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[patch -mm] oom: exclude tasks with badness score of 0 from being selected
An oom_badness() score of 0 means "never kill" according to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, so explicitly exclude it from being selected for kill. These tasks have either detached their p->mm or are set to OOM_DISABLE. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes(a)google.com> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 2 ++ 1 fil... 2 Apr 2010 17:04

[tip:perf/core] perf, x86: Add Nehalem programming quirk to Westmere
Commit-ID: 40b91cd10f000b4c4934e48e2e5c0bec66def144 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/40b91cd10f000b4c4934e48e2e5c0bec66def144 Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl> AuthorDate: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:37:17 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:52:06 +0200 p... 2 Apr 2010 15:58

kgdb: Use atomic operators which use barriers
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Jason Wessel wrote: A cpu_relax() does not mandate that there is an smp memory barrier. As a result on the arm smp architecture the kernel debugger can hang on entry from time to time, as shown by the kgdb regression tests. The solution is simply to use the atomic operators wh... 8 Apr 2010 12:34

[tip:sched/core] sched: move_task_off_dead_cpu(): Take rq->lock around select_fallback_rq()
Commit-ID: 1445c08d06c5594895b4fae952ef8a457e89c390 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/1445c08d06c5594895b4fae952ef8a457e89c390 Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg(a)redhat.com> AuthorDate: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:10:10 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:12:01 +0200 sched: mo... 2 Apr 2010 15:58

[tip:perf/core] perf, x86: Fix __initconst vs const
Commit-ID: caaa8be3b6707cb9664e573a28b00f845ce9f32e Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/caaa8be3b6707cb9664e573a28b00f845ce9f32e Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl> AuthorDate: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:09:53 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:52:05 +0200 p... 2 Apr 2010 15:57

[tip:perf/core] perf, x86: implement ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL bit masks
Commit-ID: a098f4484bc7dae23f5b62360954007b99b64600 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a098f4484bc7dae23f5b62360954007b99b64600 Author: Robert Richter <robert.richter(a)amd.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:28:21 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:52:03 +0200 p... 2 Apr 2010 15:57

[tip:sched/core] sched: Optimize task_rq_lock()
Commit-ID: 65cc8e4859ff29a9ddc989c88557d6059834c2a2 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/65cc8e4859ff29a9ddc989c88557d6059834c2a2 Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl> AuthorDate: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:05:16 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:12:04 +0200 s... 2 Apr 2010 15:57

[tip:sched/urgent] sched: set_cpus_allowed_ptr(): Don't use rq->migration_thread after unlock
Commit-ID: 47a70985e5c093ae03d8ccf633c70a93761d86f2 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/47a70985e5c093ae03d8ccf633c70a93761d86f2 Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg(a)redhat.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:58:29 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:11:05 +0200 sched: se... 2 Apr 2010 15:57

[GIT PULL] PM / freezer fixes for 2.6.34
Hi Linus, Please pull two freezer fixes for 2.6.34 from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6.git pm-fixes The first one fixes the problem that processes frozen by the cgroup freezer are thawed during resume, although they shouldn't, and the second one makes the freezer avoid show... 2 Apr 2010 15:57

[tip:perf/core] perf probe: Fix --line syntax help and document
Commit-ID: 085ea739adf107b5a5d131f3625e517ff4a5181e Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/085ea739adf107b5a5d131f3625e517ff4a5181e Author: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat(a)redhat.com> AuthorDate: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 12:50:39 -0400 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:35:42 +0200 per... 2 Apr 2010 15:57