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[PATCHv2 0/2] genirq: reliably replay pending edge-triggered irq (plus doc)
In the following series: [1/2] implements the proposal I made at the end of the thread http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/19/129 to reliably support replay of edge-triggered interrupts on all architectures when using disable_irq() / enable_irq(). Proper replays of pending edge-triggered interrupts was depending on... 3 May 2010 20:56

drivers: net: use new hex_to_bin() method
On 04/30/2010 02:34 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote: Get rid of own implementation of hex_to_bin(). It requires to have hex_to_bin() introduced by starter patch in series. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko<ext-andriy.shevchenko(a)nokia.com> Cc: Divy Le Ray<divy(a)chelsio.com> Cc: Andrew Morton<akpm(a)linux-foundatio... 3 May 2010 20:56

fs: allow short direct-io reads to be completed via buffered IO
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 01:27:02PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: This is similar to what already happens in the write case. If we have a short read while doing O_DIRECT, instead of just returning, fallthrough and try to read the rest via buffered IO. BTRFS needs this because if we encounter a compressed or in... 4 May 2010 20:11

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[PATCH 18/39] union-mount: Introduce MNT_UNION and MS_UNION flags
From: Jan Blunck <jblunck(a)suse.de> Add per mountpoint flag for Union Mount support. You need additional patches to util-linux for that to work - see: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux-ng/val/util-linux-ng.git Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck(a)suse.de> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi(a)suse... 3 May 2010 19:50

Start coping gsis < 16 that are not isa irqs. v2
ebiederm(a)xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes: It appears there are a few systems in the wild that use acpi interrupt source overrides to report a gsi > 16 is an isa irq. This breaks all kinds of assumptions I figure any BIOS doing that probably should be shot as that is very much not a conservative... 3 May 2010 19:50

[tip:x86/cpu] x86, cpu: Make APERF/MPERF a normal table-driven flag
Commit-ID: 097c1bd5673edaf2a162724636858b71f658fdd2 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/097c1bd5673edaf2a162724636858b71f658fdd2 Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> AuthorDate: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:49:31 -0700 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> CommitDate: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:49:31 -0700 x86, cpu... 3 May 2010 19:50

[PATCH 13/39] fallthru: Basic fallthru definitions
Define the fallthru dcache flag and file system op. Mask out the DCACHE_FALLTHRU flag on dentry creation. Actual users and changes to lookup come in later patches. Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora(a)redhat.com> --- Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 6 ++++++ fs/dcache.c | 2 ... 3 May 2010 19:50

[PATCH 36/39] union-mount: Implement union-aware lchown()
--- fs/open.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index 866041c..e9266e2 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -812,18 +812,35 @@ out: SYSCALL_DEFINE3(lchown, const char __user *, filename, uid_t, user, gid_t, group) { ... 3 May 2010 19:50

[PATCH 32/39] union-mount: Implement union-aware writable open()
Copy up a file when opened with write permissions. Does not copy up the file data when O_TRUNC is specified. --- fs/namei.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index b00ece9..78c9b87 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/name... 3 May 2010 19:50