From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266176AbUAHUgp (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:36:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266281AbUAHUgp (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:36:45 -0500 Received: from obsidian.spiritone.com ([216.99.193.137]:16014 "EHLO obsidian.spiritone.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266176AbUAHUdw (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:33:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 12:33:27 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: linux-kernel , lse-tech cc: Steven Fuerst , nufan_wfk@yahoo.com, Gerd Knorr Subject: 2.6.1-rc3-mjb1 (newish: kexec, ALSA fixes, v4l2, ivtv) Message-ID: <2590000.1073594007@[10.10.2.4]> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The patchset is meant to be pretty stable, not so much a testing ground. Main differences from mainline are: 1. Better performance & resource consumption, particularly on larger machines. 2. Diagnosis tools (kgdb, early_printk, etc). 3. Updated arch support for AMD64 + PPC64. 4. Better support for sound, especially OSS emulation over ALSA. 5. Better support for video (v4l2, bttv, ivtv). 6. Kexec support. I'd be very interested in feedback from anyone willing to test on any platform, however large or small. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/2.6.1-rc3/patch-2.6.3-rc2-mjb1.bz2 Since 2.6.1-rc1-mjb1 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped) Notes: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Now in Linus' tree: Dropped: - user_text_replication Dave Hansen (causing problems on some UP systems) New: ~ stacktrace Adam Litke Stack backtracing via frame pointers (new version) + scsi_changer Gerd Knorr + videodev Gerd Knorr + v4l2 Gerd Knorr + video_buf Gerd Knorr + bt832 Gerd Knorr + i2c Gerd Knorr + ir_input Gerd Knorr + tuner Gerd Knorr + bttv Gerd Knorr + bttv_input Gerd Knorr + saa7134 Gerd Knorr + bttv_documentation Gerd Knorr + tiocgdev Gerd Knorr Video updates, bttv updates, v4l2, and a few other bits. + ivtv Kevin Thayer / Steven Fuerst Driver for ivtv (includes Hauppauge PVR 250 / 350) Written by Kevin Thayer, ported to 2.6 by Steven Fuerst Pending: config_numasched list_of_lists Hyperthreaded scheduler (Ingo Molnar) Child runs first (akpm) pidmaps_nodepages (Dave Hansen) Netdump Netconsole Present in this patch: -mjb Martin J. Bligh Add a tag to the makefile netdrvr_2.6.1_rc1_exp1 Jeff Garzik Net driver kit, including the netpoll infrastructure. kgdb Various Stolen from akpm's 2.6.0-mm1, includes fixes kgdboe_netpoll Matt Mackall et al. Kgdb over ethernet support that works with the netpoll infrastructure ppc64_bar_0_fix Anton Blanchard PPC 64 fixups ppc64_reloc_hide Anton Blanchard / Paul Mackerras PPC 64 fixups ppc64_sched_clock_fix Anton Blanchard / Paul Mackerras PPC 64 fixups ppc64_use_statfs64 Anton Blanchard PPC 64 fixups ppc64_compat_clock Olaf Hering PPC 64 fixups ppc64_numa_sign_extn Anton Blanchard PPC 64 fixups ppc64_IRQ_INPROGRESS_fix Anton Blanchard PPC 64 fixups spinlock_inlining Andrew Morton & Martin J. Bligh Inline spinlocks for profiling. Made into a ugly config option by me. lockmeter John Hawkes / Hanna Linder Locking stats. oops_dump_preceding_code Andrew Morton dump opcodes preceding and after the offending EIP. 4g4g Ingo Molnar Provide a 4G/4G user/kernel split for 32 bit memory lushes. lotsa_sds Badari Enable lots of scsi disks x86-64 Andi Kleen et al. x86_64 patch kit, 2.6.0-1 early_printk Dave Hansen / Keith Mannthey Allow printk before console_init confighz Andrew Morton / Dave Hansen Make HZ a config option of 100 Hz or 1000 Hz config_page_offset Dave Hansen / Andrea Make PAGE_OFFSET