ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.69/2.5.69-mm7/ . Included most of the new AIO code which has been floating about. This all still needs considerable thought and review, but we may as well get it under test immediately. . Lots of little fixes, as usual. Changes since 2.5.69-mm6: -stanford-crypto-fixes.patch Merged +ipv6-compile-fix.patch Build fix +sysfs_create_link-fix.patch buffer overrun fix +genarch_clustered_io_apic.patch build fix +voyager_callout.patch cleanup +sound-core-memalloc-build-fix.patch build fix +ppp-warning-fix.patch runtime warning fix +slab-magazine-tuning.patch +slabinfo-rework.patch slab magazine-layer rework. +aio-random-cleanups.patch minor AIO cleanups. +apm-module-fix.patch Fix CONFIG_APM=m +readdir-return-value-fix.patch Return EFAULT correctly from readdir +resurrect-batch_requests.patch bring back request batching in the block layer +proc-pid-attr-fix.patch security stuff +time-interpolation-infrastructure.patch +time-interpolation-infrastructure-fix.patch Infrastructure to stop gettimeofday from going backwards when interrupts are blocked for a long time. +bttv-compile-fix.patch Build fix +vt8237.patch Additional IDE support +aio-01-retry.patch +aio-01-retry-cleanup.patch +aio-02-lockpage_wq.patch +aio-03-fs_read.patch +aio-04-buffer_wq.patch +aio-05-fs_write.patch +aio-06-bread_wq.patch +aio-07-ext2getblk_wq.patch AIO enhancements +aio-poll.patch +aio-poll-cleanup.patch AIO poll +via-agp-fix.patch AGP fix for VIA components +DAC960-oops-fix.patch oops fix +overcommit-root-margin.patch Give root some protectionin the memory overcommit code +rpc-ifdef-fix.patch typo fix +notify_count-for-de_thread.patch thread exit race fix +it87-memset-fix.patch oops fix +extend-check_valid_hugepage_range.patch cleanup, basis for ppc64 hugepage support. All 141 patches: linus.patch mm.patch add -mmN to EXTRAVERSION kgdb-ga.patch kgdb stub for ia32 (George Anzinger's one) ipv6-compile-fix.patch ipv6/route: fix .dst.metrics struct init for ip6_null_entry sysfs_create_link-fix.patch sysfs_create_link() fix subarch-circular-dependency-fix.patch ia32 subarch circular dependency fix genarch_clustered_io_apic.patch genarch cpu_mask_to_apicid fix voyager_callout.patch voyager cpu_callout_map fix sound-core-memalloc-build-fix.patch soubd/core/memalloc.c needs mm.h ppp-warning-fix.patch ppp warning fix irqreturn-drivers-net.patch slab-magazine-layer.patch magazine layer for slab slab-magazine-tuning.patch tuning for slab-magazine-layer.patch slabinfo-rework.patch new statistics for slab aio-random-cleanups.patch config_spinline.patch uninline spinlocks for profiling accuracy. ppc64-ioctl-pci-update.patch From: Anton Blanchard Subject: ppc64 stuff ppc64-reloc_hide.patch ppc64-aio-32bit-emulation.patch 32/64bit emulation for aio ppc64-scruffiness.patch Fix some PPC64 compile warnings ppc64-xics-irq-fix.patch PPC64 irq return fix sym-do-160.patch make the SYM driver do 160 MB/sec irqreturn-snd-via-fix.patch via sound irqreturn fix irq_cpustat-cleanup.patch irq_cpustat cleanup config-PAGE_OFFSET.patch Configurable kenrel/user memory split misc.patch Misc fixes large-dma_addr_t-PAE-only.patch 64-bit dma_addr_t is only needed with PAE irq-check-rate-limit.patch IRQs: handle bad return values from handlers irq_desc-others.patch Fix up irq_desc initialisation for non-ia32 dcache_lock-vs-tasklist_lock-take-3.patch Fix dcache_lock/tasklist_lock ranking bug buffer-debug.patch buffer.c debugging ext3-truncate-ordered-pages.patch ext3: explicitly free truncated pages 3c59x-irq-fix.patch VM_RESERVED-check.patch VM_RESERVED check reiserfs-multiple-block-insertion.patch reiserfs: allow multiple block insertion into the tree reiserfs_file_write-6.patch reiserfs: reiserfs_file_write implementation reiserfs-inode-attribute-support.patch reiserfs: inode attributes support. apm-module-fix.patch fix CONFIG_APM=m rcu-stats.patch RCU statistics reporting ext3-journalled-data-assertion-fix.patch Remove incorrect assertion from ext3 make-KOBJ_NAME-match-BUS_ID_SIZE.patch Make KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE xirc2ps_cs-irqreturn-fix.patch xirc2ps_cs irq return fix ide_setting_sem-fix.patch readdir-return-value-fix.patch Fix readdir error return value reslabify-pgds-and-pmds.patch re-slabify i386 pgd's and pmd's linux-isp.patch isp-update-1.patch list_del-debug.patch list_del debug check airo-schedule-fix.patch airo.c: don't sleep in atomic regions synaptics-mouse-support.patch Add Synaptics touchpad tweaking to psmouse driver inode-unhashing-fix-2.patch Don't remove inode from hash until filesystem has deleted it resurrect-batch_requests.patch bring back the batch_requests function kblockd.patch