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DateTue, 30 Mar 2004 22:15:08 -0800
From"Martin J. Bligh" <>
Subject2.6.5-rc3-mjb1
The patchset is meant to be pretty stable, not so much a testing ground.
Main differences from mainline are:

1. Better performance & resource consumption, particularly on larger machines.
2. Diagnosis tools (kgdb, early_printk, etc).
3. Updated arch support for AMD64 + PPC64.
4. Better support for sound, especially OSS emulation over ALSA.
5. Better support for video (v4l2, bttv, ivtv).
6. Kexec support.

I'd be very interested in feedback from anyone willing to test on any 
platform, however large or small.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/2.6.5-rc3/patch-2.6.5-rc3-mjb1.bz2

Since 2.6.4-mjb1 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped)

Notes: 

Humpf. Carnage. Merging up to -rc3 was no fun at all, and lots of stuff has
temporarily dropped out until I get my act together (most visibly, 4/4 split,
filesystem AIO, and vsyscall gettimeofday).

On the upside, I've picked up Hugh's anon_mm changes ... purely because 
they're simpler than anon_vma (which is more like what I originally had
in mind).

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Now in Linus' tree:

- netpoll						Jeff Garzik / mpm
- lotsa_sds						Badari
- build_options_on_oops					Andrew Morton
- distribute_boot_allocs				Manfred Spraul



Dropped:

- 4g4g							Ingo Molnar
- 4g_zap_low_mappings					Martin Lorenz
- 4g4g_locked_copy					Dave McCracken
	Will come back as soon as I've got it merged.
- per_node_rss					Matt Dobson
	Didn't merge clean for some reason
- vgtod1						John Stultz
- vgtod2						John Stultz
- vgtod3						John Stultz
	Depended on 4/4 split to go in cleanly
- objrmap_fixes						Andrea
- ioremap						Martin / Andy Whitcroft
	Andy says he's fixed world hunger in a neater way (zone_gap)
- aio-retry					Suparna, Janet, et al.
- 4g4g-aio-hang-fix
- aio-retry-elevated-refcount
- aio-splice-runlist
- aio-wait-page
- aio-fs_read
- aio-upfront-readahead
- O_SYNC-speedup
- aio-O_SYNC
- gang_lookup_next
- aio-gang_lookup-fix
- aio-O_SYNC-short-write
- aio-read-immediate
	Filesystem AIO support ... damned if I can work out what's up here.
- schedstats						Rick Lindsley
	I need to pick up his new version. Bad Martin.
- aio_cancel_fix					Chris Mason
- aio_pipe						Chris Mason
- raw							Badari


New:

~ scheduler_2.6.5_rc3_mm1				Nick Piggin
	New version of sched_domains code from 2.6.5_rc3_mm1
+ 4k_stacks						Arjan / Dave H / bcrl
+ anon_mm2						Hugh Dickins
+ anon_mm3						Hugh Dickins
+ anon_mm4						Hugh Dickins
+ anon_mm5						Hugh Dickins
+ anon_mm6						Hugh Dickins
+ anon_mm7						Hugh Dickins
+ anon_mm8						Hugh Dickins
~ sysfs_backing_store1					Maneesh Soni
~ sysfs_backing_store2					Maneesh Soni
~ sysfs_backing_store3					Maneesh Soni
~ sysfs_backing_store4					Maneesh Soni
~ sysfs_backing_store5					Maneesh Soni
~ sysfs_backing_store6					Maneesh Soni
	Make sysfs more efficient in its usage of lowmem
	(picked up new version 0.3a)

~ ivtv						Kevin Thayer / Steven Fuerst
	Driver for ivtv (includes Hauppauge PVR 250 / 350)
	Written by Kevin Thayer, ported to 2.6 by Steven Fuerst
+ sched_tunables					R. Love / Darren Hart
	Provide sched tunables to play with on a rainy day.
+ zone_gap						Andy Whitcroft
	Fix up the gap between ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_HIGHMEM on NUMA.
+ max_mp_busses						James Cleverdon
	Increase MAX_MP_BUSSES

Pending:
4/4 split
vsyscall gettimeofday
per_node_rss
implicit_huge_pages
hugetlb_dyn_as
schedstats
local_balance_exec
reluctance in cross-node balance (less_bouncy)
sched tunables patch
emulex update
NUMA membinding API
x86_64 update
config_numasched
sched tunables (reinstante)
list_of_lists
Child runs first (akpm)
Netdump

Present in this patch:

