Linux 4.11 has been released on Sun, 30 Apr 2017.

Summary: This release adds support for pluggable IO schedulers framework in the multiqueue block layer, journalling support in the MD RAID5 implementation that closes the write hole, a more scalable swapping implementation for swap placed in SSDs, a new statx() system call that solves the deficiencies of the existing stat(), a new perf ftrace tool that acts as a frontend for the ftrace interface, support for drives that implement the OPAL Storage Specification, support for the Shared Memory Communications-RDMA protocol as defined in RFC7609, persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles, and many new drivers and other improvements.

1. Prominent features

1.1. Pluggable IO schedulers framework in the multiqueue block layer

The Linux block layer is know to have different IO schedulers (deadline, cfq, noop, etc) with different performance characteristics each one, and users are allowed to switch between them on the fly. In Linux 3.13, the block layer added a new multiqueue design that performs better with modern hardware (eg. SSD, NVM). However, this new multiqueue design didn't include support for pluggable IO schedulers.

This release solves that problem with the merge of a multiqueue-ready IO scheduling framework. A port of the deadline scheduler has also been added (more IO schedulers will be added in the future)

Code: merge, commit

1.2. Scalable swapping for SSDs

Modern storage devices such as SSDs are making the usage of swapping attractive not just as a way to deal with excessive memory load, but also as a performance enhancement technique. Cloud providers, for example, can overcommit memory more aggressively and fit more VMs to a platform with a fast swap device. However, the swapping implementation was designed for traditional rotating hard disks, where the performance and latency of the swap did not matter as much as it does with modern storage. This release makes the swap implementation more scalable, making it more suitable for use with modern storage devices.

Recommended LWN article: Making swapping scalable

Code: commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

1.3. Journaled RAID5 to close the write hole

Based in work started in Linux 4.4, this release adds journalling support to RAID4/5/6 in the MD layer (not to be confused with btrfs RAID). With a journal device configured (typically NVRAM or SSD), the "RAID5 write hole" is closed - a crash during degraded operations cannot result in data corruption.

Recommended LWN article: A journal for MD/RAID5

Blog entry: Improving software RAID with a write-ahead log

Code: commit

1.4. statx(2), a modern stat(2) alternative

Due to several shortcomings in the stat(2) system call (like not being y2038 ready or not playing well with networking filesystems), a new system call has been worked through the years, with the final result being statx(2), a new system call that has been added in this release.

Recommended LWN article: statx() v3

Code: commit

1.5. New perf ftrace tool

A new tool has been added to the perf toolkit: perf ftrace. This tool intends to be a simple perf front-end for the already existing ftrace interface. In this release, it only supports two tracers, function_graph or function (default tracer is function_graph, it can be configured in the ftrace.tracer config key). Only single thread tracing and the tool just reads trace_pipe in text and then write it to stdout. More features are expected in future releases.

Code: commit, commit, commit

1.6. Support for OPAL drives

The Opal Storage Specification is a set of specifications for features of data storage devices (such as disk drives) that enhance their security. For example, it defines a way of encrypting the stored data so that an unauthorized person who gains possession of the device cannot see the data. That is, it is a specification for self-encrypting drives.

This release adds Linux support for Opal nvme enabled controllers. It enables users to setup/unlock/lock locking ranges for SED devices using the Opal protocol.

Code: commit, commit

1.7. Support for the SMC-R protocol (RFC7609)

This release includes the initial part of the implementation of the "Shared Memory Communications-RDMA" (SMC-R) protocol as defined in RFC7609. SMC-R is an IBM protocol that provides RDMA capabilities over RoCE transparently for applications exploiting TCP sockets. While SMC-R does not aim to replace TCP, it taps a wealth of existing data center TCP socket applications to become more efficient without the need for rewriting them. A new socket protocol family PF_SMC is introduced. There are no changes required to applications using the sockets API for TCP stream sockets other than the specification of the new socket family AF_SMC. Unmodified applications can be used by means of a dynamic preload shared library.

SMC-R uses RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) to save CPU consumption. SMC-R inherits TCP qualities such as reliable connections, host-based firewall packet filtering (on connection establishment) and unmodified application of communication encryption such as TLS (transport layer security) or SSL (secure sockets layer). Since original TCP is used to establish SMC-R connections, load balancers and packet inspection based on TCP/IP connection establishment continue to work for SMC-R.

RFC: RFC7609

Code: merge

1.8. Persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

Not an important feature, specially for tmux/screen users, but probably annoying for many others: this release adds optional support for scrollback history not being flushed when switching between consoles (this breaks tools like clear_console that rely on flushing the scrollback history by switching back and forth between consoles which is why this feature is disabled by default. Use the escape sequence \e[3J instead for flushing the buffer)

Code: commit, commit

2. Core (various)

• statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available (FEATURED) commit

• task scheduler: Show the current (leftover) runtime and absolute deadline of a SCHED_DEADLINE task through /proc/$PID/sched (entries dl.runtime and dl.deadline), while debugging/testing commit

• console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles (FEATURED) commit, commit

• Disable membarrier(2) when nohz_full is enabled commit

• sigaltstack: support SS_AUTODISARM for CONFIG_COMPAT commit

• Add grsecurity structleak GCC plugin. It zero-initializes data structures, which can prevent some classes of information exposures security bugs commit

• cgroup

  • Added rdma cgroup controller commit

  • Drop the matching uid requirement on migration for cgroup v2 commit

• timers: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS, as the tracer can give the same information commit

• rcu: Make RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT be the default commit

• rcutorture: Add CBMC-based formal verification for SRCU commit

• slub: make sysfs directories for memcg sub-caches optional commit

• IPC: add hysteresis to reduces how often the per-semaphore locks must be scanned commit

• analyze_suspend.py: Update to upstream v4.5 commit, commit, commit

• inotify: Convert to using per-namespace limits commit

• namespaces

  • Add an ioctl, NS_GET_OWNER_UID, that fetches the UID (as seen in the user namespace of the caller) of the creator of the user namespace referred to by the specified file descriptor commit

  • Add an ioctl, NS_GET_NSTYPE, which, given a file descriptor that refers to a user namespace, returns the namespace type (one of the CLONE_NEW* constants) commit

• BPF

  • Add new bpf MAP, implementing a longest prefix match trie. This trie implements a longest prefix match algorithm that can be used to match IP addresses to a stored set of ranges commit

  • Make jited programs visible in traces commit

  • Add initial bpf tracepoints commit

  • Enable load bytes helper for filter/reuseport progs commit

  • Allow adjusted map element values to spill commit

  • Allow helpers access to variable memory commit

  • Allow helpers access to map element values commit

  • Allow b/h/w/dw access for bpf's cb in ctx commit

• binder

  • Support multiple /dev instances commit, commit

  • Add support for scatter-gather commit

  • Add support for file-descriptor arrays commit

• userfaultfd(2):

  • Add support for 1) tmpfs non present userfault, 2) hugetlbfs non present userfault, 3) non cooperative userfault for fork/madvise/mremap commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add madvise() event for MADV_REMOVE request commit, commit, commit

