Kernel

[PATCH] x86/mm: remove unused DBG() macro
DBG() macro for CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is unused. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita(a)gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa(a)zytor.com> Cc: x86(a)kernel.org --- arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c | 6 ------ arch/x86/mm/numa.c ... 24 May 2010 10:07

fs/fs-writeback oopses in kernel 2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.PAE
Hello, I upgrade from kernel 2.6.33.3 to 2.6.33.4 (2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.PAE, Fedora 13 distro) and now I see several these messages every day in /var/log/messages: May 24 14:01:32 ns kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ May 24 14:01:32 ns kernel: WARNING: at fs/fs-writeback.c:597 writeback_inodes_wb... 7 Jul 2010 19:00

[PATCH] md: fix raid6test build error
Fix userspace raid6test build error. Tested with: make -C drivers/md/raid6test/ ./drivers/md/raid6test/raid6test Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita(a)gmail.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb(a)suse.de> Cc: linux-raid(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa(a)zytor.com> --- drivers/md/raid6algos.c | ... 24 May 2010 10:07

VFS: fix recent breakage of FS_REVAL_DOT
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 04:57:56PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: Commit 1f36f774b22a0ceb7dd33eca626746c81a97b6a5 broke FS_REVAL_DOT semantics. In particular, before this patch, the command ls -l in an NFS mounted directory would always check if the directory on the server had changed and if so woul... 25 May 2010 10:12

perf, trace: Remove IRQ-disable from perf/tracepoint interaction
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 08:16:27PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 22:11 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:02:02AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: entry = (struct trace_entry *)raw_data; - tracing_generic_entry_update(entry, *irq_flags, pc); + t... 24 May 2010 07:57

[PATCH v3 3/3] dm: lookup devices by path with name_to_dev_t
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 01:38:24PM -0500, Will Drewry wrote: Replace major:minor parsing with name_to_dev_t. This maintains the current functionality (as the code was the same), but adds support for the hexadecimal dev as well as device lookup before the root filesystem is available. The latter is the mot... 24 May 2010 11:14

crypto: disable tests when they are not enabled
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:35:24PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote: Don't compile in and don't schedule cryptomanager's tests when CONFIG_CRYPTO_TESTS is not set. This saves quite some time during kernel initialization. You're disabling the self-testing infrastructure. This is not the same thing as the tc... 25 May 2010 21:15

hpet timers gone?
Hello, What has happened between 2.6.30.9 and 2.6.32.8 with regard to hpet timers? dmesg output from 2.6.30.9 does show activity but 2.6.32.8 and beyond don't. Also /proc/timer_list doesn't show hpet anymore. Also on 2.6.34 no hpet in timer_list. relevant .config: CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RT... 30 May 2010 15:25

staging/comedi: new Kconfig and Makefiles, drivers grouped by bustype.
Greg KH wrote: On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 12:21:45PM +0400, Alexander Kurz wrote: This is a new Kconfig and Makefikes for staging/comedi. The drivers are sorted now alphabetically in sub-menus depending on the bustype. I did some basiy dependancy tests, but there still may be a lot that I miss... 24 May 2010 06:52

[GIT Pull V2] timer fixes for 2.6.35-rc1
Linus, please discard the previous pull and take this one. I missed the timer fix in the first place. Please pull the latest timers-for-linus-urgent git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git timers-for-linus-urgent Thanks, tglx ------------------> Jef... 24 May 2010 06:52