From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

Several of the pte_chain_alloc() allocators that use GFP_ATOMIC have a
fallback for failure that sleeps; they thus need to not warn on failure..
Seen during a big fork on a busy system.

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

cciss_scsi_detect() can be called after init (for TAPE support).

From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>

Patch below from Patrick J. LoPresti and myself.  Patrick describes:

Why this patch?  The problem is that the legacy BIOS interface
(INT13/AH=3D08) for querying the disk geometry returns different values
than the extended INT13 interface which the EDD code currently uses.  This
is because the legacy interface only provides a 10-bit cylinder field, so
modern BIOSes "lie" about the head/sector counts in order to make more of
the disk visible within the first 1024 cylinders.

Many non-Linux applications, including the stock Windows boot loader, DOS
fdisk, etc., rely upon the legacy interface and geometry.  So it is useful
to be able to obtain the legacy values from a running Linux kernel.

What this patch does is to add new entries under
/sys/firmware/edd/int13_devXX named "legacy_cylinders", "legacy_heads", and
"legacy_sectors".  These provide the geometry given by the legacy
INT13/AH=3D08 BIOS interface, just like the current "default_cylinders"
etc.  provide the the geometry given by the INT13/AH=3D48 interface.

Without this patch, I cannot use Linux to partition a drive and install
Windows, which happens to be my application.

 - Pat
   http://unattended.sourceforge.net/

In addition, this adds two buggy BIOS workarounds  in the EDD int13
calls as suggested by Ralf Brown's interrupt list.

I'm also interested in moving this code out of arch/i386/kernel/edd.c and
include/asm-i386/edd.h, as I believe it is applicable on x86-64 as well.
However, there's no good place under drivers/ to put edd.c when it's not
tied to a bus, but to several CPU architectures and their firmwares...
Maybe a new directory drivers/firmware?

sound/oss/wavfront.c: In function `wavefront_download_firmware':
sound/oss/wavfront.c:2524: warning: implicit declaration of function `sys_open'
sound/oss/wavfront.c:2533: warning: implicit declaration of function `sys_read'
sound/oss/wavfront.c:2582: warning: implicit declaration of function `sys_close

From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>

This patch fixes a problem we're hitting on ia64 with page sizes > 4k.

When the page size is greater than the block size, and parts of the page
fall past the end of the device, readpage will fail because
blkdev_get_block returns -EIO for blocks past i_size.

The attached patch changes blkdev_get_block to return holes when reading
past the end of the device, which allows us to read that last valid 4k
block and then fill the rest of the page with zeros.  Writes will still
fail with -EIO.

From: vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>

Add a missing test for the "root=/dev/ram" kernel boot option.  It's just an
alias for /dev/ram0, but it worked in 2.4...

From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>

current_is_keventd() doesn't need to search across all the CPUs to identify
itself.

From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>

I was debugging some code that corrupted the vma rb lists and for that I
fixed validate_mm to not be recursive and do some more checks.

It's slower now, but that shouldn't be a problem.

Also make it non static to allow easier checks elsewhere.

From: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>

- In sys_fadvise64_64(): if the start and/or end offsets do not fall on
  page boundaries, preserve the partial pages.  The thinking here is that it
  is better to preserve needed memory than to not shoot down unneeded memory.

- In invalidate_mapping_pages(): we were invalidating an entire pagevec's
  worth of pages each time around, even if that went beyond the part of the
  file which the caller asked to be invalidated.  Fix that up.

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

- remove an MELAN entry that was forgotten in the i386 processor
  selection menu

- s/CONFIG_MELAN/CONFIG_X86_ELAN/ was missing in module.h

From: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

Convert last set of watchdog drivers to new moduleparam system.

From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>

Remove the arbitrary limit of 32 ACL entries on ext[23] when reading from
disk.  This change is backward compatible; we need to have this change in
to be able to also allow writing big ACLs.

The second patch that removes the ACL entry limit for writes is not
included.  I don't want to push that patch now, because large ACLs would
cause 2.4 and current 2.6 kernels to fail.  My plan is to remove the second
limit later, in a half-year or year or so.

From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

i810fb most likely is needed on x86-64 too because there are Intel chipsets
for it now.  So far it only linked on i386, fix this.

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

If someone removes a /proc directory which still has subdirectories it will
lead to very nasty things (dentries remaining on hash chains etc etc etc).
The BUG_ON in the patch below will catch this nasty situation.

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

sem_revalidate checks that a semaphore array didn't disappear while the
code was running without the semaphore array spinlock.  If the array
disappeared, then it will return without holding a lock.  find_undo calls
sem_revalidate and then sem_unlock, even if sem_revalidate failed.  The
sem_unlock call must be removed.

