ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test10/2.6.0-test10-mm1 . Various small fixes . Device mapper and RAID updates which need testing please. . The problematic PNP patches are still here. If this kernel crashes mysteriously during boot, please try reverting the following patches (from the broken-out directory): pnp-fix-3.patch pnp-fix-2.patch pnp-fix-1.patch and send a report, thanks. Changes since 2.6.0-test9-mm5: linus.patch Latest Linus tree -promise-sata-id.patch -pnp-fix-4.patch Merged -acpi-pm-timer-fixes.patch -acpi-pm_timer-init-cpu_khz.patch -timer_pm-fix-fix-fix.patch -timer_pm-monotonic-clock-fix.patch +acpi-pm-timer-fixes-2.patch More futzing with the ACPI PM timer source. We think it works now. -make-for_each_cpu-useful.patch -make-for_each_cpu-useful-fix.patch -use-for_each_cpu.patch These were causing compilation problems and need a revisit. +x86_64-update.patch +x86_64-statfs64-fix.patch +x86_64-aout-support.patch x86_64 update +remove-mm-swap_address.patch Cleanup +sis-assignment-fix.patch typo fix +sync_dquots-oops-fix.patch +ext3-quota-deadlock-fix.patch Quota fixes +buslogic-update.patch Buslogic driver update +binfmt_elf-help-update.patch Kconfig help fix +aic7xxx_old-proc-oops-fix.patch Fix oops accessing /proc files with the aic7xxx_old driver +invalidate_mmap_range-non-gpl-export.patch Export invalidate_mmap_range() to all modules +md-1-limit_max_sectors.patch +md-2-set-ra_pages.patch RAID/MD update +alsa-sleep-in-spinlock-fix.patch Alsa locking fix +do_gettimeofday-tick_usec-fix.patch ia32 gettimeofday() fix. +tty-proc-oops-fix.patch Fix secret oops accessing tty /proc files +dm-1-fix-block-device-resizing.patch +dm-2-remove-dynamic-table-resizing.patch +dm-3-v4-ioctl-default.patch +dm-4-set-io-restriction-defaults.patch +dm-5-sleep-in-spinlock-fix.patch Device Mapper update +fix-ELF-exec-with-huge-bss.patch Handle oversizes 32-bit executables on 64-bit machines more nicely. +direct-io-memleak-fix.patch Fix direct-IO memory leak. All 252 patches: linus.patch mm.patch add -mmN to EXTRAVERSION kgdb-ga.patch kgdb stub for ia32 (George Anzinger's one) kgdbL warning fix kgdb-buff-too-big.patch kgdb buffer overflow fix kgdb-warning-fix.patch kgdbL warning fix kgdb-build-fix.patch kgdb-spinlock-fix.patch kgdb-fix-debug-info.patch kgdb: CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO fix kgdb-cpumask_t.patch kgdb-x86_64-fixes.patch x86_64 fixes kgdb-over-ethernet.patch kgdb-over-ethernet patch kgdb-over-ethernet-fixes.patch kgdb-over-ethernet fixlets kgdb-CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER.patch kgdb: replace CONFIG_KGDB with CONFIG_NET_RX_POLL in net drivers kgdb-handle-stopped-NICs.patch kgdb: handle netif_stopped NICs eepro100-poll-controller.patch tlan-poll_controller.patch tulip-poll_controller.patch tg3-poll_controller.patch kgdb: tg3 poll_controller 8139too-poll_controller.patch 8139too poll controller kgdb-eth-smp-fix.patch kgdb-over-ethernet: fix SMP kgdb-eth-reattach.patch kgdb-skb_reserve-fix.patch kgdb-over-ethernet: skb_reserve() fix must-fix.patch should-fix.patch must-fix-update-01.patch must fix lists update must-fix-update-2.patch must fix list update RD1-cdrom_ioctl-B6.patch RD2-ioctl-B6.patch RD2-ioctl-B6-fix.patch RD2-ioctl-B6 fixes RD3-cdrom_open-B6.patch RD4-open-B6.patch RD5-cdrom_release-B6.patch RD6-release-B6.patch RD7-presto_journal_close-B6.patch