2.6.23-stable review, core kernel changes

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.23.X release. There are 13 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it.

These patches are sent out with a number of different people on the
Cc: line. If you wish to be a reviewer, please email [email protected] to add your name to the list. If you want to be off the reviewer list, also email us.

Responses should be made by Friday 00:00:00 UTC. Anything received after that time might be too late.

This set of patches focuses on only the core kernel. Other sets of patches will follow if you are interested in those instead.

The diffstat of this review series is included below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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 Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO |   84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 block/ll_rw_blk.c         |    8 +---
 fs/locks.c                |   11 ++++++
 fs/proc/array.c           |    6 ++-
 fs/splice.c               |    2 -
 include/linux/blkdev.h    |    2 -
 include/linux/sched.h     |    1 
 kernel/fork.c             |    2 +
 kernel/futex_compat.c     |   27 ++++++++++----
 kernel/lockdep.c          |   10 ++---
 kernel/params.c           |    8 +++-
 kernel/softlockup.c       |    7 ++-
 mm/filemap.c              |   13 +------
 mm/page-writeback.c       |    4 +-
 mm/shmem.c                |   15 ++++++++
 mm/slub.c                 |   22 ------------
 16 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)