Kernel

kvm: Introduce kvm_host_page_size
On 01/28/2010 01:37 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: This patch introduces a generic function to find out the host page size for a given gfn. This function is needed by the kvm iommu code. This patch also simplifies the x86 host_mapping_level function. Applied to kvm.git since this makes sense independentl... 7 Feb 2010 09:46

arch/ia64: Fix continuation line formats
On 02/02/2010 09:22 AM, Joe Perches wrote: String constants that are continued on subsequent lines with \ are not good. Applied, thanks. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me... 7 Feb 2010 07:34

[RFC][PATCH] PERF_COUNT_SW_RUNNABLE_TASKS: measure and act upon parallellism
Hi all, Here's an initial RFC patch for the parallallism events for perf_events. It works with a low number of tasks, but runs into a couple of issues: - something goes wrong when a thread exits. Apparently the count is decremented twice. I'm still figuring this one out, perhaps sync_stat is to blame. ... 7 Feb 2010 07:34

[PATCH 1/6] Move poll into perf_event and allow for wakeups when fd has not been mmap'd. This is useful when using read() to read out the current counter value.
From: Stijn Devriendt <stijn(a)stijn.telenet.be> --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 2 +- kernel/perf_event.c | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index c66b34f..827a221 100644 ---... 7 Feb 2010 07:34

[PATCH 4/6] Fix HW breakpoint handlers
From: Stijn Devriendt <HIGHGuY(a)gmail.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 2 +- kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h b/arch/x86/include/a... 7 Feb 2010 07:34

iommu-api: Add iommu_map and iommu_unmap functions
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 11:38:30AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/28/2010 01:37 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: These two functions provide support for mapping and unmapping physical addresses to io virtual addresses. The difference to the iommu_(un)map_range() is that the new functions take a gfp_order para... 7 Feb 2010 06:30

mmotm 2010-02-05-15-06 : i915 ioremap failed
Hi, i915 try to ioremap normal ram, please see following warning: [ 1.850361] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 1.850409] WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:111 __ioremap_caller+0xcc/0x241() [ 1.850774] Hardware name: Latitude E5400 [ 1.851172] Modules linked in: [ 1.85159... 7 Feb 2010 05:25

iommu-api: Add iommu_map and iommu_unmap functions
On 01/28/2010 01:37 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: These two functions provide support for mapping and unmapping physical addresses to io virtual addresses. The difference to the iommu_(un)map_range() is that the new functions take a gfp_order parameter instead of a size. This allows the IOMMU backend implement... 7 Feb 2010 05:25

[git pull] VFS fixes for -rc8 (mostly IMA)
Assorted fixes, mostly IMA ones. Please pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git/ for-linus (once it propagates, or from hera immediately) Shortlog: Al Viro (3): befs: fix leak Take ima_path_check() in nfsd past dentry_open() in nfsd_open() Take ima_file_free(... 7 Feb 2010 04:19

fix null pointer deref
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:34:51PM +1100, James Morris wrote: Linus, Please pull this bugfix. I've verified that it fixes the null pointer deref. NAK. In that form it's simply wrong; we should never get there with NULL file->f_dentry->d_inode at all. This is papering over the real bug; I'll post a... 7 Feb 2010 23:06