Re: Read O_DIRECT regression in 3.7-rc8 (bisected)

On 12/08/2012 01:57 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> This (TOTALLY UNTESTED) patch adds it the same iov_shorten() logic that >> the write side has. It does it differently (in fs/block_dev.c rather than >> in mm/filemap.c), but I actually suspect this

Re: PATCH reduce impact of FIFREEZE on userland processes

On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 12:20:29 +1100 Dave Chinner wrote: First off, thanks for the examples. I'll answer your one question and then I'll shut up! > > I'll try and chase this up by submitting patches to lvcreate and > > fsfreeze (in the former case, I think there's no reason not to run > > syncfs; i

Re: [PATCH] Document how capability bits work

On 12/07/2012 07:27:25 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 12/07/2012 01:32:18 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Serge Hallyn >> wrote: >> > Quoting Andy Lutomirski (l...@amacapital.net): >> >> Signed-off-by: Andy Lu

Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7

On 12/04/2012 05:11 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 10:15:09AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: >> It does not apply to -next :/. Should I try anything else? > > The COMPACTION_BUILD changed to IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION), below > is a -next patch. I hope you don't run into other p

Re: Look Ma, da kernel is b0rken

On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 08:36:34AM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > And that demand actually applies to both the '@' change (questionable) > and the much less disputed (obviously correct) wrong conditional > fixup, since both introduce a notable change (either large, or > possibly improper) in behaviou

Re: Using IO functions across ARM, PPC and Microblaze architectures

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> Because I need to use IO functions which will behave >> on arm as little endian and on powerpc as big endian >> and on microblaze depends on endian setting. >> I haven't found any IO function which I could use by 3 architectures >> without using

Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: eukrea_mbimx27-baseboard - use stock get_pendown_state() in ads7846

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 01:03:56AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > The default implementation matches exactly our custom one so we can switch > to using the default one. As a bonus the driver will take care of setting > GPIO line for us. > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov Applied, thanks Sascha

Re: [PATCH] ARM: Orion: Hoist bridge interrupt handling out of the timer

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:55:07PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > The intent of this patch is to expose the other bridge cause > interrupts to users in the kernel. > > - Add orion_bridge_irq_init to create a new edge triggered interrupt > chip based on the bridge cause register > - Remove all i

Re: Incrementing module reference count

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 05:14:39PM -0800, Aaron Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I have a kernel module which other modules register with in order to > export access functions. So far I have everything working but I want > to prevent a module that is registered with my module from unloading > since now m

Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7

On 06.12.2012 20:31, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, people seem to be reporting success. I've applied Johannes' last patch with the new tested-by tags. I've been testing this patch since it was applied, and it certainly fixes the kswapd craziness issue, good work Johannes! But, it's still not p

Re: PATCH reduce impact of FIFREEZE on userland processes

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 11:42:55AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > The problem wth doing this is that the sync can delay the freeze > process by quite some time under the exact conditions you describe. > If you want freeze to take effect immediately (i.e instantly stop > new modifications), then addin

Re: [PATCH 02/10] sched: fix find_idlest_group mess logical

On 12/07/2012 04:33 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > 2012/12/7 Alex Shi : >> On 12/07/2012 08:56 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: >>> 2012/12/3 Alex Shi : There is 4 situations in the function: 1, no task allowed group; so min_load = ULONG_MAX, this_load = 0, idlest = NULL

[PATCH] Expand CPU compiler options

Please cc me on replies as I am not a regular subscriber to lkml.  Thank you. I tested the attached patch written by André Ramnitz using three different machines running a generic x86-64 kernel and an otherwise identical kernel running with the optimized gcc options.  Conclusion: There are sm

Re: weakness of runnable load tracking?

On 12/06/2012 11:10 PM, Alex Shi wrote: > >>> Hi Paul & Ingo: >>> >>> In a short word of this issue: burst forking/waking tasks have no time >>> accumulate the load contribute, their runnable load are taken as zero. >>> that make select_task_rq do a wrong decision on which group is idlest. >> >> S

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] Input: add driver for Cypress APA I2C Trackpad

Hi Benson, > I have applied your patch, but I found I still need this line in my > driver, otherwise, there are no ABS type event supported. Should the > core set this bit as well since it's certainly going to be dealing > with ABS data? > > __set_bit(EV_ABS, input->evbit); Yes, that would make

Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] Input: add driver for Cypress APA I2C Trackpad

