Linux 3.12-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Sep 16 2013 - 18:08:18 EST


So it's been two weeks, and the merge window for 3.12 is now closed.

The git trees have been updated, the tar-balls and patches should be
out too, and here's my "short mergelog" for the merge window: it's
kind of like "git shortlog", except it names the person I merged from
(_not_ necessarily the author of the actual work, but the maintainer
who sent me the pull request) along with a very short description of
what the pull was for.

In general, this merge window was fairly normal. About 73% drivers,
12% architecture updates, and 6% filesystems. The rest falls under
"misc".

I personally particularly like the scalability improvements that got
merged this time around. The tty layer locking got cleaned up and in
the process a lot of locking became per-tty, which actually shows up
on some (admittedly odd) loads. And the dentry refcount scalability
work means that the filename caches now scale very well indeed, even
for the case where you look up the same directory or file (which could
historically result in contention on the per-dentry d_lock).

But those things aren't noticeable on normal machines, I'm just odd
and tend to get excited about improvements to our dentry cache. Just
because it's one of the more interesting parts of the core code to me
personally.

So most other people will probably care more about all the driver
updates that actually affect more everyday life.

Go forth and test,

Linus

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Al Viro (4):
vfs pile 1
vfs pile 2 (of many)
vfs pile 3 (of many)
vfs pile 4

Alex Williamson (1):
VFIO update

Andrew Morton (2):
first patch-bomb
more patches

Anton Vorontsov (1):
battery/power supply driver updates

Artem Bityutskiy (2):
ubifs fix
UBI fixes

Ben Herrenschmidt (2):
powerpc updates
powerpc fixes

Ben LaHaise (1):
aio changes

Ben Myers (2):
xfs updates
xfs update #2

Bjorn Helgaas (1):
PCI changes

Bruce Fields (1):
nfsd updates

Bryan Wu (1):
led updates

Catalin Marinas (1):
ARM64 update

Chris Ball (1):
MMC updates

Chris Mason (1):
btrfs updates

Chris Metcalf (1):
Tile arch updates

Chris Zankel (1):
Xtensa updates

Dan Williams (1):
dmaengine update

Dave Airlie (2):
drm tree changes
drm fixes

David Miller (5):
networking changes
sparc changes
IDE changes
networking fixes
networking fixes

David Teigland (1):
dlm updates

David Woodhouse (1):
mtd updates

Dmitry Torokhov (2):
input updates
input update

Eric Biederman (1):
namespace changes

Eric Van Hensbergen (1):
9p updates

Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
m68k updates

Gleb Natapov (1):
KVM updates

Grant Likely (1):
device tree core updates

Greg KH (5):
USB patches
char/misc patches
driver core patches
staging tree merge
tty/serial driver patches

Greg Ungerer (1):
m68knommu fixes

Guenter Roeck (3):
hwmon updates
hwmon cleanups
hwmon fixes

Heiko Carstens (1):
more s390 updates

Herbert Xu (2):
crypto update
crypto fixes

Ingo Molnar (23):
RCU updates
core/locking changes
perf changes
scheduler changes
timer changes
x86/apic changes
x86/asm changes
x86/asmlinkage changes
tiny x86 boot cleanups
x86 cpu feature fixes
x86 fb changes
timers/nohz changes
x86 relocation changes
x86 mm changes
x86 paravirt changes
x86 platform documentation fix
x86 RAS changes
x86 SMAP fixes
x86 spinlock changes
x86 fixes
cputime fix
scheduler fix
perf fixes

Jaegeuk Kim (1):
f2fs updates

James Bottomley (2):
first round of SCSI updates
misc SCSI driver updates

James Hogan (1):
metag architecture changes

James Morris (1):
security subsystem updates

Jan Kara (1):
ext3, reiserfs, udf & isofs fixes

Jean Delvare (1):
hwmon fixes

Jesper Nilsson (1):
CRIS updates

Jiri Kosina (2):
HID updates
trivial tree

Joerg Roedel (1):
IOMMU Updates

Jon Mason (1):
NTB (non-transparent bridge) updates

Kevin Hilman (3):
ARM SoC driver update
ARM Renesas SoC cleanup, refactoring and more SMP support
ARM SoC late changes

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (2):
Xen updates
Xen bug-fixes

Linus Walleij (2):
pin control changes
GPIO updates

Marek Szyprowski (2):
DMA mapping update
DMA-mapping fix

Mark Brown (3):
regmap updates
spi updates
regulator updates

Martin Schwidefsky (2):
first batch of s390 updates
generic hardirq option removal

Matthew Garrett (1):
x86 platform updates

Matthew Wilcox (1):
NVM Express driver update

Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
media updates

Michael Turquette (1):
clock framework changes

Michal Marek (4):
kbuild update
misc kbuild updates
kconfig updates
kconfig fix

Michal Simek (1):
Microblaze patches

Mike Snitzer (1):
device-mapper updates

Miklos Szeredi (1):
fuse bugfixes

Neil Brown (1):
md update

Nicholas Bellinger (2):
SCSI target fixes
SCSI target updates

Olof Johansson (6):
ARM SoC low-priority fixes
ARM SoC cleanups
ARM SoC DT updates
ARM SoC platform changes
ARM SoC board updates
ARM SoC fixes

Pekka Enberg (1):
SLAB update

Peter Anvin (1):
x86 jumplabel changes

Phillip Lougher (1):
squashfs updates

Rafael Wysocki (2):
ACPI and power management updates
ACPI and power management fixes

Ralf Baechle (2):
MIPS updates
MIPS fixes

Richard Weinberger (1):
UML updates

Roland Dreier (1):
main batch of InfiniBand/RDMA changes

Russell King (2):
ARM updates
ARM fixes

Rusty Russell (3):
PTR_RET() removal patches
module updates
virtio update

Sage Weil (1):
ceph updates

Samuel Ortiz (1):
MFD (multi-function device) updates

Stefan Richter (1):
firewire updates

Stefano Stabellini (1):
Xen balloon driver bug-fixes

Steve French (2):
CIFS fixes
CIFS fixes

Steven Miao (1):
blackfin updates

Steven Rostedt (1):
tracing updates

Steven Whitehouse (1):
GFS2 updates

Sumit Semwal (1):
dma-buf updates

Takashi Iwai (2):
sound updates
sound fixes

Ted Ts'o (1):
ext4 updates

Tejun Heo (4):
single percpu update
workqueue updates
libata changes
cgroup updates

Thierry Reding (1):
pwm changes

Thomas Gleixner (1):
timer code update

Tomi Valkeinen (2):
OMAP specific fbdev changes
fbdev changes

Tony Luck (2):
pstore changes
ia64 fixes

Trond Myklebust (2):
NFS client updates
NFS client bugfixes (part 2)

Tyler Hicks (1):
eCryptfs fixes

Vineet Gupta (1):
ARC changes

Vinod Koul (1):
slave-dmaengine updates

Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
watchdog updates

Wolfram Sang (1):
i2c updates

Wu Fengguang (1):
writeback fix

Zhang Rui (1):
thermal management updates
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