The zone->pressure field is supposed to record the amount of reclaim pressure
which this zone is under.  We need this info so we know whether to unmap
pages from pagetables right from the outset of a balance_pgdat() or
try_to_free_pages() invokation.

The problem with the current code is that the exponential average gets tugged
around too much: as we perform the increasing-priority scan, the pressure
metric is made artificially low by the early part of the scan.

So instead what we do here is to record within the zone the scanning priority
from the zone's previous scan.  It is defined as the priority at which the
zone achieved the "enough pages free" state.  This prev_priority is used on
the next scan for the do-we-need-to-be-unmapping-pages decision.

Off-by-one in balance_pgdat(): `priority' can never go negative.  It causes
the scanning priority thresholds to be quite wrong and kswapd tends to go
berzerk when there is a lot of mapped memory around.

From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>

aka: "vmalloc allocations in ipc needs smp initialized (and vm must be
allowed to schedule in 2.6)"

In short if you change SEMMNI to 8192 the kernel will crash at boot, beause
it tries to call vmalloc before the smp is initialized.  The reason is that
vmalloc calls into the pte alloc code, and the fast pte alloc is tried
first, but that reads into the pte_quicklist, that requires the cpu_data to
be initialized (and that happens in smp_init()).

the patch is obviously safe, since no piece of kernel (especially the code
in the check_bugs and smp_init paths ;) calls into the ipc subsystem.

The reason this started to trigger wasn't really that we increased SEMMNI,
but what happend is that some IPC data structure grown, and for some reason
the corruption due the uninitalized pte_quicklist triggers only for smp
boxes with less than 1G (not very common anymore ;).  So it wasn't
immediatly reproducible on all setups.

2.6 doesn't suffer from the same problem, simply because 2.6 isn't using
the quicklist anymore, but I think it would be much more correct to make
the same change in 2.6 too, since whatever cond_resched() in the vm paths
(and they're definitely allowed to call it), will lead to a crash since the
init task isn't initialized and the scheduler can't be invoked yet.  (and
2.6 already has the bigger data structures that should trigger the vmalloc
all the time on all setups)

From: Dave Olien <dmo@osdl.org>

The raw.c character device Oopses dereferencing a NULL pointer in
bd_claim() This problem occurred after bd_claim() in block_dev.c was
modified to "claim the whole device when a partition is claimed".

raw_open() made the mistake of calling bd_claim BEFORE calling blkdev_get().
At that time, the bdev->bd_contains field has not yet been initialized. 
Switching the order allows blkdev_get() to initialize those fields before
calling bd_claim().

Also fixed up some error return paths:

igrab() should never fail under these circumstances since the caller
already has a reference to that inode through the bdev at that time.

In the event of blkdev_get() failure or set_blocksize() failure, not all
the work to unwind from the error was done.

The arch ioctl tables are doing this:

	struct foo ioctl_start[] = {
		...
	};
	struct foo ioctl_end[0];

and fs/compat.c expects that the table lies between &ioctl_end and
&ioctl_start.

Problem is, gcc-3.3 puts ioctl_end into bss, even if it is initialised.  It
doesn't work.

So we do away with the ioctl_end thing and add

	int ioctl_table_length = ARRAY_SIZE(ioctl_start);

to each architecture.

- Remove duplicated implementation of attrib_to_str()

- Make mtrr_strings[] static to if.c

From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

Most is just simple fixes; however, the needless change from atomic to
non-atomic operations in smp_invalidate_interrupt() caused me a lot of
pain to track down since it introduced some very subtle bugs.

I've also taken phys_cpu_present_map out of smp.h.  Since it
physid_mask_t is defined in mpspec.h anyway, and contains a duplicate
definition, I don't believe it can hurt anything.

extern decls in .c files are evil.  Put the send_sigio(), fcntl_setlease()
and fcntl_getlease() into fs.h.

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>

I'm not entirely sure about this change.  But it seems to be necessary. 
The dnotify code stores the PID in the file structure.  The entire process
shares the file and any signal (is it used for that?) should be sent to the
process (thread group), not the individual thread.  Also keep in mind that
threads can go away while the process (and therefore file descriptor)
remain.  And the ID of the thread can be reused.

Somebody who knows this code should take a good look.

(Looks right to me...)

