ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test8/2.6.0-test8-mm1 . Included a much updated fbdev patch. Anyone who is using framebuffers, please test this. . Quite a large number of stability fixes. Changes since 2.6.0-test7-mm1: -RD0-initrd-B6.patch -sjcd-usercopy-checks.patch -might_sleep-vs-jiffies-wrap.patch -selinux-add-policyvers.patch -mandocs-case-fix.patch -swapon-handle-no-readpage.patch -reiserfs-url-fixes.patch -numaq-mpc-warning-fix.patch -invalidate_inodes-speedup.patch -invalidate_inodes-speedup-fixes.patch -ide-piix-fallback-fix.patch -ext3-i_disksize-locking-fix.patch -applicom-fixes.patch -acl-signedness-fix.patch -saa7134-build-fix.patch -ide-write-barrier-support.patch -jbd-barrier-selection.patch Merged -vma-split-truncate-race-fix.patch -vma-split-truncate-race-fix-tweaks.patch +vma-split-truncate-race-fix-2.patch Fix a race between vma_split() and truncation (rebased to Linus's tree) +devfs-initrd-fix.patch Fix initrd when devfs is in use -ppc64-semaphore-reimplementation.patch Dropped; it didn't solve the starvation problems anyway. -ppc64-sym2-fix.patch No longer needed. -cursor-flashing-fix.patch -radeonfb-line_length-fix.patch Fixed in fbdev.patch +fbdev-restore-pci-ids.patch Fix AGP compilation. +limit_regions-syncup.patch Backport 2.4's ia32 "mem=" fix. +ia32-efi-asm-warning-fix.patch +ia32-efi-support-mem-equals-fix.patch +efi-constant-sizing-fix.patch More fixes for the EFI patch. +fix-sqrt.patch Fix int_sqrt(). scale-min_free_kbytes.patch Fixed version. +cdrom-allocation-try-harder.patch Avoid order-4 memory allocations failures when opening CDROM devices. +atp870u-oops-fix.patch Fix an init-time oops in this driver. +tmpfs-01-ENAMETOOLONG.patch +tmpfs-02-gid-fix.patch +tmpfs-03-swapoff-truncate-race.patch +tmpfs-04-getpage-truncate-race.patch +tmpfs-05-writepage-truncate-race.patch +tmpfs-06-i_size_write.patch +tmpfs-07-write-mark_page_accessed.patch tmpfs fixes. +quota-locking-fix.patch Quota deadlock fix. +export-system_running.patch +might_sleep-early-bogons.patch Stomp all the early might_sleep() warnings. +constant_test_bit-doesnt-like-zwanes-gcc.patch Workaround a gcc bug. +slab-leak-detector.patch +slab-leak-detector-tweaks.patch A slab debugging tool for finding memory leaks: do echo "slab-name 0 0 0" > /proc/slabinfo and the kernel will inspect each live object in that cache and will print out the code address from which the allocation was performed. +digi_accelport-oops-fix.patch Fix an oops in this driver. +microcode-build-fix.patch Microcode compile fix +early-serial-registration-fix.patch Fix crashes with early printk console registration. +mtd-warning-fixes.patch Fix a couple of warnings. +early_serial_setup-range-check.patch Another early printk fix. +elf-verify-interpreter-arch.patch Additional checks when loading ELF interpreters. +journal_write_metadata_buffer-kfree-fix.patch Fix kfree of an incorrect address. +jbd-leak-fix.patch Fix ext3 memory leak. +kmem_freepages-BUG-fix.patch Fix a BUG which can strike in slab. +register_cpu-fix.patch Dunno what this does really. Someone want to send me a decent changelog for once? +elv-select.patch Runtime selectable I/O schedulers. +elv-init-cleanup.patch Elevator initialisation cleanups. +bluetooth-no-procfs-fix.patch Fix bluetooth compile with CONFIG_PROCFS=n +gcc-Os.patch Compile with -Os +printk-handle-bad-pointers.patch Make printk kinder when passed nearly-NULL pointers. +kcapi-build-fix.patch ISDN compile fix +drm-module_init-retval-fix.patch Fix an error code. +parport_pc-resource-release-fix.patch Fix an oopsable resource leak in parport_pc. +3c527-smp-update.patch Update this driver, make it work on