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• Linux_6.15

Last updated at 2025-05-24 22:45:22

Linux 6.15 changelog.

1. Prominent features

2. Core (various)

3. File systems

• BCACHEFS

  • Use flexible arrays in dirent (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Scrub commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Device option handling improvements (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Sysfs internal/trigger_btree_updates commit

  • Bch_ioctl_query_counters commit

  • Better handling of checksum errors/bitrot (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Bs > ps support commit

  • Bch_counter_bucket_discard_fast commit

  • bcachefs: bcachefs_metadata_version_extent_flags commit

  • Move write_points to debugfs commit

• BTRFS

  • zstd: enable negative compression levels mount option (cover), commit

  • defrag: extend ioctl to accept compression levels commit

  • Always fallback to buffered write if the inode requires checksum commit

  • Prepare extent_io.c for future large folio support commit

  • Expose per-inode stable writes flag commit

  • Support 2k block size for debug builds (cover), commit, commit

• F2FS

  • Add ioctl to get io priority hint commit

  • First steps towards mount api conversion (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Folio conversions (cover), 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

  • Reclaim file-backed pages given posix_fadv_noreuse (cover), commit, commit

  • Add carve_out sysfs node commit

  • Control nat_bits feature via mount option commit

  • Introduce f2fs_base_attr for global sysfs entries commit

• EXT4

  • Introduce linear search for dentries commit

  • Correct behaviors under errors=remount-ro mode (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Fix issues caused by data write-back failures (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Make sb update interval tunable commit

• XFS

  • Large atomic writes for xfs with cow (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • Add xfs support for rwf_dontcache (cover), commit, commit

  • Add tunable threshold parameter for triggering zone gc commit

  • Support for zoned devices (cover), 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

• NFS

  • NFS & SUNRPC: Sysfs Improvements (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Containerised nfs clients and teardown (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Client-side offload_status implementation (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add a kconfig setting to enable delegated timestamps commit

  • filecache: various fixes (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• SMB

  • client: Improve IO parameter resilience after reconnection (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • Improve access without file_read_attributes permission (cover), commit

  • Fix gettting and setting parts of security descriptor (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • Fix connections over netbios session (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Fixes for smb1 non-unicode 8-bit mode (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Make smb_server_kerberos5 enable by default commit

  • Implement is_network_name_deleted for smb1 commit

• AFS

  • rxrpc: Clean up refcounting on afs_cell and afs_server records (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• EROFS
  • Extend core on-disk structures to support 48-bit block addressing, such as inodes, device slots, and inode chunks

commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• DEVPTS

  • Convert devpts to use the new mount API commit

• SYSV

  • Remove the filesystem commit

• FUSE

  • Add kernel-enforced request timeout option (cover), commit, commit

• LOCKD

  • Add netlink control interface commit

• PSTORE

  • Convert to the new mount API commit

• EXFAT

  • Support batch discard of clusters when freeing clusters commit

• EXT2

  • Convert to the new mount api (cover), commit, commit

4. Memory management

• Reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Mseal system mappings (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• kernel/cgroups: Add "dmem" memory accounting cgroup. (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Mm owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + config_no_page_mapcount (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• swap: remove swap slot cache (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• madvise: split out mmap locking operations for madvise() (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mincore: improve performance by adding an unlikely hint commit

• Refactor mremap and fix bug (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• page_alloc

  • Add defrag_mode sysctl. When set, the page allocator tries harder to avoid fragmentation and maintain the ability to produce huge pages / higher-order pages (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • freelist hygiene follow-up (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • Speed up fallbacks in rmqueue_bulk() (cover), commit

• Batched unmap lazyfree large folios during reclamation (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• Refine kmalloc caches randomization in kvmalloc (cover), commit, commit

• Mark large folios for debugging purposes commit

• Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics (cover), commit, commit

• Hugetlb/cma improvements for large systems (cover), 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

• cma: using per-CMA locks to improve concurrent allocation performance commit

• page_ext: Introduce new iteration API (cover), commit, commit, commit

• damos

  • Auto-tune aggregation interval (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Make allow filters after reject filters useful and intuitive (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages (cover), commit, commit

  • Introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages (cover), commit, commit

  • Add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add a command line option that enables control of how many threads should be used to allocate huge pages (cover), commit, commit, commit

• kmemleak: add support for dumping physical and percpu object info (cover), commit, commit

• Some cleanup for memcg (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• Further simplify vma merge operation (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• zswap: remove z3fold and zbud (cover), commit, commit

• Switch zswap to object read/write apis (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Track memory used by balloon drivers (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• bpf: Introduce try_alloc_pages() (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

5. Block layer

• block and fscrypt support for hardware-wrapped inline encryption keys (cover), commit, commit, commit

• Enable block size > physical size for block devices (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• dm cache: support shrinking the origin device (cover), commit, commit

• dm vdo: reduce reference count load time (cuts vdo startup) (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• dm-delay: support zoned devices commit

• dm-verity: support block number limits for different ioprio classes commit

• dm: Enable inline crypto passthrough for striped target commit

• Iomap patches for zoned xfs (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• loop: LOOP_SET_FD: send uevents for partitions commit

• Improve write failure simulation (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Cleanup & improvement & zc follow-up (improves IOPS by > 10%) (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

6. Tracing, perf and BPF

• BPF

  • Introduce load-acquire and store-release bpf instructions (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • net-timestamp: bpf extension to equip applications transparently (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Support setting max rto for bpf_setsockopt (cover), commit, commit

  • Add get_netns_cookie helper to cgroup_skb programs commit, commit

  • Support skf_net_off and skf_ll_off on skb frags (cover), commit, commit

  • Introduce bpf_dynptr_copy kfunc (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • Timed may_goto (cover), commit, commit

  • Add bpf_copy_from_user_task_str kfunc commit, commit, commit

  • Support freplace prog from user namespace (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Introduce helper for populating bpf_cpumask (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Simple dfa-based live registers analysis (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Bpf qdisc (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Enable writing xattr from bpf programs (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• perf

  • perf annotate: Add --code-with-type option (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • perf ftrace latency: variable histogram buckets commit, commit