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:24:16PM -0800, Benson Leung wrote: > This patch introduces a driver for Cypress All Points Addressable > I2C Trackpad, including the ones in 2012 Samsung Chromebooks. > > This device is compatible with MT protocol type B, providing identifiable > contacts. > > Signed-of

[PATCH] rc-core: don't return from store_protocols without releasing device mutex

Commit c003ab1b ("[media] rc-core: add separate defines for protocol bitmaps and numbers") has introduced a bug which allows store_protocols() to return without releasing the device mutex it's holding. Doing that would cause infinite hangs waiting on device mutex next time around. Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH v6] Cypress PS/2 Trackpad driver

Hi Kamal, > This driver, submitted on behalf of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation and > additional contributors, provides support for the Cypress PS/2 Trackpad. > > Note that the patch "increase struct ps2dev cmdbuf[] to 8 bytes" [5] is a > PREREQUISITE for this patch. > > This [PATCH v6] versio

Re: [PATCH, 3.7-rc7, RESEND] fs: revert commit bbdd6808 to fallocate UAPI

Dave Chinner wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:25:53PM -0800, Howard Chu wrote: I have to agree that, if this is going to be an ext4-specific feature, then it can just be implemented via an ext4-specific ioctl and be done with it. But I'm not convinced this should be an ext4-specific feature. A

Re: [PATCH, 3.7-rc7, RESEND] fs: revert commit bbdd6808 to fallocate UAPI

On 12/08/2012 08:52 AM, Howard Chu wrote: Dave Chinner wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:25:53PM -0800, Howard Chu wrote: I have to agree that, if this is going to be an ext4-specific feature, then it can just be implemented via an ext4-specific ioctl and be done with it. But I'm not convinced

Re: [GIT PULL 00/32] perf/core improvements and fixes

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > Please consider pulling, > > - Arnaldo > > The following changes since commit ffadcf090d468e9c4938b718649f38dd10cfdb02: > > perf annotate: Handle XBEGIN like a jump (2012-10-31 12:18:26 -0200) > > are available in the git repository a

Re: [GIT PULL 00/32] perf/core improvements and fixes

Note that I had to do a number of conflict resolutions between perf/urgent (now upstream) and perf/core, related to UAPI fixes: commit f0b9abfb044649bc452fb2fb975ff2fd599cc6a3 Merge: adc1ef1 1b3c393 Author: Ingo Molnar Date: Sat Dec 8 15:25:06 2012 +0100 Merge branch 'linus' into per

Re: [GIT PULL] cputime: Cleanups on adjusted cputime code

* Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > Ingo, > > Please pull the latest cputime adjustment cleanups that can be found at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git > cputime/adjustment-v2 > > for you to fetch changes up to fa09205783d11cc05122ad6e4ce06074624b

[context tracking subsystem] Re: [GIT PULL rcu/next] One more RCU commit for 3.8

* Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Hello, Ingo, > > Could you please pull one more commit? This is an update to Frederic > Weisbecker's context-tracking subsystem that is another stepping stone > towards adaptive-idle and tickless userspace execution. This has been > subjected to -next testing. It

[tip:perf/core] perf tests: Move test__vmlinux_matches_kallsyms into separate object

Commit-ID: 0a4e1ae6808a28a92573550603121b146b11312e Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0a4e1ae6808a28a92573550603121b146b11312e Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:41 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:48:35 -0300 perf tests: Move

[tip:perf/core] perf tests: Move test__open_syscall_event into separate object

Commit-ID: d3b59a38bcdab4248134023c2c5dfabee5a4878e Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/d3b59a38bcdab4248134023c2c5dfabee5a4878e Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:42 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:49:17 -0300 perf tests: Move

[tip:perf/core] perf tests: Move test__open_syscall_event_on_all_cpus into separate object

Commit-ID: bd90517b374b1d6381a5509f55df1a9b7c33a6b1 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/bd90517b374b1d6381a5509f55df1a9b7c33a6b1 Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:43 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:49:25 -0300 perf tests: Move

[tip:perf/core] perf tests: Move test__basic_mmap into separate object

Commit-ID: a65b9c62be044b7956022e2823c5f079cf35b069 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a65b9c62be044b7956022e2823c5f079cf35b069 Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:44 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:49:32 -0300 perf tests: Move

