Kernel

Dmaengine query
Hi Dan, � �My DMA controller supports device to device DMA transfers and we need it in some of our drivers. Existing DMA engine framework doesn't have support for device to device transfers. Do you have any plans for device to device support in DMA engine? Can you suggest me some other suggestion for doing t... 23 May 2010 21:13

[PATCH 3/4] io-controller: a new interface to keep track of io rate when group is backlogged
Add a new interface to keep track of io rate of a group when it's backlogged. If the group is dequeued, io rate isn't calculated. Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- block/blk-cgroup.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ block/blk-cgroup.h | 5 +++++ 2 files cha... 21 May 2010 05:09

[PATCH 4/4] io-controller: Document for active bytes, time and rate.
Document for active bytes time and rate. Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio... 21 May 2010 05:09

[PATCH 0/2] perf: perf_arch_fetch_regs_caller API change
Hi, I did some updates in this function, we don't need anymore to skip further the first caller now. So I think it's worth the simplification to lower the overhead in the tracing fast path. I took Paul updates for PowerPc and I did the changes on x86. But I'm clearly useless about the sparc part, I'm still co... 21 May 2010 05:08

[PATCH] [WATCHDOG] bfin: use new common Blackfin watchdog header
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier(a)gentoo.org> --- Andrew: could you pick this up ? it was posted a few months ago ... drivers/watchdog/bfin_wdt.c | 19 +------------------ 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/bfin_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/bfin_wdt.c index 9c7... 21 May 2010 05:08

Allow disabling TUI per command in ~/.perfconfig
* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)infradead.org> wrote: Hi Ingo, I noticed some problems in the previous TUI disabling patch, fixed in this v2 series, that also includes a removal of some gettimeofday calls of little utility submitted by Russ. Please pull from: git://git.... 21 May 2010 04:04

vfs/eCryptfs: Handle ioctl calls with unlocked and compat functions
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 08:25:32AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Friday 21 May 2010, Tyler Hicks wrote: Lower filesystems that only implement unlocked_ioctl aren't being passed ioctl calls because eCryptfs only checked for lower_file->f_op->ioctl and returned -ENOTTY if it was NULL. eCrypt... 21 May 2010 04:04

[RFC ] [PATCH V2 2/2] Platform changes for CMA3000
From: Hemanth V <hemanthv(a)ti.com> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 20:33:03 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Platform changes for CMA3000 Accelerometer driver Signed-off-by: Hemanth V <hemanthv(a)ti.com> --- arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-4430sdp.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deleti... 21 May 2010 04:04

[GIT PULL] Arm i.MX changes
Hi Linus, Please pull the following Arm i.MX related changes. They are normally going via Russell King, but I missed him closing his tree this time. Sascha The following changes since commit f72caf7e496465182eeda842ac66a5e75404ddf1: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'for-2.6.35' of git://linux-nf... 21 May 2010 03:00

linux-next: manual merge of the driver-core tree with the net tree
Hi Greg, On Fri, 21 May 2010 16:21:34 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr(a)canb.auug.org.au> wrote: Today's linux-next merge of the driver-core tree got a conflict in net/core/net-sysfs.c between commits 0a9627f2649a02bea165cfd529d7bcb625c2fcad ("rps: Receive Packet Steering") and fec5e652e58fa6017b2c9e06466cb... 21 May 2010 11:42