Kernel

linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (block tree related)
On Friday 09 July 2010, Stephen Rothwell wrote: I applied the following patch for today: From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr(a)canb.auug.org.au> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 14:24:38 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] block: fix for block tracing build error block/compat_ioctl.c: In function 'compat_blkdev_ioctl': block... 9 Jul 2010 09:25

pidns: Remove proc flush races when a pid namespaces are exiting.
On 08/07/10 21:39 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Currently it is possible to put proc_mnt before we have flushed the last process that will use the proc_mnt to flush it's proc entries. This race is fixed by not flushing proc entries for dead pid namespaces, and calling pid_ns_release_proc unconditi... 9 Jul 2010 10:33

perf probe: Fix error message if get_real_path() failed
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 18:28 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: Perf probe -L shows incorrect error message (Dwarf error) if it fails to find source file. This can confuse users. # ./perf probe -s /nowhere -L vfs_read Debuginfo analysis failed. (-2) Error: Failed to show lines. (-2) With this pat... 15 Jul 2010 13:11

Dynamic Debug lib: Fix memory corruption for specific module declarations
From: Jason Baron <jbaron(a)redhat.com> Make sure we properly call ddebug_remove_module() when a module fails to load. In addition, pass the pointer to the "debug table", to both ddebug_add_module(), and ddebug_remove_module() so that we can uniquely identify each set of debug statements. In this way even modules w... 9 Jul 2010 08:20

[PATCH -next] wl1271: use __packed annotation
This patch changes __attribute__ ((packed)) annotations to __packed in wl1271 code that was introduced in a recent patch in wireless-testing. Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr(a)canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho(a)nokia.com> --- drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_acx.h | 2 +- drivers/net... 9 Jul 2010 08:20

[PATCH] edd: fix possible memory leak in edd_init() error path
The error may happen at any iteration of the for loop, this patch properly unregisters already registed edd_devices in error path. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/firmware/edd.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++------- 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/fir... 9 Jul 2010 07:14

vmscan: stop meaningless loop iteration when no reclaimable slab
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:13 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: If number of reclaimable slabs are zero, shrink_icache_memory() and shrink_dcache_memory() return 0. but strangely shrink_slab() ignore it and continue meaningless loop iteration. This patch fixes it. Signed-of... 9 Jul 2010 07:14

perf pmu interface changes -v3
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 10:21 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Because I'm full of fail today and again had wandering hunks: Patches also available in git format for easy testing (tip/master + patches): git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-perf.git perf-pmu The new HEAD should be... 9 Jul 2010 20:33

Solo6010 staging driver - kernel panic
Hello Ben, I'm trying to use your solo6x10 driver with a card based on 6010 chip. The driver seems to detect the card correctly, but when I open /dev/video0 and then close it, I got a kernel panic. I traced the problem to invalid pointers in q->bufs[i]->queue in a call to videobuf_queue_cancel(). The kernel i... 17 Jul 2010 05:32

Badness at fs/sysfs/symlink.c:82 during qeth initalization
Eric W. Biederman wrote: With today's next(20100709) qeth interface fails to initialize with following Badness message: sysfs: symlink across ns_types 0.0.6000/net:eth0 -> net/eth0 Is this with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED set? I think I may have made my warning check a little extra... 9 Jul 2010 14:59