Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel update (relative to 2.4.16)

Andreas Schwab
2001-11-27T13:04:15Z

David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> writes:

|> An updated ia64 patch for 2.4.16 is now available at
|> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ports/ia64/v2.4/ in file:
|>
|> linux-2.4.16-ia64-011126.diff*
|>
|> change log:
|>
|> - update for 2.4.15/2.4.16:
|> - add show_trace_task()
|> - lots of SGI SN updates (most in "sn" subdirectories)
|> - IA-32 brk() fix by Don Dugger
|> - drop some of the more cosmetic fixes (they will be in the 2.5 tree
|> instead)
|> - fix EARLY_PRINTK (Tony Luck, I think)
|> - in iosapic.c, move RTE programming to a saner place (Alex Williamson)
|> - fix alignment of bootmap
|> - move machvec_init() a little earlier and call platform_cpu_init() at
|> end of cpu_init() (Jack Steiner)
|> - swiotlb.c: support "page" member in scatterlist
|> - fix asm clobbers in spinlock.h
|> - add more ACPI tables to asm-ia64/acpi-ext.h
|>
|> This kernel has been tested with gcc-3.0 on Big Sur and HP Ski
|> simulator. As usual, your mileage may vary.

You have renamed numnodes in mm/numa.c, but not in include/linux/mmzone.h,
and there are many occurences of "extern int num_compact_nodes" all over
the place. I'm wondering why it was renamed in the first place.

Andreas.

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