Kernel

rt: Remove CONFIG_STACK_TRACER from DEBUG_COUNT, and fix reminder block
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, John Kacur wrote: This fix does two things. This changelog does suck in more than two ways. 1. It reverts commit 3e39399ef4a742d994570488994be93ef17d4ef5. - The above commit added back a warning... 28 Apr 2010 16:18

[PATCH 0/3] ipc/sem.c: Optimization for reducing spinlock contention
Hi, I've cleaned up the patches I sent a week ago: - they pass now checkpatch.pl - some comments updated/added - a bug with semctl(,,SETALL,) is fixed - tested against LTP Andrew: Could you add them the next -mm? The following series of patches tries to fix the spinlock contention reported by Chris Manson... 28 Apr 2010 16:18

[PATCH 3/3] [PATCH] ipc/sem.c: cacheline align the ipc spinlock for semaphores
This patch cacheline aligns the spinlock for sysv semaphores: Without the patch, the spinlock and sem_otime [written by every semop that modified the array] and sem_base [read in the hot path of try_atomic_semop()] can be in the same cacheline. Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred(a)colorfullife.com> --- inclu... 28 Apr 2010 16:18

[PATCH 2/2] ipc/sem.c: move wake_up_process out of the spinlock section
The wake-up part of semtimedop() consists out of two steps: - the right tasks must be identified. - they must be woken up. Right now, both steps run while the array spinlock is held. This patch reorders the code and moves the actual wake_up_process() behind the point where the spinlock is dropped. The code al... 28 Apr 2010 16:18

Staging: arlan: arlan.h: Fixed some style issues
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 08:39:30PM -0400, Vikram Dhillon wrote: Fixed some style issues in accordance with checkpatch.pl. Before the patch contained "total: 2 errors, 186 warnings, 535 lines checked" and now it has: total: 0 errors, 170 warnings. Most of the warnings that remain now are the line over 80 cha... 28 Apr 2010 15:09

sched: implement the exclusive wait queue as a LIFO queue
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Changli Gao wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:29 PM, David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com> wrote: Changli Gao <xiaosuo(a)gmail.com> wrote: If there isn't enough work to be done, we'd better not disrupt them and  leave them sleeping forever to keep the scheduler happier. Do we ... 28 Apr 2010 15:09

trivial: use (C) instead of \251
Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org> writes: The latin-1 copyright character \251 is invalid in ASCII or UTF-8 and causes annoying problems with some editors and tools. Use (C) instead. Why do we need anything there at all? -- Hilsen Harald. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke... 30 Apr 2010 20:46

drivers/staging/rtl8192su: Hoist assign from if
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:17:03PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192su/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192su/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c @@ -1690,7 +1690,8 @@ ieee80211_rx_auth_rq(struct ieee80211_device *ieee, struct sk_buff *skb) //IEEE80211DMESG("Rx probe... 28 Apr 2010 17:27

drivers/staging/vt6656: Hoist assign from if
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:17:06PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: @@ -718,7 +724,8 @@ PIPEnsSendBulkOut( s_nsBulkOutIoCompleteWrite, pContext); - if((status = usb_submit_urb(pUrb, GFP_ATOMIC))!=0) + status = usb_submit_urb(pUrb, GFP_ATOMIC); + if (status!=0) And ag... 28 Apr 2010 15:09

drivers/staging/rtl8192u: Hoist assign from if
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:17:04PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> --- .../staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c b/driv... 28 Apr 2010 15:09