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EVM
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Mimi Zohar wrote: Much appreciation to Dave Hansen, Serge Hallyn, and Matt Helsley for reviewing the patches. We're not seeing much comment on this code beyond the folk above. It might help to cc fsdevel. Also, I raised some issues: I'd also be interested to know what kind of ... 4 Jun 2010 16:59

[PATCH v2] cdc-acm: fix resource reclaim in error path of acm_probe
This patch fixes resource reclaim in error path of acm_probe: 1. In the case of "out of memory (read urbs usb_alloc_urb)\n")", there is no need to call acm_read_buffers_free(acm) here. Fix it by goto alloc_fail6 instead of alloc_fail7. 2. In the case of "out of memory (write urbs usb_alloc_urb)", usb_alloc_urb may... 30 May 2010 20:52

Intel Arrandale IGP - screen does not light up on resume
Hi, I've got a problem with my laptop (powered by i7 Arrandale, it's a Sony Vaio Z11Z9E), when I resume from "suspend to ram" my screen does not light up. X uses the Intel IGP. Maybe it is an issue with the driver of the IGP of the Core i7 Arrandale? I currently use Linux 2.6.34, and have tested 2.6.33 and 2... 30 May 2010 20:52

kgdb debugger proxy question - using the same serial port for both serial console and kgdb
Hello, I'm trying to get kgdb setup working. I have two PCs but unfortunately there is only one serial port in each of those. So far everything worked great, but several days ago one of the monitors was taken away from my desk, and the second machine is now headless. So now I need some kind of splitter to spli... 30 May 2010 18:41

x86, hweight: Fix UML boot crash
On 05/30/2010 01:17 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: This bothers me, because it really feels like something is fundamentally broken in UML tryingto track the upstream architecture, and this is just a bandage. First of all, scratch that patch. It is indeed dumb idea to sprinkle UML special cases in... 14 Jun 2010 11:46

[PATCH 2/3] drivers/staging: Use GFP_ATOMIC when a lock is held
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> In each case, the containing function is only called from one place, where a spin lock is held. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @gfp exists@ identifier fn; position p; @@ fn(...) { .... when != spin_unl... 30 May 2010 16:30

[PATCH 1/3] kernel: Use GFP_ATOMIC when a lock is held
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> The containing function is called from several places. At one of them, in the function untag_chunk, the spin lock &entry->lock is held. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @gfp exists@ identifier fn; position p... 30 May 2010 16:30

Subject: [PATCH] net/ipv6: Use GFP_ATOMIC when a lock is held
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> A spin lock is taken near the beginning of the enclosing function. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ @@ spin_lock(...) .... when != spin_unlock(...) -GFP_KERNEL +GFP_ATOMIC // </smpl> Signed-off-by:... 30 May 2010 17:36

[GIT PULL] mutex fix
Linus, Please pull the latest core-fixes-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git core-fixes-for-linus Thanks, Ingo ------------------> Tony Breeds (1): mutex: Fix optimistic spinning vs. BKL kernel/mutex.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files ch... 30 May 2010 16:30

[GIT PULL] SLAB fixes for 2.6.35-rc0
Hi Linus, Here's few regression fixes to SLUB. The S390 regression was introduced in ..33 and the hackbench performance regression in .34. Pekka The following changes since commit 24010e460454ec0d2f4f0213b667b4349cbdb8e1: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'drm-linus' of ... 30 May 2010 16:30