Hi,
This is the latest in a series to add support for atomic DMA allocations
for non-coherent/CMA code paths in arm64. I did some refactoring to have
arm also use genalloc and pull out some of the remapping code.
This could probably use more testing on other platforms, especially those
that have
Hi Sagi
Your commit d77e65350f2d82dfa0557707d505711f5a43c8fd causes crash on SCSI
WRITE SAME command (it can be triggered by issuing the BLKZEROOUT ioctl).
The crash happens in iscsi_tcp_segment_done because sg_next returns NULL.
Before that commit, there was this code in
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Liviu Dudau liviu.du...@arm.com wrote:
This is a useful function and we should make it visible outside the
generic PCI code. Export it as a GPL symbol.
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau liviu.du...@arm.com
Tested-by: Tanmay Inamdar tinam...@apm.com
---
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for reply.
On 2 July 2014 18:55, Jeff Moyer jmo...@redhat.com wrote:
Hi, Dmitry,
Dmitry Kasatkin d.kasat...@samsung.com writes:
Hi,
We are looking for advice on reading files opened for direct_io.
[snip]
2. Temporarily clear O_DIRECT in file-f_flags.
[snip]
3. Open
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 02:05:14PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
Hi Sagi
Your commit d77e65350f2d82dfa0557707d505711f5a43c8fd causes crash on SCSI
WRITE SAME command (it can be triggered by issuing the BLKZEROOUT ioctl).
The crash happens in iscsi_tcp_segment_done because sg_next returns
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 06:07:31PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Andi Kleen a...@linux.intel.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 05:44:05PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Andi Kleen a...@linux.intel.com wrote:
No, still needs
But also, I think we should conditionally allow the filter bits;
possibly with a sysfs file like I had.
Back when we had to sort that SNB cycles thing it was tedious that Linus
could not just try things.
Hmm, the code in your patch to handle it was quite nasty.
I don't really see the
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On 2 July 2014 19:40, Mimi Zohar zo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 23:12 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
Async hash API allows to use HW acceleration for hash calculation.
It may give significant performance gain or/and reduce power consumption,
which might be very beneficial
On 2 July 2014 20:44, Mimi Zohar zo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 23:12 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
-/*
- * Calculate the MD5/SHA1 file digest
- */
+static struct crypto_ahash *ima_alloc_atfm(enum hash_algo algo)
+{
+ struct crypto_ahash *tfm = ima_ahash_tfm;
+
On 07/02/2014 11:16 AM, David Nellans wrote:
Intuition here is that invalidate caused refills will almost always
be serviced from the L2 or better since we've recently walked to
modify the page needing flush and thus pre-warmed the caches for any
refill? Or is this an artifact of the
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Stefan Klug wrote:
Hi everybody,
in short: The attached patch adds zerocopy support to the usbfs driver.
I tested it on x86 and on a globalscale mirabox ARM board. Until now it
works
quite nice and I'd love to get some comments and feedback on the patch.
Longer
On 07/01/2014 11:48 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
From: Dave Hansen dave.han...@linux.intel.com
This has been run through Intel's LKP tests across a wide range
of modern sytems and workloads and it wasn't shown to make a
measurable performance difference positive or negative.
Now that we have some
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 02:05:14PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
Hi Sagi
Your commit d77e65350f2d82dfa0557707d505711f5a43c8fd causes crash on SCSI
WRITE SAME command (it can be triggered by issuing the BLKZEROOUT ioctl).
The crash
On 07/01/2014 01:12 PM, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
+ ima_ahash= [IMA] Asynchronous hash usage parameters
+ Format: min_file_size
+ Set the minimal file size when use asynchronous hash.
+ If ima_ahash is not provided, ahash usage
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 02:29:05PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
And what about protection information for commands that transfer partial
sectors? (for example, UMAP transfers 24 bytes). Should
scsi_transfer_length return 24 or 32 in this case?
As far as I understand so far PI is only
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:55:41AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
It's acceptable.
It's not because it will then also affect other reads going on at the
same time.