RD8-f_mapping-B6.patch RD9-f_mapping2-B6.patch RD10-i_sem-B6.patch RD11-f_mapping3-B6.patch RD12-generic_osync_inode-B6.patch RD13-bd_acquire-B6.patch RD14-generic_write_checks-B6.patch RD15-I_BDEV-B6.patch cramfs-use-pagecache.patch cramfs: use pagecache better invalidate_inodes-speedup.patch invalidate_inodes speedup invalidate_inodes-speedup-fixes-2.patch more invalidate_inodes speedup fixes serio-01-renaming.patch serio: rename serio_[un]register_slave_port to __serio_[un]register_port serio-02-race-fix.patch serio: possible race between port removal and kseriod serio-03-blacklist.patch Add black list to handler<->device matching serio-04-synaptics-cleanup.patch Synaptics: code cleanup serio-05-reconnect-facility.patch serio: reconnect facility serio-06-synaptics-use-reconnect.patch Synaptics: use serio_reconnect acpi_off-fix.patch fix acpi=off cfq-4.patch CFQ io scheduler CFQ fixes config_spinline.patch uninline spinlocks for profiling accuracy. ppc64-bar-0-fix.patch Allow PCI BARs that start at 0 ppc64-reloc_hide.patch ppc64-sched_clock-fix.patch implement sched_clock properly ppc64-use-statfs64.patch use compat_statfs64 on ppc64 ppc64-compat_clock.patch ppc64: use compat clock syscalls ppc64-numa-sign-extension-fix.patch ppc64: fix sign extension bug in NUMA code ppc64-IRQ_INPROGRESS-fix.patch ppc64: revert IRQ_INPROGRESS change sn2-console-driver-fix.patch sn_serial console fix qla1280-update.patch qla1280 update sym-speed-fix.patch sym2 Ultra-160 fix input-use-after-free-checks.patch input layer debug checks aic7xxx-parallel-build-fix.patch fix parallel builds for aic7xxx ramdisk-cleanup.patch intel8x0-cleanup.patch intel8x0 cleanups pdflush-diag.patch futex-uninlinings.patch futex uninlining zap_page_range-debug.patch zap_page_range() debug call_usermodehelper-retval-fix-3.patch Make call_usermodehelper report exit status asus-L5-fix.patch Asus L5 framebuffer fix jffs-use-daemonize.patch tulip-NAPI-support.patch tulip NAPI support tulip-napi-disable.patch tulip NAPI: disable poll in close get_user_pages-handle-VM_IO.patch ia32-MSI-support.patch Updated ia32 MSI Patches ia32-MSI-support-x86_64-fixes.patch msi-various-fixes.patch MSI Update Based on 2.6.0-test9-mm3 ia32-efi-support.patch EFI support for ia32 efi warning fix fix EFI for ppc64, ia64 efi: warning fixes ia32 EFI: Add CONFIG_EFI efi: Update Kconfig help efi update patch (ia64) support-zillions-of-scsi-disks.patch support many SCSI disks SGI-IOC4-IDE-chipset-support.patch Add support for SGI's IOC4 chipset sparc32-sched_clock.patch pcibios_test_irq-fix.patch Fix pcibios test IRQ handler return fixmap-in-proc-pid-maps.patch report user-readable fixmap area in /proc/PID/maps i82365-sysfs-ordering-fix.patch Fix init_i82365 sysfs ordering oops pci_set_power_state-might-sleep.patch ia64-ia32-missing-compat-syscalls.patch From: Arun Sharma Subject: Missing compat syscalls in ia64 compat-layer-fixes.patch Minor bug fixes to the compat layer compat-ioctl-for-i2c.patch compat_ioctl for i2c fix-sqrt.patch sqrt() fixes scale-min_free_kbytes.patch scale the initial value of min_free_kbytes cdrom-allocation-try-harder.patch Use __GFP_REPEAT for cdrom buffer sym-2.1.18f.patch CONFIG_STANDALONE-default-to-n.patch Make CONFIG_STANDALONE default to N extra-buffer-diags.patch nosysfs.patch slab-leak-detector.patch slab leak detector early-serial-registration-fix.patch serial