From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:32:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:31:53 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:6418 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:31:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:31:58 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.15pre9aa1 Message-ID: <20011122213158.B1324@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i 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 This will fix the highmem machines (see the comments on the block-highmem changes for more details). Thanks to Jens for finding the main culprit. URL: ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.15pre9aa1.bz2 ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.15pre9aa1/ Only in 2.4.15pre7aa1: 00_alpha-fp-disabled-2 Better fix in mainline. Only in 2.4.15pre9aa1: 00_blkdev-close-1 Avoid synchronous fsync on close if it's not the last one. (fix from Miquel van Smoorenburg) Only in 2.4.15pre7aa1: 00_block-highmem-all-18-1.bz2 Only in 2.4.15pre9aa1: 00_block-highmem-all-18b.bz2 Latest update from Jens (fixed on critical bug). Only in 2.4.15pre9aa1: 10_block-highmem-all-18b-1 Try to be more conservative in the elevator/queuesize and better fix the -17 critical bug so that it works with discontigmem too, and fix an off-by one error that can lead to corruption in the compatibility drives as well. Only in 2.4.15pre9aa1: 00_flush_icache_range-1 Avoid cache flush on pageins on alpha (from Paul Mackerras). Only in 2.4.15pre7aa1: 00_o_direct-5 Merged in mainline. Only in 2.4.15pre7aa1: 00_rcu-poll-2 Only in 2.4.15pre9aa1: 00_rcu-poll-3 Only in 2.4.15pre7aa1: 00_rwsem-fair-24-recursive-5 Only in 2.4.15pre9aa1: 00_rwsem-fair-24-recursive-6 Only in 2.4.15pre7aa1: 10_numa-sched-13 Only in 2.4.15pre9aa1: 10_numa-sched-14 Rediffed due rejects. Only in 2.4.15pre7aa1: 10_vm-15 Only in 2.4.15pre9aa1: 10_vm-16 Some more minor tweak (in short: swap less). Only in 2.4.15pre7aa1: 60_tux-2.4.13-ac5-B1.bz2 Only in 2.4.15pre9aa1: 60_tux-2.4.15-pre9-B1.bz2 Latest update from Ingo at www.redhat.com/~mingo/. Only in 2.4.15pre7aa1: 60_tux-vfs-2 Only in 2.4.15pre9aa1: 60_tux-vfs-3 Update to the cleaner and generic d_extra_attributes needed by the new tux core. Andrea