The whole concept of ima is just broken, and if you want to do these
sort of verification they need to happen inside the filesystem and
On 2 July 2014 21:33, Dave Hansen dave.han...@intel.com wrote:
On 07/01/2014 01:12 PM, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
+ ima_ahash= [IMA] Asynchronous hash usage parameters
+ Format: min_file_size
+ Set the minimal file size when use asynchronous hash.
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 06:20:20PM +0200, Thomas Sch?bel-Theuer wrote:
Please take into account that MARS Light is not just a device driver,
but a long-distance distributed system dealing with huge masses of state
information.
Which doesn't matter. No kernel driver has a business messing with
On 02/07/14 11:56, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 21:33 +0100, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
This patch adds debugfs capabilities to netback. There used to be a similar
patch floating around for classic kernel, but it used procfs. It is based on a
very similar blkback patch.
It creates
Christoph Hellwig h...@infradead.org writes:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:55:41AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
It's acceptable.
It's not because it will then also affect other reads going on at the
same time.
OK, that part I was fuzzy on. I wasn't sure if they were preventing
other reads/writes
Thank you very much for working on this, Stefan.
Alan Stern wrote:
Also, many host controllers cannot handle arbitrary alignment.
It would be best to require that the buffer start at a page boundary.
This requires a bit of negotiation with userspace, maybe per-URB but
it seems better to
On 07/02/2014 11:40 AM, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
We should reserve command-line parameters for things that really need
tweaking in early boot or are _needed_ to boot.
...
Is module param good enough or it should be sysctl?
Doesn't matter to me much. sysctls seem to be the easiest things to
On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 19:43 +0100, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
On 02/07/14 11:56, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 21:33 +0100, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
This patch adds debugfs capabilities to netback. There used to be a similar
patch floating around for classic kernel, but it used procfs. It is
On 07/02, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
And this naturally suggests that rcu_read_lock_held() should be uninlined
too (and rcu_read_lock_sched_held(), but this needs another patch).
But I still can't understand the difference reported by size vmlinux,
- 5541731 3014560 14757888 23314179
On Wednesday 02 July 2014 21:04:16 Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 12:49:51PM -0400, Christopher Covington wrote:
+#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
+static long timerfd_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned
long arg)
+{
+ struct timerfd_ctx *ctx
Uninline rcu_read_lock_held(). According to size vmlinux this saves
28549 in .text:
- 5541731 3014560 14757888 23314179
+ 5513182 3026848 14757888 23297918
Note: it looks as if the data grows by 12288 bytes but this is not true,
it does not actually grow. But .data starts with
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 09:48 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
x86 Maintainers,
Could this get picked up in to the x86 tree, please? That way,
it will get plenty of time to bake before the 3.17 merge window.
I had originally tried out this series (~v1, v2 iirc) on large KVM
configurations. Setting
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:01:02PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
64-bit get_user is currently unsupported on ARM, although it appears work
is
ongoing [1].
1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/17/260
Thanks for info, Christopher! What arm camp is using then, copy-from-user?
On 2 July 2014 21:45, Jeff Moyer jmo...@redhat.com wrote:
Christoph Hellwig h...@infradead.org writes:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:55:41AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
It's acceptable.
It's not because it will then also affect other reads going on at the
same time.
OK, that part I was fuzzy
Thanks for the review - please see my comments inline.
Mathieu
On 2 July 2014 03:38, Daniel Thompson daniel.thomp...@linaro.org wrote:
On 27/06/14 19:04, mathieu.poir...@linaro.org wrote:
diff --git a/drivers/coresight/Kconfig b/drivers/coresight/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index
On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 17:53 +0200, Stefan Klug wrote:
Implementation details:
The patch only touches drivers/usb/core/devio.c.
In procy_do_submiturb(), it is checked if zerocopy is allowed. This is
currently a rough
check which compares the number of required pages to
On Wednesday 02 July 2014 18:31:13 Will Deacon wrote:
+ err = of_pci_parse_bus_range(parent-of_node, bus_range);
+ if (err) {
+ dev_info(parent, No bus range for %s, using default
[0-255]\n,
+ parent-of_node-full_name);
+ bus_range-start =
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:09:32AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
It has been only tested as console UART.
