Kernel

[PATCH 1/4 -mm][memcg] quick ID lookup in memcg
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com> Now, memory cgroup has an ID per cgroup and make use of it at - hierarchy walk, - swap recording. This patch is for making more use of it. The final purpose is to replace page_cgroup->mem_cgroup's pointer to an unsigned short. This patch caches a po... 5 Aug 2010 06:57

[PATCH 2/2 v2] usb gadget: don't save bind callback in struct usb_configuration
The bind function is most of the time only called at init time so there is no need to save a pointer to it in the configuration structure. This fixes many section mismatches reported by modpost. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig(a)pengutronix.de> Cc: Michał Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz(a)samsung.com> Cc... 5 Aug 2010 06:57

[PATCH 0/5 -mm][memcg] towards I/O aware memory cgroup v4
This is v4. Major changes from v3 is - dropped spinlock per page_cgroup (then, 4byte free space.) - added more comments - clean up. This set has 2 purposes. 1. re-desgin struct page_cgroup and makes room for blocckio-cgroup ID. 2. implement quick updating method for memcg's file stat. 1. check in... 5 Aug 2010 05:53

usb gadget: don't save bind callback in struct usb_configuration
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:05:47AM +0200, Michał Nazarewicz wrote: On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:27:46 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig(a)pengutronix.de> wrote: The bind function is only called at init time so there is no need to save a pointer to it in the driver struct. This is not entirely true. ... 6 Aug 2010 01:44

direct-io regression [Was: How to track down abysmal performance ata - raid1 - crypto - vg/lv - xfs]
Hey, when attempting to track down insufficient I/O performance, I found the following reression relating to direct-io on my notebook, where an ata device, which consists of several partitions, is combined to a lvm volume, and one logical volume is then encrypted using dm-crypt. Test case was the following comma... 5 Aug 2010 05:53

[PATCH] Trivial. Fix typo in kconfig entry.
This fixes a typo in file crypto/Kconfig. diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig index 1cd497d..27484e4 100644 --- a/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/crypto/Kconfig @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ config CRYPTO_MANAGER2 select CRYPTO_PCOMP2 config CRYPTO_MANAGER_TESTS - bool "Run algolithms' self-tests" + bool "Run a... 5 Aug 2010 05:53

[PATCH] w100fb: fix building error caused by incorrect use of writel()
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao(a)gmail.com> Cc: stable <stable(a)kernel.org> --- drivers/video/w100fb.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/w100fb.c b/drivers/video/w100fb.c index e66b8b1..d8b12c3 100644 --- a/drivers/video/w100fb.c +++ b/drivers/video/... 5 Aug 2010 05:53

pps: trivial fixes
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 01:06:38AM +0400, Alexander Gordeev wrote: Here are some very trivial fixes combined: * add macro definitions to protect header file from including several times * remove declaration for an unexistent array * fix typos Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine(a)lvk.cs.msu.su... 5 Aug 2010 05:53

block_dev: always serialize exclusive open attempts
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:02:43AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: On 2010-08-04 17:59, Tejun Heo wrote: 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. ... 5 Aug 2010 05:53

pps: unify timestamp gathering
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 01:06:41AM +0400, Alexander Gordeev wrote: Add a helper function to gather timestamps. This way clients don't have to duplicate it. Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine(a)lvk.cs.msu.su> --- drivers/pps/clients/pps-ktimer.c | 9 ++------- drivers/pps/clients/pps-ldi... 5 Aug 2010 05:53