Many thanks to Li Zefan for digging up a bunch of these patches, that work is much appreciated. This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.81 release. There are 24 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 Thu Feb 20 22:45:38 UTC 2014. 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/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.4.81-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.4.81-rc1 Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> nfs: tear down caches in nfs_init_writepagecache when allocation fails Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> lib/vsprintf.c: kptr_restrict: fix pK-error in SysRq show-all-timers(Q) Asias He <asias@xxxxxxxxxx> virtio-blk: Use block layer provided spinlock Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Input: synaptics - handle out of bounds values from the hardware Bojan Smojver <bojan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> PM / Hibernate: Hibernate/thaw fixes/improvements Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: Fix buffer overflow in kvm_set_irq() Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> target/file: Re-enable optional fd_buffered_io=1 operation Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> target/file: Use O_DSYNC by default for FILEIO backends Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> IB/qib: Convert qib_user_sdma_pin_pages() to use get_user_pages_fast() Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load calculations some more Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[] calculations Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> ftrace: Have function graph only trace based on global_ops filters Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> ftrace: Fix synchronization location disabling and freeing ftrace_ops Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> ftrace: Synchronize setting function_trace_op with ftrace_trace_function Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> dm sysfs: fix a module unload race Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx> mm: setup pageblock_order before it's used by sparsemem Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm/page_alloc.c: remove pageblock_default_order() Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> drm/i915: kick any firmware framebuffers before claiming the gtt Tao Ma <boyu.mt@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: protect group inode free counting with group lock Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> printk: Fix scheduling-while-atomic problem in console_cpu_notify() Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86, hweight: Fix BUG when booting with CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: __set_page_dirty uses spin_lock_irqsave instead of spin_lock_irq KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() uses spin_lock_irqsave() instead of spin_lock_irq() Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> SELinux: Fix kernel BUG on empty security contexts. ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 9 +-- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 37 ++++++++-- drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_sdma.c | 6 +- drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c | 23 ++++++ drivers/md/Kconfig | 4 ++ drivers/md/Makefile | 1 + drivers/md/dm-builtin.c | 50 +++++++++++++ drivers/md/dm-sysfs.c | 5 -- drivers/md/dm.c | 26 ++----- drivers/md/dm.h | 17 ++++- drivers/target/target_core_file.c | 81 ++++++++++----------- drivers/target/target_core_file.h | 2 +- fs/buffer.c | 6 +- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/write.c | 10 ++- include/linux/sched.h | 1 + kernel/power/swap.c | 62 +++++++++++------ kernel/printk.c | 1 - kernel/sched/core.c | 86 +++++++++++++++++++---- kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +- kernel/sched/sched.h | 2 +- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 1 + kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----- lib/Makefile | 1 + lib/vsprintf.c | 3 +- mm/internal.h | 2 + mm/page-writeback.c | 5 +- mm/page_alloc.c | 33 ++++----- mm/sparse.c | 3 + security/selinux/ss/services.c | 4 ++ virt/kvm/irq_comm.c | 1 + 32 files changed, 426 insertions(+), 178 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html