This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.99 release. There are 22 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 Jul 17 23:16:04 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-3.4.99-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.4.99-rc1 Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx> ACPI / battery: Retry to get battery information if failed during probing Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86, ioremap: Speed up check for RAM pages H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> x86, espfix: Make it possible to disable 16-bit support H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86, espfix: Fix broken header guard H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86, espfix: Move espfix definitions into a separate header file H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Revert "x86-64, modify_ldt: Make support for 16-bit segments a runtime option" Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtmutex: Plug slow unlock race Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtmutex: Handle deadlock detection smarter Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtmutex: Detect changes in the pi lock chain Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtmutex: Fix deadlock detector for real Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Remove ftrace_stop/start() from reading the trace file Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> drm/radeon: stop poisoning the GART TLB Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: clarify error count warning messages Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> powerpc/perf: Never program book3s PMCs with values >= 0x80000000 Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx> hwmon: (adm1029) Ensure the fan_div cache is updated in set_fan_div Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx> hwmon: (amc6821) Fix permissions for temp2_input Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cpuset,mempolicy: fix sleeping function called from invalid context Bert Vermeulen <bert@xxxxxxxx> USB: ftdi_sio: Add extra PID. Andras Kovacs <andras@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: cp210x: add support for Corsair usb dongle Bernd Wachter <bernd.wachter@xxxxxxxxx> usb: option: Add ID for Telewell TW-LTE 4G v2 ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 2 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 17 ++- arch/x86/Kconfig | 25 +++- arch/x86/include/asm/espfix.h | 16 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S | 12 ++ arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 81 +++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c | 209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 10 +- arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 7 + arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c | 31 ++-- arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c | 26 +++- arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c | 8 - drivers/acpi/battery.c | 27 +++- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/rs600.c | 6 +- drivers/hwmon/adm1029.c | 3 + drivers/hwmon/amc6821.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 3 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 2 + fs/ext4/super.c | 7 +- init/main.c | 4 + kernel/cpuset.c | 8 +- kernel/rtmutex-debug.h | 5 + kernel/rtmutex.c | 252 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- kernel/rtmutex.h | 5 + kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 - mm/mempolicy.c | 2 - 32 files changed, 696 insertions(+), 89 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