Kernel

[RFC PATCH 0/2] hw-breakpoints allocation constraints updates
Hi, These patches tend to extend the breakpoint allocation constraints to be more non-x86 friendly. It can separate the data and instruction breakpoint space and handle address ranges or other kind of tricky things that makes a breakpoint use more than one address register. There is still one kind of cons... 12 Apr 2010 20:21

[PATCH 1/3] MFD: renamed ab3100.h to abx500.h
The goal here is to make way for a more general interface for the analog baseband chips ab3100 ab3550 ab550 and future chips. This patch have been divided into two parts since both changing name and content of a file is not recommended in git. Signed-off-by: Mattias Wallin <mattias.wallin(a)stericsson.com> Signe... 12 Apr 2010 19:15

[PATCH -v2 2/2] x86,pci, acpi: Inherent BUSY flag when setup_resource for root bus
So make pci root resource from _CRS honor the range We reserve in e820 below 1M then will not assign them to unsigned pci BAR -v2: let pci_bus_alloc_resource() honor IORESOURCE_BUSY driver can not use those range, so skip it Tested-by: Andy Isaacson <adi(a)hexapodia.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@... 12 Apr 2010 19:15

[RELEASE] LTTng 0.210 for kernel 2.6.33.2
Hello, LTTng 0.210 fixes LTTng powerpc support. Commit 1bf4af165050d90ea6659ffb2536ec8ca783aab5 interestingly added TRACE_EVENT() definitions outside of include/trace/, which got out of my attention span. I'm just reverting that stuff in the LTTng tree. I already instrument kernel/irq/handle.c:handle_IRQ_event... 12 Apr 2010 19:15

TRACE_EVENT() declarations belong to include/trace/
Hi, Ranting about: commit 1bf4af165050d90ea6659ffb2536ec8ca783aab5 Author: Anton Blanchard <anton(a)samba.org> Date: Mon Oct 26 18:47:42 2009 +0000 powerpc: tracing: Add powerpc tracepoints for interrupt entry and exit Why are there TRACE_EVENT() declarations in arch/powerpc/include/asm/trace.h for i... 12 Apr 2010 21:27

mtd: Extend physmap_of to let the device tree specify the parition probe
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:44:38AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 12:27 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: This is to support custom partitioning schemes for embedded PPC. To use define your own mtd_part_parser and then add something like: linux,part-probe = "my_probe", "cmdlinepar... 12 Apr 2010 18:08

nouveau userspace bits for 2.6.34
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:18:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: (II) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] nouveau interface version: 0.0.16 (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] wrong version, expecting 0.0.15 (EE) NOUVEAU(0): 879: So I've tried reading the thread and haven't found the answer to this question yet; my apologies for surel... 12 Apr 2010 18:08

ext2: Preparation to remove BKL
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:41:40PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote: In this series I've collected the patches that prepare ext2 for BKL removal. It consist mostly of cleanups and additionally introduces a spinlock to protect some of the superblock's fields against concurrent access. I've addressed the feedback kind... 13 Apr 2010 17:20

anon_vma: clone the anon_vma chain in the right order
On 04/12/2010 04:23 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: From: Linus Torvalds<torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:15:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] anon_vma: clone the anon_vma chain in the right order We want to walk the chain in reverse order when cloning it, so that the order of the res... 13 Apr 2010 00:46

vma_adjust: fix the copying of anon_vma chains
On 04/12/2010 04:23 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: From: Linus Torvalds<torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:22:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] vma_adjust: fix the copying of anon_vma chains When we move the boundaries between two vma's due to things like mprotect, we need to make sure... 13 Apr 2010 00:46