Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Jun 2014 19:37:20 -0700 | Subject | Linux 3.15-rc8 ... and merge window for 3.16 | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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I was really hoping that rc7 would be the last rc, but it appears that reality is once against conspiring against my well-laid plans, and is forcing me to do an rc8. It's not like there were a lot of changes, but the last-minute dcache fixes in particular made it not really sane to just make a final release without another week of testing.
Now, normally, an rc8 isn't really a big deal - 3.15 is one of the biggest (if not _the_ biggest) releases in a long time, and we do rc8's with some regularity. It may not be every release, but I think it's about a fifty-fifty chance whether any particular release goes to rc8. So I shouldn't be upset, and I'm certainly not surprised.
No, the real reason I was hoping that we wouldn't need to do an rc8 for 3.15 is that school is out in two weeks, and we're doing our family vacation immediately after that. And I'd hate to have yet another "Linus is traveling during the merge window" thing. Normally I have been luckier with my trips than that.
Now, I'll have internet, and I *could* do the merge window while on vacation with the family. I'd just prefer not to.
SO... Let's try something new. I suspect most people are ready to start the merge window, and we could try how it would be to overlap the first week of the merge window with the last week of the previous release. Most of the submaintainers already use git branches actively, so I doubt anybody will find it too confusing if I end up having a "next" branch for a week that contains the stuff I pull for 3.16.
So let's try to see how well that works - the last weeks of the release tends to be me just waiting around to make sure nothing bad is happening, so doing this kind of overlapping development *should* work fine. Maybe it works so well that we'll end up doing it in the future even if there *isn't* some kind of scheduling conflict that makes me want to start the merge window before I'm 100% comfortable doing the release for the previous version.
And it's not like I think rc8 is in any way broken. I just don't feel comfortable doing a real 3.15 release without a _bit_ more time for people to use the fixed dentry code.
Anyway, apart from the dcache changes, there's a lot of random smaller stuff. One one-liner in particular is interesting: Minchan Kim had a load that basically ate up all the kernel stack on x86-64, and so this finally does something I've been trying to delay for a long time - it expands the stack to 16kB. I think all other 64-bit architectures have done that a long time ago already, so it's not exactly shocking, but it's a somewhat fundamental change on one of the main architectures.
Linus
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Aaron Lu (1): ACPI / thermal: fix workqueue destroy order
Al Viro (6): lift the "already marked killed" case into shrink_dentry_list() split dentry_kill() expand dentry_kill(dentry, 0) in shrink_dentry_list() shrink_dentry_list(): take parent's ->d_lock earlier dealing with the rest of shrink_dentry_list() livelock dentry_kill() doesn't need the second argument now
Alex Smith (1): MIPS: ptrace: Avoid smp_processor_id() in preemptible code
Alexander Graf (2): KVM: PPC: Book3S: ifdef on CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_32_HANDLER for 32bit KVM guest: Make pv trampoline code executable
Alexandre Belloni (2): ARM: at91/dt: sam9260: correct external trigger value ARM: at91: sam9260: fix compilation issues
Alexandre Courbot (1): ARM: trusted_foundations: fix compile error on non-SMP
Alexey Charkov (1): pinctrl: vt8500: Ensure value reg is updated when setting direction
Andrey Ryabinin (1): ARM: 8051/1: put_user: fix possible data corruption in put_user
Andy Shevchenko (1): dmaengine: dw: went back to plain {request,free}_irq() calls
Arnd Bergmann (4): Input: fix ps2/serio module dependency Input: atmel-wm97xx - only build for AVR32 dmaengine: omap: hide filter_fn for built-in drivers dmaengine: sa11x0: remove broken #ifdef
Arun Kumar K (1): ARM: dts: Remove g2d_pd node for exynos5420
Benjamin Herrenschmidt (1): powerpc: Wire renameat2() syscall
Beomho Seo (1): ARM: dts: fix incorrect ak8975 compatible for exynos4412-trats2 board
Bibek Basu (1): cpufreq: remove race while accessing cur_policy
Chao Xie (1): Input: pxa27x-keypad - fix generating scancode
Chris Wilson (3): drm/i915: Fix dynamic allocation of physical handles drm/i915: Only copy back the modified fields to userspace from execbuffer drm/i915: Prevent negative relocation deltas from wrapping
Christian König (3): drm/radeon: lower the ref * post PLL maximum once more drm/radeon: avoid crash if VM command submission isn't available drm/radeon: only allocate necessary size for vm bo list
Cornelia Huck (1): KVM: s390: announce irqfd capability
Daniel Vetter (1): drm/radeon: Resume fbcon last
