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[PATCHv5 0/3] Introduce the /proc/socinfo and use it to export OMAP data
Hello all, Here is the version 5 of the change to export OMAP data to userspace (name, revision, id code, production id and die id). Basically, this version is still attempting to create a new file under /proc. It is the /proc/socinfo, which should be used to export bits which are SoC specific (not CPU related... 11 May 2010 11:10

[RFC] perf: perf record sets inherit by default
Hi, I am confused by the inheritance cmd line option of perf record: $ perf record -h usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] -e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events --filter <filter> ... 11 May 2010 11:10

[OOPS] apbuart.c: Two problems related to grlib_apbuart_configure()
Hi, Looks finer :-) Acked-by: Kristoffer Glembo <kristoffer(a)gaisler.com> Miguel Ojeda wrote: Hi, Kristoffer, please check this one instead. Changes: 1. Added the grlib_apbuart_port_nr = 0 line. 2. Returned -ENODEV instead of 0 in the "no ports found branch" in init(), because if com... 11 May 2010 10:03

x86/apic: allow use of lapic timer early calibration result
On Fri, 7 May 2010, Jacob Pan wrote: From: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan(a)intel.com> lapic timer calibration can be combined with tsc in platform specific calibration functions. if such calibration result is obtained early, we can skip the redundent calibration loops. I'd rather move lapic calibration in... 11 May 2010 17:55

tracing: Combine event filter_active and enable into single flags field
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 23:30 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: * Steven Rostedt (rostedt(a)goodmis.org) wrote: From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt(a)redhat.com> The filter_active and enable both use an int (4 bytes each) to set a single flag. We can save 4 bytes per event by combining the two into a si... 11 May 2010 15:39

[OOPS] apbuart.c: Two problems related to grlib_apbuart_configure()
Hi, Kristoffer, please check this one instead. Changes: 1. Added the grlib_apbuart_port_nr = 0 line. 2. Returned -ENODEV instead of 0 in the "no ports found branch" in init(), because if compiled as a module, exit() will try to unregister things that were not registered. In addition, this will alert the users... 11 May 2010 10:03

block: allow initialization of previously allocated request_queue
On Tue, May 11 2010 at 2:55am -0400, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe(a)oracle.com> wrote: On Mon, May 10 2010, Mike Snitzer wrote: blk_init_queue() allocates the request_queue structure and then initializes it as needed (request_fn, elevator, etc). Split initialization out to blk_init_allocated_queue_n... 11 May 2010 10:03

[CLEANUP] kprobes: Remove redundant text_mutex lock in optimize
* Masami Hiramatsu (mhiramat(a)redhat.com) wrote: Remove text_mutex locking in optimize_all_kprobes, because that function doesn't modify text but just order optimization to worker. Hi Masami, A few comments: 1) optimize_all_kprobes/unoptimize_all_kprobes should have comments saying that they are alway... 11 May 2010 08:56

lmb: Factor the lowest level alloc function
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: @@ -396,33 +406,24 @@ u64 __init __lmb_alloc_base(u64 size, u64 align, u64 max_addr) if (max_addr == LMB_ALLOC_ANYWHERE) max_addr = LMB_REAL_LIMIT; + /* Pump up max_addr */ + if (max_addr == LMB_ALLOC_ANYWHERE) + max_addr = ~(u64)0; ... 12 May 2010 01:35

2.6.34-rc7: keyboard CAPS on/off indifferent, always capital
Hi, When resuming, the keys are capitalized but the CAPS LED is not lit. shift+key doesn't switch. Suspend-resume does temporarily fix it. As well as switching to console and back to X. Cheers, Nils -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m... 11 May 2010 11:10