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2.6.27-rc5
September 1, 2008 - 10:48am
Submitted by Jeremy on September 1, 2008 - 10:48am. Linus Torvalds announced
the 2.6.27-rc5 Linux Kernel, noting that his "weekly releases" tend
to happen every eight days, adding, "the bulk of it is all config
updates, and with arm and powerpc leading the pack." Linus
continued:
"While the config updates amount to about three quarters
of the diff, and if you don't use a rename-aware diff the blackfin
include file movement pretty much accounts for the rest, hidden behind
all those trivial (but bulky) changes are a lot of small changes that
hopefully fix a number of regressions.
"The most exciting (well, for me personally - my life is
apparently
too boring for words) was how we had some stack overflows that totally
corrupted some basic thread data structures. That's exciting because we
haven't had those in a long time. The cause turned out to be a somewhat
overly optimistic increase in the maximum NR_CPUS value, but it also
caused some introspection about our stack usage in general. Including
things like a patch to gcc to fix insane stack usage for vararg
functions on x86-64. But that one would only hit anybody who was a bit
too adventurous and selected the big 4096 CPU configuration. The rest
of the regressions fixed are a bit more pedestrian."
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