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timers-core-2022-01-13
35e13e9d · ·Updates for the time(r) subsystem: Core: - Make the clocksource watchdog more robust by better validation checks of the measurement. Drivers: - New drivers for MStar and SSD20xd SOCs - The usual cleanups and improvements all over the place -
irq-msi-2022-01-13
74a5257a · ·Rework of the MSI interrupt infrastructure: Treewide cleanup and consolidation of MSI interrupt handling in preparation for further changes in this area which are necessary to: - address existing shortcomings in the VFIO area - support the upcoming Interrupt Message Store functionality which decouples the message store from the PCI config/MMIO space -
irq-core-2022-01-13
67d50b5f · ·Updates for the interrupt subsystem: Core: - Provide a new interface for affinity hints to provide a separation between hint and actual affinity change which has become a hidden property of the current interface - Fix up the in tree usage of the affinity hint interfaces Drivers: - No new irqchip drivers! - Fix GICv3 redistributor table reservation with RT across kexec - Fix GICv4.1 redistributor view of the VPE table across kexec - Add support for extra interrupts on spear-shirq - Make obtaining some interrupts optional for the Renesas drivers - Various cleanups and bug fixes -
x86_core_for_v5.17_rc1
9cdbeec4 · ·- Get rid of all the .fixup sections because this generates misleading/wrong stacktraces and confuse RELIABLE_STACKTRACE and LIVEPATCH as the backtrace misses the function which is being fixed up. - Add Straight Light Speculation mitigation support which uses a new compiler switch -mharden-sls= which sticks an INT3 after a RET or an indirect branch in order to block speculation after them. Reportedly, CPUs do speculate behind such insns. - The usual set of cleanups and improvements
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xfs-5.17-merge-3
4a9bca86 · ·New code for 5.17: - Fix a minor locking inconsistency in readdir - Fix incorrect fs feature bit validation for secondary superblocks
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xfs-5.17-merge_2022-01-11
65552b02 · ·xfs: new code for 5.17 New code that has already been submitted for 5.17.
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locking_core_for_v5.17_rc1
f16cc980 · ·Peter Zijlstra says: "Lots of cleanups and preparation; highlights: - futex: Cleanup and remove runtime futex_cmpxchg detection - rtmutex: Some fixes for the PREEMPT_RT locking infrastructure - kcsan: Share owner_on_cpu() between mutex,rtmutex and rwsem and annotate the racy owner->on_cpu access *once*. - atomic64: Dead-Code-Elemination"
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