linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-mm1

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Message-ID: <457D2265.50109@yahoo.com.au>
Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:18:29 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-mm1

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@...radead.org>):
> 
>     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

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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