Kernel

[PATCH -mmotm 2/2] memcg: dirty pages instrumentation
Apply the cgroup dirty pages accounting and limiting infrastructure to the opportune kernel functions. Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi(a)develer.com> --- fs/fuse/file.c | 5 +++ fs/nfs/write.c | 4 ++ fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 10 +++++- mm/filemap.c | 1 + mm/page-writeback.c | 8... 26 Feb 2010 18:41

[PATCH 2/9] cciss: detect bad alignment of scsi commands at build time
From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron(a)beardog.cce.hp.com> cciss: detect bad alignment of scsi commands at build time Incidentally fix some nearby c++ style comments. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron(a)beardog.cce.hp.com> --- drivers/block/cciss.c | 2 +- drivers/block/cciss_cmd.h | 9 ++++++... 26 Feb 2010 17:34

[PATCH 6/9] cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block mapping code
From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron(a)beardog.cce.hp.com> cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block mapping code Rationale is I want to use this code from the scsi half of the driver. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron(a)beardog.cce.hp.com> --- drivers/block/cciss.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--... 26 Feb 2010 17:34

[PATCH 8/9] cciss: eliminate unnecessary pointer use in cciss scsi code
From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron(a)beardog.cce.hp.com> cciss: eliminate unnecessary pointer use in cciss scsi code An extra level of indirection was being used in some places for no real reason. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron(a)beardog.cce.hp.com> --- drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c | 31 ++++++++++++... 26 Feb 2010 17:34

MAINTAINERS: update drivers/platform/x86 information
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg(a)redhat.com> wrote: Many of the drivers/platform/x86 drivers have nothing to do with ACPI, so it's kind of inappropriate for them to be stuck under the ACPI mailing list. Add a new mailing list (platform-driver-x86(a)vger.kernel.org) and, with Len's blessin... 26 Feb 2010 17:34

[PATCH 08/12] syscalls: add new COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE#N() macro
Add COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE#N() macro define common compat syscalls that are not arch specific. Prepends "compat_sys_" to the syscall name to identify it. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron(a)redhat.com> --- include/linux/syscalls.h | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/i... 26 Feb 2010 17:34

[PATCH 01/12] x86: add NR_syscalls_compat, make ia32 syscall table visible
Add 'NR_syscalls_compat' global for x86. Also, make 'ia32_sys_call_table' into a global. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron(a)redhat.com> --- arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S | 3 +++ arch/x86/include/asm/compat.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry... 26 Feb 2010 17:34

[PATCH] Subject: MMC: Enable DMA on Ricoh sdhci reader by default
From: Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul(a)gmail.com> This card reader doesn't advertise, however DMA works well. Probably windows SDHCI driver assumes that all readers support DMA and thus we see that bug. Signed-off-by: Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul(a)gmail.com> Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky(a)gmail.com> --- ... 26 Feb 2010 17:34

[GIT PULL] notification: including fanotify
This tree has the part of the notification changes which have existed for better than a year in linux-next. They finish the inotify->fsnotify transition and rip out the old inotify in-kernel interface. It implements fanotify as a notifier only. fanotify being the basis for an interface which a number of the majo... 26 Feb 2010 16:27

[PATCH 2/2] scripts/kernel-doc: drop the -filelist option, it doesn't work
From: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov(a)gmail.com> Subject: kernel-doc: drop the -filelist option, it doesn't work I also found the -filelist option, but apparently the implementation is broken, and it was broken from the very first git commit. For the -filelist option I suggest the removal (I wasn't able to find any users... 26 Feb 2010 16:27