Re: Linux 5.2

[Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>]

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Well, thanks a bunch Linus :)

On 16:10 Sun 07 Jul , Linus Torvalds wrote:
>So I was somewhat pre-disposed towards making an rc8, simply because
>of my travels and being entirely off the internet for a few days last
>week, and with spotty internet for a few days before that [*].
>
>But there really doesn't seem to be any reason for another rc, since
>it's been very quiet. Yes, I had a few pull requests since rc7, but
>they were all small, and I had many more that are for the upcoming
>merge window. Part of it may be due to the July 4th week, of course,
>but whatever - I'll take the quiet week as a good sign.
>
>So despite a fairly late core revert, I don't see any real reason for
>another week of rc, and so we have a v5.2 with the normal release
>timing.
>
>There's no particular area that stands out there - the changes are so
>small that the sppended shortlog really is the best description of
>last week. A few small random changes all over: drivers,
>architectures, filesystem, mm, ...
>
>So with this, the merge window for 5.2 is open.
>
>           Linus
>
>[*] Courtesy of the Ocean Hunter III in Palau.
>
>Because of blurry fish-butt, I don't carry a camera under water any
>more, but I guess can point you to some of Dirk's highlights:
>
>   https://hohndel.name/palau-2019
>
>---
>
>Alex Deucher (1):
>      drm/amdgpu/gfx9: use reset default for PA_SC_FIFO_SIZE
>
>Ard Biesheuvel (1):
>      arm64: kaslr: keep modules inside module region when KASAN is enabled
>
>Arnd Bergmann (2):
>      soc: ti: fix irq-ti-sci link error
>      devres: allow const resource arguments
>
>Bartosz Golaszewski (3):
>      ARM: davinci: da830-evm: add missing regulator constraints for OHCI
>      ARM: davinci: omapl138-hawk: add missing regulator constraints for OHCI
>      ARM: davinci: da830-evm: fix GPIO lookup for OHCI
>
>Boris Brezillon (1):
>      drm/panfrost: Fix a double-free error
>
>Cedric Hombourger (1):
>      MIPS: have "plain" make calls build dtbs for selected platforms
>
>Chris Wilson (1):
>      drm/i915/ringbuffer: EMIT_INVALIDATE *before* switch context
>
>Christian Brauner (1):
>      fork: return proper negative error code
>
>Chuck Lever (1):
>      svcrdma: Ignore source port when computing DRC hash
>
>Colin Ian King (2):
>      ALSA: usb-audio: fix sign unintended sign extension on left shifts
>      ALSA: seq: fix incorrect order of dest_client/dest_ports arguments
>
>Dan Carpenter (1):
>      dmaengine: jz4780: Fix an endian bug in IRQ handler
>
>Dennis Wassenberg (1):
>      ALSA: hda/realtek - Change front mic location for Lenovo M710q
>
>Dmitry Korotin (1):
>      MIPS: Add missing EHB in mtc0 -> mfc0 sequence.
>
>Dmitry Osipenko (1):
>      i2c: tegra: Add Dmitry as a reviewer
>
>Eiichi Tsukata (1):
>      tracing/snapshot: Resize spare buffer if size changed
>
>Eric Biggers (3):
>      vfs: move_mount: reject moving kernel internal mounts
>      crypto: user - prevent operating on larval algorithms
>      fs/userfaultfd.c: disable irqs for fault_pending and event locks
>
>Evan Green (1):
>      ALSA: hda: Fix widget_mutex incomplete protection
>
>Evan Quan (1):
>      drm/amd/powerplay: use hardware fan control if no powerplay fan table
>
>Frieder Schrempf (1):
>      mtd: spinand: Fix max_bad_eraseblocks_per_lun info in memorg
>
>Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
>      fs: VALIDATE_FS_PARSER should default to n
>
>Gerd Hoffmann (1):
>      drm/virtio: move drm_connector_update_edid_property() call
>
>Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
>      blk-mq: fix up placement of debugfs directory of queue files
>
>Hauke Mehrtens (1):
>      MIPS: Fix bounds check virt_addr_valid
>
>Herbert Xu (1):
