ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/
Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org
*
* The usual warnings apply. This is an initial merge against
* 2.4.13. The patches are still getting smaller which is good
*
2.4.13-ac1
o Merge with Linus 2.4.13
2.4.12-ac7
o Fix i2o_proc locking thinko (me)
o Aiptek tablet driver (Chris Atenasio)
o Update ARM920T support (Russell King)
o Add some additional PCI idents (Tim Hockin)
o Further SA1100/CERF ARM updates (Russell King)
o Reduce printk noise in amd flash driver (David Woodhouse)
o Add missing schedule() to jffs2 gc thread (David Woodhouse)
o Add license tag to NTFS (Richard Russon)
o PCMCIA suspend fix for SA1100 ARM (Russell King)
o Increase close wait tracking for ip_conntrack (Darrell Escola)
o PCI hot plug support (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Compaq FC driver update (Steve Cameron)
o Fix UP APIC without IOAPIC build fail (Mikael Pettersson)
o Intel 82092 PCI/PCMCIA bridge support (Arjan van de Ven)
| Based heavily on the pcmcia package
o Include buffer size extension in dhcp frames (Andreas Steinmetz)
o Fix u14f/u34f build problem (Andreas Steinmetz)
o Fix trident.c build on Alpha (me)
o Various other Alpha build fixes (Jeff Garzik)
o Simplify serverworks mtrr check (Dave Jones)
o ARM configuration updates (Russell King)
o Update natsemi driver (Jeff Garzik)
o Computone ip2 update (Michael Warfield)
o Fix CONFIG_SIMNOW (Andi Kleen)
o Update 8139too docs (Jeff Garzik)
o Make autofs4 return symlink lengths
2.4.12-ac6
o Fix more preprocessor oddments (Jean-Luc Leger)
o Fix ipconfig build (Mauricio Zambrano)
o Radeonfb updates (7500, 8500, fp support) (Ani Joshi)
o Excalibur ARM support (Altera)
o Enable SA1110 clock scaling on Cerf (Russell King)
o ARM config updates (Russell King)
o Fix ulong->unsigned long in videodev.h (Felix von Leitner)
o Miscellaneous ARM bits (Russell King)
o Support the Promise SX6000 better (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Fix a problem with ymfpci and civctp (Pete Zaitcev)
o Update the ARM shark maintainer contact info (Alexander Schulz)
o PF_MEMALLOC kswapd death fix (Manfred Spraul)
o Remove now surplus quota ifdefs from ext3 (Andrew Morton)
o USB locking fix (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o UHCI fixes (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Add more pegasus driver idents (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Scanner unload race fix (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o ARM assabet updates (Russell King)
o Add additional APIC message retransmit handling (Stephen Tweedie)
o Add excalibur ARM include files (Altera)
o RTL8139CP driver (Jeff Garzik)
o Sun network driver license tags (Jeff Garzik)
o Add some new pci idents (Jeff Garzik)
o Sundance alta driver updates
o Airo driver update (Javier Achirica, Jean Tourhilles,
Jeff Garzik, Ben Reed)
o Add license tags to various sound drivers (Frank Davis)
2.4.12-ac5
o SA1100 cleanups (Nicolas Pitre)
o Assabet updates (Russell King)
o Update ARM simpad architecture (Russell King)
o ICS IDE updates (Russell King)
o Make ISA dma support in the core optional (Russell King)
o Fix SA1100 cache performance problem (Russell King)
o Update SA1100 stork pcmcia update (Russell King)
o Update the ARM Cerf platform (Russell King)
o Keyboard/pm include cleanup (Russell King)
o Update ARM default configurations (Russell King)
o ARM include updates (Russell King)
o Fix isofs packing on the ARM (Russell King)
o ADFS file sytstem updates (Russell King)
o Fix compile failure on ARM ecoscsi (Jean-Luc Leger)
o SA1100 and EP7211 irda drivers (Russell King,
"Blue Mug")
o ISIcom device table (Andrey Panin)
o 1.15 test VIA audio driver (Jeff Garzik)
o Switch most other drivers to generic BLK*64 (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix DTC3280 driver (Casper Boon)
o Mini-acpi support for using ACPI apic/cpu (Andrew Henroid,
tables (needed for some new IBM stuff) Richard Schaal,
| You must use a command line option to enable Jun Nakajima,
| this for now Arjan van de Ven)
| (Submitted by IBM but written by Intel)
2.4.12-ac4
o Workaround for gcc 3.0.x spin_unlock problem (Hartmut Schirmer)
o Hog stop VM update (Rik van Riel)
o Update segment reload avoidance code (Andi Kleen)
o shmfs remount fixups (Christoph Rohland)
o Fix broken bits of ifdef stuff (Jean-Luc Leger)
o Updates to xircom_tulib_cb driver (Ion Badulescu)
o Revert problematic tulip rx missed patch (Jeff Garzik)
o USB updates (Greg Kroah-Hartmann, David Nelson,
David Brownell)
o Recognize the 830MP ide and support it (Michael Clark)
o Fix yellowfin duplex bug (Val Henson)
o APM updates (Stephen Rothwell)
o USB net driver updates (David Brownell)
o Fix merge glitch in md driver (Neil Brown)
o Fix sa1100fb condition checking error (Russell King)
o Add device table to the sx driver (Andrey Panin)
o Add lots more rep nop points to the kernel (Arjan van de Ven)
for the poor old Pentium IV
o Add device tables to moxa drivers (Andrey Panin)
o Joystick fix for USB joystick hats (David Megginson)
o Add $PIR support for serverworks CSB5 (Tim Hockin)
o Take hfs catalog lock static (Adrian Sun)
o Fix an elf overflow check (Al Viro)
o Update M68K scsi drivers
o Update M68K ide drivers
o Add EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS to motioneye (Stelian Pop)
o Fix m68k to be bigendian for audio (Jes Sorensen)
o Fix "cd tray won't close" ide cd bug (Jens Axboe)
o Remove an unneeded lance ident (Dave Jones)
o Sony pi driver update (Stelian Pop)
o Issue "FLUSH_CACHE" commands to ide devices (Tim Hockin)
on shutdown
o Add pci table to applicon driver (Andrey Panin)
o Use set_current_state in the input layer (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Swap list locking update (Hugh Dickins)
o Update to aic7xxx 6.2.4 (Justin Gibbs)
2.4.12-ac3
o Switch mpt fusion driver to use set_current_state
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Ext3 file system update and related fixes (Andrew Morton,
Stephen Tweedie)
o ASM m68k include updates (Richard Ziclicky)
o Netwinder audio update (Russell King)
o SA1100 documentation update (Russell King)
o ARM keyboard updates (Russell King)
o ARM include updates (Russell King)
o Fix a pcmcia/ds.c return on error case (Russell King)
o Small ARM core updates (Russell King)
