Linux 2.4.17-rc1

Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Hi, 

I've just copied 2.4.17-rc1 to ftp.kernel.org... Its mirroring yet,
probably.

Well, I want people with the "unfreeable" buffer/cache problem to confirm
with me that 2.4.17-rc1 is working ok.

The same change which should fix that problem also should make 2.4 a bit
less "swap happy".


rc1: 

- Finish MODULE_LICENSE fixups for fs/nls 	(Mark Hymers)
- Console race fix				(Andrew Morton/Robert Love)
- Configure.help update				(Eric S. Raymond)
- Correctly fix Direct IO bug			(Linus Benedict Torvalds)
- Turn off aacraid debugging			(Alan Cox)
- Added missing spinlocking in do_loopback()	(Alexander Viro)
- Added missing __devexit_p() in i82092 
  pcmcia driver					(Keith Owens)
- ns83820 zerocopy bugfix			(Benjamin LaHaise)
- Fix VM problems where cache/buffers didn't get
  freed						(me)

pre8:

- ext3 quota fix 				(Neil Brown)
- Add __devexit_p() to ISDN driver		(Kai Germaschewski)
- Declare missing function on fdomain.h		(Eyal Lebedinsky)
- Add Sony Vaio PCG-Z600NE to broken APM 
  reporting blacklist				(Kai Germaschewski)
- ns83820 driver update				(Benjamin LaHaise)
- pas16 driver cleanup				(Alan Cox)
- disable console flush on secondary CPUs on
  IA64						(Andrew Morton)
- fix typo on parport's ChangeLog		(Tim Waugh)
- fix use count for multiple queued requests on 
  closed fd					(Douglas Gilbert)
- Check return value of get_user() on 
  set_vesa_blanking				(Jeff Garzik)
- Remove asm/segment.h include from nbd 	(Jeff Garzik)
- Guard sysrq.h against multiple inclusion 	(Jeff Garzik)
- Minor PCI skeleton changes			(Jeff Garzik)
- Add via rhine MMIO to Configure.help		(Jeff Garzik)
- Jeff Garzik is not the via82cxxx driver 
  maintainer anymore: "No time, no hardware".	(Jeff Garzik)
- Remove old tulip documentation		(Jeff Garzik)
- Avoid direct IO's "misunderstanding" of which 
  block device it should use			(Masanori Goto)
- Remove mcheck_init() call from processor
  dependant code and put it in unified codepath	(Dave Jones)
- Netfilter bugfixes				(Harald Welte)


pre7:

- More USB updates				(Greg KH)
- Add missing checks on shmat()			(Christoph Rohland)
- ymfpci update					(Pete Zaitcev)
- Add aacraid driver 				(Alan Cox)
- Actually apply some of the Alan's changes
  which were on pre6 changelog.			(silly me)
- Clean up t128 SCSI driver			(Alan Cox)
- Clean up dtc SCSI driver			(Alan Cox) 
- Undo lcall patch from -pre6			(me)
- More ISDN updates				(Kai Germaschewski)

pre6:

- ISDN fixes					(Kai Germaschewski)
- Eicon driver updates				(Kai Germaschewski)
- ymfpci update					(Pete Zaitcev)
- Fix multithread coredump deadlock		(Manfred Spraul)
- Support /dev/kmem access to vmalloc space	(Marc Boucher)
- ext3 fixes/enhancements			(Andrew Morton)	
- Add IT8172G driver to Config.in/Makefile	(Giacomo Catenazzi)
- Configure.help update				(Eric S. Raymond)
- Create __devexit_p() function and use that on 
  drivers which need it to make it possible to 
  use newer binutils				(Keith Owens) 
- Make PCMCIA compile without PCI support	(Paul Mackerras)
- Use copy_user_highpage instead copy_highpage
  on COW path.					(David S. Miller)
- Cacheline align some more performance
  critical spinlocks				(Anton Blanchard)
- sonypi driver update				(Michael C.B. Ashley/Bob Donnelly)
- direct render for some SiS cards		(Torsten Duwe/Alan Cox)
- full handling of the NFSv3 'jukebox' feature  (Trond Myklebust)
- NFS performance improvements			(Trond Myklebust)
- More parport fixes				(Tim Waugh)
- Fix lots of core NCR5380 bugs			(Alan Cox)
- NCR5380/PAS driver update			(Alan Cox)
- Add aacraid to the SCSI list			(Alan Cox)
- fdomain driver fixes				(Alan Cox)

pre5:

