On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 11:42 +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> > + status = efi_call_phys5(sys_table->runtime->get_variable,
> > + L"SecureBoot", &var_guid, NULL, &datasize, &sb);
> > +
>
>
> What's 'L' ?
Wide-character string
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> + status = efi_call_phys5(sys_table->runtime->get_variable,
> + L"SecureBoot", &var_guid, NULL, &datasize, &sb);
> +
What's 'L' ?
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> -Original Message-
> From: Joe Perches [mailto:j...@perches.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 6:31 PM
>
> On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 01:00 +, Nelson, Shannon wrote:
>
> Hi Shannon.
>
> > > -Original Message- > From: Joe Perches
> > [mailto:j...@perches.com] > Sent: Friday
On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 01:00 +, Nelson, Shannon wrote:
Hi Shannon.
> > -Original Message- > From: Joe Perches
> [mailto:j...@perches.com] > Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 4:06 PM > >
> Just some potential cleanings...
>
> > i40e: Whitespace cleaning
>
> Hmmm, we hadn't noticed the n
The LTTng modules provide Linux kernel tracing capability to the LTTng
2.x tracer toolset.
Noteworthy changes:
- Support for Linux kernels up to (including) 3.11,
- Flight recorder (snapshot) support,
- Updated ARM, x86 system call instrumentation,
- Add 32-bit PowerPC system call instrumentation.
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:06:58 -0700 "Nicholas A. Bellinger"
wrote:
> Are there any other review comments to be addressed for this patch..?
>
> If not, please kindly give your Reviewed-by if your OK for an initial
> standalone merge.
Sorry, I'm largely offline for the next week...
It looks OK t
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:11:27PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From f8f5d278e272c42349b3cd32485faf426d0c459e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)"
> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 20:47:59 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] ftrace: Print a message when the rcu checker is disabled
>
> Let th
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 07:57:05PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:18:08 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" wrote:
>
>
> > > Just found this bug. Strange that gcc never gave me a warning :-/
> >
> > I can't give gcc too much trouble, as I also didn't give you an
> > uninitialized-v
From: Yanchuan Nian
0x30-0x3f have been used for ISA interrupts on i386 since 5 years ago,
but some comments about i8259 initialization were missed to update
at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Yanchuan Nian
---
arch/x86/kernel/i8259.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:17:02AM +0900, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> On 09/04/2013 12:57 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 10:13:44AM +0900, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> On 09/02/2013 09:40 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 09:20:08AM +0900, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
>From f8f5d278e272c42349b3cd32485faf426d0c459e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)"
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 20:47:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ftrace: Print a message when the rcu checker is disabled
Let the user know that the RCU safety checker for function tracing
has been disab
On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 14:45:56 -0700 tip-bot for Al Viro wrote:
>
> Commit-ID: bd1c149aa9915b9abb6d83d0f01dfd2ace0680b5
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/bd1c149aa9915b9abb6d83d0f01dfd2ace0680b5
> Author: Al Viro
> AuthorDate: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 20:35:01 +0100
> Committer: H. Peter Anvin
>
On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:28:36 +0800
Wang Shilong wrote:
> Hello, Using checkpatch.pl, i get the following warnings(errors):
> WARNING: printk() should include KERN_ facility level
> #90: FILE: kernel/trace/trace_functions.c:583:
> + printk("ftrace_rcu_func: %pS\n",
>
> total: 0 errors
On 09/04/2013 12:41 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Chen Gang wrote:
>> --- a/include/uapi/Kbuild
>> +++ b/include/uapi/Kbuild
>> @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
>> # UAPI Header export list
>> -# Top-level Makefile calls into asm-$(ARCH)
>> -# List only non-arch directories below
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 08:54:57AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> +static int kern_path_top(const char *pathname,
> + unsigned int flags, struct path *path)
> +{
> + struct dentry *dentry;
> + struct qstr name;
> + const char *tmp;
> + unsigned int len;
> + int er
On 09/04/2013 08:24 AM, Toshi Kani wrote:
..
