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support for drives larger than 2TiB
Hello, I've been playing with a SATA 2.5T drive and things don't look too bad. All four controllers I've tested worked fine and the driver and kernel worked just fine. Even BIOSes don't seem too bad. At least the two boards I tested (both about three years old) didn't have much problem recognizing upto 2TiB a... 27 Jul 2010 05:10

[PATCH wq#for-next] fscache: fix build on !CONFIG_SYSCTL
Commit 8b8edefa (fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work) made fscache_exit() call unregister_sysctl_table() unconditionally breaking build when sysctl is disabled. Fix it by putting it inside CONFIG_SYSCTL. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@o... 24 Jul 2010 05:52

cfq-iosced: Implement IOPS mode and group_idle tunable V3
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch(a)infradead.org> wrote: To me this sounds like slice_idle=0 is the right default then, as it gives useful behaviour for all systems linux runs on. No, it will give bad performance on single disks, possibly worse than deadline (deadline at least sorts the re... 29 Jul 2010 16:18

fix warning: us_to_pm_timer_ticks defined but not used
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:59:02 +0200 florian(a)mickler.org wrote: Move it under the same ifdef as its sole caller is. Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian(a)mickler.org> --- drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/... 24 Jul 2010 05:52

[PATCH 1/2] vmscan: shrink_all_slab() use reclaim_state instead the return value of shrink_slab()
Now, shrink_slab() doesn't return number of reclaimed objects. IOW, current shrink_all_slab() is broken. Thus instead we use reclaim_state to detect no reclaimable slab objects. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> --- mm/vmscan.c | 20 +++++++++----------- 1 files changed, 9 inser... 24 Jul 2010 05:52

[PATCH 2/2] vmscan: change shrink_slab() return tyep with void
Now, no caller use the return value of shrink_slab(). Thus we can change it with void. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> --- mm/vmscan.c | 7 +++---- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index bfa1975..89b593e 100644 --- a/... 24 Jul 2010 05:52

arm: mm: do not set missing flags on ScorpionMP
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:58:02AM -0700, Jeff Ohlstein wrote: From: Steve Muckle <smuckle(a)codeaurora.org> ScorpionMP does not have the SMP/nAMP mode and TLB ops broadcasting bits in the ACTLR. Please provide a separate instance of __v7_proc_info for your processor and direct it to jump into the __v7_s... 30 Jul 2010 17:27

Add a dentry op to handle automounting rather than abusing follow_link() [ver #2]
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 16:09 +0100, David Howells wrote: Here's an updated patch that: (1) Fixes a bug in error handling (needs to use path_put_conditional not path_put). (2) Absorbs autofs4's decisions about whether to automount or not. This means that colour-ls won't cause automount... 27 Jul 2010 09:30

watchdog: Add watchdog driver for OCTEON SOCs.
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 06:41:47PM -0700, David Daney wrote: Wim, ok to merge this one through the MIPS tree? Ralf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.ht... 29 Jul 2010 15:12

MIPS: Add option to export uasm API.
Thanks, queued for 2.6.36. Ralf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ... 23 Jul 2010 23:29