Things are calming down nicely, and everything looks pretty normal. In fact, if it wasn't for the pending issues with odd watchdog (and possibly rcu) lockups I'd be pretty happy. As it is, that isn't a regression from 3.17, but is still very disturbing.
At the same time, with the holidays coming up, and the problem _not_ being a regression, I suspect that what will happen is that I'll release 3.18 on time in a week, because delaying it will either mess up the merge window and the holiday season, or I'd have to delay it a *lot*. We'll see. Maybe DaveJ will be able to bisect it a bit now that the false lead of "3.17 was ok" has been shown to be wrong (right now it looks like the problem seems to have crept in between 3.16 and 3.17). Annoying, because as mentioned, other than that we seem to be doing well. The rc7 patch looks very normal, with two thirds being drivers (spread all over: usb, networking, staging, thermal, gpu, sound..) and half of the remaining being arch updates (mostly mips, arm, powerpc). The remaining is mainly networking and some filesystem fixes (nfsd and btrfs). Linus ---- Aaro Koskinen (1): MIPS: Loongson: Make platform serial setup always built-in. Akinobu Mita (3): ufs: fix reference counting of W-LUs ufs: ensure clk gating work is finished before module unloading ufs: fix NULL dereference when no regulators are defined Alex Deucher (1): drm/radeon: report disconnected for LVDS/eDP with PX if ddc fails Alexander Duyck (3): ipv6: Do not treat a GSO_TCPV4 request from UDP tunnel over IPv6 as invalid ip6_udp_tunnel: Fix checksum calculation vxlan: Fix boolean flip in VXLAN_F_UDP_ZERO_CSUM6_[TX|RX] Alexey Khoroshilov (1): xen-netback: do not report success if backend_create_xenvif() fails Andrew Lutomirski (1): net-timestamp: Fix a documentation typo Anton Blanchard (1): powerpc: 32 bit getcpu VDSO function uses 64 bit instructions Ard Biesheuvel (2): arm/arm64: kvm: drop inappropriate use of kvm_is_mmio_pfn() kvm: fix kvm_is_mmio_pfn() and rename to kvm_is_reserved_pfn() Arnaud Ebalard (1): hwmon: (g762) fix call to devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups() Axel Lin (1): iio: adc: men_z188_adc: Add terminating entry for men_z188_ids Ben Sagal (1): Input: synaptics - adjust min/max on Thinkpad E540 Benjamin Herrenschmidt (6): PCI/MSI: Add device flag indicating that 64-bit MSIs don't work gpu/radeon: Set flag to indicate broken 64-bit MSI sound/radeon: Move 64-bit MSI quirk from arch to driver powerpc/powernv: Honor the generic "no_64bit_msi" flag powerpc/pseries: Honor the generic "no_64bit_msi" flag powerpc/pci: Remove unused force_32bit_msi quirk Boris Brezillon (3): irqchip: atmel-aic: Fix irqdomain initialization clk: at91: usb: fix at91rm9200 round and set rate clk: at91: usb: fix at91sam9x5 recalc, round and set rate Carolyn Wyborny (1): igb: Fixes needed for surprise removal support Charles Keepax (1): spi: Fix mapping from vmalloc-ed buffer to scatter list Chris Mason (1): btrfs: zero out left over bytes after processing compression streams Christian Sünkenberg (1): scsi: add Intel Multi-Flex to scsi scan blacklist Christoffer Dall (2): arm64: KVM: Handle traps of ICC_SRE_EL1 as RAZ/WI arm/arm64: KVM: vgic: Fix error code in kvm_vgic_create() Christoph Hellwig (1): nfsd: correctly define v4.2 support attributes Cristina Ciocan (1): iio: Fix IIO_EVENT_CODE_EXTRACT_DIR bit mask Daniel Baluta (1): iio: accel: kxcjk-1013: Fix kxcjk10013_set_range Daniel Borkmann (1): ixgbe: fix use after free adapter->state test in ixgbe_remove/ixgbe_probe David S. Miller (1): sparc: Add NOP dma_cache_sync() implementation. Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov (1): ARM: 8216/1: xscale: correct auxiliary register in suspend/resume Dmitry Torokhov (3): Input: elantech - trust firmware about trackpoint presence irqchip: bcm7120-l2: Fix error handling of irq_of_parse_and_map irqchip: brcmstb-l2: Fix error handling of irq_of_parse_and_map Dolev Raviv (4): scsi: ufs: fix static checker errors in ufshcd_system_suspend scsi: ufs: fix static checker warning in ufshcd_populate_vreg scsi: ufs: fix static checker warning in __ufshcd_setup_clocks scsi: ufs: fix static checker warning in ufshcd_parse_clock_info Eric Dumazet (1): tcp: fix possible NULL dereference in tcp_vX_send_reset() Felipe Balbi (1): usb: dwc3: ep0: fix for dead code Florian Fainelli (4): MIPS: Netlogic: handle modular USB case MIPS: Netlogic: handle modular AHCI builds net: dsa: bcm_sf2: fix unmapping registers in case of errors net: dsa: bcm_sf2: reset switch prior to initialization Gavin Shan (2): powerpc/eeh: Fix PE state format powerpc/powernv: Replace OPAL_DEASSERT_RESET with EEH_RESET_DEACTIVATE Georgi Djakov (1): clk: qcom: Fix duplicate rbcpr clock name Greg Kroah-Hartman (2): Input: xpad - use proper endpoint type Revert "serial: of-serial: add PM suspend/resume support" Gu Zheng (1): aio: fix uncorrent dirty pages accouting when truncating AIO ring buffer Hans de Goede (2): USB: uas: Add no-uas quirk for Hitachi usb-3 enclosures 4971:1012 usb-quirks: Add reset-resume quirk for MS Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 Huacai Chen (2): MIPS: Fix a copy & paste error in unistd.h stmmac: platform: fix default values of the filter bins setting Hui Wang (1): ALSA: hda - One more HP machine needs to change mute led quirk Jack Morgenstein (1): net/mlx4_core: Limit count field to 24 bits in qp_alloc_res James Hogan (1): clk-divider: Fix READ_ONLY when divider > 1 Jane Zhou (1): net/ping: handle protocol mismatching scenario Javier Martinez Canillas (1): ARM: exynos_defconfig: Enable max77802 rtc and clock drivers Johan Hovold (3): USB: keyspan: fix tty line-status reporting USB: keyspan: fix overrun-error reporting USB: ssu100: fix overrun-error reporting Julia Lawall (1): solos-pci: fix error return code Jussi Laako (1): ALSA: pcm: Add big-endian DSD sample formats and fix XMOS DSD sample format Kevin Cernekee (1): MIPS: BMIPS: Fix ".previous without corresponding .section" warnings Larry Finger (4): rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix 5G detection problem rtlwifi: Change order in device startup staging: r8188eu: Fix scheduling while atomic error introduced in commit fadbe0cd staging: r8188eu: Add new device ID for DLink GO-USB-N150 Laurent Dufour (1): powerpc/pseries: Fix endiannes issue in RTAS call from xmon Lee Jones (1): thermal: sti: Ignore suspend/resume functions when !PM_SLEEP Leonid Yegoshin (1): MIPS: tlbex: Fix potential HTW race on TLBL/M/S handlers Linus Torvalds (1): Linux 3.18-rc7 Lu Baolu (2): Revert "xhci: clear root port wake on bits if controller isn't wake-up capable" usb: xhci: rework root port wake bits if controller isn't allowed to wakeup Luciano Coelho (1): iwlwifi: mvm: check TLV flag before trying to use hotspot firmware commands Mahesh Salgaonkar (1): powerpc/powernv: Fix the hmi event version check. Marc Zyngier (1): ARM: tegra: irq: fix buggy usage of irq_data irq field Mark Rutland (1): arm64: KVM: fix unmapping with 48-bit VAs Markos Chandras (4): MIPS: r4kcache: