Kernel

[PATCH] vmscan: remove wait_on_page_writeback() from pageout()
The wait_on_page_writeback() call inside pageout() is virtually dead code. shrink_inactive_list() shrink_page_list(PAGEOUT_IO_ASYNC) pageout(PAGEOUT_IO_ASYNC) shrink_page_list(PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC) pageout(PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC) Because shrink_page_list/pageout(PAGEOUT... 28 Jul 2010 05:17

vmscan: raise the bar to PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC stalls
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu(a)intel.com> wrote: Fix "system goes unresponsive under memory pressure and lots of dirty/writeback pages" bug. � � � �http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/4/86 In the above thread, Andreas Mohr described that � � � �Invoking any command locked up... 8 Aug 2010 03:43

[PATCH net-next] drivers/net/bfin_mac.c: Use pr_fmt, netdev_<level>
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 15:22, Joe Perches wrote: And some assorted neatening for checkpatch:        80 column reformatting (mostly comments)        argument alignment        couple of spelling/grammar typos corrected Added bfin_alloc_skb to centralize allocation/dcache invalidation Added get_ma... 29 Jul 2010 12:59

[PATCH 1/2] drivers:staging:ti-st: mv sysfs entries to debugfs
From: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy(a)ti.com> When the chip is in use, information like the chip's ROM version and the protocols currently making use of the chip needs to be made known to user-space. Earlier the version and the protocol-list were exposed as sysfs entries now cleanup by making them as debugfs entries, a... 28 Jul 2010 04:12

firewire: ohci: use memory barriers to order descriptor updates
Stefan Richter wrote: We need: 2. a write memory barrier between branch_address update and wake-up of the DMA unit by MMIO register write. Barrier 2 is implicit in writel() on most machines --- or at least I think it is. See this from arch/x86/include/asm/io.h: #define build_mmio_write... 28 Jul 2010 05:17

[PATCH 2/2] drivers:staging:ti-st: update ABI and TODO
From: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy(a)ti.com> update TODO to reflect the items taken care of, update ABI to reflect the new debugfs entries exposed. Signed-off-by: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy(a)ti.com> --- drivers/staging/ti-st/TODO | 10 +++------- drivers/staging/ti-st/sysfs-uim | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files ch... 28 Jul 2010 04:12

Remove stop_machine from change_clocksource
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:06:41 -0700 John Stultz <johnstul(a)us.ibm.com> wrote: To me, there isn't a clear reason why we're using stop_machine when changing clocksources instead of just taking the xtime_lock. Additionally, using stop_machine limits us from being able to register clocksources from timers ... 29 Jul 2010 19:36

generic file status update
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com> writes: This patch itself is not important. I just feel we need this kind of clean up in future. == From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com> Preparing for adding new status arounf file caches.(dirty, writeback,etc..) Using a un... 28 Jul 2010 04:12

[tip:x86/asm] x86, asm: Clean up and simplify set_64bit()
Commit-ID: 69309a05907546fb686b251d4ab041c26afe1e1d Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/69309a05907546fb686b251d4ab041c26afe1e1d Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:29:52 -0700 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> CommitDate: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:29:52 -0700 x86, a... 28 Jul 2010 04:12

[tip:x86/build] x86, vdso: Don't quote $nm in the script for checking vdso references
Commit-ID: 18642a57df02a044b91219d3176128996ddc81a5 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/18642a57df02a044b91219d3176128996ddc81a5 Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:52:29 -0700 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> CommitDate: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:52:29 -0700 x86, v... 28 Jul 2010 04:12