ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test9/2.6.0-test9-mm2/ - Various random fixes. Maybe about half of these are 2.6.0-worthy. - Some improvements to the anticipatory IO scheduler and more readahead tweaks should help some of those database benchmarks. The anticipatory scheduler is still a bit behind the deadline scheduler in these random seeky loads - it most likely always will be. - "A new driver for the ethernet interface of the NVIDIA nForce chipset, licensed under GPL." Testing of this would be appreciated. Send any reports to linux-kernel or netdev@oss.sgi.com and Manfred will scoop them up, thanks. - I shall be offline for a couple of days. Changes since 2.6.0-test9-mm1: linus.patch Latest Linus tree -might_sleep-suppression.patch Dropped - Linus fixed the vm86 might_sleep() warning for real. +as-badness-warning-fix.patch +as-request-poisoning.patch +as-new-process-estimation.patch +as-cooperative-thinktime.patch Anticipatory scheduler performance work. +scale-nr_requests.patch Increase the initial disk request queue size if the disk is using deep Tag Command Queueing. +local_bh_enable-warning-fix.patch Fiddle with the debug warnings in local_bh_enable() +ohci-locking-fix.patch Partially address some USB locking problems. +disable-ide-tcq.patch Disable IDE TCQ in config. It's not working right yet. +request-module-char-dev-fix.patch Fix autoloading of the loop driver module. +loop-remove-blkdev-special-case.patch Loop driver rework: treat block-backed loop in an identical manner to file-backed loop. +loop-highmem.patch +loop-highmem-fixes.patch Switch the loop<->cryptolooop interface to use page/offset rather than kmap+virtaddr. +via-quirk-fix.patch VIA oops fix +cdc-acm-softirq-rx.patch USB locking fix +forcedeth.patch nForce ethernet driver +raid1-recovery-fix.patch Fix RAID1 recovery. +journal_remove_journal_head-assertion-fix.patch Fix and ext3 assertion failure. +x86_64-tss-limit-fix.patch x86_64 fix +reiserfs-pinned-buffer-fix.patch reiserfs pinned buffer fix +proc-pid-maps-output-fix.patch Fix /proc/pid/maps display for deleted files (needs work) +atomic_dec-debug.patch "Verifies that all "atomic_dec_and_test()" users never see a negative value (which would be bad)." +sis900-pm-support.patch Power management support for sis900 driver +drm-agp-module-dependency-fix.patch Maybe fix DRM<->AGP module dependencies so things autoload nicely. +8139too-locking-fix.patch Fiddle with 8139too locking. +ia32-wp-test-cleanup.patch Simplify the ia32 WP bug detection code. +hugetlb-needs-pse.patch Disable hugetlbfs if the CPU doesn't support large pages. +powermate-payload-size-fix.patch Fix the powermate driver for newer devices. +4g4g-KERNEL_DS-usercopy-fix.patch Fix for the 4G/4G split patch. +readahead-simplification.patch Readahead performance fix. All 192 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 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 RD16-rest-B6.patch 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 sym-do-160.patch make the SYM driver do 160 MB/sec 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 kobject-oops-fixes.patch fix oopses is kobject parent is removed before child 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-tweaks.patch ia32-efi-support.patch EFI support for ia32 ia32-efi-asm-warning-fix.patch efi warning fix ia32-efi-support-mem-equals-fix.patch CONFIG_ACPI_EFI-defaults-off.patch ia32-efi-support-warning-fixes.patch ia32-efi-support-tidy.patch ia32-efi-other-arch-fix.patch fix EFI for ppc64, ia64 efi-constant-sizing-fix.patch efi: warning fixes ia32-efi-config-option.patch ia32 EFI: Add CONFIG_EFI ia32-efi-config-option-tweaks.patch ia32-efi-config-help-update.patch efi: Update Kconfig help ia64-CONFIG_EFI-update.patch 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 compat_ioctl-cleanup.patch cleanup of compat_ioctl functions 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 constant_test_bit-doesnt-like-zwanes-gcc.patch gcc bug workaround for constant_test_bit() 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 videobuf_waiton-race-fix.patch 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 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 gcc-Os-if-embedded-better-help.patch aic7xxx-sleep-in-spinlock-fix.patch ia64-ia32-missing-compat-syscalls.patch From: Arun Sharma Subject: Missing compat syscalls in ia64 vm86-sysenter-fix.patch Fix sysenter disabling in vm86 mode gettimeofday-resolution-fix.patch gettimeofday resolution fix refill_counter-overflow-fix.patch vmscan: reset refill_counter after refilling the inactive list verbose-timesource.patch be verbose about the time source as-badness-warning-fix.patch AS: handle non-block requests as-regression-fix.patch Fix IO scheduler regression as-request-poisoning.patch AS: request poisoning 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 3c509-mca-fix.patch 3c509 MCA compile fix truncate_inode_pages-check.patch ext2-allocation-fix.patch ext2 block allocation race fix local_bh_enable-warning-fix.patch ohci-locking-fix.patch disable-ide-tcq.patch Disable IDE Tagged Command Queueing request-module-char-dev-fix.patch MODULE_ALIAS patch for ALSA loop-remove-blkdev-special-case.patch loop-highmem.patch remove useless highmem bounce from loop/cryptoloop loop-highmem-fixes.patch via-quirk-fix.patch Fix oops in quirk_via_bridge cdc-acm-softirq-rx.patch cdc-acm: move rx processing to softirq forcedeth.patch forcedeth: nForce ethernet driver raid1-recovery-fix.patch Fix RAID1 recovery journal_remove_journal_head-assertion-fix.patch JBD: fix assertion failure x86_64-tss-limit-fix.patch Fix TSS limit on x86-64 reiserfs-pinned-buffer-fix.patch reiserfs pinned buffer fix proc-pid-maps-output-fix.patch Restore /proc/pid/maps formatting atomic_dec-debug.patch atomic_dec debug sis900-pm-support.patch Add PM support to sis900 network driver drm-agp-module-dependency-fix.patch DRM/AGP module dependency fix 8139too-locking-fix.patch 8139too locking fix ia32-wp-test-cleanup.patch ia32 WP test cleanup hugetlb-needs-pse.patch ia32: hugetlb needs pse powermate-payload-size-fix.patch Griffin Powermate fix keyboard-repeat-rate-setting-fix.patch keyboard repeat rate setting 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 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 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-race-fixes-rework-XFS-fix.patch O_DIRECT XFS fix O_DIRECT-race-fixes-rework-XFS-fix-fix.patch 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-refcounting-fix.patch aio ref count in io_submit_one 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 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