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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.

 

177121724498_520960007266Tejun 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

 
164921804020_519660007100Nicholas 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

 
173822284017_547360007644Tejun 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

 
132526224294_538660007648Joel 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

 
124123514562_580960007674Tejun 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

 
147624314846_597460007629Joel 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

 
124022884810_526060007688Tejun 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

 
136122224916_537860007840Joel 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

 
102220204461_531660007821Joel 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

 
196526494172_552760007833Jeff 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

 
120029344263_504660007904Dave 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

 
167521464191_548560007677Guenter 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-

 
117227684900_508860007596Ondrej 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

 
192821674616_538960007023Andreas 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

 
121024494673_538260007129Dan 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

 
121421754062_547760007970Jeremy 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

 
138028974115_557260007522Dan 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_

 
124825544290_514860007435Jeremy 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

 
174425704603_536060007087Dan 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

 
138321684536_505660007511Dan 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

 
118527644687_524860007909Dan 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

 
121826214805_533360007186Valerie 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

 
185624424740_514560007381Aneesh 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

 
158123334951_518360007910Tejun 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

 
127120764078_580760007628Mike 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

 
131823184392_500560007634Mike 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

 
191427854254_571960007448Tejun 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 =

 
190529744890_564560007479Tejun 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 =

 
102627004812_597760007505Mike 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,

 
188721544582_596560007714Mike 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,

 
159322794032_598660007599Mike 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

 
161921984383_587460007501Mike 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

 
132128224475_521060007594Tejun 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

 
168924934294_550160007177Tejun 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

 
100623564332_558860007293Mike 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

 
130129144573_533460007858Mike 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

 
193325184056_531660007974Tejun 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

 
181827134796_529260007262Tejun 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

 
188726124755_518060007224Tejun 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

 
135821194580_569160007902Tejun 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

 
198520084816_555860007715Tejun 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

 
141622754232_547260007624Tejun 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

 
144524094336_524160007259Tejun 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. ...

 
150325884871_525760007985Tejun 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

 
148221274103_506160007811Tejun 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

 
196428034820_577960007161Tejun 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

 
149327764437_572560007028Tejun 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

 
134926934437_568560007138KOSAKI 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

 
194424374726_581560007495Solar 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

 
179921754622_590360007439Solar 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