ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test9/2.6.0-test9-mm4/ . Several fixes against patches which are only in -mm at present. . Minor fixes which we'll queue for post-2.6.0. . The interactivity problems which the ACPI PM timer patch showed up should be fixed here - please sing out if not. Changes since 2.6.0-test9-mm3: linus.patch Latest Linus tree -tulip-hash-fix.patch Merged +msi-various-fixes.patch ia32 Message Signalled Interrupt fixlets -compat_ioctl-cleanup.patch other changes broke this. +compat-statfs-fixes.patch compat layer fixes +ia32-sched_clock-fix.patch Fix sched_clock() for when the TSC is not the time source. +timer_pm-verbose-timesource-fix.patch +acpi-pm_timer-init-cpu_khz.patch +timer_pm-fix-fix-fix.patch ia32 PM timer fixes +forcedeth-update-2.patch Update for the nForce ethernet driver -drm-agp-module-dependency-fix.patch This generated nasty warnings and I wasn't able to get it to autoload the AGP module when loading the DRM module anyway. +xattr-arith-fix.patch 64-bit fixes for the ext2 and ext3 extended attribute code. +radeon-line-length-fix.patch Radeon fbdev driver fix +resource-bounds-fix.patch Fix Memory/IO resource management boundary condition bug. +proc-interrupts-use-seq-file.patch Convert /proc/interrupts to seq_file (breaks lots of archs) +ide-tape-update.patch Make ide-tape work. +mpparse-printk-fix.patch Don't try to print nulls into the boot logs. +intel-440gx-ids-fix.patch The 440gx PCI IDs were wrong. +centrino-1ghz-support.patch Add cpufreq support for the 1GHz Centrinos. +nonmodular-binfmt_elf.patch Disallow CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=m - it doesn't work and isn't useful. +pnp-fix-1.patch +pnp-fix-2.patch +pnp-fix-3.patch PNP updates. +document-elevator-equals.patch Documentation update +cpio-offset-fix.patch Fix generation of the initramfs cpio image. +watchdog-retval-fix.patch Return the right thing from the watchdog write() functions. +document-lib-parser.patch Documentation update +format_cpumask.patch Fix format_cpumask() +init-remove-CLONE_FILES.patch Don't start init with CLONE_FILES - it causes fd inheritance in undesirable ways. +alpha-stack-dump.patch Additional debug for unaligned accesses on Alpha +usb-msgsize-fix.patch Support 1024k packets on USB2.0 +pagefault-accounting-fix.patch Fix the major-vs-minor pagefault accounting. +proc_kill_inodes-oops-fix.patch Might fix oops in proc-kill_inodes() +proc_bus_pci_lseek-remove-lock_kernel.patch lock_kernel() removal. +lockmeter-sparc64-fix.patch Fix sparc64 build for the lockmeter patch. +4g4g-vm86-fix.patch 4G/4G fix. All 231 patches: linus.patch mm.patch add -mmN to EXTRAVERSION kgdb-ga.patch kgdb stub for ia32 (George Anzinger's one) kgdbL warning fix kgdb-buff-too-big.patch kgdb buffer overflow fix kgdb-warning-fix.patch kgdbL warning fix kgdb-build-fix.patch kgdb-spinlock-fix.patch kgdb-fix-debug-info.patch kgdb: CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO fix kgdb-cpumask_t.patch kgdb-x86_64-fixes.patch x86_64 fixes kgdb-over-ethernet.patch kgdb-over-ethernet patch kgdb-over-ethernet-fixes.patch kgdb-over-ethernet fixlets kgdb-CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER.patch kgdb: replace