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readahead: retain inactive lru pages to be accessed soon
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:17:41AM +0800, Rik van Riel wrote: On 02/23/2010 10:10 PM, Wu Fengguang wrote: From: Chris Frost<frost(a)cs.ucla.edu> Ensure that cached pages in the inactive list are not prematurely evicted; move such pages to lru head when they are covered by - in-kernel heuristic... 25 Feb 2010 08:01

omap2_mcspi.c: NULL pointer dereference
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Scott Ellis <scott(a)jumpnowtek.com> wrote: Check spi->controller_state before dereferencing. Shows up NULL here when using spi_alloc_device()/spi_add_device() and spi_add_device() fails before spi_setup(). Calling spi_dev_put() on the leftover spi_device results in the err... 25 Feb 2010 06:56

[tip:core/rcu] sched, cgroups: Fix module export
Commit-ID: c50cc75271759373bd89a036eec4d4269b291616 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c50cc75271759373bd89a036eec4d4269b291616 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> AuthorDate: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:02:13 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:02:13 +0100 sched, cgrou... 25 Feb 2010 06:56

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Gianfar driver failing on MPC8641D based board
Martyn Welch wrote: I have recently attempted to boot an 8641D based board from an NFS root. The boot process grinds to a halt not long after the first access of the NFS root and I receive multiple "nfs: server 192.168.0.1 not responding, still trying" messages. Wireshark suggests that there is no further ... 2 Mar 2010 10:06

Another set of nested svm fixes and optimizations
On 02/24/2010 07:59 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: Hi, here is another set of patches I collected in the last days while trying to get Hyper-V running with nested svm. I was not successful yet but the patches in this set make sense anyway :-) The patches fix coding style issues which annoyed me for some time... 25 Feb 2010 05:51

Route kbd leds through the generic leds layer (3rd version)
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 02:38:40AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Route keyboard leds through the generic leds layer. This permits to reassign keyboard LEDs to something else than keyboard "leds" state, and also permits to fix #7063 from userland by using a modifier to implement proper CapsLock behavior ... 7 Mar 2010 04:12

[PATCH] cgroup: do not use dprintf in cgroup_event_listener
glibc's dprintf(3) is buggy: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11319 Let's not to use it in the example. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill(a)shutemov.name> --- Documentation/cgroups/cgroup_event_listener.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a... 25 Feb 2010 05:51

KVM: SVM: Implement emulation of vm_cr msr
On 02/24/2010 07:59 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: This patch implements the emulation of the vm_cr msr for nested svm. This needs to be exposed to userspace for save/restore. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe... 25 Feb 2010 05:51

perf per-symbol histogram causes memory corruption
When builtin-annotate.c processes sample events via process_sample_event() it uses 'sample_filter' sample_filter() sizes the histogram object for a symbol based upon the size, calculated as "sym->end - sym->start", to determine the number of IP sample slots to allocate. The problem is, the sym->end value is ... 25 Feb 2010 12:31