linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions

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Message-Id: <20070202181552.ac588b27.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:15:52 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>,
	Frederic Riss <frederic.riss@...il.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions

On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:03:48 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 06:49:16 +0100
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc7 compared to 2.6.19
> >> that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree.
> > 
> > There are still a few things hanging around.
> > 
> > I have these queued:
> > 
> > aio-fix-buggy-put_ioctx-call-in-aio_complete-v2.patch
> > kexec-avoid-migration-of-already-disabled-irqs-ia64.patch
> > net-smc911x-match-up-spin-lock-unlock.patch
> > rtc-pcf8563-detect-polarity-of-century-bit-automatically.patch
> > alpha-fix-epoll-syscall-enumerations.patch
> > revert-blockdev-direct-io-back-to-2619-version.patch
> > scsi-sd-udev-accessing-an-uninitialized-scsi_disk-results-in-a-crash.patch
> > altix-more-acpi-prt-support.patch
> 
> Would you forward the x86-64 dma_noncoherent API build fix I posted? 
> Anything that uses that API won't build on x86-64 without my [simple and 
> obvious] patch.

Yup.  That's this:

--- a/include/asm-x86_64/dma-mapping.h~x86-64-define-dma-noncoherent-api-functions
+++ a/include/asm-x86_64/dma-mapping.h
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ static inline int dma_mapping_error(dma_
 	return (dma_addr == bad_dma_address);
 }
 
+#define dma_alloc_noncoherent(d, s, h, f) dma_alloc_coherent(d, s, h, f)
+#define dma_free_noncoherent(d, s, v, h) dma_free_coherent(d, s, v, h)
+
 extern void *dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
 				dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t gfp);
 extern void dma_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *vaddr,
_

> 
> > - I have r8169-fix-a-race-between-pci-probe-and-dev_open.patch floating
> >   about, but I forget its status.  
> 
> I posted a preferred patch (which someone then noted need to use 
> setup_timer), and am waiting for an "it works" response of some sort

OK, thanks, I'll drop it.
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