[16/24] clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha(a)intel.com> This is a merge of two mainline commits, intended for stable(a)kernel.org submission for 2.6.27 kernel. commit f833bab87fca5c3ce13778421b1365845843b976 and c... 24 May 2010 19:03
[17/24] nfsd4: bug in read_buf
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Neil Brown <neilb(a)suse.de> commit 2bc3c1179c781b359d4f2f3439cb3df72afc17fc upstream. When read_buf is called to move over to the next page in the pagelist of an NFSv4 request, it sets argp->end to essent... 24 May 2010 19:03
[04/24] ext4: Make sure all the block allocation paths reserve blocks
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> commit a30d542a0035b886ffaafd0057ced0a2b28c3a4f upstream. With delayed allocation we need to make sure block are reserved before we attempt to allocat... 24 May 2010 19:03
[06/24] ext4: Retry block reservation
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> commit 030ba6bc67b4f2bc5cd174f57785a1745c929abe upstream. During block reservation if we don't have enough blocks left, retry block reservation with s... 24 May 2010 19:03
[10/24] vfs: Add no_nrwrite_index_update writeback control flag
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> commit 17bc6c30cf6bfffd816bdc53682dd46fc34a2cf4 upstream. If no_nrwrite_index_update is set we don't update nr_to_write and address space writeback_in... 24 May 2010 19:03
[21/24] i2c: Fix probing of FSC hardware monitoring chips
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jean Delvare <khali(a)linux-fr.org> commit b1d4b390ea4bb480e65974ce522a04022608a8df upstream. Some FSC hardware monitoring chips (Syleus at least) doesn't like quick writes we typically use to probe for I2... 24 May 2010 19:03
[18/24] USB: fix testing the wrong variable in fs_create_by_name()
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <error27(a)gmail.com> commit fa7fe7af146a7b613e36a311eefbbfb5555325d1 upstream. There is a typo here. We should be testing "*dentry" which was just assigned instead of "dentry". This could ... 24 May 2010 19:03
[20/24] NFS: rsize and wsize settings ignored on v4 mounts
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever(a)oracle.com> commit 356e76b855bdbfd8d1c5e75bcf0c6bf0dfe83496 upstream. NFSv4 mounts ignore the rsize and wsize mount options, and always use the default transfer size for both. T... 24 May 2010 19:03
[15/24] trace: Fix inappropriate substraction on tracing_pages_allocated in trace_free_page()
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Wang Sheng-Hui <crosslonelyover(a)gmail.com> [No matching upstream git commit id as it was fixed differently due to a rewrite of the tracing code there.] For normal case, the code in trace_free_page() do o... 24 May 2010 19:03
[23/24] libata: retry FS IOs even if it has failed with AC_ERR_INVALID
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org> commit 534ead709235b967b659947c55d9130873a432c4 upstream. libata currently doesn't retry if a command fails with AC_ERR_INVALID assuming that retrying won't get it any further e... 24 May 2010 19:03