Linux 6.2-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Dec 25 2022 - 17:07:54 EST


So it's Christmas Day here, but it's also Sunday afternoon two weeks
after the 6.2 merge window opened. So holidays or not, the kernel
development show must go on.

Thanks to a lot of people sending their pull requests early, I got
much of the merge window work done before the holidays started in
earnest, and mostly before my pre-xmas travel. So despite flight
delays, missed connections, and the resulting airport hotel
excursions, the merge window mostly went smoothly, and there was no
reason to delay rc1.

That said, realistically I expect most people to be on vacation for at
least another week, so I wouldn't be surprised if we end up with a
delayed final release due to the season. But it's too early to worry
about that yet, we'll just have to see how it goes.

Also, 6.2 looks like it's a bigger release (certainly bigger than 6.1
was). The summary below is, as usual, just my merge log: we've got
about 13.5k commits from ~1800 people in total in this merge window,
which is actually not that far off the total size of the whole 6.1
release. But let's hope that despite the size, and despite the likely
slow start of the post-merge-window calming down period, we'll have a
smooth release.

And in the meantime, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all
(replace as appropriate with whatever holiday, if any, you are
celebrating).

Linus

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Al Viro (5):
elf coredumping updates
alpha updates
iov_iter updates
namespace fix
misc vfs updates

Alex Williamson (1):
VFIO updates

Alexander Gordeev (1):
s390 updates

Alexandre Belloni (2):
i3c updates
RTC updates

Andreas Gruenbacher (1):
gfs2 updtaes

Andrew Morton (5):
non-MM updates
MM updates
more mm updates
fault-injection updates
hotfixes

Ard Biesheuvel (1):
EFI updates

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (2):
perf tools updates
more perf tools updates

Arnd Bergmann (6):
ARM SoC defconfig updates
ARM SoC code updates
ARM SoC driver updates
ARM SoC DT updates
ARM SoC fixes
asm-generic updates

Bartosz Golaszewski (1):
gpio updates

Benjamin Tissoires (1):
HID updates

Bjorn Andersson (1):
remoteproc updates

Bjorn Helgaas (1):
PCI updates

Borislav Petkov (10):
EDAC updates
x86 RAS updates
x86 alternative update
x86 asm updates
x86 boot updates
x86 cpu updates
x86 microcode and IFS updates
x86 paravirt update
x86 sev updates
x86 core updates

Christian Brauner (7):
VFS acl updates
setgid inheritance updates
vfsuid updates
idmapping updates
simple-xattr updates
vfsuid cleanup
mount propagation fix

Christoph Hellwig (3):
configfs updates
dma-mapping updates
dma-mapping fixes

Chuck Lever (2):
nfsd updates
more nfsd updates

Corey Minyard (1):
IPMI updates

Damien Le Moal (1):
ata updates

Dan Williams (1):
cxl updates

Darrick Wong (3):
vfs remap_range update
iomap update
XFS updates

Dave Airlie (2):
drm updates
drm fixes

Dave Hansen (6):
x86 sgx updates
x86 tdx updates
x86 cache resource control updates
x86 splitlock updates
x86 fpu updates
x86 mm updates

David Howells (1):
afs update

David Kleikamp (1):
jfs updates

David Sterba (1):
btrfs updates

David Teigland (1):
dlm updates

Dennis Zhou (1):
percpu updates

Dmitry Torokhov (1):
input updates

Dominique Martinet (1):
9p updates

Eric Biggers (2):
fscrypt updates
fsverity updates

Gao Xiang (1):
erofs updates

Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
m68k updates

Greg KH (6):
USB and Thunderbolt driver updates
staging driver updates
tty/serial driver updates
char/misc driver updates
driver core updates
SPDX/License additions

Greg Ungerer (1):
m68knommu update

Guenter Roeck (1):
hwmon updates

Guo Ren (1):
arch/csky updates

Hans de Goede (1):
x86 platform driver updates

Helge Deller (2):
fbdev updates
parisc updates

Herbert Xu (1):
crypto updates

Huacai Chen (1):
LoongArch updates

Ilya Dryomov (1):
cph update

Ingo Molnar (3):
locking updates
perf events updates
scheduler updates

Jaegeuk Kim (1):
f2fs updates

Jakub Kicinski (1):
networking fixes

James Bottomley (2):
SCSI updates
more SCSI updates

Jan Kara (1):
udf and ext2 fixes

Jarkko Sakkinen (1):
tpm updates

Jason Donenfeld (3):
unsigned-char conversion
random number generator updates
more random number generator updates

