Kernel

[PATCH 12/16] writeback: use schedule_timeout_interruptible()
Gets rid of a manual set_current_state(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe(a)oracle.com> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 55f0d4e..3475775 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@... 16 Sep 2009 09:33

[PATCH 03/16] writeback: merely wakeup flusher thread if work allocation fails for WB_SYNC_NONE
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch(a)infradead.org> Since it's an opportunistic writeback and not a data integrity action, don't punt to blocking writeback. Just wakeup the thread and it will flush old data. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack(a)suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch(a)infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axb... 16 Sep 2009 09:33

linux-2.6.31 compilation error : include/trace/events/kmem.h:47: undefined reference to `.L1443'
Hi All I downloaded the latest stable kernel : i.e linux-2.6.31 today and tried to compile the kernel in my desktop, with default configuaration (not changed any config values ) My desktop machine has : RHEL 4 with GCC version 3.4.6 I am getting the following error , during linking CHK inclu... 16 Sep 2009 08:26

ARM + jprobes/kretprobes SEGV/hangs/OOPS in 2.6.29 kernel
I have done some more analysis with respect to ARM kretprobes and describing as below, Before disabling unwinding support, i have tested mainlined sample kretprobes_example.c with some changes. the changes are, Index: b/samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c ======================================================... 16 Sep 2009 06:14

[PATCH 2/3] ARM: SMDKC100: add dma platform devices
This patch adds three dma platform devices for s5pc1xx dma on smdkc100 board file. Signed-off-by: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim(a)samsung.com> --- arch/arm/mach-s5pc100/mach-smdkc100.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-s5pc100/mach-smdkc100.c b/arch/arm/mach-... 16 Sep 2009 05:07

io-controller: Fix task hanging when there are more than one groups
Vivek Goyal wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:15:42AM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote: Vivek Goyal wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 03:38:25PM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote: Vivek Goyal wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 03:40:53PM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote: Hi Vivek, I happened to enco... 23 Sep 2009 22:20

[patch 3/6] add pmem driver
This adds android pmem driver, one of dependencies of camera driver. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel(a)ucw.cz> diff --git a/drivers/staging/dream/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/dream/Kconfig index 5770ea6..67783f8 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/dream/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/staging/dream/Kconfig @@ -39,5 +39,9 @@... 14 Sep 2009 18:41

[PATCH 07/72] Blackfin: export show_stack() to modules
From: Philippe Gerum <rpm(a)xenomai.org> Signed-off-by: Philippe Gerum <rpm(a)xenomai.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier(a)gentoo.org> --- arch/blackfin/kernel/traps.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/blackfin/kernel/traps.c b/arch/blackfin/kernel/traps.c index ... 14 Sep 2009 17:33

[PATCH 62/72] Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add adp5588 gpio resources
From: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich(a)analog.com> For the adp5588 GPIO daughter card. Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich(a)analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier(a)gentoo.org> --- arch/blackfin/mach-bf537/boards/stamp.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 ... 14 Sep 2009 16:26

fanotify as syscalls
Long ago I implemented fanotify as basically a /dev interface using ioctls(). Alan suggested I use a socket protocol and could then make use of get/setsockopt() which although still not great is light years better than ioctl. Currently the fanotify interface as I want to push it to Linus and as I've been requesti... 23 Sep 2009 18:57