Add EVA case for protected_writeback_dcache_line MIPS: cpu-probe: Set the FTLB probability bit on supported cores MIPS: kernel: cps-vec: Set ISA level to mips32r2 for the MIPS MT ASE MIPS: Kconfig: Don't allow both microMIPS and SmartMIPS to be selected. Markus Elfring (1): thermal: Exynos: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two function calls Masanari Iida (1): MIPS: rtlx: Remove KERN_DEBUG from pr_debug() arguments in rtlx.c Mathias Nyman (2): USB: xhci: don't start a halted endpoint before its new dequeue is set USB: xhci: Reset a halted endpoint immediately when we encounter a stall. Maurizio Lombardi (1): bnx2fc: do not add shared skbs to the fcoe_rx_list Michael S. Tsirkin (1): af_packet: fix sparse warning Pablo Neira (1): Revert "netfilter: conntrack: fix race in __nf_conntrack_confirm against get_next_corpse" Paul Burton (1): MIPS: fix EVA & non-SMP non-FPU FP context signal handling Preston Fick (1): USB: serial: cp210x: add IDs for CEL MeshConnect USB Stick Qipan Li (1): spi: sirf: fix word width configuration Rafał Miłecki (1): MIPS: Fix info about plat_setup in arch_mem_init comment Ralf Baechle (2): MIPS: SEAD3: Fix LED device registration. MIPS: uaccess.h: Fix strnlen_user comment. Robert Jarzmik (1): clk: pxa: fix pxa27x CCCR bit usage Sjoerd Simons (1): ARM: dts: Explicitly set dr_mode on exynos5250-snow Srinivas Pandruvada (8): iio: gyro: bmg160: Error handling when mode set fails iio: gyro: bmg160: Don't let interrupt mode to be open drain iio: gyro: bmg160: Send x, y and z motion separately iio: gyro: bmg160: Fix iio_event_spec direction iio: accel: bmc150: Error handling when mode set fails iio: accel: bmc150: Send x, y and z motion separately iio: accel: bmc150: Fix iio_event_spec direction iio: accel: bmc150: set low default thresholds Steven J. Hill (1): MIPS: Fix address type used for early memory detection. Takashi Iwai (2): ALSA: usb-audio: Use snd_usb_ctl_msg() for Native Instruments quirk ALSA: hda - Limit 40bit DMA for AMD HDMI controllers Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (1): tg3: fix ring init when there are more TX than RX channels Thomas Graf (5): bridge: Validate IFLA_BRIDGE_FLAGS attribute length net: Validate IFLA_BRIDGE_MODE attribute length net: Check for presence of IFLA_AF_SPEC bridge: Add missing policy entry for IFLA_BRPORT_FAST_LEAVE bridge: Sanitize IFLA_EXT_MASK for AF_BRIDGE:RTM_GETLINK Thomas Petazzoni (2): ARM: mvebu: add missing of_node_put() call in coherency.c ARM: 8222/1: mvebu: enable strex backoff delay Thor Thayer (1): spi: dw: Fix dynamic speed change. Trond Myklebust (2): SUNRPC: Fix locking around callback channel reply receive nfsd: Fix slot wake up race in the nfsv4.1 callback code Troy Clark (1): usb: serial: ftdi_sio: add PIDs for Matrix Orbital products Ville Syrjälä (2): drm/i915: Ignore SURFLIVE and flip counter when the GPU gets reset drm/i915: Cancel vdd off work before suspend Vlad Yasevich (1): ixgbe: Correctly disable VLAN filter in promiscuous mode Vladimir Murzin (1): ARM: 8226/1: cacheflush: get rid of restarting block Willem de Bruijn (1): net-timestamp: make tcp_recvmsg call ipv6_recv_error for AF_INET6 socks Yadwinder Singh Brar (1): thermal: cpu_cooling: Update always cpufreq policy with thermal constraints Yaniv Gardi (1): ufs: fix power info after link start-up Yuri Chislov (1): ipv6: gre: fix wrong skb->protocol in WCCP lucien (1): ip_tunnel: the lack of vti_link_ops' dellink() cause kernel panic -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/