Kernel

[GIT PULL] block/IO patches for 2.6.35-rc
Hi Linus, The two important items in this batch is the writeback series from Christoph, which has been simmering in -next since you left, and a fix for the boot time warning with some combination of cgroup and the cfq group io scheduler option. No issues have been reported so far on the writeback side, and my te... 29 Jun 2010 03:05

Oops during closedown with 2.6.35-rc3-git3
Hi, I'm not subscribed, so please cc me on any reply. I've built and instaled the latest -git and I've found that it oopses on system closedown. You can see a screenshot of the oops output at: http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/6466/dscn1024h.jpg The kernel is: chris:~/kernel/linux-2.6]$ git describe ... 29 Jun 2010 03:05

[PATCH] trace-cmd: Add to ignore event not found error
Usually trace-cmd die If 'trace-cmd start' find wrong -e argument. It mean an admin can't pass the trace point of unloaded kernel module. It can cause nightmare if he manage lots and various computers. That said, admin want to use the same trace configuration. but, example, some machine loaded ext4 module, others... 29 Jun 2010 03:05

asus-laptop: fix a memory leak in asus_laptop_get_info error path
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> wrote: The callers of write_acpi_int_ret() pass ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, the caller must kfree the returned buffer if AE_OK is returned. This patch adds a missing kfree(buffer.pointer) before return -ENOMEM if kstrdup fail. Signed-off-by: ... 29 Jun 2010 02:00

linux-next: Tree for June 29
Hi all, Changes since 20100628: My fixes tree is now empty. The spi tree gained a build failure so I used the version from next-20100628. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have created today's linux-next tree at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/... 29 Jun 2010 02:00

[ANNOUNCE] MDB Merkey's Kernel Debugger x86_64 2.6.34 06-28-2010
http://merkeydebugger.googlecode.com/files/mdb-2.6.34-x86_64-06-28-2010.patch This is the first full x86_64 version of MDB. This implementation of MDB also uses the x86_64 and IA32 versions of the GDB disassmbler instead of the older IA32 disassembler from previous version of MDB. bfd has been integrated into M... 29 Jun 2010 00:55

linux-next: build failure after merge of the spi tree
Hi Grant, After merging the spi tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this: drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c: In function 'mmc_spi_readbytes': drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c:185: error: implicit declaration of function 'spi_sync_locked' drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c: In function 'mmc_spi_request'... 29 Jun 2010 02:00

[PATCH 8/9] tracing/function-graph: Use correct string size for snprintf
From: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas(a)canonical.com> The nsecs_str string is a local variable defined as: char nsecs_str[5]; It is possible for the snprintf call to use a size value larger than the size of the string. This should not cause a buffer overrun as it is written now due to the value for the string fo... 28 Jun 2010 23:50

[PATCH 6/9] tracing: Remove redundant raw_init callbacks
From: Li Zefan <lizf(a)cn.fujitsu.com> raw_init callback is optional. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf(a)cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4BFA37D4.7070500(a)cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt(a)goodmis.org> --- kernel/trace/trace_export.c | 8 +------- kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 10 +-------... 28 Jun 2010 23:50

[PATCH 9/9] tracing: Use class->reg() for all registering of events
From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt(a)redhat.com> Because kprobes and syscalls need special processing to register events, the class->reg() method was created to handle the differences. But instead of creating a default ->reg for perf and ftrace events, the code was scattered with: if (class->reg) class->reg();... 28 Jun 2010 23:50