ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.73/2.5.73-mm3/ . The ext2 "free inodes corrupted" problem which Martin saw should be fixed. . The ext3 assertion failure which Maneesh hit should be fixed (I can't reproduce this, please retest?) . A patch from Neil which will hopefully fix the RAID "bio too big" bug. Neil cannot reproduce that, so we are asking anyone who _can_ make this happen to test this out. . The weird behaviour with time-n-date on SpeedStep machines should be fixed. Some of the weird behaviour, at least. . A tweak to the oom killer here may cause earlier oom-killings. I was able to trigger just the one. Keep an eye on that please. And on a personal note: The OSDL will now be sponsoring my kernel work at Digeo. This means that I shall become akpm@osdl.org. akpm@digeo.com still will work. Many thanks to the OSDL and Digeo teams who put this together. Changes since 2.5.73-mm2: -handle-no-readpage-2.patch -pppoe-revert.patch -ppc64-fixes-2.patch -ppc64-bat-initialisation-fix.patch -reiserfs-unmapped-buffer-fix.patch -pcmcia-event-20030623-1.patch -pcmcia-event-20030623-2.patch -pcmcia-event-20030623-3.patch -pcmcia-event-20030623-4.patch -pcmcia-event-20030623-5.patch -pcmcia-event-20030623-6.patch -sym2-bus_addr-fix.patch -lost-tick-speedstep-fix.patch -sym2-remove-broken-bios-check.patch -syslog-efault-reporting.patch -dvd-ram-rw-fix.patch -mixcomwd-update.patch -arc-rimi-race-fix.patch -slab-drain-all-objects-fix.patch -ext3-remove-version.patch -cdrom-eject-hang-fix.patch Merged -numa-memory-reporting-fix.patch +numa-memory-reporting-fix-2.patch Updated +ramfs-use-generic_file_llseek.patch +inode_change_ok-remove-lock_kernel.patch +nommu-vmtruncate-no_lock_kernel.patch +proc-lock_kernel-removal.patch +fops-flush-no-lock_kernel.patch +block_llseek-no-lock_kernel.patch lock_kernel()ectomy +intel8x0-cleanup.patch Small driver cleanup +TC35815-config-fix.patch Build fix +CLONE_DETACHED-exit-fix.patch Report CLONE_DETACHED threads to gdb +bio-too-big-fix.patch Might fix the RAID "bio too big" problems. -linux-isp.patch -isp-update-1.patch -isp-remove-pci_detect.patch -feral-fix.patch +linux-isp-2.patch Slightly updated feral qlogic driver. +aio-dio-no-readahead.patch Don't do readahead for AIO-over-direct-io +nbd-ioctl-compat.patch NBD userspace compatibility. -rename-timer.patch +rename-timer-A1.patch +lost-tick-speedstep-fix-A1.patch +lost-tick-corner-fix-A0.patch Updated timer patches. Mainly for addressing odd behaviour on SpeedStep machines. -init_timer-debug-trap.patch Dropped due to lack of interest. +ext2_new_inode-race-fix.patch Fix a race which causes ext2 to bogusly claim that the free inodes count was corrupted. +oomkill-if-free-swap.patch Remove bogus test in the oom-killer. +exec_mmap-is-the-point-of-no-return.patch Fix execve() bug +double-mmdrop-fix.patch Fix another execve() bug +cciss-hang-fix.patch cciss fix +journal_release_buffer-race-fix.patch Fix ext3 assertion failure (?) All 133 patches: linus.patch mm.patch add -mmN to EXTRAVERSION kgdb-ga.patch kgdb stub for ia32 (George Anzinger's one) kgdb-use-ggdb.patch kgdb-ga-docco-fixes.patch kgdb doc. edits/corrections HZ-100.patch config_spinline.patch uninline spinlocks for profiling accuracy. ppc64-pci-update.patch ppc64-reloc_hide.patch ppc64-semaphore-reimplementation.patch ppc64: use the ia32 semaphore implementation sym-do-160.patch make the SYM driver do 160 MB/sec x86_64-fixes.patch x86_64 fixes irqreturn-snd-via-fix.patch via sound irqreturn fix config-PAGE_OFFSET.patch Configurable kenrel/user memory split lru_cache_add-check.patch lru_cache_add debug check delay-ksoftirqd-fallback.patch Try harded in IRQ context before falling back to ksoftirqd fb-image-depth-fix.patch fbdev image depth fix move_vma-VM_LOCKED-fix.patch move_vma() make_pages_present() fix ds-09-vicam-usercopy-fix.patch vicam usercopy fix buffer-debug.patch buffer.c debugging e100-use-after-free-fix.patch 3-unmap-page-debugging.patch page unmappng debug patch VM_RESERVED-check.patch VM_RESERVED check ipcsem-speedup.patch ipc semaphore optimization rcu-stats.patch RCU statistics reporting mtrr-hang-fix.patch Fix mtrr-related hang reslabify-pgds-and-pmds.patch re-slabify i386 pgd's and pmd's numa-memory-reporting-fix-2.patch NUMA mamory reporting fix ramfs-use-generic_file_llseek.patch ramfs: use ramfs-use-generic_file_llseek inode_change_ok-remove-lock_kernel.patch inode_change_ok(): remove lock_kernel() nommu-vmtruncate-no_lock_kernel.patch nommu vmtruncate: remove lock_kernel() proc-lock_kernel-removal.patch procfs: remove some unneeded lock_kernel()s fops-flush-no-lock_kernel.patch remove lock_kernel() from file_ops.flush() block_llseek-no-lock_kernel.patch block_llseek(): remove lock_kernel() intel8x0-cleanup.patch intel8x0 cleanups TC35815-config-fix.patch Make CONFIG_TC35815 depend on CONFIG_TOSHIBA_JMR3927 CLONE_DETACHED-exit-fix.patch Report detached thread