Seite 3: Kleine Perlen: Infrastruktur

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Die kleinen Perlen: Infrastruktur

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

ACPI, PCI & Co.

• [    ] ACPI: Load acpi-cpufreq from processor driver automatically
• [   2] bcma: add PCIe host controller
• [C N ] drivers/base: add bus for System-on-Chip devices
• [ DN ] irq_domain: add documentation and MAINTAINERS entry.
• [C  2] irq_domain/c6x: Convert c6x to use generic irq_domain support.
• [C   ] irq_domain/microblaze: Convert microblaze to use irq_domains
• [C   ] irq_domain/mips: Allow irq_domain on MIPS
• [C  4] irq_domain: Move irq_domain code from powerpc to kernel/irq
• [C   ] irq_domain/x86: Convert x86 (embedded) to use common irq_domain
• [C   ] PCI: add a PCI resource reallocation config option
• [ D  ] PCI: Add pcie_hp=nomsi to disable MSI/MSI-X for pciehp driver
• [    ] PCI: Add quirk for still enabled interrupts on Intel Sandy Bridge GPUs
• [    ] PCI: Bjorn gets PCI hotplug too
• [    ] PCI: hand PCI maintenance over to Bjorn Helgaas
• [ D  ] PCI / PCIe: Introduce command line option to disable ARI
• [ D  ] PCI: prepare pci=realloc for multiple options
• [C N1] spi: add Broadcom BCM63xx SPI controller driver
• [C N2] SPI: add CSR SiRFprimaII SPI controller driver
• [C N1] spi: Add SuperH HSPI prototype driver
• [C N1] spi: add support for Renesas RSPI
• [ D 3] spi: create a message queueing infrastructure
• [ DN ] spi/omap: Add DT support to McSPI driver
• [CDN ] ssb: add support for bcm5354

Crypto & Security

• [C   ] crc32: add help text for the algorithm select option
• [   1] crc32: add self-test code for crc32c
• [C   ] crc32: bolt on crc32c
• [    ] crc32: optimize loop counter for x86
• [C   ] crc32: select an algorithm via Kconfig
• [C  3] crc32: simplify unit test code
• [    ] crypto: Add support for x86 cpuid auto loading for x86 crypto drivers
• [    ] crypto: blowfish-x86_64 - blacklist Pentium 4
• [C N9] crypto: camellia - add assembler implementation for x86_64
• [C   ] crypto: crc32c should use library implementation
• [C N3] crypto: driver for Tegra AES hardware
• [   4] crypto: testmgr - add more camellia test vectors
• [    ] crypto: twofish-x86_64-3way - blacklist pentium4 and atom
• [ D  ] KEYS: Allow special keyrings to be cleared
• [ D  ] Yama: add PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY

Memory Management (MM)

• [   2] cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3
• [ D  ] feature-removal-schedule.txt: schedule the deprecated form of kmap_atomic() for removal
• [    ] memcg: fix performance of mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat()
• [ D  ] mm: cleancache: report statistics via debugfs instead of sysfs.
• [ D 1] mm: cleancache: s/flush/invalidate/
• [ DN ] mm: move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm
• [ DN ] mm: move page-types.c from Documentation to tools/vm
• [    ] mm: SLAB Out-of-memory diagnostics
• [   1] mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode
• [ D  ] pagemap: document KPF_THP and make page-types aware of it
• [ D  ] thp: documentation: 'transparent_hugepage=' can also be specified on cmdline

Power Management

• [C N1] CPUFREQ: Add S3C2416/S3C2450 cpufreq driver
• [  N ] cpupower: Add cpupower-idle-info manpage
• [C N1] EXYNOS4X12: Add support cpufreq for EXYNOS4X12
• [C N1] EXYNOS5250: Add support cpufreq for EXYNOS5250
• [    ] PM / Domains: Add OF support
• [ D  ] PM / Freezer / Docs: Document the beauty of freeze/thaw semantics
• [ D  ] PM / QoS: Make it possible to expose PM QoS latency constraints
• [   1] PM / Sleep: Introduce generic callbacks for new device PM phases [ D 3] PM / Sleep: Introduce "late suspend" and "early resume" of devices

Tracing

• [   1] ftrace: Add enable/disable ftrace_ops control interface
• [    ] ftrace: Add FTRACE_ENTRY_REG macro to allow event registration
• [ D  ] ftrace: Append wakeup_rt description of ftrace doc
• [    ] ftrace, perf: Add add/del tracepoint perf registration actions
• [   1] ftrace, perf: Add open/close tracepoint perf registration actions
• [    ] ftrace: sched_switch plugin is deprecated
• [    ] jump label: Add a WARN() if jump label key count goes negative
• [    ] jump_label: Add some documentation
• [    ] perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
• [    ] perf doc: Allow producing documentation in a specified output directory
• [ DN ] perf lock: Document lock info subcommand
• [    ] perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
• [    ] perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option
• [    ] perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling
• [    ] perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode
• [   1] perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode
• [    ] perf script: Add option resolving vmlinux path
• [    ] perf script: Add the offset field specifier
• [  N ] perf tools: Add sysfs mountpoint interface
• [   2] perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top
• [   1] perf tools: Introduce per user view
  