+phys_addr_t __init_memblock
+__memblock_find_range(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end,
+ phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align, int nid)
This func should be static as it must be an internal func.
..
+phys_addr_t __init_m
> -Original Message-
> From: Joe Perches [mailto:j...@perches.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 4:06 PM
>
> Just some potential cleanings...
> i40e: Whitespace cleaning
Hmmm, we hadn't noticed the new experimental "--fix" option before. There are
a lot of good suggestions there, b
From: Rui Xiang
Use the helper macro !IS_ROOT to replace parent != dentry->d_parent.
Just clean up.
Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang
Acked-by: Ian Kent
---
fs/autofs4/root.c |6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/root.c b/fs/autofs4/root.c
index 92ef34
From: Rui Xiang
While kzallocing sbi/ino fails, it should return -ENOMEM.
And it should return the err value from autofs_prepare_pipe.
Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang
Acked-by: Ian Kent
---
fs/autofs4/inode.c | 13 -
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/aut
When reconnecting to automounts at startup an autofs ioctl is used
to find the device and inode of existing mounts so they can be used
to open a file descriptor of possibly covered mounts.
At this time the the caller might not yet "own" the mount so it can
trigger calling ->d_automount(). This cau
On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 21:31 +0800, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> This patch converts the Tegra114 audio clock registration to be table driven
> like the periph clocks.
s/audio/PMC/ :)
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter De Schrijver
> ---
> drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra114.c | 58
> +++--
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 12:09:31PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Fengguang Wu wrote:
>
> > Thanks! Yes I'm now running checkpatch these days because some people
> > suggested to me that some of the checkpatch warnings do help catch
> > real bugs.
> >
> > However I
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Writing to MSRs should not be allowed if module loading is restricted,
> since it could lead to execution of arbitrary code in kernel mode. Based
> on a patch by Kees Cook.
>
> Cc: Kees Cook
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
Reviewed-by: James Morri
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> kexec permits the loading and execution of arbitrary code in ring 0, which
> is something that module signing enforcement is meant to prevent. It makes
> sense to disable kexec in this situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
Reviewed-by: James
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> uswsusp allows a user process to dump and then restore kernel state, which
> makes it possible to avoid module loading restrictions. Prevent this when
> any restrictions have been imposed on loading modules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
Review
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Allowing users to write to address space makes it possible for the kernel
> to be subverted, avoiding module loading restrictions. Prevent this when
> any restrictions have been imposed on loading modules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
Reviewed
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> We have no way of validating what all of the Asus WMI methods do on a
> given machine, and there's a risk that some will allow hardware state to
> be manipulated in such a way that arbitrary code can be executed in the
> kernel, circumventing module loa
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> IO port access would permit users to gain access to PCI configuration
> registers, which in turn (on a lot of hardware) give access to MMIO register
> space. This would potentially permit root to trigger arbitrary DMA, so lock
> it down by default.
>
>
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> custom_method effectively allows arbitrary access to system memory, making
> it possible for an attacker to circumvent restrictions on module loading.
> Disable it if any such restrictions have been enabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
Reviewe
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Any hardware that can potentially generate DMA has to be locked down from
> userspace in order to avoid it being possible for an attacker to modify
> kernel code, allowing them to circumvent disabled module loading or module
> signing. Default to parano
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Provide a single call to allow kernel code to determine whether the system
> has been configured to either disable module loading entirely or to load
> only modules signed with a trusted key.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
Reviewed-by: James Morr
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, David Howells wrote:
> James Morris wrote:
>
> > > Ummm... Where did that come from? That doesn't look like what's in my
> > > tree...
> >
> > Is your tree based on mine?
>
> It is now. See:
>
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/
On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 17:37 +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> memblock_alloc_base_nid() is a common API of memblock. And it calls
> memblock_find_in_range_node() with %start = 0, which means it has no
> limit for the lowest address by default.
