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[2.6.35-rc3 regression] TCP connections on 'lo' interface randomly stall
With 2.6.35-rc3, I cannot use TCP over the 'lo' interface any more. This is reproduced easily by running 'ssh localhost' and executing a few commands inside the ssh session (if you are able to log in, 'ls -lhFR /' does a good job) - the connection will stall completely after a very short time. As far as I can see, ... 14 Jun 2010 15:07

vmscan: Remove unnecessary temporary vars in do_try_to_free_pages
On 06/14/2010 07:17 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: Remove temporary variable that is only used once and does not help clarify code. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mel(a)csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com> -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-... 14 Jun 2010 15:07

x86, pci: Handle fallout pci devices with peer root bus
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:47:59 -0700 Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu(a)oracle.com> wrote: Graham bisected | commit 3e3da00c01d050307e753fb7b3e84aefc16da0d0 | x86/pci: AMD one chain system to use pci read out res cause the SND_HDA_INTEL doesn't work anymore. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cg... 14 Jun 2010 22:55

vmscan: simplify shrink_inactive_list()
On 06/14/2010 07:17 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: From: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> Now, max_scan of shrink_inactive_list() is always passed less than SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX. then, we can remove scanning pages loop in it. This patch also help stack diet. detail - remove "while (nr_scanne... 15 Jun 2010 06:30

core dumping on NFS mounted directory
Hi : In 2.6.3x, I am logging in as a root and running app from NFS mounted directory. The app crashed with 0 bytes core file (I have set "ulimit -c unlimited", so it's not an issue). The following code in fs/exec.c is causing this: /* * Dont allow local users get cute and trick others to coredump ... 14 Jun 2010 15:07

tracing, vmscan: Add a postprocessing script for reclaim-related ftrace events
On 06/14/2010 07:17 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: This patch adds a simple post-processing script for the reclaim-related trace events. It can be used to give an indication of how much traffic there is on the LRU lists and how severe latencies due to reclaim are. Example output looks like the following Acked-by... 14 Jun 2010 14:00

[PATCH] intel_agp: Don't oops with zero stolen memory
When "onboard video memory" is set do "disabled" in BIOS on Asus P4P800-VM board (i865G), kernel oopses with memory corruption: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28430 Fix that by cleanly aborting the initialization. Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux(a)rainbow-software.org> diff -urp linux-2.6.35-rc... 14 Jun 2010 14:00

x86 support for Uprobes
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 01:59:13PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: @@ -850,7 +850,19 @@ do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs, void *unused, __u32 thread_info_flags) if (thread_info_flags & _TIF_UPROBE) { clear_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE); +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 + /* + * On x86_32, do_notify_r... 21 Jun 2010 11:19

Slot allocation for execution out of line (XOL)
What's the point of adding another header for a few prototypes when all users include user_bkpt.h anyway? -- 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 rea... 16 Jun 2010 03:27

[IWL3945] Broadcast is broken?
On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 19:24 +0200, Maciej Rutecki wrote: Hardware: 08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) Last known good kernel: 2.6.34 Failing kernels: since 2.6.35-rc1 to 2.6.35-rc3 Symptoms: During connect do wireless... 16 Jun 2010 15:28