Kernel

memcg: mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone() doesn't need sc.nodemask
> * KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> [2010-07-16 19:14:15]: Currently mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone() call shrink_zone() directly. thus it doesn't need to initialize sc.nodemask. shrink_zone() doesn't use it at all. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.c... 23 Jul 2010 01:39

linux-next: manual merge of the staging-next tree with the net tree
Hi Greg, Today's linux-next merge of the staging-next tree got a conflict in drivers/staging/batman-adv/hard-interface.c between commit 28172739f0a276eb8d6ca917b3974c2edb036da3 ("net: fix 64 bit counters on 32 bit arches") from the net tree and commit a1a38cad4c71bc08403b204fbe0ba98b4447f8bf ("Staging: batman-ad... 23 Jul 2010 03:48

gpio: remove spurious gpio_unexport debug error.
Hello, On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:05:58PM -0700, Gregory Bean wrote: Make gpio_unexport generate success instead of an -EINVAL if asked to unexport a line which is not exported, because the only result of that condition is a pr_debug which complains of what is really a harmless no-op: when an unexport... 27 Jul 2010 11:44

linux-next: manual merge of the workqueues tree with the cifs tree
Hi Tejun, Today's linux-next merge of the workqueues tree got a conflict in fs/cifs/cifsglob.h between commit 1626bccfc79b354aa47cbfc5c8d39f7be8823eb4 ("cifs: guard cifsglob.h against multiple inclusion") from the cifs tree and commit 9b646972467fb5fdc677f9e4251875db20bdbb64 ("cifs: use workqueue instead of slo... 23 Jul 2010 01:39

linux-next: manual merge of the workqueues tree with the Linus' tree
Hi Tejun, Today's linux-next merge of the workqueues tree got a conflict in fs/cifs/cifsfs.c between commit 4c0c03ca54f72fdd5912516ad0a23ec5cf01bda7 ("CIFS: Fix a malicious redirect problem in the DNS lookup code") from Linus' tree and commit 9b646972467fb5fdc677f9e4251875db20bdbb64 ("cifs: use workqueue instead... 5 Aug 2010 00:31

cfq-iosched: don't allow aliased requests to starve others
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:09:48AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: Hi, In running a test case that tries to trip up the kernel's AIO implementation, we ran into a situation where no other I/O to the device under test would be completed. The test program spawned (in this case) 100 threads, each of which per... 26 Jul 2010 09:26

[git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch
Hi Linus ! Here's a few things for 2.6.35. One's a fallover from the lmb->memblock rename that I missed, which causes a bunch of pseries machine to boot with 128M of memory and that's it :-) There's a few patches fixing a nasty race we found in our hugepage code, a kexec fix from Kumar, and an .lds fix from ... 23 Jul 2010 00:34

RapidIO,powerpc/85xx: remove MCSR_MASK in fsl_rio
>Subject: [PATCH] RapidIO,powerpc/85xx: remove MCSR_MASK in fsl_rio Fixes compile problem caused by MCSR_MASK removal from book-E definitions. Hi Alex, Only with your patch, there will still be problem on SRIO platforms other than MPC85xx. I have posted a patch series to fix this together with several com... 23 Jul 2010 00:34

linux-next: build failure after merge of the xen tree
Hi Jeremy, After merging the xen tree, today's linux-next build (86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this: arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:71: error: __pcpu_scope_xen_vcpu causes a section type conflict arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:72: error: __pcpu_scope_xen_vcpu_info causes a section type conflict arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:... 23 Jul 2010 03:48

Handling delayed clocksource watchdog timer
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 20:13 -0700, john stultz wrote: diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c index 0e98497..a91e7ba 100644 --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c @@ -280,7 +280,8 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigned long data) cs_nsec = c... 23 Jul 2010 00:34