Kernel

linux-next: manual merge of the i.MX tree with Linus' tree
Hi Sascha, Today's linux-next merge of the i.MX tree got a conflict in arch/arm/Makefile between commit 95b8f20fd6a2694a16b8addb190b942bfb670c88 ("ARM: fix badly placed mach/plat entries in Kconfig & Makefile") from Linus' tree and commit b996b5830364c1b1d2469be574f4ebe831987ba9 ("mxc: Add support for the Babbag... 10 Feb 2010 19:05

[tip:x86/irq] x86: Avoid race condition in pci_enable_msix()
Commit-ID: ced5b697a76d325e7a7ac7d382dbbb632c765093 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ced5b697a76d325e7a7ac7d382dbbb632c765093 Author: Brandon Phiilps <bphilips(a)suse.de> AuthorDate: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:20:06 -0800 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> CommitDate: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:27:28 -0800 x8... 10 Feb 2010 17:57

oom: select task from tasklist for mempolicy ooms
On 02/10/2010 11:32 AM, David Rientjes wrote: The oom killer presently kills current whenever there is no more memory free or reclaimable on its mempolicy's nodes. There is no guarantee that current is a memory-hogging task or that killing it will free any substantial amount of memory, however. In su... 23 Feb 2010 03:34

[patch 0/3] x86: Use interval tree to keep track of PAT reserve/free
Reserve and free ranges of IO region has to be kept track of in x86 PAT, as the same region should not be mapped with conflicting types by multiple users. These reserve and free requests can be of varying sizes and can overlap in various ways. As in uncached-minus @ 0xfbf00000-0xfbf04000 uncached-minus @ 0xfbf0200... 10 Feb 2010 16:49

[PATCH v3 1/6] net: tcp_header_len_th and tcp_option_len_th
Redefine two TCP header functions to accept TCP header pointer. When subtracting, return signed int to allow error checking. These functions will be used in subsequent patches that implement additional features. Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson(a)gmail.com --- include/linux/tcp.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 ... 10 Feb 2010 16:49

net: fec fixes
From: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria(a)canonical.com> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:56:19 -0800 Some fixes to the fec driver to get it to work on the Freescale i.MX5 SoC platform Amit Kucheria (2): fec: Add LAN8700 phy support fec: Add ARCH_MX5 as a dependency Rob Herring (1): fec: fix uni... 10 Feb 2010 16:49

[RFC 0/2] fix dma_map_sg not to do barriers for each buffer
From: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap(a)quicinc.com> Please refer to the post here http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/4/347 These changes are to introduce barrierless dma_map_area and dma_unmap_area and use them to map the buffers in the scatterlist. For the last buffer, call the normal dma_map_area(aka with barriers)... 10 Feb 2010 15:40

[PATCH 1/1] kernel core: use helpers for rlimits fix
This is unmerged part of kernel-core-use-helpers-for-rlimits.patch Please amend. -- Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits. E.g. fetching them twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are implemented. I.e. either use rlimit helpers added in 3e10e716abf3c71bdb5d86b8f507f9e7... 10 Feb 2010 15:40

[PATCH 1/1] X86: pci, fix section mismatch
pcibios_scan_specific_bus calls pci_scan_bus_on_node which is __devinit. Mark pcibios_scan_specific_bus __devinit as well since all users are now __init or __devinit. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby(a)suse.cz> Cc: Aristeu Sergio <arozansk(a)redhat.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab(a)redhat.com> Cc: Jesse Barn... 10 Feb 2010 15:40

[PATCH] UIO: Remove SMX Cryptengine driver
Ben Nizette, the author of this driver, told me in a private mail that this project has been cancelled. He suggested to remove the driver for now, and will come back with a new version should the hardware really exist. This patch completely removes the driver. Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk(a)linutronix.de> --- ... 10 Feb 2010 14:32