David Jander (1): clocksource: tcb_clksrc: Make tc_mode interrupt safe
Emil Goode (1): ARM: imx: fix error handling in ipu device registration
Gabor Juhos (1): MIPS: RC32434: fix broken PCI resource initialization
Guenter Roeck (1): powerpc: Fix 64 bit builds with binutils 2.24
Hannes Reinecke (1): dm mpath: really fix lockdep warning
Hans de Goede (4): Input: synaptics - add min/max quirk for the ThinkPad W540 Input: synaptics - T540p - unify with other LEN0034 models Input: synaptics - add a matches_pnp_id helper function Input: synaptics - change min/max quirk table to pnp-id matching
Heinz Mauelshagen (1): dm cache: always split discards on cache block boundaries
Huacai Chen (2): MIPS: Fix a typo error in AUDIT_ARCH definition MIPS: Fix inconsistancy of __NR_Linux_syscalls value
Juri Lelli (1): sched/deadline: Restrict user params max value to 2^63 ns
Kyungmin Park (1): ARM: EXYNOS: fix the secondary CPU boot of exynos4212
Lai Jiangshan (1): sched: Fix hotplug vs. set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
Laurent Pinchart (1): ARM: OMAP3: clock: Back-propagate rate change from cam_mclk to dpll4_m5 on all OMAP3 platforms
Linus Torvalds (2): dcache: add missing lockdep annotation Linux 3.15-rc8
Liviu Dudau (1): Input: ambakmi - request a shared interrupt for AMBA KMI devices
Lucas Stach (1): cpufreq: cpu0: drop wrong devm usage
Marcelo Tosatti (1): KVM: x86: disable master clock if TSC is reset during suspend
Marek Olšák (1): drm/radeon: don't allow RADEON_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU for command submission
Markos Chandras (2): MIPS: Fix typo when reporting cache and ftlb errors for ImgTec cores MIPS: malta: memory.c: Initialize the 'memsize' variable
Maxime COQUELIN (1): clk: divider: Fix table round up function
Michael Kerrisk (1): sched: Make sched_setattr() correctly return -EFBIG
Mike Snitzer (1): dm thin: add 'no_space_timeout' dm-thin-pool module param
Miklos Szeredi (1): vfs: fix vmplice_to_user()
Minchan Kim (1): x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K
Ming Lei (1): virtio_blk: fix race between start and stop queue
Nicolas Pitre (1): ARM: 8063/1: bL_switcher: fix individual online status reporting of removed CPUs
Nikolay Borisov (1): ARM: 8052/1: unwind: Fix handling of "Pop r4-r[4+nnn],r14" opcode
Paolo Bonzini (1): KVM: vmx: disable APIC virtualization in nested guests
Paul Mackerras (1): KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add missing code for transaction reclaim on guest exit
Peter Ujfalusi (1): ARM: omap5: hwmod_data: Correct IDLEMODE for McPDM
Peter Zijlstra (4): sched: Disallow sched_attr::sched_policy < 0 sched/deadline: Change sched_getparam() behaviour vs SCHED_DEADLINE sched/deadline: Replace NR_CPUS arrays sched/cpupri: Replace NR_CPUS arrays
Philipp Zabel (1): MAINTAINERS: Add reset controller framework entry
Rabin Vincent (2): ARM: 8048/1: fix v7-M setup stack location ARM: 8064/1: fix v7-M signal return
Ralf Baechle (3): MIPS: Change type of asid_cache to unsigned long MIPS: Fix branch emulation of branch likely instructions. MIPS: SB1: Fix excessive kernel warnings.
Roger Quadros (1): ARM: OMAP2+: nand: Fix NAND on OMAP2 and OMAP3 boards
Sachin Kamat (3): ARM: exynos_defconfig: enable HS-I2C to fix for mmc partition mount ARM: dts: Fix SPI interrupt numbers for exynos5420 ARM: dts: Keep LDO4 always ON for exynos5250-arndale board
Santosh Shilimkar (1): ARM: OMAP4: Fix the boot regression with CPU_IDLE enabled
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (1): MIPS: Lemote 2F: cs5536: mfgpt: use raw locks
Seungwon Jeon (1): ARM: dts: disable MDMA1 node for exynos5420
Srivatsa S. Bhat (1): powerpc, kexec: Fix "Processor X is stuck" issue during kexec from ST mode
Stefan Richter (1): firewire: revert to 4 GB RDMA, fix protocols using Memory Space
Takashi Iwai (1): ALSA: hda - Fix onboard audio on Intel H97/Z97 chipsets
Thierry Reding (3): clk: tegra: Fix PLLE programming clk: tegra: Introduce divider mask and shift helpers clk: tegra: Fix enabling of PLLE
Thomas Bogendoerfer (1): MIPS: R46000: Fix Micro-assembler field overflow for R4600 V2
Thomas Gleixner (3): futex: Add another early deadlock detection check futex: Prevent attaching to kernel threads rtmutex: Fix deadlock detector for real
Thomas Petazzoni (3): ARM: mvebu: mvebu-soc-id: add missing clk_put() call ARM: mvebu: mvebu-soc-id: keep clock enabled if PCIe unit is enabled ARM: mvebu: fix definitions of PCIe interfaces on Armada 38x
Tony Lindgren (1): ARM: OMAP2+: Fix DMA hang after off-idle
Tushar Behera (2): ARM: dts: Remove mau_pd node for exynos5420 ALSA: pcm_dmaengine: Add check during device suspend
Valentin Ilie (1): clk: st: Fix memory leak
Will Deacon (1): arm64: mm: fix pmd_write CoW brokenness
Zhiwu Song (1): clocksource: marco: Fix the affinity set for local timer of CPU1
pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com (1): KVM: PPC: Book3S: HV: make _PAGE_NUMA take effect
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