a config option numameminfo Martin Bligh / Keith Mannthey Expose NUMA meminfo information under /proc/meminfo.numa sched_tunables Robert Love Provide tunable parameters for the scheduler (+ NUMA scheduler) partial_objrmap Dave McCracken Object based rmap for filebacked pages. local_balance_exec Martin J. Bligh Modify balance_exec to use node-local queues when idle tcp_speedup Martin J. Bligh Speedup TCP (avoid double copy) as suggested by Linus disable preempt Martin J. Bligh I broke preempt somehow, temporarily disable it to stop accidents aiofix2 Mingming Cao fixed a bug in ioctx_alloc() config_irqbal Keith Mannthey Make irqbalance a config option percpu_real_loadavg Dave Hansen / Martin J. Bligh Tell me what the real load average is, and tell me per cpu. per_node_rss Matt Dobson Track which nodes tasks mem is on, so sched can be sensible. pfn_to_nid Martin J. Bligh Dance around the twisted rats nest of crap in i386 include. gfp_node_strict Dave Hansen Add a node strict binding as a gfp mask option irqbal_fast Adam Litke Balance IRQs more readily kcg Adam Litke Acylic call graphs from the kernel. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee! numa_mem_equals Dave Hansen mem= command line parameter NUMA awareness. schedstat Rick Lindsley Provide lotsa scheduler statistics schedstat_arches Rick Lindsley Make schedstats support PPC, PPC64, x86_64 as well as ia32 autoswap Con Kolivas Auto-tune swapiness mbind_part1 Matt Dobson Bind some memory for NUMA. mbind_part2 Matt Dobson Bind some more memory for NUMA. emulex driver Emulex Driver for emulex fiberchannel cards qlogic Qlogic / Mike Anderson Now qla2xxx-8.00.00b8-1 protocol254 Paul Mackerras / Omkhar Allow protocol 254 slabtune Dave McCracken Take slab in bigger bites on larger machines less_bouncy Martin J. Bligh Stop bouncing warm tasks cross node topdown Bill Irwin Turn userspace upside down for fun & profit sysfs_vs_dcache Maneesh Soni Fix race. pci_topology Matt Dobson Expose PCI NUMA topology to userspace stacktrace Adam Litke Stack backtracing via frame pointers implicit_huge_pages Adam Litke / wli / Brian T. Implicit huge pages for mmap and shmem fasync_lock_rcu Manfred Spraul Use RCU for fasync_lock lockmeter_ia64 Ray Bryant Add a config option for lockmeter on ia64 4g4g_sep_fix Ingo Molnar Fix SEP on 4g/4g split 4g4g_sysenter_test_fix Arjan Fix sysenter detection 4g4g_locked_copy Dave McCracken Locked copy to userspace kexec Eric Biederman et al. Exec a kernel for breakfast today. alsa_100rc2 ALSA project New code drop of sound infrastructure - fixes various bugs. force_wholefrag Martin J. Bligh et al. OSS emulation sounds like crap without wholefrag. Revert that change. lockmeter_notsc Martin J. Bligh Lockmeter does not require CONFIG_X86_TSC. smp_boot_id Martin J. Bligh Fix panic if boot cpu's phys apicid doesn't match expected. sysfs_backing_store1 Maneesh Soni Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space. sysfs_backing_store2 Maneesh Soni Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space. sysfs_backing_store3 Maneesh Soni Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space. sysfs_backing_store4 Maneesh Soni Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space. sysfs_backing_store5 Maneesh Soni Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space. scsi_changer Gerd Knorr videodev Gerd Knorr v4l2 Gerd Knorr Video 4 Linux 2 video_buf Gerd Knorr bt832 Gerd Knorr i2c Gerd Knorr ir_input Gerd Knorr tuner Gerd Knorr bttv Gerd Knorr bttv_input Gerd Knorr saa7134 Gerd Knorr bttv_documentation Gerd Knorr tiocgdev Gerd Knorr ivtv Kevin Thayer / Steven Fuerst Driver for ivtv (includes Hauppauge PVR 250 / 350) Written by Kevin Thayer, ported to 2.6 by Steven Fuerst