[2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.21-rc2 compared to 2.6.20 that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm

[patch] udf: possible null pointer dereference while load_partition

2007-03-04 Thread Dmitriy Monakhov
sb_read may return NULL, let's explicitly check it. Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/fs/udf/super.c b/fs/udf/super.c index f4b3265..951b85d 100644 --- a/fs/udf/super.c +++ b/fs/udf/super.c @@ -1407,6 +1407,8 @@ udf_load_partition(struct super_block *sb,

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.19.1 Oops while doing Disk IO + playing sound, 2.6.20 too - STATUS git-bisect

2007-03-04 Thread Frank Hartmann
Hi, the last 10 days I have been bisecting my problem. Currenly I am here and I have 10 commits to go: fantasio:~/tmp/linux-2.6$ git-bisect log git-bisect start # bad: [fa285a3d7924a0e3782926e51f16865c5129a2f7] Linux 2.6.20 git-bisect bad fa285a3d7924a0e3782926e51f16865c5129a2f7 # bad:

Re: dynamic linking files slow fork down significantly

2007-03-04 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote: David Lang a écrit : I have a fork-heavy workload (a proxy that forks per connection, I know it's not the most efficiant design) and I discovered a 2x performance difference between a static and dynamicly linked version of the same program (2200

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1

2007-03-04 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, I'm experiencing weird system hangs with recent -mm. After a few hours of uptime for no obvious reason system hangs and is (almost) unusable until reset. a few facts: - this happens on random basis without anything obvious that could trigger it - if some music is played and

Re: Someone please turn on the http protocol on git.kernel.org!

2007-03-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Mike Accetta wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: Timur Tabi wrote: I see we now have a dedicate machine for the git server. That's great. How about turning on the http protocol so that those of use behind a firewall can clone trees? I get this: $ git-clone

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v3

2007-03-04 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Please don't take this the wrong way, Ray, but I don't think _you_ understand the problem space that people are (or should be) trying to address here. Servers want to always, always block. Not on a socket, not on a stat, not on any _one_ thing, but in a condition where the optimum number of

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1

2007-03-04 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, 2.6.20-rc2-mm1 needs a bit more uptime to hit this bug. typo - 2.6.21-rc2-mm1 Here is some more data. Now running 2.6.20-rc6. Sony VAIO PCG-FR285M. Linux orion 2.6.20-rc6 #2 PREEMPT Fri Jan 26 13:00:08 CET 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Gnu C

Re: dynamic linking files slow fork down significantly

2007-03-04 Thread Eric Dumazet
David Lang a écrit : On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote: # time ldd -r ./groff libstdc++.so.5 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0xf7e8f000) libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xf7e6d000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7e62000) libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6

[GIT PULL][RETRY] KVM updates for Linux 2.6.21-rc2

2007-03-04 Thread Avi Kivity
Linus, The following changes since commit b648a0d22908116b4ef168935a160d7f17c4e6d: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/.../jgarzik/libata-dev are found in the 'linus' branch of the git repository at: git://kvm.qumranet.com/home/avi/kvm.git The

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: more ACPI errors (EC__)

2007-03-04 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Meelis Roos wrote: I tested 2.6.21-rc1 on my laptop (IBM X20 with 440BX) and found two problems: First, a seemingly harmless one - ACPI error messages during bootup: ACPI Exception (evregion-0420): AE_NOT_FOUND, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] [20070126] ACPI Exception

Re: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI?

2007-03-04 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi David, On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 08:47:21 -0700, David Hubbard wrote: Is there anything preventing us from doing such a walk and pre-allocate all the I/O ranges? I am not familiar with the ACPI code at all, would you possibly propose a patch doing that? Here's a random idea -- what do you

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: This message is to announce the first general public release of the Rotating Staircase DeadLine cpu scheduler. I assume to test this, we select the deadline scheduler? -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap,

Re: [PATCH] dynticks: don't unlock spinlock twice

2007-03-04 Thread Andres Salomon
Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 21:52 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: [...] The BUG is somewhere else. the tick timer should never be seen in hrtimer_run_queues. The tick timer is operated solely from the timer interrupt. The question is, how the tick timer gets enqueued in the

