Kernel

[PATCH] async: Manage execution domains
Currently execution domains do not interact well with full synchronisation requests. If the sync request is performed before the async task has begun, then the manager will never schedule() and so busy-wait forever on a UP box. By reorganising the tasks into both a per-domain and global list, we can either wait on ... 7 Mar 2010 15:10

Perf doesn't accept i915:i915_gem_request_wait_begin as an event
On 03/07/2010 06:00 AM, Fabian Korak wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to get the examples at http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/IntelPerformanceTuning to run, however when I try perf record -f -g -e i915:i915_gem_request_wait_begin -c 1 openarena I get the message "invalid or unsupported event: 'i915:i... 7 Mar 2010 15:10

Perf doesn't accept i915:i915_gem_request_wait_begin as an event
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:01:39 -0800 Corey Ashford <cjashfor(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: I find the example given on that web page quite confusing because perf currently doesn't have support for arch-dependent events like that, except via "raw code" events which use the syntax -e r<hex_code>. I wonder if ... 7 Mar 2010 15:10

Is SG the only way to flush a disk cache from userspace?
I am writing userspace code that needs to work against any vanilla kernel, so the question is, is the scsi generic interface the only way to flush a volatile cache on a disk drive from userspace? I've written a fault tolerant, distributed storage application that runs under linux and would like to utilize the vol... 7 Mar 2010 14:03

"m68k: Cleanup linker scripts using new linker script macros." and old binutils (was: Re: [PATCH] m68k: Atari EtherNAT - Nicolas Pitre has a new email address)
Has this fix been merged yet? It seems to me that the patch Michael sent is a totally reasonable solution to this problem, and I had assumed that it was going to get picked up in the m68k tree when I saw this patch 2 months ago... -Tim Abbott On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Michael Schmitz wrote: Followup on th... 7 Mar 2010 14:03

drivercore: Add of_match_table to the common device drivers
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 11:47:00PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: OF-style matching can be available to any device, on any type of bus. This patch allows any driver to provide an OF match table when CONFIG_OF is enabled so that drivers can be bound against devices described in the device tree. Signed-off... 7 Mar 2010 14:03

block: blk-timeout.c possible mishandling of jiffies wrap?
Hi Jens, In blk_rq_timed_out_timer() in blk-timeout.c the comment at line 129 says that the request deadline can never be zero as that gets fixed in blk_add_timer. However commit 7838c15b8dd18e78a523513749e5b54bda07b0cb removed the line that bumped deadline if zero. So now AFAICT there's nothing to prevent ... 7 Mar 2010 12:57

Staging: rt2860: Fixed some warnings generated by checkpatch.pl
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 02:35:00AM +0000, Niadh wrote: diff --git a/drivers/staging/rt2860/ap.h b/drivers/staging/rt2860/ap.h index 4f276cb..3fb5ece 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rt2860/ap.h +++ b/drivers/staging/rt2860/ap.h @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Paul Lin 08-01-2002 created James Tan 0... 7 Mar 2010 11:48

Bluetooth: fix coding style issue in hci_vhci.c This patch affects hci_vhci.c it fixes some warnings detected by the checkpath.pl tool Signed-off-by: Tiago Henriques <t.a.c.henriques@gmail.com>
Your Subject line is a bit messed up :) You need to put extra lines in your git commit so that git-send-email doesn't barf on it. On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 04:03:51AM +0000, t.a.c.henriques(a)googlemail.com wrote: From: root <root(a)balganUbuntuVM.(none)> And this is incorrect. thanks, greg k-h -- To uns... 7 Mar 2010 19:34

staging/pohmelfs: fix write_inode parameter warning
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:22:27AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 23:41, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> wrote: From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> sparse warns that: Not just sparse, plain gcc as well... drivers/staging/pohmelfs/inode.c:1797: ... 7 Mar 2010 11:48