Kernel

[PATCH] timer.c: fix kernel-doc warning
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Fix kernel-doc warning, add @timer description: Warning(kernel/timer.c:335): No description found for parameter 'timer' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> --- kernel/timer.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 i... 25 May 2010 01:35

User Guide for Sysfs and libudev
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 20:08, Alan Ott <alan(a)signal11.us> wrote: Several weeks ago I had need of libudev, and was unable to find very much documentation for it on the web. I have created a guide on how to use libudev, which also provides some background information on /dev, Sysfs, and why this kind of t... 28 May 2010 13:45

tracing, powerpc: Add data parameter to powerpc-specific tracepoints
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 15:27 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: Commit 38516ab5 ("tracing: Let tracepoints have data passed to tracepoint callbacks") added a void *data parameter to tracing callbacks and to the {un,}register_trace_* functions, requiring all tracepoint callback functions to have the extra void * pa... 24 May 2010 23:26

[GIT PULL] XFS update for 2.6.35-rc1 (2 of 2)
Here is the second set of changes for XFS for 2.6.35-rc1. -Alex The following changes since commit 7e125f7b9cbfce4101191b8076d606c517a73066: Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/ide-2.6 (2010-05-24 08:05:29 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs for... 24 May 2010 23:26

trace: uprobes trace_event interface
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 22:30 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: This is based on trace_events for kprobes to the extent that it may resemble that file on 2.6.34. Check the changes that have been done in tip/perf/core. These will be going mainline for 35. The interface with the ftrace_event_call structure will ... 22 Jun 2010 02:51

linux-next: build failure after merge of the viafb tree
Hi Jonathan, After merging the viafb tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this: drivers/media/video/via-camera.c: In function 'viacam_streamon': drivers/media/video/via-camera.c:1032: error: implicit declaration of function 'pm_qos_add_requirement' drivers/media/video/via-camera.c: ... 25 May 2010 10:12

x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Greg KH <gregkh(a)suse.de> wrote: 2.6.33-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Frank Arnold <frank.arnold(a)amd.com> commit 7f284d3cc96e02468a42e045f77af11e5ff8b095 upstream. Closer, but aren't all the XX/34s... 25 May 2010 16:52

[PATCH]cfq-iosched: fix an oops caused by slab leak
I got below oops when unloading cfq-iosched. Considering scenario: queue A merge to B, C merge to D and B will be merged to D. Before B is merged to D, we do split B. We should put B's reference for D. [ 807.768536] ============================================================================= [ 807.768539] BUG ... 24 May 2010 22:21

perf changes
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 09:25:31PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: Please pull the latest perf-core-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git perf-core-for-linus Most of these changes are fixes and dead code removal, but also a set of optimizations ... 28 May 2010 03:55

[RFC PATCH 3/4] sched: Generalize cpuacct usage tracking making it simpler to add new stats
Generalize cpuacct usage, making it easier to add new stats in the following patch. Also adds alloc_percpu_array() interface in percpu.h Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki(a)google.com> --- include/linux/percpu.h | 4 ++++ kernel/sched.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- kernel... 24 May 2010 21:16