Linux 4.0 [https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/12/178 has been released] on Sun, 12 Apr 2015.

Summary: This release adds support for live patching the kernel code, aimed primarily at fixing security updates without rebooting; DAX, a way to avoid using the kernel cache in systems with persistent memory storage; kasan, a dynamic memory error detector that allows to find use-after-free and out-of-bounds bugs; lazytime, an alternative to relatime, which causes access, modified and changed time updates to only be made in the cache and written to the disk opportunistically; allow overlayfs to have multiple lower layers, support of Parallel NFS server architecture; and dm-crypt CPU scalability improvements. There are also new drivers and many other small improvements.

TableOfContents()

1. Prominent features

1.1. Arbitrary version change

This release increases the version to 4.0. This switch from 3.x to 4.0 version numbers is, however, entirely meaningless and it should not be associated to any important changes in the kernel. This release could have been 3.20, but Linus Torvalds just got tired of the old number, [https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/jmtzzLiiejc made a poll], and changed it. Yes, it is frivolous. The less you think about it, the better.

1.2. Live patching

This release introduces "livepatch", a feature for live patching the kernel code, aimed primarily at systems who want to get security updates without needing to reboot. This feature has been born as result of merging kgraft and kpatch, two attempts by SuSE and Red Hat that where started to replace the now propietary ksplice. It's relatively simple and minimalistic, as it's making use of existing kernel infrastructure (namely ftrace) as much as possible. It's also self-contained and it doesn't hook itself in any other kernel subsystems.

In this release livepatch is not feature complete, yet it provides a basic infrastructure for function "live patching" (i.e. code redirection), including API for kernel modules containing the actual patches, and API/ABI for userspace to be able to operate on the patches (look up what patches are applied, enable/disable them, etc). Most CVEs should be safe to apply this way. Only the x86 architecture is supported in this release, others will follow.

For more details see the [http://git.kernel.org/linus/1d9c5d79e6e4385aea6f69c23ba543717434ed70 merge commit]

Sample live patching module: [http://git.kernel.org/linus/13d1cf7e702596e0cd8ec62afa6bd49c431f2d0c commit]

Code [http://git.kernel.org/linus/b700e7f03df5d92f85fa5247fe1f557528d3363d commit]

1.3. DAX - Direct Access, for persistent memory storage

Before being read by programs, files are usually first copied from the disk to the kernel caches, kept in RAM. But the possible advent of persistent non-volatile memory that would be also be used as disk changes radically the way the kernel deals with this process: the kernel cache would become unnecesary overhead.

Linux has had, in fact, support for this kind of setups [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_13 since 2.6.13]. But the code wasn't maintaned and only supported ext2. In this release, Linux adds DAX (Direct Access, the X is for eXciting). DAX removes the extra copy incurred by the bugger by performing reads and writes directly to the persistent-memory storage device. For file mappings, the storage device is mapped directly into userspace. Support for ext4 has been added.

Recommended LWN article: [http://lwn.net/Articles/610174/ Supporting filesystems in persistent memory]

Code: [http://git.kernel.org/linus/283307c7607de2a06d3bfae4cfbf5a566d457090 commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/fbbbad4bc2101e452b24e6e65d3d5e11314a0b5f commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/d475c6346a38aef3058eba96867bfa726a3cc940 commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/289c6aedac981533331428bc933fff21ae332c9e commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/f7ca90b160307d63aaedab8bd451c24a182db20f commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/4c0ccfef2e9f7418a6eb0bf07a2fc8f216365b18 commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/95ec8daba310b44302d2977dd54b16886527b681 commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/6cd176a51e52e5218b1aa97e1ec916bac25a9b7e commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/9c3ce9ec58716733232b97771b10f31901caf62e commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/25726bc15731d42112b579cf73f30edbc43d3973 commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/a7a97fc9ff6c2fcec00feb34d9b87b94452b0b78 commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/d92576f1167cacf7844e5993f343eed4a6d8a147 commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/923ae0ff9250430133b3310fe62c47538cf1cbc1 commit]

1.4. kasan, kernel address sanitizer

Kernel Address sanitizer (KASan) is a dynamic memory error detector. It provides fast and comprehensive solution for finding use-after-free and out-of-bounds bugs. Linux already has the kmemcheck feature, but unlike kmemcheck, KASan uses compile-time instrumentation, which makes it significantly faster than kmemcheck.

The main idea of KASAN is to use shadow memory to record whether each byte of memory is safe to access or not, and use compiler's instrumentation to check the shadow memory on each memory access. Address sanitizer uses 1/8 of the memory addressable in kernel for shadow memory and uses direct mapping with a scale and offset to translate a memory address to its corresponding shadow address.

Code: [http://git.kernel.org/linus/0b24becc810dc3be6e3f94103a866f214c282394 commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/bebf56a1b176c2e1c9efe44e7e6915532cc682cf commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/c420f167db8c799d69fe43a801c58a7f02e9d57c commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/0316bec22ec95ea2faca6406437b0b5950553b7c commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ef7f0d6a6ca8c9e4b27d78895af86c2fbfaeedb2 commit]

1.5. "lazytime" option for better update of file timestamps

Unix filesystems keep track of information about files, such as the last time a file was accessed or modified. Keeping track of this information is very expensive, specially the time when a file was accessed ("atime"), which encourages many people to disable it with the mount option "noatime". To alleviate this problem, the "relatime" mount option was added, the atime is only updated if the previous value is earlier than the modification time, or if the file was last accessed more than 24 hours ago. This behaviour, however, breaks some programs that rely on accurate access time tracking to work, and it's also against the POSIX standard.