SMP. +3c527-module-license.patch It is GPLed. +no-mca-oops-fix.patch +mca_find_unused_adapter-oops-fix.patch Fix a couple of oopses when running CONFIG_MCA kernels on non-MCA hardware. +register_netdevice-retval-fix.patch Fix error code propagation. +ext3-latency-fix.patch Improved scheduling latency in ext3. +ipc-msg-race-fix.patch Fix oopsable race in SVSV IPC message tx/rx. +iosched-oops-fixes.patch Fix use-uninitialised in the deadline and AS I/O schedulers. +pcm_native-deadlock-fix.patch Fix a deadlock in the sound drivers. +4g4g-wp-test-fix.patch Fix a crash when doing the early WP detect with the 4g/4g split enabled. +O_DIRECT-race-fixes-rework-XFS-fix-fix.patch EXPORT_SYMBOL() fix. All 178 patches: mm.patch add -mmN to EXTRAVERSION kgdb-ga.patch kgdb stub for ia32 (George Anzinger's one) kgdbL warning fix kgdb-buff-too-big.patch kgdb buffer overflow fix kgdb-warning-fix.patch kgdbL warning fix kgdb-build-fix.patch kgdb-spinlock-fix.patch kgdb-fix-debug-info.patch kgdb: CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO fix kgdb-cpumask_t.patch kgdb-x86_64-fixes.patch x86_64 fixes kgdb-over-ethernet.patch kgdb-over-ethernet patch kgdb-over-ethernet-fixes.patch kgdb-over-ethernet fixlets kgdb-CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER.patch kgdb: replace CONFIG_KGDB with CONFIG_NET_RX_POLL in net drivers kgdb-handle-stopped-NICs.patch kgdb: handle netif_stopped NICs eepro100-poll-controller.patch tlan-poll_controller.patch tulip-poll_controller.patch tg3-poll_controller.patch kgdb: tg3 poll_controller 8139too-poll_controller.patch 8139too poll controller kgdb-eth-smp-fix.patch kgdb-over-ethernet: fix SMP kgdb-eth-reattach.patch kgdb-skb_reserve-fix.patch kgdb-over-ethernet: skb_reserve() fix must-fix.patch should-fix.patch vma-split-truncate-race-fix-2.patch fix split_vma vs. invalidate_mmap_range_list race devfs-initrd-fix.patch Fix initrd with devfs enabled RD1-cdrom_ioctl-B6.patch RD2-ioctl-B6.patch RD2-ioctl-B6-fix.patch RD2-ioctl-B6 fixes RD3-cdrom_open-B6.patch RD4-open-B6.patch RD5-cdrom_release-B6.patch RD6-release-B6.patch RD7-presto_journal_close-B6.patch RD8-f_mapping-B6.patch RD9-f_mapping2-B6.patch RD10-i_sem-B6.patch RD11-f_mapping3-B6.patch RD12-generic_osync_inode-B6.patch RD13-bd_acquire-B6.patch RD14-generic_write_checks-B6.patch RD15-I_BDEV-B6.patch RD16-rest-B6.patch serio-01-renaming.patch serio: rename serio_[un]register_slave_port to __serio_[un]register_port serio-02-race-fix.patch serio: possible race between port removal and kseriod serio-03-blacklist.patch Add black list to handler<->device matching serio-04-synaptics-cleanup.patch Synaptics: code cleanup serio-05-reconnect-facility.patch serio: reconnect facility serio-06-synaptics-use-reconnect.patch Synaptics: use serio_reconnect acpi_off-fix.patch fix acpi=off cfq-4.patch CFQ io scheduler CFQ fixes config_spinline.patch uninline spinlocks for profiling accuracy. ppc64-bar-0-fix.patch Allow PCI BARs that start at 0 ppc64-reloc_hide.patch sym-do-160.patch make the SYM driver do 160 MB/sec input-use-after-free-checks.patch input layer debug checks fbdev.patch framebbuffer driver update fbdev-restore-pci-ids.patch aic7xxx-parallel-build-fix.patch fix parallel builds for aic7xxx ramdisk-cleanup.patch intel8x0-cleanup.patch intel8x0 cleanups uml-update.patch Update UML to 2.6.0-test5 pdflush-diag.patch kobject-oops-fixes.patch fix oopses is kobject parent is removed before child futex-uninlinings.patch futex uninlining zap_page_range-debug.patch zap_page_range() debug acpi-thinkpad-fix.patch APCI fix for thinkpads scsi-handle-zero-length-requests.patch scsi: handle zero-length requests call_usermodehelper-retval-fix-3.patch Make