- 8139too fixes					(Andreas Dilger)
- sym53c8xx_2 update				(Gerard Roudier)
- loopback deadlock bugfix			(Jan Kara)
- Yet another devfs update			(Richard Gooch)	
- Enable K7 SSE					(John Clemens)
- Make grab_cache_page return NULL instead 
  ERR_PTR: callers expect NULL on failure	(Christoph Hellwig)
- Make ide-{disk-floppy} compile without 
  PROCFS support				(Robert Love)
- Another ymfpci update				(Pete Zaitcev)
- indent NCR5380.{c,h}, g_NCR5380.{c,h}, plus 
  NCR5380 fix					(Alan Cox)
- SPARC32/64 update				(David S. Miller)
- Fix atyfb warnings				(David S. Miller)
- Make bootmem init code correctly align 
  bootmem data					(David S. Miller)
- Networking updates				(David S. Miller)
- Fix scanning luns > 7 on SCSI-3 devices 	(Michael Clark)
- Add sparse lun hint for Chaparral G8324 
	Fibre-SCSI controller			(Michael Clark)
- Really apply sg changes			(me)
- Parport updates				(Tim Waugh)
- ReiserFS updates				(Vladimir V. Saveliev)
- Make AGP code scan all kinds of devices:
  they are not always video ones		(Alan Cox)
- EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS in floppy.c			(Alan Cox)
- Pentium IV Hyperthreading support		(Alan Cox)

pre4:

- Added missing tcp_diag.c and tcp_diag.h	(me)

pre3:

- Enable ppro errata workaround                 (Dave Jones)
- Update tmpfs documentation                    (Christoph Rohland)
- Fritz!PCIv2 ISDN card support                 (Kai Germaschewski)
- Really apply ymfpci changes                   (Pete Zaitcev)
- USB update                                    (Greg KH)
- Adds detection of more eepro100 cards         (Troy A. Griffitts)
- Make ftruncate64() compliant with SuS         (Andrew Morton)
- ATI64 fb driver update                        (Geert Uytterhoeven)
- Coda fixes                                    (Jan Harkes)
- devfs update                                  (Richard Gooch)
- Fix ad1848 breakage in -pre2                  (Alan Cox)
- Network updates                               (David S. Miller)
- Add cramfs locking                            (Christoph Hellwig)
- Move locking of page_table_lock on expand_stack
  before accessing any vma field                (Manfred Spraul)
- Make time monotonous with gettimeofday        (Andi Kleen)
- Add MODULE_LICENSE(GPL) to ide-tape.c         (Mikael Pettersson)
- Minor cs46xx ioctl fix                        (Thomas Woller)

pre2:

- Remove userland header from bonding driver	(David S. Miller)
- Create a SLAB for page tables on i386		(Christoph Hellwig)
- Unregister devices at shaper unload time	(David S. Miller)
- Remove several unused variables from various
  places in the kernel				(David S. Miller)
- Fix slab code to not blindly trust cc_data():
  it may be not valid on some platforms		(David S. Miller)
- Fix RTC driver bug				(David S. Miller)
- SPARC 32/64 update				(David S. Miller)
- W9966 V4L driver update			(Jakob Jemi)
- ad1848 driver fixes				(Alan Cox/Daniel T. Cobra)
- PCMCIA update					(David Hinds)
- Fix PCMCIA problem with multiple PCI busses 	(Paul Mackerras)
- Correctly free per-process signal struct	(Dave McCracken)
- IA64 PAL/signal headers cleanup		(Nathan Myers)
- ymfpci driver cleanup 			(Pete Zaitcev)
- Change NLS "licenses" to be "GPL/BSD" instead 
  only BSD.					(Robert Love)
- Fix serial module use count			(Russell King)
- Update sg to 3.1.22				(Douglas Gilbert)
- ieee1394 update				(Ben Collins)
- ReiserFS fixes				(Nikita Danilov)
- Update ACPI documentantion			(Patrick Mochel)
- Smarter atime update				(Andrew Morton)
- Correctly mark ext2 sb as dirty and sync it	(Andrew Morton) 
- IrDA update					(Jean Tourrilhes)
- Count locked buffers at
  balance_dirty_state(): Helps interactivity under
  heavy IO workloads				(Andrew Morton)
- USB update					(Greg KH)
- ide-scsi locking fix                          (Christoph Hellwig)

pre1:

- Change USB maintainer 			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
- Speeling fix for rd.c				(From Ralf Baechle's tree)
- Updated URL for bigphysmem patch in v4l docs  (Adrian Bunk)
- Add buggy 440GX to broken pirq blacklist 	(Arjan Van de Ven)
- Add new entry to Sound blaster ISAPNP list	(Arjan Van de Ven)
- Remove crap character from Configure.help	(Niels Kristian Bech Jensen)
- Backout erroneous change to lookup_exec_domain (Christoph Hellwig)
- Update osst sound driver to 1.65		(Willem Riede)
- Fix i810 sound driver problems		(Andris Pavenis)
- Add AF_LLC define in network headers		(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- block_size cleanup on some SCSI drivers	(Erik Andersen)
- Added missing MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") in some   (Andreas Krennmair)
  modules
- Add ->show_options() to super_ops and 
  implement NFS method				(Alexander Viro)
- Updated i8k driver				(Massimo Dal Zoto)
- devfs update  				(Richard Gooch)

Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Ken Brownfield]

MINOR issue.  I'm getting this under -pre8 and -rc1.  Not sure about
earlier, I only started enabling this at -pre8.  Maybe since -pre6?

