Kernel

NET_NS: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free (adding ipv6 address to interface)
On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:51:29 -0700 ebiederm(a)xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: Jul 10 20:02:36 doris kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 3 [repeated] How many times? Unfortunately looks like indefinitely. Never watched longer so far ... 5 Aug 2010 21:23

stop_machine: struct cpu_stopper, remove alignment padding on 64 bits
Hello, Peter. On 08/05/2010 01:40 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 12:11 +0100, Richard Kennedy wrote: Reorder elements in structure cpu_stopper to remove alignment padding on 64 bit builds, this shrinks its size from 40 to 32 bytes saving 8 bytes per cpu. Signed-off-by: Richard... 5 Aug 2010 08:02

direct-io regression [Was: How to track down abysmal performance ata - raid1 - crypto - vg/lv - xfs]
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:31:00AM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: 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 log... 5 Aug 2010 15:46

[PATCH] stop_machine: struct cpu_stopper, remove alignment padding on 64 bits
Reorder elements in structure cpu_stopper to remove alignment padding on 64 bit builds, this shrinks its size from 40 to 32 bytes saving 8 bytes per cpu. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard(a)rsk.demon.co.uk> --- patch against 2.6.35 compiled & tested on x86_64 regards Richard diff --git a/kernel/sto... 5 Aug 2010 08:02

atmel_nand: Fix warning: 'part_probes' defined but not used
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 12:38 +0200, Andreas Bießmann wrote: This patch fixes drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c:372: warning: 'part_probes' defined but not used which is issued when CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS is defined but CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS not. Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann <biessmann(a)corscie... 5 Aug 2010 08:02

[PATCH 1/2] apic: adding apic_send_IPI_* methods for apic's IPI callbacks
Adding global methods apic_send_IPI_* for following APIC callbacks: void (*send_IPI_mask)(const struct cpumask *mask, int vector); void (*send_IPI_mask_allbutself)(const struct cpumask *mask, int vector); void (*send_IPI_allbutself)(int vector); ... 5 Aug 2010 08:02

[RFC 0/2] apic: tracing IPI events
hi, I'm adding tracing of IPIs to the APIC code by hooking following apic callbacks: void (*send_IPI_mask)(const struct cpumask *mask, int vector); void (*send_IPI_mask_allbutself)(const struct cpumask *mask, int vector); void (*send_IPI_allbuts... 5 Aug 2010 08:02

[PATCH 2/2] apic,trace: IPI sent trace event.
Adding apic IPI trace event. wbr, jirka Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa(a)redhat.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/apic_trace.h | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 21 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/x86/i... 5 Aug 2010 08:02

init: add support for root devices specified by partition UUID
Hello, On 08/04/2010 08:22 PM, Will Drewry wrote: @@ -642,6 +642,7 @@ void __init printk_all_partitions(void) struct hd_struct *part; char name_buf[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; char devt_buf[BDEVT_SIZE]; + u8 uuid[PARTITION_META_INFO_UUIDLTH * 2 + 1]; /* * Don't show empty devices or th... 5 Aug 2010 08:02

[PATCHv6 6/7] USB: gadget: functionfs: code cleanup
This patch removes some of the string registration from the FunctionFS Gadget as composite layer can handle the iManufacturer and iProduct for us. It also removes some of the module parameters which were redundant as well as changes the name of others to better much the module parameter of the composite layer. ... 5 Aug 2010 06:57