  • Support multiple system call tables in the build (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • perf pmu: Dynamically allocate tool PMU (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • Python improvements for a real use of parse_events (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • perf report: Support switching data w/ and w/o callchains commit, commit

  • perf report: Add latency and parallelism profiling (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • perf symbol: Support .gnu_debugdata for symbols commit

  • perf trace: Add --summary-mode option (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • perf test: Small improvements (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

7. Virtualization

• Introduce /dev/mshv root partition driver (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• vfio/virtio: Enable support for virtio-block live migration commit

• Vfio-pci support pasid attach/detach (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add support for xenserver 6.1 platform device commit, (cover)

• Introduce CONFIG_MSHV_ROOT for root partition code commit, commit, commit

• hv: add CPU offlining support commit

8. Cryptography

• Acomp: add virtual address and folio support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Multibuffer hashing (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• rxrpc: Add Kerberos crypto lib and AF_RXRPC GSSAPI security class (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Crct10dif: remove from crypto api commit

• Crc64 library rework and x86 crc optimization (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

9. Security

• Landlock audit support (cover), 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

• Landlock signal scope fix and errata interface (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• lsm: add LSM hooks for io_uring_setup() commit

• tpm_crb: add support for the Arm FF-A start method commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• selinux: Add the file/watch_mountns permission that can be applied to nsfs files (/proc/$$/ns/mnt), making it possible to allow or deny watching

a particular namespace for changes. commit

• selinux: support wildcard network interface names commit

• selinux: add permission checks for loading other kinds of kernel files commit

10. Networking

• Bluetooth: add TX timestamping for ISO/L2CAP/SCO (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Bluetooth: MGMT: Add LL Privacy Setting commit

• Bluetooth: hci_core: Enable buffer flow control for SCO/eSCO commit

• batman-adv: Add support for jumbo frames (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• pull-request: can-next 2025-03-14 commit, (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• dsa: allow use of phylink managed EEE support commit, commit, commit

• Support one ptp device per hardware clock (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• fib: rules

  • Add port mask support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Convert RTM_NEWRULE and RTM_DELRULE to per-netns RTNL (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add DSCP mask support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Accecn protocol preparation patch series (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mptcp: pm: misc cleanups, part 2 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mptcp: Use genl_req_attr_check in userspace pm (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• 9p/fd: support ipv6 for trans=tcp commit

• netlink: Support dumping IPv4 multicast addresses commit, commit

• Introduce per netns packet chains commit

• net-sysfs: remove the rtnl_trylock/restart_syscall construction, aimed at improving spins (and thus delays) while accessing net sysfs under rtnl lock contention (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• nexthop: Convert rtm_{new,del}nexthop to per-netns rtnl. (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• TCP: Allow to reduce max rto (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• TCP: Support tcp_rto_min_us and tcp_delack_max_us for set/getsockopt (cover), commit, commit

• TCP: Scale connect() under pressure (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• TCP: Add some rto min and delack max {bpf_}set/getsockopt supports (cover), commit, commit, commit

• mac80211/cfg80211

  • updates - 2025-03-06 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • updates - 2025-02-04 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Drop cooked monitor support commit, commit

  • nl80211: re-enable multi-link reconfiguration commit

• xsk: Tx metadata launch time support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

11. Architectures

• ARM
  • Device Tree Sources

    • New SoCs

      • The Arm Morello reference platform gets a devicetree for booting in normal aarch64 mode. The hardware supports experimental CHERI support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

      • The AMD (formerly Xilinx) Versal NET SoC gets added, this is a combined FPGA with Cortex-A78 CPUs in a SoC (cover), commit, commit

      • Six new ST STM32MP2 SoC variants are added. Like the earlier STM32MP25, the MP211, MP213, MP215, MP231, MP233 and MP235 models are based on one or two Cortex-A35 cores but each feature a different set of I/O devices (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

      • Mediatek MT8370 is a minor variation of MT8390 with fewer CPU and GPU cores. Also add genio 510 evk board (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

      • Apple T2 is the baseboard management controller on earlier Intel CPU based Macs, with 16 models now gaining initial support (cover), commit, commit

    • New devices

      • NetCube Systems Kumquat board based on the 32-bit Allwinner V3s SoC commit, commit, commit, commit

      • Add support for priva e-measuringbox board (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

      • stm32: lxa-fairytux2: add gen{1,2} boards (cover), commit, commit

      • apalis/colibri-imx6: Add support for v1.2 (cover), commit, commit

      • Add variscite i.mx6ul som and concerto board support (cover), commit, commit, commit

      • Google Pixel Pro 6 phone based on gs101 (Tensor) (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

      • Three additional variants of the i.MX8MP based "Skov" board (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

      • A second variant of the i.MX95 EVK board (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

      • renesas: Add support yuridenki-shokai kakip board (cover), commit, commit, commit

      • renesas: Add initial support for MYIR Remi Pi commit

      • Four boards based the Rockchip RK35xx series (one (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, two (cover), commit, commit, commit, three (cover), commit, commit, four (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit) plus the RK3588 'MNT Reform 2' laptop commit

      • allwinner: Add basic Allwinner A523 support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

      • Add support for plymovent aqm board (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

      • mxs: Add descriptions for imx287 based btt3-[012] devices commit

      • ti: am64-phyboard-electra: Add DT overlay for X27 connector commit

    • Update phytec's i.mx8mm dtss (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • Enable power modes support for sama7d65 soc (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • soc: Add sdca disco parsing support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • Add exynos acpm protocol driver (cover), commit, commit, commit

    • Add support for rz/g3e icu (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • Add pcie support for bcm2712 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • Add gpio interrupt support for amlogic a4 and a5 socs (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

    • Add sophgo sg2042 msi controller (cover), commit, commit, commit

    • Huawei Matebook E Go embedded controller (cover), commit, commit, commit

    • Add amlogic pinctrl driver (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Support smt control on arm64 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • cpufreq: Add support for aarch64 amuv1-based average freq (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add coresight tmc control unit driver (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • rust: Enable Rust support for ARMv7 commit

  • perf script: Refactor branch flags for Arm SPE (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Errata management for VM Live migration (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Specify hypercall ABI for retrieving target implementations commit