Jason Gunthorpe (3):
iommufd implementation
rdma updates
rdma fixes

Jassi Brar (1):
mailbox updates

Jeff Layton (1):
file locking updates

Jens Axboe (6):
io_uring updates
io_uring updates part two
block updates
writeback updates
io_uring fixes
block fixes

Jiri Kosina (1):
HID updates

Joerg Roedel (1):
iommu updates

John Johansen (1):
apparmor updates

Jonathan Corbet (1):
documentation updates

Juergen Gross (1):
xen updates

Julia Lawall (1):
coccicheck update

Kees Cook (6):
pstore updates
seccomp updates
execve updates
kernel hardening updates
pstore fixes
kernel hardening fixes

Konstantin Komarov (1):
ntfs3 updates

Lee Jones (2):
MFD updates
backlight update

Linus Walleij (1):
pin control updates

Luis Chamberlain (2):
modules updates
sysctl updates

Marc Zyngier (1):
MSI fixes

Mark Brown (5):
regmap updates
regulator updates
spi updates
regulator fixes
spi fix

Masahiro Yamada (1):
Kbuild updates

Mauro Carvalho Chehab (2):
media updates
media fixes

Max Filippov (1):
Xtensa updates

Michael Ellerman (1):
powerpc updates

Michal Simek (1):
microblaze updates

Mickaël Salaün (1):
landlock updates

Miguel Ojeda (1):
rust updates

Mike Marshall (1):
orangefs updates

Mike Rapoport (1):
memblock updates

Mike Snitzer (1):
device mapper updates

Miklos Szeredi (2):
overlayfs update
fuse update

Mimi Zohar (1):
integrity updates

Miquel Raynal (1):
mtd updates

Namjae Jeon (1):
exfat update

Nick Terrell (1):
zstd updates

Palmer Dabbelt (1):
RISC-V updates

Paolo Abeni (1):
networking updates

Paolo Bonzini (2):
kvm updates
RISC-V kvm updates

Paul McKenney (5):
RCU updates
kernel memory model documentation updates
KCSAN updates
nolibc updates
RCU fix

Paul Moore (3):
audit updates
selinux updates
lsm updates

Pavel Machek (1):
LED updates

Petr Mladek (2):
printk updates
livepatching update

Rafael Wysocki (5):
power management updates
ACPI and PNP updates
thermal control updates
more thermal control updates
more ACPI updates

Rob Herring (2):
devicetree updates
more devicetree updates

Russell King (1):
ARM updates

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

Seth Forshee (2):
squashfs update
xattr audit fix

Shuah Khan (2):
Kselftest updates
KUnit updates

Stephen Boyd (1):
clk driver updates

Steve French (3):
ksmbd updates
cifs client updates
cifs fixes

Steven Rostedt (5):
ktest updates
tracing tools updates
tracing updates
trace probes updates
tracing fix

Takashi Iwai (2):
sound updates
more sound updates

Ted Ts'o (1):
ext4 updates

Tejun Heo (1):
cgroup updates

Thierry Reding (1):
pwm updates

Thomas Bogendoerfer (2):
MIPS updates
MIPS fixes

Thomas Gleixner (8):
x86 fixes
debugobjects update
irq updates
CPU hotplug updates
x86 apic update
x86 cleanups
timer updates
misc x86 updates

Trond Myklebust (1):
NFS client updates

Tzung-Bi Shih (1):
chrome platform updates

Ulf Hansson (1):
MMC and MEMSTICK updates

Vinod Koul (3):
phy updates
soundwire updates
dmaengine updates

Vlastimil Babka (1):
slab updates

Wei Liu (1):
hyperv updates

Will Deacon (2):
arm64 updates
arm64 fixes

Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
watchdog updates

Wolfram Sang (1):
i2c updates