Kernel

oprofile, perf, x86: introduce new functions to reserve perfctrs by index
Robert Richter <robert.richter(a)amd.com> writes: Current perfctr reservation code allocates single pmu msrs. The msr addresses may differ depending on the model and offset calculation is necessary. This can be easier implemented by reserving a counter by its index only. Sorry reviewing old patch. This d... 25 Mar 2010 16:13

[PATCH] staging:cx25821:fixes coding styles in cx25821-i2c.c
From: sai <sai(a)sai-desktop.(none)> This is a patch to the cx25821-i2c.c file that fixes warning and errors found by checkpatch.pl tool Signed-off-by: sai<tsg321(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-i2c.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/st... 20 Mar 2010 01:45

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[PATCH] Wireless: Make cfg80211_dev_rename() check sscanf return value in net/wireless/core.c
Make cfg80211_dev_rename() check sscanf return value. Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang <zhitong.wangzt(a)alibaba-inc.com> --- net/wireless/core.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c index 80afacd..8e815b4 100644 --- a/net/wireless/c... 20 Mar 2010 01:45

oprofile: remove double ring buffering
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 01:03 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: [This is currently being tested if it fixes the excessive samples dropping I have been complaining about for some time. Still wanted to post the patch for review.] commit 49e66e8ab54f1114237e6dc24dc32ac912870c41 Author: Andi Kleen <ak(a)linux.intel.c... 23 Apr 2010 17:51

perf probe: Accessing members in data structures
Frederic Weisbecker wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 03:14:43PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: Mark Wielaard wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 18:06 -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: Support accessing members in the data structures. With this, perf-probe accepts data-structure members(IOW, it now accepts ... 20 Mar 2010 00:33

[ANNOUNCE] TCM/ConfigFS v3.4.0-rc1
Greetings all, It is my great honor to announce the Target_Core_Mod/ConfigFS infrastructure project has reached v3.4.0-rc1 and is again tracking linux-2.6.git HEAD at v2.6.34-rc1. The kernel code can be found here: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/nab/lio-core-2.6.git;a=summary With this release ma... 19 Mar 2010 23:28

[PATCH] checkpatch: Add check for too short Kconfig descriptions
Author: Andi Kleen <ak(a)linux.intel.com> Date: Sat Mar 20 00:26:42 2010 +0100 checkpatch: Add check for too short Kconfig descriptions I've seen various new Kconfigs with rather unhelpful one liner descriptions. Add a Kconfig warning for a minimum length of the Kconfig help section. ... 19 Mar 2010 23:28

[PATCH -v5] x86: do not free zero sized per cpu areas
From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell(a)citrix.com> This avoids an infinite loop in free_early_partial(). Add a warning to free_early_partial to catch future problems. -v5: put back start > end back into WARN_ONCE() Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell(a)citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai(a)kernel.or... 19 Mar 2010 22:22

intel iommu ixgbevf ....
when intel_iommu=off or iommu=pt is used, will work well. eth304 ip=192.171.178.102 mac=56:95:16:88:4C:C1 pci=0000:0e:18.3 drv=ixgbevf eth305 ip=192.171.179.102 mac=D6:41:8C:4A:87:B3 pci=0000:0e:18.5 drv=ixgbevf [ 9534.886519] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 [ 9534.88977... 19 Mar 2010 22:22