2.5.56-mm1

Andrew Morton
2003-01-11T22:42:53Z

http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.56/2.5.56-mm1/

Nothing much new here except for a fix for the ext3-related memory leak which
Con reported recently.

The main items which remain unmerged from the -mm patch series are now:

- red/black-tree based insertion and sorting for the I/O scheduler.

Jens will be submitting this next week. It's completely stable, and the
patch includes the addition of the I/O scheduler tunables in
/sys/block/hda/iosched/, which is fairly important.

- Code to automatically unplug request queues on the basis of their
occupancy and a timeout.

Jens will be reviewing this soon.

- dcache-RCU.

This was recently updated to fix a rename race. It's quite stable. I'm
not sure where we stand wrt merging it now. Al seems to have disappeared.

- Ingo Oeser's user page walking rework. This appears to be stable,
although I'm not sure what testing it has had apart from a lot of direct-io
testing.

- Quite a lot of misc stuff which I need to go through and either send or
toss.

Changes since 2.5.55-mm1:

+linus.patch

Latest from Linus

-inlines-net.patch
-deadline-fixups.patch
-i_shared_sem.patch
-cond_resched_lock-rework.patch
-untypedef-mmu_gather.patch
-touched_by_munmap-go-forwards.patch
-low-latency-page-unmapping.patch
-misc.patch
-smp-preempt-latency-fix.patch
-set_page_dirty_lock.patch
-inline-constant-small-copy_user.patch

Merged

+deadline-fixes.patch

Some deadline scheduler tweaks and fixes

+deadline-sysfs-fix.patch

Fix up the deadline scheduler patches to track recent sysfs changes

+ext3-leak-fix.patch

Fix the memory leak whcih Con reported

+hugetlbfs-read-write.patch

Don't permit reading or writing of hugetlbfs files.

All 44 patches:

linus.patch
cset-1.897-to-1.929.txt.gz

kgdb.patch

rcf.patch
run-child-first after fork

devfs-fix.patch

cputimes_stat.patch
Retore per-cpu time accounting, with a config option

rbtree-iosched.patch
rbtree-based IO scheduler

deadline-fixes.patch
deadsched cleanups/fixups

deadline-sysfs-fix.patch

ext3-ino_t-cleanup.patch
Subject: [PATCH] 2.5 ext3 ino_t removal

smaller-head-arrays.patch

setuid-exec-no-lock_kernel.patch
remove lock_kernel() from exec of setuid apps

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

reiserfs-readpages.patch
reiserfs v3 readpages support

rcu-stats.patch
RCU statistics reporting

auto-unplug.patch
self-unplugging request queues

less-unplugging.patch
Remove most of the blk_run_queues() calls

ext3-fsync-speedup.patch
Clean up ext3_sync_file()

lockless-current_kernel_time.patch
Lockless current_kernel_timer()

scheduler-tunables.patch
scheduler tunables

htlb-2.patch
hugetlb: fix MAP_FIXED handling

ext3-leak-fix.patch
fix ext3 memory leak

hugetlbfs-read-write.patch
hugetlbfs: don't implement read/write file_ops

oprofile-p4.patch

op4-fix.patch

wli-02_do_sak.patch
(undescribed patch)

wli-03_proc_super.patch
(undescribed patch)

wli-06_uml_get_task.patch
(undescribed patch)

wli-07_numaq_mem_map.patch
(undescribed patch)

wli-08_numaq_pgdat.patch
(undescribed patch)

wli-09_has_stopped_jobs.patch
(undescribed patch)

wli-10_inode_wait.patch
(undescribed patch)

wli-11_pgd_ctor.patch
(undescribed patch)

wli-11_pgd_ctor-update.patch
pgd_ctor update

wli-13_rmap_nrpte.patch
(undescribed patch)

dcache_rcu-2.patch
dcache_rcu-2-2.5.51.patch

dcache_rcu-3.patch
dcache_rcu-3-2.5.51.patch

page-walk-api.patch

page-walk-api-2.5.53-mm2-update.patch
pagewalk API update

page-walk-scsi.patch

page-walk-scsi-2.5.53-mm2.patch
pagewalk scsi update

smalldevfs.patch
smalldevfs