2.5.59-mm2

2.5.59-mm2

[Andrew Morton]

http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.59/2.5.59-mm2/

- Added Andi's lockless current_kernel_time() patch again.  It'll break
  non-ia32 builds.  But it appears that we should push ahead and get this
  implemented across the other architectures.

- Updated oprofile patches from John.

- Adam's devfs rework is back in.  We only had two testers last time, (out
  of maybe 150 downloads) which is fairly disappointing.

  So if you use devfs, _please_ test this change and send either success or
  failure reports (not to me though).

  Adam said:

   If you want devfsd functionality (well, at least the "REGISTER" and
   "LOOKUP" events), you can get my user level program devfs_helper, which is
   a reduced functionality replacement program for devfsd from the following
   URL.

	ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/pub/dist/device_control/devfs/devfs_helper-0.2.tar.gz




Changes since 2.5.59-mm1:


+lockless-current_kernel_time.patch

 Reinstated.

-mixer-bounds-check.patch

 This didn't look right.

+kirq-up-fix.patch

 Fix the kirq build for non-SMP

-op4-fix.patch

 Not needed with the updated oprofile patch

+oprofile_cpu-as-string.patch

 oprofile work from John.

+remove-will_become_orphaned_pgrp.patch

 Cleanup

+MAX_IO_APICS-ifdef.patch

 NUMA fix

+dac960-error-retry.patch

 DAC960 robustness enhancements

+put_user-warning-fix.patch

 ARM build fix

+vmlinux-fix.patch

 Should fix the modprobe oopses with RH8.0 toolchains

+smalldevfs.patch

 devfs rework

+sound-firmware-load-fix.patch

 Build fix for OSS sound card firmware loading.

+exit_mmap-fix2.patch

 Fix exec of 32-bit apps from 64-bit apps on PPC64/ia64/sparc64, perhaps.



All 43 patches:

kgdb.patch

devfs-fix.patch

deadline-np-42.patch
  (undescribed patch)

deadline-np-43.patch
  (undescribed patch)

setuid-exec-no-lock_kernel.patch
  remove lock_kernel() from exec of setuid apps

buffer-debug.patch
  buffer.c debugging

warn-null-wakeup.patch

reiserfs-readpages.patch
  reiserfs v3 readpages support

fadvise.patch
  implement posix_fadvise64()

ext3-scheduling-storm.patch
  ext3: fix scheduling storm and lockups

auto-unplug.patch
  self-unplugging request queues

less-unplugging.patch
  Remove most of the blk_run_queues() calls

lockless-current_kernel_time.patch
  Lockless current_kernel_timer()

scheduler-tunables.patch
  scheduler tunables

htlb-2.patch
  hugetlb: fix MAP_FIXED handling

kirq.patch

kirq-up-fix.patch
  Subject: Re: 2.5.59-mm1

ext3-truncate-ordered-pages.patch
  ext3: explicitly free truncated pages

prune-icache-stats.patch
  add stats for page reclaim via inode freeing

vma-file-merge.patch

mmap-whitespace.patch

read_cache_pages-cleanup.patch
  cleanup in read_cache_pages()

remove-GFP_HIGHIO.patch
  remove __GFP_HIGHIO

quota-lockfix.patch
  quota locking fix

quota-offsem.patch
  quota semaphore fix

oprofile-p4.patch

oprofile_cpu-as-string.patch
  oprofile cpu-as-string

wli-11_pgd_ctor.patch
  (undescribed patch)

wli-11_pgd_ctor-update.patch
  pgd_ctor update

stack-overflow-fix.patch
  stack overflow checking fix

Richard_Henderson_for_President.patch
  Subject: [PATCH] Richard Henderson for President!

parenthesise-pgd_index.patch
  Subject: i386 pgd_index() doesn't parenthesize its arg

macro-double-eval-fix.patch
  Subject: Re: i386 pgd_index() doesn't parenthesize its arg

mmzone-parens.patch
  asm-i386/mmzone.h macro paren/eval fixes

blkdev-fixes.patch
  blkdev.h fixes

remove-will_become_orphaned_pgrp.patch
  remove will_become_orphaned_pgrp()

MAX_IO_APICS-ifdef.patch
  MAX_IO_APICS #ifdef'd wrongly

dac960-error-retry.patch
  Subject: [PATCH] linux2.5.56 patch to DAC960 driver for error retry

put_user-warning-fix.patch
  Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.59

vmlinux-fix.patch
  vmlinux fix

smalldevfs.patch
  smalldevfs

sound-firmware-load-fix.patch
  soundcore.c referenced non-existent errno variable

exit_mmap-fix2.patch
  exit_mmap fix for 64bit->32bit execs


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Re: 2.5.59-mm2

[Arjan van de Ven]

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> +kirq-up-fix.patch
> 
>  Fix the kirq build for non-SMP

Hi,

Is there any reason to put this complexity in the kernel instead of
doing it from a userspace daemon?

