Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.9

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Ok,
despite some naming confusion (explanation: I’m a retard), I did
end up doing the 2.6.9 release today. And it wasn’t the same as the
“-final” test release (see explanation above).

Excuses aside, not a lot of changes since -rc4 (which was the
last announced test-kernel), mainly some UML updates that don’t
affect anybody else. And a number of one-liners or compiler fixes.
Full list appended.

Linus

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Summary of changes from v2.6.9-rc4 to
v2.6.9

<mgoodman:csua.berkeley.edu>:

• Fix NFS3 krb5 clients on x86-64

Al Borchers:

• USB: corrected digi_acceleport 2.6.9-rc1 fix for hang on
  disconnect

Andrea Arcangeli:

• ptep_establish smp race x86 PAE >4G

Andrew Morton:

• revert writeback threshold changes
• ext3 direct io assert fix

Anton Blanchard:

• ppc64: fix some issues with mem_reserve

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

• ppc64: Split iomap implementation & eeh !
• ppc32: Add “native” iomap interfaces
• ppc64: more issues with mem_reserve

Chris Wright:

• uml: fix ubd deadlock on SMP

Christoph Hellwig:

• [XFS] fix a freeze/thaw deadlock

Christoph Lameter:

• time interpolator fixes

David Brownell:

• USB: EHCI SMP fix
• USB: net2280 updates

David Woodhouse:

• ppc64: one more explicit cmp instruction sizing

Dmitry Torokhov:

• Fix oops in parkbd

Greg Kroah-Hartman:

• USB: handle NAK packets in input devices

Herbert Xu:

• USB: Fix hiddev devfs oops

Hirokazu Takata:

• m32r: fix syscall table
• m32r: remove obsolete system calls

Ingo Molnar:

• tailcall prevention in sys_wait4() and sys_waitid()

James Morris:

• SELinux: fix bugs in mprotect hook

John L. Byrne:

• fix oops in fork() cleanup path

John Rose:

• PCI Hotplug: rpaphp safe list traversal

Lars Ellenberg:

• uml: fix critical IP checksum corruption

Linus Torvalds:

• Fix threaded user page write memory ordering
• Take the whole PCI bus range into account when scanning PCI
  bridges

Nathan Lynch:

• ppc64: fix smp_startup_cpu for cpu hotplug

Nathan Scott:

• [XFS] Fix up write_inode return type to use the right
  signedness
• [XFS] Fix regression when running in laptop mode, causes hangs
  on sync

Nick Piggin:

• ACPI: check parameter for NULL
• kswapd lockup fix

Nicolas Pitre:

• Fix MTD build error for Lubbock map driver
• unbalanced locking in MTD Intel chip driver
• Duh. _Really_ unbalanced locking in MTD Intel chip driver

Olaf Hering:

• joydump needs gameport

Olaf Kirch:

• auth_domain_lookup fix

Oliver Neukum:

• security issue in firmware system

Paolo ‘Blaisorblade’ Giarrusso:

• uml: don’t declare cpu_online – fix compilation error
• uml: fix wrong type for rb_entry call
• uml: fix warning for unused var
• uml: finish update for 2.6.8 API changes
• uml: fix an “unused” warnings
• uml: export more Symbols
• uml: Set cflags before including arch Makefile
• uml: force using /bin/bash for building
• uml: no extraversion in arch/um/Makefile for mainline
• uml: Single Linking Step for vmlinux
• uml: make -j fix
• uml: update makefile to new kbuild API names
• uml: kbuild – add even more cleaning
• uml: mark broken configs
• uml: use always a separate io thread for UBD

Pavel Machek:

• swsusp: fix x86-64 – do not use memory in copy loop

Randy Dunlap:

• cyber2000: fix init/exit section confusion
• intel_agp: dangling devexit reference

Sreenivas Bagalkote:

• megaraid 2.20.4: fix a data corruption bug

Stephen D. Smalley:

• SELinux: retain ptracer SID across fork

Tim Schmielau:

• Fix reporting of process start times

Vojtech Pavlik:

• USB: Fix oops in usblp driver

Yoshinori Sato:

• H8/300 some error/warning fix