Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-rc4-mm1-U9.3

i have released the -U9.3 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be
downloaded from:

  http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/

this too is a fixes-only release.

Changes since -U9.2:

 - tons more driver/mutex/completion conversion done by Thomas Gleixner 
   for: ppp, ipmi, parport/ieeee1284, scsi, hotplug, and more.

 - iptables/netfilter deadlock fix, this should fix the bug reported by 
   Michal Schmidt.

 - .config housekeeping: disallow the turning off of PREEMPT_BKL when 
   PREEMPT_REALTIME is on. This solves the build error reported by 
   Matthew L Foster.

 - print the full stacktrace of the current task in the deadlock 
   detector and dont use show_stack(). This explains some of the weird
   partial stackdumps reported.

 - some more minor updates to the case when the deadlock detector turns
   itself off due to reaching the limit. We kept the spinlock locked.

to create a -U9.3 tree from scratch, the patching order is:

   http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.8.tar.bz2
 + http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6...
 + http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2....
 + http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/realtime-preemp...

	Ingo
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