>      lib/mpi: Fix karactx leak in mpi_powm
>
>Jan Kara (1):
>      dax: Fix xarray entry association for mixed mappings
>
>Jann Horn (1):
>      ptrace: Fix ->ptracer_cred handling for PTRACE_TRACEME
>
>Jiri Kosina (1):
>      ftrace/x86: Anotate text_mutex split between
>ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process() and
>ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare()
>
>Joshua Scott (1):
>      ARM: dts: armada-xp-98dx3236: Switch to armada-38x-uart serial node
>
>Juergen Gross (1):
>      mm/page_alloc.c: fix regression with deferred struct page init
>
>Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant (1):
>      MIPS: fix build on non-linux hosts
>
>Linus Torvalds (2):
>      Revert "mm: page cache: store only head pages in i_pages"
>      Linux 5.2
>
>Linus Walleij (1):
>      gpio/spi: Fix spi-gpio regression on active high CS
>
>Liran Alon (2):
>      KVM: nVMX: Allow restore nested-state to enable eVMCS when vCPU in SMM
>      KVM: nVMX: Change KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS to signal vmcs12 is
>copied from eVMCS
>
>Lucas Stach (1):
>      drm/etnaviv: add missing failure path to destroy suballoc
>
>Lyude Paul (1):
>      drm/amdgpu: Don't skip display settings in hwmgr_resume()
>
>Matias Karhumaa (1):
>      Bluetooth: Fix faulty expression for minimum encryption key size check
>
>Maurizio Lombardi (1):
>      scsi: iscsi: set auth_protocol back to NULL if CHAP_A value is
>not supported
>
>Miquel Raynal (2):
>      Revert "mtd: rawnand: sunxi: Add A23/A33 DMA support"
>      mtd: rawnand: sunxi: Add A23/A33 DMA support with extra MBUS configuration
>
>Nathan Chancellor (1):
>      arm64/efi: Mark __efistub_stext_offset as an absolute symbol explicitly
>
>Oleg Nesterov (1):
>      swap_readpage(): avoid blk_wake_io_task() if !synchronous
>
>Paolo Bonzini (1):
>      KVM: x86: degrade WARN to pr_warn_ratelimited
>
>Paul Cercueil (2):
>      MAINTAINERS: Correct path to moved files
>      mtd: rawnand: ingenic: Fix ingenic_ecc dependency
>
>Paul Menzel (1):
>      nfsd: Fix overflow causing non-working mounts on 1 TB machines
>
>Petr Mladek (1):
>      ftrace/x86: Remove possible deadlock between register_kprobe()
>and ftrace_run_update_code()
>
>Richard Sailer (1):
>      ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirks for several Clevo notebook barebones
>
>Robert Beckett (2):
>      drm/imx: notify drm core before sending event during crtc disable
>      drm/imx: only send event on crtc disable if kept disabled
>
>Robin Gong (1):
>      dmaengine: imx-sdma: remove BD_INTR for channel0
>
>Roman Bolshakov (1):
>      scsi: target/iblock: Fix overrun in WRITE SAME emulation
>
>Ronnie Sahlberg (1):
>      cifs: fix crash querying symlinks stored as reparse-points
>
>Shakeel Butt (1):
>      mm/vmscan.c: prevent useless kswapd loops
>
>Sricharan R (1):
>      dmaengine: qcom: bam_dma: Fix completed descriptors count
>
>Stefan Hellermann (1):
>      MIPS: ath79: fix ar933x uart parity mode
>
>Steven Rostedt (VMware) (1):
>      ftrace/x86: Add a comment to why we take text_mutex in
>ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare()
>
>Sven Van Asbroeck (1):
>      dmaengine: imx-sdma: fix use-after-free on probe error path
>
>Takashi Iwai (1):
>      ALSA: line6: Fix write on zero-sized buffer
>
>Takashi Sakamoto (1):
>      ALSA: firewire-lib/fireworks: fix miss detection of received MIDI messages
>
>Takeshi Misawa (1):
>      tracing: Fix memory leak in tracing_err_log_open()
>
>Vincent Whitchurch (1):
>      crypto: cryptd - Fix skcipher instance memory leak
>
>Wanpeng Li (1):
>      KVM: LAPIC: Fix pending interrupt in IRR blocked by software disable LAPIC
>
>Zhang Lei (1):
>      KVM: arm64/sve: Fix vq_present() macro to yield a bool

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