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• Linux_4.17

Last updated at 2018-11-25 20:47:43

Linux 4.17 has been released on 3 June 2018.

Summary: This release adds support for AMD Radeon Vega 12 and it enables the "display code" by default in supported AMD Radeon GPUs; it also adds a kernel TLS receive path; a more efficient idle loop that prevent CPUs from spending too much time in shallow idle states; eight unmaintained architectures have been removed and another, the Andes NDS32 architecture, has been added; XFS has gained lazytime support; the CPU load estimations have been modified; Intel Cannonlake GPUs are supported and a kernel memory consistency model has been added; and many new drivers and other improvements.

1. Prominent features

1.1. AMD Radeon Vega 12 support + "Display Code" enabled by default

This release adds support for AMD Radeon Vega 12.

It also enables by default the display code added in Linux 4.15

Code: commit, commit

1.2. Kernel TLS receive path

Linux 4.13 added a feature to speed up TLS traffic by creating an in-kernel TLS pseudo implementation that did let the kernel send TLS messages. This release includes support for the receiving side.

Code: commit, commit

1.3. A more efficient idle loop

This release reworks the idle loop in order to prevent CPUs from spending too much time in shallow idle states. It reduces idle power on some systems by 10% or more and may improve performance of workloads in which the idle loop overhead matters.

Code: commit, commit, commit, commit , commit, ,commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

1.4. Removal of unused architectures

Eight architectures have been removed due to lack of maintenance: score, blackfin, CRIS, frv, m32r, metag, mn10300 and tile

Recommended LWN article: Shedding old architectures and compilers in the kernel

Code: commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

1.5. New NDS32 architecture

While eight unmaintained architectures are being removed, one has been added: NDS32. The Andes nds32 architecture supports Linux for Andes's N10, D10, N13, N15, D15 processor cores. It is based on the patented 16/32-bit AndeStar RISC-like architecture. AndesCores range from highly performance-efficient small-footprint cores for microcontrollers and deeply-embedded applications to 1GHz+ cores running Linux, covering general-purpose N-series cores for a wide range of computing need, DSP-capable D-series cores for digital signal control, instruction-extensible E-series cores for application-specific acceleration, and secure S-series cores for best protection of the most valuable. Customers together have shipped over 2.5 billion SoC’s with Andes processors embedded (including non-MMU IP cores).

Code: (including interrupt controller driver and timer driver). It is able to boot to shell and passes most LTP-2017 testsuites in nds32 AE3XX platform https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/nds32?id=e71ea3badae55a69a44b8fcb46ae7b547529b3761arch/nds32

1.6. XFS lazytime support

XFS adds support for the lazytime, a feature that helps to improve the performance impact caused by atime updates.

Code: commit

1.7. Better load estimation

This release changes the algorithms used to estimate the CPU load to make it a better fit for the scheduling of tasks common in embedded mobile use-cases, without affecting other classes of workloads.

Recommended LWN article: Toward better CPU load estimation

Code: commit, commit, commit, commit

1.8. Intel Cannonlake support

Support for Intel Cannonlake GPUs is enabled in this release.

Code: commit, commit, commit

1.9. Latest protections against CPU bugs

This release adds support for SSBD mitigation

Code: commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

1.10. Provide a Linux-kernel memory model

This release adds the Linux Kernel Memory Consistency Model (LKMM) subsystem, which is an an array of tools in tools/memory-model/ that formally describe the Linux memory coherency model (a.k.a. Documentation/memory-barriers.txt), and also produce 'litmus tests' in form of kernel code which can be directly executed and tested.

Recommended LWN article: A formal kernel memory-ordering model (part 1), A formal kernel memory-ordering model (part 2)

Code: commit

2. Core (various)

• firmware

  • Enable run time change of forcing fallback loader commit

  • Enable to force disable the fallback mechanism at run time commit

• Add KASAN checks to atomic operations commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add trace events around the initcall functions, which adds the necessary information to analyze the initcalls without the high overhead of printk()s that can substantially slow down the boot process commit, commit, commit, commit

• (FEATURED) Power management: rework the idle loop commit, commit, commit, commit , commit, ,commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Task scheduler

  • (FEATURED) Better load estimation commit, commit, commit, commit

  • boot parameters "nohz_full=" or "isolcpus=nohz" will now offload the residual 1Hz tick to the global workqueue so that the nohz_full CPUs don't have anymore tick (assuming nothing else requires it) as their residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to the housekeepers commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Reduce migrations and conflicts with automatic NUMA balancing commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• prctl

  • Add force disable speculation commit

  • Add two new prctls to control aspects of speculation related vulnerabilites and their mitigations to provide finer grained control over performance impacting mitigations commit

• proc: Provide details on speculation flaw mitigations commit

• IRQs: Add wakeup sysfs node to show IRQ wakeup state commit

• Unconditionally clear stack on fork commit

• Pin stack limit during exec commit

• Hibernation: Add a new /sys/power/resume_offset that lets userspace specify the offset and disk to use when initiating a hibernate cycle commit

• RCU: Remove obsolete statistics from debugfs commit, commit, commit, commit

• sysvipc: introduce STAT_ANY commands (msgctl(MSG_STAT_ANY), semctl(SEM_STAT_ANY), shmctl(SHM_STAT_ANY)) to solve discrepancies for ipc object permission checks between the syscall and via procfs commit, commit, commit

• kconfig: rename silentoldconfig to syncconfig commit

• inotify: Extend ioctl to allow to request id of new watch descriptor commit

3. File systems

• BTRFS

  • Add nossd_spread mount option commit

  • Remove userspace transaction ioctls commit

  • send: do not issue unnecessary truncate operations commit

• XFS

  • Implement the lazytime mount option commit

• AFS

  • Implement @cell substitution handling commit

  • Implement @sys substitution handling commit

  • Introduce a statistics proc file commit

  • Add stats for data transfer operations commit

• F2FS

  • Introduce new mount option fsync_mode to control the policy of fsync. fsync_mode=posix is set by default, and means that f2fs uses a light fsync, which follows POSIX semantics. fsync_mode=strict means that it's a heavy fsync, which behaves in line with xfs, ext4 and btrfs, where generic/342 will pass, but the performance will regress commit

  • Add three block allocation policies to pass down write hints given by user commit, commit, commit

  • Expose extension list to user and introduce hot file extension commit, commit

  • Add mount option for segment allocation policy commit

  • Introduce F2FS_FEATURE_LOST_FOUND (unreachable files saved in lost+found) feature commit

  • Introduce a new mount option test_dummy_encryption commit

  • nowait aio support commit

  • Support large nat bitmap commit

• CEPH

  • Quota support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Support for rbd "fancy" striping. The striping feature bit is now fully implemented, allowing mapping v2 images with non-default striping patterns. This completes support for --image-format 2 commit

• OVERLAYFS

  • Consistent inode number support for the case when layers are not all on the same filesystem (xino mount and config options) commit, commit

