Seite 3: Kleine Perlen: Infrastruktur

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Die kleinen Perlen: Infrastruktur

Die folgenden Links führen zu einigen kleineren, aber keineswegs unbedeutende Änderungen:

ACPi, PCI und Co.

• [  N1] ACPI 5.0: Add new/changed tables to headers
• [    ] ACPI 5.0: Add new predefined names
• [   2] ACPI 5.0: Implement Connection() and AccessAs() changes
• [  N ] ACPI 5.0: New interfaces to allow driver access to AML mutex objects
• [    ] ACPI, Add RAM mapping support to ACPI atomic IO support
• [ D 1] acpi/apei/einj: Add extensions to EINJ from rev 5.0 of acpi spec
• [    ] ACPI, APEI, GHES: Add PCIe AER recovery support
• [  N2] ACPICA: Add support for region address conflict checking
• [ D  ] ACPI: kernel-parameters.txt : Add intel_idle.max_cstate
• [    ] ACPI / PM: Add Sony Vaio VPCCW29FX to nonvs blacklist.
• [    ] iommu: Add iommu_device_group callback and iommu_group sysfs entry
• [ D  ] iommu: Add option to group multi-function devices
• [C N ] iommu/amd: Add driver stub for AMD IOMMUv2 support
• [    ] iommu/amd: Add function to get IOMMUv2 domain for pdev
• [    ] iommu/amd: Add iommuv2 flag to struct amd_iommu
• [    ] iommu/amd: Add stat counter for IOMMUv2 events
• [C  1] iommu/amd: Add support for IOMMUv2 domain mode
• [    ] iommu/amd: Implement device aquisition code for IOMMUv2
• [    ] iommu/amd: Implement iommu_device_group
• [    ] iommu/amd: Implement IOMMUv2 TLB flushing routines
• [C   ] iommu/amd: Implement notifiers for IOMMUv2
• [ D  ] iommu/amd: Put IOMMUv2 capable devices in pt_domain
• [   1] iommu/core: split mapping to page sizes as supported by the hardware
• [    ] iommu/intel: Implement iommu_device_group
• [ D  ] PCI: deprecate pci_scan_bus_parented()
• [    ] PCI: Introduce INTx check & mask API
• [ D  ] PCI/sysfs: add per pci device msi× irq listing (v5)
• [    ] PNP: work around Dell 1536/1546 BIOS MMCONFIG bug that breaks USB
  
• [C   ] spi-topcliff-pch: Support new device LAPIS Semiconductor ML7831 IOH

Crypto und Security

• [    ] crypto: caam - add support for MD5 algorithm variants
• [  N ] crypto: lrw - add interface for parallelized cipher implementions
• [C   ] crypto: lrw - remove dependency on EXPERIMENTAL
• [  N ] crypto: serpent - export common functions for x86_64/i386-sse2 assembler implementations
• [    ] crypto: talitos - add hmac algorithms
• [   1] crypto: talitos - support for channel remap and 2nd IRQ
• [    ] crypto: tcrypt - add lrw(serpent) tests
• [    ] crypto: tcrypt - add lrw(twofish) tests
• [    ] crypto: tcrypt - add serpent speed tests
• [    ] crypto: tcrypt - add test_acipher_speed
• [    ] crypto: tcrypt - add xts(serpent) tests
• [    ] crypto: tcrypt - add xts(twofish) tests
• [   1] crypto: testmgr - add lrw(serpent) test vectors
• [   1] crypto: testmgr - add lrw(twofish) test vectors
• [   1] crypto: testmgr - add new serpent test vectors
• [   2] crypto: testmgr - add xts(serpent) test vectors
• [   2] crypto: testmgr - add xts(twofish) test vectors
• [  N ] crypto: xts: add interface for parallelized cipher implementations
• [C   ] crypto: xts - remove dependency on EXPERIMENTAL
  
• [ DN ] Documentation: clarify the purpose of LSMs

MM

• [C   ] kmemleak: Add support for memory hotplug
• [ D  ] kmemleak: Handle percpu memory allocation
• [C  2] memblock: Kill early_node_map[]
• [    ] mm: add free_hot_cold_page_list() helper
• [CD  ] mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging
• [    ] mm: simplify find_vma_prev()
• [C   ] mm,slub,x86: decouple size of struct page from CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
• [ D  ] mm-tracepoint: fix documentation and examples
• [ D  ] mm-tracepoint: rename page-free events
• [C   ] mm,x86,um: move CMPXCHG_DOUBLE config option
• [C   ] mm,x86,um: move CMPXCHG_LOCAL config option
• [    ] slab: add taint flag outputting to debug paths.
• [ D  ] slab: introduce slab_max_order kernel parameter
• [    ] slub: add taint flag outputting to debug paths
• [ D  ] slub: document setting min order with debug_guardpage_minorder > 0
• [ D  ] slub: fix slub_max_order Documentation
  
• [  N ] tracepoint: add tracepoints for debugging oom_score_adj

Power Management

• [C N2] [CPUFREQ] EXYNOS: Make EXYNOS common cpufreq driver
• [ D  ] freezer: don't unnecessarily set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly
• [ D 1] freezer: unexport refrigerator() and update try_to_freeze() slightly
• [C N3] PM/Devfreq: Add Exynos4-bus device DVFS driver for Exynos4210/4212/4412.
• [  N1] PM / Domains: Add device stop governor function (v4)
• [ D  ] PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation snapshot ioctls
• [    ] PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation test modes
• [ D 2] PM: Run the driver callback directly if the subsystem one is not there
  
• [ D  ] PM / Sleep: Recommend [un]lock_system_sleep() over using pm_mutex directly

