Kernel

[RFC 2/3 v2] virtio_console: use virtqueue notification for hvc_console
This patch exploits the new notifier callbacks of the hvc_console. We can use the virtio callbacks instead of the polling code. I also added a small Kconfig change that allows the user to specify the virtio console in menuconfig. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger(a)de.ibm.com> --- drivers/ch... 20 Jun 2008 10:11

[RFC 1/3 v2] hvc_console: rework setup to replace irq functions with callbacks
This patch tries to change hvc_console to not use request_irq/free_irq if the backend does not use irqs. This allows virtio_console to use hvc_console without having a linker reference to request_irq/free_irq. In addition, together with patch 2/3 it improves the performance for virtio console input. (an earlier v... 20 Jun 2008 10:11

[PATCH] [TRIVIAL] proc: misplaced export of find_get_pid
Move EXPORT_SYMBOL right after the func Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba(a)suse.cz> --- kernel/pid.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c index 20d59fa..79d11dd 100644 --- a/kernel/pid.c +++ b/kernel/pid.c @@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ struct pid *fi... 20 Jun 2008 10:11

x86: unify asm-x86/fixmap*.h
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy(a)goop.org> wrote: Almost everything aside from the actual fixmap slot definitions is common, so move it all into the common fixmap.h header. nice patches! I have created a new -tip topic for them: tip/x86/fixmap, and have added them there. (This topic will also be in auto-x8... 20 Jun 2008 13:16

BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, swapper/1, ACPI Exception (utmutex-0263): AE_BAD_PARAMETER
Hi, On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> wrote: -tip auto-testing started triggering this spinlock corruption message yesterday: [ 3.976213] calling acpi_rtc_init+0x0/0xd3 [ 3.980213] ACPI Exception (utmutex-0263): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread F7C50000 could not acquire ... 20 Jun 2008 10:11

autofs4 - add missing kfree
Ian Kent <raven(a)themaw.net> writes: It see that the patch tittled "autofs4 - fix pending mount race" is missing a change that I had recently made. It's missing a kfree for the case mutex_lock_interruptible() fails to aquire the wait queue mutex. Yeah, missed that in the translation to the embedded q... 20 Jun 2008 10:11

autofs4 - detect invalid direct mount requests
Ian Kent <raven(a)themaw.net> writes: autofs v5 dierct and offset mounts within an autofs filesystem are triggered by existing autofs triger mounts so the mount point dentry must be positive. If the mount point dentry is negative then the trigger doesn't exist so we can return fail immediately. What are ... 3 Jul 2008 05:19

[PATCH 0/2] parport sparse fixes
The following patches fix some warnings sparse gave me, when running over drivers/parport. Andre Haupt (2): parport: remove superfluous local variable. parport: make parport_cs_release static. drivers/parport/ieee1284.c | 2 -- drivers/parport/parport_cs.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+... 20 Jun 2008 09:09

xen: set max_pfn_mapped
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy(a)goop.org> wrote: We need to set max_pfn_mapped, so do so. Xen guarantees that at least 512k is mapped beyond the end of the kernel image, so we can rely on that being present. applied all three patches to tip/x86/mm-remove-arch-get-ram-range (on which it has dependency... 20 Jun 2008 09:09

[PATCH 1/2] parport: remove superfluous local variable.
Signed-off-by: Andre Haupt <andre(a)bitwigglers.org> --- drivers/parport/ieee1284.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/parport/ieee1284.c b/drivers/parport/ieee1284.c index 0338b09..e970594 100644 --- a/drivers/parport/ieee1284.c +++ b/drivers/parport/ieee1284.c @@... 20 Jun 2008 09:09