- 18 Nov, 2008 2 commits
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Philipp Kohlbecher authored
Impact: widen the reach of the low-memory-protect DMI quirk Phoenix BIOSes variously identify their vendor as "Phoenix Technologies, LTD" or "Phoenix Technologies LTD" (without the comma.) This patch makes the identification string in the bad_bios_dmi_table more general (following a suggestion by Ingo Molnar), so that both versions are handled. Again, the patched file compiles cleanly and the patch has been tested successfully on my machine. Signed-off-by: Philipp Kohlbecher <xt28@gmx.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
this compiler warning: arch/x86/kernel/ds.c: In function 'ds_request': arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:368: warning: 'context' may be used uninitialized in this function Shows that the code flow in ds_request() is buggy - it goes into the unlock+release-context path even when the context is not allocated yet. First allocate the context, then do the other checks. Also, take care with GFP allocations under the ds_lock spinlock. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 17 Nov, 2008 2 commits
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Venki Pallipadi authored
Impact: fix incorrectly marked unstable TSC clock Patch (commit 0d12cdd5 "sched: improve sched_clock() performance") has a regression on one of the test systems here. With the patch, I see: checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: Measured 28 cycles TSC warp between CPUs, turning off TSC clock. Marking TSC unstable due to check_tsc_sync_source failed Whereas, without the patch syncs pass fine on all CPUs: checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed. Due to this, TSC is marked unstable, when it is not actually unstable. This is because syncs in check_tsc_wrap() goes away due to this commit. As per the discussion on this thread, correct way to fix this is to add explicit syncs as below? Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: fix guest kernel crash with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES=y Jens noticed that scrub_page() has a buggy unmap of the wrong thing. (virtual address instead of page) Linus pointed out that the whole scrub_page() code is an unnecessary reimplementation of clear_highpage() to begin with. Just use clear_highpage() rather than reimplementing it poorly. Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 16 Nov, 2008 2 commits
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Yinghai Lu authored
Impact: fix es7000 build CC arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.o arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.c: In function find_unisys_acpi_oem_table: arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.c:255: error: implicit declaration of function acpi_get_table_with_size arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.c:261: error: implicit declaration of function early_acpi_os_unmap_memory arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.c: In function unmap_unisys_acpi_oem_table: arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.c:277: error: implicit declaration of function __acpi_unmap_table make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.o] Error 1 we applied one patch out of order... | commit a73aaedd | Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> | Date: Sun Sep 14 02:33:14 2008 -0700 | | x86: check dsdt before find oem table for es7000, v2 | | v2: use __acpi_unmap_table() that patch need: x86: use early_ioremap in __acpi_map_table x86: always explicitly map acpi memory acpi: remove final __acpi_map_table mapping before setting acpi_gbl_permanent_mmap acpi/x86: introduce __apci_map_table, v4 submitted to the ACPI tree but not upstream yet. fix it until those patches applied, need to revert this one Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Markus Metzger authored
Fix a problem where ds_request() returned an error without releasing the ds lock. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 11 Nov, 2008 1 commit
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James Bottomley authored
Impact: build/boot fix for x86/Voyager This change: | commit 3d442233 | Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | Date: Thu Jun 26 11:21:34 2008 +0200 | | Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls didn't wire up the voyager smp call function correctly, so do that here. Also make CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS a def_bool y again, since we now use the generic helpers for every x86 architecture. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <Jens.Axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 09 Nov, 2008 1 commit
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Arjan van de Ven authored
a new file was accidentally added to include/asm-x86; move it to the new arch/x86/include/asm location Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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- 08 Nov, 2008 8 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: optimize sched_clock() a bit sched: improve sched_clock() performance
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'oprofile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'oprofile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: oprofile: Fix p6 counter overflow check Cell OProfile: Incorrect local array size in activate spu profiling function Revert "Cell OProfile: Incorrect local array size in activate spu profiling function" oprofile: fix memory ordering Cell OProfile: Incorrect local array size in activate spu profiling function Change UTF8 chars in Kconfig help text about Oprofile AMD barcelona
