Yeah, don't remind me - it's late. 

There was nothng in particular holding this thing up, I just basically 
just forgot to cut a -rc2 release last week.

There's not a lot of hugely exciting stuff here. Some arch updates: MIPS, 
arm, blackfin, x86, sparc[64], sh, s390..

Also various driver updates: libata, IDE, networking, DVB.. And some more 
fallout from the scatter-gather changes.

Some scheduler cleanups, and also fixing the CPU usage statistics that 
got scrogged at some point.

Nothing really earthshattering that I can recall or see. A lot of it is 
small buglets and compiler warnings (and occasionally broken builds). The 
shortlog is still slightly too large for the mailing list limit, so you 
need to generate it either from the full log (posted on the normal sites) 
or with

	git shortlog v2.6.24-rc1..

but quite frankly, it's no Leo Tolstoy. If you have trouble falling 
asleep, you might try to print it out and take it to bed with you: it's 
not going to be more than just a couple of pages ("use 2nup and save a 
tree"), but I dare you to actually get to the end. Snooze city.

It's full of such *riveting* entries like:

	James Bottomley:
	      x86: voyager: fix bogus conversion to per_cpu for boot_cpu_info
	...
	Jens Axboe:
	      mmc: sg fallout
	...
	Joerg Roedel:
	      x86 gart: rename iommu.h to gart.h
	...
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
	      V4L/DVB (6390): Updates missing entries at CARDLIST.em28xx
	...
	Ralf Baechle:
	      [MIPS] Alchemy: Nuke homebrew setup_irq(), it's broken and unnecessary.
	...
	Yu Luming:
	      [IA64] fix typo in per_cpu_offset
	..

and yes, I just picked those out randomly. 

			Linus
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Hi,

oom-killer got invoked while running ltp-runall on the 2.6.24-rc2 kernel.

python invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8026b03b>] oom_kill_process+0x4f/0xf5
 [<ffffffff8026b517>] out_of_memory+0x1bc/0x22d
 [<ffffffff8026dfa2>] __alloc_pages+0x282/0x313
 [<ffffffff804e453c>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x5b/0x66
 [<ffffffff8026fad8>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x7c/0x18f
 [<ffffffff8026a723>] filemap_fault+0x15d/0x317
 [<ffffffff8027513e>] __do_fault+0x68/0x3bb
 [<ffffffff80276d44>] handle_mm_fault+0x325/0x694
 [<ffffffff804e739f>] do_page_fault+0x3c5/0x764
 [<ffffffff802118c7>] arch_get_unmapped_area+0x184/0x1f9
 [<ffffffff804e5939>] error_exit+0x0/0x51

Mem-info:
Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
CPU    0: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
CPU    1: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
CPU    2: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
CPU    3: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
CPU    0: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  29   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  14
CPU    1: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  95   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  52
CPU    2: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  33   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  51
CPU    3: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 101   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  50
Active:118809 inactive:124570 dirty:0 writeback:1882 unstable:0
 free:2358 slab:2831 mapped:41 pagetables:2058 bounce:0
Node 0 DMA free:3972kB min:28kB low:32kB high:40kB active:996kB inactive:3036kB present:7552kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 992 992 992
Node 0 DMA32 free:177860kB min:4012kB low:5012kB high:6016kB active:408456kB inactive:388372kB present:1015864kB pages_scanned:640 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Node 0 DMA: 57*4kB 39*8kB 25*16kB 10*32kB 2*64kB 3*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 5100kB
Node 0 DMA32: 1597*4kB ...
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You don't see the problem with 2.6.24-rc1 right? Any chance of you



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	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL
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Hi Balbir,

I have started doing the git-bisect and will update the results.


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Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM, ISTL.
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This is stupid - there's just no way we should have got within five miles
of out_of_memory() when there's 177MB free in ZONE_DMA32.

I can only think that the zonelists got set up wrongly, or the freelist got

Yeah, I'm sitting on a fix for that - I have a large number of for-2.6.24
fixes which I need to launder through subystem maintainers.

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v2.6.24-rc2 fails to build on my box with the following error:

CC [M]  drivers/kvm/kvm_main.o
drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c: In function 
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This patch should fix this error.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Boton <mboton@gmail.com>

Index: linux-2.6.24-rc2/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24-rc2.orig/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc2/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -217,7 +217,10 @@
 		if (cpu != -1 && cpu != raw_smp_processor_id())
 			cpu_set(cpu, cpus);
 	}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	smp_call_function_mask(cpus, ack_flush, NULL, 1);
+#endif
 }
 
 int kvm_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm *kvm, unsigned id)


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	Miguel Botón
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Ingo has a patch that he was going to push for this.

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~Randy
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This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been
reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the
mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been fixed already, please let me
know.

If you know of any other unresolved regressions from 2.6.23, please let me know
either and I'll add them to the list.


Subject		: On 2.6.24-rc1-gc9927c2b BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 3d15b925
Submitter	: Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@cateee.net>
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/24/487
		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9246
Handled-By	: 
Patch		: 


Subject		: Potential regression in -git15: can't resume stopped root shell?
Submitter	: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/20/114
		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9247
Handled-By	: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Patch		: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=13361&action=view
		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=13375&action=view


Subject		: irq 21: nobody cared 2.6.24-rc1
Submitter	: Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@mweb.co.za>
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/25/90
		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9249
Handled-By	: 
Patch		: 


Subject		: [BUG] panic after umount (biscted)
Submitter	: Sebastian Siewior <lkml@ml.breakpoint.cc>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119338387030335&w=2
		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9250
Handled-By	: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Patch		: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119348520210349&w=2


Subject		: 2.6.24-rc1 sysctl table check failed on PowerMac
Submitter	: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119350802331857&w=2
		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9251
Handled-By	: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Patch		: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119351015801660&w=2


Subject		: 2.6.24-rc1: pata_acpi fails to ...
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Nobody just happens upon a Voyager quote like that, it takes (at least
some) skill to find, just like actually finding said hardware.

Jon.


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