Kernel

stack overflow on Sparc64
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, David Miller wrote: From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka(a)redhat.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:47:57 -0400 (EDT) Wait queue waking looks like being written by a high-level maniac --- it contains 8 levels of calls (none of them inlined). 7 of these calls (until try_to_wake_up) do n... 22 Jun 2008 04:03

X86: reboot-notify additions
Cliff Wickman <cpw(a)sgi.com> writes: From: Cliff Wickman <cpw(a)sgi.com> X86 reboot-notify additions. Doesn't seem x86 specific to me. @@ -1068,6 +1071,8 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) if (!locked) { if (kexec_crash_image) { struct pt_regs fixed_regs; + blocking_notifie... 20 Jun 2008 18:25

Is configfs the right solution for configuration based fs?
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:12:52AM +1000, Ben Nizette wrote: Thanks, Ben, for providing constructive comments. I know I replied later with some of the known issues. Here are some tentative solutions! (Why now, you ask? I just finished up something and had a free moment) What's the first one, sysfs..? ... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

adjust cpu power for secondary threads on POWER6
Hi, +static unsigned int pseries_cpu_power(int cpu, unsigned int default_power) +{ + struct device_node *np; + unsigned int thread, power; + + if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ASYM_POWER)) + return default_power; + + power = default_power; Why not just NULL out the cpu_power function p... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

Oops in NFS (RHEL4, but also in kernel bugzilla)
Hi Ian, On 17 Jun, 17:10, Ian Soboroff <isoboroff(a)gmail.com> wrote: I have a server that hosts some large XFS filesystems and serves them out over NFS. Every so often I get the following Oops, and then the machine locks hard with blinky keyboard lights. ("Every so often" == I can't reproduce this relia... 23 Jun 2008 14:47

[stable PATCH 2.6.21] ACPICA: Ignore ACPI table signature for Load() operator
From: Bob Moore <robert.moore(a)intel.com> upstream bc45b1d39a925b56796bebf8a397a0491489d85c Only "SSDT" is acceptable to the ACPI spec, but tables are seen with OEMx and null sigs. Therefore, signature validation is worthless. Apparently MS ACPI accepts such signatures, ACPICA must be compatible. Without th... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

[stable PATCH 2.6.22, 2.6.23, 2.6.24, 2.6.25] ACPICA: Ignore ACPI table signature for Load() operator
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 cpufreq due to failure to load a Vista specific table with a bad signature. Only "SSDT" is acceptable ... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

linux-next: fix vector initialisation when !CONFIG_KGDB
Ben Dooks wrote: It seems in the changes for adding CONFIG_KGDB that the ARM trap initialisation has been turned off if the configuration is not enabled. If CONFIG_KGDB is not set, the system locks up as soon as the kernel turns the IRQs on for the first time in init/main.c. The fix is to remov... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

knfsd: nfsd: Handle ERESTARTSYS from syscalls.
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:11:09 +1000 NeilBrown <neilb(a)suse.de> wrote: OCFS2 can return -ERESTARTSYS from write requests (and possibly elsewhere) if there is a signal pending. If nfsd is shutdown (by sending a signal to each thread) while there is still an IO load from the client, each thread could ... 22 Jun 2008 21:24

[PATCH] ecryptfs: Use unaligned byteswapping helpers
Rather than memcpy and cpu_to_be16/32. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison(a)gmail.com> --- fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c index e2832bc..c6d4448 100644 -... 19 Jun 2008 01:20