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[3/3] x86: dont send SIGBUS for kernel page faults
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ Based on commit 96054569190bdec375fe824e48ca1f4e3b53dd36 upstream, authored by Linus Torvalds. This is my backport to the .27 kernel tree, hopefully preserving the same functionality. Original commit message:... 13 Aug 2010 17:57

[1/3] mm: keep a guard page below a grow-down stack segment
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org> commit 320b2b8de12698082609ebbc1a17165727f4c893 upstream. This is a rather minimally invasive patch to solve the problem of the user stack growing into a me... 13 Aug 2010 17:57

BUG: IPv6 stops working after a while, needs ip ne del command to reset
From: Thomas Habets <thomas(a)habets.pp.se> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:55:40 +0200 (CEST) (originally sent to netdev on aug 6th) If you didn't get an answer on netdev, sending your query again to linux-kernel isn't going to help. Networking experts generally do not read this list. Nobody has simply had ... 13 Aug 2010 17:57

kfifo: __must_check helper casts everything to unsigned
There is a new wrapper to add a __must_check to kfifo macros. The problem is that it casts everything to unsigned. That breaks for places that check stuff like: if (kfifo_alloc(&dlci->_fifo, 4096, GFP_KERNEL) < 0) Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27(a)gmail.com> Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.ne... 13 Aug 2010 17:57

[PATCH] sched: add book scheduling domain
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:25 -0700, Heiko Carstens wrote: From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens(a)de.ibm.com> On top of the SMT and MC scheduling domains this adds the BOOK scheduling domain. This is useful for machines that have a four level cache hierarchy and but do not fall into the NUMA category. ... 13 Aug 2010 17:57

Linux 2.6.34.4
I'm announcing the release of the 2.6.34.4 kernel. All users of the 2.6.34 kernel series must upgrade. Actually, you should switch to the .35 kernel releases, as there is only going to be one more .34-stable kernel release after this one. The updated 2.6.34.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel... 13 Aug 2010 17:57

Linux 2.6.32.19
I'm announcing the release of the 2.6.32.19 kernel. All users of the 2.6.32 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 2.6.32.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.32.y.git and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.... 13 Aug 2010 17:57

Linux 2.6.27.51
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 040c479..5382c55 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 27 -EXTRAVERSION = .50 +EXTRAVERSION = .51 NAME = Trembling Tortoise # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c ... 13 Aug 2010 17:57

Linux 2.6.35.2
I'm announcing the release of the 2.6.35.2 kernel. All users of the 2.6.35 kernel series must upgrade. I'm tired of people trying to parse my words like I'm the Federal Reserve Chairman, just go update already. If you use a kernel.org-based kernel, and you aren't updating to the latest -stable updates, well, w... 13 Aug 2010 17:57

[PATCH] sched: pass sched_domain_level to sched_power_savings_store
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:25 -0700, Heiko Carstens wrote: From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens(a)de.ibm.com> Pass the corresponding sched domain level to sched_power_savings_store instead of a yes/no flag which indicates if the level is SMT or MC. This is needed to easily extend the function so it can be u... 13 Aug 2010 17:57