Kernel

[PATCH 1/5] v2 Split the memory_block structure
Split the memory_block struct into a memory_block struct to cover each sysfs directory and a new memory_block_section struct for each memory section covered by the sysfs directory. This change allows for creation of memory sysfs directories that can span multiple memory sections. This can be beneficial in that i... 15 Jul 2010 15:24

[PATCH v2] edac: mpc85xx: Add support for new MPCxxx/Pxxxx EDAC controllers
Simply add proper IDs into the device table. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov(a)mvista.com> --- It appears that the driver has two device ID tables. :-) So, my previous attempt enabled only half of the functionality. Andrew, Can you please replace edac-mpc85xx-add-support-for-mpc8569-edac-con... 15 Jul 2010 15:24

x86: fix x2apic preenabled system with kexec
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 00:00 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: Found one x2apic system kexec loop test failed when CONFIG_NMI_WATCHDOG=y (old) or CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR=y (current tip) first kernel can kexec second kernel, but second kernel can not kexec third one. it can be duplicated on another system with... 15 Jul 2010 17:38

xfs: convert inode shrinker to per-filesystem contexts
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:46:57PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: 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 c... 20 Jul 2010 15:47

mm: add context argument to shrinker callback
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:46:56PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: From: Dave Chinner <dchinner(a)redhat.com> The current shrinker implementation requires the registered callback to have global state to work from. This makes it difficult to shrink caches that are not global (e.g. per-filesystem caches). Pass t... 20 Jul 2010 15:47

xfs: track AGs with reclaimable inodes in per-ag radix tree
> + */ +static struct xfs_perag * +xfs_inode_ag_iter_next_pag( + struct xfs_mount *mp, + xfs_agnumber_t *first, + int tag) +{ + struct xfs_perag *pag = NULL; + + if (tag == XFS_ICI_RECLAIM_TAG) { + int found; + int ref; + + spin_lock(&mp->m_perag_lock); + found = radix_t... 15 Jul 2010 15:24

AppArmor: LSM interface, and security module initialization
On 07/15/2010 10:27 AM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting John Johansen (john.johansen(a)canonical.com): AppArmor hooks to interface with the LSM, module parameters and module initialization. Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen(a)canonical.com> Thanks, John - looks good overall. Comments: ... 15 Jul 2010 14:18

[PATCH] Input: mousedev - Fix mousedev_poll() to advertise when /dev/input/mice is writable.
The Microsoft ImPS/2 mouse protocol being bidirectionnal (sic) one may have to write in /dev/input/mice; and that works better if select() does not hang. Signed-off-by: Julien Moutinho <julm+linux(a)savines.alpes.fr.eu.org> --- drivers/input/mousedev.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)... 15 Jul 2010 14:18

kmemleak: Add support for NO_BOOTMEM configurations
should be for 2.6.34 and 2.6.35. Thanks Yinghai On 07/15/2010 07:58 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: With commits 08677214 and 59be5a8e, alloc_bootmem()/free_bootmem() and friends use the early_res functions for memory management when NO_BOOTMEM is enabled. This patch adds the kmemleak calls in the corre... 16 Jul 2010 15:27

[PATCH 2/2] blktrace: unlink blk directory on final trace close
blktrace fails to completely clean up after itself if BLKTRACESTOP is called before the final trace file is closed: % blktrace /dev/sdb & % exec 6</sys/kernel/debug/block/sdb/trace0 % kill %1 % find /sys/kernel/debug/block/ /sys/kernel/debug/block/ /sys/kernel/debug/block/sdb /sys/kernel/debug/block/sdb/trace... 15 Jul 2010 14:17