Linux 7.0-rc1

You all know the drill by now: two weeks have passed, and the kernel
merge window is closed.

We have a new major number purely because I'm easily confused and not
good with big numbers.

We haven't done releases based on features (or on "stable vs
unstable") for a long long time now. So that new major number does
*not* mean that we have some big new exciting feature, or that we're
somehow leaving old interfaces behind.  It's the usual "solid
progress" marker, nothing more.

With our normal release schedule of 5-6 releases per year and my
antipathy to big version numbers, you should basically expect us to
bump the major number roughly every 3.5 years.

And yeah, I don't have a solid plan for when the major number itself
gets big. But doing the math - by that time, I expect that we'll have
somebody more competent in charge who isn't afraid of numbers past the
teens. So I'm not going to worry about it.

Anyway - despit eany lingering ".0 release" worries that people might
have due to experiences with other projects, this was one of those
fairly smooth merge window for me. I define those as the merge windows
where I don't have to bisect boot failures on any of my machines.
Admittedly this time around that was because I caught one failure case
early before I *actually* booted into it, but hey, that still
technically counts as "smooth" to me.

But your milage may vary. Which is why you should now all drop
everything, run to your computers, and test-build and test-boot a
shiny new kernel. The fact that it all works for *me* is good, but
let's make sure it works for others too, ok?

Just kidding. A leisurely stroll after you've finished chewing is fine.

And as always with rc1 releases, there's way too many changes to list
individually. So below you'll find just my mergelog that gives a very
rough idea of what I pulled and from whom.

The *really* high-level view is the usual: two thirds drivers, with
the final third being the usual random collection of architecture
updates, filesystems, tooling and random core kernel code.

For a more detailed view, please refer to the git tree (or the good
people who track and document new kernel features online, allowing me
to be my lazy self).

                     Linus

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Al Viro (1):
    vfs 'struct filename' updates

Alex Williamson (1):
    VFIO updates

Alexandre Belloni (2):
    i3c updates
    RTC updates

Alexei Starovoitov (2):
    bpf updates
    bpf fixes

Amir Goldstein (1):
    overlayfs update

Andreas Gruenbacher (1):
    gfs2 updates

Andreas Hindborg (1):
    configfs updates

Andreas Larsson (1):
    sparc updates

Andrew Morton (5):
    MM updates
    non-MM updates
    MM fixes
    more MM  updates
    more non-MM updates

Andy Shevchenko (1):
    auxdisplay updates

Anna Schumaker (1):
    NFS client updates

Ard Biesheuvel (2):
    EFI updates
    EFI fixes

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
    perf tools updates

Arnd Bergmann (5):
    asm-generic header updates
    SoC defconfig updates
    SoC driver updates
    arm platform SoC code updates
    SoC devicetree updates

Bartosz Golaszewski (3):
    power sequencing updates
    gpio updates
    gpio fixes

Bjorn Andersson (2):
    remoteproc updates
    rpmsg updates

Bjorn Helgaas (2):
    PCI updates
    pci fixes

Boqun Feng (1):
    RCU updates

Borislav Petkov (8):
    EDAC updates
    x86 alternatives update
    x86 bug documentation update
    x86 resource control updates
    x86 cleanups
    x86 microcode loader update
    x86 paravirt updates
    x86 SEV updates

Carlos Maiolino (1):
    xfs updates

Casey Schaufler (1):
    smack updates

Christian Brauner (14):
    vfs rust updates
    vfs initrd removal
    vfs timestamp updates
    vfs lease updates
    vfs error reporting updates
    vfs updates for btrfs
    minix update
    vfs nullfs update
    vfs atomic_open updates
    vfs mount updates
    vfs iomap updates
    misc vfs updates
    pidfs updates
    more misc vfs updates

Chuck Lever (1):
    nfsd updates

Damien Le Moal (1):
    ATA updates

Dan Williams (1):
    TSM updates

Danilo Krummrich (1):
    driver core updates

Dave Airlie (2):
    drm updates
    drm fixes

Dave Hansen (2):
    x86 entry code updates
    misc x86 updates

Dave Jiang (1):
    CXL updates

Dave Kleikamp (1):
    jfs updates

David Howells (1):
    keys update

David Sterba (2):
    btrfs updates
    btrfs fixes

David Teigland (1):
    dlm updates

Dmitry Torokhov (1):
    input updates

Dominique Martinet (1):
    9p updates

Eric Biggers (4):
    crypto library updates
    fsverity updates
    crypto library fix
    fsverity fixes

Frederic Weisbecker (1):
    kthread updates

Gao Xiang (1):
    erofs updates

Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
    m68k updates

Greg KH (5):
    char/misc/IIO driver updates
    staging driver updates
    tty / serial driver updates
    USB / Thunderbolt updates
    SPDX updates

