6.3.12-rc2 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.3.12 release. There are 14 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, 06 Jul 2023 08:46:01 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:

	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.3.12-rc2.gz

or in the git tree and branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.3.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

    Linux 6.3.12-rc2

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
gup: avoid stack expansion warning for known-good case

Rodrigo Siqueira <[email protected]>
drm/amd/display: Ensure vmin and vmax adjust for DCE

Bas Nieuwenhuizen <[email protected]>
drm/amdgpu: Validate VM ioctl flags.

Demi Marie Obenour <[email protected]>
dm ioctl: Avoid double-fetch of version

Ahmed S. Darwish <[email protected]>
docs: Set minimal gtags / GNU GLOBAL version to 6.6.5

Ahmed S. Darwish <[email protected]>
scripts/tags.sh: Resolve gtags empty index generation

Finn Thain <[email protected]>
nubus: Partially revert proc_create_single_data() conversion

Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Revert "cxl/port: Enable the HDM decoder capability for switch ports"

Jeff Layton <[email protected]>

    nfs: don't report STATX_BTIME in ->getattr

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
execve: always mark stack as growing down during early stack setup

Mario Limonciello <[email protected]>
PCI/ACPI: Call _REG when transitioning D-states

Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
PCI/ACPI: Validate acpi_pci_set_power_state() parameter

Aric Cyr <[email protected]>
drm/amd/display: Do not update DRR while BW optimizations pending

Max Filippov <[email protected]>
xtensa: fix lock_mm_and_find_vma in case VMA not found

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Diffstat:

 Documentation/process/changes.rst        |  7 +++++
 Makefile                                 |  4 +--
 drivers/cxl/core/pci.c                   | 27 +++-------------
 drivers/cxl/cxl.h                        |  1 -
 drivers/cxl/port.c                       | 14 +++------
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c   |  4 +++
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++------------
 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c                    | 33 ++++++++++++--------
 drivers/nubus/proc.c                     | 22 ++++++++++---
 drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c                   | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 fs/nfs/inode.c                           |  2 +-
 include/linux/mm.h                       |  4 ++-
 mm/memory.c                              |  4 +++
 mm/nommu.c                               |  7 ++++-
 scripts/tags.sh                          |  9 +++++-
 tools/testing/cxl/Kbuild                 |  1 -
 tools/testing/cxl/test/mock.c            | 15 ---------
 17 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)

Built and booted successfully on RISC-V RV64 (HiFive Unmatched).

Build results:

	total: 157 pass: 157 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 520 pass: 520 fail: 0

Guenter

Hi Greg

6.3.12-rc2

compiles, boots and runs here on x86_64
(AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G, Slackware64-15.0)

Hello Greg,

Thank you for the release!

CIP configurations built and booted okay with Linux 6.3.12-rc2 (c5daff36a0ce):
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/linux-stable-rc-ci/-/pipelines/920271055
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/linux-stable-rc-ci/-/commits/linux-6.3.y

Kind regards, Chris