Kernel

[PATCH 2/2] tracing/events: Convert format output to seq_file
From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt(a)redhat.com> Two new events were added that broke the current format output. Both from the SCSI system: scsi_dispatch_cmd_done and scsi_dispatch_cmd_timeout The reason is that their print_fmt exceeded a page size. Since the output of the format used simple_read_from_buffer and tr... 12 Aug 2010 18:05

[PATCH 0/2] [GIT PULL] tracing: more updates for 2.6.36
Ingo, These changes are on top of my previous pull request. Also, I notice that a fix that did not make the 35-rc never got into tip. This is the "FORMAT TOO BIG" that the scsi events output. And I do not want another major release to have this bug in it. Please pull the latest tip/perf/urgent-2 tree, whic... 12 Aug 2010 18:05

[PATCH 1/2] tracing: Extend recordmcount to better support Blackfin mcount
From: Mike Frysinger <vapier(a)gentoo.org> The mcount call on Blackfin systems includes some stack manipulation around the actual call site, so extend the build time perl script to support this. This way we can avoid doing the calculation at runtime. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier(a)gentoo.org> LKML-Refere... 12 Aug 2010 18:05

checkpatch: check for incorrect permissions
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:45:45 +0530 Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent(a)stericsson.com> wrote: Throw an error when a source file has been given execute permissions using the mode change line present in git diffs. Also alow the filename matching to use the "diff" line in addition to the "+++" line, since the mod... 13 Aug 2010 01:41

[tip:x86/cleanups] x86, cleanup: Remove obsolete boot_cpu_id variable
Commit-ID: f6e9456c9272bb570df6e217cdbe007e270b1c4e Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f6e9456c9272bb570df6e217cdbe007e270b1c4e Author: Robert Richter <robert.richter(a)amd.com> AuthorDate: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:03:58 +0200 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)linux.intel.com> CommitDate: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:01:38 ... 12 Aug 2010 18:05

[PATCH 1/3] perf ui browser: Return the exit key in all browsers
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> Some were, the annotate one wasn't, so make all return uniformly and remove the newtExitStruct parameter, removing one more newt specific thing from the ui API. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault(a)gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <... 12 Aug 2010 16:59

the right way to use gpiolib hooks to automate power management?
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 07:27:44PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 09:39:29AM -0700, Gregory Bean wrote: We have a written a software driver which reference-counts these gpio lines (via a put()/get() api), putting them in their "high-power" active configurations when the... 12 Aug 2010 16:59

kfifo: implement missing __kfifo_skip_r()
kfifo_skip() is currently broken, due to the missing of the internal helper function. Add it. Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi(a)develer.com> Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> --- include/linux/kfifo.h | 2 ++ kernel/kfifo.c | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 del... 12 Aug 2010 16:59

[PATCH 3/3] perf ui browser: Abstract some more slang operations
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> Browsers don't have to deal with absolute coordinates, just using (row, column) and leaving the rest to ui_browser is better and removes one more UI backend detail from the browsers. Also shorten the percent_color setting idiom, removing some more direct libslan... 12 Aug 2010 16:59

kfifo: add kfifo_skip() testcase
Add a testcase for kfifo_skip() to the byte stream fifo example. Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi(a)develer.com> Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> --- samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.... 12 Aug 2010 19:10