Kernel

[PATCH] x86/PCI: never allocate PCI MMIO resources below BIOS_END
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 01:31:20 pm Andy Isaacson wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:33:50PM -0700, Yinghai wrote: Update e820 at first, and later put them resource tree. Reserved that early, will not be allocated to unassigned PCI BAR v3: remove probe_roms() that is not needed, because whole ... 23 Apr 2010 21:16

Union mounts - everything but the xattrs
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:04:07 -0700 Valerie Aurora wrote: This patch series implements union mounts for every system call except: - xattr-related calls - fchmod()/fchown()/futimensat() on an fd The copyup portion is a proof of concept based around union_path_nd(), which looks up both the targ... 23 Apr 2010 21:16

[PATCH 05/14] ima: move ima_file_free before releasing the file
Integrity appraisal measures files on file_free and stores the file measurement as an xattr. Measure the file before releasing it. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar(a)us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue(a)us.ibm.com> diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c index 32d12b7..fac3e43 100644 --- a/fs/file_... 23 Apr 2010 21:16

[PATCH 03/14] xattr: define vfs_getxattr_alloc and vfs_xattr_cmp
vfs_getxattr_alloc() and vfs_xattr_cmp() are two new kernel xattr helper functions. vfs_getxattr_alloc() first allocates memory for the requested xattr and then retrieves it. vfs_xattr_cmp() compares a given value with the contents of an extended attribute. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar(a)us.ibm.com> diff --... 23 Apr 2010 21:16

max732x: Correct nr_port checking off by one error
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:29:16 +0800 Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> wrote: Setup both client_group_a and client_group_b if nr_port > 8 (not including nr_port==8). OK, that's what the patch does. But why does it do it? In other words, when fixing a bug, please include a description of that bug! And, i... 23 Apr 2010 21:16

[PATCH 08/14] evm: imbed evm_inode_post_setattr
Changing the inode's metadata may require the 'security.evm' extended attribute to be re-calculated and updated. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar(a)us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue(a)us.ibm.com> diff --git a/fs/attr.c b/fs/attr.c index 0815e93..5d9ff4e 100644 --- a/fs/attr.c +++ b/fs/attr.c @@ -13,6 +1... 23 Apr 2010 21:16

arch/avr32: Fix build failure caused by typo
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 23:18 +0200, Peter Hüwe wrote: From: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe(a)gmx.de> This little patch fixes a build failure[1] caused by a typo. Patch against linux-next20100421 References: [1]http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/2448162/ Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <p... 23 Apr 2010 21:16

ibft: For UEFI machines actually do scan ACPI for iBFT.
On 04/21/2010 04:29 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:21:28 +0000 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk<konrad(a)kernel.org> wrote: For machines with IBFT 1.03 do scan the ACPI table for 'iBFT' or for 'IBFT'. If the machine is in UEFI mode, only do the ACPI table scan. For all other machines (pre IBFT... 23 Apr 2010 21:16

[PATCH resend] staging: fix dt3155 build
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> When the dt3155 driver is built-in (not as a loadable module), these build errors happen: drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c:1047: error: implicit declaration of function 'request_irq' drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c:1048: error: 'IRQF_SHARED' undeclared (first ... 23 Apr 2010 21:15

block: Add a trace point whenever a barrier IO request is sent
On Wed, Apr 21 2010, Darrick J. Wong wrote: Simple debugging patch used to watch for barrier requests. I've been using this to watch ext4's barrier=1 behavior. But barriers are already being logged, if you watch blkparse data, it'll be RB or WB events. So I don't see what this addition provides that we don'... 23 Apr 2010 21:15