Kernel

[PATCH 06 of 11] rwsem contended
# HG changeset patch # User Andrea Arcangeli <andrea(a)qumranet.com> # Date 1210115132 -7200 # Node ID 0621238970155f8ff2d60ca4996dcdd470f9c6ce # Parent 20bc6a66a86ef6bd60919cc77ff51d4af741b057 rwsem contended Add a function to rw_semaphores to check if there are any processes waiting for the semaphore. Add rws... 7 May 2008 10:58

[PATCH] MN10300: Make cpu_relax() invoke barrier()
Make cpu_relax() invoke barrier() to be the same as other arches. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com> --- include/asm-mn10300/processor.h | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/asm-mn10300/processor.h b/include/asm-mn10300/processor.h index f1b081f... 7 May 2008 10:58

[PATCH 00 of 11] mmu notifier #v16
Hello, this is the last update of the mmu notifier patch. Jack asked a __mmu_notifier_register to call under mmap_sem in write mode. Here an update with that change plus allowing ->release not to be implemented (two liner change to mmu_notifier.c). The entire diff between v15 and v16 mmu-notifier-core was ... 7 May 2008 10:58

[PATCH] apm: make apm=power-off configurable like apm=realmode-power-off
On some systems (with broken BIOSes?) apm=power-off should be appended as kernel parameter. apm=realmode-power-off is configurable during compile-time. apm=power-off should be configurable likewise. On non-SMP systems apm=power-off is the default. For kernels with SMP support it is not. Signed-off-by: Niels d... 7 May 2008 10:58

[PATCH 02 of 11] get_task_mm
# HG changeset patch # User Andrea Arcangeli <andrea(a)qumranet.com> # Date 1210115127 -7200 # Node ID c5badbefeee07518d9d1acca13e94c981420317c # Parent e20917dcc8284b6a07cfcced13dda4cbca850a9c get_task_mm get_task_mm should not succeed if mmput() is running and has reduced the mm_users count to zero. This can ... 7 May 2008 10:58

[PATCH 01 of 11] mmu-notifier-core
# HG changeset patch # User Andrea Arcangeli <andrea(a)qumranet.com> # Date 1210096013 -7200 # Node ID e20917dcc8284b6a07cfcced13dda4cbca850a9c # Parent 5026689a3bc323a26d33ad882c34c4c9c9a3ecd8 mmu-notifier-core With KVM/GFP/XPMEM there isn't just the primary CPU MMU pointing to pages. There are secondary MMUs ... 7 May 2008 10:58

[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