Re: 2.4.23pre6aa1

From: Mathias Kretschmer
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 19:06:53 EST

I'm getting the below errors compiling the bttv module.

Also, the commercial OSS sound driver fails to compile against it.
It compiled under -pre6.

Otherwise, it seems to work fine for me.

Let me know, if you need any further info.

Cheers,

Mathias


make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4/drivers/media/video'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O4 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mprefer red-stack-boundary=2 -march=pentium3 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAM E=bttv_cards -c -o bttv-cards.o bttv-cards.c
bttv-cards.c: In function `pvr_boot':
bttv-cards.c:2552: structure has no member named `dev'
bttv-cards.c:2555: warning: implicit declaration of function `request_firmware'
bttv-cards.c:2559: `rc' undeclared (first use in this function)
bttv-cards.c:2559: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
bttv-cards.c:2559: for each function it appears in.)
bttv-cards.c:2561: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
bttv-cards.c:2561: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
bttv-cards.c:2562: warning: implicit declaration of function `release_firmware'

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
URL:

http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.23pre6aa1.gz
http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.23pre6aa1/

Probably the most notable new feature is that you can now pass 'desktop'
as parameter to the kernel in lilo to ask the kernel to behave optimally
for a desktop machine. No need of compile time options anymore. For more
experienced users HZ=500/HZ=50/HZ=200 should work fine too, then you can
tune the timeslices by hand but you must know what you're doing.

You can verify everything went well after boot with:

cat /proc/sys/kernel/{*timeslice,HZ}

This kernel seems to boot fine again on x86-64 too. The merges in pre6
were helpful.

Due the amount of changes you may not want to run this on any production
box (note: not because of the dynamic-hz feature, but because of
everything else, the dynamic-hz is the only one that has no way to break
anything, modulo stuff that would break anyways on ia64 and alpha
already and that you can workaround trivially with HZ=100 if needed).

Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_config-smp-1
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_copy-namespace-1
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_panic-console-switch-1
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_pgt-cache-leak-2
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_read_full_page-get_block-err-2
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_sk98lin_2.4.22-20030902-1.gz
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 05_vm_03_vm_tunables-4
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 05_vm_05_zone_accounting-2
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 05_vm_06_swap_out-3
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 05_vm_07_local_pages-4
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 05_vm_09_misc_junk-3
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 05_vm_16_active_free_zone_bhs-1
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 05_vm_20_cleanups-3
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9999900_request-firmware-1

Merged in mainline.

Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_cpu-affinity-syscall-rml-4
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_cpu-affinity-syscall-rml-5
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_extraversion-29
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_extraversion-30
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_global-irq-race-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_global-irq-race-2
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_rwsem-fair-38
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_rwsem-fair-38-recursive-8
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_rwsem-fair-39
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_rwsem-fair-39-recursive-8
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_silent-stack-overflow-18
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_silent-stack-overflow-19
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_x86-optimize-apic-irq-and-cacheline-2
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_x86-optimize-apic-irq-and-cacheline-3
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 05_vm_22_vm-anon-lru-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 05_vm_22_vm-anon-lru-2
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 05_vm_17_rest-10
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 05_vm_26-rest-1
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 05_vm_23_per-cpu-pages-3
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 05_vm_23_per-cpu-pages-4
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 05_vm_24_accessed-ipi-only-smp-1
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 10_lvm-snapshot-check-3
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 10_lvm-snapshot-check-4
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 20_rcu-poll-10
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 20_rcu-poll-9
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 30_irq-balance-15
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 30_irq-balance-16
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 60_net-exports-3
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 60_net-exports-4
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 60_tux-syscall-5
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 60_tux-syscall-6
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 60_tux-sysctl-3
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 60_tux-sysctl-4
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 90_proc-mapped-base-5
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 90_proc-mapped-base-6
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 93_NUMAQ-13
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 93_NUMAQ-14
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 96_inode_read_write-atomic-8
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 96_inode_read_write-atomic-9
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9900_aio-23.gz
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9900_aio-24.gz
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9903_aio-22-ppc-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9903_aio-22-ppc-2
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9910_shm-largepage-16.gz
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9910_shm-largepage-17.gz
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9920_kgdb-11.gz
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9920_kgdb-12.gz
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9925_kmsgdump-0.4.4-3.gz
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9925_kmsgdump-0.4.4-4.gz
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9950_futex-5.gz
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9950_futex-6.gz
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9999_sched_yield_scale-6
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_sched_yield_scale-8
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9999901_scsi-softirq-2
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999901_scsi-softirq-3
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9999900_ecc-20030225-1.gz
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999900_ecc-20030225-2.gz
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9999900_ikd-2.gz
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999900_ikd-4.gz
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9999900_ipc-rcu-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999900_ipc-rcu-2
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9999900_monitor-mwait-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999900_monitor-mwait-2

Rediffed.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_do_brk-1

glitch fixup from Andrew.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_e-nodev-1

s/NODEV/ENODEV/ fixes from Vojtech.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_get_request_wait-race-1

Add missing smb_mb().

Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_log-buf-len-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_log-buf-len-dynamic-1

Ported to 2.4.23pre6 to allow the configuration of the
buffer size at compile time too.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_proc-readlink-1

Remeber to free tmp buffer (from spender)

Only in 2.4.22aa1: 00_sched-O1-aa-2.4.19rc3-17.gz
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_sched-O1-aa-2.4.19rc3-18.gz

Let the idle load_balance pass to pick any task it find,
if we go idle it means we've no task left. This fix speeds up number
crunching up to 100% in some arch. The very same fix incidentally is
also present in current 2.6.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_sk98lin-char-fix-1

Count the right number of bytes (not ints).

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_sync-buffer-scale-1

Don't take the bkl (the same paths runs w/o the bkl elsewhere), from
Chris Mason.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 01_softirq-nowait-1

We must really keep executing softirqs or it may take
a too long time before ksoftirqd gets some cpu time.
For an embedded device you may want to remove this,
on a server we need this still.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 05_vm_27-pte-dirty-bit-in-hardware-1

This fixes a longstanding bug for a number of archs that haven't the
dirty bit updated in hardware. For those archs we can't mark the pte
writeable when it's still in swap cache, unless we don't mark it dirty
too at the same time. Otherwise the cpu will go ahead writing to the
page, no fault will happen and the swapcache will be still clean, and
the data will be lost at the next zeroIO swapout leading to userspace
data corruption and segfaults during swap. Affected archs are
alpha/s390/s390x for example.

This bug was specific to the -aa VM, it couldn't happen
in mainline. In my tree I optimized the code to exploited
properties of archs that updates the bit in hardware for the
first time. Hence the first need of a #define to differentiate the
two code paths. The logic in the software-dirty-bit case will
be less efficient of course (that's why there's a difference
in the first place).

This is an obvious noop for x86 and x86-64 for example.

NOTE: the software-dirty-bit code is safe for all archs, the other way
around not.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 30_18-busy-inodes-1

Try to avoid to leave busy inodes in autofs unmount. From Olaf Kirch.
(original from Trond).

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 30_19-nfs-kill-unlock-1

Ignore errors on exiting lock cleanups. From Trond.

Only in 2.4.22aa1: 70_xfs-1.3-2.gz
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 70_xfs-1.3-3.gz
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 70_xfs-sysctl-3
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 70_xfs13pre-final-1.gz
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 71_qsort-1
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 71_xfs-VM_IO-1
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 71_xfs-aa-4
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 71_xfs-aa-5
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 71_xfs-mmap-1
Only in 2.4.22aa1: 71_xfs-tuning-1

XFS 13pre-final merged.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999900_BH_Sync-remove-1

To really be able to help and not just waste some
seek and cpu, wait_on_buffer should honour the
BH_Sync, but this is late in 2.4, and so I prefer
to get rid of it instead of giving it the full power
it should have.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999900_soft-float-1

Trap any usage of the FPU in kernel (needed
to trap things like schedule_timeout(HZ*0.1)).

Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9999901_aio-network-poll-pipe-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999901_aio-poll-2

Leave only the aio-poll functionality because
the network aio is still unfinished and nobody
needs the pipe one (AFIK).

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_00_x86_64-suse-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_00_x86_64-sys-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_00_x86_64-tsc-c0-bandaid-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_00_x86_64-warning-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_00_x86_64-zone-startpfn-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_01_x86_64-aio-bigpages-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_01_x86_64-aio-export-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_01_x86_64-bitops-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_01_x86_64-discontig-pmd-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_01_x86_64-epoll-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_01_x86_64-fault32-wrap-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_01_x86_64-kgdb-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_01_x86_64-lvm32-no-checks-1

Merge x86-64 updates from Andi Kleen.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_athlon-errata-prefetch-1

Fix athlon prefetch invalid faults from userspace.
From Andi Kleen.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_z-execve-race-1

Fix race in exit_mmap.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_z-laptopmode-1

Allow the first read hitting the disk to flush all the dirty buffers.
From Jens Axboe.

Only in 2.4.22aa1: 9999900_desktop-4
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_zz-dynamic-timeslice-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_zzz-dynamic-hz-1

HZ is now dynamic, you can boot with HZ=50 HZ=100 HZ=500
or HZ=1000. However only HZ=100 and HZ=1000 are supported.
Anything different from HZ=100 can trigger device driver
bugs (those would already trigger on ia64 and alpha but
on x86 the amount of drivers in use is larger).

But wait, you shouldn't use HZ=, you should only pass 'desktop' if you
want to use the machine to behave as a better desktop and the kernel
will just do the right thing.

max-timeslice/min-timeslice tunables are also provided
as sysctl. Again no need to tune those, just pass
'desktop' if your machine is a desktop.

The scheduler has internal heuristics (the avg_sleep for
example in the o1 scheduler) to try to identify the interactive
tasks. Since those are heuristics there's also the chance
of failing. By rescheduling taks at around 100hz even if
the heuristic fails there's quite a good margin before your
eye can see it. This should help with video players and games.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_zzzz-stackoverflow-1

Prevent overflows from happening on top of softirq. From
Hugh Dickins.

Andrea - If you prefer relying on open source software, check these links:
rsync.kernel.org::pub/scm/linux/kernel/bkcvs/linux-2.[45]/
http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/
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