Re: [PATCH] [RSDL 1/6] lists: add list splice tail

2007-03-04 Thread Balbir Singh
Con Kolivas wrote: Add a list_splice_tail variant of list_splice. Patch-by: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had the same exact patch in my memcontrol at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/24/68 (see the last

[PATCH] hrtimers: fix HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ description

2007-03-04 Thread Andres Salomon
The description for HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ is backwards; NO SOFTIRQ sounds a whole lot like it means it must not be run in a softirq. :) diff --git a/include/linux/hrtimer.h b/include/linux/hrtimer.h index 3bef961..b9f163d 100644 --- a/include/linux/hrtimer.h +++ b/include/linux/hrtimer.h

[PATCH] hrtimers: hrtimer_clock_base description typo

2007-03-04 Thread Andres Salomon
The description for the hrtimer_clock_base struct describes hrtimer_base. That should be hrtimer_clock_base. diff --git a/include/linux/hrtimer.h b/include/linux/hrtimer.h index 3bef961..3000539 100644 --- a/include/linux/hrtimer.h +++ b/include/linux/hrtimer.h @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ struct

[PATCH] KCONFIG: Set the default for the deprecated sysfs entries to N.

2007-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Set the default for creating deprecated sysfs files to no. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Given that the help info for this entry states that None of these features or values should be used today, it makes more sense for the config entry to default to no, wouldn't

[PATCH] KCONFIG: Add some extra info regarding the kernel localversion.

2007-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
A small formatting fix, and add a few lines describing the origin of the git-based localversion string for the kernel version. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index f977086..4d5aef6 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@

[PATCH] Kconfig: Replace obsolete depends with depends on.

2007-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Replace the obsolete variant depends with the standardized form depends on in Kconfig files. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- given that depends on was accepted as the standard Kconfig directive over depends and requires, could we: 1) please stop using depends, and

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1

2007-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 10:07:31 +0100 Mariusz Kozlowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm experiencing weird system hangs with recent -mm. After a few hours of uptime for no obvious reason system hangs and is (almost) unusable until reset. a few facts: - this happens on random basis

2.6.20 ACPI Error

2007-03-04 Thread Michal Vančo
Hi, I've discovered strange errors while booting my laptop (ASUS A7T) with 2.6.20 kernel. ACPI: Core revision 20060707 ACPI Error (psloop-0196): Found unknown opcode FD at AML address c20161d8 offset 5D44, ignoring [20060707] ACPI Error (psloop-0196): Found unknown opcode FD at AML

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-04 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 04 March 2007 22:08, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: This message is to announce the first general public release of the Rotating Staircase DeadLine cpu scheduler. I assume to test this, we select the deadline scheduler? No, only the deadline in the

[Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1] #error no ROMFS backing store interface configured

2007-03-04 Thread Maciej Rutecki
CC [M] fs/romfs/storage.o fs/romfs/storage.c:18:2: error: #error no ROMFS backing store interface configured make[3]: *** [fs/romfs/storage.o] Błąd 1 make[2]: *** [fs/romfs] Błąd 2 make[1]: *** [fs] Błąd 2 make[1]: Opuszczenie katalogu `/usr/src/linux-mm' make: *** [debian/stamp-build-kernel]

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1

2007-03-04 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Thanks. Are you sure that the kermel hasn't already oopsed when this happens? (netconsole will help). Not sure. Sometimes system is totaly unusable. Sometimes I can switch to console and do limited operations there. Will look into it, will play with netconsole. The sysrq-P failure is a

Re: userspace pagecache management tool

2007-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:56:27 -0500 Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Doing a refault thing would help a bit, but stops working at a certain point. At what point does it stop working? We need to store that this-page-got-reclaimed info somewhere. I don't

Re: [Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1] #error no ROMFS backing store interface configured

2007-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:58:39 +0100 Maciej Rutecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CC [M] fs/romfs/storage.o fs/romfs/storage.c:18:2: error: #error no ROMFS backing store interface configured make[3]: *** [fs/romfs/storage.o] Błąd 1 make[2]: *** [fs/romfs] Błąd 2 make[1]: *** [fs] Błąd 2 make[1]:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 22:08, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: This message is to announce the first general public release of the Rotating Staircase DeadLine cpu scheduler. I assume to test this, we select the

