LKML News v5.8-rc4

[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Inline Encryption Support and new related features (Satya Tangirala)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629092551.GA673684@google.com

Maybe the last kernel summit proposal. The inline encryption work was presented in the last year LPC and a part of it has merged in the v5.8, being tested in Android. The talk will discuss the todo list of the work.

[PATCH] mm: define pte_add_end for consistency (Wei Yang)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200630031852.45383-1-richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com

This patch adds a helper to get the address of the next boundary for pte level.

Linux 5.8-rc4 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=whaNDpCRkeBGbdTOh84_mqfG7N1qPk8HZXJzbh8TOB_hA@mail.gmail.com

The fourth release candidate for the 5.8 is released. Unlike the past week, this week release was smaller than usual. Maybe due to a fluctuation, or due to a July 4th in US, Torvalds says. Anyway, seems not a bad sign.

Below is the diffstat of the releases in the last two years.

Note that the y-axis is in logarithm. I draw it using https://github.com/sjp38/relstat and https://github.com/sjp38/lazybox using below command:

$ relstat.py --since 2018-06-29 | ~/lazybox/gnuplot/plot.py \
    --data_fmt table --type labeled-lines --xtics_rotate -90 \
    --font "Times New Roman, 5pt" --ylog --pointsize 0.3

And, below is the diffstat of the -rc4 releases in the last two years.