetooth devices * ARC4 crypto module Support for large numbers of groups * Generic kernel thread infrastructure [http://lwn.net/Articles/65178/ (LWN article)] * Groundwork for the hotplug CPU code * ARC4 crypto module [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=d0119535d80f4f46d831fb48f1747e732c539c79 (commit)] * Add dm-crypto crypto module [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=f3abc91effde1fd547e6005f36c94313fe970dd2 (commit)] * Enable coredumps > 2 GB [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=0d274048bea986c7498a52ea5152d66833cd2cec (commit)] * Add -mregparm=3 config option [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=cef3796e3aa0003e818a64374f439d353c49d574 (commit)] ===== 2.6.3 ===== * Released February 18, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.3 changelog] * G5 support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=7f13170c2069ff86a2a0bfc3a247ade8aefeb6aa (commit)] * Support up to 255 char columns in virtual terminals [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=f3706e57b8e26db88ddaa5b0558e5db545f2fed7 (commit)] * Set HZ to 1000 in PPC32 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=eb6e9d736fa3e79f97ee19325c996f69079f276e (commit)] * Removal of the USB scanner code: moved support to userspace (libusb) * New DMA pool abstraction [http://lwn.net/Articles/69402/ (LWN article)] * "context mount" support for SELinux ===== 2.6.2 ===== * Released February 4, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.2 changelog] * RAID 6 implementation [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=8869ce42bfc6301d645eabb64eea343569be9575 (commit)] * One-shot support for epoll [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=b248eb341da327a418e3fdd55bcad209c3802892 (commit)] * Add support for m68knommu [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=ccc218ff4f93913018f735201586caa19dc022db (commit)] * Schedulers interactivity improvements [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=80605ac9c461beed318da1af7f0355c66d90f66c (commit)] * New Qlogic SCSI driver ===== 2.6.1 ===== * Released January 9, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.1 changelog] * Message Signaled Interrupt support - MSI [http://lwn.net/Articles/44135/ (LWN article)] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=805bdfd65d2a8866870d1813cd39d739d1e2942e (commit)] * Add 32bit a.out support for x86-64 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=dabe6cb0fc24dd4d3ee5b51c99f551a883dc2d66 (commit)] * Add `gcc -Os' config option [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=4b8ca7b0c8fb01ba87f9f6fa23f287e683f06346 (commit)] * Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) support. [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=556bd742f63bdc0d0fdbfb28f907e272ed61d370 (commit)] ===== 2.6.0 ===== * Released December 18, 2003 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.0 changelog] Rules: * Name of the new feature/description of the change, including a small explanation if possible * If its a feature and the feature has some web page add a link to it * If there's a paper (OLS!) or an article add a link to it. Or write one ;) * If there's a interesting mail (benchmarks, announcements if there's no web page, etc) about it in the mailing list, get a link in one of the list's archives (at [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel] please) and add the link here * Add commit's link if possible. For commits add a "(commit)" word and add the link there. Don't add the commit link to another word (please). * Searching commits for a given feature is easy. Just look for it in the shortlog, or try to find a file related with that change, then search it in the GIT tree representation and click the "history" link to see all the changes made which affects that file. The release dates will help you too. * There're two main GIT trees where you can search for commits: [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git the one which has all the stuff commited after 2.6.12-rc2] and [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git the one which has all the stuff BEFORE 2.6.12-rc2] TODO: * Import relevant data from [http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc5/2.6.14-rc5-mm1/broken-out/post-halloween-doc.patch davej's post halloween document] or remaining stuff from [http://kernelnewbies.org/status/latest.html Kernelnewbies status] * Find links to corresponding changesets (!!) * Keep track of what gets changed |
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Changes done in each Linux kernel release. Other places to get news about the Linux kernel are LWN kernel status or the Linux Kernel mailing list (there is a web interface in www.lkml.org or lore.kernel.org/lkml). The lore.kernel.org/lkml/ archive is also available via NTTP if you prefer to use a newsreader: use nntp://nntp.lore.kernel.org/org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel for that. List of changes of older releases can be found at LinuxVersions. If you're going to add something here look first at LinuxChangesRules!
You can discuss the latest Linux kernel changes on the New Linux Kernel Features Forum.
Linux 6.5 was released on Sunday, August 27 2023.
Summary: This release includes initial USB4 v2 support; support for moving a mount beneath the top mount; a new cachestat(2) system call to get the cache state of files; support for unaccepted memory in virtualized guests; initial support for Scope-based Resource Management and other compiler improvements; memfd_secret(2) has been enabled by default; and support for MIDI 2.0. As always, there are many other features, new drivers, improvements and fixes.
Contents
- Prominent features
- Core (various)
- File systems
- Memory management
- Block layer
- Tracing, perf and BPF
- Virtualization
- Cryptography
- Security
- Networking
- Architectures
-
Drivers
- Graphics
- Power Management
- Storage
- Drivers in the Staging area
- Networking
- Audio
- Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses
- TV tuners, webcams, video capturers
- Universal Serial Bus
- Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
- Watchdog
- CPU Frequency scaling
- Voltage, current regulators, power capping, power supply
- Real Time Clock (RTC)
- Pin Controllers (pinctrl)
- Multi Media Card (MMC)
- Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
- Industrial I/O (iio)
- Multi Function Devices (MFD)
- Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)
- Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C + I3C)
- Hardware monitoring (hwmon)
- General Purpose I/O (gpio)
- Leds
- DMA engines
- Cryptography hardware acceleration
- PCI
- Clock
- PHY ("physical layer" framework)
- EDAC (Error Detection And Correction)
- Various
- Pull requests
1. Prominent features
1.1. Allow to move mounts beneath top mount
Some modern Linux distributions distribute packages in a way that there is a base distro layer with the usual Linux directories such as /etc or /usr, then users can install packages that provide a "layer" that incorporates content to these directories.
Updating one of those packages require incorporating a new mount to user processes, and removing the old. This can be done but it's currently too complex and has some limitations. This release exposes the ability to add a mount beneath the topmost mount of a mount stack through the new MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH flag for the move_mount(2) system call, then the old mount can be unmounted, and users get either the old or the new mount, but never the ones below. This allows userspace to seamlessly upgrade mounts.
