Kernel

[PATCH] ppp_generic: fix multilink fragment sizes
Fix bug in multilink fragment size calculation introduced by commit 9c705260feea6ae329bc6b6d5f6d2ef0227eda0a "ppp: ppp_mp_explode() redesign" Signed-off-by: Ben McKeegan <ben(a)netservers.co.uk> --- drivers/net/ppp_generic.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/... 3 Jun 2010 05:39

RCU: don't turn off lockdep when find suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage
Paul E. McKenney wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:06:13PM +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote: Hi Paul, With 2.6.35-rc1 and your patch in the context below, we still see "include/linux/cgroup.h:534 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!", so need this additional patch: Acquire rea... 3 Jun 2010 23:25

kdump: extract log buffer and registers from vmcore on NMI button pressing
At Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:16:11 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: I am not sure what is the problem we are trying to solve here. If we are unable to capture the dump because second kernel did not boot due to some dirver issue etc, above patch is not going to help either. If kernel has booted, then one should be ... 4 Jun 2010 10:19

ERROR: Unable to locate IOAPIC for GSI xx
Avinash Kurup <kurup.avinash(a)gmail.com> writes: Hi Eric,     I get the following errors while booting into 2.6.35-rc1. I did not get these in 2.6.34 . The computer however boots and works fine, So its not serious but the following errors are displayed in dmesg. [    0.089969] ERROR: Unable to locate... 3 Jun 2010 05:39

perf tools: Make target to generate self contained source tarball
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)infradead.org> writes: 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. Does this also finally allow to build perf in a separate objdir like the rest of the ... 3 Jun 2010 05:39

[Patch] infiniband: check local reserved ports
Since Tetsuo's patch already got merged, now this is the missing part for local port reservation. Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier(a)cisco.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel(a)i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang(a)redhat.com> --- diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/... 3 Jun 2010 04:34

sctp multistream scheduling: extend socket API
Augment SCTP socket API with a new socket option to choose and configure scheduling algorithm. Signed-off-by: Yaogong Wang <ywang15(a)ncsu.edu> --- diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.32.8/Documentation/dontdiff p3/include/net/sctp/structs.h p4/include/net/sctp/structs.h --- p3/include/net/sctp/structs.h 201... 21 Jun 2010 11:19

failed command FLUSH CACHE EXT
Hello, On 06/03/2010 01:42 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: I seem to have rather bad luck with hard drives. Every time I buy more than two, I tend to get one or two failures out of the batch. 25-50% failure rate almost. Horrible. I at least average 1 dead hard drive a year since I got my first computer. ... 3 Jun 2010 05:39

scripts: add nconf into gitignore file
On 3.6.2010 04:50, Am�rico Wang wrote: scripts/kconfig/nconf is generated by 'make nconfig', add it into .gitignore. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong(a)gmail.com> Thanks, applied. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messa... 3 Jun 2010 04:34

Proposal for a new algorithm for reading & writing a hibernation image.
Hi. On 30/05/10 15:25, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! 2. Prior to writing any of the image, also set up new 4k page tables such that an attempt to make a change to any of the pages we're about to write to disk will result in a page fault, giving us an opportunity to flag the page as needing an atomic ... 3 Jun 2010 04:34