Kernel

Tracing configuration review
Hi all, I'm going through our Ubuntu kernel configuration for our next release to ensure we have all the trace options enabled that may be useful. I have a few questions about what tracer options we should have enabled. Our guiding principle in regards to these options is: if an option can be turned on and has... 13 Jun 2010 23:46

[PATCH] FLAT: allow arches to declare a larger alignment than the slab
From: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang(a)analog.com> The recent commit 1f0ce8b3dd667dca7 which moved the ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN default into the global header inadvertently broke FLAT for a bunch of systems. Blackfin systems now fail on any FLAT exec with: Unable to read code+data+bss, errno 14 When your /init is a FLAT binary, ... 25 May 2010 15:45

timers: Fix slack calculation really
On Tue, 25 May 2010, tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner wrote: { - unsigned long expires_limit, mask; + unsigned long expires_limit, mask, now; int bit; expires_limit = expires; - if (timer->slack > -1) + if (timer->slack >= 0) { expires_limit = expires + timer->slack; - else i... 25 May 2010 15:45

aw2-alsa.c: use pci_ids.h defines and fix checkpatch.pl noise
At Fri, 21 May 2010 17:35:03 -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote: Use the VENDOR/DEVICE ids provided in pci_ids.h instead of creating local ids of the same values. Also, fix the following checkpatch.pl warnings: WARNING: Use #include <linux/io.h> instead of <asm/io.h> WARNING: unnecessary whitesp... 25 May 2010 14:38

[10/25] tty: release_one_tty() forgets to put pids
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg(a)redhat.com> commit 6da8d866d0d39e9509ff826660f6a86a6757c966 upstream. release_one_tty(tty) can be called when tty still has a reference to pgrp/session. In this case we leak the pid. ... 25 May 2010 14:38

[stable-2.6.32 PATCH] ixgbe: backport bug fix for tx panic
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:15:12AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: 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 Kum... 25 May 2010 17:58

[09/25] vfs: Remove the range_cont writeback mode.
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> commit 74baaaaec8b4f22e1ae279f5ecca4ff705b28912 upstream. Ext4 was the only user of range_cont writeback mode and ext4 switched to a different method. S... 25 May 2010 14:38

[07/25] ext4: Retry block allocation if we have free blocks left
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> commit df22291ff0fde0d350cf15dac3e5cc33ac528875 upstream. When we truncate files, the meta-data blocks released are not reused untill we commit the trun... 25 May 2010 14:38

[12/25] trace: Fix inappropriate substraction on tracing_pages_allocated in trace_free_page()
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Wang Sheng-Hui <crosslonelyover(a)gmail.com> [No matching upstream git commit id as it was fixed differently due to a rewrite of the tracing code there.] For normal case, the code in trace_free_page() do o... 25 May 2010 14:38

[23/25] i2c-i801: Dont use the block buffer for I2C block writes
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jean Delvare <khali(a)linux-fr.org> commit c074c39d62306efa5ba7c69c1a1531bc7333d252 upstream. Experience has shown that the block buffer can only be used for SMBus (not I2C) block transactions, even though t... 25 May 2010 14:38