Kernel

ixgbe: Fix return of invalid txq
putting davem on to: line... sorry for not including on first email. On Mon, 3 May 2010, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: Please consider commit fdd3d631cddad20ad9d3e1eb7dbf26825a8a121f for inclusion in 2.6.32.y (it is already in 2.6.33.y) Here is the commit message, it fixes a panic on machines with a larg... 10 May 2010 02:17

[stable] ixgbe: Fix return of invalid txq
Please consider commit fdd3d631cddad20ad9d3e1eb7dbf26825a8a121f for inclusion in 2.6.32.y (it is already in 2.6.33.y) Here is the commit message, it fixes a panic on machines with a larger number of cpus than ixgbe has tx queues (64). commit fdd3d631cddad20ad9d3e1eb7dbf26825a8a121f Author: Krishna Kumar <krk... 3 May 2010 17:36

ixgb and e1000: Use new function for copybreak tests
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 17:46, Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> wrote: There appears to be an off-by-1 defect in the maximum packet size copied when copybreak is speified in these modules. The copybreak module params are specified as: "Maximum size of packet that is copied to a new buffer on receive" T... 3 May 2010 17:36

[RFC] Exposing TSC "reliability" to userland
In a patch posted late last year by Venki: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/17/360 it was noted that some systems that specify the "Invariant TSC" bit in CPUID (on recent processors) are sadly not guaranteed to have synchronized TSCs. As a result, Ingo's check_tsc_warp() is executed; if the warp test passes, the... 3 May 2010 17:36

[PATCH 2.6.34-rc6] mxc: gadget: Fix bitfield for calculating maximum packet size
From: Dinh Nguyen <Dinh.Nguyen(a)freescale.com> The max packet length bit mask used for isochronous endpoints should be 0x7FF instead of 0x8FF. 0x8FF will actually clear higher-order bits in the max packet length field. This patch applies to 2.6.34-rc6. Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen <Dinh.Nguyen(a)freescale.com> -... 3 May 2010 16:28

kernel BUG in iwl-agn-rs.c:2076, WAS: iwlagn + some accesspoint == hardlock
Hello, Some of the previous messages about this BUG seem lost, so here again in a single message: When connecting to the local university's wireless APs, rather regularly the kernel crashes. So, connecting to one of those the system hardlocks. No panic LED blinking, no mouse cursor moving, no magic sys... 10 Jun 2010 13:24

Staging: cxt1e1: Fix build error
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 11:56:53AM -0400, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: With today linux-next I got this compilation error: drivers/staging/cxt1e1/linux.c: In function 'c4_add_dev': drivers/staging/cxt1e1/linux.c:1195: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'priv' I think this patch solves... 3 May 2010 15:22

Staging: comedi: Moved some EXPORT_SYMBOL() macros
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 05:39:09PM +0800, Mark Rankilor wrote: This is a patch to range.c that rearranges some EXPORT_SYMBOL() macros to please checkpatch.pl Signed-off-by: Mark Rankilor <reodge(a)gmail.com> Heh, I didn't make this change, as I thought it was "ugly", but it makes sense to apply this patc... 3 May 2010 15:22

[PATCH tip/core/urgent 06/10] sched: Fix an RCU warning in print_task()
From: Li Zefan <lizf(a)cn.fujitsu.com> With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y, a warning can be triggered: $ cat /proc/sched_debug .... kernel/cgroup.c:1649 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! .... Both cgroup_path() and task_group() should be called with either rcu_read_lock or cgroup_mutex held. Th... 3 May 2010 15:22

[PATCH tip/core/urgent 08/10] memcg: css_id() must be called under rcu_read_lock()
This patch fixes task_in_mem_cgroup(), mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache(), mem_cgroup_move_swap_account(), and is_target_pte_for_mc() to protect calls to css_id(). An additional RCU lockdep splat was reported for memcg_oom_wake_function(), however, this function is not yet in mainline as of 2.6.34-rc5. Reported-by... 3 May 2010 15:22