Kernel

writeback: Adding pages_dirtied and pages_entered_writeback
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:18:59 +0900 (JST) KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:56 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: /proc/vmstat already have both. cat /proc/vmstat |grep nr_dirty cat /proc/vmstat |grep nr_writ... 5 Aug 2010 21:23

[tip:x86/urgent] x86, apic: Map the local apic when parsing the MP table.
Commit-ID: 5989cd6a1cbf86587edcc856791f960978087311 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/5989cd6a1cbf86587edcc856791f960978087311 Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm(a)xmission.com> AuthorDate: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:30:27 -0700 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)linux.intel.com> CommitDate: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 16:26:42 ... 5 Aug 2010 21:23

[PATCH 2/2 RESEND] regulator: lp3971 - remove redundant checking for count in lp3971_i2c_read()
We already check count value before calling i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(), no need to check it again. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie(a)opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> --- This resend adds regulator: prefix in the subject line. drivers/regulator/lp3971.c | 2 +- 1 files c... 5 Aug 2010 21:23

[PATCH 1/2 RESEND] regulator: lp3971 - remove unnecessary ret value checking in lp3971_i2c_write()
We already check count value before calling i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(), no need to check it again. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie(a)opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> --- This resend adds regulator: prefix in the subject line. drivers/regulator/lp3971.c | 2 +- 1 files... 5 Aug 2010 20:17

[PATCH 4/42 v2] drivers/infiniband/hw/nes: Adjust confusing if indentation
I think the white space is meant to look like this. I did look at whether the "sq_cqes = 0;" should only be done if netif_queue_stopped(). In the end I decided this was what was intended, but it would be better if someone more familiar with the code reviewed it. Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Signed-... 5 Aug 2010 20:17

kbuild: kconfig changes
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek(a)suse.cz> wrote: this is the kconfig part of kbuild. We have four new *config targets: * oldnoconfig: set all new options to 'n' * listnewconfig: list all unset config options * alldefconfig: set all options to their defaults specified in Kconfig f... 12 Aug 2010 00:39

writeback: explicit low bound for vm.dirty_ratio
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:10:58 +0800 Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu(a)intel.com> wrote: Force a user visible low bound of 5% for the vm.dirty_ratio interface. Currently global_dirty_limits() applies a low bound of 5% for vm_dirty_ratio. This is not very user visible -- if the user sets vm.dirty_ratio=1, the... 10 Aug 2010 14:42

writeback patches for 2.6.36
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:10:51 +0800 Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu(a)intel.com> wrote: These are writeback patches intended for 2.6.36. I won't be here Friday. I need to get my junk into mainline on Monday. Everybody and his dog is working on writeback, which is good, but there's a lot of flux here. So, no, I t... 5 Aug 2010 20:17

Driver for Ricoh cardreader + few fixes
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 18:23 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: Hi, This is third revision of my patches that conatains one more fix, and few fixes for the driver. Changes since V2: * Removed accidently added hunk from r852.c * Few cosmetic cleanups in the driver --- original description ... 5 Aug 2010 19:10

[PATCH 11/67] tty: Add EXTPROC support for LINEMODE
From: hyc(a)symas.com <hyc(a)symas.com> This patch is against the 2.6.34 source. Paraphrased from the 1989 BSD patch by David Borman @ cray.com: These are the changes needed for the kernel to support LINEMODE in the server. There is a new bit in the termios local flag word, EXTPROC. When t... 5 Aug 2010 19:10