Kernel

[PATCH 18/20] KVM: Plan obsolescence of kernel allocated slots, paravirt mmu
These features are unused by modern userspace and can go away. Paravirt mmu needs to stay a little longer for live migration. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi(a)redhat.com> --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff ... 17 Feb 2010 08:51

[RFC 0/3] A little console mystery...
Anyone feeling inspired. These three patches move the console to use the tty_port interface and refcounting. The first two work perfectly, the third which we really need works beautifully except that it breaks mingetty/login stuff. [So not for the main kernel if you like using text consoles] I have been starin... 17 Feb 2010 08:51

[PATCH 20/20] KVM: x86 emulator: disallow opcode 82 in 64-bit mode
From: Gleb Natapov <gleb(a)redhat.com> Instructions with opcode 82 are not valid in 64 bit mode. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb(a)redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi(a)redhat.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86... 17 Feb 2010 08:51

[PATCH 19/20] KVM: x86 emulator: code style cleanup
From: Wei Yongjun <yjwei(a)cn.fujitsu.com> Just remove redundant semicolon. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei(a)cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi(a)redhat.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/e... 17 Feb 2010 08:51

[PATCH 09/20] KVM: do not store wqh in irqfd
From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst(a)redhat.com> wqh is unused, so we do not need to store it in irqfd anymore Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst(a)redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi(a)redhat.com> --- virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/virt/kvm/ev... 17 Feb 2010 08:51

[PATCH 2/5] tty: Prune uses of tty_request_room in the USB layer
We have lots of callers that do not need to do this in the first place. Remove the calls as they both cost CPU and for big buffers can mess up the multi-page allocation avoidance. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan(a)linux.intel.com> --- drivers/usb/serial/ark3116.c | 1 - drivers/usb/serial/cyberjack.c... 17 Feb 2010 08:50

[PATCH 4/5] tty: kill request_room for USB ACM class
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan(a)linux.intel.com> --- drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c index 5155ff2..95a18e5 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c +++ b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c... 17 Feb 2010 08:50

[tip:x86/urgent] x86: Add iMac9,1 to pci_reboot_dmi_table
Commit-ID: 0a832320f1bae6a4169bf683e201378f2437cfc1 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0a832320f1bae6a4169bf683e201378f2437cfc1 Author: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock(a)gmail.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:17:29 -0800 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:08:21 +0100... 17 Feb 2010 07:44

[tip:perf/nmi] nmi_watchdog: support for oprofile
Commit-ID: 6081b6cd9702967889de34fe5da1f96bb96d0ab8 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6081b6cd9702967889de34fe5da1f96bb96d0ab8 Author: Don Zickus <dzickus(a)redhat.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:04:52 -0500 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:16:02 +0100 nmi_watc... 17 Feb 2010 07:44

[PATCH 04/10] x86-32: allow UP/SMP lock replacement in cmpxchg64
Use the functionality just introduced in the previous patch. --- arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h index ffb9bb6..3c267e0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.... 17 Feb 2010 07:44