Linux 3.19 [https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/8/199 has been released] on Sun, 8 Feb 2015

Summary: This release adds support for Btrfs scrubbing and fast device replacement with RAID 5 and 6, support for the Intel Memory Protection Extensions that help to stop buffer overflows, support for the AMD HSA architecture, support for the debugging ARM Coresight subsystem, support for the Altera Nios II CPU architecture, networking infrastructure for routing and switching offloading, Device Tree Overlays that help to support expansion busses found on consumer development boards like the BeagleBone or Raspberry Pi, support for hole punching and preallocation in NFSv4.2, and the Android binder has been moved from the staging area to stable. There are also new drivers and many other small improvements.

TableOfContents()

1. Prominent features

1.1. Btrfs: support scrubbing and fast device replacement in RAID 5 and 6

Btrfs added support for [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.8#head-1fd494f6aeba0abd271e483ff9732afeb3544368 fast & live device replacement] (see [https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/btrfs-replace btrfs-replace(8)]), much faster and more efficient than adding the new device and removing the old one in separated commands (see [https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/btrfs-device btrfs-device(8)]). This feature could not fast-replace devices from filesystems using RAID 5 & 6, this release has removed that limitation.

The process of scrubbing a Btrfs filesystem (see [https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/btrfs-scrub btrfs-scrub(8)]) was also not available in RAID 5 and 6 filesystems, this limitation has also been removed in this release

Code: [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5a6ac9eacb49143cbad3bbfda72263101cb1f3df commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5d3edd8f44aac94de7b16f4c54290e24f5e8c532 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2c8cdd6ee4e7f637b0486c6798117e7859dee586 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7603597690147a16b5cc77047d7570fa22a22673 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/af8e2d1df9848b39dd86b1e696bf8781d2020a88 commit]

1.2. Support for the Intel Memory Protection Extensions

Intel's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MPX Memory Protection Extension] (MPX) is a set of CPU instructions which brings increased robustness to software by checking pointer references usurped maliciously at runtime by buffer overflows. Intel MPX introduces new registers and new CPU instructions that operate on these registers. Modified compiler, runtime libraries and kernels can make use of these instructions to allow MPX hardware to prevent buffer overflow exploitation. This Linux release adds support in the Linux kernel. Note: CPUs with MPX support are not in the market and will be introduced with the Intel Skylake and Goldmont microarchitectures.

Recommended LWN article: [http://lwn.net/Articles/582712/ Supporting Intel MPX in Linux]

Recommended Intel article: [https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/introduction-to-intel-memory-protection-extensions Introduction to Intel Memory Protection Extensions]

Code: [https://git.kernel.org/linus/95290cf13e561b52dceadb9a8b8ee8ff2464b142 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4aae7e436fa51faf4bf5d11b175aea82cfe8224a commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/57319d80e1d328e34cb24868a4f4405661485e30 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/fcc7ffd67991b63029ca54925644753d534ddc5f commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/fe3d197f84319d3bce379a9c0dc17b1f48ad358c commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1de4fa14ee25a8edf287855513b61c3945c8878a commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5776563648f6437ede91c91cbad85862ca682b0b commit]

1.3. HSA driver for AMD GPU devices

HSA, or Heterogeneous System Architecture, is a type of computer processor architecture that integrates central processing units and graphics processors on the same bus, with shared memory and tasks. HSA allows different processor types (CPUs, DSPs, GPUs, etc..) to share system resources more effectively via HW features including shared pageable memory, userspace-accessible work queues, and platform-level atomics.

This release includes HSA support for radeon-family processors, and offers an API that is used by a [https://github.com/HSAFoundation/HSA-Runtime-Reference-Source HSA open-source library] developed by AMD. For more details about the HSA library and possibilities that HSA offers to userspace apps, see the previous link.

Code: [https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd]

1.4. Android binder moved to stable

The Android binder code has been placed in the "staging" are of the kernel for a long time. The code, however, has been stable for many years now and it has been shipped in millions of phones. There has been reticences over binder, but no matter what comes in the future, Linux is going to have to support this API anyway, so might as well move it to the "real" part of the kernel.

Code: [https://git.kernel.org/linus/777783e0abae3cab7555bb182776f9ffaa35631a commit]

1.5. ARM Coresight support

Coresight is an umbrella of technologies allowing for the debugging of ARM-based SoC. ARM has developed a HW assisted tracing solution by means of different components, each being added to a design at synthesis time to cater to specific tracing needs. Components are generally categorised as source, link and sinks and are (usually) discovered using the AMBA bus. "Sources" generate a compressed stream representing the processor instruction path based on tracing scenarios as configured by users. From there the stream flows through the Coresight system (via ATB bus) using links that are connecting the emanating source to a sink(s). Sinks serve as endpoints to the Coresight implementation, either storing the compressed stream in a memory buffer or creating an interface to the outside world where data can be transferred to a host

The Linux Coresight framework provides a kernel interface for the Coresight debug and trace drivers to register themselves with. It's intended to build a topological view of the Coresight components based on a DT specification and configure the right series of components when a trace source gets enabled.

For more details about the Linux Coresight framework: see [https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/trace/coresight.txt Documentation/trace/coresight.txt]

For details about ARM Coresight: http://www.arm.com/products/system-ip/debug-trace/

Code: [https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/coresight drivers/coresight/]

1.6. New architecture: Altera Nios II processors

This release adds support for Altera Nios II processors. Nios II is a 32-bit embedded-processor architecture designed specifically for the Altera family of FPGAs. Nios II incorporates many enhancements over the original Nios architecture, making it more suitable for a wider range of embedded computing applications, from DSP to system-control.

