Kernel

powerpc: implement arch_setup_pdev_archdata
Hi Kumar, On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 10:15:46 -0500 Kumar Gala <galak(a)kernel.crashing.org> wrote: +static inline void arch_setup_pdev_archdata(struct platform_device *pdev) +{ + pdev->dev.dma_mask = &pdev->archdata.dma_mask; + + return; +} The blank line and "return;" don't add anything. -- Che... 5 Aug 2010 12:27

vmscan: isolated_lru_pages() stop neighbor search if neighbor can't be isolated
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 03:16:06PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: isolate_lru_pages() doesn't only isolate LRU tail pages, but also isolate neighbor pages of the eviction page. Now, the neighbor search don't stop even if neighbors can't be isolated. It is silly. successful higher order allocation need fu... 5 Aug 2010 12:27

Dynamic Debug: Introduce global fake module param module.ddebug
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 02:14:30PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: This patch is based on 2.6.35-rc5 + this patchset I posted recently: [patch 0/3] Dynamic Debug providing early boot debug messages via boot parameter It would be great to see these g... 5 Aug 2010 13:33

[PATCH] driver core: device_rename's new_name can be const
The new_name argument to device_rename() can be const as kobject_rename's new_name argument is. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg(a)intel.com> --- I have a patch that I would like to push into the wireless tree for .37 that relies on this to not generate a compiler warning, it would be nice if this coul... 5 Aug 2010 12:27

vmscan: isolated_lru_pages() stop neighbor search if neighbor can't be isolated
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 03:16:06PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: isolate_lru_pages() doesn't only isolate LRU tail pages, but also isolate neighbor pages of the eviction page. Now, the neighbor search don't stop even if neighbors can't be isolated. It is silly. successful higher order allocation need fu... 5 Aug 2010 12:27

[PATCH 2/3] MEMSTICK: fix hangs on unexpected device removal in mspro_blk
mspro_block_remove is called from detect thread that first calls the mspro_block_stop, which stops the request queue. If we call del_gendisk with queue stopped we get a deadlock. Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 i... 5 Aug 2010 12:27

[PATCH 1/3] memstick: init sysfs attributes
Otherwise locdep complains. Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c b/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c index 8327e24..369313f 100644 --- a/dr... 5 Aug 2010 12:27

The horror is over, but I deleted and forgot some lines - please help
Hello, I git-synchronized linux kernel source but it failed to build. I discovered that the problem is in sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c . There was some git specific line of text, so I just deleted it and some other two lines. It failed again because one of the lines that I just deleted contained trailing { brac... 7 Aug 2010 10:23

[PATCH 2/3] powerpc: implement arch_setup_pdev_archdata
We have a long standing issues with platform devices not have a valid dma_mask pointer. This hasn't been an issue to date as no platform device has tried to set its dma_mask value to a non-default value. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak(a)kernel.crashing.org> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/platform_device.h | 16... 5 Aug 2010 12:26

vmscan: synchrounous lumpy reclaim use lock_page() instead trylock_page()
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 03:13:39PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: When synchrounous lumpy reclaim, there is no reason to give up to reclaim pages even if page is locked. We use lock_page() instead trylock_page() in this case. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> The intentio... 5 Aug 2010 12:26