A userspace daemon can do higher level evaluations, read config files
about the system (like numa configuration etc etc) and all 2.4/2.5
kernels already have a userspace api for setting irq affinity..

an example of a simple version of such daemon is:
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/irqbalance/irqbalance-0.03.tar.gz

any chance of testing this in an intel lab?

Greetings,
     Arjan van de Ven

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2.5.59mm2 BUG at fs/jbd/transaction.c:1148

[Mike Galbraith]

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Greetings,

I got the attached oops upon doing my standard reboot sequence SysRq[sub].

fwiw, I was fiddling with an ext2 ramdisk just prior to poking buttons.

	-Mike

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SysRq : Emergency Sync
Syncing device ide0(3,6) ... OK
Syncing device ide0(3,7) ... 
<0>Assertion failure in journal_dirty_metadata() at fs/jbd/transaction.c:1148: "jh->b_jlist != 1"
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/jbd/transaction.c:1148!
invalid operand: 0000
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c01755e4>]    Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010286
EIP is at journal_dirty_metadata+0x10c/0x174
eax: 00000062   ebx: c33aeb80   ecx: c31df8e0   edx: c027fbb0
esi: c32b9260   edi: c7a89e00   ebp: c7a839c0   esp: c31e1ccc
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process syslogd (pid: 102, threadinfo=c31e0000 task=c31df8e0)
Stack: c0249ca0 c024a1c1 c0249c80 0000047c c024a1d8 c317cd3c c7a839c0 00000000 
       c31e1d64 c0169bd1 c7a839c0 c317cd3c c317cd3c 00001000 c317cd3c 00001000 
       00000050 00000040 c0169994 c7a839c0 c317cd3c 00010000 00000000 c31c5660 
Call Trace:
 [<c0169bd1>] commit_write_fn+0x19/0x60
 [<c0169994>] walk_page_buffers+0x50/0x74
 [<c0169cda>] ext3_commit_write+0xc2/0x1d8
 [<c0169bb8>] commit_write_fn+0x0/0x60
 [<c0129e13>] generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x797/0x984
 [<c01f2bab>] kfree_skbmem+0xb/0x54
 [<c01f2cb6>] __kfree_skb+0xc2/0xc8
 [<c0230fba>] unix_stream_recvmsg+0x2ea/0x370
 [<c012a06f>] generic_file_write_nolock+0x6f/0x8c
 [<c01efe46>] sock_aio_read+0x8a/0x9c
 [<c013cab1>] do_sync_read+0x81/0xb0
 [<c01163bd>] do_schedule+0x235/0x25c
 [<c012a225>] generic_file_writev+0x31/0x44
 [<c013d08b>] do_readv_writev+0x1a7/0x27c
 [<c013cbe0>] do_sync_write+0x0/0xb0
 [<c017205d>] ext3_force_commit+0x1d/0x24
 [<c01675bb>] ext3_sync_file+0x5b/0x70
 [<c013d1f7>] vfs_writev+0x4b/0x50
 [<c013d262>] sys_writev+0x2a/0x3c
 [<c010a367>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Re: 2.5.59mm2 BUG at fs/jbd/transaction.c:1148

[Mike Galbraith]

At 12:05 AM 1/19/2003 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I got the attached oops upon doing my standard reboot sequence SysRq[sub].
> >
> > fwiw, I was fiddling with an ext2 ramdisk just prior to poking buttons.
> >
>
>You using data=journal?

Yup, on /var.

         -Mike

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Re: 2.5.59mm2 BUG at fs/jbd/transaction.c:1148

[Andrew Morton]

Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> 
> I got the attached oops upon doing my standard reboot sequence SysRq[sub].
> 
> fwiw, I was fiddling with an ext2 ramdisk just prior to poking buttons.
> 

You using data=journal?


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Re: 2.5.59mm2 BUG at fs/jbd/transaction.c:1148

[Mike Galbraith]

At 12:05 AM 1/19/2003 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I got the attached oops upon doing my standard reboot sequence SysRq[sub].
> >
> > fwiw, I was fiddling with an ext2 ramdisk just prior to poking buttons.
> >
>
>You using data=journal?

(p.s. it isn't a repeatable oops.  i've done SysRq-S many times)

         -Mike


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Re: 2.5.59mm2 BUG at fs/jbd/transaction.c:1148

[Andrew Morton]

Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> At 12:05 AM 1/19/2003 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I got the attached oops upon doing my standard reboot sequence SysRq[sub].
> > >
> > > fwiw, I was fiddling with an ext2 ramdisk just prior to poking buttons.
> > >
> >
> >You using data=journal?
> 

data=journal is sick in 2.5, although this is not the crash which I have seen
it exhibit.

On my todo list.
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