Yes, I realize this is a day early, and yes, I realize that if I had
waited until tomorrow, I would also have hit the 26th anniversary of
the Linux-0.01 release, but neither of those undeniable facts made me
want to wait with closing the mege window.
This has been an "interesting" merge window. It's not actually all
that unusual in size - I think it's shaping to be a pretty regular
release after 4.13 that was smallish. But unlike 4.13 it also wasn't a
completely smooth merge window, and honestly, I _really_ didn't want
to wait for any possible straggling pull requests.
Don't get me wrong - things don't look bad, but I hate it when I find
issues during the merge window that I feel should have been noticed
before the code made it to me, and it happened a few times this
release.
Admittedly, some of it was simply because we had some unusual
activity. For example, on the x86 VM side, 4.14 doesn't just have
_one_ new core memory management feature, but three: 5-level page
tables, ASID support (it's called "PCID" on x86 for reasons that are
not good) and the AMD memory encryption support. So the fact that we
had a few hiccups is very understandable, and in fact it should amaze
everybody just how smoothly the 5-level page table code integration
seems to have gone, for example.
So 4.14 is getting some very core new functionality.
Obviously, as usual, those kinds of core changes are absolutely
dwarfed by all the device driver updates, that as usual are the bulk
of the patches. This time around, particularly notable is a late
addition to the merge window - or rather, a late removal - in that
we've finally gotten rid of the firmware images from the kernel tree.
That's because people haven't used them for the last few years, since
there's a separate firmware image repository.
But there's changes all over. Documentation, architecture updates,
filesystems, networking, tooling. This was not a small release, even
if I had kind of expected that with much of Europe on vacation in
August we'd have seen a slow-down. Nope.
Anyway, as always, the shortlog is much too big to post, so appended
is the "mergelog", and as always the credit in the merge log goes not
to who wrote the patches, but to the maintainer who actually sent it
to me for merging. So there's about 90 maintainers mentioned there,
but it should be noted that we have 1500+ individual authors for the
11,500+ individual non-merge commits. So this is very much just a very
high-level overview of the merges I've done, and if you want to see
details, you'll need to go look at the git tree logs.
Linus
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Al Viro (6):
misc fixes
ipc compat cleanup and 64-bit time_t
more set_fs removal
mount flag updates
nowait read support
misc leftovers
Alex Williamson (1):
VFIO updates
Alexandre Belloni (1):
RTC updates
Andrew Morton (3):
updates
more updates
misc fixes
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (1):
fbdev updates
Ben LaHaise (1):
aio fix
Bjorn Andersson (2):
remoteproc updates
rpmsg updates
Bjorn Helgaas (2):
PCI updates
PCI fix
Bob Peterson (1):
GFS2 updates
Boris Brezillon (1):
MTD updates
Borislav Petkov (1):
EDAC updates
Bruce Fields (1):
nfsd updates
Catalin Marinas (1):
arm64 updates
Chris Mason (1):
zstd support
Christoph Hellwig (2):
uuid updates
dma-mapping updates
Dan Williams (1):
libnvdimm
Darren Hart (1):
x86 platform driver updates
Darrick Wong (1):
XFS updates
Dave Airlie (2):
drm updates
drm AMD fixes
David Miller (4):
networking updates
networking fixes
sparc updates
networking fixes
David Sterba (1):
btrfs updates
David Teigland (1):
dlm updates
Dmitry Torokhov (2):
input updates
more input updates
Doug Ledford (1):
rdma updates
Eric Biederman (1):
namespace updates
Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
m68k updates
Greg KH (6):
USB/PHY driver updates
tty/serial updates
staging/IIO driver updates
driver core update
char/misc driver updates
firmware removal
Greg Ungerer (1):
m68knommu updates
Guenter Roeck (1):
hwmon updates
Helge Deller (1):
parisc updates
Herbert Xu (1):
crypto updates
Ilya Dryomov (1):
ceph updates
Ingo Molnar (24):
debugobjects fix
perf updates
RAS fix
RCU updates
scheduler updates
x86 asm updates
x86 boot updates
x86 build updates
x86 cpuid updates
x86 debug updates
x86 microcode loading updates
x86 spinlock update
syscall updates
locking updates
x86 mm changes
x86 platform updates
EFI updates
irq fixes
perf tooling updates
scheduler fixes
x86 fixes
x86 fixes
scheduler fixes
perf fixes
Jacek Anaszewski (1):
LED updates
Jaegeuk Kim (1):
f2fs updates
James Bottomley (2):
SCSI updates
SCSI fixes
Jan Kara (2):
UDF, reiserfs, quota, fsnotify cleanups
quota scaling updates
Jassi Brar (1):
mailbox updates
Jean Delvare (1):
dmi update
Jeff Layton (2):
file locking updates
writeback error handling updates
Jens Axboe (3):
block layer updates
followup block layer updates
block fixes
Jessica Yu (1):
modules updates
Jiri Kosina (1):
HID update
Joerg Roedel (1):
IOMMU updates
Jonathan Corbet (2):
documentation updates
documentation fixes
Juergen Gross (1):
xen updates
Kees Cook (3):
pstore update
gcc plugins update
secureexec update
Lee Jones (2):
MFD updates
backlight updates
Ley Foon Tan (1):
arch/nios2 update
Linus Walleij (3):
pin control updates
GPIO updates
pin control fixes
Marcel Holtmann (1):
bluetooth fix
Mark Brown (2):
spi updates
regulator updates
Martin Schwidefsky (2):
s390 updates
more s390 updates
Masahiro Yamada (1):
Kbuild updates
Matt Turner (1):
alpha updates
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
media updates
Michael Ellerman (2):
powerpc updates
powerpc fix
Mike Marshall (1):
orangefs updates
Mike Snitzer (1):
device mapper updates
Miklos Szeredi (2):
overlayfs updates
fuse updates
Olof Johansson (3):
ARM/arm64 SoC platform updates
ARM SoC driver updates
ARM/arm64 Devicetree updates
Paolo Bonzini (1):
more KVM updates
Paul Moore (2):
audit updates
selinux updates
Petr Mladek (1):
printk updates
Radim Krčmář (1):
KVM updates
Rafael Wysocki (3):
power management updates
ACPI updates
device properties framework updates
Ralf Baechle (1):
MIPS updates
Richard Weinberger (2):
UML updates
UBI updates
Rob Herring (1):
DeviceTree updates
Rodrigo Vivi (1):
i916 drm fixes
Russell King (1):
ARM updates
Sebastian Reichel (1):
power supply and reset changes
Shaohua Li (1):
MD updates
Shuah Khan (1):
kselftest updates
Stafford Horne (1):
OpenRISC fixlet
Stephen Boyd (1):
clk updates
Steve French (1):
cifs update
Steven Rostedt (1):
tracing updates
Takashi Iwai (2):
sound updates
sound fixes
Ted Ts'o (1):
ext4 updates
Tejun Heo (4):
percpu updates
workqueue updates
cgroup updates
libata updates
Thierry Reding (1):
pwm updates
Thomas Gleixner (5):
timer fixes
irq updates
CPU hotplug fix
x86 cache quality monitoring update
x86 apic updates
Trond Myklebust (2):
NFS client updates
more NFS client updates
Ulf Hansson (1):
MMC updates
Vineet Gupta (1):
ARC updates
Vinod Koul (1):
dmaengine updates
Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
watchdog updates
Wolfram Sang (2):
i2c updates
more i2c updates
Zhang Rui (1):
thermal updates
