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agp: two-stage page destruction issue
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Jan Beulich <jbeulich(a)novell.com> wrote: Dave, besides it apparently being useful only in 2.6.24 (the changes in 2.6.25 really mean that it could be converted back to a single-stage mechanism), I'm seeing an issue in Xen Dom0 kernels, which is caused by the calling of ... 19 Jun 2008 21:56

Request for discussion on when to merge drivers
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 09:31 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: The only slight wrinkle (at least for me) is that often the process of cleaning up a driver is fairly intensive for a maintainer and turn around is a lot faster if you're doing it in a tree you control. (All the scsi drivers we've don... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

Request for discussion on when to merge drivers
The only slight wrinkle (at least for me) is that often the process of cleaning up a driver is fairly intensive for a maintainer and turn around is a lot faster if you're doing it in a tree you control. (All the scsi drivers we've done like this have lived in temporary branches while they were being wo... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

mm: add a ptep_modify_prot transaction abstraction
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 04:30 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: The only current user of this interface is mprotect Do you plan to use it with fork ultimately ? Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More m... 21 Jun 2008 02:35

[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.6
The latest feature release GIT 1.5.6 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.5.6.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball) git-htmldocs-1.5.6.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.5.6.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.6-1.$arch.rpm (RPM) ... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

Request for discussion on when to merge drivers
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Benny Halevy wrote: Exposing the not-yet-ready-to-be-released code to linux-next will expose conflicts earlier, and hopefully in smaller, more manageable deltas. I like the way linux-next works now, i.e. it should reflect what is going into the next major kernel release. Nothing more,... 19 Jun 2008 05:29

AMD C1E aware idle support
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: AMD CPUs with C1E support are currently excluded from high resolution timers and NOHZ support. The reason is that C1E is a BIOS controlled C3 power state which switches off TSC and the local APIC timer. The ACPI C-State control manages the TSC/local APIC tim... 4 Jul 2008 11:02

Yet another I/O bandwidth controlling subsystem for CGroups based on CFQ
Satoshi UCHIDA wrote: Hi, Andrea. Thanks for bug reports. I fix this problem. This problem causes by miss of trace for children groups. Please adopt and test this patch. Thanks Satoshi, I'll test the fix in this weekend and I'll let you know. -Andrea If OK, this amendment is adopte... 22 Jun 2008 13:13

[patch 2.6.26-rc6-mm] gpio: mcp23s08 handles multiple chips per chipselect
Teach the mcp23s08 driver about a curious feature of these chips: up to four of them can share the same chipselect, with the SPI signals wired in parallel, by matching two bits in the first protocol byte against two address lines on the chip. This is handled by three software changes: * Platform data now hol... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

i/o bandwidth controller infrastructure
Carl Henrik Lunde wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:27:29AM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote: This is the core io-throttle kernel infrastructure. It creates the basic interfaces to cgroups and implements the I/O measurement and throttling functions. [...] +void cgroup_io_account(struct block_device *bdev... 5 Jul 2008 12:31