• CIFS

  • Implement v3.11 pre-authentification integrity commit, commit

• PSTORE

  • Add lz4hc and 842 compression support commit

  • Allow for run-time compression selection commit

• UDF

  • Remove never implemented mount options commit

4. Memory management

• Introduce MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE to solve issues not solved with MAP_FIXED commit

• (FEATURED) Automate memory-barriers.txt; provide Linux-kernel memory model commit

• OOM: remove 3% bonus for CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes commit

• Introduce the concept of indirectly reclaimable memory (nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat). Indirectly reclaimable memory is any sort of memory, used by the kernel (except of reclaimable slabs), which is actually reclaimable, i.e. will be released under memory pressure commit, commit, commit, commit

• Introduces the ability to define both kernelcore and movablecore boot options as a percentage of total system memory commit

• Make counting of list_lru_one::nr_items lockless commit

5. Block layer

• dm unstripe: adds support for non power of 2 chunk size to the "unstriped" target commit, commit

• dm: add support for secure erase forwarding commit

• rbd

  • Allow "fancy" striping commit

  • notrim map option commit

• libnvdimm: Add device-tree based driver commit

• tools/testing/nvdimm: allow custom error code injection commit

• lightnvm 1.2 to 2.0 transition commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• nvme: Add fault injection feature commit

6. Tracing and perf

• Modernize the kprobe and uprobe creation/destruction tooling ABIs. The existing text based APIs (kprobe_events and uprobe_events in tracefs), are naive, limited ABIs that are not really suited for modern, robust tooling. This release introduces a file descriptor based ABI that does not have these limitations: it introduces the 'perf_kprobe' and 'perf_uprobe' PMUs and extend the perf_event_open() syscall to create events with a kprobe/uprobe attached to them commit, commit, commit

• perf annotate

  • Recognize and handle jumps to other functions as calls, which improves the navigation along jumps and back commit

  • Add the 'P' hotkey in TUI annotation to dump annotation output into a file, to ease e-mail reporting of annotation details commit

  • Add an IPC/cycles column to the TUI commit

  • Introduce --ignore-vmlinux command line option commit

  • Introduce the --stdio2 output mode commit

• perf script: Add --show-round-event to display PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND commit

• perf c2c: Add NUMA analysis support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• perf trace/stat: Implement support for the -G/--cgroup target in 'perf trace'. One can set a cgroup as a default cgroup to be used by all events or set cgroups with the 'perf stat' and 'perf record' behaviour, i.e. '-G A' will be the cgroup for events defined so far in the command line commit

• perf stat

  • Add the --interval-count option to print count deltas for fixed number of times commit

  • Add the --timeout option option to print counts after a period of time commit

• perf report: Introduce --ignore-vmlinux command line option commit

• perf: Support wildcards on pmu name in dynamic pmu events commit, commit

• Add perf -vv as an alias to 'perf version --build-options' commit

• perf: Add PERF_EVENT_IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTES which allows the modification of hardware breakpoints, which new ABI variant massively speeds up existing tooling that uses hardware breakpoints to instrument (and debug) memory usage commit

• perf: Record machine topology in perf.data commit, commit

• perf script: Add Python 3 support commit

• perf tools: Add a "dso_size" sort order commit

• Show only failing syscalls with perf trace --failure commit

• tracing: an extended histogram rework: now the kernel allows the synthetic events to have histograms from multiple event data. Adds triggers "onmatch" and "onmax" to call the synthetic events. For more details see the Documentation. commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• uprobe: Add support for attaching uprobes to binaries in overlayfs commit

7. Virtualization

• User-mode linux

  • Epoll based IRQ controller commit

  • High Performance UML Vector Network Driver commit

• KVM: Allow to query for hints about the configuration of the guests. The first hint KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED, is set if the guest has dedicated physical CPUs for each vCPU (i.e. pinning and no over-commitment). This allows optimizing spinlocks and tells the guest to avoid PV TLB flush commit

• uio: uio_hv_generic: support sub-channels commit

• vfio/pci: Add ioeventfd support commit

• vhost: add vsock compat ioctl commit

• hv: vmbus: Implement Direct Mode for stimer0 commit

8. Cryptography

• speck: add support for the Speck block cipher commit

• cfb: add support for Cipher FeedBack mode commit

• sm4: introduce SM4 symmetric cipher algorithm commit

9. Security

• Add SELinux SCTP protocol support commit, commit, commit, commit

• Apparmor

  • Add basic socket mediation. This is not a full net mediation but just whether a spcific family of socket can be used by an application, along with setting up some basic infrastructure for network mediation to follow. Network mediation will only be available in v8 abi complaint policy commit

  • Add support for attaching profiles via xattr, presence and value. An example usecase for

    • this is to automatically transition to a more privileged Apparmor profile if an executable has a valid IMA signature, which can then be appraised by the IMA subsystem commit

  • audit unknown signal numbers commit

• seccomp

  • Add filter flag to opt-out of SSB mitigation commit

  • Enable speculation flaw mitigations commit

• random: add new ioctl RNDRESEEDCRNG which forces the the crng to be reseeded commit

• IMA

  • Support using new creds in appraisal policy commit

  • Fail signature verification based on policy. It addresses the fuse privileged mounted filesystems in environments which are unwilling to accept the risk of trusting the

    • signature verification and want to always fail safe, but are for example using a pre-built kernel commit

• audit: deprecate the AUDIT_FILTER_ENTRY filter commit

10. Networking

• (FEATURED) Receive path for kernel TLS commit, commit

• TCP

  • Switch to Generic Segmentation Offload being always on commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Adds TCP_NLA_SENDQ_SIZE stat into SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS. It reports no. of bytes present in send queue, when timestamp is generated commit

  • Adds TCP_NLA_CA_STATE stat into SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS. It reports ca_state of socket, when timestamp is generated commit

  • Adds TCP_NLA_SND_SSTHRESH stat into SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS that reports tcp_sock.snd_ssthresh commit

• UDP: Move the udp sysctl to namespace commit

• Wireless

  • Support offloading wireless authentication to userspace via NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH commit, commit, commit

  • Add support for running 802.11 authentication mechanisms (e.g. 802.1X, 4-Way Handshake, etc) over NL80211 instead of putting them onto the network device commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Allow AP_VLAN operation on crypto controlled devices commit

  • Add txq flags to debugfs commit

  • Support reporting A-MPDU EOF bit value/known commit

  • Add support to notify station's opmode change to userspace commit, commit

• Extends fib rule match support to include sport, dport and ip proto match (to complete the 5-tuple match support). Common use-cases of Policy based routing in the data center require 5-tuple match commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• IPv6: Add support for multipath selection using hash of 5-tuple commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• IPv6: allow userspace to add IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC addresses commit

• ethtool

  • Add support for configuring PFC stall prevention in ethtool commit

  • Enable Inline TLS in HW commit

• fib_rules: Add new attribute to set protocol commit

• Infiniband

  • IB device memory support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • ESP flow action support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • srpt: Add RDMA/CM support commit

