Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree

2007-11-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:06:55 -0800 Pallipadi, Venkatesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please dont go off-list like this. I put Mark's original mailing list cc's back. I will have to Nack this. The reason max_cstate was initentionally removed due to couple of reasons: It broke userspace without

Re: [patch/rfc 2/4] pcf875x I2C GPIO expander driver

2007-11-30 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi David, On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:40:54 -0800, David Brownell wrote: On Friday 30 November 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: --- a/drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig 2007-10-28 21:04:06.0 -0700 +++ b/drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig 2007-10-29 14:16:01.0 -0700 @@ -51,6 +51,24 @@ config

Re: [PATCH] sound/isa: kill pnp_resource_change.

2007-11-30 Thread Rene Herman
On 30-11-07 18:39, Thomas Renninger wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 18:19 +0100, Rene Herman wrote: Thomas Renninger is making some haste with the deprecation of the removed functions by the way -- I just saw a patch of his entering my mailbox where he says he'd in fact like them deprecated in

Re: [RFC PATCH] LTTng instrumentation mm (updated)

2007-11-30 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Dave Hansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 12:05 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: Given a trace including : - Swapfiles initially used - multiple swapon/swapoff - swap in/out events We would like to be able to tell which swap file the information has been

Re: [patch 0/3] Per cpu relocation to ZERO and x86_32 percpu ops on x86_64

2007-11-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: such as? I guess these two: mm-prevent-dereferencing-non-allocated-per_cpu-variables.patch mm-prevent-dereferencing-non-allocated-per_cpu-variables-fix.patch would be needed too? I sent another list in an earlier email. AFAICT the above does not

Re: [patch 03/10] percpu: Make the asm-generic/percpu.h more generic

2007-11-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: This is a core change against Andrew's tree. It needs to go into mm and not into the x86 tree. It is no surprise that this does not apply cleanly to the x86 tree. well since they affect the

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Changes - Documentation/Requirements (resend without truncated comment text)

2007-11-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jarek Poplawski wrote: On 30-11-2007 04:32, H. Peter Anvin wrote: ... As far as I can tell, Documentation/Changes is the only thing we have that even attempts to document the basic requirements. This attempts to formalize that fact. Documentation/Changes | 396

[PATCH 2/4] Subject: SCHED - Add sched-domain roots

2007-11-30 Thread Gregory Haskins
We add the notion of a root-domain which will be used later to rescope global variables to per-domain variables. Each exclusive cpuset essentially defines an island domain by fully partitioning the member cpus from any other cpuset. However, we currently still maintain some policy/state as

Re: [RFC PATCH] LTTng instrumentation mm (updated)

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:11 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: +static inline swp_entry_t page_swp_entry(struct page *page) +{ + swp_entry_t entry; + VM_BUG_ON(!PageSwapCache(page)); + entry.val = page_private(page); + return entry; +} This probably needs to be

Re: [BUG] Strange 1-second pauses during Resume-from-RAM

2007-11-30 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 30 November 2007 14:35:46 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kernel/sched.c:3384: warning: ‘struct prio_array’ declared inside parameter list kernel/sched.c:3384: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not

RE: [patch 0/2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

2007-11-30 Thread Metzger, Markus T
yep, i already tried to check how well it integrates to x86.git: I ported it to scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git mm. I will send out the patch and then look at the below discussion. the code does not seem to be layered correctly: i'd suggest to read the discussion between Roland

Re: git + checkpatch.pl?

2007-11-30 Thread Kumar Gala
On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Dave Jones wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:18:59AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: Does any know if there is a way to run checkpatch.pl over the index before one does a commit? git diff | scripts/checkpatch.pl thanks. I think I want: git-diff HEAD |

Re: [PATCH] kexec: force x86_64 arches to boot kdump kernels on boot cpu

2007-11-30 Thread Vivek Goyal
[..] Can you print the LAPIC registers (print_local_APIC) during normal boot and during kdump boot and paste here? Here are the ones from a normal bootup. I was unable to get info from a kdump boot. I haven't figured out why yet. With the same patch that I used to capture this, when I

Re: [PATCH] kexec: force x86_64 arches to boot kdump kernels on boot cpu

2007-11-30 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:59:26AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 6:54 PM, Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric W. Biederman wrote: Vivek Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok. Got it. So in this case we route the

