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This is the 3.4.62 stable release

This is the 3.0.96 stable release

The highlights of the release are nested EPT and pv-ticketlocks
support (hypervisor part; guest part, which is most of the code, goes
through tip tree).  Apart of that there are many fixes for all arches.

IOMMU Updates for Linux v3.12

This round the updates contain:

	* A new driver for the Freescale PAMU IOMMU from Varun Sethi.
	  This driver has cooked for a while and required changes to the
	  IOMMU-API and infrastructure that were already merged before.
	* Updates for the ARM-SMMU driver from Will Deacon
	* Various fixes, the most important one is probably a fix from
	  Alex Williamson for a memory leak in the VT-d page-table
	  freeing code

In summary not all that much. The biggest part in the diffstat is the
new PAMU driver.

ACPI and power management fixes for 3.12-rc1

 1) ACPI-based PCI hotplug (ACPIPHP) fixes related to spurious events

  After the recent ACPIPHP changes we've seen some interesting breakage
  on a system that triggers device check notifications during boot for
  non-existing devices.  Although those notifications are really
  spurious, we should be able to deal with them nevertheless and that
  shouldn't introduce too much overhead.  Four commits to make that
  work properly.

 2) Memory hotplug and hibernation mutual exclusion rework

  This was maent to be a cleanup, but it happens to fix a classical
  ABBA deadlock between system suspend/hibernation and ACPI memory
  hotplug which is possible if they are started roughly at the same
  time.  Three commits rework memory hotplug so that it doesn't
  acquire pm_mutex and make hibernation use device_hotplug_lock
  which prevents it from racing with memory hotplug.

 3) ACPI Intel LPSS (Low-Power Subsystem) driver crash fix

  The ACPI LPSS driver crashes during boot on Apple Macbook Air with
  Haswell that has slightly unusual BIOS configuration in which one
  of the LPSS device's _CRS method doesn't return all of the information
  expected by the driver.  Fix from Mika Westerberg, for stable.

 4) ACPICA fix related to Store->ArgX operation

  AML interpreter fix for obscure breakage that causes AML to be
  executed incorrectly on some machines (observed in practice).  From
  Bob Moore.

 5) ACPI core fix for PCI ACPI device objects lookup

  There still are cases in which there is more than one ACPI device
  object matching a given PCI device and we don't choose the one that
  the BIOS expects us to choose, so this makes the lookup take more
  criteria into account in those cases.

 6) Fix to prevent cpuidle from crashing in some rare cases

  If the result of cpuidle_get_driver() is NULL, which can happen on
  some systems, cpuidle_driver_ref() will crash trying to use that
  pointer and the Daniel Fu's fix prevents that from happening.

 7) cpufreq fixes related to CPU hotplug

  Stephen Boyd reported a number of concurrency problems with cpufreq
  related to CPU hotplug which are addressed by a series of fixes
  from Srivatsa S Bhat and Viresh Kumar.

 8) cpufreq fix for time conversion in time_in_state attribute

  Time conversion carried out by cpufreq when user space attempts to
  read /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state won't
  work correcty if cputime_t doesn't map directly to jiffies.  Fix
  from Andreas Schwab.

 9) Revert of a troublesome cpufreq commit

  Commit 7c30ed5 (cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are
  serialized) was intended to address some known concurrency problems
  in cpufreq related to the ordering of transitions, but unfortunately
  it introduced several problems of its own, so I decided to revert it
  now and address the original problems later in a more robust way.

10) Intel Haswell CPU models for intel_pstate from Nell Hardcastle.

11) cpufreq fixes related to system suspend/resume

  The recent cpufreq changes that made it preserve CPU sysfs attributes
  over suspend/resume cycles introduced a possible NULL pointer
  dereference that caused it to crash during the second attempt to
  suspend.  Three commits from Srivatsa S Bhat fix that problem and a
  couple of related issues.

12) cpufreq locking fix

  cpufreq_policy_restore() should acquire the lock for reading, but
  it acquires it for writing.  Fix from Lan Tianyu.

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This is the 3.2.51 stable release

VFIO updates include safer default file flags for VFIO device fds,
an external user interface exported to allow other modules to hold
references to VFIO groups, a fix to test for extended config space
on PCIe and PCI-x, and new hot reset interfaces for PCI devices
which allows the user to do PCI bus/slot resets when all of the
devices affected by the reset are owned by the user.

