From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc4 Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 19:59:17 -0400 Message-ID: <483DF1D5.9030706@tmr.com> References: <20080527120128.7074c1bc@werewolf.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:49041 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751165AbYE1XrK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 19:47:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080527120128.7074c1bc@werewolf.home> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=2EA=2E_Magall=F3n=22?= Cc: Linux-Kernel , Linus-IDE J.A. Magall=F3n wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2008 11:41:35 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: >=20 >> You know the drill by now: another week, another -rc. >> >> There's a lot of small stuff in here, most people won't even notice.= The=20 >> most noticeable thing is for all you 32-bit x86 people who use PAE=20 >> (enabled by the HIGHMEM64G config option) due to having too much mem= ory in=20 >> your machine - mprotect() was broken due to some of the PAT fix/clea= nup=20 >> patches, causing the NX bit to be not set correctly. >> >> So if you had PAE enabled _and_ a recent enough CPU to have NX, but = not=20 >> recent enough to be 64-bit (or you were just perverse and wanted to = run a=20 >> 32-bit kernel despite having a chip that could do 64-bit and enough = memory=20 >> that you _really_ should have used a 64-bit kernel), you'd get vario= us=20 >> random program failures with SIGSEGV. It ranged from X not starting = up to=20 >> apparently OpenOffice not working if it did. >> >> But most of the changes, as usual, are in drivers, at 60%, with some= DRI=20 >> changes leading the way (fixing a number of other regressions, mainl= y by=20 >> reverting the under-cooked vblank update). Network, MMC, USB, watchd= og and=20 >> IDE drivers also got updates. >> >> We had CIFS and NFS updates, and some arch updates as usual. The dir= stat=20 >> gives the overview: >> >=20 > I have this patchsets collected from LKML, that still apply ontop of = -rc4. > Are they not so urgent or are they not needed any more ? >=20 > JBD[2] races > http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-ext4&m=3D121141319601650&w=3D2 > http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-ext4&m=3D121141319701660&w=3D2 >=20 Unless I misread the thread, akpm had a raft of issues with the first=20 one, all of which were spelling except one initialization which he=20 thought was not needed. All of those could be fixed in less effort that= =20 it takes to mention them, perhaps, but even so I think the patch could=20 be ready in a short time. The problem looks worth fixing to me, but probably not a must have at=20 the rc4 level. Maybe in 2.6.27 we could get rid of the potential race? --=20 Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot