Kernel

[PATCH] x86, smpboot: Fix cores per node printing on boot
Percpu initialization happens now after booting the cores on the machine and this causes them all to be displayed as belonging to node 0: Jun 8 05:57:21 kepek kernel: [ 0.106999] Booting Node 0, Processors #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 Ok. Use early_cpu... 1 Jun 2010 15:18

remove needless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote: Architectures don't need to define ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD anymore. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in... 1 Jun 2010 15:18

remove useless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD
On Mon, May 31 2010, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: This patchset removes useless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD: - ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD is irrelevant to the majority of architectures but they have to define it. - ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD definition is inconsistent on architectures; ISA DMA addressing restriction, DMA addr... 17 Jun 2010 10:03

What computer do Linus and other prominent kernel developers have?
What exact computer hardware components do Linus Torvalds have in his computer system? Also other prominent kernel developers like Alan Cox, etc. If want to buy same motherboard, CPU, GPU, HDD, etc. That way, I know there wont be any problems running Linux, because if I have that problem, then he will also ha... 1 Jun 2010 14:11

[PATCH][1/1] fs: wrong type for 'magic' argument in 'simple_fill_super()', fs/libfs.c
Description of the issue: The function 'simple_fill_super()' in the path 'fs/libfs.c' takes the 'magic' argument as int. In the include file 'include/linux/fs.h' the 's_magic' field of the 'super_block' structure is declared as unsigned long. This causes a misbehaviour in the 'Integrity Measurement Architecture'... 1 Jun 2010 14:11

rbtree: undo augmented damage -v2
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org> wrote: A better changelog, and I guess we can keep the explanation of the augmented rb-tree since it doesn't actually mentions the interface, merely the idea of adding a heap to the binary tree. The patch simply reverts the rbtree.c h... 3 Jun 2010 12:17

sched: adjust when cpu_active and cpuset configurations are updated during cpu on/offlining
Hello, On 06/01/2010 05:57 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: I know we all love notifier lists, but doesn't the below code get lots more readable if we don't play tricks with notifier priorities and simply hardcode the few (perf/sched/cpuset) callbacks into the hotplug paths? Maybe, maybe not. In this case, ... 1 Jun 2010 14:11

Linux 2.6.32.15
I'm announcing the release of the 2.6.32.15 kernel. It reverts two patches that were previously applied that shouldn't have been in the .32 kernel series. If you don't have any problems with the 2.6.34.14 kernel, there's no need to upgrade to this release. The updated 2.6.32.y git tree can be found at: ... 1 Jun 2010 14:11

[GIT PULL] rcu: finalize debugobjects, first round of RCU sparse pointer checks
Hello, Ingo, Here are the final commits from Mathieu's debugobjects series and the first few from Arnd's RCU-pointer sparse series. The first three remove RCU's (useless) initializations from mm, fs, and powerpc: mm: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/18/562 fs: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/18/500 powerpc:http://www... 1 Jun 2010 13:05

[PATCH v2] Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: only build on X86
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> We should only build hpet_example on (any) X86, where it is implemented. It can cause build errors on other arch-es. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens(a)de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens(a)de.... 1 Jun 2010 13:05