Kernel

v5 De-couple sysfs memory directories from memory sections
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 12:53 -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote: This set of patches de-couples the idea that there is a single directory in sysfs for each memory section. The intent of the patches is to reduce the number of sysfs directories created to resolve a boot-time performance issue. On very large system... 12 Aug 2010 16:59

[PATCH] arch/tile: support new kunmap_atomic() naming convention.
See commit 597781f3e51f48ef8e67be772196d9e9673752c4. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf(a)tilera.com> --- arch/tile/include/asm/highmem.h | 2 +- arch/tile/mm/highmem.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/tile/include/asm/highmem.h b/arch/tile/include... 11 Aug 2010 11:27

Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 03:01:02PM +0100, David Howells wrote: Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header to avoid a header file inclusion ordering problem between linux/sysfs.h and linux/kobject.h. What "ordering problem" is there? I don't see a build error here, do you? thanks, greg k-h ... 12 Aug 2010 13:40

[PATCH] CRIS RS485: Check SER_RS485_RTS_BEFORE_SEND before delaying.
Hi Jesper, the following patch fixes the usage of the delay in RS485 mode on the Cris architecture. Very recently, the RS485 interface has been fixed by adding two further fields (see commit 1b6331848b69d1ed165a6bdc75c4046d68767563). This patch checks the value of the flag SER_RS485_RTS_BEFORE_SEND before ... 11 Aug 2010 11:27

tile: remove unused ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD define
On 8/10/2010 10:11 PM, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: No need to define ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> --- arch/tile/include/asm/scatterlist.h | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/tile/include/asm/scatterlist.h b... 11 Aug 2010 11:27

DRM: Replace kmalloc/memset combos with kzalloc
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 09:18 -0400, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: memory allocation in drm_bufs.c is followed by initializing the memory with 0. Replace the use of kmalloc+memset with kzalloc. Perhaps kzalloc's with a multiply could/should also be converted to kcalloc. + entry->buflist = kzalloc(count * size... 11 Aug 2010 23:34

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context, drm_lastclose
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi Arnd, this commit: commit 58374713c9dfb4d231f8c56cac089f6fbdedc2ec Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> Date:   Sat Jul 10 23:51:39 2010 +... 11 Aug 2010 10:21

[PATCH] Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header
Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header to avoid a header file inclusion ordering problem between linux/sysfs.h and linux/kobject.h. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com> --- include/linux/kobject.h | 35 +--------------------------- include/linux/kobject_ns.h | 56 +++++++++... 11 Aug 2010 10:20

Hugepage migration (v2)
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: There were two points of issue. * Dividing hugepage migration functions from original migration code. This is to avoid complexity. In present version, some high level migration routines are defined to handle hugepage, but some low level routines (suc... 13 Aug 2010 09:12

[PATCH] DRM: Replace kmalloc/memset combos with kzalloc
Currently most, if not all, memory allocation in drm_bufs.c is followed by initializing the memory with 0. Replace the use of kmalloc+memset with kzalloc. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave(a)gnu.org> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bufs.c | 33 +++++++++++---------------------- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2... 11 Aug 2010 10:20