This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.280 release.
There are 11 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
let me know.
Responses should be made by Tue, 10 Aug 2021 07:22:11 +0000.
Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.280-rc…
or in the git tree and branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.4.y
and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 4.4.280-rc1
Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria(a)linutronix.de>
rcu: Update documentation of rcu_read_unlock()
Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
futex,rt_mutex: Fix rt_mutex_cleanup_proxy_lock()
Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de>
futex: Avoid freeing an active timer
Mike Galbraith <efault(a)gmx.de>
futex: Handle transient "ownerless" rtmutex state correctly
Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de>
rtmutex: Make wait_lock irq safe
Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
futex: Futex_unlock_pi() determinism
Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
futex: Rework futex_lock_pi() to use rt_mutex_*_proxy_lock()
Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
futex: Pull rt_mutex_futex_unlock() out from under hb->lock
Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
futex,rt_mutex: Introduce rt_mutex_init_waiter()
Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
futex: Cleanup refcounting
Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de>
futex: Rename free_pi_state() to put_pi_state()
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-
include/linux/rcupdate.h | 4 +-
kernel/futex.c | 245 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 185 ++++++++++++++++--------------
kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h | 2 +-
5 files changed, 264 insertions(+), 176 deletions(-)