Kernel

: mutex: Fix !CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER compile warning
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:07:40PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: Fixes linux-next !CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER compile warning: kernel/mutex.c: In function '__mutex_lock_common': kernel/mutex.c:148: error: unused variable 'timeout' timeout is only used if CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER is on. Sign... 27 May 2010 19:16

boot crash in arp_error_report() (Re: [GIT] Networking)
Dave, FYI, this boot crash in arp_error_report() started triggering in -tip testing: [ 113.285384] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 6b6b6b87 [ 113.285384] IP: [<c14c8237>] arp_error_report+0x1d/0x32 [ 113.285384] *pdpt = 00000000340fd001 *pde = 0000000000000000 [ 113.285384] Oops: 0000 [#1... 27 May 2010 17:03

cpuidle: make cpuidle_curr_driver static
+static inline cpuidle_driver *cpuidle_get_driver(void) {return NULL;} Close, but no cigar yet. You missed a "struct" keyword on this line. Add that, and it builds and boots for me. -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kern... 27 May 2010 20:22

[PATCH 1/2 v2] FLAT: split the stack & data alignments
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:24, Michal Simek wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: The stack and data have different alignment requirements, so don't force them to wear the same shoe.  Increase the data alignment to match that which the elf2flt linker script has always been using: 0x20 bytes.  Not only does th... 27 May 2010 14:50

oom-kill: give the dying task a higher priority
On 05/27, Luis Claudio R. Goncalves wrote: It sounds plausible giving the dying task an even higher priority to be sure it will be scheduled sooner and free the desired memory. As usual, I can't really comment the changes in oom logic, just minor nits... @@ -413,6 +415,8 @@ static void __oom_kill_task... 3 Jun 2010 16:46

[RFC] oom-kill: give the dying task a higher priority
Hello, Could you please review this patch? The idea behind it is quite simple: give the dying task a higher priority so that it can be scheduled sooner and die to free memory. oom-kill: give the dying task a higher priority In a system under heavy load it was observed that even after the oom-killer sele... 27 May 2010 14:50

sys_personality: validate personality before set_personality()
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Oleg Nesterov wrote: But. Suppose an application does personality(0xffffffff << 32) on x86_64. Before this patch we return -EINVAL (but wrongly change ->personality). After this patch this is equal to personality(0), right? Yes. And I'm willing to take that "risk" in the nam... 27 May 2010 14:50

[GIT PULL] hwmon updates for 2.6.35
Hi Linus, Please pull hwmon subsystem updates for Linux 2.6.35 from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging.git hwmon-for-linus We have support for new chips (SMSC SCH5127, SMSC EMC1403, National Semiconductor LM64, TI TMP102 and TI TPM105), support for recent MacBook Pro models, and ... 27 May 2010 14:50

Btrfs updates
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Chris Mason wrote: # git diff v2.6.34 HEAD | diffstat That still has the potential to be wrong (but got the numbers I expected this time). It will be wrong in several cases: - "diffstat" has some random common prefix removal logic that I've never figured out the exact rules... 27 May 2010 14:50

current git kernel crashes UML system during boot
Hello, I bisected it to this : There are only 'skip'ped commits left to test. The first bad commit could be any of: 4677d4a53e0d565742277e8913e91c821453e63e d61931d89be506372d01a90d1755f6d0a9fafe2d 1527bc8b928dd1399c3d3467dd47d9ede210978a c59bd5688299cddb71183e156e7a3c1409b90df2 cb41838bbc4403f7270a94b93a9a... 27 May 2010 14:50