Changes all over the map.
The most noticeable one may well be the new and much improved elevator by
Jens Axboe, this one makes a big difference at least to me.
And Andrew found a nasty SMP deadlock on the tasklist lock.
And Ingo's been busy again, fixing some more threading issues he found
(including the much-talked-about futex thing).
Other stuff all over the map: USB, JFS, XFS, networking, debugging etc.
Linus
---Summary of changes from v2.5.38 to v2.5.39 ============================================
Albert Cranford <ac9410@attbi.com>: o i2c core/dev/proc cleanups, and a proc-related fix
<adam@nmt.edu>: o 3ware driver update for 2.5.35
<brihall@pcisys.net>: o Update for JMTek USBDrive
<devik@cdi.cz>: o net/sched/sch_htb.c: Verify classid and direct_qlen properly
<frival@zk3.dec.com>: o Compile fixes for alpha arch
<glee@gnupilgrims.org>: o MODULE_LICENSE for i82092 pcmcia
<green@angband.namesys.com>: o Reiserfs: Fix alloc= mount option parser
Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>: o XFS: XFS: Use do_gettimeofday() instead of racy direct access to xtime o XFS: Small comment corrections/updates o XFS: Don't include <asm/softirq.h> in page_buf.c o XFS: XFS: Make pagebuf use the generic xfs ASSERT() instead of it's own assert() o XFS: XFS: Sanitize some names in xfs_aops.c, especially a less offending name for linvfs_pb_bmap o XFS: XFS: Simplify xfs_dir_lookup_int o XFS: XFS: Remove some dead prototypes in pagebuf o XFS: Switch to mpage_readpage o XFS: More mount code cleanups o XFS: Fix the mount-cleanup for single-subvolume filesystems o XFS: Implement readv/writev
<info@usblcd.de>: o USBLCD updates
<jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>: o PnP BIOS ESCD sanity check
<jgrimm@jgrimm.austin.ibm.com>: o SCTP: Resync with LKSCTP tree
Stephen Lord <lord@sgi.com>: o XFS: Fold some code paths together in the xfs fsync implementation o XFS: Avoid writing data out to disk twice!
<luc.vanoostenryck@easynet.be>: o #include <linux/version.h> missing in drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.c
<perex@pnote.perex-int.cz>: o ISA PnP change Jens Thoms Toerring <Jens.Toerring@physik.fu-berlin.de>
<rgcrettol@datacomm.ch>: o USB 2.0 HDD Walker / ST-HW-818SLIM usb-storage fix
<stern@rowland.org>: o usb-storage: fix return codes
<stuartm@connecttech.com>: o USB: clean up the error logic for open() in the usb-serial driver o usb whiteheat driver update
Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>: o loop device broken in 2.5.38
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>: o flock_lock_file livelock fix o fix file_lock_cache leak o Remove NetNews.html
<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>: o [IPv6]: Verify ND options properly
<yuri@acronis.com>: o USB storage: Another (!) patch for the abort handler
Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>: o gendisk typo fixes
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>: o Re: Linux 2.5.38 o tapeblock blk_size removal o kills CURRENT in floppy.c o Lindent pd.c o cleanup of pd.c o gendisk for amiflop o gendisk for ataflop o gendisk for z2ram o gendisk for mtdblock o compile fixes for ftl o blk_size[] is gone
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>: o Minor ACPI changes for x86-64 o Fix ELF name for x86-64 o Hammer aperture driver for 2.5.38 o PCI ID for AMD 8151 AMD bridge o disable early console in console_init
Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>: o 64-bit type correctness in filemap.c o fix ext3 in data=writeback mode o don't hold mapping->private_lock while marking a page dirty o infrastructure for monitoring queue congestion state o use the queue congestion API in ext2_preread_inode() o use the congestion APIs in pdflush o low-latency page reclaim o direct-io bandaid o hugetlb fix o mprotect_fixup fix o prepare_to_wait/finish_wait sleep/wakeup API o use prepare_to_wait in VM/VFS o slab reclaim balancing o increase traffic on linux-kernel o speed up sys_sync() o tighter locking in pdflush o export test_clear_page_dirty() to modules
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>: o [LLC] remove not needed functions, use llc_sap_find in llc_sock o [LLC] kill llc_ui_bh_find_sk_by_addr o [UDPv6] fix udp_v6_get_port introduced by the sock splitup o [LLC] use sk->state_change when p_flag is cleared or core state changes o [LLC] use the core lists to get info for /proc/net/llc o [LLC] Make llc_save_primitive ready for dataunit/xid/test DGRAM packets o [LLC] move reason to the {station,sap,conn}_ev structs o [LLC] kill sap->{ind,conf}, finally! o [LLC] clean up the ui sending routines and core o [LLC] use struct sock list members o [LLC] remove sap->mac_pdu_q, not used at all o [LLC] keep the skb in llc_sap_state_process o [LLC] move sap->rcv_func call to llc_rcv o [SNAP] make SNAP work again o [X25] remove unneeded typedef x25_address o [X25] make search functions that grab locks have just one exit o [LLC] stop using the BKL o [X25] handle return codes and code reoganization to have only one exit in functions o [X25] assorted code cleanup o [X25] convert sysctl_net_x25 to use designated initializers o [X25] code reorganization, eliminate duplicated code
Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>: o RCS files exclusion (and add subversion)
Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com>: o JFS: Fix off-by-one error in dbNextAG o JFS: Fix problems with NFS o JFS: detect and fix invalid directory index values o JFS: Remove assert(i < MAX_ACTIVE)
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>: o ohci-hcd, queue fault recovery + rm DEBUG o ehci-hcd: update o USB shutdown oopser
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>: o Orinoco driver update
David S. Miller <davem@nuts.ninka.net>: o [BRIDGE]: Missing headers from ebtables merge o net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.c: Include linux/string.h
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>: o XFS: Remove unused function xfs_vn_iget()
