Kernel

writeback: sync expired inodes first in background writeback
On Thu 22-07-10 13:09:32, Wu Fengguang wrote: A background flush work may run for ever. So it's reasonable for it to mimic the kupdate behavior of syncing old/expired inodes first. The policy is - enqueue all newly expired inodes at each queue_io() time - retry with halfed expire interval until get s... 1 Aug 2010 11:35

Wrong DIF guard tag on ext2 write
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst(a)vlnb.net> wrote: James Bottomley, on 06/01/2010 05:27 PM wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 12:30 +0200, Christof Schmitt wrote: What is the best strategy to continue with the invalid guard tags on write requests? Should this be fixed in ... 26 Jul 2010 16:02

Suspend and VT switch hangs since 2.6.34
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:33:36 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: [...] I think this may actually be an X server bug. 2.6.34 introduced some Hi, that seems to be not a kernel issue indeed, as at some point I never got this hang again. However, I upgraded to new versions of Mesa, DRM, and also new bugfix rele... 23 Jul 2010 14:43

[PATCH] Fix /proc/softirqs file formatting
Hi, The length of the BLOCK_IPOLL string is making it's value be printed too far to the right. This patch fixes this and makes the output a bit neater. Currently: CPU0 HI: 0 TIMER: 599792 NET_TX: 2 NET_RX: 6 BLOCK: 80807 BLOCK_IOPOLL: ... 23 Jul 2010 14:43

[RFC] [PATCH procfs] Add process age
Hi, This patch exports a process's age, in seconds, adding a /proc/#/age file. Thanks, Davidlohr Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave(a)gnu.org> --- fs/proc/base.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index acb7ef8..a5... 23 Jul 2010 14:43

[PATCH] acpi: fix apei related table size checking
also check if we can find right action in apei. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai(a)kernel.org> --- drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c | 5 +++++ drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c | 3 ++- drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acp... 23 Jul 2010 14:43

ath5k: snprintf() returns largish values
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 12:04 +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote: This is a smatch thing. I suppose someday I will fix smatch to evaulate the strings themselves and verify that the buffer is large enough. But for now it's nice to be able to automatically check that the buffers don't overflow. There are also ma... 23 Jul 2010 15:49

i915 drm BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at a5e89046
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:15:55 +0200 (CEST) "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw(a)sisk.pl> wrote: This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of regressions introduced between 2.6.33 and 2.6.34. The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions introduced between 2.6.33 and... 23 Jul 2010 14:43

[PATCH] DMAENGINE: generic slave channel control v3
This adds an interface to the DMAengine to make it possible to reconfigure a slave channel at runtime. We add a few foreseen config parameters to the passed struct, with a void * pointer for custom per-device or per-platform runtime slave data. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij(a)stericsson.com> --- Cha... 23 Jul 2010 13:38

[REGRESSION][SUSPEND] 2.6.35-rcX won't suspend Lenovo W500 laptop
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:11:34 -0700 (PDT) Shawn Starr <shawn.starr(a)rogers.com> wrote: Still continues. I can however hibernate and resume from hibernation ok. If it works on Fedora, maybe you could get it working with a similar upstream kernel (same version, same config) and then bisect? -- Je... 23 Jul 2010 13:38