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drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-wmi.c: fix build warning
Applied, thanks. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ... 20 May 2010 10:33

msi-laptop: Add i8042 filter to sync sw state with BIOS when function key pressed
Hi Joey, This patch didn't apply cleanly, but I've fixed it up by hand. I've also applied the rest of the patchset. Thanks, -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majord... 20 May 2010 10:33

perf: Use read() instead of lseek() in trace_event_read.c:skip()
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:54 PM, tip-bot for Tom Zanussi <tzanussi(a)gmail.com> wrote: Commit-ID: �cbb5cf7ff6b298beacfe23db3386335b0b9c0a2d Gitweb: � � http://git.kernel.org/tip/cbb5cf7ff6b298beacfe23db3386335b0b9c0a2d Author: � � Tom Zanussi <tzanussi(a)gmail.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 4 May 2010 23:02:10 -0500 ... 20 May 2010 10:33

[tip:perf/core] perf: Use read() instead of lseek() in trace_event_read.c:skip()
Commit-ID: cbb5cf7ff6b298beacfe23db3386335b0b9c0a2d Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/cbb5cf7ff6b298beacfe23db3386335b0b9c0a2d Author: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi(a)gmail.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 4 May 2010 23:02:10 -0500 Committer: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> CommitDate: Thu, 20 May 2010 08:37:17 +020... 20 May 2010 09:27

parisc: set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:21:42PM +0900, 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. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.... 20 May 2010 08:22

Prevent reserving RAM in the region already reserved by BIOS
On Wed, 19 May 2010 17:01:41 -0700 Mathieu Rondonneau <mathieu.rondonneau(a)gmail.com> wrote: it' s not in ISA space. once loading the NVIDIA driver, the warnign oops shows up. 4K starting at 0x9f800 (i.e. to 0xa007ff) overlap with the ISA space (starting at 0xa0000). If this is the proprietary Nvidia d... 20 May 2010 08:22

sched: change nohz idle load balancing logic to push model
Hi. On 20/05/10 21:17, Dominik Brodowski wrote: Hey, On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 09:07:42PM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: "Load balancing tick" is still number one in my powertop list of top causes of wakeups (sitting at ~60 to 80 per second as I type this, with ~170 wakeups per second total). Comp... 20 May 2010 08:22

RFC: dirty_ratio back to 40%
We've seen multiple performance regressions linked to the lower(20%) dirty_ratio. When performing enough IO to overwhelm the background flush daemons the percent of dirty pagecache memory quickly climbs to the new/lower dirty_ratio value of 20%. At that point all writing processes are forced to stop and write... 8 Jun 2010 16:01

Another set of ioctl bkl pushdown, almost the end
On Wed 19-05-10 19:24:07, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: We are very close to the end of struct file_operations::ioctl What remains: .... udf: Approved but not yet included in udf tree It is included in udf tree and I will push it to Linus in this merge window... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack(a)sus... 20 May 2010 08:22

fuse: support splice() reading from fuse device
On Thu, May 20 2010, Miklos Szeredi wrote: This continues zero copy I/O support on the fuse interface. The first part of the patchset (splice write support on fuse device) was posted here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/28/215 With Jens' pipe growing patch and additional fuse patches it was po... 20 May 2010 17:12