[PATCH 1/2] mm: use pgdat_end_pfn() to simplify the code in arch (no replies)
Use "pgdat_end_pfn()" instead of "pgdat->node_start_pfn + pgdat->node_spanned_pages". Simplify the code, no functional change. Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> ---...
View Article[GIT PULL] f2fs updates for v3.12 (no replies)
Hi Linus, Here is the pull request on f2fs updates for v3.12. This patch-set includes several enhancements such as inline-xattrs, sysfs, proc entry, and performance improvement at worst case...
View Article[PATCH 2/2] mm: use pgdat_end_pfn() to simplify the code in others (no replies)
Use "pgdat_end_pfn()" instead of "pgdat->node_start_pfn + pgdat->node_spanned_pages". Simplify the code, no functional change. Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> ---...
View Article[PATCH] video/drm: Drop superfluous "select VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING" (no replies)
commit 765d5b9c2b72f5b99722cdfcf4bf8f88c556cf92 ("fbdev: fbcon: select VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING") made FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE always select VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING, but forgot to remove select...
View Article[PATCH] scsi: Add printk to detect retry loop (1 reply)
Hello, This patch is to avoid indefinite command retry loop. The previous RFC patch is here: http://marc.info/?t=137690537600002&r=1&w=3 In the previous discuss, James says that once retry...
View Article[PATCH 1/5] Squashfs: fix corruption check in get_dir_index_using_name() (no...
Patch "Squashfs: sanity check information from disk" from Dan Carpenter adds a missing check for corruption in the "size" field while reading the directory index from disk. It, however, sets err to...
View Article[PATCH 0/5] Squashfs: extra sanity checks and sanity check fixes (no replies)
Hi, Following on from the "Squashfs: sanity check information from disk" patch from Dan Carpenter, I have added a couple more sanity checks, and fixed a couple of existing sanity checks (including the...
View Articlelinux-next: build warning after merge of the ceph tree (no replies)
Hi Sage, After merging the ceph tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) produced this warning: In file included from fs/ceph/super.h:4:0, from fs/ceph/cache.c:26:...
View Article[PATCH v2 0/4] mm/zswap bugfix: memory leaks and other problems (no replies)
This patch series fix a few bugs in zswap based on Linux-3.11. v1 --> v2 - free memory in zswap_frontswap_invalidate_area (in patch 1) - fix whitespace corruption (line wrapping) Corresponding mail...
View Article[PATCH v2 4/4] mm/zswap: use GFP_NOIO instead of GFP_KERNEL (1 reply)
To avoid zswap store and reclaim functions called recursively, use GFP_NOIO instead of GFP_KERNEL Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com> --- mm/zswap.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3...
View Article[PATCH v2 3/4] mm/zswap: avoid unnecessary page scanning (1 reply)
add SetPageReclaim before __swap_writepage so that page can be moved to the tail of the inactive list, which can avoid unnecessary page scanning as this page was reclaimed by swap subsystem before....
View Article[PATCH v2 2/4] mm/zswap: bugfix: memory leak when invalidate and reclaim...
Consider the following scenario: thread 0: reclaim entry x (get refcount, but not call zswap_get_swap_cache_page) thread 1: call zswap_frontswap_invalidate_page to invalidate entry x. finished, entry...
View Article[PATCH v2 1/4] mm/zswap: bugfix: memory leak when re-swapon (1 reply)
zswap_tree is not freed when swapoff, and it got re-kmalloc in swapon, so memory-leak occurs. Modify: free memory of zswap_tree in zswap_frontswap_invalidate_area(). Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang...
View Article[PATCH v3 03/20] mm, hugetlb: fix subpool accounting handling (no replies)
There is a case that we attempt to allocate a hugepage with chg = 0 and avoid_reserve = 1. Although chg = 0 means that it has a reserved hugepage, we wouldn't use it, since avoid_reserve = 1...
View Article[PATCH v3 06/20] mm, hugetlb: return a reserved page to a reserved pool if...
If we fail with a reserved page, just calling put_page() is not sufficient, because put_page() invoke free_huge_page() at last step and it doesn't know whether a page comes from a reserved pool or...
View Article[PATCH] perf tools: Free strlist in strlist__delete() (no replies)
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> It seems strlist never deleted after allocated. AFAICS every strlist is allocated dynamically, just free it in the _delete() function. Signed-off-by:...
View Article[REPOST PATCH 1/4] slab: factor out calculate nr objects in cache_estimate...
This logic is not simple to understand so that making separate function helping readability. Additionally, we can use this change in the following patch which implement for freelist to have another...
View Article[REPOST PATCH 4/4] slab: make more slab management structure off the slab (no...
Now, the size of the freelist for the slab management diminish, so that the on-slab management structure can waste large space if the object of the slab is large. Consider a 128 byte sized slab. If...
View Article[REPOST PATCH 0/4] slab: implement byte sized indexes for the freelist of a...
* THIS IS JUST REPOSTED ACCORDING TO MAINTAINER'S REQUEST * * Changes from original post Correct the position of the results. Attach more results about cache-misses and elapsed time on a hackbench...
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