Kernel

[PATCH 3/7] drivers/net/cxgb3: Use kzalloc for allocating only one thing
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Use kzalloc rather than kcalloc(1,...) The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ @@ - kcalloc(1, + kzalloc( ...) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/cx... 19 Dec 2009 03:02

mISDN: use DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK for non-constant completion
From: Karsten Keil <keil(a)b1-systems.de> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:00:20 +0100 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> Acked-by: Karsten Keil <keil(a)b1-systems.de> Applied, thanks. -- To unsubs... 18 Dec 2009 23:50

2.6.33-rc1: hrtimers and tickless broken on m68knommu.
Attach is the .config; it works on v2.6.32 but fails to boot on .33-rc1; but if I deselect hrtimers && tickless then it works. -- Steven King -- sfking at fdwdc dot com ... 10 Jan 2010 22:56

[PATCH 1/4] Documentation: update mmiotrace.txt
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Fix typos, spellos, hyphenation, line lengths. BTW: are there some userspace tools? There is a reference to some at the wiki page, but there are no tools listed there. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq(a)iki.fi> --- Do... 18 Dec 2009 19:27

[PATCH 3/4] Documentation: update ftrace-design.txt
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Correct grammos. Spell out words. Add missing words. Consistent use of "mcount()" function name. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt(a)goodmis.org> --- Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt | 14 +++++++------- 1 fi... 18 Dec 2009 19:27

linux-next: manual merge of the limits tree with the tree
Hi Jiri, Today's linux-next merge of the limits tree got a conflict in fs/exec.c between commit f6151dfea21496d43dbaba32cfcd9c9f404769bc ("mm: introduce coredump parameter structure") from the tree and commit 1157605c47673fc63b052df4688697695a9873d5 ("FS: use helpers for rlimits") from the limits tree. I fix... 22 Dec 2009 10:21

[patch] media video cx23888 driver: fix possible races using new kfifo_API kfifo_reset()
Fix the cx23888 driver to use the new kfifo API. Using kfifo_reset() may result in a possible race conditions. This patch fix it by using spinlock around the kfifo_reset() function. The patch-set is against mm tree from 11-Dec-2009 Greetings, Stefani Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> ---... 18 Dec 2009 18:21

build issue #36 for v2.6.33-rc1 for drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
... 18 Dec 2009 17:14

Ceph distributed file system client for 2.6.33
Hi Linus, I would still like to see ceph merged for 2.6.33. It's certainly not production ready, but it would be greatly beneficial to be in mainline for the same reasons other file systems like btrfs and exofs were merged early. Is there more information you'd like to see from me before pulling? If the... 27 Dec 2009 19:36

perf record: We should fork only if a program was specified to run
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:42 -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> IOW: Now 'perf record -a' works, this was a bug introduced in: 856e96608a72412d319e498a3a7c557571f811bd "perf record: Properly synchronize child creation" Reported-by: Pekka Enb... 28 Dec 2009 04:12