Kernel

drivers/net: Fix continuation lines
From: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:27:55 -0700 Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> Applied. -- 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.kernel.org/maj... 27 Mar 2010 11:58

Regression in virtio_net causing kernel BUG when running under VirtualBox (bisected)
Hello, I'm running Linux under VirtualBox 3.1.6 with a single virtual CPU without any third party drivers. Commit 9ab86bbcf8be755256f0a5e994e0b38af6b4d399 (virtio_net: Defer skb allocation in receive path) caused a regression which results in a kernel bug and subsequent hang at every boot. I have attached ... 27 Mar 2010 10:50

[PATCH 2.6.29.x - 2.6.31.1] module: fix __module_ref_addr()
__module_ref_addr() should use per_cpu_ptr() to obfuscate the pointer (RELOC_HIDE is needed for per cpu pointers). This non-standard per-cpu pointer use has been introduced by commit 720eba31f47aeade8ec130ca7f4353223c49170f It causes a NULL pointer exception on some configurations when CONFIG_TRACING is enable... 27 Mar 2010 10:50

vesafb: use platform_driver_probe() instead of platform_driver_register()
Hello Jan, On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:48:33PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: Commit c2e13037e6794bd0d9de3f9ecabf5615f15c160b introduced a huge amount of section mismatch warnings in vesafb code. Rather than converting all of the annotations, do the obvious and revert the __init -> __devinit change, and use th... 27 Mar 2010 10:50

KVM bug, git bisected
commit 5beb49305251e5669852ed541e8e2f2f7696c53e Author: Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com> Date: Fri Mar 5 13:42:07 2010 -0800 mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue I get this when starting kvm. The warning hasn't caused me problems, but I've also been getting a schedu... 23 Apr 2010 21:14

[2.6.31 and later] "struct pid" leak.
I got below report with 2.6.33.1 . unreferenced object 0xde144600 (size 64): comm "init", pid 1, jiffies 4294678101 (age 291.508s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 04 76 ae de d1 76 43 c0 d6 08 00 00 .....v...vC..... backtrac... 27 Mar 2010 09:35

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[PATCH] ieee1394: char device files are not seekable (BKL removal)
The raw1394 character device file ABI is based on - write() or ioctl() to initiate actions, with write being used exactly like _IOW ioctls, - read() to consume events, - mmap() for isochronous I/O DMA buffers. The video1394 character device file ABI is based on - ioctl() to initiate actions, - mm... 27 Mar 2010 09:35

"m68k: Cleanup linker scripts using new linker script macros." and old binutils (was: Re: [PATCH] m68k: Atari EtherNAT - Nicolas Pitre has a new email address)
Hi Tim, On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Tim Abbott wrote: Has this fix been merged yet? It seems to me that the patch Michael sent is a totally reasonable solution to this problem, and I had assumed that it was going to get picked up in the m68k tree when I saw this patch 2 months ago... -Tim Abbott ... 27 Mar 2010 04:25

[PATCH 7/7] fbdev: section cleanup in w100fb
This patch cleans up the section in the w100fb driver. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne(a)nachtwindheim.de> --- drivers/video/w100fb.c | 10 +++++----- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/w100fb.c b/drivers/video/w100fb.c index 5d22395..a37a46c 100644 --- a/dr... 27 Mar 2010 03:21