• [    ] perf/x86: Add Intel LBR mappings for PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH filters
• [    ] perf/x86: Add Intel LBR MSR definitions
• [    ] perf/x86: Add Intel LBR sharing logic
• [   1] perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs
• [  N ] printk/tracing: Add console output tracing
• [    ] tracepoint, vfs, sched: Add exec() tracepoint

Virtualisation

• [   1] hvc_xen: implement multiconsole support
• [C   ] hvc_xen: introduce HVC_XEN_FRONTEND
• [    ] KVM: Improve TSC offset matching
• [   1] KVM: Infrastructure for software and hardware based TSC rate scaling
• [ D  ] KVM: PPC: Add generic single register ioctls
• [ D  ] KVM: PPC: Add support for explicit HIOR setting
• [   1] KVM: PPC: Allow use of small pages to back Book3S HV guests
• [ D 3] KVM: PPC: e500: MMU API
• [    ] KVM: PPC: E500: Support hugetlbfs
• [   3] KVM: PPC: Implement MMIO emulation support for Book3S HV guests
• [C  3] KVM: PPC: Implement MMU notifiers for Book3S HV guests
• [ D  ] KVM: PPC: refer to paravirt docs in header file
• [ D  ] KVM: provide synchronous registers in kvm_run
• [CD  ] KVM: s390: add parameter for KVM_CREATE_VM
• [ D  ] KVM: s390: ucontrol: export page faults to user
• [ D  ] KVM: s390: ucontrol: export SIE control block to user
• [ D  ] KVM: s390: ucontrol: interface to inject faults on a vcpu page table
• [ D  ] KVM: s390: ucontrol: per vcpu address spaces
• [    ] KVM: SVM: Add support for AMD's OSVW feature in guests
• [C   ] xen/acpi-processor: Do not depend on CPU frequency scaling drivers.
• [    ] xen/cpufreq: Disable the cpu frequency scaling drivers from loading.

Various

• [ D 3] cgroup: remove cgroup_subsys argument from callbacks
• [   1] coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag
• [ DN1] crc32: move long comment about crc32 fundamentals to Documentation/
• [ D  ] debugfs: add mode, uid and gid options
• [    ] dma-buf: add support for kernel cpu access
• [CDN ] dma-buf: document fd flags and O_CLOEXEC requirement
• [ DN2] dt: Linux DT usage model documentation
• [ D  ] dynamic_debug: add trim_prefix() to provide source-root relative paths
• [    ] dynamic_debug: change verbosity at runtime
• [ D  ] dynamic_debug: process multiple debug-queries on a line
• [ D  ] kgdb,debug_core: add the ability to control the reboot notifier
• [    ] lockdep: Add CPU-idle/offline warning to lockdep-RCU splat
• [   1] MAINTAINERS: update git urls for 2.6 deletions
• [ D  ] module: add kernel param to force disable module load
• [ D 2] pinctrl: API changes to support multiple states per device
• [ D  ] pinctrl: assume map table entries can't have a NULL name field
• [ DN ] pinctrl: break out a pinctrl consumer header
• [ D  ] pinctrl: changes hog mechanism to be self-referential
• [ D  ] pinctrl: delete raw device pointers in pinmux maps
• [ D  ] pinctrl: disallow map table entries with NULL dev_name field
• [ D 3] pinctrl: enhance mapping table to support pin config operations
• [C N1] pinctrl: introduce generic pin config
• [ D 1] pinctrl: introduce PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, define hogs as that state
• [ D 4] pinctrl: move generic functions to the pinctrl_ namespace
• [ D  ] pinctrl: re-order struct pinctrl_map
• [C N ] pinctrl: support pinconfig on the U300
• [    ] prctl: add PR_{SET,GET}_CHILD_SUBREAPER to allow simple process supervision
• [   2] radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator
• [ D  ] rcu: Add CPU-stall capability to rcutorture
• [    ] rcu: Add diagnostic for misaligned rcu_head structures
• [    ] rcu: Add lockdep-RCU checks for simple self-deadlock
• [    ] rcu: Add RCU_NONIDLE() for idle-loop RCU read-side critical sections
• [   1] rcu: Avoid waking up CPUs having only kfree_rcu() callbacks
• [ D 6] rcu: Bring RTFP.txt up to date.
• [ D  ] rcu: Call out dangers of expedited RCU primitives
• [ D  ] rcu: Make documentation give more realistic rcutorture duration
• [C   ] rcu: Move RCU_TRACE to lib/Kconfig.debug
• [C  1] rcu: Print scheduling-clock information on RCU CPU stall-warning messages
• [ D 1] rcu: Rework detection of use of RCU by offline CPUs
• [ D  ] rcutorture: Permit holding off CPU-hotplug operations during boot
• [ D  ] rcu: Update stall-warning documentation
• [ D  ] sched: Remove sched_switch
• [    ] sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled()
• [    ] sched/wait: Add __wake_up_all_locked() API
• [ DN1] static keys: Add docs better explaining the whole 'struct static_key' mechanism
• [C N4] static keys: Introduce 'struct static_key', static_key_true()/false() and static_key_slow_[inc|dec]()
• [C  1] sysctl: Improve the sysctl sanity checks
• [   3] sysctl: Move the implementation into fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
• [   2] sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets.
• [   1] sysctl: Stop requiring explicit management of sysctl directories
• [    ] sysfs: change permissions for /sys from 0755 to 0555
• [  N ] tools/include: Add byteshift headers for endian access