Kernel

v4 Add new phys_index properties
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:37:31 -0500 Nathan Fontenot <nfont(a)austin.ibm.com> wrote: Update the 'phys_index' properties of a memory block to include a 'start_phys_index' which is the same as the current 'phys_index' property. The property still appears as 'phys_index' in sysfs but the memory_block struct nam... 5 Aug 2010 01:36

v4 Add section count to memory_block
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:38:37 -0500 Nathan Fontenot <nfont(a)austin.ibm.com> wrote: Add a section count property to the memory_block struct to track the number of memory sections that have been added/removed from a memory block. This allows us to know when the last memory section of a memory block has been ... 5 Aug 2010 01:36

v4 Add mutex for add/remove of memory blocks
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:39:50 -0500 Nathan Fontenot <nfont(a)austin.ibm.com> wrote: Add a new mutex for use in adding and removing of memory blocks. This is needed to avoid any race conditions in which the same memory block could be added and removed at the same time. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nf... 9 Aug 2010 10:06

x86-32: Fix crashes with CPU hotplug on AMD machines
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa(a)zytor.com> Date: Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 07:05:47PM -0400 On 08/04/2010 09:45 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: 2. Do not use swapper_pg_dir to boot secondary CPUs like 64-bit does. This patch implements solution 2. It introduces a trampoline_pg_dir ... 13 Aug 2010 09:12

Adding support to New USB Printer.
Hi all, I have a USB printer, Please share with me the steps to add its support in the latest kernel. thanks, Prabhu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-inf... 5 Aug 2010 04:48

gen_nand: Fix support for multiple chips
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 07:36 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: This patch corrects a problem where gen_nand driver assumed there can be only one chip and ignored the pdata->chip.nr_chips value. Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut(a)gmail.com> Pushed to my l2-mtd-2.6.git / master -- Best Regards, Artem Bi... 5 Aug 2010 01:36

[PATCH 2/3] powerpc-silence-__cpu_up-under-normal-operation
From: Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc(a)us.ibm.com> During CPU offline/online tests __cpu_up would flood the logs with the following message: Processor 0 found. This provides no useful information to the user as there is no context provided, and since the operation was a success (to this point) it is expect... 5 Aug 2010 00:31

[PATCH 0/4] powerpc: cpu offline/online fixes for CONFIG_PREEMPT
The following patch series addresses several issues detected during intense CPU offline/online testing on the mainline kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y. These patches require the following patch from Brian King: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/59645/ Tested against linux-2.6.git master with and without CONFIG_DEB... 5 Aug 2010 00:31

[PATCH 1/3] powerpc-enable-preemption-before-cpu_die
From: Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc(a)us.ibm.com> start_secondary() is called shortly after _start and also via cpu_idle()->cpu_die()->pseries_mach_cpu_die() start_secondary() expects a preempt_count() of 0. pseries_mach_cpu_die() is called via the cpu_idle() routine with preemption disabled, resulting in ... 5 Aug 2010 00:31

[PATCH 3/3] powerpc-silence-xics_migrate_irqs_away-during-cpu-offline
From: Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc(a)us.ibm.com> All IRQs are migrated away from a CPU that is being offlined so the following messages suggest a problem when the system is behaving as designed: IRQ 262 affinity broken off cpu 1 IRQ 17 affinity broken off cpu 0 IRQ 18 affinity broken off cpu 0 IRQ 19 aff... 5 Aug 2010 00:31