In this release, Linux adds another alternative: "lazytime". Lazytime causes access, modified and changed time updates to only be made in the cache. The times will only be written to the disk if the inode needs to be updated anyway for some non-time related change, if fsync(), syncfs() or sync() are called, or just before an undeleted inode is evicted from memory. This is POSIX compliant, while at the same time improving the performance.

Recommended LWN article: [http://lwn.net/Articles/621046/ Introducing lazytime]

Code: [http://git.kernel.org/linus/0ae45f63d4ef8d8eeec49c7d8b44a1775fff13e8 commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/1efff914afac8a965ad63817ecf8861a927c2ace commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/a26f49926da938f47561f386be56a83dd37a496d commit]

1.6. Multiple lower layers in overlayfs

In overlayfs, multiple lower layers can now be given using the the colon (":") as a separator character between the directory names. For example:

• mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/lower1:/lower2:/lower3 /merged

The specified lower directories will be stacked beginning from the rightmost one and going left. In the above example lower1 will be the top, lower2 the middle and lower3 the bottom layer. "upperdir=" and "workdir=" may be omitted, in that case the overlay will be read-only.

Code: [http://git.kernel.org/linus/53a08cb9b8bccfe58f1228c7c27baf34a83da78b commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/a78d9f0d5d5ca9054703376c7c23c901807ddd87 commit]

1.7. Support Parallel NFS server, default to NFS v4.2

Parallel NFS (pNFS) is a part of the NFS v4.1 standard that allows compute clients to access storage devices directly and in parallel. The pNFS architecture eliminates the scalability and performance issues associated with NFS servers deployed today. This is achieved by the separation of data and metadata, and moving the metadata server out of the data path.

This release adds support for pNFS server, and drivers for the block layout with XFS support to use XFS filesystems as a block layout target, and the flexfiles layout.

Also, in this release the NFS server defaults to NFS v4.2.

Code: [http://git.kernel.org/linus/c5c707f96fc9a6e5a57ca5baac892673270abe3d commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/9cf514ccfacb301f3b1b4509a8ce25dffad55880 commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/8650b8a058502d6957ba13dfb5544724fa038118 commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/527851124d10f9c50b1c578e0a56fcd49922422d commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/d67ae825a59d639e4d8b82413af84d854617a87e commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/c23ae6017835b5bc9b9ec9d5d9c2b1523053f503 commit]

1.8. dm-crypt scalability improvements

This release significantly increases the dm-crypt CPU scalability performance thanks to changes that enable effective use of an unbound workqueue across all available CPUs. A large battery of tests were performed to validate these changes, summary of results is available [https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-February/msg00106.html here]

Merge: [http://git.kernel.org/linus/a911dcdba190ddf77e9199b9917156f879f42d4b commit]

2. File systems

• XFS

  • Adds support for sys_renameat2() [http://git.kernel.org/linus/d31a1825450062b85282b4afed1c840fd306d012 commit]

  • Remove deprecated sysctls xfsbufd_centisecs and age_buffer_centisecs [http://git.kernel.org/linus/64af7a6ea5a4c7e12ae79415250d054424b7e0c2 commit]

• EXT4

  • Support "readonly" filesystem flag to mark a FS image as read-only, tunable with tune2fs. It prevents the kernel and e2fsprogs from changing the image [http://git.kernel.org/linus/2cb5cc8b09c939c77826635956c35995b15c9331 commit]

• Btrfs

  • Add code to support file creation time [http://git.kernel.org/linus/9cc97d646216b6f2473fa4ab9f103514b86c6814 commit]

• NFSv4.1

  • Allow parallel LOCK/LOCKU calls [http://git.kernel.org/linus/b4019c0e219bb1301865f8b2efedb4773526ed91 commit]

  • Allow parallel OPEN/OPEN_DOWNGRADE/CLOSE [http://git.kernel.org/linus/63f5f796af613898669b23ccfc091ec77de7591c commit]

• UBIFS

  • Add security.* XATTR support for the UBIFS [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d7f0b70d30ffb9bbe6b8a3e1035cf0b79965ef53 commit]

  • Add xattr support for symlinks [https://git.kernel.org/linus/895d9db253a0b0b1f8a6e635fb2460d80bf72d5a commit]

• OCFS2

  • Add a mount option journal_async_commit on ocfs2 filesystem. When this feature is opened, journal commit block can be written to disk without waiting for descriptor blocks, which can improve journal commit performance. Using the fs_mark benchmark, using journal_async_commit shows a 50% improvement [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1dfeb768475dfded66bba03a1744c2e8141d3429 commit]

  • Currently in case of append O_DIRECT write (block not allocated yet), ocfs2 will fall back to buffered I/O. This has some disadvantages. In this version, the direct I/O write doesn't fallback to buffer I/O write any more because the allocate blocks are enabled in direct I/O now [https://git.kernel.org/linus/026749a86ebff68cb2accdcd29872d36ac148920 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/160cc266639d4213c15c103074561c1b44ffe691 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/18d585f0f2d4c9dc7dfe6e69dcae4933d5a428c9 commit]

