Kernel

[PATCH v4] OMAP: Fix for bus width which improves SD card's peformance.
From: Kishore Kadiyala <kishore.kadiyala(a)ti.com> This patch improves low speeds for SD cards. OMAP-MMC controller's can support maximum bus width of '8'. when bus width is mentioned as "8" in controller data,the SD stack will check whether bus width is "4" and if not it will set bus width to "1" and there by deg... 20 Apr 2010 16:09

rcu: shrink rcutiny by making synchronize_rcu_bh() be inline
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:11:06AM +0100, David Howells wrote: Does it make sense for synchronize_sched() to be inline too? Since that's just a wrapper around cond_resched(), which is normally just a wrapper around _cond_resched(). I tried that, and quickly descended into #include hell. :-( ... 20 Apr 2010 16:09

[PATCH 4/5] kgdb: Use atomic operators whichuse barriers
Hi Jason, Here is the revised patch, which is going into the kgdb-fixes branch. Thanks, Jason. -- From: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel(a)windriver.com> Subject: [PATCH] kgdb: Use atomic operators which use barriers The cpu_relax() does not mandate that there is an smp memory barrier. As ... 20 Apr 2010 16:09

x86: correctly wire up the newuname system call
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 05:31:02AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Before commit e28cbf22933d0c0ccaf3c4c27a1a263b41f73859 64-bit x86 had a private implementation of sys_uname which was just called sys_uname, which other architectures used for the old uname. Due to some merge issues with the uname refactori... 20 Apr 2010 16:09

fallthru: ext2 fallthru support
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Valerie Aurora wrote: I don't recall there being any technical reason not to look up the real inode number. I just wrote it that we because I was lazy. So I like returning the directory's d_ino better than a single magic number, but I'd at least like to try returning the real inode nu... 23 Apr 2010 21:16

Fix typo in percpu.h
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Justin P. Mattock wrote: Fix a typo in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock(a)gmail.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h b... 20 Apr 2010 16:10

uml: Fix warning due to missing task_struct declaration
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 06:09:49PM +0800, Amerigo Wang wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:53:06PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: We can't pull in linux/sched.h, so just declare the struct. Did you meet any build error? If yes, please include it. What does this patch fix, aside from being a bit cleaner? ... 20 Apr 2010 16:09

[PATCH] globally ignore Module.symvers
If we build using make SUBDIRS=foo/ Kbuild will output per-directory Module.symvers files that we do not want to keep track of. Ignore these files globally. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <ffainelli(a)freebox.fr> --- diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index a2939fc..441bf1b 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.git... 20 Apr 2010 16:09

repost - RFC [Patch] Remove "please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups" printk at boot time.
Re-posting, cc'ing linux-mm as requested: We are considering removing this printk at boot time from RHEL because it will confuse customers, encourage them to change the boot parameters and generate extraneous support calls. Its documented in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt anyway. Any thoughts??? Larry W... 20 Apr 2010 16:09

vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:57:52 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh(a)medozas.de> wrote: Hi, I am proposing the patch below for inclusion. Also pullable via git://dev.medozas.de/linux siso It seems to do a lot of other things as well. Can you split out just the relevant bit ? -- To unsub... 23 Apr 2010 21:08