  • non-cooperative: better tracking for mapping changes commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add UFFDIO_COPY support for shared mappings commit

• lib: update LZ4 compressor module commit

3. File systems

• AFFS

  • Make affs exportable commit

• BTRFS

  • Btrfs: bulk delete checksum items in the same leaf commit

• CIFS

  • Per-share encryption merge

  • SMB2.1/SMB3 enablement for DFS commit

• EXT4

  • Add debug_want_extra_isize mount option: Useful to test the inode extra isize expansion code commit

  • Add EXT4_IOC_SHUTDOWN ioctl, modeled after the XFS's XFS_IOC_GOINGDOWN ioctl commit, commit

• F2FS

  • Introduce noinline_xattr mount option commit

  • Enable inline_xattr by default commit

  • Support IO alignment for DATA and NODE writes, to eliminate underlying dummy page problem which FTL conducts in order to close MLC or TLC partial written pages commit

  • debug: show # of APPEND and UPDATE inodes commit, show # of on-going flush and discard bios commit

  • Add a kernel thread to issue discard commands asynchronously commit

• ORANGEFS

  • Support readahead_readcnt parameter commit

• OVERLAYFS

  • Copy up can take a long time, so serialized copy ups could be a big performance bottleneck. Allow concurrent copy up of regular files commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

4. Memory management

• Make memcg slab destruction scalable commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add vmstats for kcompactd work commit

• Alter the per-cpu alloctor to make it exclusive to !irq requests. This cuts allocation/free overhead by roughly 30% commit, commit, commit

• Transparent Huge Pages: add new defer+madvise defrag option commit

• HWPOISON: Extend soft offlining framework to support non-lru page commit

• Enable memory hotplug for non-lru movable pages commit

• KSM: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring commit

• Make swap more scalable (FEATURED) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• zram: remove obsolete sysfs attrs commit

5. Block layer

• blk-mq io scheduling framework, with a port of the deadline scheduler for this framework (FEATURED) merge, commit

• Opal support for the block layer commit

• blk-mq: add extra request information to debugfs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Device Mapper

  • dm cache metadata: add "metadata2" feature, a new version of the metadata. It stores the dirty bits in a separate btree, which improves speed of shutting down the cache commit

  • dm raid: Add raid4/5/6 journaling support (FEATURED) commit

  • A new I/O barrier implementation to remove resync window commit

• rbd: support for data-pool feature commit

6. Tracing and perf tool

• perf

  • Introduce 'perf ftrace' a perf front end to the kernel's ftrace function and function_graph tracer, defaulting to the "function_graph" tracer, more work will be done to improve this tool in the future commit, commit, commit

  • perf diff: Add 'delta-abs' compute method to --compute. The 'delta-abs' compute method is same as 'delta' but shows entries with bigger absolute delta first instead of sorting numerically. It is the default compute method now, but it can be configured with the diff.compute configuration option commit, commit, commit

  • Add -q/--quiet option to annotate commit, record commit, diff commit, report commit

  • Add 'e' and 'c' hotkeys to expand/collapse call chains for a single hist entry in the 'perf report' and 'perf top' TUI commit

  • perf sched: Add --state option to show task state when switched out. Thread wait time is divided into 3 parts - sleep, iowait and preempt commit, commit, commit

  • In addition to switching to a different output file (perf.data.TIMESTAMP) when receiving a SIGUSR2 signal, one can also specify file size and time based triggers. For example, perf record -a --switch-output=2G will break the perf.data output into multiple files limited to 2GB of samples,and perf record -a --switch-output=1m will limit perf.data output files to 1 minute. Previous behaviour (--switch-output alone is now equivalent to perf record -a --switch-output=signal commit, commit

  • New 'perf kallsyms' toy tool to look for extended symbol information on the running kernel. Its similar to doing grep on a /proc/kallsyms, but it also shows extra information like the path to the kernel module and the unrelocated addresses in it, to help in diagnosing problems commit

  • perf diff: Add diff.order config option commit

  • perf list: Add --debug support for outputing alias string commit

  • perf probe: Add option --symfs as other tools commit

  • Add -a as default target to perf record commit and perf stat commit

  • perf trace: Allow specifying list of syscalls and events in -e/--expr/--event commit

• ftrace: Add ftrace_graph_max_depth kernel parameter. This is the max depth it will trace into a function commit

• perf_event cgroup controller: make perf_event controller work on cgroup2 hierarchy commit

7. Virtualization

• Add kvm PTP driver commit

• XEN privcmd: add IOCTL_PRIVCMD_RESTRICT to allow a user of privcmd to restrict its operation such that it will no longer service arbitrary hypercalls commit, and add IOCTL_PRIVCMD_DM_OP to provide a mechanism for restricting device emulators (such as QEMU) to a limited set of hypervisor operations, and being able to audit those operations in the kernel of the domain in which they run commit

• vhost: introduce O(1) vq metadata cache commit

• hv_utils: implement Hyper-V PTP source commit

• virtio: support crypto engine framework commit

• virtio_blk: make SCSI passthrough support configurable commit

8. Cryptography

• Add siphash, a cryptographically secure PRF commit, commit

• aes: Add generic time invariant AES cipher commit

9. Security

• audit: Add a method to reset the audit_lost value commit

• random: use chacha20 for get_random_int/long commit

• LSM: Add /sys/kernel/security/lsm to know which LSMs are active commit

• Introduce STATIC_USERMODEHELPER to route all calls to usermode helpers through the binary specified in this option commit

• Apparmor

  • Add policy namespaces commit, commit

  • Add support for force complain flag to support learning mode commit

  • Provide userspace flag indicating binfmt_elf_mmap change commit

  • Remove paranoid load switch commit

  • Allow introspecting the policy namespace name commit and the loaded policy pre internal transform commit

  • Support querying extended trusted helper extra data commit

  • Make computing policy hashes conditional on apparmor.hash_policykernel parameter commit

• Selinux: support distinctions among all network address families commit

• tpm

  • Add securityfs support for TPM 2.0 firmware event log commit

  • Enhance TPM 2.0 PCR extend to support multiple banks commit

10. Networking

• Initial part of the implementation of the "Shared Memory Communications-RDMA" (SMC-R) protocol as defined in RFC7609 (FEATURED) merge

• Use newly added SipHash algorithm for secure sequence numbers, instead of MD5, and for syncookies, instead of SHA1 commit, commit

• TCP

  • Enables RACK loss detection (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack-01) to trigger fast recovery with a reordering timer. A few similar heuristics are no longer needed and are either removed or disabled to reduce the complexity of the Linux TCP loss recovery engine: 1) FACK (Forward Acknowledgement), 2) Early Retransmit (RFC5827), 3) thin_dupack (fast recovery on single DUPACK for thin-streams), 4) NCR (Non-Congestion Robustness RFC4653), and 5) Forward Retransmit. After this change, Linux's loss recovery algorithms consist of: 1) Conventional DUPACK threshold approach (RFC6675), 2) RACK and Tail Loss Probe (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack-01), 3) RTO plus F-RTO extension (RFC5682) commit, commit ,commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • TCP fast open: Adds a new socket option, TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT, as an alternative way to perform Fast Open on the active side (client) commit