• F2FS

  • Introduce a batched trim [http://git.kernel.org/linus/bba681cbb231920a786cd7303462fb2632af6f36 commit]

  • Support "norecovery" mount option, which is mostly same as "disable_roll_forward". The only difference is that "norecovery" should be activated with read-only mount option. This can be used when user wants to check whether f2fs is mountable or not without any recovery process [http://git.kernel.org/linus/2d834bf9ac8e40d9ae2a2dcde2348bd028f87ec4 commit]

  • Add F2FS_IOC_GETVERSION ioctl for getting i_generation from inode, after that, users can list file's generation number by using "lsattr -v [http://git.kernel.org/linus/d49f3e890290bd1db047d02335401026d1886472 commit]

3. Block

• Ported to blk-multiqueue

  • loop: Add blk-mq support, which greatly improves performance for sequential and random reads [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b5dd2f6047ca108001328aac0e8588edd15f1778 commit]

  • Device-mapper [https://git.kernel.org/e5863d9ad754926e7d3f38b43ac8bd48ef73b097 commit]

  • rbd [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7ad18afad02f9802f1eeade91cf880b97e7a9902 commit]

  • UBI [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ff1f48ee3bb3af226f1f8993af0103794b4d4eab commit]

• blk-multiqueue: Add support for tag allocation policies and make libata use this blk-mq tagging, instead of rolling their own [http://git.kernel.org/linus/24391c0dc57c3756a219defaa781e68637d6ab7d commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/12cb5ce101abfaf74421f8cc9f196e708209eb79 commit]

• UBI: Implement UBI_METAONLY, a new open mode for UBI volumes, it indicates that only meta data is being changed [https://git.kernel.org/linus/fafdd2bf2638157670f28462b641150d16dbaeca commit]

4. Core (various)

• pstore: Add pmsg - user-space accessible pstore object [http://git.kernel.org/linus/9d5438f462abd6398cdb7b3211bdcec271873a3b commit]

• rcu: Optionally run grace-period kthreads at real-time priority. Recent testing has shown that under heavy load, running RCU's grace-period kthreads at real-time priority can improve performance and reduce the incidence of RCU CPU stall warnings [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a94844b22a2e2b9155bbc0878c507850477221c2 commit]

• GDB scripts for debugging the kernel. If you load vmlinux into gdb with the option enabled, the helper scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel instance. See [https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt] for further details [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3ee7b3fa2cd0182628cca8d9bb5ce2d4722e8dc5 commit]

• Remove CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK [http://git.kernel.org/linus/5125991c9a9360fbdb717e22783c970bbd140660 commit]

5. Memory management

• cgroups: Per memory cgroup slab shrinkers [https://git.kernel.org/linus/cb731d6c62bbc2f890b08ea3d0386d5dad887326 commit]

• slub: optimize memory alloc/free fastpath by removing preemption on/off [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9aabf810a67cd97e2d1a48f0bab338b7680f1929 commit]

• Add KPF_ZERO_PAGE flag for zero_page, so that userspace processes can detect zero_page in /proc/kpageflags, and then do memory analysis more accurately [http://git.kernel.org/linus/56873f43abdcd574b25105867a990f067747b2f4 commit]

• Make /dev/mem an optional device [https://git.kernel.org/linus/73f0718e74e25ac7381450a7a21257b8f26f43f0 commit]

• Add support for resetting peak RSS, which can be retrieved from the VmHWM field in /proc/pid/status, by writing "5" to /proc/pid/clear_refs [http://git.kernel.org/linus/695f055936938c674473ea071ca7359a863551e7 commit]

• Show page size in /proc/<pid>/numa_maps as "kernelpagesize_kB" field to help identifying the size of pages that are backing memory areas mapped by a given task. This is specially useful to help differentiating between HUGE and GIGANTIC page backed VMAs [http://git.kernel.org/linus/198d1597cc5a12d04af18b69338a5b1d66ee7020 commit]

• geneve: Add Geneve GRO support [http://git.kernel.org/linus/a4c9ea5e8fec680134d22aa99b54d1cd8c226ebd commit]

• zsmalloc: add statistics support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0f050d997e275cf0e47ddc7006284eaa3c6fe049 commit]

• Incorporate read-only pages into transparent huge pages [https://git.kernel.org/linus/10359213d05acf804558bda7cc9b8422a828d1cd commit]

• memcontrol cgroup: Introduce the basic control files to account, partition, and limit memory using cgroups in default hierarchy mode. The old interface will be maintained, but a clearer model and improved workload performance should encourage existing users to switch over to the new one eventually [https://git.kernel.org/linus/241994ed8649f7300667be8b13a9e04ae04e05a1 commit]

• Replace remap_file_pages() syscall with emulation [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c8d78c1823f46519473949d33f0d1d33fe21ea16 commit]

6. Virtualization

• KVM: Add generic support for page modification logging, a new feature in Intel "Broadwell" Xeon CPUs that speeds up dirty page tracking [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ba0513b5b8ffbcb0cc89e2f172c0bcb70497ba2e commit]

• vfio: Add device request interface indicating that the device should be released [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6140a8f5623820cec7f56c63444b9551d8d35775 commit]

• vmxnet3: Make Rx ring 2 size configurable by adjusting rx-jumbo parameter of ethtool -G [https://git.kernel.org/linus/53831aa12538f8753fb77b7ab6408cce54973b30 commit]