[PATCH] hrtimers: hrtimer_clock_base description typo

2007-03-04 Thread Andres Salomon
The description for the hrtimer_clock_base struct describes hrtimer_base. That should be hrtimer_clock_base. (Resending; forgot to sign off) Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/include/linux/hrtimer.h b/include/linux/hrtimer.h index 3bef961..3000539 100644 ---

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-04 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 04 March 2007 23:24, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 22:08, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: This message is to announce the first general public release of the Rotating Staircase DeadLine cpu

[PATCH] hrtimers: fix HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ description

2007-03-04 Thread Andres Salomon
The description for HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ is backwards; NO SOFTIRQ sounds a whole lot like it means it must not be run in a softirq. :) (Resending; forgot to sign off) Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/include/linux/hrtimer.h b/include/linux/hrtimer.h index

Re: [PATCH] hrtimers: hrtimer_clock_base description typo

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 07:45 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: The description for the hrtimer_clock_base struct describes hrtimer_base. That should be hrtimer_clock_base. (Resending; forgot to sign off) Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] hrtimers: fix HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ description

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 07:47 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: The description for HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ is backwards; NO SOFTIRQ sounds a whole lot like it means it must not be run in a softirq. :) (Resending; forgot to sign off) Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH] highres: Do not run the TIMER_SOFTIRQ after switching to highres mode

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas Gleixner
The question is, how the tick timer gets enqueued in the softirq queue. Can you isolate the codepath, where this happens ? The TIMER_SOFTIRQ runs the hrtimers during bootup until a usable clocksource and clock event sources are registered. The switch to high resolution mode happens inside of

Re: [PATCH] highres: Do not run the TIMER_SOFTIRQ after switching to highres mode

2007-03-04 Thread Andres Salomon
Thomas Gleixner wrote: The question is, how the tick timer gets enqueued in the softirq queue. Can you isolate the codepath, where this happens ? The TIMER_SOFTIRQ runs the hrtimers during bootup until a usable clocksource and clock event sources are registered. The switch to high

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 23:24, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 22:08, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: This message is to announce the first general public

[PATCH] Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig.

2007-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Fix a couple grammatical errors in arch/i386/Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig index 2f76725..b7a3b2f 100644 --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig @@ -850,9 +850,9 @@ config RELOCATABLE bool

[PATCH] ocfs2: fix module_init error handling

2007-03-04 Thread Akinobu Mita
From: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH] ocfs2: fix module_init error handling Fix error handling in module_init and make module_init() return correct error code. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mark Fasheh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Kurt Hackel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [PATCH] highres: Do not run the TIMER_SOFTIRQ after switching to highres mode

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 08:12 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: Thomas Gleixner wrote: The question is, how the tick timer gets enqueued in the softirq queue. Can you isolate the codepath, where this happens ? The TIMER_SOFTIRQ runs the hrtimers during bootup until a usable clocksource and

[PATCH] ocfs2_nodemanager: check o2net_init() error

2007-03-04 Thread Akinobu Mita
From: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH] ocfs2_nodemanager: check o2net_init() error Check o2net_init() return value in ocfs2_nodemanager module_init(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mark Fasheh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Kurt Hackel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCH] configfs: add missing mutex_unlock()

2007-03-04 Thread Akinobu Mita
From: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH] configfs: add missing mutex_unlock() Add missing mutex_unlock() on d_alloc() failure in configfs_register_subsystem(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Joel Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/configfs/dir.c |4 +++- 1 file

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-04 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 05 March 2007 00:25, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 23:24, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 22:08, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-04 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 04 March 2007 18:45, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 18:00, Con Kolivas wrote: This message is to announce the first general public release of the Rotating Staircase DeadLine cpu scheduler. Based on previous work from the staircase cpu scheduler I set out to design,

Re: [PATCH] configfs: add missing mutex_unlock()

2007-03-04 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sunday 04 March 2007 14:38:12 Akinobu Mita wrote: @@ -1168,8 +1168,10 @@ int configfs_register_subsystem(struct c   err = -ENOMEM; dentry = d_alloc(configfs_sb-s_root, name); -   if (!dentry) +   if (!dentry) { +   

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 00:25, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 23:24, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 22:08, Gene Heskett wrote: On

[PATCH] Kconfig: Update swsusp description

2007-03-04 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Update the outdated and inaccurate description of the software suspend in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/power/Kconfig | 39 ++- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 17

