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[PATCH] spi: Allow using spi_bitbang_setup() with custom txrx_bufs()
From: Magnus Damm <damm(a)opensource.se> This patch modifies the shared spi bitbanging code to allow using spi_bitbang_setup() even though the txrx_word[] callbacks are unset. Useful for drivers that want to make use of spi_bitbang_setup() but have their own txrx_bufs() callback. While at it, drop the MSIOF dri... 25 Nov 2009 03:48

utrace/ptrace
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:01:27PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: Hello. This is the new iteration of Roland's utrace patch, this time with "rewrite-ptrace-via-utrace" + cleanups in utrace core. 1-7 are already in -mm tree, I am sending them to simplify the review. 8-12 don not change the beh... 29 Dec 2009 23:01

[PATCH] NOMMU: use copy_*_user_page() in access_process_vm()
From: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang(a)analog.com> The mmu code uses the copy_*_user_page() variants in access_process_vm() rather than copy_*_user() as the former includes an icache flush. This is important when doing things like setting software breakpoints with gdb. So switch the nommu code over to do the same. Signed... 25 Nov 2009 10:23

two new linux-next trees (SPI and devicetree)
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:54:27 -0700 Grant Likely <grant.likely(a)secretlab.ca> wrote: I've made the offer to be SPI co-maintainer, OK by me. Don't break anything. My current stash: atmel_spi-fix-dma-addr-calculation-for-len-buffer_size.patch spi-controller-driver-for-designware-spi-core.patch spi-ad... 24 Nov 2009 22:20

proc_fops: convert drivers/isdn/ to seq_file
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:56:25 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan(a)gmail.com> wrote: Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan(a)gmail.com> --- Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI | 4 drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c | 99 +++++----------- drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c | 54... 2 Dec 2009 04:20

irq: Add node_affinity CPU masks for smarter irqbalance hints
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet(a)gmail.com> writes: David Miller a �crit : From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:26:15 +0100 It seems complex to me, maybe optimal thing would be to use a NUMA policy to spread vmalloc() allocations to all nodes to get a good bandwidt... 25 Nov 2009 07:04

[tip:perf/core] perf tools: Use common process_event functions for annotate and report
Commit-ID: e74328d3a17ed75ffdf72b86f289965823a47240 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/e74328d3a17ed75ffdf72b86f289965823a47240 Author: John Kacur <jkacur(a)redhat.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:35:01 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:37:01 +0100 perf tool... 24 Nov 2009 12:15

Possible irq lock inversion dependency detected in JBD
Hello, During testing I had the below trace from lockdep. After some googling seems it wasn't reported. The complete trace attached, it's almost 800K uncompressed. ========================================================= [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ] 2.6.31-scst-dbg #3 -----------... 8 Dec 2009 13:02

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Defer skb allocation for both mergeable buffers and big packets in virtio_net
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:54:23AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:37:01 am Shirley Ma wrote: + skb = (struct sk_buff *)buf; This cast is unnecessary, but a comment would be nice: Without this cast there is a compile warning. Hi Shirley, Loo... 13 Dec 2009 05:38