This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.13.9 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 Sat Oct 21 13:16:37 UTC 2017. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.13.9-rc1.gz or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.13.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.13.9-rc1 Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vmbus: more host signalling avoidance Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vmbus: eliminate duplicate cached index Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vmbus: refactor hv_signal_on_read Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vmbus: simplify hv_ringbuffer_read K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix bugs in rescind handling K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix rescind handling issues Alex Manoussakis <amanou@xxxxxxx> HID: hid-elecom: extend to fix descriptor for HUGE trackball Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> mm: page_vma_mapped: ensure pmd is loaded with READ_ONCE outside of lock Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> perf pmu: Unbreak perf record for arm/arm64 with events with explicit PMU Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/apic: Silence "FW_BUG TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata" on hypervisors Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/apic: Silence "FW_BUG TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata" on CPUs without the feature ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 7 +- drivers/hid/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 2 + drivers/hid/hid-elecom.c | 13 +++- drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 2 + drivers/hv/channel.c | 20 ++++- drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 54 ++++++++++---- drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c | 162 ++++++++++++++--------------------------- drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 6 +- include/linux/hyperv.h | 67 +---------------- mm/page_vma_mapped.c | 25 +++---- tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 9 ++- tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 56 ++++++++++---- tools/perf/util/pmu.h | 1 + 15 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 234 deletions(-)