exit to the debugger bio-too-big-fix.patch Fix raid "bio too big" failures linux-isp-2.patch list_del-debug.patch list_del debug check airo-schedule-fix.patch airo.c: don't sleep in atomic regions 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: pgbench improvement AS: discrete read fifo batches AS sync/async batches AS: hash removal fix AS jumbo patch (for SCSI and TCQ) AS: fix stupid thinko AS: no batch-antic-limit AS: autotune write batches AS: divide by zero fix AS: more HZ != 1000 fixes AS: update_write_batch tuning AS locking AS HZ fixes as-double-free-and-debug.patch AS: fix a leak + more debugging as-fix-seek-estimation.patch AS: maybe repair performance drop of random read O_DIRECT as-fix-seeky-loads.patch AS: fix IBM's seek load unplug-use-kblockd.patch Use kblockd for running request queues per-queue-nr_requests.patch per queue nr_requests blk-invert-watermarks.patch blk_congestion_wait threshold cleanup blk-as-hint.patch blk-as-hint get_request_wait-oom-fix.patch handle OOM in get_request_wait(). blk-fair-batches.patch blk-fair-batches blk-fair-batches-2.patch blk fair batches #2 generic-io-contexts.patch generic io contexts blk-request-batching.patch block request batching get_io_context-fix.patch get_io_context fixes blk-allocation-commentary.patch block allocation comments blk-batching-throttle-fix.patch blk batch requests fix blk-batching-cleanups.patch block batching cleanups print-build-options-on-oops.patch print a few config options on oops mmap-prefault.patch prefault of executable mmaps bio-debug-trap.patch BIO debugging patch sound-irq-hack.patch 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 oops-dump-preceding-code.patch i386 oops output: dump preceding code lockmeter.patch invalidate_mmap_range.patch Interface to invalidate regions of mmaps aio-mm-refcounting-fix.patch fix /proc mm_struct refcounting bug aio-01-retry.patch AIO: Core retry infrastructure io_submit_one-EINVAL-fix.patch Fix aio process hang on EINVAL 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-05-fs_write-fix.patch aio-06-bread_wq.patch AIO: Async block read aio-06-bread_wq-fix.patch aio-07-ext2getblk_wq.patch AIO: Async get block for ext2 O_SYNC-speedup-2.patch speed up O_SYNC writes aio-09-o_sync.patch aio O_SYNC aio-10-BUG-fix.patch AIO: fix a BUG aio-11-workqueue-flush.patch AIO: flush workqueues before destroying ioctx'es aio-12-readahead.patch AIO: readahead fixes aio-dio-no-readahead.patch aio O_DIRECT no readahead lock_buffer_wq-fix.patch lock_buffer_wq fix unuse_mm-locked.patch AIO: hold the context lock across unuse_mm aio-take-task_lock.patch From: Suparna Bhattacharya Subject: Re: 2.5.72-mm1 - Under heavy testing with AIO,.. vmstat seems to blow the kernel vfsmount_lock.patch From: Maneesh Soni Subject: [patch 1/2] vfsmount_lock sched-hot-balancing-fix.patch fix for CPU scheduler load distribution truncate-pagefault-race-fix.patch Fix vmtruncate race and distributed filesystem race truncate-pagefault-race-fix-fix.patch Make sure truncate fix has no race sleepometer.patch sleep instrumentation time-goes-backwards.patch demonstrate do_gettimeofday() going backwards skip-apic-ids-on-boot.patch skip apicids on boot printk-oops-mangle-fix.patch disentangle printk's whilst oopsing on SMP 20-odirect_enable.patch 21-odirect_cruft.patch 22-read_proc.patch 23-write_proc.patch 24-commit_proc.patch 25-odirect.patch nfs-O_DIRECT-always-enabled.patch Force CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO seqcount-locking.patch i_size atomic access: infrastructure i_size-atomic-access.patch i_size atomic access aha152x-oops-fix.patch aha152X oops fixes security_vm_enough_memory.patch Security hook for vm_enough_memory nbd-cleanups.patch NBD: cosmetic cleanups nbd-enhanced-diagnostics.patch nbd: enhanced diagnostics support nbd-remove-blksize-bits.patch nbd: remove unneeded blksize_bits field nbd-kobject-oops-fix.patch nbd: initialise the embedded kobject nbd-paranioa-cleanups.patch nbd: cleanup PARANOIA usage & code nbd-locking-fixes.patch nbd: fix locking issues with ioctl UI nbd-ioctl-compat.patch nbd: add compatibility with previous ioctl user interface rename-timer-A1.patch timer renaming and cleanups lost-tick-speedstep-fix-A1.patch fix lost_tick detector for speedstep lost-tick-corner-fix-A0.patch fix lost-tick compensation corner-case lowmem_page_address-cleanup.patch cleanup and generalise lowmem_page_address acpismp-fix.patch ACPI_HT_ONLY acpismp=force div64-cleanup.patch Kill div64.h dupes and parenthesize do_div() parameters ext2_new_inode-race-fix.patch ext2: inode allocation race fix oomkill-if-free-swap.patch Don't skip oomkilling if there's free swap exec_mmap-is-the-point-of-no-return.patch after exec_mmap(), exec cannot fail double-mmdrop-fix.patch fix double mmdrop() on exec path cciss-hang-fix.patch cciss: fix io hang journal_release_buffer-race-fix.patch ext3: fix journal_release_buffer() race