# depmod -ae
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4/kernel/drivers/char/drm/sis.o
depmod:         sis_free
depmod:         sis_malloc

My .config is at http://web.irridia.com/info/linux/config".

I'm taking a look at the VM tweak ASAP.

Thanks,
-- 
Ken.
brownfld@irridia.com

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:44:16PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
| 
| Hi, 
| 
| I've just copied 2.4.17-rc1 to ftp.kernel.org... Its mirroring yet,
| probably.
| 
| Well, I want people with the "unfreeable" buffer/cache problem to confirm
| with me that 2.4.17-rc1 is working ok.
| 
| The same change which should fix that problem also should make 2.4 a bit
| less "swap happy".
| 
| 
| rc1: 
| 
| - Finish MODULE_LICENSE fixups for fs/nls 	(Mark Hymers)
| - Console race fix				(Andrew Morton/Robert Love)
| - Configure.help update				(Eric S. Raymond)
| - Correctly fix Direct IO bug			(Linus Benedict Torvalds)
| - Turn off aacraid debugging			(Alan Cox)
| - Added missing spinlocking in do_loopback()	(Alexander Viro)
| - Added missing __devexit_p() in i82092 
|   pcmcia driver					(Keith Owens)
| - ns83820 zerocopy bugfix			(Benjamin LaHaise)
| - Fix VM problems where cache/buffers didn't get
|   freed						(me)
| 
| pre8:
| 
| - ext3 quota fix 				(Neil Brown)
| - Add __devexit_p() to ISDN driver		(Kai Germaschewski)
| - Declare missing function on fdomain.h		(Eyal Lebedinsky)
| - Add Sony Vaio PCG-Z600NE to broken APM 
|   reporting blacklist				(Kai Germaschewski)
| - ns83820 driver update				(Benjamin LaHaise)
| - pas16 driver cleanup				(Alan Cox)
| - disable console flush on secondary CPUs on
|   IA64						(Andrew Morton)
| - fix typo on parport's ChangeLog		(Tim Waugh)
| - fix use count for multiple queued requests on 
|   closed fd					(Douglas Gilbert)
| - Check return value of get_user() on 
|   set_vesa_blanking				(Jeff Garzik)
| - Remove asm/segment.h include from nbd 	(Jeff Garzik)
| - Guard sysrq.h against multiple inclusion 	(Jeff Garzik)
| - Minor PCI skeleton changes			(Jeff Garzik)
| - Add via rhine MMIO to Configure.help		(Jeff Garzik)
| - Jeff Garzik is not the via82cxxx driver 
|   maintainer anymore: "No time, no hardware".	(Jeff Garzik)
| - Remove old tulip documentation		(Jeff Garzik)
| - Avoid direct IO's "misunderstanding" of which 
|   block device it should use			(Masanori Goto)
| - Remove mcheck_init() call from processor
|   dependant code and put it in unified codepath	(Dave Jones)
| - Netfilter bugfixes				(Harald Welte)
| 
| 
| pre7:
| 
| - More USB updates				(Greg KH)
| - Add missing checks on shmat()			(Christoph Rohland)
| - ymfpci update					(Pete Zaitcev)
| - Add aacraid driver 				(Alan Cox)
| - Actually apply some of the Alan's changes
|   which were on pre6 changelog.			(silly me)
| - Clean up t128 SCSI driver			(Alan Cox)
| - Clean up dtc SCSI driver			(Alan Cox) 
| - Undo lcall patch from -pre6			(me)
| - More ISDN updates				(Kai Germaschewski)
| 
| pre6:
| 
| - ISDN fixes					(Kai Germaschewski)
| - Eicon driver updates				(Kai Germaschewski)
| - ymfpci update					(Pete Zaitcev)
| - Fix multithread coredump deadlock		(Manfred Spraul)
| - Support /dev/kmem access to vmalloc space	(Marc Boucher)
| - ext3 fixes/enhancements			(Andrew Morton)	
| - Add IT8172G driver to Config.in/Makefile	(Giacomo Catenazzi)
| - Configure.help update				(Eric S. Raymond)
| - Create __devexit_p() function and use that on 
|   drivers which need it to make it possible to 
|   use newer binutils				(Keith Owens) 
| - Make PCMCIA compile without PCI support	(Paul Mackerras)
| - Use copy_user_highpage instead copy_highpage
|   on COW path.					(David S. Miller)
| - Cacheline align some more performance
|   critical spinlocks				(Anton Blanchard)
| - sonypi driver update				(Michael C.B. Ashley/Bob Donnelly)
| - direct render for some SiS cards		(Torsten Duwe/Alan Cox)
| - full handling of the NFSv3 'jukebox' feature  (Trond Myklebust)
| - NFS performance improvements			(Trond Myklebust)
| - More parport fixes				(Tim Waugh)
| - Fix lots of core NCR5380 bugs			(Alan Cox)
| - NCR5380/PAS driver update			(Alan Cox)
| - Add aacraid to the SCSI list			(Alan Cox)
| - fdomain driver fixes				(Alan Cox)
| 
| pre5:
| 
| - 8139too fixes					(Andreas Dilger)
| - sym53c8xx_2 update				(Gerard Roudier)
| - loopback deadlock bugfix			(Jan Kara)
| - Yet another devfs update			(Richard Gooch)	
| - Enable K7 SSE					(John Clemens)
| - Make grab_cache_page return NULL instead 
|   ERR_PTR: callers expect NULL on failure	(Christoph Hellwig)
| - Make ide-{disk-floppy} compile without 
|   PROCFS support				(Robert Love)
