2003-01-04 01:14:17

by J.A. Magallon

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Subject: [PATCHSET] New Year's Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2

HI, and HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody !!

New release of this kinda-hacked-kernel. Now that Andre's ide and many bugfixes
are in mainline, there is hole for more things ;)

URL: http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.21-pre2-jam2.tar.bz2
URL: http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.21-pre2-jam2/

New ones:

15-binfmt-stack.bz2
Fix AT_PLATFORM setup in binfmt_elf for hyper-threaded cpus, so glibc
detects correctly i686 arch.

16-mremap-use-after-free.bz2
Fix use of vmas after freed.
Author: Marc-Christian Petersen <[email protected]>

50-aic-20021230.bz2
51-aic-20021230-dma-fix.bz2
AIC 7xxx (upto U160) and 79xx (U320) scsi drivers. aic7xxx is updated and
aic79xx is a new driver.
Author: "Justin T. Gibbs" <[email protected]>
URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux

56-DAC960.bz2
Fix for the Promise driver to work under -aa tree. Not tested (I have not
the hardware...), so get it and break it !!
Author: Dave Olien <[email protected]>
URL: http://www.osdl.org/archive/dmo/DAC960_2.4.20aa1/

Pending things that I think are bugfixes, apart from 15- and 16- (Marcelo ?,
I know some are already in your -bk)

02-printk.bz2
Kill extra declaration of printk()

03-memparam.bz2
Fix mem=XXX kernel parameter when user gives a size bigger than what
kernel autodetected (kill a previous change)
Author: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>,
Leonardo Gomes Figueira <[email protected]>

04-clone-detached.bz2
Fix a crash that can be caused by a CLONE_DETACHED thread.
Author: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

05-self_exec_id.bz2
Fix bad signaling between threads when ancestor dies.
Author: Zeuner, Axel <[email protected]>

07-scsi-error-tmout.bz2
Prevent endless loop in SCSI error handling.
Author: Borzenkov Andrey <[email protected]>

08-ide-scsi-ref-count.bz2
Fix for ide-scsi refcounting of used drivers.
Author: Mikael Pettersson <[email protected]>

20-x86-split-group.bz2
(Only last hunk)
Add prefetch for P4

And some harmless cleanups:

10-highpage-init.bz2
Cleanup one_highpage_init() as in 2.5.
Author: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

11-handle2dentry.bz2
Factor out duplicated code for handle2dentry conversation.
Author: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

Enjoy!!

--
J.A. Magallon <[email protected]> \ Software is like sex:
werewolf.able.es \ It's better when it's free
Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2 (gcc 3.2.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.1-2mdk))


2003-01-04 01:27:26

by Marc-Christian Petersen

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Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] New Year's Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2

On Saturday 04 January 2003 02:22, J.A. Magallon wrote:

Hi J.A.,

> HI, and HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody !!
thanks, dito :)

> 16-mremap-use-after-free.bz2
> Fix use of vmas after freed.
> Author: Marc-Christian Petersen <[email protected]>
nice to see this but the Author is Andrew Morton, not me :)
I just sent you this one.

ciao, Marc

2003-01-04 04:40:07

by Paul

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Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] New Year's Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2

"J.A. Magallon" <[email protected]>, on Sat Jan 04, 2003 [02:22:43 AM] said:
> HI, and HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody !!
>
> New release of this kinda-hacked-kernel. Now that Andre's ide and many bugfixes
> are in mainline, there is hole for more things ;)
> 03-memparam.bz2
> Fix mem=XXX kernel parameter when user gives a size bigger than what
> kernel autodetected (kill a previous change)
> Author: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>,
> Leonardo Gomes Figueira <[email protected]>
>
>
> Enjoy!!
>
> --
> J.A. Magallon <[email protected]> \ Software is like sex:

Hi;

This reversion should probably kill limit_regions()
too... as I think it eliminates the only reference to it.

Paul
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2003-01-05 00:33:30

by J.A. Magallon

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Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] New Year's Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2


On 2003.01.04 Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Saturday 04 January 2003 02:22, J.A. Magallon wrote:
>
> Hi J.A.,
>
> > HI, and HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody !!
> thanks, dito :)
>
> > 16-mremap-use-after-free.bz2
> > Fix use of vmas after freed.
> > Author: Marc-Christian Petersen <[email protected]>
> nice to see this but the Author is Andrew Morton, not me :)
> I just sent you this one.
>
> ciao, Marc
>

Thanks for the info, corrected for next release...

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J.A. Magallon <[email protected]> \ Software is like sex:
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Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2 (gcc 3.2.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.1-2mdk))