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: Staging: make usbip depend on CONFIG_NET Staging: only build the tree if we really want to
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
Fix the __pfn_to_page(pfn) macro so that it doesn't evaluate its argument twice in the CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y case, because 'pfn' may be a result of a funtion call having side effects. For example, the hibernation code applies pfn_to_page(pfn) to the result of a function returning the pfn corresponding to the next set bit in a bitmap and the current bit position is modified on each call. This leads to "interesting" failures for CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y due to the current behavior of __pfn_to_page(pfn). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
sched_clock() uses cycles_2_ns() needlessly - which is an irq-disabling variant of __cycles_2_ns(). Most of the time sched_clock() is called with irqs disabled already. The few places that call it with irqs enabled need to be updated. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
in scheduler-intense workloads native_read_tsc() overhead accounts for 20% of the system overhead: 659567 system_call 41222.9375 686796 schedule 435.7843 718382 __switch_to 665.1685 823875 switch_mm 4526.7857 1883122 native_read_tsc 55385.9412 9761990 total 2.8468 this is large part due to the rdtsc_barrier() that is done before and after reading the TSC. But sched_clock() is not a precise clock in the GTOD sense, using such barriers is completely pointless. So remove the barriers and only use them in vget_cycles(). This improves lat_ctx performance by about 5%. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
Thanks to Randy Dunlap for finding this problem. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
This Kconfig change allows the common 'make allmodconfig' and 'make allyesconfig' build options to skip the staging tree, which is probably what you want to have happen anyway. This makes the linux-next developer's life a lot easier so he doesn't have to worry about changes that break the staging tree, that's for me to worry about... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 07 Nov, 2008 20 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'oprofile-for-tip' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile into x86/urgent
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] Reserve elfcorehdr memory in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP [IA64] fix boot panic caused by offline CPUs [IA64] reorder Kconfig options to match x86 [IA64] Build VT-D iommu support into generic kernel [IA64] remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY definition [IA64] remove duplicated #include from pci-dma.c [IA64] use common header for software IO/TLB [IA64] fix the difference between node_mem_map and node_start_pfn [IA64] Add error_recovery_info field to SAL section header [IA64] Add UV watchlist support. [IA64] Simplify SGI uv vs. sn2 driver issues
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Jay Lan authored
IA64 kdump kernel failed to initialize /proc/vmcore in 2.6.28-rc2. A bug was introduced in this patch commit: d9a9855d always reserve elfcore header memory in crash kernel The problem was that the call to reserve_elfcorehdr() should be placed in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP rather than in CONFIG_CRASH_KERNEL, which does not exist. Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Acked-by: Simon Hormon <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI: fix range check on mmapped sysfs resource files PCI: remove excess kernel-doc notation PCI: annotate return value of pci_ioremap_bar with __iomem PCI: fix VPD limit quirk for Broadcom 5708S
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, xen: fix use of pgd_page now that it really does return a page
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: fine-tune SD_SIBLING_INIT sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INIT sched: fix memory leak in a failure path sched: fix a bug in sched domain degenerate
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: xen: make sure stray alias mappings are gone before pinning vmap: cope with vm_unmap_aliases before vmalloc_init()
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Andi Kleen authored
Fix the counter overflow check for CPUs with counter width > 32 I had a similar change in a different patch that I didn't submit and I didn't notice the problem earlier because it was always tested together. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Alan Cox authored
This triggers false bug reports as it does a bogus kmalloc with locks held but is never really compiled into the kernel. Closes #8329 Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alan Cox authored
As we've lost our trivial maintainer for the moment I'll send this directly. Only touches a comment Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: add checksum calculation when clearing UNINIT flag in ext4_new_inode ext4: Mark the buffer_heads as dirty and uptodate after prepare_write ext4: calculate journal credits correctly ext4: wait on all pending commits in ext4_sync_fs() ext4: Convert to host order before using the values. ext4: fix missing ext4_unlock_group in error path jbd2: deregister proc on failure in jbd2_journal_init_inode jbd2: don't give up looking for space so easily in __jbd2_log_wait_for_space jbd: don't give up looking for space so easily in __log_wait_for_space
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Ingo Molnar authored