  • Add two stats in SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS: TCP_NLA_DATA_SEGS_OUT: total data packets sent including retransmission, TCP_NLA_TOTAL_RETRANS: total data packets retransmitted commit, include locally failed retries in retransmission stats commit

• ipv4

  • Namespaceify knobs tcp_max_syn_backlog commit, tcp_tw_recycle and tcp_max_tw_buckets commit

  • Introduce a sysctl, ip_unprivileged_port_start, that modifies the value of PROT_SOCK commit

• ipv6

  • Add support to dump multipath routes via RTA_MULTIPATH attribute commit

  • Allow shorthand delete of all nexthops in multipath route commit

  • Allow sysctl to change link-local address generation mode commit

• bridge

  • Implements an optional, per bridge port flag and feature to deliver multicast packets to any host on the according port via unicast individually commit

  • Adds support to attach per vlan tunnel info dst metadata commit

  • Add per vlan tunnel info commit

• Wireless (802.11)

  • Add support to use a random local address for Public Action frames in order to improve privacy of WLAN clients commit

  • When NL80211_ATTR_SOCKET_OWNER flag is supplied to CMD_CONNECT, disconnect or deauthenticate when the owning socket is closed. This may be used to ensure userspace daemon doesn't leave an unmanaged connection behind commit

  • Enhance the connect timeout API to also carry the reason for the timeout. These reason codes are passed to user space through a new attribute NL80211_ATTR_TIMEOUT_REASON commit

  • Add the ability for an AP (and associated VLANs) to perform multicast-to-unicast conversion for ARP, IPv4 and IPv6 frames (possibly within 802.1Q) commit

  • Enhance sched scan to support option of finding a better BSS while in connected state commit

• netfilter

  • Allow logging from non-init namespaces commit

  • nf_tables: add bitmap set type commit

  • nfnetlink: allow to check for generation ID commit

  • nft_ct: add average bytes per packet support commit

  • nft_exthdr: add TCP option matching commit

• SCTP

  • Add support for SCTP checksum commit

  • Add sender-side procedures for stream reconf ssn reset request chunk commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add sender-side procedures for stream reconf asoc reset and add streams, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add receiver-side procedures for stream reconf ssn reset request chunk commit, commit, commit, commit,commit

  • Add support for MSG_MORE commit

• RDS: add receive message trace used by application commit, add stat for socket recv memory usage commit

• af_packet: TX_RING support for TPACKET_V3 commit

• Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP): Add a software GRO for ESP on ipv4 and ipv6 commit

• ipmr: improve hash scalability commit

• mpls: Packet stats commit, add support for netconf commit

• net sched actions: Add support for user cookies commit

• act_pedit: Introduce 'add' operation commit, support using offset relative to the conventional network headers commit

• Introduce psample, a general way for kernel modules to sample packets, without being tied to any specific subsystem. This netlink channel can be used by tc, iptables, etc. and allow to standardize packet sampling in the kernel commit

• sched: Introduce sample tc action. This action allows the user to sample traffic matched by tc classifier. The sampling consists of choosing packets randomly and sampling them using the psample module. The user can configure the psample group number, the sampling rate and the packet's truncation (to save kernel-user traffic) commit

• sched: cls_flower: Support matching on ARP, and hardware and protocol addresses for Ethernet hardware and IPv4 protocol addresses commit, commit

• netlink: Add the functionality for including address-family-specific per-link stats in RTM_GETSTATS messages. This is done through adding a new IFLA_STATS_AF_SPEC attribute under which address family attributes are nested and then the AF-specific attributes can be further nested commit

• Avoid receiving packets with an l3mdev on unbound UDP sockets. Also add a sysctl, udp_l3mdev_accept, to control this behaviour with it being analgous to the existing tcp_l3mdev_accept, namely to allow a process to have a VRF-global listen socket. Have this default to off as this is the behaviour that users will expect commit

• Introduce IFE encapsulation module. For details refer to this paper commit

• SNMP: Add LINUX_MIB_PFMEMALLOCDROP counter commit

• dsa: Remove hwmon support commit

• openvswitch: Add force commit commit

• rfkill: Add a new "global" (i.e. not per-rfkill device) LED trigger, rfkill-any, which may be useful on laptops with a single "radio LED" and multiple radio transmitters commit, remove rfkill-regulator (has no users) commit

• tipc: Introduce replicast as transport option for multicast commit, commit

• unix sockets: add ioctl to open a unix socket file with O_PATH commit

• vxlan: support fdb and learning in COLLECT_METADATA mode commit

• xprtrdma: Per-connection pad optimization commit, commit

11. Architectures

• ARM

  • Add support for CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL commit

  • aes: replace scalar AES cipher that originates in the OpenSSL project with a new implementation that is ~15% faster commit

  • aes: replace bit-sliced OpenSSL NEON code commit

  • OMAP2+: omap_hwmod: Add support for earlycon commit

  • KVM

    • Implement API for vGICv3 live migration commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • vgic: Add debugfs vgic-state file commit

    • Enable KVM_CAP_NR_MEMSLOTS on arm/arm64 commit

  • mvebu: support for SMP on 98DX3336 SoC commit

  • device tree sources

    • Add Lego Mindstorms EV3 commit

    • Add phyCORE-AM335x System on Module: am335x-boneblack-wireless commit, add am335x-bonegreen-wireless commit

    • Add support for phyCORE-AM335x PCM-953 carrier board commit

    • BCM5301X: Add DT for Luxul XAP-1410 wireless access point commit, add DT for Luxul XWR-1200 wireless access point commit

    • Add Armadeus Systems OPOS6UL and OPOS6ULDEV support commit

    • Add DTSI for AXP223 commit

    • armada388-clearfog: add base model DTS file commit, add pro model DTS file commit

    • aspeed: Add Romulus BMC platform commit

    • at91: add devicetree for the Axentia TSE-850 Data Radio Channel (DARC) encoder commit, add dts file for sama5d36ek CMP board commit

    • exynos: remove Exynos4212 support (dead code) commit

    • imx6: Support Savageboard quad commit, commit, commit

    • imx6dl: Add Engicam i.CoreM6 DualLite/Solo RQS initial support commit

    • imx6q: Add mccmon6 board support commit

    • imx6ul: Add Engicam Is.IoT MX6UL initial support commit

    • mvebu: Add device tree for 98DX3236 SoCs commit, add device tree for db-dxbc2 and db-xc3-24g4xg boards commit

    • socfpga: Add NAND device tree for Arria10 commit

    • sun5i: add support for Lichee Pi One board commit

    • sun8i-h3: Add dts for the Beelink X2 STB Android Media Box commit

    • sunxi: add dtsi file for V3s SoC commit, commit, add support for Lichee Pi Zero board commit, add support for Orange Pi Zero board commit

    • vf610-zii-dev: Add .dts file for revision C of Zodiac Inflight Innovations board commit

