Kernel

[PATCH 33/39] KVM: PPC: Keep SRR1 flags around in shadow_msr
From: Alexander Graf <agraf(a)suse.de> SRR1 stores more information that just the MSR value. It also stores valuable information about the type of interrupt we received, for example whether the storage interrupt we just got was because of a missing htab entry or not. We use that information to speed up the exit ... 13 Feb 2010 03:52

several problems with 2.6.33-rc8 and 2.6.32.8 during boot
In the file enclosed, you can see several problems after booting, new in the kernel since 2.6.32 W.Landgraf ... 13 Feb 2010 02:48

tip related: radix tree for spareseirq and logical flat clean up
On 02/12/2010 07:44 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Thanks for keeping this work alive. Indeed. I am hoping to put this in tip tomorrow or so. I just skimmed through do_IRQ and I happened to notice that we have an unnecessary inefficiency that using a radix tree for irq_to_desc will magnify. ... 13 Feb 2010 20:32

[PATCH] x86_64: allow sections that are recycled to set _PAGE_RW
This fixes BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8800013f4000 IP: [<ffffffff8102bb0b>] free_init_pages+0xa3/0xcc PGD 1611067 PUD 1615067 PMD 556b067 PTE 100000013f4025 .... [<ffffffff8102c2cb>] mark_rodata_ro+0x4a2/0x527 [<ffffffff810021a5>] init_post+0x2b/0x10e .... On platforms where the... 12 Feb 2010 23:33

[PATCH 1/6] sysfs: Serialize updates to the vfs inode
From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm(a)aristanetworks.com> The vfs depends upon filesystem methods to update the vfs inode. Sysfs adds to the normal number of places where the vfs inode is updated by also updatng the vfs inode in sysfs_refresh_inode. Typically the inode mutex is used to serialize updates to the ... 12 Feb 2010 23:33

[RFC PATCH v1 1/4] sched: introduce primitives to account for CFS bandwidth tracking
From: Paul Turner <pjt(a)google.com> In this patch we introduce the notion of CFS bandwidth, to account for the realities of SMP this is partitioned into globally unassigned bandwidth, and locally claimed bandwidth: - The global bandwidth is per task_group, it represents a pool of unclaimed bandwidth that cfs_rq... 12 Feb 2010 22:26

[PATCH 2/9] x86: Move pci init function to x86_init
From 140fcb61a4096db2914fa4526dceadc578b11255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:24:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/9] x86: Move pci init function to x86_init The PCI initialization in pci_subsys_init() is a mess. pci_numaq_init, pci_acpi_init, pci_visws_init... 12 Feb 2010 21:20

[PATCH 6/9] x86: initialize stack canary in secondary start
From 0d84c04b845a36cf43aaa14c175ef10ff5e50480 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan(a)intel.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:36:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 6/9] x86: initialize stack canary in secondary start some secondary clockevent setup code needs to call request_irq, which will cause fake stack c... 12 Feb 2010 21:20

printk,kdb: capture printk() when in kdb shell
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:35:37 -0600 Jason Wessel <jason.wessel(a)windriver.com> wrote: @@ -609,6 +610,14 @@ asmlinkage int printk(const char *fmt, ...) va_list args; int r; +#ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_KDB + if (unlikely(kdb_trap_printk)) { + va_start(args, fmt); + r = vkdb_printf(fmt, args); +... 15 Feb 2010 23:20

[PATCH 2/7] drm: add KGDB/KDB support Add support for KDB entry/exit.
From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes(a)virtuousgeek.org> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h | 2 + include/drm/drm_fb_helper.h | 4 ++ 4 files chan... 12 Feb 2010 17:58