== Patch Review ==
* LED trigger series from Bryan Wu
* ARM kprobes test framework from Tixy
* Thumb2 build fixes for PXA/PJ4 iWMMXt code from Dave Martin
* Kbuild addition allowing code re-use across different directories from Arnaud Lacombe. While this has value, it doesn't do what I need for the DT append to zImage patch series.
* Per SoC descriptor patch series from Marc Zyngier (couple itterations)
* SMP preemption/task migration cache coherency fixups from George Davis
== Upstream Contributions ==
* Posted patch series to rework the low level UART debugging code on OMAP1, OMAP2 and Davinci. Acked by Tony Lindgren and Kevin Hilman. This is a prerequisite to the mach/memory.h removal patch series. Now in RMK's tree.
* Produced and posted a mach/memory.h removal patch series to clean up now redundant and unneeded code. The summary stat is a net reduction of almost 1000 lines, and another step towards the ability to combine multiple SOCs in the same kernel binary. Now in RMK's tree.
* Reworked and posted the patch series for the appending of a device tree binary to the kernel zImage. Non trivial cleanups to the kernel decompressor were required. Now in RMK's tree.
* Reworked and posted patch series removing all instances of mach/vmalloc.h. This also allowed for a common ioremap optimization where static mappings are reused whenever possible, allowing all machines to benefit instead of having special __arch_ioremap() implementations duplicated everywhere. Testing on Panda revealed problems due to reliance on implementation details with the OMAP version of __arch_ioremap() that this series replaces. A plea for help to the OMAP guys produced all the necessary cleanups in record breaking time, however the dependencies on stuff queued for the v3.2 merge window are many. I therefore decided to postpone this series for the v3.3 merge window.
* Initial work on the zreladdr cleanup/removal.
== Linaro Kernel Maintenance ==
* Merged the following in linux-linaro-3.1:
- Thumb-2 undef handling fix for multi-CPU kernels from Dave Martin - ARM cpu topology definition from Vincent Guittot - RMK's devel-stable branch from Oct 17 that contains (among others): - runtime consistent dma size init from Tixy (single zImage topic) - boot_params to atag_offset transition from myself (single zImage topic) - ARM pmu/perf updates from Will Deacon - the ability to append a DT to zImage from myself and others - the ARM kprobes test infrastructure from Tixy - suspend/resume consolidation and cleanups from RMK - cpu pm notifiers on ARM from Colin Cross - MX51 cpuidle support from Robert Lee
* Merged the following in linux-linaro-3.0:
- stable v3.0.5 - SPI initialization fix for Dove - stable v3.0.7
* Tagged linux-linaro-3.1-2011.10-0, quickly followed by linux-linaro-3.1-2011.10-1. Problems are being reported now (missing DT support patches) so another tag is likely in the near future.
== Miscellaneous ==
* Planning committee for the upcoming ARM subarchitecture workshop at Kernel Summit in Prague
* Trip arrangements and registrations for ARM workshop (Prague), ELC-E (Prague), and Linaro Connect (Orlando).