Kernel

[PATCH 4/5] Package Level Thermal Control and Power Limit Notification: power limit notification
Power limit notification feature is published in Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures SDMV Vol 3A 14.5.6 Power Limit Notification. It is implemented first on Intel Sandy Bridge platform. The patch handles notification interrupt. Interrupt handler dumps power limit information in log_buf, logs the event in mce log, ... 22 Jul 2010 12:30

[PATCH 3/5] Package Level Thermal Control and Power Limit Notification: thermal throttling
Add package level thermal throttle interrupt support. The interrupt handler increases package level thermal throttle count. It also logs the event in MCE log. The package level thermal throttle interrupt happens across threads in a package. Each thread handles the interrupt individually. User level application i... 22 Jul 2010 12:30

[PATCH 1/5] Package Level Thermal Control and Power Limit Notification: feature enabling
Add package level thermal and power limit feature support in the kernel. The two MSRs and features are new starting with Intel's Sandy Bridge processor. Please check Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures SDMV Vol 3A 14.5.6 Power Limit Notification and 14.6 Package Level Thermal Management. Signed-off-by: Fenghua... 22 Jul 2010 12:30

Small perf optimization
Before this bad practice of using arrays of string pointers to constant strings further spreads let's fix it. With this change not only is the entire data associated with the arrays read-only, it also replaces a memory lookup with a trivial arithmetic operation. The result is a smaller and faster binary. Sig... 22 Jul 2010 12:30

vhost: replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost kthread
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 08:40:00PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: Replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost kthread. Other than callback argument change from struct work_struct * to struct vhost_work *, there's no visible change to vhost_poll_*() interface. This conversion is to make each vhost use a dedicated k... 28 Jul 2010 07:26

firewire: new driver: nosy - IEEE 1394 traffic sniffer
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:56:38 +0200 (CEST) Stefan Richter wrote: This adds the traffic sniffer driver for Texas Instruments PCILynx/ PCILynx2 based cards. The use cases for nosy are analysis of nonstandard protocols and as an aid in development of drivers, applications, or firmwares. This comparabl... 22 Jul 2010 12:30

- Mapping ACPI tables as CACHED
> The following experimental patch changes the kernel mapping for ACPI tables to CACHED. This eliminates the page attibute conflict & allows users to map the tables CACHEABLE. This significantly speeds up boot: 38 minutes without the patch 27 minutes with the patch ~30% improvement Time to... 23 Jul 2010 13:38

xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6]
On Thursday 2010-07-22 17:14, Linus Torvalds wrote: It is?  It's called crtime in Ext4.  st_btime, however, would be compatible with BSD's stat, and Samba would just use it by way of autoconf magic if it appeared. Samba has the following check: # recent FreeBSD, NetBSD have creation ti... 13 Aug 2010 15:46

keypad/nuc900: change keypad driver name from 'nuc900-keypad' to 'nuc900-kpi'
Hi Wan, On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:34:17PM +0800, Wan ZongShun wrote: Dmitry, Can it be applied? It is applied to my 'for-linus' branch. Thanks. Thanks! Hi Dmitry, I ever changed the keypad platform device name from 'nuc900-keypad' to 'nuc900-kpi', but I forget to mod... 22 Jul 2010 12:30

staging: clean up code a bit, use kernel native methods
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 04:24:02PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko(a)gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)suse.de> Cc: devel(a)driverdev.osuosl.org --- drivers/staging/otus/apdbg.c | 22 ----------------- drivers/staging/panel/panel.c ... 22 Jul 2010 12:30