Kernel

[PATCHv2 1/2] sched: enable ARCH_POWER
Enable the scheduler feature that allows use of arch_scale_smt_power. Stub out the broken x86 implementation. Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp(a)austin.ibm.com> --- Index: linux-2.6.git/kernel/sched_features.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/kernel/sc... 26 Jan 2010 18:55

Remove unused variables
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Shahar Havivi wrote: Remove unused fields in drivers/char/vt.c variables orig_buf and orig_count are assigned but never used. Shahar Havivi Could you please resend with your Signed-off-by line, as described in Documentation/SubmittingPatches, so that I could apply the patch? --... 27 Jan 2010 04:51

Fwd: [scripts] python: change scripts to use system python instead of env
Doh. Typo in the To: field ----- Forwarded message from Don Zickus <dzickus(a)redhat.com> ----- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:32:10 -0500 From: Don Zickus <dzickus(a)redhat.com> To: lkml(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm(a)linux-foundation.org, tglx(a)linutronix.de, tony.luck(a)intel.com, kmcmartin(a)redhat.com, Don Zickus <dzickus@... 26 Jan 2010 17:47

[PATCH 0/5][GIT PULL][v2.6.33] tracing: fixes and documentation updates
Ingo, I found that reading the trace file and the raw_trace_pipe using splice, at the same time could cause a kernel oops. Not a major one, that is, the oops only crashes the user task that is performing the read of the trace file. But still urgent enough to go into 2.6.33. The issue is with the iterator th... 26 Jan 2010 17:47

How to write driver that needs to call another driver?
My Zaurus SL-C3200 PDA needs a driver that needs to call another driver from another part of the device tree: MAX1111 (4 channel A/D) is connected to several other pieces of hardware (audio player remote keyboard, battery voltage, battery temperature, external power voltage). Battery power and charging managem... 27 Jan 2010 13:45

clocksource: Prevent potential kgdb dead lock
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:09:45 GMT tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> wrote: --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c @@ -343,7 +343,19 @@ static void clocksource_resume_watchdog(void) { unsigned long flags; - spin_lock_irqsave(&watchdog_lock, flags); + ... 26 Jan 2010 16:39

tty: fix race in tty_fasync
Greg KH <gregkh(a)suse.de> writes: 2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. Only that __f_setown by way of f_modown unconditionally enables interrupts. So without touching f_modown as well in mainline we have nasty sounding lockdep warnings. Eric -----------------... 26 Jan 2010 21:13

[07/11] USB: add missing delay during remote wakeup
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Alan Stern <stern(a)rowland.harvard.edu> commit 49d0f078f494b9d81e820a13dd8093a9bfb0b6b1 upstream. This patch (as1330) fixes a bug in khbud's handling of remote wakeups. When a device sends a remote-wakeu... 26 Jan 2010 15:31

[08/11] USB: EHCI: fix handling of unusual interrupt intervals
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Alan Stern <stern(a)rowland.harvard.edu> commit 1b9a38bfa6e664ff02511314f5586d711c83cc91 upstream. This patch (as1320) fixes two problems related to interrupt-URB scheduling in ehci-hcd. URBs with an i... 26 Jan 2010 15:31

[05/11] ecryptfs: use after free
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <error27(a)gmail.com> commit ece550f51ba175c14ec3ec047815927d7386ea1f upstream. The "full_alg_name" variable is used on a couple error paths, so we shouldn't free it until the end. Signed-... 26 Jan 2010 15:31