The patch fixes a few problems in the writer throttling code.  Mainly
in the situation where a single large file is being written out.

That file could be parked on sb->locked_inodes due to pdflush
writeback, and the writer throttling path coming out of
balance_dirty_pages() forgot to look for inodes on ->locked_inodes.

The net effect was that the amount of dirty memory was exceeding the
limit set in /proc/sys/vm/dirty_async_ratio, possibly to the point
where the system gets seriously choked.

The patch removes sb->locked_inodes altogether and teaches the
throttling code to look for inodes on sb->s_io as well as sb->s_dirty.

Also, just leave unwritten dirty pages on mapping->io_pages, and
unwritten dirty inodes on sb->s_io.  Putting them back onto
->dirty_pages and ->dirty_inodes was fairly pointless, given that both
lists need to be looked at.

This fixes the lockup.

The bug happened because reparenting in the CLONE_THREAD case was done in
a fundamentally non-atomic way, which was asking for various races to
happen: eg. the target parent gets reparented to the currently exiting
thread ...

(the non-CLONE_THREAD case is safe because nothing reparents init.)

the solution is to make all of reparenting atomic (including the
forget_original_parent() bit) - this is possible with some reorganization
done in signal.c and exit.c. This also made some of the loops simpler.

devfs side fixed thus:

Update hdreg to match 2.4 levels.

o Use consistent SRV_STAT instead of SERVICE_STAT
o Add sector count status bits for tcq
o Add various missing commands
o hd_driveid update

Update IDE pci ids to match 2.4.20-pre5-ac4 levels.

Add blk_fs_request(rq) to avoid testing rq->flags & REQ_CMD directly.

This merges the changes from 2.4-ac that allow drivers to enable (and
mark as used) only a subset of PCI resources, for those drivers that
need it (at this point apparently only the i845 IDE controller).

In the 2.5.33->2.5.34 step someone removed "export-objs" from
drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/Makefile, which makes it impossible to build
ftape as a module since is _does_ have a number of EXPORT_SYMBOL's.

This reverts that change.

The 2.5 floppy driver has for a long time has two init/exit bugs:
1. It calls register_sys_device() on init, but fails to call
   unregister_sys_device() in exit. This leads to data structure
   corruption if floppy is a module and it gets unloaded.
2. If calls register_sys_device() early on init, but fails to call
   unregister_sys_device() if init fails. Again, this leads to
   data structure corruption.

The patch below fixes both these problems.

drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c is the only file (apart from include/linux/fcntl.h)
that includes asm/fcntl.h.  This changes that and should have no affect.

I need to do this before I consolidate the asm/fcntl.h files into
linux/fcntl.h (coming next - again).

This is needed since 2.5.32 to successfully mount a UFS partition.

I've been playing with different HZ values in the 2.4 kernel for a while
now, and apparantly Linus also has decided to introduce a USER_HZ
constant (I used CLOCKS_PER_SEC) while raising the HZ value on x86 to
1000.

On x86 timekeeping has shown to be relative fragile when raising HZ (OK,
I tried HZ=2048 which is quite high) because of the way the interrupt
timer is configured to fire HZ times each second.  This is done by
configuring a divisor in the timer chip (LATCH) which divides a certain
clock (1193180) and makes the chip fire interrupts at the resulting
frequency.

Now comes the catch: NTP requires a clock accuracy of 500 ppm.  For some
HZ values the clock is not accurate enough to meet this requirement,
hence NTP won't work well.

An example HZ value is 1020 which exceeds the 500 ppm requirement.  In
this case the best approximation is 1019.8 Hz.  the xtime.tv_usec value
is raised with a value of 980 each tick which means that after one
second the tv_usec value has increased with 999404 (should be 1000000)
which is an accuracy of 596 ppm.

Some more examples:
	  HZ Accuracy (ppm)
	---- --------------
	 100             17
	1000            151
	1024            632
	2000            687
	2008            343
	2011             18
	2048           1249

What I've been doing is replace tv_usec by tv_nsec, meaning xtime is now
a timespec instead of a timeval.  This allows the accuracy to be
improved by a factor of 1000 for any (well ...  any?) HZ value. 

Of course all kinds of calculations had te be improved as well.  The
ACTHZ constantant is introduced to approximate the actual HZ value, it's
used to do some approximations of other related values. 

Cset exclude: greg@kroah.com|ChangeSet|20020905153320|19047

into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux

into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux

into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux

into groveronline.com:/root/bk/linux-acpi

during the initcall sequence, after all CPUs have been brought up. 
mtrr_init() calls a static init_other_cpus(), which fires off a function 
on all other cpus to replicate the state across all of them. 

arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c::smp_callin() had the following: 

#ifdef CONFIG_MTRR
       /*
        * Must be done before calibration delay is computed
        */
       mtrr_init_secondary_cpu ();
#endif


I couldn't figure this one out. The P4 manual says nothing about this, nor
find any other documentation about it. The P4 manual says only that state
must be synchronized across all CPUs, which it is. And, it happens before
anything else is executed on the other CPUs, and before any devices or
drivers have been brought up.

The cyrix mtrr code was also updated to handle this style of SMP initialization.

into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux

- The early startup code was changed so smp_prepare_cpus() is now called
  before do_basic_setup().  do_basic_setup() is where mtrr_init() is
  called, which mtrr_init_secondary_cpu() is dependent on being called.

- mtrr_init_boot_cpu() was removed from the AP startup code. This was a
  SMP-only hack that made sure mtrr_init() happened when SMP was
  enabled.  That's right - two different code paths to do the same
  thing, obscured by compile-time defines.

The appended patch makes sure mtrr_init() is called before
smp_prepare_cpus(). It's ugly, and I'll work on a cleaner solution, but
James: could you try it and see if it fixes your performance issues?

  Documentation/porting: s/are/and/
  Documentation/directory-locking: s/that means// was repeated

When recalc_sigpending was converted from inline to real function,
appropriate EXPORT_SYMBOL() was not created.  Needed at least for ncpfs
and lockd.

Update kernel-api.tmpl to reflect mtrr changes so that the docs will build.

The pci_bus_* functions should be used instead.

- fix polling logic
- add ability to write [chassis/rxe]#slot# instead of just slot#

into groveronline.com:/root/bk/linux-acpi

- removed pci_announce_device_to_drivers() prototype as the function is long gone
- always call /sbin/hotplug when pci devices are added to the system if
  so configured (this includes during the system bring up.)

I added a bug in 2.5.23 when cleaning up something that
was broken ... it wasn't broken in quite the way I had
thought at the time!

This fixes a problem some folk have reported recently
with ISO-IN, by masking a common non-error outcome.

Please merge to Linus' tree, on top of the one patch
you already have queued.  Thanks to Nemosoft for such
quick turnaround on testing!

This patch fixes a problem with big endian machines and scanner drivers which
use the SCANNER_IOCTL_CTRLMSG ioctl. The big endian to little endian swap was
done twice, resulting in a no-op.

Also, have you sent in the one-line fix I found for the abort bug?
Andries found that it cured his BUG_ON problem.  In case you didn't save a
copy of it, I've included it below.