The tty name is ttyS based instead of ttyO. How big is the pain here,
what could be the easiest way to provide compatibility?
have been considering that myself for months. You could
This reverts commit f00cdc6df7d7cfcabb5b740911e6788cb0802bdb.
(a) It was buggy: Sasha sent a lockdep report to remind us that grabbing
i_mutex in the fault path is a no-no (write syscall may already hold
i_mutex while faulting user buffer), no matter that the patch took care
to drop mmap_sem
On Wednesday 02 July 2014 11:06:38 Tanmay Inamdar wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Liviu Dudau liviu.du...@arm.com wrote:
This is a useful function and we should make it visible outside the
generic PCI code. Export it as a GPL symbol.
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau liviu.du...@arm.com
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 02:31:26 -0700 Jaegeuk Kim jaeg...@kernel.org wrote:
--- a/fs/f2fs/node.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ bool available_free_memory(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
int type)
mem_size = (nm_i-nat_cnt * sizeof(struct nat_entry)) 12;
res =
Trinity finds that mmap access to a hole while it's punched from shmem
can prevent the madvise(MADV_REMOVE) or fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE)
from completing, until the (killable) reader stops; with the puncher's
hold on i_mutex locking out all other writers until it can complete.
This issue was
From: Edward Allcutt edward.allc...@openmarket.com
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 10:05:13 +0100 (BST)
On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, David Miller wrote:
I still think the OpenBSD thing can't be intentional, and it's some
bug they probably want to fix and it should therefore be investigated.
Shout at me if
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:29:26AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
From: Dave Hansen dave.han...@linux.intel.com
cpu_has_pae is only referenced in one place: the X86_32 kexec
code (in a file not even built on 64-bit). It hardly warrants
its own macro, or the trouble we go to ensuring that it
I wanted to revert my v3.1 commit d0823576bf4b (mm: pincer in
truncate_inode_pages_range), to keep truncate_inode_pages_range()
in synch with shmem_undo_range(); but have stepped back - a change
to hole-punching in truncate_inode_pages_range() is a change to
hole-punching in every filesystem
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Aaro Koskinen aaro.koski...@iki.fi wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:09:32AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
It has been only tested as console UART.
The tty name is ttyS based instead of ttyO. How big is the pain here,
what could be the easiest way to
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:29:28AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
From: Dave Hansen dave.han...@linux.intel.com
I believe the REQUIRED_MASK aproach was taken so that it was
easier to consult in assembly (arch/x86/kernel/verify_cpu.S).
DISABLED_MASK does not have the same restriction, but I
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Peter Stuge wrote:
Thank you very much for working on this, Stefan.
Alan Stern wrote:
Also, many host controllers cannot handle arbitrary alignment.
It would be best to require that the buffer start at a page boundary.
This requires a bit of negotiation with
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:29:29AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
From: Dave Hansen dave.han...@linux.intel.com
There are a few other features than MPX that we can make
assumptions about at compile-time based on compile options.
Add them to disabled-features.h and check them with
On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 21:20 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
On 2 July 2014 19:40, Mimi Zohar zo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 23:12 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
Async hash API allows to use HW acceleration for hash calculation.
It may give significant performance gain
v2-v3: rebase to 3.16-rc2, consider return values from the
blk_mq_alloc_request leg of the blk_get_request callchain
(noted by Jeff), noted in the second patch changelog.
blk_mq_queue_enter may return 0 or errno, which
blk_mq_alloc_request can propogate out via
Updated variant, thanks a lot for feedback!
---
From: Cyrill Gorcunov gorcu...@openvz.org
Subject: timerfd: Implement timerfd_ioctl method to restore timerfd_ctx::ticks,
v3
The read() of timerfd files allows to fetch the number of timer ticks
while there is no way to set it back from userspace.
