So nothing all that exciting happened, and while I was tempted a
couple of times to do an rc8, there really wasn't any reason for it.
Just as an example, Sasha Levin used KASan and found an interesting
bug in paravirtualized spinlocks, but realistically it's been around
forever, and it's not even clear that it can really ever trigger in
practice. We'll get it fixed, and mark it for stable, and tempting as
it was, it wasn't really a reason to delay 3.19.
And the actual fixes that went in (see appended shortlog) were all
fairly small, with the exception of some medium-sized infiniband
changes that were all reverting code that just wasn't ready.
So it's out there - go and get it. And as a result, the merge window
for 3.20 is obviously also now open.
Linus
---
Aaro Koskinen (1):
MIPS: OCTEON: fix kernel crash when offlining a CPU
Alex Deucher (2):
drm/radeon: don't init gpuvm if accel is disabled (v3)
drm/radeon: properly set vm fragment size for TN/RL
Arnd Bergmann (6):
ARM: 8298/1: ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS only works with MMU enabled
net: cs89x0: always build platform code if !HAS_IOPORT_MAP
net: wan: add missing virt_to_bus dependencies
net: lance,ni64: don't build for ARM
net: am2150: fix nmclan_cs.c shared interrupt handling
mm: export "high_memory" symbol on !MMU
Baruch Siach (2):
tools/liblockdep: ignore generated .so file
tools/liblockdep: don't include host headers
Bhuvanchandra DV (1):
spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Remove usage of devm_kzalloc
Bo Shen (2):
ASoC: atmel_ssc_dai: fix start event for I2S mode
ASoC: atmel_ssc_dai: fix the setting for DSP mode
Boris Ostrovsky (1):
x86, microcode: Return error from driver init code when loader is disabled
Brian King (1):
sd: Fix max transfer length for 4k disks
Brian Norris (1):
MIPS: JZ4740: Fixup #include's (sparse)
Charlotte Richardson (1):
PCI: Add NEC variants to Stratus ftServer PCIe DMI check
Chen Gang (1):
net: usb: sr9700: Use 'SR_' prefix for the common register macros
Christian König (1):
drm/radeon: fix PLLs on RS880 and older v2
Chung-Ling Tang (1):
nios2: fix unhandled signals
Dan Carpenter (1):
isdn: off by one in connect_res()
Dave Chinner (1):
aio: annotate aio_read_event_ring for sleep patterns
David Daney (1):
MIPS: Fix C0_Pagegrain[IEC] support.
David L Stevens (1):
sunvnet: set queue mapping when doing packet copies
David Vrabel (1):
xen-netback: stop the guest rx thread after a fatal error
Ed Swierk (1):
MIPS: Fix restart of indirect syscalls
Eric Dumazet (7):
tcp: ipv4: initialize unicast_sock sk_pacing_rate
net: sched: fix panic in rate estimators
ipv4: tcp: get rid of ugly unicast_sock
flow_keys: n_proto type should be __be16
net: remove some sparse warnings
ipv6: fix sparse errors in ip6_make_flowlabel()
sit: fix some __be16/u16 mismatches
Eric Nelson (1):
ASoC: sgtl5000: add delay before first I2C access
Felix Fietkau (1):
MIPS: IRQ: Fix disable_irq on CPU IRQs
Filip Brozovic (1):
ASoC: sgtl5000: Use shift mask when setting codec mode
Florian Westphal (1):
ppp: deflate: never return len larger than output buffer
Forrest Liu (1):
Btrfs: add missing blk_finish_plug in btrfs_sync_log()
Giel van Schijndel (1):
cifs: use memzero_explicit to clear stack buffer
Haggai Eran (1):
IB/core: Temporarily disable ex_query_device uverb
Haiyang Zhang (1):
hyperv: Fix the error processing in netvsc_send()
Hemmo Nieminen (1):
MIPS: Fix kernel lockup or crash after CPU offline/online
Ignacy Gawędzki (1):
cls_api.c: Fix dumping of non-existing actions' stats.
Ilija Hadzic (2):
drm/radeon: fix the crash in benchmark functions
drm/radeon: fix the crash in test functions
Iyappan Subramanian (1):
drivers: net: xgene: fix: Out of order descriptor bytes read
Jack Morgenstein (1):
net/mlx4_core: Fix kernel Oops (mem corruption) when working
with more than 80 VFs
James Cowgill (1):
MIPS: ELF: fix loading o32 binaries on 64-bit kernels
James Hogan (6):
MIPS: mips-cm: Fix sparse warnings
MIPS: smp-mt,smp-cmp: Enable all HW IRQs on secondary CPUs
MIPS: mipsregs.h: Add write_32bit_cp1_register()
MIPS: traps: Fix inline asm ctc1 missing .set hardfloat
MIPS: fork: Fix MSA/FPU/DSP context duplication race
IRQCHIP: mips-gic: Avoid rerouting timer IRQs for smp-cmp
Jan Beulich (1):
sched/fair: Avoid using uninitialized variable in preferred_group_nid()
Jarkko Nikula (1):
ASoC: rt5640: Add RT5642 ACPI ID for Intel Baytrail
Jie Yang (2):
ASoC: Intel: Used lock version to update shim registers
MAINTAINERS: ASoC: add maintainer for Intel BDW/HSW ASoC driver
Johan Hovold (2):
gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_export_link
gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low
John Stultz (1):
hrtimer: Fix incorrect tai offset calculation for non high-res
timer systems
Joonsoo Kim (1):
mm/debug_pagealloc: fix build failure on ppc and some other archs
Julian Anastasov (1):
ipvs: rerouting to local clients is not needed anymore
Kenneth Klette Jonassen (1):
pkt_sched: fq: avoid hang when quantum 0
Kevin Strasser (1):
ASoC: Intel: fix sst firmware path for cht-bsw-rt5672
Kim Phillips (1):
.mailmap: update Konstantin Khlebnikov's email address
Lai Jiangshan (1):
smpboot: Add missing get_online_cpus() in smpboot_register_percpu_thread()
Lars Persson (1):
MIPS: Fix syscall_get_nr for the syscall exit tracing.
