2.4.20pre8aa2

URL:

	http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.20pre8aa2.gz
	http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.20pre8aa2/

Changelog between 2.4.20pre8aa1 and 2.4.20pre8aa2:

Only in 2.4.20pre8aa1: 00_extraversion-8 Only in 2.4.20pre8aa2: 00_extraversion-9

Rediffed.

Only in 2.4.20pre8aa2: 00_proc-cmdline-1

Read within the page.

Only in 2.4.20pre8aa2: 00_thinkpad-1

Thinkpad support at http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/ integrated by Chip Salzenberg.

Only in 2.4.20pre8aa2: 00_usb_get_string-len-1

Don't read behind the end of the string
to avoid timeouts with some hardware. From Andreas Klein.

Only in 2.4.20pre8aa1: 08_qlogicfc-template-aa-3 Only in 2.4.20pre8aa2: 08_qlogicfc-template-aa-4

Allow qlogicfc to compile.

Only in 2.4.20pre8aa1: 20_sched-o1-fixes-1 Only in 2.4.20pre8aa2: 20_sched-o1-fixes-2

	Resurrect the starvation logic, fix the idle->prio value, and further
	fixes to the run-child-first logic too.

Only in 2.4.20pre8aa2: 84_x86-64-arch-1 Only in 2.4.20pre8aa2: 85_x86-64-includes-1

Synchronize x86-64 with all the additional features (aio, cpu affinity etc..)

Only in 2.4.20pre8aa1: 9900_aio-8.gz Only in 2.4.20pre8aa2: 9900_aio-9.gz

Add reiserfs support and fix one bug with timeout null to getevents. From Chris Mason.

Andrea

I was rediffing the task_cpu patch, when reached a new hunk in -aa:

kernel/sched.c::sched_init(void):

+ current->cpu = smp_processor_id();

As include/asm-i386/smp.h says,

#define smp_processor_id() (current->cpu)

So you have a harmless and useless assignment... unless you really wanted to do any other thing, or smp_processor_id() != current->cpu in some arch.

???

TIA

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yes, it's a superflous line, it's the equivalent of the 2.5.40 line here:

	rq->idle = current;
	set_task_cpu(current, smp_processor_id());
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	wake_up_process(current);

it is a superflous bit in the o1 scheduler changes. If the boot cpu isn't id 0 it must be initialized by the architectural code in arch/. Either that or sched_init must use hard_smp_processor_id(). On most archs the boot cpu is id 0 so it probably doesn't trigger if needed.

Andrea

Ew we do that in 2.5, too.

I think this is a mistake; we don't need to do this here. But if I am wrong, we need to get the current processor number elsewhere.

Robert Love

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/data2/usr/local/src/linux-2.4-pre-aa/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /data2/usr/local/src/linux-2.4-pre-aa/include/linux/modversions.h -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=i8k -c -o i8k.o i8k.c In file included from i8k.c:25:
/data2/usr/local/src/linux-2.4-pre-aa/include/linux/kbd_kern.h: In function `con_schedule_flip':
/data2/usr/local/src/linux-2.4-pre-aa/include/linux/kbd_kern.h:152:
dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make[2]: *** [i8k.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/data2/usr/local/src/linux-2.4-pre-aa/drivers/char'

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