2.5.36-mm1

Andrew Morton
2002-09-18T08:25:53Z

url: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.36/2.5.36-mm1/

A reminder that this changes /proc files. Updated top(1) and
vmstat(1) source is available at http://surriel.com/procps/

A simple coding bug in the VM has been fixed. This has increased
swapout bandwidth and halved the runtime for memset(malloc(huge_amount))
type benchmarks.

An initial version of the sard accounting patch is included.

Some VM changes which clean up some code and attempt to sort out
some undesirable dependencies between the direct-reclaim and kswapd
functions has been added.

-madvise-move.patch
-split-vma.patch
-mmap-fixes.patch
-buffer-ops-move.patch
-slab-stats.patch

Merged

+vm-mapping-fix.patch

Dumb bug.

+writev-fix.patch

Fix the bounds checking on entry to readv and writev.

+misc.patch

misc fixes

+highmem-huge-tlb.patch

Allow hugetlbpages to be allocated from highmem

+sard.patch

Extended disk accounting

+remove-gfp_nfs.patch

A little cleanup via Rustie Rustle.

+per-zone-vm.patch

kswapd-versus-direct-reclaim rework.

linus.patch
cset-1.547-to-1.565.txt.gz

scsi_hack.patch
Fix block-highmem for scsi

ext3-htree.patch
Indexed directories for ext3

spin-lock-check.patch
spinlock/rwlock checking infrastructure

rd-cleanup.patch
Cleanup and fix the ramdisk driver (doesn't work right yet)

writeback-control.patch
Cleanup and extension of the writeback paths

free_area_init-cleanup.patch
free_area_init() code cleanup

alloc_pages-cleanup.patch
alloc_pages cleanup and optimisation

statm_pgd_range-sucks.patch
Remove the pagetable walk from /proc/stat

remove-sync_thresh.patch
Remove /proc/sys/vm/dirty_sync_thresh

vm-mapping-fix.patch
shrink_list bugfix

taka-writev.patch
Speed up writev

writev-fix.patch
readv/writev bounds checking fixes

pf_nowarn.patch
Fix up the handling of PF_NOWARN

misc.patch
Misc fixlets

release_pages-speedup.patch
Reduced locking in release_pages()

highmem-huge-tlb.patch
Allocate huge TLB pages in highmem

queue-congestion.patch
Infrastructure for communicating request queue congestion to the VM

nonblocking-ext2-preread.patch
avoid ext2 inode prereads if the queue is congested

nonblocking-pdflush.patch
non-blocking writeback infrastructure, use it for pdflush

nonblocking-vm.patch
Non-blocking page reclaim

prepare_to_wait.patch
New sleep/wakeup API

vm-wakeups.patch
Use the faster wakeups in the VM and block layers

sync-helper.patch
Speed up sys_sync() against multiple spindles

slabasap.patch
Early and smarter shrinking of slabs

write-deadlock.patch
Fix the generic_file_write-from-same-mmapped-page deadlock

buddyinfo.patch
Add /proc/buddyinfo - stats on the free pages pool

free_area.patch
Remove struct free_area_struct and free_area_t, use `struct free_area'

per-node-kswapd.patch
Per-node kswapd instance

topology-api.patch
NUMA topology API

radix_tree_gang_lookup.patch
radix tree gang lookup

truncate_inode_pages.patch
truncate/invalidate_inode_pages rewrite

proc_vmstat.patch
Move the vm accounting out of /proc/stat

kswapd-reclaim-stats.patch
Add kswapd_steal to /proc/vmstat

iowait.patch
I/O wait statistics

sard.patch
SARD disk accounting

remove-gfp_nfs.patch
remove GFP_NFS

tcp-wakeups.patch
Use fast wakeups in TCP/IPV4

swapoff-deadlock.patch
Fix a tmpfs swapoff deadlock

dirty-and-uptodate.patch
page state cleanup

shmem_rename.patch
shmem_rename() directory link count fix

dirent-size.patch
tmpfs: show a non-zero size for directories

tmpfs-trivia.patch
tmpfs: small fixlets

per-zone-vm.patch
separate the kswapd and direct reclaim code paths