Kernel

[GIT PULL] UBIFS changes for 2.6.36
Hi Linus, Please, pull the UBIFS tree from: The following changes since commit 7e27d6e778cd87b6f2415515d7127eba53fe5d02: Linux 2.6.35-rc3 (2010-06-11 19:14:04 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6.git linux-next Artem Bityutskiy (2): UBIFS: check ret... 3 Aug 2010 05:58

DMAENGINE: add runtime slave config to DMA40 v2
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij(a)stericsson.com> wrote: This extends the DMA engine driver for the DMA40 used in the U8500 platform with the generic runtime slave configuration interface. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij(a)stericsson.com> --- What am I missin... 4 Aug 2010 08:08

[GIT PULL] KVM updates for the 2.6.36 merge window
Linus, please pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git kvm-updates/2.6.36 to receive the KVM updates for the 2.6.36 cycle. No major features: mostly improved mmu and emulator correctness, some performance improvements, and support for guest XSAVE and AVX. Alex Williamson (1): K... 3 Aug 2010 04:54

[PATCH] ucb1400_core: avoid calling platform_device_put() twice in ucb1400_core_probe error path
In the case of goto err2, what we want is to call platform_device_del() instead of platform_device_unregister(). Otherwise, we call platform_device_put() twice. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/mfd/ucb1400_core.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git ... 3 Aug 2010 04:54

x86/pvticketlock: keep count of blocked cpus
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 18:03 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ typedef struct arch_spinlock { __ticket_t head, tail; } tickets; }; +#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS + __ticket_t waiting; +#endif } arch_spinlock_t; This b... 3 Aug 2010 12:33

kexec: set prstatus.pr_pid to cpu id when current->pid is 0
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:15:04AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Hui Zhu <teawater(a)gmail.com> writes: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 15:37, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm(a)xmission.com> wrote: Hui Zhu <teawater(a)gmail.com> writes: Equal 0 is not a bug, the trouble is a lot of core's pid is same. ... 3 Aug 2010 04:54

Change struct flchip_shared spinlock locking into mutex
On Monday 02 August 2010, stefani(a)seibold.net wrote: 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. I don't know this code well, but the patch loo... 5 Aug 2010 06:57

cgroup : make the mount options parsing more accurate
Cc: Andrew Serge E. Hallyn wrote: The actual code does not detect 'all' with one subsystem name, which is IMHO mutually exclusive and when an option is specified even if it is not a subsystem name, we have to specify the 'all' option with the other option. eg: not detected : mount -t cgroup -o all... 3 Aug 2010 04:54

cgroup : add clone_children control file
Cc: Andrew Morton (to pick up those patches) Serge E. Hallyn wrote: This patch is sent as an answer to a previous thread around the ns_cgroup. https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018627.html It adds a control file 'clone_children' for a cgroup. This control file is a... 3 Aug 2010 04:54

kexec: set prstatus.pr_pid to cpu id when current->pid is 0
Hui Zhu <teawater(a)gmail.com> writes: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 15:37, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm(a)xmission.com> wrote: Hui Zhu <teawater(a)gmail.com> writes: Equal 0 is not a bug, the trouble is a lot of core's pid is same. This is what gdb say: /* Found an old thread with the same id. It has to... 3 Aug 2010 04:54