  • Verbs flow counters support, it allows user space applications to monitor real time traffic activity and events of the verbs objects it manages, e.g.: ibv_qp, ibv_wq, ibv_flow

  • RDMA ioctl() improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• batman-adv: netlink support for DAT and MCAST commit, commit

• ncsi: Add generic netlink family commit

• netfilter

  • ctnetlink: synproxy support commit

  • ebtables: Add support for specifying match revision commit

  • ebtables: add support for matching ICMP type and code commit

  • ebtables: add support for matching IGMP type commit

  • nft_ct: add NFT_CT_{SRC,DST}_{IP,IP6} commit

  • xt_conntrack: Support bit-shifting for CONNMARK & MARK targets commit

• namespaces: send uevent messages commit

• RDS: zerocopy support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• sock: remove zerocopy sockopt restriction on closed tcp state commit

• SCTP

  • Add support for some sctp auth APIs from RFC6458 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add support for some msg_control options from RFC6458 commit, commit, commit

• BPF

  • Add sock_ops R/W access to ipv4 tos commit

  • Introduce cgroup-bpf bind, connect, post-bind hooks commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add support for bpf program to read perf event sample address commit, commit

  • Adds a BPF hook for sendmsg and senfile by using the ULP infrastructure and sockmap commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Introduce bpf raw tracepoints. It is a different way to address the pressing need to access task_struct pointers in sched tracepoints from bpf programs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add the BPF_F_INGRESS flag support to the reidrect APIs, bringing the sockmap API in-line with the cls_bpf redirect APIs commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Whitelist all syscalls for error injection commit

  • bpftool: improve batch mode commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Visualization support for eBPF program commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• netdevsim: Add simple FIB resource controller via devlink commit

• tun

  • Add ioctl() SIOCGSKNS cmd to allow obtaining net ns of tun device commit

  • Export flags, uid, gid, queue information over netlink commit

  • Send netlink notification when the device is modified commit

  • XDP_TX can use native XDP commit

• ppp: remove the PPPIOCDETACH ioctl commit

• RDMA/nldev: adds rdma_cm_id, ib_cq, ib_mr, and ib_pd information to the new resource tracking database commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• SMC

  • IPv6 support commit, commit, commit

  • Enabling SMC communication with peers supporting more than one link per link group commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• TIPC

  • Introduce 128-bit auto-configurable node id commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Implement socket diagnostics for AF_TIPC commit, commit, commit

11. Architectures

• (FEATURED) Removal of unmaintained architectures

  • Remove score port commit

  • Remove blackfin port commit

  • Remove CRIS port commit

  • Remove frv port commit

  • Remove m32r port commit

  • Remove metag port commit

  • Remove mn10300 port commit

  • Remove tile port commit, commit

• ARM

  • Add ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE commit

  • Device Tree Sources

    • Allwinner H6 makes its debut with the Pine-H64 board, and we get two new machines based on its older siblings: the H5 based OrangePi Zero+ and the A64 based Teres-I Laptop from Olimex. On the 32-bit side, we add The Olimex som204 based on Allwinner A20, and the Banana Pi M2 Zero development board (based on H2) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • NVIDIA adds support for Tegra194 aka "Xavier", plus their p2972 development board and p2888 CPU module commit, commit

    • The Nuvoton npcm750 is a BMC that was newly added, for now we only support running on the evaluation board commit

    • STmicroelectronics stm32 gains support for the stm32mp157c and two evaluation boards commit, commit, commit

    • The Toradex Colibri board family grows a few members based on the i.MX6ULL variant commit

    • The Advantec DMS-BA16 is a Qseven module using the NXP i.MX6 family of chips commit

    • The Phytec phyBOARD Mira is a family of industrial boards based on i.MX6. For now, four models get added commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • TI PDU001 based PDU-001 is an industrial embedded machine used for traffic monitoring commit

    • The Aspeed platform now supports running on the BMC on the Qualcomm Centriq 2400 server commit

    • Samsung Exynos4 based Galaxy S3 is a family of mobile phones Qualcomm msm8974 based Galaxy S5 is a rather different phone made by the same company commit

    • The Xilinx Zynq and ZynqMP platforms now gained a lot of dts file for the various boards made by Xilinx themselves, as well as the Digilent Zybo Z7 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • The ARM Versatile family now supports the "IB2" interface board commit

    • The Renesas H2 based "Stout" and the H3 based Salvator-X are more evaluation boards named after a kind of beer, as most of them are. The r8a77980 (V3H) based "Condor" apparently doesn't follow that tradition commit

    • ROC-RK3328-CC is a simple developement board from the Libre Computer Project, based on the Rockchips RK3328 SoC commit

    • Haiku is another development board plus Qseven module based on Rockchips RK3368 and made by Theobroma Systems commit, commit

    • exynos: Add Samsung's Exynos4412-based Midas boards commit

    • Add SC2731 PMIC dts file for Spreadtrum SC9860 commit

    • renesas: Add R-Car Salvator-x M3-N support commit

    • renesas: Add support for Salvator-XS with R-Car M3-N commit

    • renesas: initial Condor board device tree commit

    • renesas: initial R8A77965 SoC device tree commit

    • renesas: initial R8A77980 SoC device tree commit

  • imx: Add basic msl support for imx6sll commit

  • imx: Remove epit support commit

  • Add support for Cortex-R8 processor commit

  • shmobile: Add watchdog support commit, commit

  • sun9i: A80 SMP support commit, commit, commit

  • npcm: add basic support for Nuvoton BMCs commit

  • speck: add NEON-accelerated implementation of Speck-XTS commit

  • firmware: ARM System Control and Management Interface(SCMI) support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • SMMUv3 52-bit address support commit, commit,commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • raid6: Add vpermxor implementation for raid6 Q syndrome commit

  • perf cs-etm: Inject capabilitity for CoreSight traces commit

  • perf tools arm64: Add libdw DWARF post unwind support for ARM64 commit

  • Adds support for some perf events features, targeted at ARM64 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • KVM/arm64: Randomise EL2 mappings (variant 3a mitigation) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Expose Arm v8.4 features commit

  • arm64: Add support for new control bits CTR_EL0.DIC and CTR_EL0.IDC commit

  • arm64/speck - add NEON-accelerated implementation of Speck-XTS commit

• X86

  • (FEATURED) SSBD mitigation commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add "Jailhouse" hypervisor (Recommended LWN article) commit

  • Use PAGE_GLOBAL for !PCID systems to gain back performance commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Mandate asm-goto support commit, commit

  • platform

    • chrome: Add PD port info to debugfs commit

    • chrome: Add sysfs entry to set keyboard wake lid angle commit

    • thinkpad_acpi: Add 2nd Fan Support for Thinkpad P50 commit

    • thinkpad_acpi: Add support for battery thresholds commit

  • powercap: RAPL: Add support for Cannon Lake commit

  • amd_nb: Add support for Raven Ridge CPUs commit

  • memmap: Add a more versatile memmap= operator commit

  • intel trace hub: Add ACPI glue layer commit

  • perf

    • Add Cannon Lake support for RAPL profiling commit

    • Enable C-state residency events for Cannon Lake commit

  • dump_pagetables: Add the EFI pagetable to the debugfs 'page_tables' directory commit