Re: [PATCH 0/2] [GIT PULL][v3.7] ring-buffer: Bug fixes

* Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Ingo, > > This is based off of my last urgent pull request. > > Please pull the latest tip/perf/urgent-2 tree, which can be found at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git > tip/perf/urgent-2 > > Head SHA1: 9366c1ba13fbc41bdb

[tip:perf/core] perf tests: Move test__PERF_RECORD into separate object

Commit-ID: 16d00fee703866c61c9006eff097952289335479 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/16d00fee703866c61c9006eff097952289335479 Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:45 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:49:43 -0300 perf tests: Move

[tip:perf/core] perf tests: Move test__rdpmc into separate object

Commit-ID: bacf7e5d4055b65506292cf6412ec71e7948a9cf Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/bacf7e5d4055b65506292cf6412ec71e7948a9cf Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:46 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:49:50 -0300 perf tests: Move

[tip:perf/core] perf tests: Move perf_evsel__roundtrip_name_test into separate object

Commit-ID: cfffae2ef7029d38e71d337fbc2a9c6cf1fa5aaf Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/cfffae2ef7029d38e71d337fbc2a9c6cf1fa5aaf Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:47 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:49:56 -0300 perf tests: Move

Re: [GIT PULL] cputime: cleanups

* Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Ingo, > > Please pull the latest sched cleanups branch that can be found at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git > tags/sched-cputime-for-mingo > > for you to pull the HEAD 1b2852b152be5150fbef7b585388ec43cf6f4415 >

[tip:perf/core] perf tests: Move perf_evsel__tp_sched_test into separate object

Commit-ID: 5e24a0904ed4029f6778a214b6fe41b9265fd620 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/5e24a0904ed4029f6778a214b6fe41b9265fd620 Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:48 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:50:02 -0300 perf tests: Move

[tip:perf/core] perf tests: Move test__syscall_open_tp_fields into separate object

Commit-ID: dc447eed59037c1c65feab9c72d372b6249af978 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/dc447eed59037c1c65feab9c72d372b6249af978 Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:49 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:50:09 -0300 perf tests: Move

[tip:perf/core] perf tests: Move pmu tests into separate object

Commit-ID: cff7f956ec4a1ede9b752cfae3c12f588292ad80 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/cff7f956ec4a1ede9b752cfae3c12f588292ad80 Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:50 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:50:19 -0300 perf tests: Move

[tip:perf/core] perf tests: Final cleanup for builtin-test move

Commit-ID: c81251e808fe2386e71990ecd49c408bb7cb4666 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c81251e808fe2386e71990ecd49c408bb7cb4666 Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:51 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:50:24 -0300 perf tests: Final

Re: [GIT PULL] UAPI: Disintegrate arch/x86/include/asm

* David Howells wrote: > > Hi Ingo, Peter, Thomas, > > Could you merge the x86 arch include disintegration into the tip git tree now > that the perf stuff has been dealt with? > > Many thanks, > David > --- > The following changes since commit 7e5530af11be68f3109672aed59243f82e1272f0: > >

[tip:perf/core] perf tests: Check for mkstemp return value in dso-data test

Commit-ID: f95e0818cbd026a8f2277895c65fcc9cc5b28cf6 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f95e0818cbd026a8f2277895c65fcc9cc5b28cf6 Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:52 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:50:30 -0300 perf tests: Check

[tip:perf/core] perf tools: Stop using 'self' in pstack

Commit-ID: 61e945150fe0ec4c20b7a3663b90c7ab705a88b4 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/61e945150fe0ec4c20b7a3663b90c7ab705a88b4 Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:41:15 -0300 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:50:38 -0300 pe

Re: [GIT PULL] uprobes: single-step cleanups + reg/unreg fix

* Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Ingo, please pull from > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc uprobes/core > > - arch_uprobe_*_step() should die before arm port. > > - "Use percpu_rw_semaphore to fix register/unregister vs dup_mmap() race" > fixes the serious bug, the "rando

[tip:perf/core] perf tools: Fix compile error on NO_NEWT=1 build

Commit-ID: 4f746c95f18ad4d85599d9c157da7e6da766c3d9 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4f746c95f18ad4d85599d9c157da7e6da766c3d9 Author: Namhyung Kim AuthorDate: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:14:00 +0900 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:50:58 -0300 perf tools: Fi

[tip:perf/core] perf tools: Add gtk. config option for launching GTK browser

Commit-ID: 0020ce23864d16f66e5667013b8b43d1df3e142e Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0020ce23864d16f66e5667013b8b43d1df3e142e Author: Namhyung Kim AuthorDate: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:50:17 +0900 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:51:30 -0300 perf tools: Ad

