2004-10-29 02:12:56

by Chuck Ebbert

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Subject: [RFC] Linux 2.6.9.1-pre1 contents

I have been working on a set of patches that I currently call
Linux 2.6.9.1. What follows is the file 000-MANIFEST, the table
of contents for the patchset. Since the patchset is currently
65 separate files and the administrator of kernel.org says I
have to be in the MAINTAINERS file to post patches there, I
propose to upload the whole patchset as a uuencoded .tar.bz2
to the mailing list (it is about 42K.)

Comments and suggestions for addition or removal of patches welcomed.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

000-MANIFEST

(this file) Contents of patchset 2.6.9.1-pre1


--- NOTE ----------------------------------
Always apply patches in alphabetical order:
$ ls <dir>/*.patch | sort | xargs --verbose -n 1 patch -p1 -i
To un-apply:
$ ls <dir>/*.patch | sort -r | xargs --verbose -n 1 patch -R -p1 -i
--- NOTE ----------------------------------


000-Makefile.1-pre1.patch

Update Makefile version

3c59x_pci_disable_device.patch

Add missing pci_disable_device() in failure paths
NOTE: 3c59x_remove_one() needs disable call, too
...as do tulip, natsemi, etc.

8250_pnp.patch

Trivial 8250 Pnp fix

ac3_compiler.h_assembly.patch
ac3_config_via_velocity.patch
ac3_cpia_fixes.patch
ac3_i8042.patch
ac3_i8xx_tco_timer.patch
ac3_moxa_wakeup.patch
ac3_ppp_hangup.patch
ac3_skbuff_tso.patch
ac3_smbfs_request.patch
ac3_vm_io.patch

Fixes from 2.6.9-ac3
- "blink keyboard lights on panic" code
was removed from the i8042 patch

ac4_aic7xxx.patch
ac4_visor.patch

Fixes from 2.6.9-ac4

cdrom_mrw.patch

Some drives were incorrectly identified
as Mt. Ranier capable

compat_ioctl_tiocsbrk.patch

Add 32-bit compatible IOCTLS

cross_compile_makefile.patch

Fix Makefile for some cross-compile configs

decnet_connrefused.patch

Trivial decnet fix

delay_rq_lock.patch

Prevent auditing deadlock

dm_duplicate_kfree.patch

Remove duplicate kfree from dm_target.c

exec_no_binfmt.patch

Return an error on exec with no binfmt handlers

exec_timers_and_signals.patch

Fix three bugs in exec with threaded apps

fbdev-fix-logo-vga16fb.patch

Restore missing penguin logo on vga16fb at boot time
(included because user complained loudly)

hvsi_oops.patch

Prevent oops in hvsi driver

i2c_amd_kconfig.patch

Add missing dependency and clarify comments

ide_maxtor_probe.patch

Another Maxtor IDE drive serial number oddity

ide_no_chs.patch

Allow ide drives with no C/H/S info to work

ide_pdc202xx_lba48.patch

LBA48 fix for PDC20267

ide_smart_threshold.patch

Fix obvious bug in smart_threshold function

init_poison.patch

Poison __init memory before freeing

initpipefs_proper.patch

Make init of pipefs an fs_initcall

ioapic_init_section.patch

Remove __init from referenced ioapic functions

ioapic_on_nvidia_boards.patch

Ignore all ACPI timer overrides on nVIDIA x86-64 boards
(Note: enable of IO-APIC in original patch removed
due to bug reports)

log_buf_shift.patch

Allow larger kernel log buffer

media_toaster_share_irq.patch

Permit IRQ sharing on Media Toaster (sym53c500_cs)

memset_signal_ppc64.patch

Correct memset size in ppc64 signal code

msleep_at_least_amount.patch

make msleep sleep at least the amount of time asked for

negative_statm.patch

Don't allow statm fields to go negative

netif_rx_ni_preempt_safe.patch

Make netif_rx_ni preempt-safe
NOTE: A better (uninlined) fix is in 2.6.10-rc

netpoll_setup_crash.patch

Prevent crash on netpoll setup

nfs_fqdn_len_2.patch

Allow longer FQDN in NFS mount

o_direct_mmapped_io.patch

Fix O_DIRECT vs. mmapped IO problem
(Not a complete fix, but at least an improvement)

parport_superio.patch

Gets superio parports working again

pcdp_swap_args.patch

Correct argument order in pcdp.c

pci_dev_put.patch

Define pci_dev_put() for non-PCI builds

percpu_alignment.patch

Make percpu alignment work right on x86 cpus

pnpbios_msleep.patch

Use msleep_interruptible instead of schedule_timeout

proc_wrong_parent.patch

Backport BK changesets 1.2000.4.120 and 1.2000.12.16
Fixes wrong parent process display in /proc

