Linux 4.9

[Linus Torvalds]

So Linux 4.9 is out, and the merge window for 4.10 is thus open.

With the extra week for 4.9, the timing for the merge window is
obviously a bit awkward, and it technically closes in two weeks on
Christmas Day. But that is a pure technicality, because I will
certainly stop pulling on the 23rd at the latest, and if I get roped
into xmas food prep, even that date might be questionable.

I could extend the merge window rather than cut it short, but I'm not
going to. I suspect we all want a nice calm winter break, so if your
stuff isn't ready to be merged early, the solution is to just not
merge it yet at all, and wait for 4.11. Just so you all know (I
already bcc'd the main merge window suspects in a separate mailing
last week, I'm just repeating myself here to avoid anybody being
confused about timing).

Anyway, back to 4.9 itself.

I'm pretty sure this is the biggest release we've ever had, at least
in number of commits. If you look at the number of lines changed,
we've had bigger releases in the past, but they have tended to be due
to specific issues (v4.2 got a lot of lines from the AMD GPU register
definition files, for example, and we've had big re-organizations that
caused a lot of lines in the past: v3.2 was big due to staging, v3.7
had the automated uapi header file disintegration, etc). In contrast,
4.9 is just big.

Admittedly a chunk of that is the new greybus staging support, but
that really isn't the bulk of it - it's just another small detail in
the overall "yes, v4.9 is big" picture.

Other than just the size, 4.9 looks fairly normal. A bit over two
thirds drivers (staging, GPU and networking are the bulk of it, but
it's all over), with the rest looking fairly normal too: arch updates,
documentation, generic networking, filesystems..

The shortlog (16k+ commits, with another 1100 merge commits to round
things out) is obviously much too big to put here, and wouldn't be
legible anyway. So as is my wont, I'm appending just the log of my
merges.

                   Linus

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Al Viro (10):
    VFS splice updates
    misc vfs updates
    splice fixups
    vfs xattr updates
    more vfs updates
    uaccess.h prepwork
    more misc uaccess and vfs updates
    VFS fixes
    vfs fixes
    vfs splice fix

Alex Williamson (2):
    VFIO updates
    VFIO fix

Alexandre Belloni (2):
    RTC updates
    RTC fixes

Andrew Morton (7):
    updates
    more updates
    misc fixes x5

Anna Schumaker (4):
    NFS client updates
    NFS client bugfixes x3

Arnd Bergmann (10):
    ARM SoC cleanups
    ARM SoC platform updates
    ARM SoC defconfig updates
    ARM SoC 64-bit updates
    ARM SoC driver updates
    ARM DT updates
    ARM 64-bit DT updates
    ARM SoC late DT updates
    fixes for -Wmaybe-uninitialized
    ARM SoC fixes

Bjorn Andersson (2):
    remoteproc updates
    rpmsg updates

Bjorn Helgaas (5):
    PCI updates
    PCI fixes x4

Bob Peterson (1):
    gfs2 updates

Borislav Petkov (1):
    EDAC updates

Brian Norris (2):
    MTD updates
    MTD fixes

Bruce Fields (3):
    nfsd updates
    nfsd bugfixes
    nfsd bugfix

Chris Mason (4):
    btrfs updates
    btrfs fixes x3

Chris Metcalf (2):
    arch/tile bugfix
    arch/tile bugfix

Corey Minyard (1):
    IPMI updates

Dan Williams (4):
    libnvdimm updates
    libnvdimm fixes x3

Darren Hart (3):
    x86 platform drivers updates
    x86 platform driver fixes x2

Dave Airlie (10):
    drm updates
    drm fixes
    more drm fixes
    drm x86/pat regression fixes
    drm fixes x5
    drm fix

Dave Chinner (4):
    xfs and iomap updates
    XFS support for shared data extents
    xfs fixes
    xfs fix

David Kleikamp (1):
    jfs updates

David Miller (16):
    networking updates
    sparc updates
    networking fixups
    networking fixes x9
    sparc fixes x3
    sparc fix

David Teigland (1):
    dlm fix

David Vrabel (2):
    xen updates
    xen fixes

David Woodhouse (1):
    IOMMU fixes

Dmitry Torokhov (4):
    input subsystem updates
    some more input subsystem updates
    input subsystem updates
    input fixes

Doug Ledford (6):
    hdi1 rdma driver updates
    main rdma updates
    more rdma updates x2
    rdma qedr RoCE driver
    rmda fixes

Eric Biederman (1):
    namespace updates

Geert Uytterhoeven (2):
    m68k updates
    m68k fixes

Greg KH (14):
    char/misc driver updates
    driver core updates
    tty and serial updates
    usb/phy/extcon updates
    staging and IIO updates
    USB fixes
    tty/serial driver fixes
    staging and IIO driver fixes
    driver core fixes
    char/misc driver fixes
    USB / PHY fixes
    driver core fixes
    char/misc fixes
    USB fixes

Greg Ungerer (1):
    m68knommu updates

Grek KH (1):
    staging/IIO fixes

Guenter Roeck (4):
    hwmon updates
    hwmon fixes
    hwmon fix
    openrisc fix

Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt (1):
    avr32 update

Helge Deller (5):
    parisc updates x2
    parisc fixes x3

Herbert Xu (6):
    crypto updates
    crypto fixes x4
    crypto fix

Ilya Dryomov (4):
    Ceph updates
    Ceph fixes x2
    ceph fix

Ingo Molnar (42):
    RCU updates
    core SMP updates
    EFI updates
    locking updates
    perf updates
    RAS updates
    scheduler changes
    x86 apic updates
    low-level x86 updates
    x86 boot updates
    x86 cleanups
    x86 platform changes
    x86 timer updates
    x86 vdso updates
    misc fixes
    irq fixes
    locking fixes x2
    perf fixes x5
    timer fixlet
    x86 fixes x5
    scheduler fix x3
    EFI fixes x2
    irq fixes
    vmap stack fixes
    objtool, irq and scheduler fixes
    timer fixes
    x86 fixes
    irq fix
    scheduler fixes
    objtool fix

