Kernel

[PATCH 5/6] docs: better explanation of procs_running
From: Luis Garces-Erice <lge(a)ieee.org> Subject: Doc: better explanation of procs_running the description in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt of the procs_running entry in /proc/stat is confusing (according to that description, it looks as if procs_running could only be a number between 0 and the number of CPUs... 6 Dec 2009 23:51

[PATCH 2/6] docs: use DMA_BIT_MASK instead of inline constant
From: Marin Mitov <mitov(a)issp.bas.bg> Subject: use DMA_BIT_MASK instead of inline constant Use DMA_BIT_MASK(24) instead of 0x00ffffff in DMA-mapping.txt Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov <mitov(a)issp.bas.bg> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> --- Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt | 2 +- 1 file ch... 6 Dec 2009 23:51

[065/119] V4L/DVB (12356): gspca - sonixj: Webcam 0c45:6148 added
2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Denis Loginov <dinvlad(a)gmail.com> commit 6baefab531b22288be3b4ddef5671ea6469b09f8 upstream. Signed-off-by: Denis Loginov <dinvlad(a)gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf(a)free.fr> Signed-off... 6 Dec 2009 20:35

[054/119] ASoC: AIC23: Fixing infinite loop in resume path
2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Anuj Aggarwal <anuj.aggarwal(a)ti.com> commit e9ff5eb2ae018fe2298c68746c873bf828c6b10e upstream. This patch fixes two issues: a) Infinite loop in resume function b) Writes to non-existing registers in resum... 6 Dec 2009 19:28

[109/119] acerhdf: fix fan control for AOA150 model
2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Peter Feuerer <peter(a)piie.net> commit ded0cdfc6a7673916b0878c32fa8ba566b4f8cdb upstream. - Apply Borislav Petkov's patch (convert the fancmd[] array to a real struct thus disambiguating command handling ... 6 Dec 2009 19:28

[04/20] [SCSI] gdth: Prevent negative offsets in ioctl CVE-2009-3080
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> commit 690e744869f3262855b83b4fb59199cf142765b0 upstream. A negative offset could be used to index before the event buffer and lead to a security breach. Signed-off-by: Dav... 6 Dec 2009 19:28

[01/20] ALSA: AACI: fix AC97 multiple-open bug
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Russell King <rmk+kernel(a)arm.linux.org.uk> commit 4acd57c3de62374fe5bb52e5cd24538190f4eab2 upstream. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel(a)arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai(a)suse.de> S... 6 Dec 2009 19:27

[PATCH 1/2] drivers/net/au1000_eth.c: Remove misuse of DECLARE_MAC_BUF
And use a directly declared buffer. It's used in a call to prom_get_ethernet_addr to get a 6 byte address, not a formatted output string. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> diff --git a/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c b/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c index 1acf2c1..af271fa 100644 --- a/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c... 6 Dec 2009 16:09

VM_LOCKED check don't need pte lock
On 12/04/2009 03:42 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: From 24f910b1ac966c21ea5aab825d1f26815b760304 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:06:47 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 3/7] VM_LOCKED check don't need pte lock Currently, page_referenced_one() ch... 6 Dec 2009 15:03

[patch 17/23] sched: Convert pi_lock to raw_spinlock
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> --- include/linux/init_task.h | 2 - include/linux/sched.h | 2 - kernel/exit.c | 2 - kernel/fork.c | 4 +-- kernel/futex.c | 38 +++++++++++++++--------------- kernel/rtmutex-debug.c | 4 +-- kernel... 6 Dec 2009 13:55