  • Add support for hip09 spectre-bhb mitigation commit

  • Add support to configure tpdm mcmb subunit (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • Coresight for kernel panic and watchdog reset (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Use memory copy instructions in usercopy routines (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • arm_ffa: Framework notification support + other updates and fixes (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • firmware: smccc: Support optional Arm SMCCC SOC_ID name commit

  • KVM: FEAT_PMUv3 on Apple hardware (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • KVM: Writable MIDR/REVIDR (and associated baggage) (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • KVM: NV userspace ABI (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • KVM: Add NV GICv3 support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • KVM: Allow userspace to write ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.TGRAN*_2 commit

  • perf script: Refactor branch flags for Arm SPE (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • perf vendor events arm64: Add N3 events/metrics (cover), commit, commit

• RISCV

  • dts: spacemit: Add initial support for Milk-V Jupiter (cover), commit, commit

  • Add bfloat16 instruction support (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • Add support for zaamo and zalrsc extensions (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Enable zicbom in usermode (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • perf vendor events riscv: Update SiFive CPU PMU events (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Relocatable nommu kernels (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Risc-v crc optimizations (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Support huge pfnmaps commit

  • Implement smp_cond_load8/16() with Zawrs commit

  • Support sstc while pm operations (cover), commit, commit

  • Add runtime constant support (cover), commit, commit

• S390

  • Add z17 elf platform commit, commit

  • Add support for HOTPLUG_SMT commit

  • vfio-ap: Notify userspace that guest's AP config changed when mdev removed commit

  • vfio-ap: Signal eventfd when guest AP configuration is changed commit

  • sysctl: Remove "vm/allocate_pgste" sysctl commit

  • Remove LCS driver commit

  • Add configurable STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS commit

  • alternatives: Add debug functionality commit

  • Static branches for machine features infrastructure commit

  • uaccess: Optimize raw_copy_from_user() / raw_copy_to_user() for constant sizes commit

  • mseal sysmap: enable s390 (cover), commit, commit

  • Add support for IOMMU passthrough (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• POWERPC

  • Remove Cell support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Microwatt updates (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • objtool/powerpc: Add support for decoding all types of uncond branches commit

  • pseries: Export hardware trace macro dump via debugfs commit

• X86

  • ibt: FineIBT-BHI (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Stack protector and percpu improvements (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Make memremap(MEMREMAP_WB) map memory as encrypted by default (cover), commit, commit

  • module: rework ROX cache to avoid writable copy (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add facility to force-enable CPU caps and bugs commit, commit, commit

  • Improve performance by aligning writes to 8 bytes in copy_user_generic(), on non-FSRM/ERMS CPUs commit

  • locking/atomic: Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking instructions commit

  • 32-bit cleanups (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Enable i386 fortify_source on clang 16+ (cover), commit, commit

  • Amd broadcast tlb invalidation (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Support protected TSC (cover), commit, commit

  • boot: Rework PE header generation (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • fpu: Improve crypto performance by making kernel-mode FPU reliably usable in softirqs commit

  • crc optimizations (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • build: Automatically generate required and disabled feature masks (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • early_printk: Add support for MMIO-based UARTs commit

  • its: Add support for ITS-safe indirect thunk commit

  • bugs: Adjust SRSO mitigation to new features (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • bugs: Attack vector controls (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • Amd nb and smn rework (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • Kconfig cleanups and help text improvements (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • resctrl: Move the resctrl filesystem code to /fs/resctrl (cover), 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

  • platform

    • lenovo-wmi-hotkey-utilities.c: Support for mic and audio mute LEDs commit

    • ideapad-laptop: add support for some new buttons commit

    • alienware-wmi driver rework (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • alienware-wmi-wmax: Add support for Alienware" failed to apply to 6.14-stable tree commit, (cover)

    • alienware-wmi-wmax: Extend support to more laptops (cover), commit, commit

    • hid: Add Pantherlake support commit

    • Add pather lake support to intel_pmc_core (cover), commit, commit, commit

    • chrome: cros_ec_typec: Add support for setting USB mode via sysfs commit

    • Add arrow lake u/h support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • chrome: cros_ec_sysfs: Expose PD mux status commit

    • chrome: cros_ec_sysfs: Expose AP_MODE_ENTRY feature state commit

    • thinkpad_acpi: Support also NEC Lavie X1475JAS commit

  • iommu/amd: Enable support for up to 2K interrupts per function (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • intel_idle: Introduce 'no_native' module parameter commit

  • Intel vendor events and tma 5.02 metrics (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • amd_node: Add support for debugfs access to SMN registers commit

  • KVM: Add support for the idle hlt intercept feature (cover), commit, commit

  • KVM: x86/mmu: Age sptes locklessly (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • KVM: mmu: Walk rmaps (shadow MMU) without holding mmu_lock when aging gfns commit

  • KVM: Fix emulation of (some) L2 instructions (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • KVM: Support protected TSC (cover), commit, [[https://git.kernel.org/linus/adafea1106004dba26ea12d3193f4

  • aes-ctr - rewrite aesni+avx optimized ctr and add vaes support commit

  • perf/amd/ibs: Add Zen5 support (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • perf/intel/ds: Add PEBS format 6 commit, commit, commit, commit

  • perf/intel: Add Panther Lake support commit

• MIPS

  • Support i6500 multi-cluster configuration (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• LOONGARCH

  • Enable UBSAN (Undefined Behavior Sanitizer) commit

• OPENRISC

  • Add cacheinfo support and introduce new utility functions (cover), commit, commit, commit

• SPARC

  • Fix lazy mmu mode (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

12. Drivers

12.1. Graphics

• nova-core:

  • Initial nova core series (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Introduce gpu svm and xe svm implementation (cover), 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

• Introduce drm device wedged event, which notifies userspace of 'wedged' (hanged/unusable) state of the DRM device through a uevent. This is useful +especially in cases where the device is no longer operating as expected and has become unrecoverable from driver context. Purpose of this implementation is to provide drivers a generic way to recover the device with the help of userspace intervention, without taking any drastic measures (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• atomic: Ease async flip restrictions (cover), commit, commit

• Driver for pre-dcp apple display controller. (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• amdgpu

  • Patch set to support dcn36 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add custom brightness curve support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Create a debug option to disable ring reset commit

