2.4.10pre8aa1

[Andrea Arcangeli]

The letter about the RCU patent used in GPL software is in on the way to
Linus and a copy is also in my way, so the rcu patent isn't going to be
a problem for linux users.

The rcu-2 version has probably still a bug in call_rcu, it can't harm at
the moment since nobody is recalling call_rcu but we're working on that,
also I need to merge the new updates from Dipankar and also Rusty's
approch with the schedule hook looks attractive after all, so it's work
in progress but as just said the fact it is work in progress cannot harm
anybody so you can apply it safely and in the meantime it has the
advantage of putting more eyes on the code.

Only in 2.4.10pre7aa2: 00_paride-max_sectors-2
Only in 2.4.10pre7aa2: 00_sd-max_sectors-1

	Merged in mainline.

Only in 2.4.10pre8aa1: 00_alpha-personality-1

	Fix compile problem with personality changes on alpha.

Only in 2.4.10pre7aa2: 00_lvm-1.0.1-rc2-1.bz2
Only in 2.4.10pre8aa1: 00_lvm-1.0.1-rc2-2.bz2

	Use min() rather than min_t().

Only in 2.4.10pre8aa1: 00_nfs-delete-lock-1

	Fix race condition in locks cleanup on close. (from Trond)

Only in 2.4.10pre7aa2: 00_rcu-1
Only in 2.4.10pre8aa1: 00_rcu-2

	Fix uptime stats.

Only in 2.4.10pre7aa2: 00_silent-stack-overflow-7
Only in 2.4.10pre8aa1: 00_silent-stack-overflow-8

	Minor cleanup.

Only in 2.4.10pre8aa1: 00_slab-microoptimize-1

	Microoptimize the slab-lists handling to be as fast as the
	previous version in the microbenchmarks.

Only in 2.4.10pre7aa2: 10_prefetch-5
Only in 2.4.10pre8aa1: 10_prefetch-6

	Drop the x86 arch part that is included in mainline (also noticed it is
	only used on PIII compiles, not sure why not on K7 and P4).

Only in 2.4.10pre8aa1: 55_uml-sys_personality-1

	Fix personality syscall declaration on uml.

Only in 2.4.10pre7aa2: 60_tux-2.4.9-ac10-G7
Only in 2.4.10pre8aa1: 60_tux-2.4.9-ac10-H2

	Picked last update from http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/ .

Andrea