Kernel

futex: protect against pi_blocked_on corruption during requeue PI -V2
On 07/13/2010 04:52 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote: This code causes braindamage. I really wonder whether we need to remove it according to the "United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment". O... 13 Jul 2010 15:20

kdb: ll command won't terminate
Hi Jason, A question, please, about a patch similar to the below that Martin Hicks sent, around 5/26/2010. Martin is on vacation, and suse is wondering whether the below change is queued for 2.6.35. I can't find anything about it. Could you tell me its status? Thanks. -Cliff Signed-off-by: M... 13 Jul 2010 15:20

[PATCH] trace-cmd: Don't SIGSEGV when event field format cannot be parsed.
From the MIPS kernel we get things like: print fmt: "page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d migratetype=%d", REC->page, ({ struct page *__pg = (REC->page); int __sec = page_to_section(__pg); (unsigned long)(__pg - __section_mem_map_addr(__nr_to_section(__sec))); }), REC->order, REC->migratetype This cannot be parsed, leading t... 13 Jul 2010 15:20

ext2: return -ENODATA for NULL i_file_acl in ext2_xattr_list
On 2010-07-13, at 08:55, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote: In ext2_xattr_list, if (!EXT2_I(inode)->i_file_acl) is true, we should return -ENODATA instead of 0. @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ ext2_xattr_list(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, size_t buffer_size) down_read(&EXT2_I(inode)->xattr_sem); ... 13 Jul 2010 15:20

slob_free:free objects to their own list
Hi Bob, [ Please CC me on SLOB patches. You can use the 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl' script to figure out automatically who to CC on your patches. ] On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Bob Liu <lliubbo(a)gmail.com> wrote: slob has alloced smaller objects from their own list in reduce overall external fragmenta... 16 Jul 2010 04:29

[GIT PULL] KVM updates for 2.6.35-rc4
Linus, please pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git kvm-updates/2.6.35 To receive the following updates: Avi Kivity (1): KVM: VMX: Fix host MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE corruption Xiao Guangrong (1): KVM: MMU: flush remote tlbs when overwriting spte with different pfn arch/x8... 13 Jul 2010 14:14

[PATCH] Yama: turn process ancestry check into function
This cleans up the ancestry check by separating it out into its own function, which makes the code a bit more readable. Additionally, it now checks for and uses the thread group leader since otherwise we may end up missing potential matches on attaches to threads. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook(a)canonical.co... 13 Jul 2010 14:14

[PATCH] input: Add pwm beeper driver
This patch adds a simple driver which allows to use pwm based beepers (for example piezo elements) as a pcspkr-like device. Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars(a)metafoo.de> --- drivers/input/misc/Kconfig | 11 ++ drivers/input/misc/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/input/misc/pwm-beeper.c | 197 ++++++... 13 Jul 2010 14:13

2.6.33.6-rt26
Hi, Enjoy ! I hit this with rt26. (Quite possible is on vanilla as well, will build a kernel soemtime soon and try) ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.33.6-rt26 #36 ------------------------------------------------------... 19 Jul 2010 02:42

x86, paravirt: Add a global synchronization point for pvclock
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Avi Kivity <avi(a)redhat.com> wrote: On 07/13/2010 05:19 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: So it looks like last_value was placed in a read only section.  Please post your System.map somewhere. weasel(a)intrepid:~$ publish System.map http://asteria.noreply.org... 27 Jul 2010 15:03