For more information about the Nios II processors see http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-nio2.jsp

For more information on how compiling and booting software for the Nios II platform: http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/Documentation/NiosIILinuxUserManual

Code: [https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/nios2 arch/nios2]

1.7. Device Tree overlays

The Device Tree is a data structure for describing hardware that is passed to the operating system at boot time, rather than hard coding every detail of a device into an operating system. It is used most often in architectures like powerpc and ARM. The Device Tree is designed with static systems in mind, and has troubles adapting to custom expansion busses commonly found on consumer development boards like the BeagleBone or Raspberry Pi.

This release introduces Device Tree overlay support. Overlays are a method to dynamically modify part of the kernel's device tree and make changes to properties in a existing tree. This makes easier to support devices such as the BeagleBone or Raspberry Pi.

Recommended LWN article: [http://lwn.net/Articles/616859/ Device tree overlays]

Code: [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7518b5890d8ac366faa2326ce2356ef6392ce63d commit]

1.8. Networking: support for routing and switching offloading

This release includes infrastructure to support hardware switch chips (in very generic meaning of the word "switch"). This include devices supporting L2/L3 but also various flow offloading chips, including switches embedded into SR-IOV NICs.

Also included is the first driver to benefit from this new switchdev infrastructure, it is a "rocker" driver for [https://github.com/sfeldma/qemu-rocker/ emulated switch chip implemented in qemu].

Code: [https://git.kernel.org/linus/020ec6ba2a0c4c1e147c506a0970b58a90d1146b commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b7485f6b035a87685ce35e0e52deee6467811eb0 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/93859b13fa7ecef9d4d8bab4a7acc9f212c8fce2 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f6f6424ba773da6221ecaaa70973eb4dacfa03b2 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/02637fce3e0103ba086b9c33b6d529e69460e4b6 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/007f790c8276271de26416f90d55561bcc96588a commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/82f2841291cfaf4d225aa1766424280254d3e3b2 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/aecbe01e7410ad2de022796472f531ae6941f15e commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/38dcf357aed299186ecb090cc2f5290cc17d637d commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/cf6b8e1eedffd9ef9a22c0c9453d752b07daf89a commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/065c212a9e25172069f368b36228379521dadb65 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/efacacdaf7cb5a0592ed772e3731636b2742e34a commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/345cd494a324c149ef7293f4bedf2d7131a6de7c commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2c3c031c8f8930861815fa1685d7c5e8ccec047c commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4b8ac9660af07be6f6602b523929793eed314997 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9f6bbf7cfcb4dd734ce6c3fe7e512274311de380 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6c7079450071f889b4c2b55f8d030b1a5e859401 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ce76ca689dfe0bafba21b0dc002c7f92eb629fd8 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5111f80cbc759bed12941678bd029fca76512815 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e75605822e3190a1bd7935599e93f13ab1ba7c9d commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/51ace887a0c08cc431f99d46ab63c6b316052640 commit]

1.9. NFSv4.2 support for hole punching and preallocation

This release adds support for hole punching and preallocation in NFSv4.2 setups

Code: [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f4ac1674f5da420ef17896f0f222c5215ebcde80 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/624bd5b7b683c978c6d5f4e9f6142cfb3470983d commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/95d871f03cae6b49de040265cf88cbe2a16b9f05 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b0cb9085239a20b7482ddd4839dd1d5476801dfa commit]

2. Drivers and architectures

All the driver and architecture-specific changes can be found in the [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.19-DriversArch Linux_3.19-DriversArch page]

3. File systems

• ext4

  • Create nojournal_checksum mount option to disable journal checksumming (because the metadata_csum feature turns it on by default now) [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c6d3d56dd0ef6c15fc007413c9d024021c178cf9 commit]

  • Prevent online resize while using backup superblock [https://git.kernel.org/linus/011fa99404bea3f5d897c4983f6bd51170e3b18f commit]

• F2FS

  • Introduce "fastboot" mount option for reducing mount time as much as possible, even though normal performance can be sacrificed [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d5053a34a9cc797b9d5d77574354b5555848c43c commit]

  • Support storing directory entries inside inode page, can be enabled with "inline_dentry" mount option [https://git.kernel.org/linus/34d67debe02b3b2b035b5bdce0fab75800f9a344 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/201a05be9628ae58efe7638e0c7ae3937ec85273 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/622f28ae9ba4fa89b4ff0f4a6cf75d153ea838ce commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5efd3c6f1be9cfbc621c9445cedd159998ed3ea6 commit]

  • Add "dirsync" to allow sync operation on directory operations [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b7e1d800031c827a80c9a9d03cf15e4dd5405a44 commit]

• AFFS

  • Add support to O_DIRECT [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9abb408307008a19be5719bbf1d069bb3ed7aa60 commit]

• SquashFS

  • Add LZ4 compression support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9c06a46f1524a05b2dccf5c74d7555b2cfcbe5db commit]

• Ceph

  • Support inline data feature [https://git.kernel.org/linus/65a22662bfe1a84d72b9bbd9146b6782b9e53478 commit]