For more details, see this LWN article, or this one
Also, see the merge commit explanation this commit or
1.2. New cachestat(2) system call to get the cache state of files
The only way to query the page cache state of large file sets and directory trees is currently mincore(2), but it scales poorly. Yet, this information could come in handy: A database could decide whether to perform an index scan or direct table queries based on the in-memory cache state of the index. Performance issues of the writeback algorithms and tuning could be diagnosed. IO fulfilled by page cache (and IO to be done) within a range of a file could be estimated, allowing for more frequent syncing when and where there is IO capacity, and batching when there is not
This release includes a cachestat system call that queries cache state of a file and summarizes the number of cached pages, number of dirty pages, number of pages marked for writeback, number of (recently) evicted pages, etc. in a given range.
Recommended LWN article: Checking page-cache status with cachestat()
1.3. Support for unaccepted memory
UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory acceptance: some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP, requiring memory to be accepted before it can be used by the guest. Accepting happens via a protocol specific for the Virtual Machine platform. This release adds support for it.
Recommended LWN article: Seeking an acceptable unaccepted memory policy
1.4. Initial support for Scope-based Resource Management and other compiler improvements
This release adds the infrastructure necessary to incorporate some compiler extensions that help to automatically run functions on a variable when its type goes out of scope, which can help to reduce bugs.
There is also initial support for the __counted_by macro, which will allow to provide runtime memory bound checking on flexible arrays, and -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 is enabled by default, which instructs the compiler to treat only C99 flexible arrays as dynamically sized for the purposes of object size calculation.
Recommended LWN article: Scope-based resource management for the kernel
1.5. Enable secret memory by default
Secret memory and its memfd_secret(2) system call was incorporated in Linux 5.14. It allows to created a special memfd file descriptor whose contents will only be readable by its creator and not any other process, not even root processes or the kernel itself. It can be used to store private keys more securely, for example.
Due to concerns about the way it deals with memory management it was disabled by default, and enabled with a parameter. These concerns are not important anymore and the feature can be enabled by default.
1.6. Initial USB4 v2 support
This release adds initial support for the next USB4 version (USB4 v2) and the Intel Barlow Ridge discrete controller. It includes support for the 80G symmetric link, the necessary configuration needed to bring up the router in v2 mode, adaptive TMU, PCIe extended encapsulation, and CL2 low power link state. Other releases will include the rest of the USB4 v2 support, including asymmetric 128/80G link support.
1.7. MIDI 2.0 support
This release adds support for the 2.0 version of the popular MIDI format. MIDI 2.0 is a complete overhaul of the 40-years old MIDI 1.0. Unlike MIDI 1.0 byte stream, MIDI 2.0 uses packets in 32bit words for Universal MIDI Packet (UMP) protocol It supports both MIDI 1.0 commands for compatibility and the extended MIDI 2.0 commands for higher resolutions and more functions
2. Core (various)
(FEATURED) Allow to mount beneath top mount commit, commit, commit, commit
Compiler Attributes: Add __counted_by macro. In an effort to annotate all flexible array members with their run-time size information, the "element_count" attribute is being introduced by Clang and GCC in future releases. This annotation will provide the ability to perform run-time bounds checking on otherwise unknown-size flexible arrays commit
Introduce cmpxchg128() -- aka. the demise of cmpxchg_double() commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- eventfd
fs.h: Optimize file struct to prevent false sharing commit
fuse: add feature flag for expire-only commit
- io_uring
modules: catch concurrent module loads, treat them as idempotent commit
string: use __builtin_memcpy() in strlcpy/strlcat commit
workqueue: Implement automatic CPU intensive detection and add monitoring commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
tools/nolibc: avoid coredumps and speed up tests commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
task scheduler: Consider CPU contention in frequency, EAS max util & load-balance busiest CPU selection commit, commit
- rust
- rtla
locking/atomic: restructure the generated atomic headers, and add kerneldoc comments for all of the generic atomic{,64,_long}_t operations commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
kbuild: Enable -fstrict-flex-arrays=3. This feature instructs the compiler to treat only C99 flexible arrays as dynamically sized for the purposes of object size calculations commit
(FEATURED) Scope-based Resource Management (Recommended LWN article) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Prepare for supporting more filesystems with fanotify commit, commit, commit, commit
fortify: Add KUnit tests for runtime overflows commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
cgroup/misc: Expose misc.current on cgroup v2 root commit
Binder: Add timestamp and async from to transaction record commit, commit
tty: update timestamps on all device nodes commit
3. File systems
- BTRFS
Submit IO synchronously for fast checksum implementations (crc32c and xxhash) commit, commit, commit
Speedup in fsync(), better tracking of inode logged status can avoid transaction commit commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Use per-buffer locking for extent_buffer reading commit, commit
Don't commit transaction for every subvol create commit
raid56: always verify the P/Q contents for scrub commit
Simplify extent_buffer reading and writing commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Some delayed refs optimizations and cleanups commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Don't split ordered_extents for zoned writes at I/O submission time commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- EXT4
Journal cycled record transactions between each mount commit, commit, commit
Allow concurrent unaligned dio overwrites commit
Multiblock allocator improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Misc left over folio changes commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- F2FS
- CACHEFILES
Allow the cache to be non-root commit
- EFIVARFS
Expose used and total size commit
- EXT2
- GFS2
- NFS
- NTFS3
Add support /proc/fs/ntfs3/<dev>/volinfo and /proc/fs/ntfs3/<dev>/label commit
- OVERLAYFS
- SQUASHFS
Cache partial compressed blocks commit
4. Memory management
(FEATURED) cachestat: a new syscall for page cache state of files commit, commit, commit
secretmem: make it on by default commit
