Kernel

[PATCH 0/3] further BKL removal
With the ioctl, block, tty, vfs and llseek series on their way into linux-next, these three patches are attacking the hardest remaining issues. If we get these ready for 2.6.36, the kernel should be almost usable with the BKL disabled. In all three cases, I'm cheating a bit, because the BKL still remains lurkin... 10 Jul 2010 18:13

[PATCH] Fix warning: statement with no effect due to vt_kern.h
Using: gcc (GCC) 4.5.0 20100610 (prerelease) with CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS=n, the following warnings are seen: drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c: In function 'vt_ioctl': drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c:1309:4: warning: statement with no effect drivers/char/vt.c: In function 'vc_allocate': drivers/char/vt.c:774:3: war... 10 Jul 2010 18:13

[PATCH] Drivers: isdn: Fixed warnings and odd code.
This patch fixes compile time warnings in drivers/isdn/sc/init.c, and also cleans up what looked like redundant code in this file. Signed-off-by: Zachary Richey <zr.public(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/isdn/sc/init.c | 17 ++++------------- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/isdn... 10 Jul 2010 18:13

[PATCH -staging] slicoss: README update
Update README to remove completed tasks Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov(a)kernel.org> --- drivers/staging/slicoss/README | 7 ------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/slicoss/README b/drivers/staging/slicoss/README index 70f4909..862a87d 100644 --- a/dr... 10 Jul 2010 17:07

[PATCH -staging] slicoss: Remove net_device_stats from the driver's private
Remove net_device_stats from the driver's private. Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov(a)kernel.org> --- drivers/staging/slicoss/slic.h | 1 - drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++------------------ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/stagi... 10 Jul 2010 17:07

x86, mem: Optimize memcpy by avoiding memory false dependece
* Maciej Rutecki (maciej.rutecki(a)gmail.com) wrote: On czwartek, 8 lipca 2010 o 00:03:25 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: Hi Ingo, I just bisected the cause of boot hard lockup on my Intel Xeon E5405 to this commit recently added to -tip: a1e5278e40f16a4611264f8da9e557c16cb6f6ed is the first b... 10 Jul 2010 17:07

SLUB with queueing (V2) beats SLAB netperf TCP_RR
On 10.07.2010, Christoph Lameter wrote: The following patchset cleans some pieces up and then equips SLUB with per cpu queues that work similar to SLABs queues. With that approach SLUB wins significantly in hackbench and improves also on tcp_rr. The patchset applies cleanly, however compilation fails wit... 18 Jul 2010 21:21

x86, mem: Optimize memcpy by avoiding memory false dependece
On czwartek, 8 lipca 2010 o 00:03:25 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: Hi Ingo, I just bisected the cause of boot hard lockup on my Intel Xeon E5405 to this commit recently added to -tip: a1e5278e40f16a4611264f8da9e557c16cb6f6ed is the first bad commit Merge branch 'x86/mem' I created a Bugzilla en... 10 Jul 2010 16:01

x86: Early-boot serial I/O support
On 07/10/2010 11:07 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: This patch adds serial I/O support to very early boot printf(). It's useful for debugging boot code when running Linux under KVM, for example. The actual code was lifted from early printk. Yinghai is correct that this really needs to pick apart the command line,... 11 Jul 2010 04:00

[PATCH -v3] x86,nobootmem: make alloc_bootmem_node fall back to other node when 32bit numa are used
Borislav Petkov reported his 32bit numa system has problem: [ 0.000000] Reserving total of 4c00 pages for numa KVA remap [ 0.000000] kva_start_pfn ~ 32800 max_low_pfn ~ 375fe [ 0.000000] max_pfn = 238000 [ 0.000000] 8202MB HIGHMEM available. [ 0.000000] 885MB LOWMEM available. [ 0.000000] ... 10 Jul 2010 14:55