Lars-Peter Clausen (2):
ASoC: Add support for allocating AC'97 device before registering it
ASoC: wm97xx: Reset AC'97 device before registering it
Lendacky, Thomas (2):
amd-xgbe: Adjust for zero-based traffic class count
amd-xgbe: Set RSS enablement based on hardware features
Li Wei (1):
ipv4: Don't increase PMTU with Datagram Too Big message.
Linus Torvalds (1):
Linux 3.19
Lucas Stach (1):
PCI: designware: Reject MSI-X IRQs
Manuel Lauss (1):
ASoC: wm8731: init mutex in i2c init path
Marcelo Leitner (1):
qlge: Fix qlge_update_hw_vlan_features to handle if interface is down
Michael S. Tsirkin (1):
vhost/net: fix up num_buffers endian-ness
Michal Hocko (1):
memcg, shmem: fix shmem migration to use lrucare
Mike Christie (1):
scsi: fix device handler detach oops
Mike Galbraith (1):
sched: Fix crash if cpuset_cpumask_can_shrink() is passed an empty cpumask
Mikulas Patocka (1):
sched/wait: Remove might_sleep() from wait_event_cmd()
Ming Lei (2):
Revert "blk-mq: fix hctx/ctx kobject use-after-free"
blk-mq: release mq's kobjects in blk_release_queue()
Myron Stowe (1):
PCI: Handle read-only BARs on AMD CS553x devices
Neal Cardwell (5):
tcp: stretch ACK fixes prep
tcp: fix the timid additive increase on stretch ACKs
tcp: fix stretch ACK bugs in Reno
tcp: fix stretch ACK bugs in CUBIC
tcp: fix timing issue in CUBIC slope calculation
NeilBrown (2):
md/raid5: fix another livelock caused by non-aligned writes.
md/bitmap: fix a might_sleep() warning.
Nicolas Dichtel (2):
caif: remove wrong dev_net_set() call
vxlan: setup the right link netns in newlink hdlr
Nicolas Pitre (1):
ARM: 8294/1: ATAG_DTB_COMPAT: remove the DT workspace's
hardcoded 64KB size
Niklas Cassel (1):
cifs: fix MUST SecurityFlags filtering
Oded Gabbay (3):
drm/amdkfd: Fix bug in accounting of queues
drm/amdkfd: max num of queues can't be 0
drm/amdkfd: Don't create BUG due to incorrect user parameter
Pablo Neira (1):
netlink: fix wrong subscription bitmask to group mapping in
Pablo Neira Ayuso (3):
netfilter: nf_tables: validate hooks in NAT expressions
netfilter: nf_tables: disable preemption when restoring chain counters
netfilter: nf_tables: fix leaks in error path of nf_tables_newchain()
Peter Ujfalusi (1):
ASoC: tlv320aic3x: Fix data delay configuration
Peter Zijlstra (1):
sched/deadline: Fix deadline parameter modification handling
Rafael J. Wysocki (1):
Revert "ACPI / LPSS: introduce a 'proxy' device to power on LPSS for DMA"
Ralf Baechle (9):
MIPS: Do not fiddle with FRE unless FRE is actually available.
MIPS: FRE: Use set/clear_c0_config5 instead of open coded sequences.
MIPS: Update malta_defconfig to something that works out of the box.
MIPS: Wire up execveat(2).
MIPS: Compat: Fix build error if CONFIG_MIPS32_COMPAT but no compat ABI.
MIPS: Kconfig: Fix recursive dependency.
MIPS: ARC: Fix build error.
MIPS: elf2ecoff: Rewrite main processing loop to switch.
MIPS: elf2ecoff: Ignore PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS program headers.