| - Another ymfpci update				(Pete Zaitcev)
| - indent NCR5380.{c,h}, g_NCR5380.{c,h}, plus 
|   NCR5380 fix					(Alan Cox)
| - SPARC32/64 update				(David S. Miller)
| - Fix atyfb warnings				(David S. Miller)
| - Make bootmem init code correctly align 
|   bootmem data					(David S. Miller)
| - Networking updates				(David S. Miller)
| - Fix scanning luns > 7 on SCSI-3 devices 	(Michael Clark)
| - Add sparse lun hint for Chaparral G8324 
| 	Fibre-SCSI controller			(Michael Clark)
| - Really apply sg changes			(me)
| - Parport updates				(Tim Waugh)
| - ReiserFS updates				(Vladimir V. Saveliev)
| - Make AGP code scan all kinds of devices:
|   they are not always video ones		(Alan Cox)
| - EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS in floppy.c			(Alan Cox)
| - Pentium IV Hyperthreading support		(Alan Cox)
| 
| pre4:
| 
| - Added missing tcp_diag.c and tcp_diag.h	(me)
| 
| pre3:
| 
| - Enable ppro errata workaround                 (Dave Jones)
| - Update tmpfs documentation                    (Christoph Rohland)
| - Fritz!PCIv2 ISDN card support                 (Kai Germaschewski)
| - Really apply ymfpci changes                   (Pete Zaitcev)
| - USB update                                    (Greg KH)
| - Adds detection of more eepro100 cards         (Troy A. Griffitts)
| - Make ftruncate64() compliant with SuS         (Andrew Morton)
| - ATI64 fb driver update                        (Geert Uytterhoeven)
| - Coda fixes                                    (Jan Harkes)
| - devfs update                                  (Richard Gooch)
| - Fix ad1848 breakage in -pre2                  (Alan Cox)
| - Network updates                               (David S. Miller)
| - Add cramfs locking                            (Christoph Hellwig)
| - Move locking of page_table_lock on expand_stack
|   before accessing any vma field                (Manfred Spraul)
| - Make time monotonous with gettimeofday        (Andi Kleen)
| - Add MODULE_LICENSE(GPL) to ide-tape.c         (Mikael Pettersson)
| - Minor cs46xx ioctl fix                        (Thomas Woller)
| 
| pre2:
| 
| - Remove userland header from bonding driver	(David S. Miller)
| - Create a SLAB for page tables on i386		(Christoph Hellwig)
| - Unregister devices at shaper unload time	(David S. Miller)
| - Remove several unused variables from various
|   places in the kernel				(David S. Miller)
| - Fix slab code to not blindly trust cc_data():
|   it may be not valid on some platforms		(David S. Miller)
| - Fix RTC driver bug				(David S. Miller)
| - SPARC 32/64 update				(David S. Miller)
| - W9966 V4L driver update			(Jakob Jemi)
| - ad1848 driver fixes				(Alan Cox/Daniel T. Cobra)
| - PCMCIA update					(David Hinds)
| - Fix PCMCIA problem with multiple PCI busses 	(Paul Mackerras)
| - Correctly free per-process signal struct	(Dave McCracken)
| - IA64 PAL/signal headers cleanup		(Nathan Myers)
| - ymfpci driver cleanup 			(Pete Zaitcev)
| - Change NLS "licenses" to be "GPL/BSD" instead 
|   only BSD.					(Robert Love)
| - Fix serial module use count			(Russell King)
| - Update sg to 3.1.22				(Douglas Gilbert)
| - ieee1394 update				(Ben Collins)
| - ReiserFS fixes				(Nikita Danilov)
| - Update ACPI documentantion			(Patrick Mochel)
| - Smarter atime update				(Andrew Morton)
| - Correctly mark ext2 sb as dirty and sync it	(Andrew Morton) 
| - IrDA update					(Jean Tourrilhes)
| - Count locked buffers at
|   balance_dirty_state(): Helps interactivity under
|   heavy IO workloads				(Andrew Morton)
| - USB update					(Greg KH)
| - ide-scsi locking fix                          (Christoph Hellwig)
| 
| pre1:
| 
| - Change USB maintainer 			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
| - Speeling fix for rd.c				(From Ralf Baechle's tree)
| - Updated URL for bigphysmem patch in v4l docs  (Adrian Bunk)
| - Add buggy 440GX to broken pirq blacklist 	(Arjan Van de Ven)
| - Add new entry to Sound blaster ISAPNP list	(Arjan Van de Ven)
| - Remove crap character from Configure.help	(Niels Kristian Bech Jensen)
| - Backout erroneous change to lookup_exec_domain (Christoph Hellwig)
| - Update osst sound driver to 1.65		(Willem Riede)
| - Fix i810 sound driver problems		(Andris Pavenis)
| - Add AF_LLC define in network headers		(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
| - block_size cleanup on some SCSI drivers	(Erik Andersen)
| - Added missing MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") in some   (Andreas Krennmair)
|   modules
| - Add ->show_options() to super_ops and 
|   implement NFS method				(Alexander Viro)
| - Updated i8k driver				(Massimo Dal Zoto)
| - devfs update  				(Richard Gooch)
| 

Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Dieter Nützel]

What about the "new" eepro100.c driver from SUN (Cobalt)?
Early 2.4.18 stuff?

Thanks,
	Dieter
-- 
Dieter Nützel
Graduate Student, Computer Science

University of Hamburg
Department of Computer Science
@home: Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de

Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Roger Larsson]

On Thursday den 13 December 2001 21.44, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just copied 2.4.17-rc1 to ftp.kernel.org... Its mirroring yet,
> probably.
>
> Well, I want people with the "unfreeable" buffer/cache problem to confirm
> with me that 2.4.17-rc1 is working ok.
>
> The same change which should fix that problem also should make 2.4 a bit
> less "swap happy".
>
>

Hi,

I have run some "files bigger than memory" (streaming) tests.
Some significant differences with earlier kernel:

* write - lowered throughput (26 MB/s => 22 MB/s)

* copy - throughput better by 2/3 (16 MB/s => 25 MB/s) !

* dbench 32 - back down to lower than 2.4.12 (due to increased fairness?)
	2.4.11				18.9 MB/s
	2.4.12				23.3 MB/s
	2.4.16				34.9 MB/s
	2.4.17-rc1			20.3 MB/s
	2.4.17-rc1 (file-readahead:1000)	24.5 MB/s
	[lets forget about them now...]

* diff - usage of "file-readahead" more than doubles efficency
	(most-kernels: 11 MB/s => 2.4.17-rc1 with readahead: 25 MB/s)

The nicest thing is that it is the first kernel where readahead tuning is not 
necessary for the copy operation.
Now it is only multiple-big-concurrent-reads that _needs_ "file-readahead"

/RogerL

-- 
Roger Larsson
Skellefteå
Sweden

Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Daniel Phillips]

On December 13, 2001 09:44 pm, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> rc1: 
> 
> - Finish MODULE_LICENSE fixups for fs/nls 	(Mark Hymers)
> - Console race fix				(Andrew Morton/Robert Love)
> - Configure.help update				(Eric S. Raymond)
> - Correctly fix Direct IO bug			(Linus Benedict Torvalds)
> - Turn off aacraid debugging			(Alan Cox)
> - Added missing spinlocking in do_loopback()	(Alexander Viro)
> - Added missing __devexit_p() in i82092 
>   pcmcia driver					(Keith Owens)
> - ns83820 zerocopy bugfix			(Benjamin LaHaise)
> - Fix VM problems where cache/buffers didn't get
>   freed						(me)

Will there be a rc2?

--
Daniel

Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[David Relson]

IMHO, 2.4.17-rc1 seems to be ready to be promoted to 2.4.17. It's passed a 
suitable "release candidate" test - available for a couple of days and 
nobody has found any major problems.

David

At 11:59 PM 12/15/01, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>On December 13, 2001 09:44 pm, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > rc1:
> >
> > - Finish MODULE_LICENSE fixups for fs/nls     (Mark Hymers)
> > - Console race fix                            (Andrew Morton/Robert Love)
> > - Configure.help update                               (Eric S. Raymond)
> > - Correctly fix Direct IO bug                 (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
> > - Turn off aacraid debugging                  (Alan Cox)
> > - Added missing spinlocking in do_loopback()  (Alexander Viro)
> > - Added missing __devexit_p() in i82092
> >   pcmcia driver                                       (Keith Owens)
> > - ns83820 zerocopy bugfix                     (Benjamin LaHaise)
> > - Fix VM problems where cache/buffers didn't get
> >   freed                                               (me)
>
>Will there be a rc2?
>
>--
>Daniel
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Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Rik van Riel]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, David Relson wrote:

> IMHO, 2.4.17-rc1 seems to be ready to be promoted to 2.4.17. It's
> passed a suitable "release candidate" test - available for a couple of
> days and nobody has found any major problems.

I guess you must have missed the deadlock with the loop
device driver, then ;)

Rik
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Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, David Relson wrote:

> IMHO, 2.4.17-rc1 seems to be ready to be promoted to 2.4.17. It's passed a
> suitable "release candidate" test - available for a couple of days and
> nobody has found any major problems.

Except for loop deadlock, sysvfs oops, and a glut of __devexit
non-compiles. Whilst the sysvfs oops shouldn't affect many, loop
is used by a lot of people, and the __devexit patches would save
us another month of debian sid users who don't bother to read archives.

regards,
Dave.