Add the ability to handle page faults on parts of files which are already in the page cache without taking the mmap lock commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Allow pte_offset_map[_lock]() to fail. This is for some mmap_lock avoidance i.e. latency reduction. Initially just for the case of collapsing shmem or file pages to THPs; but likely to be relied upon later in other contexts commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Documentation/mm: Initial page table documentation commit
(FEATURED) Implement support for unaccepted memory. UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory acceptance: some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP, requiring memory to be accepted before it can be used by the guest. Accepting happens via a protocol specific for the Virtual Machine platform commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
convert migrate_pages() to work on folios commit
shmem: Implement splice-read commit
kasan: add support for kasan.fault=panic_on_write commit
memblock: Add flags and nid info in memblock debugfs commit
migrate_pages: Avoid blocking for IO in MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT commit
gup: disallow GUP writing to file-backed mappings by default commit, commit, commit
Convert several functions in hugetlb.c to use a folio commit, commit, commit
memcontrol: export memcg.swap watermark via sysfs for v2 memcg commit
slab: remove HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR commit
slab: Deprecate the traditional SLAB allocator. Recommended LWN article. commit
- zswap
splice: Kill ITER_PIPE to avoid a race between truncate, iov_iter_revert() on the pipe and an as-yet incomplete DMA to a bio with unpinned/unref'ed pages from an O_DIRECT splice read commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
slab: introduce kmem_cache flag SLAB_NO_MERGE. It allos API users of kmem_cache_create to specify that they don't want any slab merge or aliasing (with similar sized objects) commit
cgroup: eliminate atomic rstat flushing commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
5. Block layer
blk-ioprio: Introduce promote-to-rt policy commit
blk-wbt: adding a new attr_group for blk_mq, and sysfs entries will only be created when the device is rq based commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
block: fine-granular CAP_SYS_ADMIN for Persistent Reservation ioctl commit, commit
ublk: cleanup and support user copy commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ublk: add control command of UBLK_U_CMD_GET_FEATURES commit
block: Use page pinning commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
md/raid10: prioritize adding disk to 'removed' mirror commit
md/raid1: prioritize adding disk to 'removed' mirror commit
md/raid0: add discard support for the 'original' layout commit
Use block pr_ops in LIO commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
dm flakey: introduce random_read_corrupt and random_write_corrupt options commit
dm: support turning off block-core's io stats accounting commit
Fit the internal kernel API to communicate block device events to report block device events properly to file systems commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
6. Tracing, perf and BPF
BPF: Add socket destroy capability commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
BPF: Add precision propagation for subprogs and callbacks commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
bpftool: Support bpffs mountpoint as pin path for prog loadall commit
BPF: Add LRU internals description and graph commit
bpftool: specify XDP Hints ifname when loading program commit
BPF: Show target_{obj,btf}_id for tracing link commit, commit, commit
Add O_PATH-based BPF_OBJ_PIN and BPF_OBJ_GET support commit, commit, commit, commit
BPF: utilize table ID in bpf_fib_lookup helper commit, commit
function_graph: Support recording and printing the return value of function commit, commit, commit, commit
tracing: Add the file /sys/kernel/tracing/available_filter_functions_addrs that works just the same as available_filter_functions but also shows the addresses of the functions like kallsyms, except that it gives the address of where the fentry/mcount jump/nop is. This is used by BPF to make it easier to attach BPF programs to ftrace hooks commit
osnoise: Add the file /sys/kernel/tracing/osnoise/per_cpu/cpu<cpu>/timerlat_fd that when a application opens it, it becomes the task that the timer
tracing: Add fprobe/tracepoint events commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
New metricgroup output in perf stat default mode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
perf: CXL 3.0 Performance Monitoring Unit support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
perf lock contention: Add CSV style output support commit, commit, commit, commit
perf script: Have consistent output for symbol address commit, commit, commit
perf pmus: Add placeholder core PMU commit
PMU refactoring and improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
perf annotate browser: Add '<' and '>' keys for navigation commit
perf stat: Add "--per-cache" aggregation option and document it commit
Add "(fault)" name injection to kernel probes commit
7. Virtualization
xen: speed up grant-table reclaim commit
xen/evtchn: Introduce new IOCTL to bind static evtchn commit
vhost: multiple worker support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
8. Cryptography
9. Security
- fsverity
selinux: deprecated fs ocon commit
10. Networking
ipconfig: Allow DNS to be overwritten by DHCPACK commit
Add SCM_PIDFD and SO_PEERPIDFD. SCM_PIDFD is a new type of CMSG type analogical to SCM_CREDENTIALS, but it contains pidfd instead of plain pid, which allows programmers not to care about PID reuse problem. SO_PEERPIDFD allows to get pidfd of peer socket holder pidfd, analogous of SO_PEERCRED which allows to get plain PID commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
IEEE 802.15.4 scan support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable socket busy polling on -RT commit
- TCP
- wifi
pppoe: make number of hash bits configurable commit
Support extack Support more VFs in RTM_GETLINK in dump and simplify ethtool uAPI commit, commit
ynl: generate code for the ethtool family commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support more VFs in RTM_GETLINK commit
- netfilter
nft_exthdr: add boolean DCCP option matching commit
Add a GC transaction API to replace the former attempt to deal with races between control plane and GC commit
Adapt ntables set backend to use GC transaction API commit
Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Netfilter updates for net-next commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mptcp: refactor first subflow init commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mptcp: add some more diag info commit, commit, commit, commit
ieee802154: Active scan support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- splice work
Replace sendpage with sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Rewrite splice-to-socket, fix SPLICE_F_MORE and handle MSG_SPLICE_PAGES in AF_TLS commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Switch over users of sendpage() and remove it commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support abstract unix socket addresses with the rpcbind daemon commit, commit
- packet scheduler
