Linux kernel 5.18-rc1 released
So here we are, two weeks later, and the merge window is closed.
The full diffstat isn't useful, because this is another of those occasional releases where the AMD drm driver adds those generated register definitions, so the diff is absolutely dominated by register definitions for DCN 3.1.x and MP 13.0.x register definitions. Don't even go look - you'll go blind.
Another fairly big chunk of it (but nowhere _near_ the AMD GPU register definitions) is the updates for various Intel performance monitoring event tables.
But if you ignore those two areas, things look fairly normal. At that point, it's about 60%driver updates - with GPU updates are still fairly sizable, but now no longer so dominant as to hide everything else. And all the other usual suspects too: networking, sound, media, scsi, pinctrl, clk, etc..
The rest is fairly spread out documentation and devicetree bindings (maybe I should just count that against drivers), architecture updates (biggest part of the diff: nds32 is gone, but there's all the usual x86, arm, arm64, powerpc, parisc, mips and riscv updates). Tooling updates (perf and selftests), and of course all the core kernel updates (filesystem, core, networking, VM).
As always, there's _way_ too many changes to list individually, and you're just getting the usual mergelog appended.
In fact, at least in pure commits, this has been a bigger merge window than we've had in some time. But let's hope it's all smooth sailing this release.
Sure, that will happen.
Go test, please,
Linus
Full source: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-5.18-rc1.tar.gz
Patch: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/p/v5.18-rc1/v5.17
You can view the summary of the changes at the following URL:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/ds/v5.18-rc1/v5.17
Al Viro (1):
vfs updates
Alex Williamson (1):
VFIO updates
Alexandre Belloni (2):
i3c updates
RTC updates
Andreas Gruenbacher (2):
iomap fixlet
gfs2 fixes
Andrew Morton (4):
updates
more updates
yet more updates
still more updates
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (2):
perf tools updates
more perf tools updates
Arnd Bergmann (6):
asm-generic updates
ARM defconfig updates
ARM SoC updates
ARM driver updates
ARM devicetree updates
ARM SoC fixes
Bartosz Golaszewski (2):
gpio updates
gpio fixes
Benson Leung (1):
chrome platform updates
Bjorn Andersson (3):
rpmsg updates
hwspinlock updates
remoteproc updates
Bjorn Helgaas (2):
pci updates
pci fix
Borislav Petkov (10):
EDAC updates
x86 cpu feature updates
misc x86 updates
x86 Kconfig fix
x86 paravirt improvement
x86 SEV fix
x86 SGX updates
x86 confidential computing updates
x86 cleanups
RAS updates
Brian Cain (1):
hexagon update
Casey Schaufler (1):
smack update
Christian Brauner (2):
mount_setattr updates
mount attributes PREEMPT_RT update
Christoph Hellwig (2):
dma-mapping updates
more dma-mapping updates
Chuck Lever (1):
nfsd updates
Corey Minyard (1):
IPMI updates
Damien Le Moal (1):
ata updates
Dan Williams (3):
CXL (Compute Express Link) updates
DAX updates
libnvdimm updates
Daniel Thompson (1):
kgdb update
Darrick Wong (3):
xfs updates
xfs fixes
vfs fix
Dave Airlie (2):
drm updates
drm fixes
Dave Kleikamp (1):
jfs updates
David Howells (2):
watch_queue fixes
netfs updates
David Sterba (1):
btrfs updates
Dmitry Torokhov (1):
input updates
Eric Biederman (3):
tasklist_lock optimizations
shm ucounts fix
ptrace cleanups
Eric Biggers (1):
fscrypt updates
Gao Xiang (1):
erofs updates
Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
m68k updates
Greg KH (5):
USB/Thunderbolt updates
char/misc and other driver updates
driver core updates
staging driver updates
tty/serial driver updates
Greg Ungerer (1):
m68knommu updates
Guenter Roeck (1):
hwmon updates
Gustavo Silva (1):
flexible-array transformations
Hans de Goede (1):
x86 platform driver updates
Helge Deller (3):
