Linux 6.12 changelog. Not finished.

1. Block layer

• nbd: add support for rotational devices commit

• dm-integrity: support recalculation in the 'I' mode commit

• Introduce custom comp backends API commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Convert write_begin / write_end to take a folio commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

2. Tracing, perf and BPF

• bpftool: Add tcx subcommand in net commit, commit, commit

• Support bpf_kptr_xchg into local kptr commit, commit, commit, commit

• Support branch counters in block annotation commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Support branch counters in block annotation commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• TPEBS counting mode support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Use per-sink trace ID maps for Perf sessions commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• introduce new VFS based BPF kfuncs commit, commit, commit

• Introduce perf check subcommand commit, commit, commit, commit

• perf: Support PERF_SAMPLE_READ with inherit commit, commit

• perf annotate-data: Implement folding in TUI browser commit, commit, commit

• perf annotate: Add --skip-empty option commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• perf annotate: LLVM-based disassembler commit, commit, commit

• perf auxtrace: Support multiple AUX events commit, commit, commit

• perf bpf-filter: Add cgroup filter term commit, commit, commit

• perf bpf-filter: Support multiple events properly commit, commit, commit

• perf ftrace: Add 'profile' subcommand commit, commit, commit

• perf inject improvements commit, commit, commit, commit

• perf mem: Add -s/--sort option commit

• perf mem: Basic support for data type profiling commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• perf record: Use a pinned BPF program for filter commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• perf sched timehist: Add --show-prio & --prio option commit, commit

• perf script: add --addr2line option commit

• perf trace: Augment enum arguments with BTF commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• perf trace: Enhanced augmentation for pointer arguments commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

3. Virtualization

• support set mac address from vdpa tool commit, commit

• Support device passthrough when dom0 is PVH on Xen commit, commit, commit

4. Security

• LSM: Infrastructure blob allocation commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Module stacking for AppArmor commit, commit, commit, commit

• lsm: infrastructure management of the perf_event security blob commit

• lsm: add the inode_free_security_rcu() LSM implementation hook commit

• ipe: allow secondary and platform keyrings to install/update policies commit

5. Networking

• ethtool: Add RSS config support commit, commit

• ethtool: rss: driver tweaks and netlink context dumps commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• TCP: completely support active reset commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add TCP_BPF_SOCK_OPS_CB_FLAGS to bpf_*sockopt() commit, commit

• RDMA/nldev: Add support for RDMA monitoring commit

• gadget: 9pfs transport commit, commit, commit, commit

• ioctl support for AF_VSOCK and virtio-based transports commit, commit, commit

6. Architectures

• ARM

  • ep93xx device tree conversion 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

  • probes: Remove broken LDR (literal) uprobe support commit

  • KVM: Expose S1PIE to guests commit

  • Add support for Cool Pi GenBook commit

  • Add minimal boot support for Raspberry Pi 5 commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add support for Firefly Core-PX30-JD4 SoM & baseboard commit, commit, commit

