Kernel

[RFC 2/3] mm: iommu: A physical allocator for the VCMM
The Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager (VCMM) needs a physical pool to allocate from. It breaks up the pool into sub-pools of same-sized chunks. In particular, it breaks the pool it manages into sub-pools of 1 MB, 64 KB and 4 KB chunks. When a user makes a request, this allocator satisfies that request from the s... 6 Jul 2010 12:16

[PATCH tip/perf/urgent] perf tools: Fix fallback to cplus_demangle() when bfd_demangle() is not available
make version 3.80 doesn't support "else ifdef" on the same line, also it doesn't support unindented nested constructs. Build fails with: Makefile:608: Extraneous text after `else' directive Makefile:611: *** only one `else' per conditional. Stop. This patch fixes the build for make 3.80. Signed-off-by: Con... 6 Jul 2010 12:16

[PATCH] staging: tidspbridge: gen: simplify and clean up
There is recently added hex_to_bin() kernel's method which we could use instead of custom long function. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko(a)gmail.com> Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad(a)wizery.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)suse.de> Cc: linux-omap(a)vger.kernel.org --- drivers/staging/tidspbridge/gen/uu... 6 Jul 2010 12:16

ipmi:ipmi_si_intf.c Fix warning: variable 'addr_space' set but not used
On 07/06/2010 06:57 AM, Corey Minyard wrote: Well, this patch is incorrect because IPMI_IO_ADDR_SPACE is zero. I'm not sure what your change is trying to accomplish, anyway. This is actually dead code from a previous change, I believe, and just needs to be removed. I did find that document at http://h21... 8 Jul 2010 18:06

linux-next: manual merge of the device-mapper tree with the block tree
On Tue, Jul 06 2010 at 12:33am -0400, Stephen Rothwell <sfr(a)canb.auug.org.au> wrote: Hi Alasdair, Today's linux-next merge of the device-mapper tree got a conflict in drivers/md/dm.c between commits 9add80db6089272d6bf13ef6b5dc7b3ddda1a887 ("dm: stop using q->prepare_flush_fn") and 5e27e27e73b5bff... 6 Jul 2010 11:09

ipmi:ipmi_si_intf.c Fix warning: variable 'addr_space' set but not used
Well, this patch is incorrect because IPMI_IO_ADDR_SPACE is zero. I'm not sure what your change is trying to accomplish, anyway. This is actually dead code from a previous change, I believe, and just needs to be removed. I did find that document at http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/download/files/unprot/hpspm... 8 Jul 2010 16:58

crypto:hifn_795x.c Fix warning: variable 'ctx' set but not used
On 07/06/2010 12:03 AM, Herbert Xu wrote: Justin P. Mattock<justinmattock(a)gmail.com> wrote: The below fixes a warning message generated by GCC CC [M] drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.o drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c: In function 'hifn_flush': drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c:2021:23: warning: variable 'ctx' set bu... 6 Jul 2010 14:29

perf tools: Fix fallback to cplus_demangle() when bfd_demangle() is not available
Em Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:31:03AM +0200, Conny Seidel escreveu: On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 02:59:04 -0400 Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> wrote: Since 3.81 is the latest Make version and 3.80 is just one step before that, shouldnt we cherry-pick this into perf/urgent? (or is current upstream unaffected?) Cur... 6 Jul 2010 10:03

kernel/watchdog: Initialize 'result'
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 12:00:54PM +0400, Kulikov Vasiliy wrote: Variable on the stack is not initialized to zero, do it explicitly. This patch silences a compiler warning: kernel/watchdog.c:463: warning: 'result' may be used uninitialized in this function Hmm, I thought I fixed that. oh well. ACK. ... 6 Jul 2010 10:03

Problem with tty changes in linux-next
Hi, I just tried to get latest linux-next (HEAD=288092896e2097eebee7d4bf1df9a0c7b550e225) run on my ARM system (a PXA270 base PCM990 board. The board maps its console to its ttyS0. During the tests I experienced two problems with the new shiny bkl-free tty stuff: 1. The tty mutex stuff depends on SMP, which I ... 6 Jul 2010 12:16