Kernel

Drives missing at boot
Hi, I have a newish machine - maybe 3 months old - which unreliably finds its disk drives at each boot. Probably 40% of the time booting 1 or more drives will be missing. So far I've been unable to determine what might be wrong. Sometimes it finds all 5 drives, sometimes only 4 or 3 drives. It's not always... 4 Aug 2010 12:30

[PATCH] Break out types from <linux/list.h> to <linux/list_types.h>.
This allows a list_head (or hlist_head, etc.) to be used from places that used to be impractical, in particular <asm/processor.h>, which used to cause include file recursion: <linux/list.h> includes <linux/prefetch.h>, which always includes <asm/processor.h> for the prefetch macros, as well as <asm/system.h>, which... 2 Jul 2010 14:37

xstat: Implement a requestable extra result to procure some inode flags [ver #4]
On 2010-07-01, at 17:57, David Howells wrote: [This is, for the moment, to be considered an example. Do we actually want to export these flags? Should they be a full member of struct xstat?] I would say this should be a full-fledged member of struct xstat. I think they are fairly standard (available on many... 5 Jul 2010 12:11

KVM: MMU: combine guest pte read between walk and pte prefetch
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:55:56PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote: Combine guest pte read between guest pte walk and pte prefetch Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 files changed, 33 insertion... 2 Jul 2010 13:32

linux-next: Tree for July 2 (touchscreen/ad7879)
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 16:35:05 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi all, Changes since 20100630: The tip tree lost a conflict. The driver-core tree gained a conflict agains the jdelvare-hwmon tree. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- drivers/input/... 3 Jul 2010 16:47

[PATCH UPDATED 4/4] async: use workqueue for worker pool
Replace private worker pool with system_unbound_wq. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)infradead.org> --- workqueue.h include added and patch description updated. git branch updated accordingly. Thanks. kernel/async.c | 141 ++++++++--------------------------------------... 2 Jul 2010 13:31

time/fs - file's time race with vgettimeofday
In no way I can review this patch, but I am curious and have the questions. Also, I think it makes sense to cc the fs/ developers, I've added Al. On 07/02, Jiri Olsa wrote: there's a race among calling gettimeofday(2) and a file's time updates. Following test program expose the race. run it in the w... 7 Jul 2010 14:34

iwl3945: HARDWARE GONE??
Heya! Bumped my kernel to version 2.6.35-rc3-00391-g97e0214 and ran into HARDWARE GONE error message.. Hardware is Lenovo x60s and wireless card is intel 3945: 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) Subsystem: Intel Corporation ThinkPad R60e/X6... 6 Jul 2010 08:57

Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #3]
On 2010-07-01, at 23:36, Michael Kerrisk wrote: * Include information from the "inode_info" structure, most notably i_flags, but perhaps other info as well. This one is actually pretty interesting, though instead of exporting the i_flags directly (the S_* flags), it would be much better to export the FS_*_FL v... 9 Jul 2010 10:32

[GIT PULL] AMD64 EDAC fixlet for 2.6.35-rc4
Hi Linus, please pull this small fixlet which corrects syndrome calculation on K8. Full patch added below for reference. Thanks. The following changes since commit 7e27d6e778cd87b6f2415515d7127eba53fe5d02: Linux 2.6.35-rc3 (2010-06-11 19:14:04 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://gi... 2 Jul 2010 12:24