Kernel

[PATCH 3/4] padata: Check for valid cpumasks
Now that we allow to change the cpumasks from userspace, we have to check for valid cpumasks in padata_do_parallel. This patch adds the necessary check. This fixes a division by zero crash if the parallel cpumask contains no active cpu. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert(a)secunet.com> --- kernel/... 20 Jul 2010 03:45

[PATCH 0/4] padata/pcrypt: fixes
This patchset contains the following fixes: 1. padata - Fix a potential hang of the parallel worker threads on cpu hotplug. 2. padata - Fix two NULL pointer dereference crashes if one of the padata cpumasks is empty. The crashes can be triggered by doing echo 0 > /sys/kernel/pcrypt/pencrypt/[parallel_cpumask/s... 20 Jul 2010 03:45

[PATCH] KVM: PIT: free irq source id in handling error path
Free irq source id if create pit workqueue fail Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c index 0fd6378..211716f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c ... 20 Jul 2010 02:41

linux-next: Tree for July 20
Hi all, Changes since 20100719: New tree: limits The vfs tree still has its build failure for which I applied a merge fix patch. The i2c tree lost its conflict. The net tree gained a conflict against the net-current tree. The limits tree gained conflicts against the fsnotify and tile trees. The wo... 20 Jul 2010 02:41

linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (workqueues tree related)
Hi Tejun, After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc allnoconfig) failed like this: kernel/workqueue.c: In function 'alloc_cwqs': kernel/workqueue.c:2634: error: 'CONFIG_SMP' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/workqueue.c: In function 'free_cwqs': kernel/workqueue.c:2659: erro... 20 Jul 2010 04:50

drivers/acpi/acpica/utmisc.c: Use printk extension %pV
From: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:06:07 -0700 Consolidates the printk messages to a single call so the messages can not be interleaved. Reduces text a bit. $ size drivers/acpi/acpica/utmisc.o.* text data bss dec hex filename 7822 56 1... 20 Jul 2010 14:40

[PATCH net-next] drivers/acpi/acpica/utmisc.c: Use printk extension %pV
Consolidates the printk messages to a single call so the messages can not be interleaved. Reduces text a bit. $ size drivers/acpi/acpica/utmisc.o.* text data bss dec hex filename 7822 56 1832 9710 25ee drivers/acpi/acpica/utmisc.o.old 7748 56 1736 9540 2544 ... 20 Jul 2010 01:37

documentation: fix almost duplicate filenames (io/IO-mapping.txt)
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:27:13 -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> wrote: (hopefully I got this right. �I'm not a big git user.) Hmm. No. The commit otherwise looks correct, but the commit message is buggered. The first line o... 20 Jul 2010 01:37

[PATCH] staging/wlags49_h2: remove unused function prototype
With today linux-next I got a compile error in staging/wlags49_h2 driver due an unused function prototype that use a data type (event_callback_args_t) that doesn't exist anymore in the pcmcia code. Current patch solves the issue removing the function prototype. Thanks a lot. Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Ca... 20 Jul 2010 01:37

linux-next: manual merge of the workqueues tree with the tip tree
Hi Tejun, Today's linux-next merge of the workqueues tree got a conflict in include/linux/workqueue.h between commit a25909a4d4a29e272f953e12595bf2f04a292dbd ("lockdep: Add an in_workqueue_context() lockdep-based test function") from the tip tree and commit a0a1a5fd4fb15ec61117c759fe9f5c16c53d9e9c ("workqueue: ... 20 Jul 2010 01:37