  • add dynamic workload profile switching for gfx10-12 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Generate cper records for ras and commit to cper ring (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Initial jpeg queue reset support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ast

  • cursor: Improve format handling (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• backlight:

  • Apple dwi backlight driver (cover), commit, commit

  • pcf50633-backlight: Remove unused driver commit

• edp-panel: Add LG Display panel model LP079QX1-SP0V commit

• edp-panel: Add panel used by T14s Gen6 Snapdragon commit

• tiny:

  • Touch bar drm driver for x86 macs (cover), commit, commit

• intel:

  • Enable aux based nits brightness control for edp (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • DSB+VRR (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • SIN TEMA CERO, temas: <drm/i915/fbc: avoid calling fbc activate if fbc is active> <drm/i915/fbc: dirty rect support for FBC> <drm/damage-helper: add const qualifier in drm_atomic_helper_damage_merged()> <drm/i915/display: update and store the plane damage clips> <drm/i915/fbc: remove one duplicate forward declaration> <drm/i915/fbc: disable FBC if PSR2 selective fetch is enabled> <drm/i915/fbc: introduce HAS_FBC_DIRTY_RECT() for FBC dirty rect support> <drm/i915/fbc: add register definitions for fbc dirty rect support> <drm/i915/fbc: handle dirty rect coords for the first frame> commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Move runtime power status info to power debugfs commit

  • Panel replay mode change without full modeset (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • slpc: Add sysfs for SLPC power profiles commit

  • Async flip + compression, and some plane cleanups (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mediatek

  • Add support for mt8195/88 dpi, hdmiv2 and ddcv2 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add display support for the mt8365-evk board (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• mgag200

  • Added support for the new device G200eH5 commit

• adreno:

  • Support for adreno 623 gpu (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• msm:

  • Expose DRIVER_SYNCOBJ_TIMELINE commit

  • Rework LTTPR transparent mode handling and add support to msm driver (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add writeback support for SM6150 commit

• panel-edp

  • Add B140UAN04.4 and MNE007QS3-7 commit

  • Add BOE NV140FHM-NZ panel entry commit

  • Add CSW MNB601LS1-3 commit

  • Add STA 116QHD024002 commit

  • Add Starry 116KHD024006 commit

• panel-orientation-quirks: Handheld gaming pc panel orientation quirks (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• freescale: Add support for the GOcontroll Moduline Display (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• panthor

  • Display size of internal kernel BOs through fdinfo (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• panel

  • Add Visionox RM692E5 panel driver commit

  • Rockchip w552793dba-v10 panel support (cover), commit, commit

  • Support kingdisplay-kd110n11-51ie and starry-2082109qfh040022-50e mipi-dsi panels (cover), commit, commit

• dw_hdmi_qp: Add basic RK3576 HDMI output support commit

• rockchip:

  • Vop support for rk3576 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• virtio

  • Add drm_panic support commit

  • Support partial maps of GEM objects commit

• vkms

  • Add support for ABGR8888 pixel format commit

• xe

  • Enable survivability mode (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • bmg: Add new PCI IDs commit

  • bmg: Add one additional PCI ID commit

  • debugfs: Add node to dump guc log to dmesg commit

  • Enable DP tunneling commit, (cover)

  • Add stats for vma page faults commit

  • Enable SR-IOV for PTL commit

  • Introduce GuC PC debugfs commit, commit, commit

  • Add support for eu stall sampling (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • PMU interface for Xe (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add Protected Xe Path hwdrm support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Pmu support for engine activity (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add performance tunings to debugfs commit

12.2. Power Management

• ACPI: fan: Add fan speed reporting for fans with only _FST commit

• acpi/hmat / cxl: Add exclusive caching enumeration and RAS support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• cpupower: Implement CPU physical core querying commit

• Turbostat 2025.05.06 for linux-6.15 merge (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add tsens support for ipq5332, ipq5424 (cover), commit, commit

• thermal/drivers/brcmstb_thermal: Add support for BCM74110 commit

• reboot: Support runtime configuration of emergency hw_protection action (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

12.3. Storage

• scsi: ufs: core: Add device level exception support commit

• scsi: ufs: qcom: Enable UFS Shared ICE Feature commit

• scsi: Support multi-frequency scale for ufs (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• scsi: ufs: renesas: Add support for R-Car S4-8 ES1.2 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• scsi: mpi3mr: Task Abort EH Support commit

• scsi: Cdl feature control improvements (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• scsi: mpt3sas: Add support for MCTP Passthrough commands commit

• scsi: Initial support for rk3576 ufs controller (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• scsi: cxlflash: Remove driver commit

• scsi_debug: Add more tape support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• scsi: st: scsi_error: More reset patches (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• scsi: mpi3mr: Support for Segmented Hardware Trace buffer commit

• scsi: Add 'external' to the libata.force kernel parameter (cover), commit

• ahci: add PCI ID for Marvell 88SE9215 SATA Controller commit

• nvme: Implement secure concatenation (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add visibility for native nvme multipath using sysfs (cover), commit, commit, commit

13. Networking

• geneve: Allow users to specify source port range commit, commit

• Backport mctp over usb binding (cover), commit, commit

• Symmetric or-xor rss hash (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• netconsole: Add support for cpu population (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• netconsole: Add support for userdata release (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• xdp: Add missing metadata support for some xdp drvs (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• phy: Support loopback mode speed selection (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

14. Networking devices

• Bluetooth

  • btintel: Add support for Intel Scorpius Peak commit, commit

  • btintel: Add DSBR support for ScP commit

  • btnxpuart: Add support for HCI coredump feature commit, commit

  • btintel_pcie: Add support for device coredump (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • btintel: Add support to configure TX power commit

  • btusb: Add 13 USB device IDs for Qualcomm WCN785x (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • btnxpuart: Add support to set BD address commit, commit

  • qca: add Qualcomm WCN3950 BT/WiFi chip support (cover), commit, commit, commit

  • btusb: Add 2 HWIDs for MT7922 commit

• RDMA/bnxt_re: Congestion control settings using debugfs hook commit

• RDMA/bnxt_re: Support Perf management counters commit

• Introduce ucap api and usage in mlx5 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• rxe: On-demand paging on softroce (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add the support of tun to rxe (cover), commit, commit, commit

