Kernel

[PATCH] block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible
Make the config visible, so we can choose from CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=y and CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=m when CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=m. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- block/Kconfig | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig index 62a5921..90695... 15 Mar 2010 00:16

[PATCH] cgroups: remove duplicate include
commit e6a1105b ("cgroups: subsystem module loading interface") and commit c50cc752 ("sched, cgroups: Fix module export") result in duplicate including of module.h Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- Fix changelog... --- kernel/cgroup.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletion... 15 Mar 2010 00:16

[PATCH] Staging: dream: generic_gpio: Use linux instead of asm uaccess.h
From: Chihau Chau <chihau(a)gmail.com> This is moving toward using <linux/uaccess.h> instead of the old <asm/uaccess.h> file. Signed-off-by: Chihau Chau <chihau(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/dream/generic_gpio.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/dream/... 14 Mar 2010 23:11

genirq: warn about IRQF_SHARED|IRQF_DISABLED at the right place
Andrew Morton wrote: We can tweak and tune until we're blue in the face, but the system's IRQ latency will always be worse if handlers always run with interrupts disabled. Are you sure? If good, fast irq handler A runs with interrupts enabled, and good, fast irq handler B runs (interrupting A), A's lat... 14 Mar 2010 23:11

memcg: per cgroup dirty limit (v7)
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:26:37 +0100 Andrea Righi <arighi(a)develer.com> wrote: Control the maximum amount of dirty pages a cgroup can have at any given time. Per cgroup dirty limit is like fixing the max amount of dirty (hard to reclaim) page cache used by any cgroup. So, in case of multiple cgroup writers... 17 Mar 2010 15:57

linux-next: manual merge of the fsnotify tree with Linus' tree
Hi Eric, Today's linux-next merge of the fsnotify tree got a conflict in kernel/sysctl.c between commits 5ed109103d73b0bafc92e860cead56725231384d ("sysctl extern cleanup: module") and 15485a4682d1d3bfee2aa78b4b1a5d36f5746b64 ("sysctl extern cleanup: sg") from Linus' tree and commit 00e4382acdbe8337cd00d3ed74a615... 14 Mar 2010 23:11

ipmi: Convert tracking of the ACPI device pointer to a PNP device
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 02:13 +0800, Myron Stowe wrote: Convert PNP patch (git 9e368fa011d4e0aa050db348d69514900520e40b) to maintain a pointer to a PNP device, 'pnp_dev', instead of the ACPI device, 'acpi_dev', that is currently being tracked with PNP based IPMI device discovery. Signed-off-by: Myron S... 14 Mar 2010 22:05

ipmi: Raise precedence of PNP based discovery mechanisms (ACPI, PCI)
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 02:13 +0800, Myron Stowe wrote: This raises the precedence of PNP discovery mechanisms, ACPI and PCI, above SMBIOS and SPMI as indicated by Appendix C1 of the IPMI specification. Reference: IPMI - Intelligent Platform Management Interface Specification v2.0, Document... 14 Mar 2010 22:05

[PATCH] Staging: asus_oled: changes spaces to tabs in asus_oled.c Ran checkpatch.pl as per TODO mentioned that one line had spaces, fixed it. Signed-off-by: M. Willis Monroe <willismonroe@gmail.com>
From: M. Willis Monroe <willis(a)willis-desktop.(none)> --- drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c b/drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c index 7ebecc9..5b279fb 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/asus_oled/... 14 Mar 2010 22:05

[BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg: avoid use cmpxchg in swap cgroup maintainance (Was Re: 34-rc1-git3 build failure with CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP=y
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:18:06 +0530 Sachin Sant <sachinp(a)in.ibm.com> wrote: On a PowerPC box, latest 34-rc1 git(d89b218b8...) fails to build with CGROUPS_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y. LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 mm/built-in.o: In function __xchg: arch/powerpc/include/asm/system.h:331: ... 14 Mar 2010 22:05