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:14:16PM +, Ben Crowhurst wrote: Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? Doesn't objective C essentially require a runtime to provide a lot of the features of the language? If it does (as I suspect) then it is totally unsiatable for kernel

Re: [PATCH] sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)

2007-11-30 Thread Balbir Singh
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: [snip] Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] thx. Have you done targeted testing of it as well? The (v2) patch is in sched-devel.git:

Re: [PATCH] Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3 x86 make depends on s390 arch

2007-11-30 Thread Heiko Carstens
diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig index 1330061..b699ed5 100644 --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig @@ -537,4 +537,6 @@ source security/Kconfig source crypto/Kconfig +source arch/s390/crypto/Kconfig + With this there's no dependency

Re: [PATCH] sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)

2007-11-30 Thread Balbir Singh
Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: [snip] Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)

2007-11-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's V2 of the cpu acccounting controller patch, which makes accounting scale better on SMP systems by splitting the usage counter to be per-cpu. thanks, applied. But you dont seem to have incorporated all of the review feedback from Andrew.

[PATCH] sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)

2007-11-30 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:48:33AM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: It is indeed an important todo. Right now we take a per-group global lock on every accounting update (which can be very frequent) and hence it is pretty bad. Ingo had expressed the need to reintroduce this patch asap and

Re: ata4294967295: failed to start port (errno=-19)

2007-11-30 Thread Craig Schlenter
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:06:12PM +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote: On Nov 28, 2007 9:07 PM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message comes from 2.6.24-rc3 + todays git, version a531a141089714efe39eca89593524fdf05104f2. I did grep the logs and found that it first appeared in

Re: [PATCH x86/mm 09/11] x86 ia32 ptrace arch merge

2007-11-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roland McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:00:41AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: This moves the sys32_ptrace code into arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c, verbatim except for a few hard-coded sizes replaced with sizeof. [...] I just moved this code, I

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread Ben Crowhurst
Loïc Grenié wrote: 2007/11/29, Ben Crowhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? regards, BPC No, it has not. Any language that looks remotely like an OO language has not ever been considered for (Linux) kernel development and for

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Markers Implementation for RCU Tracing

2007-11-30 Thread K. Prasad
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 05:36:05PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:11:28AM +0530, K. Prasad wrote: Hi, Please review the ensuing set of patches which convert the existing RCU tracing mechanism for Preempt RCU and RCU Boost into markers. These patches are

Re: [patch 1/3] bdi patches

2007-11-30 Thread Kay Sievers
On Nov 30, 2007 9:06 AM, Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Provide a place in sysfs for the backing_dev_info object. This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables. You don't say what the place is, and I'm not quite familiar enough with sysfs internals to figure

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-30 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Btw, the r8169 has NAPI enabled. kernel config: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/kernel-config-x86-2.6.23.9 dmesg: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/dmesg lspci -vv: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/lspci thanks Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread Loïc Grenié
2007/11/29, Ben Crowhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? regards, BPC No, it has not. Any language that looks remotely like an OO language has not ever been considered for (Linux) kernel development and for most, if not all, other

Re: [PATCH] kobject: make sure kobj-ktype is set before kobject_init

2007-11-30 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:26:40 +0100, Kay Sievers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:20 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:09 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Kay Sievers wrote: There's another good reason for not assigning the name in

Re: kobject_init rewrite

2007-11-30 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:54:55 -0800, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One minor documentation update: /** * kobject_init - initialize a kobject structure * @kobj: pointer to the kobject to initialize * @ktype: pointer to the ktype for this kobject. * @fmt: the name of the kobject

Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread Ben Crowhurst
Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? regards, BPC - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: sched_yield: delete sysctl_sched_compat_yield

2007-11-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haven't we been asking JVMs to use futexes or posix locking for years and years now? [...] i'm curious, with what JVM was it tested and where's the source so i can fix their locking for them? Can the problem be reproduced with:

Re: ldd irq problem

2007-11-30 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 11/30/2007 10:28 AM, Chris Rutherford wrote: Helo lkml, I'm trying to write a LDD but I have got a bug. Any ideas what i might be doing wrong? ret = request_irq(12, handler, SA_INTERRUPT | SA_SHIRQ, sha1 handler, DEVICE_NAME); printk (KERN_INFO req irq %d \n, ret); enable_irq(12);

