Linux 5.4 rc8

I'm not entirely sure we need an rc8, because last week was prettycalm despite the Intel hw workarounds landing. So I considered justmaking a final 5.4 and be done with it, but decided that there's noreal downside to just doing the rc8 after having a release cycle thattook a while to calm down.But it *has* calmed down, and I expect the upcoming week to be quiettoo (knock wood).In fact, considering that the week after that is Thanksgiving week inthe US, I'm hoping that most of the pull requests I get next weekaren't fixes for 5.4, but people sending me early pull requests forwhen the merge window for 5.5 opens. That way those proactivedevelopers can then sit back and relax during that turkey-filledfeast...Anyway, looking at the rc8 diffs, the bulk of it is for the intel hwissues, both on the CPU side (TSX Async Abort, and the iTLB multihitthing), and on the GPU side (GPU hang and invalid accesses). None ofthe patches are big, and honestly, shouldn't affect anybody.The other noticeable thing in the diffs is the removal of the vboxsffilesystem. It will get resubmitted properly later, there was nothingobviously wrong with it technically, it just ended up in the wronglocation and submitted at the wrong time. We'll get it done properlyprobably during 5.5.Outside of those two areas, there's some kvm fixes, and some minorcore networking, VM and VFS fixes. And various random small things.Nothing really looks all that worrisome from a release standpoint, andas mentioned I was toying with just skipping this rc entirely. Butbetter safe than sorry.Please do go give the tires a final few kicks before the expected 5.4release next weekend.Thanks,                Linus