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[PATCH v3 5/11] KVM: MMU: cleanup FNAME(fetch)() functions
Cleanup this function that we are already get the direct sp's access Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 19 ++++++++----------- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h i... 30 Jun 2010 04:20

x86: enlightenment for ticket spin locks - Xen implementation
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 15:32 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(arch_rwlock_t, spinning_rm_lock) = __ARCH_RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED; why is that an arch_ lock? why is that a rwlock?, those things are useless. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messa... 30 Jun 2010 05:25

x86: Always use irq stacks
* tip-bot for Christoph Hellwig <hch(a)lst.de> wrote: Commit-ID: 7974891db234467eaf1fec613ec0129cb4ac2332 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/7974891db234467eaf1fec613ec0129cb4ac2332 Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch(a)lst.de> AuthorDate: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:15:54 +0200 Committer: Thomas Gleixner <t... 27 Jul 2010 12:50

drm fixes + agp + one fb patch (bisected)
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 08:54:40AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 02:03:04AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: one fb layer fix in a flag I introduced, the rest are drm fixes: radeon fixes: the larger ones in the command stream checker for older cards, which was cau... 30 Jun 2010 13:07

fs: icache lock i_count
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 01:02:41PM +1000, npiggin(a)suse.de wrote: Protect inode->i_count with i_lock, rather than having it atomic. Next step should also be to move things together (eg. the refcount increment into d_instantiate, which will remove a lock/unlock cycle on i_lock). ...... Index: linux-2.6/fs/in... 7 Jul 2010 13:28

x86: enlightenment for ticket spin locks - eliminate NOPs introduced by first patch
>>> On 30.06.10 at 03:13, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa(a)zytor.com> wrote: On 06/29/2010 07:33 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: Under the assumption that the nop-s added by the base ticket spinlock enlightenment patch might be considered undesirable (or worse), here is an optional patch to eliminate these nop-s again. This... 30 Jun 2010 03:15

[PATCH] drm/i915: Selectively enable self-reclaim
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org> wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Chris Wilson wrote: Yes, it survives a short torture test that leaks lots of bo objects from X. Obviously this patch depends upon the new interface. All right. I'll apply my patch, sin... 18 Jul 2010 13:47

2.6.34 Northbridge Chipset Errors on HP Proliant 4 x Opteron in x86_64 mode
From: Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 03:13:03PM -0600 On a 4 x Opteron HP Proliant Server with a CCISS array controller in x86_64 mode, under very heavy (saturated) disk IO, 2.6.34 reports the following error: Jun 29 02:02:08 kernel: Northbridge Error, node 0, core:... 1 Jul 2010 03:26

[ANNOUNCE] MDB Merkey's Kernel Debugger x86_64 2.6.34 06-29-2010 Release 2
http://merkeydebugger.googlecode.com/files/mdb-2.6.34-x86_64-06-29-2010.patch The remaining issues are not critical path and MDB is stable on x86_64 and ia32 with this release. Will update the TODO items as I have time. email me if there are additional features or issues found. FIXES: - fixed DS and W comm... 30 Jun 2010 02:10

Interrupt Affinity in SMP
Hi All, We have HP DL380 Server with 48GB of DDR3/1333 MHz RAM, 4 1Gbps NIC Ports, 1 External RAID Card, 1 Internal RAID Card and 2 �Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 �@ 2.93GHz used as an NFS storage server. Running Ubuntu 9.10 2.6.31-14-server. (The Storage is used as an NFS storage for more than 300VMs running usin... 19 Jul 2010 17:58