Kernel

memblock: Export MEMBLOCK_ERROR again
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:21 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: will used by x86 memblock_x86_find_in_range_node and nobootmem replacement -v2: use 0 instead -1ULL, Suggested by Linus, so we don't need cast them later to unsigned long The patch in its current form is a NAK. You can't just do those two things in on... 28 Jul 2010 06:22

JPEG hw decoder
Hi , My board has a hardware JPEG decoder. I want to write a driver for this in Linux kernel, But it seems there that no Framework exists in kernel. Can somebody provide me some pointers? Thanks in advance. Regards, Rbairva -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i... 28 Jul 2010 16:16

x86, memblock: Add memblock_x86_to_bootmem()
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:43 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: memblock_x86_to_bootmem() will reserve memblock.reserved.region in bootmem after bootmem is +#ifndef CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM +void __init memblock_x86_to_bootmem(u64 start, u64 end) +{ + int count; + u64 final_start, final_end; + struct memblock_regi... 28 Jul 2010 02:03

x86, memblock: Add get_free_all_memory_range()
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:43 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: + /* Take out region array itself at first*/ + if (memblock.reserved.regions != memblock_reserved_init_regions) + memblock_free(__pa(memblock.reserved.regions), sizeof(struct memblock_region) * memblock.reserved.max); + Mo... 28 Jul 2010 16:16

bootmem, x86: Add weak version of reserve_bootmem_generic
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:43 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: It will be used memblock_x86_to_bootmem converting The above doesn't make much sense. Appart from that, no objection. Ben. It is an wrapper for reserve_bootmem, and x86 64bit is using special one. Also clean up that version for x86_64. We don'... 28 Jul 2010 02:03

x86, memblock: Add memblock_x86_find_in_range_size()
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:43 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: size is returned according free range. Will be used to find free ranges for early_memtest and memory corruption check Do not mess it up with lib/memblock.c yet. So I'm readying my branch which incudes your 6 patches, however I'm still not happy with ... 28 Jul 2010 02:03

linux-next: manual merge of the tip tree with the powerpc tree
Hi all, Today's linux-next merge of the tip tree got some complex a conflicts in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c between a couple of commits from the powerpc tree and a set of commits from the tip tree. Since John has posted a new revision of the patches that are in the tip tree that will resolve these conflicts. I... 28 Jul 2010 00:58

linux-next: build failure after merge of the xen tree
Hi all, After merging the xen tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this: arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:71: error: __pcpu_scope_xen_vcpu causes a section type conflict arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:72: error: __pcpu_scope_xen_vcpu_info causes a section type conflict arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:71... 28 Jul 2010 00:58

linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (kgdb tree related)
Hi all, After merging the final tree, next-20100726 build (i386 allmodconfig) failed like this: In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:571, from include/linux/uaccess.h:5, from include/linux/highmem.h:6, from include/linux/pagemap.h:10, ... 28 Jul 2010 00:58

x86, vdso: Error out if the vdso contains external references
Hi, On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:16:05 GMT "tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin" <hpa(a)linux.intel.com> wrote: diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/checkundef.sh b/arch/x86/vdso/checkundef.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..490be1c --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/checkundef.sh @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +#!/bin/sh +nm=... 27 Jul 2010 23:53