url: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.50/2.5.50-mm2/
-> 2.5.50-mm2.gz Full patch
-> 2.5.50-mm2-shpte.gz Up to `shpte-always-on', for Dave to work against
Lots of fixes. Some things dropped for various reasons. A decent
amount of rework against the high-level writeback code.
Since 2.5.50-mm1:
-fbcon-timer-fix.patch
-hugepage-fixes.patch
-ext3-oldalloc.patch
-simplified-vm-throttling.patch
-page-reclaim-motion.patch
-handle-fail-writepage.patch
-activate-unreleaseable-pages.patch
-ipc_barriers.patch
-signal-speedup.patch
-pf_memdie.patch
-suppress-write-error-warnings.patch
-truncate-speedup.patch
-spill-lru-lists.patch
-readdir-speedup.patch (Linus fixed all the bugs in it)
Merged
-epoll-bits-0.57.patch
+epoll.patch
Davide's latest
-aio-dio-really-submit.patch
-aio-dio-deferred-dirtying.patch
-dio-counting.patch
Folded into other patches.
-reiserfs-readpages.patch
Dropped - it was causing fsx-linux failures.
+cputimes_stat.patch
Put the per-cpu times back into /proc/pid/stat, CONFIGurably
-poll-1-wqalloc.patch
-poll-2-selectalloc.patch
-poll-3-alloc.patch
-poll-4-fast-select.patch
-poll-5-fast-poll.patch
-poll-6-merge.patch
Dropped. Increased stack utilisation was a concern, and the performance
benefits are patchy. Manfred is taking another look at it.
+deadsched-fix.patch
Deadline scheduler fix
+shpte-nonlinear.patch
Fix shared pagetables for nonlinear mappings
+pmd-allocation-fix.patch
Always allocate PMD's out to the top of the virtual address space.
-dcache_rcu-2-2.5.48.patch
-dcache_rcu-3-2.5.48.patch
Dropped. Other changes broke it, and Dipankar is redoing a few things
anyway.
+filldir-checks.patch
Some copy_*_user checks.
+vmstats-fixes.patch
Small vm stats fix and enhancement.
+hugetlb-fixes.patch
Fixes from Rohit.
+writeback-interaction-fix.patch
I had a few oddities and bogons in the fs/fs-writeback.c code. This
patch is a fair-sized revamp, cleanup and general sort-things-out in
there. It works better.
+scalable-zone-protection.patch
Allow runtime tuning of the lower-zone protection ratio. Needs work.
+page-wait-table-min-size.patch
Don't allow a one-slot hashed wait table for wait_on_page()
+ext3-transaction-reserved-blocks.patch
Fix an ext3 assertion failure which is triggerable with corrupt disk
contents.
+remove-PF_SYNC.patch
remove the current->flags:PF_SYNC abomination. Adds a `sync' arg to
all writepage implementations to tell them whether they are being
called for memory cleansing or for data integrity.
+dont-inherit-mlockall.patch
Don't inherit mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) across forks
+bootmem-alloc-alignment.patch
Improved coalescing of bootmem regions
+ext23_free_blocks-check.patch
Additional sanity checks in the block allocator.
+blkdev-rlimit.patch
Don't apply rlimits to blockdev writes.
+readahead-pinned-memory.patch
Don't allow gargantuan amounts of memory to be pinned in readahead
-page-walk-api-improvements.patch
-page-walk-api-bugfix.patch
Folded into page-walk-api.patch
+page-walk-api-update.patch
New stuff from Ingo (needs splitting up and changelogging...)
All 55 patches:
linus.patch
cset-1.797.133.2-to-1.857.txt.gz
epoll.patch
epoll bits 0.59 ...
