Kernel

dynamic_debug: allow to set dynamic debug flags right at module load time
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:25:29PM +0200, Roman Fietze wrote: Hello Jason, hello LKML, On Friday 28 May 2010 15:55:49 Jason Baron wrote: right, i think we want to add something inside ddebug_add_module() that recognizes if the module was loaded with verbose=1. I think you can get at the par... 1 Jul 2010 17:48

[PATCH] USB: Don't return 0 if writing the download record failed
If the write download record failed we shouldn't return 0. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin(a)gmail.com> --- Maybe a different error value is more appropriate? diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c b/drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c index 0fca265..03696b9 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c +++ b/drivers/... 1 Jul 2010 16:42

[git patches] libata fixes
1) Some MacBook Pro's don't like ahci, prefer ata_generic for these 2) fix ABI-visible signedness bug for AHCI Enclosure Management (EM) messages Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus to receive the following updat... 1 Jul 2010 16:42

scsi: address leak in the error path of discard page allocation
On Thu, Jul 01 2010 at 9:03am -0400, Mike Snitzer <snitzer(a)redhat.com> wrote: On Thu, Jul 01 2010 at 6:49am -0400, FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote: This fixes discard page leak by using q->unprep_rq_fn facility. q->unprep_rq_fn is called when all the data buffer (req... 5 Jul 2010 00:14

mmotm 2010-07-01-12-19 uploaded
The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2010-07-01-12-19 has been uploaded to http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ and will soon be available at git://zen-kernel.org/kernel/mmotm.git It contains the following patches against 2.6.35-rc3: origin.patch ipc-semc-bugfix-for-semop-not-reporting-successful-opera... 2 Jul 2010 14:38

perf wrong branches event on AMD
Em Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 03:30:16PM -0400, Vince Weaver escreveu: Hello while doing some performance counter validation tests on some assembly language programs I noticed that the "branches:u" count was very wrong on AMD machines. It looks like the wrong event was selected. This is why ev... 4 Jul 2010 05:47

Unplug emulated disks and nics
stefano(a)stabellini.net wrote: From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini(a)eu.citrix.com> Add a xen_emul_unplug command line option to the kernel to unplug xen emulated disks and nics. Set the default value of xen_emul_unplug depending on whether or not the Xen PV frontends and the Xen platform P... 9 Jul 2010 10:32

[PATCH] perf wrong branches event on AMD
Hello while doing some performance counter validation tests on some assembly language programs I noticed that the "branches:u" count was very wrong on AMD machines. It looks like the wrong event was selected. This is why event selection needs to be in user-space... it could be fixed instantly there, but ... 1 Jul 2010 16:42

[ANNOUNCE] MDB Merkey's Kernel Debugger x86_64 2.6.34 07-01-2010 Release 4
http://merkeydebugger.googlecode.com/files/mdb-2.6.34-x86_64-07-01-2010.patch Porting to ARM9 on Montevista Linux. Adding serial console support for ARM9 embedded support. After working on Montevista all last summer I realize a small compact debugger is really needed there for the range of ARM processors. ... 1 Jul 2010 16:42

[ANNOUNCE] Open Cworthy Libraries 07-01-2010
http://cworthylinux.googlecode.com/files/cworthy-07-01-2010.tar.gz FIXES - add restore_screen() to allow users to hit the space bar to repaint the ncurses display in the event a system error message gets written to the screen not trapped by stderr. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li... 1 Jul 2010 16:42