console registration bugfix 3c527-smp-update.patch SMP support on 3c527 net driver 3c527-race-fix.patch ext3-latency-fix.patch ext3 scheduling latency fix firmware-kernel_thread-on-demand.patch Remove workqueue usage from request_firmware_async() loop-autoloading-fix.patch Fix loop module auto loading loop-module-alias.patch loop needs MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCK loop-remove-blkdev-special-case.patch loop-highmem.patch remove useless highmem bounce from loop/cryptoloop loop-highmem-fixes.patch loop-bio-handling-fix.patch loop: BIO handling fix cmpci-set_fs-fix.patch cmpci.c: remove pointless set_fs() dentry-bloat-fix-2.patch Fix dcache and icache bloat with deep directories nls-config-fixes.patch NSL config fixes proc_pid_lookup-vs-exit-race-fix.patch Fix proc_pid_lookup vs exit race gcc-Os-if-embedded.patch Add `gcc -Os' config option aic7xxx-sleep-in-spinlock-fix.patch vm86-sysenter-fix.patch Fix sysenter disabling in vm86 mode refill_counter-overflow-fix.patch vmscan: reset refill_counter after refilling the inactive list verbose-timesource.patch be verbose about the time source acpi-pm-timer.patch ACPI PM Timer acpi-pm-timer-fixes-2.patch ACPI PM timer fixes timer_pm-verbose-timesource-fix.patch Subject: [PATCH] linux-2.6.0-test9-mm3_verbose-timesource-acpi-pm_A0 as-regression-fix.patch Fix IO scheduler regression as-request-poisoning.patch AS: request poisoning as-request-poisoning-fix.patch AS: request poisining fix as-fix-all-known-bugs.patch AS fixes as-new-process-estimation.patch AS: new process estimation as-cooperative-thinktime.patch AS: thinktime improvement scale-nr_requests.patch scale nr_requests with TCQ depth truncate_inode_pages-check.patch local_bh_enable-warning-fix.patch cdc-acm-softirq-rx.patch cdc-acm: move rx processing to softirq forcedeth.patch forcedeth: nForce ethernet driver forcedeth-update-2.patch forcedeth update proc-pid-maps-output-fix.patch Restore /proc/pid/maps formatting sis900-pm-support.patch Add PM support to sis900 network driver 8139too-locking-fix.patch 8139too locking fix ia32-wp-test-cleanup.patch ia32 WP test cleanup powermate-payload-size-fix.patch Griffin Powermate fix more-than-256-cpus.patch Fix for more than 256 CPUs ZONE_SHIFT-from-NODES_SHIFT.patch Use NODES_SHIFT to calculate ZONE_SHIFT memmove-speedup.patch optimize ia32 memmove pipe-readv-writev.patch Fix writev atomicity on pipe/fifo lockless-semop.patch lockless semop percpu_counter-use-alloc_percpu.patch use alloc_percpu in percpu_counters i450nx-scanning-fix.patch i450nx PCI scanning fix serio-pm-fix.patch psmouse pm resume fix find_busiest_queue-commentary.patch find_busiest_queue() commentary fix SOUND_CMPCI-config-typo-fix.patch fix SOUND_CMPCI Configure help entry atkbd-24-compatibility.patch Fixes for keyboard 2.4 compatibility context-switch-accounting-fix.patch Fix context switch accounting access-vfs_permission-fix.patch Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix access() / vfs_permission() bug eicon-linkage-fix.patch eicon/ and hardware/eicon/ drivers using the same symbols kobject-docco-additions.patch Improve documentation for kobjects radeon-line-length-fix.patch radeonfb fix proc-interrupts-use-seq-file.patch seq_file version of /proc/interrupts proc-interrupts-use-seq_file-2.patch Finish /proc/interrupts seq_file patch ide-tape-update.patch ide-tape update