Kernel

cgroups: read-write lock CLONE_THREAD forking per threadgroup
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Ben Blum <bblum(a)andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: + * The threadgroup_fork_lock prevents threads from forking with + * CLONE_THREAD while held for writing. Use this for fork-sensitive + * threadgroup-wide operations. It's taken for reading in fork.c in + * copy_process(). + * ... 4 Aug 2010 01:42

[GIT] Networking
Another release, another merge window, another set of networking changes to merge :-) Besides the usual assortment of cleanups and bug fixes, we have: 1) Some BKL-->mutex conversions from Arnd Bergmann 2) Support for higher granularity for inter-transmission gaps in pktgen from Daniel Turull. 3) Seve... 4 Aug 2010 00:37

[PATCH v6 3/3] KVM: MMU: prefetch ptes when intercepted guest #PF
Support prefetch ptes when intercept guest #PF, avoid to #PF by later access If we meet any failure in the prefetch path, we will exit it and not try other ptes to avoid become heavy path Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 107 ++++++++++++++++++++++... 4 Aug 2010 00:37

2.6.35-rc2-git5 -- [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id
Black (non-updating) radeon console with CONFIG_FB=m works with CONFIG_FB=y. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:56:26AM -0700, Bret Towe wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Miles Lane <miles.lane(a)gmail.com> wrote: # dmesg | grep -i drm How should I go about debugging this? ?I am running Ubuntu unstable, ... 5 Aug 2010 21:23

slub: Use a constant for a unspecified node.
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote: Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2010-07-26 12:57:52.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2010-07-26 12:57:59.000000000 -0500 @@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ static inline st... 5 Aug 2010 04:48

[PATCH v6 1/3] export __get_user_pages_fast() function
This function is used by KVM to pin process's page in the atomic context. Define the 'weak' function to avoid other architecture not support it Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin(a)suse.de> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- mm/util.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 13 insertio... 4 Aug 2010 00:37

Additional fix : (was [v2]printk: fix delayed messages from CPU hotplug events)
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:59:26PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 13:03:25 +0530 "Shilimkar, Santosh" <santosh.shilimkar(a)ti.com> wrote: thought that those events simply aren't occurring, and that the patch has no effect. Confused - please explain further. These events can c... 4 Aug 2010 00:37

linux-next: build warning after merge of the scsi tree
Hi James, After merging the scsi tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) produced this warning: drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c:384: warning: dereferencing 'void *' pointer Introduced by commit db5bd1e0b505c54ff492172ce4abc245cf6cd639 ("[SCSI] convert to the new PM framework"). This build does no... 4 Aug 2010 00:37

linux-next: manual merge of the suspend tree with the net tree
Hi Rafael, Today's linux-next merge of the suspend tree got a conflict in drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c between commit c128ec29208d410568469bd8bb373b4cdc10912a ("e1000e: register pm_qos request on hardware activation") from the net tree and commit 82f682514a5df89ffb3890627eebf0897b7a84ec ("pm_qos: Get rid of the ... 4 Aug 2010 03:50

[PATCH] ARM: uaccess: Implement strict user copy checks
This is mostly a copy from the s390 implementation (which copied from x86 and sparc), except we print a warning if the Kconfig option is disabled. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd(a)codeaurora.org> --- arch/arm/Kconfig.debug | 14 ++++++++++++++ arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ ... 3 Aug 2010 23:31