  • Boot-time switching between 4- and 5-level paging commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • KVM

    • Expose SPEC_CTRL Bit(2) to the guest commit

    • Expose SSBD properly to guests commit

    • Add reenlightenment MSRs support commit

    • Make it possible for guests using Hyper-V emulation to do guest->host notification via EVENT_SIGNAL hypercall without a user exit commit, commit

    • Implement VIRT_SPEC_CTRL support for SSBD commit

    • Add Force Emulation Prefix for "emulate the next instruction" commit, commit

    • Provide a capability to disable HLT intercepts commit

    • Provide a capability to disable MWAIT intercepts commit

    • Provide a capability to disable PAUSE intercepts commit

    • nVMX: expose VMX capabilities as MSR features commit, commit

    • Add support for VMware backdoor I/O ports & Pseduo-PMCs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • Add support for AMD Core Perf Extension in guest commit

• M68K

  • Enable RTC for 100-series PowerBooks commit

  • Enable PDMA support for PowerBook 190 commit

• MIPS

  • Add support for Microsemi Ocelot SoC commit, commit, commit

  • BCM47XX: Add Luxul XAP1500/XWR1750 WiFi LEDs commit

  • crypto: Add crc32 and crc32c hw accelerated module commit

• POWERPC

  • 64s: Add support for a store forwarding barrier at kernel entry/exit commit

  • Support for 4PB user address space on 64-bit, opt-in via mmap() commit, commit, commit, commit

  • powernv: Enable tunneled operations commit

• S390

  • Set bzImage as default image for packaging commit

  • perf: Add IBM s390 vendor events commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • cio: add util_string sysfs attribute commit

  • Add a sysfs attribute to control the IFCC handling in case of constant channel errors commit

  • Add kexec_file_load support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • sclp: Add support for Store Data SCLP interface commit

  • zcrypt: Support up to 256 crypto adapters commit, remove deprecated ioctls commit, remove deprecated zcrypt proc interface commit

  • Automatic enable/disable for the spectre v2 defenses commit

  • Add sysfs attributes for spectre commit

  • Report spectre mitigation via syslog commit

  • Add support for IBM z14 Model ZR1 commit

  • KVM: provide counters for all interrupt injects/delivery commit

  • KVM: enable display support for guest commit

• SPARC

  • Support Application Data Integrity feature introduced by SPARC M7. ADI allows MMU to catch rogue accesses to memory commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ALPHA

  • Implement CPU vulnerabilities sysfs functions commit

• RISCV

  • Support for dynamic ftrace commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• NDS32

  • (FEATURED) Add nds32 port (including interrupt controller driver and timer driver). It is able to boot to shell and passes most LTP-2017 testsuites in nds32 AE3XX platform https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/nds32?id=e71ea3badae55a69a44b8fcb46ae7b547529b3761arch/nds32

12. Drivers

12.1. Graphics

• crc: Add support for polling on the data fd. This will make it possible for userspace to know whether reading will block, without blocking on the fd. This makes it possible to drain all queued CRC's in blocking mode, without having to reopen the fd commit

• Remove obsolete logo files commit

• amdgpu

  • (FEATURED) Vega12 support commit, commit

  • (FEATURED) Enable display code by default on all supported GPUs

  • Adding "wattman" like functionality commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • DC crc support commit, commit

  • Expose GPU voltage and power and thermal thresholds through hwmon properly commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add VCN to firmware query interface commit

  • Add amdgpu_evict_gtt debugfs entry commit

  • Initial regamma/degamma/CTM support in DC commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Basic emulation support: add amdgpu_emu_mode module parameter to control the emulation mode commit

• amdkfd

  • KFD GPUVM support for dGPU commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• i915

  • (FEATURED) Cannonlake support enabled commit, commit, commit

  • AUX-F port support added commit

  • Icelake base enabling until internal milestone of forcewake support commit, commit, commit

  • Query uAPI interface (used for GPU topology information currently) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Compressed framebuffer support for sprites commit

  • Full range ycbcr toggling commit, commit, commit

  • HDCP support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add kvmgt debugfs entry nr_cache_entries under vgpu commit

• panel

  • Raydium RM68200 commit

  • AUO G104SN02 V2 commit

  • KEO TX31D200VM0BAA commit

  • ARM Versatile panels commit

  • otm8009a: Add support for the optional power-supply commit

• sun4i

  • A83T HDMI support commit

  • Add support for A80 TCONs commit

  • YUV plane support commit

  • H3/H5 HDMI support commit, commit, commit, commit

  • backend: Add support for zpos commit, commit

• msm

  • DSI updates from 10nm / SDM845 commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add a5xx specific debugfs commit

  • Add sudo flag to submit ioctl commit

• omapdrm

  • HPD support for DVI connector commit

• etnaviv:

  • Use the drm gpu scheduler commit

• vc4

  • Expose perf counters to userspace commit

• mali-dp

  • YUV->RGB conversion support commit

• rcar-du

  • Add R8A77970 support commit, commit

• tilcdc

  • DRM panel support commit

• meson: Add support for DMT modes on HDMI commit

• fbdev: remove blackfin drivers commit

12.2. Storage

• SCSI

  • aacraid: Implement DropIO sync command commit

  • lpfc: Add 64G link speed support commit

  • lpfc: Add PCI Ids for if_type=6 hardware commit

  • lpfc: Add WQ Full Logic for NVME Target commit

  • lpfc: Allow set of maximum outstanding SCSI cmd limit for a target commit

  • mpt3sas: Add PCI device ID for Andromeda commit

  • raid_class: Add 'JBOD' RAID level commit

  • scsi_debug: Add two new parameters to scsi_debug driver commit

  • smartpqi: add in new supported controllers commit

  • ufs

    • Add support for Auto-Hibernate Idle Timer commit

    • Add sysfs attributes commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Remove the NCR53c406a driver commit

  • Remove the sym53c416 driver commit

  • eata: eata-pio: Deprecate legacy EATA drivers commit

• ahci

  • Add PCI ID for Cannon Lake PCH-LP AHCI commit

  • imx: add the imx6qp/imx8qm ahci sata support commit, commit

  • ahci_tegra: Add AHCI support for Tegra210 commit

• ata: Add Amiga Gayle PATA controller driver commit

• ata: remove bf54x driver commit

12.3. Drivers in the Staging area

• imx: add 8-bit grayscale support commit

• fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add APIs for DPSW object commit, add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver commit, add ethtool support commit

