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2010.10.06:11:36:28
Apple zapłaci 625,5 mln USD za naruszenie patentów?
Sąd uznał winę firmy Stevea Jobsa i nakazał jej wypłatę ogromnego odszkodowania. Ta jednak uważa, że racja jest po jej stronie i zapowiada dalszą walkę.

 

134523404545_573860007007Tejun Heo
There are a number of make_request based drivers which dont support cache flushes. Filter out flush bios in __generic_make_request() so that they dont have to worry about them. All FLUSH/FUA reques

 
116623884718_542960007449Nicholas A Bellinger
Hello, Jens. I added Mikes cleanup patch and Kiyoshis Tested-by and updated flush-fua branch accordingly. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git flush-fua I guess its about re

 
157221644927_583060007172Tejun Heo
Currently __blk_rq_prep_clone() copies only REQ_WRITE and REQ_DISCARD. Theres no reason to omit other command flags and REQ_FUA needs to be copied to implement FUA support in request-based dm. REQ_C

 
166129414832_545960007579Joel Becker
I NAKd this a while back. Im willing to be convinced, but so far it remains that way. Hi Joel, Thanks for bringing this point up again. So a brief refresh on why this is currentl

 
184426914544_554560007210Tejun Heo
Remove now unused REQ_HARDBARRIER support. virtio_blk already supports REQ_FLUSH and the usefulness of REQ_FUA for virtio_blk is questionable at this point, so theres nothing else to do to support n

 
122521314551_577060007424Joel Becker
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 15:44 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 05:01:01PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: I NAKd this a while back. Im willing to be convinced, but so

 
177820364813_549560007977Tejun Heo
Unplugging from a request function doesnt really help much (its already in the request_fn) and soon block layer will be updated to mix barrier sequence with other commands, so theres no need to treat

 
194520374140_587260007338Joel Becker
On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 12:26 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:08:59PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 15:44 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: Nick, c

 
104325274279_587660007277Joel Becker
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 08:28 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:53:27PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 12:26 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: So after r

 
145528294969_600060007755Jeff Layton
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 12:44 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:06:46PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 08:28 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: The tri

 
121025994887_576160007756Dave Chinner
I switched from 2.6.35 to 2.6.36-rc3 a few days ago and while doing so enabled lockdep. Just got the following report during normal desktop usage: ================================= [ INFO: inconsis

 
118421464792_599860007257Guenter Roeck
If a CD has both Rock Ridge and Joliet extensions and the ISO root directory is empty, no files are visible. Disable Rock Ridge extensions in this case and use Joliet root directory instead. Signed-

 
197425874294_511460007161Ondrej Zary
On Tuesday 31 August 2010 22:44:55 Guenter Roeck wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 14:10 -0400, Ondrej Zary wrote: If a CD has both Rock Ridge and Joliet extensions and the ISO root directory is

 
145325024688_573260007674Andreas Dilger
Im investigating a performance degradation in yaffs when xattribs are enabled. Yes, I know yaffs is not part of mainline Linux yet, but this is really a vfs question. What I notice is that on eve

 
100928334502_597860007877Dan Magenheimer
[PATCH V4 8/8] Cleancache: ocfs2 hook for cleancache Filesystems must explicitly enable cleancache by calling cleancache_init_fs anytime a instance of the filesystem is mounted and must save the ret

 
173320424476_561960007845Jeremy Fitzhardinge
[PATCH V4 5/8] Cleancache: ext3 hook for cleancache Filesystems must explicitly enable cleancache by calling cleancache_init_fs anytime a instance of the filesystem is mounted and must save the retu

 
137429884991_516660007633Dan Magenheimer
@@ -1349,6 +1350,7 @@ static int ext3_setup_super(struct super } else { ext3_msg(sb, KERN_INFO, "using internal journal"); } + sb- cleancache_poolid = cleancache_

 
142429594219_571960007678Jeremy Fitzhardinge
[PATCH V4 3/8] Cleancache: core ops functions and configuration Cleancache core ops functions and configuration Credits: Cleancache_ops design derived from Jeremy Fitzhardinge design for tmem; sysf

 
188025264179_556760007557Dan Magenheimer
+#ifdef CONFIG_CLEANCACHE +#define cleancache_enabled (cleancache_ops.init_fs) Pointers can be used in a boolean context, but it would probably be cleaner to have this evaluate to a pr

 
124022674390_574360007222Dan Magenheimer
On 08/30/2010 03:32 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote: [PATCH V4 4/8] Cleancache: VFS hooks for cleancache Implement core hooks in VFS for: initializing cleancache per filesystem; capturing clean pa

 
162029784264_509560007067Dan Magenheimer
[PATCH V4 1/8] Cleancache: Documentation Add cleancache documentation to Documentation/vm and sysfs ABI documentation to Documentation/ABI Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxx

 
194029714054_593160007039Valerie Aurora
[PATCH V4 0/8] Cleancache: overview Changes from V3 to V4: - Rebased to 2.6.36-rc3 - Use exportfs/filehandle for unique file identification on next-gen FSs (Many thanks to Andreas Dilger for guida

 
156325614998_578360007071Aneesh Kumar KV
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 05:23:12PM -0400, Valerie Aurora wrote: Documentation: Fix trivial typo in filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt This typo is easy to ignore unless you have spent a great d

 
146021584597_563960007855Tejun Heo
We should use the cached dentry operation only if caching mode is enabled Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- fs/9p/vfs_inode.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4

 
119629674122_558760007367Mike Snitzer
This patch converts request-based dm to support the new REQ_FLUSH/FUA. The original request-based flush implementation depended on request_queue blocking other requests while a barrier sequence is i