• virtio_net: add software timestamp support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/074c3582192b6cb340510b2a6e4579e78f671dcf commit]

• virtio_pci: modern driver [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1fcf0512c9c870e78e1c9898ecb9458593403466 commit], add an options to disable legacy driver [https://git.kernel.org/linus/46506da5f365efe7fe3e4c9da73ab679c0382fac commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ac399d8f39a860655961660efa5c67e7f3c47912 commit]

7. Cryptography

• aesni: Add support for 192 & 256 bit keys to AES-NI RFC4106 [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e31ac32d3bc27c33f002e0c9ffd6ae08b65474e6 commit]

• algif_rng: add random number generator support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5afdfd22e6ba2260129a2a7113ab0916339c4205 commit]

• octeon: add MD5 module [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1953c22f53747035b28c36dbb337ac3c10902644 commit]

• qat: add support for CBC(AES) ablkcipher [https://git.kernel.org/linus/338e84f3a9740ab3582c8b6bc5a1a027794dac72 commit]

8. Security

• Add security hooks to the Android Binder that enable security modules such as SELinux to implement controls over Binder IPC. The security hooks include support for controlling what process can become the Binder context manager, invoke a binder transaction/IPC to another process, transfer a binder reference to another process , transfer an open file to another process. These hooks have been included in the Android kernel trees since Android 4.3 [https://git.kernel.org/linus/79af73079d753b2d04e46f7445716d3b5f914dbd commit]

• Smack: secmark support for netfilter [https://git.kernel.org/linus/69f287ae6fc8357e0bc561353a2d585b89ee8cdc commit]

• TPM 2.0 support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7a1d7e6dd76a2070e2d86826391468edc33bb6d6 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/30fc8d138e9123f374a3c3867e7c7c5cd4004941 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/aec04cbdf7231c1b0da76172de82dfa2388a80d7 commit]

• Device class for TPM, sysfs files are moved from /sys/class/misc/tpmX/device/ to /sys/class/tpm/tpmX/device/ [https://git.kernel.org/linus/313d21eeab9282e01fdcecd40e9ca87e0953627f commit]

  = Tracing & perf =

• perf mem: Enable sampling loads and stores simultaneously, it could only do one or the other before yet there was no hardware restriction preventing simultaneous collection [[https://git.kernel.org/linus/67121f85e464d66596f99afd8d188c1ae892f8fb commit]

• perf tools: Support parameterized and symbolic events. See links for documentation [http://git.kernel.org/linus/688d4dfcdd624192cbf03c08402e444d1d11f294 commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/f9ab9c196d015f3bd8f6bd1c30785c5a49542323 commit]

• AMD range breakpoints support: breakpoints are extended to support address range through perf event with initial backend support for AMD extended breakpoints. For example set write breakpoint from 0x1000 to 0x1200 (0x1000 + 512): perf record -e mem:0x1000/512:w [http://git.kernel.org/linus/3741eb9f8c3be3ec59583881c1f49980dad844e0 commit], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/d6d55f0b9d900673548515614b56ab55aa2c51f8 commit]

9. Networking

• TCP: Add the possibility to define a per route/destination congestion control algorithm. This opens up the possibility for a machine with different links to enforce specific congestion control algorithms with optimal strategies for each of them based on their network characteristics [https://git.kernel.org/linus/81164413ad096bafe8ad1068f3f095a7dd081d8b commit]

• Mitigate TCP "ACK loop" DoS scenarios by rate-limiting outgoing duplicate ACKs sent in response to incoming "out of window" segments. For more details, see [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f06535c599354816cfbc653ce8965804c7385c61 merge]. Code: [https://git.kernel.org/linus/032ee4236954eb214651cb9bfc1b38ffa8fd7a01 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a9b2c06dbef48ed31cff1764c5ce824829106f4f commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f2b2c582e82429270d5818fbabe653f4359d7024 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4fb17a6091674f469e8ac85dc770fbf9a9ba7cc8 commit]

• udpv6: Add lockless sendmsg() support, thus allowing multiple threads to send to a single socket more efficiently [https://git.kernel.org/linus/03485f2adcde0c2d4e9228b659be78e872486bbb commit]

• ipv4: Automatically bring up DSA master network devices, which allows DSA slave network devices to be used as valid interfaces for e.g: NFS root booting by allowing kernel IP auto-configuration to succeed on these interfaces [https://git.kernel.org/linus/728c02089a0e3eefb02e9927bfae50490f40e72e commit]

• ipv6: Add sysctl entry(accept_ra_mtu) to disable MTU updates from router advertisements [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c2943f14534bdc4230f4da6dcd4ea03c5d8c8162 commit]

• vxlan: Implement supports for the [https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-smith-vxlan-group-policy Group Policy VXLAN extension] to provide a lightweight and simple security label mechanism across network peers based on VXLAN. It allows further mapping to a SELinux context using SECMARK, to implement ACLs directly with nftables, iptables, OVS, tc, etc [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3511494ce2f3d3b77544c79b87511a4ddb61dc89 commit]

• vxlan: Add support for remote checksum offload in VXLAN. It is described [https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-herbert-vxlan-rco-00 here]. [https://git.kernel.org/linus/dfd8645ea1bd91277f841e74c33e1f4dbbede808 commit]