• mlx5: Add optional-counters binding support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• RDMA/mana_ib: Implement DMABUF MR support commit

• RDMA/mana_ib: Add port statistics support commit

• RDMA/mana_ib: Enable CM for mana_ib (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• fbnic: support RSS contexts and ntuple filters (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Increase maximum mtu to 9k for airoha en7581 soc (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• Introduce flowtable hw offloading in airoha_eth driver (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ath11k: add support for MU EDCA commit

• ath11k: Add firmware coredump collection support commit, commit

• b53: enable BPDU reception for management port commit

• ath12k: MLO setup for single split-phy PCI device (cover), commit, commit, commit

• ath12k: add support of station average signal strength commit

• ath12k: Support Transmit Power Control Stats (cover), commit, commit

• ath12k: Add support for MLO Multicast Handling (cover), commit, commit

• ath12k: Add new features to ACPI (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• ath12k: report station mode stats (cover), commit, commit, commit

• ath12k: Support Sounding, Latency, Trigger, FSE stats (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ath12k: Add peer extended Rx statistics debugfs support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• bnxt_en: Driver update (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• bnxt_en: Add npar 1.2 and tph support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• dsa: b53: mdio: add support for BCM53101 commit

• fbnic: support TCP segmentation offload commit

• fbnic: Add ethtool support for IRQ coalescing commit

• fbnic: add MAC address TCAM to debugfs commit

• fbnic: support ring size configuration (cover), commit, commit, commit

• fbnic: support RSS contexts and ntuple filters (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• fbnic: report software queue stats (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• enic: Use page pool api for receiving packets (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• enic: Enable 32, 64 byte cqes and get max rx/tx ring size from hw (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• can-next 2025-02-19 commit, (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• flexcan: add transceiver capabilities (cover), commit, commit

• cadence: macb: Modernize statistics reporting (cover), commit, commit

• cadence: macb: Implement BQL commit

• Support some enhances features for the hibmcge driver (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• gve: Basic xdp support for dqo rda queue format (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ethermediatek: Add eee support commit

• fbnic: support RSS contexts and ntuple filters (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add support for rx timestamping for both ice and iavf drivers (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• [pull request] intel wired lan driver updates 2025-02-10 (ice, igc, e1000e) (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ice: Managing msi-x in driver (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• iwlwifi: add iwlmld sub-driver commit

• phy: sfp: Add single-byte SMBus SFP access (cover), commit, commit

• mana: Add debug logs in MANA network driver commit

• ixgbe: add support for thermal sensor event reception (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• iwlwifi: updates - 2025-02-05 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• iwlwifi: updates - 2025-03-13 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• iwlwifi: updates - 2025-03-08 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• iwlwifi: updates - 2025-02-12 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Tx metadata launch time support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mlx5e: Move IPSec policy check after decryption (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Mlx5 misc enhancements 2025-03-04 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mlx5: Support one ptp device per hardware clock (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mlx5e: Support recovery counter in reset (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• mlx5: Rate management on traffic classes + misc (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mlx5: Support hws flow meter/sampler actions in fs core (cover), commit, commit, commit

• mlx5: Add rdma transport steering domain (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• xdp: Add missing metadata support for some xdp drvs (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mt76: mt7996: second preliminary work to support MLO (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mt76: mt7996: Preliminary work to support MLO (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mt76: mt76x2u: add TP-Link TL-WDN6200 ID to device table commit

• mlxsw: Enable Tx checksum offload commit

• pds_fwctl: Fwctl for amd/pensando core devices (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add af_xdp support for cn10k (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Support ptp clock for wangxun nics (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• netdevsim: 'support' multi-buf xdp commit

• phy: marvell-88q2xxx: Add support for PHY LEDs on 88q2xxx commit

• phy: dp83td510: introduce LED framework support commit

• phy: dp83822: Add support for changing the transmit amplitude voltage (cover), commit, commit, commit

• tn40xx: add support for AQR105 based cards (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Use phylib for reset randomization and adjustable polling (cover), commit, commit

• phy: mediatek: Add token-ring helper functions (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• phy: marvell-88q2xxx: cleanup (cover), commit, commit, commit

• phy: sfp: Add single-byte SMBus SFP access (cover), commit, commit

• phy: nxp-c45-tja11xx: add support for TJA1121 (cover), commit, commit

• phy: tja11xx: add support for TJA1102S (cover), commit, commit

• r8169: Enable more devices aspm support (cover), commit, commit

• r8169: Add support for intel killer e5000 commit

• r8152: Add vendor/device id pair for dell alienware aw1022z commit

• Remove sb1000 cable modem driver commit

• rtl8xxxu: Enable AP mode for RTL8192CU (RTL8188CUS) commit

• rtw88: Add support for Mercusys MA30N and D-Link DWA-T185 rev. A1 commit

• rtw89: add support for HW TKIP crypto commit

• rtw89: update TX time related configuration for WiFi 7 chips (cover), commit, commit

• rtw89: Add support for rtl8814ae and rtl8814au (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• rtw89: enhance dynamic mechanism per PHY (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• rtw89: refine TAS and DAG (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• sfc: Devlink flash for x4 (cover), commit, commit, commit

• sfc: Support devlink flash (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• sophgo: Add ethernet support for SG2044 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• stmmac: Tx metadata launch time support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• stmmac: dwc-qos: Add FSD EQoS support (cover), commit, commit

• txgbe: Add basic support for new AML devices commit

• stmmac: dwmac-rk: Add GMAC support for RK3528 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ti: icssg-prueth: Add native mode XDP support (cover), commit, commit, commit

• qmi_wwan: add Telit Cinterion FE990B composition commit

• qmi_wwan: add Telit Cinterion FN990B composition commit

• asix_devices: add FiberGecko DeviceID commit

• Support ptp clock for wangxun nics (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• tn40xx: add support for AQR105 based cards (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• xilinx: axienet: Enable adaptive IRQ coalescing with DIM (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add support for wowlan on silabs wf200 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• m_can: Optimizations for m_can/tcan part 2 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

14.1. Audio

• usb-audio: enable support for Presonus Studio 1824c within 1810c file commit

• usb-audio: Add second USB ID for Jabra Evolve 65 headset commit

• Intel: avs: Add support for MalibouLake configuration (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• hda/realtek: Support mute LED on HP Laptop 15s-du3xxx commit