call_usermodehelper report exit status asus-L5-fix.patch Asus L5 framebuffer fix jffs-use-daemonize.patch tulip-NAPI-support.patch tulip NAPI support tulip-napi-disable.patch tulip NAPI: disable poll in close get_user_pages-handle-VM_IO.patch limit_regions-syncup.patch ia32 limit_regions update dynamic-irq_vector-allocation.patch dynamic irq_vector allocation for ia32 ia32-MSI-support.patch Updated ia32 MSI Patches ia32-MSI-support-tweaks.patch ia32-efi-support.patch EFI support for ia32 ia32-efi-asm-warning-fix.patch efi warning fix ia32-efi-support-mem-equals-fix.patch CONFIG_ACPI_EFI-defaults-off.patch ia32-efi-support-warning-fixes.patch ia32-efi-support-tidy.patch ia32-efi-other-arch-fix.patch fix EFI for ppc64, ia64 efi-constant-sizing-fix.patch efi: warning fixes support-zillions-of-scsi-disks.patch support many SCSI disks SGI-IOC4-IDE-chipset-support.patch Add support for SGI's IOC4 chipset sparc32-sched_clock.patch unmap_vmas-warning-fix.patch Fix unmap_vmas() compile warning pcibios_test_irq-fix.patch Fix pcibios test IRQ handler return fixmap-in-proc-pid-maps.patch report user-readable fixmap area in /proc/PID/maps ajdtimex-vs-gettimeofday.patch Time precision, adjtime(x) vs. gettimeofday i82365-sysfs-ordering-fix.patch Fix init_i82365 sysfs ordering oops pci_set_power_state-might-sleep.patch compat_ioctl-cleanup.patch cleanup of compat_ioctl functions fix-sqrt.patch sqrt() fixes scale-min_free_kbytes.patch scale the initial value of min_free_kbytes cdrom-allocation-try-harder.patch Use __GFP_REPEAT for cdrom buffer atp870u-oops-fix.patch atp870u oops fix sym-2.1.18f.patch CONFIG_STANDALONE-default-to-n.patch Make CONFIG_STANDALONE default to N nosysfs.patch tmpfs-01-ENAMETOOLONG.patch tmpfs 1/7 LTP ENAMETOOLONG tmpfs-02-gid-fix.patch tmpfs 2/7 LTP S_ISGID dir tmpfs-03-swapoff-truncate-race.patch tmpfs 3/7 swapoff/truncate race tmpfs-04-getpage-truncate-race.patch tmpfs 4/7 getpage/truncate race tmpfs-05-writepage-truncate-race.patch tmpfs 5/7 writepage/truncate race tmpfs-06-i_size_write.patch tmpfs 6/7 write i_size_write tmpfs-07-write-mark_page_accessed.patch tmpfs 7/7 write mark_page_accessed quota-locking-fix.patch Quota locking fix export-system_running.patch export system_running to other files might_sleep-early-bogons.patch Kill early might_sleep warnings constant_test_bit-doesnt-like-zwanes-gcc.patch gcc bug workaround for constant_test_bit() slab-leak-detector.patch slab leak detector slab-leak-detector-tweaks.patch digi_accelport-oops-fix.patch digi_acceleport.c has bogus "address of" operator microcode-build-fix.patch fix microcode.c for older gcc's early-serial-registration-fix.patch serial console registration bugfix mtd-warning-fixes.patch Fix mtd printk warnings early_serial_setup-range-check.patch early_serial_setup array bounds check elf-verify-interpreter-arch.patch fs/binfmt_elf.c:load_elf_binary() doesn't verify interpreter arch journal_write_metadata_buffer-kfree-fix.patch JBD kfree() fix jbd-leak-fix.patch Fix JBD memory leak kmem_freepages-BUG-fix.patch fix low-memory BUG in slab register_cpu-fix.patch Subject: [PATCH] fix for register_cpu() elv-select.patch disk scheduler selection elv-init-cleanup.patch elv_init cleanup bluetooth-no-procfs-fix.patch fix bluetooh broken compilation when PROC_FS=n. gcc-Os.patch Use -Os for compilation printk-handle-bad-pointers.patch make printk more robust with "null" pointers kcapi-build-fix.patch kcapi.c CONFIG_MODULES=n build fix drm-module_init-retval-fix.patch DRM modprobe retval fix parport_pc-resource-release-fix.patch parport_pc not releasing all ioports 3c527-smp-update.patch SMP support on 3c527 net driver 3c527-module-license.patch Add 3c527 