>
> memblock_find_in_range_node(0, max_addr, size, align
In hpet_resources function
Can anybody explain why we check fixmem32 for NULL, looks strange as
it derreferences a member address
I'm asking since a static analyzer is complaining about it.
} else if (res->id == ACPI_RSTYPE_FIXED_MEM32) {
struct acpi_resource_fixed_mem32 *f
Many kernel-doc return description sections headers
use variants of the "Return:" section prefix.
(some or maybe even most of these aren't in
kernel-doc sections, but many are)
$ git grep -E -i "^\s*\*\s*return[s]?:"| \
cut -f2- -d":" | awk '{print $1 $2}' | \
sort | uniq -c
121 *return:
Dear Friend,
I am Dr.Malik Wasim, Manager Auditing and Accountancy Department, Bank
of Africa in (B.O.A) Burkina Faso. I got your email account while
searching for a business oriented personality and you happen to be the
one.
I bring forth a business proposal in the tune of $12.5 million U.S.
dol
On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 17:37 +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> This patch modifies the memblock_find_in_range_node() to support two
> different allocation orders. After this patch, memblock will check
> memblock.current_order, and decide in which order to allocate memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tang Chen
> Re
dormando wrote:
> > I noticed these warnings on stock 3.10.9 running stress tests on
> > cmogstored.git (git://bogomips.org/cmogstored.git) doing standard
> > HTTP server stuff between lo and tmpfs:
> >
> [...]
> > I was going to reboot into 3.10.10 before I looked at dmesg. These
> > warnings ha
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 19:57:05 -0400
Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I was also chasing down a nasty bug that looked to be a pointer
> corruption somewhere. Still never found exactly where it happened, but
> it always happened with the following conditions:
>
> synchronize_sched() was in progress
>
> The
On 08/30/2013 10:11 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)"
>
> Some callbacks of the function tracer use rcu_read_lock(). This means that
> there's places that can not be traced because RCU is not tracking the CPU
> for various reasons (like NO_HZ_FULL and coming back from u
On 09/04/2013 12:57 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 10:13:44AM +0900, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> On 09/02/2013 09:40 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 09:20:08AM +0900, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
This patch remove extcon_dev_register()'s second parameter which mea
In hpet_resources function
Can anybody explain why we check fixmem32 for NULL, looks strange as
it derreferences a member address
I'm asking since a static analyzer is complaining about it.
} else if (res->id == ACPI_RSTYPE_FIXED_MEM32) {
struct acpi_resource_fixed_mem32 *f
Currently if there is no listener for a certain group then IPv6 packets
for that group are flooded on all ports, even though there might be no
host and router interested in it on a port.
With this commit they are only forwarded to ports with a multicast
router.
Just like commit bd4265fe36 ("bridg
Hi,
Here are two, small feature changes I would like to submit to increase
the usefulness of the multicast snooping of the bridge code.
The first patch is an unaltered one I had submitted before, but since it
got no feedback I'm resubmitting it here for net-next. With the recently
added patch to
The multicast snooping code should have matured enough to be safely
applicable to IPv6 link-local multicast addresses (excluding the
link-local all nodes address, ff02::1), too.
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing
---
net/bridge/br_mdb.c |3 ++-
net/bridge/br_multicast.c |7 ---
net/b
UEFI Secure Boot provides a mechanism for ensuring that the firmware will
only load signed bootloaders and kernels. Certain use cases may also
require that all kernel modules also be signed. Add a configuration option
that enforces this automatically when enabled.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
-
Writing to MSRs should not be allowed if module loading is restricted,
since it could lead to execution of arbitrary code in kernel mode. Based
on a patch by Kees Cook.
Cc: Kees Cook
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
---
arch/x86/kernel/msr.c | 7 +++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --gi
Hi Jaegeuk,
On 03/09/2013 08:45, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
Hi Jin,
[...]
It seems that we can obtain the performance gain just by setting the
MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH to 4096, for example.
So, how about just adding an ending criteria like below?