• hda/realtek: Add support for various HP Laptops using CS35L41 HDA commit

• ASoC:

  • amd: Add DMI quirk for ACP6X mic support commit

  • tegra: Add interconnect support commit

  • tas27{64,70}: improve support for Apple codec variants (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • rt712-sdca: Add FU05 playback switch control commit

  • Enable dmic for genio 700/510 evk (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • hdmi-codec: add ELD information to procfs (cover), commit, commit

  • dmic: add regulator support (cover), commit, commit

  • dmic: Add DSD big endian format support commit

  • codecs: wsa883x: Implement temperature reading and hwmon commit, (cover)

  • cpcap: Implement jack headset detection (cover), commit, commit, commit

• codecs: Add aw88166 amplifier driver (cover), commit, commit

  • wm8904: Add DMIC and DRC support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • amd: Add support for ACP7.0 & ACP7.1 platforms (cover), 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

  • SOF: ipc4: Add support for split firmware releases commit

  • SOF: Intel: Add support for ACE3+ mic privacy (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Refactor imx drivers and introduce support for imx95 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Some minor sdca preparation (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add sdca register map support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add sdca disco parsing support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Intel: boards: updates for 6.15 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Intel: boards: updates for 6.14 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Intel: soc-acpi-intel-ptl-match: Add cs42l43 support commit

  • Intel: avs: Mute and multi-channel controls support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• soundwire:

  • Add static channel mapping between soundwire master and slave (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • SoundWire/ASoC: add SDW BPT/BRA support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • amd: code improvements and new platform support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

14.2. Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses

• Add goodix berlin-a series support (cover), commit, commit

• Add support for maxim integrated max77705 pmic (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Driver for apple z2 touchscreens. (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• HID

  • Sync with udev-hid-bpf (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Touch bar driver for apple macs with t2 security chip (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

  • hid-lg-g15: Use standard multicolor LED API commit

  • Hid_have_special_driver fixes for playstation driver (cover), commit, commit

  • Upgrade the generic pidff driver and add hid-universal-pidff (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • pidff: Compatibility update and new devices (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

14.3. TV tuners, webcams, video capturers

• Add sdm670 camera subsystem (cover), commit, commit

• tc358746: improve calculation of the D-PHY timing registers commit, (cover)

• qcom: camss: Add sm8550 support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• rcar: Minor cleanups and improvements (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• cx23885: Add analog support for AVerMedia H789-C PCIe card commit

• rc: add keymap for Siemens Gigaset RC20 remote commit

• Added support for new mgb4 gmsl modules (cover), commit, commit

• vivid: Make CONFIG_FB optional (cover), commit, commit

• dw9719: Add DW9761 support commit

• uvcvideo: Implement UVC v1.5 ROI (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Qualcomm iris video decoder driver (cover), 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 support for the edid eeodb (cover), commit, commit

• i2c: imx214: Miscellaneous cleanups and improvements (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

14.4. Universal Serial Bus

• Add eUSB2 descriptor and parsing in USB core commit

• Backport mctp over usb binding (cover), commit, commit

• Introduce dwc3 support for exynos7870 (cover), commit, commit

• dwc3: Avoid using reserved EPs (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• misc: onboard_dev: add vdda support for Microchip USB2514 commit

• serial: ftdi_sio: add support for Abacus Electrics Optical Probe commit

• serial: option: add Sierra Wireless EM9291 commit

• serial: simple: add OWON HDS200 series oscilloscope support commit

• typec: Add new driver for Parade PS8830 Type-C Retimer (cover), commit, commit

• typec: ucsi: Enable UCSI commands in debugfs commit

14.5. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)

• axi-spi-engine: add offload support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mt65xx: add PM QoS support commit

• sophgo: add Sophgo SPI NOR controller driver (cover), commit, commit

• Add qpic spi nand driver (cover), commit, commit

• Add stm32mp25 spi nor support (cover), commit, commit

• stm32: Add OSPI driver commit

14.6. Watchdog

• lenovo_se30_wdt: Watchdog driver for Lenovo SE30 platform commit

14.7. Serial

• 8250: add driver for NI UARTs commit

• Add support for tegra uart trace controller (utc) client (cover), commit, commit

• amba-pl011: Implement nbcon console commit

• tty Cleanup no. 99 (cover), 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

14.8. CPU Frequency scaling

• Simplify boost handling (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add support for aarch64 amuv1-based average freq (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• ppc_cbe: Remove powerpc Cell driver commit

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

• power: Add support for maxim integrated max77705 pmic (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• power: Enable power modes support for sama7d65 soc (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• regulator: Support runtime configuration of emergency hw_protection action (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• regulator: Introduce support for exynos7870's s2mpu05 pmic and its regulators (cover), commit, commit, commit

• regulator: Add new pmic pf9453 support (cover), commit, commit

14.10. Real Time Clock (RTC)

• Add support for max31331 rtc (cover), commit, commit

• pcf50633: Remove commit

14.11. Pin Controllers (pinctrl)

• samsung: add exynos2200 SoC pinctrl configuration (cover), commit, commit, commit

• sophgo: Add pinctrl support for SG2042 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add amlogic pinctrl driver (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• sunxi: Add Allwinner A523 support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ingenic: add support for x1600 SoC and MII and I2S for jz4730 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add initial support for rk3528 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add eint support for multiple addresses (cover), commit

• Introduce pin controller support for exynos7870 (cover), commit, commit, commit

14.12. Multi Media Card (MMC)

• Add rz/g3e sdhi support (cover), commit, commit

• Introduce dw mmc support for exynos7870 (cover), commit, commit, commit

14.13. Memory Technology Devices (MTD)

• mtd: spinand: Add read retry support commit

• spinand: add OTP support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• spi-nor: winbond: Add support for flashes with several dies (cover), commit, commit

