Kernel

[PATCH -V16 11/12] ext3: Copy fs UUID to superblock.
File system UUID is made available to application via /proc/<pid>/mountinfo Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- fs/ext3/super.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c index 6c953bb..1596795 100644 --- a/fs... 12 Jul 2010 03:05

[PATCH -V16 04/12] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks
The patch update may_open to allow handle based open on symlinks. The file handle based API use file descritor returned from open_by_handle_at to do different file system operations. To find the link target name we need to get a file descriptor on symlinks. We should be able to read the link target using file han... 12 Jul 2010 03:05

[PATCH] microblaze: remove unused HAVE_ARCH_PCI_SET_DMA_MASK
HAVE_ARCH_PCI_SET_DMA_MASK was removed in 2.6.36 (no architecture has the own implementation of pci_set_dma_mask). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> --- arch/microblaze/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 6 ------ 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mic... 12 Jul 2010 03:05

[PATCH] sparc: move is_root_node from private header to of.h
Make is_root_node available for all archs to use, as it's not PROM-specific. Also rename it to of_is_root_node, and a few other minor changes for style/consistency. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger(a)queued.net> --- arch/sparc/kernel/prom.h | 8 -------- arch/sparc/kernel/prom_64.c | 6 ... 12 Jul 2010 03:04

any current public code to limit memory per user?
As the topic says :o) To be more precise, is there any public patch or somewhat that can help with this? As far as i know, in linux, it is only possible to limit memory per process. Correct me if i'm wrong. noah -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m... 12 Jul 2010 03:04

any current public code to limit memory per user?
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:02:45 -0400 "Noah McNallie" <n0ah(a)n0ah.org> wrote: As the topic says :o) To be more precise, is there any public patch or somewhat that can help with this? As far as i know, in linux, it is only possible to limit memory per process. Correct me if i'm wrong. noah D... 12 Jul 2010 03:04

linux-next: Tree for July 12
Hi all, Changes since 20100709: The vfs tree gained a build failure for which I applied a merge fix patch. The v4l-dvb tree lost its conflict. The infiniband tree lost its build failure. The block tree lost its build failure and all but one conflict. The trivial tree lost its conflict. ------------... 12 Jul 2010 03:04

BTRFS: Unbelievably slow with kvm/qemu
Hi, is it a known problem how much slow is Btrfs with kvm/qemu(meaning that the image kvm/qemu uses as the hd is on a partition formatted with Btrfs, not that the fs used by the hd inside the kvm environment is Btrfs, in fact inside kvm the / partition is formatted with ext3)? I haven't written down the exact numbe... 18 Jul 2010 04:08

Modpost error after changing CONFIG_SOUND from m to y
Hi, I was using the same .config for my home machine for a long time, updating it using "make oldconfig" every time I moved to newer kernel. It worked fine for many kernels. In this .config I had CONFIG_SOUND=m. Starting witn 2.6.34, build fails with sound/core/sound_oss.c:25:2: error: #error "Enable the ... 26 Jul 2010 07:16

writeback: sync old inodes first in background writeback
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:38:49PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: A background flush work may run for ever. So it's reasonable for it to mimic the kupdate behavior of syncing old/expired inodes first. I've looked at this a bit again after you pointed to this thread in the direct reclaim thread, and I think we sho... 26 Jul 2010 19:23