[patch 00/34] idle: Consolidate idle implementations

Each architecture implements its own cpu_idle() code, which is more or less the same on all architectures (plus/minus a few bugs and a few missing extra functionalities, instrumentation ...). That also forces everyone who is interested in idle ...

Message posted on the March 21st, 2013 - 5:10 PM ET

Bug#702571: duplicity: Paramiko backend doesn't use ECDSA, breaks on known_hosts

Package: duplicity Version: 0.6.18-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Due to the usage of Paramiko as a default backend for scp/ssh backups, it's not possible to use ECDSA keys to connect to the backuphost. Synology and Ubuntu (since 12.04) are ...

Message posted on the March 08th, 2013 - 08:50 am ET

[PATCH 00/12] rwsem fast-path write lock stealing

These patches extend Alex Shi's work (which added write lock stealing on the rwsem slow path) in order to provide rwsem write lock stealing on the fast path (that is, without taking the rwsem's wait_lock). I initially sent a shorter series shortly ...

Message posted on the March 06th, 2013 - 06:30 pm ET

[PATCH v6 00/46] CPU hotplug: stop_machine()-free CPU hotplug

Hi, This patchset removes CPU hotplug's dependence on stop_machine() from the CPU offline path and provides an alternative (set of APIs) to preempt_disable() to prevent CPUs from going offline, which can be invoked from atomic context. The ...

Message posted on the February 18th, 2013 - 07:50 am ET

[PATCH v5 00/45] CPU hotplug: stop_machine()-free CPU hotplug

Hi, This patchset removes CPU hotplug's dependence on stop_machine() from the CPU offline path and provides an alternative (set of APIs) to preempt_disable() to prevent CPUs from going offline, which can be invoked from atomic context. The ...

Message posted on the January 22nd, 2013 - 02:40 am ET

[RFC PATCH v4 0/9] CPU hotplug: stop_machine()-free CPU hotplug

Hi, This patchset removes CPU hotplug's dependence on stop_machine() from the CPU offline path and provides an alternative (set of APIs) to preempt_disable() to prevent CPUs from going offline, which can be invoked from atomic context. This is an ...

Message posted on the December 11th, 2012 - 09:10 am ET

[PATCH v2] enable all tmem backends to be built and loaded as modules.

There are also some patch I wrote up that are based on this patchset that I will post soonish. I copying here what Dan mentioned with some modifications by me: Since various parts of transcendent memory ("tmem") [1] were first posted in ...

Message posted on the November 14th, 2012 - 02:20 pm ET

[RFC PATCH 2/2] kernel: add support for ticket mutex locks

mutex_reserve_lock, and mutex_reserve_lock_interruptible: Lock a buffer with a reservation_id set. reservation_id must not be set to 0, since this is a special value that means no reservation_id. Normally if reservation_id is not set, or is older ...

Message posted on the November 06th, 2012 - 07:40 am ET

question on NUMA page migration

Hi Andrea, Peter, I have a question on page refcounting in your NUMA page migration code. In Peter's case, I wonder why you introduce a new MIGRATE_FAULT migration mode. If the normal page migration / compaction logic can do without taking an ...

Message posted on the October 19th, 2012 - 12:00 pm ET

[PATCH 0/3] virtio-net: inline header support

Thinking about Sasha's patches, we can reduce ring usage for virtio net small packets dramatically if we put virtio net header inline with the data. This can be done for free in case guest net stack allocated extra head room for the packet, and I ...

Message posted on the September 28th, 2012 - 05:30 am ET

[GIT PULL] Asymmetric keys and module signing

Hi Herbert, Rusty, Here are my latest module signing patches on top of the asymmetric key crypto patches, which I hope Herbert will consider taking, at least from the crypto-keys-post-KS branch: ...

Message posted on the September 24th, 2012 - 08:10 pm ET

Drop cap problem

I am using Word 2007 and have this same issue with about two-thirds o the documents I try to use, and so does a colleague, so it can't be fault within the documents as they come from numerous differen sources. Under a header in 16pt, with a 38pt ...

Message posted on the September 12th, 2012 - 10:33 am ET

[git pull] vfs.git; pile 1

This one is *big* and changes quite a few things around VFS. What's in there: * the first of two really major architecture changes - death to open intents. The former is finally there; it was very long in making, but with Miklos getting through ...

Message posted on the July 22nd, 2012 - 06:10 am ET

mmotm 2012-07-10-16-59 uploaded

The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2012-07-10-16-59 has been uploaded to http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/ It contains the following patches against 3.5-rc6: (patches marked "*" will be included in linux-next) origin.patch * ...

Message posted on the July 10th, 2012 - 08:10 pm ET

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