Kernel

[PATCH v2.6.34-rc5 06/12] KEYS: Fix an RCU warning
From: David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com> Fix the following RCU warning: =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- security/keys/request_key.c:116 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection... 23 Apr 2010 21:09

[GIT PULL] Perf probe support for PowerPC, from Ian Munsie
Ingo, Please pull my perf.git master branch: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/perf.git master It has two commits from Ian Munsie that allow us to access local variables with perf probe on PowerPC. We also need a commit in Ben's powerpc-next branch for it to function, but it compiles wi... 23 Apr 2010 21:09

firmware loader: use statically initialized data attribute
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:49:07PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: There is no reason why we are using a template for binary attribute and copying it into per-firmware data before registering. Using the original works as well and gets rid of the following lockdep compaint: This patch isn't needed anymore, ... 23 Apr 2010 21:09

mmotm 2010-04-22-16-38 uploaded
The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2010-04-22-16-38 has been uploaded to http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ and will soon be available at git://zen-kernel.org/kernel/mmotm.git It contains the following patches against 2.6.34-rc5: origin.patch reiserfs-fix-permissions-on-reiserfs_priv.patch memcg-f... 26 Apr 2010 18:21

[PATCH] Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate
Fix obvious cases of "it's" being used when "its" was meant. Signed-off-by: Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue(a)gmail.com> Cc: <trivial(a)kernel.org> --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory | 2 +- Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt | 2 +- Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl ... 23 Apr 2010 21:09

[Stable-review] [051/197] backlight: mbp_nvidia_bl - add five more MacBook variants
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 02:04:52PM -0400, Evan McClain wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 07:11:02PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: I'm not sure I understand the implications either. The real question in my opinion is : is it better to keep this patch, to delay it or to drop it ? I'm afraid I'm not fa... 23 Apr 2010 21:09

ds2782_battery: add support for ds2786 battery gas gauge
Mike Rapoport wrote: From: Yulia Vilensky <vilensky(a)compulab.co.il> Thanks for this, some comments below. Signed-off-by: Yulia Vilensky <vilensky(a)compulab.co.il> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <mike(a)compulab.co.il> --- drivers/power/Kconfig | 4 +- drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c | 217... 25 Apr 2010 17:49

blkio: Fix another BUG_ON() crash due to cfqq movement across groups
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal(a)redhat.com> wrote: o Once in a while, I was hitting a BUG_ON() in blkio code. empty_time was �assuming that upon slice expiry, group can't be marked empty already (except �forced dispatch). �But this assumption is broken if cfqq can move (group_isolati... 23 Apr 2010 21:08

sdhci-pltfm: Do not print errors in case of an extended iomem size
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 07:02:52AM +0100, Richard Röjfors wrote: On 3/16/10 7:34 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote: Some hosts have an extended SDHCI iomem size, so the driver should only print errors if the iomem size is less than 0x100. With this change you allow a bigger resource than we really need. ... 23 Apr 2010 21:08

[PATCH] sdhci-pltfm: Add kernel-doc for struct sdhci_pltfm_data
Suggested-by: Richard Röjfors <richard.rojfors(a)pelagicore.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov(a)mvista.com> --- On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 07:14:03AM +0100, Richard Röjfors wrote: On 3/16/10 7:34 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote: This includes platform ops, quirks and (de)initialization callbacks. ... 23 Apr 2010 21:08