Kernel

[PATCH 10/14] x86 ioapic: Move nr_ioapic_registers calculation to mp_register_ioapic.
From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm(a)xmission.com> Now that all ioapic registration happens in mp_register_ioapic we can move the calculation of nr_ioapic_registers there from enable_IO_APIC. The number of ioapic registers is already calucated in mp_register_ioapic so all that really needs to be done is to save the ... 29 Mar 2010 20:19

[PATCH 0/14] Start coping gsis < 16 that are not isa irqs.
It appears there are a few systems in the wild that use acpi interrupt source overrides to report a gsi > 16 is an isa irq. This breaks all kinds of assumptions I figure any BIOS doing that probably should be shot as that is very much not a conservative position. That said acpi appears to allow this insanity ... 29 Mar 2010 20:19

[PATCH] CRED: Fix memory leak in error handling
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers(a)efficios.com> Fix a memory leak on an OOM condition in prepare_usermodehelper_creds(). Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers(a)efficios.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com> --- kernel/cred.c | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertio... 29 Mar 2010 19:13

hid: update gfp/slab.h includes
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Tejun Heo wrote: Implicit slab.h inclusion via percpu.h is about to go away. Make sure gfp.h or slab.h is included as necessary. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr(a)canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina(a)suse.cz> --- drivers/hid/hid-ro... 29 Mar 2010 21:25

Net: wireless: ath: fix macros coding style issue in hw.c
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 01:34:39PM -0700, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: From: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg(a)openshine.com> This is a patch to the ath/hw.c file that fixes up a warning about macros found by the checkpatch.pl tool, that said that complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis. Signed-... 29 Mar 2010 19:13

[Ocfs2-devel] [GIT PULL] ocfs2 fixes for 2.6.34-rc2
Linus et al, Here are various fixes that have collected for ocfs2. One very important fix keeps ocfs2 from running out of inodes with plenty of free space. Another prevents a local crash when using userspace cluster stacks. Please pull. Joel The following changes since commit a3d3203e4bb40f253b1541e3... 29 Mar 2010 18:06

[PATCH tip/core/urgent] rcu: protect fork-time cgroup access
Add an rcu_read_lock() / rcu_read_unlock() pair to protect a fork-time cgroup access. This seems likely to be a false positive. Located by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani(a)texware.it> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- sched.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --g... 29 Mar 2010 18:05

[PATCH] kernel.h: Convert rounding macros to statement expressions, add ADD_MOD
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:00 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 12:47 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:57:27 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: Add a macro for the somewhat common use of (something + value) % value because the test uses ADD_MOD --- a/include/linux... 29 Mar 2010 18:05

[PATCH 2.6.29.x - 2.6.31.1] module: fix __module_ref_addr()
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:09:46PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: * Steven Rostedt (rostedt(a)goodmis.org) wrote: This patch does not apply to 2.6.34-rc, and the code in upstream looks to have been fixed. Should this go to stable? Yes. 2.6.34-rc does not have this issue anymore, but the patch is need... 20 Apr 2010 16:09

[patch] oom: give current access to memory reserves if it has been killed
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Oleg Nesterov wrote: Can't comment, I do not understand these subtleties. But I'd like to note that fatal_signal_pending() can be true when the process wasn't killed, but another thread does exit_group/exec. I'm not sure there's a difference between whether a process was oom k... 29 Mar 2010 16:58