Create `kblockd' workqueue cfq-infrastructure.patch elevator-completion-api.patch elevator completion API as-iosched.patch anticipatory I/O scheduler as-proc-read-write.patch AS: pgbench improvement as-discrete-read-fifo-batches.patch AS: discrete read fifo batches unplug-use-kblockd.patch Use kblockd for running request queues cfq-2.patch CFQ scheduler, #2 cfq-iosched-dyn.patch CFQ: update to rq-dyn API unmap-page-debugging.patch unmap unused pages for debugging fremap-all-mappings.patch Make all executable mappings be nonlinear sched-2.5.68-B2.patch HT scheduler, sched-2.5.68-B2 sched-numa-warning-fix.patch scheduler warning fix for NUMA sched_idle-typo-fix.patch fix sched_idle typo kgdb-ga-idle-fix.patch acpi-irq-ret-fix.patch acpi irq return value fix sound-irq-hack.patch vmtruncate-PAGE_SIZE-fix.patch Fix for latent bug in vmtruncate() sched-2.5.64-D3.patch sched-2.5.64-D3, more interactivity changes show_task-free-stack-fix.patch show_task() fix and cleanup put_task_struct-debug.patch ia32-mknod64.patch mknod64 for ia32 ext2-64-bit-special-inodes.patch ext2: support for 64-bit device nodes ext3-64-bit-special-inodes.patch ext3: support for 64-bit device nodes 64-bit-dev_t-kdev_t.patch 64-bit dev_t and kdev_t tty-64-bit-dev_t-warning-fix.patch tty layer 64-bit dev_t printk warning fix oops-dump-preceding-code.patch i386 oops output: dump preceding code lockmeter.patch security-process-attribute-api.patch Process Attribute API for Security Modules proc-pid-attr-fix.patch Process Attribute API for Security Modules (fixlet) proc-pid-security-labels.patch /proc/pid inode security labels time-interpolation-infrastructure.patch improved core support for time-interpolation time-interpolation-infrastructure-fix.patch make timer interpolation patch compile thread-info-in-task_struct.patch allow thread_info to be allocated as part of task_struct reinstate-task-freeing-hack-for-ia64.patch reinstate lame task_struct (non)-refcounting hack/fix ext3-no-bkl.patch journal_dirty_metadata-speedup.patch journal_get_write_access-speedup.patch ext3-concurrent-block-inode-allocation.patch Subject: [PATCH] concurrent block/inode allocation for EXT3 ext3-orlov-approx-counter-fix.patch Fix orlov allocator boundary case ext3-concurrent-block-allocation-fix-1.patch ext3-concurrent-block-allocation-hashed.patch Subject: Re: [PATCH] concurrent block/inode allocation for EXT3 reboot_on_bsp.patch kexec-revert-NORET_TYPE.patch apic_shutdown.patch i8259-shutdown.patch hwfixes-x86kexec.patch kexec-warning-fixes-2.patch v4l-1.patch v4l: #1 - video-buf update v4l-2.patch v4l: #2 - v4l1-compat update v4l-3.patch v4l: #3 - bttv driver update v4l-4.patch v4l: #4 - bttv docmentation update v4l-5.patch v4l: #5 - i2c module updates. v4l-6.patch v4l: #6 - tuner module update v4l-7.patch v4l: #7 - saa7134 driver update bttv-compile-fix.patch fix tuner.c and tda9887.c radeon-fb-64-bit-fix.patch radeonfb.c 64-bit fixes aic-errno-removal.patch aic7xxx build fix aic-non-i386-build-fix.patch aic7xxx non-i386 build fix aic7xxx-fixes.patch CONFIG_FUTEX.patch FUTEX support should be optional CONFIG_EPOLL.patch eventpollfs configuration option cs4281-cleanup.patch use %p to print pointers in cs4281 stanford-memcy-size-fixes.patch memcpy/memset fixes invalidate_mmap_range.patch Interface to invalidate regions of mmaps BUG-to_BUG_ON.patch BUG() -> BUG_ON() conversions. 3c59x-id.patch 3c59x: add support for 3c905B-T4, 3C920B-EMB-WNM suspend-asm-fix.patch CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP compile fix handle-sparse-physical-apid-ids.patch fix handling of spares physical APIC ids put_page_testzero-fix.patch put_page_testzero() fix devpts-xattr-handler.patch devpts xattr handler for security labels 2.5.69-bk unregister_netdev-cleanup.patch vt8237.patch vt8237 IDE support aio-01-retry.patch AIO: Core retry infrastructure aio-01-retry-cleanup.patch aio trivia aio-02-lockpage_wq.patch AIO: Async page wait aio-03-fs_read.patch AIO: Filesystem aio read aio-04-buffer_wq.patch AIO: Async buffer wait aio-05-fs_write.patch AIO: Filesystem aio write aio-06-bread_wq.patch AIO: Async block read aio-07-ext2getblk_wq.patch AIO: Async get block for ext2 aio-poll.patch aio_poll aio-poll-cleanup.patch aio-poll: don't put extern decls in .c! via-agp-fix.patch Subject: Re: Kernel oops on boot with 2.5.69-mm{5,6} DAC960-oops-fix.patch DAC960 oops fix overcommit-root-margin.patch overcommit root margin rpc-ifdef-fix.patch net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c typo fix notify_count-for-de_thread.patch add notify_count for de_thread it87-memset-fix.patch it87 oopos fix extend-check_valid_hugepage_range.patch rename and extend check_valid_hugepage_range()