From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

In the anticipatory scheduler, don't anticipate against the very first IO
request which a process issues.

This solves a very specific problem wherein a process starts, submits a
single IO then exits.

From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>

While working on my GPM patches found out that EV_MSC was forgotten...

From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:46:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> LILO seems to be oopsing in HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for some reason, in
> generic_ide_ioctl().
>
> I'm not sure quite why though.  Could one of your patches affected this
> area?

The last one (fix for hd_struct handling).  The fix follows:

From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>

This patch removes warnings on non-matching parameter types to printk
and incorrect function types (n_hdlc).

From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>

Currently, the context switch counters reported by getrusage() are
always zero.  The appended patch adds fields to struct task_struct to
count context switches, and adds code to do the counting.

The patch adds 4 longs to struct task struct, and a single addition to
the fast path in schedule().

From: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>

- acpi_pci_link_get_irq() returns 0 on error, not -ENODEV.

- Fix mpparse.c tpyo.

This printk doesn't impart any information.

From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>

The do_no_page() function in mm/memory.c does accounting for reserved pages
(++mm->rss), but in zap_pte_range() we don't decrement rss if the page was
reserved.

So don't account for PageReserved pages in the rss.  (Maybe it would be
better to fix zap_pte_range in the opposite direction..)

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>

Remove CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT: the ability to present /proc/kcore in a.out
format.

I've checked with various arch maintainers.  It won't be missed.

We get a linkage error with CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT because there is no
implementation of kclist_add() and kclist_del().

Also fix a warning in the a.out version of read_kcore().

Maybe we should just remove kcore a.out support.  m68knommu and h8300 are
setting CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT in their defconfigs though.

From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>

Flesh out the bad_inode file and inode operations tables with new
additions.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>

This patch corrects a typo in an ifdef that enables xattr operations for
special files in the ext2 code; otherwise, extended attributes cannot be
obtained or set on such inodes.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>

This patch reworks the SELinux binprm hook functions to use a security
structure for the linux_binprm rather than directly stuffing the security
identifier into the void* security field.  It also performs some cleanup of
the SELinux binprm hook functions, and one miscellaneous fix.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>

This patch corrects several format specifiers in the SELinux security server
code.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

This patch changes the SELinux avtab to use vmalloc/vfree; the table is too
large for kmalloc on s390.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>

This patch adds the appropriate #if around the F_*64 commands in the
selinux_file_fcntl hook function.

From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>

current bk 2.6.0 corrupts my ext3 filesystems, usually in the RESYNC dir
during a bk pull.  Checking the recent changes I noticed that the one in
fs/ext3/namei.c misses an endian conversion.  The attached patch fixes that
and works fine for me since 2 days now on PPC.

From: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>

attached trivial patch fixes visws subarch kernel build.  It was broken by
2.6.0-test4 cpumask_t changes.

From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>

The conversion of reiserfs to not return errors from
writepage-outside-i_size was incorrect.  Fix.

The `user_specified' variable is used in cleanup_module() and hence cannot be
dropped from memory after module initialisation.

From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>,
	"Sharma, Arun" <arun.sharma@intel.com>

The truncate race fix assumed that a non-zero vma->vm_ops->nopage implies a
non-zero vma->vm_file.

The ia64 x86 emulation code breaks this assumption, so teach do_no_page() to
handle it.

From: Vinay K Nallamothu <vinay-rc@naturesoft.net>

drivers/net/ni5010.c:
This patch replaces cli/sti with spinlocks. Compiles fine though
untested.

From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>

Update the abi sysctl documentation.

From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>

The expected case is (sysctl_overcommit_memory == 0), so put that first.

From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>

Here's an _important_ kobject doc patch.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Change the permissions on /proc/kallsyms.  As David M-T points out,
it's nice for analysis tools not to need root.  Place
cond_resched() to avoid starvation problems on non-preempt.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Out by one error broke caching of results in /proc/kallsyms, slowing
reading to a crawl.

From: Thomas Schlichter <schlicht@uni-mannheim.de>

Make the `pci=noacpi' command line option work correctly.  It fixes
interrupt routing probems for (at least 3) people with broken ACPI BIOSes.

From: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>

Convert a whole bunch of struct initialisers into c99 format.

From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>

The problem in pcnet32 is, that it doesn't unregister pci, if there's no
hardware.

This patch solves the problem.

From: "Krishnakumar. R" <krishnakumar@naturesoft.net>

This patch removes the warning:

drivers/char/pcxx.c:124:8: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Javier Achirica:
>   o [wireless airo] Fix PCI unregister code

This patch causes a regression: if CONFIG_PCI is not set, it doesn't compile
anymore. Here's a fix. I also killed a dead variable and its corresponding
warning:

From: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>

I suddenly noticed that 2.6.0-test4 seems to have removed the struct
device->name field, apparently for memory consumption reasons. Linus
changed this to pci_name((zr)->pci_dev) in my driver, and that's almost
correct, except that it is the PCI device ID, and I'm not supposed to
touch it. Also, since it's only 4 bytes, all my device names now show
like 'DC1' (this should be 'DC10plus') and alike.

The attached patch fixes this by going back to the behaviour that we
used in 2.4.x: we use a separate name field in our private driver
struct.

From: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>

This patch adds some newlines between variable declarations and function
bodies. This was done on request by Francois Romieu.

From: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>

This patch changes some funky coding style (a.k.a. indent artifact) in
the function zoran_irq() to a somewhat more conservative coding style.
It was noticed by Francois Romieu.

From: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>

This patch adds pci_disable_device() to the card release function; we
already used pci_enable_device() in the card detection function.  This was
noticed by Francois Romieu.

From: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>

This patch adds a release callback which frees the video_device struct.
This is needed to prevent freeing memory before it's not in use anymore,
as described in http://lwn.net/Articles/36850/. Without this, the driver
will give a warning when loaded. It might crash when unloading (see
article), too. The video4linux patch (by Gerd Knorr) was accepted a week
(or 2?) ago, but I forgot to adapt my driver to it.

From: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>

This patch renames the debug symbol to zr_debug because debug is already
defined somewhere else. Without it, it will cause a symbol conflict when
compiling this driver statically into the kernel. This was noticed by
several people, including Linus himself.