CONFIG_KGDB with CONFIG_NET_RX_POLL in net drivers kgdb-handle-stopped-NICs.patch kgdb: handle netif_stopped NICs eepro100-poll-controller.patch tlan-poll_controller.patch tulip-poll_controller.patch tg3-poll_controller.patch kgdb: tg3 poll_controller 8139too-poll_controller.patch 8139too poll controller kgdb-eth-smp-fix.patch kgdb-over-ethernet: fix SMP kgdb-eth-reattach.patch kgdb-skb_reserve-fix.patch kgdb-over-ethernet: skb_reserve() fix must-fix.patch should-fix.patch must-fix-update-01.patch must fix lists update RD1-cdrom_ioctl-B6.patch RD2-ioctl-B6.patch RD2-ioctl-B6-fix.patch RD2-ioctl-B6 fixes RD3-cdrom_open-B6.patch RD4-open-B6.patch RD5-cdrom_release-B6.patch RD6-release-B6.patch RD7-presto_journal_close-B6.patch RD8-f_mapping-B6.patch RD9-f_mapping2-B6.patch RD10-i_sem-B6.patch RD11-f_mapping3-B6.patch RD12-generic_osync_inode-B6.patch RD13-bd_acquire-B6.patch RD14-generic_write_checks-B6.patch RD15-I_BDEV-B6.patch cramfs-use-pagecache.patch cramfs: use pagecache better invalidate_inodes-speedup.patch invalidate_inodes speedup invalidate_inodes-speedup-fixes-2.patch more invalidate_inodes speedup fixes serio-01-renaming.patch serio: rename serio_[un]register_slave_port to __serio_[un]register_port serio-02-race-fix.patch serio: possible race between port removal and kseriod serio-03-blacklist.patch Add black list to handler<->device matching serio-04-synaptics-cleanup.patch Synaptics: code cleanup serio-05-reconnect-facility.patch serio: reconnect facility serio-06-synaptics-use-reconnect.patch Synaptics: use serio_reconnect acpi_off-fix.patch fix acpi=off cfq-4.patch CFQ io scheduler CFQ fixes config_spinline.patch uninline spinlocks for profiling accuracy. ppc64-bar-0-fix.patch Allow PCI BARs that start at 0 ppc64-reloc_hide.patch sym-do-160.patch make the SYM driver do 160 MB/sec input-use-after-free-checks.patch input layer debug checks aic7xxx-parallel-build-fix.patch fix parallel builds for aic7xxx ramdisk-cleanup.patch intel8x0-cleanup.patch intel8x0 cleanups pdflush-diag.patch kobject-oops-fixes.patch fix oopses is kobject parent is removed before child futex-uninlinings.patch futex uninlining zap_page_range-debug.patch zap_page_range() debug call_usermodehelper-retval-fix-3.patch Make call_usermodehelper report exit status asus-L5-fix.patch Asus L5 framebuffer fix jffs-use-daemonize.patch tulip-NAPI-support.patch tulip NAPI support tulip-napi-disable.patch tulip NAPI: disable poll in close get_user_pages-handle-VM_IO.patch ia32-MSI-support.patch Updated ia32 MSI Patches ia32-MSI-support-x86_64-fixes.patch msi-various-fixes.patch MSI Update Based on 2.6.0-test9-mm3 ia32-efi-support.patch EFI support for ia32 efi warning fix fix EFI for ppc64, ia64 efi: warning fixes ia32 EFI: Add CONFIG_EFI efi: Update Kconfig help efi update patch (ia64) support-zillions-of-scsi-disks.patch support many SCSI disks SGI-IOC4-IDE-chipset-support.patch Add support for SGI's IOC4 chipset sparc32-sched_clock.patch pcibios_test_irq-fix.patch Fix pcibios test IRQ handler return fixmap-in-proc-pid-maps.patch report user-readable fixmap area in /proc/PID/maps i82365-sysfs-ordering-fix.patch Fix init_i82365 sysfs ordering oops pci_set_power_state-might-sleep.patch