[PATCH 1/2] x86: Track minimum microcode revision globally v2

From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> For bug workarounds depending on microcode revisions we need to know the minimum microcode revision shared by all CPUs. This patch adds infrastructure to track this. Every time microcode is updated we ...

Message posted on the June 12th, 2012 - 5:30 PM ET

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Expanded visibility and audit trail capabilities made possible by new machine inventory API and enhanced reporting capabilities New support for Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Ubuntu and SUSE Linux Enterprise ...

Press published on the September 25th, 2012 - 4:00 AM ET

[PATCH] x86: detect running on a HyperV system

From: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com> This patch integrates HyperV detection within the framework currently used by VmWare. With this patch, we can avoid having to replicate the HyperV detection code in each of the Microsoft HyperV ...

Message posted on the May 6th, 2010 - 3:10 PM ET

[PATCH 1/2] x86: Track minimum microcode revision globally

From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> For bug workarounds depending on microcode revisions we need to know the minimum microcode revision shared by all CPUs. This patch adds infrastructure to track this. Every time microcode is updated we ...

Message posted on the June 12th, 2012 - 4:40 PM ET

[PATCH] tracing: Track preempt disabling

Hi Ingo, I've been maintaining your PREEMPT_TRACE patch from the old latency tracer for a long time. It some how was dropped from the -rt patchset that Thomas maintains. Recently it came in very handy debugging some of the hotplug issues that I was ...

Message posted on the March 1st, 2012 - 6:10 PM ET

[RESEND PATCH] x86: fix keeping track of AMD C1E

Accomodate the original C1E-aware idle routine to the different times during boot when the BIOS enables C1E. While at it, remove the synthetic CPUID flag in favor of a single global setting which denotes C1E status on the system. Signed-off-by: ...

Message posted on the July 27th, 2010 - 1:00 PM ET

[Patch] x86: add arch/x86/tools/insn_sanity to .gitignore

After compiling kernel, I got: % git status # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # arch/x86/tools/insn_sanity nothing added to commit but untracked files present ...

Message posted on the January 15th, 2012 - 7:10 AM ET

[Patch] x86,pat Update the page flags for memtype atomically instead of using memtype_lock.

While testing an application using the xpmem (out of kernel) driver, we noticed a significant page fault rate reduction of x86_64 with respect to ia64. For one test running with 32 cpus, one thread per cpu, it took 01:08 for each of the threads to ...

Message posted on the March 11th, 2010 - 11:20 AM ET

[PATCH V7] Eliminate task stack trace duplication

The problem with small dmesg ring buffer like 512k is that only limited number of task traces will be logged. Sometimes we lose important information only because of too many duplicated stack traces. This problem occurs when dumping lots of stacks ...

Message posted on the February 7th, 2012 - 6:00 PM ET

[PATCH v6 0/3] KVM: perf: kvm events analysis tool

From: Xiao Guangrong<xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> This patchset introduces a perf-based tool (perf kvm stat record/report) which can analysis kvm events more smartly. This is a presentation on 2012 Japan LinuxCon: ...

Message posted on the August 9th, 2012 - 11:20 PM ET

[PATCH v21 00/100] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

Hi Andrew, Here is the next version of the checkpoint/restart patchset. This version moves portions of checkpoint code closer to where they belong. As a convenience we've collected a rough table of contents showing places to start for some ...

Message posted on the May 1st, 2010 - 11:20 AM ET

[PATCH v8 0/3] KVM: perf: kvm events analysis tool

From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Changelog: the changes from Avi's comments: - move the definition of x86 fault vector to asm/kvm.h - drop the second patch which introduced new tracpoints the changes from David's ...

Message posted on the September 17th, 2012 - 4:40 AM ET

[PATCH] dma-debug: New interfaces to debug dma mapping errors

A recent dma mapping error analysis effort showed that a large percentage of dma_map_single() and dma_map_page() returns are not checked for mapping errors. Reference: http://linuxdriverproject.org/mediawiki/index.php/DMA_Mapping_Error_Analysis ...

Message posted on the September 16th, 2012 - 9:00 PM ET

[PATCH V8] Eliminate task stack trace duplication

The problem with small dmesg ring buffer like 512k is that only limited number of task traces will be logged. Sometimes we lose important information only because of too many duplicated stack traces. This problem occurs when dumping lots of stacks ...

Message posted on the April 6th, 2012 - 2:50 PM ET

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