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Subject2.5.59-mm9

http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.59/2.5.59-mm9/

. Adam's cleanup and cutdown of devfs has been put back in again. We
really need devfs users to test this and to report, please. (And not just
to me! I'll only bounce it to Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>
anyway)

Adam has a userspace helper app `devfs-helper' at

ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/pub/dist/device_control/devfs/

. The I/O scheduler changes here are stable now. All-round peformance is
OK.

I've been using it on the desktop for a week. Certain operations are
noticeably different; for example a big `cvs co' would previously have had
several-second stalls every 20 seconds or so. Now, things slow down but it
keeps going. I'm sure the overall runtime will be slightly increased, but
overall the decreased read latency is good.

. dcache_rcu has been put back.



Changes since 2.5.59-mm8:


-reiserfs-readpages.patch
-fadvise.patch
-auto-unplug.patch
-less-unplugging.patch
-kirq.patch
-kirq-up-fix.patch
-agp-warning-fix.patch
-prune-icache-stats.patch
-vma-file-merge.patch
-mmap-whitespace.patch
-read_cache_pages-cleanup.patch
-remove-GFP_HIGHIO.patch
-wli-11_pgd_ctor.patch
-wli-11_pgd_ctor-update.patch
-smaller-slab-batches.patch
-printk-locking.patch
-hangcheck-timer.patch
-jbd-documentation.patch
-sendfile-security-hooks.patch
-mmzone-parens.patch
-no_space_in_slabnames.patch
-remove-will_become_orphaned_pgrp.patch
-MAX_IO_APICS-ifdef.patch
-dac960-error-retry.patch
-topology-remove-underbars.patch
-put_user-warning-fix.patch
-hash-warnings.patch
-mark_inode_dirty-race.patch
-lost-tick.patch
-seq_file-page-defn.patch
-scsi-iothread.patch
-writeback-sync-cleanup.patch
-dont-wait-on-inode.patch
-unlink-latency-fix.patch
-pin_page-fix.patch
-pin_page-pmd.patch
-frlock-xtime.patch
-frlock-xtime-i386.patch
-frlock-xtime-ia64.patch
-frlock-xtime-other.patch
-seqlock.patch
-do_gettimeofday-speedup.patch
-default_idle-speedup.patch
-pte_chain_alloc-fixes.patch
-hugetlbfs-set_page_dirty.patch
-compound-pages.patch
-compound-pages-hugetlb.patch
-hugetlbfs-get_unmapped_area.patch
-hugetlbfs-truncate-fix.patch
-hugetlbfs-i_size-fix.patch
-hugetlbfs-cleanup.patch
-hugetlbfs-nopage-cleanup.patch
-hugetlbfs-fault-fix.patch
-hugetlbpage-cleanup.patch
-hugetlb_vmtruncate-fixes.patch
-hugetlb-mremap-fix.patch
-mremap-cleanup.patch
-up-spinlock-debugging.patch

Merged

+seqlock-fixes.patch

seqlock tweak

+profiler-per-cpu.patch

Use per-cpu data for the kernel profiler

+disassociate_tty-fix.patch

TTY layer race fix

+crc32-speedup.patch

Faster crc32 implementation

+report-lost-ticks.patch

Add some controls to the ia32 lost tick detector.

-scheduler-update.patch
+sched-2.5.59-F3.patch

Ingo's latest HT-aware CPU scheduler changes

+generic_file_aio_write_nolock-overflow-fix.patch

Fix huge writes on 64-bit machines.

+lockd-lockup-fix.patch

Maybe fix a knfsd deadlock

+ll_rw_block-fix.patch

Fix obscure incorrectness when ll_rw_block() is used for IS_SYNC
operations.

+rcu-stats.patch

Resusrrect RCU statistics in /proc

+dcache_rcu-fast_walk-revert.patch
+dcache_rcu-main.patch

Use RCU technology for relieving dcache_lock stress

+cyclone-fixes.patch
+enable-timer_cyclone.patch

Add support for the x440's timer

+vxfs-memleak-fix.patch

Fix a memory leak

+smalldevfs.patch

Simplified devfs

+remove-journal_try_start.patch

Remove the ext3 code which attempts to avoid blocking kswapd on
journal_start().

+dac960-range-fix.patch

DAC960 fix.

+DAC960-maintainer.patch

Add David

+sys_exit_group-warning-fix.patch

Fix a compile warning

+nforce2-support.patch

Support nforce2 IDE controllers




All 43 patches:

linus.patch

seqlock-fixes.patch

kgdb.patch

devfs-fix.patch

ptrace-flush.patch
Subject: [PATCH] ptrace on 2.5.44

buffer-debug.patch
buffer.c debugging

warn-null-wakeup.patch

htlb-2.patch
hugetlb: fix MAP_FIXED handling

ext3-truncate-ordered-pages.patch
ext3: explicitly free truncated pages

profiler-per-cpu.patch
Subject: Re: [patch] Make prof_counter use per-cpu areas patch 1/4 -- x86 arch

oprofile-p4.patch

oprofile_cpu-as-string.patch
oprofile cpu-as-string

disassociate_tty-fix.patch
Subject: [PATCH][RESEND 3] disassociate_ctty SMP fix

epoll-update.patch
epoll timeout and syscall return types ...

mandlock-oops-fix.patch
ftruncate/truncate oopses with mandatory locking

reiserfs_file_write.patch
Subject: reiserfs file_write patch

user-process-count-leak.patch
fix current->user->processes leak

misc.patch
misc fixes

numaq-ioapic-fix2.patch
NUMAQ io_apic programming fix

deadline-np-42.patch
(undescribed patch)

deadline-np-43.patch
(undescribed patch)

batch-tuning.patch
I/O scheduler tuning

starvation-by-read-fix.patch
fix starvation-by-readers in the IO scheduler

crc32-speedup.patch
crc32 improvements for 2.5

scheduler-tunables.patch
scheduler tunables

sched-2.5.59-F3.patch
HT scheduler, sched-2.5.59-F3

rml-scheduler-update2.patch
rml scheduler tree

report-lost-ticks.patch
make lost-tick detection more informative

generic_file_aio_write_nolock-overflow-fix.patch
generic_file_write() overflow fix

lockd-lockup-fix.patch
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: 2.4.20 NFS server lock-up (SMP)

ll_rw_block-fix.patch
Fix ll_rw_block() when used for data integrity

rcu-stats.patch
RCU statistics reporting

dcache_rcu-fast_walk-revert.patch
dcache_rcu: revert fast_walk code

dcache_rcu-main.patch
dcache_rcu

cyclone-fixes.patch
Cyclonetimer fixes

enable-timer_cyclone.patch
Enable timer_cyclone code

vxfs-memleak-fix.patch
fix leaks in vxfs_read_fshead()

smalldevfs.patch
smalldevfs

remove-journal_try_start.patch
ext3: Remove journal_try_start()

dac960-range-fix.patch
Subject: [PATCH] DAC960 Stanford Checker fix

DAC960-maintainer.patch
Add David Olien MAINTAINERs for DAC960

sys_exit_group-warning-fix.patch

nforce2-support.patch
nforce2 IDE support for the amd74xx driver


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