PREEMPT_RT vs 'hrtimer: Prevent hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram race'

Commit b22affe0aef4 'hrtimer: Prevent hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram race' conflicts with the RT patches hrtimer-fixup-hrtimer-callback-changes-for-preempt-r.patch and peter_zijlstra-frob-hrtimer.patch, as they all change hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram(). ...

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Press published on the April 20th, 2011 - 7:30 AM ET

[ 00/76] 3.6.3-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.6.3 release. There are 76 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. Responses should be made ...

Message posted on the October 18th, 2012 - 11:20 PM ET

[PATCH] perf tools: Fix ordering with unstable tsc

Rebased to acme's perf/core branch. Changed realloc to handle failure. Remainder is based on what Frederic posted in February. From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> On a system with a TSC considered as unstable, one can encounter ...

Message posted on the October 5th, 2012 - 11:30 AM ET

[PATCHSET] workqueue: reimplement high priority using a separate worker pool

Currently, WQ_HIGHPRI workqueues share the same worker pool as the normal priority ones. The only difference is that work items from highpri wq are queued at the head instead of tail of the worklist. On pathological cases, this simplistics highpri ...

Message posted on the July 9th, 2012 - 2:50 PM ET

CPU Hotplug rework

Hi, There had been some discussion on CPU Hotplug redesign/rework some time ago, but it was buried under a thread with a different subject. (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1246208/focus46404) So I am opening a new thread with an ...

Message posted on the March 19th, 2012 - 9:50 AM ET

[PATCH 0/5] ARM: OMAP1: Fix dpll1 reprogramming related issues

After dpll1 reprogramming has been moved from setup_arch() to kernel_init(), I've been observing several issues, resulting in undesired system behaviour on my Amstrad Delta. This series fixes those issues. Janusz Krzysztofik (5): ARM: OMAP1: Fix ...

Message posted on the November 26th, 2011 - 10:50 PM ET

Bug#624605: Potential fixes for lenny from stable 2.6.27.59

Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-26lenny2 Severity: normal We might as well get some benefit from these backports: 001/173 USB: EHCI: ASPM quirk of ISOC on AMD SB800 002/173 rt2x00: add device id for windy31 usb device 003/173 hwmon: (via686a) ...

Message posted on the April 30th, 2011 - 12:40 AM ET

Linux 2.6.38-rc5

Another week, another -rc. Nothing much stands out here - we've fixed some regressions (including, hopefully, a BUG_ON() due to the new RCU filename lookup that Ubuntu people saw), and things look fairly normal. Most of the changes are pretty ...

Message posted on the February 15th, 2011 - 11:20 PM ET

mmotm 2011-02-10-16-26 uploaded

The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2011-02-10-16-26 has been uploaded to http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ and will soon be available at git://zen-kernel.org/kernel/mmotm.git It contains the following patches against 2.6.38-rc4: origin.patch ...

Message posted on the February 10th, 2011 - 8:10 PM ET

[PATCH] fix jiffy calculations in calibrate_delay_direct to handle overflow

Fixes a hang when booting as dom0 under Xen, when jiffies can be quite large by the time the kernel init gets this far. Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com> !time_after() -> time_before_eq() as per suggestion from Jiri Slaby. ...

Message posted on the February 9th, 2011 - 3:40 AM ET

per jiffy