o Philips USB camera driver update ("Nemosoft")
o Add XScale pci ident (Russell King)
o SA1100 frame buffer update (Russell King)
o Update floppy.c for N_FDC=1 case (Russell King)
o Update floppy parameter support (Russell King)
o Bring -ac usb device locking in line with Linus (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
tree
o USB initialisation fixes (Linus Torvalds)
o Use set_current_state in wireless drivers (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Megaraid driver v 1.18 (Atul Mukker)
2.4.12-ac2
o Fix the reiserfs buffer accounting bug (Chris Mason)
o VIA rhine oops fix (Urban Widmark)
o Fix ppc build, add license tags (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix partition size handling bug (Al Viro)
o Handle BIOSes that slow the CPU more sanely (me)
o Fix pm.h include in pc_keyb.c (Mike Borrelli)
o Document some of the APM code (me)
o Reapply reiserfs big endian support (Jeff Mahoney)
o Fix misleading bootflag reporting (Thomas Hood)
o Fix a reporting bug in the promise driver (Alexander Yurchenko)
o Switch bits of scsi to use set_current_state
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Switch cdrom drivers to set_current_state (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Add license tags to reiserfs (Dirk Mueller)
o SA1100 fixes (Russell King)
o Fix usb config typo (Tom Rini)
o Eurotech PC104 watchdog (Rodolfo Giometti)
o Add support for the VIA C5 processor (Dave Jones)
o Add Dave Jones to maintainers file (Dave Jones)
o Switch paride drivers to set_current_state (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Switch USB drivers to set_current_state (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Switch most of drivers/char to s_c_s (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Back out a bogus aci change (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Switch sound to use set_current_state (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Cache reporting errata handling (Dave Jones)
o Merge some identical vm operations (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix init/version.h comments/format oddments (Daniel Dickman)
2.4.12-ac1
o Merge the majority of 2.4.11/12
- Fall back to the Linus reiserfs code set
- Fall back towards Linus tree UDF
- Switch to Linus tree uhci.c
- Fix the parport compile bug
This continues to avoid the new VM, O_DIRECT
and the page cache work. That will come in time
2.4.10-ac12
o Fix the lockd problem (Trond Mykelbust)
| This is the minimal fix, when I got to 2.4.12-ac
| I'll pick up on the better changes
o Quieten noise from ldm partition code (me)
o Fix ad1816 breakage in ac11 (Rasmus Andersen)
o CCISS update, adds 5312 support, tape.. (Charles White)
o Fix parport problem in ac11 (Thomas Hood)
o USB serial fixes and new device support (Hugh Blemings)
o Try to fix irq_2_pin_list lockup (Sam Varshavchik)
o EMU10K driver update (Rui Sousa)
o ISAPnP fixes for AHA152x (Juergen Fischer)
o PCI idents updates (Marc Boucher)
o Cpqarray driver updates (Charles White)
o Fix address truncation on non x86 in at1700 (Jeff Garzik)
and winbond840 drivers
o Fix clgenfb comments (Jeff Garzik)
o Correct dpt_i2o license tag (me)
o Add more license tags (Frank Davies)
o Casion QV Digital camera ident 0x1000 (Harald Schreiber)
o Fix usb-serial bugs caught by slab debugging (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Dell 600 workaround touch up (Tom Rini,
Pete Zaitcev)
o ns83820 pci interface cleanups (Jeff Garzik)
o Orinoco updates (David Gibson)
o SIS900 updates (Hui-Fen Hsu)
o Mark vaio I/O controller x86 only (Tom Rini, Stelian Pop)
o Update xircom_tulip_cb (Ion Badulescu)
o Clean up types in hamachi driver (Jeff Garzik)
o USB acm driver update (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o USB cdc-ether update (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o USB core updates (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o USB hpusbscsi updates (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o USB hub driver update (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o USB warning cleanups (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o USB warning fix for edgeport (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o USB microtek update (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o USB usb-uhci driver update (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix header in xircom firmware (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Bootflag cleanups (Thomas Hood)
o License tags for riscpc drivers (Russell King)
o APM support for i810 audio drivers (Daniel Barlow)
o Fix ics IDE build bug (Russell King)
o Printk string fixes (Willy Tarreau)
o Next mount/super updates (MS_VERBOSE, (Al Viro)
mount_root cleanup, etc)
o Recursive binding fixes (Al Viro)
o 8139too update (Jeff Garzik)
o natsemi driver update (Jeff Garzik)
o Don't scan past lun 7 for non SCSI-3 (Michael Brown)
o Fix the sys5 compile problem (Christoph Hellwig)
o Make kapm_idled handle idle refuse by the (me)
BIOS sanely
2.4.10-ac11
o Update wireless API and drivers (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Trident driver fixes and cleanups (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Use set_current_state in cmpci (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o The 1Gb limit in our iso code is wrong (Joerg Schilling)
(and I trust Joerg on specs..)
o Handle large HRT in i2o_proc (Vojtech Pavlik)
| Fixes a crash on the SX6000 board
o Use set_current_state in maestro3 (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Kill a dead .version file (Russell King)
o Kill bogus include in vt.c (Russell King)
o Blink keyboard lights on panic on x86 (Andi Kleen)
o Update motioneye documentation (Stelian Pop)
o Remove unneeded symlink faking in sys5fs (Christoph Hellwig)
o Update sony pi driver (Stelian Pop)
o ARM makefile fixes (Russell King)
o Fix ide build problem (Keith Owens)
o Clean up aci driver (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Fix memory handling error in pnpbios (Thomas Hood)
o License tag for amd7930 (Frank Davis)
o Further VM tuning (Rik van Riel)
2.4.10-ac10
o Fix panic on certain fat error cases (Martin Josefsson)
o Fix silly dpt_i2o naming error for alpha (Arjan van de Ven)
| It still doesnt work on alpha..
