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This patch fixes a bug in the Linux process ID allocator.  It isn't quite
SMP safe since it references "last_pid" after releasing the lock protecting
it.  This can result in two processes getting assigned the same process ID.

this is the NeoMagic floating foint removal patch
I posted previously for Linux 2.4.18-pre9-ac3.

Best regards,
  Denis Oliver Kropp

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This final patch is a simple documentation fixup patch filling
in the blanks for the extended attribute interfaces; and fixes
a typo in the same spot: "permission".

Nathan

This next incremental patch tidies up the data types passed back
from the `list' and `get' extended attribute syscalls - these now
match the design (ie. using ssize_t) rather than simply using long
or int everywhere; also now use const types in the VFS interface,
where appropriate.

Nathan

This incremental patch fixes copying out of an extended attribute
value or name list.  Previously we copied out the entire buffer
passed in from userspace, now we only copy out the size which the
underlying filesystem tells us to (ie. we will no longer include
potentialy-initialised data as well).

Nathan

This first patch fixes the copying in of extended attribute
names from userspace in the extended attribute syscalls (a
problem found when using electric fence on the user tools).

Nathan

Obvious patch to make x86_64 pick up new sound location

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This fixes usb drivers outside of the drivers/usb directory.

Fixes drivers/usb/storage.
Patch done by Oliver Neukum.

This fixes the drivers in drivers/usb/serial.
Patch done by Oliver Neukum.

This modifies the drivers in drivers/usb.
Patch done by Oliver Neukum.

	- fix for memory leak.

	- special case for REQUEST_SENSE
	- reset handling won't work properly -> disabled
	- error reporting corrected

The patch below fixes a compile problem in the USB OHCI HCD driver on
powerbooks, namely that the ohci_hcd structure doesn't have an irq
member.

Paul.

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for the definition of unlikely().

	Next one in the series - this time it's ->unlink()...

1) proc/<pid>/fd readdir() has broken locking - sometimes it ends up with
task->files->file_lock locked.

2) missing variable definition in arch/s390x/kernel/linux32.c::cp_new_stat32().

Please, apply - the first one is really serious.

	BKL held around ->i_nlink changes in ext2/namei.c.  That makes
namei.c SMP-safe (dir.c already is).  BKL dropped around ext2_free_inode() -
it's already SMP-safe (the only place that needed BKL was DQUOT_FREE_INODE()
and it got BKL in the previous patch).

	BKL shifted into ->create().  lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() added
in dquot_{alloc,free}_inode() - that makes {ext2,minix,sysv,ufs}_read_inode()
SMP-safe.

	ext2_read_inode() and ext2_update_inode() share large chunk
of code - getting a buffer_head with raw inode in it.
	Moved into a helper function (ext2_get_inode()), the rest
of ext2_{read,update}_inode() slightly cleaned up.

The patch below changes access_process_vm to use a new architecture
hook, flush_icache_user_range, instead of flush_icache_page, and adds
a definition of flush_icache_user_range which does the same thing as
flush_icache_page for all architectures except PPC.  (The PPC update
that is in Linus' BK tree already includes a suitable definition of
flush_icache_user_range.)

The reason for doing this is that when flush_icache_page is called
from do_no_page or do_swap_page, I want to be able to do the flush
conditionally, based on the state of the page.  In contrast,
access_process_vm needs to do the flush unconditionally since it has
just modified the page.  In the access_process_vm case it is useful to
have the information about the user address and length that have been
modified since then we can just flush the affected cache lines rather
than the whole page.

This patch should make it easy to improve performance on alpha, since
there (as I understand it) the icache flush is not needed at all in
do_no_page or do_swap_page, but is needed in access_process_vm.  All
that is needed is to make flush_icache_page a noop on alpha.  The
patch below doesn't do this, I'll let the alpha maintainers push that
change if they want.

This patch fixes a compile error on PPC.  It's in sd_find_target, a
function that returns a kdev_t.

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This one-liner fixes an error case in Menuconfig when awk fails.
Written by Andrew Church (achurch@achurch.org).
Reviewed and tested by Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net).

Michael Elizabeth Chastain

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fs/proc/inode.c is using __init, but for some reason missing an
#include <linux/init.h>. Add this.