Kernel

DMAENGINE: generic slave channel control
Hi Dan, any thoughts on this? Personally I really like this abstraction from my experience with embedded DMA controllers, but I don't have your wide experience of DMA hardware. Yours, Linus Walleij 2010/6/29 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij(a)stericsson.com>: This adds an interface to the DMAengine to make it ... 20 Jul 2010 23:26

[PATCH] cifs: remove an potentially confusing, obsolete comment
The recent commit 6ca9f3bae8b1854794dfa63cdd3b88b7dfe24c13 modified the code so that filp is full instantiated whenever the file is created and passed back. The below comment is no longer true, remove it. Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton(a)redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman(a)suse.de> --- fs/cifs/dir.... 6 Jul 2010 08:56

[PATCH] cifs: remove unused ip_address field in struct TCP_Server_Info
The ip_address field is not used and seems redundant as there is union addr already and I don't see any future use as well. Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman(a)suse.de> --- fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h b/fs/cifs/cifsglob... 6 Jul 2010 08:56

IPVS: make FTP work with full NAT support
Simon Horman wrote: @@ -219,19 +358,23 @@ static int ip_vs_ftp_out(struct ip_vs_ap buf_len = strlen(buf); + ct = nf_ct_get(skb, &ctinfo); + ret = nf_nat_mangle_tcp_packet(skb, + ct, + ctinfo, + start-data, + end-start, + bu... 23 Jul 2010 07:00

netfilter: xt_ipvs (netfilter matcher for IPVS)
Simon Horman wrote: From: Hannes Eder <heder(a)google.com> This implements the kernel-space side of the netfilter matcher xt_ipvs. @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +#ifndef _XT_IPVS_H +#define _XT_IPVS_H + +#define XT_IPVS_IPVS_PROPERTY (1 << 0) /* all other options imply this one */ +#define XT_IPVS_PRO... 23 Jul 2010 07:00

IPVS: make friends with nf_conntrack
Simon Horman wrote: +static void +ip_vs_update_conntrack(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ip_vs_conn *cp) +{ + struct nf_conn *ct = (struct nf_conn *)skb->nfct; + struct nf_conntrack_tuple new_tuple; + + if (ct == NULL || ct == &nf_conntrack_untracked || + nf_ct_is_confirmed(ct)) Similar t... 23 Jul 2010 07:00

[PATCH v5 9/9] KVM: MMU: trace pte prefetch
Trace pte prefetch, it can help us to improve the prefetch's performance Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- arch/x86/kvm/mmutrace.h | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | ... 6 Jul 2010 07:52

[PATCH v5 4/9] KVM: MMU: introduce gfn_to_pfn_atomic() function
Introduce gfn_to_pfn_atomic(), it's the fast path and can used in atomic context, the later patch will use it Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- include/linux/kvm_host.h | 1 + virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), ... 6 Jul 2010 07:52

[PATCH v5 3/9] export __get_user_pages_fast() function
This function is used by KVM to pin process's page in the atomic context. Define the 'weak' function to avoid other architecture not support it Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin(a)suse.de> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- mm/util.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 13 insertio... 6 Jul 2010 07:52

[PATCH v5 8/9] KVM: MMU: combine guest pte read between fetch and pte prefetch
Combine guest pte read between guest pte check in the fetch path and pte prefetch Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_... 6 Jul 2010 07:52