[PATCHSET] New Year's Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2

[PATCHSET] New Year's Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2

[J.A. Magallon]

HI, and HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody !!

New release of this kinda-hacked-kernel. Now that Andre's ide and many bugfixes
are in mainline, there is hole for more things ;)

URL: http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.21-pre2-jam2.tar.bz2
URL: http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.21-pre2-jam2/

New ones:

15-binfmt-stack.bz2
    Fix AT_PLATFORM setup in binfmt_elf for hyper-threaded cpus, so glibc
    detects correctly i686 arch.

16-mremap-use-after-free.bz2
    Fix use of vmas after freed.
    Author: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>

50-aic-20021230.bz2
51-aic-20021230-dma-fix.bz2
    AIC 7xxx (upto U160) and 79xx (U320) scsi drivers. aic7xxx is updated and
    aic79xx is a new driver.
    Author: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
    URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux

56-DAC960.bz2
    Fix for the Promise driver to work under -aa tree. Not tested (I have not
    the hardware...), so get it and break it !!
    Author: Dave Olien <dmo@osdl.org>
    URL: http://www.osdl.org/archive/dmo/DAC960_2.4.20aa1/

Pending things that I think are bugfixes, apart from 15- and 16- (Marcelo ?,
I know some are already in your -bk)

02-printk.bz2
    Kill extra declaration of printk()

03-memparam.bz2
    Fix mem=XXX kernel parameter when user gives a size bigger than what
    kernel autodetected (kill a previous change)
    Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
            Leonardo Gomes Figueira <sabbath@planetarium.com.br>

04-clone-detached.bz2
    Fix a crash that can be caused by a CLONE_DETACHED thread.
    Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

05-self_exec_id.bz2
    Fix bad signaling between threads when ancestor dies.
    Author: Zeuner, Axel <Axel.Zeuner@partner.commerzbank.com>

07-scsi-error-tmout.bz2
    Prevent endless loop in SCSI error handling.
    Author: Borzenkov Andrey <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>

08-ide-scsi-ref-count.bz2
    Fix for ide-scsi refcounting of used drivers.
    Author: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>

20-x86-split-group.bz2
    (Only last hunk)
    Add prefetch for P4

And some harmless cleanups:

10-highpage-init.bz2
    Cleanup one_highpage_init() as in 2.5.
    Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>

11-handle2dentry.bz2
    Factor out duplicated code for handle2dentry conversation.
    Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Enjoy!!

-- 
J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es>      \                 Software is like sex:
werewolf.able.es                         \           It's better when it's free
Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2 (gcc 3.2.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.1-2mdk))

Re: [PATCHSET] New Year's Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2

[Marc-Christian Petersen]

On Saturday 04 January 2003 02:22, J.A. Magallon wrote:

Hi J.A.,

> HI, and HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody !!
thanks, dito :)

> 16-mremap-use-after-free.bz2
>     Fix use of vmas after freed.
>     Author: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
nice to see this but the Author is Andrew Morton, not me :)
I just sent you this one.

ciao, Marc

Re: [PATCHSET] New Year's Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2

[Paul]

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"J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>, on Sat Jan 04, 2003 [02:22:43 AM] said:
> HI, and HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody !!
> 
> New release of this kinda-hacked-kernel. Now that Andre's ide and many bugfixes
> are in mainline, there is hole for more things ;)
> 03-memparam.bz2
>     Fix mem=XXX kernel parameter when user gives a size bigger than what
>     kernel autodetected (kill a previous change)
>     Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
>             Leonardo Gomes Figueira <sabbath@planetarium.com.br>
> 
> 
> Enjoy!!
> 
> -- 
> J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es>      \                 Software is like sex:

	Hi;

	This reversion should probably kill limit_regions()
too... as I think it eliminates the only reference to it.

Paul
set@pobox.com

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--- 2.4.20-mem/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c.orig	2003-01-03 23:08:41.000000000 -0500
+++ 2.4.20-mem/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c	2003-01-03 23:09:34.000000000 -0500
@@ -418,22 +418,6 @@
 	}
 }
 
-static void __init limit_regions (unsigned long long size)
-{
-	unsigned long long current_addr = 0;
-	int i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < e820.nr_map; i++) {
-		if (e820.map[i].type == E820_RAM) {
-			current_addr = e820.map[i].addr + e820.map[i].size;
-			if (current_addr >= size) {
-				e820.map[i].size -= current_addr-size;
-				e820.nr_map = i + 1;
-				return;
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}
 static void __init add_memory_region(unsigned long long start,
                                   unsigned long long size, int type)
 {

Re: [PATCHSET] New Year's Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2

[J.A. Magallon]

On 2003.01.04 Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Saturday 04 January 2003 02:22, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> 
> Hi J.A.,
> 
> > HI, and HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody !!
> thanks, dito :)
> 
> > 16-mremap-use-after-free.bz2
> >     Fix use of vmas after freed.
> >     Author: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
> nice to see this but the Author is Andrew Morton, not me :)
> I just sent you this one.
> 
> ciao, Marc
> 

Thanks for the info, corrected for next release...

-- 
J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es>      \                 Software is like sex:
werewolf.able.es                         \           It's better when it's free
Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.4.21-pre2-jam2 (gcc 3.2.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.1-2mdk))