[PATCH 01/16] mm: vm_brk(), align the length to page boundary (no replies)
I was writing some code where I was locking all pages of a process during exec() time by setting VM_LOCKED flag in mm->def_flags. But that lead to errors because length of mapping is not page...
View Article[PATCH 00/16] [RFC PATCH] Signed kexec support (5 replies)
Hi, Matthew has been posting patches to lock down kernel either due to secureboot requirements or because of signed modules with signing enforced. In kernel lock down mode, kexec will be disabled and...
View Article[PATCH] Staging: fwserial: wrap a line that exceeds 80 characters (no replies)
This is a patch to fwserial.c that wraps a line which previously exceeded the 80 character limit warning found by checkpatch.pl. This driver is now warning and error free, according to checkpatch.pl...
View Article3.10.10: WARNING: at kernel/smp.c:181...
Hi, I got this stacktrace shortly after bootup. I am disabling the two hyper-threaded cores in my startup scripts so possibly that was the trigger, at least per earlier report from Fernando Soto on...
View Article[PATCH v2] cpu/mem hotplug: Add try_online_node() for cpu_up() (1 reply)
cpu_up() has #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG code blocks, which call mem_online_node() to put its node online if offlined and then call build_all_zonelists() to initialize the zone list. These steps are...
View Article[PATCH] drm/msm: fix return value check in ERR_PTR() (1 reply)
From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> In case of error, the function drm_prime_pages_to_sg() returns ERR_PTR() and never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check should...
View Article[PATCH 1/2] uinput: Support injecting multiple events in one write() call (5...
Rework the code in uinput_inject_event so that it matches the code in evdev_write and allows injecting more than one event, or zero events. Signed-off-by: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com> ---...
View Article[PATCH] slab: Make allocations with GFP_ZERO slightly more efficient (no...
Use the likely mechanism already around valid pointer tests to better choose when to memset to 0 allocations with __GFP_ZERO Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> --- mm/slab.c | 16...
View Article[GIT PULL] x86/jumpmplabel changes for v3.12-rc1 (no replies)
Hi Linus, One more x86 tree for this merge window. This tree improves the handling of jump labels, so that most of the time we don't have to do a massive initial patching run. Furthermore, we will...
View ArticleLinux 3.2.51 (no replies)
I'm announcing the release of the 3.2.51 kernel. All users of the 3.2 kernel series should upgrade. The updated 3.2.y git tree can be found at:...
View ArticleFW: [RFC] XenGT - An Mediated Graphics Passthrough Solution from Intel (no...
Hi, Experts, This email is aimed at a first time disclosure of project XenGT, which is a Graphics virtualization solution based on Xen. As you can see, requirements for GPU to be sharable among...
View Article[PATCH][mmotm] mm/mempolicy.c: add check to avoid queuing hugepage under...
queue_pages_pmd_range() checks pmd_huge() to find hugepage, but this check assumes the pmd is in the normal format and does not work on migration entry whoes format is like swap entry. We can...
View Article[PATCH 0/3] extcon: use dev_get_platdata() (4 replies)
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change to make the code simpler and enhance the readability. ---...
View ArticleRIP - dead harddisk.. (1 reply)
The timing absolutely sucks, but it looks like the SSD in my main workstation just died on me. I had pushed out _most_ of my pulls today, so realistically I didn't lose a lot of work. However, any...
View Article[GIT PULL RESEND] x86/jumpmplabel changes for v3.12-rc1 (no replies)
Hi Linus, One more x86 tree for this merge window. This tree improves the handling of jump labels, so that most of the time we don't have to do a massive initial patching run. Furthermore, we will...
View Article[PATCH V3 0/6] cpuidle/ppc: Enable broadcast support for deep idle states (6...
On PowerPC, when CPUs enter deep idle states, their local timers get switched off. An external clock device needs to programmed to wake them up at their next timer event. On PowerPC, we do not have an...
View Article[ANNOUNCE] 3.8.13-rt16 (no replies)
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.8.13-rt16 stable release. You can get this release via the git tree at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git branch:...
View Article[ANNOUNCE] 3.4.57-rt73 (no replies)
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.4.57-rt73 stable release. This release is just an update to the new stable 3.4.57 version and no RT specific changes have been made. You can get this...
View Article[ANNOUNCE] 3.6.11.8-rt41 (no replies)
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.11.8-rt41 stable release. You can get this release via the git tree at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git branch:...
View Article[ANNOUNCE] 3.2.50-rt71 (no replies)
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.2.50-rt71 stable release. You can get this release via the git tree at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git branch:...
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