Kernel

[PATCH] mm: move sys_mmap_pgoff from util.c
Move sys_mmap_pgoff() from mm/util.c to mm/mmap.c and mm/nommu.c, where we'd expect to find such code: especially now that it contains the MAP_HUGETLB handling. Revert mm/util.c to how it was in 2.6.32. This patch just ignores MAP_HUGETLB in the nommu case, as in 2.6.32, whereas 2.6.33-rc2 reported -ENOSYS. Per... 30 Dec 2009 15:22

BCM70010 (crystalhd) Linux Driver
Broadcom has just released a linux driver for their BCM70012 and BCM70015 Crystal HD High Definition video decoders under the GPLv2 licence. [1] Maybe you want to have a look at them. [1] http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal_hd/ ___________________________________________________________ Preisknaller: WEB.DE D... 3 Jan 2010 17:10

drivers/net/smc911x.c: use %pM to shown MAC address
From: "H Hartley Sweeten" <hartleys(a)visionengravers.com> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:09:52 -0500 Use the %pM kernel extension to display the MAC address. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten(a)visionengravers.com> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in... 30 Dec 2009 13:08

ACPI warning from alloc_pages_nodemask on boot (2.6.33 regression)
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 15:21 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: [ 1.630020] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 1.630026] WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:1812 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x617/0x730() if (order >= MAX_ORDER) { WARN_ON_ONCE(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN)); ... 30 Dec 2009 14:15

Unprivileged: Disable raising of privileges
Eric, I'm not clear why capabilities need to be manipulated by this feature (the pure capability support already has a feature for disabling privilege and blocking unsafe, or insufficient privilege, execution). Perhaps I'm just unclear what features can be more safely enabled with this in effect - that is, you... 3 Jan 2010 20:28

BFS v0.313 CPU scheduler for 2.6.32
A stupid mismerge in __might_sleep meant that with the right config options dmesg would have been swamped with false warnings. This also was making BFS consume a lot of CPU under certain conditions in combination with preempt RCU. Thanks to Jayson R King for picking it up! There are no other changes in this ve... 30 Dec 2009 16:29

[tip:x86/asm] x86: Lift restriction on the location of FIX_BTMAP_*
Commit-ID: 499a5f1efa0b0ac56ec5d060412aed84ae68e63e Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/499a5f1efa0b0ac56ec5d060412aed84ae68e63e Author: Jan Beulich <JBeulich(a)novell.com> AuthorDate: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:05:51 +0000 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:57:30 +0100 x86: L... 30 Dec 2009 07:37

[tip:x86/asm] x86-64: Modify copy_user_generic() alternatives mechanism
Commit-ID: 1b1d9258181bae199dc940f4bd0298126b9a73d9 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/1b1d9258181bae199dc940f4bd0298126b9a73d9 Author: Jan Beulich <JBeulich(a)novell.com> AuthorDate: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:12:56 +0000 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:57:31 +0100 x86-64... 30 Dec 2009 07:37

regression: crash from 'ls /sys/modules/wl1251_spi/notes'
Hello, I noticed weird crashes related to wl1251_spi notes sysfs directory with current wireless-testing (2.6.33-rc2 plus some wireless patches). The simplest way to reproduce the problem is to do this on a nokia n900 (arm/omap 3430): # ls /sys/module/wl1251_spi/notes/ [ 4776.503234] Unable to handle kernel N... 6 Jan 2010 09:05

[PATCH] some clean up in fs/proc
EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_symlink); EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_mkdir); EXPORT_SYMBOL(create_proc_entry); EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_create_data); EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_proc_entry); Those EXPORT_SYMBOL shouldn't be in fs/proc/root.c, should be in fs/proc/generic.c. Signed-off-by: Helight.Xu <helight.xu(a)gmail.com> --- fs/proc/gene... 30 Dec 2009 01:11