Kernel

ext4: Fixup rb_root initializations to use RB_ROOT
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:38:59 -0800 venkatesh.pallipadi(a)intel.com wrote: The problem with this is that 17d9ddc72fb8bba0d4f678 in the linux-next tree Please don't quote bare commit ID's in changelogs. Especially when it's a linux-next commit: linux-next gets rebuilt each day! The preferred form is to quot... 24 Feb 2010 18:51

x86: make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem before slab
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 17:16 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: Subject: [PATCH -v3 16/35] x86: make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem before slab finally we can use early_res to replace bootmem for x86_64 now. still can use CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM to enable it or not -v2: fix 32bit compiling about MAX_D... 24 Feb 2010 18:51

[PATCH] drm/ttm: fix function prototype to match implementation
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Fix function prototype to match its actual usage and implementation. drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c:341:10: error: symbol 'ttm_io_prot' redeclared with different type (originally declared at include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_driver.h:911) - incompatible argument 1 (different s... 24 Feb 2010 17:42

[PATCH resend] mtrr: fix missing kernel-doc notation
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Fix missing kernel-doc notation in mtrr/main.c: Warning(arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:152): No description found for parameter 'info' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertio... 24 Feb 2010 17:42

[PATCH] drm: fix char constant (sparse warning)
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Fix radeon/atombios.h sparse warning (24 times): drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h:4091:63: error: Bad character constant Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Cc: David Airlie <airlied(a)linux.ie> --- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h | 2 +- ... 24 Feb 2010 17:42

failslab: add ability to filter slab caches
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: Example: echo 1 > /sys/kernel/slab/skbuff_head_cache/failslab echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/cache-filter Where's the changelog? I've hoped than subject is enough. But if you want more verbose changelog, take following version. ... 25 Feb 2010 01:29

markup_oops.pl and GDB: Let GDB can handle kernel oops stack message
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:40:16 +0800 Hui Zhu <teawater(a)gmail.com> wrote: So I make a patch for markup_oops.pl to make it can convert the oops message to GDB command. And make a patch for GDB to add a new target empty which level is same with corelow target. It can save the memory and reg operation command's... 24 Feb 2010 16:34

[PATCH] microblaze: Begin stack dump with caller of dump_stack()
Adjust the pointer used as the start of a stack dump so that the dump begins with the caller of dump_stack(). This makes the dump easier to interpret. Signed-off-by: Steven J. Magnani <steve(a)digidescorp.com> --- diff -uprN a/arch/microblaze/kernel/traps.c b/arch/microblaze/kernel/traps.c --- a/arch/microblaze/... 24 Feb 2010 16:33

[PATCH] x86/pci: exclude mrst pci code for other platform
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai(a)kernel.org> diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/Makefile b/arch/x86/pci/Makefile index ab637f9..131e4da 100644 --- a/arch/x86/pci/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/pci/Makefile @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_X86_VISWS) += visws.o obj-$(CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ) += numaq_32.o -obj-y += co... 24 Feb 2010 16:33

rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse
On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: +/** + * RCU_INIT_POINTER - initialize an RCU protected member + * in a statically allocated data structure. + */ +#define RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, v) \ + p = (typeof(*v) __force __rcu *)(v) Hrm, I'm not sure about this ... 24 Feb 2010 16:33