Kernel

[PATCH net-next 2/2] cxgb3: request 7.10 firmware
From: Divy Le Ray <divy(a)chelsio.com> The driver requests FW 7.10 Bump up driver version. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <divy(a)chelsio.com> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/version.h | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/cxgb3/version.h b/drivers/net/cxgb3/version.h i... 21 Jun 2010 22:30

fs: limit maximum concurrent coredumps
A core dump is just an instance of a process suddenly reading lots of its address space and doing lots of filesystem writes, producing the kinds of thrashing that any such instance might entail. It really seems like the real solution to this kind of problem will be in some more general kind of throttling of proces... 23 Jun 2010 12:51

[PATCH 2/5] isdn/gigaset: correct CAPI voice connection encoding
Make the Gigaset CAPI driver select L2_VOICE (AT^SBPR=2) as the layer 2 encoding for transparent connections, like the ISDN4Linux variant. L2_BITSYNC (AT^SBPR=0) mutes internal connections and distorts external ones. Impact: bugfix Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman(a)imap.cc> --- drivers/isdn/gigaset/capi.... 21 Jun 2010 20:18

[PATCH V3 8/8] Cleancache: ocfs2 hook for cleancache
[PATCH V3 8/8] Cleancache: ocfs2 hook for cleancache Filesystems must explicitly enable cleancache by calling cleancache_init_fs anytime a instance of the filesystem is mounted and must save the returned poolid. Ocfs2 is currently the only user of the clustered filesystem interface but nevertheless, the cleanca... 21 Jun 2010 20:18

[PATCH V3 7/8] Cleancache: ext4 hook for cleancache
[PATCH V3 7/8] Cleancache: ext4 hook for cleancache Filesystems must explicitly enable cleancache by calling cleancache_init_fs anytime a instance of the filesystem is mounted and must save the returned poolid. For ext4, all other cleancache hooks are in the VFS layer including the matching cleancache_flush_fs ... 21 Jun 2010 20:17

[PATCH V3 5/8] Cleancache: ext3 hook for cleancache
[PATCH V3 5/8] Cleancache: ext3 hook for cleancache Filesystems must explicitly enable cleancache by calling cleancache_init_fs anytime a instance of the filesystem is mounted and must save the returned poolid. For ext3, all other cleancache hooks are in the VFS layer including the matching cleancache_flush_fs ... 21 Jun 2010 20:17

[PATCH V3 2/8] Cleancache: cleancache_poolid in superblock
[PATCH V3 2/8] Cleancache: cleancache_poolid in superblock Add cleancache_poolid to superblock structure... not tied to CONFIG_CLEANCACHE so as to avoid unnecessary clutter. Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer(a)oracle.com> Diffstat: fs.h | 5 +++++ 1 file c... 21 Jun 2010 20:17

Introduce buflock, a one-to-many circular buffer mechanism (rev2)
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:05:05 +0200 "Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg(a)euromail.se> wrote: In spite of the many lock patterns and fifo helpers in the kernel, the case of a single writer feeding many readers via a circular event buffer seems to be uncovered. This patch adds the buflock, a mechanism for handling mul... 21 Jun 2010 20:17

cfq: always return false from should_idle if slice_idle is set to zero
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:49:48PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: Hi, In testing a competing fsync-ing process and a sequential reader on mid-grade storage, I found that cfq was incapable of achieving the I/O rates of deadline, no matter how it was tuned. Investigation, and insight from Vivek (mostly the ... 21 Jun 2010 19:10

[PATCH v2 5/5] of/irq: little endian fixes
From: Rob Herring <r.herring(a)freescale.com> Fix some endian issues in the irq mapping OF code. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <r.herring(a)freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely(a)secretlab.ca> CC: Michal Simek <monstr(a)monstr.eu> CC: Wolfram Sang <w.sang(a)pengutronix.de> CC: Stephen Rothwell <sfr(a)can... 21 Jun 2010 19:10