Kernel

[PATCH] fix kerneloops generated by aoe driver
Hello, I got the attached kerneloops when I was setting up an AoE client using linux-2.6.34 and Fedoora 12(x86_64). It's a rare case indeed as explained below, but in case of CentOS 5.x it does cause a panic. The attached patch fixes the problem and is working fine for me. [reproducing instruction] 1. ... 19 May 2010 06:04

[PATCH] tmpfs: Insert tmpfs cache pages to inactive list at first
Shaohua Li reported parallel file copy on tmpfs can lead to OOM killer. This is regression of caused by commit 9ff473b9a7 (vmscan: evict streaming IO first). Wow, It is 2 years old patch! Currently, tmpfs file cache is inserted active list at first. It mean the insertion doesn't only increase numbers of pages in ... 19 May 2010 04:59

[watchdog] separate hardlockup/softlockup enable paths
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 06:06:05PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: In preparation to support the backwards compatible option nmi_watchdog properly from the kernel commandline, the enable/disable paths for the hardlockup and softlockup code needed to separated more cleanly. The code is re-arranged a bit to crea... 19 May 2010 04:59

power/ds2760_battery: document ABI change
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:30:49PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote: From 7ed6b078c1cb718509a0faf79ac53f768fa5cfc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Mack <daniel(a)caiaq.de> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 22:26:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] power/ds2760_battery: document ABI change Add some documentation for the newl... 19 May 2010 04:59

Please pull s3c-fb driver updates
Please pull the following patches for the s3c-fb driver for fixes and device support updates. The following changes since commit 7ebd467551ed6ae200d7835a84bbda0dcadaa511: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../airlied/drm-2.6 are available in the git repository at: ... 19 May 2010 04:59

drivers/net/usb: Use kmemdup
Looks all right to me. Petko On Sat, 15 May 2010, Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into the allocated region. A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccin... 19 May 2010 04:59

[PULL] modules
The following changes since commit 537b60d17894b7c19a6060feae40299d7109d6e7: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../tip/linux-2.6-tip are available in the git repository at: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus.git module... 19 May 2010 04:59

[tip:core/urgent] mutex: Fix optimistic spinning vs. BKL
Commit-ID: fd6be105b883244127a734ac9f14ae94a022dcc0 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/fd6be105b883244127a734ac9f14ae94a022dcc0 Author: Tony Breeds <tony(a)bakeyournoodle.com> AuthorDate: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:46:36 +1000 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Wed, 19 May 2010 08:18:44 +0200 mu... 19 May 2010 04:59

[tip:perf/core] perf, x86: P4 PMU -- do a real check for ESCR address being in hash
Commit-ID: 623aab896ee1a532cb540bcf0d5ae8a88275afd5 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/623aab896ee1a532cb540bcf0d5ae8a88275afd5 Author: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov(a)openvz.org> AuthorDate: Wed, 19 May 2010 01:19:17 +0400 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:41:05 +0200 pe... 19 May 2010 04:59

[tip:perf/core] perf, x86: P4 PMU -- add missing bit in CCCR mask
Commit-ID: ce7f15452cc1dc1eca795542367871a07f37aa79 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ce7f15452cc1dc1eca795542367871a07f37aa79 Author: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov(a)openvz.org> AuthorDate: Wed, 19 May 2010 01:19:19 +0400 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:41:06 +0200 pe... 19 May 2010 04:59