Kernel

pids: fix fork_idle() to setup ->pids correctly
Quoting Oleg Nesterov (oleg(a)redhat.com): copy_process(pid => &init_struct_pid) doesn't do attach_pid/etc. It shouldn't, but this means that the idle threads run with the wrong pids copied from the caller's task_struct. In x86 case the caller is either kernel_init() thread or keventd. In particula... 11 May 2010 05:41

2.6.34-rc7: hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
Hi, While booting this showed up in the logs: [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.34-rc7 (user(a)host) (gcc version 4.4.3 20100108 (prerelease) (Debian 4.4.2-9) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 10 21:54:14 CEST 2010 [ 4.505090] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0) There hasn't been a change regar... 11 May 2010 11:10

N-Trig improved filtering
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Rafi Rubin wrote: On a side note, I haven't really used module parameters and sysfs before. What I wrote works fine, and I tried to follow the style of examples. Still I'd like some feedback of what I did wrong, or right. Hi Rafi, sorry, it took me quite some time to go through and... 11 May 2010 05:41

[OOPS] apbuart.c: Two problems related to grlib_apbuart_configure()
Miguel Ojeda wrote: On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I found two problems using the Simics' sunfire target, so maybe the following does not occur in real machines. 1. At grlib_apbuart_configure() in apbuart.c, prop can be NULL if ... 11 May 2010 05:41

trivial: fix typos concerning "initiali[zs]e"
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: This patch was generated by git grep -E -e 'initi?a?lia?[sz]e' -l | xargs -r perl -p -i -e 's/([Ii])niti?a?lia?([sz])e/$1nitiali$2e/o' Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig(a)pengutronix.de> --- arch/arm/mach-u300/gpio.c | ... 11 May 2010 04:36

agp: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Bill Pemberton wrote: Fixes sparse warning: drivers/char/agp/generic.c:1217:33: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p(a)virginia.edu> CC: linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org --- drivers/char/agp/generic.c | 2 +- 1 files chang... 11 May 2010 04:36

[PATCH 1/2 V3] hwmon: (coretemp) Detect the thermal sensors by CPUID
The thermal sensors of Intel(R) CPUs can be detected by CPUID instruction, indicated by CPUID.06H.EAX[0]. Signed-off-by: Huaxu Wan <huaxu.wan(a)linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde(a)osadl.org> --- drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c | 34 +++++++++++++--------------------- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+)... 11 May 2010 04:36

scripts/get_maintainer.pl: default to not include unspecified tags
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:36:36AM +0200, florian(a)mickler.org wrote: This changes the default of the option --git-all-signature-types to be disabled by default. The effect being, that only certain (currently Signed-Off-By:, Acked-By: and Reviewed-By:) tags are used to get adresses of potential maint... 11 May 2010 04:36

[tip:perf/urgent] kprobes/x86: Fix removed int3 checking order
Commit-ID: 829e92458532b1dbfeb972435d45bb060cdbf5a3 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/829e92458532b1dbfeb972435d45bb060cdbf5a3 Author: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat(a)redhat.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:33:49 -0400 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:14:25 +0200 k... 11 May 2010 03:32

[tip:perf/core] Revert "perf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUP"
Commit-ID: e3174cfd2a1e28fff774681f00a0eef3d31da970 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/e3174cfd2a1e28fff774681f00a0eef3d31da970 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> AuthorDate: Tue, 11 May 2010 08:31:49 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Tue, 11 May 2010 08:31:49 +0200 Revert "perf... 11 May 2010 03:32