Re: [ 13/40] vmscan: shrinker-nr updates race and go wrong

2012-07-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 14:29 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: From: Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Dave Chinner dchin...@redhat.com commit acf92b485cccf028177f46918e045c0c4e80ee10

[PATCH stable-3.4 stable-3.3 stable-3.2 1/1] r8169: RxConfig hack for the 8168evl.

2012-07-29 Thread Francois Romieu
Commit eb2dc35d99028b698cdedba4f5522bc43e576bd2 upstream. The 8168evl (RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_34) based Gigabyte GA-990FXA motherboards are very prone to NETDEV watchdog problems without this change. See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42899 for instance. I don't know why it *works*. It's

Re: [PATCH 00/34] Memory management performance backports for -stable V2

2012-07-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 14:38 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: Changelog since V1 o Expand some of the notes (jrnieder) o Correct upstream commit SHA1 (hugh) This series is related to the new addition to stable_kernel_rules.txt -

Re: [stable] powerpc/ftrace: Fix assembly trampoline register usage

2012-07-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 09:42 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: From: roger blofeld blofel...@yahoo.com commit fd5a42980e1cf327b7240adf5e7b51ea41c23437 upstream. Just like the module loader, ftrace needs to be updated to use r12 instead of r11 with newer gcc's. Signed-off-by: Roger Blofeld

Re: [PATCH for stable] cx25821: Remove bad strcpy to read-only char*

2012-07-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 13:59 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: Hi Greg, This patch is already in Linus' tree and I really think it should go into stable as well. You will find this bug in every kernel from the moment cx25821 went out of staging. I just read

Re: [PATCH stable-3.4 stable-3.3 stable-3.2 1/1] r8169: RxConfig hack for the 8168evl.

2012-07-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 22:59 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: Commit eb2dc35d99028b698cdedba4f5522bc43e576bd2 upstream. The 8168evl (RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_34) based Gigabyte GA-990FXA motherboards are very prone to NETDEV watchdog problems without this change. See