Kernel

KVM: MMU: track dirty page in speculative path properly
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:45:27PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote: In speculative path, the page is not real write-access, no need mark it dirty, so clear dirty bit in this path and later examine this bit when we release the page Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- arch/... 15 Jul 2010 14:18

[RFC][PATCH] ima: add default rule for initramfs files
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Mimi Zohar <zohar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 17:08 +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote: This patch modifies the default policy shipped with IMA, in order to avoid measurements of files in the initial ramdisk. Those files can be measured early in the boot process ... 14 Jul 2010 03:21

[RFC][PATCH] Add a dentry op to handle automounting rather than abusing follow_link
Add a dentry op (d_automount) to handle automounting directories rather than abusing the follow_link() inode operation. I've only changed __follow_mount() to handle automount points, but it might be necessary to change follow_mount() too. The latter is only used from follow_dotdot(), but any automounts on ".."... 13 Jul 2010 18:38

[PATCH] sched: clear_buddies cleanup for hierarchical clearing
* dequeue_entity is calling clear_buddies() and doing hierarchical clear, when dequeue_entity itself gets called for each level from dequeue_task_fair. Move clear_buddies to dequeue_task_fair instead. * Similar problem in pick_next_entity. Convert the call to __clear_buddies(). Also, clear_buddies is not using ... 13 Jul 2010 18:38

pidns: Fix wait for zombies to be reaped in zap_pid_ns_processes
Hi Eric, On 12/07/10 11:09 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Fix zap_pid_ns_processes so that it successfully waits for all of the tasks in the pid namespace to be reaped, even if called for a non-leader task of the init process. This guarantees that no task can escpae the pid namespace, and that it i... 14 Jul 2010 17:38

Fix SVM VMCB reset
On 07/12/2010 10:25 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote: On reset, VMCB TSC should be set to zero. Instead, code was setting tsc_offset to zero, which passes through the underlying TSC. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden<zamsden(a)redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com> -- All rights reversed -- To ... 13 Jul 2010 18:38

[tip:x86/setup] x86, setup: Make the setup code also accept console=uart8250
Commit-ID: ce0aa5dd20e44372f9617dd67c984f41fcdbed88 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ce0aa5dd20e44372f9617dd67c984f41fcdbed88 Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai(a)kernel.org> AuthorDate: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:35:17 -0700 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)linux.intel.com> CommitDate: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:08:12 -0700 ... 13 Jul 2010 17:32

introduce a default off mode for kmemleak
Hi Jason, On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 21:31 +0100, Jason Baron wrote: Introduce a new DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF config parameter that allows kmemleak to be disabled by default, but enabled on the command line via: kmemleak=on. Although a reboot is required to turn it on, its still useful to not require a re-c... 14 Jul 2010 06:35

Build log scripts
Introduction: I'm a fan of linux-next. A big fan. Over the past years, it has saved me lots of time! However, like with all itches to scratch, there are a few areas for improvement. The issues: o As a developer, I want to see if a change I made has any negative build impact, perhaps on an obscure a... 13 Jul 2010 17:32

Robust TSC compensation
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:25:29PM -1000, Zachary Amsden wrote: Make the match of TSC find TSC writes that are close to each other instead of perfectly identical; this allows the compensator to also work in migration / suspend scenarios. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden(a)redhat.com> --- arch... 19 Jul 2010 16:52