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[PATCH 1/5] percpu: add sanity check for UP
add sanity check for percpu accessors on UP. This removes lots of sparse warnings. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung(a)gmail.com> --- include/asm-generic/percpu.h | 12 +++++++++--- include/linux/percpu.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic... 6 Aug 2010 14:53

[PATCH 5/5] percpu: add missing markups in arch/x86/lib/msr*
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung(a)gmail.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h | 14 +++++++------- arch/x86/lib/msr-smp.c | 8 +++++--- arch/x86/lib/msr.c | 6 +++--- 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h ... 6 Aug 2010 14:53

[3/4] SCSI: enclosure: fix error path - actually return ERR_PTR() on error
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley(a)suse.de> commit a91c1be21704113b023919826c6d531da46656ef upstream. we also need to clean up and free the cdev. Reported-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula(a)nokia.com> S... 6 Aug 2010 14:53

[PATCH 2/5] percpu: fix dynamic percpu allocators on UP
handle __percpu address space correctly in dynamic allocators of UP Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung(a)gmail.com> --- mm/percpu_up.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/percpu_up.c b/mm/percpu_up.c index c4351c7..d599db4 100644 --- a/mm/percpu_up.c +++ b/mm/perc... 6 Aug 2010 14:53

[PATCH] DNS: If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached
From: Wang Lei <wang840925(a)gmail.com> If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached in the DNS resolver key in lieu of a value. Userspace passes the h_errno from the libresolv routines as an option in the payload: "#dnserror=<number>" This is mapped through dns_errno_map[] to an appropriate L... 6 Aug 2010 14:53

[4/4] GFS2: rename causes kernel Oops
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Bob Peterson <rpeterso(a)redhat.com> commit 728a756b8fcd22d80e2dbba8117a8a3aafd3f203 upstream. This patch fixes a kernel Oops in the GFS2 rename code. The problem was in the way the gfs2 directory code w... 6 Aug 2010 14:53

[2/4] xfs: prevent swapext from operating on write-only files
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg(a)gmail.com> commit 1817176a86352f65210139d4c794ad2d19fc6b63 upstream. This patch prevents user "foo" from using the SWAPEXT ioctl to swap a write-only file owned by user "ba... 6 Aug 2010 14:53

[0/4] 2.6.27.50-stable review
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.27.50 release. There are 4 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a Signed-off-by: line... 6 Aug 2010 14:53

x86/asm for 2.6.36
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:37 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)linux.intel.com> wrote: �git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-asm-for-linus H. Peter Anvin (7): x86, asm: Clean up and simplify set_64bit() Hmm. This seems to cause compiler warnings for me on x86-64: driv... 6 Aug 2010 14:53

[tip:perf/core] perf trace: Clean up #includes
Commit-ID: b7eead86d2951dab733d36554e8166a2a91d7363 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/b7eead86d2951dab733d36554e8166a2a91d7363 Author: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini(a)gelma.net> AuthorDate: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 15:51:38 +0200 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> CommitDate: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 19:... 6 Aug 2010 13:47