o Add license tags to sbus drivers (Frank Davis)
o Fix ARM module export cases (Russell King)
o Clean up ufs byteswap handling (Christoph Hellwig)
o Support attaching USB irda as serial device (Greg Kroah Hartmann)
o Add error reporting to more of pnpbios (Thomas Hood)
o Update parport_pc to know about configured v (Thomas Hood)
unconfigured PnP resources
o Fix non module using build (Keith Owens)
o S/390 build fixes (Martin Schwidefsky)
o Update cris support (Bjorn Wesen)
o Fix IPS driver build non modular (Jack Hammer)
o PPPoE updates (Michal Ostrowski)
o init_idle race fix for Alpha (Peter Rival)
o cdrom bracketing/missed copy fix (Toby Milne)
2.4.10-ac9
o Fix osb4 warning (Christoph Hellwig)
o Merge Configure.help updates for ARM (Russell King)
o Intel i860 GART (Paul Mundt)
o Toshiba driver compile fix (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix 3dnow+pae compile problem (Christoph Hellwig)
o aic7xxx modules.h fix (Arjan van de Ven)
o Further i2c cleanups (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix printk type warning in zone printkis (Christoph Hellwig)
o Remove unused variable in mm/filemap.c (Christoph Hellwig)
o Attach license tags to freevxfs (Christoph Hellwig)
o Add RTS/DTR support to the pl2303 (Johannes Deisenhofer
Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o SAA9730 is mips only (me)
o License tags for ide layer (Frank Davis)
o Next PnPBIOS update (Thomas Hood)
o Zisofs inflate compile fixup (Keith Owens)
o Fix Dell C600 fix for newer PM code (Tim Stadelmann)
o Parport license tags (Frank Davis)
o Fix smb naming clash (Urban Widmark)
o Clean up ad1816 resource handling (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Remove ext2_notify_change (Christoph Hellwig)
o Remove dead ext2/acl.c code bits (Christoph Hellwig)
o Pentium pro store fence fixes for pci interface (me)
and spin_unlock
o spin_unlock for OOSTORE SMP kernels (me)
2.4.10-ac8
o Fix inflate ksym problems (Keith Owens)
o Fix missign return in errata 50 case (Udo Steinberg)
o First tiny bits of making i2o use the new pci (me)
API
o I2O mtrr handling improvements (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Remove ARM dependancies on libgcc (Russell King)
o Use spin_lock_irqsave in bootflag code (Thomas Hood)
o Kill remaining users of malloc.h (Dave Jones)
o ARM documentation updates (Russell King)
o ARM module tag updates (Russell King)
o ARM nexus updates (Russell King)
o Remove double include of bitops in fat (Russell King)
o Add further export symbol checks (Keith Owens)
o Report initrd ramdisk unpack failures (Russell King)
o Wait for context thread to start before (Russell King)
returning from start_context_thread
o Remove unused prototype in the pagemap.h file (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Move asm-um/page_offset.h to the right place (Jeff Dike)
o Add hooks for ARM pcmcia merging (32bit I/O (Russell King)
and per mapping info)
o SA1100 pcmcia (John Dorsey, Woojung Huh, Jordi Colomer,
Ken Gordon, Russell King)
2.4.10-ac7
o Miscellaneous arm fixes (Russell King)
o Arm include updates (Russell King)
o SA1100 updates (Russell King)
o EBSA110 and integrator updates (Russell King)
o ARM arch updates (Russell King)
o Zero length packets for UHCI (Johannes Erdfelt)
o Update the uml block driver, make it 64bit clean(Greg Lonnon)
o Change UML adress mappings (Jeff Dike)
o Update UML signal handling (Jeff Dike)
o Miscellaneous UML fixes (Jeff Dike)
o Update the UML example iomem driver (Greg Lonnon)
o Next batch of fs/namespace cleanups (Al Viro)
o Fix PPP over ATM configuration (me)
2.4.10-ac6
o Fix nfs symlink breakage (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix SCpnt->pid value (Dario Ballabio)
o LDM partition merge fix (Al Viro)
o Namespace fixes from 2.4.11pre* (Al Viro)
o pipe.c cleanup (Al Viro)
o Fix the iobuf oops (Anwar Payyoorayil)
o Fix bootp image loader on Alpha (Jay Estabrook)
o scsi tape module locking fixes (Kai M?kisara)
o opl3sa2 dual DMA fix (Jerome Auge)
o Quota fixes for -ac using S_NOQUOTA flags (Jan Kara)
o Fix pci64 broken irq mask hack and an SRM fix (Jay Estabrook)
o Fix DRM procfs oops (Abraham vd Merwe)
o Toshiba SMM driver check laptop is a Toshiba (Jonathan Buzzard)
o Clean up rep_nop stuff in init/main.c for (Paul Mackerras)
portability
o Update EV6/EV67 cpu selection (Jay Estabrook)
o Small alpha fixups (Jay Estabrook)
o Remove ASSEMBLY bits (Keith Owens)
o Change PPC64 contact person (Dave Engebretsen)
o Update cyberpro frame buffer driver (Bradley LaRonde,
Russell King)
o Add sysrq-M memory zone free info (Marcelo Tosatti)
o Fix mtd export oddments (David Woodhouse)
o Export handling cleanup/doc update (Keith Owens)
o Irda cleanups (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Irda discovery in passive mode fixes (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Irda usb updates (Jean Tourrilhes)
o VLSI irda updates (Martin Diehl)
o PPP over ATM support (Mitchell Blank,
Jens Axboe)
2.4.10-ac5
o Initial fix for the ELF loader bug (Linus Torvalds)
o Revert 2.4.10 sys_personality ABI change bug (Paul Larson)
o Add support for 16 byte commands to scsi (Khalid)
(only some controllers handle this)
o Small updates to the ide raid drivers (Arjan van de Ven)
o Update the hermes drivers (David Gibson)
o Airo driver update (Javier Achirica)
o NCR 53c700 update (James Bottomley)
o Next set of pnpbios work (Thomas Hood)
o Update ARM includes (Russell King)
o Update nwflash driver (Russell King)
o ARM alignment fix (Russell King)
o More pci.ids (Russell King)
o Add another SB variant (Jerome Cornet)
o SMBfs updates (Urban Widmark)
o Further mtd driver updates (David Woodhouse)
o Update ibmcam idents (Dmitri)
2.4.10-ac4
o Switch to Linus behaviour for kmap (Trond Myklebust)
in generic_file_write - should fix NFS oopses
| I dont have any highmem boxes so you get to test 8)
o ext3 deadlock versus truncate fix (Tachino Nobuhiro)
o Small reiserfs transaction fix (Nikita Danilov)
o Fix a fencepost error in the vm decision making (Rik van Riel)
o Shmem accounting fix (Christoph Rohland)