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Ed Tomlinson]

Dave Jones wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, David Relson wrote:
> 
>> IMHO, 2.4.17-rc1 seems to be ready to be promoted to 2.4.17. It's passed
>> a suitable "release candidate" test - available for a couple of days and
>> nobody has found any major problems.
> 
> Except for loop deadlock, sysvfs oops, and a glut of __devexit
> non-compiles. Whilst the sysvfs oops shouldn't affect many, loop
> is used by a lot of people, and the __devexit patches would save
> us another month of debian sid users who don't bother to read archives.

Also there are some O_DIRECT problems.  Also Chris Mason has confirmed a
opps occuring when finish_unfinished is called when remounting from ro to 
rw...

In my books this makes 2 nasties (loop, opps), 1 pita (__devexit stuff) and
2 that would nice to have working.

There are probably others.

Ed Tomlinson

Ed Tomlinson

Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[David Relson]

Rik & Dave,

(as I sheepishly wipes egg off my face), guess it's time for "rc2", not 
"final".

I guess I skipped too many lkml messages before posting mine.  'Sorry about 
that.

David

At 09:26 AM 12/16/01, Dave Jones wrote:
>On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, David Relson wrote:
>
> > IMHO, 2.4.17-rc1 seems to be ready to be promoted to 2.4.17. It's passed a
> > suitable "release candidate" test - available for a couple of days and
> > nobody has found any major problems.
>
>Except for loop deadlock, sysvfs oops, and a glut of __devexit
>non-compiles. Whilst the sysvfs oops shouldn't affect many, loop
>is used by a lot of people, and the __devexit patches would save
>us another month of debian sid users who don't bother to read archives.
>
>regards,
>Dave.
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Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[John Alvord]

You shouldn't fix every single defect, just the ones with wide
impact. Otherwise the rcX series could go on a long time. john

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, David Relson wrote:

> Rik & Dave,
> 
> (as I sheepishly wipes egg off my face), guess it's time for "rc2", not 
> "final".
> 
> I guess I skipped too many lkml messages before posting mine.  'Sorry about 
> that.
> 
> David
> 
> At 09:26 AM 12/16/01, Dave Jones wrote:
> >On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, David Relson wrote:
> >
> > > IMHO, 2.4.17-rc1 seems to be ready to be promoted to 2.4.17. It's passed a
> > > suitable "release candidate" test - available for a couple of days and
> > > nobody has found any major problems.
> >
> >Except for loop deadlock, sysvfs oops, and a glut of __devexit
> >non-compiles. Whilst the sysvfs oops shouldn't affect many, loop
> >is used by a lot of people, and the __devexit patches would save
> >us another month of debian sid users who don't bother to read archives.
> >
> >regards,
> >Dave.
> >
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Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[David Relson]

At 11:10 AM 12/16/01, John Alvord wrote:
>You shouldn't fix every single defect, just the ones with wide
>impact. Otherwise the rcX series could go on a long time. john

John,

Well said.  Fix the show stoppers in the rcX series for 2.4.17.  Leave the 
small ones for 2.4.18-preX.

... repeat above steps for 2.4.18-rcX and 2.4.19
... repeat for ...

... iterate until time for 2.6.0 :-)

David

Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[David Weinehall]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:22:53AM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> At 11:10 AM 12/16/01, John Alvord wrote:
> >You shouldn't fix every single defect, just the ones with wide
> >impact. Otherwise the rcX series could go on a long time. john
> 
> John,
> 
> Well said.  Fix the show stoppers in the rcX series for 2.4.17.  Leave the 
> small ones for 2.4.18-preX.
> 
> ... repeat above steps for 2.4.18-rcX and 2.4.19
> ... repeat for ...
> 
> ... iterate until time for 2.6.0 :-)

Uhm, hopefully the release of 2.6.0 won't mean that maintainance of
2.4.xx will cease. While it *might* be possible that 2.4.xx is bugfree
enough, some smaller fixes and driver-backports will probably still
be needed.


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Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Mario Vanoni]

IMHO integrate _please_ Andrea's patches 100%.

Dual SMP PIII550 with 1024MB memory CAS 2-2-2.

Reason: latency, <30% with Andrea.

Test: time qsbench -p 9 (Lorenzo Allegrucci):
      rc1aa1 resolves the latency in
      <30% the time with 120MB swap,
      <20% _without_ swap space present!

      time qsbench reaches 5m44.204s with rc1,
      <= 2.44.025s with rc1aa1,
      test a login in that time ..., wait Godot!

      Without swap the times are:
      <= 3m41.720s with rc1,
      <= 2m43.090s with rc1aa1.

What is better if e.g. a "qsbench" occusr,
wait 5 or 3 minutes for a response?

I run my 3xUP and 1xSMP normally _without_ swap,
all with lots of memory.

Note: this with or without 2 (two) setiathome
      24/7 on the SMP + all abitual work.
      See setiathome country Switzerland under
      Mario Vanoni, about place 87.

Kind regards

Mario, _not_ in lkml.

Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[J Sloan]

David Relson wrote:

> IMHO, 2.4.17-rc1 seems to be ready to be promoted to 2.4.17. It's passed a
> suitable "release candidate" test - available for a couple of days and
> nobody has found any major problems.

er - the loopback hangs?

cu

jjs

>
>
> David
>
> At 11:59 PM 12/15/01, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> >On December 13, 2001 09:44 pm, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > rc1:
> > >
> > > - Finish MODULE_LICENSE fixups for fs/nls     (Mark Hymers)
> > > - Console race fix                            (Andrew Morton/Robert Love)
> > > - Configure.help update                               (Eric S. Raymond)
> > > - Correctly fix Direct IO bug                 (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
> > > - Turn off aacraid debugging                  (Alan Cox)
> > > - Added missing spinlocking in do_loopback()  (Alexander Viro)
> > > - Added missing __devexit_p() in i82092
> > >   pcmcia driver                                       (Keith Owens)
> > > - ns83820 zerocopy bugfix                     (Benjamin LaHaise)
> > > - Fix VM problems where cache/buffers didn't get
> > >   freed                                               (me)
> >
> >Will there be a rc2?
> >
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Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Martin Knoblauch]

> Linux 2.4.17-rc1
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just copied 2.4.17-rc1 to ftp.kernel.org... Its mirroring yet,
> probably.
> 
> Well, I want people with the "unfreeable" buffer/cache problem to confirm
> with me that 2.4.17-rc1 is working ok.
> 
> The same change which should fix that problem also should make 2.4 a bit
> less "swap happy".
> 
Marcello,

 the system feels a bit better. This on a 320MB Toshiba notebook with
64MB swap. I have forced a complete run of "updatedb", while running
"vmware" and NetScape.

 Still swapping out, but the behaviour is [much] smoother. Not so many
"hangs" when the local disk is busy.

Martin
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Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> On December 13, 2001 09:44 pm, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > rc1: 
> > 
> > - Finish MODULE_LICENSE fixups for fs/nls 	(Mark Hymers)
> > - Console race fix				(Andrew Morton/Robert Love)
> > - Configure.help update				(Eric S. Raymond)
> > - Correctly fix Direct IO bug			(Linus Benedict Torvalds)
> > - Turn off aacraid debugging			(Alan Cox)
> > - Added missing spinlocking in do_loopback()	(Alexander Viro)
> > - Added missing __devexit_p() in i82092 
> >   pcmcia driver					(Keith Owens)
> > - ns83820 zerocopy bugfix			(Benjamin LaHaise)
> > - Fix VM problems where cache/buffers didn't get
> >   freed						(me)
> 
> Will there be a rc2?

Yes there will.

There have been reiserfs bug reports (I'm waiting for the fix for -rc2),
and I'm waiting for Richard's patch to fix a devfs update issue.

I want to test those before 2.4.17. 

Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Richard Gooch]

Marcelo Tosatti writes:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Will there be a rc2?
> 
> Yes there will.
> 
> There have been reiserfs bug reports (I'm waiting for the fix for
> -rc2), and I'm waiting for Richard's patch to fix a devfs update
> issue.

I've got the devfs patch ready, I'm just waiting for followups on bug
reports from people. I was also hoping to get feedback from Al about
the blkdev+devfs races, but he hasn't followed up. I was going to send
it to you once I've gotten those followups. But if you want to apply
the patch anyway (and thus defer some testing to -rc2), let me know
and I'll send it off to you. I'm assuming that Al's silence means he
hasn't managed to poke holes in my solution :-)

Either way, I'm pretty confident that my current patch is an
improvement, even it it doesn't fix everything.

				Regards,

					Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current:   rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Marcelo Tosatti writes:
> > On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > Will there be a rc2?
> > 
> > Yes there will.
> > 
> > There have been reiserfs bug reports (I'm waiting for the fix for
> > -rc2), and I'm waiting for Richard's patch to fix a devfs update
> > issue.
> 
> I've got the devfs patch ready, I'm just waiting for followups on bug
> reports from people. 

Ok, as soon as you get the reports from people, please send me the patch
or tell me its broken :)

Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Erik Andersen]

On Thu Dec 13, 2001 at 06:44:16PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I've just copied 2.4.17-rc1 to ftp.kernel.org... Its mirroring yet,
> probably.
> 
> Well, I want people with the "unfreeable" buffer/cache problem to confirm
> with me that 2.4.17-rc1 is working ok.
> 
> The same change which should fix that problem also should make 2.4 a bit
> less "swap happy".
> 
[---------snip-----------]
> 
> pre6:
> 
[---------snip-----------]
> - Fix lots of core NCR5380 bugs			(Alan Cox)

This fix from -pre6 broke NCR5380 so that it does not compile
when linked into the kernel (i.e.  not as a module).  This patch
fixes it.  Please apply for 2.4.17-rc2, 

 -Erik

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--- drivers/scsi.orig/g_NCR5380.c	Mon Dec 17 18:08:08 2001
+++ drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.c	Mon Dec 17 18:22:34 2001
@@ -911,41 +911,7 @@
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(isapnp, id_table);
 
