From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 12:44:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 12:44:27 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:51224 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 12:44:18 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 18:44:20 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.7pre3aa1 Message-ID: <20010707184419.I2425@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Diff between 2.4.7pre2aa1 and 2.4.7pre3aa1: --------------------------------------------------------- Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1: 00_3c59x-zerocopy-1 Only in 2.4.7pre3aa1: 00_3c59x-zerocopy-2 Right fix for enabling zerocopy on highmem kernels. (nice to have) Only in 2.4.7pre3aa1: 00_async-io-unlock-race-1 Fix possible memory corruption due a race where the page can be unlocked under us and so the bh could be unlocked as well under us. Found it in -ac. (recommended) Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1: 00_ksoftirqd-7 Only in 2.4.7pre3aa1: 00_ksoftirqd-8 Add the BUG() check, to be as strict as mainline (no functional differences for correct code). (nice to have) Only in 2.4.7pre3aa1: 00_meminfo-wraparound-1 Use long long in /proc/meminfo to avoid wrap arounds on >4G boxes. (nice to have) Only in 2.4.7pre3aa1: 00_rawio-down_read-1 Use read lock for rawio. (nice to have) Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1: 00_vm-deadlock-fix-1 Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1: 00_xircom-serial-1 Merged in mainline. Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1: 10_blkdev-pagecache-4 Only in 2.4.7pre3aa1: 40_experimental Moved the 10_blkdev-pagecache-4 patch back into the 40_experimental directory, don't apply it for production it's not ready yet, initrd is still broken (it will be fixed soon). --------------------------------------------------------- Andrea