[$] The first half of the 6.1 merge window

The 6.1 merge window is well underway: since it opened, 5,752 non-mergechangesets have been pulled into the mainline repository. That isapproximately half of the work that had piled up in linux-next and marks agood time to look at what has been merged so far. Some long-awaited corechanges have landed for the next kernel release, but there are likely to bemore significant changes to come.