Linux kernel 6.1-rc1 released
You all know the drill: it's Sunday afternoon, the two weeks of merge window are over, and now we're supposed to start calming things down.
This isn't actually shaping up to be a particularly large release: we "only" have 11.5k non-merge commits during this merge window, compared to 13.5k last time around. So not exactly tiny, but smaller than the last few releases. At least in number of commits.
That said, we've got a few core things that have been brewing for a long time, most notably the multi-gen LRU VM series, and the initial Rust scaffolding (no actual real Rust code in the kernel yet, but the infrastructure is there).
And hey, this merge window was full of surprises for other reasons too - my main machine was basically out of action for a couple of days because it suddenly started showing memory problems, and it took me a couple of days to get that sorted out (to a large degree because it was unexpected and I started out blaming a kernel bug for the memory corruption). All sorted out now, but it caused some frustration.
Talking about frustration, let me just say that after I got my machine sorted out and caught up with the merge window, I wass somewhat frustrated with various late pull requests. I've mentioned this before, but it's _really_ quite annoying to get quite a few pull requests in the last few days of the merge window.
Yes, the merge window is two weeks, but that's very much to allow me time to look things over, not "two weeks to hurriedly put together a branch that you send Linus on Friday of the second week". The whole "do an all-nighter to get the paper in the day before the dealine" is something that should have gone out the window after highschool. Not for kernel development.
The rule is that things that get sent to me should be ready *before* the merge window opens, not be made ready during the merge window. With some slack for "life happens", of course, but I really get the feeling that a few people treat the end of the merge window as a deadline, missing the whole "it was supposed to be ready before the merge window".
You know who you are.
Anyway, it's not the first time I've said this, I doubt it will be the last. But maybe more people could take it to heart, ok?
Enough kvetching, let's get this party calmed down. The merge window may not be the biggest ever, but it's certainly big enough that the shortlog is much too big to post, and below is just my usual merge log. For all the gory details, please refer to the git tree.
Please get the testing started,
Linus
Full source: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-6.1-rc1.tar.gz
Patch: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/p/v6.1-rc1/v6.0
You can view the summary of the changes at the following URL:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/ds/v6.1-rc1/v6.0
Change log:
Al Viro (7):
coredump fix
vfs inode update
vfs d_path updates
vfs file updates
misc tomoyo changes
vfs constification updates
vfs tmpfile updates
Al Vrio (1):
file_inode() updates
Alex Williamson (1):
VFIO updates
Alexandre Belloni (2):
i3c updates
RTC updates
Andreas Gruenbacher (2):
gfs2 updates
gfs2 debugfs updates
Andrew Morton (4):
MM updates
non-MM updates
misc hotfixes
more MM updates
Anna Schumaker (1):
NFS client updates
Ard Biesheuvel (1):
EFI updates
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (2):
perf tools updates
more perf tools updates
Arnd Bergmann (7):
ARM defconfig updates
ARM driver updates
ARM devicetree updates
ARM SoC updates
asm-generic updates
ARM SoC fixes
asm-generic fix
Bartosz Golaszewski (1):
gpio updates
Benjamin Tissoires (1):
HID updates
Bjorn Andersson (2):
rpmsg updates
remoteproc updates
Bjorn Helgaas (2):
pci updates
pci fix
Borislav Petkov (14):
EDAC updates
x86 platform update
x86 RTC cleanups
x86 SGX update
x86 cpu updates
x86 RAS updates
x86 APIC update
x86 core fixes
x86 asm update
misc x86 fixes
x86 paravirt fix
x75 microcode loader updates
x86 cache resource control updates
x86 cleanups
Casey Schaufler (1):
smack updates
Catalin Marinas (2):
arm64 updates
arm64 fixes
Christian Brauner (2):
vfs acl updates
fatfs vfsuid conversion
Christoph Hellwig (1):
dma-mapping updates
Chuck Lever (2):
nfsd updates
more nfsd updates
Corey Minyard (1):
IPMI updates
