Kernel

[PATCH 0/3] ramzswap: Eliminate stale data in compressed memory
ramzswap driver creates RAM based block devices which can be used (only) as swap disks. Pages swapped to these disks are compressed and stored in memory itself. However, these devices do not get any notification when a swap slot is freed (swap_map[i] reaches 0). So, we cannot free memory allocated corresponding ... 5 Mar 2010 06:07

Making Xorg easier to test (was Re: [git pull] drm request 3)
On Fri 5.Mar'10 at 8:44:07 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: Yeah. I've seen a few other bad arguments as well: 'exploding test matrix' This is often the result of _another_ bad technical decision: over-modularization. Xorg, mesa/libdrm and the kernel DRM drivers pretty share this signature... 8 Mar 2010 05:19

[PATCH 1/1] gitignore: do not ignore include/linux/
linux entry in .gitignore means that everything in include/linux/ gets ignored with git 1.7. Prepend a slash to entries which are toplevel to avoid that Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby(a)suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt(a)viscovery.net> --- .gitignore | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 files changed, 10 inserti... 5 Mar 2010 05:03

gamecon: fix off by one range check
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 10:05:44AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: It should be >= GC_MAX not > GC_MAX. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27(a)gmail.com> Applied, thank you Dan. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vge... 5 Mar 2010 03:57

sched_fair: vruntime and min_vruntime will be overflow?
hi, when enqueue or dequeue the task, the se->vruntime and cfs_rq->min_vruntime will increased, i want to know it is will be overflow in future time? Best, Figo.zhang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordo... 5 Mar 2010 02:53

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[PATCH 3/3] kernel.h kernel/printk.c: Convert pr_<level> macros to functions
Save ~1K of duplicated KERN_<level> strings Use %pV and struct va_format Format arguments are verified before printk Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> --- include/linux/kernel.h | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- kernel/printk.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++ 2 files chan... 5 Mar 2010 02:53

[PATCH V2 0/3] recursive printk, make functions from logging macros
dev_<level> macros use a lot of repetitive string space and arguments pr_<level> macros use repetitive unnecessary KERN_<level> strings Eliminate the string prefixes and function arguments from all the macro uses and consolidate them in functions. This patchset saves about 60K of text in an x86 defconfig. Th... 5 Mar 2010 02:53

Help regarding the splitting of available screen size
Hi all, I am working on a project which requires the kernel to use only half of screen. Other half of the screen will be used for some other purpose. I will be running the kernel in text mode. I tried to do some changes to file drivers/console/vgacon.c to achieve this. I changed the value of vga_video_... 5 Mar 2010 02:53

[PATCH 6/7] xen: Enable PV clocksource for HVM
And enable it by default in PV extended HVM guest. Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng(a)linux.intel.com> --- arch/x86/xen/hvmpv.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/xen/time.c | 12 +++++++++++- arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/... 5 Mar 2010 01:49