The patchset is meant to be pretty stable, not so much a testing ground. Main differences from mainline are: 1. Better performance & resource consumption, particularly on larger machines. 2. Diagnosis tools (kgdb, early_printk, etc). 3. Updated arch support for AMD64 + PPC64. 4. Better support for sound, especially OSS emulation over ALSA. 5. Better support for video (v4l2, bttv, ivtv). 6. Kexec support. I'd be very interested in feedback from anyone willing to test on any platform, however large or small. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/2.6.3/patch-2.6.3-mjb1.bz2 Since 2.6.2-mjb1 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped) Notes: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Now in Linus' tree: - ppc64_update Anton Blanchard PPC 64 update - export_cpu_2_node Pat Mansfield export cpu_2_node - config_acpi_numa Martin J. Bligh disable CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA for anything but ia64 Dropped: New: + aio-retry Suparna, Janet, et al. + 4g4g-aio-hang-fix + aio-retry-elevated-refcount + aio-splice-runlist + aio-wait-page + aio-fs_read + aio-upfront-readahead + O_SYNC-speedup + aio-O_SYNC + gang_lookup_next + aio-gang_lookup-fix + aio-O_SYNC-short-write + aio-read-immediate Filesystem AIO support + lazy-readahead-adapt Ram Pai Improve the readahead algorithm + schedstat Rick Lindsley Provide lotsa scheduler statistics + vsyscall_gtod_B2 John Stultz Vsyscall gettimeofday for faster syscalls + implicit_huge_pages Adam Litke / wli / Brian T. Implicit huge pages for mmap and shmem + mmu_context_to_struct Adam Litke Prep to make hugetlb on PPC64 a dynamic area. + hugetlb_dyn_as Adam Litke Make hugetlb on PPC64 a dynamic area. Pending: local_balance_exec reluctance in cross-node balance (less_bouncy) sched tunables patch emulex update NUMA membinding API x86_64 update config_numasched sched tunables (reinstante) list_of_lists Child runs first (akpm) Netdump Netconsole Present in this patch: -mjb Martin J. Bligh Add a tag to the makefile netpoll Jeff Garzik / mpm Polled net drivers for kgdb et al. kgdb Various Stolen from akpm's 2.6.0-mm1, includes fixes kgdboe_netpoll Matt Mackall et al. Kgdb over ethernet support that works with the netpoll infrastructure kgdboe_build_fix Andrew Morton Fix kgdboe stuff so non-ia32 platforms build kgdb_x86_64 Jim Houston Support kgdb on x86_64 kgdb_gdb6_patches Jim Houston Patches for gdb to support kgdb on x86_64, under scripts/kgdb/ ppc64_reloc_hide Anton Blanchard / Paul Mackerras PPC 64 fixups spinlock_inlining Andrew Morton & Martin J. Bligh Inline spinlocks for profiling. Made into a ugly config option by me. lockmeter John Hawkes / Hanna Linder Locking stats. lockmeter_ia64 Ray Bryant Add a config option for lockmeter on ia64 oops_dump_preceding_code Andrew Morton dump opcodes preceding and after the offending EIP. 4g4g Ingo Molnar Provide a 4G/4G user/kernel split for 32 bit memory lushes. 4g_zap_low_mappings Martin Lorenz stop zap_low_mappings from being __init 4g4g_locked_copy Dave McCracken Fix locking bug in 4/4 split lotsa_sds Badari Enable lots of scsi disks build_options_on_oops Andrew Morton Print out the build options when we oops. sched_domains Nick Piggin sched_domains code sched_balance_fix Rick Lindsley Fix balancing problem in the sched domains code. early_printk Dave Hansen / Keith Mannthey Allow printk before console_init confighz Andrew Morton / Dave Hansen Make HZ a config option of 100 Hz or 1000 Hz config_page_offset Dave Hansen / Andrea