Kernel

KVM MMU: allow more page become unsync at getting sp time
On 04/22/2010 09:13 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote: Allow more page become asynchronous at getting sp time, if need create new shadow page for gfn but it not allow unsync(level> 0), we should unsync all gfn's unsync page This is something I wanted for a long time. -- Do not meddle in the internals of... 23 Apr 2010 17:49

patch md-raid5-allow-for-more-than-2-31-chunks.patch added to 2.6.33-stable tree
Hi On Friday 23 April 2010, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 01:36:26PM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: Hi On Thursday 22 April 2010, Neil Brown wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:08:30 +0200 "Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" <s.L-H(a)gmx.de> wrote: On Thursday 22 April 2010, g... 23 Apr 2010 21:17

[PATCH] suppress warning: "quotatypes" defined but not used (resent: v2)
Suppress compilation warning: "quotatypes" defined but not used. quotatypes is used only when CONFIG_QUOTA_DEBUG or CONFIG_PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING is/are defined. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky(a)gmail.com> --- diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c index 788b580..109cb39 100644 --... 23 Apr 2010 17:49

[ARM] .gitignore: Ignore piggy.lzo, lib1funcs.S and vmlinux
On 23.4.2010 11:38, Michael Roth wrote: Commit e7db7b4270ed2a606b8c0b5f944a5f92ade0e84c added LZO compressed kernels, lib1funcs.S is copied from the appropriate ARM sub-arch and vmlinux is the obvious fruit of all efforts. vmlinux started to show up in 'git status' after 6db823c, which changed vmlinux to /... 23 Apr 2010 17:49

[tip:core/urgent] mutex: Don't spin when the owner CPU is offline or other weird cases
Commit-ID: 4b402210486c6414fe5fbfd85934a0a22da56b04 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4b402210486c6414fe5fbfd85934a0a22da56b04 Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh(a)kernel.crashing.org> AuthorDate: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:20:00 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:00:28... 23 Apr 2010 17:49

USBIP (staging) driver's dependency on drivers/usb/core internal headers
Hi, The USBIP modules (and some others) have a direct dependency on the following headers: - drivers/usb/core/hdc.h (struct usb_hcd and various routines) - drivers/usb/core/hub.h (couple of constants) Because those headers are not part of include/, it makes it quite difficult to compile them as standalone module... 23 Apr 2010 23:18

KEYRINGS: find_keyring_by_name() can gain the freed keyring
Hi. Thanks for your comments. David Howells wrote: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima(a)jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: With linux-2.6.34-rc5, find_keyring_by_name() can gain the keyring which has been already freed. And then, its space (which is gained by find_keyring_by_name()) is broken by accessing the fr... 23 Apr 2010 17:49

[PATCH] suppress warning fs/quota/dquot.c:135: ‘quotatypes’ defined but not used
Suppress compilation warning: ‘quotatypes’ defined but not used. quotatypes is used only when CONFIG_QUOTA_DEBUG or CONFIG_PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING is/are defined. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky(a)gmail.com> --- diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c index 788b580..e6a2607 100644... 23 Apr 2010 17:49

i915_do_wait_request BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
Hi Just tried to boot current vanilla upstream kernel - and got pretty ugly oops. Here is serial console catch after X-startup: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffffa035de81>] i915_do_wait_request+0x101/0x4f0 [i915] PGD 139649067 PUD 133b5a067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] ... 23 Apr 2010 17:49

[PATCH] l4f00242t03: fix memory leaks in error handling
1. It is not necessary to free priv if kzalloc fail. 2. priv should be freed if gpio_request for pdata->reset_gpio and pdata->data_enable_gpio fail. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie(a)linux.intel.com> --- drivers/video/backlight/l4f00242t03.c | 6 +++--- 1 files chang... 23 Apr 2010 17:49