Kernel

[C/R ARM][PATCH 2/3] ARM: Add the eclone system call
In addition to doing everything that clone() system call does, the eclone() system call: - allows additional clone flags (31 of 32 bits in the flags parameter to clone() are in use) - allows user to specify a pid for the child process in its active and ancestor pid namespaces. Eclone is needed for r... 21 Mar 2010 21:58

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irq: Start the transition of irq_chip methods taking a desc
Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> writes: Eric, On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Eric W. Biederman wrote: With SPARSE_IRQ irq_to_desc becomes an unnecessary lookup operation on the fast path of dispatching irqs to their handlers. We can avoid this cost by passing an irq_desc pointer instead of using... 21 Mar 2010 20:51

linux-next: build failure after merge of the nfs tree
Hi Trond, After merging the nfs tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: net/sunrpc/xprt.c: In function 'xprt_release': net/sunrpc/xprt.c:1045: error: implicit declaration of function 'xprt_free_bc_request' Caused by commit 0d28e05a53109bb52f254d5eac25dac6e3768b04 ("SUNRPC: ... 22 Mar 2010 06:04

BUG: key ffff88013d4f4c70 not in .data! when loading microcode.ko
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 09:30:51PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of regressions introduced between 2.6.32 and 2.6.33. The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions introduced between 2.6.32 and 2.6.33. Please ve... 21 Mar 2010 19:43

[PATCH 1/1] sched: defer idle accounting till after load update period
There's a period of 10 ticks where calc_load_tasks is updated by all the cpus for the load avg. Usually all the cpus do this during the first tick. If any cpus go idle, calc_load_tasks is decremented accordingly. However, if they wake up calc_load_tasks is not incremented. Thus, if cpus go idle during the 10 tick p... 21 Mar 2010 19:43

[PATCH 0/1] sched: defer idle accounting till after load update period
The following patch fixes a load avg calculation bug. Details are included with the patch. Essentially, a task that often runs for less than 10 ticks at a time is likely to be left out of the load avg calculation. A test case is provided below. If you run the test case on a near zero-load system you will find top r... 21 Mar 2010 19:43

[PATCH] staging: winbond: sysdef.h Coding style fixes.
I fixed the C99 comments and removed commented away code. Signed-off-by: Lars Lindley <lindley(a)coyote.org> --- drivers/staging/winbond/sysdef.h | 18 +++--------------- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/winbond/sysdef.h b/drivers/staging/winbond/sysdef.h index 2... 21 Mar 2010 18:35

[PATCH] drivers/media/video: avoid NULL dereference
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> If ov is NULL, it will not be possible to take the lock in the first place, so move the test up earlier. The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r exists@ expression E, E1; identifier f; statement S1,S3; iterator... 21 Mar 2010 18:35

[Bug #15525] Blank screen after some time, after hibernation/suspend
This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of regressions introduced between 2.6.32 and 2.6.33. The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions introduced between 2.6.32 and 2.6.33. Please verify if it still should be listed and let the tracking team know (either way)... 21 Mar 2010 17:21