[PATCH] workqueue: use manager lock only to protect worker_idr (no replies)
worker_idr is always accessed in manager lock context currently. worker_idr is highly related to managers, it will be unlikely accessed in pool->lock only in future. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan...
View Article[KVM] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at...
Hi Paolo, We noticed the below kernel BUG on git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git queue commit 93c4adc7afedf9b0ec190066d45b6d67db5270da ("KVM: x86: handle missing MPX in nested...
View Article[PATCH] KVM: vmx: fix MPX detection (no replies)
kvm_x86_ops is still NULL at this point. Since kvm_init_msr_list cannot fail, it is safe to initialize it before the call. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc:...
View Articlemm: BUG: Bad page state in process ksmd (1 reply)
Hi all, While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next kernel I've stumbled on the following. Out of curiosity, is there a reason not to do bad flag checks when actually...
View Article[PATCH -mm 0/4] kmemcg: get rid of __GFP_KMEMCG (4 replies)
Hi, Currently we charge kmem to memcg in alloc_pages if __GFP_KMEMCG is passed. However, since there are only a few places where we actually want to charge kmem, we could call kmemcg charge function...
View Article[PATCH 1/1] Avoid having to provide a fake/invalid fd and path (2 replies)
From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/12/112 holds a patch by Tvrtko Ursulin Avoid having to provide a fake/invalid fd and path when flushing marks...
View Article[PATCH] ata: fix Calxeda Highbank SATA driver dependencies (1 reply)
Make sata_highbank host driver depend on ARCH_HIGHBANK config option as Calxeda Highbank SATA support is specific to Calxeda Highbank SoCs and the driver to work requires suitable device tree node to...
View Article[PATCH] ata: sata_highbank: remove superfluous cast (3 replies)
hpriv->plat_data is 'void *' so there is no need to cast it to 'struct ecx_plat_data *'. Cc: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@calxeda.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:...
View Article[PATCH] Input: mousedev - fix race when creating mixed device (no replies)
We should not be using static variable mousedev_mix in methods that can be called before that singleton gets assigned. While at it let's add open and close methods to mousedev structure so that we do...
View Article[PATCH] ata: fix Marvell SATA driver dependencies (6 replies)
Make sata_mv host driver depend on PCI || ARCH_KIRKWOOD || ARCH_MVEBU || ARCH_ORION5X config options as Marvell SATA support covers both Marvell PCI devices and Marvell Kirkwood, Armada 370/XP and...
View Article[PATCH 00/15] mtd: st_spi_fsm: Align with ST's internal development (16 replies)
Hi Brian, all, This patch-set updates ST's FSM SPI-NOR driver with all the internal goodness which has happened since the initial (now upstreamed) snapshot was taken. It covers just over 6 months...
View Article[PATCH] mm: remove unused arg of set_page_dirty_balance() (no replies)
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> There's only one caller of set_page_dirty_balance() and that will call it with page_mkwrite == 0. The page_mkwrite argument was unused since commit...
View Article[PATCH] staging: vt6655,vt6656: fix sparse error "unexpected unlock" (no...
Signed-off-by: Cédric Cabessa <ced@ryick.net> --- drivers/staging/vt6655/wpactl.c | 3 ++- drivers/staging/vt6656/firmware.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) This patch is...
View Article[PATCH] ARM: VFP: Fix emulation of multiply accumulate instructions (no replies)
The emulation for single and double precision multiply accumulate instructions correctly normalised any denormal values in the operand registers, but failed to normalise the destination (accumulator)...
View Article[PATCH v2] ata: fix Marvell SATA driver dependencies (1 reply)
Make sata_mv host driver depend on PCI || ARCH_KIRKWOOD || ARCH_MVEBU || ARCH_ORION5X config options as Marvell SATA support covers both Marvell PCI devices and Marvell Kirkwood, Armada 370/XP and...
View Article[PATCH] random32: avoid attempt to late reseed if in the middle of seeding (1...
Commit 4af712e8df ("random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes initialized") has added a late reseed stage that happens as soon as the nonblocking pool is marked as...
View ArticleRe: fs: remove now stale label in anon_inode_init() (no replies)
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:45:10AM +0000, Linux Kernel wrote: > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=fce7fc79c8f7188dfc5eafa1b937bcc3c5a4c2f5 > Commit:...
View Article[PATCH] clk: register fixed-clock only if #clock-cells property is present (5...
After commit 1771b10d605d26ccee771a7fb4b08718c124097a "clk: respect the clock dependencies in of_clk_init" the order of registering clock providers and their corresponding clocks may change. This...
View Article[PATCH] perf: make perf script actually spit out backtraces for events (2...
We are trying to debug a problem internally and noticed that if we use perf record -g -e <tracepoint> and then try to use perf script to get the events and their backtraces that we weren't...
View Article[PATCH linux-next] ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy: fix (no replies)
mutex_destroy was also called when trying to mount volume in read/write without write support enabled. Reported by Fengguang Wu. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> ---...
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