Re: 2.6.0-test8-mm1

From: bill davidsen (davidsen_at_tmr.com)
Date: 10/21/03

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Date:	21 Oct 2003 15:43:44 GMT

    In article <20031020020558.16d2a776.akpm@osdl.org>,
    Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
    |
    | ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test8/2.6.0-test8-mm1
    |
    |
    | . Included a much updated fbdev patch. Anyone who is using framebuffers,
    | please test this.
    |
    | . Quite a large number of stability fixes.
    |
    |
    |
    | Changes since 2.6.0-test7-mm1:

    | +devfs-initrd-fix.patch
    |
    | Fix initrd when devfs is in use

    I casually followed the thread on this, is this a band-aid or a magic
    spell of healing? Do you consider this a "real fix" for the various
    problems people reported?
     
    | +export-system_running.patch
    | +might_sleep-early-bogons.patch
    |
    | Stomp all the early might_sleep() warnings.

    Sort of the same question, were the warnings really bogus, or were
    people just not doing the things which might cause a real error?

    | +slab-leak-detector.patch
    | +slab-leak-detector-tweaks.patch
    |
    | A slab debugging tool for finding memory leaks: do
    |
    | echo "slab-name 0 0 0" > /proc/slabinfo
    |
    | and the kernel will inspect each live object in that cache and will print
    | out the code address from which the allocation was performed.

    Neat!

    | +parport_pc-resource-release-fix.patch
    |
    | Fix an oopsable resource leak in parport_pc.

    I'll try my old parport ZIP drive (ppa) again this weekend.

    | +ext3-latency-fix.patch
    |
    | Improved scheduling latency in ext3.

    Did someone have measurements on this?

    Compiling as I type. 

    -- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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