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Linux 3.4 has not been released
Summary:
1. Prominent features in Linux 3.4
1.1. Feature
2. Driver and architecture-specific changes
All the driver and architecture-specific changes can be found in the [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.4_DriverArch Linux_3.4_DriverArch page]
3. Various core changes
Add kernel param to force disable module load [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Add driver probe deferral mechanism [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
- PM
Introduce "late suspend" and "early resume" of [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Introduce generic callbacks for new device PM [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Add min/max_freq limit requested by users. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
prctl: add PR_{SET,GET}_CHILD_SUBREAPER to allow simple [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc/<pid>/maps [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
tty: rework pty count limiting [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
vfs: use 'unsigned long' accesses for dcache name comparison [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
4. Memory Management
Make swapin readahead skip over holes: when the swapped out data has holes, swap in things back in at rates of several MB/second, instead of a few hundred kB/second [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
SLAB Out-of-memory diagnostics [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
kgdb: add the ability to control the reboot [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
5. File systems
- Ext4
Address scalability issue by removing extent cache statistics [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=9cd70b347e9761ea2d2ac3d758c529a48a8193e6 (commit)]
Remove the journal=update mount option [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Remove the resize mount option [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
- Fuse
O_DIRECT support for files [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=4273b793ec68753cc3fcf5be7cbfd88c2be2058d (commit)],
allow nanosecond granularity [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=0a2da9b2ef2ef76c09397597f260245b020e6522 (commit)]
- NFS
Make clientaddr= optional [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
add mount options 'v4.0' and 'v4.1' [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Initial qnx6fs addition [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Hfsplus: add an ioctl to bless files [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
CIFS: Introduce credit-based flow control [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
- GFS2
FITRIM ioctl support [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
glock statistics gathering [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
6. Networking
New "plug" queuing discipline: allows userspace to plug/unplug a network output queue, using the netlink interface [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Add missing getsockopt for SO_NOFCS. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Implement IP_UNICAST_IF/IPV6_UNICAST_IF socket options [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)], implement IPV6_UNICAST_IF socket option. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
unix sockets: Support peeking offset for datagram and seqpacket [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)], support peeking offset for stream sockets [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
tcp: md5: rcu conversion [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=2f53384424251c06038ae612e56231b96ab610ee (commit)]
sock: Introduce the SO_PEEK_OFF sock option [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
af_unix: MSG_TRUNC support for dgram sockets [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
- Netfilter
Add timeout extension [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)], add cttimeout infrastructure for fine timeout [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)],
ctnetlink: add NAT support for expectations [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
ipset: Exceptions support added to hash:*net* [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Merge ipt_LOG and ip6_LOG into xt_LOG [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
- Bluetooth
Add support for HCI monitor channel [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Implement Read Supported Commands commands for [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Add support for Set SSP command [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Implement Set LE command [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
7. Virtualization
New LSM: Yama [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
virtio-pci: S3 support [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=04c2322bee841121cfdd7f284e1d4274e9e60e33 (commit)]
rpmsg: add virtio-based remote processor messaging bus [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
- KVM
x86: increase recommended max vcpus to 160 [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Allow host IRQ sharing for assigned PCI 2.3 devices [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Infrastructure for software and hardware based TSC rate [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
PPC: Paravirtualize SPRG4-7, ESR, PIR, MASn [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)], e500: MMU API [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
s390: "Userspace controlled virtual machines" add parameter for KVM_CREATE_VM [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
- hyperv
storvsc: Move the storage driver out of the staging area [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Add support for vlan trunking from guests [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Support the newly introduced KVP messages in the driver [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Fully support the new KVP verbs in the user level [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Support enumeration from all the pools [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
- Xen
acpi-processor: C and P-state driver that uploads said [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
netfront: add netconsole support. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
8. Crypto
caam: add sha224 and sha384 variants to existing [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
camellia: add assembler implementation for x86_64 [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
Driver for Tegra AES hardware [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
crc32: add slice-by-8 algorithm to existing code [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
9. Security
add "file" details to securityfs [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
add initial "features" directory to securityfs [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
10. Block
Make cfq_target_latency tunable through sysfs. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=5bf14c0727a07ded1bd9fa6d77923d7e6dc32833 (commit)]
- Device Manager (DM):
raid10 - support resizing some RAID10 arrays. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
thin: support discards [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
thin: support read only external snapshot origins [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]
11. Perf profiling
- Add generic taken branch sampling support
[http://git.kernel.org/linus/bce38cd53e5ddba9cb6d708c4ef3d04a4016ec7e (commit 1], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/225ce53910edc3c2322b1e4f2ed049a9196cd0b3 2], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/b36817e8863090f1f24e538106ca50fa1d9e4003 3], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/88c9a65e13f393fd60d8b9e9c659a34f9e39967d 4], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/60ce0fbd072695866cb27b729690ab59dce705a5 5], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/3e702ff6d1ea12dcf1c798ecb61e7f3a1579df42 6)]
Introduce new --uid command line option to show a per-user view [http://git.kernel.org/linus/0d37aa34f8806bb443dd3c8621fd9bdbb50c58bb (commit)]
Allow a user to collect events for multiple threads or processes using a comma separated list [http://git.kernel.org/linus/b52956c961be3a04182ae7b776623531601e0fb7 (commit)]
ftrace: Add enable/disable ftrace_ops control interface [http://git.kernel.org/linus/e248491ac283b516958ca9ab62c8e74b6718bca8 (commit)]
perf bench: Allow passing an iteration count to "bench mem [http://git.kernel.org/linus/e3e877e79b7c6a322f9f628e87052c13581238cc (commit)]
- perf report
Add --symbol-filter option [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=b14ffaca44c60da1c900aa36131ef3d9858001fc (commit)]
Add a simple GTK2-based 'perf report' browser [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=c31a94570552dcaa517c4f7a043ffd28835016be (commit)]
Enable TUI in branch view mode [http://git.kernel.org/linus/a68c2c58171391ef368fced32a555b2f0ff106e5 (commit)]
script: Add option resolving vmlinux path [http://git.kernel.org/linus/0bc8d20580af74c9a8a39c200e269261e5cded05 (commit)]
tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK [http://git.kernel.org/linus/b5387528f31d98acedf06e930554b563d87e2383 (commit)]
perf tools: Add config options support for event parsing [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=8f707d843c2f4023490a873dbc182f632a3a5906 (commit)]
perf tools: Add parser generator for events parsing [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=89812fc81f8d62d70433a8ff63d26819f372e8ec (commit)] perf tools: Add perf pmu object to access pmu format definition [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=cd82a32e9924d3a82bd27f830755d23e4ded25bc (commit)] perf tools: Add support to specify pmu style event [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=5f537a26590e696466aae7f41e6b77e92c8486d1 (commit)] perf ui browser: Add 's' key to filter by symbol name [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=938a23ae7f656ffde9dd67e83dddf4406f85d773 (commit)] perf: Adding sysfs group format attribute for pmu device [http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=641cc938815dfd09f8fa1ec72deb814f0938ac33 (commit)]