• spi-nor: macronix: add support for mx66{l2, u1}g45g commit

14.14. Industrial I/O (iio)

• magnetometer: add support for Si7210 (cover), commit, commit

• light: add al3000a als support (cover), commit, commit, commit

• imu: bmi270: add temperature channel commit

• Add support for avago/broadcom apds9160 (cover), commit, commit

• Adf4371 refin mode and doubler support (cover), commit, commit, commit

• Add support for adis16550 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• axi-spi-engine: add offload support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ad3552r-hs: add support for ad3541/42r (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add support for ad485x das family (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• accel: mc3230: add mount matrix, of match and mc3510c support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ad7380: add SPI offload support (cover), commit, commit

• Support for ti ads7128 and ads7138 adcs (cover), commit, commit

• adc: ad4695: add oversampling support (cover), commit, commit

• adc: ad7173: add ad4111 openwire detection support (cover), commit, commit

• adc: ad4030: new driver for AD4030 and similar ADCs (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add adaq4381-4 support (cover), commit, commit, commit

• Add support for ad7191 (cover), commit, commit, commit

• Bmi270 data ready interrupt support (cover), commit, commit, commit

• adc: ad{4130,7124,7173}: A few fixes and ad7124 calibration (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• adc: ad7380: add alert support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

14.15. Multi Function Devices (MFD)

• pcf50633: Remove remaining PCF50633 support commit

• pcf50633-adc: Remove unused driver commit

• cgbc-core: Add support for conga-SA8 commit

• Add support for maxim integrated max77705 pmic (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• pcF50633-gpio: Remove unused driver commit

• cgbc: Add support for HWMON commit

• Add STM32MP25 timers support: MFD, PWM, IIO and counter drivers (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• Introduce support for exynos7870's s2mpu05 pmic and its regulators (cover), commit, commit, commit

• Add ti tps65214 & tps65215 mfd & regulator support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• Remove sta2x11 core driver commit

14.16. Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)

• Add pwm driver for sophgo sg2042 (cover), commit, commit, commit

14.17. Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C + I3C)

• Add support for nuvoton npcm845 i3c controller (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add support for setting mux for i2c lines (cover), commit, commit

• spacemit: add i2c support to K1 SoC (cover), commit, commit

14.18. Hardware monitoring (hwmon)

• lm90: Add support for NCT7716, NCT7717 and NCT7718 (cover), commit, commit

• Add support for ltm4673 μmodule regulator (cover), commit, commit

• k10temp: add support for cyan skillfish commit

• asus-ec-sensors: add prime x670e-pro wifi commit

• Enable sensors support for the congatec board controller (cover), commit

• Add support for lt7170 and lt7171 regulator (cover), commit, commit

• Add driver for htu31 (cover), commit, commit

• Add support for ina233 (cover), commit, commit

• Add of support for microchip emc2305 fan controller (cover), commit, commit, commit

• nct6683: add customer id for amd bc-250 commit

• dell-smm: increment the number of fans commit

• ltc2978: add support for lt717x commit

14.19. General Purpose I/O (gpio)

• Add synchronous fake device creation utility for gpio drivers (cover), commit, commit, commit

• pcf857x: add support for reset-gpios on (most) PCA967x (cover), commit, commit

• gpio: virtio: support multiple virtio-gpio controller instances commit

14.20. Leds

• Add support for maxim integrated max77705 pmic (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• pca955x: Add HW blink support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

14.21. Hardware Random Number Generator (hwrng)

• Rk3588 hardware random number generator driver (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

14.22. Cryptography hardware acceleration

• Acomp - add virtual address and folio support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• eip93: Add Inside Secure SafeXcel EIP-93 crypto engine support commit

• ccp: Add support for PCI device 0x1134 commit

14.23. PCI

• Add pcie support for bcm2712 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• dwc: Add debugfs based Silicon Debug support for DWC commit

• dwc: Add debugfs based Error Injection support for DWC commit

• dwc: Add debugfs property to provide LTSSM status of the PCIe link commit

• perf/dwc_pcie: Add support for Rockchip SoCs commit

• Add support for the pci host bridge device-tree node creation. (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• qcom-ep: Enable EP mode support for SAR2130P commit

• Add pcie root port support for agilex family of chips (cover), commit, commit

• PCI/pwrctrl: Rework pwrctrl driver integration and add driver for PCI slot (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add support for logging flit mode tlps (pcie6) (cover), commit, commit

• pci_endpoint_test: Add support for PCITEST_IRQ_TYPE_AUTO (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• PCI/DOE: Expose DOE features via sysfs commit

• Add support for amd mdb ip as root port (cover), commit, commit, commit

• Add support for versal net cpm5n root port controller (cover), commit, commit, commit

14.24. Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB)

• ntb_hw_amd: Add NTB PCI ID for new gen CPU commit

14.25. Clock

• Add nss clock controller support for ipq9574 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add rk3562 clock support (cover), commit, commit

• Add rpm clocks for sdm429 (cover), commit, commit

• Add smi larbs reset for mediatek mt8188 soc (cover), commit, commit

• Add support for gpucc, camcc and videocc on qualcomm qcs8300 platform (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Introduce support for exynos7870 clocks (cover), commit, commit

• Support clock and reset unit of rockchip rk3528 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Update lpass audio clock driver for qcm6490 board (cover), commit, commit

• davinci: remove support for da830 commit

• qcom: Add support for multiple power-domains for a clock controller. (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• samsung: introduce Exynos2200 clock driver (cover), commit, commit, commit

• sunxi-ng: add A523 clock support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

14.26. PHY ("physical layer" framework)

• Support exynosautov920 ufs phy driver (cover), commit, commit, commit

• phy-rockchip-samsung-hdptx: Add support for RK3576 commit

• rockchip: Add rk3562 naneng-combophy compatible commit, commit

• Mipi dsi phy for rk3588 (cover), commit, commit

• Add edp mode support for rockchip samsung hdptx phy (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• qcom: qmp-pcie: Add X1P42100 Gen4x4 PHY commit

14.27. EDAC (Error Detection And Correction)

• Add a error check scrub control feature commit

• Add a memory repair control feature commit

• Add edac support for intel raptor lake-s socs (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Scrub: introduce generic EDAC RAS control feature driver + CXL/ACPI-RAS2 drivers (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

14.28. Accel

• qaic: Initial AIC200 support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• amdxdna: Refactor hardware context destroy routine commit

• ivpu: Changes for 6.15 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ivpu: Changes for 6.15 2025-02-04 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ivpu: Expose NPU frequency into userspace (cover), commit, commit

