Kernel

[PATCH 03 of 11] invalidate_page outside PT lock
# HG changeset patch # User Andrea Arcangeli <andrea(a)qumranet.com> # Date 1210115129 -7200 # Node ID d60d200565abde6a8ed45271e53cde9c5c75b426 # Parent c5badbefeee07518d9d1acca13e94c981420317c invalidate_page outside PT lock Moves all mmu notifier methods outside the PT lock (first and not last step to make th... 7 May 2008 10:58

It's time to hack on dentry_stat?
I have noticed that struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat is a struct with six fields, but only 2 of them are used, other 4 have never been used since v2.6.11, from include/linux/dcache.h: struct dentry_stat_t { int nr_dentry; int nr_unused; int age_limit; /* age in seconds */ ... 7 May 2008 12:36

perfmon: add context switch hooks for x86
stephane eranian wrote: Hello, Here is a first perfmon patch. It provides the following: - minimal perfmon source tree layout with a topdir perfmon for generic code and the x86 arch specific subdir in arch/x86. How much larger would a patch be that does at least something minimally... 7 May 2008 10:58

[PATCH] init - dont loose initcall code returned v2
There is an ability to loose initcall returned code if it happened with irq disabled or imbalanced preemption (and if we debug initcall) Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov(a)gmail.com> --- Andrew, it's an updated version Index: linux-2.6.git/init/main.c ================================================... 7 May 2008 10:08

general protection fault: 0000 [1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Hello Unsure whether this is already fixed with latest git - I've got this ooops with commit 8a3415c4a692732de8278396bf3d3dda36ed4384 My machine 2GB T61 C2D And after this boot audio was not working. Next reboot seemed to go just ok. Zdenek ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) ... 7 May 2008 10:08

2.6.26-rc1-git4 - task blocked on powerpc for more than 120 seconds
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 06:52:53PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: While running the ltp over the powerpc with the 2.6.26-rc1-git4 kernel, task get blocked for more 120 seconds and does not proceeds future. The task msgctl08 is a ipc testcase, which test the msgget(2) msgctl(2) syscalls. Thanks for yo... 7 May 2008 10:08

Add a WARN() macro; this is WARN_ON() + printk arguments
On Wed, 7 May 2008 08:41:31 +0200 "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi! On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)infradead.org> wrote: Subject: Add a WARN() macro; this is WARN_ON() + printk arguments From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)linux.intel.com> Add ... 7 May 2008 10:08

[BUG] 2.6.26-rc1-git4 - task blocked on powerpc for more than 120 seconds
While running the ltp over the powerpc with the 2.6.26-rc1-git4 kernel, task get blocked for more 120 seconds and does not proceeds future. The task msgctl08 is a ipc testcase, which test the msgget(2) msgctl(2) syscalls. Machine is stuck in the task, printing the following call trace more than 5000 times. The oo... 7 May 2008 09:20

Scalability requirements for sysv ipc - v3
Hi nice improvement. but... 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 2.6.25-rc3-mm1+ 2.6.25-mm1 Patched 2.6.25-mm1 1 1168441 1064021 876000 947488 2 1094264 921059 1549592 1730685 3 2082520 1738165 1694370 ... 7 May 2008 09:20

2.6.25.2 - Jiffies/Time jumping back and forth (Regereesion from 2.6.24)
On Wed, 07 May 2008, Martin Knoblauch wrote: any news on the one below? I upgraded to 2.6.25.2 and the problem still persists. Would adding a bugzilla actually help ? :-) Well, at least a bugzilla entry makes it impossible for the information to be lost, so IMHO unless you get a patch right away, it is a good i... 7 May 2008 15:04