Linux 4.6-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

So I'm closing the merge window a day early, partly because I have
some upcoming travel, but partly because this has actually been one of
the bigger merge windows in a while, and if somebody was planning on
trying to sneak in any last-minute features, I really don't want to
hear about it any more.

On the whole, despite the size of the merge window, this was mostly
pretty pain-free. There were fairly few conflicts, and the ARM tree
that traditionally has had the most of them was really one of the
easiest experiences ever. Good job.

Of course, to offset that, we did have some unusual filesystem issues,
with both f2fs and Ceph pulls being scolded for messing up their
trees, in both cases to try to make it easier for the merge, but in
both cases I really *really* want people to just worry about their own
code, not make changes to accommodate what happened outside their
trees.

But those were mainly about git maintenance issues, not the code itself..

And while on the filesystem side, it might be worth noting that we
also have a new filesystem this time: orangefs. It's actually been
pending for a longish while, with the original pull request coming in
last August or so, but it got delayed this long due to input from Al
that I think ended up making everybody much happier. The pull request
itself came in pretty late in the merge window, but I'm happy to have
it finally merged - the orangefs maintainers have been very responsive
to the issues that got brought up.

But as usual, the *bulk* of the changes - by far - are just all the
miscellaneous driver updates. So despite the filesystem work, drivers
account for about 2/3 of the bulk of the changes. It's all over:
staging drivers, networking, drm, rdma, usb, media, sound - you name
it.

Outside of drivers, the biggest remaining changes are as usual the
architecture updates: ARM devicetree updates being a big chunk, but
there's other arm (and arm64) updates, together with x86, powerpc,
s390, xtensa, and some m68k.

The rest is generic networking, filesystem updates (in addition to the
already mentioned orangefs, f2fs and ceph stuff, there's also xfs,
btrfs, ocfs2, ext4, and generic vfs updates). And core kernel work, as
well as doc updates and tooling updates.

So quite a bit of work all over. The shortlog being much too large to
post, I'm just appending my usual "merge log", which shows who I
pulled from along with a very short description. As always, the full
credits are to be found in the git tree.

Let's hope that a reasonably painfree merge window ends up translating
to an even more painfree calming down period, despite this being a
fairly big release.

Please?

                  Linus

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Al Viro (1):
  vfs updates

Alex Williamson (1):
  VFIO updates

Alexandre Belloni (2):
  RTC updates
  more RTC updates

Andrew Morton (4):
  first patch-bomb
  second patch-bomb
  third patch-bomb
  fourth patch-bomb

Arnd Bergmann (10):
  ARM SoC non-urgent fixes
  ARM SoC cleanups
  ARM SoC platform updates
  ARM SoC 64-bit changes
  ARM DT updates
  ARM 64-bit DT updates
  ARM SoC defconfig updates
  ARM SoC driver updates
  more ARM DT changes
  asm-generic updates

Bjorn Andersson (1):
  remoteproc updates

Bjorn Helgaas (2):
  PCI updates
  PCI fixes

Bob Peterson (1):
  GFS2 updates

Borislav Petkov (1):
  EDAC updates

Brian Norris (1):
  MTD updates

Bruce Fields (2):
  nfsd updates
  more nfsd updates

Catalin Marinas (2):
  arm64 updates
  second set of arm64 updates

Chris Mason (1):
  btrfs updates

Chris Zankel (1):
  Xtensa updates

Christoph Hellwig (1):
  configfs updates

Corey Minyard (1):
  IPMI updates

Dan Williams (1):
  libnvdimm updates

Darren Hart (1):
  x86 platform driver updates

Dave Airlie (2):
  drm updates
  drm fixes

Dave Chinner (1):
  xfs updates

David Miller (2):
  networking updates
  networking bugfixes

David Teigland (1):
  dlm updates

David Vrabel (1):
  xen updates

Dmitry Torokhov (2):
  input updates
  more input updates

Doug Ledford (2):
  rdma updates
  more rdma updates

Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
  m68k updates

Greg KH (7):
  driver core updates
  char/misc updates
  tty/serial updates
  USB updates
  staging driver updates
  USB fixes
  staging driver fixes