• ARM64

  • Add support for CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL commit

  • efi: arm64: Add vmlinux debug link to the Image binary commit

  • aes: add scalar implementation commit, reimplement the bit-sliced ARM/NEON implementation for arm64 commit, add NEON/Crypto Extensions CBCMAC/CMAC/XCBC driver commit

  • Add THUNDER2 processor family commit

  • device tree sources

    • Add support for FSL's LS1012A SoC commit

    • NS2: add support for XMC form factor commit

    • Add dts files for Hisilicon Hi3660 SoC commit

    • marvell: Add DT for MACCHIATOBin board commit

    • meson-gxbb: Add support for WeTek Hub and Play commit

• MIPS

  • Add IRQ stacks commit

  • Add cacheinfo support commit

  • Disable stack checks on MIPS kernels commit

  • BMIPS: Enable prerequisites for CPUfreq in MIPS Kconfig commit

  • zboot: Add "uzImage.bin" target commit

  • Octeon: Enable KASLR commit

  • img: add device tree for Marduk board commit

  • Add support for ARCH_MMAP_RND_{COMPAT_}BITS commit

  • Add base device tree for Pistachio SoC commit

  • BCM47XX: Add Luxul devices to the database commit

  • OCTEON: Platform support for OCTEON III USB controller commit

• OPENRISC

  • Add cmpxchg and xchg implementations commit

  • add l.lwa/l.swa emulation commit

  • add futex_atomic_* implementations commit

  • Add optimized memset commit and memcpy routine commit (~20% boot time savings)

  • add optimized atomic operations commit

• POWERPC

  • Enable support for GCC plugins commit

  • KVM

    • Book3S HV: Add userspace interfaces for POWER9 MMU commit

    • Book3S HV: Page table construction and page faults for radix guests commit

    • Book3S HV: Enable radix guest support commit

  • Enable use of radix MMU under hypervisor on POWER9 commit

  • kprobes: Implement Optprobes commit

  • pseries: Add support for hash table resizing commit

  • Add support for non-PCI ISA bridges commit

  • 85xx: Enable display support for t1042rdb commit

  • pseries: Implement indexed-count hotplug memory commit, commit

  • corenet: add support for the kmcent2 board commit

  • 8xx: Implement hw_breakpoint commit

  • 8xx: Perf events on PPC 8xx commit

  • 64s: POWER9 machine check handler commit

• S390

  • Add no-execute support commit

  • Provide sclp based boot console commit

  • Introduce pkey kernel module commit

  • KVM

    • Introduce Vector Enhancements facility 1 to the guest commit

    • Instruction-execution-protection support commit

    • Introduce BCD Vector Instructions to the guest commit

  • crypt: Add protected key AES module commit

• SPARC

  • Multi-page size support commit

  • Add 64K page size support commit

  • Add support for 2G hugepages commit

• X86

  • Enable Ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature for Knights Landing. This feature allows userspace application to use more efficient synchronization operations, which improves performance and energy efficiency commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add AVX512_VPOPCNTDQ feature commit

  • efi: Add support for EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE commit

  • Remove CONFIG_DEBUG_NX_TEST commit

  • platforms

    • SGI UV: Add basic CPU NMI health check commit, add Support for UV4 Hubless systems commit, add Support for UV4 Hubless NMIs commit

    • Support Turbo Boost Max 3.0 for non HWP systems commit

    • hp_accel: Add support for HP ZBook 17 commit

    • intel_pmc_ipc: Add APL PMC PCI Id commit

    • acer-wmi: add another KEY_WLAN keycode commit

    • Add support for devices with Silead touchscreens commit

    • intel_mid_powerbtn: Enable driver for Merrifield commit

    • intel-mid: Add power button support for Merrifield commit

  • intel_th: pci: Add Denverton SOC support commit, add Gemini Lake support commit

  • perf

    • Add support for parsing Intel uncore vendor event files and add uncore vendor events for the Intel server processors (Haswell, Broadwell, IvyBridge), Xeon Phi (Knights Landing) and Broadwell DE commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • Add Kaby Lake support commit

  • KVM

    • Add KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING hypercall commit

    • Expose Intel VPOPCNTDQ feature to guest commit

    • Remove code for lazy FPU handling commit

  • xen: Bootstrap PVH guest commit, commit

• M68K

  • Replace via-maciisi driver with via-cuda driver commit

12. Drivers

12.1. Graphics

• Add tinydrm, a driver that provides helpers to make easier to create drivers for very simple displays that can use CMA backed framebuffers and need flushing on changes commit, commit, commit

• Allow to use mmuless SoC commit

• Intel

  • Add Geminilake PCI IDs commit

  • Enable framebuffer compression on gen9+ too commit

  • Enable DP MST audio commit, commit

  • HuC loading support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add i915 perf interface to retrieve Gen performance metrics commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add dev.i915.oa_max_sample_rate sysctl commit

  • Add dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid sysctl to optionally allow non-root users to access system wide OA counter metrics from Gen graphics hardware commit

  • Setup bridge for HDMI LPE audio driver commit

• amdgpu/radeon

  • Preliminary SR-IOV support merge, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add PCI info to gca_config debugfs commit

  • Add POLARIS12 PCI ID commit

  • Extend profiling mode commit

• nouveau

  • Initial power budget code commit

• exynos

  • decon5433: add support for interlace modes commit

  • mic: Add runtime PM support commit

  • hdmi: add bridge support commit

• rockchip

  • Add cdn DP support for rk3399 commit

• msm

  • Support for HW cursor on MDP5 devices commit, commit

  • dsi: Add PHY/PLL for 8x96 commit

• bridge/sii8620

  • Enable interlace modes commit

  • Enable MHL3 mode if possible commit

  • Initial support for eCBUS-S mode commit

• vc4

  • Add DSI driver commit

• zte

  • HDMI audio via SPDIF interface commit

  • Video Layer overlay plane support commit

  • Add interlace mode support commit

  • Add tvenc driver support commit

• ast

  • Base support for AST2500 commit

• bochs

  • Implement nomodeset commit

• mgag200

  • Added support for the new device G200eH3 commit

• panel, simple

  • Add Netron DY E231732 commit

  • Add support BOE NV101WXMN51 commit

  • Add support for Tianma TM070JDHG30 commit

12.2. Storage

• ahci

  • imx: Add imx53 SATA temperature sensor support commit

  • qoriq: added ls2088a platforms support commit

  • Add Atari Falcon PATA controller driver commit

• lightnvm: add ioctls for vector I/Os commit

• nvme

  • Add Support for Opal commit

  • Enable autonomous power state transitions commit

  • Make controller state visible via sysfs commit

  • Detect NVMe controller in recent MacBooks commit

  • Support ranged discard requests commit

  • nvme-rdma: add support for host_traddr commit

• SCSI

  • aacraid: Added ioctl to trigger IOP/IWBR reset commit, added new IWBR reset commit, added sa firmware support commit, added support for hotplug commit, added support for periodic wellness sync commit, added support for read medium error commit, added support for response path commit, added support to abort cmd and reset lun commit, added support to set QD of attached drives commit, added sysfs for driver version commit, include HBA direct interface commit, VPD 83 type3 support commit

