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[GIT PULL] reiserfs fix
Linus, Please pull the reiserfs/kill-bkl branch that can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git reiserfs/kill-bkl Thanks, Frederic --- Jeff Mahoney (1): reiserfs: Fix locking BUG during mount failure fs/reiserfs/super.c | 10 ++++------ 1 ... 30 Mar 2010 19:32

[13/45] sit: fix off-by-one in ipip6_tunnel_get_prl
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Sascha Hlusiak <contact(a)saschahlusiak.de> commit 298bf12ddb25841804f26234a43b89da1b1c0e21 upstream. When requesting all prl entries (kprl.addr == INADDR_ANY) and there are more prl entries than there is ... 30 Mar 2010 19:32

[09/45] r8169: Fix receive buffer length when MTU is between 1515 and 1536
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Raimonds Cicans <ray(a)apollo.lv> commit 8812304cf1110ae16b0778680f6022216cf4716a upstream. In r8169 driver MTU is used to calculate receive buffer size. Receive buffer size is used to configure hardware i... 30 Mar 2010 19:32

[06/45] resource: add helpers for fetching rlimits
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby(a)suse.cz> commit 3e10e716abf3c71bdb5d86b8f507f9e72236c9cd upstream. We want to be sure that compiler fetches the limit variable only once, so add helpers for fetching current and maxima... 30 Mar 2010 19:32

[01/45] UBI: fix volume creation input checking
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Mika Westerberg <ext-mika.1.westerberg(a)nokia.com> commit c5ce5b46af76f52dea21f467397d24c4ae6cb3ff upstream. Do not use an unchecked variable UBI_IOCMKVOL ioctl. Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <ext-mika... 30 Mar 2010 19:32

[18/45] sched: fine-tune SD_SIBLING_INIT
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> commit 52c642f33b14bfa1b00ef2b68296effb34a573f3 upstream. fine-tune the HT sched-domains parameters as well. On a HT capable box, this increases lat_ctx performance from 23.... 30 Mar 2010 19:32

tty: implement BTM as mutex instead of BKL
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:56:20PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: +config TTY_MUTEX + bool "Use a mutex instead of BKL for TTY locking" + depends on EXPERIMENTAL && SMP You still need it on UP-PREEMPT. The bkl disables preemption so you need to "reproduce" this atomicity by locking your path. -- To u... 30 Mar 2010 19:32

BKL conversion in TTY drivers
> This means we are still safe, because there is no code left that the new BTM fails to serialize with. We hope. I'm currently poking at sorting out the locking properly and quite frankly the locking rules for the current tty reference have me baffled. It clearly works as we've not got a pile of dumps in the b... 1 Apr 2010 15:45

[PATCH] Staging: Add new driver ipheth
Hi, I'm submitting this new driver to the staging tree so it can be reviewed. I didn't write it by myself, but I've tested it and it works just fine (at least with a 3G iPhone). The original maintainers are not very responsive and the codebase has not been updated (apart from minor fixes) since January. Anyway... 30 Mar 2010 18:23

[Regression, post-rc2] Commit a5ee4eb7541 breaks OpenGL on RS780 (was: Re: Linux 2.6.34-rc3)
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote: .... Other than that? Random fixes and updates all over. Mostly drivers and filesystems, and mostly fairly small things. If you had PCI resource conflict problems with the early -rc's due to the _CRS window thing, for example, that should hopefully be fixe... 30 Mar 2010 18:23