Linux Status For 2.3.x: v 2.3.43

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 17:05:11 EST


Done

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SCSI needs allocate/free functions to fix the gdth stuff
Fixing scsi blocking and cleanups
PAE36 failures (? - ok now )

In Progress ----------- Merge the network fixes (DaveM) Merge 2.2.13/14 changes (Alan, all done barring COMX and Sk98) Get RAID 0.90 in (Ingo)

Fix Exists But Isnt Merged -------------------------- Signals leak kernel memory (security) msync fails on NFS

To Do ----- Truncate races (Debian apt shows it nicely) Restore O_SYNC functionality vmalloc(GFP_DMA) is needed for DMA drivers VM needs rebalancing Fix eth= command line Check O_APPEND atomicity bug fixing is complete Incredibly slow loopback tcp bug Finish softnet driver port over and cleanups Page cache high on PAE36 boxes is very slow, maybe disable ? Protection on isize (sct) Mikulas claims we need to fix the getblk/mark_buffer_uptodate thing for 2.3.x as well Fix SPX socket code NCR5380 isnt smp safe Finish 64bit vfs merges (lockf64 and friends missing) Make syncppp use new ppp code Fbcon races Fix all remaining PCI code to use new resources and enable_Device Get the Emu10K merged Fix module remove race bug (-- not in open so why did I see crashes ??? --) Per Process rtsigio VFS?VM - mmap/write deadlock initrd is bust rw sempahores on page faults (mmap_sem) kiobuf seperate lock functions/bounce/page_address fixes per super block write_super needs an async flag addres_space needs a VM pressure/flush callback per file_op rw_kiovec enhanced disk statistics Fix routing by fwmark put_user appears to be broken for i386 machines Some FB drivers check the A000 area and find it busy then bomb out NTFS needs updating/binning or something ACPI hangs on boot for some systems rw semaphores on inodes to fix read/truncate races ? Not all device drivers are safe now the write inode lock isnt taken on write File locking needs checking for races Multiwrite IDE breaks on a disk error AFFS doesn't work on current page cache DMFE is not SMP safe

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