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

four months ago, Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> sent a patch
against 2.6.0-test5-bk1 that converted several if ...  BUG() to BUG_ON()

This might in some cases result in slightly faster code because BUG_ON()
uses unlikely().

From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>

With gcc-3.4 we need "attribute((used))" declarations to get "make
modules_install" to work.

Otherwise these sections get dropped from the final image (I assume).

From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>

There is some EFI-related code which is present in the ia64 build but is not
needed: variable efi_enabled is always zero.

The patch fiddles with the efi_enabled definition to arrange for
`efi_enabled' to be constant zero or constant one in those situations where
this can be guaranteed.

The test for whether an inode is using journalled, ordered or writeback data
is incorrect and can lead to ext3_set_aops() giving the inode the wrong set
of address_space_operations.  Fix.  (Spotted by Jan Kara).

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Currently xfs has a per-bdev (and XFS filesystem uses up to three underlying
block devices) object that Al complained about loudly that it should be gone.

But for that to happen without rewriting half of XFS (and changing layering
in a way that we don't really want) we need an additional fs-private variable
in struct block_device.

From: mark@borgerding.net

Access times of tmpfs dirs do not get updated on readdir.  This can cause
empty dirs to get tmpwatch'd too early, b/c atime never changes even though
the dir is in use.

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, me.

Two uses of the FIXADDR_USER_START/END things are problematic:

a) ppc64 wants the FIXADDR area to be at a different location on 32bit and
   64bit tasks.  On 32bit we want it just below 4GB but that gets in the way
   on 64bit.  By putting both right at -(some small amount) we can also use
   some ppc tricks to get there real quickly (single instruction branches).

b) We assume that FIXADDR_USER_START and FIXADDR_USER_END are constants.
   This breaks the UML build.

Fixes:

- Call it all gate. We currently have half the stuff called fixmap and
  the other gate, lets be consistent.

- Create in_gate_area(), get_gate_vma() and use it in both places

- Provide defaults for in_gate_area/get_gate_vma, allowing an arch to
  override it. (I used CONFIG_* but am open to better suggestions here)

- The /proc/pid/maps vma wasnt marked readable but the get_user
  vma was. That sounds suspicious to me, they are now both the same VMA
  and so have the same (read,exec) permissions

From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>

When CONFIG_SMP is not set, spinlock_t is an empty structure, so its
address has arbitrary alignment.

The prefetch instructions with unaligned address don't have visible side
effects on alphas with SRM console (except performance degradation) - the
PALcode handles unaligned traps caused by prefetch instructions internally.
However, on old AlphaBIOS/MILO boxes unaligned prefetch leads to unhandled
alignment trap and kernel panic.

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>

This adds proper suspend/resume support for PIT.  That means that clock are
actually correct after suspend/resume.

From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.de>

Too many users use the p4-clockmod cpufreq driver instead of the more
advanced speedstep-centrino, speedstep-ich or even acpi drivers.  All of
the latter (usually) provide voltage scaling, while the p4-clockmod driver
only offers a variant of frequency scaling.  So, warn users if they try out
this driver instead.

Also, instead of using a local copy, use the speedstep_lib infrastructure
for detecting the processor speed.  Adding the Pentium-M get_frequency
function to that module only costs about 200 bytes in object size.

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

If the user decides to not write the config file out, menuconfig exits with
a non-zero code.  This causes make to allege that there was an error.

From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>

The following reversion is what fixes my regression.  That puts the
sequential read numbers back to the 2.6.0 values of ~140MB/sec (from the
current 2.6.1 values of 14MB/second)...

We were triggering I/O of the `ahead' when we hit the last page in the
`current' window.  That's bad because it gives no pipelining at all.

So go back to full pipelining.

It's not at all clear why this change made a 10x difference in NFS
throughput.

From: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>

Remove the up-front readahead code from the core pagecache read
function: it's really bad for large reads.

From: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>

This patch initializes zone->{prev,temp}_priority to DEF_PRIORITY.
Otherwise they are left zeroed, and first run of VM scanner thinks that
zones are under enormous stress.

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Although it was an established part of the current bio api, it was never
documented that bio_add_page() and merge_bvec_fn() must accept to add at
least one page to an empty bio.

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

The 2.6 Kconfig language allows to set the range for integer questions.

The patch below adds a range line on all architectures that have a
NR_CPUS question except ia64.

The help text on ia64 didn't suggest any values. Could someone tell the 
correct values for ia64 (and if it's only a minimum value of 2)?

From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>

Patches are a damned sight easier to read if people use the '-p'
option to diff ... this generates output that looks like this:

 "@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ void put_dirty_page(struct task_struct *"

for each block. This patch simply adds that to the documentation
file, in the hope of steering new users in the right direction.

From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>

Re-add support to the bootwrapper for talking with OF on PReP machines. 
This fixes memory detection of some machines.

From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>

Larger modules fail to load with the message "Relocation overflow vs
section 17", or some other section number.

This failure happens with GPRELHIGH relocation, which is *signed* short,
but relocation overflow check in module.c doesn't take into account the
sign extension.

From: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com>

Identify a recent Radeon video card in radeonfb.

