Kernel

KVM: SVM: Check for nested vmrun intercept before emulating vmrun
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 06:18:09PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/02/2010 05:46 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: This patch lets the nested vmrun fail if the L1 hypervisor has not intercepted vmrun. This fixes the "vmrun intercept check" unit test. + static bool nested_svm_vmrun(struct vcpu_svm *svm... 2 Aug 2010 16:58

[GIT PULL for 2.6.36] V4L/DVB updates
Linus, Please pull from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6.git v4l_for_2.6.35 This is the LIRC pull request ;) After years of being maintained out-of-tree and being merged on almost all distros, it is finally ready for its addition upstream. The core got converted to work tog... 2 Aug 2010 16:58

[PATCH] mm: only build per-node scan_unevictable when NUMA is enabled
Non-NUMA systems do never create these files anyway, since they are only created by driver subsystem when NUMA is configured. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo(a)holoscopio.com> --- include/linux/swap.h | 5 +++++ mm/vmscan.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deleti... 2 Aug 2010 16:58

[PATCH] Staging: wlan-ng: remove typedef in p80211hdr.h
This patch removes the only typedef in p80211hdr.h. Signed-off-by: Edgardo Hames <ehames(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/cfg80211.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211msg.h | 4 ++-- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.h | 2 +- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211req.c | 6 +++--- ... 2 Aug 2010 16:58

acpi: x2apic entry with uid < 255 could use processor statement
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha(a)intel.com> wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 07:51 +0100, Yinghai Lu wrote: According to Intel x2apic spec page 46 " The hand-off to OSPM will have processor IDs in the range of 0 to 254 for xAPIC/x2APIC and 0 to 255 for SAPIC declared a... 2 Aug 2010 16:58

bio, fs: update READA and SWRITE to match the corresponding BIO_RW_* bits
On 08/02/2010 04:17 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: Aieee... thanks for root causing it Neil. That was a stupid bug. I knew that READ/WRITE were hardcoded but forgot about READA. :-( Moving BIO_RW_AHEAD back to bit 1 might be a better solution but I'm afraid that would cause more confusions downstream. This patch ... 2 Aug 2010 16:58

[GIT PULL] 9p file system changes for the 2.6.36 merge window
Linus, Please pull the following changes which represent the 9p changes for the 2.6.36 merge window. The bulk of the changes are related to support for a new Linux-specific variant of the 9P2000 protocol (9P2000.L) which include new extensions supporting extended attributes, and tighter mapped bindings for t... 2 Aug 2010 16:58

6175ddf06b6172046a329e3abfd9c901a43efd2e breaks matroxfb console
Hello, matroxfb (at least with Mystique and Mystique 220) stopped working in 2.6.34 - the screen is completely corrupted. Bisection shows that 6175ddf06b6172046a329e3abfd9c901a43efd2e is first bad commit. Reverting 6175ddf06b6172046a329e3abfd9c901a43efd2e in 2.6.34 fixes the problem (1c5b9069e12e20d2fe883076a... 3 Aug 2010 14:45

[PATCH] Change struct flchip_shared spinlock locking into mutex
From: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> This patch prevent to schedule while atomic by changing the flchip_shared spinlock into a mutex. This should be save since no atomic path will use this lock. This patch is based on linux kernel 2.6.35. Please apply. It was requested by Arnd Bergmann and Vasiliy Kul... 2 Aug 2010 15:52

[tip:timers/core] clockevents: Remove the per cpu tick skew
Commit-ID: af5ab277ded04bd9bc6b048c5a2f0e7d70ef0867 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/af5ab277ded04bd9bc6b048c5a2f0e7d70ef0867 Author: Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)infradead.org> AuthorDate: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:02:10 -0700 Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> CommitDate: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 21:45:58 +0... 2 Aug 2010 15:52