On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

There is a 2.4.3-pre5 in the test-directory on ftp.kernel.org.

The complete changelog is appended, but the biggest recent change is the
mmap_sem change, which I updated with new locking rules for pte/pmd_alloc
to avoid the race on the actual page table build.

This has only been tested on i386 without PAE, and is known to break other
architectures. Ingo, mind checking what PAE needs? Generally, the changes
are simple, and really only implies changing the pte/pmd allocation
functions to _only_ allocate (ie removing the stuff that actually modifies
the page tables, as that is now handled by generic code), and to make sure
that the "pgd/pmd_populate()" functions do the right thing.

I have also removed the xxx_kernel() functions - for architectures that
need them, I suspect that the right approach is to just make the
"populate" funtions notice when "mm" is "init_mm", the kernel context.
That removed a lot of duplicate code that had little good reason.

This pre-release is meant mainly as a synchronization point for mm
developers, not for generic use.

	Thanks,

		Linus


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-pre5:
  - Rik van Riel and others: mm rw-semaphore (ps/top ok when swapping)
  - IDE: 256 sectors at a time is legal, but apparently confuses some
    drives. Max out at 255 sectors instead.

Could the IDE one cause corruption ?

EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared
for block 6211

Just hitted this now with pre3. 

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