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[60/90] ext4: fix lock order problem in ext4_move_extents()
2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ (cherry picked from commit fc04cb49a898c372a22b21fffc47f299d8710801) ext4_move_extents() checks the logical block contiguousness of original file with ext4_find_extent() and mext_next_extent(). Therefore the exten... 11 Dec 2009 00:29

gpiolib: add support for having symlinks under gpio class directory
On Thursday 10 December 2009, Jani Nikula wrote: GPIOs can be exported to gpiolib sysfs at /sys/class/gpio/ like this: # ls -l /sys/class/gpio/ --w------- � �1 root � � 0 � � � � � �4096 Jan �1 00:00 export lrwxrwxrwx � �1 root � � 0 � � � � � � � 0 Jan �1 00:00 gpio25 -> ../../devices/virtual/gpio/gpio... 10 Dec 2009 23:24

timeriomem-rng.c: use resource_size()
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 20:16 -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote: Use resource_size() for ioremap. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten(a)visionengravers.com> Cc: Alexander Clouter <alex(a)digriz.org.uk> (Generally speaking, it's best to cc: obscure stuff to a maintainer.) Looks good to me. Herbert? S... 11 Dec 2009 11:20

WARNING: at fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c:129
running 2.6.31.6 or 2.6.32 on a server machine, i see the following warning in my logs: Dec 9 00:37:37 es kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Dec 9 00:37:37 es kernel: WARNING: at fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c:129 idr_callback+0x2a/0x4b() Dec 9 00:37:37 es kernel: Hardware name: Dec 9 00:37:... 12 Jan 2010 10:40

drm
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Dave Airlie wrote: The biggest missing feature [ ... ] No, the biggest missing feature is that Fedora is _still_ shipping Nouveau, and I'm _still_ not seeing Red Hat people actively trying to get it merged into mainline. What the _hell_ is going on? Linus -- To unsubscr... 11 Dec 2009 13:36

upstream regression: slob hang
FYI, the attached config hangs in the SLOB code, on 32-bit x86 laptop (dual core). No log available from that box. Ingo ... 15 Dec 2009 03:32

[GIT PULL] UBIFS changes for 2.6.33
Hi Linus, please, pull from UBIFS tree. Since there are dependencies between few UBI and UBIFS patches, I combined all the UBI and UBIFS stuff, so you will effectively pull all UBI and UBIFS updates for this merge window. The following changes since commit 648f4e3e50c4793d9dbf9a09afa193631f76fa26: Linus Torv... 10 Dec 2009 03:36

[RFC mm][PATCH 3/5] counting swap ents per mm
One of frequent questions from users about memory management is what numbers of swap ents are user for processes. And this information will give some hints to oom-killer. Besides we can count the number of swapents per a process by scanning /proc/<pid>/smaps, this is very slow and not good for usual process inf... 10 Dec 2009 03:35

[RFC mm][PATCH 5/5] counting lowmem rss per mm
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com> Some case of OOM-Kill is caused by memory shortage in lowmem area. For example, NORMAL_ZONE is exhausted on x86-32/HIGHMEM kernel. Now, oom-killer doesn't have no lowmem usage information of processes and selects victim processes based on global memory us... 10 Dec 2009 03:35

[tip:core/urgent] lockdep: Avoid out of bounds array reference in save_trace()
Commit-ID: ea5b41f9d595be354f7a50e56b28c2d72e6e88a5 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ea5b41f9d595be354f7a50e56b28c2d72e6e88a5 Author: Luck, Tony <tony.luck(a)intel.com> AuthorDate: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:29:36 -0800 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:29:33 +0100 lockdep:... 10 Dec 2009 03:35