From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263093AbUDEEsv (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 00:48:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263098AbUDEEsv (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 00:48:51 -0400 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:38276 "EHLO dualathlon.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263093AbUDEEss (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 00:48:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 06:48:51 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.5-aa3 Message-ID: <20040405044851.GC2234@dualathlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org this got high prio to release due the prio-tree fixes from Rajesh, not that I ever triggered those bugs but they could hurt in theory. I feel things will settle down on the VM side from now on (at least in the objrmap/prio-tree/anon-vma area ;). I tried giving a spin to the 2.6.5-mc1.bz2 patch from Andrew but it apparently rejects heavily against 2.6.5. URL: http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.6/2.6.5-aa3.gz http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.6/2.6.5-aa3/ Changelog diff between 2.6.5-aa2 and 2.6.5-aa3: Files 2.6.5-aa2/extraversion and 2.6.5-aa3/extraversion differ Rediffed. Only in 2.6.5-aa3: kthread-stop-smp-race Fix smp race. Files 2.6.5-aa2/prio-tree.gz and 2.6.5-aa3/prio-tree.gz differ Merge Rajesh Venkatasubramanian's prio-tree internal data structure updates to fix some bug in very rare corner case. He posted the userspace simulator for the data structure too. http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~vrajesh/linux/prio_tree/user_space/