o BH async flag changes from 2.4.10 (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Remove wbinvd macro the acpi people re-added (Dave Jones)
o Make the kiobuf init code only clean needed (Andrew Bond)
fields (noticably speeds up Oracle)
o Move DMI scanning earlier in the kernel boot (Stelian Pop)
| This is needed to detect the vaio early enough
o Try and fix 21041 problems with tulip, better (Herbert Xu)
o Tulip rx dropped calculation
o Add further PCI idents (Jeff Garzik)
o Add another ident to the clgen fb (Jeff Garzik)
o Add intel i830 to the agp code idents (Christof Efkemann)
o pl2303 usb serial fixes (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o ipconfig typo fix (Ralf Baechle)
o Fix user mode linux build with new ptrace (Jeff Dike)
o JFFS tags update (David Woodhouse)
o Kill of remaining old style video4linux inits (Ladis Michl)
o Update i2c to rev 2.6.1 (Christoph Hellwig)
2.4.10-ac3
o Fix page_kills_ppro call (Peter Blomgren)
o mtd jffs and jffs2 updates (David Woodhouse)
o Partition handling updates (Al Viro)
o S/390 documentation updates (Martin Schwidefsky)
o S/390 code updates (Martin Schwidefsky)
o Add clean config for bust_spinlock generics (Martin Schwidefsky)
o Correct EXPORT_MODULE_GPL (Keith Owens)
o NFSv3 mkdir fix (Glen Serre)
o Clean up NFS yielding (Trond Myklebust)
2.4.10-ac2
o Merge Configure.help changes from 2.4.10
o Fix the spin_unlock oostore to maybe work (me)
o Fix for pentium pro errata #50 (me)
o initio driver type cleanups (Arjan van de Ven)
o rpc_queue_lock needs to be non static (Frank Davies)
o Fix a potential crash in ldm partition code (Al Viro)
o Acenic updates (Jes Sorensen)
o Fix scsi tur direction info (James Bottomley)
o Further natsemi updates (Manfred Spraul)
o Add license tags to jffs/jffs2 (Frank Davies)
o Console driver optimisations (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Add belkin F5U120 serial to belkin_sa (Amy Fong)
o Big endian fixes for console drivers (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Add module tags to the mwave driver (Thomas Hood)
o i2o header file cleanups (Russell King)
o Fix C2 power state in ACPI (Martin R?der)
o Deadlock and error handling fixes for 8139too (Manfred Spraul)
o Update NR_DEAD in keyboard driver (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Fix race in processor init sequence (Martin Bligh)
o Check procfs returns in acpi (Pavel Machek)
o Add DMI handles for problem K7V-RM and (Pavel Machek)
Tosh 4030cdt
o Fix analog joystick breakage from 2.4.10 (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Work around vaio weird pnpbios happenings (Thomas Hood)
o Update ninja scsi driver (YOKOTA Hiroshi)
o Adbmouse typo fix (Paul Mackerras)
2.4.10-ac1
o Merge with Linux 2.4.10 tree
- Drop VM changes
- Drop raw/block I/O changes
- Drop out O_DIRECT
- Basically remove the seriously unsafe stuff and
keep the -ac VM
- I've not applied the obvious fixes so ACPI and joysticks
are still icky - that is for ac2
o Fix the noncompile of SMP OOSTORE kernels (me)
2.4.9-ac18
o Fix aic7xxx and ncr53c8xxx compiles (Erik Andersen)
o Next PPC merge (Paul Mackerras)
o Updated patch-kernel (Dave Gilbert)
o Fix pgtable_cache_init escape on S/390 (Russell King)
o Fix alpha build (Dave Gilbert)
o Further scsi ifdef fixes (Arjan van de Ven)
o Revert softirq changes
2.4.9-ac17
o Fix vfree error on swap off (Hugh Dickins)
o Further USB serial fixups (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o ISDN cleanups - flags, includes, license texts (Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix bitfields in struct documentation (Tim Jansen)
o Next batch of MODULE_LICENSE tags (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix the gendisk bugs (me)
o Endian fixes for cisco hdlc over isdn (Bjoern Zeeb,
Kai Germaschewski)
o PPPoE memory corruption fixes (Chris Mason)
o RSS accounting fix (Hugh Dickins)
o ide-tape fixes for HP colorado (Pete Zaitcev)
o Fix APM disable handling (Randy Dunlap)
o Fix mousedev behaviour with new gpm (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Add support for the ib700 watchdog (Charles Howes)
o Fix sysreq build fail (me, Junio)
o S/390 tree warning fixes (Martin Schwidefsky)
o Update the IBM serveraid driver (Keith Mitchell)
o Apply usb list_del fix (Georg Acher)
o Further midibuf fixes (Adrian Cox)
o Fix toshoboe pci initialisation (Adam J Richter)
o pci registration fixes for tlan (Adam J Richter)
o NFS lock reclaiming fixes (Trond Myklebust)
o Add Belkin F5D5050 USB ethernet idents (Dane Johnson)
2.4.9-ac16
o Fix VM breakage from my merge error (Rik van Riel)
o Shmem race fixs (Hugh Dickins)
o Improve scan_swap_map optimisiations (Hugh Dickins)
o Fix swapoff race (Hugh Dickins)
o Fix add to swap cache race (Hugh Dickins)
o Remove the PG_swap_cache bit (Hugh Dickins)
o Remove unused functions (Hugh Dickins)
o Remove unused argument from get_swap_page (Hugh Dickins)
o Make use of exclusive_swap_page when we can (Hugh Dickins)
o Make swap almost ready to lose BKL (Hugh Dickins)
o Add initial pieces for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL (me)
| kernel symbols for GPL only use
o smc-ircc module inits (Keith Owens)
o Update the hp100 driver (Jaroslav Kysela)
o Update kernel-doc for struct and enum (Tim Jansen)
o Fix mac89x0 skb->len poking (David Weinehall)
o Big chunk of MODULE_LICENSE updates (Arjan van de Ven)
o Add the tainting proc hook (Keith Owens)
o Nand flash driver build fixes (David Woodhouse)
o Fix self-parenting problems in clone properly (Dave McCracken)
o CPIA camera fix (Michael Marxmeier)
o USB serial fixes (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix cisco hdlc protocol for isdn (Bjoern Zeeb)
o Further tunnel driver fixes (Taral)
o ISDN isar driver small fix (Karsten Keil)
o Further sscanf fixes (Paul)
o Fix iph5526 clash with ptrace namespace (Dave Jones)
o First block of block device updates from Al (Al Viro)
o Fix atm ioctl bug (Mitchel Blank)
o ISAPnP updates (Jaroslav Kysela)
o Merge IBM MWave support (Paul Schroeder)
o ISDN return value fixes (Andrew Morton)
