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linux-next: Tree for July 26
Hi all, Changes since 20100723: Undropped tree: xen The arm tree gained a conflict against the arm-current tree. The xfs tree gained a build failure so I used the version from next-20100723. The kvm tree gained a build failure for which I applied a patch. The wireless tree lost its conflict. The d... 26 Jul 2010 06:12

linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (xen tree related)
Hi all, After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (i386 defconfig) failed like this: arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `init_hypervisor_platform': (.init.text+0x3ca4): undefined reference to `x86_hyper_xen_hvm' arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `init_hypervisor_platform': (.init.text+0x3cad): undef... 26 Jul 2010 01:56

linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (xen tree related)
Hi all, After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (i386 defconfig) failed like this: In file included from include/linux/hugetlb.h:297, from arch/x86/mm/init_32.c:18: arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h: In function 'set_huge_pte_at': arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h:47: error: implicit... 26 Jul 2010 01:56

drivers/net/qla3xxx.c: Update logging message style
From: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:33:31 -0700 Use pr_<level> Use netdev_<level> Use netif_<level> Remove #define PFX Improve a couple of loops to avoid deep indentation. Compile tested only $ size drivers/net/qla3xxx.o.* text data bss dec ... 26 Jul 2010 01:56

drivers/net/qla3xxx.c: Checkpatch cleanups
From: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:36:17 -0700 Remove typedefs Indentation and spacing Use a temporary for a very long pointer variable More 80 column compatible Convert a switch to if/else if Compile tested only, depends on patch "Update logging message style" ... 26 Jul 2010 01:56

forcedeth: Fix different hardware statistics versions.
From: mditto(a)google.com (Mike Ditto) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:02:52 -0700 (PDT) The macros for the values of the bit field describing the four different versions of statistics supported by different hardware variants were being misused. Where the code was trying to test if the hardware implements V3, i... 26 Jul 2010 01:56

writeback: sync old inodes first in background writeback
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu(a)intel.com> wrote: On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 08:03:45PM +0800, Minchan Kim wrote: On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 07:43:20PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: Hi sorry for the delay. Will you be picking it up or should I? The changelog... 26 Jul 2010 00:52

[PATCH 2/4] memcg, vmscan: add memcg reclaim tracepoint
Memcg also need to trace reclaim progress as direct reclaim. This patch add it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel(a)csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- include/tr... 25 Jul 2010 23:48

[PATCH 1/4] vmscan: convert direct reclaim tracepoint to DEFINE_TRACE
Mel Gorman recently added some vmscan tracepoints. Unfortunately they are covered only global reclaim. But we want to trace memcg reclaim too. Thus, this patch convert them to DEFINE_TRACE macro. it help to reuse tracepoint definition for other similar usage (i.e. memcg). This patch have no functionally change. ... 25 Jul 2010 23:48

[PATCH 4/4] memcg: add mm_vmscan_memcg_isolate tracepoint
Memcg also need to trace page isolation information as global reclaim. This patch does it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com> --- include/trace/events/vmscan.h | 15 +++++++++++++++ mm/memcontrol.c | ... 25 Jul 2010 23:48