Kernel

InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.36
Since 2.6.35 is here, it's probably a good time to talk about 2.6.36 merge plans. All the pending things that I'm aware of are listed below. Boilerplate: If something isn't already in my tree and it isn't listed below, I probably missed it or dropped it unintentionally. Please remind me. As usual, when sub... 5 Aug 2010 13:33

pps: add parallel port PPS client
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 01:06:52 +0400 Alexander Gordeev <lasaine(a)lvk.cs.msu.su> wrote: Add parallel port PPS client. It uses a standard method for capturing timestamps for assert edge transitions: getting a timestamp soon after an interrupt has happened. This is not a very precise source of time information... 5 Aug 2010 09:07

pps: add parallel port PPS signal generator
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 01:06:53 +0400 Alexander Gordeev <lasaine(a)lvk.cs.msu.su> wrote: Add PPS signal generator which utilizes STROBE pin of a parallel port to send PPS signals. It uses parport abstraction layer and hrtimers to precisely control the signal. .. +static unsigned int send_delay = 300... 4 Aug 2010 20:10

pps: capture MONOTONIC_RAW timestamps as well
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 01:06 +0400, Alexander Gordeev wrote: MONOTONIC_RAW clock timestamps are ideally suited for frequency calculation and also fit well into the original NTP hardpps design. Now phase and frequency can be adjusted separately: the former based on REALTIME clock and the latter based on MONOT... 5 Aug 2010 09:07

x86-32: Fix crashes with CPU hotplug on AMD machines
On 08/04/2010 09:45 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: 2. Do not use swapper_pg_dir to boot secondary CPUs like 64-bit does. This patch implements solution 2. It introduces a trampoline_pg_dir which has the same layout as swapper_pg_dir with low_mappings. This page table is used as the in... 12 Aug 2010 12:34

PCI MSI/MSI-X interrupts support in 2.4.x kernel?
Hi, My appliance is running on linux kernel 2.4.21 which does not support PCI MSI/MSI-X interrupts. I was wondering if there is any patch available on 2.4.x kernels to support PCI MSI/MSI-X interrupts or else my option is to upgrade the kernel? Thanks, Sanjay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns... 4 Aug 2010 19:05

Prioritise inodes and zones for writeback required by page reclaim
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:38:29 +0100 Mel Gorman <mel(a)csn.ul.ie> wrote: 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 flus... 4 Aug 2010 19:05

first round of SCSI updates for the 2.6.36 merge window
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:13 PM, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley(a)suse.de> wrote: Alan Stern (3): � � �sd: add support for runtime PM � � �implement runtime Power Management � � �convert to the new PM framework Guys, these kind of crazy games really aren't appropriate: +/* scsi_pm.c */ +#ifdef ... 4 Aug 2010 19:05

ntp: add hardpps implementation
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 01:06 +0400, Alexander Gordeev wrote: This commit adds hardpps() implementation based upon the original one from the NTPv4 reference kernel code from David Mills. However, it is highly optimized towards very fast syncronization and maximum stickness to PPS signal. The typical error is ... 5 Aug 2010 09:07

fallthru: ext2 fallthru support
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:44:10PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Valerie Aurora wrote: Add support for fallthru directory entries to ext2. If a previously used ext2 filesystem with is mounted again then fallthroughs don't appear to work as expected. Stat returns ENOENT for thes... 13 Aug 2010 10:18