• net: openvswitch: Support masked set actions. [https://git.kernel.org/linus/83d2b9ba1abca241df44a502b6da950a25856b5b commit]

• Infiniband: Add support for extensible query device capabilities verb to allow adding new features [https://git.kernel.org/linus/02d1aa7af17ef0e0655745ce32cab369ed040a67 commit]

• Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (l2tp): multicast notification to the registered listeners when the tunnels/sessions are created/modified/deleted [https://git.kernel.org/linus/33f72e6f0c67f673fd0c63a8182dbd9ffb8cf50b commit]

• SUNRPC: Set SO_REUSEPORT socket option for TCP connections to bind multiple TCP connections to the same source address+port combination [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4dda9c8a5e34773b290c6b5938ccb36e7fcdf35c commit]

• tipc: involve namespace infrastructure [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c93d3baa24095887005647984cff5de8c63d3611 commit]

• 802.15.4: introduce support for cca settings [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ba2a9506a76450568cbc0d51626d94cf8528c0c7 commit]

• Wireless

  • Add new GCMP, GCMP-256, CCMP-256, BIP-GMAC-128, BIP-GMAC-256, and BIP-CMAC-256 cipher suites. These new cipher suites were defined in IEEE Std 802.11ac-2013 [https://git.kernel.org/linus/cfcf1682c4ca8f601a4702255958e0b1c9aa12cc commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/56c52da2d554f081e8fce58ecbcf6a40c605b95b commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8ade538bf39b1ee53418528fdacd36b8e65621b9 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2b2ba0db1c820d04d5143452d70012cd44d7b578 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/00b9cfa3ff38401bd70c34b250ca13e5ea347b4a commit]

  • New NL80211_ATTR_NETNS_FD which allows to set namespace via nl80211 by fd [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4b681c82d2f9bef121c912ffcaac89a004af3f2c commit]

  • Support per-TID station statistics [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6de39808cf1dd7b02bf42e7d8695d80f5eaf645d commit]

  • Allow including station info in delete event [https://git.kernel.org/linus/cf5ead822d5db2d276616ccca91f00eb3b855db2 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6f7a8d26e2668e00de524d3da0122a4411047dd2 commit]

  • Allow usermode to query wiphy specific regdom [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ad30ca2c03cecfb1b0749874bdceead269542de6 commit]

• bridge

  • offload bridge port attributes to switch ASIC if feature flag set [https://git.kernel.org/linus/68e331c785b85b78f4155e2ab6f90e976b609dc1 commit]

  • Support for allowing userspace to pack multiple vlans and VLAN ranges in setlink and dellink requests for improved performance [https://git.kernel.org/linus/bdced7ef7838c1c4aebe9f295e44b7f0dcae2109 commit]

  • Add ability to enable TSO [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f902e8812ef657c6cf744ac25e21865217155460 commit]

• Near Field Communication (NFC)

  • HCI over NCI protocol support (Some secure elements only understand HCI and thus we need to send them HCI frames) [https://git.kernel.org/linus/11f54f228643d0248ec00ce8c9fb8d872f87e7b8 commit]

  • NCI NFCEE (NFC Execution Environment, typically an embedded or external secure element) discovery and enabling/disabling support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8277f6937ae97c51ced5b54faa4934613c76999c commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/af9c8aa67d07adcd3b41fb2934af7af056eabecf commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f7f793f31378d5e83276871339c2a8374b0e8657 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a41bb8448ebaebe1d0d9a268d340fad73c247e09 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4aeee6871e8c3b043ef02996db8ac70a1af8be92 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6095b0f07d9b1abd98484bc33b329e06a684115b commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/736bb9577407d3556d81c3c3cd57581cd3ae10ea commit]

  • NFC_EVT_TRANSACTION userspace API addition, it is sent through netlink in order for a specific application running on a secure element to notify userspace of an event [https://git.kernel.org/linus/447b27c4f29b510b98e99395120d635f009ed563 commit]

  • Tx timestamps are looped onto the error queue on top of an skb. This mechanism leaks packet headers to processes unless the no-payload options SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY is set. A new sysctl (tstamp_allow_data) optionally drops looped timestamp with data. This only affects processes without CAP_NET_RAW [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b245be1f4db1a0394e4b6eb66059814b46670ac3 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/49ca0d8bfaf3bc46d5eef60ce67b00eb195bd392 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2368592365bc97e941d0c641a3ba24b06d2c469b commit]

• Bluetooth

  • Enable LE Data Length Extension feature from Bluetooth 4.2 specification [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a9f6068e0072839594d246089204644bffd2c988 commit]

  • Expose information in debugfs: Secure Simple Pairing [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6e07231a80de33a3721c971e560316d04db16de8 commit], debug keys usage setting [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0886aea6acd27006888c36bad1fa5f80dac1e171 commit], hardware error code [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5789f37cbc560aff45ff4d00673705eac92d3b4d commit], remote OOB information [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6858bcd073c9ff36f5d341dc6da011a53954fa9a commit]

  • HCI Read Stored Link Keys [https://git.kernel.org/linus/cb9627806ce898c436dc74252718e4a757b33bc3 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c2f0f979276fc4911cef5da2fc113f0daeda3ebc commit]

  • HCI Delete Stored Link Key [https://git.kernel.org/linus/48ce62c4fae7e817d9018020345bbe30a6b9c446 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a93661203641eb5e8aa9bbed8d9689e5d5dbe6b1 commit]

