• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 09:48
CET 15:48
KST 23:48
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups C & D Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups A & B Preview2TL.net Map Contest #21: Winners12Intel X Team Liquid Seoul event: Showmatches and Meet the Pros10
Community News
Weekly Cups (Nov 24-30): MaxPax, Clem, herO win2BGE Stara Zagora 2026 announced15[BSL21] Ro.16 Group Stage (C->B->A->D)4Weekly Cups (Nov 17-23): Solar, MaxPax, Clem win3RSL Season 3: RO16 results & RO8 bracket13
StarCraft 2
General
Chinese SC2 server to reopen; live all-star event in Hangzhou Maestros of the Game: Live Finals Preview (RO4) BGE Stara Zagora 2026 announced Weekly Cups (Nov 24-30): MaxPax, Clem, herO win SC2 Proleague Discontinued; SKT, KT, SGK, CJ disband
Tourneys
Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament RSL Offline Finals Info - Dec 13 and 14! StarCraft Evolution League (SC Evo Biweekly) Sea Duckling Open (Global, Bronze-Diamond) $5,000+ WardiTV 2025 Championship
Strategy
Custom Maps
Map Editor closed ?
External Content
Mutation # 502 Negative Reinforcement Mutation # 501 Price of Progress Mutation # 500 Fright night Mutation # 499 Chilling Adaptation
Brood War
General
Foreign Brood War BW General Discussion MBCGame Torrents [ASL20] Ask the mapmakers — Drop your questions Which season is the best in ASL?
Tourneys
Small VOD Thread 2.0 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] RO16 Group D - Sunday 21:00 CET [BSL21] RO16 Group A - Saturday 21:00 CET
Strategy
Current Meta Game Theory for Starcraft How to stay on top of macro? PvZ map balance
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Path of Exile Nintendo Switch Thread ZeroSpace Megathread The Perfect Game
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine The Big Programming Thread Artificial Intelligence Thread
Fan Clubs
White-Ra Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece Movie Discussion!
Sports
Formula 1 Discussion 2024 - 2026 Football Thread NBA General Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
Where to ask questions and add stream? The Automated Ban List
Blogs
I decided to write a webnov…
DjKniteX
Physical Exertion During Gam…
TrAiDoS
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
Thanks for the RSL
Hildegard
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1427 users

One Giant Leap For Frogkind!

Blogs > makmeatt
Post a Reply
makmeatt
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
2024 Posts
January 20 2014 20:15 GMT
#1
Linux 3.13 is out!

So I'm surfing the web tonight and, out of random spike of interest, I decided to check what lkml.org has to offer for me today. I tend to visit it every now and then to gather what useful knowledge (or random rants) I can find there and rarely walk out empty-handed. It might be hard to imagine what one could find interesting in such technical gibberish (personally, I'm interested in kernel development and am working on a few minor projects related to kernel hacking lately), considering the issues tackled there are often so complex and specialized that for a complete stranger a hungry kitten on a street is a more important matter to take care of. Today though a surprise stroke me right in the face - turns out (2 < 2) is actually true. Who would've thought?

What was not a surprise (at least for the majority of people subscribed to the list or frequenting the site, myself excluded) was the release of 3.13 tarballs. It took Torvalds a while to finish the release (traveling, etc.), but it's here now, filled with some practical stuff, and "obviously", the 3.14 merge window is open.

+ Show Spoiler [Original announcement] +
The release got delayed by a week due to travels, but I suspect that's
just as well. We had a few fixes come in, and while it wasn't a lot, I
think we're better off for it. At least I hope so - I'll be very
disappointed if any of them cause more problems than they fix..

Anyway, the patch from rc8 is fairly small, with mainly some small
arch updates (arm, mips, powerpc, s390, sparc, x86 all had some minor
changes, some of them due to a networking fix for the bpf jit). And
drivers (mainly gpu and networking). And some generic networking
fixes. The appended shortlog gives more details.

Anyway, with this, the merge window for 3.14 is obviously open.

Linus

---
Aaro Koskinen (1):
MIPS: fix blast_icache32 on loongson2

Andreas Rohner (1):
nilfs2: fix segctor bug that causes file system corruption

Andrew Jones (1):
kvm: x86: fix apic_base enable check

Ben Skeggs (1):
drm/nouveau: fix null ptr dereferences on some boards

Benjamin Herrenschmidt (1):
powerpc: Check return value of instance-to-package OF call

Bjørn Mork (1):
net: usbnet: fix SG initialisation

Catalin Marinas (1):
Revert "arm64: Fix memory shareability attribute for ioremap_wc/cache"

Christian Engelmayer (1):
ieee802154: Fix memory leak in ieee802154_add_iface()

Christoph Paasch (1):
tcp: metrics: Avoid duplicate entries with the same destination-IP

Dan Carpenter (1):
cxgb4: silence shift wrapping static checker warning

Dave Airlie (1):
Revert "drm: copy mode type in drm_mode_connector_list_update()"

Eric Dumazet (2):
bpf: do not use reciprocal divide
parisc: fix SO_MAX_PACING_RATE typo

