Kernel

[cpufreq] powernow-k8: add core performance boost support
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:58:27 -0600 Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf(a)amd.com> wrote: From 7b1c9670d8f04d67cde9f810ef462ec8a8d3adbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf(a)amd.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:33:43 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] powernow-k8: add core performance boost support ... 4 Mar 2010 16:56

[PATCH 1/2] vhost - Fix error path in vhost_net_set_backend
commit 7bee327f8020f81a52ecb362f1fec7a4494dc98b Author: Jeff Dike <jdike(a)localhost.localdomain> Date: Thu Mar 4 14:48:38 2010 -0500 Fix vhost_net_set_backend error path An error could cause vhost_net_set_backend to exit without unlocking vq->mutex. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@l... 4 Mar 2010 16:56

DMA using data buffer vmapped in kernel space
Hi, I am writing a driver that loads a firmware blob into its device. The driver calls request_firmware() and gets a struct firmware * that contains a data buffer pointer in its 'data' member. The buffer is then passed to a SPI driver to send it to the device. The SPI driver uses DMA and, in preparation for th... 9 Mar 2010 05:38

[PATCH 2/2] vhost - cleanup
commit 1191aa42193d030470dbd4ab17e4fb57772534ff Author: Jeff Dike <jdike(a)localhost.localdomain> Date: Thu Mar 4 14:51:20 2010 -0500 Delete a label and goto from vhost_net_set_backend Inverting a test allows a label and goto to be eliminated. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike(a)linux.intel.c... 4 Mar 2010 16:56

pid_ns: zap_pid_ns_processes: use SEND_SIG_NOINFO instead of force_sig()
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ... 4 Mar 2010 16:56

Webmail Quota Has Exceeded The Set Limit?
Your mailbox has exceeded the storage limit which is 20GB as set by your administrator,you are currently running on 20.9GB,you may not be able to send or receive new mail until you re-validate your mailbox.To re-validate your mailbox please CL <http://2xwdm.9hz.com/> ICK HERE : Thanks System Administrator . -- ... 4 Mar 2010 15:48

Weirdness in patch
Greg: In my copy of gregkh-all-2.6.33.patch (which is dated 2010-03-01), there are changes to drivers/base/power/main.c, coming from the gregkh-05-driver-core/driver-core-create-lock-unlock-functions-for-struct-device patch. The first weird thing is this. That file as it currently exists on www.kernel.org... 5 Mar 2010 10:32

[RELEASE] Userspace RCU 0.4.2
Hello, I just released liburcu 0.4.2. It includes patches from Paolo Bonzini which adds generic uatomic ops support for architectures not explicitely supported by liburcu. So, basically, we get ia64 and alpha support for free when the compiler used is gcc 4.0-4.5. It comes with a huge cleanup and refactoring, rem... 4 Mar 2010 15:48

xen: Make event channel work with PV extension of HVM
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: I think you need to expand this comment to explain the consequences of this change on SMP bringup and timers. I still don't see why there are (or should be) any differences from PV cpu bringup, aside from the tiny details of syscall setup (and MTRR I guess... 4 Mar 2010 14:39

[PATCH 1/1] perf: add support for arch-dependent symbolic event names to "perf stat"
On 3/3/2010 6:30 PM, Corey Ashford wrote: For your review, this patch adds support for arch-dependent symbolic event names to the "perf stat" tool, and could be expanded to other "perf *" commands fairly easily, I suspect. To support arch-dependent event names without adding arch-dependent code to per... 16 Mar 2010 15:05