  • Add CREATE osd operation support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/864e9197f10c77053bbaf12932f5b200bb4ed3c5 commit]

  • Add SETXATTR/CMPXATTR osd operations support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d74b50bed037794135cb5a4e7418ad71d9848ce1 commit]

  • Message signature support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/33d07337962c7bbd2fd5cf7f1106735c9507fbe2 commit]

4. Memory management

• Make debug-pagealloc boottime configurable with kernel parameter debug_pagealloc [https://git.kernel.org/linus/031bc5743f158b2d5498294f489e534a31251626 commit]

• Resurrect struct page extending code for debugging [https://git.kernel.org/linus/eefa864b701d78dc9753c70a3540a2e9ae192595 commit]

• memcontrol: lockless page counters [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3e32cb2e0a12b6915056ff04601cf1bb9b44f967 commit]

5. Block

• dm cache: improve discard performance and memory usage [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7ae34e7778966d39f66397491eb114b613202c20 commit]

• dm thin: performance improvement to discard processing. Discarding a fully provisioned 100G thin volume with 64k block size goes from 860s to 95s with this change [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7a7e97ca580b944d2c89b59bc74a7b9ddd044705 commit]

• dm thin: throttle incoming IO, which helps dm-thinp perform better under heavy IO load [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7d327fe051edcccf54da7b6733c58992473f228b commit]

• Remove artificial max_hw_sectors cap [https://git.kernel.org/linus/34b48db66e08ca1c1bc07cf305d672ac940268dc commit]

6. Core (various)

• Conversion of i_mmap_mutex to a rwsem The i_mmap_mutex is an important lock that is used to protect file backed pages. In this release it has been turned from a mutex to a read-write semaphore, improving performance in many cases. For benchmarks, see the first commit [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8b28f621bea6f84d44adf7e804b73aff1e09105b commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/83cde9e8ba95d180eaefefe834958fbf7008cf39 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c8c06efa8b552608493b7066c234cfa82c47fcea commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3dec0ba0be6a532cac949e02b853021bf6d57dad commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d28eb9c861f41aa2af4cfcc5eeeddff42b13d31e commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1acf2e040721564d579297646862b8ea3dd4511b commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/874bfcaf79e39135cd31e1cfc9265cf5222d1ec3 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4a23717a236b2ab31efb1651f586126789fc997f commit]

• RCU locking: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE, future kernel builds will always act as if CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0eafa46823971b4c368f4cdf19f1d081c4ee52b7 commit]

• RCU locking: PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU serve the same function after TINY_PREEMPT_RCU has been removed, this release removes redundant TREE_PREEMPT_RCU config option [https://git.kernel.org/linus/28f6569ab7d036cd4ee94c26bb76dc1b3f3fc056 commit]

• RCU: Rename CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_PRIO to CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO and use this value for both the per-CPU kthreads (rcuc/N) and the rcu boosting threads (rcub/n). Also add rcutree.kthread_prio boot option that sets the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU and rcu boosting kthreads [https://git.kernel.org/linus/21871d7eff2c96ae67e18e00adf59d56940e2fcc commit]

• IPC: increase SEMMSL, SEMMNI, SEMOPM [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e843e7d2c88b7db107a86bd2c7145dc715c058f4 commit]

fault-inject: add ratelimit option [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6adc4a22f20bbf3bbc754f1ec8c82be5dfb5c71a commit]

• Introduce new interfaces to support hierarchy irqdomains [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f8264e34965aaf43203912ed8f7b543c00c8d70f commit]

• PCI/MSI: Support hierarchy irqdomain [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3878eaefb89aa841ae4c2150490cee864ac628cb commit]

• PCI: Remove PCI ioapic driver: it is plannedto reimplement IOAPIC driver as an ACPI instead of PCI driver [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5db66334a7e83cda70fb6193dcaa2590da3a1b7d commit]

• Implement execveat() system call [https://git.kernel.org/linus/51f39a1f0cea1cacf8c787f652f26dfee9611874 commit]

• Openfirmware: export Flattened Device Tree blob as /sys/firmware/fdt [https://git.kernel.org/linus/08d53aa58cb162e65e25dbe31d28438657cb8e33 commit]

• Openfirmware: Move platform devices under /sys/devices/platform [https://git.kernel.org/linus/43c0767e17ac70e494b6a381b3a20be6a1a75c70 commit]

7. Cryptography

• Add user space interface for AEAD [https://git.kernel.org/linus/af8e80731a94ff9de9508b01d9e5d931d538dc6b commit]

• crc32: Add ARM64 CRC-32 hardware accelerated module [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f6f203faa3ebd8fa229e34424850a0919ded6c10 commit]

• sahara: add support for SHA-1/256 [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5a2bb93f599247e049f5ae06a573f1152987c572 commit]

• caam: add support for AES working in Galois Counter Mode [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3ef8d945d0dafd272e77c01099bc4975c5297a5a (commit)], add support for AES in Galois/Counter Mode as an IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload mechanism [https://git.kernel.org/linus/bac68f2c9a43e60a70e27c0c75aaca7128b6271d (commit)], add support for AES working in Counter mode [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2b22f6c547f90e1a41e3f39ad8d569e3efc74d42 (commit)], add support for AES Counter Mode compliant with RFC3686 to be used along with authenc algorithms (md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512) as one-shot aead algorithms [https://git.kernel.org/linus/daebc465858867f48ee86a88f56020c3fe0d96f6 (commit)], add support for one-shot given crypt algorithms [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7222d1a3410388c8e21a5028ba2beb498938b57f (commit)], add support for Advanced Encryption Standard in Counter Mode as provided in IPsec implementation standard RFC3686 [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a5f57cffce8af8d2c11204b4e289543021c73766 (commit)], add support for AES-GMAC as an IPSec ESP mechanism to provide data origin authentication, but not confidentiality [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5d0429a30f06845af78a696de59e3e8d21252846 (commit)]

