Kernel

[PATCH block#for-2.6.36] block_dev: always serialize exclusive open attempts
bd_prepare_to_claim() incorrectly allowed multiple attempts for exclusive open to progress in parallel if the attempting holders are identical. This triggered BUG_ON() as reported in the following bug. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16393 __bd_abort_claiming() is used to finish claiming blocks a... 4 Aug 2010 12:30

block, partition: add partition_meta_info to hd_struct
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org> wrote: Hello, On 08/04/2010 04:04 AM, Will Drewry wrote: This changes adds a partition_meta_info struct which itself contains a union of structures that provide partition table specific metadata. This change leaves the union empty. The s... 4 Aug 2010 11:24

[PATCH 2/2] writeback: Account for pages written back belonging to a particular zone
When reclaim encounters dirty file pages on the LRU lists, it wakes up flusher threads to clean pages belonging to old inodes. In the event the inode has dirty pages on multiple zones, the flusher threads may exit before pages within the zone of interest are clean. This patch accounts for the zone page reclaim is i... 4 Aug 2010 11:24

[GIT] trivial
Linus, could you please pull from 'for-linus' branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial.git for-next to receive updates which are sitting in the trivial queue. Mostly comment typo fixes, obvious dead code removals, and tree-wide update of broken URLs. Thanks. Christoph E... 4 Aug 2010 11:24

[RFC PATCH 0/2] Prioritise inodes and zones for writeback required by page reclaim
Commenting on the series "Reduce writeback from page reclaim context V6" Andrew Morton noted; direct-reclaim wants to write a dirty page because that page is in the zone which the caller wants to allocate from! Telling the flusher threads to perform generic writeback will sometimes cause them to just gum t... 4 Aug 2010 11:24

NET_NS: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free (after using openvpn) (was Re: sysfs bug when using tun with network namespaces)
Hi, On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:29:39 +0200 Michael Leun <lkml20100708(a)newton.leun.net> wrote: [...] Jul 10 20:02:36 doris kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 3 [repeated] Now one might say it is fault of openvpn (used OpenVPN 2.1_rc20 i586-suse-linux - the one i... 5 Aug 2010 05:53

[GIT] HID
Linus, please pull from 'for-linus' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git for-linus to receive 2.6.36 material for the HID subsystem. We add support for quite some new hardware, fix a few random bugs, and finally get rid of BKL in hiddev. Thanks. Arnd Bergmann (1): ... 4 Aug 2010 11:24

[PATCH 2/2] DNS: Make AFS go to the DNS for AFSDB records for unknown cells
From: Wang Lei <wang840925(a)gmail.com> Add DNS query support for AFS so that it can get the IP addresses of Volume Location servers from the DNS using an AFSDB record. This requires userspace support. /etc/request-key.conf must be configured to invoke a helper for dns_resolver type keys with a subtype of "afsdb... 4 Aug 2010 11:24

Crypto Update for 2.6.36
Hi Linus: Here is the crypto update for 2.6.36: * HMAC support for Niagara2. * Talitos ahash bug fix. * Adds sysfs interface to padata/pcrypt. * Fixes/clean-ups for padata/pcrypt. * Misc fixes. Please pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6.git or master.kernel... 4 Aug 2010 10:19

USB card reader trouble
I'm having trouble reading Compact flash and SD cards on the same card reader. I'm not absolutely certain but it *seems* that once a medium of either type has been inserted, it will ignore the other type. Wherever the state is kept, it's not in the module. modprobe -r usb-storage; modprobe usb-storage gives a ke... 4 Aug 2010 11:24