Re: [ANNOUNCE] 2.6.33.7-rt29

Dennis Borgmann
2010-12-21T16:39:12Z

@Thomas et al.:

Thank you so much for your work! It's really a amazing.

Merry Christmas!

Dennis

Thomas Gleixner schrieb:
> We are pleased to announce the next update to our new preempt-rt
> series.
>
> Changes from 2.6.33.7-rt29 to 2.6.33.7.2-rt30:
>
> 5fed714: x86: stackprotector: Avoid random pool on rt
> 76bdf0c: x86: Convert mce timer to hrtimer
> a1026af: net: ebtables: Work around per cpu assumptions
> cfaca74: tracing: Add combined timer and wakeup latency histogram
> e94445b: rt: mm: fix kthreadd livelock in drain_local_pages_work
> a09b02c: powerpc/fsl-booke: Move loadcam_entry back to asm code to fix SMP ftrace
> a8b8812: AT91: SAM9G45 - add a separate clock entry for every single TC block
> 3cf7bf5: mm: make stack guard page logic use vm_prev pointer
> 901f364: mm: make the mlock() stack guard page checks stricter
> 498f700: mm: make the vma list be doubly linked
> e276f93c: mm: fix up some user-visible effects of the stack guard page
> a487cf3: mm: fix page table unmap for stack guard page properly
> 27ed5f7: mm: fix missing page table unmap for stack guard page failure case
> ed313b5: mm: keep a guard page below a grow-down stack segment
> bf18be0: drm: block userspace under allocating buffer and having drivers overwrite it (v2)
> 3609ee7: x86-64, compat: Retruncate rax after ia32 syscall entry tracing
> b2104d5: x86-64, compat: Test %rax for the syscall number, not %eax
> c2841fe: compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()
> 85b5abf: ALSA: seq/oss - Fix double-free at error path of snd_seq_oss_open()
> 5741fe4: wireless extensions: fix kernel heap content leak
> 49aa1d9: net sched: fix some kernel memory leaks
> cd92f99: act_nat: use stack variable
> dc7dde7: tracing: Do not allow llseek to set_ftrace_filter
> 2da92b6: x86: Limit 32bit PAE memory to 16G
> 1389ed5: niu: Fix kernel buffer overflow for ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL
> 4d4ea8b: KEYS: Fix bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() if parent has no session keyring
> 300f0c0: KEYS: Fix RCU no-lock warning in keyctl_session_to_parent()
> 300bc74: can: add limit for nframes and clean up signed/unsigned variables
> 88df886: NFS: Fix an Oops in the NFSv4 atomic open code
> 00b073d: staging/comedi: Fix type in semaphore conversion
> 327735e: perf: Provide kmap_atomic_direct for !CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> ddeca62: perf: Use kmap_atomic_direct
> d07d5cf: v2.6.33.7.1-rt29
> e6c0211: ssb: Handle alternate SSPROM location
> 0bc60c2: ssb: fix NULL ptr deref when pcihost_wrapper is used
> 9ab4cde: ssb: Look for SPROM at different offset on higher rev CC
> 314beea: ssb: do not read SPROM if it does not exist
> 4ed85ce: Revert "ssb: Handle Netbook devices where the SPROM address is changed"
> d4202e4: drm/i915: Check overlay stride errata for i830 and i845
> 60853cb: KVM: MMU: flush remote tlbs when overwriting spte with different pfn
> fbbddb2: mac80211: avoid scheduling while atomic in mesh_rx_plink_frame
> 8d5c466: xen: drop xen_sched_clock in favour of using plain wallclock time
> e4de451: CIFS: Fix compile error with __init in cifs_init_dns_resolver() definition
> a9229e0: CIFS: Remove __exit mark from cifs_exit_dns_resolver()
> ab006e3: slow-work: use get_ref wrapper instead of directly calling get_ref
> 7485c1e: GFS2: rename causes kernel Oops
> 432cfce: SCSI: enclosure: fix error path - actually return ERR_PTR() on error
> 127524e: xfs: prevent swapext from operating on write-only files
> ab1b2be: cfg80211: don't get expired BSSes
> d377614: cfg80211: ignore spurious deauth
> efce9f4: iwlwifi: fix scan abort
> 8dc20bd: ath9k: fix yet another buffer leak in the tx aggregation code
> 9fd8aa6: ath9k: fix TSF after reset on AR913x
> 2089c7f: ath9k_hw: fix an off-by-one error in the PDADC boundaries calculation
> e10e4ec: ath9k: enable serialize_regmode for non-PCIE AR9160
> cad9c43: 9p: strlen() doesn't count the terminator
> d2f1f93: e1000e: 82577/82578 PHY register access issues
> 8ed2a49: e1000e: don't inadvertently re-set INTX_DISABLE
> 257a4e8: amd64_edac: Correct scrub rate setting
> 3f5500c: amd64_edac: Fix DCT base address selector
> 8c0b0d6: parisc: pass through '\t' to early (iodc) console
> d7e94ae: arm/imx/gpio: add spinlock protection
> 42aa826: PARISC: led.c - fix potential stack overflow in led_proc_write()
> 49337d1: NFS: kswapd must not block in nfs_release_page
> 7486bb3: comedi: Uncripple 8255-based DIO subdevices
> 6388252: mm: fix ia64 crash when gcore reads gate area
>
> This is a rather large update with cherry-picks from the stable tree
> and quite a few fixes for long standing problems in the rt patch.
>
> Download locations:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/
>
> Git release branch:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git rt/2.6.33
>
> Gitweb:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=shortlog;h=rt/2.6.33
>
> Information on the RT patch can be found at:
>
> http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
>
> To build the 2.6.33.7.2-rt30 tree, the following patches should be
> applied:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.33.7.tar.bz2
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-2.6.33.7.2-rt30.bz2
>
> Enjoy !
>
> This is probably the last update to the 33-rt series.
>
> The next release will be based on 2.6.37, but I'm still in the middle
> of a major overhaul of key compononents of the patch. This overhaul is
> necessary to make progress in mainlining the missing bits and
> pieces. I hope to have it ready not too long after the 2.6.37 mainline
> release, but no promise.
>
> At this point I want to say thanks to everyone who supported the
> development of the -rt patches with testing, bugfixes, stable
> backports etc. in the last years. I hope that I can rely on your help
> for the upcoming 37 release and the ongoing effort to merge the patch
> fully into the mainline.
>
> I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
>
> Thomas
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