Kernel

[PATCH -V10 9/9] ext3: Copy fs UUID to superblock.
This enable user space application to get the file system UUID using sys_name_to_handle_at syscall Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- fs/ext3/super.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c index 1bee604..7c... 20 May 2010 04:04

[PATCH -V10 2/9] vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support
This patch add a new superblock field unsigned char s_uuid[16] to store UUID mapping for the file system. The s_uuid[16] is used to identify the file system apart of file_handle Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue(a)us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- fs/exportfs/expfs.c ... 20 May 2010 04:04

[patch 3/3] ipc: increase IPCMNI_MAX
Just wondering whether there is a good reason to have a full 16 bits of sequence in ipc ids? 32K indexes is pretty easy to overflow, if only in stress tests for now. I was doing some big aim7 stress testing, which required this patch, but it's not exactly a realistic workload :) But the sequence seems like it ju... 20 May 2010 04:04

[GIT PULL] genesis updates for 2.6.35-rc1
Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/genesis-2.6.git Which contains: Kuninori Morimoto (10): ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372: Add I2C0, I2C1 support ARM: mach-shmobile: ap4evb: Add TouchScreen support ARM: mach-shmobile: ap4evb: Add SW43, SW3 tiny document ... 20 May 2010 03:00

blackfin: set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 23:21, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: Architectures that handle DMA-non-coherent memory need to set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to make sure that kmalloc'ed buffer is DMA-safe: the buffer doesn't share a cache with the others. thanks, ive merged this into my tree and will push for 2.6.35 -mike -... 20 May 2010 03:00

[PATCH] random: simplify fips mode
Rather than dynamically allocate 10 bytes, move it to static allocation. This saves space and avoids the need for error checking. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm(a)selenic.com> diff -r a12387bbcc93 drivers/char/random.c --- a/drivers/char/random.c Thu Apr 08 10:02:02 2010 -0700 +++ b/drivers/char/random.c Thu M... 20 May 2010 01:56

V4L/DVB updates
Hi Mauro/Linux DVB developers, Can someone please review the following patch asap? https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/97358/ I may not have access to the testbed for long because I'm leaving my university soon. I had been using the fix introduced through this patch on my testbed since 2.6.32 and had not ... 20 May 2010 01:56

ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN fixes
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:21 AM, FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote: As DMA-API-HOWTO says, kmalloc'ed buffer must be DMA-safe. Drivers and subsystems depend on it. So architectures that handle DMA-non-coherent memory need to set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN: the kmalloc'ed buffer doesn't sh... 20 May 2010 01:55

perf session fix host_machine handling wrt build ids
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 14:01 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: Hi Ingo, Please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 perf Stephane and Tom, Now the build id code should be back working: Thanks for providing the fix! Tom -- To unsubs... 20 May 2010 00:51

x86, mem-hotplug: update all PGDs for direct mapping and vmemmap mapping changes on 64bit.
Wu Fengguang wrote: @@ -1033,6 +1038,7 @@ vmemmap_populate(struct page *start_page, unsigned long size, int node) } } + sync_global_pgds((unsigned long)start_page, end); Here you removed the tlb flush in the original patch. Is it safe to do so? Yes, I think so. Before this populate,... 20 May 2010 00:51