Kernel

fixed resource leak in scripts/mod/modpost.c
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:38:43 +0300 Alexey Fomenko <ext-alexey.fomenko(a)nokia.com> wrote: sec2annotation returns malloc'ed buffer directly to printf as an argument. Patch lets free this buffer after printing. [0001-fixed-resource-leak-in-scripts-mod-modpost.c.patch text/x-patch (5.3KB)] From 57b... 10 Aug 2010 09:06

linux-next: Tree for August 4, add a new git tree please?
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 06:23:50PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 03:10:35PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi all, As the merge window is open, please do not add 2.6.27 material to your linux-next included trees until after 2.6.36-rc1. Ugh. Resending as I didn't ... 5 Aug 2010 11:20

[PATCH] platform: Facilitate the creation of pseduo-platform busses
Inspiration for this comes from: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap(a)vger.kernel.org/msg31161.html RFC: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/3/496 Patch is unchanged from the RFC. Reviews seemed generally positive and it seemed this was desired functionality. INTRO As SOCs become more popular, the desire to quick... 4 Aug 2010 19:04

hibernation: freeze swap at hibernation v2
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:57:39 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu(a)jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: At taking memory snapshot in hibernate_snapshot(), all (directly called) memory allocator uses GFP_ATOMIC. And it seems swap-misusage during hibernation never occurs. But, from pessimistic point of view, there... 4 Aug 2010 21:16

NET_NS: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free (after using openvpn)
Greg KH <greg(a)kroah.com> writes: On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 03:35:43PM +0200, Michael Leun wrote: Hi, On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:29:39 +0200 Michael Leun <lkml20100708(a)newton.leun.net> wrote: [...] Jul 10 20:02:36 doris kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usa... 5 Aug 2010 06:57

Adding four writeback files in /proc/sys/vm
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 15:19:07 -0700 Michael Rubin <mrubin(a)google.com> wrote: Patch #1 sets up some helper functions for accounting. Patch #2 adds some writeback files for visibility To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback behaviour adding four read-only sysctl files into... 4 Aug 2010 21:16

[PATCH 1/2] x86, acpi: merge two register_lapic_address()
They are the same, move it to apic.c Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai(a)kernel.org> --- arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 16 ++-------------- arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 12 ++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c | 12 ------------ 4 files changed, 15 insertion... 4 Aug 2010 19:04

x86/apic: Map the local apic when parsing the MP table.
On 08/04/2010 01:30 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: This fixes a regression in 2.6.35 from 2.6.34, that is present for select models of Intel cpus when people are using an MP table. The commit cf7500c0ea133d66f8449d86392d83f840102632 "x86, ioapic: In mpparse use mp_register_ioapic" started callin... 4 Aug 2010 19:04

[PATCHv3 14/16] pps: add kernel consumer support
Add an optional feature of PPSAPI, kernel consumer support, which uses the added hardpps() function. Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine(a)lvk.cs.msu.su> --- Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt | 2 +- drivers/pps/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/pps/kapi.c | 23 ++++++++++... 4 Aug 2010 17:59

[PATCHv3 15/16] pps: add parallel port PPS client
Add parallel port PPS client. It uses a standard method for capturing timestamps for assert edge transitions: getting a timestamp soon after an interrupt has happened. This is not a very precise source of time information due to interrupt handling delays. However, timestamps for clear edge transitions are much more... 4 Aug 2010 17:59