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Linux 4.5 rc6

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Linus Torvalds
Feb 28, 2016
I wish rc6 was smaller, but at the same time I'm just relieved thatKirill found and fixed the problem with the THP cleanup series thathad plagued us this release cycle. So I can't really complain. Addingto my relief is that another scary bug-report turned out to not be akernel bug at all, but a microcode issue. Which might perhaps beworse, but at least it's not something we did (and now that it's knownit's avoidable).The diffstat looks odd this time because there's a big patch to one ofthe network driver header files that makes it look like the includedirectory is almost 40% of the whole change. But that patch justrenames a ton of reserved fields, no actual code change.Ignoring that oddity in the diffstat statistics, things look fairlynormal. Mostly drivers (networking and usb dominate, but there's somegpu, sound, acpi fixes too), with the usual architecture updates (arc,arm, x86) and some core networking. Some perf work, and a fewfilesystem fixes (nfs, dax, some core vfs).I'd like to say that things are on track for the usual release timing,but let's see how things look next week. If rc7 hasn't started toshrink, I may end up deciding that this is one of the releases when wedo an rc8 too. Too early to tell. There's nothing particularly scarygoing on, but I'd have liked it even calmer this week.Shortlog for rc6 appended as usual for the people who want to get anoverview of the details,                      Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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