kernel update (relative to 2.4.29)

Bjorn Helgaas
2005-03-14T23:43:19Z

The ia64 kernel patch for Linux 2.4.29 is available here:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ports/ia64/v2.4/linux-2.4.29-ia64-050312.diff.gz

The current 2.4-based ia64 tree is also available as a BitKeeper
repository. You can browse the changelog and the source files with a
normal browser at:

http://lia64.bkbits.net:8080/linux-ia64-2.4

or you can use the BitKeeper tools to maintain a local copy of the
tree like this:

$ bk clone bk://lia64.bkbits.net/linux-ia64-2.4 linux-ia64-2.4

Bjorn

IA64-related changes since 2.4.26:
* Perfmon:
- use seq_file for /proc to avoid buffer overflows (Stephane Eranian, Dean Nelson).
- fix /proc/pal/CPU*/bus_info descriptions (Stephane Eranian).
- fix perfmon "BEER promotion" typo (Stephane Eranian).
- clear sampling buffer at init (Stephane Eranian).
* Misc bug-fixes:
- allow IO port space without EFI RT attribute (Bjorn Helgaas).
- fix FPH state check to keep task from seeing another task's regs (Arun Sharma).
- fix pte_modify bug that allowed mprotect() to change too many bits (David Mosberger).
- add unw_unwind_to_user() sanity check (Keith Owens).
- add missing syscall slot.
- fix ptrace corner cases (Yanmin Zhang).

N.B. While testing this patch, I noticed that the ptrace fixes caused
anything linked with the profiling libc in Debian to fail. The same
thing happens with the current 2.6 kernel, so I think the problem is
most likely in the Debian profiling libc.