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[PATCH v4 1/1] ideapad-laptop: Add ideapad Y700 (15) to the no_hw_rfkill DMI...

February 19, 2016, 5:34 pm

Some Lenovo ideapad models lack a physical rfkill switch. On Lenovo models ideapad Y700 Touch-15ISK and ideapad Y700-15ISK, ideapad-laptop would wrong

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[GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-4.5-3 tag

February 19, 2016, 6:05 pm

Hi Linus, Please pull some more powerpc fixes for 4.5: The following changes since commit 2d19fc639516dc7b4184450b315c931d38549e61: powerpc/mm: F

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NULL-ptr deref in irqfd_update (via KVM)

February 19, 2016, 6:07 pm

Works under both AMD and Intel [7]kdb> summary sysname Linux release 4.5.0-rc4 version #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 16 04:24:23 CET 2016 machine

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regression between v4.1.17 and v4.1.18 (crypto)

February 19, 2016, 6:25 pm

Hi, after upgrading to v4.1.18 (LTS) I cannot unlock my root partition. The error is: Enter passphrase for /dev/sda2: Failed to setup dm-crypt key m

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[PATCH 1/4] lightnvm: update closed list outside of intr context

February 19, 2016, 11:52 pm

From: Javier GonzÃ¡lez <javier@cnexlabs.com> When an I/O finishes, full blocks are moved from the open to the closed list - a lock is taken to protec

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[PATCH 2/4] lightnvm: rename ->nr_pages to ->nr_sects

February 19, 2016, 11:52 pm

The struct rrpc->nr_pages can easily be interpreted as the number of flash pages allocated to rrpc, while it is the nr_sects. Make sure that this is r

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[PATCH 3/4] lightnvm: remove struct nvm_dev->total_blocks

February 19, 2016, 11:52 pm

The struct nvm_dev->total_blocks was only used for calculating total sectors. Remove and instead calculate total sectors from the number of luns and i

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[PATCH 4/4] lightnvm: generalize rrpc ppa calculations

February 19, 2016, 11:52 pm

From: Javier GonzÃ¡lez <javier@cnexlabs.com> In rrpc, some calculations assume a certain configuration (e.g., 1 LUN, 1 sector per page). The reason b

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[GIT PULL] remaining tpmdd fixes for Linux 4.5

February 20, 2016, 12:17 am

Hi James, I'm sorry for the late pull request for 4.5. The reason for this was the latency in my previous one. I picked with care the absolutely crit

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[PATCH] firmware: set firmware_buf size in kernel_read_file_from_path()

February 20, 2016, 1:14 am

Set firmware_buf->size in kernel_read_file_from_path(), otherwise assign_firmware_buf() fails. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@

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[git pull] vfs.git fixes for -rc5

February 20, 2016, 1:14 am

Assorted fixes - xattr one from this cycle, the rest - stable fodder. The following changes since commit 18558cae0272f8fd9647e69d3fec1565a7949865:

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[PATCH] firmware: set firmware_buf size in fw_get_filesystem_firmware()

February 20, 2016, 1:22 am

Set firmware_buf->size in fw_get_filesystem_firmware() after successful kernel_read_file_from_path(), otherwise assign_firmware_buf() fails. Signed-o

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[RFC] sysfs: defer instantiation of default attrs

February 20, 2016, 2:42 am

Ok, here's a rather ugly proof-of-concept patch. I've gone through some contortions to avoid double-locking the kernfs_mutex; I should really try t

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[PATCHv6 0/3] rdmacg: IB/core: rdma controller support

February 20, 2016, 3:00 am

Overview: Currently user space applications can easily take away all the rdma device specific resources such as AH, CQ, QP, MR etc. Due to which other

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[PATCHv6 1/3] rdmacg: Added rdma cgroup controller

February 20, 2016, 3:00 am

Added rdma cgroup controller that does accounting, limit enforcement on rdma/IB verbs and hw resources. Added rdma cgroup header file which defines i

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[PATCHv6 2/3] IB/core: added support to use rdma cgroup controller

February 20, 2016, 3:00 am

Added support APIs for IB core to register/unregister every RDMA device with rdma cgroup for tracking verbs and hw resources. IB core registers with r

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