Only in 2.4.19rc3aa4: 00_d_unhash-race-1 Only in 2.4.19rc3aa4: 00_mmx_xmm-init-2 Only in 2.4.19rc3aa4: 00_vm86-3 Only in 2.4.19rc3aa4: 00_vm86-drop-v86mode-dead-thread-var-1 Only in 2.4.19rc3aa4: 00_vm86-pagetablelock-1 Merged in mainline. Only in 2.4.19rc4aa1: 00_disable-reada-1 Fix failure of bread against reada by disabling reada (from Andrew Morton). Only in 2.4.19rc3aa4: 00_extraversion-3 Only in 2.4.19rc4aa1: 00_extraversion-4 Only in 2.4.19rc3aa4: 9900_aio-1.gz Only in 2.4.19rc4aa1: 9900_aio-2.gz Merge new cancellation API from Ben, drop the POLL and READX functionalities (apparently they were experimental). pipe callbacks doesn't implement yet the new cancellation API, they don't overwrite the io_event structure yet, so temporarly disabled the copy_to_user of such structure in sys_io_cancel (so not fully compliant yet), that would otherwise expose uninitialized kernel stack to userspace (will be fixed ASAP). Didn't merged the sys_getevents_abs modification, it still takes the timeout as argument, I still prefer it for the lower overhead in the timeout case, despite it has a larger window for going out of sync with the timeoftheday (a window with userspace in between where context switches cannot disabled). Waiting a final judjment for 2.5 before making any change here. Only in 2.4.19rc3aa4: 9900_aio-API-x86-1 Only in 2.4.19rc4aa1: 9900_aio-API-x86-2 Go in sync with latest syscall numbering in Ben's proposed patch and dropped sys_io_wait enterely. Only in 2.4.19rc4aa1: 9910_shm-largepage-1.gz Merge largpage support for shared memory from Ingo Molnar. Dropped from it all the ABI kernel changes like the unregistered MAP_BIGPAGE 0x40 as parameter to teh mmap syscall, 0x40 can do a completely different thing in 2.5, the original version of the patch wasn't backwards compatible. This one is fully backwards (or better "forward") binary compatible because it's API-less (well.. almost, you will get -EINVAL if you attempt a MAP_PRIVATE in /dev/shm then and stuff like that, _but_ only after enabling the support via sysctl). Completely untested though but no need to worry until/unless you run "echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/shm-use-bigpages", you also need to specify at boot how much memory you reserve for largepages, with bigpages=1g or similar (same memparse sintax of mem=). After the largepage shm support is enabled all shm segments will be attempted to be backed from largepages. largepages don't apply to file backed mappings or anonymoys mappings, just shared memory either from mmap("/dev/zero", MAP_SHARED), /dev/shm or shmget/shmat. In particular the shmget API will preallocate all pages (minor note: not the pagetables, page faults will still happen!) before returning from the syscall (could be changed very easily with a one liner, but I guess those db prefer the pages to be preallocated). All shm segments backed by largepages are VM_LOCKED (unpageable to swap).