2.5.55-mjb1 (scalability / NUMA patchset)

[Martin J. Bligh]

The patchset contains mainly scalability and NUMA stuff, and anything 
else that stops things from irritating me. It's meant to be pretty stable, 
not so much a testing ground for new stuff.

I'd be very interested in feedback from anyone willing to test on any
platform, however large or small.

http://www.aracnet.com/~fletch/linux/2.5.55/patch-2.5.55-mjb1.bz2

Since 2.5.54-mjb3

merged with Linus:
- kallsyms					Andi Kleen / Daniel Ritz
- apicid_to_node				Martin Bligh
- i386_topo					Matt Dobson
- do_boot_error					James Cleverdon
- more_numaq1					James Cleverdon / Martin Bligh
- cleanup_cpu_apicid				Martin J. Bligh
- smpboot_cam					Martin J. Bligh
- nuke_clustered_apic				Martin J. Bligh
- fix_starfire_warning				Martin J. Bligh

Other:
~ summit2					James Cleverdon / John Stultz
- shpte						Dave McCracken
		(dropped temporarily until Dave merges up with 2.5.55)
~ interrupt_stacks				Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise
~ stack_usage_check				Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise
+ ksymsoff					Hugh Dickins

Pending:
Speed up page init on boot (Bill Irwin)
Notsc automatic enablement
scheduler callers profiling (Anton)
PPC64 NUMA patches (Anton)
Scheduler tunables (rml)
Lockless xtime structures (Andi)
P4 oprofile support (movement)

summit1						James Cleverdon / John Stultz
	Summit support part 1

summit2						James Cleverdon / John Stultz
	Summit support part 2

summit3						James Cleverdon / John Stultz
	Summit support part 3

summit4						James Cleverdon / John Stultz
	Summit support part 4

dcache_rcu					Dipankar / Maneesh
	Use RCU type locking for the dentry cache.
 
early_printk					Dave Hansen et al.
	Allow printk before console_init

confighz					Andrew Morton / Dave Hansen
	Make HZ a config option of 100 Hz or 1000 Hz

config_page_offset				Dave Hansen / Andrea
	Make PAGE_OFFSET a config option

vmalloc_stats					Dave Hansen
	Expose useful vmalloc statistics

numasched1					Erich Focht
	Numa scheduler general foundation work + pooling

numasched2					Michael Hohnbaum
	Numa scheduler lightweight initial load balancing.

local_pgdat					Bill Irwin
	Move the pgdat structure into the remapped space with lmem_map

thread_info_cleanup (4K stacks pt 1)		Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise
	Prep work to reduce kernel stacks to 4K
	
interrupt_stacks    (4K stacks pt 2)		Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise
	Create a per-cpu interrupt stack.

stack_usage_check   (4K stacks pt 3)		Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise
	Check for kernel stack overflows.

4k_stack            (4K stacks pt 4)		Dave Hansen
	Config option to reduce kernel stacks to 4K

notsc						Martin Bligh
	Enable notsc option for NUMA-Q (new version for new config system)

numameminfo					Martin Bligh / Keith Mannthey
	Expose NUMA meminfo information under /proc/meminfo.numa

kgdb						Andrew Morton / Various People
	The older version of kgdb, synched with 2.5.54-mm1

noframeptr					Martin Bligh
	Disable -fomit_frame_pointer

ksymoff						Hugh Dickins
	Fix off by one error in kksymoops

-mjb						Martin Bligh
	Add a tag to the makefile