Kernel summit 2013: Call for Hobbyists (no replies)
As an experiment this year, the Linux Kernel Summit Program Committee would like to put out a call for hobbyists. This year, we have up to three places to give to people who do Linux Kernel...
View Article[PATCH v2] KVM: PPC: move iommu_add_device earlier (no replies)
The current implementation of IOMMU on sPAPR does not use iommu_ops and therefore does not call IOMMU API's bus_set_iommu() which 1) sets iommu_ops for a bus 2) registers a bus notifier Instead, PCI...
View Article[PATCH 1/1] memblock cleanup: Remove unnecessary check in...
In memblock_find_in_range_node(), it has the following check at line 117 and 118: 113 for_each_free_mem_range_reverse(i, nid, &this_start, &this_end, NULL) { 114 this_start = clamp(this_start,...
View Article[PATCH v5] Ceph: Punch hole support for kernel client (no replies)
This patch implements fallocate and punch hole support for Ceph kernel client. Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@ubuntukylin.com> Signed-off-by: Yunchuan Wen <yunchuanwen@ubuntukylin.com> ---...
View Articlelinux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the arm tree (no replies)
Hi all, Today's linux-next merge of the arm-soc tree got a conflict in arch/arm/include/debug/highbank.S between commits df917c8c18b4 ("ARM: debug: provide PL01x debug uart phys/virt address...
View Article[3.11-rc5..] NULL pointer dereference in bdi_writeback_workfn (no replies)
Forwarding this message to Tejun and Jens, because it concerns a bug in the block layer. Alan Stern ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 00:12:10 +0200 From: Peter Wu...
View Article[PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/3] Documentation updates for 3.12 (5 replies)
Hello! This series provides a few documentation updates: 1. Update rcu_barrier() documentation to note that it no longer is guaranteed to wait for a full grace period. This guarantee was a victim of...
View Article[PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/11] Fixes for 3.12 (17 replies)
Hello! This series contains a number of miscellaneous fixes: 1. Switch to expedited grace periods during hibernation operations (courtesy of Borislav Petkov). 2. Restrict above expediting to systems...
View Article[PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/9] sysidle changes for v3.12 (14 replies)
Hello! Whenever there is at least one non-idle CPU, it is necessary to periodically update timekeeping information. Before NO_HZ_FULL, this updating was carried out by the scheduling-clock tick, which...
View Article[PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] rcutorture updates for 3.12 (9 replies)
Hello! This series provides some rcutorture updates: 1. Add a debug_object option to rcutorture to allow testing of RCU's debug-objects facilities. 2. Increase rcutorture test coverage by concurrently...
View Article[PATCH v2 08/14] crypto: omap-aes: PIO mode: Add IRQ handler and walk SGs (no...
We add an IRQ handler that implements a state-machine for PIO-mode and data structures for walking the scatter-gather list. The IRQ handler is called in succession both when data is available to read...
View Article[PATCH v2 00/14] crypto: omap-aes: Improve DMA, add PIO mode and support for...
Following patch series rewrites the DMA code to be cleaner and faster. Earlier, only a single SG was used for DMA purpose, and the SG-list passed from the crypto layer was being copied and DMA'd one...
View Article[PATCH 0/2] iscsi/iser-target: Add per-cpu ida tag pre-allocation for v3.12...
From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@daterainc.com> Hi folks, This series adds tag pre-allocation support of iscsi_cmd descriptors with iscsi/iser-target code, utilizing Kent's latest per-cpu ida bits...
View Articlehowto make define seen in all files? (no replies)
Hi, I want to provide a general defined macro like __MY__TIME__ (for determinictic build) and that symbol should be seen as #define or -D... to gcc in all files; Value of __MY_TIME__ is determined...
View Article[PATCH v3 1/7] gpio: davinci: coding style correction (no replies)
From: Philip Avinash <avinashphilip@ti.com> Make some minor coding style fixes. Use proper multi-line commenting style, arrange include files alphabetically and use a macro for register offset....
View Article[PATCH v3 0/7] Convert GPIO Davinci to platform driver (6 replies)
From: Philip Avinash <avinashphilip@ti.com> To support DT booting of da850 EVM, davinci gpio driver converted to platform driver. Also when here, start using gpiolib API for gpio get/set...
View Article[PATCH 1/8] sched: change load balance number to h_nr_running of run queue...
Since rq->nr_running would include both migration and rt task, it is not reasonable to seek to move nr_running number of task in the load_balance function, since it only apply to cfs type. Change...
View Article[PATCH 2/8] sched: change cpu_avg_load_per_task using h_nr_running (no replies)
Since cpu_avg_load_per_task is used only by cfs scheduler, its meaning should present the average cfs type task load in the current run queue. Thus we change it to h_nr_running for well presenting its...
View Article[PATCH 3/8] sched: change update_rq_runnable_avg using h_nr_running (no replies)
Since update_rq_runnable_avg is used only by cfs scheduler, it should not consider the task beyond the cfs type. If one cfs task is running with one rt task, the only cfs task should be no aware of...
View Article[PATCH 5/8] sched: change update_sg_lb_stats to h_nr_running (no replies)
Since update_sg_lb_stats is used to calculate sched_group load difference of cfs type task, it should use h_nr_running instead of nr_running of rq. Signed-off-by: Lei Wen <leiwen@marvell.com>...
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