Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the first release candidate for Linux kernel 5.14.
You all know the drill by now. It's been the usual two weeks of merge
window, and not it's closed, and 5.14-rc1 is out there.
As usual, it's much too big to post the shortlog, with about 13k
commits (an another ~800 merge commits) by about 1650 developers, and
a diffstat summary of
11859 files changed, 817707 insertions(+), 285485 deletions(-)
Appended is my mergelog which gives you an overview of what I've
pulled during the merge window, and who I pulled from. And as usual, I
want to stress how this is obviously just a very high-level summary,
and tiny part of the actual developer community - if you want the full
details of all those changes, you'll have to go to the -git tree.
On the whole, I don't think there are any huge surprises in here, and
size-wise this seems to be a pretty regular release too. Let's hope
that that translates to a nice and calm release cycle, but you never
know. Last release was big, but it was all fairly calm despite that,
so size isn't always the determining factor here..
If somebody wants to look at the actual diff for the release, I'd
encourage you to ignore - once again - another set of big AMD GPU
hardware description header files. We seem to have those fairly
regularly, and they are always these huge generated headers that end
up dwarfing everything else. Almost exactly half of the whole 5.14-rc1
patch is comprised of those GPU headers, and it skews the statistics a
lot.
Now, even if you ignore that AMD header drop, drivers account for over
two thirds of the changes when you look at the diff, and that's
perfectly normal. What's slightly less usual is how there's a lot of
line _removals_ in there, with the old IDE layer finally having met
its long-overdue demise, and all our IDE support is now based on
libata.
Of course, the fact that we removed all that legacy IDE code doesn't
mean that we had a reduction in lines over-all: a few tens of
thousands of lines of legacy code is nowhere near enough to balance
out the usual kernel growth. But it's still a nice thing to see the
cleanup.
So drivers dominate: even when ignoring the AMD header addition
there's a fair amount of gpu updates, but there's networking drivers,
rdma, sound, scsi, staging, media...
Outside of drivers, there's all the usual suspects: architecture
updates (arm, arm64, x86, powerpc, s390, with a smattering of other
architecture updates too) and various core kernel updates: networking,
filesystems, VM, scheduling etc. And the usual documentation and
tooling (perf and self-tests) updates.
Please do test, and we can get the whole calming-down period rolling
and hopefully get a timely final 5.14 release.
Linus
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Al Viro (3):
vfs d_path() updates
iov_iter updates
vfs name lookup updates
Alex Williamson (1):
VFIO updates
Alexandre Belloni (2):
i3c updates
RTC updates
Andreas Gruenbacher (1):
gfs2 updates
Andrew Morton (3):
misc updates
more updates
yet more updates
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (2):
perf tool updates
more perf tool updates
Arnd Bergmann (1):
asm/unaligned.h unification
Bartosz Golaszewski (1):
gpio updates
Bjorn Andersson (2):
remoteproc updates
hwspinlock updates
Bjorn Helgaas (2):
pci updates
pci fix
Borislav Petkov (3):
x86 RAS updates
x86 cpu updates
x86 SEV updates
Bruce Fields (1):
nfsd updates
Casey Schaufler (1):
smack updates
Christian Brauner (2):
mount_setattr updates
openat2 fixes
Christoph Hellwig (2):
dma-mapping updates
configfs updates
Corey Minyard (1):
IPMI driver updates
Dan Williams (1):
CXL (Compute Express Link) updates
Daniel Lezcano (1):
thermal updates
Daniel Thompson (1):
kgdb updates
Darrick Wong (1):
xfs updates
Dave Airlie (2):
drm updates
drm fixes
David Kleikamp (1):
jfs updates
David Sterba (1):
btrfs updates
David Teigland (1):
dlm updates
Dennis Zhou (2):
percpu updates
percpu fix