  • Introduce msm8916/39 based Lenovo devices commit, commit, commit

  • Add basic support for LG H815 commit, commit

  • pmdomain: amlogic: remove obsolete vpu domain driver commit

• S390

  • topology: Add config option to switch to vertical during boot commit

  • smp: Add cpu capacities commit

  • hiperdispatch: Introduce hiperdispatch commit

  • pai_crypto: Add support for MSA 10 and 11 pai counters commit

  • hiperdispatch: Add hiperdispatch sysctl interface commit

  • topology: Add sysctl handler for polarization commit

  • cpacf: Add MSA 10 and 11 new PCKMO functions commit

  • pkey: Add AES xts and HMAC clear key token support commit

  • pkey: Introduce pkey base with handler registry and handler modules commit

  • wti: Introduce infrastructure for warning track interrupt commit

  • wti: Add debugfs file to display missed grace periods per cpu commit

  • crypto: Add KDSA CPACF Instruction commit

  • crypto: Add Support for Query Authentication Information commit

  • crypto: Display Query and Query Authentication Information in sysfs commit

  • crypto: Add hardware acceleration for HMAC modes commit

  • crypto: Add hardware acceleration for full AES-XTS mode commit

  • sha3: Support sha3 performance enhancements commit

• X86

  • iommu/amd: Add blocked domain support commit

  • perf

    • uncore: Add Arrow Lake support commit

    • uncore: Add Lunar Lake support commit

  • power-domains: Diamond Rapids support commit, commit

  • platform

    • asus-wmi: add support for vivobook fan profiles commit

  • tools/x86/kcpuid: Complete the CPUID database commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • tools: Add xdrgen commit

  • amd_nb: Add new PCI ID for AMD family 1Ah model 20h commit

  • amd_nb: Add new PCI IDs for AMD family 1Ah model 60h commit

  • bugs: Separate config for mitigations commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • elf: Add a new FPU buffer layout info to x86 core files commit

  • pkeys: update PKRU to enable all pkeys before XSAVE commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • KVM: Advertise AVX10.1 CPUID to userspace commit

  • rust: support CPU_MITIGATIONS and enable objtool commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Enable UBSAN traps on x86 commit

• LOONGARCH

  • Enable generic CPU vulnerabilites support commit

  • Add ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP support commit

  • Enable ACPI BGRT handling commit

  • Add ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY support commit

  • vDSO: Tune chacha implementation commit

• RISCV

  • Add barrier implementations for riscv commit, commit, commit

  • Enable generic CPU vulnerabilites support commit

  • stacktrace: Add USER_STACKTRACE support commit, commit

  • Randomize lower bits of stack address commit

• UM

  • vector_user: add VDE support commit

7. Drivers

7.1. Graphics

• mediatek:

  • Support IGT in display driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• amdgpu:

  • DC Patches July 25, 2024 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

  • DC Patches July 10th, 2024 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, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add MFD support for ISP I2C bus commit

  • Remove debugfs amdgpu_reset_dump_register_list commit

  • amdkfd: allow users to target recommended SDMA engines commit

  • amdkfd: support per-queue reset on gfx9 commit

• bridge: synopsys: dw-mipi-dsi: enable EoTp by default commit

• mgag200

  • Handle BMC in dedicated VGA output commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• panel

  • panel-edp: Add 6 panels used by MT8186 Chromebooks commit

  • panel-edp: Add BOE NV140WUM-N41 commit

  • panel-edp: Add CSW MNB601LS1-4 commit

  • panel-edp: Add entry for BOE NV133WUM-N63 panel commit

  • panel-ilitek-ili9806e: Add Densitron DMT028VGHMCMI-1D TFT to ILI9806E DSI TCON driver commit, commit

  • boe-th101mb31ig002: Support for starry-er88577 MIPI-DSI panel commit

  • Support Starry er88577 MIPI-DSI panel commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Panel HIMAX support for Microchip's AC40T08A MIPI display commit, commit, commit

  • Support for Melfas lmfbx101117480 MIPI-DSI panel commit, commit, commit

• v3d

  • Expose memory stats through fdinfo commit

• vblank: add dynamic per-crtc vblank configuration support commit

• xe

  • gsc: add Battlemage support commit

  • Convert multiple bind ops to 1 job commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add stats for tlb invalidation count commit

  • Rename enable_display module param commit

• fbcon: Add an option to disable fbcon in panic commit

• da8xx: remove the driver commit

7.2. Power Management

• PRM handler direct call interface commit, commit

7.3. Storage

• ufs: Add host capabilities sysfs group commit, commit

• Allow platform drivers to update UIC command timeout commit

• ibmvfc: Add max_sectors module parameter commit

• scsi: smartpqi: Add new controller PCI IDs commit

7.4. Drivers in the Staging area

• ks7010: Remove unused driver commit

• media: starfive: Add the dynamic resolution support commit

• media: meson: vdec: add GXLX SoC platform commit, commit

7.5. Networking

• RDMA

  • bnxt_re: Enable PCIe relaxed ordering support for MRs commit, commit, commit, commit

