Linux Kernel Workout update
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Kernel Workout Results
Patches accepted in the Linux Kernel
Fix UML Boot. Balbir Singh, [1]
Make runtime decision on whether to enable SCHED_MC exported sysfs file, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, [2]
Add uid information to runqueues in /proc/sched_debug, Arun Bharadwaj, [3]
Patches already posted to the LKML
Patches completed, but not yet posted
unrestricted_chown mount option (both, kernel as well as userspace) -> Patch sent to hch. done by Niraj Kumar
Work in Progress
The fiemap for btrfs is started and will probably take some more time
hch has gotten a preliminary patch for the preallocation ioctls
Some work done on the plan9 binary emulation
Basic GUI for ftrace is ready. Some more work to be done still.
GUI for lock_Stats -> started
lockdep history almost done
bufferhead tracing -> WIP
pid namespaces fixes
e2fsprogs geometry detection
convert sched_entity and sched_rt_entity into a union -> Basic discussion done, just need to get the patch to build now. done by Dhaval Giani, Bharata
As and when these patches get completed and posted to the LKML, we will link them here.