  • Support static address when BR/EDR has been disabled [https://git.kernel.org/linus/50b5b952b7c2bf2c75c257a62a6c456a0bbfdfa3 commit]

• tc: add BPF-based action. This action provides a possibility to execute custom BPF code [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d23b8ad8ab23f5a18b91e2396fb63d10f66b08d6 commit]

• net: sched: Introduce connmark action [https://git.kernel.org/linus/22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae commit]

• Add Transparent Ethernet Bridging GRO support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9b174d88c257150562b0101fcc6cb6c3cb74275c commit]

• netdev: introduce new NETIF_F_HW_SWITCH_OFFLOAD feature flag for switch device offloads [https://git.kernel.org/linus/aafb3e98b27977148c8c86499684f8f5c3decfbb commit]

• netfilter: nft_compat: add ebtables support [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5191f4d82daf22b7ee9446f83527d2795e225974 commit]

  • network namespace: Add rtnl cmd to add and get peer netns ids. A user can define an id for a peer netns by providing a FD or a PID. These ids are local to the netns where it is added (i.e. valid only into this netns) [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0c7aecd4bde4b7302cd41986d3a29e4f0b0ed218 commit], [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d37512a277dfb2cef8a578e25a3246f61399a55a commit]

• openvswitch: Add support for checksums on UDP tunnels. [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b8693877ae016ac525d674d5d7a84ea0ea68ba60 commit]

• openvswitch: Support VXLAN Group Policy extension [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1dd144cf5b4b47e12438c2c6883925ce1a9b499f commit]