o Add Acerscan 1240ut to the USB scanners (Morgan Collins)
o Fix init includes for aironet4500 (Keith Packard)
o Fix GART docs to reference DRI not utah (Robet Love)
o Reiserfs speed ups (Chris Mason)
o Maestro init fixups (Adam J Richter)
o Lock function cleanup (Trond Myklebust)
o Make the DRM options clearer (Keith Owens)
o Add compiler.h from 2.4.10
o Update ns83820 driver (Ben LaHaise)
2.4.9-ac15
o Rik's next VM handling update (Rik van Riel)
o Update mousedrivers documentation (me)
o Update 53c700 drivers (James Bottomley)
o USB serial pl2303 fixes (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o USB serial modcount fixes (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o USB devfs fix for skeleton driver (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix possible double read_unlock in personality (Christoph Hellwig)
handling
o Switch to maintainers sysrq fix (Crutcher Dunavant)
o Further pnpbios fixes (Thomas Hood)
o Delete the right ipip tunnel (Taral)
o Coda fixes (Jan Harkes)
o Fix sscanf (Paul)
o Clean up the semaphore fix (Leonid Igolnik)
o Merge minimal hooks for speakup (Kirk Reiser)
| Speakup itself needs more cleaning up yet
2.4.9-ac14
o Fix atm alignment on IA64 (Chas Williams)
o Soundblaster unload oops fix (Matthias Hanisch)
o NFS over tcp fixes (Trond Myklebust)
o Add usb zero packet flag support to OHCI (Roman Weissgaerber)
o Clean up reiserfs flags usage (Nikita Danilov)
o Fix reiserfs disk leak on crash case (Nikita Danilov)
o Fix reiserfs mount option handling (Nikita Danilov)
o Cosmetic reiserfs changes (Nikita Danilov)
o Small fusion driver update (Steve Ralston)
o Add RAID1 support promise ide raid (Arjan van de Ven)
o Remove duplicate DEC fb config (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o PCI type 2 access type cast fixes (Brian Gerst)
o Add AMD761 AGP (Robert Love)
o Fix /proc/pid/maps (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix 8139too pio problem (Celso Gonzalez)
o Fix SEM_UNDO wrap bug (me, Leonid Igolnik)
o Add xircom/entrega single port USB (Greg Kroah-Hartmann,
Brian Warner,
Cristian Craciunescu)
o ISOfs transparent compression, unify zlib (H Peter Anvin)
somewhat (lots more to do there!)
o Correct usbvideo reported procfs name (Jonas Munsin)
o SMP safe Z85230 driver (me)
o Merge saner parts of S/390 code drop
2.4.9-ac13
o Fix mangled sun3fb bits (me)
o Fix make rpm version bug (Russell King)
o Work around eepro100 bug with some chip (Arjan van de Ven)
versions on 10Mbit half duplex
o Bring UML inlines in sync with rest of kernel (Jeff Dike)
o UML memory protection code - main piece (Jeff Dike)
o Clean up UML rules (Lennert Buytenhek)
o Fix UML hang on xterm open fail (Jeff Dike)
o Fix UML signal handling bug (Jeff Dike)
o Fix UML out of pty's on host error reporting (Jeff Dike)
o Add tun/tap support to UML + clean up net code (Jeff Dike)
o Make UBD block driver handl errors properly (Will Dyson)
o Make backfile file paths in COW headers absolute(Greg London)
o Fix missing UML tlb flush (Jeff Dike)
o PPC fixes for UML (Chris Emerson)
o Declare sys_personality so UML compiles (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Wrap host library mallocs into UML kernel (Jeff Dike)
allocs. Also fix gprof support
o Use -1 as "no dma" on PnPBIOS (Thomas Hood)
o Fix sysctl log level change breakage (Randy Dunlap)
o Document bread() (Pavel Machek)
2.4.9-ac12
o Yamaha audio wakeup race fix (Pete Zaitcev)
o 3c507 ring buffer handling fix (Mark Mackenzie)
| It looks like the same may apply to eexpress and a few
| others. People may want to check
o 4.4BSD alias syle ioctl bits (Matthias Andree)
o Fix jffs_min compile failure (Frank Davis)
o Fix hid initialisation order (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Add sysrq to mconsole (James Stevenson)
o Remove dead 3c515 stuff (Andres Salomon)
o Fix UML disk space leak (James Stevenson)
o uml hz_to_std() (Jeff Dike)
o uml makefile cleanup (Jeff Dike)
o hostfs cleanup - use pread/pwrite (Jorgen Cederlof)
o Fix oops in scsi generic (Jens Axboe)
o Fix missing break in riva fbdev.c (Steve DuChene)
o Push spin_trylock_bh into the headers (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o PWC driver update ("nemosoft")
o Fix hz_to_std macro problem (Matt)
o Fix radeon + AMD761 lockup/corruption problem (Stephen Tweedie)
o Intermezzo update (Peter Braam)
o USB serial startup fix (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Makefile cleanups (Christoph Hellwig)
o Code cleanup for eepro100 (Ben LaHaise)
o Fix pid handling bug in msg queues (Mingming Cao)
o Raid multipathing (Ingo Molnar)
o Correct sys_setid return in md (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Clean up isdn sc debug code (Vojtech Pavlik)
o x86_64 random patch (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Add x86_64 ifdefs to various places (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Limit granch asm code to x86 fix setup code (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Use unsigned long for flags where needed (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Fix reiserfs writepage v truncate/mmap race (Edward Shushkin)
o Eliminate various bits of reiserfs code and (Edward Shushkin)
references to old ext2/minix stuff
o Support multiple block sizes in reiserfs (Edward Shushkin)
o Fix gcc warning building reiserfs (Edward Shushkin)
o Fix reiserfs 32bit uid on old format (Edward Shushkin)
o Fix yam hamradio driver (Edward Shushkin)
o Es1888 audio divider change (Craig Mahaney)
o Add a highmem debugging option (Christoph Hellwig)
o Remove crud from lvm.h (Joe Thornber)
o Replace some LVM macros with inlines (Joe Thornber)
o Open/Close LVM PV's when using them (Joe Thornber)
o Remove lvm_short_version (Joe Thornber)
o Use devfs_register_blkdev etc in LVM
o Rename fields and consider only active LVM (Heinz Mauelshagen)
snapshots [and congratulations on the awar Heinz]
o Change LVM locking to use rw_semaphores (Joe Thornber)
o Assorted LVM cleanups (Joe Thornber and others)
o IA64 processor prefetch (??)
