Kernel

block: Allow drivers to implement BLKDISCARD and add BLKSECDISCARD
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch(a)infradead.org> wrote: On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 12:13:16AM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote: SD/MMC cards provide an erase operation that is too inefficient to allow file systems to use it, however it is still useful for userspace tools because it is still ... 11 Jun 2010 04:52

sched/cpu-timers: task->signal is stable now
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 01:09 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: With the recent changes task->signal is pinned to task_struct, it is always valid and can't go away. We can simplify some code in sched / posix-cpu-timers files. Nice! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the... 11 Jun 2010 03:48

blkiocg_update_io_add_stats(): INFO: trying to register non-static key
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 15:04 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: On Wed, Jun 02 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote: btw., there's another warning triggered by the new blk-cgroups stats code: sda:INFO: trying to register non-static key. the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation. turning off the locking c... 11 Jun 2010 03:48

staging/wlags49_hs: Fix build error when CONFIG_SYSFS is not set
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 02:35 -0400, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: With current linux-next I got a build error with wlags49_h2 driver when CONFIG_SYSFS is not set. diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_sysfs.h b/drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_sysfs.h index 6d96d03..7d5895d 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/w... 11 Jun 2010 03:48

script:conf.c Fix warning: variable 'type' set but not used
> I get this using gcc 4.6.0 the below change fixes this form me. (not sure with earlier version of gcc). please have a look and let me know. From a quick look it's likely correct, but you really need to send this to the Kconfig maintainer, not to me. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line... 11 Jun 2010 02:43

script:conf.c Fix warning: variable 'type' set but not used
On 06/10/2010 11:30 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: I get this using gcc 4.6.0 the below change fixes this form me. (not sure with earlier version of gcc). please have a look and let me know. From a quick look it's likely correct, but you really need to send this to the Kconfig maintainer, not to me. ... 11 Jun 2010 02:43

[PATCH] drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c: Fix message logging defect
commit 675ad47375c76a7c3be4ace9554d92cd55518ced removed the capability to use ethtool.set_msglevel to control the types of messages emitted by the driver. That commit should probably be reverted. If not, then this patch fixes a message logging defect introduced by converting a printk without KERN_<level> to e... 11 Jun 2010 02:43

vmscan: Do not writeback pages in direct reclaim
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:02:25 +0100 Mel Gorman <mel(a)csn.ul.ie> wrote: When memory is under enough pressure, a process may enter direct reclaim to free pages in the same manner kswapd does. If a dirty page is encountered during the scan, this page is written to backing storage using mapping->writepage. This... 8 Jul 2010 03:43

[tip:x86/mce] x86, mce: Fix MSR_IA32_MCI_CTL2 CMCI threshold setup
Commit-ID: 3c417588603e5411f29d22a40f3b5ff71529a4f0 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/3c417588603e5411f29d22a40f3b5ff71529a4f0 Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang(a)intel.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 14:09:10 +0800 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> CommitDate: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:27:36 -0700 x86,... 11 Jun 2010 02:42

[tip:x86/mce] x86, mce: Use HW_ERR in MCE handler
Commit-ID: a2d7b0d4852536273b65d16fe179c65184fe5e2d Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a2d7b0d4852536273b65d16fe179c65184fe5e2d Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang(a)intel.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 14:35:39 +0800 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> CommitDate: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:28:49 -0700 x86,... 11 Jun 2010 02:42