Kernel

[PATCH 3/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net
Add __percpu sparse annotations to net. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. The macro and type tricks around snmp stats make things a bit interest... 25 Jan 2010 10:31

PM: disable nonboot cpus before suspending devices
Hi. On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Friday 22 January 2010, Sebastian Ott wrote: a possible fix would be to call disable_nonboot_cpus before suspending the devices.. This is going against the changes attempting to speed-up suspend and resume, such as the asynchronous s... 2 Feb 2010 22:11

Change hex to Math::BigInt->from_hex in markup_oops.pl
Please ignore this patch. Because it was included in "[PATCH] markup_oops.pl: add options to improve cross-sompilation environments". Thanks, Hui On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 21:36, Hui Zhu <teawater(a)gmail.com> wrote: The hex cannot work well in x86 to parse the oops message for x8664. So this patch change i... 25 Jan 2010 10:31

[PATCH] Fix markup_oops.pl get $func_offset error in x8664
When I use markup_oops.pl parse a x8664 oops, I got: objdump: --start-address: bad number: NaN No matching code found This is because: main::(./m.pl:228): open(FILE, "objdump -dS --adjust-vma=$vmaoffset --start-address=$decodestart --stop-address=$decodestop $filename |") || die "Cannot start objdump"; DB<3> p $... 25 Jan 2010 10:31

Flush dcache before writing into page to avoid alias
Hi Andrew, On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:07:57PM +0800, anfei zhou wrote: The cache alias problem will happen if the changes of user shared mapping is not flushed before copying, then user and kernel mapping may be mapped into two different cache line, it is impossible to guarantee the coherence after iov_i... 27 Jan 2010 18:19

Documentation: remove deprecated function descriptions
From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:46:14 +0900 From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: remove deprecated function descriptions dma_sync_single, pci_dma_sync_single, dma_sync_sg, and pci_dma_sync_sg are deprecat... 25 Jan 2010 07:13

Add options to markup_oops.pl to make it support cross-compiler environment better
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:26, Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org> wrote: On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:38:28 +0800 Hui Zhu <teawater(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hello, The markup_oops.pl have 2 troubles to support cross-compiler environment: 1. �It use objdump directly. 2. �It use modinfo to get the ... 25 Jan 2010 02:52

frv: remove pci_dma_sync_signle and pci_dma_sync_sg
From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:01:02 +0900 No architecture except for frv has pci_dma_sync_signle() and pci_dma_sync_sg(). The APIs are deprecated. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem(a)davemlof... 25 Jan 2010 02:52

ftrace: Release the function hlist if we don't need it anymore
Frederic Weisbecker wrote: After we disable the function profiler, the function hashlist stays in memory. This is wasteful as nobody needs it anymore, until the next use if any. Release it when we disable the function profiler instead of resetting it in the next use. Signed-off-by: Frederic We... 25 Jan 2010 02:52

[Patch] Orion: Add Buffalo Linkstation LS-HGL support
This patch adds support for Buffalo Linkstation LS-HGL platform. Signed-off-by: Zhu Qingsen <zhuqs(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- arch/arm/configs/orion5x_defconfig | 1 + arch/arm/mach-orion5x/Kconfig | 7 + arch/arm/mach-orion5x/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm/mach-orion5x/ls_hgl-setup.c | 278 +++... 24 Jan 2010 22:33