Kernel

[patch 27/32] [PATCH] Define new s390 ELF note sections in elf.h
From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> S390 ELF core dump currently only contains the PSW, the general purpose registers, the floating point registers and the access registers stored in PRSTATUS/PRFPREG note sections. For analyzing s390 kernel problems additional registers are important. In order to ... 24 Feb 2010 04:15

[patch 24/32] [PATCH] add z9-ec/z10 instruction to kernel disassembler
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky(a)de.ibm.com> Add the instruction of the z9-ec and z10 machines to the kernel disassembler. Add the missing "ptff" instruction of z9-109 and the missing "sqd" of g5. Remove useless comments with instruction examples from format table. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwid... 24 Feb 2010 04:15

[patch 02/32] [PATCH] adapt text to cu3088-removal
From: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun(a)de.ibm.com> cu3088 layer for lcs and ctcm has been removed. Thus the reference to cu3088 in this text is to be removed as well. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun(a)de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky(a)de.ibm.com> --- Documentation/s390/driver-mod... 24 Feb 2010 04:14

[patch 11/32] [PATCH] qdio: account processed SBAL during queue scan
From: Jan Glauber <jang(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> Add counters for the number of processed SBALs. The numbers summarize how many SBALs were processed at each queue scan and indicate the utilization of the queue. Furthermore the number of unsuccessfull queue scans, SBAL errors and the total number of processed SBALs ar... 24 Feb 2010 04:14

[patch 21/32] [PATCH] bug: use relative pointers in bug table entries
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens(a)de.ibm.com> Reduces the size of the bug table entries by 50% on 64bit kernels. Saves around 30kb on a defconfig kernel. s390 version of b93a531e "allow bug table entries to use relative pointers (and use it on x86-64)". Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens(a)de.ibm.c... 24 Feb 2010 04:14

[patch 18/32] [PATCH] free_initmem: reduce code duplication
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens(a)de.ibm.com> free_initmem() and free_initrd_mem() are nearly identical. So make them call a common function. Also fixes a bug: if the initrd wouldn't start on a page boundary also memory after the initrd would be initialized with the poison value. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carste... 24 Feb 2010 04:14

linux-next: build warning after merge of the ext3 tree
Hi Jan, After merging the ext3 tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) produced this warning: fs/gfs2/quota.c:1581: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type Introduced by commit ec304a27d7750ba666ad2d446434ddd47fa93c40 ("quota: move code from sync_quota_sb into vfs_quota_sync"). F... 24 Feb 2010 06:26

[tip:x86/mrst] x86, apbt: Moorestown APB system timer driver
Commit-ID: aa19febbc933936219c59ac83e61049fc7136e62 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/aa19febbc933936219c59ac83e61049fc7136e62 Author: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan(a)intel.com> AuthorDate: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 07:37:17 -0700 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> CommitDate: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:15:19 -0800 x8... 24 Feb 2010 04:14

[tip:x86/mrst] x86, pic: Fix section mismatch in legacy pic
Commit-ID: 28a3c93d11212655ce0a9be977c405c703844164 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/28a3c93d11212655ce0a9be977c405c703844164 Author: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan(a)intel.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:03:31 -0800 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> CommitDate: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:13:19 -0800 x... 24 Feb 2010 04:14

[PATCH -tip 5/5] tracing: simplify memory recycle of trace_define_field
Discard freeing field->type since it's not necessary and may be hazard. Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang(a)oracle.com> --- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c index c2a3077..3f972... 24 Feb 2010 03:09