Kernel

[PATCH] i2c-nforce2: Remove redundant error messages on ACPI conflict
The ACPI subsystem strictly checks for resource conflicts. When there's a conflict, it outputs a warning message with all the details needed to properly diagnose the underlying issue. However, the i2c-nforce2 driver also prints its own message. Not only is the message redundant, it is at the KERN_ERR level, which o... 17 May 2010 16:54

addjust discard request to be aligned with hwsect size to support SSDs with larger sector size
>>>>> "Jiaying" == Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz(a)google.com> writes: Jiaying> It is true that all of the block layer works on 512-byte sector Jiaying> size, but I think it is good to check for address alignment for Jiaying> discard request so we don't insert unnecessary discard requests Jiaying> into the request queue.... 17 May 2010 16:54

x86/mrst: add more timer config options
On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:23:03 -0700 Jacob Pan wrote: Always-on local APIC timer (ARAT) has been introduced to Medfield, along with the platform APB timers we have more timer configuration options between Moorestown and Medfield. This patch adds run-time detection of avaiable timer features so that w... 17 May 2010 16:54

[PATCH] signals: check_kill_permission: don't check creds if same_thread_group()
Andrew Tridgell reports that aio_read(SIGEV_SIGNAL) can fail if the the notification from the helper thread races with setresuid(), see http://samba.org/~tridge/junkcode/aio_uid.c This happens because check_kill_permission() doesn't allow to send a signal to the task with the different cred->xids. But there is no... 17 May 2010 16:54

[GIT PULL 0/4] perf options type checking
Hi Ingo, Please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 perf Regards, - Arnaldo Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (4): perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders per... 17 May 2010 15:47

[PATCH 1/2] x86/mrst: add cpu type detection
Medfield is the follow-up of Moorestown, it is treated under the same HW sub-architecture. However, we do need to know the CPU type in order for some of the driver to act accordingly. We also have different optimal clock configuration for each CPU type. Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan(a)linux.intel.com> --... 17 May 2010 15:47

[PATCH 0/2] v3 Moorestown updated patches 2,3,4 of v2
These two patches are the updates of the v2 series. Changes include 1. comblined two patches below per tglx suggestion 0003-x86-mrst-add-more-timer-options-to-include-Medfield.patch 0004-x86-apbt-support-more-timer-configurations-on-mrst.patch Fixes based on review comments: a) removed duplicated '(' in mrst... 17 May 2010 15:47

perf: fix Makefile check for libdward
Hi Stephane, Stephane Eranian wrote: On Ubuntu 9.10, the elfutils/libdw package is 0.141, yet it is not sufficient to compile util/probe-finder.c as it uses a type, namely Dwarf_CFI, which is introduced sometime after version 0.141. This patch updates the libdwarf test in the Makefile to check for... 17 May 2010 15:47

[PATCH 1/4] squashfs: add xattr id support
This patch adds support for mapping xattr ids (stored in inodes) into the on-disk location of the xattrs themselves. Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip(a)lougher.demon.co.uk> --- fs/squashfs/Makefile | 2 + fs/squashfs/squashfs.h | 6 +++ fs/squashfs/squashfs_fs.h | 32 ++++++++... 17 May 2010 15:47

[PATCH 0/4] Squashfs: add xattr file system support
Hi, The following patches add xattr file system support to Squashfs. Xattr layout highlights 1. Layout can store up to 2^48 bytes of compressed xattr data. 2. Number of xattrs per inode unlimited. 3. Total size of xattr data per inode 2^48 bytes of compressed data. 4. Up to 4 Gbytes of data per xattr value.... 17 May 2010 15:47