Kernel

[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.5.3
The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.5.3 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.6.5.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.6.5.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.6.5.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages f... 16 Nov 2009 23:34

[Bug #14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards
This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of recent regressions. The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions from 2.6.31. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know (either way). Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354 S... 16 Nov 2009 19:09

hpsa driver updates
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 10:50 -0600, Stephen M. Cameron wrote: The following series implements hpsa scsi driver for HP Smart Arrays, and some updates since the last time. The first 5 patches in the series are already in Andrew Morton's tree. --- Andrew Morton (1): avoid helpful cleanup pat... 16 Nov 2009 18:02

[PATCH 06/21] sched: drop preempt notifiers
With kvm converted, preempt notifiers have no user. Kill it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org> --- arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig | 1 - arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig | 1 - arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig | 1 - arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig | 1 - include/linux/preempt.h | 43 ------------------------------ ... 16 Nov 2009 12:24

[PATCH 09/21] amd64_edac: dump DIMM sizes on K8 too
Extend f10_debug_display_dimm_sizes to dump the logical DIMMs configuration on K8 revF too. Remove the ganged arg since we print the DCT operating mode (ganged vs unganged) earlier. Also, DCT csrow configuration is relevant therefore dump it as KERN_DEBUG instead of only on debug builds. Remove misleading DIMM o... 16 Nov 2009 10:08

[PATCH 11/21] amd64_edac: enhance address to DRAM bank mapping
Add cs mode to cs size mapping tables for DDR2 and DDR3 and F10 and all K8 flavors and remove klugdy table of pseudo values. Add a low_ops->dbam_to_cs member which is family-specific and replaces low_ops->dbam_map_to_pages since the pages calculation is a one liner now. Further cleanups, while at it: - shorte... 16 Nov 2009 10:08

[PATCH 20/42] KVM: x86 emulator: Add pusha and popa instructions
From: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005(a)gmail.com> This adds pusha and popa instructions (opcodes 0x60-0x61), this enables booting MINIX with invalid guest state emulation on. [marcelo: remove unused variable] Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005(a)gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti(a)redhat.com> ... 16 Nov 2009 07:56

kfifo: add kfifo_skip, kfifo_from_user and kfifo_to_user
Add kfifo_reset_out() to lockless save discard the fifo output Add kfifo_skip() to skip a number of output bytes Add kfifo_from_user() to copy user space data into the fifo Add kfifo_to_user() to copy fifo data to user space Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <g... 20 Nov 2009 04:34

[PATCH 12/12] compat_ioctl: remove unused handlers
These handlers were moved into the respective drivers and can now be deleted from common code. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> --- fs/compat_ioctl.c | 26 -------------------------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/compat_ioctl.c b/fs/compat_ioctl.c index 1fef... 15 Nov 2009 20:01

sysctl.c: Change a .proc_handler = proc_dointvec to &proc_dointvec,
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 05:52:05PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: Seems to be a typo. Well, in this case, proc_dointvec == &proc_dointvec, both of them are the same function pointer. But yes, &proc_dointvec looks more readable. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangco... 15 Nov 2009 02:28