Add layer 2 miss indication and filtering. It adds a single bit to the tc skb extension to indicate that a packet encountered a layer 2 miss in the bridge and extends flower to match on this metadata. This is required for non-DF (Designated Forwarder) filtering in EVPN multi-homing which prevents decapsulated BUM packets from being forwarded multiple times to the same multi-homed host commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
openvswitch: add support for l4 symmetric hashing commit
xsk: Honor SO_BINDTODEVICE on bind commit
vxlan: Add nolocalbypass option to vxlan commit
11. Architectures
11.1. ARM
New SoCs
Samsung Exynos 4212 makes its return after the Samsung Galaxy Express phone is addded at last. The SoC support was originally added in 2012 but removed again in 2017 as it was unused at the time. Also add Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 boards commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Amlogic C3 is a Cortex-A35 based smart IP camera chip commit
Qualcomm MSM8939 (Snapdragon 615), a more featureful variant of the still common MSM8916 (Snapdragon 410), plus support for two devices commit, commit, commit, commit
Qualcomm SC8180x (Snapdragon 8cx), one of their earlier high-end laptop chips, used in the Lenovo Flex 5G, which is added along with the reference board commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Qualcomm SDX75, the latest generation modem chip that is used as a peripherial in phones but can also run a standalone Linux. Unlike the prior 32-bit SDX65 and SDX55, this now has a 64-bit Cortex-A55 commit, commit, commit
- New boards (32 bit)
Marantec Maveo board based on dhcor imx6ull module commit
Endian 4i Edge 200, based on the armv5 Marvell Kirkwood chip commit
Epson Moverio BT-200 AR glasses based on TI OMAP4 commit
PHYTEC STM32MP1-3 Dev board based on STM32MP15 PHYTEC SOM commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- New boards (64 bits)
Three boards based on NXP i.MX8: Emtop SoM & Baseboard commit, commit, commit, NXP i.MX8MM EVKB board commit, commit and i.MX8MP based Gateworks Venice gw7905-2x device commit
NVIDIA IGX Orin commit, commit and Jetson Orin Nano boards commit, commit, both based on tegra234
Qualcomm gains support for reference boards on various members of their IPQ networking SoC series commit, as well as the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua phone, the Acer Aspire 1 laptop commit, commit, commit, and the Fxtec Pro1X board commit on top of the various reference platforms for their new chips
Rockchips support for several newer boards: Indiedroid Nova (rk3588) commit, commit, commit, Edgeble Neural Compute Module 6B (rk3588) commit, commit, FriendlyARM NanoPi R2C Plus (rk3328) commit, Anbernic RG353PS (rk3566) commit, Lunzn Fastrhino R66S/R68S (rk3568) commit, commit, commit
TI K3/AM625 based PHYTEC phyBOARD-Lyra-AM625 board commit, commit and Toradex Verdin family with AM62 COM, carrier and dev boards commit, commit, commit, commit
Introduce Nuvoton ma35d1 SoC commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Implement Eager Page Splitting for ARM commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support for Armv8.8 memcpy instructions in userspace commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Permission Indirection Extension support. Not used in this release, enables future features commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add STM32MP25 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add STM32MP25 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add SoC ID for IPQ5312 and IPQ5302 commit
Add ftrace direct call for arm64 commit, commit, commit, commit
Add initial support for RDP418 of IPQ9574 family commit, commit
Add initial support for RDP442 of IPQ5332 family commit, commit
Add initial support for RDP453 of IPQ9574 family commit, commit
Add initial support for RDP454 of IPQ9574 family commit, commit
Add initial support for RDP474 of IPQ5332 family commit, commit, commit
Add support to configure Coresight Dummy subunit commit, commit, commit
KVM: arm64: Allow using VHE in the nVHE hypervisor commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
KVM: arm64: FF-A proxy for pKVM commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
KVM: arm64: Work around Ampere1 erratum AC03_CPU_38 commit, commit, commit
MediaTek Helio X10 MT6795 - MT6331/6332 PMIC Wrapper commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Robustify boot sequence and add support for WXN commit, commit
Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 Support commit, commit, commit
Support hld delayed init based on Pseudo-NMI for commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable the use of Branch Target Identification (FEAT_BTI) in the hypervisor commit
perf vendor events arm64: Add AmpereOne core PMU events commit
perf vendor events arm64: Add default tags for Hisi hip08 L1 metrics commit
11.2. X86
Add mitigation for GDS. Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is a hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was previously stored in vector registers commit, commit, commit, commit
Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation. This is a speculative return address stack overflow vulnerability found on AMD processors commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable STIBP on AMD if Automatic IBRS is enabled commit
Parallel CPU bringup. The reason why people are interested in parallel bringup is to shorten the (kexec) reboot time of cloud servers to reduce the downtime of the VM tenants commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
pds_vdpa: Add new vDPA driver for AMD/Pensando DSC commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
KVM: x86/mmu: Add "never" option to allow sticky disabling of nx_huge_pages commit
KVM: Provide SEV-SNP support for unaccepted memory commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
iommu/amd: AVIC Interrupt Remapping Improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
KVM: Add AMD Guest PerfMonV2 PMU support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
resctrl: Implement rename to help move containers' tasks commit, commit, commit
Support sub-NUMA clustering on UV commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mtrr: fix handling with PAT but without MTRR commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- platform
lenovo-yogabook: Modify to also work on Android version commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
lenovo-ymc: Add Lenovo Yoga 7 14ACN6 to ec_trigger_quirk_dmi_table commit
int3472: discrete: Various improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
intel/pmc: Remove Meteor Lake S platform support commit
amd/pmf: Add new ACPI ID AMDI0103 commit
amd/pmf: Add PMF acpi debug support commit
amd/pmf: Add PMF debug facilities commit
amd: pmc: Add new ACPI ID AMDI000A commit
hp-wmi: Add HP Envy special key support commit
hp-wmi: Add HP WMI camera switch commit
int3472: discrete: Add alternative "AVDD" regulator supply name commit
think-lmi: Enable opcode support on BIOS settings commit
hp-wmi: Add thermal profile for Victus 16-d1xxx commit
ideapad-laptop: Add support for new hotkeys found on ThinkBook 14s Yoga ITL commit
Improve performance of csum_partial commit
x86/ftrace: Enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL commit
