[PATCH] ACPI / PM: Move ACPI video resume to a PM notifier
There is a problem with the ACPI video resume routine that it's executed before the GPU that may be accessed by it. To fix this issue, move the ACPI video resume to a power management notifier, so that it's executed after resuming all devices, including the GPU. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw(a)sisk.pl> --... 3 Mar 2010 19:47
drm/i915: blacklist lid status: Sony VGN-BX196VP, Dell Inspiron 700m
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:59:52 +0200, Surbhi Palande <surbhi.palande(a)canonical.com> wrote: BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/515246 Sony VGN-BX196VP and Dell Inspiron 700m report lid status as closed when it is open. This leads to a "no connectors reported" error at startup. Blacklisting them, to a... 5 Mar 2010 03:57
KVM: SVM: Report Nested Paging support to userspace
On 03.03.2010, at 20:12, Joerg Roedel wrote: This patch implements the reporting of the nested paging feature support to userspace. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel(a)amd.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/... 3 Mar 2010 19:47
replace DECLARE_DMA_UNMAP_ADD_{ADDR,LEN} with DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_ADD_{ADDR,LEN}
On 03/02/10 20:50, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: Seems that you missed the following patch? http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/13/2 This can be fold into dma-mappingh-add-the-dma_unmap-state-api.patch. Thanks, = From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> Subject: [PATCH -mm] replace DE... 3 Mar 2010 19:47
[PATCH] mm/highmem.c: Fix ‘pkmap_count’ undeclared
This fixes the following problem that occurs when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y mm/highmem.c:534: error: 'pkmap_count' undeclared (first use in this function) Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur(a)redhat.com> --- mm/highmem.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/highmem.c b/mm/highme... 3 Mar 2010 18:39
epoll clarification sought: multithreaded epoll_wait for UDP sockets?
Dear kernel people, dear Davide, I am currently debugging performance issues in the PowerDNS Recursor, and it turns out I have been using epoll_wait() sub-optimally. And I need your help to improve this. I'm more than happy to update the epoll_wait() manpage to reflect your advice. Essentially, what I would li... 4 Mar 2010 11:12
perf, x86: Implement simple LBR support
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl> wrote: Implement support for Intel LBR stacks that support FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI. We do not (yet?) support the LBR config register because that is SMT wide and would also put undue restraints on the PEBS users. You're saying PEBS users... 4 Mar 2010 16:56
Selinux: Remove unused headers skbuff.h in selinux/nlmsgtab.c
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, wzt.wzt(a)gmail.com wrote: skbuff.h is already included by netlink.h, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang <zhitong.wangzt(a)alibaba-inc.com> Applied to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next-queue FWIW, next-queue is where patches are... 3 Mar 2010 17:32
[PATCH -tip] x86: Issue at least one memory barrier in stop_machine_text_poke().
Fix stop_machine_text_poke() to issue smp_mb() before exiting waiting loop, and use cpu_relax() for waiting. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat(a)redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers(a)efficios.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron(a)redhat.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/al... 3 Mar 2010 17:32
[PATCH -tip 2/2] x86: Issue at least one memory barrier in stop_machine_text_poke().
Fix stop_machine_text_poke() to issue smp_mb() before exiting waiting loop. Also, use ACCESS_ONCE() to check a flag according to Mathieu's comment. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat(a)redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers(a)efficios.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron... 3 Mar 2010 17:32