[PATCH 1/5] x86, cacheinfo: Unify AMD L3 cache index disable checking
From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov(a)amd.com> All F10h CPUs starting with model 8 resp. 9, stepping 1, support L3 cache index disable. Concentrate the family, model, stepping checking at one place and enable the feature implicitly on upcoming Fam10h models. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov(a)amd.... 15 Apr 2010 13:38
[PATCH 2/5] x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments
From: Frank Arnold <frank.arnold(a)amd.com> When running a quest kernel on xen we get: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000038 IP: [<ffffffff8142f2fb>] cpuid4_cache_lookup_regs+0x2ca/0x3df PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: CPU 0 Modules linked in: Pid: 0, comm: sw... 15 Apr 2010 13:37
[git pull] FireWire fixes and documentation update
Linus, please pull from the for-linus branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git for-linus to receive the following IEEE 1394/ FireWire subsystem update. Thanks. Clemens Ladisch (3): firewire: cdev: disallow receive packets without header firewire: cde... 15 Apr 2010 12:31
memcg: update documentation v8
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:34:06 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:11:46 -0700 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> wrote: #echo 1 > memory.oom_control BTW: it would be a lot easier [for reviewing] if you could freeze (or merge) this version and then apply f... 15 Apr 2010 12:31
Repeat a command in background
I would like to capture the output of vmstat every 10 min into a file. Can anyone know how I can do it? Thanks Roy -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Repeat-a-command-in-background-tp28255878p28255878.html Sent from the linux-kernel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscrib... 15 Apr 2010 11:23
[cleanup] mm: introduce free_pages_prepare
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:24:05PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: This patch is used from [3/4] =================================== Free_hot_cold_page() and __free_pages_ok() have very similar freeing preparation. This patch make consolicate it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.f... 15 Apr 2010 10:16
[PATCH] lockdep: Fix redundant_hardirqs_on incremented with irqs enabled
When a path restore the flags while irqs are already enabled, we update the per cpu var redundant_hardirqs_on in a racy fashion and debug_atomic_inc() warns about this situation. In this particular case, we need to explictly disable the irqs before updating this stat var in order to update it safely. Reported-... 15 Apr 2010 10:16
[PATCH v2 1/5] KVM MMU: remove unused struct
Remove 'struct kvm_unsync_walk' since it's not used Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 5 ----- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index b44380b..a23ca75 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c ... 15 Apr 2010 10:16
[PATCH v2 2/5] KVM MMU: fix kvm_mmu_zap_page() and its calling path
- calculate zapped page number properly in mmu_zap_unsync_children() - calculate freeed page number properly kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages() Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x... 15 Apr 2010 10:16
[PATCH v2 3/5] KVM MMU: cleanup for restart hlist walking
Quote from Avi: |Just change the assignment to a 'goto restart;' please, |I don't like playing with list_for_each internals. Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/... 15 Apr 2010 10:16