make i686 work with higher-memory linodes

I don't know why these work. I can't summarize these changes other than saying they come from linode's official kernels, after lots of trial and error.

4 files changed, 55 insertions, 75 deletions

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index 636d4f9d0aa8..efd4d05a8906 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 pkgbase = linux-linode
 	pkgdesc = Kernel for Arch Linux on Linode
 	pkgver = 3.8.8
-	pkgrel = 1
+	pkgrel = 2
 	url = https://github.com/yardenac/linux-linode
 	install = install
 	arch = i686
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ pkgbase = linux-linode
 	source = change-default-console-loglevel.patch
 	md5sums = 1c738edfc54e7c65faeb90c436104e2f
 	md5sums = 08cdcef928c2ca402adf1c444a3c43ac
-	md5sums = 610a6d51a0f206b5d51c901d600028f2
+	md5sums = 39156c7177796bbcf7a501b4cc8f6138
 	md5sums = cecbb4be919cccd052c87326837869a3
 	md5sums = 9720a0d3d98f97231e5d7dec16ceb37b
 	md5sums = ee66f3cd0c5bc0ba0f65499784d19f30
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index e5a0d7e0af7f..2a19222fa2b8 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ _basekernel=3.8
 _kernelname=${pkgname#linux}
 _srcname=linux-${_basekernel}
 pkgver=${_basekernel}.8
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="https://github.com/yardenac/linux-linode"
 license=(GPL2)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ source=("http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/${_srcname}.tar.xz"
         'change-default-console-loglevel.patch')
 md5sums=('1c738edfc54e7c65faeb90c436104e2f'
          '08cdcef928c2ca402adf1c444a3c43ac'
-         '610a6d51a0f206b5d51c901d600028f2'
+         '39156c7177796bbcf7a501b4cc8f6138'
          'cecbb4be919cccd052c87326837869a3'
          '9720a0d3d98f97231e5d7dec16ceb37b'
          'ee66f3cd0c5bc0ba0f65499784d19f30'
diff --git a/config b/config
index b409e431d22b..2ceca61f2fa8 100644
--- a/config
+++ b/config
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #
 # Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
-# Linux/i386 3.8.8-1 Kernel Configuration
+# Linux/i386 3.8.8-2 Kernel Configuration
 #
 # CONFIG_64BIT is not set
 CONFIG_X86_32=y
@@ -133,7 +133,6 @@ CONFIG_PROC_PID_CPUSET=y
 CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT=y
 CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS=y
 # CONFIG_MEMCG is not set
-# CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB is not set
 # CONFIG_CGROUP_PERF is not set
 CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED=y
 CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=y
@@ -156,11 +155,11 @@ CONFIG_RELAY=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
 CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
 CONFIG_RD_GZIP=y
-CONFIG_RD_BZIP2=y
-CONFIG_RD_LZMA=y
-CONFIG_RD_XZ=y
-CONFIG_RD_LZO=y
-CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
+# CONFIG_RD_BZIP2 is not set
+# CONFIG_RD_LZMA is not set
+# CONFIG_RD_XZ is not set
+# CONFIG_RD_LZO is not set
+# CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set
 CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
 CONFIG_ANON_INODES=y
 CONFIG_EXPERT=y
@@ -193,16 +192,15 @@ CONFIG_HAVE_PERF_EVENTS=y
 CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC is not set
 CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y
-CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y
 # CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is not set
-# CONFIG_SLAB is not set
-CONFIG_SLUB=y
+CONFIG_SLAB=y
+# CONFIG_SLUB is not set
 # CONFIG_SLOB is not set
 # CONFIG_PROFILING is not set
 CONFIG_HAVE_OPROFILE=y
 CONFIG_OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER=y
 # CONFIG_KPROBES is not set
-CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y
+# CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL is not set
 CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS=y
 CONFIG_HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT=y
 CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES=y
@@ -223,7 +221,6 @@ CONFIG_HAVE_PERF_REGS=y
 CONFIG_HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP=y
 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG=y
-CONFIG_HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE=y
 CONFIG_HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL=y
 CONFIG_HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION=y
@@ -238,7 +235,6 @@ CONFIG_CLONE_BACKWARDS=y
 #
 # GCOV-based kernel profiling
 #
-# CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL is not set
 CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT=y
 CONFIG_SLABINFO=y
 CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y
@@ -253,7 +249,7 @@ CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
 CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE=y
 CONFIG_BLOCK=y
 CONFIG_LBDAF=y
-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG=y
+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG is not set
 # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSGLIB is not set
 # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY is not set
 # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING is not set
@@ -300,11 +296,10 @@ CONFIG_XEN=y
 # CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST is not set
 CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=64
 CONFIG_XEN_SAVE_RESTORE=y
-# CONFIG_XEN_DEBUG_FS is not set
-CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=y
+# CONFIG_KVM_GUEST is not set
 # CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST is not set
 CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y
-# CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS is not set
+CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS=y
 CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK=y
 # CONFIG_PARAVIRT_DEBUG is not set
 CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM=y
@@ -354,7 +349,7 @@ CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y
 CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y
 # CONFIG_DMI is not set
 CONFIG_NR_CPUS=8
-CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=y
+# CONFIG_SCHED_SMT is not set
 CONFIG_SCHED_MC=y
 # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set
 CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
@@ -367,12 +362,9 @@ CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
 # CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set
 # CONFIG_I8K is not set
 # CONFIG_X86_REBOOTFIXUPS is not set
-CONFIG_MICROCODE=y
-CONFIG_MICROCODE_INTEL=y
-# CONFIG_MICROCODE_AMD is not set
-CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE=y
-CONFIG_X86_MSR=y
-CONFIG_X86_CPUID=y
+# CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set
+# CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set
+# CONFIG_X86_CPUID is not set
 # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
 # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
 CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
@@ -384,28 +376,26 @@ CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
 CONFIG_X86_PAE=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
-CONFIG_NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
 CONFIG_ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE=0
 CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
-# CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL is not set
-CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL=y
-CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y
-CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT=y
+CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
+# CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set
+CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
+CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
 CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC=y
 CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK=y
 CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK=y
-# CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG is not set
+CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED=y
 CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4
 # CONFIG_COMPACTION is not set
 CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
 CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG=1
 CONFIG_BOUNCE=y
 CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS=y
-CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER=y
 CONFIG_KSM=y
 CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR=4096
 # CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is not set
@@ -429,13 +419,13 @@ CONFIG_HZ=300
 CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK=y
 CONFIG_KEXEC=y
 # CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is not set
-CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000
+CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000
 # CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set
-CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x1000000
+CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000
 CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y
 # CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is not set
-# CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is not set
+CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO=y
 # CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL is not set
 CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y
 
