Kernel

[PATCH 2/2] x86/PCI: truncate _CRS windows with _LEN > _MAX - _MIN + 1
Yanko's GA-MA78GM-S2H (BIOS F11) reports the following resource in a PCI host bridge _CRS: [07] 32-Bit DWORD Address Space Resource Min Relocatability : MinFixed Max Relocatability : MaxFixed Address Minimum : CFF00000 (_MIN) Address Maximum : FEBFFFFF (_MAX) ... 25 Mar 2010 12:37

Missing BLKPG functions
blkpg.h describes a number of functions including get_all_partitions() and test_partition_in_use() but it seems that only two are actually implemented ( add and delete partition ). I am working on getting parted to make use of BLKPG instead of BLKRRPART so it can work on disks that have partitions in use, and it w... 25 Mar 2010 11:28

[PATCH 0/2] DMAENGINE: generic slave, generic status
This patch set will enable generic functions for controlling slave transfers, e.g. the ability to pause and resume transfers, as well as the ability to read a wider status including not only the current and last transfer cookie but also the residual bytes left on a channel. This was discussed by Dan and Guennadi... 25 Mar 2010 11:28

DMAENGINE: generic channel status
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 04:03:01PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: Convert the device_is_tx_complete() operation on the DMA engine to a generic device_tx_status()operation which can return three states, DMA_TX_RUNNING, DMA_TX_COMPLETE, DMA_TX_PAUSED. FWIW (I've never actually used DMAENGINE...) Acked-by: ... 25 Mar 2010 20:53

disabling kernel preemption from user space
Hi, I have a system where bootloader supports core0 running linux (control plane). core1 running application without OS (a data plane app). (core0 and core1 share some physical memory) Because of this setup and application requirements I want to ocassionally disable preemption of linux kernel for very smal... 25 Mar 2010 11:28

cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging.
On Wed, Mar 24 2010, Divyesh Shah wrote: These have helped us debug some issues we've noticed in earlier IO controller versions and should be useful now as well. The extra logging covers: - idling behavior. Since there are so many conditions based on which we decide to idle or not, this patch adds a log ... 25 Mar 2010 11:28

[PATCH 24/24] Staging: comedi: fix commented out code style in adq12b.c
This is a patch to the adq12b.c file that fixes an incorrect commented out code style that I used in my previous patch 23/23 Signed-off-by: Maurice Dawson <mauricedawson2699(a)googlemail.com> --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/adq12b.c | 9 ++++----- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --gi... 25 Mar 2010 11:28

perf events: Change perf parameter --pid to process-wide collection instead of thread-wide
Em Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 04:47:44PM +0800, Zhang, Yanmin escreveu: On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 16:02 +0800, Li Zefan wrote: Thanks for reporting it. Arnaldo, could you pick up below patch? Zefan, Could you try it? Sure thing, will stash them in today's push to Ingo, thanks! - Arnaldo -- To unsubscribe from th... 25 Mar 2010 11:28

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ocfs2: Skip check for mandatory locks when unlocking
On 03/23/2010 10:54 AM, Neil Brown wrote: The nfs bug fixed by 0800c5f7a499a8961c3868e95cc4cf1715166457 and the 9p bug fixed by f78233dd44a110c574fe760ad6f9c1e8741a0d00 and the gfs2 bug fixed by 720e7749279bde0d08684b1bb4e7a2eedeec6394 also needs to be fixed for ocfs2. This patch does that. ... 25 Mar 2010 10:17