Eric W. Biederman (3):
vfs: In d_path don't call d_dname on a mount point
fork: Allow CLONE_PARENT after setns(CLONE_NEWPID)
vfs: Fix a regression in mounting proc

Gerald Schaefer (1):
net: rds: fix per-cpu helper usage

Hannes Frederic Sowa (2):
net: avoid reference counter overflows on fib_rules in multicast
forwarding
ipv6: simplify detection of first operational link-local address
on interface

Heiko Carstens (1):
s390/bpf,jit: fix 32 bit divisions, use unsigned divide instructions

Huacai Chen (1):
MIPS: fix case mismatch in local_r4k_flush_icache_range()

Hugh Dickins (1):
percpu_counter: unbreak __percpu_counter_add()

Ilia Mirkin (1):
drm/nouveau/mxm: fix null deref on load

Ivan Vecera (1):
be2net: add dma_mapping_error() check for dma_map_page()

Jan Kara (1):
writeback: Fix data corruption on NFS

Jean Delvare (1):
hwmon: (coretemp) Fix truncated name of alarm attributes

Jesse Barnes (1):
drm/i915/bdw: make sure south port interrupts are enabled properly v2

Jitendra Kalsaria (1):
qlge: Fix vlan netdev features.

John Stultz (2):
seqlock: Use raw_ prefix instead of _no_lockdep
sched_clock: Disable seqlock lockdep usage in sched_clock()

Linus Torvalds (2):
x86, fpu, amd: Clear exceptions in AMD FXSAVE workaround
Linux 3.13

Marek Lindner (1):
batman-adv: fix batman-adv header overhead calculation

Michael S. Tsirkin (1):
MAINTAINERS: add virtio-dev ML for virtio

Mika Westerberg (1):
e1000e: Fix compilation warning when !CONFIG_PM_SLEEP

Mikulas Patocka (1):
mm: fix crash when using XFS on loopback

Ming Lei (1):
lib/percpu_counter.c: fix __percpu_counter_add()

Neal Cardwell (1):
inet_diag: fix inet_diag_dump_icsk() to use correct state for
timewait sockets

NeilBrown (6):
md/raid5: Fix possible confusion when multiple write errors occur.
md/raid10: fix two bugs in handling of known-bad-blocks.
md/raid1: fix request counting bug in new 'barrier' code.
md/raid5: fix a recently broken BUG_ON().
md/raid10: fix bug when raid10 recovery fails to recover a block.
md: fix problem when adding device to read-only array with bitmap.

Paulo Zanoni (1):
drm/i915: fix DDI PLLs HW state readout code

Peter Korsgaard (1):
dm9601: add USB IDs for new dm96xx variants

Peter Zijlstra (1):
x86, mm, perf: Allow recursive faults from interrupts

Qais Yousef (1):
crash_dump: fix compilation error (on MIPS at least)

Rafael J. Wysocki (1):
Revert "ACPI: Add BayTrail SoC GPIO and LPSS ACPI IDs"

Richard Weinberger (1):
net,via-rhine: Fix tx_timeout handling

Rik van Riel (1):
sched: Calculate effective load even if local weight is 0

Robert Richter (1):
perf/x86/amd/ibs: Fix waking up from S3 for AMD family 10h

Russell King (1):
Revert "ARM: 7908/1: mm: Fix the arm_dma_limit calculation"

Soren Brinkmann (1):
clocksource: cadence_ttc: Fix mutex taken inside interrupt context

Stephen Boyd (1):
ARM: 7937/1: perf_event: Silence sparse warning

Stephen Warren (1):
i2c: Re-instate body of i2c_parent_is_i2c_adapter()

Steven Rostedt (1):
ftrace/x86: Load ftrace_ops in parameter not the variable holding it

Sudeep Holla (1):
ARM: 7934/1: DT/kernel: fix arch_match_cpu_phys_id to avoid
erroneous match

Taras Kondratiuk (2):
ARM: 7939/1: traps: fix opcode endianness when read from user memory
ARM: 7938/1: OMAP4/highbank: Flush L2 cache before disabling

Ville Syrjälä (1):
drm/i915: Don't grab crtc mutexes in intel_modeset_gem_init()

Yuval Mintz (1):
bnx2x: Don't release PCI bars on shutdown

Source - https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/19/148


Featuring!:
  • Block layer revamp for high performance SSD storage!
  • nftables!
  • Improved support for Radeons: power management, GPU switching, R9 290X Hawaii support!
  • Power capping framework!
  • Intel MIC support!
  • Improved performance on NUMA systems!
  • Improved page table access scalability in hugepage workloads!
  • Improvement in squashfs performance!
  • New userspace socket rate capping mechanism!
  • TCP Fast Open enabled by default!
  • Support for the secure element!
  • Support for the High-availability Seamless Redundancy protocol!


Notes
From a casual user's standpoint nothing really major has been added or modified in this version. Some performance tweaks over 3.12 are worth a mention though, especially the improved NUMA performance, as while they are nigh-invisible, things like that build up over time and make way for major boosts. Not 'featured' are also continuous tweaks to btrfs support and numerous (as usual) changes to the networking subsystem. Considering the latter has its own mailing list, the work there seems to be never done (even crossing out the never-ending need for driver writers). I've recently read an article on arstechnica about some cool features of ZFS and btrfs; if you are interested in such technical stuff, it's worth a read.