I agree that we could get the performance improvement by
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Bjorn,
>
> You have sent a pull request to Linus for the pci tree, but at the same
> time you have reset the branch I pull into linux-next to be v3.11. So
> you have effectively removed all that code from linux-next until Linus'
> merge
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:18:08 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" wrote:
> > Just found this bug. Strange that gcc never gave me a warning :-/
>
> I can't give gcc too much trouble, as I also didn't give you an
> uninitialized-variable warning.
I was also chasing down a nasty bug that looked to be a pointe
Hi Bjorn,
You have sent a pull request to Linus for the pci tree, but at the same
time you have reset the branch I pull into linux-next to be v3.11. So
you have effectively removed all that code from linux-next until Linus'
merges it :-(
Ordering is important.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
custom_method effectively allows arbitrary access to system memory, making
it possible for an attacker to circumvent restrictions on module loading.
Disable it if any such restrictions have been enabled.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
---
drivers/acpi/custom_method.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 i
IO port access would permit users to gain access to PCI configuration
registers, which in turn (on a lot of hardware) give access to MMIO register
space. This would potentially permit root to trigger arbitrary DMA, so lock
it down by default.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
---
arch/x86/kernel/io
We have no way of validating what all of the Asus WMI methods do on a
given machine, and there's a risk that some will allow hardware state to
be manipulated in such a way that arbitrary code can be executed in the
kernel, circumventing module loading restrictions. Prevent that if any of
these feat
Allowing users to write to address space makes it possible for the kernel
to be subverted, avoiding module loading restrictions. Prevent this when
any restrictions have been imposed on loading modules.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
---
drivers/char/mem.c | 6 ++
1 file changed, 6 insertions
Provide a single call to allow kernel code to determine whether the system
has been configured to either disable module loading entirely or to load
only modules signed with a trusted key.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
---
include/linux/module.h | 7 +++
kernel/module.c| 10
Any hardware that can potentially generate DMA has to be locked down from
userspace in order to avoid it being possible for an attacker to modify
kernel code, allowing them to circumvent disabled module loading or module
signing. Default to paranoid - in future we can potentially relax this for
suf
From: Josh Boyer
This option allows userspace to pass the RSDP address to the kernel, which
makes it possible for a user to circumvent any restrictions imposed on
loading modules. Disable it in that case.
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer
---
drivers/acpi/osl.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
uswsusp allows a user process to dump and then restore kernel state, which
makes it possible to avoid module loading restrictions. Prevent this when
any restrictions have been imposed on loading modules.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
---
kernel/power/user.c | 4
1 file changed, 4 insertion
kexec permits the loading and execution of arbitrary code in ring 0, which
is something that module signing enforcement is meant to prevent. It makes
sense to disable kexec in this situation.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
---
kernel/kexec.c | 8
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --
We have two in-kernel mechanisms for restricting module loading - disabling
it entirely, or limiting it to the loading of modules signed with a trusted
key. These can both be configured in such a way that even root is unable to
relax the restrictions.
However, right now, there's several other stra
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:35:10PM +0800, Yijing Wang wrote:
> Pcie_capability_xxx() interfaces were introudced to
s/introudced/introduced/
> simplify code to access PCIe Cap config space. And
> because PCI core saves the PCIe Cap offset in
> set_pcie_port_type() when device is enumerated.
> So w
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:35:09PM +0800, Yijing Wang wrote:
> Pcie_capability_xxx() interfaces were introudced to
> simplify code to access PCIe Cap config space. And
> because PCI core saves the PCIe Cap offset in
> set_pcie_port_type() when device is enumerated.
> So we can use pci_is_pcie() ins
Good day,
Kindly peruse the attached letter and follow the instruction therein.