intel-440gx-ids-fix.patch centrino-1ghz-support.patch support centrino 1GHz pnp-fix-1.patch PnP Fixes #1 pnp-fix-2.patch PnP Fixes #2 pnp-fix-3.patch PnP Fixes #3 document-elevator-equals.patch document elevator= parameter cpio-offset-fix.patch missing padding in cpio_mkfile in usr/gen_init_cpio.c watchdog-retval-fix.patch watchdog write() return value fixes document-lib-parser.patch Add lib/parser.c kernel-doc format_cpumask.patch format_cpumask() init-remove-CLONE_FILES.patch Remove CLONE_FILES from init kernel thread creation alpha-stack-dump.patch usb-msgsize-fix.patch HiSpd Isoc 1024KB submits: -EMSGSIZE pagefault-accounting-fix.patch pagefault accounting fix pagefault-accounting-fix-fix.patch pagefault accounting fix fix pagefault_accounting-fix-fix-fix-fix.patch pagefault accounting again proc_kill_inodes-oops-fix.patch proc_bus_pci_lseek-remove-lock_kernel.patch remove lock_kernel() from proc_bus_pci_lseek() acpi-update.patch acpi update acpi-update-warning-fix.patch pagemap-include-recursion-fix.patch remove include recursion from linux/pagemap.h dm-bounce-buffer-fix.patch dm and bounce buffer panic fix ia64-piix5-fix.patch PIIX5 Doesn't work on IA64 ide-dma-disabled-fix.patch Can't disable IDE DMA sysfs_remove_dir-vs-dcache_readdir-race-fix.patch sysfs_remove_dir Vs dcache_readdir race fix ext3-external-journal-bd_claim.patch ext3: bd_claim for journal device page-alloc-failure-dump_stack.patch mpparse_es7000.patch mpparse: fix IRQ breakage from the es7000 merge x86_64-update.patch x86-64 update for 2.6.0test9-mm5 x86_64-statfs64-fix.patch Fix statfs64 emulation on x86-64 x86_64-aout-support.patch Add a.out support for x86-64 remove-mm-swap_address.patch remove mm->swap_address sis-assignment-fix.patch sis comparison / assignment operator fix sync_dquots-oops-fix.patch Subject: [PATCH] Fix possible oops in vfs_quota_sync() ext3-quota-deadlock-fix.patch Ext3+quota deadlock fix buslogic-update.patch BusLogic Driver update binfmt_elf-help-update.patch BINFMT_ELF=m is not an option aic7xxx_old-proc-oops-fix.patch aic7x_old /proc oops fix invalidate_mmap_range-non-gpl-export.patch mark invalidate_mmap_range() as EXPORT_SYMBOL md-1-limit_max_sectors.patch md: Limit max_sectors on md when merge_bvec_fn defined on underlying device. md-2-set-ra_pages.patch md: set ra_pages for raid0/raid5 devices properly. alsa-sleep-in-spinlock-fix.patch ALSA sleep in spinlock fix do_gettimeofday-tick_usec-fix.patch Erronous use of tick_usec in do_gettimeofday tty-proc-oops-fix.patch prevent oops from read of proc entry for tty drivers dm-1-fix-block-device-resizing.patch dm: fix block device resizing dm-2-remove-dynamic-table-resizing.patch dm: remove dynamic table resizing dm-3-v4-ioctl-default.patch dm: make v4 of the ioctl interface the default dm-4-set-io-restriction-defaults.patch dm: set io restriction defaults dm-5-sleep-in-spinlock-fix.patch dm: dm_table_event() sleep on spinlock bug fix-ELF-exec-with-huge-bss.patch fix ELF exec with huge bss direct-io-memleak-fix.patch O_DIRECT memory leak fix list_del-debug.patch list_del debug check print-build-options-on-oops.patch show_task-free-stack-fix.patch show_task() fix and cleanup oops-dump-preceding-code.patch i386 oops output: dump preceding code lockmeter.patch lockmeter-sparc64-fix.patch lockmeter-sparc64-fix-fix.patch lockmeter-preemption-fixes.patch lockmeter preemption fixes printk-oops-mangle-fix.patch