Add hardcoded hypervisor interrupts to /proc/stat commit
Avoid relocation information in final vmlinux commit
AMD64 EDAC GPU Updates commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Fully relocatable alternatives and some NOPs commit, commit, commit, commit
powercap/intel_rapl: Introduce RAPL TPMI support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add multiple PMCs support in pmc core driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Fix perf on Intel hybrid CPUs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add metric has_event, update intel vendor events commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Event, metric and metric group improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
11.3. RISCV
Add independent irq/softirq stacks support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add basic ACPI support for RISC-V commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Export Zba, Zbb to usermode via hwprobe commit, commit, commit, commit
Add vector ISA support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V board support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Export va_kernel_pa_offset in vmcoreinfo commit
ftrace: Enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL commit
KVM: Allow Svnapot extension for Guest/VM commit
KVM in-kernel AIA irqchip commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
KVM virtualize AIA CSRs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
11.4. LOONGARCH
Support dbar with different hints commit
Replace kretprobe with rethook commit
Move Loongson1 PWM timer to clocksource framework commit, commit, commit
Add jump-label implementation commit
Add SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading) support commit
Introduce hardware page table walker commit
Modify code about clone timens commit
Add vector extensions support commit
Add uprobes support for LoongArch commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support kmemleak commit
11.5. POWERPC
Make ELFv2 ABI the default for 64-bit big-endian kernel builds commit, commit, commit, commit
Add initial Dynamic Execution Control Register (DEXCR) support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
powernv/pci: Remove ioda1 support commit
Drop MPC8540_ADS and MPC8560_ADS platform support commit
Drop MPC85xx_CDS platform support commit
11.6. S390
pkey: add support for ecc clear key commit
uvdevice: Expose secret UVCs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 commit
11.7. MIPS
uaccess: emulate Ingenic LXW/LXH/LXHU uaccess commit
ralink: Add support for TP-Link HC220 G5 v1 board commit, commit
11.8. PARISC
Add cacheflush() syscall commit
12. Drivers
12.1. Graphics
sysfs: Expose DRM connector id in each connector sysfs commit
sysfs: Link DRM connectors to corresponding Type-C connectors commit
atomic: Allow vblank-enabled + self-refresh "disable" commit
ttm: add NUMA node id to the pool commit
- amdgpu
Enable Colorspace connector property commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable Freesync Video Mode by default" commit
Add p-state debugging commit
Adding support for VESA SCR commit
Enable FPO + Vactive commit
Enable SubVP for high refresh rate displays commit
Add debugfs for allow_edp_hotplug_detection commit
Add option to use custom backlight caps commit
Add pixel rate based CRB allocation support commit
Enable FW assisted shadowing for GFX11 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable more Pstates profile levels for yellow_carp commit
amdkfd: Add spatial partitioning support in KFD commit
amdkfd: Add device repartition support commit
Introduce AMD GPU ISA Debugging for HSA Compute commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- Panel
- vkms
shmobile: Fixes and enhancements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
lcdif: Add i.MX93 LCDIF support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
bridge: samsung-dsim: Support variable clocking commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
vc4: hdmi: Broadcast RGB, BT601, BT2020 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- Intel
fdinfo memory stats commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add i915 parameter to I915_STATE_WARN() commit
debugfs: New debugfs for display clock frequencies commit
Add MTL PMU support for multi-gt commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add support for MTL GSC SW Proxy commit, commit, commit, commit
mtl: Add C10 and C20 phy support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support Async Flip on Linear buffers commit
Allow user to set cache at BO creation commit
pxp: Add MTL PXP Support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Check HPD during eDP probe commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- msm
SM63(50|75) DPU support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Display support for MSM8226 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add DSC 1.2 dpu supports commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
adreno: GMU-less A6xx support (A610, A619_holi) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
meson: add support for MIPI DSI Display commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.2. Power Management
12.3. Storage
scsi: Add Command Duration Limits support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ufs: Do not requeue while ungating the clock commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable IOU_F_TWQ_LAZY_WAKE for NVME passthrough commit, commit
Allow to use the block pr_ops with LIO's target_core_iblock module to support cluster applications in VMs. Currently, to use windows clustering or linux clustering (pacemaker + cluster labs scsi fence agents) in VMs with LIO and vhost-scsi, you have to use tcmu or pscsi or use a cluster aware FS/framework for the LIO prfile. This release allows iblock to work like pscsi/tcmu where they can pass a PR command to the backend module commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ufs: ufs-pci: Add support for Intel Arrow Lake commit
ufs: wb: Add explicit flush_threshold sysfs attribute commit
lpfc: Enhance congestion statistics collection commit
qla2xxx: Multi-que support for TMF commit
smartpqi: Add new controller PCI IDs commit
smartpqi: Add support for RAID NCQ priority commit
smartpqi: Add sysfs entry for NUMA node in /sys/block/sdX/device commit
ufs: core: mcq: Add ufshcd_abort() and error handler support in MCQ mode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.4. Drivers in the Staging area
Add Tegra20 parallel video input capture commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
media: staging: max96712: Add support for 3-lane C-PHY commit
media: atomisp: Remove a bunch of sensor related custom IOCTLs commit
media: atomisp: ov2680: Implement selection support commit
media: atomisp: Add support for sensors which implement selection API / cropping commit
media: atomisp: Add support for v4l2-async sensor registration commit, commit, commit
media: atomisp: Add enum_framesizes function for sensors with selection / crop support commit, commit
12.5. Networking
Add a regmap-based mdio driver and drop TSE PCS commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add and use helper for PCS negotiation modes commit, commit, commit, commit
