Kernel

kexec: increase max of kexec segments and use dynamic allocation
Amerigo Wang <amwang(a)redhat.com> writes: Currently KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX is only 16 which is too small for machine with many memory ranges. Increase this hard limit to 1024 which is reasonably large, and change ->segment from a static array to a dynamically allocated memory. ??? This should be about segmen... 27 Jul 2010 15:03

[PATCH 3/6] writeback: kill writeback_control.more_io
When wbc.more_io was first introduced, it indicates whether there are at least one superblock whose s_more_io contains more IO work. Now with the per-bdi writeback, it can be replaced with a simple b_more_io test. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu(a)intel.com> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 9 +... 22 Jul 2010 02:43

[Patch] kexec: increase max of kexec segments and use dynamic allocation
Currently KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX is only 16 which is too small for machine with many memory ranges. Increase this hard limit to 1024 which is reasonably large, and change ->segment from a static array to a dynamically allocated memory. Cc: nhorman(a)redhat.com Cc: ebiederm(a)xmission.com Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwan... 22 Jul 2010 02:43

cfq-iosced: Implement IOPS mode and group_idle tunable V3
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 03:06:18PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: On high end storage (I got on HP EVA storage array with 12 SATA disks in RAID 5), That's actually quite low end storage for a server these days :) So this is not the default mode. This new tunable group_idle, allows one to set slice_idle=0 t... 26 Jul 2010 11:38

[PATCH] x86: ioremap: fix wrong physical address handling in PAT code
From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki(a)jp.fujitsu.com> The following two commits fixed a problem that x86 ioremap() doesn't handle physical address higher than 32-bit properly in X86_32 PAE mode. ffa71f33a820d1ab3f2fc5723819ac60fb76080b (x86, ioremap: Fix incorrect physical address handling in PAE mode) 35be... 22 Jul 2010 02:43

moving memcg's node info array to virtually contiguous array
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:58:31 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: These are just a _toy_ level patches yet. My final purpose is to use indexed array for mem_cgroup itself, it has IDs. Background: memory cgroup uses struct page_cgroup for tracking all used pages. It's defi... 22 Jul 2010 04:52

acpi_idle: Very idle Core i7 machine never enters C3
Jeff, Please attach the output from acpidump for your dell to this bug report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15886 I think we know how to cleanly solve the issue to make Philip's Gigabye happy, and I'd like to know if your Dell is the same situation or a different one. Unfortunately, Matthew's... 22 Jul 2010 02:43

keypad/nuc900: change keypad driver name from 'nuc900-keypad' to 'nuc900-kpi'
Dmitry, Can it be applied? Thanks! Hi Dmitry, I ever changed the keypad platform device name from 'nuc900-keypad' to 'nuc900-kpi', but I forget to modify the related keypad driver name,so the keypad driver does not work,I have to send the patch to fix this issue. Signed-off-by: Wan ZongShun... 22 Jul 2010 02:43

of: remove asm/of_device.h
From: Grant Likely <grant.likely(a)secretlab.ca> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:40:15 -0600 It is mostly unused now. Sparc has a few defines left in it, but they can be moved to other headers. Removing this header means that new architectures adding CONFIG_OF support don't need to also add this header file. ... 22 Jul 2010 01:39

Eliminate of_platform_bus_type
From: Grant Likely <grant.likely(a)secretlab.ca> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:39:49 -0600 David, you'll also want to take a look at patches 4 & 5 to see if you agree with my decisions on where I move symbols in the header files. Looks fine to me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin... 22 Jul 2010 01:39