parisc architecture updates
fbdev updates
more parisc architecture updates
Herbert Xu (2):
crypto updates
crypto fixes
Ilya Dryomov (1):
ceph updates
Ingo Molnar (3):
x86 perf event updates
locking updates
scheduler updates
Jaegeuk Kim (1):
f2fs updates
Jakub Kicinski (3):
networking updates
networking fixes
more networking updates
James Bottomley (1):
SCSI updates
Jan Kara (2):
fsnotify updates
reiserfs updates
Jarkko Sakkinen (1):
tpm updates
Jason Donenfeld (2):
random number generator updates
random number generator fixes
Jason Gunthorpe (1):
rdma updates
Jassi Brar (1):
mailbox updates
Jens Axboe (12):
io_uring updates
io_uring statx fixes
block updates
block driver updates
bio_alloc() cleanups
NVMe write streams removal
bio allocation fix
block layer 64-bit data integrity support
io_uring fixes
block fixes
block driver fixes
block driver fix
Jiri Kosina (1):
HID updates
Joerg Roedel (1):
iommu updates
Jonathan Corbet (2):
documentation updates
more documentation updates
Juergen Gross (1):
xen updates
Kees Cook (8):
execve updates
pstore updates
kernel hardening updates
overflow updates
bounds fixes
FORTIFY_SOURCE updates
array-bounds updates
hardening updates
Lee Jones (2):
MFD updates
backlight updates
Linus Walleij (1):
pin control updates
Luis Chamberlain (1):
module update
Mark Brown (4):
regmap updates
regulator updates
spi updates
regulator fixes
Masahiro Yamada (3):
Kbuild update for C11 language base
Kbuild updates
Kbuild fixes
Matthew Wilcox (4):
folio updates
filesystem folio updates
XArray updates
more filesystem folio updates
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
media updates
Max Filippov (1):
Xtensa updates
Michael Ellerman (1):
powerpc updates
Michael Tsirkin (1):
virtio updates
Michal Simek (1):
microblaze updates
Mickaël Salaün (1):
landlock updates
Miguel Ojeda (1):
auxdisplay updates
Mike Rapoport (1):
memblock updates
Mike Snitzer (2):
device mapper updates
device mapper fixes
Mimi Zohar (1):
integrity subsystem updates
Miquel Raynal (1):
MTD updates
Namjae Jeon (1):
exfat updates
Palmer Dabbelt (3):
RISC-V updates
more RISC-V updates
RISC-V fix
Paolo Bonzini (2):
kvm updates
kvm fixes
Paul McKenney (2):
RCU updates
memory model doc update
Paul Moore (2):
selinux updates
audit update
Pavel Machek (1):
LED updates
Peter Zijlstra (1):
x86 CET-IBT (Control-Flow-Integrity) support
Petr Mladek (2):
printk updates
livepatching updates
Rafael Wysocki (7):
ACPI updates
power management updates
thermal control updates
PnP update
more power management updates
device properties code update
more ACPI updates
Richard Weinberger (2):
JFFS2, UBI and UBIFS updates
UML updates
Rob Herring (2):
devicetree updates
devicetree fixes
Russell King (3):
ARM updates
ARM updates
ARM fixes
Sebastian Reichel (1):
power supply and reset updates
Shuah Khan (2):
Kselftest updates
KUnit updates
Stafford Horne (1):
OpenRISC updates
Stephen Boyd (2):
clk updates
clk fix
Steve French (3):
cfis updates
more cifs updates
ksmbd updates
Steven Rostedt (4):
RTLA tracing tool updates
tracing updates
trace event string verifier fix
more tracing updates
Takashi Iwai (2):
sound updates
sound fixes
Ted Ts'o (1):
ext4 updates
Tejun Heo (2):
workqueue updates
cgroup updates
Tetsuo Handa (1):
tomoyo update
Thierry Reding (1):
pwm updates
Thomas Bogendoerfer (2):
MIPS updates
MIPS fixes
Thomas Gleixner (6):
x86 PASID support
core process handling RT latency updates
timer and timekeeping updates
interrupt updates
RT signal fix
x86 fixes
Trond Myklebust (1):
NFS client updates
Ulf Hansson (1):
MMC updates
Vasily Gorbik (2):
s390 updates
more s390 updates
Vinod Koul (1):
dmaengine updates
Vlastimil Babka (1):
slab updates
Wei Liu (1):
hyperv updates
Will Deacon (1):
arm64 updates
Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
watchdog updates
Wolfram Sang (1):
i2c updates
Linus Torvalds has announced the first release candidate of Linux kernel 5.18 for testing.
