A bunch of places dereferences ->d_parent->d_inode with no
protection whatsoever (e.g. on return from read()).  It's an
SMP race on all boxen and pretty wide UP race if we have dnotify
set on parent (race between read() and rename() and similar beasts).

	Patch below is the first one in a series of ->d_parent-related
fixes.  It adds a helper (dnotify_parent(dentry, event)) and converts
places that did inode_dir_notify(dentry->d_parent->d_inode,...) to it.

	Please, apply.  Notice that problem exists in 2.4 and unlike 2.5
there we can't switch to saner API (basically, reporting file events on
file, not on a parent directory).

Some of the further fixes depend on Pat's and Greg's (driverfs and usbdevfs
resp.) patches, so getting them merged would make life easier.  And yes,
some of further chunks (e.g. smbfs ->revalidate() and friends) will also
have to go into 2.4 - they are independent from any threading projects ;-/

Ugh, another one.  Linus, please apply.

	Robert Love

old_inode is locked by vfs_link().

BKL shifted into ->symlink() (+ fixes for {ramfs,shmem}_symlink())

BKL shifted into ->link(), check for S_ISDIR moved into vfs_link().

BKL shifted into ->rmdir()

BKL shifted into ->mkdir()

This patch fixes a bug in the Linux process ID allocator.  It isn't quite
SMP safe since it references "last_pid" after releasing the lock protecting
it.  This can result in two processes getting assigned the same process ID.

this is the NeoMagic floating foint removal patch
I posted previously for Linux 2.4.18-pre9-ac3.

Best regards,
  Denis Oliver Kropp

into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux

into tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de:/home/kai/kernel/linux-2.5.isdn

This final patch is a simple documentation fixup patch filling
in the blanks for the extended attribute interfaces; and fixes
a typo in the same spot: "permission".

Nathan

This next incremental patch tidies up the data types passed back
from the `list' and `get' extended attribute syscalls - these now
match the design (ie. using ssize_t) rather than simply using long
or int everywhere; also now use const types in the VFS interface,
where appropriate.

Nathan

This incremental patch fixes copying out of an extended attribute
value or name list.  Previously we copied out the entire buffer
passed in from userspace, now we only copy out the size which the
underlying filesystem tells us to (ie. we will no longer include
potentialy-initialised data as well).

Nathan

This first patch fixes the copying in of extended attribute
names from userspace in the extended attribute syscalls (a
problem found when using electric fence on the user tools).

Nathan

Obvious patch to make x86_64 pick up new sound location

into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

This fixes usb drivers outside of the drivers/usb directory.

Fixes drivers/usb/storage.
Patch done by Oliver Neukum.

This fixes the drivers in drivers/usb/serial.
Patch done by Oliver Neukum.

This modifies the drivers in drivers/usb.
Patch done by Oliver Neukum.

	- fix for memory leak.

	- special case for REQUEST_SENSE
	- reset handling won't work properly -> disabled
	- error reporting corrected

The patch below fixes a compile problem in the USB OHCI HCD driver on
powerbooks, namely that the ohci_hcd structure doesn't have an irq
member.

Paul.

	Next one in the series - this time it's ->unlink()...

1) proc/<pid>/fd readdir() has broken locking - sometimes it ends up with
task->files->file_lock locked.

2) missing variable definition in arch/s390x/kernel/linux32.c::cp_new_stat32().

Please, apply - the first one is really serious.

	BKL held around ->i_nlink changes in ext2/namei.c.  That makes
namei.c SMP-safe (dir.c already is).  BKL dropped around ext2_free_inode() -
it's already SMP-safe (the only place that needed BKL was DQUOT_FREE_INODE()
and it got BKL in the previous patch).

	BKL shifted into ->create().  lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() added
in dquot_{alloc,free}_inode() - that makes {ext2,minix,sysv,ufs}_read_inode()
SMP-safe.

	ext2_read_inode() and ext2_update_inode() share large chunk
of code - getting a buffer_head with raw inode in it.
	Moved into a helper function (ext2_get_inode()), the rest
of ext2_{read,update}_inode() slightly cleaned up.

fs/proc/inode.c is using __init, but for some reason missing an
#include <linux/init.h>. Add this.

Add Andi Kleen as x86-64 maintainer.

This adds the x86_64 arch and asm directories and a Documentation/x86_64.

It took a bit longer because I first had to make preemption and thread_info
work and also found some other bugs while doing this. The port has been
tested for a long time on UP.

I'm not sure what I should describe.  A lot is based on i386 with
a lot of cleanups. I wrote a paper about it for last year's OLS that describes
most of the changes (ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64.ps.gz). It is
a bit outdated now, but should give a good overview.

It currently has a completely cut'n'pasted from others+hacked 32bit
emulation. I hope to clean that up in the future by merging the generic
core of this with other 64bit archs.

Thanks,
-Andi