Re: [PATCH 0/4] [GIT PULL][3.8] tracing: Updated patches

* Steven Rostedt wrote: > Ingo, > > This includes the updates to the formating issues to the patches > that were in the original patch set, and which I had dropped from > my last pull request. I added this on top of my last git pull request. > > I also included Shan's dead comment removal. >

[tip:perf/core] perf tools: Use sscanf for parsing /proc/pid/maps

Commit-ID: 6064803313bad9ae4cae233a9d56678adb2b6e7c Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6064803313bad9ae4cae233a9d56678adb2b6e7c Author: Namhyung Kim AuthorDate: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:20:50 +0900 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:51:40 -0300 perf tools: Us

[tip:perf/core] perf tools: Fix attributes for '{}' defined event groups

Commit-ID: cac21425578abddc4e9f529845832a57ba27ce0f Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/cac21425578abddc4e9f529845832a57ba27ce0f Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:34:00 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:51:50 -0300 perf tools: Fix a

[tip:perf/core] perf tools: Fix 'disabled' attribute config for record command

Commit-ID: 774cb499ca9ab0e5950a149d1fe102b125da1cee Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/774cb499ca9ab0e5950a149d1fe102b125da1cee Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:34:01 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:52:03 -0300 perf tools: Fix '

[tip:perf/core] perf tools: Ensure single disable call per event in record comand

Commit-ID: 2711926a416733b853977a0e014c713955ad0d8a Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/2711926a416733b853977a0e014c713955ad0d8a Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:34:02 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:52:09 -0300 perf tools: Ensur

[tip:perf/core] perf tools: Omit group members from perf_evlist__disable/enable

Commit-ID: 3fe4430dd66837d8fcdb63c167e908655fc842e3 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/3fe4430dd66837d8fcdb63c167e908655fc842e3 Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:34:03 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:52:15 -0300 perf tools: Omit

[tip:perf/core] perf tools: Add basic event modifier sanity check

Commit-ID: 534123f458f196bcc269f97d20ccf125925c2e7b Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/534123f458f196bcc269f97d20ccf125925c2e7b Author: Jiri Olsa AuthorDate: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:32:58 +0100 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:52:24 -0300 perf tools: Add b

[tip:perf/core] perf ui tui: Move progress.c under ui/ tui directory

Commit-ID: 7da5c85dd34dd67846fec965e4bf1f761eecca05 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/7da5c85dd34dd67846fec965e4bf1f761eecca05 Author: Namhyung Kim AuthorDate: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:30:31 +0900 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:52:33 -0300 perf ui tui: M

Re: [GIT PULL v2] printk: Make it usable on nohz cpus

* Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Ingo, > > Please pull the printk support in dynticks mode patches that can > be found at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git > tags/printk-dynticks-for-mingo-v2 > > for you to fetch changes up to 74876a98a87a115254b3

[tip:perf/core] perf ui: Introduce generic ui_progress helper

Commit-ID: 688f2f5b99311b127ea43efdbf47bb2e3c7a2e32 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/688f2f5b99311b127ea43efdbf47bb2e3c7a2e32 Author: Namhyung Kim AuthorDate: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:30:32 +0900 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:52:39 -0300 perf ui: Intro

[tip:perf/core] perf ui gtk: Implement ui_progress functions

Commit-ID: a753579c3ec096bba9d24e1594a07dbb25aca8e4 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a753579c3ec096bba9d24e1594a07dbb25aca8e4 Author: Namhyung Kim AuthorDate: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:30:33 +0900 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:52:48 -0300 perf ui gtk: I

[tip:perf/core] perf ui: Add ui_progress__finish()

Commit-ID: a5580f3ecb295a514f9522daf0ef7158f73ec2d6 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a5580f3ecb295a514f9522daf0ef7158f73ec2d6 Author: Namhyung Kim AuthorDate: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:30:34 +0900 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:52:56 -0300 perf ui: Add u

[tip:perf/core] perf ui: Always compile browser setup code

Commit-ID: 59ed16b315681a08cf8aa13ee949e9405801f442 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/59ed16b315681a08cf8aa13ee949e9405801f442 Author: Namhyung Kim AuthorDate: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:30:35 +0900 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:53:03 -0300 perf ui: Alway

