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linux-next: build warning after merge of the cgroup tree (no replies) 27 Aug 2013 | 03:20 pm
Hi Tejun, After merging the cgroup tree, today's linux-next build (i386 defconfig) produced this warning: kernel/cgroup.c: In function 'css_from_id': kernel/cgroup.c:5723:3: warning: passing argum...
linux-next: manual merge of the clk tree with Linus' tree (1 reply) 27 Aug 2013 | 03:20 pm
Hi Mike, Today's linux-next merge of the clk tree got a conflict in drivers/clk/zynq/clkc.c between commits 252957cc3a2d ("clk/zynq/clkc: Add dedicated spinlock for the SWDT") and 765b7d4c4cb3 ("c...
[PATCH v2] p2m: use GNTTABOP_unmap_and_duplicate if available (no replies) 27 Aug 2013 | 03:20 pm
The new GNTTABOP_unmap_and_duplicate operation doesn't zero the mapping passed in new_addr, allowing us to perform batch unmaps in p2m code without requiring the use of a multicall. Signed-off-by: ...
[PATCH] PCI: add quirk for 3ware 9650SE controller (1 reply) 27 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
Commit d5dea7d95 ("PCI: msi: Disable msi interrupts when we initialize a pci device") makes MSIs be forcibly disabled at boot time. It turns out that this breaks 3ware controller -- if MSIs are disa...
[PATCH 06/11] memblock: Improve memblock to support allocation from lower address. (no replies) 27 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
This patch modifies the memblock_find_in_range_node() to support two different allocation orders. After this patch, memblock will check memblock.current_order, and decide in which order to allocate ...
[PATCH 07/11] x86, memblock: Set lowest limit for memblock_alloc_base_nid(). (no replies) 27 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
memblock_alloc_base_nid() is a common API of memblock. And it calls memblock_find_in_range_node() with %start = 0, which means it has no limit for the lowest address by default. memblock_find_in_ra...
[PATCH 00/11] x86, memblock: Allocate memory near kernel image before SRAT parsed. (2 replies) 27 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
This patch-set is based on tj's suggestion, and not fully tested. Just for review and discussion. [Problem] The current Linux cannot migrate pages used by the kerenl because of the kernel direct m...
[PATCH 09/11] mem-hotplug: Introduce movablenode boot option to {en|dis}able using SRAT. (no replies) 27 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
The Hot-Pluggable fired in SRAT specifies which memory is hotpluggable. As we mentioned before, if hotpluggable memory is used by the kernel, it cannot be hot-removed. So memory hotplug users may wa...
[PATCH 11/11] x86, mem_hotplug: Allocate memory near kernel image before SRAT is parsed. (no replies) 27 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
After memblock is ready, before SRAT is parsed, we should allocate memory near the kernel image. So this patch does the following: 1. After memblock is ready, make memblock allocate memory from low ...
[PATCH 08/11] x86, acpi, memblock: Use __memblock_alloc_base() in acpi_initrd_override() (no replies) 27 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
The current acpi_initrd_override() calls memblock_find_in_range() to allocate memory, and pass 0 to %start, which will not limited by the current_limit_low. acpi_initrd_override() |->memblock_find_...
