Kernel

KVM: SVM: Initialize Nested Nested MMU context on VMRUN
On 04/27/2010 01:38 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: This patch adds code to initialize the Nested Nested Paging MMU context when the L1 guest executes a VMRUN instruction and has nested paging enabled in its VMCB. struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c index e31f... 27 Apr 2010 09:53

Nested Paging support for Nested SVM v2
On 04/27/2010 01:38 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: Hi, this is the second and reworked version of my nested paging for nested svm patchset. Changes to the previous version include: * Renamed mmu.tdp_enabled to mmu.direct_map * Introduced two helper functions to read physical memory locations of th... 27 Apr 2010 09:53

[LogFS] Return -EINVAL if filesystem image doesn't match
> Does the patch below solve the problem for you (without the explicit "rootfstype=romfs")? J�rn -- One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code. -- Ken Thompson. Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern(a)logfs.org> --- �fs/logfs/super.c | � �2 +- �1 files changed, ... 27 Apr 2010 09:53

[tip:perf/core] perf: Some perf-kvm documentation edits
Commit-ID: cfadf9d4ac4be940595ab73d3def24c23c8b875f Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/cfadf9d4ac4be940595ab73d3def24c23c8b875f Author: William Cohen <wcohen(a)redhat.com> AuthorDate: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:36:21 -0400 Committer: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> CommitDate: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:50:49 +0... 27 Apr 2010 09:53

Add a Coccinelle front-end script
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:11:15PM +0200, Nicolas Palix wrote: New targets are added (coccicheck-<mode>) to call the spatch front-end in the 'scripts' directory with the <mode> argument. Four modes are defined: report, patch, context, and org. 'report' mode generates a list in the following format: ... 28 May 2010 06:04

[PATCH -mm 1/6] dma-mapping: fix dma_sync_single_range_*
dma_sync_single_range_for_cpu and dma_sync_single_range_for_device use a wrong address with a partial synchronization. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: stable(a)kernel.org --- include/asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) ... 27 Apr 2010 08:45

[PATCH -mm 5/6] swiotlb: remove unnecessary swiotlb_sync_single_range_*
swiotlb_sync_single_range_for_cpu and swiotlb_sync_single_range_for_device are unnecessary because swiotlb_sync_single_for_cpu and swiotlb_sync_single_for_device can be used instead. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> --- include/linux/swiotlb.h | 10 ---------- lib/swiotlb.c ... 27 Apr 2010 08:45

[PATCH -mm 6/6] dma-mapping: remove unnecessary sync_single_range_* in dma_map_ops
sync_single_range_for_cpu and sync_single_range_for_device hooks are unnecessary because sync_single_for_cpu and sync_single_for_device can be used instead. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> --- include/asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h | 20 ++------------------ include/linux/dma... 27 Apr 2010 08:45

[PATCH -mm 4/6] powerpc: remove unnecessary sync_single_range_* in swiotlb_dma_ops
sync_single_range_for_cpu and sync_single_range_for_device hooks in swiotlb_dma_ops are unnecessary because sync_single_for_cpu and sync_single_for_device are used there. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh(a)kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulu... 27 Apr 2010 08:45

[PATCH -mm 3/6] x86: remove unnecessary sync_single_range_* in swiotlb_dma_ops
sync_single_range_for_cpu and sync_single_range_for_device hooks in swiotlb_dma_ops are unnecessary because sync_single_for_cpu and sync_single_for_device are used there. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: x86(a)kernel.org --- arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c | 2 -- 1 files chan... 27 Apr 2010 08:45