Regard,
Name: Mr. Martin Bongani Sibisiso
Position: Director - General
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Republic of South Africa
Phone: 00(27)-82-350-2862
Official Email: marti...@postafiok.hu
Project.pdf
Des
From: Randy Dunlap
Fix build warnings when CONFIG_OF is not enabled:
(seen on i386 and x86_64)
include/linux/of_irq.h:82:7: warning: 'struct device_node' declared inside
parameter list [enabled by default]
include/linux/of_irq.h:82:7: warning: its scope is only this definition or
declaration,
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 01:05:38AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 12:37:25AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > >
> > > > > You're spending more time on the task sta
On 09/03/13 15:31, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> From: Randy Dunlap
>>
>> Fix build warnings when CONFIG_OF is not enabled:
>
> It would be nice to know what arch/config you see this on.
i386 and x86_64.
>
>> include/linux/of_irq.h:82:7: warning:
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 01:05:38AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 12:37:25AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> >
> > > > You're spending more time on the task stats than on the actual lookup.
> > > > Maybe you should turn
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
>> On 09/03/2013 02:01 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>
>>> * Waiman Long wrote:
>>>
Yes, that patch worked. It eliminated the lglock as a bottleneck in the
AIM7 workload. The lg_global_l
Previous patch that allowed us to cleanup most of the issues with pages marked
as private_2 when calling ceph_readpages. However, there seams to be a case in
the error case clean up in start read that still trigers this from time to
time. I've only seen this one a couple times.
BUG: Bad page state
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 01:31:05PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Use normal kernel-doc "Returns:" instead of retruns
> Assignment to bool is always 1 or 0 so the !! isn't necessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Applied to pci/misc, thanks. This branch will be rebased and will
not appear in -nex
Previously ceph_readpage_to_fscache did not call if page was marked as cached
before calling fscache_write_page resulting in a BUG inside of fscache.
FS-Cache: Assertion failed
[ cut here ]
kernel BUG at fs/fscache/page.c:874!
invalid opcode: [#1] SMP
Call Trace:
[] _
On the whole the current iteration of FSCache on Ceph has been quite stable for
me. We've had it deployed on 4 clients running for a week in a row. I did run
into two small issues.
First one, I wasn't checking if the page was marked with private_2 before
asking FSCache to write to it. I've never s
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 12:37:25AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>
> > > You're spending more time on the task stats than on the actual lookup.
> > > Maybe you should turn off CONFIG_TASKSTATS..But why that whole
> > > irq_return thing? Odd.
> >
__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of them
is
address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x). This calculates the address
for
the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor based on an offset.
Other use cases are for storing and retrieving d
__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of them
is
address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x). This calculates the address
for
the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor based on an offset.
Other use cases are for storing and retrieving d
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 09/03/2013 02:01 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> * Waiman Long wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, that patch worked. It eliminated the lglock as a bottleneck in the
>>> AIM7 workload. The lg_global_lock did not show up in the perf profile,
>>> whereas the lg_l
Hello, Linus.
A lot of activities on the cgroup front. Most changes aren't visible
to userland at all at this point and are laying foundation for the
planned unified hierarchy.
* The biggest change is decoupling the lifetime management of css
(cgroup_subsys_state) from that of cgroup's. Becau
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
wrote:
>
> Ok, so another PULL request was sent out last night for the missing
> target fixes below, after putting DKIM + SPF authentication in place for
> linux-iscsi.org:
>
> [GIT PULL -v3] target fixes for v3.12-rc0 (was v3.11)
> http://marc
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 12:37:25AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > You're spending more time on the task stats than on the actual lookup.
> > Maybe you should turn off CONFIG_TASKSTATS..But why that whole
> > irq_return thing? Odd.
> >
>
> [ init/Kconfig ]
> ...
> config TASKSTATS
>
We define a check function in order to avoid trouble with the
include files. Then the higher level __this_cpu macros are
modified to involve the check before any operation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Index: linux/include/linux/percpu.h
==
On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 15:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
> wrote:
> >
> > Ok, so another PULL request was sent out last night for the missing
> > target fixes below, after putting DKIM + SPF authentication in place for
> > linux-iscsi.org:
>
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>>
>> Looks like this is now 10x faster: ~2.66Mloops (debug) VS.
>> ~26.60Mloops (no-debug).
