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[PATCH 1/7] cachefiles: use path_get instead of lone dget
Dentry references should not be acquired without a corresponding vfsmount ref. CC: David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi(a)suse.cz> --- fs/cachefiles/daemon.c | 26 ++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/fs/cachefil... 6 Jul 2010 14:29

[PATCH 4/7] vfs: __d_path: dont prepend the name of the root dentry
In the old times pseudo-filesystems set the name of theroot dentry to some prefix like "pipe:" and the name of the child dentry to "[123]" and relied on a hack in __d_path() to replace the preceding slash with the root's name to get "pipe:[123]". Then the d_dname() dentry operation was introduced which solved the... 6 Jul 2010 14:29

linux-next: Tree for July 6 (NET_DSA + PHYLIB kconfig)
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:05:19 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi all, Changes since 20100705: My fixes tree contains: kbuild: Fix path to scripts/setlocalversion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- kconfig now detects symbol dependency errors and war... 10 Jul 2010 22:36

Staging: cx25821: fix brace coding style issue in cx25821-audio-upstream.c
> Subject: [PATCH] Staging: cx25821: fix brace coding style issue in cx25821-audio-upstream.c �This is a patch to the cx25821.c file that fixes up a brace warning found by the checkpatch.pl tool �Signed-off-by: Joe Eloff <kagen101(a)gmail.com> --- �drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-audio-upstream.c | � �4 ++... 6 Jul 2010 13:23

[PATCH v2]ipmi:ipmi_si_intf.c Fix warning: variable 'addr_space' set but not used
This is version two of fixing a warning message generated by GCC CC [M] drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.o drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: In function 'try_init_spmi': drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:2016:8: warning: variable 'addr_space' set but not used And also updates a broken web address. Signed-off-... 6 Jul 2010 13:23

[ANNOUNCE] Open CWorthy 07-05-2010
http://cworthylinux.googlecode.com/files/cworthy-07-05-2010.tar.gz FIXES - add redrawwin(stdscr) calls for screen refresh to tag the curses buffer lines as changed during screen refresh to clear system messages TODO: - add all /bin/route and /bin/ifconfig functions to ifcon example - add the sample field tran... 6 Jul 2010 13:23

high power consumption in recent kernels
Dear all, (please CC) it seems that some of the (?)recent(?) changes have increased the power consumption of my note book considerably. First of all, running powertop with normal programs started, but doing nothing, I am still at 14W while I could go down to 9W before (but the 9W was with dimmed display). ... 9 Jul 2010 16:05

msm: gpio: Add set_wake support to msm7200a-gpio's irq_chip.
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 12:25 -0700, Gregory Bean wrote: Add power-management and irq_chip hooks to allow configuration of msm-gpio irq lines as wakeup sources. What level of correlation is there between power management and the wake up hooks? Just irq_masks ? Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list:... 6 Jul 2010 13:23

[PATCH v4 12/12] Send async PF when guest is not in userspace too.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb(a)redhat.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index 95a0a8b..297f399 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -2280,7 +2280,13 @@ static bool can_... 6 Jul 2010 13:23

[PATCH v4 04/12] Provide special async page fault handler when async PF capability is detected
When async PF capability is detected hook up special page fault handler that will handle async page fault events and bypass other page faults to regular page fault handler. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb(a)redhat.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 3 + arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h | 1 + arc... 6 Jul 2010 13:23