Re: 2.6.19-mm1

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Mon Dec 11 2006 - 04:19:35 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
Temporarily at

http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.19-mm1/

Will appear later at

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19/2.6.19-mm1/


- There's some new runtime debugging in kmap_atomic(). It catches one
buglet in in ata_scsi_rbuf_get() - there may be others. If it gets too
noisy, please revert kmap_atomic-debugging.patch.

- The reiser4 build is broken by some VFS changes I made.

- New git tree git-ubi.patch (Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

It is a kind of LVM layer but for flash (MTD) devices which hides
flash devices complexities like bad eraseblocks (on NANDs) and wear. The
documentation is available at the MTD web site:
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubi.html

- The x86_64 tree here is a few days old - the server is down.

- Brought back the write()-deadlock-fix-and-writev-speedup patches.

Note that these still look like they have a couple of problems (you are
_very_ unlikely to hit them unless you are running with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM,
or actually have any useful data).

We're just looking at how to fix them now. Stress testing would be
appreciated, but not your production database.

Thanks,
Nick

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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