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>: o USB: fix for ezusb firmware download o USB: made port_softint global for other usb-serial drivers to use o USB: convert the usb-skeleton.c driver to work with the latest USB core changes o USB: fix ifnum usage that was missed in the previous irda-usb patch o add hotplug support to the driver core for devices, if their bus type supports it o converted USB to use the driver core's hotplug call o converted PCI to use the driver core's hotplug call
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>: o [NETFILTER]: Trivial fixes
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>: o pidhash cleanups, tgid-2.5.38-F3 o de-xchg fork.c o pgrp-fix-2.5.38-A2 o thread-flock-2.5.38-A3 o pidhash-2.5.38-A0 o exit-fix-2.5.38-E3 o exit-fix-2.5.38-F0 o kksymoops-2.5.38-C9 o virtual => physical page mapping cache
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>: o Re: 2.5.36 IDE fixes o another alpha update o ALi and Cypress IDE fixes
James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>: o net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains_core.c: Use GFP_ATOMIC under ip_fw_lock
Javier Achirica <achirica@ttd.net>: o airo wireless: use ETH_ALEN constant where appropriate o airo wireless: disable card while prom flashing is in progress [note - more work needs to be done here, but this is better than nothing -jgarzik] o airo wireless: more verbose MAC-enable errors o airo wireless: power down on if down, define local 'ai' to fix build o airo wireless: fix "non-probe mode" setup o airo wireless: Fixes signal level retrieval in SPY mode (releases memory block after read out)
Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>: o USB: convert the irda-usb driver to work properly with the new USB core changes
Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>: o More IrDA __FUNCTION__ cleanups, merged from -ac o More IrDA __FUNCTION__ cleanups (contributed by Philipp Matthias Hahn) o 64-bitness fixes for IrDA irlan protocol code (fixing the new hashbin code) o Minor Wavelan wireless net driver fixes
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>: o s/schedule_timeout(0)/yield/ in cdu31a, sonycd535, sb1000, and sis900 drivers
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>: o more bio updates o trm compile o pdc4030 o bio_get_nr_vecs o ide io scheduler thing o deadline scheduler o remove elevator_linus o deadline ioscheduler cleanups o io scheduler update o more io scheduler updates
Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>: o ISDN: per net device auto hangup function o ISDN: Switch isdn_net_hangup() to work on isdn_net_local * o kbuild: clean up i386 subarch build o kbuild: Fix modversions generation glitch o ISDN: per-interface hangup timer o kbuild: Clean up tags/TAGS targets o kbuild: arch/alpha cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/arm cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/cris cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/ia64 cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/m68k cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/mips cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/mips64 cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/parisc cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/ppc cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/ppc64 cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/s390 cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/s390x cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/sh cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/sparc cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/sparc64 cleanup / O_TARGET removal o kbuild: arch/um cleanup / O_TARGET removal o ISDN: PPP cleanups o ISDN: Kill isdn_net_autohup() o ISDN: ISDN_GLOBAL_STOPPED cleanup o ISDN: Use <linux/list.h> for list of phone numbers o ISDN: Lock list of phone numbers appropriately o kbuild: Convert missed L_TARGET references o ISDN: Fix build when CONFIG_ISDN_TTY_FAX is not set
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@home.transmeta.com>: o IDE: Try to use PCI dma_mask only if the device actually _is_ PCI o Terminate a failed IO properly o Merge with DRI CVS tree o Avoid possibly busy-looping in mouse read o Remove busy-wait for short RT nanosleeps. It's a random special case and does the wrong thing for higher HZ values anyway. o Make the ACPI SCI interrupt get the right polarity when it is explicitly overridden in the MADT o Avoid NULL ptr dereference on module names by always having a valid name (base kernel: ""). o Update x86 defconfig to reflect new config options o Add CVS files to the list of files ignored by "find".and make the same ignore rules for "tar" as well. o Simplify elevator algorithm, make it prefer reads heavily
martin.bligh@us.ibm.com <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>: o NUMA-Q fixes
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>: o fix UP_APIC linkage problem in 2.5.3[78]
Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>: o XFS: XFS: Cleanup mount argument manipulation, sanitize xfs_cmountfs and move the
Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>: o Driver model: improve support for system devices o Driver model: handle devices registered with ->driver set o USB: fixup handling of generic USB driver o driver model: add support for CPUs o driver model: add support for multi-board systems o driver model: add better platform device support o add disk device class
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>: o fix null dereference in sys_mprotect
Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>: o [NCPFS]: 32->64bit sparc64 conversions o Fix matroxfb compile when G450 support is not selected o Fix matroxfb compile on m68k
Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>: o s/preempt_count()/in_atomic() in do_exit() o remove preempt workaround in slab.c o per-cpu data preempt-safing
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>: o UP cpu_possible o export cpu_callout_map for SMP modules
Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>: o sb1000 net driver: kill float constant, time_after_eq() jiffies cleanup o trivial typo in drivers/ide/pci/sl82c105.c o fix compares of jiffies
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