Kernel

[046/151] UBI: flush wl before clearing update marker
2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian(a)breakpoint.cc> commit 6afaf8a484cbbfd2ccf58a4e5396d1f280469789 upstream. ubiupdatevol -t does the following: - ubi_start_update() - set_update_marker() - for al... 16 Dec 2009 23:31

[151/151] implement early_io{re,un}map for ia64
2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Luck, Tony <tony.luck(a)intel.com> commit cd7bcf32d42b15891620b3f1387a00178b54291a upstream. Needed for commit 2c992208 ("intel-iommu: Detect DMAR in hyperspace at probe time.) to build on IA64. Signed-... 16 Dec 2009 23:30

[16/90] md/bitmap: protect against bitmap removal while being updated.
2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: NeilBrown <neilb(a)suse.de> commit aa5cbd103887011b4830355f88fb055f9ad2d556 upstream. A write intent bitmap can be removed from an array while the array is active. When this happens, all IO is suspended a... 16 Dec 2009 21:20

[40/90] mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak in walk_page_range()
2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi(a)ah.jp.nec.com> commit d33b9f45bd24a6391bc05e2b5a13c1b5787ca9c2 upstream. Most callers of pmd_none_or_clear_bad() check whether the target page is in a hugepage or not, but wa... 16 Dec 2009 21:20

[resend][GIT PULL] kbuild updates for 2.6.33
Hi Linus, Please pull the following kbuild changes & fixes for 2.6.33. Quoting from the previous pull request: The most interesting part is Sam's series that moves generated header files to include/generated, simplifying gitingnore rules and killing the include{,2}/asm symlink, the rest are small but worthwhil... 16 Dec 2009 17:58

[PATCH 12/12] sched: Simplify set_task_cpu()
Rearrange code a bit now that its a simpler function. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl> --- kernel/sched.c | 13 +++++-------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c =================================================================== --- linux-... 16 Dec 2009 12:22

spi/mpc8xxx: don't check platform_get_irq's return value against zero
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:10:08PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: platform_get_irq returns -ENXIO on failure, so !irq was probably always true. Better use (int)irq <= 0. Note that a return value of zero is still handled as error even though this could mean irq0. This is a followup to 305b3228f9ff4d59f... 17 Dec 2009 12:37

use DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK for non-constant completion
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:35:56PM +0800, Yong Zhang wrote: The _ONSTACK variant should be used for on-stack completion, otherwise it will break lockdep. Yong Zhang (5): aha152x: use DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK for non-constant completion mISDN: use DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK for non-constant completion ... 16 Dec 2009 11:14

[PATCH 1/5] powerpc/iseries: use DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK for non-constant completion
The _ONSTACK variant should be used for on-stack completion, otherwise it will break lockdep. Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0(a)gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh(a)kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus(a)samba.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev(a)ozlabs.org --- arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/viopath.c |... 16 Dec 2009 10:08

[PATCH 1/3] perf tools: Move hist entries printing routines from perf report
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> Will be used in other tools such as 'perf diff'. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault(a)gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus(a)samba.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redh... 16 Dec 2009 10:08