Kernel

[PATCH 3/4] perf tools: Make target to generate self contained source tarball
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> Useful for when people want to try some version of the perf tools and don't wants to download the kernel tarball. Here is a session using this new target: [root(a)emilia linux-2.6-tip]# make help | grep -i perf perf-tar-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.t... 2 Jun 2010 17:36

virtio: put last seen used index into ring itself
On 05/31/10 09:46, Rusty Russell wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010 05:20:35 am Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Here's a rewrite of the original patch with a new layout. I haven't tested it yet so no idea how this performs, but I think this addresses the cache bounce issue raised by Avi. Posting for early flames/c... 2 Jun 2010 17:36

[PATCH 1/4] perf report: Make -D print sampled CPU
From: Stephane Eranian <eranian(a)google.com> It is useful to know on which CPU a sample was captured on. The information is captured with perf record -R but it was not printed out by perf report -D. This patch adds this. When -R is not used, cpu is set to -1to indicate that the CPU is unknown (it is not capture... 2 Jun 2010 17:36

How to tell kernel that a region of memory is reserved (in middle of ram)?
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I need to reserve a region of ram to store there a ramoops buffer. I need to do so early so kernel doesn't overwrite the existing contents. How to do it? I noticed that doing memmap=20M$0x70000000 crashes the sys... 2 Jun 2010 17:36

i915: Commit cfecde causes VGA to stay off
On 18:22 Wed 02 Jun , David John wrote: Commit cfecde 'drm/i915: Don't enable pipe/plane/VCO early (wait for DPMS on)' causes the external VGA connector to stay off on boot. The display powers up when X is started. I'm guessing an explicit DPMS ON is not done on boot. It gets worse: my primary (and o... 2 Jun 2010 17:36

[git pull] OF-related build breakage fixes
Hi Linus, Here's a set of build fixes related to the of_node and of_match_table device changes. All trivial fixes. Thanks, g. The following changes since commit aef4b9aaae1decc775778903922bd0075cce7a88: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/.../benh/powerpc are avail... 2 Jun 2010 17:36

MAINTAINERS: Add staging/b.a.t.m.a.n
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:08:39PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 11:53 -0700, Greg KH wrote: The TODO file in this directory clearly states who to copy on patches to these files. Does anyone look at those? ;) Yes, they should. Heck, get_maintainer.pl would have given you the ... 2 Jun 2010 17:36

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add staging/b.a.t.m.a.n
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 11:53 -0700, Greg KH wrote: The TODO file in this directory clearly states who to copy on patches to these files. Does anyone look at those? ;) Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --g... 2 Jun 2010 16:29

[PATCH] kernel.h: Remove unused NIPQUAD and NIPQUAD_FMT
There are no more uses of NIPQUAD or NIPQUAD_FMT. Remove the definitions. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> --- include/linux/kernel.h | 11 ----------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 8317ec4..81892d2 100644 ... 2 Jun 2010 16:29

drivers/staging/batman-adv: Convert MAC_FMT to %pM
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 10:10:15AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: Remove the last uses of MAC_FMT Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> --- drivers/staging/batman-adv/main.c | 3 +- drivers/staging/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 25 ++++------------------- The TODO file in th... 2 Jun 2010 16:29