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-rc1... 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
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.4.280-rc1
Anna-Maria Gleixner anna-maria@linutronix.de rcu: Update documentation of rcu_read_unlock()
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org futex,rt_mutex: Fix rt_mutex_cleanup_proxy_lock()
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Avoid freeing an active timer
Mike Galbraith efault@gmx.de futex: Handle transient "ownerless" rtmutex state correctly
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de rtmutex: Make wait_lock irq safe
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org futex: Futex_unlock_pi() determinism
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org futex: Rework futex_lock_pi() to use rt_mutex_*_proxy_lock()
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org futex: Pull rt_mutex_futex_unlock() out from under hb->lock
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org futex,rt_mutex: Introduce rt_mutex_init_waiter()
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org futex: Cleanup refcounting
Thomas Gleixner tglx@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(-)