Linux 5.8 changelog

This list of changes is not complete. While I finish the work, you can take a look at:

• LWN's merge window part 1, part 2

• Phoronix's Linux 5.8 Kernel Features Include New Intel/AMD Capabilities, Security Improvements, Optimizations

...or take a look at the pull requests:

• tpm updates

• hwmon updates

• regmap updates

• spi updates

• regulator updates

• crypto updates

• pstore updates

• fscrypt updates

• printk updates

• EDAC updates

• x86 microcode update

• x86 cache resource control updates

• kprobes updates

• RCU updates

• locking updates

• objtool updates

• perf updates

• EFI updates

• SMP updates

• x86 boot updates

• x86 build updates

• x86 cleanups

• x86 cpu updates

• x86 FPU updates

• x86 platform updates

• x86 vdso updates

• m68k updates

• arm64 updates

• ARM updates

• documentation updates

• uaccess/csum updates

• uaccess/access_ok updates

• uaccess/readdir updates

• uaccess/__put-user updates

• uaccess/__copy_from_user updates

• uaccess/__copy_to_user updates

• uaccess/coredump updates

• vfs updates

• memory management updates from akpm

• MMC updates

• x86 platform driver updates

• power management updates

• ACPI updates

• hmm updates

• drm updates

• block updates

• block driver updates

• io_uring updates

• audit updates

• SELinux updates

• lockdown update

• xfs updates

• DAX updates part one

• DAX updates part two

• btrfs updates

• erofs updates

• irq updates

• timer updates

• x86 timer updates

• scheduler updates

• thread updates

• MIPS updates

• parsic updates

• Xtensa updates

• kgdb updates

• hyper-v updates

• kvm updates

• splice updates

• comedi uaccess cleanups

• networking updates

• more memory management updates

• media updates

• perf tooling updates

• keyring updates

• smack updates

• MFD updates

• backlight updates

• watchdog updates

• chrome platform updates

• LED updates

• sound updates

• HID updates

• livepatching updates

• fsnotify updates

• ext2 and reiserfs cleanups

• proc updates

• execve updates

• yet more memory management updates

• ARM SoC updates

• ARM defconfig updates

• ARM/SoC driver updates

• ARM devicetree updates

• devicetree updates

• RISC-V updates

• x86 mm updates

• module updates

• powerpc updates

• READ_IMPLIES_EXEC changes

• VFIO updates

• IPMI updates

• GPIO updates

• rdma updates

• SCSI updates

• device mapper updates

• ext4 updates

• AFS updates

• cifs updates

• dlm updates

• orangefs updates

• integrity updates

• cgroup updates

• workqueue updates

• PCI updates

• dmi update

• dma-mapping updates

• dma-mapping helpers

• Kbuild updates

• Kconfig updates

• arch/sh updates

• USB/PHY driver updates

• tty/serial driver updates

• staging/IIO driver updates

• driver core updates

• char/misc driver updates

• apparmor updates

• NTB updates

• RTC updates

• pin control updates

• sparc updates

• still more memory management updates

• drm fixes

• drm msm updates

• iommu updates

• s390 updates

• gfs2 updates

• ceph updates

• rpmsg updates

• remoteproc updates

• x86 "Slow Randomizing Boosts Denial of Service"

• even more memory management updates

• kselftest updates

• Kunit updates

• tracing updates

• exfat update

• f2fs updates

• overlayfs updates

• fuse updates

• dmaengine updates

• power supply and reset updates

• clk updates

• MTD updates

• UBI update

• UML updates

• virtio updates

• input updates

• more power management updates

• more ACPI updates

• more documentation updates

• READ/WRITE_ONCE rework

• misc uaccess updates

• i915 uaccess updates

• epoll update

• nfsd updates

• DAX updates part three

• NFS client updates

• mailbox updates

• m68knommu updates

• more RISC-V updates

• some more memory management updates

• more x86 updates

• atomics rework

• Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer

• xen updates

• more KVM updates

• iommu driver directory structure cleanup

• pwm updates

• thermal updates

• notification queue

• x86 entry updates

• x86 RAS updates

• alpha updates

• OpenRISC update

• 9p update

• libnvdimm updates

• more media updates

• i2c updates

• more SCSI updates

• more Kbuild updates

• more cifs updates

• btrfs updates

• SafeSetID update

1. Hardware monitoring (hwmon)

• Add amd_energy driver to report core and package energy sensors, based on RAPL MSR for AMD family 17h and above CPUs commit, commit

• ina2xx: Implement alert functions commit

• k10temp: Add AMD family 17h model 60h PCI match commit

• lm70: Add support for ACPI commit

• lm90: Add max6654 support to lm90 driver commit

• nct7904: Add watchdog function commit

• pmbus: Driver for Maxim MAX16601 commit

• Add Gateworks System Controller support commit

• hwmon: Add Baikal-T1 SoC Process, Voltage and Temp sensor support commit, commit

• Add Baikal-T1 PVT sensor driver commit

2. General Purpose I/O (gpio)

• gpio-f7188x: Add GPIO support for F81865 commit

• Add GPIO Aggregator commit

3. Leds

• Add aw2013 driver commit

• Add sgm3140 driver commit

• ariel: Add driver for status LEDs on Dell Wyse 3020 commit

4. DMA engines

• idxd: export hw version through sysfs commit

5. Cryptography hardware acceleration

• chcr: support for 48 byte key_len in aes-xts commit

• chtls: IPv6 support for inline TLS commit

• crypto/nx: Enable GZIP engine and provide userpace API commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ccp: Add support for SEV-ES to the PSP driver commit