Dmitry Torokhov (1):
input updates
Eric Biederman (1):
user namespace rlimit handling update
Eric Biggers (1):
fscrypt updates
Gao Xiang (1):
erofs updates
Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
m68k updates
Greg KH (5):
char / misc driver updates
driver core changes
staging / IIO driver updates
tty / serial updates
USB / Thunderbolt updates
Greg Ungerer (1):
m68knommu update
Guenter Roeck (1):
hwmon updates
Guo Ren (1):
arch/csky updates
Gustavo Silva (3):
fallthrough fixes
array-bounds fixes
more fallthrough fixes
Hans de Goede (1):
x86 platform driver updates
Herbert Xu (2):
crypto updates
crypto fixes
Ilya Dryomov (1):
ceph updates
Ingo Molnar (19):
EFI updates
objtool fix and updates
locking updates
perf events updates
scheduler udpates
timers/nohz updates
x86 exception handling updates
x86 asm updates
x86 boot update
x86 resource control documentation fixes
x86 cleanups
x86 uapi fixlet
x86 mm update
x86 splitlock updates
scheduler fixes
locking fixes
perf fixes
scheduler fixes
irq fixes
Jaegeuk Kim (1):
f2fs updates
Jakub Kicinski (1):
networking updates
James Bottomley (2):
SCSI updates
more SCSI updates
Jan Kara (1):
misc fs updates
Jarkko Sakkinen (1):
tpm driver updates
Jason Gunthorpe (1):
rdma updates
Jassi Brar (1):
mailbox updates
Jens Axboe (6):
libata updates
core block updates
block driver updates
io_uring updates
more block updates
io_uring fixes
Jessica Yu (1):
module updates
Jiri Kosina (1):
HID updates
Joerg Roedel (1):
iommu updates
Jonathan Corbet (1):
documentation updates
Juergen Gross (1):
xen updates
Julia Lawall (1):
coccinelle updates
Kees Cook (3):
seccomp updates
pstore updates
clang feature updates
Lee Jones (2):
mfd updates
backlight updates
Linus Walleij (1):
pin control updates
Mark Brown (3):
regmap updates
regulator updates
spi updates
Masahiro Yamada (1):
Kbuild updates
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
media updates
Micah Morton (1):
SafeSetID update
Michael Ellerman (2):
powerpc updates
powerpc fixes
Michael Tsirkin (1):
virtio,vhost,vdpa updates
Michal Simek (1):
microblaze updates
Mike Marshall (1):
orangefs updates
Mike Rapoport (2):
memblock updates
memblock fix
Mike Snitzer (1):
device mapper updates
Miklos Szeredi (1):
fuse updates
Mimi Zohar (1):
integrity subsystem updates
Namjae Jeon (1):
exfat updates
Olof Johansson (3):
ARM SoC updates
ARM devicetree updates
ARM driver updates
Palmer Dabbelt (1):
RISC-V updates
Paolo Bonzini (1):
kvm updates
Paul E McKenney (1):
lkmm fixlet
Paul McKenney (2):
KCSAN updates
RCU updates
Paul Moore (2):
SELinux updates
audit updates
Pavel Machek (1):
LED updates
Petr Mladek (1):
printk updates
Rafael Wysocki (6):
power management updates
ACPI updates
PNP updates
device properties framework updates
more power management updates
more ACPI updates
Richard Weinberger (3):
MTD updates
UBIFS updates
UML updates
Rob Herring (1):
devicetree updates
Russell King (1):
ARM development updates
Sebastian Reichel (1):
power supply and reset updates
Shuah Khan (2):
KUnit update
Kselftest update
Stafford Horne (1):
OpenRISC updates
Stephen Boyd (2):
clk updates
more clk updates
Steve French (2):
cifs updates
cifs fixes
Steven Rostedt (2):
tracing updates
tracing fix and cleanup
Takashi Iwai (2):
sound updates
sound fixes
Ted Ts'o (2):
ext4 updates
ext4 updates
Tejun Heo (1):
cgroup updates
Tetsuo Handa (1):
tomoyo fix
Thierry Reding (1):
pwm updates
Thomas Bogendoerfer (2):
MIPS updates
MIPS fixes
Thomas Gleixner (7):
CPU hotplug cleanup
CPU hotplug fix
irq updates
timer updates
x86 interrupt related updates
x86 entry code related updates
x86 fpu updates
Tony Luck (1):
EDAC updates
Trond Myklebust (1):
NFS client updates
Ulf Hansson (2):
MMC and MEMSTICK updates
MMC fixes
Vasily Gorbik (2):
s390 updates
more s390 updates
Vinod Koul (1):
dmaengine updates
Wei Liu (1):
hyperv updates
Will Deacon (1):
arm64 updates
Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
watchdog updates
Wolfram Sang (1):
i2c updates
