Kernel

vmscan: simplify shrink_inactive_list()
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:23:04PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: Now, max_scan of shrink_inactive_list() is always passed less than SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX. then, we can remove scanning pages loop in it. This patch also help stack diet. Yep. I modified bloat-o-meter to work with stacks (imaginatively calling i... 16 Apr 2010 22:52

gpio: max732x: fix input configuration for open-drain pins
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Marc Zyngier <maz(a)misterjones.org> wrote: Eric, The attached patch tries to fix a bug I noticed while hacking on the max732x driver for interrupt support. According to the datasheets, open-drain pins have to be configured as output-high (which in that case is actually ... 15 Apr 2010 10:16

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Security: fix cap_file_mmap() off-by-one error to avoid kernel null pointer exploit
> The fix to the comment is fine, but you missed the point ENTIRELY. i'll send a new patch only fix the comment. The WHOLE point of being able to set dac_mmap_min_addr == 0 is so you can disable the protection.  There exist tools (wine and dosemu) which NEED to map the 0 page. thanks for explain it, i rea... 15 Apr 2010 09:10

Security: fix cap_file_mmap() off-by-one error to avoid kernel null pointer exploit
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:51 +0800, wzt.wzt(a)gmail.com wrote: NAK The fix to the comment is fine, but you missed the point ENTIRELY. The WHOLE point of being able to set dac_mmap_min_addr == 0 is so you can disable the protection. There exist tools (wine and dosemu) which NEED to map the 0 page. Thus dac_mmap... 15 Apr 2010 09:09

BH1770GLC / SFH7770 combined ambient light / proximity sensor
Hi Samu, This patch introduces driver for Rohm BH1770GLC and Osram SFH7770 combined ambient light and proximity sensor. Driver is divided to 3 parts. Core-part contains common functionality for both parts of the chips. ALS and PS specific functionalities are in separate files. ALS part is fu... 15 Apr 2010 08:03

[PATCH 0/1] BH1770GLC / SFH7770 combined ambient light / proximity sensor
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:34:07 +0300, Samu Onkalo wrote: This patch introduces driver for Rohm BH1770GLC and Osram SFH7770 combined ambient light and proximity sensor. I fail to see why this is being sent to the lm-sensors list. -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ... 15 Apr 2010 09:09

Fix regression in O_DIRECT|O_SYNC writes to block devices
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 02:40:39PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: int blkdev_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync) { - struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(filp->f_mapping->host); + struct inode *bd_inode = filp->f_mapping->host; + struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(bd_inode); ... 15 Apr 2010 06:57

block: Per-partition block IO performance histograms
On Wed, Apr 14 2010, Divyesh Shah wrote: The following patchset implements per partition 2-d histograms for IO to block devices. The 3 types of histograms added are: 1) request histograms - 2-d histogram of total request time in ms (queueing + service) broken down by IO size (in bytes). 2) dma his... 15 Apr 2010 06:57

jbd2: yield the device queue when waiting for journal commits
On Wed, Apr 14 2010, Jeff Moyer wrote: This patch gets CFQ back in line with deadline for iozone runs, especially those testing small files + fsync timings. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer(a)redhat.com> --- fs/jbd2/journal.c | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) d... 15 Apr 2010 06:57