ia64-ia32-missing-compat-syscalls.patch From: Arun Sharma Subject: Missing compat syscalls in ia64 compat-layer-fixes.patch Minor bug fixes to the compat layer compat-ioctl-for-i2c.patch compat_ioctl for i2c compat-statfs-fixes.patch COMPAT statfs64 bug fixes fix-sqrt.patch sqrt() fixes scale-min_free_kbytes.patch scale the initial value of min_free_kbytes cdrom-allocation-try-harder.patch Use __GFP_REPEAT for cdrom buffer sym-2.1.18f.patch CONFIG_STANDALONE-default-to-n.patch Make CONFIG_STANDALONE default to N extra-buffer-diags.patch nosysfs.patch constant_test_bit-doesnt-like-zwanes-gcc.patch gcc bug workaround for constant_test_bit() slab-leak-detector.patch slab leak detector early-serial-registration-fix.patch serial console registration bugfix 3c527-smp-update.patch SMP support on 3c527 net driver 3c527-race-fix.patch ext3-latency-fix.patch ext3 scheduling latency fix videobuf_waiton-race-fix.patch firmware-kernel_thread-on-demand.patch Remove workqueue usage from request_firmware_async() loop-autoloading-fix.patch Fix loop module auto loading loop-module-alias.patch loop needs MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCK loop-remove-blkdev-special-case.patch loop-highmem.patch remove useless highmem bounce from loop/cryptoloop loop-highmem-fixes.patch loop-bio-handling-fix.patch loop: BIO handling fix cmpci-set_fs-fix.patch cmpci.c: remove pointless set_fs() dentry-bloat-fix-2.patch Fix dcache and icache bloat with deep directories nls-config-fixes.patch NSL config fixes proc_pid_lookup-vs-exit-race-fix.patch Fix proc_pid_lookup vs exit race gcc-Os-if-embedded.patch Add `gcc -Os' config option aic7xxx-sleep-in-spinlock-fix.patch vm86-sysenter-fix.patch Fix sysenter disabling in vm86 mode gettimeofday-resolution-fix.patch gettimeofday resolution fix refill_counter-overflow-fix.patch vmscan: reset refill_counter after refilling the inactive list ia32-sched_clock-fix.patch sched_clock() fix verbose-timesource.patch be verbose about the time source acpi-pm-timer.patch ACPI PM Timer acpi-pm-timer-fixes.patch ACPI PM-Timer fixes timer_pm-verbose-timesource-fix.patch Subject: [PATCH] linux-2.6.0-test9-mm3_verbose-timesource-acpi-pm_A0 acpi-pm_timer-init-cpu_khz.patch ACPI PM timer: initialise cpu_khz timer_pm-fix-fix-fix.patch acpi PM timer fix as-regression-fix.patch Fix IO scheduler regression as-request-poisoning.patch AS: request poisoning as-request-poisoning-fix.patch AS: request poisining fix as-fix-all-known-bugs.patch AS fixes as-new-process-estimation.patch AS: new process estimation as-cooperative-thinktime.patch AS: thinktime improvement scale-nr_requests.patch scale nr_requests with TCQ depth truncate_inode_pages-check.patch local_bh_enable-warning-fix.patch cdc-acm-softirq-rx.patch cdc-acm: move rx processing to softirq forcedeth.patch forcedeth: nForce ethernet driver forcedeth-update-2.patch forcedeth update reiserfs-pinned-buffer-fix.patch reiserfs pinned buffer fix proc-pid-maps-output-fix.patch Restore /proc/pid/maps formatting atomic_dec-debug.patch atomic_dec debug sis900-pm-support.patch Add PM support to sis900 network driver 8139too-locking-fix.patch 8139too locking fix ia32-wp-test-cleanup.patch ia32 WP test cleanup hugetlb-needs-pse.patch