Kernel

BFS CPU scheduler v0.323 for 2.6.35
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 10:07:09 am Con Kolivas wrote: This is to announce the availability of the updated BFS CPU scheduler for linux kernel v2.6.35. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/2.6.35-sched-bfs-323.patch In response to requests I get for some kind of basic benchmarks, attached are the kernbench... 8 Aug 2010 20:01

[PATCH] hrtimer: make epoll_wait() use the hrtimer range feature
This make epoll use hrtimers for the timeout value which prevents epoll_wait() from timing out up to a millisecond early. This mirrors the behavior of select() and poll(). Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer(a)gmail.com> --- fs/eventpoll.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++---------------- fs/select.c ... 8 Aug 2010 18:55

mfd: menelaus: Fix mmc slot 2 misconfiguration
Hi Jarkko, On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 08:05:23PM +0300, Jarkko Nikula wrote: We are modifying register value instead of return value. Patch applied, kiitos. This fix is originally done by Carlos Eduardo Aguiar. Original fix is commit bb4e91722e29efe31587d2cc664b6def645aecd9 in git.kernel.org/pub/scm/li... 9 Aug 2010 04:41

mfd: menelaus: Use macros instead of some constant magic numbers
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 08:05:24PM +0300, Jarkko Nikula wrote: This patch is originally done by Carlos Eduardo Aguiar. Original fix is commit 3305829b2816072b9c8ed01374b205ae4de74027 in git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git Author modified the fix for mainline version of mene... 8 Aug 2010 18:55

[PATCH] x86: remove __phys_reloc_hide
remove unnecessary use of RELOC_HIDE(). It only does simple addition of ptr and offset, and in this case, offset 0, does nothing. It does NOT do anything with linker relocation things. I could find no reason to use it. The only user of __phys_reloc_hide() was __pa_symbol() so it can be removed safely here. Sig... 8 Aug 2010 17:49

[PATCH] sh: remove RELOC_HIDE on exception handlers and syscall routines
remove unneccessary use of RELOC_HIDE(). It does simple addition of ptr and offset and in this case (offset 0) does practically nothing. It does NOT do anything with linker relocation. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung(a)gmail.com> --- arch/sh/include/asm/system.h | 2 +- arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c | ... 8 Aug 2010 17:49

char: mxser: call disable_pci_device() if pci_probe() failed
On 08/06/2010 09:49 PM, Kulikov Vasiliy wrote: --- a/drivers/char/mxser.c +++ b/drivers/char/mxser.c @@ -2564,8 +2564,11 @@ static int __devinit mxser_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, /* vector */ ioaddress = pci_resource_start(pdev, 3); retval = pci_request_region(pdev, 3, "mxser(vector)"); - if ... 9 Aug 2010 16:48

[BISECTED] Today's Linus.git hangs during boot: can't find the floppy controller
This commit produces the error: commit 6ee0578b4daaea01c96b172c6aacca43fd9807a6 Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha(a)intel.com> Date: Fri Jul 30 14:57:37 2010 -0700 workqueue: mark init_workqueues() as early_initcall() Mark init_workqueues() as early_initcall() and thus it will be initialized ... 8 Aug 2010 16:43

[PATCH] MIPS: remove RELOC_HIDE on __pa_symbol
remove unneccessary use of RELOC_HIDE(). It does simple addition of ptr and offset and in this case (offset 0) does practically nothing. It does NOT do anything with linker relocation. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung(a)gmail.com> --- arch/mips/include/asm/page.h | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+),... 8 Aug 2010 16:43

[PATCH] AFS: Implement an autocell mount capability
From: wanglei <wang840925(a)gmail.com> Implement the ability for the root directory of a mounted AFS filesystem to accept lookups of arbitrary directory names, to interpet the names as the names of cells, to look the cell names up in the DNS for AFSDB records and to mount the root.cell volume of the nominated cell ... 8 Aug 2010 16:43