  • cxlflash: Enable PCI device ID for future IBM CXL Flash AFU commit, support SQ Command Mode commit

• cxgbit: add T6 iSCSI DDP completion feature commit

  • qla2xxx

    • Add DebugFS node to display Port Database commit

    • Add Dual mode support in the driver commit

    • Add framework for async fabric discovery commit

    • Export DIF stats via debugfs commit

    • Remove SRR code commit

  • ufs

    • Add sysfs node to dynamically control clock gating commit

    • Add sysfs node to dynamically control clock scaling commit

    • Provide sysfs attribute to select the PM level commit

    • Set default UFS power management level commit

    • Add time profiling support commit

• lpfc: NVME Initiator/Target commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• megaraid_sas

  • 128 MSIX Support commit

  • Add new pci device Ids for SAS3.5 Generic Megaraid Controllers commit

  • Add the Support for SAS3.5 Generic Megaraid Controllers Capabilities commit

  • Dynamic Raid Map Changes for SAS3.5 Generic Megaraid Controllers commit

  • EEDP Escape Mode Support for SAS3.5 Generic Megaraid Controllers commit

  • Implement the PD Map support for SAS3.5 Generic Megaraid Controllers commit

  • NVME fast path io support commit

• qedf: Add QLogic FastLinQ offload FCoE driver framework commit

• qedi: Add PCI device-ID for QL41xxx adapters commit

• scsi_debug: Add OPTIMAL TRANSFER LENGTH GRANULARITY option commit

• storvsc

  • Enable multi-queue support commit

  • Use tagged SRB requests if supported by the device commit

• sunvdc: Add support for setting physical sector size commit

12.3. Drivers in the Staging area

• lirc_bt829: remove commit

• lirc_parallel: remove commit

• lirc_imon: port remaining usb ids to imon and remove commit

• i4l: delete the whole thing commit

• comedi: ni_pcimio: Support more PXI cards commit, ni_660x: Support PCI-6224 commit

• greybus: remove timesync protocol support commit

• Import the BCM2835 MMAL-based V4L2 camera driver commit

12.4. Networking

• Bluetooth

  • Add another AR3012 04ca:3018 device commit

  • btusb: Add out-of-band wakeup support commit, add support for 413c:8143 commit, add support for 0bb4:0306 commit

  • hci_bcm: Add support for BCM2E95 and BCM2E96 commit

• Infiniband

  • Add default RoCE TOS to CMA configfs commit

  • Added support to use rdma cgroup controller commit

  • mlx4: Support raw packet protocol commit

  • mlx5

    • Enable QP creation with cvlan offload commit

    • Enable WQ creation and modification with cvlan offload commit

    • Expose vlan offloads capabilities commit

    • Remove deprecated module parameter commit

    • Support 4k UAR for libmlx5 commit

    • Support raw packet protocol commit

    • Add support for flow tag commit

    • Enable QP creation with cvlan offload commit

    • Enable WQ creation and modification with cvlan offload commit

    • Expose vlan offloads capabilities commit

    • Add MPCNT register infrastructure commit

    • Expose PCAM, MCAM registers infrastructure commit

    • Add PPCNT physical layer statistical group infrastructure commit

    • Add MTPPS and MTPPSE registers infrastructure commit

• RDMA/bnxt_re: Add bnxt_re RoCE driver commit, commit

• alx: add feature flag for rx checksumming commit

• amd8111e: add GRO support commit

• ath10k: add VHT160 support commit, add debugfs support to get per peer tids log via tracing commit

• ath9k: Introduce airtime fairness scheduling between stations commit

• atl1e: add GRO support commit

• bnxt_en: Add IPV6 hardware RFS support commit, add basic XDP support commit, add new hardware RFS mode commit, add support for ethtool -p commit, added PCI IDs for BCM57452 and BCM57454 ASICs commit

• brcmfmac: add support for BCM43455 with modalias sdio:c00v02D0dA9BF commit

• can

  • Add CAN interface API for fixed bitrates commit

  • Add CAN interface termination API commit

  • flexcan: add support for timestamp based rx-offload commit, make TX mailbox selectable during runtime commit

  • rx-offload: Add support for HW fifo based irq offloading commit, add support for timestamp based irq offloading commit

  • Add support of PCAN-Chip USB stamp module commit

• cxgb4: Add new T5 and T6 pci device id's commit

• dsa

  • b53: Add support for port mirroring commit

  • bcm_sf2: Add support for BCM7278 integrated switch commit, add support for ethtool::rxnfc commit, add support for port mirroring commit

  • mv88e6xxx: Add support for ethernet switch 88E6141 commit, add support for ethernet switch 88E6341 commit, add EEPROM support to 6390 commit

• enic: add vxlan offload on tx path commit

• ep93xx_eth: add GRO support commit

• aquantia: driver for quantia AQC107/AQC108 chipset commit, add 2500/5000 mbit link modes support commit

• gtp: let userspace handle packets for invalid tunnels commit

• i40e: Remove FPK HyperV VF device ID commit, save more link abilities when using ethtool commit

• i40evf: remove unused device ID commit

• ipvtap: IP-VLAN based tap driver commit

• iwlwifi: mvm: support new alive notification commit, support new scan API commit, support new statistics APIs commit, support unification of INIT and RT images commit, support v2 of mfuart load notification commit, support two phys for a000 devices commit

• ixgbe: Add PF support for VF promiscuous mode commit, implement support for firmware-controlled PHYs commit, support 2.5Gb and 5Gb speed commit

• ixgbevf: Add support for VF promiscuous mode commit

• ks8695net: add GRO support commit

• liquidio: improve UDP TX performance commit

• macb: Common code to enable ptp support for MACB/GEM commit

• mlx4_en: Adding support of turning off link autonegotiation via ethtool commit

• mlx5

  • Activate support for 4K UARs commit

  • Add support for setting VF min rate commit

  • Add support to s-tag in mlx5 firmware interface commit

  • Implement PCAM, MCAM access register commands commit

  • Query and cache PCAM, MCAM registers on initialization commit

• mlx5e

  • Expose PCIe statistics to ethtool commit

  • Expose physical layer statistical counters to ethtool commit

  • Implement 1PPS support commit

  • Support SRIOV TC encapsulation offloads for IPv6 tunnels commit

• mlxsw: Offload MC flood for unregister MC merge

• mlxsw: Introduce TC Flower offload using TCAM merge

• mvneta: add BQL support commit, add xmit_more support commit

• mwifiex: Enable dynamic bandwidth signalling commit

• emac: add support for device-tree based PHY discovery and setup commit

• ti: cpsw: add support for descs pool size configuration commit

• qmi_wwan: Add USB IDs for MDM6600 modem on Motorola Droid 4 commit

• netvsc: add ethtool ops to get/set RSS key commit, report per-channel stats in ethtool statistics commit

