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[PATCH 00/13 v3] [GIT PULL] tracing: shrinking trace events and updates
Ingo, As you have found that there were conflicts with these patches and the code in sched/core (the removal of the rq from the trace points) I merged your sched/core branch into mine and applied the patches on top, fixing the conflicts. I added Frederic Weisbecker and Masami Hiramatsu acks. I also test... 14 May 2010 16:07

[PATCH 1/10] drivers/s390/char: Use kstrdup
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Use kstrdup when the goal of an allocation is copy a string into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression x,from,to; expression flag,E1,E2,E3; statement S; @@ - x = strlen(f... 14 May 2010 16:07

usb: gadget: g_mass_storage: static data instead of dynamic allocation
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 07:50:32PM +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote: This patch changes msg_do_config() function so that it uses a static object for a fsg_common structure instead of dynamically allocated. This is a micro-optimisation. Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz(a)samsung.com> --- ... 14 May 2010 16:07

[PATCH -tip/master] x86,perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic
Jaswinder reported GP: | | Message from syslogd(a)ht at May 14 09:39:32 ... | kernel:[ 314.908612] EIP: [<c100ccca>] | x86_perf_event_set_period+0x19d/0x1b2 SS:ESP 0068:edac3d70 | Ming has narrowed it down to comparision issue between arguments with different sizes and signs. As result event index reached wrong... 14 May 2010 16:07

[tip:x86/urgent] x86, k8: Fix build error when K8_NB is disabled
Commit-ID: ade029e2aaacc8965a548b0b0f80c5bee97ffc68 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ade029e2aaacc8965a548b0b0f80c5bee97ffc68 Author: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov(a)amd.com> AuthorDate: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:56:53 +0200 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)linux.intel.com> CommitDate: Fri, 14 May 2010 11:53:0... 14 May 2010 16:07

[PATCH] Staging: udlfb: fix coding style issues
This is a patch to the file udlfb.c that fixes a missing KERN_INFO and removes one whitespace before a newline. Signed-off-by: Soeren Moeller <soerenmoeller2001(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/udlfb/udlfb.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/udlfb/udlfb.c... 14 May 2010 16:07

[tip:x86/urgent] x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments
Commit-ID: 7f284d3cc96e02468a42e045f77af11e5ff8b095 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/7f284d3cc96e02468a42e045f77af11e5ff8b095 Author: Frank Arnold <frank.arnold(a)amd.com> AuthorDate: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:06:59 +0200 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)linux.intel.com> CommitDate: Fri, 14 May 2010 11:53:01 -070... 14 May 2010 16:07

Tracer Ring Buffer splice() vs page cache [was: Re: Perf and ftrace [was Re: PyTimechart]]
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 14:32 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: [CCing memory management specialists] And jet you forgot Jens who wrote it ;-) So I have three questions here: 1 - could we enforce removal of these pages from the page cache by calling "page_cache_release()" before giving these page... 18 May 2010 12:34

posix_timer: clean up properly if anything fails after *_timer_create
On 05/14, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:03:57 +0200 Oleg Nesterov <oleg(a)redhat.com> wrote: On 05/14, Andrey Vagin wrote: @@ -613,6 +613,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const clockid_t, which_clock, * and may cease to exist at any time. Don't use or modify ... 14 May 2010 15:01

notification updates for 2.6.34-rcX
On Fri, 14 May 2010, Eric Paris wrote: Russell King (1): Inotify: undefined reference to `anon_inode_getfd' This one was bogus - it was already done in mainline _and_ in the tree you were applying the patch on. I did a manual merge to edit out the duplicate Kconfig line. Linus -- To u... 14 May 2010 16:07