@@ -807,7 +797,7 @@ CONFIG_FIB_RULES=y
 # CONFIG_RFKILL is not set
 # CONFIG_NET_9P is not set
 # CONFIG_CAIF is not set
-CONFIG_CEPH_LIB=m
+CONFIG_CEPH_LIB=y
 # CONFIG_CEPH_LIB_PRETTYDEBUG is not set
 # CONFIG_CEPH_LIB_USE_DNS_RESOLVER is not set
 # CONFIG_NFC is not set
@@ -821,12 +811,10 @@ CONFIG_CEPH_LIB=m
 #
 CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH=""
 CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
-CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
+# CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT is not set
 CONFIG_STANDALONE=y
 CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y
-CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
-# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
-CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=""
+# CONFIG_FW_LOADER is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_DEVRES is not set
 CONFIG_SYS_HYPERVISOR=y
@@ -837,7 +825,8 @@ CONFIG_SYS_HYPERVISOR=y
 #
 # Bus devices
 #
-CONFIG_CONNECTOR=m
+CONFIG_CONNECTOR=y
+CONFIG_PROC_EVENTS=y
 # CONFIG_MTD is not set
 # CONFIG_PARPORT is not set
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV=y
@@ -846,17 +835,18 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=0
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP=y
-# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DRBD is not set
-# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DRBD=y
+# CONFIG_DRBD_FAULT_INJECTION is not set
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=16
-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=16384
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
 # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XIP is not set
 # CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD is not set
 # CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH is not set
 CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND=y
 # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set
-# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RBD is not set
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RBD=y
 
