Kernel

[Bug #14372] ath5k wireless not working after suspend-resume - eeepc
This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of recent regressions. The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions from 2.6.31. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know (either way). Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14372 S... 26 Oct 2009 15:33

Memory overcommit
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: Can I make more questions ? Sure - What's cpu ? vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 4 model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X3 720 Processor stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 3314.812 cache size : 512 KB ... 3 Nov 2009 22:42

[PATCH -v6 00/13] ftrace for MIPS
This -v6 revision incorporates the feedbacks of -v5 revision from Frederic Weisbecker, the most important changes include: 1. tracing: add IRQENTRY_EXIT section for MIPS Tag the mips irq entry functions with "__irq_entry". 2. "notrace" relative patches To avoid hanging on mips_timecounter_read() when using... 26 Oct 2009 12:10

[BUGFIX] crypto, ghash_clmul_ni, Fix building failure on x86_32
CLMUL-NI accelerated GHASH should be turned off on non-x86_64 machine. Reported-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar(a)gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang(a)intel.com> --- crypto/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/crypto/Kconfig @@ -442,6 +442,7 @@ config CRYPTO... 26 Oct 2009 05:34

pci: pciehp update the slot bridge res to get big range for pcie devices
Yinghai Lu wrote: move out bus_size_bridges and assign resources out of pciehp_add_bridge() and at last do them all together one time including slot bridge, to avoid to call assign resources several times, when there are several bridges under the slot bridge. need to introduce pci_bridge_assign_resource... 29 Oct 2009 16:31

Broken ondemand scheduler in Linux 2.6.30+ on Pentium IVs
Somewhere in the Linux 2.6.30+ patches was a change to "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/ p4-clockmod.c" which changed (around line 253) such that policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = 1000000; /* assumed */ became policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = 10000001; This prevents the ondemand scheduler from being adop... 26 Oct 2009 21:13

User return notifiers / just-in-time MSR switching for KVM
On 09/16/2009 03:45 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: The various x86 syscall related MSRs (MSR_LSTAR and friends, EFER when SCE needs to be updated) are fairly expensive to read or write. Since different operating systems can set different values for these MSRs, KVM needs to reload them when switching to a different ... 25 Oct 2009 08:45

Compiling 2.6.31/31.5
lkml cc:ed. linux-kbuild is for the build system - not build errors. Sam On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:38:14PM -0400, MySQL Student wrote: Hi, I'm having difficulty compiling 2.6.31 and 2.6.31.5 on x86 with gcc-3.4.4 and binutils-2.20.51.0.2: AS arch/x86/lib/thunk_32.o CC arch/x... 25 Oct 2009 17:36

ratelimit: make output more useful
* Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger(a)de.ibm.com> wrote: Today I got [39648.224782] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX [40676.545099] __ratelimit: 246 callbacks suppressed [40676.545103] abcdef[23675]: segfault at 0 ... as you can see the ratelimit message contains a function prefix. Sin... 24 Oct 2009 14:22

trivial: fix double "of of" in comment in spidev code
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo(a)holoscopio.com> --- drivers/spi/spidev.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spidev.c b/drivers/spi/spidev.c index 5d23983..d9b4100 1... 22 Oct 2009 21:57