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hv: Added new hv_utils driver with shutdown as first functionality - NO OUTLOOK
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 03:55:05PM -0700, Hank Janssen wrote: Resending this patch from my personal Linux server. Exchange server and outlook at Microsoft seems to badly munge my patch. :( From: Hank Janssen <hjanssen(a)sailtheuniverse.com> In the future, please put your microsoft email address here. ... 4 May 2010 13:27

fs: allow short direct-io reads to be completed via buffered IO
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:14:18AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: 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 buffe... 4 May 2010 12:19

[PATCH 2.6.34-rc6] mxc: gadget: Fix bitfield for calculating maximum packet size
From: Dinh Nguyen <Dinh.Nguyen(a)freescale.com> The max packet length bit mask used for isochronous endpoints should be 0x7FF instead of 0x8FF. 0x8FF will actually clear higher-order bits in the max packet length field. This patch applies to 2.6.34-rc6. Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen <Dinh.Nguyen(a)freescale.com> -... 4 May 2010 11:12

[tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix NULL pointer access in irq_force_complete_move() for Xen guests
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:36:42PM +0000, tip-bot for Prarit Bhargava wrote: Commit-ID: bbd391a15d82e14efe9d69ba64cadb855b061dba Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/bbd391a15d82e14efe9d69ba64cadb855b061dba Author: Prarit Bhargava <prarit(a)redhat.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:24:42 -0400 Comm... 4 May 2010 11:12

eclone (1/11): Factor out code to allocate pidmap page
With a huge patch series like this, can you post a cover note at the front (usually patch 0) saying what the point of the whole series is? David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.... 4 May 2010 11:12

[RFC PATCH] kmemleak: Add support for NO_BOOTMEM configurations
With commits 08677214 and 59be5a8e, alloc_bootmem()/free_bootmem() and friends use the early_res functions for memory management when NO_BOOTMEM is enabled. This patch adds the kmemleak calls in the corresponding code paths for bootmem allocations. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas(a)arm.com> Cc: Yin... 4 May 2010 11:12

[PATCH] ARM: Gemini: fix compiler error in copypage-fa.c
Fix compiler error in copypage-fs.c missing struct vm_area_struct *vma in function fa_copy_user_highpage Signed-off-by: Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll(a)googlemail.com> --- arch/arm/mm/copypage-fa.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/copypage-fa.c b/arch/arm/mm/c... 4 May 2010 11:12

Oprofile: Change CPUIDS from decimal to hex, and add some comments
Robert Richter <robert.richter(a)amd.com> writes: Please also remove the comments that describe the model as it will be hard to maintain this, if there are questions one should read the spec. So please also add some more details of the specification source to the patch description, I think it is: Ta... 4 May 2010 11:12

[RT] 2.6.33.3-rt19: WARNING: at fs/namespace.c:648 commit_tree+0xf1/0x10b()
John, As the backtrace seems to be closely related to what has been discussed on the thread "2.6.33.3-rt16: WARNING: at fs/namespace.c:1197", I copied the same people on this message. As a side note, this time I just see the warning, there is no system freeze involved. ------------[ cut here ]------------... 4 May 2010 11:12

[PATCH 3/3] perf: Fix performance issue with perf report
From: Anton Blanchard <anton(a)samba.org> On a large machine we spend a lot of time in perf_header__find_attr when running perf report. If we are parsing a file without PERF_SAMPLE_ID then for each sample we call perf_header__find_attr and loop through all counter IDs, never finding a match. As the machine gets ... 4 May 2010 11:12