ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test2/2.6.0-test2-mm5/ Lots of different things. Mainly trying to get this tree stabilised again; there has been some breakage lately. Changes since 2.6.0-test2-mm4: -execve-fixes.patch -ppc64-sections.patch -ppc64-prom-compile-fix.patch -spurious-SIGCHLD-fix.patch Merged +vmlinux-generation-fix.patch Shuffle vmlinux.lds.S around to get dependencies right. +remove-PF_READAHEAD.patch Remove PF_READAHEAD: it's not doing anything now, and it leads to bogus IO errors when we reenter the page allocator with it set. +cpumask_t-random-fixes.patch +next_cpu-fix.patch +cpumask-ppc-fixes.patch +flush_cpumask-atomicity-fix.patch NR_CPUS > BITS_PER_LONG fixes -ppc64-64-bit-mknod-fix.patch -ppc64-64-bit-ustat-fix.patch Dropped - fixed differently. +mknod64-64-bit-fix.patch Fix mknod for some 64-bit architectures +ppc-sched_clock.patch Implement sched_clock() for ppc: needed for the CPU scheduler updates +o12.3.patch +o13int.patch +o13.1int.patch Interactivity patches -remove-const-initdata.patch No longer needed. Fixes are in -linus +4g4g-wli-fixes.patch Various fixes for the 4G/4G patch +4g4g-remove-touch_all_pages.patch Remove (buggy on discontigmem) debug stuff +ppc-fixes.patch Small ppc fix +reiserfs-remount-locking-fix.patch Put the bkl back in remount code +as-no-trinary-states.patch Anticipatory scheduler tidyup. +export-lookup_create.patch hwgfs and intermezzo need it +free_all_bootmem_core-fix.patch bootmem fix for ia64 +x86_64-nmi-watchog-doc-update.patch documentation update +do_setitimer-cleanup.patch Move the declaration(s) from .c into a shared header +devfs-pty-slave-fix.patch devfs fix +nbd-race-fix.patch NBD race fix +itimer-rounding-and-resolution-fix.patch interval timer fixes +ext3-aborted-journal-fix.patch ext3 oops fix. +create-struct-irq_desc.patch typedef pain relief +rt-tasks-special-vm-treatment.patch +rt-tasks-special-vm-treatment-2.patch Give RT tasks special treatment in the VFS and VM +slab-debug-updates.patch Slab debugging improvements +matroxfb-updates.patch fb driver update +k7-mce-fix.patch Should fix the MCE exceptions on Athlons +xfs-uptodate-page-fix.patch XFS fix +standalone-elevator-noop.patch rationalise elevator_noop +large-TCQ-fix.patch Scale the rquest queues appropriately for TCQ +init_page_private.patch Initialise page->private to zero. All 172 patches: linus.patch mm.patch add -mmN to EXTRAVERSION kgdb-ga.patch kgdb stub for ia32 (George Anzinger's one) kgdb-remove-cpu_callout_map.patch kgdb: remove cpu_callout_map decls kgdb-use-ggdb.patch kgdb-ga-docco-fixes.patch kgdb doc. edits/corrections kgdb-sysrq-g-fix.patch kgdb sysrq-g fix kgdb-serial-fix.patch kgdb serial port fix kgdb-warning-fix.patch kgdbL warning fix vmlinux-generation-fix.patch Fix vmlinux.lds.s generation ax8817x-build-fix.patch ax8817x.c build fix for older gcc's remove-PF_READAHEAD.patch remove PF_READAHEAD cpumask_t-1.patch cpumask_t: allow more than BITS_PER_LONG CPUs cpumask_t fix for s390 fix cpumask_t for s390 Fix cpumask changes for x86_64 fix cpumask_t for sparc64 cpumask_t: more gcc workarounds cpumask_t gcc bug workarounds cpumask_t: build fix cpumask-mips-fix.patch cpumask: IPS fixups cpumask-arith-fix.patch cpumask: avoid using structs for NR_CPUSflags fixes awe-use-gfp_flags-braino.patch awe-fix-truncate-errors.patch async write errors: fix spurious fs truncate errors async write errors: truncate handling fixes as-remove-hash-valid-stuff.patch AS: remove hash valid stuff as-no-trinary-states.patch AS: no trinary states usercopy-might_sleep-checks.patch might_sleep() checks for usercopy functions random-locking-fixes.patch random: SMP locking random-accounting-and-sleeping-fixes.patch random: accounting and sleeping fixes panic-nmi-watchdog-fix.patch Don't trigger NMI watchdog for panic delay ide-capacity-fixes.patch ide capacity accounting and reporting fixes export-lookup_create.patch export lookup_create() free_all_bootmem_core-fix.patch fix free_all_bootmem_core for virtual memmap x86_64-nmi-watchog-doc-update.patch NMI watchdog documentation for x86-64 do_setitimer-cleanup.patch Add do_setitimer prototype to linux/time.h devfs-pty-slave-fix.patch create pty slaves in devfs nbd-race-fix.patch NBD driver: remove send/receive race for request itimer-rounding-and-resolution-fix.patch itimer resolution and rounding fixes ext3-aborted-journal-fix.patch ext3: handle aborted journals in do_get_write_access() create-struct-irq_desc.patch declare struct irq_desc rt-tasks-special-vm-treatment.patch real-time enhanced page allocator and throttling rt-tasks-special-vm-treatment-2.patch slab-debug-updates.patch slab debugging updates mtrr-hang-fix.patch Fix mtrr-related hang matroxfb-updates.patch matroxfb updates k7-mce-fix.patch athlon MCE fix xfs-uptodate-page-fix.patch fix buffer layer error at fs/buffer.c:2800 when unlinking XFS files standalone-elevator-noop.patch standalone elevator noop large-TCQ-fix.patch large TCQ fix init_page_private.patch initialise page->private 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 aio-O_SYNC-fix.patch Unify o_sync changes for aio and regular writes aio-readahead-rework.patch Unified page range readahead for aio and regular reads