o Return the right thing for strnlen_user when (Andreas Schwab)
limit = 0
o More debug info on sysrq (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Keyboard compile fix on Alpha (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Shrink dcache before invalidating the inodes (Andrea Arcangeli)
on a umount
o Fix apm disable handling (Thomas Krennwallner)
o CPIA locking fixes (David Hansen)
o zap_inode_mapping function to invalidate all the(Christoph Hellwig)
maps of an inode
o Remove accidental leak of console_lock back (Andrew Morton)
into -ac
o Fix implicit declaration warning (Dave Jones)
o Add another promise ide ident (Arjan van de Ven)
o Ignore PRQ bit in apic flags when looking for (Randy Dunlap)
unknown configs
o Matrox driver update (Petr Vandrovec,
David Hansen)
o NULL checks in lock code (Francis Galiegue)
o Remove duplicate bits on fbmem.c (Paul Mundt)
o ia64 arch_init_modules fix (Arjan van de Ven)
o Support tabstops >160 (Petr Vandrovec)
o "noac" NFS updates (Trond Myklebust)
o Default P5 MCE to off (me)
o Bluesmoke updates (Dave Jones)
o Handle cpu info that goes over a page long (James Cleverdon)
| only tested on ia32/ia64 so far
2.4.9-ac11
o Fix sign check error in death signal (Martin Macok,
Kamil Toman)
o Merge up to Linus 2.4.10pre9
2.4.9-ac10
o Multiple swapoff fixes (Hugh Dickins);
o Clean up the mips parts of the mem.c ifdefs (Ralf Baechle)
o Update NCR53c700 driver, make it generic (James Bottomley,
Richard Hirst, Rasmus Andersen, Keith Owens)
o Recognize Radeon VE in radeonfb (Nick Kurshev)
o MCE address reporting fix (Dave Jones)
o APIC check fixes (Randy Dunlap)
o Wrong SIGBUS data in siginfo fix (Daniel Kobras)
o acpi Makefile fix (Keith Owens)
o NTFS update (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Parse mainboard resources inline to pnp not (Gerd Knorr)
as pci_device objects
o Propogate register_netdev errors out from (Dave Miller)
init_netdev
o Take sound lock static (David Hansen)
o ns83820 updates/fixes (Ben LaHaise)
o Small arch_init_modules fix for ia64 (Maciej Rozycki)
o pci bridge setup fixes, 64bit sign propogation (Todd Inglett)
etc
o Add another batch of MODULE_LICENSE tags (me)
2.4.9-ac9
o ICP vortex documentation update (Boji Kannanthanam)
o Fix farsync ioctl checks (Bob Dunlop)
o Kiovec optimisations (Rohit Seth)
o Fix irda-usb match flags (Adam J Richter)
o USB serial MODULE_LICENSE tags (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Tidy up Changes notes to recommend gcc2.95+ ("Colonel")
o Kill dup in usb unusual_devs table (Harald Schreiber)
o Ethtool ioctl handling fix (Dave Miller)
o Add S/PDIF, 4 and 6 channel audio to ICH driver (Bob Paauwe)
o Fix compare types in ncpfs (Petr Vandrovec)
o Add limit to bluetooth ioctl (me)
o Fix missing channel range check in dpt_i2o (me)
o Fix lvm checks (me)
o Add missing wireless ioctl length check (me)
o Fix checks in sbpcd (me)
o Fix checks in generic ppp (me)
o Fix check in zr36067 (me)
o Fix checks in moxa (me)
o Fix checks in zr36120 (me)
o Fix Matrox DRM to mention G450 (Pavel Roskin)
o DGRS multi-nic mode fix (Rick Richardson)
o Reformat aztcd (no other changes) (me)
o Clean up the mcd driver (me)
o Remove gendisk export. Gendisk is now private (Christoph Hellwig)
to the sane API and has proper locking
o Highmem overflow fix (Ben LaHaise)
o Megaraid oops fix (Arjan van de Ven)
o Update kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO (Ken Moffat)
o Fix sis900 kerneldoc (Ken Moffat)
o Fix via audio kernel doc (Ken Moffat)
2.4.9-ac8
o Merge from 2.4.10-pre4 except
USB uhci controller update
MM/buffer cache changes
o Intermezzo update (Peter Braam)
o Clean up gendisk common code (Christoph Hellwig)
2.4.9-ac7
o Add another 1885 ident (Leon)
o Mention G450 in the 200/400 DRI (Pavel Roskin)
o Fix non PCI aic7xxx oops (me)
o Correct centaur chip detection (Keith Owens)
o Correct Dell cable detection (me)
o Fix usb storage warning (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix symbol clash between core and pwc (Christoph Hellwig)
o Comment out the visws (Christoph Hellwig)
o Small alpha build fix (Ricky Beam)
o NFS client update (Trond Myklebust)
o SE401 update (Jeroen Vreeken)
o Check proc/modules before querying it in (Andr? Dahlqvist)
ver_linux
o Add hppa to unaligned list for reiserfs (Jurriaan)
o i2c Config.in fix (Christoph Hellwig)
o LVM 32/64bit sort out (Patrick Caulfield)
o Softirq update/fixups (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Add arch_init_modules hook (Maciej Rozycki)
o Update slab cache to do LIFO handling and clean (Andrea Arcangeli)
up code somewhat
o Ethtool and alias fix (Arjan van de Ven)
o Self adjusting syscall table filler (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Configure.help typo fix (David Weinehall)
2.4.9-ac6
o Update compiler requirements doc (me)
o Fix module count leak (I hope) in cs46xx (me)
o Fix sx.c warnings (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix seagate.c prototypes (Christoph Hellwig)
o Remove non-modular stuff from mod builds (Christoph Hellwig)
and fix warnings
o Fix missing return value on xirc2ps (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix atmtcp MODULE_LICENSE (Christoph Hellwig)
o Remove various unused code (Christoph Hellwig)
o Switch drivers/fc4 to use module_init (Christoph Hellwig)
o Config file fixes (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix AX.25 digipeat crash (Thomas Osterried)
o DECNET update (Steven Whitehouse)
o Fix UNUSUAL_DEV entry for eUSB SmartMedia (Andries Brouwer)
o Remove spare maxinefb setup (Paul Mundt)
o Add USB MODULE_LICENSE tags (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Update the irq fix for the i810 audio based (me)
on further analysis by Doug Ledford
o make rpm target bug-fixes (Eli Carter)
o Fix missing export-objs in acpi (Keith Owens)
