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[PATCH] interrupt.h: fix fatal kernel-doc error
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Fix kernel-doc fatal error: /** beginning a non-kernel-doc comment block: (That alone does not kill kernel-doc, but the 'enum' was totally confusing to it.) Error(/lnx/src/TMP/linux-2.6.34-git6//include/linux/interrupt.h:88): cannot understand prototype: 'enum ' ma... 21 May 2010 12:48

2.6.35 merge window is over for USB
Hi all, If you haven't noticed, all of the new features for USB are now merged in Linus's tree for the .35 kernel version. At this point in time, I'm only expecting there to be minor bugfixes and new device ids for the .35 kernel for the USB subsystem. Anything else, will be gladly accepted by me at any time, ... 21 May 2010 17:14

direct-io: do not merge logically non-contiguous requests
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 04:24:51PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: Btrfs cannot handle having logically non-contiguous requests submitted. For example if you have Logical: [0-4095][HOLE][8192-12287] Physical: [0-4095] [4096-8191] Normally the DIO code would put these into the same BIO's. The pr... 22 May 2010 10:32

fs: kill blockdev_direct_IO_no_locking
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 04:24:52PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: Christoph said he'd rather everybody use __blockdev_direct_IO directly instead of having a bunch of random helper functions, so thats what this patch does. It's a basic change, I've tested it with xfstests on ext4 and xfs. Thanks, Signed-off-... 21 May 2010 11:42

direct-io: add a hook for the fs to provide its own submit_bio function V3
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 04:24:50PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: V1->V2: -Changed dio_end_io to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL -Removed the own_submit blockdev dio helper -Removed the boundary change patch version changelogs go below the --- header so they don't go into the commit message. Also makes reading the patch ... 21 May 2010 11:42

input: mt: Document the MT event slot protocol (rev2)
> ABS_MT_BLOB_ID 11 ABS_MT_TRACKING_ID 45 ABS_MT_SLOT_ID 0 ABS_MT_POSITION_X x[0] ABS_MT_POSITION_Y y[0] ABS_MT_SLOT_ID 1 ABS_MT_POSITION_X x[1] ABS_MT_POSITION_Y y[1] ABS_MT_SLOT_ID 2 ABS_MT_POSITION_X x[2] ABS_MT_POSITION_Y y[2] SYN_MT_BLOB ABS_MT_BLOB_ID 89 ABS_MT_SLOT_ID 3 ... 21 May 2010 11:42

perf: Precise task / softirq / hardirq filtered stats/profiles
* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi, The new task and irq exclusion handling can let you confine tracing and profiling to about everything you want. I fixed the subject line ;-) 'exclusion' is the ABI detail. The feature your patches implement are to allow 'softirq limited... 21 May 2010 15:01

writeback: initial tracing support
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:41:51PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: From: From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe(a)oracle.com> Trace queue/sched/exec parts of the writeback loop. If you move the CREATE_TRACE_POINTS into fs-writeback.c and include <trace/events/writeback.h> after the sturcture defintions there's no need to... 3 Jun 2010 22:20

cgroups: Add an API to attach a task to current task's cgroup
On 5/20/2010 3:22 PM, Paul Menage wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala.sridhar(a)gmail.com> wrote: Add a new kernel API to attach a task to current task's cgroup in all the active hierarchies. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala<sri(a)us.ibm.com> Revie... 31 May 2010 03:18

writeback: tracing and wbc->nr_to_write fixes
What happened to this series? Getting the trace events in will defintively help with tuning the writeback code, and we'll also need the nr_to_write issue fixed some way. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordo... 21 May 2010 20:32