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Staging: batman-adv: fix checkpath.pl issues
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 02:49 +0200, Mikal Sande wrote: @@ -212,7 +212,9 @@ ssize_t bat_device_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buff, unsigned long flags; if (len < sizeof(struct icmp_packet)) { - bat_dbg(DBG_BATMAN, "batman-adv:Error - can't send packet from char device: invalid packet s... 23 Apr 2010 17:51

IPv6 duplicate address detection erroneously marking address as duplicate when a host receives its own multicast packets?
Sorry, just realised I forgot to note that this behaviour occurs in 2.6.33. On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 12:52 +1200, Sam Cannell wrote: Hi, I've been having some trouble with ip6 duplicate address detection in a Linux VM (under XVM on OpenSolaris). It seems that the ethernet bridge in XVM sends a host's ... 20 Apr 2010 21:54

repost - RFC [Patch] Remove "please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups" printk at boot time.
> My biggest concern is that we don't have man(5) cgroup as other file systems. If we have man(5), the best place for this kind of information will be it. I think most of users will never see kernel-parameter.txt .. If usual distros are shipped with man(5) cgroup, I agree removing this in upstream. (... 20 Apr 2010 21:53

perf: Fix perf probe build error
Frederic Weisbecker wrote: When we run into dry run mode, we want to make write_kprobe_trace_event to succeed on writing the event. Let's initialize it to 0. Fixes the following build error: util/probe-event.c:1266: attention : «ret» may be used uninitialized in this function util/probe-event.c:126... 20 Apr 2010 20:47

[PATCH] perf: Fix perf probe build error
When we run into dry run mode, we want to make write_kprobe_trace_event to succeed on writing the event. Let's initialize it to 0. Fixes the following build error: util/probe-event.c:1266: attention : «ret» may be used uninitialized in this function util/probe-event.c:1266: note: «ret» was declared here Sign... 20 Apr 2010 20:47

[tip:x86/urgent] x86, mrst: Conditionally register cpu hotplug notifier for apbt
Commit-ID: ae7c9b70dcb4313ea3dbcc9a2f240dae6c2b50c0 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ae7c9b70dcb4313ea3dbcc9a2f240dae6c2b50c0 Author: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan(a)linux.intel.com> AuthorDate: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:23:43 -0700 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> CommitDate: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:38:28 -070... 20 Apr 2010 20:47

mprotect() failed: Cannot allocate memory
hi, i'm trying to debug an ugly application with ElectricFence. in fact, on x86-64 box with 8GB ram and 16GB swap i'm getting following error: "ElectricFence Exiting: mprotect() failed: Cannot allocate memory" the program has been compiled with gcc-4.5, glibc-2.11.1, kernel-2.6.32. did you ever come across s... 23 Apr 2010 21:12

hugetlbfs: Kill applications that use MAP_NORESERVE with SIGBUS instead of OOM-killer
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:44:07 +0100 Mel Gorman <mel(a)csn.ul.ie> wrote: Ordinarily, application using hugetlbfs will create mappings with reserves. For shared mappings, these pages are reserved before mmap() returns success and for private mappings, the caller process is guaranteed and a child process that ... 20 Apr 2010 19:41

writeback: limit write_cache_pages integrity scanning to current EOF
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:28:19AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: Dave Chinner wrote: sync can currently take a really long time if a concurrent writer is extending a file. The problem is that the dirty pages on the address space grow in the same direction as write_cache_pages scans, so if the writer... 23 Apr 2010 17:43

[PATCHv6 2.6.34-rc5 5/5] mx5: Add USB to Freescale MX51 defconfig
From: Dinh Nguyen <Dinh.Nguyen(a)freescale.com> Update mx51_defconfig to include USB EHCI by default. This patch applies to 2.6.34-rc4. Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen <Dinh.Nguyen(a)freescale.com> --- arch/arm/configs/mx51_defconfig | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) dif... 20 Apr 2010 19:41