Kernel

DMAENGINE: runtime config for slave channels
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij(a)stericsson.com> wrote: This adds an interface to the DMAengine to make it possible to reconfigure a channel at runtime. We add a few foreseen config parameters to the passed struct, with a void * pointer for custom per-device or per-platform dat... 23 Jun 2010 02:59

cpumask: fix compat getaffinity
On Wed, 12 May 2010 06:00:45 pm Milton Miller wrote: At least for parsing, we need to allocate and parse NR_CPUS until all places like arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/xics.c that compare a user-supplied mask to CPUMASK_ALL are eliminated. Hi, this has been bugging me... We're OK in this case: cpumask_... 22 Jun 2010 20:27

2.6.34-rc5-git7 (plus all patches) -- another suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:49:12PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Tuesday, June 22, 2010, Paul E. McKenney wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:34:25AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of regressions introduced between 2.6.33 and ... 22 Jun 2010 19:22

ext3/4: enhance fsync performance when using CFQ
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 05:34:59PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: Running iozone with the fsync flag, or fs_mark, the performance of CFQ is far worse than that of deadline for enterprise class storage when dealing with file sizes of 8MB or less. I used the following command line as a representative test case: ... 22 Jun 2010 19:22

Staging: memrar: Moved memrar_allocator struct into memrar_allocator.c
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 02:54:33PM +0300, Henri Häkkinen wrote: Forward declared memrar_allocator in memrar_allocator.h and moved it to memrar_allocator.c file. Implemented memrar_allocator_capacity() and memrar_allocator_largest_free_area(). Um, did you try building the code after this patch? It fails in... 24 Jun 2010 14:08

2.6.34-rc5-git7 (plus all patches) -- another suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage.
On Tuesday, June 22, 2010, Paul E. McKenney wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:34:25AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of regressions introduced between 2.6.33 and 2.6.34. The following bug entry is on the current list of known r... 22 Jun 2010 20:27

Staging: rtl8192e/ieee80211: remove kernel version compatibility wrappers
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:45:43AM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote: Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten(a)visionengravers.com> This doesn't apply at all, what tree is it against? confused, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message... 22 Jun 2010 18:15

PCI Non-transparent bridge support?
Is anybody working on supporting configuring PCI non-transparent bridges in Linux? For anybody who does NOT know what a non-transparent bridge is: an NTB is a device that connects as a PCI device on two separate PCI root complexes. It then allows each root complex to map regions of its PCI address space into the... 22 Jun 2010 18:15

cifs: guard cifsglob.h against multiple inclusion
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:52:50 +0530 Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman(a)suse.de> wrote: Add conditional compile macros to guard the header file against multiple inclusion. Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman(a)suse.de> --- fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 dele... 22 Jun 2010 18:15

[PATCH 0/3 v5][RFC] ext3/4: enhance fsync performance when using CFQ
Hi, Running iozone with the fsync flag, or fs_mark, the performance of CFQ is far worse than that of deadline for enterprise class storage when dealing with file sizes of 8MB or less. I used the following command line as a representative test case: fs_mark -S 1 -D 10000 -N 100000 -d /mnt/test/fs_mark -s 655... 22 Jun 2010 18:15