Kernel

[PATCH 4/5] staging: hv: Increased storvsc ringbuffer and max_io_requests
From: Hank Janssen <hjanssen(a)microsoft.com> Increased storvsc ringbuffer and max_io_requests. This now more closely mimics the numbers on Hyper-V. And will allow more IO requests to take place for the SCSI driver. Max_IO is set to double from what it was before, Hyper-V allows it and we have had appliance buil... 5 Aug 2010 15:46

[PATCH 2/5] staging: hv: Fixed lockup problem with bounce_buffer scatter list
From: Hank Janssen <hjanssen(a)microsoft.com> Fixed lockup problem with bounce_buffer scatter list which caused crashes in heavy loads. Under heavy loads with many clients we this problem appear, it causes a kernel Panic. Signed-off-by:Hank Janssen <hjanssen(a)microsoft.com> Signed-off-by:Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@m... 5 Aug 2010 15:46

[PATCH 1/5] staging: hv: Fixed bounce kmap problem by using correct index
From: Hank Janssen <hjanssen(a)microsoft.com> Fixed bounce offset kmap problem by using correct index. The symptom of the problem is that in some NAS appliances this problem represents Itself by a unresponsive VM under a load with many clients writing small files. Signed-off-by:Hank Janssen <hjanssen(a)microsoft.... 5 Aug 2010 15:46

fix corruption of hibernation caused by reusing swap at saving image
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:46 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:31:22 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 10:50:54 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: This patch is crea... 5 Aug 2010 15:46

ext4: Don't send extra barrier during fsync if there are no dirty pages.
"Ted Ts'o" <tytso(a)mit.edu> writes: On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:20:12AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: Why not? To be clear, I'm talking about an io_submit() with multiple IO_CMD_FSYNC requests, with a kernel implementation that is able to batch these requests. IO_CMD_FSYNC doesn't exist right now,... 5 Aug 2010 16:55

bio, fs: update READA and SWRITE to match the corresponding BIO_RW_* bits
Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org> writes: Commit a82afdf (block: use the same failfast bits for bio and request) moved BIO_RW_* bits around such that they match up with REQ_* bits. Unfortunately, fs.h hard coded READ, WRITE, READA and SWRITE as 0, 1, 2 and 3, and expected them to match with BIO_RW_* bits. READ/W... 5 Aug 2010 15:46

Please pull hwpoison updates for 2.6.36
Linus, Please pull the hwpoison updates for 2.6.36. This adds basic support for uncorrected memory MCA recovery for huge pages. I have some more stuff (like better handling for slab errors) but it needs a bit more cooking, so currently only Horiguchi-san's code is included. The rmap/hugetlb changes have be... 5 Aug 2010 14:40

[PATCH 7/7] docbook: use IDs as filenames to support multiple books
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg(a)intel.com> I'm trying to generate a <set> of <book>s in docbook for wireless to link together all the cfg80211 and mac80211 documentation. However, docbook will generate "re01.html" anew for each book for the first <refentry>, presumably due to a bug in the stylesheets. A... 5 Aug 2010 14:40

[PATCH 5/7] Documentation: update kbuild make typos/grammar/text flow
From: matt mooney <mfm(a)muteddisk.com> Update section 3.7 examples to reflect the current state of the Makefiles used. Fix spelling and grammar errors along with flow of text. Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm(a)muteddisk.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong(a)gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunl... 5 Aug 2010 14:40

[PATCH 6/7] Documentation: fix kbuild typos and wording
From: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai(a)nikai.net> Fixed some typos and wording. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai(a)nikai.net> --- Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt | 8 ++++---- Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.... 5 Aug 2010 14:40