On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 21:21 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
On 2 July 2014 20:44, Mimi Zohar zo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 23:12 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
-/*
- * Calculate the MD5/SHA1 file digest
- */
+static struct crypto_ahash *ima_alloc_atfm(enum
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:02:12PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
Well, as far as I'm concerned right now, it's for Mark to sort out this
situation, and tell us what he wants to do with the Kirkwood stuff. I
suspect he's keeping quiet because he doesn't care about it.
Well, that and
Hi Ohad,
On 07/01/2014 07:51 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
Hi Suman,
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Suman Anna s-a...@ti.com wrote:
The number of hwspinlocks are determined based on the value read
from the IP block's SYSSTATUS register. However, the module may
not be enabled and clocked, and
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Oliver Neukum wrote:
On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 17:53 +0200, Stefan Klug wrote:
Implementation details:
The patch only touches drivers/usb/core/devio.c.
In procy_do_submiturb(), it is checked if zerocopy is allowed. This is
currently a rough
check which compares the
Per further discussion with NIST, the requirements for FIPS state that
we only need to panic the system on failed kernel module signature checks
for crypto subsystem modules. This moves the fips-mode-only module
signature check out of the generic module loading code, into the crypto
subsystem, at
The blk-core dead queue checks introduce an error scenario to
blk_get_request that returns NULL if the request queue has been
shutdown. This affects the behavior for __GFP_WAIT callers, who should
verify the return value before dereferencing.
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence joe.lawre...@stratus.com
The blk_get_request function may fail in low-memory conditions or during
device removal (even if __GFP_WAIT is set). To distinguish between these
errors, modify the blk_get_request call stack to return the appropriate
ERR_PTR. Verify that all callers check the return status and consider
IS_ERR
IRQF_DISABLED flag is depricated and should be removed.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gaurav kumargauravgup...@gmail.com
---
drivers/block/rsxx/core.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/rsxx/core.c b/drivers/block/rsxx/core.c
index a8de2ee..ddb6b2b 100644
Alan Stern wrote:
Also, many host controllers cannot handle arbitrary alignment.
It would be best to require that the buffer start at a page boundary.
This requires a bit of negotiation with userspace, maybe per-URB but
I don't follow. What negotiation is needed? All that needs
Hi Ohad,
On 07/01/2014 07:48 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
Hi Suman,
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Suman Anna s-a...@ti.com wrote:
static int omap_hwspinlock_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
- struct hwspinlock_pdata *pdata = pdev-dev.platform_data;
+ struct device_node
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:51:54PM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
I tested this CODEC with both DAPM and DPCM. If the audio subsystem
asks for streaming on both I2S and S/PDIF, only the last call is served
(this depends on the order of the DAI links in the audio card creation
table).
I'd
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:29:30AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
From: Dave Hansen dave.han...@linux.intel.com
This will go in to the MPX patch set, but I'm posting it here so
folk can see how it will work since it was the original
motivation for this work.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 12:31:45AM +0530, Himangi Saraogi wrote:
I find in the probe function that hw-ioarea is allocated using
request_mem_region but a release_resource and kfree is called on it instead
of a release_mem_region. Is there any special concern behind this. I was
planning to use
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:20:58 +0200 Philippe De Muyter p...@macqel.be wrote:
Currently, the initial mount of the root file system by the linux
kernel fails with a cryptic message instead of being retried with
the MS_RDONLY flag set, when the device is read-only and the
combination of block
3.10.44-rt46-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
--
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bige...@linutronix.de
This will void a warning comming from the spin-lock debugging code. The
lock avoiding idea is from Steven Rostedt.
Cc:
3.10.44-rt46-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) rost...@goodmis.org
---
localversion-rt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/localversion-rt b/localversion-rt
index
Dear RT Folks,
This is the RT stable review cycle of patch 3.10.44-rt46-rc1.
Please scream at me if I messed something up. Please test the patches too.
The -rc release will be uploaded to kernel.org and will be deleted when
the final release is out. This is just a review release (or release
3.10.44-rt46-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk
In an rt-kernel with CONFIG_MISSED_TIMER_OFFSETS_HIST enabled,
__hrtimer_start_range_ns() now crashes, as new_base is not assigned
before it is
This patch adds debugfs capabilities to netback. There used to be a similar
patch floating around for classic kernel, but it used procfs. It is based on a
very similar blkback patch.