• cxd2099: move driver out of staging into dvb-frontends commit

• fsl-mc: Move DPBP out of staging commit

• fsl-mc: Move DPCON out of staging commit

• fsl-mc: Move core bus out of staging commit

• imx074: deprecate, move to staging commit

• mt9t031: deprecate, move to staging commit

• ccree: remove ccree staging driver copy commit

• irda: remove the irda network stack and drivers commit

• remove iio-trig-bfin-timer driver commit

• Add Mediatek MT7621 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

12.4. Networking

• Bluetooth

  • Remove unused btuart_cs driver commit

  • btrsi: add new rsi bluetooth driver commit

  • btrtl: Add RTL8723D and RTL8821C devices commit

  • btusb: Add USB ID 7392:a611 for Edimax EW-7611ULB commit

  • btusb: Add device ID for RTL8822BE commit

  • btusb: Add support for Intel Bluetooth device 22560 [8087:0026] commit

  • hci_bcm: Add 6 new ACPI HIDs commit

  • hci_bcm: Add ACPI HIDs found in Windows .inf files and DSTDs commit

  • hci_bcm: Add irq_polarity module option commit

• qmi_wwan: add support for ublox R410M PID 0x90b2 commit

• RDMA/hns: Support rq and cq record doorbell commit, commit, commit, commit

• ath10k

  • Add memory dump support QCA9984 commit

  • Add sta rx packet stats per tid commit

  • debugfs support to get final TPC stats for 10.4 variants commit

  • Enable QCA6174/QCA9377 to read the chip temperature commit

  • Enable TDLS peer buffer STA feature commit

  • Enable TDLS peer inactivity detection commit

• bnxt_en

  • Add extended port statistics support commit

  • Include additional hardware port statistics in ethtool -S commit

  • Add support for ndo_set_vf_trust commit

• can: remove bfin_can driver commit

• cxgb4

  • Add support for RDMA enhancements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add HMA support commit

  • increase max tx rate limit to 100 Gbps commit

  • Support new ISSI flash parts commit

• dpaa_eth: Add allmulti option commit

• enic: Add vxlan offload support for IPv6 pkts commit

• i40e

  • Add support for new mechanism of updating adaptive ITR commit

  • Add and delete cloud filter commit

  • Add support for XDP_REDIRECT commit

  • Introduces new ethtool private flag used for forcing true link state commit

• i40evf: Add support to apply cloud filters commit

• i40evf: Add support to configure bw via tc tool commit

• ice: Add basic driver framework for Intel(R) E800 Series commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add NXP MCR20A IEEE 802.15.4 transceiver driver commit

• igb: add VF trust infrastructure commit

• iwlwifi

  • Add a bunch of new 9000 PCI IDs commit

  • mvm: add adaptive dwell support commit

  • mvm: add support for oce commit

• ixgbe

  • Add receive length error counter commit

  • Enable TSO with IPsec offload commit

• ixgbevf

  • Enable XDP for ixgbevf commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add ethtool private flag for legacy Rx commit

• lan743x: Add main source files for new lan743x driver commit

• liquidio

  • Add support for liquidio 10GBase-T NIC commit

  • Added support for trusted VF commit

• mlxsw

  • Offload IPv6 multicast routes commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Offload multi-queue RED support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add support for auto-negotiation disable mode commit

  • Expose KVD linear parts as resources. This will give the user the ability to control the linear memory division commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Offloading encapsulated SPAN commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mt76x2: add mac80211 {set,get}_antenna callbacks commit

• mlx4_en: Add physical RX/TX bytes/packets counters commit

• mlx4: Report TSO capabilities commit

• mlx5

  • Add core support for vlan push/pop steering action commit

  • Add flow-steering commands for FPGA IPSec implementation commit

  • Add packet dropped while vport down statistics commit

  • Add support for QUERY_VNIC_ENV command commit

  • E-Switch, Include VF RDMA stats in vport statistics commit

  • IPSec, Add command V2 support commit

  • IPSec, Add support for ESN commit

  • Packet pacing enhancement commit

  • Implement fragmented completion queue (CQ) commit

• mlx5e

  • Add VLAN offload features to hw_enc_features commit

  • Add ethtool priv-flag for Striding RQ commit

  • Add interface down dropped packets statistics commit

  • Add vnic steering drop statistics commit

  • Dump xmit error completions commit

  • IPSec, Add support for ESP trailer removal by hardware commit

  • Offload tc vlan push/pop using HW action commit

  • PFC stall prevention support commit

  • Support XDP over Striding RQ commit

• adi: remove blackfin ethernet drivers commit

• bcmgenet: Add support for adaptive RX coalescing commit

• dsa

  • PTP support for DSA and mv88e6xxx driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • b53: Add BCM5389 support commit

  • mv88e6xxx: Allow the SERDES interfaces to have statistics commit

  • mv88e6xxx: Get mv88e6352 SERDES statistics commit

• ave: add UniPhier PXs3 support commit

• nixge: Add support for National Instruments XGE netdev commit

• ti: cpsw: enable vlan rx vlan offload commit

• hns3

  • Add support of VF Reset commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add querying speed and duplex support to VF commit

  • Add support for querying pfc puase packets statistic commit

• mvpp2

  • Add hardware offloading for VLAN filtering commit

  • Add support for unicast filtering commit

  • Enable UDP/TCP checksum over IPv6 commit

  • jumbo frames support commit

• phy

  • intel-xway: add VR9 v1.1 phy ids commit

  • marvell10g: add thermal hwmon device commit

• qmi_wwan

  • Add Netgear Aircard 779S commit

  • Add Wistron Neweb D19Q1 commit

• Remove cris etrax ethernet driver commit

• stmmac: Add support for DWMAC5 and implement Safety Features commit

• systemport

  • Implement adaptive interrupt coalescing commit

  • Remove adaptive TX coalescing commit

• thunderx

  • Add MAC address filter tracking for LMAC commit

  • Add multicast filter management support commit

  • Add ndo_set_rx_mode callback implementation for VF commit

• tile: remove ethernet drivers commit

• nfp

  • Add a separate counter for packets with CHECKSUM_COMPLETE commit

  • bpf: add basic support for atomic adds commit

  • bpf: add support for atomic add of unknown values commit

  • flower: implement ip fragmentation match offload commit

  • flower: implement tcp flag match offload commit

  • flower: offload phys port MTU change commit

• qed: Adapter flash update support commit

• qede: Ethtool flash update support commit

• ravb: add support for changing MTU commit

• rsi

  • Add bluetooth rx endpoint commit

  • Add coex support commit

  • Add module parameter operating mode commit

• sfc

  • Support 1G BiDi (eg, FiberStore SFP-GE-BX) modules commit

  • Support FEC configuration through ethtool commit

  • Support RSS spreading of ethtool ntuple filters commit

  • Add high power module support commit

• rtlwifi: enable mac80211 fast-tx support commit

• wil6210: Add MultiVIF support to the wil6210 driver. It makes it possible to start multiple interfaces where each interface is an independent WIFI entity such as station, AP and so on commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