Re: [PATCH][GIT PULL] x86_32: Return actual stack when requesting sp from regs

* Steven Rostedt wrote: > Ingo, Peter, > > I posted this back in July as an RFC and did get Masami's reviewed-by > tag. I'm currently cleaning out my inbox and realized I didn't push this > further. I didn't know which branch to base this on, so I just picked > the tip/x86/asm branch where I di

[tip:perf/core] tools: Define a Makefile function to do subdir processing

Commit-ID: 0bca6cff89c6e7d1e383993cccf0f59146874a34 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0bca6cff89c6e7d1e383993cccf0f59146874a34 Author: David Howells AuthorDate: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 15:15:24 + Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:53:11 -0300 tools: Define

[tip:perf/core] tools: Honour the O= flag when tool build called from a higher Makefile

Commit-ID: 9db48cd5ccd0d127e991c15509a0241a18043e91 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/9db48cd5ccd0d127e991c15509a0241a18043e91 Author: David Howells AuthorDate: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 21:02:08 + Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:53:22 -0300 tools: Honour

[tip:perf/core] perf powerpc: Use uapi/ unistd.h to fix build error

Commit-ID: 1483c2ae90738e7453bfe446a3bbcdd0ba9abf36 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/1483c2ae90738e7453bfe446a3bbcdd0ba9abf36 Author: Sukadev Bhattiprolu AuthorDate: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:21:28 -0700 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:53:39 -0300 perf po

[tip:perf/core] tools: Pass the target in descend

Commit-ID: 1668fc6505bd0796e34ee7f65eee69e81daaabe9 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/1668fc6505bd0796e34ee7f65eee69e81daaabe9 Author: David Howells AuthorDate: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:14:38 -0300 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:53:30 -0300 tools: Pass t

[tip:perf/core] perf evsel: Introduce is_group_member method

Commit-ID: 07ac002f2fcc74c5be47b656d9201d5de84dc53d Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/07ac002f2fcc74c5be47b656d9201d5de84dc53d Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo AuthorDate: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:27:28 -0300 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CommitDate: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:53:45 -0300 pe

[PATCH] Remove two unused variables and two useless calls to kfree

old_class_name, and new_class_name are never used. This patch remove the declaration and calls to kfree. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @r1 forall@ type T; identifier i; @@ * T *i = NULL; ... when != i * kfree(i); // Signed-off-by: P

[PATCH] drivers/video/wm8505fb.c: use devm_ functions

From: Julia Lawall The various devm_ functions allocate memory that is released when a driver detaches. This patch uses these functions for data that is allocated in the probe function of a platform device and is only freed in the remove function. The patch makes some other cleanups. First, th

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.6.9-rt21

Heya. As some may remember, I said I was going to build an E5 machine. Well I did, well atleast ordered the most similar to what I wanted, and exchanged the graphics-card (pcie3.0) only. I was completely correct in that this machine, would have low-jitter /low-latency. And it completely lives up

question about drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c

The function at91_dt_node_to_map in drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c contains the following code: new_map = devm_kzalloc(pctldev->dev, sizeof(*new_map) * map_num, GFP_KERNEL); if (!new_map) return -ENOMEM; *map = new_map; *num_maps = map_num;

[PATCH] drivers/power/88pm860x_battery.c: use devm_request_threaded_irq

From: Julia Lawall devm_request_threaded_irq requests and irq that is freed when a driver detaches. This patch uses devm_request_threaded_irq for irqs that are requested in the probe function of a platform device and are only freed in the remove function. Additionally, the original code used de

question about drivers/power/88pm860x_charger.c

The function pm860x_charger_probe in the file drivers/power/88pm860x_charger.c contains the following code: count = pdev->num_resources; for (i = 0, j = 0; i < count; i++) { info->irq[j] = platform_get_irq(pdev, i); if (info->irq[j] < 0)

[PATCH 3/3] sound/soc/soc-core.c: drop kfree of devm_kzalloc's data

From: Julia Lawall Using kfree to free data allocated with devm_kzalloc causes double frees. The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression x; @@ x = devm_kzalloc(...) ... ?-kfree(x); // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- The kfrees we

Re: 8250 UART doesn't work

On 2012-12-07, Alan Cox wrote: >> The UART controller is EXAR ST16C554D. It claims as a 16550 >> compatible controller. Each ST16C554D module contains 4 UART, each of >> them can be selected via two chip select pad. I think the board >> hardware, via a CPLD, make the chip selection transparent to