14.29. Various

• mhi: host: pci_generic: Add support for SA8775P endpoint commit

• acpi/hmat / cxl: Add exclusive caching enumeration and RAS support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• counter: Introduce the compare component (cover), commit, commit

• ti-eqep: add direction support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• cxl/pci: Support Global Persistent Flush (GPF) commit

• Remove cxl driver (cover), commit

• cxl/pmem: Export dirty shutdown count via sysfs commit

• Add cxl feature commands support via fwctl (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• pull-request: can-next 2025-02-19 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Dirty shutdown followups (cover), commit, commit

• microchip-tcb-capture: Add Capture, Compare, Overflow etc. events (cover), commit, commit

• Introduce fwctl subystem commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• me: add panther lake H DID commit

• mtk-smi: Add ostd setting for mt8192 commit

• mlxbf-bootctl: Support sysfs entries for RTC battery status commit

• Fwctl for amd/pensando core devices (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add sdca register map support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• Fix rk3588 power domain problems (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add support to run/stall dsp via reset api (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Modem support for msm8226 (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add support for intel pps generator (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add sdca register map support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• remoteproc: qcom: pas: Add SM8750 MPSS commit

• reset: imx: Add SCU reset driver for i.MX8QXP and i.MX8QM commit

• pmdomain: TH1520 SoC: Add AON firmware & power-domain support (cover), commit, commit, commit, commit

• imx8: add camera support (cover), commit, commit, commit

• cxl: Dirty shutdown followups (cover), commit, commit

15. List of pull requests

• vfs mount API updates

• misc vfs updates

• vfs eventpoll updates

• vfs mount updates

• vfs pipe updates

• vfs pidfs updates

• vfs iomap updates

• vfs overlayfs updates

• vfs async dir updates

• vfs sysv removal

• vfs nsfs updates

• vfs mount namespace updates

• vfs pagesize updates

• vfs ceph updates

• vfs initramfs updates

• vfs afs updates

• vfs orangefs updates

• vfs file handling updates

• vfs rust updates

• tasklist_lock optimizations

• execve updates

• lib kunit selftest move

• hardening updates

• seccomp updates

• tiny pstore update

• slab updates

• workqueue update

• cgroup updates

• sched_ext updates

• nolibc updates

• kernel memory model updates

• stop-machine update

• documentation updates

• bitmap updates

• RCU updates

• locking updates

• objtool updates

• scheduler updates

• performance events updates

• core x86 updates

• x86 build updates

• x86 boot code updates

• x86/fpu updates

• x86 cleanups

• x86 SEV updates

• x86 platform updates

• irq updates

• MSI irq updates

• irq driver updates

• futex update

• timer core updates

• timer cleanups

• VDSO infrastructure updates

• arm64 updates

• x86 speculation mitigation updates

• x86 resource control updates

• EDAC updates

• RAS update

• m68k updates

• kvm updates

• xen updates

• hyperv updates

• ACPI updates

• power management updates

• thermal control updates

• lsm updates

• selinux updates

• smack updates

• fsverity updates

• fscrypt updates

• CRC updates

• regulator updates

• spi updates

• pwm updates

• hwmon updates

• gpio updates

• MMC updates

• pmdomain updates

• chrome platform updates

• auxdisplay updates

• media updates

• sound updates

• x86 platform drivers updates

• HID updates

• mtd updates

• MSI irq fix

• clocksource/event updates

• io_uring updates

• block updates

• ata updates

• SCSI updates

• iommu updates

• sysctl updates

• zstd updates

• networking updates

• SoC devicetree updates

• SoC driver updates

• SoC defconfig updates

• SoC arm platform updates

• asm-generic updates

• gfs2 updates

• erofs updates

• btrfs updates

• f2fs updates

• dlm updates

• xfs updates

• orangefs update

• jfs updates

• bcachefs updates

• ext4 updates

• tracing / sorttable updates

• ftrace updates

• latency tracing updates

• tracing updates

• tracing tooling updates

• ktest update

• Kselftest updates

• kunit updates

• printk updates

• livepatching updates

• probes updates

• powerpc updates

• m68knommu updates

• ipe update

• ima updates

• capabilities update

• landlock updates

• tpm updates

• io_uring zero-copy receive support

• io_uring epoll support

• more io_uring updates

• fbdev updates

• drm updates

• pci updates

• crypto updates

• fwctl subsystem

• rdma updates

• devicetree updates

• EFI updates

• s390 updates

• MIPS updates

• parisc updates

• regmap updates

• MFD updates

• LED updates

• backlight updates

• pin control updates

• hwspinlock updates

• remoteproc updates

• clk updates

• power supply and reset updates

• HSI update

• mailbox updates

• bpf updates

• bpf relisient spinlock support

• bpf try_alloc_pages() support

• misc locking fixes and updates

• misc x86 fixes and updates

• modules updates

• Rust updates

• perf tools updates

• ring-buffer updates

• nfsd updates

• smb client updates

• smb server updates

• exfat updates

• ext2, udf, and isofs updates

• more bcachefs updates

• MM updates

• non-MM updates

• driver core updatesk

• char / misc / IIO driver updates

• soundwire updates

• phy updates

• dmaengine updates

• i2c updates

• watchdog updates

• i3c updates

• more thermal control updates

• iommufd updates

• virtio updates

• VFIO updates

• kgdb updates

• more printk updates

• x86 TDX updates

• LoongArch updates

• UML updates

• more powerpc updates

• more ACPI updates

• ntfs3 updates

• fuse updates

• NFS client updates

• staging driver updates

• tty/serial driver updates

• USB / Thunderbolt updates

• Compute Express Link (CXL) updates

• libnvdimm updates

• device mapper updates

• firewire update

• more MM updates

• more non-MM updates

• ARM and clkdev updates

• RTC updates

• 9p updates

• more bcachefs updates

• more io_uring updates

• more block updates

• ring-buffer updates

• more SoC driver updates

• RISC-V updates

• more smb client updates

• more s390 updates

• input updates

• Kbuild updates

• sh updates

• more irq updates

• timer cleanups

• turbostat updates

16. Other news sites

• LWN's merge window part 1, part 2

• Phoronix Linux 6.15 features