12.5. Audio

• hda: Add Icelake PCI ID commit

• usb-audio: Add native DSD support for Luxman DA-06 commit

• usb-audio: UAC2 jack detection commit

• initial USB Audio Device Class 3.0 support commit

• ASoC

  • ADAU7002: Adding ACPI id commit

  • AMD: Add machine driver for ST DA7219 MAX98357 commit

  • Intel: Add Kabylake-y Dialog Maxim machine driver commit

  • Intel: add nau8824 sound card commit

  • Intel: bytcr_rt5651: Add support for Bay Trail CR / SSP0 using boards commit

  • add tda7419 audio processor driver commit

  • ak4458: Add support for AK4458 DAC driver commit

  • ak5558: Add support for AK5558 ADC driver commit

  • codecs: Add support for PCM1789 commit

  • cpcap: new codec commit

  • dmaengine_pcm: add processing support commit

  • imx-wm8962: Remove machine driver commit

  • max9759: Add Amplifier Driver commit

  • remove blackfin drivers commit

  • rt5659: Add the support of Intel HDA Header commit

  • samsung: Add HDMI audio support for Snow commit

  • samsung: Add support for HDMI audio on TM2 board commit

  • sgtl5000: add 5 band graphic equalizer commit

  • stm32: sai: Add support of S/PDIF playback commit

  • support ROHM BD28623 codec commit

  • Add UniPhier audio system support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

12.6. Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses

• HID

  • Add driver for USB ELAN Touchpad commit

  • corsair: Add K70 Vengeance and K70 RAPIDFIRE to commit

  • corsair: Add support for the GLAIVE RGB gaming mouse commit

  • elecom: add support for EX-G M-XT4DRBK trackball commit

  • google: add google hammer HID driver commit

  • lenovo: Add support for IBM/Lenovo Scrollpoint mice commit

  • sony: Add touchpad support for NSG-MR5U and NSG-MR7U remotes commit

  • wacom: Add support for 3rd generation Intuos BT commit

• Add RAVE SP Powerbutton driver commit

• alps: report pressure of v3 and v7 trackstick commit

• psmouse: add support for 2nd wheel on A4Tech Dual-Scroll wheel mice commit

• pxrc: new driver for PhoenixRC Flight Controller Adapter commit

• silead: add Chuwi Hi8 support commit

• synaptics: add Intertouch support on X1 Carbon 6th and X280 commit

• synaptics: add Lenovo 80 series ids to SMBus commit

• xpad: add PDP device id 0x02a4 commit

• keyboard: remove bf54x driver commit

• misc: remove blackfin rotary driver commit

• sur40: Add default settings and module parameters for video controls commit

12.7. TV tuners, webcams, video capturers

• v4l2-subdev: implement VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_INFO ioctl commit

• v4l2: Add v4l2 control IDs for HEVC encoder commit

• af9013: add i2c mux adapter for tuner bus commit

• af9013: add pid filter support commit

• cec: add core error injection support commit, commit

• coda: Add i.MX51 (CodaHx4) support commit

• cx18: remove unused cx18-alsa-mixer commit

• cx231xx

  • Add multiple frontend USB device commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add support for Hauppauge HVR-935C commit

  • Add support for Hauppauge HVR-975 commit

• cx23885

  • Add support for Hauppauge PCIe HVR1265 K4 commit

  • Add support for Hauppauge PCIe Starburst2 commit

  • Add support for new Hauppauge QuadHD (885) commit

  • Enable new Hauppauge PCIe ImpactVCBe variant commit

• cxd2880: Add driver for Sony CXD2880 DVB-T2/T tuner + demodulator commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mxl5xx: add support for physical layer scrambling commit

• em28xx

  • Add Hauppauge SoloHD/DualHD bulk models commit

  • Enable Hauppauge SoloHD rebranded 292e SE commit

  • Enable inversion for Solo/Dual HD DVB models commit

  • Hauppauge DualHD second tuner functionality commit

• i2c: Add TDA1997x HDMI receiver driver commit

• i2c: ov772x: Support frame interval handling commit

• ivtv: remove ivtv-alsa-mixer commit

• lgdt3306a: Add QAM AUTO support commit

• ngene

  • Add XO2 module support commit

  • Add support for DuoFlex S2 V4 addon modules commit

  • Add support for Sony CXD28xx-based DuoFlex modules commit

  • Add two additional PCI IDs commit

  • Support STV0367 DVB-C/T DuoFlex addons commit

• ov2685: add support for OV2685 sensor commit

• ov5640: add JPEG support commit

• ov5695: add support for OV5695 sensor commit

• Add Renesas CEU driver commit

• Remove blackfin capture driver commit

• Remove m32r specific arv driver commit

• rc: add keymap for iMON RSC remote commit

• rc: add new imon protocol decoder and encoder commit

• rc: new driver for early iMon device commit

• s5p-mfc

  • Add VP9 decoder support commit

  • Add support for HEVC decoder commit

  • Add support for HEVC encoder commit

  • Adding initial support for MFC v10.10 commit

• stm32-dcmi

  • Add JPEG support commit

  • Add g/s_parm framerate support commit

• usbtv: Add USB ID 1f71:3306 to the UTV007 driver commit

• uvcvideo: Support multiple frame descriptors with the same dimensions commit

12.8. Universal Serial Bus

• Add "quirks" parameter for usbcore commit

• introduce per-port over-current counters commit

• USB Type-C device-connection, mux and switch support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• misc: uss720: more vendor/product ID's commit

• cp210x: add ELDAT Easywave RX09 id commit

• cp210x: add ID for NI USB serial console commit

• ftdi_sio: add Id for Physik Instrumente E-870 commit

• ftdi_sio: add RT Systems VX-8 cable commit

• ftdi_sio: add support for Harman FirmwareHubEmulator commit

• option: adding support for ublox R410M commit

• dwc2: Add ACG support to the driver commit

• dwc3: add dual role support using OTG block commit

• dwc3: of-simple: add support for the Amlogic Meson GXL and AXG SoCs commit

• host: remove tilegx platform glue commit

• isp1362: remove blackfin arch glue commit

• musb: remove blackfin port commit

• phy: ab8500: Drop AB8540/9540 support commit

12.9. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)