For this last feature, the PCI bus reset interface, I depend on
changes already merged from Bjorn's PCI pull request.  I therefore
merged my tree up to commit cb3e433, which I think was the correct
action, but as Stephen Rothwell noted, I failed to provide a commit
message indicating why the merge was required.  Sorry for that.
Thanks,
Alex

This is the 3.10.11 stable release

This is the 3.4.61 stable release

This is the 3.0.95 stable release

OMAP specific fbdev changes for 3.12:

* Change the OMAP board files to use the new OMAP display drivers
* Remove all the old drivers, and the related auxiliary code.

fbdev changes for 3.12:

* Improvements to da8xx-fb to make it support v2 of the LCDC IP, used e.g. in
  BeagleBone
* Himax HX8369 controller support
* Various small fixes and cleanups

ACPI and power management updates for 3.12-rc1

 1) ACPI-based PCI hotplug (ACPIPHP) subsystem rework and introduction
    of Intel Thunderbolt support on systems that use ACPI for signalling
    Thunderbolt hotplug events.  This also should make ACPIPHP work in
    some cases in which it was known to have problems.  From
    Rafael J Wysocki, Mika Westerberg and Kirill A Shutemov.

 2) ACPI core code cleanups and dock station support cleanups from
    Jiang Liu and Rafael J Wysocki.

 3) Fixes for locking problems related to ACPI device hotplug from
    Rafael J Wysocki.

 4) ACPICA update to version 20130725 includig fixes, cleanups, support
    for more than 256 GPEs per GPE block and a change to make the ACPI
    PM Timer optional (we've seen systems without the PM Timer in the
    field already).  One of the fixes, related to the DeRefOf operator,
    is necessary to prevent some Windows 8 oriented AML from causing
    problems to happen.  From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, and Jung-uk Kim.

 5) Removal of the old and long deprecated /proc/acpi/event interface
    and related driver changes from Thomas Renninger.

 6) ACPI and Xen changes to make the reduced hardware sleep work with
    the latter from Ben Guthro.

 7) ACPI video driver cleanups and a blacklist of systems that should
    not tell the BIOS that they are compatible with Windows 8 (or ACPI
    backlight and possibly other things will not work on them).  From
    Felipe Contreras.

 8) Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Aaron Lu, Hanjun Guo,
    Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan, Lan Tianyu, Sachin Kamat, Tang Chen,
    Toshi Kani, and Wei Yongjun.

 9) cpufreq ondemand governor target frequency selection change to
    reduce oscillations between min and max frequencies (essentially,
    it causes the governor to choose target frequencies proportional
    to load) from Stratos Karafotis.

10) cpufreq fixes allowing sysfs attributes file permissions to be
    preserved over suspend/resume cycles Srivatsa S Bhat.

11) Removal of Device Tree parsing for CPU device nodes from multiple
    cpufreq drivers that required some changes related to
    of_get_cpu_node() to be made in a few architectures and in the
    driver core.  From Sudeep KarkadaNagesha.

12) cpufreq core fixes and cleanups related to mutual exclusion and
    driver module references from Viresh Kumar, Lukasz Majewski and
    Rafael J Wysocki.

13) Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Amit Daniel Kachhap,
    Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Hanjun Guo, Jingoo Han, Joseph Lo,
    Julia Lawall, Li Zhong, Mark Brown, Sascha Hauer, Stephen Boyd,
    Stratos Karafotis, and Viresh Kumar.

14) Fixes to prevent race conditions in coupled cpuidle from happening
    from Colin Cross.

15) cpuidle core fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano and
    Tuukka Tikkanen.

16) Assorted cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano,
    Geert Uytterhoeven, Jingoo Han, Julia Lawall, Linus Walleij,
    and Sahara.

17) System sleep tracing changes from Todd E Brandt and Shuah Khan.

18) PNP subsystem conversion to using struct dev_pm_ops for power
    management from Shuah Khan.

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drm/tegra: Changes for v3.12-rc1

Only a couple of small patches this time around. These are mostly fixes
for minor bugs that showed up, but there is also some preparatory work
that will come in handy for future patches.

Linux 3.11

This is the 3.4.60 stable release

This is the 3.10.10 stable release

This is the 3.0.94 stable release

Linux 3.11-rc7

ACPI fix for 3.11-rc7

- Revert a change in the ACPI video driver that caused the ACPI
  backlight initialization to be carried out even if acpi_backlight=vendor
  is passed in the kernel command line which turns out to break things
  at least on one system.

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