Re: [PATCH v6] Cypress PS/2 Trackpad driver

Hi Henrik- On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 13:54 +0100, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > [...] > > --- a/drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig > > +++ b/drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig > > @@ -68,6 +68,16 @@ config MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS > > > > If unsure, say Y. > > > > +config MOUSE_PS2_CYPRESS > > + bool "Cypress

Re: Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:10:43AM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > Not just a separate document but project / github / whatever given > > that other projects are referring to it now, and we stand to gain more > > in the community by streamlining it more and making it ubiquitous. > > Cutting and pasting

[PATCH] scripts/coccinelle/misc/semicolon.cocci: Add unneeded semicolon test

This semantic patch looks for semicolons that can be removed without changing the semantics of the code. The confidence is moderate because there are some false positives on cases like: b/drivers/mmc/host/cb710-mmc.c:589 break; case MMC_POWER_UP: default: -

[PATCH V2] drivers/base/core.c: Remove two unused variables and two useless calls to kfree

old_class_name, and new_class_name are never used. This patch remove the declaration and calls to kfree. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @r1 forall@ type T; identifier i; @@ * T *i = NULL; ... when != i * kfree(i); // Signed-off-by: P

Re: [PATCH] scripts/coccinelle/misc/semicolon.cocci: Add unneeded semicolon test

On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 15:34 -0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: > This semantic patch looks for semicolons that can be removed without > changing the semantics of the code. The confidence is moderate > because there are some false positives on cases like: > > b/drivers/mmc/host/cb710-mmc.c:589 >

Re: [braindump][RFC] signals and syscall restarts (Re: [PATCH v2 19/44] metag: Signal handling)

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:09:55PM +, Al Viro wrote: > What we need to guarantee is > * restarts do not happen on signals caught in interrupts or exceptions > * restarts do not happen on signals caught in sigreturn() > * restart should happen only once, even if we get through do_signal()

Re: [PATCH] scripts/coccinelle/misc/semicolon.cocci: Add unneeded semicolon test

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 15:34 -0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: >> This semantic patch looks for semicolons that can be removed without >> changing the semantics of the code. The confidence is moderate >> because there are some false positives on

Re: [PATCH] scripts/coccinelle/misc/semicolon.cocci: Add unneeded semicolon test

On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 16:13 -0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: > On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 15:34 -0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: > >> This semantic patch looks for semicolons that can be removed without > >> changing the semantics of the code.

Re: Incrementing module reference count

On 12/08/2012 03:44 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 05:14:39PM -0800, Aaron Williams wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a kernel module which other modules register with in order to >> export access functions. So far I have everything working but I want >> to prevent a module that is r

Re: [PATCH] mm: add node physical memory range to sysfs

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 02:34:56PM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > This patch adds a new 'memrange' file that shows the starting and > ending physical addresses that are associated to a node. This is > useful for identifying specific DIMMs within the system. > > Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso > -

Re: [ 00/20] 3.4.23-stable review

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 05:59:24PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Shuah Khan wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Shuah Khan wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > >> wrote: > >>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4

Re: zram: fix invalid memory references during disk write

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 04:50:37PM -0800, Nitin Gupta wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Nitin Gupta wrote: > > Fixes a bug introduced by commit c8f2f0db1 ("zram: Fix handling > > of incompressible pages") which caused invalid memory references > > during disk write. Invalid references cou

Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: eukrea_mbimx27-baseboard - use stock get_pendown_state() in ads7846

Hi Sascha, On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 01:03:56AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> The default implementation matches exactly our custom one so we can switch >> to using the default one. As a bonus the driver will take care of setting >> GPIO line

[PATCH 1/3] checkpatch: Find hex constants as a single IDENT

Hexadecimal values are current found in 2 parts. A hex constant like 0x123456abcdef is found as 0 and then x123456abcdef and later coalesced. Instead, reverse the order of the 2 searches in $Constant to find 0x first, then 0 so that the entire hex constant is found all at once. Signed-off-by: Joe

[PATCH 2/3] checkpatch: Add support for floating point constants

Even though the kernel doesn't support using floating point constants, add a regex for them. Support forms like: 0x123p1, 123e-1, 1.23, 1.5e23f Signed-off-by: Joe Perches --- scripts/checkpatch.pl |6 +- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.p

