Kernel

zcache: page cache compression support
Nitin, Would you have all this in a git tree somewhere? Considering getting this working requires 24 patches it would really help with testing. TIA Ed Tomlinson On Friday 16 July 2010 08:37:42 you wrote: Frequently accessed filesystem data is stored in memory to reduce access to (much) slower backing... 24 Jul 2010 11:14

[PATCH 1/4 update] firewire: cdev: some clarifications to the API documentation
Response events: - are generated on more occasions than their documentation claimed. CSR allocation: - An already occupied CSR can be determined from errno==EBUSY. Bus resets: - Note that FW_CDEV_IOC_INITIATE_BUS_RESET is nonblocking and that the client is not required to observe a grace period sinc... 17 Jul 2010 16:19

Allow sharing xvmalloc for zram and zcache
On 07/16/2010 08:37 AM, Nitin Gupta wrote: Both zram and zcache use xvmalloc allocator. If xvmalloc is compiled separately for both of them, we will get linker error if they are both selected as "built-in". So, we now compile xvmalloc separately and export its symbols which are then used by both of zr... 17 Jul 2010 15:13

Transparent Hugepage Support #28
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/andrea/aa.git;a=shortlog first: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/andrea/aa.git or first: git clone --reference linux-2.6 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/andrea/aa.git later: git fetch; git checkout -f origin/master The tree is rebase... 17 Jul 2010 14:08

[PATCH 5/4 RFC] firewire: cdev: add PHY pinging
This extends the FW_CDEV_IOC_SEND_PHY_PACKET ioctl() for /dev/fw* to be useful for ping time measurements. One application for it would be gap count optimization in userspace that is based on ping times rather than hop count. (The latter is implemented in firewire-core itself but is not applicable to beta PHYs th... 17 Jul 2010 14:08

PHY pinging test tool
/* * Ping packet transmission test * * Usage: * - Compile with "gcc test-phy-pinging.c". * - Run with "sudo ./a.out /dev/fw*". * - It will print the ping time to all PHYs and exit. */ #include <fcntl.h> #include <linux/firewire-cdev.h> #include <poll.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> ... 17 Jul 2010 14:08

x86: Use symbolic MSR names
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Brian Gerst <brgerst(a)gmail.com> wrote: Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst(a)gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg(a)cs.helsinki.fi> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majord... 17 Jul 2010 13:02

x86: Remove redundant K6 MSRs
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Brian Gerst <brgerst(a)gmail.com> wrote: MSR_K6_EFER is unused, and MSR_K6_STAR is redundant with MSR_STAR. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst(a)gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg(a)cs.helsinki.fi> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke... 17 Jul 2010 13:02

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[PATCH 4/5] tools: perf: fix sign bug
'i' is unsigned, so this code is wrong if ext is long enough: i = strlen(argv[0]) - strlen(ext); if (i > 0 && !strcmp(argv[0] + i, ext)) { ... } Make it signed. The semantic patch that finds this problem (many false-positive results): (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @ r1 @ identifier f;... 17 Jul 2010 11:57