quoted_env_vars_3.patch

Unquote kernel arg strings

return_enfile_not_emfile.patch

return -ENFILE when out of handles, not -EMFILE

s390_sacf_exception.patch

Fix s390 security hole

spurious_oomkill.patch

Stop spurious out-of-memory process kills

suspend_time_adjust.patch

Correct system time after suspend

tcp_output_skbuff_fix.patch

With TSO, skbuffs were allocated with wrong size

tso_needs_sg.patch

TSO feature requires SG

unbalanced_tasks_v3.patch

Scheduler fix for pinned tasks causing too much rebalance

usr_courier_pnp_id.patch

Add USR Courier PnP modem ID

vga_console_font.patch

Fix two small bugs in VGA console

vm_dirty_ratio_clamp.patch

Prevent divide-by-zero

vm_pages_scanned_active_list.patch

kswapd: pages scanned were not counted properly

x86_64_syscall32_initdata.patch

More __init/__initdata fixes



--Chuck Ebbert 28-Oct-04 20:16:13


2004-10-29 07:49:48

by Chris Wedgwood

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Subject: Re: [RFC] Linux 2.6.9.1-pre1 contents

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:02:58PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:

> I have been working on a set of patches that I currently call Linux
> 2.6.9.1.

check -mm kernels or http://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5/

2004-10-29 12:36:41

by Alan

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Subject: Re: [RFC] Linux 2.6.9.1-pre1 contents

On Gwe, 2004-10-29 at 03:02, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 3c59x_pci_disable_device.patch
> Add missing pci_disable_device() in failure paths
> NOTE: 3c59x_remove_one() needs disable call, too
> ...as do tulip, natsemi, etc.

The mm tree with this in has shown some problems which aren't yet
fully explained and are more likely the eeprom thing.

> Fixes from 2.6.9-ac4

I'll post -ac5 shortly although you seem to have most of that
and a lot more.

> ide_maxtor_probe.patch
> Another Maxtor IDE drive serial number oddity

This is definitely wrong, the others look fairly sane although there are
a lot that are for such obscure cases they seem to add not reduce risk.

Alan

2004-10-29 13:32:07

by Chuck Ebbert

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Subject: Re: [RFC] Linux 2.6.9.1-pre1 contents

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 at 00:46:32 -0700 Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:02:58PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>
>> I have been working on a set of patches that I currently call Linux
>> 2.6.9.1.
>
> check -mm kernels or http://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5/


You mean like this?


[me@d4 linux-2.6]$ bk pull -R
Pull http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6
-> file://home/me/bk-repo/linux-2.6
Nothing to pull.


[me@d4 linux-2.6]$ bk prs -r+ drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
======== drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c 1.78 ========
D 1.78 04/10/28 00:39:59-07:00 [email protected][torvalds] 84 83 2/0/3397
P drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
C Fix incorrect Mt Rainier detection
------------------------------------------------


I merged the identical change to cdrom.c to my changeset on 04/10/27
at 21:20 -0500, i.e. before Linus did.

However, I only merge bugfixes, not new features, so LVM still works
in my tree. :)


--Chuck Ebbert 29-Oct-04 09:27:11

2004-10-29 15:52:41

by Alan

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Subject: Re: [RFC] Linux 2.6.9.1-pre1 contents

On Gwe, 2004-10-29 at 16:04, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > This is definitely wrong,
> It just went into mainline as rev 1.87 to ide-probe.c :(

Yes its still being discussed and revised.

> Your "Integrated Technology Express" addition is missing but I'm
> going to add it here.

You only need that if you have IT8212 support merged (that is in -ac5
again and activated now). It requires the taskfile and ide-disk geometry
changes but does not require all the ide locking stuff (the user
probably does for other reasons but the ide code doesnt)

Alan

2004-10-29 15:38:11

by Chuck Ebbert

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Subject: Re: [RFC] Linux 2.6.9.1-pre1 contents

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 at 12:33:04 +0100 Alan Cox wrote:

>> ide_maxtor_probe.patch
>> Another Maxtor IDE drive serial number oddity
>
> This is definitely wrong,

It just went into mainline as rev 1.87 to ide-probe.c :(

Your "Integrated Technology Express" addition is missing but I'm
going to add it here.


> the others look fairly sane although there are
> a lot that are for such obscure cases they seem to add not reduce risk.

I've been including one-liners even if they only fix rare cases or
aren't strictly bugfixes, but the larger ones are riskier:

- backport of the rq-lock patch almost certainly created a profiling
bug if the retry path is taken.

- the timers-and-signals patch fixes three things; only one is urgent.

And Hugh's VM accounting patches look very worthwhile (they just went into
mainline.) I took one and might merge the other two - but they change
statm reporting.


Getting them to merge and compile is the easy part...


--Chuck Ebbert 29-Oct-04 11:02:40