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mmotm 2010-05-14-13-33 uploaded
The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2010-05-14-13-33 has been uploaded to http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ and will soon be available at git://zen-kernel.org/kernel/mmotm.git It contains the following patches against 2.6.34-rc7: origin.patch mmc-at91_mci-modify-cache-flush-routines.patch mmc-at91... 16 May 2010 20:08

Do not expect PCI devices to return zeroes in PCIe space
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:37 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> wrote: On 04/30/2010 07:54 PM, Petr Vandrovec wrote: Hello, � openSUSE11.3 32bit kernels hang when installed to the VMware's VMs because Moorestown fixed capabilities detection code enters endless loop on Intel's AGP bridges (with devic... 14 May 2010 17:13

[PATCH] mm: Consider the entire user address space during node migration
This patch uses TASK_SIZE_MAX instead of TASK_SIZE to ensure that the entire user address space is migrated. TASK_SIZE_MAX is independent of the calling task context. TASK SIZE may be dependant on the address space size of the calling process. Usage of TASK_SIZE can lead to partial address space migration if the... 14 May 2010 17:13

Defrag in shrinkers
Christoph Lameter <cl(a)linux.com> writes: Would it also be possible to add some defragmentation logic when you revise the shrinkers? Here is a prototype patch that would allow you to determine the other objects sitting in the same page as a given object. With that I hope that you have enough information... 16 May 2010 21:12

[PATCH] inotify_user.c: make local symbol static
The symbol inotify_max_user_watches is not used outside this file and should be static. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten(a)visionengravers.com> Cc: John McCutchan <john(a)johnmccutchan.com> Cc: Robert Love <rlove(a)rlove.org> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis(a)parisplace.org> --- diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/ino... 14 May 2010 17:13

drivers/s390/char: Use kstrdup
This introduced an unused variable. I will send a revised version shortly. julia On Fri, 14 May 2010, Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Use kstrdup when the goal of an allocation is copy a string into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change i... 17 May 2010 06:56

[PATCH] anon_inode: set S_IFREG on the anon_inode
anon_inode_mkinode() sets inode->i_mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR; This means that (inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) == 0. This trips up some SELinux code that needs to determine if a given inode is a regular file, a directory, etc. The easiest solution is to just make sure that the anon_inode also sets S_IFREG. Signed-off-b... 14 May 2010 17:13

security/selinux/ss: Use kstrdup
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 21:30 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Use kstrdup when the goal of an allocation is copy a string into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expressi... 16 May 2010 20:08

fs/ocfs2/dlm: Use kstrdup
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 09:30:48PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Use kstrdup when the goal of an allocation is copy a string into the allocated region. Seems fine. I'll send it along. Joel -- "In the arms of the angel, fly away from here, From this dark, col... 18 May 2010 15:53

[PATCH 29/37] swiotlb: Use page alignment for early buffer allocation
for 2.6.34 We could call free_bootmem_late() if swiotlb is not used, and it will shrink to page alignement. So alloc them with page alignment at first, to avoid lose two pages before patch: [ 0.000000] lmb_reserve_area: [00d3600000, 00d7600000] swiotlb buffer [ 0.000000] lmb_reserve_area: [0... 14 May 2010 16:08