Bluetooth: btusb: Add MT7922 bluetooth ID for the Asus Ally commit
Bluetooth: btusb: Add device 6655:8771 to device tables commit
Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2023-06-22 (ice) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
RDMA/bnxt_re: Enable low latency push commit
RDMA/bnxt_re: driver update for supporting low latency push commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
RVU NIX AF driver updates commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support for Wake-on-LAN for Broadcom PHYs commit, commit, commit
TXGBE PHYLINK support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
USB: zaurus: Add ID for A-300/B-500/C-700 commit
Wangxun netdev features support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
amd-xgbe: extend 10Mbps support to MAC version 21H commit
bcmgeAdd support for PHY-based Wake-on-LAN commit
can: kvaser_pciefd: Fixes and improvments commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
can: kvaser_usb: Add len8_dlc support commit
can: usb: f81604: add Fintek F81604 support commit
chelsio: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES commit
dsa: marvell: Add support for mv88e6071 and 6020 switches commit, commit, commit
dsa: mv88e6xxx: implement USXGMII mode for mv88e6393x commit
dsa: qca8k: add support for additional modes for netdev trigger commit
ena: Add dynamic recycling mechanism for rx buffers commit
fec: turn on XDP features commit
gve: Support IPv6 Big TCP on DQ commit
ice: allow matching on meta data commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
igc: XDP kfunc metadata commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ionic: add support for ethtool extended stat link_down_count commit
lan966x: Add support for PCP, DEI, DSCP commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mana: Add support for vlan tagging commit
mdio: add clause 73 to ethtool conversion helper commit
mlx5 updates: commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mlx5: Add management of EC VF vports commit
mlx5: Bridge, expose FDB state via debugfs commit
mlx5: Expose bits for local loopback counter commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mlx5: Update SRIOV enable/disable to handle EC/VFs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mlx5e: E-Switch: move debug print of adding mac to correct place commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mlxbf-bootctl: Add sysfs file for BlueField boot log commit
mlxsw: spectrum_flower: Add ability to match on layer 2 miss commit
net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add 88E6361 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
nfp: add L4 RSS hashing on UDP traffic commit
nfp: improve link modes reading process commit
ngbe: Add netdev features support commit
ngbe: Implement vlan add and remove ops commit
octeontx2-pf: Add support for page pool commit
octeontx2-pf: HTB offload support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
octeontx2-pf: TC flower offload support for rxqueue mapping commit
octeontx2-pf: mcs: Support VLAN in clear text commit
pcs: Add 10GBASE-R mode for Synopsys Designware XPCS commit
pcs: Drop the TSE PCS driver commit
pcs: xpcs: cleanups for clause 73 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
phy: add driver for MediaTek SoC built-in GE PHYs commit
phy: broadcom: Add LPI counter commit
phy: dp83869: support mii mode when rgmii strap cfg is used commit
phy: microchip_t1s: add support for Microchip LAN865x Rev.B0 PHYs commit
renesas: rswitch: Use hardware pause features commit
sa8775p-ride: enable the first ethernet port commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
sfc: Add devlink dev info support for EF10 commit
sfc: TC encap actions offload commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
sfc: more flexible encap matches on TC decap rules commit, commit, commit, commit
sfp: add support for HXSX-ATRI-1 copper SFP+ module commit
sfp: add support for a couple of copper multi-rate modules commit
sfp: add support for control of rate selection commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
stmmac: dwmac-sogfpga: use the lynx pcs driver commit
stmmac: xgmac: add ethtool per-queue irq statistic support commit
tools: ynl: generate code for the ethtool family commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
usb: qmi_wwan: add Quectel EM05GV2 commit
usb: qmi_wwan: add u-blox 0x1312 composition commit
usbnet: ipheth: add CDC NCM support commit
v3: ath11k: MBSSID and EMA support in AP mode. commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: ath11k: Add HTT stats for PHY reset case commit
wifi: ath11k: add support default regdb while searching board-2.bin for WCN6855 commit
wifi: ath11k: factory test mode support commit
wifi: ath12k: Add support to parse new WMI event for 6 GHz regulatory commit
wifi: iwlwifi: Separate reading and parsing of reduce power table commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: iwlwifi: fw: Add new ODM vendor to ppag approved list commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: iwlwifi: limit EHT capabilities based on PCIe link speed commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: also drop jacket from info macro commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtl8xxxu: Add AP mode support for 8188f commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtl8xxxu: Support USB RX aggregation for the newer chips commit
wifi: rtl8xxxu: Support new chip RTL8192FU commit
wifi: rtw88: Add support for the SDIO based RTL8723DS chipset commit
wifi: rtw89: 8851b: add basic chip information of 8851B commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: 8851b: add more chip_ops to support 8851b commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: 8851b: add to enable 8851BE commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: 8851b: enable firmware features of hw_scan and crash_trigger commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: 8851b: rfk: add more RF calibrations commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: 8851b: update 8851b to improve abnormal samples commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: support U-NII-4 5.9GHz channels commit, commit, commit
wifi: rtw89: support antenna diversity commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
wwan: iosm: enable runtime pm support for 7560 commit
12.6. Audio
(FEATURED) Add MIDI 2.0 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
uapi: pcm: control the filling of the silence samples for drain commit
soundwire: qcom: add support for v2.0.0 controller commit
hda/cs8409: Support new Dell Dolphin Variants commit
hda/realtek: Add support for DELL Oasis 13/14/16 laptops commit
hda/realtek: Support ASUS G713PV laptop commit
hda/relatek: Enable Mute LED on HP 250 G8 commit
hda: Add Loongson LS7A HD-Audio support commit
rawmidi: UMP support commit
usb-audio: Add support for Mythware XA001AU capture and playback interfaces commit
Implement the new Virtual PCM Test Driver commit
ALSA: seq: Allow suppressing UMP conversions commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
emu10k1: various improvements to the DSP-based mixer code commit, commit
soundwire: add support for ACE2.x commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
