Kernel

ixgbe: backport bug fix for tx panic
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 17:46, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher(a)intel.com> wrote: From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg(a)intel.com> backporting this commit: commit fdd3d631cddad20ad9d3e1eb7dbf26825a8a121f Author: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2(a)in.ibm.com> Date:   Wed Feb 3 13:13:10 2010 +0000    ix... 25 May 2010 13:31

[git pull] spi driver changes
Hi Linus, Here are the SPI device driver changes for .35, plus a bug fix to the xilinx driver related to the OF changes. Thanks, g. The following changes since commit 7e125f7b9cbfce4101191b8076d606c517a73066: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge git://git.kernel.org/.../davem/ide-2.6 are available in the... 25 May 2010 03:43

Finer granularity and task/cgroup irq time accounting
* Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki(a)google.com> [2010-05-24 17:11:18]: Currently, the softirq and hardirq time reporting is only done at the CPU level. There are usecases where reporting this time against task or task groups or cgroups will be useful for user/administrator in terms of resource planning and utili... 25 May 2010 04:47

linux-next: build failure (arm tree related)
Hi Russell, Most (all?) of the arm builds are failing for next-20100525: arch/arm/Kconfig:883: can't open file "arch/arm/plat-s5pc1xx/Kconfig" I think this may be a bad merge 211cc52a36dedd1e90147af43f6ab5eeb57952ac ("Merge branch 'for-rmk/samsung3' of git://git.fluff.org/bjdooks/linux into devel-stable") wh... 25 May 2010 05:52

[PATCH] proc_dointvec, write a single value
The commit 00b7c3395aec3df43de5bd02a3c5a099ca51169f "sysctl: refactor integer handling proc code" modified the behaviour of writing to /proc. Before the commit, write("1\n") to /proc/sys/kernel/printk succeeded. But now it returns EINVAL. This commit supports writing a single value to a multi-valued entry. Si... 25 May 2010 03:43

ab3100-otp: fix memory leak in ab3100_otp_probe
In current implementation, there is a memory leak if ab3100_otp_read fail. And in the case of ab3100_otp_init_debugfs fail, it does not properly remove sysfs entries. This patch properly handle above failure cases. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/mfd/ab3100-otp.c | 16 ++++++++-------... 18 Jun 2010 14:39

x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time to task
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 17:11 -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: +void account_system_vtime(struct task_struct *tsk) +{ + unsigned long flags; + int cpu; + u64 now; + + local_irq_save(flags); + cpu = task_cpu(tsk); + now = sched_clock_cpu(cpu); + if (... 25 May 2010 03:43

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible
Hi, I get tons of these debugging complaints with the latest Linus' tree: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: sync/2503 caller is dqstats_inc+0x19/0x2c Pid: 2503, comm: sync Tainted: G D 2.6.34-misc-2.6 #9 Call Trace: [<ffffffff811ad1a2>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xc2/0xdc ... 25 May 2010 02:39

[PATCH] mtd/nand_base: fix kernel-doc warnings & typos
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Fix mtd/nand_base.c kernel-doc warnings and typos. Warning(drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c:893): No description found for parameter 'mtd' Warning(drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c:893): No description found for parameter 'ofs' Warning(drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c:893): No de... 25 May 2010 01:35

[PATCH] fs/super: fix kernel-doc warning
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Fix fs/super.c kernel-doc warning and function notation: Warning(fs/super.c:957): No description found for parameter 'sb' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro(a)zeniv.linux.org.uk> --- fs/super.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed... 25 May 2010 01:35