[PATCHv4 0/2] Sanitization of buddy pages
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
View Article[PATCHv4 1/2] mm/page_poison.c: Enable PAGE_POISONING as a separate option
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
View Article[PATCHv4 2/2] mm/page_poisoning.c: Allow for zero poisoning
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
View Article[PATCH] cxgbit: fix dma_addr_t printk format
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/
View Article[PATCH] [media] hide unused functions for !MEDIA_CONTROLLER
Some functions in the au0828 driver are only used when CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER is enabled, and otherwise defined as empty functions: media/usb/au0828
View Article[PATCH] mm: ZONE_DEVICE depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
The primary use case for devm_memremap_pages() is to allocate an memmap array from persistent memory. That capabilty requires vmem_altmap which requi
View Article[PATCH] nfit: Continue init even if ARS commands are unimplemented
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
View Article[PATCH v6 0/3] fallocate for block devices to provide zero-out
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
View Article[PATCH 1/3] block: invalidate the page cache when issuing BLKZEROOUT.
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
View Article[PATCH 2/3] block: require write_same and discard requests align to logical...
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
View Article[PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices
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
View Article[GIT PULL] libnvdimm, nfit: fix for 4.5-rc7
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
View Article[PATCH] mtd: nand: check status before reporting timeout
In commit b70af9bef49b ("mtd: nand: increase ready wait timeout and report timeouts"), we increased the likelihood of scheduling during nand_wait(). T
View Article[PATCH] platform/chrome: Add Chrome OS keyboard backlight LEDs support
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
View Article[PATCH 00/10] Last batch of fixes for LNet
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
View Article[PATCH 01/10] staging: lustre: LNet drop rule implementation
From: Liang Zhen <liang.zhen@intel.com> This is implementation of LNet Drop Rule, which can randomly drop LNet messages at specified rate. LNet Drop
View Article[PATCH 02/10] staging: lustre: LNet network latency simulation
From: Liang Zhen <liang.zhen@intel.com> Incoming lnet message can be delayed for seconds if it can match any of LNet Delay Rules. User can add/remov
View Article[PATCH 03/10] staging: lustre: fix 'data race condition' issue in...
From: Sebastien Buisson <sbuisson@ddn.com> Fix 'data race condition' defects found by Coverity version 6.5.0: Data race condition (MISSING_LOCK) Acce
View Article[PATCH 04/10] staging: lustre: fix 'NULL pointer dereference' errors
From: Sebastien Buisson <sbuisson@ddn.com> Fix 'NULL pointer dereference' defects found by Coverity version 6.5.3: Dereference after null check (FORW
View Article[PATCH 05/10] staging: lustre: fix 'data race condition' issue in...
From: Sebastien Buisson <sbuisson@ddn.com> Fix 'data race condition' defects found by Coverity version 6.5.0: Data race condition (MISSING_LOCK) Acce
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