Re: laptop reboots right after hibernation

2007-11-30 Thread Tejun Heo
Kjartan Maraas wrote: on., 28.11.2007 kl. 10.09 +0900, skrev Tejun Heo: Kjartan Maraas wrote: I get this exact error message on a normal first time boot here. I'm using the latest fedora development kernel which is 2.6.24-rc2-git6 based. And I have the latest BIOS from HP IIRC. This is an

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Nov 30 2007 11:20, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 19:09 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? Why not C# instead ? Why not Haskell nor Erlang instead ? :-D I heard of a bash compiler. That would enable development

Re: [patch 0/2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

2007-11-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patches were horridly wordwrapped. yep, i already tried to check how well it integrates to x86.git: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/29/93 the code does not seem to be layered correctly: i'd suggest to read the discussion between Roland McGrath and

[PATCH] Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3 x86 make depends on s390 arch

2007-11-30 Thread Jaswinder Singh
This patch fixes s390 dependency for x86 Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig index 1330061..b699ed5 100644 --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig @@ -537,4 +537,6 @@ source security/Kconfig source crypto/Kconfig +source

Re: [patch 10/10] x86: Unify percpu.h

2007-11-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Form a single percpu.h from percpu_32.h and percpu_64.h. Both are now pretty small so this is simply adding them together. lots of rejects - merging this was pretty icky. Hopefully i got it right - see below. Ingo -

Re: [PATCH] AF_RXRPC: Configure crypto correctly for AF_RXRPC

2007-11-30 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:37:53PM +, David Howells wrote: AF_RXRPC uses the crypto services, so should depend on or select CRYPTO. Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patch applied to net-2.6. Thanks. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~}

Re: [PATCH] Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3 x86 make depends on s390 arch

2007-11-30 Thread Jaswinder Singh
On 11/30/07, Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 04:33:19PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote: This patch fixes s390 dependency for x86 Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deleting random parts of the kernel tree is actually not supported. I agree

Re: [PATCH] sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)

2007-11-30 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:35:13PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's V2 of the cpu acccounting controller patch, which makes accounting scale better on SMP systems by splitting the usage counter to be per-cpu. thanks, applied. But you dont

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Sysctl namespace support

2007-11-30 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:40:24AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Herbert we need this infrastructure most in net-2.6.25 (as not having it is a current bottleneck to further development of the network namespace) so these patches are against net-2.6.25. I've applied them all to net-2.6.25

Re: [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card

2007-11-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, David Sterba wrote: ... drivers/char/pcmcia/Kconfig|8 drivers/char/pcmcia/Makefile |4 drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless_cs_hardware.c | 1728 + drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless_cs_hardware.h

[PATCH 4/7][SCHED] Use the ctl paths to register tables

2007-11-30 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
This includes the kernel/sched_domain entry only. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 3ffec8c..a013dae 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -5431,12 +5431,10 @@ static struct ctl_table sd_ctl_dir[] = {

Re: [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card

2007-11-30 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 11/30/2007 01:55 PM, David Sterba wrote: Hi, I'm submitting driver for IPWireless PC Card, used for 4G internet connection. The driver has been in -mm series as ipwireless_cs.git tree for some time, is actively used and there are currently no outstanding bugs. Almost :). [...]

[PATCH 6/7][MQUEUE] Move sysctl management code under ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL

2007-11-30 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
This includes the tables, the mq_sysctl_table ctl header and calls to register/unregister. Just like with the quota patch, I hope this is OK to keep the ifdefs inside the __init function, rather than making handlers and stubs outside it. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card

2007-11-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Sterba wrote: Hi, I'm submitting driver for IPWireless PC Card, used for 4G internet connection. The driver has been in -mm series as ipwireless_cs.git tree for some time, is actively used and there are currently no outstanding bugs. I'd like to let the driver pass through LKML and then

Re: [BUG] Strange 1-second pauses during Resume-from-RAM

2007-11-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 November 2007 20:36:12 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pick up the latest latency tracer patch from: sorry, wrong URLs, the correct links are:

Re: [PATCH] AF_RXRPC: Configure crypto correctly for AF_RXRPC

2007-11-30 Thread Herbert Xu
Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patch applied to net-2.6. Thanks. aimed at 2.6.24 merging, right? Yep. net-2.6 is for 2.6.24 while net-2.6.25 is for 2.6.25. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page:

Re: [patch/rfc 2/4] pcf875x I2C GPIO expander driver

2007-11-30 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Bill, On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:04:10 -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: Jean Delvare wrote: !!(value (1 offset)) is more efficiently written (value offset) 1 ... but not more efficiently implemented. Your version requires code to do the shift on live data at runtime. David's version

Re: [PATCH] Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3 x86 make depends on s390 arch

2007-11-30 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 06:30:45PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote: We have two options: 1. Either move arch/s390/crypto/Kconfig to drivers/crypto/Kconfig OR 2. In arch/s390/crypto/Kconfig , replace depends on S390 to depends on CRYPRO_HW I think 2nd option is better for everyone. 2)

Re: [patch/rfc 2/4] pcf875x I2C GPIO expander driver

2007-11-30 Thread Bill Gatliff
Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Bill, On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:04:10 -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: Jean Delvare wrote: !!(value (1 offset)) is more efficiently written (value offset) 1 ... but not more efficiently implemented. Your version requires code to do the shift on live data at

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread David Newall
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Nov 30 2007 11:20, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 19:09 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? Why not C# instead ? Why not Haskell nor Erlang instead ? :-D I heard of

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread Chris Snook
Ben Crowhurst wrote: Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? No. Kernel programming requires what is essentially assembly language with a lot of syntactic sugar, which C provides. Higher-level languages abstract away too much detail to be suitable for the sort of

Re: [PATCH 9/9] MN10300: Fix MTD JEDEC probe so that the ASB2303 bootprom can be detected [2.6.24-rc3-mm2]

2007-11-30 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 14:01 +, David Howells wrote: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't like this -- it shouldn't be necessary. Actually, I think you're right. I think the problem is that: if (uaddr != MTD_UADDR_NOT_SUPPORTED ) { /* ASSERT(The

Re: [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card

2007-11-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:20:19 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Robb) wrote: If the -main- purpose of the hardware is wireless, it should go in via John Linville, wireless maintainer... These GPRS cards are basically wireless modems which accept a Hayes command set (AT+, etc...),

[patch 1/2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

2007-11-30 Thread Markus Metzger
Changes to previous version(s): - moved task arrives/departs notifications to __switch_to_xtra() - added _TIF_BTS_TRACE and _TIF_BTS_TRACE_TS to _TIF_WORK_CTXSW_* - split _TIF_WORK_CTXSW into ~_PREV and ~_NEXT for x86_64 - ptrace_bts_init_intel() function called from init_intel() - removed

Re: [patch 0/2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

2007-11-30 Thread Michael Kerrisk
[...] Please cc Michael Kerrisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] on future versions of these patches. Yes, please. Buit note that my official address nowadays is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ - To

Re: [patch 0/2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

2007-11-30 Thread Michael Kerrisk
On Nov 30, 2007 5:04 PM, Michael Kerrisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Please cc Michael Kerrisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] on future versions of these patches. Yes, please. Buit note that my official address nowadays is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ooops! I meant [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michael Kerrisk

Re: [PATCH 4/4] net: Implement the per network namespace sysctl infrastructure

2007-11-30 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Eric W. Biederman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The user interface is: register_net_sysctl_table and unregister_net_sysctl_table. Very much like the current interface except there is a network namespace parameter. With this any sysctl registered with register_net_sysctl_table will only

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-30 Thread Justin Banks
Al Viro wrote On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:12:38PM -0700, Justin Banks wrote: It's not perfect, but as was recently pointed out, if you can only get 98% of the way there rather than 100% is that a reason for not trying to make it possible? BTW, that's a fine example of a common fallacy:

[PATCH 0/4] more RT balancing enhancements v6b

2007-11-30 Thread Gregory Haskins
These patches apply to the end of the rt-balance-patches v6 annouced here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/20/613 These replace the v6a patches annouced here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/21/226 Changes since v6a: *) made features tunable via config options *) fixed a bug related to setting a

Re: [PATCH 9/9] MN10300: Fix MTD JEDEC probe so that the ASB2303 bootprom can be detected [2.6.24-rc3-mm2]

