Kernel

[PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 04/11] powerpc: remove all rcu head initializations
Remove all rcu head inits. We don't care about the RCU head state before passing it to call_rcu() anyway. Only leave the "on_stack" variants so debugobjects can keep track of objects on stack. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers(a)efficios.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh(a)kernel.crashing.org> ... 11 May 2010 20:08

[PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 08/11] mm: remove all rcu head initializations
Remove all rcu head inits. We don't care about the RCU head state before passing it to call_rcu() anyway. Only leave the "on_stack" variants so debugobjects can keep track of objects on stack. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers(a)efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm... 11 May 2010 20:08

[PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 09/11] selinux: remove all rcu head initializations
Remove all rcu head inits. We don't care about the RCU head state before passing it to call_rcu() anyway. Only leave the "on_stack" variants so debugobjects can keep track of objects on stack. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers(a)efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm... 11 May 2010 20:08

[PATCH] Staging:comedi:Fix bug and coding style issue in usbdux.c This is a patch to the usbdux.c file that resolve 2 errors in coding and fix the warning about lengt of code lines Signed-off-by: Morgan Gatti <morgan.gatti@gmail.com>
--- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c | 10 +++++----- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c index 8942ae4..c39c36a 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi... 11 May 2010 19:02

stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop
On Thu, 6 May 2010 18:52:49 +0200 Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org> wrote: Reimplement stop_machine using cpu_stop. As cpu stoppers are guaranteed to be available for all online cpus, stop_machine_create/destroy() are no longer necessary and removed. With resource management and synchronization handled by ... 12 May 2010 03:43

[PATCH] MMC: OMAP HS-MMC: convert to dev_pm_ops
Convert PM operations to use dev_pm_ops. This will facilitate the runtime PM coversion which will add to dev_pm_ops hooks. Note that dev_pm_ops version of the suspend hook no longer takes a 'state' argument. However, the MMC core function mmc_suspend_host() still takes a 'state' argument, but it is unused, so a... 11 May 2010 19:02

PyTimechart
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:10:36PM +0200, Pierre Tardy wrote: Hello, PyTimechart is another implementation of two very useful tools available for the linux community: perf-timechart ( http://blog.fenrus.org/?p=5 ) and bootchart ( http://www.bootchart.org/ ) The two tools share a common idea of... 13 May 2010 11:35

[RFC] PyTimechart
Hello, PyTimechart is another implementation of two very useful tools available for the linux community: perf-timechart ( http://blog.fenrus.org/?p=5 ) and bootchart ( http://www.bootchart.org/ ) The two tools share a common idea of making their output to SVG files. While it is a very good idea for small trac... 11 May 2010 17:55

Uprobes v3
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 23:31 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: - Addressed comments from Oleg, including removal of interrupt context handlers, reverting background page replacement in favour of access_process_vm(). +static int write_opcode(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long vaddr, + ... 12 May 2010 14:43

BUG: amd64-agp (2.6.34-rc7)
[ 482.226941] calling agp_amd64_mod_init+0x0/0x19 [amd64_agp] @ 3555 [ 482.235968] initcall agp_amd64_mod_init+0x0/0x19 [amd64_agp] returned -19 after 705 usecs [ 484.289804] calling agp_amd64_mod_init+0x0/0x19 [amd64_agp] @ 3566 [ 484.298287] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000000369a [ ... 11 May 2010 17:55