Kernel

[PATCH 0/9] mm: generic adaptive large memory allocation APIs
generic adaptive large memory allocation APIs kv*alloc are used to allocate large contiguous memory and the users don't mind whether the memory is physically or virtually contiguous. The allocator always try its best to allocate physically contiguous memory first. In this patch set, some APIs are introduced: kv... 13 May 2010 06:06

CacheFiles: Fix error handling in cachefiles_determine_cache_security()
Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org> wrote: The changelog makes it hard for civilians to work out what the user-visible effect of this bug was. Sorry, I should've included the below oops report in the patch description. Sadly, I think it's too late to fix that now as Linus has taken the patch. The... 13 May 2010 06:06

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hugetlb, rmap: add reverse mapping for hugepage
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi(a)ah.jp.nec.com> writes: Adding a few more recent hugetlb hackers in cc. Folks, please consider reviewing the hugetlb.c parts of the original patch kit in linux-mm. While hugepage is not currently swappable, rmapping can be useful for memory error handler. Using rmap, memory er... 2 Jun 2010 15:22

ACPI, APEI, EINJ injection parameters support
Huang Ying <ying.huang(a)intel.com> writes: Some hardware error injection needs parameters, for example, it is useful to specify memory address and memory address mask for memory errors. Some BIOSes allow parameters to be specified via an unpublished extension. This patch adds support to it. The param... 13 May 2010 06:06

tracing: Allow mmio tracer to display trace_printk() and other events
On Wed, 12 May 2010 21:21:13 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt(a)goodmis.org> wrote: From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt(a)redhat.com> The mmio tracer has its own function to handle reading of events. But if it encounters an event that it does not understand it ignores it instead of telling the calling function t... 15 May 2010 22:27

[GIT PULL] last minute vhost-net fix
David, if it's not too late, please pull the following last minute fix into 2.6.34. Thanks! The following changes since commit de02d72bb3cc5b3d4c873db4ca8291723dd48479: Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 (2010-05-10 22:53:41 -0700) are available in ... 13 May 2010 05:02

[PATCH 0/7] HWPOISON for hugepage (v5)
This patchset enables error handling for hugepage by containing error in the affected hugepage. Until now, memory error (classified as SRAO in MCA language) on hugepage was simply ignored, which means if someone accesses the error page later, the second MCE (severer than the first one) occurs and the system panic... 13 May 2010 05:02

[PATCH 5/7] HWPOISON, hugetlb: isolate corrupted hugepage
If error hugepage is not in-use, we can fully recovery from error by dequeuing it from freelist, so return RECOVERY. Otherwise whether or not we can recovery depends on user processes, so return DELAYED. Dependency: "HWPOISON, hugetlb: enable error handling path for hugepage" Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi ... 13 May 2010 05:02