• nfp: add CPP access core commit

• nfp: Netronome NFP4000 and NFP6000 PF driver merge

• phy

  • Add LED mode driver for Microsemi PHYs commit

  • bcm7xxx: Add BCM74371 PHY ID commit, add entry for BCM7278 commit

  • broadcom: add support for BCM54210E commit

  • dp83867: Add lane swapping support in the DP83867 TI's PHY driver commit

  • marvell: Add support for 88e1545 PHY commit, add support for temperature sensor commit

• qcom/emac: add ethool support for setting pause parameters commit, add ethtool support commit, add ethtool support for reading hardware registers commit, add ethtool support for setting ring parameters commit

• qed

  • Add support for ndo_set_vf_trust commit

  • Add infrastructure for PTP support commit

  • Add support for hardware offloaded FCoE commit

  • Support Multicast on Tx-switching commit

• qede: Add driver support for PTP commit

• qla3xxx: add GRO support commit

• qmi_wwan: add Dell DW5811e commit

• ravb: Support 1Gbps on R-Car H3 ES1.1+ and R-Car M3-W commit

• rt2800usb: remove watchdog commit

• rt2x00: add support for RT5350 WiSoC commit, add support for RT3352 with 20MHz crystal commit, support for for RT3352 with external PA commit

• rtl8xxxu: Add USB ID for D-Link DWA-131 rev E1 (rtl8192eu) commit, add additional USB IDs for rtl8192eu devices commit, add another 8192eu device to the USB list commit

• rtlwifi: Remove debugging entry in sysfs commit

• sfc: read back RX hash config from the NIC when querying it with ethtool -x commit, support setting RSS hash key through ethtool API commit

• sh_eth: add generic wake-on-lan support via magic packet commit, enable wake-on-lan for R-Car Gen2 devices commit, enable wake-on-lan for r8a7740/armadillo commit, enable wake-on-lan for sh7734 commit, enable wake-on-lan for sh7763 commit

• stmmac: adding EEE to GMAC4 commit, enable rx queues commit

• synopsys: remove dwc_eth_qos driver commit

• systemport: Add support for SYSTEMPORT Lite commit

• thunderx: Support to configure queue sizes from ethtool commit

• ti: cpsw: add support for ringparam configuration commit

• tun: rx batching commit

• virtio_net: XDP support for adjust_head commit

• vxlan: add changelink support commit

• wcn36xx: Implement firmware assisted scan commit

• wil6210: add disable_ap_sme module parameter commit, report association ID (AID) per station in debugfs commit, support new WMI-only FW capability commit

12.5. Audio

• oxfw: add support for Mackie Onyx 1640i commit

• hda

  • realtek: Add support headphone Mic for ALC221 of HP platform commit, new codec support of ALC1220 commit, add new codec ID ALC299 commit

  • Add DP MST audio support commit

  • Add DP mst verb support commit

  • Add Geminilake HDMI codec ID commit

  • Add Geminilake PCI ID commit

  • Add support for docking station for HP 820 G2 commit, add support for docking station for HP 840 G3 commit

• ASoC

  • Intel: add support for Realtek 5651 on Cherrytrail commit

  • rt5640: Add "10EC3276" ACPI ID commit

  • rt5645: add support for RT5648 commit, add ACPI ID 10EC3270 commit

  • Intel: cht_bsw_rt5645: add Baytrail MCLK support commit

  • Intel: Atom: Add HP Pavilion x2 10-p000 machine entry commit

  • nau8540: new codec driver commit

  • Add sun8i digital audio codec commit

  • sun4i-spdif: Add support for the H3 SoC commit

  • hdac_hdmi: Add device id for Geminilake commit

  • Intel: add support for ALC3270 codec commit

  • Intel: Skylake: Add Geminlake IDs commit

  • Intel: Atom: add machine driver for baytrail-rt5645 hardware commit

• add Intel HDMI LPE audio driver for BYT/CHT-T commit

• hdmi: Add audio support for BYT and CHT commit

12.6. Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses

• cros_ec_keyb: Add non-matrix buttons and switches commit

• intel-mid-touch: remove driver commit

• tm2-touchkey: add touchkey driver support for TM2 commit

• synaptics-rmi4: add sysfs interfaces for hardware IDs commit

• Add driver for Zeitec ZET6223 commit

• Delete MPU3050 driver commit

• gpio-keys: add support for setkeycode commit

• mousedev: stop offering PS/2 to userspace by default commit

• synaptics-rmi4: add sysfs attribute update_fw_status commit

• xpad: add support for Razer Wildcat gamepad commit

• HID

  • hid-mf: add force feedback support for Mayflash DolphinBar and GameCube commit

  • Add device ID for updated Mayflash/Dragonrise GameCube adapter commit

  • wacom: Support 2nd-gen Intuos Pro's Bluetooth classic interface commit

  • wacom: generic: support generic touch switch commit, add vendor defined touch commit, support LEDs commit, add support for touchring commit

  • rmi: Support the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Tablet dock using hid-rmi commit

  • corsair: Add driver Scimitar Pro RGB gaming mouse 1b1c:1b3e support to hid-corsair commit

  • chicony: Add support for another ASUS Zen AiO keyboard commit

  • uclogic: add support for Ugee Tablet EX07S commit

12.7. TV tuners, webcams, video capturers

• vivid: Enable 4k resolution for webcam capture device commit

• mn88473: add DVB-T2 PLP support commit

• rc: add support for IR LEDs driven through SPI commit, add driver for IR remote receiver on MT7623 SoC commit, add a keytable for the GeekBox remote control commit

• coda: add i.MX6 VDOA driver commit, support YUYV output if VDOA is used commit

• si2168: implement ucb statistics commit, implement ber statistics commit

• Driver for Toshiba et8ek8 5MP sensor commit

• zd1301: ZyDAS ZD1301 DVB USB interface driver commit, zd1301_demod: ZyDAS ZD1301 DVB-T demodulator driver commit

• st-hva: add debug file system commit

• em28xx: support for Hauppauge WinTV-dualHD 01595 ATSC/QAM commit

• lgdt3306a: support i2c mux for use by em28xx commit

• st-delta: EOS (End Of Stream) support commit

• Add Hama Hybrid DVB-T Stick support commit

• cx231xx: Initial support Evromedia USB Full Hybrid Full HD commit

• usbtv: add sharpness control commit

• st-delta: STiH4xx multi-format video decoder v4l2 driver commit, add mjpeg support commit, rpmsg ipc support commit

12.8. Universal Serial Bus

• cp210x: add new IDs for GE Bx50v3 boards commit

• Add uPD78F0730 USB to Serial Adaptor Driver commit, commit

• chipidea: Add support for ULPI PHY bus commit

• dwc2: Add debugfs file to show params commit, show dr_mode via debugfs commit

• qcserial: add Dell DW5811e commit

• option: add Quectel UC15, UC20, EC21, and EC25 modems commit

• misc: add USB251xB/xBi Hi-Speed Hub Controller Driver commit

• plusb: Add support for PL-27A1 commit

12.9. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)