ia32: hugetlb needs pse powermate-payload-size-fix.patch Griffin Powermate fix more-than-256-cpus.patch Fix for more than 256 CPUs ZONE_SHIFT-from-NODES_SHIFT.patch Use NODES_SHIFT to calculate ZONE_SHIFT ext2_new_inode-fixes.patch Fix bugs in ext2_new_inode() ext2_new_inode-fixes-tweaks.patch ext2_new_inode: more tweaking remove-ext2_reverve_inode.patch memmove-speedup.patch optimize ia32 memmove percpu-counter-linkage-fix.patch fix percpu_counter_mod linkage problem ide-scsi-warnings.patch ide-scsi: warn when used for cdroms pipe-readv-writev.patch Fix writev atomicity on pipe/fifo ext3_new_inode-scan-fix.patch ext3_new_inode fixlet lockless-semop.patch lockless semop percpu_counter-use-alloc_percpu.patch use alloc_percpu in percpu_counters i450nx-scanning-fix.patch i450nx PCI scanning fix serio-pm-fix.patch psmouse pm resume fix find_busiest_queue-commentary.patch find_busiest_queue() commentary fix ext2-block-allocator-fixes.patch ext2 block allocator fixes SOUND_CMPCI-config-typo-fix.patch fix SOUND_CMPCI Configure help entry atkbd-24-compatibility.patch Fixes for keyboard 2.4 compatibility init_h-needs-compiler_h.patch init.h needs to include compiler.h init_h-needs-compiler_h-fix.patch compile fix for older gcc's cpu_sibling_map-fix.patch cpu_sibling_map fix context-switch-accounting-fix.patch Fix context switch accounting access-vfs_permission-fix.patch Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix access() / vfs_permission() bug eicon-linkage-fix.patch eicon/ and hardware/eicon/ drivers using the same symbols kobject-docco-additions.patch Improve documentation for kobjects xattr-arith-fix.patch fs/ext[23]/xattr.c pointer arithmetic fix radeon-line-length-fix.patch radeonfb fix resource-bounds-fix.patch resource.c bounds checking fix promise-sata-id.patch add Promise 20376 PCI ID proc-interrupts-use-seq-file.patch seq_file version of /proc/interrupts ide-tape-update.patch ide-tape update mpparse-printk-fix.patch mpparse printk fix intel-440gx-ids-fix.patch centrino-1ghz-support.patch support centrino 1GHz nonmodular-binfmt_elf.patch disallow modular BINFMT_ELF pnp-fix-1.patch PnP Fixes #1 pnp-fix-2.patch PnP Fixes #2 pnp-fix-3.patch PnP Fixes #3 document-elevator-equals.patch document elevator= parameter cpio-offset-fix.patch missing padding in cpio_mkfile in usr/gen_init_cpio.c watchdog-retval-fix.patch watchdog write() return value fixes document-lib-parser.patch Add lib/parser.c kernel-doc format_cpumask.patch format_cpumask() init-remove-CLONE_FILES.patch Remove CLONE_FILES from init kernel thread creation alpha-stack-dump.patch usb-msgsize-fix.patch HiSpd Isoc 1024KB submits: -EMSGSIZE pagefault-accounting-fix.patch pagefault accounting fix proc_kill_inodes-oops-fix.patch proc_bus_pci_lseek-remove-lock_kernel.patch remove lock_kernel() from proc_bus_pci_lseek() list_del-debug.patch list_del debug check print-build-options-on-oops.patch show_task-free-stack-fix.patch show_task() fix and cleanup oops-dump-preceding-code.patch i386 oops output: dump preceding code lockmeter.patch lockmeter-sparc64-fix.patch printk-oops-mangle-fix.patch disentangle printk's whilst oopsing on SMP 4g-2.6.0-test2-mm2-A5.patch 4G/4G split patch 4G/4G: remove