8. Virtualization

• virtio_scsi: support multi hw queue of blk-mq [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ccbedf117f015d4f415130069b47d63c359bc110 commit]

• tools: hv: introduce -n/--no-daemon option [https://git.kernel.org/linus/170f4bea2008054e5098f99359e29823a7b4b1b9 commit]

• hyperv: Add support for vNIC hot removal [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c3582a2c4d0baf1fa3955c8b3d3d61308df474c7 commit]

• KVM: remove unsupported and unused itanium support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/003f7de6258900e17f6206e8e417d76c75ca549f commit]

9. Security

• IMA

  • Added support for new kernel cmdline parameter ima_template_fmt, it allows users to provide a custom template format [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c2426d2ad5027397342107b7ff094aa9b234acb8 commit]

  • Load X.509 certificate from the kernel [https://git.kernel.org/linus/fd5f4e9054acbf4f22fac81a358baf3c27aa42ac commit]

  • Require signature based appraisal [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c57782c13ecd7e7aca66cbf0139ad2a72317dc81 commit]

10. Tracing & perf

• tracing: Allow NOT (!) to filter AND (&&) and OR (||) clauses [https://git.kernel.org/linus/eabb8980a96cff42ae70cc6ab143f4003f02c874 commit]

• perf annotate: Support source line numbers in annotate [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e592488c01d51763de847fcecb3d969231a483a9 commit]

• perf callchain: Support handling complete branch stacks as histograms [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8b7bad58efb7e3aaff60f7c1fa4361fb8c23181d commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/fa94c36c29ed8bb4749b5fd7ea51a593f673dcef commit]

• perf probe: Add --quiet option to suppress output result message [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5e17b28f1e246b98e08cb463f7d72cff6415fc53 commit]

• perf record: Add new -I option to capture machine state registers at interrupt [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6a21c0b5c2abd2fdfa6fff79f11df3d6082c1873 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4b6c51773d86883a2e80cffadbe4f178ac1babd8 commit]

• perf script: Add Python script to export to postgresql [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2987e32f75dcb40bce0f3ab1d5d48cc1c580fd8b commit]

• perf tools: Add --buildid-dir option to set cache directory [https://git.kernel.org/linus/99ce8e9fce99147f865cda8a8e471900518c9a49 commit]

• perf tools: Add gzip decompression support for kernel module [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e92ce12ed6a46302f64269d2d406cf04525f0a8f commit]

11. Networking

• net: allow setting ECN via routing table [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f7b3bec6f5167efaf56b756abfafb924cb1d3050 commit]

• IPv6: Add a sysctl (use_optimistic and optimistic_dad) that causes an interface's optimistic addresses to be considered equivalent to other non-deprecated addresses for source address selection purposes. Preferred addresses will still take precedence over optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source address selection algorithm. This is useful where different interfaces are connected to different networks from different ISPs (e.g., a cell network and a home Wi-Fi network) [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7fd2561e4ebdd070ebba6d3326c4c5b13942323f commit]

• Generic receive offload: add a per device gro flush timer. This new mechanism is off by default, and shall be enabled by setting /sys/class/net/ethX/gro_flush_timeout to a value in nanosecond [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3b47d30396bae4f0bd1ff0dbcd7c4f5077e7df4e commit]

• Add SO_INCOMING_CPU socket option, which allows userspace to ask for the CPU upon what a packet was received/steered [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2c8c56e15df3d4c2af3d656e44feb18789f75837 commit]

• Allow eBPF programs to be attached to sockets. See related [http://lwn.net/Articles/625224/ LWN article] [https://git.kernel.org/linus/89aa075832b0da4402acebd698d0411dcc82d03e commit]

• Add support for remote checksum offload for Generic UDP Encapsulation (GUE), which is a mechanism that provides checksum offload of encapsulated packets using rudimentary offload capabilities found in most network devices. The outer header checksum for UDP is enabled in packets and, with some additional meta information in the GUE header, a receiver is able to deduce the checksum to be set for an inner encapsulated packet. Effectively this offloads the computation of the inner checksum. Remote checksum offload is described in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-herbert-remotecsumoffload-00 . For more details and benchmarks, see the [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1d76c1d028975df8488d1ae18a76f268eb5efa93 merge commit]. Code: [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4bcb877d257c87298aedead1ffeaba0d5df1991d commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5024c33ac354577635c5671498891eb197f3ec4d commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e585f23636370320bc2071ca5ba2744ae37c3e51 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b17f709a24013fcbb257f6f89b4d81ac9fdf0d18 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a8d31c128bf574bed2fa29e0512b24d446018a50 commit]

• Netfilter nft_meta: add cgroup support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ce674173e9f4ef7fd0dc04ea0773cdedfbf8e366 commit]