Why should I care? - 3.13 edition
If you are an everyday Ubuntu user, chances are you wouldn't even notice the kernel update's impact on your system (no hate on Ubuntu users, I swear). Some, if not most, of the features of this release are catered towards kernel developers and hackers, but there are some standing out as 'important' for a percentage of the userbase, namely the improved Radeon support. If you run Linux on a laptop with such a card, your battery will soon live a happier life, or you will enjoy a better framerate in Pacman.
As for me, the squashfs tweak is nice - probably won't get to make much use of it since I'm working with (really) outdated hardware, but in the future, who knows if I won't get to smile when my OpenWRT build launches a second quicker.

+ Show Spoiler [Disclaimer] +
This is most likely a one time thing, we'll see in the future. For a moment I wanted to throw out a random cinematic trailer for the release (sic!) but I figured it's one of these things that you start and then never end as your fuel tank goes empty an hour in. Hopefully this will be enough for some people. Huge thanks to the guys over at kernelnewbies.org for providing everyone with a concise list of changes, helped me a ton with compiling this short post.


Questions?
Feel free to chat about whatever related to the release, ask questions and answer them (even in random-links-zero-explanation-stack-overflow-style). I personally would love to know what this nftables business is all about - as I understand it, the bytecode compilation occurs in userspace, which immediately flashes the red light for me, but that might be due to my security ignorance. Will have to read more about it.

"Silver Edge can't break my hope" - Kryptt 2016 || "Chrono is not a debuff, you just get rekt" - Guru 2016
EJK
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
United States1302 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-20 20:16:44
January 20 2014 20:16 GMT
#2
isn't linux a penguin?
Sc2 Terran Coach, top 16GM NA - interested in coaching? Message me on teamliquid!
Natolumin
Profile Joined July 2011
France72 Posts
January 20 2014 23:22 GMT
#3
TIL about lkml.org
Thanks !

(That SSD thingie warrants an kernel recompile for me, if I can take advantage of it)
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 12h 12m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
Lowko458
ProTech137
StarCraft: Brood War
Shuttle 1674
Larva 1330
Soma 818
Light 711
Stork 610
Hyuk 571
BeSt 504
Snow 428
actioN 407
hero 265
[ Show more ]
Soulkey 245
910 166
Rush 149
Zeus 119
Barracks 106
Pusan 101
Sea.KH 49
zelot 43
Shine 32
Free 31
Shinee 30
Aegong 24
scan(afreeca) 23
Terrorterran 22
soO 22
yabsab 15
ajuk12(nOOB) 13
Sacsri 12
SilentControl 7
Oya187 2
Dota 2
qojqva2680
Gorgc2328
Dendi718
XcaliburYe122
Counter-Strike
fl0m3941
zeus1173
Clem_sc2518
oskar58
Heroes of the Storm
Khaldor168
Other Games
singsing2768
B2W.Neo1134
hiko681
Mew2King626
crisheroes475
Hui .307
RotterdaM247
Happy244
ArmadaUGS201
XaKoH 104
QueenE62
djWHEAT55
Sick20
Organizations
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 14 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• Michael_bg 1
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Dota 2
• C_a_k_e 1967
• WagamamaTV318
• Noizen44
Upcoming Events
Korean StarCraft League
12h 12m
CranKy Ducklings
19h 12m
WardiTV 2025
21h 12m
SC Evo League
21h 42m
IPSL
1d 2h
Dewalt vs ZZZero
BSL 21
1d 5h
Sziky vs OyAji
Gypsy vs eOnzErG
OSC
1d 7h
Solar vs Creator
ByuN vs Gerald
Percival vs Babymarine
Moja vs Krystianer
EnDerr vs ForJumy
sebesdes vs Nicoract
Sparkling Tuna Cup
1d 19h
WardiTV 2025
1d 21h
OSC
2 days
[ Show More ]
IPSL
2 days
Bonyth vs KameZerg
BSL 21
2 days
Bonyth vs StRyKeR
Tarson vs Dandy
Replay Cast
2 days
Wardi Open
2 days
StarCraft2.fi
3 days
Monday Night Weeklies
3 days
Replay Cast
3 days
WardiTV 2025
3 days
StarCraft2.fi
4 days
PiGosaur Monday
4 days
StarCraft2.fi
5 days
Tenacious Turtle Tussle
5 days
The PondCast
5 days
WardiTV 2025
5 days
StarCraft2.fi
6 days
WardiTV 2025
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2025-11-30
RSL Revival: Season 3
Light HT

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
IPSL Winter 2025-26
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 4
YSL S2
BSL Season 21
CSCL: Masked Kings S3
Slon Tour Season 2
Acropolis #4 - TS3
META Madness #9
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025
PGL Masters Bucharest 2025
Thunderpick World Champ.
CS Asia Championships 2025
ESL Pro League S22

Upcoming

BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
HSC XXVIII
Big Gabe Cup #3
RSL Offline Finals
WardiTV 2025
Kuram Kup
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.