Kernel

[PATCH 0/3] shrinker fixes for XFS for 2.6.35
Per-superblock shrinkers are not baked well enough for 2.6.36. However, we still need fixes for the XFS shrinker lockdep problems caused by the global mount list lock and other problems before 2.6.35 releases. The lockdep issues look like: ======================================================= [ INFO: possible ... 15 Jul 2010 08:45

[PATCH 2/3] xfs: convert inode shrinker to per-filesystem contexts
From: Dave Chinner <dchinner(a)redhat.com> Now the shrinker passes us a context, wire up a shrinker context per filesystem. This allows us to remove the global mount list and the locking problems that introduced. It also means that a shrinker call does not need to traverse clean filesystems before finding a filesy... 15 Jul 2010 08:45

[PATCH 3/3] xfs: track AGs with reclaimable inodes in per-ag radix tree
From: Dave Chinner <dchinner(a)redhat.com> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16348 When the filesystem grows to a large number of allocation groups, the summing of recalimable inodes gets expensive. In many cases, most AGs won't have any reclaimable inodes and so we are wasting CPU time aggregating ove... 15 Jul 2010 08:45

any value in running my kernel scanning scripts before release?
normally i wait for the merge window, then run my kernel scanning scripts and post results. any interest in me doing that earlier? i just did a quick test and found a number of incongruities like, for example: $ grep -r "config QT2160" * drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig:config QT2160 $ $ grep -r KEYBOARD... 16 Jul 2010 00:10

2.6.35-r5 ext3 corruptions
Upgrading my test vms from 2.6.35-rc3 to 2.6.35-rc5 is resulting in repeated errors on the root drive of a test VM: { 1532.368808] EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 211043 [ 1532.370859] Aborting journal on device sda1. [ 1532.376957] EXT3-fs (sda1): [ 1532.376976] EXT3-fs (sda... 23 Jul 2010 07:00

[PATCH] Fix the rx8581 setdatetime
2010/7/15 Rudolf Marek <rudolf.marek(a)sysgo.com>: Hello, This patch fixes the logic while writing new date/time to the chip. The driver incorrectly written back register values to different registers and even with wrong mask. The patch adds clearing of the VLF register, which should be cleared if all d... 15 Jul 2010 06:36

vga switcheroo not working on amilo Xi 3650
Hi david, As I saw some changes in the .35, I tried again on amilo xi 3650. As you will see its a Intel/Nvidia hybrid graphic laptop. When I use the delayed switch option, and restart X via the kdm restart X server option, I see the message of the switch and then it hangs rock solid. I'm forced to push on t... 16 Jul 2010 09:54

vga switcheroo not working on amilo Xi 3650
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Eric Valette <eric.valette(a)free.fr> wrote: Hi david, As I saw some changes in the .35, I tried again on amilo xi 3650. As you will see its a Intel/Nvidia hybrid graphic laptop. When I use the delayed switch option, and restart X via the kdm restart X server option, ... 15 Jul 2010 05:32

tpc-srv/tcp: nfsd: got error -104 when sending 116 bytes - shutting down socket
Hi. I have been testing 2.6.33.5 in production and when getting a moderate NFS load it end up by "hanging" itself. The last message in the log is: rpc-srv/tcp: nfsd: got error -104 when sending 116 bytes - shutting down socket Prior to that. (say 24 hours of good operation) it stalled for some minutes and s... 15 Jul 2010 05:32

[PATCHv3 1/2] usb: gadget: storage: strict coversion of 'ro' parameter
Bring a strict way to get the 'ro' parameter from the user. The idea was discussed in LKML [1]. [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/13/143 Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko(a)nokia.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern(a)rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell(a)users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Greg Kroah... 15 Jul 2010 05:32