• pxa2xx: Add support for Intel Gemini Lake commit, pca2xx-pci: Allow MSI commit

• lantiq-ssc: add support for Lantiq SSC SPI controller commit

12.10. Watchdog

• nic7018_wdt: Add NIC7018 watchdog driver commit

• Add driver for Cortina Gemini watchdog commit

• zx2967: add watchdog controller driver for ZTE's zx2967 family commit

12.11. ACPI, EFI, cpufreq, thermal, Power Management

• cpufreq

  • Add the cpufreq.off=1 boot option to disable cpufreq commit

  • powernv: Add boost files to export ultra-turbo frequencies commit

  • Remove CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS config option commit

  • ti: Add cpufreq driver to determine available OPPs at runtime commit

  • intel_pstate: Operation mode control from sysfs commit

  • bmips-cpufreq: CPUfreq driver for Broadcom's BMIPS SoCs commit

• tools/power/turbostat

  • Debug utility for intel_pstate driver commit

  • Add --cpu parameter commit

  • Add --list option to show available header names commit

  • Move --Package and --processor into the --cpu option commit

  • Add --show and --hide parameters commit

  • Support --hide C1 etc commit

  • Initial Gemini Lake SOC support commit

  • Print sysfs C-state stats commit

  • Baytrail c-state support commit

• thermal: zx2967: add thermal driver for ZTE's zx2967 family commit

• thermal: rcar_gen3_thermal: Add R-Car Gen3 thermal driver commit

12.12. Real Time Clock (RTC)

• mcp795: add alarm support commit, commit

• m48t86: add NVRAM support commit

• armada38x: Add support for Armada 7K/8K commit

• Add STM32 RTC driver commit

12.13. Voltage, current regulators, power capping, power supply

• power supply

  • Add sbs-charger driver commit

  • Remove Intel Moorestown battery support commit

  • Add support for MAX14656 USB charger detector commit

  • Add AC power supply driver for AXP20X and AXP22X PMICs commit

  • bq27xxx: adds specific support for bq27510-g3 revision commit, add specific support for bq27500/1 revision commit, add specific support for bq27510-g1 revision commit, add specific support for bq27520-g4 revision commit, add specific support for bq27520-g1 revision commit, add specific support for bq27520-g2 revision commit, add specific support for bq27520-g3 revision commit, add specific support for bq27510-g2 revision commit

• power: reset: at91-reset: add samx7 support commit

12.14. Pin Controllers (pinctrl)

• amd: Add support for additional GPIO commit

• sh-pfc: r8a7796: Add CAN support commit, add CAN FD support commit

• Introduce TI IOdelay configuration driver commit

• samsung: Remove support for Exynos4415 (SoC not supported anymore) commit

• intel: Add support for 1k additional pull-down commit, add support for hardware debouncer commit

• sunxi: Add common sun5i pinctrl driver commit, add driver for V3s SoC commit, support A31/A31s with pinctrl variants commit, remove old sun5i pinctrl drivers commit, remove redundant A31s pinctrl driver commit

• Add driver for Allwinner H5 SoC commit

• intel: Add Intel Gemini Lake pin controller support commit

• stm32: Add STM32H743 MCU support commit

• mvebu: pinctrl driver for 98DX3236 SoC commit

12.15. Multi Media Card (MMC)

• sh_mobile_sdhi: enable HS200 commit

• mxs-mmc: Implement CMD23 support commit

• dw_mmc: zx: Initial support for ZX mmc controller commit

• sdhci-pci: Add support for HS200 tuning mode on AMD, eMMC-4.5.1 commit

• pwrseq: add support for Marvell SD8787 chip commit

• sdhci-msm: Provide enhanced_strobe mode feature support commit

• meson-gx: add support for HS400 mode commit

12.16. Memory Technology Devices (MTD)

• spi-nor

  • Add support for gd25q16 commit

  • Add support for S3AN spi-nor devices commit

  • Add memory controllers for the Aspeed AST2500 SoC commit

  • Add support for Intel SPI serial flash controller commit

• aspeed: add memory controllers for the Aspeed AST2400 SoC commit

• bcm47xxpart: support layouts with multiple TRX partitions commit

• nand: Add Winbond manufacturer id commit

12.17. Industrial I/O (iio)

• Add channel for Gravity commit

• temperature: Add support for TI TMP007 sensor commit

• adc

  • hx711: Add IIO driver for AVIA HX711 commit

  • tlc4541: add support for TI tlc4541 adc commit

  • Add Maxim MAX11100 driver commit

  • spmi-vadc: Changes to support different scaling commit

  • New driver for TI ADS7950 chips commit

  • Add Renesas GyroADC driver commit

  • add a driver for the SAR ADC found in Amlogic Meson SoCs commit

  • stm32: add optional dma support commit, add support for triggered buffer mode commit

• imu: add support to lsm6dsx driver commit

• Add gravity sensor support commit

• light: add driver for Capella CM3605 commit

• cros_ec: Add cros_ec barometer driver commit

• max5481: Add support for Maxim digital potentiometers commit

• distance: srf08: add IIO driver for us ranger commit

• Add STM32 timer trigger driver commit

12.18. Multi Function Devices (MFD)

• lpc_ich: Add support for Intel Apollo Lake SoC commit, add support for SPI serial flash host controller commit, enable watchdog on Intel Apollo Lake PCH commit

• intel-lpss: Add Intel Gemini Lake PCI IDs commit

• cpcap: Add minimal support commit

• Add STM32 Timers driver commit

12.19. Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)

• Add driver for STM32 plaftorm commit

• lpss: Add Intel Gemini Lake PCI ID commit

• imx: Add polarity inversion support to i.MX's PWMv2 commit

12.20. Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C)

• mux: pca954x: Add interrupt controller support commit

• Add Tegra BPMP I2C proxy driver commit

• i801: Add support for Intel Gemini Lake commit

• stm32f4: add driver commit

12.21. Hardware monitoring (hwmon)

• lm70: Add support for TI TMP122/124 commit

• it87: Add support for IT8622E commit, add support for IT8792E commit, improve IT8622 support commit

• New driver for ST stts751 thermal sensor commit

12.22. General Purpose I/O (gpio)

• Add a driver for Cortina Systems Gemini GPIO commit

• Add GPIO support for the ACCES PCI-IDIO-16 commit

• gpio: mockup: implement event injecting over debugfs commit, add a dummy irqchip commit

12.23. Leds

• class: Add new optional brightness_hw_changed attribute commit

• tools/leds: Add led_hw_brightness_mon program commit

12.24. DMA engines

• stm32-dma: Add synchronization support commit, add max_burst support commit

• dw: add support of iDMA 32-bit hardware commit

12.25. Cryptography hardware acceleration

• mediatek: Add crypto driver support for some MediaTek chips commit, add support to CTR mode commit, add support to GCM mode commit

• atmel-sha: add support to hmac(shaX) commit

• atmel-authenc: add support to authenc(hmac(shaX), Y(aes)) modes commit

• brcm: Add Broadcom SPU driver commit

• cavium: Add Support for Octeon-tx CPT Engine commit, commit, commit

12.26. PCI

• ASPM: Add support for L1 substates commit

12.27. Clock

• cdce925: add support for CDCE913, CDCE937, and CDCE949 commit

• vc5: Add support for IDT VersaClock 5P49V5923 and 5P49V5933 commit

• rockchip: add clock controller for rk3328 commit

• hisilicon: Add clock driver for hi3660 SoC commit

• stm32f7: Introduce stm32f7 clocks for STM32F746 boards commit

• Add Atom PMC platform clocks commit

• samsung: Add enable/disable support for PLL35XX clocks commit, remove Exynos4415 driver (SoC not supported anymore) commit