2007-11-30 Thread David Woodhouse
You made me look at datasheets which number address lines from A-1 to A18. My brain hurts. I hate you now. Please try git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/jedec-unlock.git I may have broken chip probing for a number of people now, but it ought to be progress. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this

Re: ldd irq problem

2007-11-30 Thread Chris Rutherford
many thanks, the following says it all.. box:/home/chris/work/fpgaio# grep sha1 /proc/interrupts 12: 14669741 XT-PIC sha1 handler On Nov 30, 2007 10:31 AM, Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/30/2007 10:28 AM, Chris Rutherford wrote: Helo lkml, I'm trying to write a

[PATCH] Documentation/Changes - Documentation/Requirements

2007-11-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Change Documentation/Changes to Documentation/Requirements, and at least begin to separate the runtime requirements from the kernel compilation requirements. There are definitely kernel compilation requirements that are not listed in this file. It would be good to get them uncovered. This

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-30 Thread Rick Jones
Could the corruption be seen in a tcpdump trace prior to transmission (ie taken on the sender) or was it only seen after the data passed out the NIC? rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [patch 03/10] percpu: Make the asm-generic/percpu.h more generic

2007-11-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: as expected, with that patch applied, the kernel crashes and reboots (with no message this time). If you could point out any other dependent patches besides the one above (if any) that would be great. Ok. Just looking at mm-commits:

Re: [PATCH 0/4, v3] Physical PCI slot objects

2007-11-30 Thread Gary Hade
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:19:41PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote: snip [802499bc] kthread+0x47/0x73 [8020cc98] child_rip+0xa/0x12 [80249975] kthread+0x0/0x73 [8020cc8e] child_rip+0x0/0x12 Maybe we're trying to kick off a hotplug event on the wrong

Re: RFC - organize include/linux/kernel.h, add include/linux/logging.h

2007-11-30 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 19:09 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: While you are at that, PFX should probably be KBUILD_MODNAME, for simplicity. Then it will be easy to consolidate since they all use KBUILD_MODNAME rather than their own PFX. Just btw :) I think that nearly all private logging functions

Re: scheduling anomaly on uml (was: -rt doesn't compile for UML)

2007-11-30 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Found some interesting things, the delays are caused by 1) throttle_vm_writeout() I removed it, Andrew worries about that, but hopefully there's a better solution to his worries 2) atime updates my uml image did not have them turned off 3) UML timer tick does not seem very

Re: [BUG] Strange 1-second pauses during Resume-from-RAM

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pick up the latest latency tracer patch from: sorry, wrong URLs, the correct links are: http://redhat.com/~mingo/latency-tracing-patches/latency-tracer-v2.6.24-rc2-git5-combo.patch

Re: [patch 0/3] Per cpu relocation to ZERO and x86_32 percpu ops on x86_64

2007-11-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: This was not any formal x86 maintainance activity - your patches are still cooking. But i was thinking about maybe putting these patches into the x86 test grind to get them shaken out some more the

[PATCH] libertas: select WIRELESS_EXT

2007-11-30 Thread Dan Williams
Ensure that libertas selects WIRELESS_EXT, since selecting other stuff that should depend on WEXT, like IEEE80211, doesn't seem to drag that in for us. For 2.6.24 and later. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-30 Thread Crispin Cowan
Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote: During one recent LKML discussion (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelamp;m=119267398722085amp;w=2) about LSM going static you called for LSM users to speak up. Great big clue: If LSM is in the subject line, then cc: the LSM list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For LSM readers seeing

Re: [PATCH 4/4] net: Implement the per network namespace sysctl infrastructure

2007-11-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Serge E. Hallyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey Eric, the patches look nice. The hand-forcing of the passed-in net_ns into a copy of current-nsproxy does make it seem like nsproxy may not be the best choice of what to pass in. Doesn't only net_sysctl_root-lookup() look at the argument?

drivers/char/random.c:write_pool() -- cond_resched needed?