From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>

This patch does the following:
1) Rename ZONE_SHIFT to NODEZONE_SHIFT.  This value is the number
    of bits to shift page->flags to get the node/zone part of the
    bitfield.
2) Add a macro called NODEZONE which takes a node number and zone number
    and returns a 'nodezone', a bitshifted composition of the two.
3) Create page_zonenum & page_nodenum, inline functions to return the
    node/zone a page belongs to with some simple bit twiddling, no
    pointer dereferences necessary.
4) Modify page_zone() and set_page_zone() to use the new NODEZONE_SHIFT.
5) Modify memmap_init_zone() & free_area_init_core() to use the new
    NODEZONE macros.
6) Fix up some comments to reflect the above changes.

From: Russell King, Tom Rini, Dave Jones

As plugged in 2.4 recently.

Fix some leakage of uninitialised memory to userspace via rtc reads.

From: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>

The intent of these are to clarify the meaning of the bio fields in the
bi_end_io function (since we are already mostly there).  After these small
modifications bio->bi_idx and the corresponding bio_iovec(bio)->bv_offset
point to the beginning of the completed data, together with the nr_bytes
argument you know exactly what data was finished, e.g.  when you can't
track it otherwise (or it would be unnecessary expensive).  Apart from that
it's a nice-to-have.

The first mini-patch moves the update of bio_iovec(bio)->bv_offset and
->bv_len after the call of bi_end_io where bi_idx gets updated so they get
updated together.  Ok with Jens.

The second part of the patch modifies the multwrite hack in PIO non-
taskfile ide disk code.  It modifies the bi_idx field to walk the bios and
doesn't reset it correctly before ending the request.  The patch uses the
segment counter in the request field to correctly restore the bi_idx field
before ending the request.  Can't possibly break anything since it's
working on the local request copy ("scratchpad") anyway.  Also does this in
legacy/pdc4030.c (similar code).  The code modified here is going to die
anyway any trying to fix it would be too invasive.  Ok with Bartlomiej.

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

readdir on /proc has two problems: reading all entries is O(N^2), and
entries are overlooked if tasks die in the middle of readdir: the readdir
implementation remembers the offset into the task list, and if a task
(actually: process) that was returned by previous readdir calls exits, then
a random entry is dropped.

The attached patch fixes the O(N^2) by using f_version to store the pid of
the task that should be returned next.  This speeds up reading /proc to
O(N).  Additionally, it mitigates the effects of dying tasks: Tasks are
skipped only if the task whose pid is stored in f_version exits, all other
task deaths have no effect.  Unfortunately the code has a bad worst case
behavior: if the targeted task exits and a new task with the same pid is
created, then all entries in the task list between old and new position are
dropped.  This should be rare.

From: Bram Stolk <bram@sara.nl>

Fixes for Documentation/fb/modedb.txt and Documentation/fb/tridentfb.txt

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

It turns out that run_workqueue never has signal_pending(), since setting
the handler to SIG_IGN means "don't make zombies, I'm ignoring them".  Fix
the comment, don't allow the signal, and remove the unused waitpid loop.

This also allows simpler conversion of workueues to the kthread mechanism,
which uses signals to indicate it's time to stop.

Spotted by From: Christian Borntraeger <kernel@borntraeger.net>

dma_reset_input() takes dmap->lock, so call it without that lock held.

From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes)

The 'depends' directive for SGI IOC4 support is too restrictive.  Just make
it depend on ia64.

We leak a page in do_no_page() if pte_chain_alloc fails.

From: Armin <armin@melware.de>

- Allocate buffer of correct size.

- Fix possible buffer overflow.

- Use correct debug level for double registered application.

From: Armin <armin@melware.de>

It fixes access to hardware memory of wrong size and therefore removes a
compiler warning.  The hardware trap variable must be read as 32bit value.

From: Armin <armin@melware.de>

The new driver for Eicon ISDN cards is in drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon.

The old driver is still in drivers/isdn/eicon and I would like to remove
this old driver from the 2.6 kernels.

The attached patch removes the references to this driver, but in addition
the directory drivers/isdn/eicon should be removed.

From: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>

start_this_handle() returns 0 always.  because of this journal_start() may
return handle with h_transaction = NULL

From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>

The i386 HPET time setup code would explicitely check for the Intel vendor
ID.  That is bogus because other chipset vendors (like AMD) are
implementing HPET too.  

Remove this check.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@au1.ibm.com>

Vatsa spotted this: you can remove a module while it's being initialized,
and that will be bad.  Hole was opened when I dropped the sem around the
init routine (which can probe for other modules).

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
      Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Prevents a race where sys_sched_setaffinity can race with
sched_migrate_task and cause sched_migrate_task to restore an invalid
cpu mask.

- Make it static

- It is larger and has two callsites: uninline it.

From: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>

I'm compiling 2.6.1-rc1-mm1 with "-W -Wall" to look for potential problems
and minor stuff to clean up.

One of the things that enabling the extra warnings turn up is errors about
the placement of the inline keyword.

Fix warnings and build errors under EXT2_DEBUG.

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>

Softcursor was broken for half of 2.5 series.  This fixes it by first
hiding cursor _then_ hiding softcursor.  Very simple mistake...