On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 04:04:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Two weeks have passed, Christmas is over, and so is the merge window. > > I want to thank all the maintainers who sent in their pull requests > early: we all wanted to get things done before the holidays really > hit, and mostly it seemed to work quite well. > > In fact, it was rather nice to handle the big bulk of all the merge > window pull requests in the first three or four days of the merge > window. I wouldn't want to do it that way every time - it would > stress me out - but as an occasional "let's get it over with so that > the second week is calm" it really wasn't bad at all. > > It probably helped that 5.11 isn't going to be an LTS release and > isn't as big as 5.10 was, but it's not small either. Solidly average. > > Well, it's average, unless you look at the actual diffs, and notice > another huge dump of AMD GPU descriptor header files, which completely > dwarfs all the "real" changes here. The AMD "Van Gogh" include file > additions are in fact about two thirds of the whole patch, even if it > comes from basically one single commit that just adds the register > definitions. We've had it before, I'm sure we'll see it in the future > too: header files probably generated from the hardware description for > all the possible bit masks etc get very very big. > > Oh well. If you ignore that area, everything else looks normal. Driver > updates dominate, but all the usual other suspects are there: arch > updates, filesystems, networking, docs and tooling. > > And while it doesn't look like a huge release, it's certainly still > big enough that what's appended below is just my "merge log". As > always, my merge logs credit only the people I pull from, which is a > much smaller set than all the people involved in actually writing the > patches. As usual we had more than 1500 actual developers, and roughly > 12,500 changes merged. That's pretty much our average these days. > > Please go kick the tires, >
Build results: total: 153 pass: 151 fail: 2 Failed builds: arm64:allmodconfig ia64:defconfig Qemu test results: total: 430 pass: 412 fail: 18 Failed tests: arm:raspi2:multi_v7_defconfig:bcm2836-rpi-2-b:initrd arm:raspi2:multi_v7_defconfig:sd:bcm2836-rpi-2-b:rootfs <all parisc> Build errors: arm64:allmodconfig: ERROR: modpost: "irq_check_status_bit" [drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.ko] undefined! Caused by: fdd029630434 ("genirq: Move status flag checks to core") ia64:defconfig: include/linux/mmzone.h:1156:2: error: #error Allocator MAX_ORDER exceeds SECTION_SIZE and various related warnings. Caused by: 214496cb1870 ("ia64: make SPARSEMEM default and disable DISCONTIGMEM") Fix submitted ("ia64: fix build failure caused by memory model changes"). qemu boot tests: arm:raspi2: Hangs during boot. Caused by: ffdad793d579 ("irqchip/bcm2836: Make IPIs use handle_percpu_devid_irq()") Fix submitted ("irqchip/bcm2836: Fix IPI acknowledgement after conversion to handle_percpu_devid_irq"). parisc: Failed to execute /sbin/init (error -12) Caused by: c49dd3401802 ("mm: speedup mremap on 1GB or larger regions") More details are in responses to the offending patches. Guenter