• mvebu: support for 98DX3236 SoC commit

• sunxi-ng: Add A80 Display Engine CCU commit, add support for V3s CCU commit

• renesas: r8a7796: Add IIC-DVFS clock commit, r8a7795: Add IIC-DVFS clock commit, cpg-mssr: Add support for reset control commit

• tegra: Add BPMP clock driver commit

• zte: add i2s clocks for zx296718 commit

• sunxi-ng: Add A80 CCU commit, add A80 USB CCU commit, add sun5i CCU driver commit

• gemini: Add driver for the Cortina Gemini commit

• ostm: Add renesas-ostm timer driver commit

12.28. Various

• EDAC: Expose per-DIMM error counts in sysfs commit

• EDAC, pnd2_edac: Add new EDAC driver for Intel SoC platforms commit

• extcon: int3496: Add Intel INT3496 ACPI device extcon driver commit

• drivers/fsi: Add empty fsi bus definitions commit

• iommu/arm-smmu: Support for Extended Stream ID (16 bit) commit

• iommu: Implement reserved_regions iommu-group sysfs file commit

• irqchip/qcom: Add IRQ combiner driver commit

• irqchip: Add a driver for Cortina Gemini commit

• via-cuda: Add support for Egret system controller commit

• eeprom: Add IDT 89HPESx EEPROM/CSR driver commit

• misc: sram: Integrate protect-exec reserved sram area type commit

• misc: sram: Introduce support code for protect-exec sram type commit

• perf: add qcom l2 cache perf events driver commit

• phy: Add support for Qualcomm's USB HSIC phy commit

• phy: sun4i-usb: add support for V3s USB PHY commit

• phy: Add support for Qualcomm's USB HS phy commit

• regulator: qcom-smd: Add PM8994 regulator support commit

• regulator: cpcap: Add basic regulator support commit

• remoteproc: st: add virtio communication support commit

• reset: zx2967: add reset controller driver for ZTE's zx2967 family commit

• reset: hisilicon: add reset-hi3660 commit

• phy: phy-exynos-pcie: Add support for Exynos PCIe PHY commit

• soc: rockchip: add driver handling grf setup commit

• soc: zte: pm_domains: Add support for zx296718 commit

• tty: serial: lantiq: implement earlycon support commit

• serial: 8250_pci: Add MKS Tenta SCOM-0800 and SCOM-0801 cards commit

• serdev: Introduce new bus for serial attached devices commit

• serdev: add a tty port controller driver commit

• serial: exar: Enable MSI support commit

• w1: add DS2405 addressable switch driver commit

• rpmsg: Driver for user space endpoint interface commit

13. List of merges

• Pull MTD updates

• Pull hwmon updates

• Pull EDAC updates

• Pull power supply and reset updates

• Pull timer updates

• Pull irq updates

• Pull debugobjects updates

• Pull RCU updates

• Pull EFI updates

• Pull perf updates

• Pull RAS updates

• Pull scheduler updates

• Pull locking updates

• Pull x86 apic changes

• Pull x86 asm update

• Pull x86 boot updates

• Pull x86 cpufeature updates

• Pull x86 fpu updates

• Pull x86 microcode updates

• Pull x86 mm updates

• Pull x86 platform updates

• Pull m68k updates

• Pull IOMMU UPDATES

• Pull livepatching updates

• Pull HID updates

• Pull regmap updates

• Pull regulator updates

• Pull spi updates

• Pull LED updates

• Pull power management updates

• Pull ACPI updates

• Pull device property updates

• Pull fscrypt updates

• Pull ext4 updates

• Pull CIFS/SMB3 updates

• Pull UDF fixes and cleanups

• Pull GFS2 updates

• Pull block layer updates

• Pull SCSI updates

• Pull MMC updates

• Pull device mapper updates

• Pull security layer updates

• Pull audit updates

• Pull xen updates

• Pull MIPS updates

• Pull exception table module split

• Pull pin control updates

• Pull media updates

• Pull dmaengine updates

• Pull libata updates

• Pull pstore updates

• Pull usercopy test updates

• Pull rodata updates

• Pull gcc-plugins updates

• Pull networking updates

• Pull s390 updates

• Pull powerpc updates

• Pull ARC updates

• Pull arm64 updates

• Pull USB/PHY updates

• Pull char/misc driver updates

• Pull driver core updates

• Pull staging/iio driver updates

• Pull tty/serial driver updates

• Pull modules updates

• Pull printk updates

• Pull xfs updates

• Pull KVM updates

• Pull documentation updates

• Pull DeviceTree updates

• Merge updates from akpm

• Pull MFD updates

• Pull backlight updates

• Pull rdma updates

• Pull input updates

• Pull GPIO updates

• Pull sound updates

• Pull remoteproc updates

• Pull rpmsg updates

• Pull crypto update

• Pull VFIO updates

• Pull Mellanox rdma updates

• Pull PCI updates

• Pull ARM SoC platform updates

• Pull ARM SoC 64-bit updates

• Pull ARM SoC defconfig updates

• Pull ARM DT updates

• Pull ARM 64-bit DT updates

• Pull ARM SoC driver updates

• Pull drm updates

• Pull namespace updates

• Pull block updates and fixes

• Pull md updates

• Pull sparc updates

• Pull OpenRISC updates

• Merge more updates from akpm

• Pull fbdev updates

• Pull rdma DMA mapping updates

• Pull i2c updates

• Pull clk updates

• Pull x86 platform driver updates

• Pull btrfs updates

• Pull orangefs updates

• Pull Kselftest update

• Pull watchdog updates

• Pull tracing updates

• Pull RTC updates

• Pull cgroup updates

• Pull more s390 updates

• Pull m68nommu update

• Pull ktest updates

• Merge yet more updates from akpm

• Pull ARM updates

• Pull ceph updates

• Pull nfsd updates

• Pull IDR rewrite

• Pull IPMI updates

• Pull drm AST2500 support

• Pull pwm updates

• Pull thermal management updates

• Pull more powerpc updates

• Pull f2fs updates

• Pull NFS client updates

• Pull vhost updates

• Pull SCSI target updates

• Pull vfs sendmsg updates

• Pull vfs pile two

• Pull more btrfs updates

• Pull turbostat utility updates

• Pull sched.h split-up

• Pull vfs 'statx()' update

• Pull overlayfs updates

• Pull ARM SoC late DT updates

• Pull Xtensa updates

• Pull more SCSI updates

• Pull misc final vfs updates

• Pull more KVM updates

14. Other news sites

• LWN's merge window part 1, part 2, part 3

• Phoronix's The New Features Of The Linux 4.11 Kernel

• Heise Die Neuerungen von Linux 4.11