[RFC] revoke(2) and generic handling of things like remove_proc_entry()

After some digging in procfs logics for revoking further file IO after remove_proc_entry() (and figuring out what to do for debugfs - it also needs something similar), I think I've got something that has potential to become a working revoke(2) with ...

Message posted on the April 05th, 2013 - 12:30 am ET

chirp 0.3.0-0.1 Debian package available

Greetings. I recently got a new rig, a small HT, and needed chirp to program it. Unfortunately the version of the packge in Debian now doesn't work for the rig, and I found the year-old wishlist bug #672318 requesting a new version. I've prepared a ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 11:10 pm ET

[PATCH v3 00/22] x86, ACPI, numa: Parse numa info early

One commit that tried to parse SRAT early get reverted before v3.9-rc1. | commit e8d1955258091e4c92d5a975ebd7fd8a98f5d30f | Author: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> | Date: Fri Feb 22 16:33:44 2013 -0800 | | acpi, memory-hotplug: ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 08:00 pm ET

Bug#704709: mahjongg 3.4 segfault with glib 2.36

Hello! It seemed like it was common to mis-use the G(tk)Application APIs during the 3.4 era, and many fixes for this was introduced sometime during the 3.6 era. For mahjongg this particular commit seems to fix the startup segfault: ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 07:50 pm ET

[PATCH -v3 0/4] x86, kdump: Fix crashkernel high with old kexec-tools

Vivek found some problems with old kexec-tools. We keep the old crashkernel=X to old behavoir, so it will not break old kexec-tools. Add crashkernel=X,high to support new kexec-tools that supports loading high. when high is used, memblock will ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 06:20 pm ET

[PATCHv8 0/8] zswap: compressed swap caching

This is a refresh for the zswap patchset. I am submitting this as a candidate for merging in the v3.10 window. Just a few changes vs v7 and rebase to v3.9-rc5 (see Changelog section for details). zswap greatly improves performance and reduces swap ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 06:20 pm ET

[gentoo-dev] [PATCHES] multilib-build: public API for header wrapping

Hello, Following the introduction of header wrapping in autotools-multilib, I'm submitting two patches: one providing a public API for it in multilib-build, and the other one using it in multilib-minimal. Both patches will be sent in reply to this ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 05:00 pm ET

Bug#700975: RAID barely usable on my home machine

Hello Linux RAID and ATA people, I've managed to find a configuration on my home desktop where a particular RAID array is barely usable. You can find my initial report at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bugp0975 In summary: - I ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 04:20 pm ET

[PATCH 0/3] kernel ASLR

Hello, This patch series implements per-boot kernel base offset ASLR. It is based on work by Dan Rosenberg, Neill Clift, Michael Davidson, and myself. Since Dan's original thread[1], this code has been improved to work on 64-bit, among other ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 04:10 pm ET

Bug#704696: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae: System Becomes Unstable and Freezes or Reboots

Package: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae Version: 3.2.39-2 Severity: important Debian Release: 6.0.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 02:50 pm ET

[PATCH] mm: prevent mmap_cache race in find_vma()

From: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> find_vma() can be called by multiple threads with read lock held on mm->mmap_sem and any of them can update mm->mmap_cache. Prevent compiler from re-fetching mm->mmap_cache, because other ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 02:40 pm ET

A Debian contributor StackOverflow

This falls into the category of "ideas I don't have time to implement but which I keep thinking about." So I'll throw it out to everyone else in case someone feels inspired. I've spent some time over the past couple of weeks poking at ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 01:40 pm ET

[PATCH V4 0/2] cpufreq: ondemand: add AMD specific powersave bias

This patchset adds AMD specific powersave bias function to the ondemand governor; which can be used to help ondemand governor make more power conscious frequency change decisions based on feedback from hardware (availble on AMD Family 16h and ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 12:20 pm ET

Adding to "Path"

Hi, Windows 7 is a new experience for me since I recently bought a Dell laptop with that OS. I have come a long way since the Dos days, and I am glad there is a Command Prompt where you can execute many Dos commands (not "DELTREE").. I ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 11:45 am ET

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