[PATCH v2 0/4] lib: add "on" and "off" to strtobool
This consolidates logic for handling "on"/"off" parsing for bools into the strtobool function, by way of moving it into kstrtobool (with helpers), and
View Article[PATCH v2 1/4] lib: move strtobool to kstrtobool
Create the kstrtobool_from_user helper and moves strtobool logic into the new kstrtobool (matching all the other kstrto* functions). Provides an inlin
View Article[PATCH v2 2/4] lib: update single-char callers of strtobool
Some callers of strtobool were passing a pointer to unterminated strings. In preparation of adding multi-character processing to kstrtobool, update th
View Article[PATCH v2 3/4] lib: add "on"/"off" support to kstrtobool
Add support for "on" and "off" when converting to boolean. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> --- lib/kstrtox.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1
View Article[PATCH v2 4/4] param: convert some "on"/"off" users to...
This changes several users of manual "on"/"off" parsing to use strtobool. (Which means they will now parse y/n/1/0 meaningfully too.) Signed-off-by:
View ArticleRe: [Y2038] [PATCH 09/10] fs: ceph: Replace CURRENT_TIME by ktime_get_real_ts()
On Thursday 04 February 2016 07:26:51 Gregory Farnum wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > On Thursday 04
View Article[PATCH v3 net 0/7] mvneta fixes for SMP
Hi, Following this bug report: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/468173 and the suggestions from Russell King, I reviewed all the
View Article[PATCH v3 net 1/7] net: mvneta: Fix for_each_present_cpu usage
This patch convert the for_each_present in on_each_cpu, instead of applying on the present cpus it will be applied only on the online cpus. This fix a
View Article[PATCH v3 net 2/7] net: mvneta: Fix the CPU choice in mvneta_percpu_elect
When passing to the management of multiple RX queue, the mvneta_percpu_elect function was broken. The use of the modulo can lead to elect the wrong cp
View Article[PATCH v3 net 3/7] net: mvneta: Use on_each_cpu when possible
Instead of using a for_each_* loop in which we just call the smp_call_function_single macro, it is more simple to directly use the on_each_cpu macro.
View Article[PATCH v3 net 4/7] net: mvneta: Remove unused code
Since the commit 2dcf75e2793c ("net: mvneta: Associate RX queues with each CPU") all the percpu irq are used and disabled at initialization, so there
View Article[PATCH v3 net 5/7] net: mvneta: Modify the queue related fields from each cpu
In the MVNETA_INTR_* registers, the queues related fields are per cpu, according to the datasheet (comment in [] are added by me): "In a multi-CPU sys
View Article[PATCH v3 net 6/7] net: mvneta: The mvneta_percpu_elect function should be...
Electing a CPU must be done in an atomic way: it should be done after or before the removal/insertion of a CPU and this function is not reentrant. Du
View Article[PATCH v3 net 7/7] net: mvneta: Fix race condition during stopping
When stopping the port, the CPU notifier are still there whereas the mvneta_stop_dev function calls mvneta_percpu_disable() on each CPUs. It was possi
View Article[PATCH] irqchip: bcm2836: Drop extra memory barrier in SMP boot.
The writel() immediately after this has a barrier, anyway. Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> --- drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm2836.c | 1 - 1 f
View Article[PATCH v3.1] firmware: clean up filesystem load exit path
This makes the error and success paths more readable while trying to load firmware from the filesystem. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.o
View Article[PATCH] floppy: refactor open() flags handling (was Re: mm: uninterruptable...
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > If the following program run in a parallel loop, eventually it leaves > hanged uninterruptable tasks on mm
View Article[PATCH 0/2] Fix mmap_base entropy for >31 bits.
Upstream commit: d07e22597d1d355829b7b18ac19afa912cf758d1 added the ability to choose from a range of values to use for entropy count in generating th
View Article[PATCH 1/2] drivers: char: random: Add get_random_long().
Signed-off-by: Daniel Cashman <dcashman@android.com> --- drivers/char/random.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/random.h | 1 + 2 files c
View Article[PATCH 2/2] use get_random_long().
Replace calls to get_random_int() followed by a cast to (unsigned long) with calls to get_random_long(). Also address shifting bug which, in case of
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