Greg Ungerer (1):
  m68knommu updates

Guenter Roeck (2):
  hwmon updates
  more hwmon updates

Hans-Christian Egtvedt (1):
  AVR32 updates

Helge Deller (1):
  parisc updates

Herbert Xu (2):
  crypto update
  crypto fixes

Ingo Molnar (24):
  ram resource handling changes
  locking changes
  dma_*_writecombine rename
  read-only kernel memory updates
  perf updates
  RAS updates
  scheduler updates
  NOHZ updates
  x86 asm updates
  x86 boot updates
  x86 build update
  x86 fpu updates
  x86 microcode updates
  x86 mm updates
  x86 core platform updates
  x86 timer update
  RCU updates
  'objtool' stack frame validation
  EFI updates
  x86 protection key support
  locking fixes
  scheduler fixes
  x86 fixes
  perf fixes

Jacek Anaszewski (1):
  LED updates

Jaegeuk Kim (1):
  f2fs updates

James Bottomley (2):
  SCSI updates
  more SCSI updates

James Morris (1):
  security layer updates

Jan Kara (1):
  UDF and quota updates

Jassi Brar (2):
  mailbox updates
  more mailbox updates

Jens Axboe (3):
  core block updates
  block driver updates
  block fixes

Jiri Kosina (3):
  HID updates
  trivial tree updates
  livepatching update

Joerg Roedel (1):
  IOMMU updates

Jon Mason (1):
  NTB bug fixes

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (1):
  iscsi_ibft update

Lee Jones (1):
  MFD updates

Linus Walleij (2):
  pin control updates
  GPIO updates

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

Martin Schwidefsky (1):
  s390 updates

Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
  media updates

Michael Ellerman (1):
  powerpc updates

Michael Tsirkin (1):
  virtio/vhost updates

Michal Marek (3):
  kbuild updates
  kconfig updates
  kbuild misc updates

Mike Marshall (1):
  orangefs filesystem

Mike Snitzer (1):
  device mapper updates

Miklos Szeredi (2):
  fuse update
  overlayfs updates

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

Paolo Bonzini (2):
  KVM updates
  more KVM updates

Paul Moore (1):
  audit updates

Rafael Wysocki (3):
  power management and ACPI updates
  more power management and ACPI updates
  power management fixlet

Rich Felker (1):
  arch/sh updates

Richard Weinberger (1):
  UBI/UBIFS updates

Rob Herring (1):
  DeviceTree updates

Russell King (1):
  ARM updates

Sage Weil (1):
  Ceph updates

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

Shaohua Li (1):
  MD updates

Shuah Khan (1):
  Kselftest updates

Stefan Richter (2):
  firewire updates
  firewire leftover

Stephen Boyd (1):
  clk updates

Steven Rostedt (1):
  tracing updates

Takashi Iwai (2):
  sound updates
  sound fixes

Ted Ts'o (1):
  ext4 updates

Tejun Heo (4):
  workqueue updates
  libata updates
  cgroup updates
  cgroup namespace support

Thierry Reding (1):
  pwm updates

Thomas Gleixner (5):
  timer updates
  irq updates
  cpu hotplug updates
  irq fixes
  timer fix

Tomi Valkeinen (1):
  fbdev updates

Tony Luck (2):
  pstore update
  ia64 update

Trond Myklebust (1):
  NFS client updates

Ulf Hansson (1):
  MMC updates

Vineet Gupta (1):
  ARC architecture updates

Vinod Koul (1):
  dmaengine updates

Will Deacon (1):
  arm[64] perf updates

Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
  watchdog updates

Wolfram Sang (1):
  i2c updates

Yoshinori Sato (1):
  h8300 updates

Zhang Rui (1):
  thermal updates