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x86: fix ordering constraints on crX read/writes
On 07/14/2010 12:12 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Change d3ca901f94b3299 introduces a new mechanism for sequencing accesses to the control registers using a variable to act as a dependency. (However, the patch description only says it is unifying parts of system.h and makes no mention of this new code.) ... 15 Jul 2010 16:31

[GIT PULL 0/1] perf/core improvements
Hi Ingo, Please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 perf/core Regards, - Arnaldo Matt Fleming (1): perf tools: Add DWARF register lookup for SH tools/perf/arch/sh/Makefile | 4 ++ tools/perf/arch/sh/util/dwarf-regs.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++... 14 Jul 2010 20:55

Bugzilla # 16395: Regression in 2.6.35-rc4 since commit 0b28bac5aef7bd1ab213723df031e61db9ff151a on HP Mini 110 Netbook
On Wednesday, July 14, 2010 04:58:39 pm Larry Finger wrote: Since the commit in the title, a kernel built on an HP Mini 110 Netbook no longer has keyboard input. The main difference is that CONFIG_SERIO_I8042 is no longer defined. When this equal yes, the keyboard works. The faulty commit was located by bis... 14 Jul 2010 20:55

slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote: If a slab cache is removed before we have setup sysfs then simply skip over the sysfs handling. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh(a)kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier(a)cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl(a)linux-foundation.org> Acke... 3 Aug 2010 01:40

driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:54:50 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)suse.de> wrote: This is no longer needed by any userspace tools, so it's safe to remove. Makes my FC6 test box not boot - can't find /dev/root. Then when I go back to plain old mainline (2.6.35-rc5) and run `make oldconfig', the ..config change... 23 Jul 2010 09:11

Linux 2.6.28.10 and Linux 2.6.29.6 XEN Guest Support Broken x86_64 in BUILD
[root(a)cloudstream linux-2.6.29.6]# [root(a)cloudstream linux-2.6.29.6]# [root(a)cloudstream linux-2.6.29.6]# [root(a)cloudstream linux-2.6.29.6]# make bzImage modules modules_install install CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86 CALL script... 14 Jul 2010 19:50

[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.2.rc3
A release candidate Git 1.7.2.rc3 is available at the usual places for testing: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.7.2.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.7.2.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.7.2.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary p... 14 Jul 2010 19:50

[PATCH] drm/i830: fixed brace and spacing coding style issues
Fixed brace and spacing coding style issues. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai(a)nikai.net> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i830/i830_dma.c | 95 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------- drivers/gpu/drm/i830/i830_drv.h | 48 ++++++++++--------- drivers/gpu/drm/i830/i830_irq.c | 10 ++-- 3 files changed, 74 insertion... 14 Jul 2010 18:44

[PATCH] x86: fix ordering constraints on crX read/writes
Change d3ca901f94b3299 introduces a new mechanism for sequencing accesses to the control registers using a variable to act as a dependency. (However, the patch description only says it is unifying parts of system.h and makes no mention of this new code.) This sequencing implementation is flawed in two ways: - ... 14 Jul 2010 18:44

slub: Check kasprintf results in kmem_cache_init()
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote: Small allocations may fail during slab bringup which is fatal. Add a BUG_ON() so that we fail immediately rather than failing later during sysfs processing. CC: David Rientjes <rientjes(a)google.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl(a)linux-foundation.or... 14 Jul 2010 18:44