Kernel

sched: fix SCHED_OTHER balance iterator to include all tasks
* Gregory Haskins <ghaskins(a)novell.com> wrote: Hi Ingo, The follow patch applies to sched-devel. I know the original function was somehow trying to protect against dequeueing by pre-iterating. I am not sure if I captured the intent properly in that regard. What I can say is that the old alg... 6 May 2008 23:27

bad pmd ffff810000207808(9090909090909090).
Hi, I've found today the following error in syslog. It seems have a strange pattern. And it also happened at a month ago. Any idea for debuging this? Thanks. May 6 07:21:36 duaron kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds May 6 07:21:36 duaron kernel: EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal Ma... 6 May 2008 23:27

sysfs cpu?/topology is empty in 2.6.25 (32-bit Intel system)
* Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: System topology on intel based system needs to be exported for non-numa case as well. All parts of asm-i386/topology.h has come under #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA after the merge to asm-x86/topology.h /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu?/topology/*... 6 May 2008 23:27

Xorg crash with xf86MapVidMem error
* Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi(a)intel.com> wrote: Below is the patch to enable debug messages by a boot option "debugpat". ok, i have applied the patch with some modifications - see below. Since we build in this code unconditionally also make the flag switchable from a sysctl, so that users do... 7 May 2008 03:31

Fix vdso_enabled type on x86_64
* OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi(a)mail.parknet.co.jp> wrote: This fixes type of "vdso_enabled" on X86_64 to match extern in asm/elf.h. applied, thanks. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info... 6 May 2008 23:27

x86: e820 unification: Extract common functions
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:02:17PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: Extract the common functions to the common area. The parameters of e820_any_mapped vary between 32 and 64 bit. Convert them to unsigned long for 32 bit so that they match. ... --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/e820_32.c 2008-04-23 12:07:3... 6 May 2008 23:27

[PATCH] mm/cgroup.c add error check
on heavy workload, call_usermodehelper() may failure because it use kzmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC). but userland want receive release notificcation even heavy workload. thus, We should retry if -ENOMEM happend. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> CC: "Paul Menage" <menage(a)google.com> C... 6 May 2008 23:27

[PATCH] quota: Don't call sync_fs() from vfs_quota_off() when there's no quota turn off
Sometimes, vfs_quota_off() is called on a partially set up super block (for example when fill_super() fails for some reason). In such cases we cannot call ->sync_fs() because it can Oops because of not properly filled in super block. So in case we find there's not quota to turn off, we just skip everything and retur... 6 May 2008 23:27

[RFC][PATCH 2/2] Freezer: Try to handle killable tasks
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw(a)sisk.pl> The introduction of TASK_KILLABLE allows the freezer to work in some situation that it could not handle before. Make the freezer handle killable tasks and add try_to_freeze() in some places where it is safe to freeze a (killable) task. Introduce the wait_event_killable_fr... 6 May 2008 23:27

[RFC][PATCH 0/2] Freezer face lifting
Hi, Although the freezer is generally considered as a bad thing, it still is being used for suspend and hibernation and will be used for these purposes in the near future. For this reason, it seems reasonable to try to reduce some known problems with it. The following two patches attempt to do that. First, i... 6 May 2008 23:27