Tracing

• [    ] events, sched: Add tracepoint for accounting blocked time
• [    ] ftrace: Do not function trace inlined functions
• [    ] ktest: Allow bisect test to restart where it left off
• [    ] ktest: Allow overriding bisect test results
• [    ] ktest: Allow success logs to be stored
• [    ] ktest: Save test output
• [    ] ktest: When creating a new config, ask for BUILD_OPTIONS
• [ DN1] oprofile, s390: Add event interface to the System z hardware sampling module
• [ D  ] oprofile, x86: Add kernel parameter oprofile.cpu_type=timer
• [C N1] oprofile, x86: Reimplement nmi timer mode using perf event
• [    ] perf: Add support for PERF_HW_COUNT_REF_CPU_CYCLES
• [    ] perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching
• [    ] perf events: Add Intel x86 mapping for PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES
• [    ] perf events: Add PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES generic PMU event
• [    ] perf script: Add comm filtering option
• [    ] perf script: Add generic perl handler to process events
• [    ] perf script: Implement option for system-wide profiling
• [    ] perf test: Add more automated tests for event parsing
• [    ] perf tools: Add ability to synthesize event according to a sample
• [    ] perf tools: Look up thread names for system wide profiling
• [   1] perf tools: Save some loops using perf_evlist__id2evsel
• [    ] perf, x86: Expose perf capability to other modules
• [  N1] selftests: new x86 breakpoints selftest
• [    ] tracing: Add entries in buffer and total entries to default output header
• [    ] tracing: Add irq, preempt-count and need resched info to default trace output
• [ D  ] tracing: Have stack tracing set filtered functions at boot
• [ D  ] tracing: update Documentation on max preds limit
• [  N1] x86, perf: Add a build-time sanity test to the x86 decoder

Virtualization

• [ D  ] KVM: Document KVM_NMI
• [    ] KVM: expose latest Intel cpu new features (BMI1/BMI2/FMA/AVX2) to guest
• [    ] KVM guest: remove KVM guest pv mmu support
• [ D  ] KVM: MMU: remove KVM host pv mmu support
• [ D  ] KVM: MMU: remove oos_shadow parameter
• [ D  ] vhost-net: add module alias (v2.1)
• [    ] virtio: harsher barriers for rpmsg.
• [C N ] xen: Add privcmd device driver
• [  N ] xen: Add xenbus_backend device
• [    ] xen: Add xenbus device driver
• [    ] xenbus: Support HVM backends
• [ DN ] xen: document backend sysfs files
• [ DN ] xen: document balloon driver sysfs files
  
• [   2] xen/granttable: Introducing grant table V2 stucture

Various

• [ D 1] cgroup: introduce cgroup_taskset and use it in subsys->can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach()
• [ D  ] cgroup: kill subsys->can_attach_task(), pre_attach() and attach_task()
• [ D  ] coccinelle.txt: update documentation to include M= option
• [   9] cpu: convert 'cpu' and 'machinecheck' sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
• [ D  ] c/r: procfs: add start_data, end_data, start_brk members to /proc/$pid/stat v4
• [ D  ] debugfs: add tools to printk 32-bit registers
• [ D  ] debugobjects: Extend to assert that an object is initialized
• [ D  ] doc: Add load/store guarantees to Documentation/atomic-ops.txt
• [ D  ] Documentation: add missing tainted bits to Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
• [ DN ] dt/i2c: Enumerate some of the known trivial i2c devices
• [ DN ] i2c-designware: add OF binding support
• [ D  ] kbuild: Add support for an "archheaders" target
• [ D  ] lockdep: Update documentation for lock-class leak detection
• [    ] MAINTAINERS: stable: Update address
• [    ] module_param: avoid bool abuse, add bint for special cases.
• [    ] module_param: check that bool parameters really are bool.
• [    ] module_param: make bool parameters really bool (arch)
• [    ] module_param: make bool parameters really bool (core code)
• [   9] module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc)
• [    ] module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers/video/i810)
• [   2] module_param: make bool parameters really bool (net & drivers/net)
• [ D  ] modules: sysfs - export: taint, coresize, initsize
• [  N ] NFSD: Added fault injection script
• [   1] nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop
• [   1] nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu()
• [   1] nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logic
• [ DN ] of/address: Add reg-names property to name an iomem resource
• [ D  ] of/irq: Add interrupts-names property to name an irq resource
• [ D  ] pinctrl: add a pin_base for sparse gpio-ranges
• [CDN2] pinctrl: add a pin config interface
• [ D  ] pinctrl: documentation update
• [ D 1] pinctrl: don't create a device for each pin controller
• [ D  ] pinctrl: GPIO direction support for muxing
• [ D  ] pinctrl: make a copy of pinmux map
• [ D  ] pinctrl: pass name instead of device to pin_config_*
• [ D  ] pinctrl: some typo fixes
• [ D  ] rcu: Add documentation for raw SRCU read-side primitives
• [ D  ] rcu: Add rcutorture CPU-hotplug capability
• [ D  ] rcu: Add rcutorture system-shutdown capability
• [    ] rcu: Control rcutorture startup from kernel boot parameters
• [ D  ] rcu: Document failing tick as cause of RCU CPU stall warning
• [C   ] rcu: Permit RCU_FAST_NO_HZ to be used by TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
• [ D 2] rcu: Track idleness independent of idle tasks
• [    ] sched, nohz: Implement sched group, domain aware nohz idle load balancing
• [    ] sched: Only queue remote wakeups when crossing cache boundaries
• [    ] sched/tracing: Add a new tracepoint for sleeptime
• [   2] scripts/coccinelle: improve the coverage of some semantic patches
• [  N ] selftests: new very basic kernel selftests directory
• [ D  ] stable: update documentation to ask for kernel version
  
• [ D  ] sysctl: add the kernel.ns_last_pid control