This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.14.21 release. There are 37 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 Oct 9 23:18:16 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-3.14.21-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.14.21-rc1 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: don't pointlessly use BUG_ON() for sanity check Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx> mm: per-thread vma caching Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> vmscan: reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() must use mod_zone_page_state() Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: vmscan: shrink_slab: rename max_pass -> freeable Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: vmscan: respect NUMA policy mask when shrinking slab on direct reclaim Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> mm/filemap.c: avoid always dirtying mapping->flags on O_DIRECT Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> mm: optimize put_mems_allowed() usage Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> mm, compaction: ignore pageblock skip when manually invoking compaction David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> mm, compaction: determine isolation mode only once Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> mm/compaction: clean-up code on success of ballon isolation Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> mm/compaction: check pageblock suitability once per pageblock Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> mm/compaction: change the timing to check to drop the spinlock Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@xxxxxxxxxx> drbd: fix regression 'out of mem, failed to invoke fence-peer helper' Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> mm/compaction: do not call suitable_migration_target() on every page Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> mm/compaction: disallow high-order page for migration target David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> mm, compaction: avoid isolating pinned pages Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx> swap: change swap_list_head to plist, add swap_avail_head Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx> lib/plist: add plist_requeue Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx> lib/plist: add helper functions Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx> swap: change swap_info singly-linked list to list_head Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> mm: exclude memoryless nodes from zone_reclaim Andrew Hunter <ahh@xxxxxxxxxx> jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> media: vb2: fix VBI/poll regression Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> mm: numa: Do not mark PTEs pte_numa when splitting huge pages Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@xxxxxx> mm, thp: move invariant bug check out of loop in __split_huge_page_map Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hugetlb: ensure hugepage access is denied if hugepages are not supported Pavel Shilovsky <pshilovsky@xxxxxxxxx> CIFS: Fix SMB2 readdir error handling Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> ring-buffer: Fix infinite spin in reading buffer Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> init/Kconfig: Fix HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG to not break up the EXPERT menu Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Fix problem recognizing symlinks Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: Flush the PTEs after updating them before suspend NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> md/raid5: disable 'DISCARD' by default due to safety concerns. Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> cpufreq: integrator: fix integrator_cpufreq_remove return type Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> perf: fix perf bug in fork() Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> udf: Avoid infinite loop when processing indirect ICBs ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/unicore32/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 4 +- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c | 6 + drivers/cpufreq/integrator-cpufreq.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c | 14 +- drivers/md/raid5.c | 18 ++- drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c | 15 ++- fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 2 + fs/cifs/file.c | 2 +- fs/cifs/readdir.c | 2 +- fs/cifs/smb1ops.c | 9 +- fs/cifs/smb2maperror.c | 4 +- fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 9 ++ fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 9 +- fs/exec.c | 5 +- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 5 + fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 3 +- fs/udf/inode.c | 35 +++-- include/linux/cpuset.h | 27 ++-- include/linux/hugetlb.h | 10 ++ include/linux/jiffies.h | 12 -- include/linux/mm_types.h | 4 +- include/linux/plist.h | 45 +++++++ include/linux/sched.h | 7 + include/linux/swap.h | 8 +- include/linux/swapfile.h | 2 +- include/linux/vmacache.h | 38 ++++++ include/media/videobuf2-core.h | 4 + init/Kconfig | 1 + kernel/cpuset.c | 2 +- kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 14 +- kernel/events/core.c | 4 +- kernel/fork.c | 12 +- kernel/time.c | 54 ++++---- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- lib/plist.c | 52 +++++++ mm/Makefile | 2 +- mm/compaction.c | 94 +++++++------ mm/filemap.c | 10 +- mm/frontswap.c | 13 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 11 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 17 ++- mm/mempolicy.c | 12 +- mm/migrate.c | 5 +- mm/mmap.c | 55 ++++---- mm/nommu.c | 24 ++-- mm/page_alloc.c | 13 +- mm/readahead.c | 4 +- mm/slab.c | 4 +- mm/slub.c | 16 +-- mm/swapfile.c | 224 ++++++++++++++++--------------- mm/vmacache.c | 114 ++++++++++++++++ mm/vmscan.c | 32 ++--- 53 files changed, 750 insertions(+), 348 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