• remove blackfin related host drivers commit

• sprd: Add the support of restarting the system commit

12.10. Watchdog

• renesas_wdt: Add R-Car Gen2 support commit

• Add Nuvoton NPCM watchdog driver commit

• Remove bfin_wdt driver commit

12.11. Serial

• Expose buf_overrun count through proc interface commit

• 8250-men-mcb: add support for 16z025 and 16z057 commit

• 8250: Add Nuvoton NPCM UART commit

• New RISC-V SBI console driver commit

• msm_geni_serial: Add serial driver support for GENI based QUP commit

• remove blackfin drivers commit

• remove cris/etrax uart drivers commit

• remove m32r_sio driver commit

• remove tile uart driver commit

• Remove metag DA TTY and console driver commit

• hvc: remove tile driver commit

• Remove bfin_jtag_comm and hvc_bfin_jtag drivers commit

12.12. ACPI, EFI, cpufreq, thermal, Power Management

• ACPI: Add Time and Alarm Device (TAD) driver commit

• thermal: Add cooling device's statistics in sysfs commit

• cpuidle/suspend: Add s2idle usage and time state attributes commit

• battery: Add the battery hooking API commit

• nfit, address-range-scrub: add module option to skip initial ars commit

• pm-graph: AnalyzeBoot v2.2 commit, AnalyzeSuspend v5.0 commit

• cpufreq: remove blackfin driver commit

• cpufreq: remove cris specific drivers commit

12.13. Real Time Clock (RTC)

• Add RTC range commit

• ab8500: Drop AB8540 support commit

• ds1343: remove undocumented and useless sysfs files commit

• isl12026: new driver commit

• pcf85363: add alarm support commit

• remove bfin driver commit

• remove tile driver commit

12.14. Voltage, current regulators, power capping, power supply

• reset: Add a driver for the Microsemi Ocelot reset commit

• reset: Add Spreadtrum SC27xx PMIC power off support commit

• supply: axp20x_battery: add support for AXP813 commit

• regulator: qcom: smd: Add pm8998 and pmi8998 regulators commit

12.15. Pin Controllers (pinctrl)

• add mt2712 pinctrl driver commit

• imx: Add pinctrl driver support for imx6sll commit

• nomadik: Drop U8540/9540 support commit

• qcom: Add sdm845 pinctrl driver commit

• sh-pfc: Add R8A77980 PFC support commit

• sh-pfc: Initial R-Car M3-N support commit

• sunxi: add support for the Allwinner H6 main pin controller commit

• Drop TZ1090 drivers commit

• Remove adi2/blackfin drivers commit

12.16. Multi Media Card (MMC)

• mediatek: add support for MT7622 SoC commit

• Export host capabilities to debugfs commit

• dw_mmc: add support for hi3798cv200 specific extensions of dw-mshc commit

• Remove bfin_sdh driver commit

12.17. Memory Technology Devices (MTD)

• jedec_probe: add Eon EN29LV400A IDs commit

• maps: remove bfin-async-flash driver commit

• nand: Add core infrastructure to deal with NAND devices commit

• nand: remove deprecated pxa3xx_nand driver commit

• rawnand: remove bf5xx_nand driver commit

12.18. Industrial I/O (iio)

• ad5272: Add support for Analog Devices digital potentiometers commit

• adc: axp20x_adc: add support for AXP813 ADC commit

• adc: driver for ti adc081s/adc101s/adc121s commit

• imu: st_lsm6dsx: add hw timestamp support commit

• light: lv0104cs: Add support for LV0104CS light sensor commit

• potentiometer: mcp4018: driver for Microchip digital potentiometers commit

• temperature: Adding support for MLX90632 commit

12.19. Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)

• Remove pwm-bfin driver commit

12.20. Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C)

• Add support for Socionext SynQuacer I2C controller commit

• Remove bfin-twi driver commit

12.21. Hardware monitoring (hwmon)

• k10temp: Add support for AMD Ryzen w/ Vega graphics commit

• k10temp: Add temperature offset for Ryzen 2700X commit

• nct6775: Add support for NCT6796D commit

• nct6775: Improve fan6/pwm6 support commit

• pmbus/adm1275: Add support for ADM1272 commit

• ucd9000: Add debugfs attributes to provide mfr_status commit

• via-cputemp: support new centaur CPUs commit

12.22. General Purpose I/O (gpio)

• Add GPIO driver for Nintendo Wii commit

• Add GPIO driver for Spreadtrum SC9860 platform commit

• Add Spreadtrum EIC driver support commit

• Add Spreadtrum PMIC EIC driver support commit

• gpio-rcar: Support S2RAM commit

• raspberrypi-exp: Driver for RPi3 GPIO expander via mailbox service commit

• Drop TZ1090 drivers commit

• remove etraxfs driver commit

12.23. Leds

• Extends disk trigger for reads and writes commit

• Add driver for support Mellanox regmap LEDs for BMC and x86 platform commit

12.24. DMA engines

• Introduce DW AXI DMAC driver commit

• mediatek: Add MediaTek High-Speed DMA controller for MT7622 and MT7623 SoC commit

• dmatest: add norandom option commit

12.25. Hardware Random Number Generator (hwrng)

• ks-sa - add hw_random driver commit

12.26. Cryptography hardware acceleration

• bfin_crc: remove blackfin CRC driver commit

• caam/qi: add GCM support commit

• ccree

  • Add AEAD support commit

  • Add FIPS support commit

  • Add ahash support commit

  • Add skcipher support commit

  • Add support for older HW revs commit

  • Introduce CryptoCell driver commit

• chtls: Chelsio Inline TLS commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• inside-secure: hmac(sha224) support commit

