[PATCH] x86: Zero-pad the VVAR page with zeros (1 reply)
This has probably been broken since the VVAR page was introduced. The symptom is that BIOS crud can be left behind where userspace can see it. (I saw this with QEMU.) Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski...
View Article[RFC PATCH] mmc: move clock gating work to power efficient workqueue (no...
From: Shaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@broadcom.com> Instead of binding the clock gating work to the CPU that scheduled it, allow the scheduler to select the best CPU to handle it. This extends idle...
View Article[PATCH] vmcore: prevent PT_NOTE p_memsz overflow during header update (2...
Currently, update_note_header_size_elf64() and update_note_header_size_elf32() will add the size of a PT_NOTE entry to real_sz even if that causes real_sz to exceeds max_sz. This patch corrects the...
View Article[PATCH] Revert "PCI: Remove from bus_list and release resources in...
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Revert commit ef83b0781a73 "PCI: Remove from bus_list and release resources in pci_release_dev()" that made some nasty race conditions become...
View Article[PATCH] x86: Remove hpet vclock support (no replies)
The HPET is so amazingly slow that this is barely a win. It adds complexity, and it scares me a tiny bit to map a piece of crappy hardware where every userspace program can poke at it (even if said...
View Article[RFC PATCH] firmware: use power efficient workqueue for unloading and...
From: Shaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@broadcom.com> Allow the scheduler to select the most appropriate CPU for running the firmware load timeout routine and delayed routine for firmware unload....
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View Article[PATCH] Documentation: Add Daniel Vetter's excellent "Botching up ioctls" (no...
I pointed some folks at this and they wondered why it wasn't in the kernel Documentation directory. So now it is. Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Michael...
View Article[PATCH 2/2] rtlwifi: Fix incorrect return from rtl_ps_enable_nic() (no replies)
rtl_ps_enable_nic() is called from loops that will loop until this function returns true or a maximum number of retries is performed. hw_init() returns non-zero on error. In that situation return...
View Article[PATCH v3 1/3] iio: Add IIO_DISTANCE type (2 replies)
Allow drivers to report distance values, but however it is up to drivers to set scaling for meters, kilometers, etc. Signed-off-by: Matt Ranostay <mranostay@gmail.com> ---...
View Article[PATCH 1/2] rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: Fix too long disable of IRQs (no replies)
rtl8192ce is disabling for too long the local interrupts during hw initiatialisation when performing scans The observable symptoms in dmesg can be: - underruns from ALSA playback - clock freezes...
View Article[PATCH] kernel/kprobes.c: move cleanup_rp_inst() to where CONFIG_KRETPROBES...
When CONFIG_KRETPROBES disabled, cleanup_rp_inst() is useless too. It is only called by unregister_kretprobes() which is in CONFIG_KRETPROBES enabled area. The related warning (allmodconfig under...
View Article[PATCH v2] arm: keystone: enable watchdog support (no replies)
Keystone SoC uses the same watchdog driver as Davinci, so enable WDT and core used by it. Signed-off-by: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com> Conflicts: arch/arm/configs/keystone_defconfig...
View Article[PATCHv2] x86: fix the initialization of physnode_map (1 reply)
With DISCONTIGMEM, the mapping between a pfn and its owning node is initialized using data provided by the BIOS. However, the initialization may fail if the extents are not aligned to section boundary...
View Article[PATCH] arch: avr32: Makefile: add '-D__linux__' flag for gcc-4.4.7 using. (2...
For avr32 cross compiler, do not define '__linux__' internally, so it will cause issue with allmodconfig. The related error: CC [M] fs/coda/psdev.o In file included from include/linux/coda.h:64, from...
View Article[PATCH] iio: adc: viperboard: Call platform_set_drvdata before...
Call platform_set_drvdata before devm_iio_device_register to avoid possible race condition when accessing driver data. Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <morbidrsa@gmail.com> ---...
View Article[PATCH] iio: adc: viperboard: Drop platform_set_drvdata call (no replies)
Drop call to platform_set_drvdata as driver data is not used anywhere in the driver Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <morbidrsa@gmail.com> --- drivers/iio/adc/viperboard_adc.c | 2 -- 1 file...
View Article[PATCH 1/1] drm/vmwgfx: correct fb_fix_screeninfo.line_length (no replies)
Previously, the vmwgfx_fb driver would allow users to call FBIOSET_VINFO, but it would not adjust the FINFO properly, resulting in distorted screen rendering. The patch corrects that behaviour. See...
View Article[PATCH 0/4] Add 32 bit VDSO time function support (11 replies)
From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> This patch add the functions vdso_gettimeofday(), vdso_clock_gettime() and vdso_time() to the 32 bit VDSO. The reason to do this was to get a fast...
View Article[PATCH 1/1] udf: Add __init macro to init_inodecache (no replies)
init_inodecache is only called by __init init_udf_fs. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> --- fs/udf/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git...
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