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Various FS updates (including merges of quota and iget_locked), and
Makefile cleanups from Kai.
And yet more TLB shootdown stuff.
Linus
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Summary of changes from v2.5.16 to v2.5.17
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<acme@conectiva.com.br>
copy_from/to_user checking in
o drivers/sound/*.c
o fs/intermezzo/ext_attr.c
o drivers/isdn/*.c
o drivers/usr/*.c
o sound/{core,pci}/*.c
o drivers/char/*
o drivers/block/*.c
Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
o check for dirtying of non-uptodate buffers
o reduce lock contention in do_pagecache_readahead
o larger b_size, and misc fixlets
o fix dirty page management
o reiserfs locking fix
o pdflush exclusion infrastructure
o dirty inode management
o i_dirty_buffers locking fix
o ext2: preread inode backing blocks
o pdflush exclusion
o fix ext3 race with writeback
o fix ext3 buffer-stealing
o writeback tuning
o remove PG_launder
o improved I/O scheduling for indirect blocks
<david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
o Missing init.h in drivers/pci/power.c
<dmccr@us.ibm.com>
o Thread group exit problem reappeared
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
o cleanup read/write
o Small cleanup of nfsd export checks
o kNFSd cleanup of nfsd_open
o get rid of <linux/locks.h>
<jack@suse.cz>
o quota-1-newlocks
o quota-2-formats
o quota-3-register
o quota-4-getstats
o quota-5-space
o quota-6-bytes
o quota-7-quotactl
o quota-8-format1
o quota-9-format2
o quota-10-inttype
o quota-11-sync
o quota-12-compat
o quota-13-ioctl
<jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
o iget_locked [1-6]
<jhammer@us.ibm.com>
o ips for 2.5
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
o Rules.make cleanup: introduce c_flags, a_flags
o Remuve some cruft from top-level Makefile
o Move DocBook stuff out of top-level Makefile
o Move arch specific options to their Makefile
o Don't implicitly export all symbols
o top-level Makefile cleanup
o Remove assembler rules from top-level Makefile
o Add scripts to generate include/linux/{version,compile}.h
o Rules.make: Use variables for commands
o Small Rules.make cleanup
o Rules.make: check for changed command line
o Makefile cleanup: Don't rebuild init/version.o on each build
o IA64: Use standard AS rule
o x86_64: Use standard AS rule
o Rules.make: Remove special rule for $(export-objs)
o Fix a typo in drivers/pcmcia/Makefile
o Fix arch/alpha/boot AS rule
o Makefile: fix merge
o ISDN: Export CAPI user interface directly
o ISDN: Remove remaining MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT from CAPI drivers
o Make AFLAGS_KERNEL use consistent with CFLAGS_KERNEL
o ISDN: CAPI: Remove duplicate statistics
o ISDN: CAPI: Remove capi_interface_user etc.
o ISDN: CAPI: Move the notification callback
o ISDN: Have the CAPI application alloc struct capi_appl
o ISDN: CAPI: Pass struct capi_appl * instead of index
o ISDN: CAPI use struct capi20_appl * in signal callback
o ISDN: CAPI: Get rid of capi_signal mechanism
o ISDN: AVM T1 ISA CAPI controller fix
o Update /BitKeeper/etc/ignore
o kbuild: Use $(CURDIR)
o kbuild: Suppress printing of '$(MAKE) -C command' line
o kbuild: Fix object-specific CFLAGS_foo.o
o Small fix for net/irda/Makefile
o Fix ext2 compilation
o Fix some compiler warnings
o kbuild: Remove generated .<object>.cmd files on 'make clean'
o kbuild: Standardize building of init/*
o kbuild: Speed up vmlinux build
<mason@suse.com>
o reiserfs bitops warnings
o reiserfs iput deadlock fix
Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
o Increase snd buffer size for UDP
o Change MD Superblock IO to go straight to submit_bio
o Tidy up raid5 code
o Initial md/raid5 support for 2.5 (with bio)
<torvalds@transmeta.com>
o Clean up %cr3 loading on x86, fix lazy TLB problem
o Fix double i_writecount handling (Tony Luck)
o Make generic TLB shootdown friendlier to non-x86 architectures
o Fix OSS API emulation when sound is compiled as a module
o Update kernel version to 2.5.17
o New makefiles generate .*.cmd files, not .*.flags files