[PATCH 3/3] checkpatch: Warn on CamelCase variable names

Store the camelcase variables in a hash and only emit a warning on the first use of each new variable. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 19 +-- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl in

3.7-rc8 boot failure due to recent workqueue-related patch

Commit 8852aac2 (workqueue: mod_delayed_work_on() shouldn't queue timer on 0 delay) is causing the following boot failure for me. Found by bisection but no further analysis unfortunately until I get back home properly. I've added the relevant maintainers for megasas and SCSI in case it's somehow sp

Re: [PATCH 1/3] HWPOISON, hugetlbfs: fix warning on freeing hwpoisoned hugepage

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 02:34:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:49:57 -0500 > Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > > > This patch fixes the warning from __list_del_entry() which is triggered > > when a process tries to do free_huge_page() for a hwpoisoned hugepage. > > This changelog i

Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7

On 08.12.2012 13:06, Zlatko Calusic wrote: On 06.12.2012 20:31, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, people seem to be reporting success. I've applied Johannes' last patch with the new tested-by tags. I've been testing this patch since it was applied, and it certainly fixes the kswapd craziness issue,

Re: [PATCH] drivers/video/wm8505fb.c: use devm_ functions

On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 17:31 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > From: Julia Lawall > > The various devm_ functions allocate memory that is released when a driver > detaches. This patch uses these functions for data that is allocated in > the probe function of a platform device and is only freed in the

Re: [RFC] Capabilities still can't be inherited by normal programs

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Andrew G. Morgan wrote: >> I'm still missing something with the problem definition. >> >> So far if I follow the discussion we have determined that inheritance >> as implemented is OK except for the fact tha

Re: 8250 UART doesn't work

> Which kind of configuration is right for ARM? I think the > 8250_exar_st16c554.c is for ISA bus board and hence is not suit to me, > but I am not sure my understanding is right. Please give me some > backgroud information on this field. You are the one who should have the information for your b

Re: [GIT PULL v2] printk: Make it usable on nohz cpus

2012/12/8 Ingo Molnar : > > * Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > >> Ingo, >> >> Please pull the printk support in dynticks mode patches that can >> be found at: >> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git >> tags/printk-dynticks-for-mingo-v2 >> >> for you to fetch

Re: Look Ma, da kernel is b0rken

On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 11:52:34 +0100 Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 08:36:34AM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > > And that demand actually applies to both the '@' change (questionable) > > and the much less disputed (obviously correct) wrong conditional > > fixup, since both introduce

Re: [PATCH 1/2] tty: remove trailing spaces in tty/hvc

On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 01:41:23 + Cong Ding wrote: > remove trailing blank spaces in tty/hvc by shell command: > sed 's/\s\+$//g' -i > > I have manually reviewed that everything is correct. > > Signed-off-by: Cong Ding Both acked-by: Alan Cox Thanks Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list:

[PATCH] ssb: use WARN in main.c

Use WARN rather than printk followed by WARN_ON(1), for conciseness. Signed-off-by: Cong Ding --- drivers/ssb/main.c |3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ssb/main.c b/drivers/ssb/main.c index bd7115c..c82c5c9 100644 --- a/drivers/ssb/main.c +++ b/dri

Re: kbuild: Invalid configuration generated for dependent choices by 'conf' but not by 'mconf', with reason

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Ulf Magnusson wrote: > Hi, > > Consider the following Kconfig file: > > config MODULES > def_bool y > > choice > tristate "C1" > config A > tristate "A" > config B > tristate "B" > endchoice > > choice > bool "C2" if A > config C >

Re: [RFC] Capabilities still can't be inherited by normal programs

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Andrew G. Morgan wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> It breaks down because, currently, users with nonzero pI have no >> direct ability to wield the capabilities. That means that every >> single binary with fI bits set needs to be a

Re: [RFC] Capabilities still can't be inherited by normal programs

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > Again (any mainly because I feel like there's a giant mental > disconnect here in that I really don't understand wtf the current / > POSIX system is trying to accomplish): what would be wrong with a > model in which capabilities could be f

[PATCH RFT 1/2] regulator: anatop: Use linear_min_sel with linear mapping

By setting linear_min_sel to anatop_reg->min_bit_val, we can avoid adjust the anatop_reg->min_bit_val offset in [set|get]_voltage_sel. With this chance we can refactor this driver to use regulator_[get|set]_voltage_sel_regmap. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin --- drivers/regulator/anatop-regulator.c |

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