Kernel

ehea: Fix kernel deadlock in DLPAR-mem processing
From: "Jan-Bernd Themann" <ossthema(a)de.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:35:42 +0200 Port reset operations and memory add/remove operations need to be serialized to avoid a kernel deadlock. The deadlock is caused by calling the napi_disable() function twice. Therefore we have to employ the dlpar_mem_lo... 16 Jun 2010 22:08

[PATCH] vfs repost: fix RCU-lockdep false positive due to /proc access
If a single-threaded process does a file-descriptor operation, and some other process accesses that same file descriptor via /proc, the current rcu_dereference_check_fdtable() can give a false-positive RCU-lockdep splat due to the reference count being increased by the /proc access after the reference-count check i... 16 Jun 2010 21:02

x86 apic: Ack all pending irqs when crashed/on kexec - V5
On 06/16/2010 02:11 PM, Pan, Jacob jun wrote: W.R.T. the loop limits, is it possible to use a default max_loops value in case when cpu_khz is not set? The reason is that on Moorestown platform we need to do an early APIC setup before tsc_init(), so cpu_khz is 0 at the time we setup local APIC. The resul... 17 Jun 2010 13:25

2.6.35-rc3 - include/linux/fdtable.h:85 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 02:36:03AM -0400, Miles Lane wrote: [ 2074.377176] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] [ 2074.377180] --------------------------------------------------- [ 2074.377185] include/linux/fdtable.h:85 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! [ 2074.377189] ... 16 Jun 2010 21:02

vmscan: Setup pagevec as late as possible in shrink_page_list()
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:17:50 +0100 Mel Gorman <mel(a)csn.ul.ie> wrote: shrink_page_list() sets up a pagevec to release pages as according as they are free. It uses significant amounts of stack on the pagevec. This patch adds pages to be freed via pagevec to a linked list which is then freed en-masse at the... 16 Jun 2010 19:56

[ANNOUNCE] Linux Security Summit 2010 - Schedule Published
========================================================================== LINUX SECURITY SUMMIT 2010 (BOSTON) PROGRAM SCHEDULE ========================================================================== SUMMARY This is to announce the program schedule f... 16 Jun 2010 19:56

[announce] gujin gpl bootloader version 2.8.2
There is a new version v2.8.2 of the Gujin bootloader at http://gujin.org and sourceforge with bugfixes and improvements, and Debian/Fedora packages for easy installation on i386/amd64 PC. The major improvements are the possibility to review/edit the final command line of the Linux kernel when selectin... 16 Jun 2010 19:56

ptrace: allow restriction of ptrace scope
> As Linux grows in popularity, it will become a larger target for malware. One particularly troubling weakness of the Linux process interfaces is that a single user is able to examine the memory and running state of any of their processes. For example, if one application And this will help how - or don't y... 20 Jun 2010 23:19

omap_hsmmc: Add erase capability
-----Original Message----- From: Adrian Hunter [mailto:adrian.hunter(a)nokia.com] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 5:02 AM To: Andrew Morton Cc: Kyungmin Park; Madhusudhan Chikkature; LKML; linux-mmc(a)vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH V2 4/4] omap_hsmmc: Add erase capability From 101ce0365d6ce1abc8518... 16 Jun 2010 18:49

cxgb4i_v4.3 : main driver files
On 06/07/2010 11:59 PM, Rakesh Ranjan wrote: From: Rakesh Ranjan<rakesh(a)chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Rakesh Ranjan<rakesh(a)chelsio.com> --- drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i.h | 175 +++++ drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i_ddp.c | 653 ++++++++++++++++ drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i_init.c | 317 ... 16 Jun 2010 18:49