Mingming Cao reported a spinlock deadlock with sysv semaphores.  A
superflous unlock doesn't explain the deadlock, but it's obviously a bug.

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

From: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>, me

modpost unconditionally searched for ".o" assuming this is always the
suffix of the module.  This fails in two cases:

a) when building external modules where any directory include ".o" in
   the name.  One example is a directory named: .../cvs.alsa.org/...

b) when someone names a kernel directory so it contains ".o".  One
   example is drivers/scsi/aic.ok/...

case b) was triggered by renaming the directory for aic7xxx, and modifying
Makefile and Kconfig.  This caused make modules to fail.

From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>

There's a race in loopback setup, it's easiest to trigger with one or more
procs doing loopback mounts at the same time.  The problem is that
fs/block_dev.c:do_open() only calls bdev_set_size on the first open.
Picture two procs:

proc1: mount -o loop file1 mnt1
proc2: mount -o loop file2 mnt2

proc1                   proc2
open /dev/loop0                         # bd_openers now 1
do_open
 bd_set_size(bdev, 0)                   # loop unbound, so bdev size is 0
                        open /dev/loop0 # bd_openers now 2
loop_set_fd                             # disk capacity now correct, but
				        # bdev not updated
mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
do_open

Because bd_openers != 0 for the last do_open, bd_set_size is not called
again and a size of 0 is used.  This eventually leads to an oops when the
loop device is unmounted, because fsync_bdev calls block_write_full_page
who decides every page on the block device is outside i_size and unmaps
them.

When ext2 or reiserfs try to sync a metadata buffer, we get an oops on
because the buffers are no longer mapped.

The patch below changes loop_set_fd and loop_clr_fd to also manipulate the
size of the block device, which fixes things for me.

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

The patch below (written by Al Viro) solves a nasty chicken-and-egg issue
for operating system installers (well at least anaconda but the problem
domain is not exclusive to that)

The basic problem is this:

- The small first stage installer locates the image file of the second
  stage installer (which has X and all the graphical stuff); this image can
  be on the same CD, but it can come via NFS, http or ftp or ...  as well.

- The first stage installer loop-back mounts this image and gives control
  to the second stage installer by calling some binary there.

- The graphical installer then asks the user all those questions and
  starts installing packages.  Again the packages can come from the CD but
  also from NFS or http or ...

Now in case of a CD install, once all requested packages from the first CD
are installed, the installer wants to unmount and eject the CD and prompt
the user to put CD 2 in.......  EXCEPT that the unmount can't work since
the installer is actually running from a loopback mount of this cd.

The solution is a "LOOP_CHANGE_FD" ioctl, where basically the installer
copies the image to the harddisk (which can only be done late since only
late the target harddisk is mkfs'd) and then magically switches the backing
store FD from underneath the loop device to the one on the target harddisk
(and thus unbusying the CD mount).

This is obviously only allowed if the size of the new image is identical
and if the loop image is read-only in the first place.  It's the
responsibility of root to make sure the contents is the same (but that's of
the give-root-enough-rope kind)

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Make the difference between 'make clean' and 'make distclean/mrproper' more
explicit.

make clean now removes all generated files except .config* and .version.
The result is much easier to understand now.

make clean deletes all generated files (except .config* and .version).
make mrproper deletes configuration and all temporary files left by patch,
editors and the like.

Example output:
> make mrproper
  CLEAN   init
  CLEAN   usr
  CLEAN   scripts/kconfig
  CLEAN   scripts
  CLEAN   .tmp_versions include/config
  CLEAN   include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h include/asm .tmp_versions
  CLEAN   .version .config

Form the list of files/directories deleted during make clean, removed all
references that is no longer relevant for the current kernel.

From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>

Using PAGE_SIZE rather than 4096 so that mmap() granularity is honored by
whatever non-i386 architectures use MMAP_PAGE_ZERO.

From: Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi>

There are a few kernel-only things in compiler.h which should have been
placed inside __KERNEL__.

From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>

The only path to get to del_timer call in __generic_unplug_device() is when
blk_remove_plug() returns 1, and in that case it already removed the
unplug_timer.

Patch to remove this redundant call.

From: <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>

The attached patch is NUMA-aware zonelist builder patch, which sorts
zonelist in the order that near-node first, far-node last.  In lse-tech and
linux-ia64, where most of NUMA people resides, no objections are raised so
far.

The patch adds NUMA-specific version of build_zonelists which calls
find_next_best_node to select the next-nearest node to add to zonelist.

The patch has no effect on flat NUMA platform.

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

The EXTRA_CFLAGS assignments in the following files are a left-over from
the early 2.5 days where the source was not compiled from the root of the
source tree.