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-git3 soft lockup detected on CPU#0 (crash dump kernel)

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 00:31 +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, I hit this bug again (http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0702.2/1643.html) BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! [c1604556] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [c1604c2c] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [c1604cde]

Re: [PATCH 8/9] mtd: Allow mtd block device drivers to have a custom ioctl function

2007-03-04 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Friday 02 March 2007 16:55:02 Richard Purdie wrote: Allow mtd block drivers to customise their ioctl functions. Also allow the drivers to obtain the gendisk struct since ioctl functions can need this. Are you sure that this is a good idea? I'd rather not open up this method of letting the

Re: userspace pagecache management tool

2007-03-04 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 04:07 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:56:27 -0500 Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Doing a refault thing would help a bit, but stops working at a certain point. At what point does it stop working? We need

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-git3 soft lockup detected on CPU#0 (crash dump kernel)

2007-03-04 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 04/03/07, Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 00:31 +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, I hit this bug again (http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0702.2/1643.html) BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! [c1604556] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-04 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Con ! On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:49:49AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 00:25, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 23:24, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007

Re: [1/3] Bugfix: Don't use the TSC in sched_clock if unstable

2007-03-04 Thread Andi Kleen
On Saturday 03 March 2007 22:41, Guillaume Chazarain wrote: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f9690982b8c2f9a2c65acdc113e758ec356676a3 caused a regression by letting sched_clock use the TSC even when cpufreq disabled it. This caused scheduling

[Regression] Bluetooth RFComm: using it locks up the machine

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Lord
Any attempt to open/use a bluetooth rfcomm device locks up scheduling completely on my machine. Interrupts (ping, alt-sysrq) seem to be alive, but nothing else. This was working fine in 2.6.20, broken now in 2.6.21-rc2-git* Mar 4 09:43:52 silvy kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8 Mar 4 09:43:52

[PATCH] ext3: dirindex error pointer issues

2007-03-04 Thread Dmitriy Monakhov
- ext3_dx_find_entry() exit with out setting proper error pointer - do_split() exit with out setting proper error pointer it is realy painful because many callers contain folowing code: de = do_split(handle,dir, bh, frame, hinfo, retval); if (!(de))

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-03-04 Thread Andrew Nelless
On Mon, February 26, 2007 11:09 pm, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: Not sure if the timer override workaround for nvidia chipsets is the culprit, but if you want, you can choose to revert that to the previous behavior (which is ignoring ACPI timer override). Open

Re: [Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1] #error no ROMFS backing store interface configured

2007-03-04 Thread Maciej Rutecki
Andrew Morton napisał(a): +config ROMFS_ON_BLOCK + bool Block device-backed ROM file system support + depends on ROMFS_FS BLOCK + help + This permits ROMFS to use block devices buffered through the page + cache as the medium from which to retrieve data. It does

Re: [Regression] Bluetooth RFComm: using it locks up the machine

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Any attempt to open/use a bluetooth rfcomm device locks up scheduling completely on my machine. Interrupts (ping, alt-sysrq) seem to be alive, but nothing else. This was working fine in 2.6.20, broken now in 2.6.21-rc2-git* Further info: Reverting this change (below) fixes

Re: [Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1] #error no ROMFS backing store interface configured

2007-03-04 Thread David Howells
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we require that one of these be enabled if ROMFS. At least one, yes. Both can be enabled. I don't know how to do it though. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] configfs: add missing mutex_unlock()

2007-03-04 Thread Akinobu Mita
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:10:19PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 14:38:12 Akinobu Mita wrote: @@ -1168,8 +1168,10 @@ int configfs_register_subsystem(struct c   err = -ENOMEM; dentry = d_alloc(configfs_sb-s_root, name); -   if (!dentry) +   

Re: [Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1] #error no ROMFS backing store interface configured

2007-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:11:09PM +, David Howells wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we require that one of these be enabled if ROMFS. At least one, yes. Both can be enabled. I don't know how to do it though. How to solve it depends on the intended semantics. Is

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-git3 soft lockup detected on CPU#0 (crash dump kernel)

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 15:36 +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! [c1604556] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [c1604c2c] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [c1604cde] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 [c16426e7] softlockup_tick+0x97/0xa7 [c161de38] run_local_timers+0x12/0x14

Re: [Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1] #error no ROMFS backing store interface configured

2007-03-04 Thread David Howells
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is CONFIG_BLOCK=y CONFIG_ROMFS_FS=y CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK=n CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD=y a reasonable configuration that should be supported, or can we turn CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK always on if CONFIG_BLOCK=y? Hmmm... I don't really know the answer to

Re: userspace pagecache management tool

2007-03-04 Thread Rik van Riel
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:56:27 -0500 Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Doing a refault thing would help a bit, but stops working at a certain point. At what point does it stop working? We need to store that this-page-got-reclaimed info somewhere.

