Kernel

[PATCH 31/97] dma-debug: Do not add notifier when dma debugging is disabled.
From: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell(a)digium.com> commit f797d9881b62c2ddb1d2e7bd80d87141949c84aa upstream. If CONFIG_HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG is defined and "dma_debug=off" is specified on the kernel command line, when you detach a driver from a device you can cause the following NULL pointer dereference: BUG: unable to ... 6 Jan 2010 08:58

ext4: Fix potential quota deadlock
On Mon 04-01-10 16:33:36, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov(a)openvz.org> commit d21cd8f163ac44b15c465aab7306db931c606908 upstream. Ted has found a serious bug in this patch over Christmas and fixed it. Ted, do you prefer to just discard this patch or will you add your fixes? ... 6 Jan 2010 09:06

[PATCH 0/3] Regulator updates for 2.6.34
The following changes since commit 204f78ec75e6888bbf1a7b5a3ed0cbfff9bade27: Tobias Klauser (1): regulator/lp3971: Storage class should be before const qualifier are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator-2.6.git for-lrg A couple of new... 6 Jan 2010 08:56

drm: add KGDB/KDB support Add support for KDB entry/exit.
Can you send this one over to Dave Airlie <airlied(a)linux.ie>? At KS he indicated he'd be happy to just apply it, since other drivers will need it too (along with the driver specific code of course). Jesse On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:43:00 -0600 Jason Wessel <jason.wessel(a)windriver.com> wrote: From: Jesse Barn... 6 Jan 2010 08:56

Add DMI quirk for Intel DP55KG mainboard
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: From: Christian Hofstaedtler <ch+git(a)zeha.at> The Intel DP55KG mainboard cannot reboot using the keyboard controller, but ACPI works fine. Auto-select ACPI for this board. Signed-off-by: Christian Hofstaedtler <ch(a)zeha.at> --- arch/x86/kerne... 20 Jan 2010 00:45

Linux* is not supported on the Intel(R) Desktop Board DP55KG - Kernel still hangs upon reboot.
On 01/04/2010 11:17 AM, Yuhong Bao wrote: btw this can be automated... just needs a DMI quirk. someone needs to get dmidecode output and add it to the existing table of reboot= quirks... -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre Note BTW that this is one of Intel... 6 Jan 2010 08:55

sched: avoid huge bonus to sleepers on busy machines
On 01/04/2010 04:44 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 14:50 +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote: As I understand the idea of sleeper fairness is to consider sleeping tasks similar to the ones on the runqueue and credit the sleepers in a way that it would get CPU as if it were running. Cur... 4 Jan 2010 08:08

modules.order and modules.builting files created
The modules.order and modules.builtin files are ending up clogging up 'git status' enquiries after building a recent kernel. Is there any reason these can't be hidden? -- Ben (ben(a)fluff.org, http://www.fluff.org/) 'a smiley only costs 4 bytes' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l... 4 Jan 2010 04:52

[PATCH 02/29] x86/pci: intel ioh bus num reg accessing fix
it is above 0x100, so if mmconf is not enable, need to skip it Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe(a)oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai(a)kernel.org> --- arch/x86/pci/intel_bus.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/intel_bus.c b/arch/x86/pci/intel_b... 3 Jan 2010 22:40

Linux* is not supported on the Intel(R) Desktop Board DP55KG - Kernel still hangs upon reboot.
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: Hi, In regard to the DP55KG board having reboot [1] and HPET [2] issues, have you seen any fixes (from Intel?) for these problems? I now own such a board and see the same stuff on a distro-patched 2.6.31.6. Thanks, Christian [1... 4 Jan 2010 00:51