[PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: arm: add Marvell Armada 1500 Mini Plus to SoC list

Add known information about the Marvell BG2CDP SoC that's used in the Google Chromecast 2015 and Kinoma HD devices. Signed-off-by: Thomas Hebb --- My previous patch somehow ended up with spaces instead of tabs on the added lines. This one is consistent with the rest of the section. Apologies for

Re: net-ipv6: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "kfree_skb"

> While if the test is done in kfree_skb(), the branch predictor of the > cpu wont be able to predict things. > > By feeding too many NULL pointers to kfree_skb(), we slow down it. Would it make sense to annotate checks before such function calls as "UNLIKELY"? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe

4.4-rc0: 5 W+X pages found

Hi! Kernel complains: [5.256044] [ cut here ] [5.259267] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:225 note_page+0x5ec/0x790() [5.262668] x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address ffe69000/0xffe69000 [5.267109] Modules linked in: [5.27

Re: [stable] Failing to send a CLOSE if file is opened WRONLY and server reboots on a 4.x mount

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 12:53:21AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 07:33 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > Hi Olga, > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 02:36:06PM +, Kornievskaia, Olga wrote: > > > > > > Hi Willy, > > > > > > After checking with the list, I believe the course o

Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] arm64: Get existing page protections in split_pmd

On 11 November 2015 at 02:57, Laura Abbott wrote: > Rather than always putting the least restrictived permissions > (PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC) when spliting a pmd into pages, use > the existing permissions from the pmd for the page. > > Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott > --- > v2: Typo and typechecking fixed

[PATCH] wireless: change cfg80211 regulatory domain info as debug messages

cfg80211 module prints a lot of messages like below. Actually printing once is acceptable but sometimes it will print again and again, it looks very annoying. It is better to change these detail messages to debugging only. cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: cfg80211: DFS Master region: un

Re: [PATCHv2] arm64: Fix R/O permissions in mark_rodata_ro

On 12 November 2015 at 21:21, Laura Abbott wrote: > The permissions in mark_rodata_ro trigger a build error > with STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS. Fix this by introducing > PAGE_KERNEL_ROX for the same reasons as PAGE_KERNEL_RO. Forgive the bikeshedding but perhaps PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_RO is more consistent?

[GIT pull] irq updates for 4.4

Linus, please pull the latest irq-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git irq-urgent-for-linus A single regression fix to restore the wakeup behaviour of chained interrupts. Thanks, tglx --> Grygorii Strashko (1):

[GIT pull] timer updates for 4.4

Linus, please pull the latest timers-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-urgent-for-linus A single fix for a long standing race versus timers scheduled on a target cpu which got exposed by recent changes in the workqueue implementa

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