 #
 # Misc devices
@@ -1145,14 +1135,13 @@ CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON=y
 # CONFIG_XEN_SELFBALLOONING is not set
 CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES=y
 CONFIG_XEN_DEV_EVTCHN=y
-CONFIG_XENFS=y
-CONFIG_XEN_COMPAT_XENFS=y
+# CONFIG_XENFS is not set
 CONFIG_XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR=y
 CONFIG_XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND=y
-CONFIG_XEN_GNTDEV=m
-CONFIG_XEN_GRANT_DEV_ALLOC=m
+# CONFIG_XEN_GNTDEV is not set
+# CONFIG_XEN_GRANT_DEV_ALLOC is not set
 CONFIG_XEN_TMEM=y
-CONFIG_XEN_PRIVCMD=y
+CONFIG_XEN_PRIVCMD=m
 CONFIG_XEN_HAVE_PVMMU=y
 CONFIG_STAGING=y
 # CONFIG_ECHO is not set
@@ -1229,9 +1218,7 @@ CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y
 CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG=y
 CONFIG_FS_XIP=y
 CONFIG_JBD=y
-# CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG is not set
 CONFIG_JBD2=y
-# CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG is not set
 CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y
 # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set
 # CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
@@ -1293,8 +1280,8 @@ CONFIG_SYSFS=y
 CONFIG_TMPFS=y
 CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y
 CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR=y
-CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=y
-CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=y
+# CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is not set
+# CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set
 CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS=y
 CONFIG_MISC_FILESYSTEMS=y
 # CONFIG_ADFS_FS is not set
@@ -1343,21 +1330,20 @@ CONFIG_FRAME_WARN=2048
 CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS=y
 # CONFIG_READABLE_ASM is not set
 # CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS is not set
-CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
-CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK=y
-# CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH is not set
+# CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is not set
+# CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK is not set
+CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ is not set
 # CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR is not set
 # CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS is not set
 CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE=0
 # CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is not set
-CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y
+# CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG is not set
 # CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is not set
-CONFIG_TIMER_STATS=y
+# CONFIG_TIMER_STATS is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS is not set
-# CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON is not set
-# CONFIG_SLUB_STATS is not set
+# CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is not set
 CONFIG_HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES is not set
@@ -1372,13 +1358,13 @@ CONFIG_HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT is not set
-# CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is not set
+CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=y
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_WRITECOUNT is not set
-# CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is not set
+CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT=y
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST is not set
 # CONFIG_TEST_LIST_SORT is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_SG is not set
@@ -1395,7 +1381,6 @@ CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=60
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is not set
-# CONFIG_LKDTM is not set
 # CONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION is not set
 # CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION is not set
 # CONFIG_LATENCYTOP is not set
@@ -1413,8 +1398,6 @@ CONFIG_TRACING_SUPPORT=y
 # CONFIG_FTRACE is not set
 # CONFIG_RBTREE_TEST is not set
 # CONFIG_INTERVAL_TREE_TEST is not set
-# CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC is not set
-CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y
 # CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG is not set
 # CONFIG_ATOMIC64_SELFTEST is not set
 # CONFIG_ASYNC_RAID6_TEST is not set
@@ -1422,6 +1405,7 @@ CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y
 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KGDB=y
 # CONFIG_KGDB is not set
 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK=y
+# CONFIG_KMEMCHECK is not set
 # CONFIG_TEST_KSTRTOX is not set
 CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=y
 CONFIG_X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP=y
@@ -1444,7 +1428,6 @@ CONFIG_IO_DELAY_0X80=y
 # CONFIG_IO_DELAY_UDELAY is not set
 # CONFIG_IO_DELAY_NONE is not set
 CONFIG_DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE=0
-# CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS is not set
 # CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG is not set
 CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS is not set
@@ -1644,10 +1627,6 @@ CONFIG_XZ_DEC_IA64=y
 CONFIG_XZ_DEC_BCJ=y
 CONFIG_XZ_DEC_TEST=m
 CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_GZIP=y
-CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_BZIP2=y
-CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZMA=y
-CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_XZ=y
-CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZO=y
 CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH=y
 CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_KMP=y
 CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_BM=y
@@ -1659,6 +1638,7 @@ CONFIG_CPU_RMAP=y
 CONFIG_DQL=y
 CONFIG_NLATTR=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE=y
+CONFIG_LRU_CACHE=y
 CONFIG_AVERAGE=y
 CONFIG_CLZ_TAB=y
 CONFIG_CORDIC=y
diff --git a/install b/install
index 3408a86603ae..01d18a88fcce 100644
--- a/install
+++ b/install
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # arg 2:  the old package version
 
 KERNEL_NAME=-linode
-KERNEL_VERSION=3.8.8-1-linode
+KERNEL_VERSION=3.8.8-2-linode
 
 export PATH='/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'