From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>

- use kernel.h min() and max();

- C99 initializers;

- Tidy up the scheule_work() callbacks (none of them take an arg)

From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>

fix arcnet printk parameter types

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Adds an explicit check for the new modutils in the build system.

Generally we should avoid these sorts of hardwired checks for the right
versions of things, but we are still getting a significant number of problem
reports due to people not having the new tools.  Let's help them out.

From: "John Stoffel" <stoffel@lucent.com>

Quick patch to get my 8 port Cyclades Cyclom-Y ISA card to work.

(It doesn't look to be very SMP-robust, but then the 2.4 dirver probably
isn't either).

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

I moved a while ago and I'm also not at SGI anymore.

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

In the anticipatory scheduler, don't anticipate against the very first IO
request which a process issues.

This solves a very specific problem wherein a process starts, submits a
single IO then exits.

From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>

While working on my GPM patches found out that EV_MSC was forgotten...

From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:46:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> LILO seems to be oopsing in HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for some reason, in
> generic_ide_ioctl().
>
> I'm not sure quite why though.  Could one of your patches affected this
> area?

The last one (fix for hd_struct handling).  The fix follows:

From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>

This patch removes warnings on non-matching parameter types to printk
and incorrect function types (n_hdlc).

From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>

Currently, the context switch counters reported by getrusage() are
always zero.  The appended patch adds fields to struct task_struct to
count context switches, and adds code to do the counting.

The patch adds 4 longs to struct task struct, and a single addition to
the fast path in schedule().

From: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>

- acpi_pci_link_get_irq() returns 0 on error, not -ENODEV.

- Fix mpparse.c tpyo.

This printk doesn't impart any information.

From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>

The do_no_page() function in mm/memory.c does accounting for reserved pages
(++mm->rss), but in zap_pte_range() we don't decrement rss if the page was
reserved.

So don't account for PageReserved pages in the rss.  (Maybe it would be
better to fix zap_pte_range in the opposite direction..)

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>

Remove CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT: the ability to present /proc/kcore in a.out
format.

I've checked with various arch maintainers.  It won't be missed.

We get a linkage error with CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT because there is no
implementation of kclist_add() and kclist_del().

Also fix a warning in the a.out version of read_kcore().

Maybe we should just remove kcore a.out support.  m68knommu and h8300 are
setting CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT in their defconfigs though.

From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>

Flesh out the bad_inode file and inode operations tables with new
additions.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>

This patch corrects a typo in an ifdef that enables xattr operations for
special files in the ext2 code; otherwise, extended attributes cannot be
obtained or set on such inodes.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>

This patch reworks the SELinux binprm hook functions to use a security
structure for the linux_binprm rather than directly stuffing the security
identifier into the void* security field.  It also performs some cleanup of
the SELinux binprm hook functions, and one miscellaneous fix.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>

This patch corrects several format specifiers in the SELinux security server
code.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

This patch changes the SELinux avtab to use vmalloc/vfree; the table is too
large for kmalloc on s390.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>

This patch adds the appropriate #if around the F_*64 commands in the
selinux_file_fcntl hook function.

From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>

current bk 2.6.0 corrupts my ext3 filesystems, usually in the RESYNC dir
during a bk pull.  Checking the recent changes I noticed that the one in
fs/ext3/namei.c misses an endian conversion.  The attached patch fixes that
and works fine for me since 2 days now on PPC.

From: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>

attached trivial patch fixes visws subarch kernel build.  It was broken by
2.6.0-test4 cpumask_t changes.

From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>

The conversion of reiserfs to not return errors from
writepage-outside-i_size was incorrect.  Fix.

The `user_specified' variable is used in cleanup_module() and hence cannot be
dropped from memory after module initialisation.

From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>,
	"Sharma, Arun" <arun.sharma@intel.com>

The truncate race fix assumed that a non-zero vma->vm_ops->nopage implies a
non-zero vma->vm_file.

The ia64 x86 emulation code breaks this assumption, so teach do_no_page() to
handle it.

From: Vinay K Nallamothu <vinay-rc@naturesoft.net>

drivers/net/ni5010.c:
This patch replaces cli/sti with spinlocks. Compiles fine though
untested.

From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>

Update the abi sysctl documentation.

From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>

The expected case is (sysctl_overcommit_memory == 0), so put that first.