2007-11-30 Thread Sami Farin
In write_pool(), isn't cond_resched() needed after call to add_entropy_words() because otherwise there can be large latencies (think of command dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/random bs=1 ) ? -- Do what you love because life is too short for anything else. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: WARNING: at kernel/resource.c:189 __release_resource

2007-11-30 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 11/30/2007 10:08 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2007 05:42:07 pm Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:40:37 -0700 Maybe we could either remove the pnp_{stop,start}_dev() calls from the suspend/resume path, or move the PNP resource management out of

Re: [PATCH] xfs: revert to double-buffering readdir

2007-11-30 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 04:36:25PM -0600, Stephen Lord wrote: Looks like the readdir is in the bowels of the btree code when filldir gets called here, there are probably locks on several buffers in the btree at this point. This will only show up for large directories I bet. I see it for

[PATCH 05/28] blk_end_request: changing um (take 3)

2007-11-30 Thread Kiyoshi Ueda
This patch converts um to use blk_end_request(). Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c | 10 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) Index: 2.6.24-rc3-mm2/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c

Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/1] HWMON: coretemp, suspend fix

2007-11-30 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 30 of November 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: On 11/30/2007 11:15 PM, Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Jiri, Hi. On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:12:46 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: Ok, I don't see it merged in the latest -mm (mmotm). Could you, Mark, Rafael, sign off this version of the patch (Mark's

[PATCH 26/28] blk_end_request: changing ide-cd (take 3)

2007-11-30 Thread Kiyoshi Ueda
This patch converts ide-cd (cdrom_newpc_intr()) to use blk_end_request(). ide-cd (cdrom_newpc_intr()) has some tricky behaviors below which need to use blk_end_request_callback(). Needs to: 1. call post_transform_command() to modify request contents 2. wait completing request until DRQ_STAT

Re: [PATCH] Declare PNP option parsing functions as __init

2007-11-30 Thread Rene Herman
On 30-11-07 18:04, Thomas Renninger wrote: If I have not overseen something, it should be rather obvious that those can all be declared __init... --- Declare PNP option parsing functions as __init There are three kind of parse functions provided by PNP acpi/bios: - get current

Re: [PATCH] Declare PNP option parsing functions as __init

2007-11-30 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Friday 30 November 2007 04:37:26 pm Rene Herman wrote: On 30-11-07 18:04, Thomas Renninger wrote: If I have not overseen something, it should be rather obvious that those can all be declared __init... --- Declare PNP option parsing functions as __init There are

Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:44:25 -0500 Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all you need to do in your kernel module is call ... set_acceptable_latency(mark, 5); and to remove the constraint again you just do remove_acceptable_latency(mark); .. Then why

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-11-30 Thread Michael Cree
Bob Tracy wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Could be something change in sysfs. Please double-check the config options, make sure that something important didn't get disabled. Here's hoping someone else is seeing this or can replicate it in the meantime. Snap. 2.6.24-rc2 works fine.

Re: git guidance

2007-11-30 Thread Al Boldi
Jing Xue wrote: Quoting Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sure, browsing is the easy part, but Version Control starts when things become writable. But how is that supposed to work? What happens when you make some changes to a file and save it? Do you want the git file system to commit it

Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc3] rtc-cmos alarm acts as oneshot

2007-11-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Start making the rtc-cmos alarm act more like a oneshot alarm by disabling that alarm after its IRQ fires. (ACPI hooks are also needed.) The Linux RTC framework has previously been a bit vague in this area, but any other behavior is

Re: VMware on 2.6.34: patches to enable vmmon and vmet to build/run

2007-11-30 Thread Jeff Chua
On Dec 1, 2007 3:21 AM, Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've hacked my copy of VMware-6.01 to work with kernel 2.6.24-rc*, and dumped my patches for vmmon and vmnet onto my server at: Thank you! Now, I one step closer to 2.6.24. Wonder anyone has a patch for

Re: [PATCH] sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)

2007-11-30 Thread Paul Menage
Hi Vatsa, Thanks, this looks pretty good. On Nov 30, 2007 4:42 AM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Removed load average information. I felt it needs more thought (esp to deal with SMP and virtualized platforms) and can be added for 2.6.25 after more

Re: What can we do to get ready for memory controller merge in 2.6.25

2007-11-30 Thread Paul Menage
On Nov 29, 2007 6:11 PM, Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And also some results or even anecdotes of where this is going to be used would be interesting... We want to be able to run multiple isolated jobs on the same machine. So being able to limit how much memory each job can consume, in

Re: [patch 0/2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

2007-11-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our debugger team has a prototype implementation for their debugger. But that will not be available for some time. I hope that we get gdb support, soon, but that would take a while if I had to do it. i'm wondering what the main use-case

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