Kernel

X86 instruction analysis: Move Macro W to insn.h
* Christoph Hellwig <hch(a)infradead.org> [2010-06-14 13:39:26]: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 01:58:03PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: move_W_to_insn.patch From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> Move Macro W to asm/insn.h Macro W used to know if the instructions are va... 15 Jun 2010 03:16

[PATCH] use find_lock_task_mm in memory cgroups oom
based on oom-introduce-find_lock_task_mm-to-fix-mm-false-positives.patch tested on mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2010-06-11-16-40. == From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com> When the OOM killer scans task, it check a task is under memcg or not when it's called via memcg's context. But, as Ol... 15 Jun 2010 03:16

[PATCH] avoid using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code (nr_iowait_cpu)
Fixing BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: s2disk/3392 caller is nr_iowait_cpu+0xe/0x1e Pid: 3392, comm: s2disk Not tainted 2.6.35-rc3-dbg-00106-ga75e02b #2 Call Trace: [<c1184c55>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xa5/0xbc [<c10282a5>] nr_iowait_cpu+0xe/0x1e [<c104ab7c>] update_ts_time_... 15 Jun 2010 03:16

[PATCH 8/8 v2]tuners:tuner-simple Fix warning: variable 'tun' set but not used
Resend due to a whitespace issue I created by mistake. The below patch fixes a warning message create by gcc 4.6.0 CC [M] drivers/media/common/tuners/tuner-simple.o drivers/media/common/tuners/tuner-simple.c: In function 'simple_set_tv_freq': drivers/media/common/tuners/tuner-simple.c:548:20: warning: variable... 15 Jun 2010 02:11

[patch] mm: vmscan fix mapping use after free
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:12:42PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Once that page is unlocked, we can't touch *mapping - its inode can be concurrently reclaimed. Although I guess the technique in handle_write_error() can be reused. Nasty. That guy needs to be using lock_page_nosync(). -- Need lock_... 15 Jun 2010 02:11

drivers:tmp.c Fix warning: variable 'rc' set but not used
Justin P. Mattock wrote: *baffled* Why did you think that would work? transmit_cmd()s signature has 4 parameters. I have no manual in front of me. Did a quick google, but came up with (no hits) info on what that function does. grep showed too many entries to really see why/what this is. Chec... 15 Jun 2010 02:11

DMAENGINE: driver for the ARM PL080/PL081 PrimeCells
On 6/14/2010 7:09 PM, Linus Walleij wrote: Hi Viresh, thanks a lot for reviewing this and I'd be *very* happy if you could give it a spin on the SPEAr as well! I would be happy too linus, will do it in few weeks, right now we are running short of time. 2010/6/14 Viresh KUMAR <viresh.kumar(a)st.com>:... 16 Jun 2010 00:12

[PATCH] refactor macros
Hi Andi-san, Andrew and Mel gave me an improvement. Could you put this patch on top of hwpoison branch in your tree? Thanks, Naoya Horiguchi --- CONFIG_HUGETLBFS controls hugetlbfs interface code. OTOH, CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE controls hugepage management code. So we should use CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE here. Sign... 15 Jun 2010 01:06

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update mail address
Masami Hiramatsu moved back to Hitachi Japan and changed his email address. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt(a)hitachi.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth(a)in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy(a)intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem(a)davemloft.net> --- MAINTAINE... 15 Jun 2010 01:06

jump label v9
Jason, I'm really at wits end about this patch set. To say that trying to test our your patches is frustrating for me so far would be an understatement. Nothing you ever post builds for me, not one patch set has built properly. I can also tell that you're just blindly making changes to the sparc bits and n... 18 Jun 2010 12:26