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[PATCHv4 0/2] Sanitization of buddy pages

March 4, 2016, 3:50 pm

Hi, This is v4 of the santization of buddy pages. This is mostly just a rebase and some phrasing tweaks from v2. Kees submitted a rebase of v3 so thi

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[PATCHv4 1/2] mm/page_poison.c: Enable PAGE_POISONING as a separate option

March 4, 2016, 3:50 pm

Page poisoning is currently setup as a feature if architectures don't have architecture debug page_alloc to allow unmapping of pages. It has uses apar

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[PATCHv4 2/2] mm/page_poisoning.c: Allow for zero poisoning

March 4, 2016, 3:50 pm

By default, page poisoning uses a poison value (0xaa) on free. If this is changed to 0, the page is not only sanitized but zeroing on alloc with __GFP

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[PATCH] cxgbit: fix dma_addr_t printk format

March 4, 2016, 4:04 pm

The newly added driver prints a dma_addr_t using the %llx format string, but that is wrong on most 32-bit architectures: drivers/target/iscsi/cxgbit/

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[PATCH] [media] hide unused functions for !MEDIA_CONTROLLER

March 4, 2016, 4:06 pm

Some functions in the au0828 driver are only used when CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER is enabled, and otherwise defined as empty functions: media/usb/au0828

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[PATCH] mm: ZONE_DEVICE depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP

March 4, 2016, 4:42 pm

The primary use case for devm_memremap_pages() is to allocate an memmap array from persistent memory. That capabilty requires vmem_altmap which requi

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[PATCH] nfit: Continue init even if ARS commands are unimplemented

March 4, 2016, 4:46 pm

From: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> If firmware doesn't implement any of the ARS commands, take that to mean that ARS is unsupported, and c

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[PATCH v6 0/3] fallocate for block devices to provide zero-out

March 4, 2016, 4:55 pm

Hi, This is a redesign of the patch series that fixes various interface problems with the existing "zero out this part of a block device" code. BLKZ

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[PATCH 1/3] block: invalidate the page cache when issuing BLKZEROOUT.

March 4, 2016, 4:56 pm

Invalidate the page cache (as a regular O_DIRECT write would do) to avoid returning stale cache contents at a later time. v5: Refactor the 4.4 refact

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[PATCH 2/3] block: require write_same and discard requests align to logical...

March 4, 2016, 4:56 pm

Make sure that the offset and length arguments that we're using to construct WRITE SAME and DISCARD requests are actually aligned to the logical block

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[PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices

March 4, 2016, 4:56 pm

After much discussion, it seems that the fallocate feature flag FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE maps nicely to SCSI WRITE SAME; and the feature FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_H

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[GIT PULL] libnvdimm, nfit: fix for 4.5-rc7

March 4, 2016, 5:07 pm

Hi Linus, please pull from: +AKA- git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm libnvdimm-fixes ...to receive one straggling fix for N

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[PATCH] mtd: nand: check status before reporting timeout

March 4, 2016, 5:19 pm

In commit b70af9bef49b ("mtd: nand: increase ready wait timeout and report timeouts"), we increased the likelihood of scheduling during nand_wait(). T

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[PATCH] platform/chrome: Add Chrome OS keyboard backlight LEDs support

March 4, 2016, 5:23 pm

This is a driver for ACPI-based keyboard backlight LEDs found on Chromebooks. The driver locates \\_SB.KBLT ACPI device and exports backlight as "chro

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[PATCH 00/10] Last batch of fixes for LNet

March 4, 2016, 6:09 pm

This batch merges the remaining LNet patches from the OpenSFS branch for the upstream client. Once merged the LNet code will be up to date with the la

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