Kernel

at91: at91sam9g45 family: identify several chip versions
On 12:40 Mon 21 Sep , Nicolas Ferre wrote: cpu_is_xxx() macros are identifying generic at91sam9g45 chip. This patch adds the capacity to differentiate Engineering Samples and final lots through the inclusion of at91_cpu_fully_identify() and the related chip IDs with chip version field preserved. ... 21 Sep 2009 08:52

[GIT PULL] UBIFS changes for 2.6.32
Hi Linus, please, pull UBIFS tree. Below goes the 'git request-pull' info, which mentions one merge commit. I had to create it in order to resolve conflicts with the per-bdi writeback changes, which went in this merge window from the 'linux-2.6-block' tree. The following changes since commit ebc79c4f8da0f92efa... 21 Sep 2009 05:34

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:1717
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Minchan Kim wrote: We have to change description of hid_input_report. * @interrupt: called from atomic? I think it lost meaning. Good point, I will change it, thanks. I am worried that interrupt variable is propagated down to sub functions. Is it right on sub functions? ... 21 Sep 2009 05:34

ARM: Introduce ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT to define cache line size
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:48:30PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: Currently kernel believes that all ARM CPUs have L1_CACHE_SHIFT == 5. It's not true at least for CPUs based on Cortex-A8. Please send this to the patch system. There's no need to add the "V2" comments to it when you do. -- To unsubscribe f... 21 Sep 2009 12:18

[tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: Fix perf_copy_attr() pointer arithmetic
Commit-ID: cdf8073d6b2c6c5a3cd6ce0e6c1297157f7f99ba Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/cdf8073d6b2c6c5a3cd6ce0e6c1297157f7f99ba Author: Ian Schram <ischram(a)telenet.be> AuthorDate: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:26:26 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:32:55 +0200 perf_cou... 19 Sep 2009 14:48

USB: ftdi_sio: Fix read regression in 2.6.31.
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Johan Hovold wrote: Use ASYNCB_INITIALIZED to determine when to stop reading. Since 335f8514f200e63d689113d29cb7253a5c282967 port count can no longer be used to determine when to stop reading from the device as it can be zero when the first read callbacks are made (see tty_port_bl... 19 Sep 2009 13:40

: mm: Make vmalloc_user() align base kernel virtual address to SHMLBA.
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:17:09 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> wrote: ( Andrew, this patch has mm/* effects - any objections? Would still like to get this into v2.6.32. ) I queued this a week ago, along with perf-allocate-mmap-buffer-using-vmalloc_user.patch. If the latter gets quitably acked I can mer... 18 Sep 2009 17:53

block: Add blk_queue_copy_limits()
On Fri, Sep 18 2009, Jens Axboe wrote: On Sat, Sep 19 2009, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote: This patch is a preparation for the last patch in this patchset which changes blk_set_default_limits() to set 0 to max_sectors. dm uses blk_stack_limits() to merge limits of underlying devices and copy the en... 19 Sep 2009 12:34

/etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied
As a special case you can implement this much more simply in devtmpfs_mount just do: int devtmpfs_mount(const char *mountpoint) { sys_mount("none", "dev", "devtmpfs", MS_SILENT, NULL); sys_chmod("dev/console", 0666); sys_chmod("dev/tty", 0666); sys_chmod("dev/null", 0666); sys_chmod("dev/zero", ... 18 Sep 2009 19:00

[PATCH] Prevent immediate process rescheduling
Prevent the scheduler from immediately rescheduling a process that just yielded if there is another process available. Originally suggested by Mike Galbraith (efault(a)gmx.de). Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf(a)amd.com> --- kernel/sched_fair.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 15 insertions... 18 Sep 2009 17:52