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2.6.35-rc6+: i915: Bisected regression
This commit makes suspend to ram unreliable for me: commit d1b851fc0d105caa6b6e3e7c92d2987dfb52cbe0 Author: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou(a)intel.com> Date: Fri May 21 09:08:57 2010 +0800 drm/i915: implement BSD ring buffer V2 The BSD (bit stream decoder) ring is used for accessing the BSD engine ... 6 Aug 2010 00:39

[PATCH mmotm] vmscan: raise the bar to PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC stalls
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 for minutes (note that I'm talking about attempted additional I/O to the _other_, _unaffected_ main... 1 Aug 2010 05:08

[tip:x86/uv] x86, UV: Initialize BAU hub map
Commit-ID: c4026cfd8febcd63dd278894108839f30e525a0e Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c4026cfd8febcd63dd278894108839f30e525a0e Author: Cliff Wickman <cpw(a)sgi.com> AuthorDate: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:10:55 -0500 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 09:18:41 +0200 x86, UV: Init... 1 Aug 2010 05:08

x86,mmiotrace: add support for tracing STOS instruction
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:51:01 +0200 Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz(a)gmail.com> wrote: Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz(a)gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq(a)iki.fi> I have not checked the correctness of this patch, but otherwise: Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq(a)iki.fi> --- arch/x86/mm/pf_in.c ... 1 Aug 2010 19:11

vmscan: Kick flusher threads to clean pages when reclaim is encountering dirty pages
Hi Trond, There is that, and then there are issues with the VM simply lying to the filesystems. See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16056 Which basically boils down to the following: kswapd tells the filesystem that it is quite safe to do GFP_KERNEL allocations in pageouts and as ... 5 Aug 2010 03:44

of/device: Replace struct of_device with struct of_platform
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:05 AM, David Miller <davem(a)davemloft.net> wrote: Subject should say "struct platform_device" not "struct of_platform", I think :-) Gah! yup, will fix. Thanks. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line ... 1 Aug 2010 05:08

of/device: Replace struct of_device with struct of_platform
Subject should say "struct platform_device" not "struct of_platform", I think :-) -- 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://w... 1 Aug 2010 05:08

net/rose: Use GFP_ATOMIC
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:56:39 +0200 (CEST) The other calls to kmalloc in the same function use GFP_ATOMIC, and indeed two locks are held within the body of the function. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) ... ... 1 Aug 2010 04:04

[PATCH] NFS: Fix build failure on !CONFIG_NFS_V3 && !CONFIG_NFS_V3
* Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust(a)netapp.com> wrote: Hi Linus, Please pull from the "bugfixes" branch of the repository at git pull git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6.git bugfixes This will update the following files through the appended changesets. Cheers, ... 1 Aug 2010 03:00

usb: fsl_udc_core: check return value of create_proc_read_entry()
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 21:17 +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 09:38:20PM +0400, Kulikov Vasiliy wrote: create_proc_read_entry() may fail, if so return -ENOMEM. It can fail, but also we return NULL if procfs is disabled. I haven't looked at it very carefully, would this patch... 1 Aug 2010 03:00