Removing these wrong assignments fixes
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2210

A script named 'kernel' in the .. directory no longer halt compilation.

From: Ben Fennema <bfennema@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu>

- added udf 2.5 #defines

- fixed prealloc discard race

- fixed several bugs in inode_getblk

- added S_IFSOCK support

- fix unicode encoding bug

- change partition allocation from kmalloc to vmalloc for large
  allocations

From: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>

selinux is currently inspecting the filesystem name ("nfs" vs "coda" vs
watever) to work out whether it needs to hanbdle binary mount data.

Eliminate all that by adding a flag to file_system_type.fs_flags.

dm-stripe.c: The stripe width must be at least the page size.

From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>

List targets ioctl.  [Patrick Caulfield]

From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>

Fill in missing queue limitations when table is complete instead of enforcing
the "default" limits on every dm device.  Problem noticed by Mike Christie.

[Christophe Saout]

From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>

Audit for list_for_each_*entry*

From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>

Add an endio method to targets.  This method is allowed to request another
shot at failed ios (think multipath).  Context can be passed between the map
method and the endio method.

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

By allowing X86_MCE_NONFATAL to be a module, it can be included in
distribution kernels without upsetting those with strange hardware.

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>

This patch cleans up the very early memory setup on the i386 platform.  In
particular, it removes the hard-coded 8 MB limit completely by dynamically
creating the early-boot pagetables rather than having them hard coded.

While I was at it, I changed head.S so that it always sets up a local GDT;
this means among other things that SMP and VISWS are no longer special
cases, and is conceptually cleaner to boot.  The VISWS people have
confirmed it works on VISWS.

It also uses a separate entrypoint for non-boot processors since this is
completely kernel-internal anyway.  This eliminates the need to set %bx on
boot.  (If you think this is a bad idea I can eliminate this change; it
just seemed cleaner to me to do it this way.)

Additionally, zero bss with rep;stosl rather that rep;stosb.

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

From: Luiz Fernando Capitulino <lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br>

remove ifdef/endif in rtc_generic_init().
use returned error code;

From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>

Drivers should all be converted to use ioremap() or isa_*() by now.

If there's nothing available and the file is O_NONBLOCK, return -EAGAIN.

This is a bit grubby - really we should push the file* down into do_syslog()
and handle it inside the spinlock.

From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

In developing the ia64-cyclone patch, which implements a cyclone based time
interpolator, I found the following bug which could cause time
inconsistencies.

In update_wall_time_one_tick(), which is called each timer interrupt, we
call time_interpolator_update(delta_nsec) where delta_nsec is approximately
NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ.  This directly correlates with the changes to xtime which
occurs in update_wall_time_one_tick().

However in update_wall_time(), on a second overflow, we again call
time_interpolator_update(NSEC_PER_SEC).  However while the components of
xtime are being changed, the overall value of xtime does not (nsec is
decremented NSEC_PER_SEC and sec is incremented).  Thus this call to
time_interpolator_update is incorrect.

This patch removes the incorrect call to time_interpolator_update and was
found to resolve the time inconsistencies I had seen while developing the
ia64-cyclone patch.

From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>

This patch fixes fb_console_init from being called twice.  I still need to
fix set_con2fb but this helps but this is still important to get in.

From: Niraj Kumar <niraj17@iitbombay.org>

This patch adds read-only support for ufs2 (used in FreeBSD 5.x) variant of
ufs filesystem.  For filesystem specific tools, see
http://ufs-linux.sourceforge.com .

From: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>

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

Pipelined readahead behaviour is suitable for sequential reads, but not for
large random reads (typical of database workloads), where lazy readahead
provides a big performance boost.

One option (suggested by Andrew Morton) would be to have the application
pass hints to turn off readahead by setting the readahead window to zero
using posix_fadvise64(POSIX_FADV_RANDOM), and to special-case that in
do_generic_mapping_read to completely bypass the readahead logic and
instead read in all the pages needed directly.

This was the idea I started with.  But then I thought, we can do a still
better job ?  How about adapting the readahead algorithm to lazy-read or
non-lazy-read based on the past i/o patterns ?

The overall idea is to keep track of average number of contiguous pages
accessed in a file.  If the average at any given time is above ra->pages
the pattern is sequential.  If not the pattern is random.  If pattern is
sequential do non-lazy-readahead( read as soon as the first page in the
active window is touched) else do lazy-readahead.

I have studied the behaviour of this patch using my user-level simulator.
It adapts pretty well.

Note from Suparna: This appears to bring streaming AIO read performance for
large (64KB) random AIO reads back to sane values (since the lazy readahead
backout in the mainline).