  • bnxt_re: Use variable size Work Queue entry for Gen P7 adapters commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • efa: Add support for node guid commit

  • erdma: erdma updates commit, commit, commit

  • Introduce mlx5 Memory Scheme ODP commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Introducing Multi-Path DMA Support for mlx5 RDMA Driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • mlx5: Expose vhca id for all ports in multiport mode commit

  • erdma: Add disassociate ucontext support commit

  • bnxt_en: Add support to call FW to update a VNIC commit

• can

  • esd_402_pci: Do cleanup; Add one-shot mode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • fsl,flexcan: add imx95 wakeup commit, commit, commit

• fbnic: add basic stats commit, commit

• iavf: add support for TC U32 filters on VFs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ibmveth RR performance commit, commit

• ibmvnic rr patchset commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mlx4: Add support for EEPROM high pages query for QSFP/QSFP+/QSFP28 commit

• mlx5 PTM cross timestamping support commit, commit, commit

• Introduce mlx5 Memory Scheme ODP commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• vdpa/mlx5: Parallelize device suspend/resume commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

'net/mlx5e: TC, Offload rewrite and mirror on tunnel over ovs internal port'

• mlx5 misc patches 2024-08-08 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

'net/mlx5e: TC, Offload rewrite and mirror to both internal and external dests'

• Add support for EN7581 to mt7530 driver commit, commit

• stmmac: Add Loongson platform support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• stmmac: Add multi-channel support commit

• usb: qmi_wwan: add Fibocom FG132 0x0112 composition commit

• usb: qmi_wwan: add Quectel RG650V commit

• usb: add support for new USB device ID 0x17EF:0x3098 for the r8152 driver commit

• vdpa/mlx5: support set mac address from vdpa tool commit, commit

• vdpa/mlx5: Add the support of set mac address commit

• vdpa/mlx5: Optimze MKEY operations commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• vdpa/mlx5: Parallelize device suspend/resume commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ath12k: Support Transmit DE stats commit

• mwifiex: add code to support host mlme commit, commit

• mwifiex: add support for WPA-PSK-SHA256 commit, commit, commit

• rtl8xxxu: add missing rtl8192cu USB IDs commit

• rtw88: Enable USB RX aggregation for 8822c/8822b/8821c commit, commit, commit, commit

• rtw88: debugfs: support multiple adapters debugging commit

• rtw88: usb: Support USB 3 with RTL8822CU/RTL8822BU commit

• rtw89: 8852bt: enable 8852BE-VT commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• rtw89: increase 8922a firmware format to 1 and support HW encryption for unicast management commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• rtw89: add features of 1SS EVM statistics and rfkill, and fix of IDMEM mode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• rtw89: wow: support net-detect commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

7.6. Audio

• hda: Enhance pm_blacklist option commit

• hda: Sound support for HP Spectre x360 16 inch model 2024 commit

• pcm: Add xrun counter for snd_pcm_substream commit

• Fixes for optional MIDI 1.0 port in MIDI 2.0 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ump: Handle MIDI 1.0 Function Block in MIDI 2.0 protocol commit

• usb-audio: Add input gain and master output mixer elements for RME Babyface Pro commit

• usb-audio: Support multiple control interfaces commit

• ASoC

  • Intel: bytcr_rt5640: Add support for non ACPI instantiated codec commit

  • ASoC/SOF/PCI/Intel: add PantherLake support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Intel: sst: Support LPE0F28 ACPI HID commit

  • AMD SOF based generic SoundWire machine driver 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

  • ASoC: amd: acp: add legacy driver support for ACP7.1 based platforms commit

  • Full duplex audio + RZ/G2UL DU support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

7.7. Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses

• xpad: add support for MSI Claw A1M commit

• xpad: add support for 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wireless Controller commit

