Kernel

[GIT PULL] x86/vdso for 2.6.36
Hi Linus, The following changes since commit fc1caf6eafb30ea185720e29f7f5eccca61ecd60: Merge branch 'drm-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 (2010-08-05 16:02:01 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux... 6 Aug 2010 19:17

[GIT PULL] x86/apic for 2.6.36
Hi Linus, The following changes since commit fc1caf6eafb30ea185720e29f7f5eccca61ecd60: Merge branch 'drm-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 (2010-08-05 16:02:01 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux... 6 Aug 2010 19:17

Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three
Final report from this particular angel-free zone for the time being... This is the third and final version of my Android requirements list (last version available at http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/4/409). Again, this email is an attempt to present the Android guys' requirements, based on my interpretation of LKML ... 13 Aug 2010 13:35

[PATCH 35/38] union-mount: Implement union-aware lchown()
Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora(a)redhat.com> --- fs/open.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index 5c9933f..693258f 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -646,18 +646,35 @@ out: SYSCALL_DEFINE3(lchown, const char... 6 Aug 2010 19:17

[PATCH 34/38] union-mount: Implement union-aware chmod()/fchmodat()
Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora(a)redhat.com> --- fs/open.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index e4fc8e5..5c9933f 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -503,18 +503,32 @@ out: SYSCALL_DEFINE3(fchmodat, int, d... 6 Aug 2010 19:17

[PATCH 09/38] whiteout: tmpfs whiteout support
Add support for whiteout dentries to tmpfs. This includes adding support for whiteouts to d_genocide(), which is called to tear down pinned tmpfs dentries. Whiteouts have to be persistent, so they have a pinning extra ref count that needs to be dropped by d_genocide(). Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck(a)suse.de... 6 Aug 2010 19:17

[PATCH 05/38] whiteout/NFSD: Don't return information about whiteouts to userspace
From: Jan Blunck <jblunck(a)suse.de> Userspace isn't ready for handling another file type, so silently drop whiteout directory entries before they leave the kernel. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck(a)suse.de> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora(a)redhat.com> ... 6 Aug 2010 19:17

[PATCH 20/38] union-mount: Free union dirs on removal from dcache
If a dentry is removed from dentry cache because its usage count drops to zero, the union_dirs in its union stack are freed too. Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora(a)redhat.com> --- fs/dcache.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c ind... 6 Aug 2010 19:17

[PATCH 01/38] VFS: Comment follow_mount() and friends
Add comments describing what the directions "up" and "down" mean and ref count handling to the VFS follow_mount() family of functions. Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora(a)redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro(a)zeniv.linux.org.uk> --- fs/namei.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/namesp... 6 Aug 2010 19:17

[PATCH 10/38] whiteout: Split of ext2_append_link() from ext2_add_link()
From: Jan Blunck <jblunck(a)suse.de> The ext2_append_link() is later used to find or append a directory entry to whiteout. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck(a)suse.de> Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora(a)redhat.com> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso(a)mit.edu> Cc: linux-ext4(a)vger.kernel.org --- fs/ext2/dir.c | 70 ++... 6 Aug 2010 19:17