emu10k1: improvements mostly to the I/O routing mixers for E-MU cards commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
emu10k1: refactoring of the playback voice management commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
emu10k1: various improvements to the DSP-based mixer code commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
emu10k1: improvements related to the switchable word clock of E-MU cards commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
emu10k1: multi-channel playback related improvements commit, commit, commit
- ASoC
Add Google Chameleon v3 codec driver commit
Add Google Chameleon v3 i2s driver commit
Add support for Loongson I2S controller commit
Intel: ADL: Moving amp only boards into end of the table. commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Intel: machine driver updates commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add Chameleon v3 ASoC audio commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Intel: ADL: Enable HDMI-In capture feature support for non-I2S codec boards commit
Intel: soc-acpi-intel-mtl-match: add rt712 ID commit
Intel: soc-acpi-intel-tgl-match: add rt712 ID commit
Intel: sof-sdw: add Dell SKU 0B34 commit
sof_rt5682: Add mtl support RT1019P speaker commit
Intel: sof_sdw: add multi dailink support for a codec commit
Intel: sof_sdw: add new mapping for HP Spectre x360 commit
Intel: sof_sdw: add rt712 support commit
Intel: sof_sdw: add rt713 support commit
SOF: mediatek: add mt8188 audio support commit
add N cpus to M codecs dai link support commit
codecs: wsa884x: Add WSA884x family of speakers commit
fsl-asoc-card: add nau8822 support commit
jz4740-i2s: Add support for X1000 SoC commit
loongson: Add Loongson ASoC Sound Card Support commit
max98388: add amplifier driver commit
mediatek: common: soundcard driver add dai_fmt support commit
mediatek: mt8188-mt6359: support new board with nau88255 commit
rt722-sdca: Add RT722 SDCA driver commit
ssm3515: Add new amp driver commit
qcom: add display port module support. commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
qcom: audioreach: add compress offload support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
amd: ps: add SoundWire support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Intel: mtl: Enable multicore support commit, commit, commit, commit
12.7. Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses
uinput: allow injecting event times commit
pwm-vibra: add support for enable GPIO commit
atmel_mxt_ts: support capacitive keys commit
- HID
nvidia-shield: Initial driver implementation with Thunderstrike support commit, commit, commit
logitech-hidpp: Add wired USB id for Logitech G502 Lightspeed commit
asus: Add support for ASUS ROG Z13 keyboard commit
asus: add keycodes for 0x6a, 0x4b, and 0xc7 commit
microsoft: Add rumble support to latest xbox controllers commit
i2c-hid: goodix: Add support for "goodix, no-reset-during-suspend" property commit
logitech-hidpp: Add USB and Bluetooth IDs for the Logitech G915 TKL Keyboard commit
apple: Option to swap only left side mod keys commit
intel-ish-hid: ipc: Add Arrow Lake PCI device ID commit
12.8. TV tuners, webcams, video capturers
Add AV1 uAPI commit
i2c: add ov01a10 image sensor driver commit
mediatek: vcodec: support stateless AV1 decoder commit
mediatek: vcodec: support stateless hevc decoder commit
mediatek: vcodec: Add debugfs file for decode and encode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
rcar-isp: Add support for R-Car V4H commit
rcar-vin: Add support for R-Car V4H commit
uvcvideo: Enable Intel RealSense metadata for devices commit
AV1 stateless decoder for RK3588 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
venus: add support for 10 bit decoding commit, commit, commit, commit
media: vivid: Extend FPS rates offered by simulated webcam commit
12.9. Universal Serial Bus
(FEATURED) thunderbolt: Initial USB4 v2 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add sysfs entry for usb device state commit
Introduced new Cadence USBHS Driver commit, commit, commit, commit
cdns3: Add StarFive JH7110 USB driver commit
dwc3: core: add support for realtek SoCs custom's global register start address commit
meson: support Amlogic A1 USB OTG controller commit, commit, commit
serial: option: add LARA-R6 01B PIDs commit
serial: option: add Quectel EC200A module support commit
serial: option: support Quectel EM060K_128 commit
serial: simple: add Kaufmann RKS+CAN VCP commit
typec: add support for the nb7vpq904m Type-C Linear Redriver commit
typec: qcom: Add Qualcomm PMIC Type-C driver commit
typec: support Audio Accessory mode on FSA4480 commit, commit, commit
typec: tcpm: add get max power support commit
xhci: Add ZHAOXIN xHCI host U1/U2 feature support commit
xhci: tegra: enable stream protocol support commit
12.10. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
Add support for Renesas CSI commit
dw: Add 32 bpw support to SPI DW DMA driver commit
dw: Add compatible for Intel Mount Evans SoC commit
spi-qcom-qAdd DMA mode support commit
sun6i: add support for R329/D1/R528/T113s SPI controllers commit
Improve polling mode of s3c64xx driver commit, commit, commit, commit
spi: stm32: add spi device mode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.11. Watchdog
sp5100_tco: support Hygon FCH/SCH (Server Controller Hub) commit
xilinx_wwdt: Add Versal window watchdog support commit
12.12. CPU Frequency scaling
armada-8k: add ap807 support commit
ti-cpufreq: Add support for AM62A7 commit
Enable amd-pstate active mode by default commit, commit, commit
12.13. Voltage, current regulators, power capping, power supply
supply: axp20x_usb_power: Add support for AXP192 commit
reset: qcom-pon: add support for pm8941-pon commit
supply: add Qualcomm PMI8998 SMB2 Charger driver commit
- regulator
Add Renesas PMIC RAA215300 driver commit
Add support for TI TPS6287x regulators commit
axp20x: Add AXP15060 support commit
axp20x: Add support for AXP313a variant commit
max77541: Add ADI MAX77541/MAX77540 Regulator Support commit
rk808: add rk806 support commit
tps6594-Add driver for TI TPS6594 regulators commit
12.14. Real Time Clock (RTC)
Add rtc driver for the Loongson family chips commit
isl1208: Add support for the built-in RTC on the PMIC RAA215300 commit
Remove the Loongson-1 RTC driver commit
12.15. Pin Controllers (pinctrl)
at91-pio4: Enable Push-Pull configuration commit
axp209: Add support for GPIO3 on the AXP209 commit
intel: Add Intel Meteor Lake-S pin controller support commit
qcom: Add IPQ5018 pinctrl driver commit
qcom: Add SDX75 pincontrol driver commit
qcom: spmi-gpio: Add PM8953 support commit
rk805: Add rk806 pinctrl support commit
stm32: add stm32mp257 pinctrl support commit
tegra: Add Tegra234 pinmux driver commit
12.16. Multi Media Card (MMC)
mmci: Add support for SW busy-end timeouts commit
Update MMCI driver for STM32MP25 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add Genesys Logic GL9767 support commit, commit, commit, commit
12.17. Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
spinand: gigadevice: add support for GD5F2GQ5xExxH commit
spinand: macronix: Add support for serial NAND flash commit
rawnand: add basic sandisk manufacturer ops commit
rawnand: add support for the Sandisk SDTNQGAMA chip commit
12.18. Industrial I/O (iio)
adc: max77541: Add ADI MAX77541 ADC Support commit