• ipvlan: New IPVLAN driver. It is conceptually very similar to the macvlan driver with one major exception of using L3 for mux-ing /demux-ing among slaves. This property makes the master device share the L2 with it's slave devices. It allows to create virtual devices off of a main interface and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 address) on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 making it transparent to the connected L2 switch. For more details see the [https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt Documentation] [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269 commit]

• ip6_tunnel: Add support for tunnels with local or remote wildcard endpoints. With this we get a NBMA tunnel mode like we have it for IPv4 and sit tunnels [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ea3dc9601bda69d8d695b57c4f7a997cd7039781 commit]

• ip6_tunnel: allow to change mode for the fallback tunnel device, ip6tnl0 [https://git.kernel.org/linus/acf722f73499d85e959ce99cf22d1b827d0b273a commit]

• ipv6: Allow sending packets through tunnels with wildcard endpoints [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d50051407f136028108cfda068d55ef053a54fe1 commit]

• bpf: reduce verifier memory consumption [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9c3997601d51069ec08d7d06cf31a17884056cc2 commit]

• bridge: Add support for IEEE 802.11 Proxy ARP. This feature is defined in IEEE Std 802.11-2012, 10.23.13. It allows the AP devices to keep track of the hardware-address-to-IP-address mapping of the mobile devices within the WLAN network [https://git.kernel.org/linus/958501163ddd6ea22a98f94fa0e7ce6d4734e5c4 commit]

• tcp_cubic: add SNMP counters to track how effective is Hystart [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6e3a8a937c2f86ee0b2d354808fc026a143b4518 commit]

• sunrpc: add a debugfs rpc_xprt directory with an info file in it [https://git.kernel.org/linus/388f0c776781fe64ce951701bfe712b2182a31f2 commit], add debugfs file for displaying client rpc_task queue [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b4b9d2ccf0be61c69213f6ae4e33377c05194ef4 commit]

• TIPC protocol: New netlink API, for detail see the [https://git.kernel.org/linus/49ed2617a06abacaccd46fa88ae14c333baa15f0 merge commit]. Code: [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/35b9dd7607f049466a66427e58818b29aeae9ea7 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/315c00bc9f2bd17f7ad7ed8119ca49b1125af507 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7be57fc6918470ecacd16b89c0d4f73d8fc265c4 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f96ce7a20d6972a834202f3cdd6a53fd0ee26a8e commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ae36342b50a91cff188e417201452dc075a8f444 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/46f15c6794fb744bb7741d26143a85b9012c10d4 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1e55417d8fc6f6d93b1cc6995b911d48ded2adfb commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1593123a6a4914ccac4699d7f93cdf8057a7d822 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/fd3cf2ad519f73c2f7a46460ebedf32ad246520c commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/27c21416727af73df45051acb05331c0f10e50f6 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3e4b6ab58d614934e7ca99bdf448089695d34ffa commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1a1a143daf84db95dd7212086042004a3abb7bc2 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/34b78a127c4fd57cf3d5c64031693d10a8e0fae1 commit]

• ethtool: Support for configurable RSS hash function [https://git.kernel.org/linus/892311f66f2411b813ca631009356891a0c2b0a1 commit]

• Infiniband: On-demand paging support for Infiniband. This lets userspace create non-pinned memory regions and have the adapter HW trigger page faults [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8ada2c1c0c1d75a60723cd2ca7d49c594a146af6 commit]

• NFC digital improvements for DEP support: Chaining, NACK and ATN support added [https://git.kernel.org/linus/384ab1d174a11292af63674a26eaa99864db9b48 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a80509c76bf2b10dae76f3caea343ac4b85c72b4 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c12715ab3f0122971f75731b9c2f5b35836165cb commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3bd2a5bcc6cd7b8d588aa9ffa947177721eba18e commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9b5ec0fd584df424c0541f631b7c1154697bf227 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/49dbb14e30c3249f98fe243c3e21b91d10c5c59b commit]

• Wireless

  • Add a new WoWLAN API to enable net-detect as a wake up trigger. Net-detect allows the device to scan in the background while the host is asleep to wake up the host system when a matching network is found [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8cd4d4563ef0a518002c4a8f47dd950afe386ea8 commit]

  • Allow scanning with random MAC addresses [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ad2b26abc157460ca6fac1a53a2bfeade283adfa commit]

  • Support creating wiphy devices with an optional name. This will be used by hwsim to have better automated control over virtual radio creation/deletion [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ad28757eef268e609677d0e3d8c0bdadde52a711 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1998d90ad424c1ff12ea24816ce158d5262e06a5 commit]

  • Allow channel switch with multiple channel contexts [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0f791eb47f8222fd594e6f8a090632344ef23924 commit]

  • Support creating vifs with specified mac address [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b5dfae020b3539feaa014d3b6152f48660c2d75b commit]

  • Support creating wiphy w/out creating wlanX [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e27513fbd030d8558cfa9250bd62b2baf19dc114 commit]

  • Add support for driver tx power reporting [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5b3dc42b1b0db0264bbbe4ae44c15ab97bfd1e93 commit]

  • Add support for 802.11p OCB (Outside the Context of a BSS) mode [https://git.kernel.org/linus/239281f803e2efdb77d906ef296086b6917e5d71 commit]

  • Allow to query mesh proxy path table [https://git.kernel.org/linus/66be7d2bcd826344894be09dc385f9f805136b84 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a2db2ed3fb7d35ff2405d08fc012a5db8ddb36e0 commit]

