Kernel

[PATCH] rtc-isl12022: properly handle military hour format
Hello Wan, hello list members, I found a bug in my rtc-isl12022. Seems I missed to test that driver thoroughly in the afternoons. From 151b7d5413e189ec8f6dd578c253500d8814128e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roman Fietze <roman.fietze(a)telemotive.de> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:32:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] rtc-is... 14 Jul 2010 02:17

ThinkPad T400 : should kernel option "reboot=pci" be hard coded ?
2010/6/9 Toralf F�rster <toralf.foerster(a)gmx.de>: Hi, Matthew Garrett wrote at 16:11:03 On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:22:21AM +0200, Toralf F�rster wrote: Since some kernel version (IIRC since 2.6.31) it is necessary to boot the linux kernel with that option to prevent an extra 9 seconds delay dur... 14 Jul 2010 01:12

kbuild: Enable building defconfigs from Kconfig files
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely(a)secretlab.ca> wrote: I chose to use -D /dev/null (defconfig from an empty file) instead of -n (allnoconfig) so that default values in Kconfig would get respected. �For the benefit of everyone else, here's an excerpt from our IRC conversation thi... 14 Jul 2010 12:04

Crypto: Talitos: Support for Async_tx XOR offload
Hi: I used your patch and test it on MPC8548 board. Today, I found a problem when doing raid5 recovering. talitos e0030000.crypto: master data transfer error talitos e0030000.crypto: xor operation: talitos error -22 ------------[ cut here ]------------ Kernel BUG at c02dcb6c [verbose debug info unavailable] Oo... 14 Jul 2010 00:07

x86: Fix vtime/file timestamp inconsistencies
Hi Due to vtime calling vgettimeofday(), its possible that an application could call time();create("stuff",O_RDRW); only to see the file's creation timestamp to be before the value returned by time. Just dumb question. Almost application are using gettimeofday() instead time(). It mean your fix don'... 15 Jul 2010 16:31

Yama: verify inode is symlink to avoid bind mounts
Quoting Kees Cook (kees.cook(a)canonical.com): The inode_follow_link LSM hook is called in bind mount situations as well as for symlink situations, so we must explicitly check for the inode being a symlink to not reject bind mounts in 1777 directories, Are you sure about that?? If that's true, you might al... 20 Jul 2010 20:10

Regression: 2.6.34 boot fails on E5405 system, bisected: de08e2c26
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:17:18 -0700 Ben Greear <greearb(a)candelatech.com> wrote: On 07/13/2010 05:36 PM, Ben Greear wrote: We're seeing boot failures on multiple machines, running FC8 and F11. I bisected on an FC8 32-bit system. Newer hardware works, but these older ones do not. A console l... 16 Jul 2010 14:20

[PATCH] x86: only set early_serial_base after port is initialized
putchar is using early_serial_base to check if port is initialized. So we only assign it after early_serial_init() is called. in case we need use VGA to debug early serial console. Also add display for port addr and baud. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai(a)kernel.org> --- arch/x86/boot/tty.c | 64... 13 Jul 2010 23:01

pidns: Fix wait for zombies to be reaped in zap_pid_ns_processes
Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling(a)kerlabs.com> writes: This patch looks like it is working (only a small RCU issue shown below). I couldn't try it yet though. It certainly worked in my testing. I must admit that I am using a similar back-off solution in Kerrighed (not to solve the issue of proc_flush_tas... 14 Jul 2010 18:44

KVM: MMU: track dirty page in speculative path properly
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:45:27PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote: In speculative path, the page is not real write-access, no need mark it dirty, so clear dirty bit in this path and later examine this bit when we release the page Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangron... 15 Jul 2010 23:05