• Add touch-keys support to the Zinitix touch driver commit, commit, commit

• synaptics-rmi4: add support for querying DPM value (F12) commit

• msc_touchkey: remove the driver commit

• msc5000_ts: remove the driver commit

• keypad-nomadik-ske: remove the driver commit

• cyttsp4: remove driver commit

• i8042: add TUXEDO Stellaris 15 Slim Gen6 AMD to i8042 quirk table commit

• HID

  • lenovo: Add support for Thinkpad X1 Tablet Gen 3 keyboard commit

  • wacom: Support touchrings with relative motion commit

  • wacom: Support devices with two touchrings commit

  • wacom: Add preliminary support for high-resolution wheel scrolling commit

7.8. TV tuners, webcams, video capturers

• RK3588 VEPU121/VPU121 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• i2c: og01a1b: Add OF support to OmniVision OG01A1B commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• cec: add new CEC_MSG_FL_REPLY_VENDOR_ID flag commit, commit

• mgb4: YUV and variable framerate support commit, commit, commit, commit

• rkisp1: Extensible parameters and companding commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

7.9. Universal Serial Bus

• serial: option: add Telit FN920C04 MBIM compositions commit

• serial: option: add support for Quectel EG916Q-GL commit

• gadget: f_hid: Add GET_REPORT via userspace IOCTL commit

• Add device links between tunneled USB3 devices and USB4 Host commit, commit, commit, commit

• misc: onboard_usb_dev: add Microchip usb5744 SMBus support commit, commit

• serial: pl2303: add device id for Macrosilicon MS3020 commit

7.10. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)

• Marvell HW overlay support for Cadence xSPI commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add support for AD4000 series of ADCs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

7.11. Watchdog

• Add Watchdog Timer driver for Renesas RZ/V2H(P) SoC commit, commit

7.12. CPU Frequency scaling

• Remove LATENCY_MULTIPLIER commit

7.13. Real Time Clock (RTC)

• stm32: add pinctrl interface to handle RTC outs commit, commit, commit, commit

7.14. Pin Controllers (pinctrl)

• intel: High impedance impl. and cleanups commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add support for Mobileye EyeQ5 system controller commit

• Add pinctrl support for rk3576 commit, commit

• sophgo: Add pinctrl support for CV1800 series SoC commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

7.15. Industrial I/O (iio)

• accel: add ADXL380 driver commit

• KX022-1020 accel support + inertial sensors on msm8226-microsoft commit, commit, commit

• Add support for AD4000 series of ADCs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• adc: ad4695: new driver for AD4695 and similar ADCs commit, commit, commit

• adc: ad4695: implement calibration support commit, commit, commit, commit

• ad7380: add support for single-ended parts commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• adc: ad9467: support new devices commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• adc: add support for pac1921 commit, commit, commit

• Add Battery and USB Supply for AXP717 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add SARADC support on Sophgo CV18XX series commit, commit

• adc: dfsdm: add scaling support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• adc: ad9467: add debugFS test mode support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• dac: add backend debugfs direct_reg_access commit, commit

• Add driver for LTC2664 and LTC2672 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Replaced IIO_INTENSITY channel with IIO_LIGHT commit, commit, commit

• frequency: adf4377: add adf4378 support commit

• humidity: Add support for ENS210 sensor family commit, commit

• light: ROHM BH1745 colour sensor commit

• light: ltrf216a: Add LTR-308 support commit

• light: stk3310: stk3013 support commit, commit, commit

• Add support for AK09918 commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add support for Sensirion SDP500 commit, commit

• proximity: Add TYHX HX9023S sensor driver commit, commit, commit

• Add support for aw96103/aw96105 proximity sensor commit, commit

7.16. Multi Function Devices (MFD)

• rk8xx: Add support for rk806 on i2c bus commit

• intel-lpss: New LPSS PCI IDs commit, commit

• ADP5585 GPIO expander, PWM and keypad controller support commit, commit, commit

7.17. Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)

• adp5585: Add Analog Devices ADP5585 support commit

7.18. Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C + I3C)

