Kernel

linux-next: manual merge of the workqueues tree with the tip tree
Hi Tejun, Today's linux-next merge of the workqueues tree got a conflict in kernel/workqueue.c between commit a25909a4d4a29e272f953e12595bf2f04a292dbd ("lockdep: Add an in_workqueue_context() lockdep-based test function") from the tip tree and commit 098849516dd522a343e659740c8f1394a5b7fa69 ("workqueue: explain ... 1 Aug 2010 23:33

trace: uprobes trace_event interface
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 02:04:14PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: Srikar Dronamraju wrote: diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index c681fa7..16e2a8c 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -482,6 +482,22 @@ config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK ... 2 Aug 2010 04:54

linux-next: build failure after merge of the security-testing tree
Hi James, After merging the security-testing tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this (also some warnings ...): security/apparmor/ipc.c: In function 'aa_ptrace': security/apparmor/ipc.c:103: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type security/apparmor/doma... 1 Aug 2010 22:28

Warning: E-mail viruses detected
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drivers/scsi/pm8001: introduce missing kfree
[Jack]Looks good to me! Thanks! Acked-by: Jack Wang<jack_wang(a)usish.com> From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Error handling code following a kmalloc should free the allocated data. The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @r exists@ loc... 1 Aug 2010 22:28

linux-next: build failure after merge of the device-mapper tree
Hi Alasdair, After merging the device-mapper tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: drivers/md/dm-crypt.c: In function 'crypt_ctr_cipher': drivers/md/dm-crypt.c:1095: error: 'bad_mem' undeclared (first use in this function) Caused by commit 460328b294ddd132945bdf536a9130f2... 2 Aug 2010 08:08

[PATCH 02/19] perf sort: Make column width code per hists instance
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> They were globals, and since we support multiple hists and sessions at the same time, it doesn't make sense to calculate those values considering all symbols in all sessions. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault(a)gmx.de> Cc: Pe... 1 Aug 2010 21:23

[PATCH 18/19] perf tools: Release thread resources on PERF_RECORD_EXIT
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> For long running sessions with many threads with short lifetimes the amount of memory that the buildid process takes is too much. Since we don't have hist_entries that may be pointing to them, we can just release the resources associated with each thread when the... 1 Aug 2010 21:23

[PATCH 15/19] perf symbols: Improve debug image search when loading symbols
From: Dave Martin <dave.martin(a)linaro.org> Changes: * Simplification of the main search loop on dso__load() * Replace the search with a 2-pass search: * First, try to find an image with a proper symtab. * Second, repeat the search, accepting dynsym. A second scan should only ever happen when needed debu... 1 Aug 2010 21:23

[PATCH 14/19] perf tools: remove extra build-id check factored into dso__load
From: Dave Martin <dave.martin(a)linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin(a)linaro.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> --- tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 28 ++-------------------------- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff -... 1 Aug 2010 21:23