Kernel

[PATCH 04/28] change direct call of spin_lock(anon_vma->lock) to inline function
From: Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com> Subsitute a direct call of spin_lock(anon_vma->lock) with an inline function doing exactly the same. This makes it easier to do the substitution to the root anon_vma lock in a following patch. We will deal with the handful of special locks (nested, dec_and_lock, etc) sep... 7 Jun 2010 08:32

[PATCH 21/28] sparc64: Use RCU page table freeing.
From: David S. Miller <davem(a)davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem(a)davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100408.180008.180206930.davem(a)davemloft.net> --- arch/sparc/include/asm/pgalloc_64.h | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file cha... 7 Jun 2010 08:32

[PATCH] initialise DMA engine before MMC
To use DMA engine based DMA with MMC in a non-modular build, the DMA engine has to initialise before MMC. Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski(a)gmx.de> --- diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile index 91874e0..b713e75 100644 --- a/drivers/Makefile +++ b/drivers/Makefile @@ -92,6 +92,... 7 Jun 2010 07:26

Virtual device and ARP table
Hello, I am currently "resurrecting" a Linux module (called LUNAR) which I co-developed in 2007 and I'm having a weird kernel crash. This code basically used to work fine up to 2.6.18 which was the latest version before we stopped our development. I quickly ported it to 2.6.{31,32}: it compiles fine and load... 7 Jun 2010 08:32

kernel 2.6.35-rc1 on avila ixp4xx board booting problem
Hi all, I just compiled the kernel from wireless-testing git tree for my gateworks avila ixp4xx board. I used the OpenWrt toolchain for cross compiling for the arm - architecture and I used the .config of the original kernel of OpenWrt (2.6.32-10) The kernel hangs up directly after being uncompressed. c... 7 Jun 2010 11:53

Multiple issues after enabling SetVoltage on rs780m
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw(a)sisk.pl> wrote: Hi Alex, Your commit 9349d5cc920c10845693f906ebd67f394f1d0d04 (drm/radeon/kms/pm: enable SetVoltage on r7xx/evergreen) has caused my test-bed Acer Ferrari One to behave quite unreliably. �The symptoms are: - the system hangs har... 7 Jun 2010 13:00

[PATCH] DMAENGINE: ste_dma40: support older silicon
This makes sure the DMA40 driver will also work on the oldest silicon revisions that have the on-chip memory on another location in the DB8500 and also requires explicit suspend before starting or resuming a logical channel. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij(a)stericsson.com> --- Dan: this patch applies... 7 Jun 2010 06:21

perf, x86: Make a second write to performance counter if needed
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 01:23 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: On Netburst PMU we need a second write to a performance counter due to cpu erratum. A simple flag test instead of alternative instructions was choosen because wrmsrl is already a macro and if virtualization is turned on will need an additional... 8 Jun 2010 05:50

Perf-events callchain support on MIPS
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 07:41 +0800, Deng-Cheng Zhu wrote: Hi, Peter and Ingo For MIPS, recording user stack backtrace in the kernel is not quite as easy as on other platforms. Because In the kernel, we don't have frame unwinder to work on the user stack. Given the different possible compiler flags, ... 13 Jun 2010 10:28

[Regression, post-rc1] Multiple issues after enabling SetVoltage on rs780m
Hi Alex, Your commit 9349d5cc920c10845693f906ebd67f394f1d0d04 (drm/radeon/kms/pm: enable SetVoltage on r7xx/evergreen) has caused my test-bed Acer Ferrari One to behave quite unreliably. The symptoms are: - the system hangs hard (~ 50% of the time) when starting Xorg - the system hangs hard (~ 50% of the time... 7 Jun 2010 06:21