fine-tune the HT sched-domains parameters as well. On a HT capable box, this increases lat_ctx performance from 23.87 usecs to 1.49 usecs: # before $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2 "size=0k ovr=1.89 2 23.87 # after $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2 "size=0k ovr=1.84 2 1.49 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Mike Galbraith authored
Tune SD_MC_INIT the same way as SD_CPU_INIT: unset SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE, and set SD_WAKE_BALANCE. This improves vmark by 5%: vmark 132102 125968 125497 messages/sec avg 127855.66 .984 vmark 139404 131719 131272 messages/sec avg 134131.66 1.033 Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> # *DOCUMENTATION*
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Frederic Bohe authored
When initializing an uninitialized block group in ext4_new_inode(), its block group checksum must be re-calculated. This fixes a race when several threads try to allocate a new inode in an UNINIT'd group. There is some question whether we need to be initializing the block bitmap in ext4_new_inode() at all, but for now, if we are going to init the block group, let's eliminate the race. Signed-off-by: Frederic Bohe <frederic.bohe@bull.net> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
We need to make sure we mark the buffer_heads as dirty and uptodate so that block_write_full_page write them correctly. This fixes mmap corruptions that can occur in low memory situations. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Xen requires that all mappings of pagetable pages are read-only, so that they can't be updated illegally. As a result, if a page is being turned into a pagetable page, we need to make sure all its mappings are RO. If the page had been used for ioremap or vmalloc, it may still have left over mappings as a result of not having been lazily unmapped. This change makes sure we explicitly mop them all up before pinning the page. Unlike aliases created by kmap, the there can be vmalloc aliases even for non-high pages, so we must do the flush unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Xen can end up calling vm_unmap_aliases() before vmalloc_init() has been called. In this case its safe to make it a simple no-op. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Li Zefan authored
Impact: fix rare memory leak in the sched-domains manual reconfiguration code In the failure path, rd is not attached to a sched domain, so it causes a leak. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Li Zefan authored
Impact: re-add incorrectly eliminated sched domain layers (1) on i386 with SCHED_SMT and SCHED_MC enabled # mount -t cgroup -o cpuset xxx /mnt # echo 0 > /mnt/cpuset.sched_load_balance # mkdir /mnt/0 # echo 0 > /mnt/0/cpuset.cpus # dmesg CPU0 attaching sched-domain: domain 0: span 0 level CPU groups: 0 (2) on i386 with SCHED_MC enabled but SCHED_SMT disabled # same with (1) # dmesg CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain. The bug is that some sched domains may be skipped unintentionally when degenerating (optimizing) sched domains. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy(). iwl3945: fix deadlock on suspend iwl3945: do not send scan command if channel count zero iwl3945: clear scanning bits upon failure ath5k: correct handling of rx status fields zd1211rw: Add 2 device IDs Fix logic error in rfkill_check_duplicity iwlagn: avoid sleep in softirq context iwlwifi: clear scanning bits upon failure Revert "ath5k: honor FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC in STA mode" tcp: Fix recvmsg MSG_PEEK influence of blocking behavior. netfilter: netns ct: walk netns list under RTNL ipv6: fix run pending DAD when interface becomes ready net/9p: fix printk format warnings net: fix packet socket delivery in rx irq handler xfrm: Have af-specific init_tempsel() initialize family field of temporary selector
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- 06 Nov, 2008 4 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI" x86: align DirectMap in /proc/meminfo AMD IOMMU: fix lazy IO/TLB flushing in unmap path x86: add smp_mb() before sending INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR x86: remove VISWS and PARAVIRT around NR_IRQS puzzle x86: mention ACPI in top-level Kconfig menu x86: size NR_IRQS on 32-bit systems the same way as 64-bit x86: don't allow nr_irqs > NR_IRQS x86/docs: remove noirqbalance param docs x86: don't use tsc_khz to calculate lpj if notsc is passed x86, voyager: fix smp_intr_init() compile breakage AMD IOMMU: fix detection of NP capable IOMMUs
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] xsc3: fix xsc3_l2_inv_range [ARM] mm: fix page table initialization [ARM] fix naming of MODULE_START / MODULE_END ARM: OMAP: Fix define for twl4030 irqs ARM: OMAP: Fix get_irqnr_and_base to clear spurious interrupt bits ARM: OMAP: Fix debugfs_create_*'s error checking method for arm/plat-omap ARM: OMAP: Fix compiler warnings in gpmc.c [ARM] fix VFP+softfloat binaries
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: ieee1394: dv1394: fix possible deadlock in multithreaded clients ieee1394: raw1394: fix possible deadlock in multithreaded clients ieee1394: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() firewire: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Block: use round_jiffies_up() Add round_jiffies_up and related routines block: fix __blkdev_get() for removable devices generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placement blk: move blk_delete_timer call in end_that_request_last block: add timer on blkdev_dequeue_request() not elv_next_request() bio: define __BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE block: remove unused ll_new_mergeable()
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