It creates xen-netback/[vifname]/io_ring_q[queueno] files, reading them output
various ring variables etc. Writing
This series is my work during stressing the xen network drivers, hopefully
others can benefit from it.
1/3: Filling payload with pattern, useful for checking data correctness when the
packets travelling without checksum (~ intrahost VM-to-VM). Already sent it
separately feq times, so its version
This is a prototype patch to enable sending TCP packets with pktgen. The
original motivation is to test TCP GSO with xen-netback/netfront, but I'm not
sure about how the checksum should be set up, and also someone should verify the
GSO settings I'm using.
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss
Introduces a new flag called PATTERN, which puts a non-periodic, predicatble
pattern into the payload. This was useful to reproduce an otherwise intermittent
bug in xen-netback [1], where checksum checking doesn't help.
The pattern is a repetition of %lu , a series of increasing numbers divided by
By defining the number of frags via nfrags, their sizes get calculated by
pktgen. This patch allows their offsets and sizes to be specified via
frag_off-len, in a comma separated list (e.g.
frag_off-len 0-1,500-200,5000-10,9-100). The first is the offset
(0 = offset 2^16), second is size (0
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote:
Testing the latest kernel (3.16-rc3) I hit this build bug:
VDSO2C arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c
Error: too many copied sections (max = 13)
/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile:61: recipe for target
All bfs related functions use bfs_ prefix.
This patch also moves extern declaration to bfs.h
and removes prototype from inode.c
This fixes checkpatch warning:
'WARNING: externs should be avoided in .c files'
Cc: Tigran A. Aivazian tig...@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk
Cc: Andrew Morton
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 08:53:50PM +0100, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
This patch adds debugfs capabilities to netback. There used to be a similar
patch floating around for classic kernel, but it used procfs. It is based on a
very similar blkback patch.
It creates
Fix checkpatch warning
WARNING: Use #include linux/uaccess.h instead of asm/uaccess.h
Cc: Jan Harkes jahar...@cs.cmu.edu
Cc: Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org
Cc: c...@cs.cmu.edu
Cc: codal...@coda.cs.cmu.edu
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick f...@skynet.be
---
fs/coda/cache.c | 2 +-
Fix checkpatch errors:
ERROR: return is not a function, parentheses are not required
Cc: Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick f...@skynet.be
---
fs/efs/namei.c | 11 ++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/efs/namei.c
Thanks again for the review. Please see my comments below.
On 7/2/2014 11:39 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 04:22:23PM +0100, suravee.suthikulpa...@amd.com wrote:
From: Suravee Suthikulpanit suravee.suthikulpa...@amd.com
diff --git
On 07/02/2014 01:00 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
I managed to munge the binutils sources enough to build binutils 2.21.
This seems to be a binutils bug: ld generates an empty .rela.dyn.
Fortunately, it's not generating a DT_RELA dynamic entry.
Not sure if that is a bug. Unnecessary, yes,
Cc: Steven Whitehouse swhit...@redhat.com
Cc: cluster-de...@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick f...@skynet.be
---
fs/gfs2/rgrp.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
index db629d1..f4cb9c0 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
+++
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:05 PM, H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote:
On 07/02/2014 01:00 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
I managed to munge the binutils sources enough to build binutils 2.21.
This seems to be a binutils bug: ld generates an empty .rela.dyn.
Fortunately, it's not generating a
fix checkpatch warnings:
WARNING: Prefer seq_puts to seq_printf
Cc: Steven Whitehouse swhit...@redhat.com
Cc: cluster-de...@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick f...@skynet.be
---
fs/gfs2/super.c | 20 ++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git
Fix 2 checkpatch warnings:
WARNING: suspect code indent for conditional statements
Cc: Mikulas Patocka miku...@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Cc: Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick f...@skynet.be
---
fs/hpfs/dnode.c | 17 +
1 file changed, 9
On 07/02/2014 01:07 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:05 PM, H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote:
On 07/02/2014 01:00 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
I managed to munge the binutils sources enough to build binutils 2.21.