Jacek Anaszewski (2):
    LED driver updates
    LED subsystem update

Jaegeuk Kim (2):
    f2fs updates
    f2fs bugfix

James Bottomley (9):
    SCSI updates
    more SCSI updates
    SCSI fixes x6
    SCSI fix

James Hogan (1):
    metag architecture fix

James Morris (5):
    security subsystem updates
    key fixes
    TPM fix
    apparmor bugfix
    keys fixes

Jan Kara (2):
    misc filesystem and quota fixes
    misc filesystem fixes

Jeff Layton (1):
    file locking updates

Jens Axboe (8):
    block layer updates
    blk-mq irq/cpu mapping updates
    blk-mq CPU hotplug update
    block fixes x4
    more block fixes

Jesper Nilsson (1):
    CRIS updates

Jiri Kosina (6):
    HID updates
    livepatching updates
    trivial updates
    HID fixes x3

Joerg Roedel (2):
    IOMMU updates
    IOMMU fixes

Jon Mason (1):
    NTB fixes

Jonathan Corbet (2):
    documentation updates
    one more documentation update

Jussi Brar (1):
    mailbox updates

Kees Cook (3):
    pstore updates
    gcc plugins update
    gcc plugin fixes

Lee Jones (4):
    backlight updates
    MFD updates
    MFD fixes x2

Ley Foon Tan (1):
    nios2 update

Linus Walleij (7):
    pin control updates
    GPIO updates
    first round of pin control fixes
    GPIO fixes x3
    pin control fixes

Lorenzo Stoakes (1):
    the gup_flags cleanups

Luis de Bethencourt (1):
    befs fixes

Mark Brown (6):
    regmap updates
    regulator updates
    spi updates
    regmap fixes
    regulator fix
    spi fixes

Martin Schwidefsky (3):
    s390 updates
    s390 fixes x2

Mauro Carvalho Chehab (4):
    media updates
    media fixes x2
    media fix

Max Filippov (2):
    Xtensa updates
    Xtensa fixes

Michael Ellerman (7):
    powerpc updates
    more powerpc updates
    powerpc fixes x5

Michael Tsirkin (1):
    virtio updates

Michal Marek (3):
    kbuild updates
    misc kbuild changes
    kbuild fixes

Mike Marshall (4):
    orangefs updates
    oreangefs updates
    orangefs fix x2

Mike Snitzer (2):
    device mapper updates
    device mapper fixes

Miklos Szeredi (6):
    fuse updates
    overlayfs updates
    overlayfs fixes
    fuse fixes
    overlayfs fix
    fuse fix

Nicholas Bellinger (1):
    SCSI target fixes

Olof Johansson (3):
    ARM SoC fixes x3

Paolo Bonzini (2):
    KVM updates
    KVM fixes

Paul Moore (1):
    audit updates

Radim KrÄmÃÅ (5):
    KVM updates
    KVM fixes x4

Rafael Wysocki (13):
    power management updates
    ACPI updates
    PNP update
    more power management updates
    more ACPI updates
    power management fix
    ACPI fixes x4
    power management fixes x2
    ACPI fix

Ralf Baechle (4):
    MIPS updates
    MIPS fixes x3

Rich Felker (1):
    arch/sh updates

Richard Weinberger (3):
    UBI/UBIFS updates
    UBI[FS] fixes
    ubi/ubifs fixes

Rob Herring (1):
    DeviceTree updates

Russell King (6):
    ARM fix x2
    ARM updates
    ARM pcmcia updates
    ARM fixes x2

Rusty Russell (1):
    module maintainership updates

Sebastian Reichel (2):
    power supply and reset updates
    HSI fix

Shaohua Li (2):
    MD updates
    MD fixes

Shuah Khan (1):
    kselftest updates

Stefan Richter (2):
    firewire fixlet
    FireWire (IEEE 1394) fixes

Stephen Boyd (5):
    clk framework updates
    clk fixes x4

Steve French (2):
    cifs fixes x2

Steven Rostedt (2):
    tracing updates
    tracing fixes

Takashi Iwai (5):
    sound updates
    sound fixes x4

Ted Ts'o (3):
    ext4 updates
    ext4 fixes x2

Tejun Heo (6):
    libata updates
    percpu updates
    cgroup updates
    libata fixes x3

Thierry Reding (2):
    pwm updates
    pwm fixes

Thomas Gleixner (12):
    timer updates
    irq updates
    CPU hotplug updates
    timer fix
    irq fixes
    scheduler fix
    perf tooling updates
    x86 updates
    protection keys syscall interface
    timer updates
    x86 bugfix
    stack vmap fixups

Tomi Valkeinen (2):
    fbdev updates
    fbdev fix

Ulf Hansson (5):
    MMC updates
    MMC fixes x4

Vineet Gupta (4):
    ARC updates x2
    ARC fixes x2

Vinod Koul (2):
    dmaengine updates
    dmaengine fixes

Will Deacon (4):
    arm64 updates
    arm64 fixes x2
    arm64 fix

Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
    watchdog updates

Wolfram Sang (7):
    i2c updates
    more i2c updates
    i2c fixes x3
    i2c fix x2

Zhang Rui (3):
    thermal managament updates
    thermal updates
    thermal management fix