Kernel

i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro
On Tue, Mar 23 2010, Ferenc Wagner wrote: This macro worked only when applied to variables named 'kobj'. While this could have been fixed by simply renaming the macro argument, a more type-safe replacement by an inline function would be preferred. However, nobody uses this macro, so it's simpler to just rem... 24 Mar 2010 04:24

[PATCH] Samsung SoCs: CPU detection support (v4)
Store the CPU ID to cpu_id variable and use it to detect CPU On S3C64XX, Some pheripherals such as OneNAND have different configuration and handle it differently to do this it needs to detect CPU ID. Also S5PC1XX is supported. Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park(a)samsung.com> --- diff --git a/arch/ar... 24 Mar 2010 03:19

Need to intercept open&write calls for vdi file when VirtualBox is working.
Sergey, Perhaps btrfs, or similar, would be a good starting point. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.o... 24 Mar 2010 03:19

[BUGFIX][PATCH] fix race in file_mapped accounting in memcg
A fix for race in file_mapped statistics. I noticed this race while discussing Andrea's dirty accounting patch series. At the end of discusstion, I said "please don't touch file mapped". So, this bugfix should be posted as an independent patch. Tested on the latest mmotm. Thanks, -Kame == From: KAMEZAWA Hi... 24 Mar 2010 03:19

Need to intercept open&write calls for vdi file when VirtualBox is working.
Hi, My problem - I have to intercept open&write function calls to .vdi file when VirtualBox is working to control which sectors of vdi file were changed, i.e. I need to get 1. what file was open for writing; 2. data from buffer; 3. size of data; 4. offset in file; I tryed: - LD_PRELOAD - not help... 24 Mar 2010 02:14

perf: hard lockup when using perf-sched
Anyone have a look at this bug ? Li Zefan wrote: An idea came to me that running perf-sched with a fork "bomb" might reveal some bug. So I wrote a program (attached), and did the following test: # gcc fork.c # ./a.out & # perf sched record After a few seconds, the machine froze, with... 28 Mar 2010 22:16

How to reserved all the CPU time for the private computing
Hi All: Thank you very much firstly. I have send the similar questions last time and I also search solutions in the internet. Scenario: multi-core cpu, but only one of cores is running linux for control plane, while others are running the private 100% computing Solution: The following steps are done: 1. ... 24 Mar 2010 02:14

[PATCH -mmotm] pagemap: add #ifdefs CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE on code walking hugetlb vma
If !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE, pagemap_hugetlb_range() is never called. So put it (and its calling function) into #ifdef block. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi(a)ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm(a)selenic.com> --- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) d... 24 Mar 2010 02:14

[PATCH] asus-laptop: Return -ENOMEM in case of failed rfkill_alloc()
Return -ENOMEM instead of -EINVAL in case of failed rfkill_alloc() Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c index db5f7d... 24 Mar 2010 02:14

early_res: seperate common memmap func from e820.c to fw_memmap.c
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:16, Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> wrote: * Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh(a)kernel.crashing.org> wrote: I disagree with that being a relevant argument in the technical discussion on the relative merits of two implementations of a given facility. I also disagree with your numbers, if ... 24 Mar 2010 02:14