>
> Ok, that's getting to be in the right ballpark.
>
> But your profile is still odd.
>
>> Sampl
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:39:56PM +0800, larmbr wrote:
> Though Gcc is likely to inline them, we should better
> explictly do it manually, and also, this serve to document
> this fact.
Why?
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Kumar,
>>
>> On 09/03/2013 01:50 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sep 3, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Suman Anna wrote:
>>>
HwSpinlock IP is present only on OMAP4 and other newer SoCs,
which are all device-tree boot only. This patch adds the
base support for parsing the DT nodes, and removes
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 05:06:42PM -0700, Greg Thelen wrote:
> A memory cgroup with (1) multiple threshold notifications and (2) at
> least one threshold >=2G was not reliable. Specifically the
> notifications would either not fire or would not fire in the proper
> order.
>
> The __mem_cgroup_thr
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Vineet Gupta
wrote:
> On 09/03/2013 03:47 PM, Manfred Spraul wrote:
>> Hi Vineet,
>>
>> On 09/03/2013 11:51 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>>> On 09/03/2013 02:53 PM, Manfred Spraul wrote:
The access to msq->q_cbytes is not protected.
Vineet, could you try
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 09:36:58PM +0800, larmbr wrote:
> Currently, we get the vm_swappiness via vmscan_swappiness(), which
> calls global_reclaim() to check if this is a global reclaim.
>
> Besides, the current implementation of global_reclaim() always returns
> true for the !CONFIG_MEGCG case
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:14:51PM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > > > + PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ABORT_TX = 1U << 7, /* transaction
> > > > aborts */
> > > > + PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IN_TX= 1U << 8, /* in transaction */
> > > > + PERF_
__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of them
is
address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x). This calculates the address
for
the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor based on an offset.
Other use cases are for storing and retrieving d
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 05:06:42PM -0700, Greg Thelen wrote:
> A memory cgroup with (1) multiple threshold notifications and (2) at
> least one threshold >=2G was not reliable. Specifically the
> notifications would either not fire or would not fire in the proper
> order.
>
> The __mem_cgroup_thr
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap
>
> Fix build warnings when CONFIG_OF is not enabled:
It would be nice to know what arch/config you see this on.
> include/linux/of_irq.h:82:7: warning: 'struct device_node' declared inside
> parameter list [enabled by d
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:15:16PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 01:11:18 -0400
> Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
>
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> > index a6d098c..3750360 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> > @@
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 11:11:01PM +0200, Tibor Billes wrote:
> > From: Paul E. McKenney Sent: 08/30/13 03:24 AM
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:05:42PM +0200, Tibor Billes wrote:
> > > From: Paul E. McKenney Sent: 08/26/13 06:28 AM
> > > > Here is a patch that is more likely to help. I am testing i
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:32:05PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:23:55PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > > > +config USB_FOTG210_HCD
> > > > + tristate "FOTG210 HCD support"
> > > > + depends on USB
> > > > + default N
> > > > + ---help---
> > > > +
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
>
> I'll try to hack that up too, but it's looking like it really is just
> the "lock xadd", not the memory dependency chain..
Yeah, no difference: Better code generation with my quick hack for a
percpu spinlock:
│81078e70
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:46:26PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:40:09PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:32:05PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> > > PS: What happened with this driver ?
> > >
> > > This patch landed twice in your tree, once in
> 1dd
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones
diff --git a/drivers/usb/phy/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/phy/Kconfig
index d5589f9..51ffe11 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/phy/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/usb/phy/Kconfig
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ config AM335X_CONTROL_USB
config AM335X_PHY_USB
tristate "AM335x USB PHY Driver"
+
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:40:09PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:32:05PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > PS: What happened with this driver ?
> >
> > This patch landed twice in your tree, once in
> > 1dd3d123239179fad5de5dc00a6e0014a1918fde from Yuan-Hsin Chen
> >
> >
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:18:38PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig
> index c454bfa..ddb9c51 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig
> @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ config USB_SER
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