 
180923294344_507360007941Mike Snitzer
This patch converts request-based dm to support the new REQ_FLUSH/FUA. The original request-based flush implementation depended on request_queue blocking other requests while a barrier sequence is i

 
114023644911_519460007047Tejun Heo
Hello, On 08/30/2010 03:28 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: + clone- cmd = rq- cmd; + clone- cmd_len = rq- cmd_len; + clone- sense = rq- sense; + clone- buffer = rq- buffer; clone- end_io =

 
123328584608_523160007887Tejun Heo
Hello, On 08/30/2010 03:28 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: + clone- cmd = rq- cmd; + clone- cmd_len = rq- cmd_len; + clone- sense = rq- sense; + clone- buffer = rq- buffer; clone- end_io =

 
130220994045_590060007771Mike Snitzer
On Mon, Aug 30 2010 at 11:07am -0400, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: On 08/30/2010 03:59 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: Ah... thats probably from "if (!elv_queue_empty(q))" check below,

 
175529354738_587760007447Mike Snitzer
On Mon, Aug 30 2010 at 11:07am -0400, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: On 08/30/2010 03:59 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: Ah... thats probably from "if (!elv_queue_empty(q))" check below,

 
124423304776_558960007200Mike Snitzer
On 08/30/2010 11:28 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: On Mon, Aug 30 2010 at 3:08pm -0400, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: On Mon, Aug 30 2010 at 11:07am -0400, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxx

 
152925434564_544060007859Mike Snitzer
On 08/30/2010 11:28 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: On Mon, Aug 30 2010 at 3:08pm -0400, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: On Mon, Aug 30 2010 at 11:07am -0400, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxx

 
148729724716_509560007355Tejun Heo
Hello, On 08/31/2010 03:02 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: On Tue, Aug 31 2010 at 6:29am -0400, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: On 08/30/2010 11:28 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: Hmm, but unfort

 
198325054455_502860007193Tejun Heo
Hello, On 08/31/2010 03:02 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: On Tue, Aug 31 2010 at 6:29am -0400, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: On 08/30/2010 11:28 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: Hmm, but unfort

 
179921584128_553760007650Mike Snitzer
This patch converts request-based dm to support the new REQ_FLUSH/FUA. The original request-based flush implementation depended on request_queue blocking other requests while a barrier sequence is i

 
198422794981_575960007383Mike Snitzer
Hi Tejun, On 08/31/2010 12:45 AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: This patch converts request-based dm to support the new REQ_FLUSH/FUA. The original request-based flush implementation depended on r

 
196023974927_552360007665Tejun Heo
Hello, On 09/01/2010 09:15 AM, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote: I dont see any obvious problem on this patch. However, I hit a NULL pointer dereference below when I use a mpath device with barrier option o

 
138123244636_509760007839Tejun Heo
Hi Tejun, On 09/02/2010 10:22 PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: On 09/01/2010 09:15 AM, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote: @@ -2619,9 +2458,8 @@ int dm_suspend(struct mapped_device *md, up_write(&md- io_l

 
145324024344_590860007748Tejun Heo
Hi Tejun, On 09/03/2010 02:43 AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: rq- rq_disk and bio- bi_bdev- bd_disk may differ if a request has passed through remapping drivers. FSEQ_DATA request incorrectly foll

 
110122294907_523060007942Tejun Heo
Hi Tejun, On 09/03/2010 06:33 PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: On 09/03/2010 07:47 AM, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote: By the way, I had been considering a block-layer interface which remaps struct request an

 
188027504221_586160007089Tejun Heo
Hi Tejun, On 09/03/2010 08:42 PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, On 09/03/2010 12:28 PM, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote: Thank you for pointing it. Yes, the interface should also set rq- q. Ab

 
124424684487_517160007324Tejun Heo
On Mon, Aug 30 2010 at 5:58am -0400, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: Unlike REQ_HARDBARRIER, REQ_FLUSH/FUA doesnt mandate any ordering against other bios. This patch relaxes ordering aroun

 
183623724649_547260007068Tejun Heo
Hi Tejun, On 08/30/2010 06:58 PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Unlike REQ_HARDBARRIER, REQ_FLUSH/FUA doesnt mandate any ordering against other bios. This patch relaxes ordering around flushes. ...

 
131129234471_565560007902Tejun Heo
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Its unused now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx --- include/linux/fs.h | 3 --- 1 fil

 
140329324131_530960007898Tejun Heo
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:58:12AM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: Currently __blk_rq_prep_clone() copies only REQ_WRITE and REQ_DISCARD. Theres no reason to omit other command flags and REQ_FUA needs to

 
125120414647_547360007156Tejun Heo
On Mon, Aug 30 2010 at 5:58am -0400, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: This patch converts bio-based dm to support REQ_FLUSH/FUA instead of now deprecated REQ_HARDBARRIER. * -EOPNOTSUPP

 
156221464624_504960007615Tejun Heo
On Wed, Sep 01 2010 at 9:50am -0400, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: Hello, On 09/01/2010 03:43 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: On Mon, Aug 30 2010 at 5:58am -0400, Tejun Heo <tj@xxx

 
137321524988_502160007457KOSAKI Motohiro
Brad Spengler published a local memory-allocation DoS that evades the OOM-killer (though not the virtual memory RLIMIT): rel="nofollow" www.grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c www.grsecurity.ne

 
109029364380_556160007210Solar Designer
IMHO unlimited should mean unlimited. So, on that score, Id leave this constraint out and just say whatever deficiencies in the OOM killer (or in whatever should make a manifestly too-large allocati

 
146329944141_559460007303Solar Designer
IIRC, prior to that fix, I was able to cause the kernel to loop for tens of minutes in a single execve() call on an Alpha with 128 MB RAM, by using repeated mappings of the same pages (almost 2