-mjb						Martin J. Bligh
	Add a tag to the makefile

kgdb						Various
	Stolen from akpm's 2.6.0-mm1, includes fixes

kgdboe_netpoll					Matt Mackall et al.
	Kgdb over ethernet support that works with the netpoll infrastructure

kgdboe_build_fix				Andrew Morton
	Fix kgdboe stuff so non-ia32 platforms build

kgdb_x86_64					Jim Houston
	Support kgdb on x86_64

kgdb_gdb6_patches				Jim Houston
	Patches for gdb to support kgdb on x86_64, under scripts/kgdb/

ppc64_reloc_hide				Anton Blanchard / Paul Mackerras
	PPC 64 fixups

spinlock_inlining				Andrew Morton & Martin J. Bligh
	Inline spinlocks for profiling. Made into a ugly config option by me.

lockmeter					John Hawkes / Hanna Linder
	Locking stats.

lockmeter_ia64					Ray Bryant
	Add a config option for lockmeter on ia64

oops_dump_preceding_code			Andrew Morton
	dump opcodes preceding and after the offending EIP.

scheduler_2.6.5_rc3_mm1				Nick Piggin
	sched_domains code

4k_stacks					Arjan / Dave H / bcrl
	Provide an option to use 4k kernel stacks instead of 8k

confighz					Andrew Morton / Dave Hansen
	Make HZ a config option of 100 Hz or 1000 Hz

config_page_offset				Dave Hansen / Andrea
	Make PAGE_OFFSET a config option

numameminfo					Martin Bligh / Keith Mannthey
	Expose NUMA meminfo information under /proc/meminfo.numa

partial_objrmap					Dave McCracken
	Object based rmap for filebacked pages.

anon_mm2					Hugh Dickins
anon_mm3					Hugh Dickins
anon_mm4					Hugh Dickins
anon_mm5					Hugh Dickins
anon_mm6					Hugh Dickins
anon_mm7					Hugh Dickins
anon_mm8					Hugh Dickins
	Object based rmap for anonymous memory

disable preempt					Martin J. Bligh
	I broke preempt somehow, temporarily disable it to stop accidents

aiofix2						Mingming Cao
	fixed a bug in ioctx_alloc()

percpu_real_loadavg				Dave Hansen / Martin J. Bligh
	Tell me what the real load average is, and tell me per cpu.

gfp_node_strict					Dave Hansen
	Add a node strict binding as a gfp mask option

irqbal_fast					Adam Litke
	Balance IRQs more readily

kcg						Adam Litke
	Acylic call graphs from the kernel. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
kcg_gcc_detect					Adam Litke
	Detect older gcc versions that don't work with mcount, and crap out

numa_mem_equals 				Dave Hansen
	mem= command line parameter NUMA awareness.

autoswap					Con Kolivas
	Auto-tune swapiness

emulex driver					Emulex
	Driver for emulex fiberchannel cards

multiple_emulex					Mike Anderson
	Allow multiple Emulex cards

protocol254					Paul Mackerras / Omkhar 
	Allow protocol 254

slabtune					Dave McCracken
	Take slab in bigger bites on larger machines

topdown						Bill Irwin
	Turn userspace upside down for fun & profit

stacktrace					Adam Litke
	Stack backtracing via frame pointers

fasync_lock_rcu					Manfred Spraul
	Use RCU for fasync_lock

kexec						Eric Biederman et al.
	Exec a kernel for breakfast today.

lockmeter_notsc					Martin J. Bligh
	Lockmeter does not require CONFIG_X86_TSC.

tiocgdev						Gerd Knorr

vma_statistics						Martin J. Bligh
	Provide per VMA stats

per_task_TUB						Adam Litke
	Per task TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE

irq_vector						James Cleverdon
	Fix irq vector limits for Summit

ivtv						Kevin Thayer / Steven Fuerst
	Driver for ivtv (includes Hauppauge PVR 250 / 350)
	Written by Kevin Thayer, ported to 2.6 by Steven Fuerst
	Version 0.1.9

sysfs_backing_store1					Maneesh Soni
sysfs_backing_store2					Maneesh Soni
sysfs_backing_store3					Maneesh Soni
sysfs_backing_store4					Maneesh Soni
sysfs_backing_store5					Maneesh Soni
sysfs_backing_store6					Maneesh Soni
	Make sysfs more efficient in its usage of lowmem

physnode_map						Martin J. Bligh
	Hack around problem of missing area in physnode_map

sched_tunables						R. Love / Darren Hart
	Provide sched tunables to play with on a rainy day.

zone_gap						Andy Whitcroft
	Fix up the gap between ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_HIGHMEM on NUMA.

max_mp_busses						James Cleverdon
	Increase MAX_MP_BUSSES


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