Damien Le Moal (1):
ata updates
Dan Williams (1):
nvdimm updates
Darrick Wong (1):
iomap updates
Dave Airlie (3):
drm updates
drm fix
more drm updates
Dave Chinner (1):
xfs updates
Dave Hansen (1):
x86 mm updates
David Sterba (2):
btrfs updates
affs update
David Teigland (1):
dlm updates
Dmitry Torokhov (1):
input updates
Dominik Brodowski (1):
PCMCIA updates
Dominique Martinet (1):
9p updates
Eric Biederman (4):
kthread update
mqueue fix
ptrace update
ucounts update
Eric Biggers (3):
fscrypt updates
fsverity updates
STATX_DIOALIGN support
Gao Xiang (1):
erofs updates
Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
m68k updates
Greg KH (5):
tty/serial driver updates
USB / Thunderbolt updates
driver core updates
char/misc and other driver updates
staging driver updates
Greg Ungerer (1):
m68knommu updates
Guenter Roeck (1):
hwmon updates
Hans de Goede (1):
x86 platform driver updates
Helge Deller (2):
fbdev updates
parisc updates
Herbert Xu (1):
crypto updates
Huacai Chen (1):
LoongArch updates
Ilya Dryomov (1):
ceph updates
Ingo Molnar (5):
scheduler updates
perf events updates
locking updates
objtool updates
PSI updates
Jaegeuk Kim (1):
f2fs updates
Jakub Kicinski (2):
networking updates
networking fixes
James Bottomley (1):
SCSI updates
Jan Kara (2):
fsnotify updates
ext2, udf, reiserfs, and quota updates
Jarkko Sakkinen (1):
tpm updates
Jason Donenfeld (2):
random number generator updates
more random number generator updates
Jason Gunthorpe (1):
rdma updates
Jassi Brar (1):
mailbox updates
Jean Delvare (1):
dmi updates
Jens Axboe (5):
io_uring updates
block updates
passthrough updates
more io_uring updates
more block updates
Joerg Roedel (1):
iommu updates
Jonathan Corbet (2):
documentation updates
documentation fixes
Juergen Gross (1):
xen updates
Kees Cook (4):
Rust introductory support
execve updates
kcfi updates
kernel hardening updates
Lee Jones (2):
backlight update
MFD updates
Linus Walleij (1):
pin control updates
Luis Chamberlain (2):
module updates
sysctl updates
Mark Brown (3):
regmap updates
regulator updates
spi updates
Masahiro Yamada (2):
Kbuild updates
Kbuild fixes
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
media updates
Max Filippov (1):
xtensa updates
Michael Ellerman (2):
powerpc updates
powerpc fixes
Michael Tsirkin (2):
virtio updates
virtio fixes
Michal Simek (1):
microblaze updates
Mickaël Salaün (1):
landlock updates
Mike Marshall (1):
orangefs update
Mike Rapoport (1):
memblock updates
Mimi Zohar (1):
integrity updates
Miquel Raynal (1):
MTD updates
Palmer Dabbelt (2):
RISC-V updates
more RISC-V updates
Paolo Bonzini (2):
kvm updates
more kvm updates
Paul McKenney (3):
nolibc updates
LKMM (Linux Kernel Memory Model) updates
RCU updates
Paul Moore (3):
SELinux updates
LSM updates
audit updates
Pavel Machek (1):
LED updates
Petr Mladek (2):
printk updates
livepatching updates
Rafael Wysocki (6):
ACPI updates
power management updates
thermal control updates
more ACPI updates
more power management updates
more thermal control updates
Richard Weinberger (2):
UML updates
UBI and UBIFS updates
Rob Herring (2):
devicetree updates
devicetree fixes
Russell King (2):
ARM fixes
ARM updates
Sebastian Reichel (2):
HSI updates
power supply and reset updates
Shuah Khan (4):
Kselftest updates
KUnit updates
more Kselftest updates
more KUnit updates
Stafford Horne (1):
OpenRISC updates
Stephen Boyd (2):
clk updates
more clk updates
Steve French (3):
ksmbd updates
cifs updates
more cifs updates
Steven Rostedt (2):
tracing updates
tracing fixes
Takashi Iwai (2):
sound updates
sound fixes
Ted Ts'o (1):
ext4 updates
Tejun Heo (1):
cgroup updates
Thierry Reding (1):
pwm updates
Thomas Bogendoerfer (1):
MIPS updates
Thomas Gleixner (3):
preempt RT updates
timer updates
interrupt updates
Tzung-Bi Shih (1):
chrome platform updates
Ulf Hansson (2):
MMC updates
MMC fixes
Vasily Gorbik (2):
s390 updates
more s390 updates
Vinod Koul (3):
dmaengine updates
phy updates
soundwire updates
Vlastimil Babka (2):
slab fixes
slab hotfix
Wei Liu (1):
hyperv updates
Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
watchdog updates
Wolfram Sang (2):
i2c updates
more i2c updates
Yury Norov (1):
bitmap updates
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the first release candidate for Linux kernel 6.1 for testing.