10. List of merges

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5c30c3cc6d5de71f1248875e9213e6c109dda963 Pull hwmon updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f381f906955a2b0619b5557cc53aafcc7ef27be8 Pull regmap updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b0c1936c4497d7f06b143241614d85a41fec12cd Pull spi updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/30d46827c2744f56bb31460007f2d16455f10720 Pull regulator updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/23e8fe2e16587494268510c1bc9f6952f50f0311 Pull RCU updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8308756f45a12e2ff4f7749c2694fc83cdef0be9 Pull core locking updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a4cbbf549a9be10b7583c44249efccd64839533d Pull perf updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5b9b28a63f2e47dac5ff3a2503bfe3ade8796aa0 Pull scheduler updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/0ba97bc4b4b054b71cd348dab838a7545a27b893 Pull timer updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9d43bade347143b96671b38a7f81c39a81206675 Pull x86 APIC updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7453311d68f16a5c587c3cbf19563c9a4fbbd41a Pull x86 asm changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/80f33a5fdf66d4338789e8aa80589bda088cb35d Pull x86 cleanups ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/072bc448cc796c4d2d3519795f38e13a6c2a14a5 Pull EFI updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c93ecedab35f5305542a9fe5cfbd37377189589e Pull x86 fpu updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a8f76842142890883f46b8e7f57f87cf224a832a Pull x86 SoC updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/57d3629410599a1074b02f9b2139c2a6aa2b787e Pull x86 mm cleanups ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e07e0d4cb0c4bfe822ec8491cc06269096a38bea Pull x86 RAS update ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ed824a625006e47d2584ee0bba9227a34cc06671 Pull EDAC updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c2189e3a3d67e94941c568ee8fab1b86983cd024 Pull percpu changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/15763db134dd60504dbd93137e6654f06d639acf Pull cgroup changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/44dbf058de9f46cf112518c99bb1352e8350ceb3 Pull workqueue changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3e8c04eb117445d67ae2b83e08bec4005129356a Pull libata changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ab0475df5ce45d80a9e5f056cbad3a58e4930206 Pull m68k updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/98368ab436538103a557fc1f15f54afd8aab6712 Pull Microblaze pupdates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/bdccc4edeb03ad68c55053b0260bdaaac547bbd9 Pull xen features and fixes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c08f8467939e7d2eebcba7cf2330242c4f53f2f7 Pull PCI changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/872912352c5be930e9568e5f3b6d73107d9f278d Pull ACPI and power management updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4b4f8580a4b77126733db8072862793d4deae66a Pull file locking related changes #1 ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c5452a58db9bbcb331ee92afa99a6f42e39085c7 Pull quota interface unification and misc cleanups ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ae90fb14206efda2c2ea6d61e14f14bf0132f676 Pull xfs update ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b2718bffb4088faf13092db30c1ebf088ddee52e Pull gfs2 updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/992de5a8eca7cbd3215e3eb2c439b2c11582a58b Merge misc updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/870fd0f5df4e131467612cc46db46fc3b69fd706 Pull HID updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1d9c5d79e6e4385aea6f69c23ba543717434ed70 Pull live patching infrastructure ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/29afc4e9a408f2304e09c6dd0dbcfbd2356d0faa Pull trivial tree changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c5ce28df0e7c01a1de23c36ebdefcd803f2b6cbb Pull networking updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/13c071907b237058b38ac85b35742a543e522059 Pull power supply and reset changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6fc26fc5783add961533c819995bd97db05990f0 Pull HSI fix ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3e63430a5cc26bc90a6e33ab33f901196b7b63ac Pull media updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a323ae93a74f669d890926187c68c711895e3454 Pull sound updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e0c8453769fcaec654cd5870e84c63175658c842 Pull fbdev changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/718749d56214aa97015fe01b76b6d6dd0c171796 Pull input updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/540a7c5061f10a07748c89b6741af90db1a07252 Pull first round of SCSI updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/aa7ed01f93ff7e149cad46f13f66b269d59c9bc0 Pull MMC updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a1df7efedab047a8ea4d5850737f03d3679726a7 Pull GPIO changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ce01e871a1d44cc97cdd7e5ba6cb0c3613c15552 Pull pincontrol updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/bfe9183fdcc0575a648d1401facc649888a1f49a Pull mailbox framework updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/73b4f63aebd6d57db4ca1d31fa6f8516651207b0 Pull documentation updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6f83e5bd3e96228ee0caff0b103addb5f4e95459 Pull NFS client updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/07f80d41cf24b7e6e76cd97d420167932c9a7f82 Pull pstore update ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b3d6524ff7956c5a898d51a18eaecb62a60a2b84 Pull s390 updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6b00f7efb5303418c231994c91fb8239f5ada260 Pull arm64 updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/d3f180ea1a44aecba1b0dab2a253428e77f906bf Pull powerpc updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/59d53737a8640482995fea13c6e2c0fd016115d6 Merge second set of updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7184487f14eb7c2fcf8337bb16c6a63b6db1252e Pull audit fix ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8cc748aa76c921d8834ef00f762f31acd2c93aa8 Pull security layer updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/12df4289ee8e4dccf932b7186b391bb6d2b915fa Pull ktest updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/41cbc01f6e49e48bc3d78158cec0a2d4ff6c906d Pull tracing updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a2f0bb03f7c499e3db72c70a62b1aa5c55d6a82b Pull AVR32 update ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/42cf0f203e877cc7e502883d43b3f72149033d86 Pull ARM updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/cdd305454ebd181fa35b648c0921fe7df27d6f3b Pull DeviceTree changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a26be149facb22d30cd92cadb26f651d6fe802c9 Pull IOMMU updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/61845143febe6b88349acad4732adc54894009a3 Pull nfsd updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/87c9172f71e3f729729aad27fa6592bb795137fd Pull jfs updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5d8e7fb6916556e9b476de33404e8c9e2c9aee61 Pull md updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6bec0035286119eefc32a5b1102127e6a4032cb2 Pull backing device changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3e12cefbe143b4947171ff92dd50024c4841e291 Pull core block IO changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8494bcf5b7c4b2416687e233dd34d4c6b6fe5653 Pull block driver changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/802ea9d8645d33d24b7b4cd4537c14f3e698bde0 Pull device mapper changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/818099574b04c5301eacbbcd441022b353a65466 Merge third set of updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c7d7b98671552abade78834c522b7308bda73c0d Pull f2fs updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b9085bcbf5f43adf60533f9b635b2e7faeed0fe9 Pull KVM update ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f1252515d901ee2a184a9d49a7f29ae14da823eb Pull arch/tile changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a42cf70eb81558082e9a26fe8541d160b6c2a694 Pull module update ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/db3ecdee1cf0538f11832f7ef66945c4dd903918 Pull LED subsystem update ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/18320f2a6871aaf2522f793fee4a67eccf5e131a Pull more ACPI and power management updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/83e047c104aa95a8a683d6bd421df1551c17dbd2 Merge fourth set of updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/fee5429e028c414d80d036198db30454cfd91b7a Pull crypto update ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c833e17e276bd5d5f174aa924c4f102754ebc2be Pull ACCESS_ONCE() rule tightening ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8c988ae787af4900bec5410658e8a82844185c85 Pull UBI and UBIFS updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e29876723f7cb7728f0d6a674d23f92673e9f112 Pull USB patches ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4ba63072b998cc31515cc6305c25f3b808b50c01 Pull char / misc patches ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9682ec9692e5ac11c6caebd079324e727b19e7ce Pull driver core patches ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/46f7b635569731ff81a3b72d1bcd4415b293b637 Pull staging drivers patches ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a9724125ad014decf008d782e60447c811391326 Pull tty/serial driver patches ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1fa185ebcbcefdc5229c783450c9f0439a69f0c1 Pull CRIS changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ea44a160e6dc5d3d7c680ea72dfbabef80343839 Pull m68knommu fixes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a68fb48380bb993306dd62a58cbd946b4348222a Pull ARC updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/37507717de51a8332a34ee07fd88700be88df5bf Pull x86 perf updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3c6847eaa3da59f3bbe15eb3004ddab41ae6a201 Pull irqchip updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/8c334ce8f0fec7122fc3059c52a697b669a01b41 Pull clocksource updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/796e1c55717e9a6ff5c81b12289ffa1ffd919b6f Pull drm updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c397f8fa4379040bada53256c848e62c8b060392 Merge fifth set of updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4025fa97ff39db054b47b9cdb9f3980480637668 Pull ARM SoC non-critical fixes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ea7531ac4a9d0b39edce43472147dc41cc2b7a34 Pull ARM SoC cleanups ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/878ba61aa98cbb97a513757800e77613f856a029 Pull ARM SoC platform changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a233bb742aed62fc6164073d9835135f639b8828 Pull ARM SoC DT updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/18656782a820f075cb5c168a2e381a8938b1550a Pull ARM SoC driver updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/03a40e29941cf7b12d9eef92cd1a56e04affbc06 Pull ARM SoC defconfig changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/cc4f9c2a91b7be7b3590bb1cbe8148873556aa3f Pull ARM SoC 64-bit changes and additions ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1d9e71404e2c3f37387991534983dcb2ab05660d Pull security subsystem fixes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/99fa0ad92c4fd8b529c89b3640b42323984be761 Pull suspend-to-idle updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b0f0c26a2ed49eccf98a011b86fe24fb9f2b35f6 Pull arch/nios2 update ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9cd77374f0a9cbb7ec35a9aaeb6473755afe0e3e Pull parisc update ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e2b74f232e84dfccd0047eb47545b1d028df8ff1 Merge yet more updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/50652963eae6afe13678dc84d789a174306a4df7 Pull misc VFS updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c6b1de1b646fe232206d4065df4d14040cebd613 Pull debugfs patches ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/05016b0f0a9d900e976db7f50a7761c0aefe5a1c Pull getname/putname updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/66dc830d14a222c9214a8557e9feb1e4a67a3857 Pull iov_iter updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/038911597e17017cee55fe93d521164a27056866 Pull lazytime mount option support ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/fbe4da49f86bbc08a1f7994338522bf77d47300d Pull DocBook build fix ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f5af19d10d151c5a2afae3306578f485c244db25 Pull networking updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/402521b8f7cc1f4f442418cc98ec6e37388207b0 Pull MTD updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a5ac1fb13c1265f942ea1d24c43b42d76c1660c2 Pull fireware updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/928fce2f6d8152d897790c1a5bbeef5642f69e0e Pull watchdog updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/ce1d3fde87d1a21f1ec1147dde32b2825dd3a276 Pull dmaengine updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/9a8b2aa534f23a61a57385309667e42e96941116 Pull pwm updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/5c2770079fb9b8c5bfb7113d9e76de66e77a0e24 Pull MFD updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/53861af9a17022898619a2ae4ead0dfc601b7c13 Pull virtio updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/eaa0eda56223815cd9dc1225f715ff673ae77198 Pull asm-generic uaccess.h cleanup ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/27a22ee4c7d5839fd7e3e441c9d675c8a5c4c22c Pull kbuild updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/773433433791b9420c2a0f86b93c91d4115d89b5 Pull misc kbuild changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b11a2783974791d37e44abbb48d41e8c120b5126 Pull kconfig updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/6ed3e57fd2ffe63385e0073fe3cde8bf91b4c9fa Pull platform driver update ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/89d3fa45b4add00cd0056361a2498e978cb1e119 Pull thermal managament updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4533f6e27a366ecc3da4876074ebfe0cc0ea4f0f Pull Ceph changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2b9fb532d4168e8974fe49709e2c4c8d5352a64c Pull btrfs updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3d883483dc0a7261d73d8b1857a7387a1dd99eee Pull more thermal managament updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/7bad2227f639723230dbc40fe32e16101321b5b7 Pull IPMI driver updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/4fbd0a81a0059f22d06780de96e73f9ddbccd8a4 Pull kgdb/kdb updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/3f4d9925e9174b8786bfbb6e9aa132aa6745078f Pull rcu fix and x86 irq fix ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/f9677375b0c07e39c78b43aab9fb2c253a4b50c2 Pull Intel Quark SoC support ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c189cb8ef62832f33b6cf757350a0270532a1ad8 Pull VFIO updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/18a8d49973667aa016e68826eeb374788b7c63b0 Pull clock framework updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/295324556c427d60b41668ab81a43f604533f456 Pull i2c updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/b5ccb078c806f4804aaf85bb59faa9b6fedf85a7 Pull InfiniBand/RDMA updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/1acd2de5facd7fbea499aea64a3a3d0ec7bb9b51 Pull more input updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/e20d3ef5406d3a28b76a63905b2a6bd3fb95c377 Pull SCSI target updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a911dcdba190ddf77e9199b9917156f879f42d4b Pull more device mapper changes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/2bfedd1d9f470506d98cb5662ced381c38225968 Pull followup block layer updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/cd50b70ccd5c87794ec28bfb87b7fba9961eb0ae Pull one more batch of power management and ACPI updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/24a52e412ef22989b63c35428652598dc995812c Pull more NFS client updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/93aaa830fc173560505c3411806509299d8871ce Pull xfs pnfs block layout support ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/c8c6c9ba39e3fe65cf3497d692bf6fe808ff222b Pull misc SCSI patches ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/21770332330800194cb9a76f802e9c77bcb690d3 Pull ARM SoC fixes ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/a135c717d5cdb311cff7661af4c17fef0562e590 Pull MIPS updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/be5e6616dd74e17fdd8e16ca015cfef94d49b467 Pull more vfs updates ]

• [https://git.kernel.org/linus/feaf222925cdfbc841a695fd30df8c6d0a694146 Pull ext4 fixes ]

11. Other news sites

• LWN: [http://lwn.net/Articles/632761/ The merge window opens], [http://lwn.net/Articles/633096/ merge window part 2], [http://lwn.net/Articles/634471/ The end of the 4.0 merge window]

• Phoronix [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.0-rc1-Kernel-Released list of changes]