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-04 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Sunday 04 March 2007, schreef Willy Tarreau: Hi Con ! This was designed to be robust for any application since linux demands a general purpose scheduler design, while preserving interactivity, instead of optimising for one particular end use. Well, I haven't tested it yet, but your

[PATCH] Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library.

2007-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove the reference to an external mqueue library since that was merged into glibc in 2004. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index f977086..ed2e0d3 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -139,9 +139,7 @@ config

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v3

2007-03-04 Thread Kirk Kuchov
On 3/3/07, Davide Libenzi davidel@xmailserver.org wrote: snip Those *other* (tons?!?) interfaces can be created *when* the need comes (see Linus signalfd [1] example to show how urgent that was). *When* the need comes, they will work with existing POSIX interfaces, without requiring your own

Raid 10 Problems?

2007-03-04 Thread Marc Perkel
Running into a problem and not sure what I'm doing wrong. Created a software raid 10 array. Everything seems to be normal except that if you take the array down and run e2fsck on it there are always errors, mostly all little stuff and it recovers without losing any data. I'm running the latest

Re: [PATCH -mm][Take 2] clocksource init adjustments (fix bug #7426)

2007-03-04 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 15:24 -0800, john stultz wrote: Thus the solution here is to register clocksources earlier (ideally when the hardware is being initialized), and then we enable clocksource selection at fs_initcall (before device_initcall). When I was doing this in my tree I found that

Re: [PATCH] KCONFIG: Set the default for the deprecated sysfs entries to N.

2007-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:08:04AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Set the default for creating deprecated sysfs files to no. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Given that the help info for this entry states that None of these features or values should be used

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-git3 soft lockup detected on CPU#0 (crash dump kernel)

2007-03-04 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 04/03/07, Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 15:36 +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! [c1604556] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [c1604c2c] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [c1604cde] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 [c16426e7]

HR timers soft lockup on resume from suspend to ram

2007-03-04 Thread Frédéric RISS
Hi, With recent git versions, my system won't resume from suspend to ram. At resume time, the kernel hangs just after printing Enabling non-boot CPUs This is on a Core Duo system (Mac Mini). Looking at the BUG, it looks related to hrtimers. When the system is hung, and I press on the power

Re: [Regression] Bluetooth RFComm: using it locks up the machine

2007-03-04 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Mark, Any attempt to open/use a bluetooth rfcomm device locks up scheduling completely on my machine. Interrupts (ping, alt-sysrq) seem to be alive, but nothing else. This was working fine in 2.6.20, broken now in 2.6.21-rc2-git* Further info: Reverting this change (below)

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-git3 soft lockup detected on CPU#0 (crash dump kernel)

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 17:28 +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Can you please add initcall_debug and ignore_loglevel to the kernel command line ? Here is a full serial console log http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tbf/bitis-gabonica/2.6.21-rc2-git3-kdump/log.txt sk98lin: driver has been

[IPW3945] Can't load microcode

2007-03-04 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, I just downloaded the latest kernel drivers, daemon and microcode for my Intel Wireless card. everything built correctly, the microcode is placed in /lib/firmware and when running /etc/init.d/ipw3945d-start I get the following dmesg ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211:

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-git3 soft lockup detected on CPU#0 (crash dump kernel)

2007-03-04 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 04/03/07, Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 17:28 +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Can you please add initcall_debug and ignore_loglevel to the kernel command line ? Here is a full serial console log

Re: [IPW3945] Can't load microcode

2007-03-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 3/4/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just downloaded the latest kernel drivers, daemon and microcode for my Intel Wireless card. everything built correctly, the microcode is placed in /lib/firmware and when running /etc/init.d/ipw3945d-start I get the following dmesg Extra