• inside-secure: hmac(sha256) support commit

• omap-aes: make fallback size configurable commit

• omap-aes: make queue length configurable commit

• omap-sham: make fallback size configurable commit

• omap-sham: make queue length configurable commit

• stm32/cryp: add aes gcm / ccm support commit

• stm32/cryp: add stm32mp1 support commit

12.27. PCI

• portdrv: Remove "pcie_hp=nomsi" kernel parameter commit

• portdrv: Remove unnecessary "pcie_ports=auto" parameter commit

• histb: Add an optional regulator for PCIe port power control commit

• tegra: Add loadable kernel module support commit

• tegra: Add power management support commit

• Add Altera vendor ID commit

12.28. Thunderbolt

• Add 'boot' attribute for devices commit

• Add support for Intel Titan Ridge commit

• Add support for preboot ACL commit

• thunderbolt: Introduce USB only (SL4) security level commit

12.29. FRU Support Interface (FSI)

• master-gpio: Add external mode commit

12.30. Clock

• Add driver for the si544 clock generator chip commit

• davinci: New driver for TI DA8XX CFGCHIP clocks commit

• davinci: cfgchip: Add TI DA8XX USB PHY clocks commit

• hi3798cv200: add COMBPHY0 clock support commit

• imx: add clock driver for imx6sll commit

• mediatek: add audsys support for MT2701 commit

• meson: add od3 to the pll driver commit

• qcom: rpmcc: Add support to XO buffered clocks commit

• renesas: cpg-mssr: Add support for R-Car M3-N commit

• renesas: cpg-mssr: add R8A77980 support commit

• samsung: Add Exynos5 sub-CMU clock driver commit

• socfpga: stratix10: add clock driver for Stratix10 platform commit

• stm32mp1: Introduce STM32MP1 clock driver commit

• sunxi-ng: add support for the Allwinner H6 CCU commit

• uniphier: add Pro4/Pro5/PXs2 audio system clock commit

• ux500: Drop AB8540/9540 support commit

• atcpit100: Add andestech atcpit100 timer commit

• npcm: Add NPCM7xx timer driver commit

• Remove metag generic timer driver commit

12.31. Various

• HISI LPC: Add ACPI support commit

• HISI LPC: Support the LPC host on Hip06/Hip07 with DT bindings commit

• amlogic: meson-gx-socinfo: Update soc ids commit

• bcma: add HP Stream Notebook commit

• char: remove blackfin OTP driver commit

• char: remove obsolete ds1302 rtc driver commit

• char: remove tile-srom.c commit

• edac: remove tile driver commit

• ipmi: add a KCS IPMI BMC driver commit

• ipmi: add an Aspeed KCS IPMI BMC driver commit

• irqchip/pdc: Add PDC interrupt controller for QCOM SoCs commit

• irqchip: Add a driver for the Microsemi Ocelot controller commit

• irqchip: Andestech Internal Vector Interrupt Controller driver commit

• irqchip: Remove metag irqchip drivers commit

• mailbox: Add support for Hi3660 mailbox commit

• mcb: Add Altera PCI ID to mcb-pci commit

• mcb: add Altera PCI ID to mcb-pci commit

• misc: Remove Blackfin DSP echo support commit

• parport: Add support for BrainBoxes PX272/PX306 MIO card commit

• parport_pc: Add support for WCH CH382L PCI-E single parallel port card commit

• pcmcia: remove blackfin driver commit

• pcmcia: remove m32r drivers commit

• phy: add combo phy driver for HiSilicon STB SoCs commit

• phy: amlogic: add USB3 PHY support for Meson GXL and GXM commit

• phy: mapphone-mdm6600: Add USB PHY driver for MDM6600 on Droid 4 commit

• phy: qcom-qmp: Add support for QMP V3 USB3 PHY commit

• phy: qcom-qusb2: Add support for QUSB2 V2 version commit

• phy: qcom-qusb2: Add support for different register layouts commit

• phy: stm32: add support for STM32 USB PHY Controller (USBPHYC) commit

• phy: sun4i-usb: add support for R40 USB PHY commit

• remoteproc: Add remote processor coredump support commit

• remoteproc: qcom: Introduce sysmon commit

• reset: stm32mp1: Enable stm32mp1 reset driver commit

• soc/tegra: Add Tegra194 SoC configuration option commit

• soc: mediatek: add SCPSYS power domain driver for MediaTek MT7623A SoC commit

• soc: qcom: rmtfs-mem: Add support for assigning memory to remote commit

• soc: renesas: rcar-sysc: Add R-Car M3-N support commit

• soc: renesas: rcar-sysc: add R8A77980 support commit

• soc: ti: Add pm33xx driver for basic suspend support commit

13. List of merges

• Pull drm updates

• Pull misc core updates

• Pull debugobjects updates

• Pull RCU updates

• Pull locking updates

• Pull perf updates

• Pull x86 RAS updates

• Pull scheduler updates

• Pull SMP hotplug updates

• Pull x86 apic updates

• Pull x86 build updates

• Pull x86 cleanups and msr updates

• Pull x86 mm updates

• Pull x86 platform updates

• Pull x86 timer updates

• Pull wait_var_event updates

• Pull x86 dma mapping updates

• Pull EFI updates

• Pull m68k updates

• Pull nds32 architecture support

• Pul removal of obsolete architecture ports

• Pull removal of in-kernel calls to syscalls

• Pull ACPI updates

• Pull power management updates

• Pull regmap updates

• Pull regulator updates

• Pull SPI updates

• Pull power supply and reset updates

• Pull HSI updates

• Pull MMC updates

• Pull pin control bulk updates

• Pull IPMI updates

• Pull LED updates

• Pull documentation updates

• Pull networking updates

• Pull sparc updates

• Pull parisc updates

• Pull Kbuild updates

• Pull Kconfig updates

• Pull media updates

• Pull libata updates

• Pull workqueue updates

• Pull namespace updates

• Pull vfs dcache updates

• Pull xfs updates

• Pull btrfs updates

• Pull gfs2 updates

• Pull cifs updates

• Pull ext4 updates

• Pull /dev/random updates

• Pull time(r) updates

• Pull irq updates

• Pull arm64 updates

• Pull RISC-V updates

• Pull crypto updates

• Pull USB/PHY updates

• Pull tty/serial driver updates

• Pull staging/IIO updates

• Pull driver core updates

• Pull char/misc updates

• Pull GPIO updates

• Pull dma-mapping updates

• Pull sound updates

• Pull HID updates

• Pull trivial tree updates

• Pull input updates

• Pull EDAC updates

• Pull block layer updates

• Pull SCSI updates

• Pull f2fs update

• Pull nfsd updates

• Pull misc filesystem updates

• Pull printk updates

• Pull siginfo updates

• Pull DeviceTree updates

• Pull ARM SoC device tree updates

• Pull ARM SoC platform updates

• Pull ARM SoC driver updates

• Pull misc vfs updates

• Pull device mapper updates

• Pull MTD updates

• Merge mm updates from akpm

• Pull pstore updates

• Pull audit updates

• Pull SELinux updates

• Pull mailbox updates

• Pull rdma updates

• Pull PCI updates

• Pull fw_cfg, vhost updates

• Pull VFIO updates

• Pull fscache updates

• Pull general security layer updates

• Pull kselftest update

• Pull leaking-addresses updates

• Pull powerpc updates

• Pull i2c updates

• Pull sparc syscall cleanups

• Pull alpha syscall cleanups

• Pull smack update

• Pull TPM updates

• Pull integrity updates

• Pull s390 updates

• Pull alpha updates

• Pull m68knommu update

• Pull ARM updates

• Pull ARM SA1100 updates

• Pull kvm updates

• Pull orangefs updates

• Pull vfs namei updates

• Pull hwmon updates

• Pull fbdev updates

• Pull RTC updates

• Pull libnvdimm updates

• Pull tracing updates

• Pull MIPS updates

• Pull c6x updates

• Pull rpmsg updates

• Pull remoteproc updates

• Pull dmaengine updates

• Pull x86 platform driver updates

• Pull ceph updates

• Merge more updates from akpm

• Pull UML updates

• Pull UBI and UBIFS updates

• Pull ktest updates

• Pull more power management updates

• Pull IOMMU updates

• Pull virtio update

• Pull microblaze updates

• Pull kdb updates

• Pull AFS updates

• Pull vfs thaw updates

• Pull NFS client updates

• Pull more gfs2 updates

• Pull more xfs updates

• Pull parisc updates

• Pull more s390 updates

• Pull more arm64 updates

• Pull arch/sh updates

• Pull more i2c updates

• Pull apparmor updates

• Pull watchdog updates

• Pull pwm updates

• Pull clk updates

• Pull chrome platform updates

• Pull dmi updates

• Pull thermal management update

• Pull overlayfs updates

• Merge yet more mm updates from akpm

• Pull more perf updates

• Pull x86 pti updates

• Pull more Kbuild updates

• Pull more btrfs updates

14. Other news sites

• LWN's merge window part 1, part 2, statistics

• Phoronix The Many Great Features & Changes Coming For The Linux 4.17 Kernel

• Heise.de (german): Die Neuerungen von Linux 4.17