[GIT PULL] target updates for v3.14-rc1 (no replies)
Hi Linus! Here are the target-pending updates for the v3.14-rc1 merge window. Please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending.git for-next The highlights this round...
View Articleimx-hdmi fails to build with v3.13-10094-g9b0cd30 (3 replies)
Hi All, After the DRM merge the imx-hdmi driver fails to build with the error below. I'm somewhat surprised this wasn't hit in linux-next. josh drivers/staging/imx-drm/imx-hdmi.c:55:6: error: nested...
View Article[PATCHv2 0/2] add compression backend abstraction (2 replies)
This patchset add abstraction layer (zram_comp) to avoid direct LZO calls and use a common compression backend interface instead. Patchset introduces LZ4 support and new device attribute to switch...
View Article[PATCH RFC] Remove ARM-specific set_irq_flags usage from irqdomain...
Hey all- Looking through a bunch of irqdomain implementations (and in some other places), it appears that the following pattern is distressingly common: static int foo_map(struct irq_domain *d,...
View Article[PATCH] block devices: validate block device capacity (4 replies)
When running the LVM2 testsuite on 32-bit kernel, there are unkillable processes stuck in the kernel consuming 100% CPU: blkid R running 0 2005 1409 0x00000004 ce009d00 00000082 ffffffcf c11280ba...
View ArticleLinus GIT Head OOPs reproducable in open vswitch when running mininet...
Hello, open vswitch git head with Linus tip OOPses for me reproducable when I load the following mininet topology: (lenovo) [~/work/linux-2.6] git log | head -1 commit...
View Article(no subject) (5 replies)
Patchset related to hibernation resume: - enhancement to make the use of an existing resume file more general - add kstrimdup function which trims and duplicates a string Both patches are based on the...
View Article[GIT PULL] Btrfs (no replies)
Hi Linus Please pull my for-linus branch: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs.git for-linus There are two conflicts right now, one with the ACL code (pick your version) and...
View Article[PATCH] Make math_state_restore() save and restore the interrupt flag (1 reply)
From: Nate Eldredge <nate@thatsmathematics.com> Make math_state_restore() save and restore the interrupt flag, rather than always disabling interrupts. If math_state_restore() is called in a...
View Article[RFC PATCH] net: rfkill: move poll work to power efficient workqueue (no...
From: Shaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@broadcom.com> This patch moves the rfkill poll_work to the power efficient workqueue. This work does not have to be bound to the CPU that scheduled it, hence...
View ArticleLinux Plumbers Conference Call for Microconference Proposals (no replies)
We are pleased to announce the Call for Microconferences for the 2014 edition of the Linux Plumbers Conference, which will be held in Düsseldorf Germany on October 15-17 in conjunction with LinuxCon...
View Article[RFC PATCH] net: wireless: move regulatory timeout work to power efficient...
From: Shaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@broadcom.com> For better use of CPU idle time, allow the scheduler to select the CPU on which the timeout work of regulatory settings would be executed. This...
View Article[RFC PATCH] net: ipv4: move inetpeer garbage collector work to power...
From: Shaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@broadcom.com> Garbage collector work does not have to be bound to the CPU that scheduled it. By moving work to the power-efficient workqueue, the selection of...
View Article[GIT PULL] x86/build additional for v3.14 (no replies)
Hi Linus, Various build-related minor bits. Most of this is work by David Woodhouse to be able to compile the early boot code with clang/llvm; we have also managed to push an actual -m16 option into...
View Article[RFC PATCH] net: core: move core networking work to power efficient workqueue...
From: Shaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@broadcom.com> This patch moves the following work to the power efficient workqueue: - Transmit work of netpoll - Destination cache garbage collector work -...
View Article[PATCH] Documentation: fix memmap= language in kernel-parameters.txt (1 reply)
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Clean up descriptions of memmap= boot options. Add periods (full stops), drop commas, change "used" to "reserved" or "marked". Signed-off-by: Randy...
View Article[RFC PATCH] timekeeping: move clock sync work to power efficient workqueue...
From: Shaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@linaro.org> For better use of CPU idle time, allow the scheduler to select the CPU on which the CMOS clock sync work would be scheduled. This improves idle...
View Article[RFC PATCH] rcu: move SRCU grace period work to power efficient workqueue (1...
From: Shaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@broadcom.com> For better use of CPU idle time, allow the scheduler to select the CPU on which the SRCU grace period work would be scheduled. This improves idle...
View ArticleBUG ip_dst_cache (Not tainted): Poison overwritten (1 reply)
Hello, Hit this while fuzzing v3.13-9218-g0e47c96 with trinity in a qemu virtual machine. Tommi [ 6329.061605] ============================================================================= [...
View Article[PATCH 03/12] perf tools: Fix include for non x86 architectures (no replies)
From: Francesco Fusco <ffusco@redhat.com> Commit 71ae8aac ("lib: introduce arch optimized hash library") added an include to <linux/hash.h> for setting up an architecture specific fast...
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