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  1. Aug 24, 2010
    • Alok Kataria's avatar
      x86, vmware: Remove deprecated VMI kernel support · 9863c90f
      Alok Kataria authored
      
      
      With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies
      from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these
      techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform.
      These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the
      performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware
      expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of
      years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this
      feature from the hypervisor.
      
      Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels
      still work fine on VMware's platform.
      Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are,
      Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence
      releases for these products will continue supporting VMI.
      
      For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this,
      http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html
      
      This feature removal was scheduled for 2.6.37 back in September 2009.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1282600151.19396.22.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      9863c90f
  2. Aug 23, 2010
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 2.6.36-rc2 · 76be97c1
      Linus Torvalds authored
      76be97c1
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm · 3dc8d7f0
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
        KVM: PIT: free irq source id in handling error path
        KVM: destroy workqueue on kvm_create_pit() failures
        KVM: fix poison overwritten caused by using wrong xstate size
      3dc8d7f0
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel · 4238a417
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel: (58 commits)
        drm/i915,intel_agp: Add support for Sandybridge D0
        drm/i915: fix render pipe control notify on sandybridge
        agp/intel: set 40-bit dma mask on Sandybridge
        drm/i915: Remove the conflicting BUG_ON()
        drm/i915/suspend: s/IS_IRONLAKE/HAS_PCH_SPLIT/
        drm/i915/suspend: Flush register writes before busy-waiting.
        i915: disable DAC on Ironlake also when doing CRT load detection.
        drm/i915: wait for actual vblank, not just 20ms
        drm/i915: make sure eDP PLL is enabled at the right time
        drm/i915: fix VGA plane disable for Ironlake+
        drm/i915: eDP mode set sequence corrections
        drm/i915: add panel reset workaround
        drm/i915: Enable RC6 on Ironlake.
        drm/i915/sdvo: Only set is_lvds if we have a valid fixed mode.
        drm/i915: Set up a render context on Ironlake
        drm/i915 invalidate indirect state pointers at end of ring exec
        drm/i915: Wake-up wait_request() from elapsed hang-check (v2)
        drm/i915: Apply i830 errata for cursor alignment
        drm/i915: Only update i845/i865 CURBASE when disabled (v2)
        drm/i915: FBC is updated within set_base() so remove second call in mode_set()
        ...
      4238a417
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 · bc584c51
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
        slab: fix object alignment
        slub: add missing __percpu markup in mm/slub_def.h
      bc584c51
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2 · a28e0852
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
        nilfs2: wait for discard to finish
      a28e0852
  3. Aug 22, 2010
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