[$] The first half of the 5.17 merge window

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As of this writing, just short of 7,000 non-merge commits have been pulled
into the mainline kernel repository for the 5.17 release. The changes
pulled thus far bring new features across the kernel; read on for a summary
of what has been merged during the first half of the 5.17 merge window.