adc: rockchip_saradc: Add support for RK3588 commit
imu: mpu6050: Add support for the ICM 20600 IMU commit
light: Add support for TI OPT4001 light sensor commit
light: ROHM BU27008 color sensor commit
magnetometer: st_accel: Add LSM303D commit
mlx90614: Add MLX90615 support commit
potentiometer: Add support for the Renesas X9250 potentiometers commit
pressure: Honeywell mprls0025pa pressure sensor commit
st_sensors: Add ACPI support for lsm303d to the LSM9DS0 IMU driver commit
st_sensors: Add lsm303d support to the LSM9DS0 IMU driver commit
12.19. Multi Function Devices (MFD)
axp20x: Add support for AXP192 commit
axp20x: Add support for AXP313a PMIC commit
max77541: Add ADI MAX77541/MAX77540 PMIC Support commit
rk8xx: Add rk806 support commit
tps65219: Add support for soft shutdown via sys-off API commit
12.20. Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)
mediatek: Add support for MT7981 commit
Add Renesas RZ/G2L MTU3a PWM driver commit
Add microchip soft ip corePWM driver commit
12.21. Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C + I3C)
i801: Add support for Intel Meteor Lake SoC-S commit
i801: Add support for Intel Meteor Lake PCH-S commit
designware: Add driver support for Wangxun 10Gb NIC commit
12.22. Hardware monitoring (hwmon)
corsair-psu: update Series 2022 and 2023 support commit
Add MAX31827 driver commit
Add HP WMI Sensors driver commit
aht10: Add support for compatible aht20 commit
aquacomputer_d5next: Add support for Aquacomputer Leakshield commit
asus-ec-sensors: add ROG Crosshair X670E Hero commit
corsair-psu: add support for reading PWM values and mode commit
it87: Allow for chips with only 4 temp sensors commit
nct6683: Add another customer ID for NCT6687D sensor chip on some MSI boards commit
nct6755: Add support for NCT6799D commit
oxp-sensors: Add AYANEO 2 and Geek models commit
oxp-sensors: Add new DMI match for OXP Mini commit
oxp-sensors: Add support for AOKZOE A1 PRO commit
oxp-sensors: Add tt_toggle attribute on supported boards commit
pmbus/max16601: Add support for new revisions of MAX16508 commit
sht3x: Add new non-stardard sysfs attribute commit
sht3x: add medium repeatability support commit
sht3x: complement sysfs interface for sts3x commit
12.23. General Purpose I/O (gpio)
aggregator: Support delay for setting up individual GPIOs commit
Add gpio delay driver commit
tps65219: add GPIO support for TPS65219 PMIC commit
mlxbf3: Add gpio driver support commit
12.24. Leds
Add AW20xx driver commit
Add Intel Cherry Trail Whiskey Cove PMIC LED driver commit
cht-wcove: Add support for breathing mode use hw_pattern sysfs API commit
flash: leds-qcom-flash: Add PMI8998 support commit
Introduce new LED hw control APIs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
leds-mt6323: Add support for MT6331 leds commit
leds-mt6323: Add support for WLEDs and MT6332 commit
qcom-lpg: Add support for PMI632 LPG commit
Add support for MT6331 and MT6332 LEDs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
trigger: netdev: expose hw_control status via sysfs commit
12.25. DMA engines
ti: k3-udma: Add support for J721S2 CSI BCDMA instance commit
dw-edma: Add HDMA DebugFS support commit
dw-edma: Add support for native HDMA commit
12.26. Cryptography hardware acceleration
ccp: Add support for PCI device 0x156E commit
ccp: Add support for PCI device 0x17E0 commit
octeontx2: add support for AF to CPT PF uplink mbox commit
starfive: Add drivers for crypto engine commit, commit, commit
12.27. PCI
pciehp: Simplify Attention Button logging commit
tegra194: Add interconnect support in Tegra234 commit
Add support for MHI Endpoint function driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
pci: Work around ASMedia ASM2824 PCIe link training failures commit, commit, commit
12.28. Clock
loongson1: Move PWM timer to clocksource framework commit
keystone: syscon-Add support for audio refclk commit
qcom: apss-ipq-pll: Add support for IPQ9574 commit
qcom: videocc-sm8550: Add video clock controller driver for SM8550 commit
ralink: add clock and reset driver for MTMIPS SoCs commit
samsung: Re-add support for Exynos4212 CPU clock commit
Add video clock controller driver for SM8450 commit, commit, commit
clk: qcom: sc8280xp: add lpasscc reset control commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add GCC and RPMHCC support for sdx75 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
add Amlogic A1 clock controller drivers commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.29. PHY ("physical layer" framework)
cadence: salvo: add access for USB2PHY commit
Add debugfs files commit
hisilicon: Add inno-usb2-phy driver for Hi3798MV100 commit
mediatek: tphy: add debugfs files commit
qcom-qmp-usb: add support for updated qcm2290 / sm6115 binding commit
ti: gmii-sel: Add support for SGMII mode commit
phy: qcom-qmp-combo: Support orientation switching commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
arm64: qcom: sa8775p-ride: enable the first ethernet port commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
PHY: Add multilink DP support in Cadence Torrent PHY driver commit, commit, commit, commit
12.30. EDAC (Error Detection And Correction)
amd64: Add support for ECC on family 19h model 60h-7Fh commit
amd64: Add support for AMD heterogeneous Family 19h Model 30h-3Fh commit
npcm: Add NPCM memory controller driver commit
12.31. Various
counter: i8254: Introduce the Intel 8254 interface library module commit
extcon: usbc-tusb320: add accessory detection support commit
extcon: usbc-tusb320: add usb_role_switch support commit
firmware: arm_scmi: Augment SMC/HVC to allow optional parameters commit
firewire: deliver hardware time stamp for asynchronous transaction commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
hwrng: cn10k - Add extended trng register support commit
iio: accel: st_accel: Add LSM303D commit
mailbox: tegra: add support for Tegra264 commit
mei: gsc_proxy: add gsc proxy driver commit
memory: atmel-sdramc: remove the driver commit
memory: tegra: Add memory clients for Tegra234 commit
memory: tegra: Add software memory clients in Tegra234 commit
nvmem: core: add support for fixed cells *layout* commit
nvmem: imx: support i.MX93 OCOTP commit
nvmem: rockchip-otp: Add support for RK3588 commit
regmap: Add debugfs file for forcing field writes commit
reset: Add Nuvoton ma35d1 reset driver support commit
reset: oxnas: remove obsolete reset driver commit
TI TPS6594 PMIC support (Core, ESM, PFSM) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
hwtracing: Improve PTT filter interface and some fixes commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
tty: serial: Add Nuvoton ma35d1 serial driver support commit
vfio/pci-core: Add capability for AtomicOp completer support commit
vfio/pci: Support dynamic allocation of MSI-X interrupts commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
vfio/cdx: add support for CDX bus commit
Tegra234 Memory interconnect support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
memory: atmel-sdramc: remove the driver commit
clk: qcom: msm8996: add support for the CBF clock commit, commit, commit
Add support for HiSilicon SoC uncore PMU commit, commit, commit, commit
accel/habanalabs: add more debugfs stub helpers commit
- cxl
13. Pull requests
13.1. Other new sources
Phoronix Linux 6.5 Features