Kernel

patch iwlwifi-silence-tfds_in_queue-message.patch added to 2.6.32-stable tree
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:16:02AM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 03:09:35PM -0700, reinette chatre wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:41 -0700, gregkh(a)suse.de wrote: This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled ... 30 Mar 2010 17:14

proc: don't take ->siglock for /proc/pid/oom_adj
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Oleg Nesterov wrote: ->siglock is no longer needed to access task->signal, change oom_adjust_read() and oom_adjust_write() to read/write oom_adj lockless. Yes, this means that "echo 2 >oom_adj" and "echo 1 >oom_adj" can race and the second write can win, but I hope this is OK. ... 1 Apr 2010 15:45

oom: give current access to memory reserves if it has been killed
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Oleg Nesterov wrote: --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -681,6 +681,16 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask, } /* + * If current has a pending SIGKILL, then automatically select it. The + * goal is to allow it to al... 8 Apr 2010 17:26

[PATCH] Staging: quatech_usb2: fix coding style issues
This is a patch to the file quatech_usb2.c that fixes two space before tabular and one line of more than 80 characters warnings found by checkpatch.pl Signed-off-by: Soeren Moeller <soerenmoeller2001(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/quatech_usb2/quatech_usb2.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+),... 30 Mar 2010 17:14

x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:05:07PM -0500, Jason Wessel wrote: It is required to call hw_breakpoint_init() on an attr before using it in any other calls. This fixes the problem where kgdb will sometimes fail to initialize on x86_64. CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CC: stable(a)kernel.org Signed-off-... 30 Mar 2010 16:07

[PATCH 1/1] x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute
It is required to call hw_breakpoint_init() on an attr before using it in any other calls. This fixes the problem where kgdb will sometimes fail to initialize on x86_64. CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CC: stable(a)kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel(a)windriver.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker ... 30 Mar 2010 16:07

tagged sysfs support
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 20:30, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm(a)xmission.com> wrote: The main short coming of using multiple network namespaces today is that only network devices for the primary network namespaces can be put in the kobject layer and sysfs. This is essentially the earlier version of this pa... 3 Apr 2010 13:43

x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:39:30PM -0500, Jason Wessel wrote: It is required to call hw_breakpoint_init() on an attr before using it in any other calls. This fixes the problem where kgdb will sometimes fail to initialize on x86_64. CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@... 30 Mar 2010 14:59

[PATCH] x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute
It is required to call hw_breakpoint_init() on an attr before using it in any other calls. This fixes the problem where kgdb will sometimes fail to initialize on x86_64. CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CC: stable(a)kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@... 30 Mar 2010 14:59

[PATCH 6/6] driver core: Implement ns directory support for device classes.
From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm(a)xmission.com> device_del and device_rename were modified to use sysfs_delete_link and sysfs_rename_link respectively to ensure when these operations happen on devices whose classes are in namespace directories they work properly. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm(a)xmis... 30 Mar 2010 14:59