  • Add WMM admission control support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/02219b3abca59fca81711bfe7ee78df7abad97ce commit]

  • minstrel rate control algorithm: add basic support for VHT rates <= 3SS@80MHz [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9208247d74bc52dcaf370ba3cee29b5e8775464b commit]

  • Add extended channel switching capability if the driver supports CSA [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e9a21949b79414dda42a017855b288901c07e613 commit]

  • Add TDLS channel switch [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a7a6bdd0670feb8bfc26d41cda32b6064dbca50e commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1057d35ede5dbf7ed7842357564fb42c9b54ba50 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c2733905692589cc73928ffd65d26107536e80fe commit]

  • Allow any interface to send NL80211_CMD_CH_SWITCH_NOTIFY channel switch notifications to the userspace to let it decide whether other interfaces need to be moved as well. This is needed when we want a P2P GO interface to follow the channel of a station, for example [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d04b5ac9e70b2056a8a12f768f4b46773576025e commit]

  • Send channel switch started notifications [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2f4572930dbd79216294a94e331478513c65df78 commit]

  • mac80211-hwsim: Add HWSIM_CMD_GET_RADIO command [https://git.kernel.org/linus/93d638d49cac96a93abf09bb3526f2112d9f8387 commit], add ethtool stats support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2155c3f82327bddd092bd704ebaff79c0a2dfb9c commit], support SGI-20 [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e49786dbebc91658c86fb2be746968221147ffc4 commit], support creating radios with specific name [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5cd8926bbf47ee0eb51a266bd9614dd3f93c004f commit], support creating wiphy w/out creating wlanX [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9a0cb89a8aad7c04505abf88202b1dd376fc50bc commit], support destroying radio by name [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8cdd9e1c37dd888894922b8209d5fc8055cfde52 commit], support scanning with random MAC address [https://git.kernel.org/linus/339467b906f599b6f3a479dffe7f5bb0241b78ac commit]

• openvswitch

  • Add basic MPLS support to kernel: Allow datapath to recognize and extract MPLS labels into flow keys and execute actions which push, pop, and set labels on packets [https://git.kernel.org/linus/25cd9ba0abc0749e5cb78e6493c6f6b3311ec6c5 commit]

  • Add support for OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE. This new flag is useful for suppressing error logging while probing for datapath features using flow commands [https://git.kernel.org/linus/05da5898a96c05e32aa9850c9cd89eef29471b13 commit]

  • Extend packet attribute for exporting egress tunnel info to userspace [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8f0aad6f35f7e8b3118b7b8a65e8e76b135cc4cb commit]

• IEEE 802.15.4

  • Add nl802154 framework [https://git.kernel.org/linus/79fe1a2aa7b504c68642e510154f17e2de60da60 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b821ecd4c8a0b3b1fc1bdd191bb7d555d818cafe commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f3ea5e44231a88eaea69a13410d1b80c19cfa1df commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/656a999e8701c1e3d17040f051d3a080ec6c710c commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ab0bd561724bf3c09aa80e76ca0a187c6880bc5c commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c8937a1d112b1a948454f4fa2f9b747fee2a3f66 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a01ba7652cda5602b248efff168450ec658640b8 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/17a3a46bfbf1c2b944812a81b11ffe255a55e9ca commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/702bf371282f5912fe53f0b247fa2d7df9d7951f commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9830c62a0b3d57d9d00880989cfe987f581bc03f commit]

  • Remove fakehard driver [https://git.kernel.org/linus/36426484fcaca2153616d6f3496b389a5b11bd9f commit]

  • Add sysfs entries for wpan_phy index and name, needed for the new 802.15.4 userspace tool [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a6fd693f6b862cd73fc90849353492406cfba5f6 commit]

• Bluetooth

  • Support for the Low Energy Secure Connections feature that's part of the Bluetooth 4.2 specification [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b5f185f33d0432cef6ff78765e033dfa8f4de068 commit]

  • Add logic for UUID filter handling [https://git.kernel.org/linus/799ce93df07bfc85296fc8357fd3a12fdfd4f175 commit]

  • Add support for enabling Extended Scanner Filter Policies [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4efbb2ce8b6f693ce9607c28082f542a70eb5934 commit]

  • Add support for Start Service Discovery command [https://git.kernel.org/linus/66ea9427e08cb0a856006012b15e6b93ce379115 commit]

• mac802154

  • Add basic support for monitor mode [https://git.kernel.org/linus/38130c31ef50de1999983601e448db2b1bc1057c commit]

  • Add support for promiscuous mode [https://git.kernel.org/linus/94b792220ca9c080f4d1da8060f4c892c1b3b025 commit]

