Kernel

fix kfifo miss use of nozami.c
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:40:37 +0200 stefani(a)seibold.net wrote: From: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> User of the kernel fifo should never bypass the API and directly access the fifo structure. Otherwise it will be very hard to maintain the API. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold... 10 Aug 2010 04:46

[GIT PULL] s390 patches for 2.6.35+
Hi Linus, please pull from 'for-linus' branch of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6.git for-linus to receive the following updates: Heiko Carstens (3): [S390] cmm: add missing __init/__exit annotations [S390] initrd: change default load address [S390] topology: use default MC do... 10 Aug 2010 04:45

[PATCH RFC] [X86] Fix potential issue on memmove
From: Ma Ling <ling.ma(a)intel.com> memmove allow source and destination address to be overlap, but no limitation for memcpy. So memmove use forward or backward copy mode to handle src > dest and dest > src cases respectively. However memcpy has not address overlap, it may use any copy mode theoretically. Our ori... 10 Aug 2010 04:45

perf, x86: try to handle unknown nmis with running perfctrs
On 09.08.10 16:02:45, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: @@ -1222,14 +1245,12 @@ perf_event_nmi_handler(struct notifier_block *self, regs = args->regs; apic_write(APIC_LVTPC, APIC_DM_NMI); If only I'm not missing something this apic_write should go up to "case DIE_NMIUNKNOWN" site, no? This... 13 Aug 2010 04:54

lib: vsprintf: optimised put_dec() for 32-bit machines
> On Sunday 08 August 2010 21:29, Michal Nazarewicz wrote: Compared to previous version: the code is used only if: 1. if long long is 64-bit (ie. ULLONG_MAX == 2**64-1), and 2. user did not select optimisation for size with Kconfig. On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:15:52 +0200, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux(a)googlemail... 10 Aug 2010 04:45

lib: vsprintf: optimised put_dec_trunc() and put_dec_full()
> On Sunday 08 August 2010 21:29, Michal Nazarewicz wrote: + /* + * '(x * 0xcccd) >> 19' is an approximation of 'x / 10' that + * gives correct results for all x < 81920. However, because + * intermediate result can be at most 32-bit we limit x to be + * 16-bit. + * + * Because of tho... 10 Aug 2010 19:08

[tip:perf/urgent] perf, x86: P4 PMU -- update nmi irq statistics and unmask lvt entry properly
Commit-ID: 1c250d709fdc8aa5bf42d90be99428a01a256a55 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/1c250d709fdc8aa5bf42d90be99428a01a256a55 Author: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov(a)openvz.org> AuthorDate: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 19:09:17 +0400 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 22:53:50 +0200 perf... 10 Aug 2010 03:41

memblock/arm: Use new accessors
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:14:53PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: CC: Russell King <linux(a)arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh(a)kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel(a)arm.linux.org.uk> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in... 10 Aug 2010 03:41

perf build broke by list_head changes...
Commit: commit de5d9bf6541736dc7ad264d2b5cc99bc1b2ad958 Author: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf(a)tilera.com> Date: Fri Jul 2 13:41:14 2010 -0400 Move list types from <linux/list.h> to <linux/types.h>. broke the build of 'perf'. If you move "struct list_head" into types.h, this means perf stops building be... 10 Aug 2010 12:28

[PATCH 0/4] enhanced reimplemention of the kfifo API
From: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> This is a complete reimplementation of the new kfifo API, which is now really generic, type save and type definable. The API is still stable, no code which use the current kfifo API must be modified! Here are the results of the text section usage: Example 1: ... 10 Aug 2010 03:41