I'd be very interested in feedback from anyone willing to test on any
platform, however large or small.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/2.5.71/patch-2.5.71-mjb1.bz2
additional patches that can be applied if desired:
(these two form the qlogic feral driver)
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.67/2.5.67-mm1/broken-out/linux-isp.patch
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.67/2.5.67-mm1/broken-out/isp-update-1.patch
Since 2.5.70-mjb2 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped)
Notes: mostly just a merge forward + the *real* fix for proc_lock
Now in Linus' tree:
- numaq_apic_handling Martin J. Bligh
- remove_x86_summit Martin J. Bligh
- target_cpus Martin J. Bligh
- summit_pcimap Matt Dobson
- sched_idle Martin J. Bligh
New:
+ proc_lock Martin J. Bligh
Fix proc_lock handling and SDET hangs.
+ flow_compile Everyone and his dog.
Fix silly compile error in 71.
+ gdb_fixes Andrew Morton & Martin J. Bligh
Fix up some compile time errors & warnings, and an ordering bug
~ config_debug Dave Hansen
Make the stupid thing actually work ;-)
+ ppc_kmalloc_bug paulus
Fix wierd ppc kmalloc bug
Dropped:
- backout_locking The ghost of patches past
I found the real problem with this, and fixed it.
Pending:
Hyperthreaded scheduler (Ingo Molnar)
scheduler callers profiling (Anton or Bill Hartner)
Child runs first (akpm)
Kexec
e1000 fixes
Update the lost timer ticks code
pidmaps_nodepages (Dave Hansen)
update membind code (Matt Dobson)
update config debug (Dave)
update percpu_loadavg (Dave)
object based rmap list-o-lists (Martin / Dave Mc)
Locking obliteration (Dave Mc)
Present in this patch:
proc_lock Martin J. Bligh
Fix proc_lock handling and SDET hangs.
flow_compile Everyone and his dog.
Fix silly compile error in 71.
early_printk Dave Hansen / Keith Mannthey
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
numameminfo Martin Bligh / Keith Mannthey
Expose NUMA meminfo information under /proc/meminfo.numa
schedstat Rick Lindsley
Provide stats about the scheduler under /proc/schedstat
schedstat2 Rick Lindsley
Provide more stats about the scheduler under /proc/schedstat
schedstat-scripts Rick Lindsley
Provide some scripts for schedstat analysis under scripts/
sched_tunables Robert Love
Provide tunable parameters for the scheduler (+ NUMA scheduler)
irq_affinity Martin J. Bligh
Workaround for irq_affinity on clustered apic mode systems (eg x440)
partial_objrmap Dave McCracken
Object based rmap for filebacked pages.
kgdb Andrew Morton
The older version of kgdb, synched with 2.5.54-mm1
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
4k_stacks_vs_kgdb Dave Hansen
Fix interaction between kgdb and 4K stacks
stacks_from_slab William Lee Irwin
Take kernel stacks from the slab cache, not page allocation.
thread_under_page William Lee Irwin
Fix THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE case
percpu_loadavg Martin J. Bligh
Provide per-cpu loadaverages, and real load averages
spinlock_inlining Andrew Morton & Martin J. Bligh
Inline spinlocks for profiling. Made into a ugly config option by me.
lockmeter John Hawkes / Hanna Linder
Locking stats.
reiserfs_dio Mingming Cao
DIO for Reiserfs
sched_interactive Ingo Molnar
Bugfix for interactive scheduler
kgdb_cleanup Martin J. Bligh
Stop kgdb renaming schedule to do_schedule when it's not even enabled
acenic_fix Martin J. Bligh
Fix warning in acenic driver
local_balance_exec Martin J. Bligh
Modify balance_exec to use node-local queues when idle
tcp_speedup Martin J. Bligh
Speedup TCP (avoid double copy) as suggested by Linus
disable preempt Martin J. Bligh
I broke preempt somehow, temporarily disable it to stop accidents
ppc64 fixes Anton Blanchard
Various PPC64 fixes / updates
numameminfo fix Martin J. Bligh
Correct /proc/meminfo.numa for zholes_size.
config_debug Dave Hansen
Make '-g' for the kernel a config option
akpm_bear_pit Andrew Morton
Add a printk for some buffer error I was hitting
32bit_dev_t Andries Brouwer
Make dev_t 32 bit
dynamic_hd_struct Badari Pulavarty
Allocate hd_structs dynamically
lotsa_sds Badari Pulavarty
Create some insane number of sds
iosched_hashes Badari Pulavarty
Twiddle with the iosched hash tables for fun & profit
per_node_idt Zwane Mwaikambo
Per node IDT so we can do silly numbers of IO-APICs on NUMA-Q
config_numasched Dave Hansen
Turn NUMA scheduler into a config option
lockmeter_tytso Ted Tso
Fix lockmeter
aiofix2 Mingming Cao
fixed a bug in ioctx_alloc()
config_irqbal Keith Mannthey
Make irqbalance a config option
fs_aio_1_retry Suparna Bhattacharya
Filesystem aio. Chapter 1
fs_aio_2_read Suparna Bhattacharya
Filesystem aio. Chapter 2
fs_aio_3_write Suparna Bhattacharya
Filesystem aio. Chapter 3
fs_aio_4_down_wq Suparna Bhattacharya
Filesystem aio. Chapter 4
fs_aio_5_wrdown_wq Suparna Bhattacharya
Filesystem aio. Chapter 5
fs_aio_6_bread_wq Suparna Bhattacharya
Filesystem aio. Chapter 6
fs_aio_7_ext2getblk_wq Suparna Bhattacharya
Filesystem aio. Chapter 7
fs_aio_8_down_wq-ppc64 Suparna Bhattacharya
Filesystem aio. Chapter 8
fs_aio_9_down_wq-x86_64 Suparna Bhattacharya
Filesystem aio. Chapter 9
ppc_kmalloc_bug paulus
Fix wierd ppc kmalloc bug
-mjb Martin J. Bligh
Add a tag to the makefile
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