12. List of merges

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3a7dbed7f23cdde8394e9adf92cc222856e0fc1e MFD updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0160928e792eff243c84b39a46cddb2fb89da0cb EDAC updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/177808cd28ac793d654bb1ae5ae1f778e7b3864f hwmon updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/de740386447f768d3ea03137761364dd13f499b3 regmap updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f94784bdb114439eb3a5e62343826887bbf3f37c regulator updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/140dfc9299c33bbfc9350fa061f5ab65cb83df13 device mapper updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f3f62a38ceda4e4d34a1dc3ebbc0f8d426c9e8d9 SCSI updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a4a26e8e924a8e2412b63276c1a23cc127997a73 Altera Nios II processor support]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/50569687e9c688a8688982805be6d8e3c8879042 m68k updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b64bb1d758163814687eb3b84d74e56f04d0c9d1 arm64 updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0563fdc0d9fbd4d8896956d4aeb01fad09146acc ARM SoC cleanup on mach-at91]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6c9e92476bc924ede6d6d2f0bfed2c06ae148d29 ARM SoC cleanups]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6cd94d5e57ab97ddd672b707ab4bb639672c1727 ARM SoC platform changes]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3a647c1d7ab08145cee4b650f5e797d168846c51 ARM SoC driver updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6da314122ddc11936c6f054753bbb956a499d020 ARM SoC DT updates], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/205dc205ed3ba748bab9770016bbbffb68558146 part 2]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/fe78c54b4788b69bb2a8f157b524c933ea0c66d5 ARM SoC/OMAP GPMC driver cleanup]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/151cd97630f87451cab412e40750d0e5f7581c98 ARM SoC defconfig changes]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ed8efd2de75479a175bd21df073d9e97df65a820 ARM64 SoC changes]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a0e4467726cd26bacb16f13d207ffcfa82ffc07d asm-generic asm/io.h rewrite]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9c37f95936b6c169e89733747504879b06e77c24 locking tree changes]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c30110608cfba7efff3a5e71914aee7c816115c5 RCU updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5706ffd045c3810912c4982357d7daa721af3464 perf events update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/86c6a2fddf0b89b494c7616f2c06cf915c4bff01 scheduler updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a157508c9790ccd1c8b5c6a828d6ba85bbe95aaa timer core updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ecb50f0afd35a51ef487e8a54b976052eb03d729 irq core updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9e66645d72d3c395da92b0f8855c787f4b5f0e89 irq domain updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3eb5b893ebec7325ac9e6b8e4864af89a9ca1ed1 x86 MPX support]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d82012695ef29e4e1c8153ccf43098ec8e50369e 2038 timer work]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9d0cf6f56454c8a71e0aa2c3b9c6cbe470eb2788 x86 asm updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b6444bd0a18eb47343e16749ce80a6ebd521f124 x86 boot and percpu updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/206f18f2caaf965870ff558e237e9c23164a66f0 x86 build, cleanup and defconfig updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8139548136d966863751a6e5ce8a19d08c4f374a EFI updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/773fed910d41e443e495a6bfa9ab1c2b7b13e012 x86 platform changes]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a023748d53c10850650fe86b1c4a7d421d576451 x86 mm tree changes]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c9f861c77269bc9950c16c6404a9476062241671 x86 RAS update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3100e448e7d74489a96cb7b45d88fe6962774eaa x86 vdso updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3a5dc1fafb016560315fe45bb4ef8bde259dd1bc x86 microcode loading updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e20db597b6264de55ea6636fc79b1e4aaa89d129 NFS client updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/08e2fb6ce69857f71ef846ba69af025ca4ad09c4 pstore fixes]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1715ac63d36b52b2932c17bf8ceccf058f02e57b GFS2 update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a6b849578ef3e0b131b1ea4063473a4f935a65e9 cifs update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4b0a268eeccae14d42ff5fb9f19b612913c0007c f2fs updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1366f5d3129f2abde606214de7afc3dd61781fa3 quota updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8322b6fddfd2cee41a7732284e5f04750511f4b2 dlm update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/cbfe0de303a55ed96d8831c2d5f56f8131cd6612 VFS changes], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/603ba7e41bf5d405aba22294af5d075d8898176d part 2]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b6da0076bab5a12afb19312ffee41c95490af2a0 patchbomb from Andrew Morton], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/78a45c6f067824cf5d0a9fedea7339ac2e28603c second patchbomb]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1dd7dcb6eaa677b034e7ef63df8320277507ae70 tracing updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c32809521de5b31699a33379183848b0c7628f28 ftrace self-test updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/350e4f4985472e29091b899bc227d75d2a66fb4c nmi-safe seq_buf printk update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f74ea36848ad49cb011aae55f56b0475702ffb79 ktest changes]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c75059c46293adf1560162c17148ab94624f5ed2 PCI changes]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/92a578b064d0227a3a7fbbdb9e29dbab7f8d400e ACPI and power management updates], * [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c0f486fde3f353232c1cc2fd4d62783ac782a467 part 2]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c1b30e4d9466000c0e287e9245d4397da4d7d2f9 pin control changes]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e28870f9b3e92cd3570925089c6bb789c2603bc4 backlight update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2183a58803c2bbd87c2d0057eed6779ec4718d4d media updates], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0ec28c37c21a2b4393692e832e11a7573ac545e2 part 2]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/709d9f09b6aee5828cb8f168f63030608176cd0e edac updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b859e7d13bcc18b56faa7e2f78db5ba8ab874a15 spi updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/14ba9a2e4bacc6f5a0dbe0de5390daedd544508f mailbox framework updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6b9e2cea428cf7af93a84bcb865e478d8bf1c165 