kgdb.patch
dio-return-partial-result.patch
aio-direct-io-infrastructure.patch
AIO support for raw/O_DIRECT
deferred-bio-dirtying.patch
bio dirtying infrastructure
aio-direct-io.patch
AIO support for raw/O_DIRECT
aio-dio-debug.patch
dio-reduce-context-switch-rate.patch
Reduced wakeup rate in direct-io code
cputimes_stat.patch
Retore per-cpu time accounting, with a config option
deprecate-bdflush.patch
deprecate use of bdflush()
reduce-random-context-switch-rate.patch
Reduce context switch rate due to the random driver
bcrl-printk.patch
read_zero-speedup.patch
speed up read_zero() for !CONFIG_MMU
nommu-rmap-locking.patch
Fix rmap locking for CONFIG_SWAP=n
semtimedop.patch
semtimedop - semop() with a timeout
writeback-handle-memory-backed.patch
skip memory-backed filesystems in writeback
remove-fail_writepage.patch
Remove fail_writepage()
page-reservation.patch
Page reservation API
wli-show_free_areas.patch
show_free_areas extensions
inlines-net.patch
rbtree-iosched.patch
rbtree-based IO scheduler
deadsched-fix.patch
deadline scheduler fix
quota-smp-locks.patch
Subject: [PATCH] Quota SMP locks
shpte-ng.patch
pagetable sharing for ia32
shpte-nonlinear.patch
shpte: support nonlinear mappings and clean up clear_share_range()
shpte-always-on.patch
Force CONFIG_SHAREPTE=y for ia32
pmd-allocation-fix.patch
make sure all PMDs are allocated under PAE mode
ptrace-flush.patch
Subject: [PATCH] ptrace on 2.5.44
buffer-debug.patch
buffer.c debugging
warn-null-wakeup.patch
pentium-II.patch
Pentium-II support bits
radix-tree-overflow-fix.patch
handle overflows in radix_tree_gang_lookup()
rcu-stats.patch
RCU statistics reporting
auto-unplug.patch
self-unplugging request queues
less-unplugging.patch
Remove most of the blk_run_queues() calls
sync_fs.patch
Add a sync_fs super_block operation
ext3_sync_fs.patch
implement ext3_sync_fs
ext3-fsync-speedup.patch
Clean up ext3_sync_file()
filldir-checks.patch
copy_user checks in filldir()
vmstats-fixes.patch
vm accounting fixes and addition
hugetlb-fixes.patch
hugetlb fixes
writeback-interaction-fix.patch
fs-writeback rework.
scalable-zone-protection.patch
Add /proc/sys/vm/lower_zone_protection
page-wait-table-min-size.patch
Set a minimum hash table size for wait_on_page()
ext3-transaction-reserved-blocks.patch
Reserve an additional transaction block in ext3_dirty_inode
remove-PF_SYNC.patch
dont-inherit-mlockall.patch
Don't inherit mm->def_flags across forks
bootmem-alloc-alignment.patch
bootmem allocator merging fix
ext23_free_blocks-check.patch
ext2/ext3_free_blocks() extra check
blkdev-rlimit.patch
don't allpy file size rlimits to blockdevs
readahead-pinned-memory.patch
limit pinned memory due to readahead
page-walk-api.patch
page-walk-scsi.patch
page-walk-api-update.patch
pagewalk API update
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:26:48AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> +remove-PF_SYNC.patch
>
> remove the current->flags:PF_SYNC abomination. Adds a `sync' arg to
> all writepage implementations to tell them whether they are being
> called for memory cleansing or for data integrity.
Any chance you could pass down a struct writeback_control instead of
just the sync flag? XFS always used ->writepage similar to the
->vm_writeback in older kernel releases because writing out more
than one page of delalloc space is really needed to be efficient and
this would allow us to get a few more hints about the VM's intentions.
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:26:48AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +remove-PF_SYNC.patch
> >
> > remove the current->flags:PF_SYNC abomination. Adds a `sync' arg to
> > all writepage implementations to tell them whether they are being
> > called for memory cleansing or for data integrity.
>
> Any chance you could pass down a struct writeback_control instead of
> just the sync flag? XFS always used ->writepage similar to the
> ->vm_writeback in older kernel releases because writing out more
> than one page of delalloc space is really needed to be efficient and
> this would allow us to get a few more hints about the VM's intentions.
Yup, no probs.
It would be good to measure how often that codepath actually gets invoked
during testing and use. It's typically quite rare. It should be just
MAP_SHARED stuff, although there are probably some highmem-related scenarii
in which it will happen.
I'll add a writeback_control.for_reclaim boolean so we don't have to play
games with PF_MEMALLOC to reverse engineer the calling context.
If XFS is going to writearound extra pages in ->writepage() then it would
be best to set PG_reclaim (if wbc->for_reclaim) so end_page_writeback()
will rotate them.