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staging: ti dspbridge: fix compilation error
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Rene Sapiens <rene.sapiens(a)ti.com> wrote: This patch fix a compilation error in uuid_hex_to_bin due to the patch "simplify and clean up" Signed-off-by: Rene Sapiens <rene.sapiens(a)ti.com> Oh, previous version of patch was sent. Thanks for fix. ACK. ---  drivers/st... 9 Jul 2010 20:33

do_coredump: do not take BKL
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 12:02:25AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: core_pattern is not actually protected and hasn't been ever since we introduced procfs support for sysctl -- a _long_ time. Don't take it here either. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> --- Applied in bkl/core, thanks. -... 9 Jul 2010 20:32

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[patch 12/20] ring buffer backend
Ring buffer backend, with page allocation, data read/write API, cpu hotplug management. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers(a)efficios.com> --- include/linux/ringbuffer/backend.h | 141 +++++ include/linux/ringbuffer/backend_internal.h | 418 +++++++++++++++ include/linux/ringbuffer/ba... 9 Jul 2010 19:26

[PATCH] staging: ti dspbridge: fix compilation error
This patch fix a compilation error in uuid_hex_to_bin due to the patch "simplify and clean up" Signed-off-by: Rene Sapiens <rene.sapiens(a)ti.com> --- drivers/staging/tidspbridge/gen/uuidutil.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) mode change 100644 => 100755 drivers/staging/tidspbridge/ge... 9 Jul 2010 19:26

futex: convert hash_bucket locks to raw_spinlock_t
This version pulls in the bits mistakenly left in 3/4. From 9f8b4faac79518f98131464c2d21a1c64fb841d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Darren Hart <dvhltc(a)us.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:44:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 4/4 V2] futex: convert hash_bucket locks to raw_spinlock_t The requeue_pi mechanism introduc... 13 Jul 2010 04:20

futex: free_pi_state outside of hb->lock sections
Apologies, mangled a rebase and this patch had bits of 4/4 in it. Corrected below: From f40b8e684df6ed2b1ba9167cad3922ab43f4a717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Darren Hart <dvhltc(a)us.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:07:10 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 3/4 V2] futex: free_pi_state outside of hb->lock sections free_... 12 Jul 2010 07:24

[PATCH 0/4][RT] futex: fix tasks blocking on two rt_mutex locks
This patch-set address the following problem reported by Mike Galbraith: Stress testing, looking to trigger RCU stalls, I've managed to find a way to repeatably create fireworks. (got RCU stall, see attached) 1. download ltp-full-20100630. Needs to be this version because of testcase bustage in earl... 9 Jul 2010 19:26

[PATCH 4/4] futex: convert hash_bucket locks to raw_spinlock_t
The requeue_pi mechanism introduced proxy locking of the rtmutex. This creates a scenario where a task can wake-up, not knowing it has been enqueued on an rtmutex. In order to detect this, the task would have to be able to take either task->pi_blocked_on->lock->wait_lock and/or the hb->lock. Unfortunately, withou... 9 Jul 2010 19:26

[PATCH 3/4] futex: free_pi_state outside of hb->lock sections
free_pi_state() calls kfree() and might sleep. To prepare for raw hb->locks, get the calls to free_pi_state() out of the hb->lock() sections. Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc(a)us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> Cc: Eric... 9 Jul 2010 19:26