Kernel

arch/arm: Fix continuation lines
This is Samsung stuff, it should be copied to Ben (added). On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:27:50PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> --- arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/clock.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/c... 12 Apr 2010 15:53

WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:451 sysfs_add_one: sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/slot'
I get a spew of these on boot. The virtual machine is mostly Fedora 14 with a kernel from linux-next as of today. The hardware is RHEL 5.5 with KVM: tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git tag: next-20100412 commit: bbeecf185fe464ccd7ee97ce6d3646ad686995b4 I get one for 1.0,... 12 Apr 2010 15:53

Make register values available to CRIS panic notifiers
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:06:25PM -0700, David VomLehn wrote: The save_ptregs() function has not been tested or even built. I will need help to complete this. Signed-off-by: David VomLehn <dvomlehn(a)cisco.com> --- arch/cris/include/arch-v10/arch/ptrace.h | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/... 12 Apr 2010 15:53

[PATCH 2/2] ipc semaphores: order wakeups based on waiter CPU
When IPC semaphores are used in a bulk post and wait system, we can end up waking a very large number of processes per semtimedop call. At least one major database will use a single process to kick hundreds of other processes at a time. This patch tries to reduce the runqueue lock contention by ordering the wake... 12 Apr 2010 15:53

blkio: Changes to more io-controller stats patches to address
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal(a)redhat.com> wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 07:35:35PM -0700, Divyesh Shah wrote: review comments. Changelog: (in response to Vivek Goyal's comments) o group blkiocg_update_blkio_group_dequeue_stats() with other DEBUG functions o rename blkiocg_... 12 Apr 2010 14:46

perf-probe updates - data-structure support improvements, etc.
Em Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:16:46PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu: Hi Ingo and Arnaldo, Here are several updates of perf-probe. This series improves data structure accessing. In this version, I added 'removing x*()' patches. Ingo, I'm ok with this series, do you want me to pull them or will you? ... 12 Apr 2010 14:46

Accessing peripheral register directly from userspace
Would there be any issues for optimization purpose I do a mmap to a peripheral register to directly access it from userspace ? This is considering the peripheral already has a Kernel driver through which you can set the register bit. Basically I want to avoid the additional context switch on entering the Kernel ... 13 Apr 2010 08:21

[PATCH] JFS: Free sbi memory in error path
I spotted the missing kfree() while removing the BKL. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck(a)suse.de> --- fs/jfs/super.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/jfs/super.c b/fs/jfs/super.c index 266699d..a402b7d 100644 --- a/fs/jfs/super.c +++ b/fs/jfs/super.c @@ -457,6 +45... 12 Apr 2010 13:39

I attached a test module to reproduce this bug. Does I miss something in my code or is there a bug?
Unable to handle kernel paging request at kthread_should_stop Hello, In a kernel module which used to work on previous kernel versions I tried to start a kernel thread (kthread). In the threads mainloop I poll the method kthread_should_stop which seems to fail. [ 65.531778] BUG: unable to handle kernel pag... 12 Apr 2010 13:39

Trying to fix ITE-887x parallel/serial driver bugs (including unhandled IRQs)
> Both drivers (8250_pci.c and parport_pc.c) probe randomly for the chips control I/O port, instead of using the standard PNP-configured BAR, and they do so independently, stepping on the previous drivers configuration attempt. I think the two drivers should be merged into parport_serial.c because this is a... 15 Apr 2010 06:57