debug code 4g4g: pmd fix 4g/4g: fixes from Bill 4g4g: fpu emulation fix 4g/4g usercopy atomicity fix 4G/4G: remove debug code 4g4g: pmd fix 4g/4g: fixes from Bill 4g4g: fpu emulation fix 4g/4g usercopy atomicity fix 4G/4G preempt on vstack 4G/4G: even number of kmap types 4g4g: fix __get_user in slab 4g4g: Remove extra .data.idt section definition 4g/4g linker error (overlapping sections) 4G/4G: remove debug code 4g4g: pmd fix 4g/4g: fixes from Bill 4g4g: fpu emulation fix 4g4g: show_registers() fix 4g/4g usercopy atomicity fix 4g4g: debug flags fix 4g4g: Fix wrong asm-offsets entry cyclone time fixmap fix 4G/4G preempt on vstack 4G/4G: even number of kmap types 4g4g: fix __get_user in slab 4g4g: Remove extra .data.idt section definition 4g/4g linker error (overlapping sections) 4G/4G: remove debug code 4g4g: pmd fix 4g/4g: fixes from Bill 4g4g: fpu emulation fix 4g4g: show_registers() fix 4g/4g usercopy atomicity fix 4g4g: debug flags fix 4g4g: Fix wrong asm-offsets entry cyclone time fixmap fix use direct_copy_{to,from}_user for kernel access in mm/usercopy.c 4G/4G might_sleep warning fix 4g/4g pagetable accounting fix 4g4g-athlon-prefetch-handling-fix.patch 4g4g-wp-test-fix.patch Fix 4G/4G and WP test lockup 4g4g-KERNEL_DS-usercopy-fix.patch 4G/4G KERNEL_DS usercopy again 4g4g-vm86-fix.patch Fix 4G/4G X11/vm86 oops ppc-fixes.patch make mm4 compile on ppc aic7xxx_old-oops-fix.patch O_DIRECT-race-fixes-rollup.patch DIO fixes forward port and AIO-DIO fix O_DIRECT race fixes comments O_DRIECT race fixes fix fix fix DIO locking rework O_DIRECT XFS fix dio-aio-fixes.patch direct-io AIO fixes dio-aio-fixes-fixes.patch dio-aio fix fix readahead-multiple-fixes.patch readahead: multipole performance fixes readahead-simplification.patch readahead simplification aio-sysctl-parms.patch aio sysctl parms aio-01-retry.patch AIO: Core retry infrastructure Fix aio process hang on EINVAL AIO: flush workqueues before destroying ioctx'es AIO: hold the context lock across unuse_mm task task_lock in use_mm() 4g4g-aio-hang-fix.patch Fix AIO and 4G-4G hang aio-retry-elevated-refcount.patch aio: extra ref count during retry aio-splice-runlist.patch Splice AIO runlist for fairer handling of multiple io contexts aio-02-lockpage_wq.patch AIO: Async page wait aio-03-fs_read.patch AIO: Filesystem aio read aio-04-buffer_wq.patch AIO: Async buffer wait lock_buffer_wq fix aio-05-fs_write.patch AIO: Filesystem aio write aio-06-bread_wq.patch AIO: Async block read aio-07-ext2getblk_wq.patch AIO: Async get block for ext2 O_SYNC-speedup-2.patch speed up O_SYNC writes O_SYNC-speedup-2-f_mapping-fixes.patch aio-09-o_sync.patch aio O_SYNC AIO: fix a BUG Unify o_sync changes for aio and regular writes aio-O_SYNC-fix bits got lost aio: writev nr_segs fix More AIO O_SYNC related fixes aio-09-o_sync-f_mapping-fixes.patch gang_lookup_next.patch Change the page gang lookup API aio-gang_lookup-fix.patch AIO gang lookup fixes aio-O_SYNC-short-write-fix.patch Fix for O_SYNC short writes aio-12-readahead.patch AIO: readahead fixes aio O_DIRECT no readahead Unified page range readahead for aio and regular reads aio-12-readahead-f_mapping-fix.patch aio-readahead-speedup.patch Readahead issues and AIO read speedup