Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.25-pre5

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Hi,

Here is -pre5.

This version fixes the “memory filled with unfreeable inodes”
problem which occurs on high memory machines in some workloads.
That is the last big problem 2.4 VM had with highmem I believe.

It contains a few other important fixes:

• fixes a SMP deadlock introduced during 2.4.23 (which could hang
  the machine on high filesystem activity).
• fixes a memory allocation deadlock in USB

Amongst others.

Please test it!

Detailed changelog follows

Summary of changes from v2.4.25-pre4 to v2.4.25-pre5

<bjorn.helgaas:hp.com>:

• ia64 Configure.help update

<davej:redhat.com>:

• Add AGP support for Radeon IGP 345M

<jack:ucw.cz>:

• Fix ext3/quota deadlock

<khali:linux-fr.org>:

• i2c cleanups: Config.in
• i2c cleanup: saa7146.h should include i2c-old.h, not i2c.h
• i2c cleanup: i2c-core fixes

<len.brown:intel.com>:

• [ACPI] fix smpboot.c mis-merge http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1706

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:

• Cset exclude: [email protected]|ChangeSet|20040109135735|05388
• Fix microcode update compilation error
• Fix Makefile typo

<moilanen:austin.ibm.com>:

• [PPC64] Improved NVRAM handling
• [PPC64] Buffer error log entries in NVRAM

<nitin.a.kamble:intel.com>:

• microcode update

<rtjohnso:eecs.berkeley.edu>:

• USB ioctl fixes (vicam.c, w9968cf.c)

<sfr:au1.ibm.com>:

• [PPC64] Fix a compile warning that becomes an error with gcc
  3.4

<thomas:winischhofer.net>:

• SiS Framebuffer driver update

<xose:wanadoo.es>:

• ips SCSI driver update

Adrian Bunk:

• fix CONFIG_DS1742 Config.in entry
• remove REPORT_LUNS from cpqfcTSstructs.h
• disallow modular CONFIG_COMX

Alan Cox:

• Fix USB hangs
• Minimal fix for the R128 drivers

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz:

• create /proc/ide/hdX/capacity only once

Ben Collins:

• [IEEE1394]: Fix bug in updating configrom

David Engebretsen:

• [PPC64] Distribute processing of hypervisor events over all
  processors

David Woodhouse:

• Fix SMP deadlock in __waitonfreeing_inode() (introduced during 2.4.23)

Hugh Dickins:

• tmpfs readdir does not update dir atime

Paul Mackerras:

• [PPC64] Remove some unnecessary code from
  arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c
• [PPC64] Make /dev/sda3 the default root device (rather than
  sda2)
• [PPC64] Add functions to update and manage flash ROM under
  Linux on pSeries
• [PPC64] Update defconfig and the example configs

Pete Zaitcev:

• Unhork ymfpci broken by hasty janitors

Rik van Riel:

• Reclaim inodes with highmem pages when low on memory

Tom Rini:

• PPC32: Add support for the CPCI-405 board
• PPC32: Fix cross-compilation from Solaris or Cygwin
• PPC32: s/CONFIG_SMC2_UART/CONFIG_8xx_SMC2/g to match the
  code