Kernel

[PATCH 0/3] staging wlan-ng: refactor p80211wext.c & 1 minor fix
Here are 3 patches to tidy up the wlan-ng wext interface, reducing text size & LOC. They've been tested on my x86_32 laptop and it all seems to work correctly. All patches against 2.6.34-rc1. staging wlan-ng: p80211wext.c tidy up iw_handler staging wlan-ng: p80211wext.c fix p80211wext_mhz_to_channel for c... 17 Mar 2010 11:21

doc: add the documentation for mpol=local
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 14:53 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: commit 3f226aa1c (mempolicy: support mpol=local tmpfs mount option) added new mpol=local mount option. but it didn't add a documentation. This patch does it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thi... 17 Mar 2010 11:21

[PATCH 2/3] staging wlan-ng: fix p80211wext_mhz_to_channel for channel 14
Channel 14 is 2484 Mhz (cf p80211wext_channel_to_mhz) so this patch corrects what seems to be just a typo. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard(a)rsk.demon.co.uk> --- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211wext.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211w... 17 Mar 2010 11:21

[PATCH] vhost: fix error handling in vring ioctls
Stanse found a locking problem in vhost_set_vring: several returns from VHOST_SET_VRING_KICK, VHOST_SET_VRING_CALL, VHOST_SET_VRING_ERR with the vq->mutex held. Fix these up. Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby(a)gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst(a)redhat.com> --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 18 +++++... 17 Mar 2010 11:21

[PATCH] perf: fix stat attach bogus counts
When perf stat -p pid is used, the events must be enabled immediately as there is no exec and thus no enable_on_exec. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian(a)google.com> -- builtin-stat.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/... 17 Mar 2010 11:21

tmpfs: fix oops on mounts with mpol=default
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 14:49 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: ChangeLog from Ravikiran's original one - Fix the patch description. the problem is in mount, not only remount. - Skip mpol_new() simply, instead adding NULL check. ========================= From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran(a)scalex86... 17 Mar 2010 11:21

tmpfs: mpol=bind:0 don't cause mount error.
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 14:50 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: Currently, following mount operation cause mount error. % mount -t tmpfs -ompol=bind:0 none /tmp Because commit 71fe804b6d5 (mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in shmem_sb_info) corrupted MPOL_BIND parse code. This patch restore t... 17 Mar 2010 11:21

[BUG-REPORT] [PREEMPT_RT] Build break with DRM_I915 and HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP
This is a compile failure on 2.6.33.1-rt9 on x86 ERROR: "iounmap_atomic" [drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko] undefined! ERROR: "iomap_atomic_prot_pfn" [drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko] undefined! Analysis: i915_drv.c and i915_gem.c include i915_drv.h which includes io_mapping.h file: io_mapping.h has function ... 17 Mar 2010 10:12

[PATCH 17/17] Staging: comedi: fix indent coding style issue in adl_pci9118.c
Patch to the adl_pci9118.c that fixes, ERROR: code indent should use tabs where possible, found by the checkpatch.pl tool Signed-off-by: Maurice Dawson <mauricedawson2699(a)googlemail.com> --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/adl_pci9118.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(... 17 Mar 2010 10:12

cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression
On Tue, Mar 16 2010, Shaohua Li wrote: Alex Shi reported a kbuild regression which is about 10% performance lost. He bisected to this commit: 3dde36ddea3e07dd025c4c1ba47edec91606fec0. The reason is cfqq_close() can't find close cooperator. If we store the seek distance to the value before the commit like be... 19 Mar 2010 04:54