o VIA ide update (support 82c576, other small (Vojtech Pavlik)
fixes)
o Fix tulip bug when using MWI experimental bits (Jeff Garzik)
o Add MODULE_LICENSE tags to telephony (Robert Love)
o Add MODULE_LICENSE tags to drivers/video (Robert Love)
o Fix z2ram tag (Robert Love)
o Ask for 255 bytes of header on scsi pages (Matt Dharm)
| Lots of USB crap can't even get truncating right
o Fix ver_linux for e2fsprogs 1.23 (Albert Cranford)
o Add MODULE_LICENSE tags to zorro (Robert Love)
o Make __module_license static (Keith Owens)
o Merge some of the PPC64 submission (Peter Bergner, Anton Blanchard, Mike Corrigan, Dave Engebretsen,
Tom Gall, Todd Inglett, Paul Mackerras,
Pat McCarthy, Steve Munroe, Don Reed,
and Al Trautman)
| I dropped some config bits to keep stuff simpler
| and a few files that definitely didnt follow CodingStyle
o Merge updated gdth scsi raid driver (Achim Leubner)
o Remove escaped debug code from ni5010 (Frank Davies)
2.4.9-ac5
o Make pae i386 compile again (Russell King)
o Add MODULE_LICENSE tagging (me)
o Clean up aztcd (phase 1) (me)
o Fix aztcd subchannel error reporting bug (me)
o Reformat cdu31a pending cleanups (me)
o Reformat cm206 pending cleanups (me)
o Reformat gscd pending cleanups (me)
o Reformat isp16 pending cleanups (me)
o Reformat sjcd pending cleanups (me)
o Reformat tpqic02 pending cleanups (me)
o Add tags in drivers upto and including drivers/char/*
| lots more to add yet...
o pl2303 oops fix (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Sony clie updates for clie OS 4.0 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix elf loader for prelink binaries (Jakub Jelinek)
o Make xconfig fix (Robert Love)
o Add reparent_to_init, fix pnp and 8139 zombies (Andrew Morton)
o Update Configure.help (Steven Cole)
2.4.9-ac4
o ns83820 driver fixes and updates (Ben LaHaise)
o Configure.help updates (Steven Cole)
o Add generic pgtable_cache_init() (Russell King)
| and remove pae ifdefs from init/main.c
o Fix X.75 with new hisax drivers and an isdn (Kai Germaschewski)
disconnect race
o Remove now defunct directory offset cast (me)
o Make several vm behaviours tunable for now (Rik van Riel)
| This is so we can study behaviour patterns not for
| the long term
o Merge an additional ide-floppy fix (Sam Varshavchik)
| Fixed the ide floppy I/O error funny on some drives
o Pull dac/adc rate setting into ac97_codec.c (me)
o Update mips64 makefiles (Ralf Baechle)
o Complete the missing bits of the proc (Ralf Baechle)
infrastructure using constant HZ to userspace
| This has been partial for a long time, with the mips tree
| it actually needs to be completed...
o Avoid oops in rivafb when using 15bit depth (Steve DuChene)
on riva128
o Indent seagate scsi into linux format (me)
| Changes pending so do this in two steps..
o pl2303 updates (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Orinoco update (David Gibson)
o IRQ stack value fix (John Byrne)
o Enable DMA on 20268R (Zygo Blaxell)
o Add missing -EFAULT return to se401 (Pavel Machek)
o Voodoo 1/2 frame buffer console (Ghozlane Toumi)
o Update cache size reporting errata (Dave Jones)
o Fix nasty oops and deadlock in i810_audio (me)
2.4.9-ac3
o Fix config glitch in drivers/video/Config.in (Steven Cole)
o Kaweth endian fixes (Brad Hards)
o Update the MPT fusion drivers (Steve Ralston)
o Possible floppy probe fix (Paul Gortmaker)
o Add the KT266 agp to the table (Kris Kersey)
o Start convering ia32 and x86_64 mtrr code (Dave Jones)
o Account ramdisk in out of memory code (Russell King)
o Possible fix for cardbus allocation failures (Andreas Bombe)
o Clean up other cases of const initdata (Dave Jones)
o Update the keyboard rate code to be more (Dave Miller)
flexible (needed for sparc)
o Configure.help fixes (Steven Cole)
o Pegasus USB driver fixes (Petko Manolov)
o Fix i810 audio pops on speed changes (Scott Herod)
o GPIO driver for the ITE board (Hai-Pao Fan)
o Philips Nino port update (Steven Hill, Pavel Machek)
2.4.9-ac2
o Last small bits of the PPC merge (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix compile bugs in airport driver (David Gibson)
o ITE8172 ide updates (Steve L)
o Add i2c drivers for the ITE board (Hai-Pao Fan)
o AC97 register naming fix (Ralf Baechle)
o TI 3912 serial driver (Harald Koerfgen, Jim Pick,
Steven Hill)
o ITE general updates (P Popov)
o Remove double init of SGI streamable device (Ralf Baechle)
o Update SGI indy drivers (Ralf Baechle)
o Qtronix keyboard driver updates (P Popov)
o Add tx3192 frame buffer support (Steven Hill)
o MIPS frame buffer updates (Ralf Baechle)
o Move vino.h into driver directory (Ralf Baechle)
o Ocelot updates (Jun Sun, G Lonnon, S Kranz, Steve J)
o DDB5 updates (Jun Sun)
o MIPS jazz update (Ralf Baechle)
o SGI wd33c93 update (Ralf Baechle)
o Baget updates (Ralf Baechle)
o SNI updates (Ralf Baechle)
o Alchemy Au1000 support (P Popov)
o MIPS eval board updates (Ralf Baechle, Carsten Langgaard)
o Update Decstation serial support (Maciej W. Rozycki)
o NEC Vrc5477 audio driver (Steve L)
o General MIPS32 updates (Jun Sun, Ralf Baechle, Matt Porter,
Kevin Kissell, Carsten Langgaard,
Jan-Benedict Glaw)
o MIPS scsi updates (Ralf Baechle)
o Notifier signal oops fix (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
2.4.9-ac1
o Merge the fat and iso changes from 2.4.9
o Merge the sunrpc changes from 2.4.9
o Merge (hopefully correctly) the nfs changes
o Switch to the 2.4.9 emu10k1 driver
o Merge vfs directory type changes
o Merge other oddments
- This leaves min/max and the vm/buffer changes
both of which are pretty dubious anyway
o lock_kiovec page unwind fix (Velizar B)
o do_swap_page recheck pte before failing (Linus, Jeremy Linton)
o do_swap_page doesn't mkwrite when deleting (Linus)
| From 2.4.9 with extra comments etc (Hugh Dickins)
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Where is ac7 ?