Greg Ungerer (1):
    m68knommu updates

Guenter Roeck (1):
    hwmon updates

Heiko Carstens (2):
    s390 updates
    s390 fixes

Helge Deller (3):
    parisc updates
    fbdev updates
    more fbdev updates

Herbert Xu (1):
    crypto update

Huacai Chen (1):
    LoongArch updates

Ilpo Järvinen (1):
    x86 platform driver updates

Ilya Dryomov (1):
    ceph updates

Ingo Molnar (6):
    performance event updates
    locking updates
    scheduler updates
    x86/boot updates
    x86 APIC update
    x86 cpu updates

Ingo MolnarL
 (1):
    x86 platform update

Ira Weiny (1):
    libnvdimm updates

Jaegeuk Kim (1):
    f2fs updates

Jakub Kicinski (1):
    networking fixes

James Bottomley (1):
    SCSI updates

Jan Kara (2):
    fsnotify updates
    quota and isofs updates

Jarkko Sakkinen (1):
    tpm updates

Jason Gunthorpe (1):
    rdma updates

Jassi Brar (1):
    mailbox updates

Jean Delvare (1):
    dmi update

Jens Axboe (8):
    io_uring updates
    io_uring bpf filters
    block updates
    bounce buffer dio for stable pages
    io_uring large rx buffer support
    more io_uring updates
    more block updates
    io_uring fixes

Jiri Kosina (1):
    HID updates

Joel Granados (1):
    sysctl updates

Joerg Roedel (1):
    iommu updates

Johannes Berg (1):
    UML updates

John Johansen (1):
    AppArmor updates

Jon Mason (1):
    NTB (PCIe non-transparent bridge) updates

Jonathan Corbet (2):
    documentation updates
    documentation fixes

Juergen Gross (2):
    xen updates
    xen fix

Julia Lawall (1):
    coccinelle updates

Kees Cook (6):
    execve update
    pstore updates
    hardening updates
    kmalloc_obj updates
    kmalloc_obj prep
    kmalloc_obj conversion

Konstantin Komarov (1):
    ntfs3 updates

Lee Jones (3):
    MFD updates
    backlight updates
    LED updates

Len Brown (2):
    turbostat updates
    turbostat fix

Linus Walleij (1):
    pin control updates

Magnus Lindholm (1):
    alpha update

Marek Szyprowski (1):
    dma-mapping update

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

Masami Hiramatsu (2):
    bootconfig updates
    kprobes updates

Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
    media updates

Max Filippov (1):
    Xtensa update

Michael Tsirkin (1):
    virtio updates

Mickaël Salaün (1):
    landlock updates

Miguel Ojeda (2):
    rust updates
    rust fixes

Mike Marshall (1):
    orangefs updates

Mike Rapoport (2):
    memblock updates
    memblock fix

Mikulas Patocka (1):
    device mapper updates

Mimi Zohar (1):
    integrity updates

Miquel Raynal (1):
    MTD updates

Namjae Jeon (1):
    exfat updates

Nathan Chancellor (2):
    Kbuild/Kconfig updates
    Kbuild fixes

Paolo Abeni (1):
    networking updates

Paolo Bonzini (1):
    KVM updates

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

Paul Walmsley (1):
    RISC-V updates

Petr Mladek (1):
    printk updates

Rafael J (1):
    more ACPI support updates

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

Rob Herring (1):
    devicetree updates

Russell King (1):
    ARM updates

Sami Tolvanen (1):
    module updates

Sebastian Reichel (1):
    power supply and reset updates

Serge Hallyn (1):
    capabilities updates

Shuah Khan (2):
    kunit updates
    kselftest updates

Stafford Horne (1):
    OpenRISC updates

Stephen Boyd (1):
    clk updates

Steve French (4):
    smb client updates
    smb server and smbdirect updates
    smb client fixes
    smb server fixes

Steven Rostedt (5):
    runtime verifier updates
    RTLA updates
    tracing updates
    tracing fixes
    runtime verifier fix

Takashi Iwai (2):
    sound updates
    sound fixes

Takashi Sakamoto (1):
    firewire updates

Ted Ts'o (1):
    ext4 updates

Tejun Heo (4):
    workqueue updates
    cgroup updates
    sched_ext updates
    sched_ext fixes

Thomas Bogendoerfer (1):
    MIPS updates

Thomas Gleixner (8):
    irq cleanups
    irq core updates
    irq chip driver updates
    MSI updates
    clocksource updates
    timer core updates
    VDSO updates
    x86 irq updates

Thomas Weißschuh (1):
    nolibc updates

Tyler Hicks (1):
    ecryptfs updates

Tzung-Bi Shih (1):
    chrome platform updates

Uwe Kleine-König (1):
    pwm updates

Viacheslav Dubeyko (2):
    nilfs2 updates
    hfs/hfsplus updates

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

Vlastimil Babka (2):
    slab updates
    more slab updates

Wei Liu (1):
    Hyper-V updates

Will Deacon (2):
    arm64 updates
    arm64 fixes

Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
    watchdog updates

Wolfram Sang (2):
    i2c updates
    more i2c updates

Yury Norov (1):
    bitmap updates