• riic: Add support for Renesas RZ/G3S commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add tsd,mule-i2c-mux support commit, commit

• I2C controller support for KEBA PLCs commit

7.19. Hardware monitoring (hwmon)

• max1619: Modernize driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• lm9534: Various improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• max6697: Cleanup, use regmap and with_info API commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• adt7475: duty cycle configuration commit, commit, commit

7.20. General Purpose I/O (gpio)

• ADP5585 GPIO expander, PWM and keypad controller support commit, commit, commit

7.21. Leds

• trigger: netdev: Add support for tx_err and rx_err notification with LEDs commit

• leds-pca995x: Add support for NXP PCA9956B commit, commit

• Add multicolor support to BlinkM LED driver commit

7.22. DMA engines

• AMD QDMA driver commit

• Add support for Loongson1 APB DMA commit, commit

• Add a few new DSA/IAA device IDs commit, commit

• Add dma router for pl08x in LPC32XX SoC commit

• Add support for ADMA commit, commit

• xilinx: dpdma: Add support for cyclic dma mode commit

7.23. Cryptography hardware acceleration

• Add SPAcc Crypto Driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• qat: Disable VFs through a sysfs interface commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

7.24. PCI

• Add support for Xilinx XDMA Soft IP as Root Port commit, commit

• PCI/NPEM: Add Native PCIe Enclosure Management support commit, commit, commit

• xilinx-nwl: Add phy support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add Airoha EN7581 PCIe support commit, commit, commit, commit

• imx6: Fix\rename\clean up and add lut information for imx95 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• xilinx-nwl: Add PHY support commit

• pwrctl: Add WCN6855 support commit

7.25. Thunderbolt

• Improve software receiver lane margining commit, commit, commit, commit

7.26. Clock

• rockchip: Add clock controller for the RK3576 commit

• imx: clk-audiomix: Improvement for audiomix commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add CPG support for RZ/V2H(P) !SoC commit, commit, commit

• qcom: Add support for DISPCC, CAMCC and GPUCC on SM4450 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• renesas: r8a779h0: Add CANFD clock commit

• Add USB clocks to Exynos7885 commit, commit

• Add CPU frequency scaling support for MSM8226 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• initial clock support for exynosauto v920 !SoC commit, commit, commit, commit

7.27. PHY ("physical layer" framework)

• phy: cadence-torrent: add support for three or more links using 2 protocols commit

• phy: phy-rockchip-samsung-hdptx: Add clock provider support commit

• Add support for nuvoton ma35 usb2 phy commit, commit

• Add clock provider support to Rockchip RK3588 HDMI TX PHY commit, commit, commit, commit

• qcom: qmp-pcie: Add support for Gen4 4-lane mode for X1E80100 commit, commit

• Add initial USB support for the Renesas RZ/G3S !SoC commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

7.28. Various

• extcon: Add LC824206XA microUSB switch driver commit

• Add Firmware Upload support for beagleplay cc1352 commit, commit, commit

• hwrng: rockchip - add hwrng driver for Rockchip RK3568 !SoC commit

• i3c: master: support to adjust first broadcast address speed commit

• adc: dfsdm: add scaling support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• adc: ad9467: add debugFS test mode support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• msm8937/msm8976/qcs404 icc patches commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• nvmem: add U-Boot env layout commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• imx_rproc: support non-blocking tx for i.MX7ULP commit, commit

• TI K3 M4F support on AM62 and AM64 SoCs commit, commit, commit

• Add MPSS remoteproc support for SDX75 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• remoteproc: qcom: pas: Add support for SA8775p ADSP, CDSP and GPDSP commit

• remoteproc: xlnx: Add sram support commit

• scx_qmap: Implement highpri boosting commit

• rockchip - add hwrng driver for Rockchip RK3568 SoC commit

• iio: ABI: audit calibscal and calibbias attributes commit, commit, commit, commit

• spi: Add support for AD4000 series of ADCs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

8. List of Pull Requests

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