• hisilicon: add debugfs for DFX commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• hisilicon: add controller reset support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• hisilicon: add vfs_num module parameter for hpre/sec commit

6. PCI

• Add Loongson PCI Controller support commit

• Add endpoint driver for R-Car PCIe controller commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• P2PDMA: Add AMD Zen Raven and Renoir Root Ports to whitelist commit

• aardvark: Add PHY support commit

• rcar: Add endpoint mode support commit

• rcar: Add suspend/resume commit

• uniphier: Add Socionext UniPhier Pro5 PCIe endpoint controller driver commit

7. Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB)

• intel: Add Icelake (gen4) support for Intel NTB commit

8. Thunderbolt

• Add support for Intel Tiger Lake commit

9. Clock

• Add Baikal-T1 SoC Clock Control Unit support commit, commit, commit, commit

• Ingenic: Add CGU driver for X1830 commit

• clk-si5341: Add support for the Si5345 series commit

• intel: Add CGU clock driver for a new SoC commit

• mediatek: Add MT6765 clock support commit

• mmp2: Enable Audio and GPU on MMP2 and MMP3 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mmp2: Add audio clock controller driver commit

• Add the missing clock drivers and dts nodes to enable the GPU on both SM8150 and SM8250

• qcom: gcc-msm8939: Add MSM8939 Generic Clock Controller commit

• qcom: gcc: Add GPU and NPU clocks for SM8150 commit

• qcom: gcc: Add missing UFS clocks for SM8150 commit

• Add GCC clock driver support commit, commit, commit

• renesas: cpg-mssr: Add R8A7742 support commit

• socfpga: agilex: add clock driver for the Agilex platform commit

• tegra: Add custom CCLK implementation commit

• tegra: Implement Tegra210 EMC clock commit

• vc5: Add support for IDT VersaClock 5P49V6965 commit

• timer-ti-dm: Add clockevent and clocksource support commit

10. PHY ("physical layer" framework)

• Add driver for Qualcomm IPQ40xx USB PHY commit

• cadence: salvo: add salvo phy driver commit

• intel: Add driver support for ComboPhy commit

• qcom-qmp: Add QMP V3 USB3 PHY support for SC7180 commit

• qcom-qmp: Add SM8150 QMP USB3 PHY support commit

• qcom-snps: Add SNPS USB PHY driver for QCOM based SOCs commit

• ti: am654: add support for USB super-speed commit, show up in regmap debugfs commit

11. EDAC (Error Detection And Correction)

• amd64: Add AMD family 17h model 60h PCI IDs commit

12. 1-Wire (W1)

• w1_therm

  • Add alarm sysfs entry commit

  • Add bulk read support to trigger multiple conversion on bus commit

  • Add eeprom sysfs entry commit

  • Add ext_power sysfs entry commit

  • Add resolution sysfs entry commit

  • Add sysfs entry to output only temperature commit

13. Firmware

• xilinx: Add xilinx specific sysfs interface 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

• SCMI Notifications Core Support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• imx: support SCU channel type commit, commit, commit, commit

14. Various

• habanalabs

  • Add GAUDI ASIC support. Similar to GOYA, GAUDI includes a set of eight TPC cores, a GEMM engine and DMA channels to move data between host and different memories of the ASIC. Each engine has a hardware queue manager (QMAN) attached to it, which exposes 4 streams to allow complex programs with control flows (in GOYA you had 1 stream per QMAN) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add INFO IOCTL opcode for time sync information commit

  • Support hwmon_reset_history attribute commit

  • Add signal/wait to CS IOCTL operations commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Enable trace data compression (profiler) commit

• Add Baikal-T1 SoC APB/AXI/L2 drivers commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• bus: Add driver for Integrator/AP logic modules commit

• fpga: dfl: fme: add performance reporting support commit

• fpga: dfl: support multiple opens on feature device node commit

• interconnect: Add imx support via devfreq commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• irqchip: Three Loongson irqchip support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• iommu: Add Allwinner H6 IOMMU driver commit

• irqchip: RISC-V per-HART local interrupt controller driver commit

• mailbox: Add support for Qualcomm IPCC commit

• mailbox: imx: Support runtime PM commit

• mailbox: qcom: Add ipq6018 apcs compatible commit

• mailbox: sprd: Add Spreadtrum mailbox driver commit

• mei: me: add tiger lake point device ids for H platforms commit

• mfd: Add support for the MediaTek MT6358 PMIC commit

• misc: pci_endpoint_test: Add Device ID for RZ/G2E PCIe controller commit

• mptcp: add new sock flag to deal with join subflows commit

• of: reserved-memory: Support lookup of regions by name commit

• of: reserved-memory: Support multiple regions per device commit

• opp: Add support for parsing interconnect bandwidth commit

• opp: Expose bandwidth information via debugfs commit

• pinctrl: imx: Add imx8dxl driver commit

• ptp: Add adjphase function to support phase offset control commit

• remoteproc: qcom: Add callbacks for remoteproc events commit, commit, commit

• remoteproc: Add PAS and MSA based Modem support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• remoteproc: Add support for runtime PM commit

• remoteproc: ingenic: Added remoteproc driver commit

• remoteproc: qcom: pas: Add SM8250 PAS remoteprocs commit

• reset: hi6220: Add support for AO reset controller commit

• reset: imx7: Add support for i.MX8MP SoC commit

• scs: Add support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack (SCS) commit

• spi: spidev_test: Add support for Octal mode data transfers commit

• tee

  • Add support for session's client UUID generation commit, commit

  • Enhance TEE kernel client interface commit, commit

15. List of Pull Requests

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