Kernel

[27/39] udf: Try harder when looking for VAT inode
2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jan Kara <jack(a)suse.cz> commit e971b0b9e0dd50d9ceecb67a6a6ab80a80906033 upstream. Some disks do not contain VAT inode in the last recorded block as required by the standard but a few blocks earlier (or t... 6 Jan 2010 09:03

[15/39] USB: Fix a bug on appledisplay.c regarding signedness
2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: pancho horrillo <pancho(a)pancho.name> commit 37e9066b2f85480d99d3795373f5ef0b00ac1189 upstream. brightness status is reported by the Apple Cinema Displays as an 'unsigned char' (u8) value, but the code us... 6 Jan 2010 09:03

[PATCH] pca953x: Minor include cleanup
linux/i2c/pca953x.h is a very bare include file. Fix check for multiple includes of linux/i2c/pca953x.h, and add dependent includes into the header file. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof(a)lixom.net> diff --git a/include/linux/i2c/pca953x.h b/include/linux/i2c/pca953x.h index 81736d6..29699f8 100644 --- a/in... 6 Jan 2010 09:03

SECURITY: selinux, fix update_rlimit_cpu parameter
Jiri Slaby <jslaby(a)suse.cz> wrote: From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby(a)gmail.com> Don't pass current RLIMIT_RTTIME to update_rlimit_cpu() in selinux_bprm_committing_creds, since update_rlimit_cpu expects RLIMIT_CPU limit. Use proper rlim[RLIMIT_CPU].rlim_cur instead to fix that. Signed-off-by: J... 6 Jan 2010 09:02

[GIT PULL] kbuild fix for 2.6.33
Hi Linus, please pull this to fix build with /bin/sh -> dash (as used in Ubuntu). Thanks! Michal The following changes since commit 45d28b097280a78893ce25a5d0db41e6a2717853: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'reiserfs/kill-bkl' of git://git.kernel.org/.../frederic/random-tracing are available in... 6 Jan 2010 09:02

[PATCH v3 05/12] Export __get_user_pages_fast.
KVM will use it to try and find a page without falling back to slow gup. That is why get_user_pages_fast() is not enough. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb(a)redhat.com> --- arch/x86/mm/gup.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/gup.c b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c index 7... 6 Jan 2010 09:01

Memory probing fails after 2.6.30 (bisected)
Hi, Upgrading my laptop's kernel, I discovered that it reboots immediately after boot on .31 and later kernels. Grub loads it, but I cannot get one line of text out of it before it reboots, even using boot_delay. Bisecting I came up with the following: git bisect start # good: [07a2039b8eb0af4ff464efd3d... 10 Jan 2010 17:26

[PATCH] BUG: Fix smp_call_function_any to pass the node value to cpumask_of_node.
The change in acpi_cpufreq to use smp_call_function_any causes an OOPS when it is called since the function erroneously passes the cpu id to cpumask_of_node rather than the node that the cpu is on. Fix this. Signed-off-by: David John <davidjon(a)xenontk.org> diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c index de735a... 6 Jan 2010 09:00

Linux kernel crash dumps for ARM
Hi, With respect to "Linux kernel crash dumps for ARM", i have some doubts which are described as below. If the machine has crashed so badly that you cannot enter commands or the disk is not available then you have three options :- (1) Hand copy the text from the screen (2) capture crash logs using Minicom... 6 Jan 2010 09:04

[RFC][PATCH v5] readahead: introduce O_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM
This fixes inefficient page-by-page reads on POSIX_FADV_RANDOM. POSIX_FADV_RANDOM used to set ra_pages=0, which leads to poor performance: a 16K read will be carried out in 4 _sync_ 1-page reads. In other places, ra_pages==0 means - it's ramfs/tmpfs/hugetlbfs/sysfs/configfs - some IO error happened where mult... 6 Jan 2010 08:59