Richard Weinberger (1):
Documentation: Update netlink_mmap.txt
Rob Herring (1):
ARM: 8295/1: fix v7M build for !CONFIG_PRINTK
Robin Gong (1):
spi: imx: use pio mode for i.mx6dl
Roland Dreier (8):
Revert "IPoIB: No longer use flush as a parameter"
Revert "IPoIB: Make ipoib_mcast_stop_thread flush the workqueue"
Revert "IPoIB: Use dedicated workqueues per interface"
Revert "IPoIB: change init sequence ordering"
Revert "IPoIB: fix mcast_dev_flush/mcast_restart_task race"
Revert "IPoIB: fix MCAST_FLAG_BUSY usage"
Revert "IPoIB: Make the carrier_on_task race aware"
Revert "IPoIB: Consolidate rtnl_lock tasks in workqueue"
Roopa Prabhu (1):
bridge: dont send notification when skb->len == 0 in rtnl_bridge_notify
Ryusuke Konishi (1):
nilfs2: fix deadlock of segment constructor over I_SYNC flag
Sabrina Dubroca (1):
ip6_gre: fix endianness errors in ip6gre_err
Sachin Prabhu (1):
Complete oplock break jobs before closing file handle
Sanjeev Sharma (1):
gianfar: correct the bad expression while writing bit-pattern
Saran Maruti Ramanara (1):
net: sctp: fix passing wrong parameter header to param_type2af
in sctp_process_param
Sasha Levin (1):
net: rds: use correct size for max unacked packets and bytes
Shahed Shaikh (1):
qlcnic: Fix NAPI poll routine for Tx completion
Shiraz Hashim (1):
mm: pagewalk: call pte_hole() for VM_PFNMAP during walk_page_range
Sonic Zhang (1):
gpio: mcp23s08: handle default gpio base
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) (2):
tracing: Add condition check to RCU lockdep checks
x86/tlb/trace: Do not trace on CPU that is offline
Sudip Mukherjee (1):
MAINTAINERS: remove SUPERH website
Sylwester Nawrocki (1):
ARM: dts: Fix I2S1, I2S2 compatible for exynos4 SoCs
Takashi Iwai (2):
ALSA: ak411x: Fix stall in work callback
drm/cirrus: Limit modes depending on bpp option
Tony Lindgren (1):
gpio: omap: Fix bad device access with setup_irq()
Toshiaki Makita (4):
net: Fix vlan_get_protocol for stacked vlan
igbvf: Fix checksum error when using stacked vlan
ixgbe: Fix checksum error when using stacked vlan
ixgbevf: Fix checksum error when using stacked vlan
Vlad Yasevich (3):
ipv6: Select fragment id during UFO segmentation if not set.
Revert "drivers/net, ipv6: Select IPv6 fragment idents for
virtio UFO packets"
Revert "drivers/net: Disable UFO through virtio"
Will Deacon (2):
ARM: 8288/1: dma-mapping: don't detach devices without an IOMMU
during teardown
ARM: 8299/1: mm: ensure local active ASID is marked as allocated
on rollover
Yann Droneaud (1):
Revert "IB/core: Add support for extended query device caps"
karl beldan (2):
lib/checksum.c: fix carry in csum_tcpudp_nofold
lib/checksum.c: fix build for generic csum_tcpudp_nofold
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Linus Torvalds
<[email protected]> wrote:
> So it's out there - go and get it. And as a result, the merge window
> for 3.20 is obviously also now open.
3.20? How high are we going to count before it's time to consider 4.0?
-Tony
Hi,
some personal notes on this release.
Several warnings and call-traces which I saw in Linux-next (upcoming
v3.20) turned out to be also issues in v3.19.
[1] aio: annotate aio_read_event_ring for sleep patterns
[2] tracing: Add condition check to RCU lockdep checks
[3] x86/tlb/trace: Do not trace on CPU that is offline
Some words to [1]:
Honestly people should reply with pointing to a fix if I give them my
precious life-time.
By accident I found the fix when gasping over the last changes to v3.19.
I could spent some more time on "how to test a linux-kernel?", but
there should come clear words from experienced maintainers and/or
"father of Linux".
Personally, I test with my kernel-config and want to have a quick
feedback if it's "good".
Thus I used to run LTP "lite" script on my "rc" and "-next" kernels.
In case of filesystems fio [4] helped me to trigger some bugs
(replaced for me xfstests).
I am not sure if Documentation directory contains hints especially in
the topic of "testing a Linux kernel".
It's interesting to see "kbuild test robot <[email protected]>"
[5] as an author of patches :-).
IOW that beast helped to trigger a lot of "build" bugs - my big respect!
Nevertheless, I prefer to run any of my kernels on bare metal.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
- Sedat -
[1] http://marc.info/?t=141929396100001&r=1&w=2
[1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2077075?page=last
[1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9c9ce763b114e608b5cf3aa6cb69ad9f6e8b6adf
[2,3] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4e02370f64167a30ff7ba35ae5bc296f09b964d3
[2] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a05d59a5673339ef6936d6940cdf68172ce75b9f
[3] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6c8465a82a605bc692304bab42703017dcfff013
[4] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/axboe/fio.git/
[5] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/
Hi Linus,
On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 19:41:03 -0800 Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So it's out there - go and get it. And as a result, the merge window
> for 3.20 is obviously also now open.
If linux-next is anything to go by, v2.20 could be the smallest release
in a long time.
see http://neuling.org/linux-next-size.html
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell [email protected]