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> 2.4.13-ac1
> o Merge with Linus 2.4.13
>
> 2.4.12-ac7
> o Fix i2o_proc locking thinko (me)
> o Aiptek tablet driver (Chris Atenasio)
> o Update ARM920T support (Russell King)
> o Add some additional PCI idents (Tim Hockin)
> o Further SA1100/CERF ARM updates (Russell King)
> o Reduce printk noise in amd flash driver (David Woodhouse)
> o Add missing schedule() to jffs2 gc thread (David Woodhouse)
> o Add license tag to NTFS (Richard Russon)
> o PCMCIA suspend fix for SA1100 ARM (Russell King)
> o Increase close wait tracking for ip_conntrack (Darrell Escola)
> o PCI hot plug support (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
> o Compaq FC driver update (Steve Cameron)
> o Fix UP APIC without IOAPIC build fail (Mikael Pettersson)
> o Intel 82092 PCI/PCMCIA bridge support (Arjan van de Ven)
> | Based heavily on the pcmcia package
> o Include buffer size extension in dhcp frames (Andreas Steinmetz)
> o Fix u14f/u34f build problem (Andreas Steinmetz)
> o Fix trident.c build on Alpha (me)
> o Various other Alpha build fixes (Jeff Garzik)
> o Simplify serverworks mtrr check (Dave Jones)
> o ARM configuration updates (Russell King)
> o Update natsemi driver (Jeff Garzik)
> o Computone ip2 update (Michael Warfield)
> o Fix CONFIG_SIMNOW (Andi Kleen)
> o Update 8139too docs (Jeff Garzik)
> o Make autofs4 return symlink lengths
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:35:02PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Does this mean the ac tree now uses the AA VM, or is this a merge
> > with everything but the VM, like the earlier 2.4.1x-ac trees?
>
> It still uses buffer cache based raw disk access (so things like DVD players
btw, AFIK the fact dvd player can hang some millisecond across a
close/open cycle, isn't really because of the blkdev in pagecache but
simply because the <2.4.10 buffer cache layer wasn't able to do proper
readahead on the blkdev. Now we do readahead properly and so in turn
the the lack of media-change trust of the vfs shows up. So as far I can
tell the right fix have no influence on the blkdev in pagecache, but it
only consists in resurrecting the media-change detection with a
per-device bitflag whitelist. I cannot see other source of stalls across
a close/open cycle.
Andrea
> Does this mean the ac tree now uses the AA VM, or is this a merge
> with everything but the VM, like the earlier 2.4.1x-ac trees?
It still uses buffer cache based raw disk access (so things like DVD players
actually work ok) and the Riel VM. The way things are panning out I suspect
2.4.14ac* may well be a point I switch to the Andrea/Marcelo/Linus VM.
Alan
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> 2.4.13-ac1
> o Merge with Linus 2.4.13
>
Does this mean the ac tree now uses the AA VM, or is this a merge
with everything but the VM, like the earlier 2.4.1x-ac trees?
Thanks,
Chris
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> simply because the <2.4.10 buffer cache layer wasn't able to do proper
> readahead on the blkdev. Now we do readahead properly and so in turn
> the the lack of media-change trust of the vfs shows up. So as far I can
> tell the right fix have no influence on the blkdev in pagecache, but it
> only consists in resurrecting the media-change detection with a
> per-device bitflag whitelist. I cannot see other source of stalls across
> a close/open cycle.
I'm not currently sure if the impact is from the cost of the page cache
flushing or the invalidate/re-read it triggers. There probably are two or
three seeks on the DVD if the data is invalidated so that would make sense.
Alan
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>2.4.13-ac1
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ix86/kdb-v1.9-2.4.13-ac1.bz2
So many patches, so little time ...
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:54:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > simply because the <2.4.10 buffer cache layer wasn't able to do proper
> > readahead on the blkdev. Now we do readahead properly and so in turn
> > the the lack of media-change trust of the vfs shows up. So as far I can
> > tell the right fix have no influence on the blkdev in pagecache, but it
> > only consists in resurrecting the media-change detection with a
> > per-device bitflag whitelist. I cannot see other source of stalls across
> > a close/open cycle.
>
> I'm not currently sure if the impact is from the cost of the page cache
> flushing or the invalidate/re-read it triggers. There probably are two or
> three seeks on the DVD if the data is invalidated so that would make sense.
plus we also need to wait completion of the readahead synchronously in
the cache flushing at close, the larger the readahead, the larger the
stall.
I doubt the cpu cost of truncate_inode_pages as originally suspected
is the culprit, more likely the fact we have to wait for a larger I/O to
complete plus the disk seek due the fact we throw away the readahead,
infact invalidate_buffers in-cpu-core cost in -ac could be lot worse
considering it has to walk a list that contains all kind of buffers not
only belonging to the interesting device to flush.
But anyways the media change detection will avoid to throw away the
readahead and in turn it will avoid the seek, it will avoid the
synchronous I/O completion wait in truncate_inode_pages, and it will
avoid the truncate_inode_pages in-cpu-core cost cost as well, so it
should most certainly fix the problem.
Andrea