This seems to be a binutils bug: ld generates an empty
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 23:12 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
Use of multiple-page collect buffers reduces:
1) the number of block IO requests
2) the number of asynchronous hash update requests
Second is important for HW accelerated hashing, because significant
amount of time is spent for
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 03:10:30PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
There are PCI devices that require a particular value written
to the Multiple Message Enable (MME) register while aligned on
power of 2 boundary value of actually used MSI vectors 'nvec'
is a lesser of that MME value:
ic_dev_xid is only used in ipconfig.c
Cc: David S. Miller da...@davemloft.net
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov kuz...@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick f...@skynet.be
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net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git
On 2 July 2014 23:21, Mimi Zohar zo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 23:12 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
Use of multiple-page collect buffers reduces:
1) the number of block IO requests
2) the number of asynchronous hash update requests
Second is important for HW
FWIW, I spent some time looking at blk_get_request callers and as far as
I can tell, most should be able to gracefully handle additional errno
values of -ENODEV and -EWOULDBLOCK. I didn't chase down the pktcdvd or
osd paths, however Jiri and Boaz ack'd the earlier patch version that
added
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Peter Stuge wrote:
The kernel doesn't support scatter-gather for control transfers, only
bulk.
That could possibly change, right, and then it would be nice to have
zerocopy for free there as well?
No. ohci-hcd doesn't support control transfers larger than 4 KB
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 09:13:46 +0900 Minchan Kim minc...@kernel.org wrote:
Normally, I/O completed pages for reclaim would be rotated into
inactive LRU tail without freeing. The why it works is we can't free
page from atomic context(ie, end_page_writeback) due to vaious locks
isn't aware of
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Arnd Bergmann a...@arndb.de wrote:
On Wednesday 02 July 2014 11:06:38 Tanmay Inamdar wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Liviu Dudau liviu.du...@arm.com wrote:
This is a useful function and we should make it visible outside the
generic PCI code. Export it
This small patchset converts CRAMFS to current logging functions and
fixes some checkpatch warnings.
Fabian Frederick (4):
FS/CRAMFS: convert printk to pr_foo()
FS/CRAMFS: use pr_fmt
FS/CRAMFS: code clean-up
fs/cramfs/inode.c: use linux/uaccess.h
fs/cramfs/inode.c | 45
Fixes some checkpatch errors/warnings:
WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
ERROR: spaces required around that '=' (ctx:VxV)
ERROR: foo * bar should be foo *bar
ERROR: space prohibited after that open parenthesis '('
Cc: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu
Cc: Sasha Levin
Fixes checkpatch warning:
WARNING: Use #include linux/uaccess.h instead of asm/uaccess.h
Cc: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu
Cc: Sasha Levin sasha.le...@oracle.com
Cc: Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick f...@skynet.be
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fs/cramfs/inode.c | 2 +-
1 file
Use current logging functions.
no level printk converted to pr_err
Cc: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu
Cc: Sasha Levin sasha.le...@oracle.com
Cc: Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick f...@skynet.be
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fs/cramfs/inode.c | 14 +++---
use module name for cramfs: prefix.
(note that uncompress.c printk had no prefix).
Cc: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu
Cc: Sasha Levin sasha.le...@oracle.com
Cc: Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick f...@skynet.be
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fs/cramfs/inode.c | 18 ++
Hi Ohad,
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Suman Anna s-a...@ti.com wrote:
2. The of_hwspin_lock_simple_xlate() is a simple default
translator function for hwspinlock provider implementations
that use a single cell number for requesting a specific lock
(relatively indexed) within a
Hi Ohad,
On 07/01/2014 07:26 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
Hi Suman,
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Suman Anna s-a...@ti.com wrote:
The hwspinlock_device structure is used for registering a bank of
locks with the driver core. The structure already contains the
necessary members to identify
This is to cleanup some hex numbers used in the code and replace
then with defines to make the code cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Feng Kan f...@apm.com
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel apa...@apm.com
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