04 Jan, 2009

1 commit


12 Dec, 2008

1 commit

  • Impact: build fix

    fix:

    In file included from /home/mingo/tip/arch/m68k/amiga/amiints.c:39:
    /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/interrupt.h:21: error: expected identifier or '('
    /home/mingo/tip/arch/m68k/amiga/amiints.c: In function 'amiga_init_IRQ':

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Ingo Molnar
     

08 Dec, 2008

1 commit

  • Impact: new feature

    Problem on distro kernels: irq_desc[NR_IRQS] takes megabytes of RAM with
    NR_CPUS set to large values. The goal is to be able to scale up to much
    larger NR_IRQS value without impacting the (important) common case.

    To solve this, we generalize irq_desc[NR_IRQS] to an (optional) array of
    irq_desc pointers.

    When CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y is used, we use kzalloc_node to get irq_desc,
    this also makes the IRQ descriptors NUMA-local (to the site that calls
    request_irq()).

    This gets rid of the irq_cfg[] static array on x86 as well: irq_cfg now
    uses desc->chip_data for x86 to store irq_cfg.

    Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Yinghai Lu
     

13 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
    moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
    dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
    these shared resources.

    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arjan van de Ven
     

03 Dec, 2006

1 commit


17 Oct, 2006

1 commit

  • Make net_random() more widely available by calling it random32

    akpm: hopefully this will permit the removal of carta_random32. That needs
    confirmation from Stephane - this code looks somewhat more computationally
    expensive, and has a different (ie: callee-stateful) interface.

    [akpm@osdl.org: lots of build fixes, cleanups]
    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
    Cc: Stephane Eranian
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Stephen Hemminger
     

04 Jan, 2006

2 commits


30 Aug, 2005

1 commit


17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds