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mips,kgdb: kdb low level trap catch and stack trace
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 04:35:34PM -0600, Jason Wessel wrote: The only way the debugger can handle a trap in inside rcu_lock, notify_die, or atomic_notifier_call_chain without a recursive fault is to have a low level "first opportunity handler" do_trap_or_bp() handler. Generally this will be something... 25 Feb 2010 10:16

[PATCH] Synchronization required before release the lock: sem_post/8-1.c
Hi, I have found abnormal behavior of sem_post/8-1.c test case under posix. This test case passes in some times and failed in many times :-( After my investigation found synchronization is missing between the child processes. Made a patch to fix this issue. Patch includes 1. Reverting back changes made by ... 3 Mar 2010 01:50

[PATCH -tip v3&10 17/18] perf probe: show more lines after last line
Show 2 more lines after the last probe-able line. This will clearly show the last closed-brace of inline functions. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat(a)redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstr... 25 Feb 2010 09:08

[PATCH -tip v3&10 10/18] perf probe: Do not show --line option without dwarf support
Do not show --line option in help message when perf doesn't support dwarf. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat(a)redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerr... 25 Feb 2010 09:08

swiotlb: Make 'setup_io_tlb_npages' accept new 'swiotlb=' syntax.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:53:20PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:26:58 -0500 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk(a)oracle.com> wrote: The old syntax for 'swiotlb' is still in effect, and we extend it now to include the overflow buffer size. The syntax is now: swiotlb=[... 25 Feb 2010 19:23

[PATCH 5/6] serial 8250: enable PPS support.
Automagically function serial8250_enable_ms() is called when PPS ldisc is selected. Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti(a)linux.it> --- drivers/serial/8250.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/serial/8250.c b/drivers/serial/8250.c index c3e37c... 25 Feb 2010 08:01

[patch] RFC directio: partial writes support
Can someone please describe me why directio deny partial writes. For example if someone try to write 100Mb but file system has less data it return ENOSPC in the middle of block allocation. All allocated blocks will be truncated (it may be 100Mb -4k) end ENOSPC will be returned. As far as i remember direct_io always... 25 Feb 2010 08:01

(version 3) LinuxPPS new functionalities
This patchset adds several PPS functionalities. All patches have a specific comment but I prefer say something more: * Patches 01-02 are just documentation about PPS support. * Patch 03 adds PPS client support skeleton. * Patches 04-06 add generic PPS serial support (with specific modifications requested... 25 Feb 2010 08:01

[PATCH 3/6] ldisc n_tty: add new method n_tty_inherit_ops()
This new method can be used to init a new struct tty_ldisc_ops as the default tty_ldisc_N_TTY struct. Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti(a)linux.it> --- drivers/char/n_tty.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ include/linux/tty.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/c... 25 Feb 2010 08:01