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LKML: Jan Engelhardt: Leap second insertion causes futex to repeatedly timeout
This year's leap second insertion has had the strange effect on at least Linux versions 3.4.4 (my end) and 3.5-rc4 (Simon's box, Cc) that certain processes use up all CPU power, because of futexes...
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Linux 3.6
When I did the -rc7 announcement a week ago, I said I might have to do an -rc8, but a week passed, and things have been calm, and I honestly cannot see a major reason to do another rc.
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Linux 3.7-rc1
The two weeks are up, and I was merging during my trip, so no reason for merge window extensions. The 3.7-rc1 kernel is out there. There's a few big things worth noting here: - the "uapi" include file...
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Linus Torvalds: A new lockref structure for lockless update of refcount
I don't use "bool" in code I write. I don't think it adds any actual value, and I think the data type is badly designed and of dubious value in C. It has very few actual advantages.
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ktap 0.3 released
ktap have different design principles from Linux mainstream dynamic tracing language in that it's based on bytecode, so it doesn't depend upon GCC, doesn't require compiling kernel module for each...
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