Kernel

nfs oops in 2.6.32-rc5-00041-g1d91624
Hi, I got this oops while doing a grep on an nfs4 share. kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP kernel: last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cache/index2/shared_cpu_map kernel: CPU 0 kernel: Modules linked in: nfs lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc sit tunnel4 analog it87 hwmon_vid joydev... 20 Oct 2009 05:39

ipc: fix trivial warning
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote: Commit a0d092f introduced the following warning: ipc/msg.c: In function ?msgctl_down?: ipc/msg.c:415: warning: ?msqid64? may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras(a)gmail.com> --- ipc/msg.c | 2 +- ... 11 Nov 2009 21:21

drivers: Remove BKL from misc_open
Hi!! drivers/staging/android/binder.c drivers/staging/dream/qdsp5/audio_aac.c drivers/staging/dream/qdsp5/audio_evrc.c drivers/staging/dream/qdsp5/audio_in.c drivers/staging/dream/qdsp5/audio_out.c drivers/staging/dream/qdsp5/snd.c drivers/staging/dream/smd/smd_qmi.c ... 18 Oct 2009 14:58

NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:18 +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Can you explain a bit more what that message is about? I am encountering it in a completely different context (PPP over ISDN) and I would like to know where to start looking for the cause and developing a fix. The thread on linux.kernel.wireless.... 11 Oct 2009 19:21

USB serial regression 2.6.31.1 -> 2.6.31.2
Hi folks ! My USB GSM modem (Huawei 169, pretty common stuff) stopped working in the latest ubuntu karmic update. So far, I tracked it down to a regression that happened in the stable releases between 2.6.31.1 and 2.6.31.2 (still present in .3). I haven't tested 2.6.32-rc* yet and haven't had a chance to bisect ... 11 Oct 2009 19:21

Linux IO service time - a perfect source of randomness ?
I have just completed extensive benchmarking of ext3 on 2.6.31.2 both on HW RAID6 as well as single Hard Drive. I have written a new file system benchmark that creates load by reading and writing large file trees in paralle to simulate a busy fileserver. The results are as follows: * as soon as the system com... 9 Oct 2009 13:45

linux-next: pci tree build warning
Hi Jesse, Today's linux-next build (powerpc allnoconfig) produced this warning: WARNING: drivers/pci/built-in.o(.devinit.text+0x86a): Section mismatch in reference from the function pci_init() to the variable .init.data:pci_dfl_cache_line_size The function __devinit pci_init() references a variable __initdata p... 8 Oct 2009 01:17

[PATCH] net: Add netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() helper
Thomas Chou a �crit : As suggested by Stephen Hemminger. Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas(a)wytron.com.tw> --- drivers/net/ethoc.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethoc.c b/drivers/net/ethoc.c index ecc53d9..4a1ed81 100644 --- a/drive... 8 Oct 2009 00:12

[PATCH 1/8] firewire: sbp2: provide fallback if mgt_ORB_timeout is missing
The Unit_Characteristics entry of an SBP-2 unit directory is not mandatory as far as I can tell. If it is missing, we would probably fail to log in into the target because firewire-sbp2 would not wait for status after it sent the login request. The fix moves the cleanup of tgt->mgt_orb_timeout into a place where... 7 Oct 2009 19:47

x86/pvclock: add vsyscall implementation
> We can support them by falling back to the kernel. I'm a bit worried about the kernel playing with the hypervisor's version field. It's better to introduce yet a new version for the kernel, and check both. On Nehalem, apps that need timestamp information at a high frequency will likely use rdtsc/rdtscp ... 5 Nov 2009 13:23