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memcg: update documentation v5
* KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com> [2010-04-13 13:45:53]: Thank you very much for your kindly helps!. -Kame = Documentation update. Some information are old, and I think current document doesn't work as "a guide for users". We need summary of all of our controls, at least. ... 13 Apr 2010 11:41

blkio: Changes to IO controller additional stats patches
Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, Apr 08 2010, Divyesh Shah wrote: that include some minor fixes and addresses all comments. Thanks, applied to 2.6.35. Hi Jens, Do not see this patch and other IO controller stats patches in for-2.6.35 branch. :) Thanks, Gui -- To unsubscribe from this list: send t... 13 Apr 2010 02:56

: Respin local_irq_*_nmi() stuff.
I'm rescinding these patches for now, for two reasons: 1) The NMI annotations necessary to get everything working really gets out of control. 2) I think I found a cheap way to do this in sparc64 specific code. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo... 13 Apr 2010 05:05

[RFC][BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg: fix underflow of mapped_file stat
Hi. When I was testing page migration, I found underflow problem of "mapped_file" field in memory.stat. This is a fix for the problem. This patch is based on mmotm-2010-04-05-16-09, and IIUC it conflicts with Mel's compaction patches, so I send it as RFC for now. After next mmotm, which will include those patc... 13 Apr 2010 01:51

lmb: Seperate __lmb_find_base() from __lmb_alloc_base()
On 04/12/2010 08:58 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 23:03 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: + return -1ULL; +} Defininf some kind of LMB_ERROR would be nicer. ok, also __lmb_alloc_base could return 0 when fail to get one. replace that 0 with LMB_ERROR aka -1ULL? Yinghai --... 13 Apr 2010 00:46

anonvma: when setting up page->mapping, we need to pick the _oldest_ anonvma
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org> wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Johannes Weiner wrote: Would you mind pasting that nice description of the error case from your other ... 13 Apr 2010 00:46

lmb: Add lmb_find_area_node()
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 23:03 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: It can be used to find NODE_DATA for numa. Need to make sure early_node_map[] is filled before it is called, otherwise it will fallback to lmb_find_area(), with node range. Isn't that more duplication from what's already in there for nid handling ? (... 10 May 2010 03:21

nobootmem: use lmb.default_alloc_limit in alloc_bootmem path
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 23:03 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: Generic version __lmb_find_area() is going from high to low, and for 32bit active_region for 32bit does include high pages need to replace the limit with lmb.default_alloc_limit, aka get_max_mapped() with this patch, x86 32bit could use generic ve... 13 Apr 2010 00:46

lmb: Add lmb_find_area()
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 23:03 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: It will try find area according with size/align in specified range (start, end). lmb_find_area() will honor goal/limit. also make it more easy for x86 to use lmb. x86 early_res is using find/reserve pattern instead of alloc. When we need te... 13 Apr 2010 07:15

Simplify and comment on anon_vma re-use for anon_vma_prepare()
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org> wrote: From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:36:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Simplify and comment on anon_vma re-use for anon_vma_prepare() This changes the anon_vma reuse case to... 13 Apr 2010 00:46