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fb_defio: redo fix for non-dirty ptes
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Albert Herranz <albert_herranz(a)yahoo.es> wrote: As pointed by Nick Piggin, ->page_mkwrite provides a way to keep a page locked until the associated PTE is marked dirty. Re-implement the fix by using this mechanism. LKML-Reference: <20100525160149.GE20853(a)laptop> Sig... 25 May 2010 21:15

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x86 efi: Fill all reserved memmap entries if add_efi_memmap specified v2
Currently, the e820_reserve_resources() function does not add entries obtained via the "add_efi_memmap" kernel cmdline option. This causes /sys/firmware/memmap/... to be incomplete (stops after 128 entries). Utilities that examine these entries then do not get the complete picture of system memory. This patch c... 25 May 2010 19:04

Crash in load_module() while freeing args
On Tuesday 25 May 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, Recent -git kernels crash for me quite often during boot, reporting that kernel paging request could not be satisfied at load_module+0x18e4, which corresponds to line 2483 of kernel/module.c for the kernel in question (however the same call trace s... 31 May 2010 06:30

driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading
On Tue, 25 May 2010 15:16:38 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers(a)vrfy.org> This adds: alias: devname:<name> to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading of the kernel module when the device node is accessed. Ideally all these modules woul... 25 May 2010 19:04

[PATCH 1/1] driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers(a)vrfy.org> This adds: alias: devname:<name> to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading of the kernel module when the device node is accessed. Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too much in love with their modularization ... 25 May 2010 19:04

[RFT PATCH 2/2] fb_defio: redo fix for non-dirty ptes
As pointed by Nick Piggin, ->page_mkwrite provides a way to keep a page locked until the associated PTE is marked dirty. Re-implement the fix by using this mechanism. LKML-Reference: <20100525160149.GE20853(a)laptop> Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz(a)yahoo.es> --- drivers/video/fb_defio.c | 12 ++... 25 May 2010 19:04

[RFT PATCH 1/2] Revert "fb_defio: fix for non-dirty ptes"
This reverts commit 49bbd815fd8ba26d0354900b783b767c7f47c816. Although the fix provided is correct, it's been suggested to avoid the underlying race in the same way as it is currently done in filesystems like NFS, for maintainability. A following patch "fb_defio: redo fix for non-dirty ptes" will provide such an... 25 May 2010 19:04

[patch] mempolicy: ERR_PTR dereference in mpol_shared_policy_init()
The original code called mpol_put(new) while "new" was an ERR_PTR. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27(a)gmail.com> diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 7575101..5d6fb33 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2098,7 +2098,7 @@ void mpol_shared_policy_init(struct shared_policy *sp, ... 25 May 2010 19:04

x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time to task
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org> wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 17:11 -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: +void account_system_vtime(struct task_struct *tsk) +{ + � � � unsigned long flags; + � � � int cpu; + � � � u64 now; + + � � � local_irq_save(flags... 25 May 2010 17:58