disentangle printk's whilst oopsing on SMP 4g-2.6.0-test2-mm2-A5.patch 4G/4G split patch 4G/4G: remove debug code 4g4g: pmd fix 4g/4g: fixes from Bill 4g4g: fpu emulation fix 4g/4g usercopy atomicity fix 4G/4G: remove debug code 4g4g: pmd fix 4g/4g: fixes from Bill 4g4g: fpu emulation fix 4g/4g usercopy atomicity fix 4G/4G preempt on vstack 4G/4G: even number of kmap types 4g4g: fix __get_user in slab 4g4g: Remove extra .data.idt section definition 4g/4g linker error (overlapping sections) 4G/4G: remove debug code 4g4g: pmd fix 4g/4g: fixes from Bill 4g4g: fpu emulation fix 4g4g: show_registers() fix 4g/4g usercopy atomicity fix 4g4g: debug flags fix 4g4g: Fix wrong asm-offsets entry cyclone time fixmap fix 4G/4G preempt on vstack 4G/4G: even number of kmap types 4g4g: fix __get_user in slab 4g4g: Remove extra .data.idt section definition 4g/4g linker error (overlapping sections) 4G/4G: remove debug code 4g4g: pmd fix 4g/4g: fixes from Bill 4g4g: fpu emulation fix 4g4g: show_registers() fix 4g/4g usercopy atomicity fix 4g4g: debug flags fix 4g4g: Fix wrong asm-offsets entry cyclone time fixmap fix use direct_copy_{to,from}_user for kernel access in mm/usercopy.c 4G/4G might_sleep warning fix 4g/4g pagetable accounting fix 4g4g-athlon-prefetch-handling-fix.patch 4g4g-wp-test-fix.patch Fix 4G/4G and WP test lockup 4g4g-KERNEL_DS-usercopy-fix.patch 4G/4G KERNEL_DS usercopy again 4g4g-vm86-fix.patch Fix 4G/4G X11/vm86 oops 4g4g-athlon-triplefault-fix.patch Fix 4G/4G athlon triplefault ppc-fixes.patch make mm4 compile on ppc aic7xxx_old-oops-fix.patch O_DIRECT-race-fixes-rollup.patch DIO fixes forward port and AIO-DIO fix O_DIRECT race fixes comments O_DRIECT race fixes fix fix fix DIO locking rework O_DIRECT XFS fix dio-aio-fixes.patch direct-io AIO fixes dio-aio-fixes-fixes.patch dio-aio fix fix readahead-multiple-fixes.patch readahead: multipole performance fixes readahead-simplification.patch readahead simplification aio-sysctl-parms.patch aio sysctl parms aio-01-retry.patch AIO: Core retry infrastructure Fix aio process hang on EINVAL AIO: flush workqueues before destroying ioctx'es AIO: hold the context lock across unuse_mm task task_lock in use_mm() 4g4g-aio-hang-fix.patch Fix AIO and 4G-4G hang aio-retry-elevated-refcount.patch aio: extra ref count during retry aio-splice-runlist.patch Splice AIO runlist for fairer handling of multiple io contexts aio-02-lockpage_wq.patch AIO: Async page wait aio-03-fs_read.patch AIO: Filesystem aio read aio-04-buffer_wq.patch AIO: Async buffer wait lock_buffer_wq fix aio-05-fs_write.patch AIO: Filesystem aio write aio-06-bread_wq.patch AIO: Async block read aio-07-ext2getblk_wq.patch AIO: Async get block for ext2 O_SYNC-speedup-2.patch speed up O_SYNC writes O_SYNC-speedup-2-f_mapping-fixes.patch aio-09-o_sync.patch aio O_SYNC AIO: fix a BUG Unify o_sync changes for aio and regular writes aio-O_SYNC-fix bits got lost aio: writev nr_segs fix More AIO O_SYNC related fixes aio-09-o_sync-f_mapping-fixes.patch gang_lookup_next.patch Change the page gang lookup API aio-gang_lookup-fix.patch AIO gang lookup fixes aio-O_SYNC-short-write-fix.patch Fix for O_SYNC short writes aio-12-readahead.patch AIO: readahead fixes aio O_DIRECT no readahead Unified page range readahead for aio and regular reads aio-12-readahead-f_mapping-fix.patch aio-readahead-speedup.patch Readahead issues and AIO read speedup