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[patch 15/15] x86: disable mwait for AMD family 10H/11H CPUs
2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> back-ported from upstream commit e9623b35599fcdbc00c16535cbefbb4d5578f4ab by Vegard Nossum The previous revert of 0c07ee38c9d4eb081758f5ad14bbffa7197e1aec left out... 19 Jun 2008 17:50

[patch 03/15] opti621: disable read prefetch
2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier(a)gmail.com> commit 62128b2ca812c1266f4ff7bac068bf0b626c6179 upstream This fixes 2.6.25 regression (kernel.org bugzilla bug #10723) caused by: commit 912fb29a36a7269ac1... 19 Jun 2008 17:50

[patch 07/15] b43: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in DMA code
2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Michael Buesch <mb(a)bu3sch.de> a cut-down version of commit 028118a5f09a9c807e6b43e2231efdff9f224c74 upstream This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference in an error path of the DMA allocation error che... 19 Jun 2008 17:50

[patch 09/15] ACPICA: Ignore ACPI table signature for Load() operator
2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Bob Moore <robert.moore(a)intel.com> upstream bc45b1d39a925b56796bebf8a397a0491489d85c Without this patch booting with acpi_osi="!Windows 2006" is required for several machines to function properly with c... 19 Jun 2008 17:50

x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area
Mike Travis wrote: Oh yeah, is it alright to re-use the pda in the static percpu load area for each startup cpu, or should it be adjusted to use the areas allocated by setup_per_cpu_areas()? pda_init() is called in x86_64_start_kernel so it would only be for anything that occurs before then. (And I moved ... 25 Jul 2008 18:39

[patch 02/15] Fix tty speed handling on 8250
2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> commit e991a2bd4fa0b2f475b67dfe8f33e8ecbdcbb40b upstream. We try and write the correct speed back but the serial midlayer already mangles the speed on us and that means... 19 Jun 2008 17:50

[patch 08/15] scsi_host regression: fix scsi host leak
2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Mike Christie <michaelc(a)cs.wisc.edu> The patch is upstream as commit 3ed7897242b7efe977f3a8d06d4e5a4ebe28b10e A different backport is necessary because of the class_device to device conversion post 2.6.25... 19 Jun 2008 17:50

x86 fixes
tor, 19 06 2008 kl. 17:13 +0200, skrev Ingo Molnar: Linus, please pull the latest x86 fixes git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-fixes-for-linus Suresh Siddha (1): x86: fix NULL pointer deref in __switch_to Ingo, Rusty and Suresh... 24 Jul 2008 17:02

[patch 05/15] virtio_net: Fix skb->csum_start computation
2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com> commit 23cde76d801246a702e7a84c3fe3d655b35c89a1 upstream. hdr->csum_start is the offset from the start of the ethernet header to the transport layer checksum field. s... 19 Jun 2008 17:50

[patch 06/15] b43: Fix noise calculation WARN_ON
2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Michael Buesch <mb(a)bu3sch.de> commit 98a3b2fe435ae76170936c14f5c9e6a87548e3ef upstream. This removes a WARN_ON that is responsible for the following koops: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=... 19 Jun 2008 17:50