A patch from Hirokazu Takahashi to speed up the new sped-up writev
code.

Instead of running ->prepare_write/->commit_write for each individual
segment, we walk the segments between prepage and commit.  So
potentially much larger amounts of data are passed to commit_write(),
and prepare_write() is called much less often.

Added bonus: the segment walk happens inside the kmap_atomic(), so we
run kmap_atomic() once per page, not once per segment.

We've demonstrated a speedup of over 3x.  This is writing 1024-segment
iovecs where the individual segments have an average length of 24
bytes, which is a favourable case for this patch.

Silly bug which was halving swapout bandwidth: we've taken a copy of
page->mapping into a local convenience variable, but forgot to update
that local after adding the page to swapcache.

This was designed to be a really sterm throttling threshold: if dirty
memory reaches this level then perform writeback and actually wait on
it.

It doesn't work.  Because memory dirtiers are required to perform
writeback if the amount of dirty AND writeback memory exceeds
dirty_async_ratio.

So kill it, and rely just on the request queues being appropriately
scaled to the machine size (they are).

This is basically what 2.4 does.

Bill Irwin's patch to avoid having to walk pagetables while generating
/proc/stat output.

It can significantly overstate the size of various mappings because it
assumes that all VMAs are fully populated.

But spending 100% of one of my four CPUs running top(1) is a bug.

Bill says this fixes a bug, too.  The `SIZE' parameter is supposed to
display the amount of memory which the process would consume if it
faulted everything in.  But "before it only showed instantiated
3rd-level pagetables, so if something within a 4MB aligned range hadn't
been faulted in it would slip past the old one".

Patch from Martin Bligh.  It should only affect machines using
discontigmem.

"This patch is was originally from Andrea's tree (from SGI??), and has
been tweaked since by both Christoph (who cleaned up all the code),
and myself (who just hit it until it worked).

It removes _alloc_pages, and adds all nodes to the zonelists
directly, which also changes the fallback zone order to something more
sensible ...  instead of: "foreach (node) { foreach (zone) }" we now
do something more like "foreach (zone_type) { foreach (node) }"

Christoph has a more recent version that's fancier and does a couple
more cleanups, but it seems to have a bug in it that I can't track
down easily, so I propose we do the simple thing for now, and take the
rest of the cleanups when it works ...  it seems to build nicely on
top of this seperately to me.

Tested on 16-way NUMA-Q with discontigmem + NUMA support."

Patch from Martin Bligh.  It should only affect machines using
discontigmem.

"This patch cleans up free_area_init stuff, and undefines mem_map and
max_mapnr for discontigmem, where they were horrible kludges anyway
...  We just use the lmem_maps instead, which makes much more sense.
It also kills pgdat->node_start_mapnr, which is tarred with the same
brush.

It breaks free_area_init_core into a couple of sections, pulls the
allocation of the lmem_map back into the next higher function, and
passes more things via the pgdat.  But that's not very interesting,
the objective was to kill mem_map for discontigmem, which seems to
attract bugs like flypaper.  This brings any misuses to obvious
compile-time errors rather than wierd oopses, which I can't help but
feel is a good thing.

It does break other discontigmem architectures, but in a very obvious
way (they won't compile) and it's easy to fix.  I think that's a small
price to pay ...  ;-) At some point soon I will follow up with a patch
to remove free_area_init_node for the contig mem case, or at the very
least rename it to something more sensible, like __free_area_init.

Christoph has grander plans to kill mem_map more extensively in
addition to the attatched, but I've heard nobody disagree that it
should die for the discontigmem case at least.

Oh, and I renamed mem_map in drivers/pcmcia/sa1100 to pc_mem_map
because my tiny little brain (and cscope) find it confusing like that.

Tested on 16-way NUMA-Q with discontigmem + NUMA support and on a
standard PC (well, boots and appears functional).  On top of
2.5.33-mm4"

The writeback code paths which walk the superblocks and inodes are
getting an increasing arguments passed to them.

The patch wraps those args into the new `struct writeback_control',
and uses that instead.  There is no functional change.

The new writeback_control structure is passed down through the
writeback paths in the place where the old `nr_to_write' pointer used
to be.

writeback_control will be used to pass new information up and down the
writeback paths.  Such as whether the writeback should be non-blocking,
and whether queue congestion was encountered.

Andrew removed a flush_dcache_page in his kmap_atomic generic_file_*
changes.

Doing that sort of corrupts data on some platforms.

into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

Now that all archs use the same way to generate the link script, we can
handle it from the common top-level Makefile instead of the individual
arch/*/Makefile's.

Untested, but at least it should show how to adapt the mips arch.

Untested, but at least it should show how to adapt the cris arch.

This is an untested attempt to convert ARM to preprocessing vmlinux.lds.S
instead of running sed on it - This probably allows for further cleanup,
but I'll leave that to _rmk_.

For consistency reasons, generate 

	arch/$(ARCH)/vmlinux.lds.s

from 

 	arch/$(ARCH)/vmlinux.lds.S

on all archs, even those which do not need preprocessing (yet).

Sam Ravnborg:

Yep, "if_changed_dep" uses fixdep, so a dependency to scripts is needed.
Added echo_target as well, so the result file is printed as well.

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remove unused pdc202xx.h

but makes it impossible to shut down cleanly.

Renames console.c and vt.c. The idea is to break these massive files into smaller ones. The main goal is to move all the high end tterminal emulation into one file. This way we can have a light weight printk without the extra weight. nice for embedded systems.

Removed selection.h header. It is not needed and in the future selections will be a pure userland solution. Use set_current_state instead in tty_ioctl.c.

into maxwell.earthlink.net:/usr/src/console-stable

into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

hpt366 pci_tbl has a cut-n-paste error, last entry should be '4' and not
15. fixes a bug where hpt366_init_one() gets passed bogus
id->driver_data and thus goes way beyond hpt366_chipsets[]

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Note the cdc-ether.c driver does NOT work properly now, someone who 
understands the interface mess in that driver needs to fix it up.

This adds the requirement that the usb-serial drivers call 
usb_register() and usb_unregister() themselves, instead of having
the usbserial.c file do it.  Step one in moving the usbserial.c 
code to being a "class"  :)