 
-#ifndef MODULE
-
-static int __init do_NCR53C400_setup(char *str)
-{
-	int ints[10];
-
-	get_options(str, sizeof(ints) / sizeof(int), ints);
-	generic_NCR53C400_setup(str, ints);
-
-	return 1;
-}
-
-static int __init do_NCR53C400A_setup(char *str)
-{
-	int ints[10];
-
-	get_options(str, sizeof(ints) / sizeof(int), ints);
-	generic_NCR53C400A_setup(str, ints);
-
-	return 1;
-}
-
-static int __init do_DTC3181E_setup(char *str)
-{
-	int ints[10];
-
-	get_options(str, sizeof(ints) / sizeof(int), ints);
-	generic_DTC3181E_setup(str, ints);
-
-	return 1;
-}
-
 __setup("ncr5380=", do_NCR5380_setup);
 __setup("ncr53c400=", do_NCR53C400_setup);
 __setup("ncr53c400a=", do_NCR53C400A_setup);
 __setup("dtc3181e=", do_DTC3181E_setup);
-
-#endif

Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:


> This fix from -pre6 broke NCR5380 so that it does not compile
> when linked into the kernel (i.e.  not as a module).  This patch
> fixes it.  Please apply for 2.4.17-rc2,

This doesn't look right..

> -static int __init do_NCR53C400_setup(char *str)
> -static int __init do_NCR53C400A_setup(char *str)
> -static int __init do_DTC3181E_setup(char *str)

You nuked the functions..

>  __setup("ncr5380=", do_NCR5380_setup);
>  __setup("ncr53c400=", do_NCR53C400_setup);
>  __setup("ncr53c400a=", do_NCR53C400A_setup);
>  __setup("dtc3181e=", do_DTC3181E_setup);

But not the references to them. What error are you seeing ?

Dave.

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Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Erik Andersen]

On Tue Dec 18, 2001 at 02:38:48AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> 
> > This fix from -pre6 broke NCR5380 so that it does not compile
> > when linked into the kernel (i.e.  not as a module).  This patch
> > fixes it.  Please apply for 2.4.17-rc2,
> 
> This doesn't look right..

Sure it does, look closer.  :-)

> > -static int __init do_NCR53C400_setup(char *str)
> > -static int __init do_NCR53C400A_setup(char *str)
> > -static int __init do_DTC3181E_setup(char *str)
> 
> You nuked the functions..

Exactly.  Because there were two copies of that code, but one
copy was wrapped inside an '#ifndef MODULE' so when compiling as
a module, everything was cool.  But if you link the driver into
the kernel you would get two copies of those init funcs....

> >  __setup("ncr5380=", do_NCR5380_setup);
> >  __setup("ncr53c400=", do_NCR53C400_setup);
> >  __setup("ncr53c400a=", do_NCR53C400A_setup);
> >  __setup("dtc3181e=", do_DTC3181E_setup);
> 
> But not the references to them. What error are you seeing ?

make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi'
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o scsi_mod.o scsi.o hosts.o scsi_ioctl.o constants.o scsicam.o scsi_proc.o scsi_error.o scsi_obsolete.o scsi_queue.o scsi_lib.o scsi_merge.o scsi_dma.o scsi_scan.o scsi_syms.o
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4     -c -o g_NCR5380.o g_NCR5380.c
g_NCR5380.c:917: redefinition of `do_NCR53C400_setup'
g_NCR5380.c:230: `do_NCR53C400_setup' previously defined here
g_NCR5380.c: In function `do_NCR53C400_setup':
g_NCR5380.c:921: warning: implicit declaration of function `generic_NCR53C400_setup'
g_NCR5380.c: At top level:
g_NCR5380.c:927: redefinition of `do_NCR53C400A_setup'
g_NCR5380.c:248: `do_NCR53C400A_setup' previously defined here
g_NCR5380.c: In function `do_NCR53C400A_setup':
g_NCR5380.c:931: warning: implicit declaration of function `generic_NCR53C400A_setup'
g_NCR5380.c: At top level:
g_NCR5380.c:937: redefinition of `do_DTC3181E_setup'
g_NCR5380.c:266: `do_DTC3181E_setup' previously defined here
g_NCR5380.c: In function `do_DTC3181E_setup':
g_NCR5380.c:941: warning: implicit declaration of function `generic_DTC3181E_setup'
g_NCR5380.c: At top level:
NCR5380.c:458: warning: `NCR5380_print_phase' defined but not used
NCR5380.c:402: warning: `NCR5380_print' defined but not used
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:4585: Error: symbol `do_NCR53C400_setup' is already defined
{standard input}:4608: Error: symbol `do_NCR53C400A_setup' is already defined
{standard input}:4631: Error: symbol `do_DTC3181E_setup' is already defined
make[3]: *** [g_NCR5380.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_scsi] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers'
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2

 -Erik

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Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:

> > This doesn't look right..
> Sure it does, look closer.  :-)

Ah yes, missed the context there (and was too lazy to crossref
with the source).. apologies.

Dave.

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