module license. no-mca-oops-fix.patch Fix oops with CONFIG_MCA=y mca_find_unused_adapter-oops-fix.patch Fix another CONFIG_MCA=y oops register_netdevice-retval-fix.patch register_netdevice return val fix ext3-latency-fix.patch ext3 scheduling latency fix ipc-msg-race-fix.patch ipc msg race fix iosched-oops-fixes.patch io scheduler oops fixes pcm_native-deadlock-fix.patch pcm_native locking fix keyboard-repeat-rate-setting-fix.patch keyboard repeat rate setting fix list_del-debug.patch list_del debug check print-build-options-on-oops.patch print a few config options on oops show_task-free-stack-fix.patch show_task() fix and cleanup oops-dump-preceding-code.patch i386 oops output: dump preceding code lockmeter.patch printk-oops-mangle-fix.patch disentangle printk's whilst oopsing on SMP 4g-2.6.0-test2-mm2-A5.patch 4G/4G split patch 4G/4G: remove debug code 4g4g: pmd fix 4g/4g: fixes from Bill 4g4g: fpu emulation fix 4g/4g usercopy atomicity fix 4G/4G: remove debug code 4g4g: pmd fix 4g/4g: fixes from Bill 4g4g: fpu emulation fix 4g/4g usercopy atomicity fix 4G/4G preempt on vstack 4G/4G: even number of kmap types 4g4g: fix __get_user in slab 4g4g: Remove extra .data.idt section definition 4g/4g linker error (overlapping sections) 4G/4G: remove debug code 4g4g: pmd fix 4g/4g: fixes from Bill 4g4g: fpu emulation fix 4g4g: show_registers() fix 4g/4g usercopy atomicity fix 4g4g: debug flags fix 4g4g: Fix wrong asm-offsets entry cyclone time fixmap fix 4G/4G preempt on vstack 4G/4G: even number of kmap types 4g4g: fix __get_user in slab 4g4g: Remove extra .data.idt section definition 4g/4g linker error (overlapping sections) 4G/4G: remove debug code 4g4g: pmd fix 4g/4g: fixes from Bill 4g4g: fpu emulation fix 4g4g: show_registers() fix 4g/4g usercopy atomicity fix 4g4g: debug flags fix 4g4g: Fix wrong asm-offsets entry cyclone time fixmap fix use direct_copy_{to,from}_user for kernel access in mm/usercopy.c 4G/4G might_sleep warning fix 4g/4g pagetable accounting fix 4g4g-athlon-prefetch-handling-fix.patch 4g4g-wp-test-fix.patch Fix 4G/4G and WP test lockup ppc-fixes.patch make mm4 compile on ppc aic7xxx_old-oops-fix.patch O_DIRECT-race-fixes-rollup.patch DIO fixes forward port and AIO-DIO fix O_DIRECT race fixes comments O_DRIECT race fixes fix fix fix DIO locking rework O_DIRECT-race-fixes-rework-XFS-fix.patch O_DIRECT XFS fix O_DIRECT-race-fixes-rework-XFS-fix-fix.patch aio-01-retry.patch AIO: Core retry infrastructure Fix aio process hang on EINVAL AIO: flush workqueues before destroying ioctx'es AIO: hold the context lock across unuse_mm task task_lock in use_mm() 4g4g-aio-hang-fix.patch Fix AIO and 4G-4G hang aio-refcounting-fix.patch aio ref count in io_submit_one aio-retry-elevated-refcount.patch aio: extra ref count during retry aio-splice-runlist.patch Splice AIO runlist for fairer handling of multiple io contexts 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 lock_buffer_wq fix 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 O_SYNC-speedup-2.patch speed up O_SYNC writes O_SYNC-speedup-2-f_mapping-fixes.patch aio-09-o_sync.patch aio O_SYNC AIO: fix a BUG Unify o_sync changes for aio and regular writes aio-O_SYNC-fix bits got lost aio: writev nr_segs fix More AIO O_SYNC related fixes aio-09-o_sync-f_mapping-fixes.patch gang_lookup_next.patch Change the page gang lookup API aio-gang_lookup-fix.patch AIO gang lookup fixes aio-O_SYNC-short-write-fix.patch Fix for O_SYNC short writes aio-12-readahead.patch AIO: readahead fixes aio O_DIRECT no readahead Unified page range readahead for aio and regular reads aio-12-readahead-f_mapping-fix.patch aio-readahead-speedup.patch Readahead issues and AIO read speedup