virtio updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/413fd0e3fbf52873f2310eb75bfa6c7b72847277 fbdev updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7ef58b32f571bffb7763c6252ad7527562081f34 devicetree changes]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/bae41e45b7400496b9bf0c70c6004419d9987819 sound updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/70e71ca0af244f48a5dcf56dc435243792e3a495 networking updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/27afc5dbda52ee3dbcd0bda7375c917c6936b470 s390 updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/140cd7fb04a4a2bc09a30980bc8104cc89e09330 powerpc updates], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/34b85e3574424beb30e4cd163e6da2e2282d2683 part 2]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c0222ac086669a631814bbf857f8c8023452a4d7 MIPS updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9d050966e2eb37a643ac15904b6a8fda7fcfabe9 xen features and fixes], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/eb64c3c6cdb8fa8a4d324eb71a9033b62e150918 additional update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/eedb3d3304b59c64c811522f4ebaaf83124deeac percpu updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0a27044c83fe8f52fd8fd1964d17fa7538ea0771 workqueue update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4e8790f77f051d4cc745a57b48a73052521e8dfc libata changes]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2756d373a3f45a3a9ebf4ac389f9e0e02bd35a93 cgroup update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9bfccec24e31f4f83445cfe0c1b0a5ef97900628 ext4 updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c05e14f7b3145ac89635fa398934438240dace40 xfs update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ccb5a4910d0ca7b1742b9217db2e1b95817e25ac UBI/UBIFS updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0349678ccd74d16c1f2bb58ecafec13ef7110e36 HID updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/bdeb03cada1c305346505c48e5b1dab37e9acc4e btrfs update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6ce4436c9cbe903af935291aa219fd6f4c85722d pstore update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/eea0cf3fcd3243666e0bb792c560ec128b1f06a1 IPMI driver updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/87c779baabff157f09db6fce417a7544220f9f00 dmaengine updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8d14066755592a2906b4f2378aeb5471b602d3cb IOMMU updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/26ceb127f7bcf473db926c6a026b18ddd6f274e8 ARM updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a7e8ddd813c20e3e10c9012f1625a5a02f870b15 sparc update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e3aa91a7cb21a595169b20c64f63ca39a91a0c43 crypto update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a99abce2d92dd21faffc9439fa35d1519627872b audit updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/caf292ae5bb9d57198ce001d8b762f7abae3a94d block driver core update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9ea18f8cab5f1c36cdd0f09717e35ceb48c36a87 block layer driver updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/96895199c8648db475b38aac5fe6a04ec14a49c4 i2c updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7d22286ff757586f3cdbd70ded88b98250285ec5 aio updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/980f3c344ff1cb4a8be9a169c6bde2dc74ca6288 GPIO updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7a02d089695a1217992434f03a78aa32bad85b5c squashfs update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e7cf773d431a63a2417902696fcc9e0ebdc83bbe USB updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/37da7bbbe84fe9e8862940d3f9194fd27dce59bb tty/serial driver updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e6b5be2be4e30037eb551e0ed09dd97bd00d85d3 driver core update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6ae840e7cc4be0be3aa40d9f67c35c75cfc67d83 char/misc driver updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/67e2c3883828b39548cee2091b36656787775d95 security layer updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/988adfdffdd43cfd841df734664727993076d7cb drm updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/27cb8823e26cecd03c00d82dfb501f6c144b3445 rpmsg update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/60d7ef3fd34dca2eb7ef4c997ccf1ef76a9ba148 irq domain ARM updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7051d8e6308640aaee2f9d45d0ceaad3a4ee8a78 power supply updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a68db9cb858d10820add66682ad4d412f9914288 firewire updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/dab363f938a53ddaee60bfecc1aebdbb3d3af5f0 staging driver updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2dbfca5a181973558277b28b1f4c36362291f5e0 LED subsystem update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a7c180aa7e76a55642e8492f28353303a50292c2 tracing updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/61de8e53640ceeda564a65170a46c1edc2b37e11 kselftest update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0db2812a5240f2663b92d8d4b761122dd2e0c6c3 arch/tile updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a643fc7253261be2275c02cb33fa7bf4bfc8cdc4 Xtensa fixes]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6f51ee709e4c6b56f2c2a071da2d056a109b9d26 ARM SoC/iommu configuration update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0b233b7c79d2ba92c7fb5d60d4116693f1b3b0fe nfsd updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c103b21c20ee3d173ccccb7d5ca8f5b8bc02cac3 fuse update]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d6666be6f0c43efb9475d1d35fbef9f8be61b7b1 MTD updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d797da41b2aceed5daa8cd2eee92cd74b2a0c652 input subsystem updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0b4954c46943e8f15b9379eed4f133c874a0bc66 pwm updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2efda9042d76fcab0fb87b7ee8d84da52bf122b0 thermal management]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9f3e15129902bca9d8e296c165345f158bac94eb virtio updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/cc669743a39e3f61c9ca5e786e959bf478ccd197 VFIO updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/57666509b70030a9483d13222bfec8eec5db07df ceph updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/66dcff86ba40eebb5133cccf450878f2bba102ef KVM updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4c929feed7e9ce69efbe85e3932393db67fbce76 infiniband updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/385336e321c41b5174055c0194b60c19a27cc5c5 x86 platform driver]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d790be3863b28fd22e0781c1a3ddefcbfd5f7086 module updates]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d08372ca2800e23c51e76dea5fc516781e82722e kconfig changes]

13. Other news sites

• LWN merge window, [http://lwn.net/Articles/625146/ part 1], [http://lwn.net/Articles/626150/ part 2], [http://lwn.net/Articles/627202/ part 3].