Re: Linux-2.5.2

Re: Linux-2.5.2

[Wayne.Brown]

The io_request_lock problem is still present in drivers/scsi/ppa.c:

ppa.c: In function `ppa_detect':
ppa.c:131: `io_request_lock' undeclared (first use in this function)
ppa.c:131: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ppa.c:131: for each function it appears in.)
ppa.c: In function `ppa_interrupt':
ppa.c:850: `io_request_lock' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [ppa.o] Error 1

Linux-2.5.2

[Linus Torvalds]

Ok, lots of various changes between 2.5.1->2, mainly in bio, kdev_t and
scheduler (and several USB updates).

		Linus

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final:
 - Matt Domsch: combine common crc32 library
 - Pete Zaitcev: ymfpci update
 - Davide Libenzi: scheduler improvements
 - Al Viro: almost there: "struct block_device *" everywhere
 - Richard Gooch: devfs cpqarray update, race fix
 - Rusty Russell: PATH_MAX should include the final '\0' count
 - David Miller: various random updates (mainly net and sparc)

pre11:
 - Davide Libenzi, Ingo Molnar: scheduler updates
 - Greg KH: USB update
 - Jean Tourrilhes: IrDA and wireless updates
 - Jens Axboe: bio/block updates

pre10:
 - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
 - Al Viro: start moving buffer cache indexing to "struct block_device *"
 - Greg KH: USB update
 - Russell King: fix up some ARM merge issues
 - Ingo Molnar: scalable scheduler

pre9:
 - Russell King: large ARM update
 - Adam Richter et al: more kdev_t updates

pre8:
 - Greg KH: USB updates
 - various: kdev_t updates
 - Al Viro: more bread()/filesystem cleanups

pre7:
 - Jeff Garzik: fix up loop and md for struct kdev_t typechecking
 - Jeff Garzik: improved old-tulip network driver
 - Arnaldo: more scsi driver bio updates
 - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
 - various: kdev_t updates

pre6:
 - Davide Libenzi: nicer timeslices for scheduler
 - Arnaldo: wd7000 scsi driver cleanups and bio update
 - Greg KH: USB update (including initial 2.0 support)
 - me: strict typechecking on "kdev_t"

pre5:
 - Dave Jones: more merging, fix up last merge..
 - release to sync with Dave

pre4:
 - Jens Axboe: more bio updates, fix some request list bogosity under load
 - Al Viro: export seq_xxx functions
 - Manfred Spraul: include file cleanups, pc110pad compile fix
 - David Woodhouse: fix JFFS2 write error handling
 - Dave Jones: start merging up with 2.4.x patches
 - Manfred Spraul: coredump fixes, FS event counter cleanups
 - me: fix SCSI CD-ROM sectorsize BIO breakage

pre3:
 - Christoph Hellwig: scsi_register_module cleanup
 - Mikael Pettersson: apic.c LVTERR fixes
 - Russell King: ARM update (including bio update for icside)
 - Jens Axboe: more bio updates
 - Al Viro: make ready to switch bread away from kdev_t..
 - Davide Libenzi: scheduler cleanups
 - Anders Gustafsson: LVM fixes for bio
 - Richard Gooch: devfs update

pre2:
 - Al Viro: task-private namespaces, more cleanups

pre1:
 - me: revert the "kill(-1..)" change.  POSIX isn't that clear on the
   issue anyway, and the new behaviour breaks things.
 - Jens Axboe: more bio updates
 - Al Viro: rd_load cleanups. hpfs mount fix, mount cleanups
 - Ingo Molnar: more raid updates
 - Jakub Jelinek: fix Linux/x86 confusion about arg passing of "save_v86_state" and "do_signal"
 - Trond Myklebust: fix NFS client race conditions

Re: Linux-2.5.2

[Davide Libenzi]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> Ok, lots of various changes between 2.5.1->2, mainly in bio, kdev_t and
> scheduler (and several USB updates).

Linus, i've a weird behavior with 2.5.2
swapon first fails at boot ( early stage ) then it succeed ( late boot
stage ) but the swap is not actually activated. Running swapon by hand it
reports a seccessful operation but the swap is not on.
I'm trying to understand what is happening ...




- Davide

Re: Linux-2.5.2

[Paul Larson]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Linus, i've a weird behavior with 2.5.2
> swapon first fails at boot ( early stage ) then it succeed ( late boot
> stage ) but the swap is not actually activated. Running swapon by hand it
> reports a seccessful operation but the swap is not on.
> I'm trying to understand what is happening ...

I am having this problem also

# swapon /dev/hda2
swapon: /dev/hda2: Success
# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        254492      40236     214256          0       2220      22432
-/+ buffers/cache:      15584     238908
Swap:            0          0          0
#

-Paul Larson

Re: Linux-2.5.2

[Alexander Viro]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Paul Larson wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > Linus, i've a weird behavior with 2.5.2
> > swapon first fails at boot ( early stage ) then it succeed ( late boot
> > stage ) but the swap is not actually activated. Running swapon by hand it
> > reports a seccessful operation but the swap is not on.
> > I'm trying to understand what is happening ...
> 
> I am having this problem also

ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/LB38-fix-C2

Re: Linux-2.5.2

[Paul Larson]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/LB38-fix-C2
>
This patch to fix the swapon not working in 2.5.2 seems to be working fine
on my machines.

Thanks Viro!

-Paul Larson