Linux kernel 5.16-rc5 released

So everything looks fairly normal. This rc5 is perhaps a bit bigger than usual, but it's not like it's breaking any records. I blame people trying to get stuff done before the holidays, and/or just random timing effects.

Anyway, I do expect things to calm down over the next couple of weeks, but we'll see.

As to rc5, the patch is dominated by drivers (network, sound, hid, rdma, usb... and a lot of other random things) and selftest updates (bpf, kvm and networking).

The rest is fairly random - filesystems (cifs, btrfs, tracefs), core kernel and networking. Some fixups to the new damon virtual address space monitoring code.

Shortlog appended.

Do give it a good testing - with the holidays coming up, things are probably going to slow down both on the development and testing front, and as a result I expect that I will also extend the rc series by another week not because it's necessarily needed (too early to tell, but doesn't feel that way), but simply because nobody will want to open the next merge window immediately in the new year.

Anyway, that's the plan right now (based on previous years where we've done the same), but let's see how this all goes.

                 Linus

Full source: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-5.16-rc5.tar.gz
Patch: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/p/v5.16-rc5/v5.15

You can view the summary of the changes at the following URL:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/ds/v5.16-rc5/v5.16-rc4