Make PAGE_OFFSET a config option numameminfo Martin Bligh / Keith Mannthey Expose NUMA meminfo information under /proc/meminfo.numa partial_objrmap Dave McCracken Object based rmap for filebacked pages. tcp_speedup Martin J. Bligh Speedup TCP (avoid double copy) as suggested by Linus disable preempt Martin J. Bligh I broke preempt somehow, temporarily disable it to stop accidents aiofix2 Mingming Cao fixed a bug in ioctx_alloc() config_irqbal Keith Mannthey Make irqbalance a config option percpu_real_loadavg Dave Hansen / Martin J. Bligh Tell me what the real load average is, and tell me per cpu. per_node_rss Matt Dobson Track which nodes tasks mem is on, so sched can be sensible. pfn_to_nid Martin J. Bligh Dance around the twisted rats nest of crap in i386 include. pfn_valid Martin J. Bligh Fix pfn_valid to cope with memory holes no_numa_pc Martin J. Bligh Disallow NUMA on PC subarch gcov Hubertus / Paul Larson Code coverage monitor gfp_node_strict Dave Hansen Add a node strict binding as a gfp mask option irqbal_fast Adam Litke Balance IRQs more readily kcg Adam Litke Acylic call graphs from the kernel. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee! kcg_gcc_detect Adam Litke Detect older gcc versions that don't work with mcount, and crap out numa_mem_equals Dave Hansen mem= command line parameter NUMA awareness. autoswap Con Kolivas Auto-tune swapiness emulex driver Emulex Driver for emulex fiberchannel cards multiple_emulex Mike Anderson Allow multiple Emulex cards protocol254 Paul Mackerras / Omkhar Allow protocol 254 slabtune Dave McCracken Take slab in bigger bites on larger machines topdown Bill Irwin Turn userspace upside down for fun & profit stacktrace Adam Litke Stack backtracing via frame pointers fasync_lock_rcu Manfred Spraul Use RCU for fasync_lock aio-retry Suparna, Janet, et al. 4g4g-aio-hang-fix aio-retry-elevated-refcount aio-splice-runlist aio-wait-page aio-fs_read aio-upfront-readahead O_SYNC-speedup aio-O_SYNC gang_lookup_next aio-gang_lookup-fix aio-O_SYNC-short-write aio-read-immediate Filesystem AIO support lazy-readahead-adapt Ram Pai Improve the readahead algorithm kexec Eric Biederman et al. Exec a kernel for breakfast today. alsa_100rc2 ALSA project New code drop of sound infrastructure - fixes various bugs. force_wholefrag Martin J. Bligh et al. OSS emulation sounds like crap without wholefrag. Revert that change. lockmeter_notsc Martin J. Bligh Lockmeter does not require CONFIG_X86_TSC. smp_boot_id Martin J. Bligh Fix panic if boot cpu's phys apicid doesn't match expected. sysfs_backing_store1 Maneesh Soni sysfs_backing_store2 Maneesh Soni sysfs_backing_store3 Maneesh Soni sysfs_backing_store4 Maneesh Soni sysfs_backing_store5 Maneesh Soni sysfs_backing_store6 Maneesh Soni Sysfs backing store to stop it gobbling so much mem. ivtv Kevin Thayer / Steven Fuerst Driver for ivtv (includes Hauppauge PVR 250 / 350) Written by Kevin Thayer, ported to 2.6 by Steven Fuerst gcov_warning_fix Fix warning in gcov tiocgdev Gerd Knorr distribute_boot_allocs Manfred Spraul Distribute boot allocations across NUMA nodes vma_statistics Martin J. Bligh Provide per VMA stats schedstats Rick Lindsley Provide lotsa scheduler statistics vsyscall_gtod_B2 John Stultz Vsyscall gettimeofday for faster syscalls implicit_huge_pages Adam Litke / wli / Brian T. Implicit huge pages for mmap and shmem mmu_context_to_struct Adam Litke Prep to make hugetlb on PPC64 a dynamic area. hugetlb_dyn_as Adam Litke Make hugetlb on PPC64 a dynamic area.