Kernel

[PATCH -v3 2/2] x86, MCE, fix MSR_IA32_MCI_CTL2 CMCI threshold setup
It is reported that CMCI is not raised when number of corrected error reaches preset threshold. After inspection, it is found that MSR_IA32_MCI_CTL2 threshold field is not setup properly. This patch fixed it. Value of MCI_CTL2_CMCI_THRESHOLD_MASK is fixed according to x86_64 Software Developer's Manual too. R... 18 May 2010 02:44

linux-next: manual merge of the drbd tree with the block tree
Hi all, Today's linux-next merge of the drbd tree got a conflict in mm/page-writeback.c between commit 42bd225c0ba7c95af39293d39a950c48e7e5cb23 (""laptop-mode: Make flushes per-device" fix") from the block tree and commit e913fc825dc685a444cb4c1d0f9d32f372f59861 ("writeback: fix WB_SYNC_NONE writeback from umou... 18 May 2010 09:15

[PATCH] fix a code style in drivers/char/virtio_console.c
fix a code style in drivers/char/virtio_console.c Signed-off-by: Liu Qi <lingjiujianke(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 7 +------ 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c index 196428c..61dad7e 100644 --- a/... 18 May 2010 01:40

linux-next: manual merge of the fsnotify tree with the vfs tree
Hi Eric, Today's linux-next merge of the fsnotify tree got a conflict in fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c between commits f3ffc7acb6a6ebec0a9e660d9211ed048d7e90f5 ("get rid of S_BIAS") and 73b38e074b51e5d8d2801691dff6e403631e927f ("Saner locking around deactivate_super()") from the vfs tree and commit b6bacae18f2f77... 18 May 2010 01:40

tracing: Move fields from event to class structure
Steven Rostedt wrote: From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt(a)redhat.com> Move the defined fields from the event to the class structure. Since the fields of the event are defined by the class they belong to, it makes sense to have the class hold the information instead of the individual events. The events of ... 18 May 2010 01:39

blkdev: cgroup whitelist permission fix
Quoting Chris Wright (chrisw(a)sous-sol.org): The cgroup device whitelist code gets confused when trying to grant permission to a disk partition that is not currently open. Part of blkdev_open() includes __blkdev_get() on the whole disk. This simply avoids the cgroup check for the whole disk case when openi... 18 May 2010 01:39

kernel panic
HI I am using iptables version 1.43 and getting the following error in machine while using squid in tproxy.we are using Linux machine as bridge too i was able to capture part of the error only please help me in solving the issue [<ffffffffa03933c2>] ? nf_nat_fn+0x138/0x14e [iptable_nat] [<ffffffffa0... 18 May 2010 01:40

[GIT PULL] Procfs bkl removal for 2.6.35
Linus, Please pull the bkl/procfs branch that can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git bkl/procfs Thanks, Frederic --- Frederic Weisbecker (6): procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kmsg ... 18 May 2010 00:34

numa x86_64 use generic percpu var numa_node_id implementation fix3 [was Re: mmotm 2010-05-14-13-33 uploaded]
On Mon, 17 May 2010 21:46:50 -0400 Lee Schermerhorn wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 16:37 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: include/linux/topology.h:248: error: implicit declaration of function 'cpu_to_node' config attached. Hmmm, i386 NUMA. With the following patch, your config builds c... 18 May 2010 00:34

linux-next: build failure after merge of the block tree
Hi Jens, After merging the block tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: block/blk-core.c: In function 'laptop_mode_timer_fn': block/blk-core.c:503: error: too few arguments to function 'bdi_start_writeback' Caused by commit e913fc825dc685a444cb4c1d0f9d32f372f59861 ("writeb... 18 May 2010 07:04