Kernel

[PATCH 2/2] virtio-net: pass gfp to add_buf
virtio-net bounces buffer allocations off to a thread if it can't allocate buffers from the atomic pool. However, if posting buffers still requires atomic buffers, this is unlikely to succeed. Fix by passing in the proper gfp_t parameter. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst(a)redhat.com> --- drivers/net/virt... 30 Apr 2010 15:08

mm,migration: Avoid race between shift_arg_pages() and rmap_walk() during migration by not migrating temporary stacks
Hi Mel, did you see my proposed fix? I'm running with it applied, I'd be interested if you can test it. Surely it will also work for new anon-vma code in upstream, because at that point there's just 1 anon-vma and nothing else attached to the vma. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/andrea/aa.git;a=commi... 11 May 2010 13:24

[PATCH 2/2] workqueues: export keventd_wq
Export keventd_wq. Otherwise, any helper on top of queue_work() has to be copy-and-pasted to create the version which uses keventd_wq. Note: we can do more cleanups with this change and kill EXPORT_SYMBOLs, almost any function which currently uses keventd_wq can become the trivial inline. Signed-off-by: Oleg N... 30 Apr 2010 15:08

staging/cxt1e1: use netdev_priv to fix build
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> wrote: From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Fix cxt1e1 build error: drivers/staging/cxt1e1/linux.c:1195: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'priv' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Cc: Bo... 30 Apr 2010 15:07

[PATCH 7/8] padata: Flush the padata queues actively
yield was used to wait until all references of the internal control structure in use are dropped before it is freed. This patch implements padata_flush_queues which actively flushes the padata percpu queues in this case. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert(a)secunet.com> --- kernel/padata.c | 33 ... 30 Apr 2010 15:07

perf: Initial regression testing command
* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)infradead.org> wrote: From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> Hi Ingo, Please consider pulling from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 perf Now there are 7 patches in that repo. Regards, - Arnaldo ... 30 Apr 2010 15:07

[PATCH] Staging: iio: Fix remaining code style issues
fix code style issues Signed-of-by: Roel Van Nyen <roel.vannyen(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/iio/ring_sw.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c b/drivers/staging/iio/ind... 30 Apr 2010 15:07

drivers: wireless: use new hex_to_bin() method
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:34:08PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: Instead of using own implementation involve hex_to_bin() function. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko(a)nokia.com> Cc: John W. Linville <linville(a)tuxdriver.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org> ACK -- ... 30 Apr 2010 15:07

[PATCH] Staging: comedi: added log level to printk's in comedi_fops.c
This patches comedi_fops.c to add kernel log level to some printk calls Signed-off-by: Mark Rankilor <reodge(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 8 +++++--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_f... 30 Apr 2010 15:07

[PATCH 1/8] padata: Dont scale the parallel objects with the cpus
Scaling the maximum number of objects in the parallel codepath can lead to out of memory problems on bigsmp machines. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert(a)secunet.com> --- kernel/padata.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c ... 30 Apr 2010 15:07