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[PATCH 0/3] Fix ptrace debugctlmsr stomping and kill ptrace-bts
ptrace was stomping all over debugctlmsr and since ptrace-bts was never used kill that and reimplement ptrace block-step to not trample on the msr. -- 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.... 25 Mar 2010 10:16

swiotlb v0.6: seperation of physical/virtual address translation
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:04:17AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: Fujita-san et al. Attached is a set of patches that separate the address translation (virt_to_phys, virt_to_bus, etc) from the SWIOTLB library. Since the last posting I've: - Made the exported functions/variables have the 'sw... 4 Apr 2010 22:35

trace-cmd: Add BUILDING and INSTALL instructions to README
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 10:24 +0100, John Kacur wrote: - Add BUILDING and INSTALL instructions to the README - Change Makefile so that messages don't appear like errors. Thanks, Did you rebase your repo or do I need to pull in the other patches from the mbox? One comment below. Signed-off-by: Joh... 25 Mar 2010 11:28

sched_wakeup_new and sched_kthread_stop events cause great overload
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 17:36 +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote: We have done sysbench test for ftrace's performance and it looks sched_wakeup_new and sched_kthread_stop events can cause great overload. When we only enable sched_wakeup_new and sched_kthread_stop events, sysbench.threads shows the overload is 10... 25 Mar 2010 10:16

[PATCH 1/3] resource: shared I/O region support
From: Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> This patch was originally written by Alan Cox [1]. I only updated it to apply correctly to Linus' current tree and changed IORESOURCE_MUXED's value from 0x00200000 to 0x00400000 because the former has already been taken in use since. [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/pa... 25 Mar 2010 10:16

[Patch 1/1 v2] pata_via: HDD of VT6410/6415/6330 cannot be detected issue
When using VT6410/6415/6330 chips on some VIA's platforms, the HDD connects to VT6410/6415/6330 cannot be detected. It is because the driver detects wrong via_isa_bridge ID, and then cause the this issue happen. This patch will fix this problem. Signed-off-by: Joseph Chan<josephchan(a)via.com.tw> --- a/drivers/... 25 Mar 2010 10:16

2.6.33: Xorg+khubd lockup (D-state) BUG / ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device / PreInit returned NULL
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Justin Piszcz wrote: The same problem has been reported by another person, he says his entire system freezes, which, it appears to do unless you can SSH into the box: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=76797 Look at his lspci listing. james(a)dv6105us:~$ lspci 00:00.0 RAM... 31 Mar 2010 15:27

isdn: Cleanup Sections in PCMCIA driver teles
On Donnerstag, 25. M�rz 2010 13:05:30 Henrik Kretzschmar wrote: Compiling this driver gave a section mismatch, so I reviewed the init/exit paths of the driver and made the correct changes. WARNING: drivers/isdn/hisax/built-in.o(.text+0x56bfb): Section mismatch in reference from the function teles_cs_... 25 Mar 2010 09:06

cputimers/proc: do_task_stat()->thread_group_times() is racy and O(n) under ->siglock
On 03/24, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 21:45 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: Nowadays ->siglock is overloaded, it would be really nice to change do_task_stat() to walk through the list of threads lockless. And note that we are doing while_each_thread() twice! while_each_thread(... 26 Mar 2010 04:41

isdn: Cleanup Sections in PCMCIA driver avma1
On Donnerstag, 25. M�rz 2010 13:05:31 Henrik Kretzschmar wrote: Compiling this driver gave a section mismatch, so I reviewed the init/exit paths of the driver and made the correct changes. WARNING: drivers/isdn/hisax/built-in.o(.text+0x56512): Section mismatch in reference from the function avma1cs_c... 25 Mar 2010 09:06