Re: should RTS init in serial core be tied to CRTSCTS

2007-03-04 Thread Robin Getz
On Thu 1 Mar 2007 19:03, Mike Frysinger pondered: the console= bootcmd allows for controlling of the initial state of flow control by adding/omitting the 'r' suffix ... however, the uart_startup() function in serial_core.c always calls down into the serial driver with TIOCM_RTS: static int

Re: dlopen-like facility for conditional loading of symbols in modules (Re: Firmware for new ti_usb_3410_5052 devices)

2007-03-04 Thread Oleg Verych
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 06:51:51PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: [] It will solve problem of having multiple unneeded firmware images if driver handles many devices and firmware is allowed to be in the kernel. No need in additional secure infrastructure. This seems like a hacky way to

Re: HR timers soft lockup on resume from suspend to ram

2007-03-04 Thread Frédéric RISS
On dim, 2007-03-04 at 17:28 +0100, Frédéric RISS wrote: When the system is hung, and I press on the power button, I get this backtrace (copied from the screen, netconsole won't allow to capture it): BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! [c0155c88] softlockup_tick+0xa8/0x110 [c0130283]

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-git3 soft lockup detected on CPU#0 (crash dump kernel)

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 17:47 +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: sk98lin: driver has been replaced by the skge driver and is scheduled for removal Can you try without that one or with the skge driver instead ? Unfortunately the bug still appears. Would have been too easy :) sysrq-T and

Re: [PATCH] KCONFIG: Add some extra info regarding the kernel localversion.

2007-03-04 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 06:01:17 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote: A small formatting fix, and add a few lines describing the origin of the git-based localversion string for the kernel version. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/init/Kconfig

kernel threads locking data

2007-03-04 Thread Mockern
hi, how is better to lock data (a buffer) which is used by 2 kernel threads? thank you - 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: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1

2007-03-04 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 04/03/07, Mariusz Kozlowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll dig some more and try to catch some data. Ok. I started the system and it froze after approx. 5 min. of uptime. Scenario: - I logged into kde - started aterm - insmod netconsole ... blah blah - started azureus (downloading 1

Re: [PATCH] KCONFIG: Add some extra info regarding the kernel localversion.

2007-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 06:01:17 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote: A small formatting fix, and add a few lines describing the origin of the git-based localversion string for the kernel version. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-git3 soft lockup detected on CPU#0 (crash dump kernel)

2007-03-04 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 04/03/07, Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 17:47 +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: sk98lin: driver has been replaced by the skge driver and is scheduled for removal Can you try without that one or with the skge driver instead ? Unfortunately the bug

Re: [linux-dvb] 2.6.21-rc1-git2 is incompilable

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 16:47 +0100, Uwe Bugla wrote: dont take it too hard man... But I take it very hard as I want quality! Feel free to provide a high quality script for git snapshots, which compile with every .config you throw at them on every architecture. tglx - To unsubscribe

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1

2007-03-04 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 04/03/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/03/07, Mariusz Kozlowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll dig some more and try to catch some data. Ok. I started the system and it froze after approx. 5 min. of uptime. Scenario: - I logged into kde - started aterm - insmod

Re: [1/3] Bugfix: Don't use the TSC in sched_clock if unstable

2007-03-04 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sunday 04 March 2007 16:41, Guillaume Chazarain wrote: 2007/3/4, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What weirdnesses? Audio playback skipping (with no xrun), mouse stalls. Total freeze for 0.1~0.5 seconds. Note that I use the ondemand governor, but I reproduced the audio skipping even with

Re: kernel threads locking data

2007-03-04 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:04:48PM +0300, Mockern wrote: hi, how is better to lock data (a buffer) which is used by 2 kernel threads? if it's only used by the threads, and not by anything running in interrupt context, use a mutex. Documentation/mutex-design.txt has most of the info you'd

Re: Raid 10 Problems?

2007-03-04 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 4 2007 08:25, Marc Perkel wrote: I'm running the latest OpenVZ kernel 2.6.18. I'm not sure if this is a factor or not as the problem occurs without starting any VEs. I've never used raid 10 before (stripes on top of 2 mirrors) so I don't have anything to compare this with. I'm just

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-git3 soft lockup detected on CPU#0 (crash dump kernel)

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 18:15 +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tbf/bitis-gabonica/2.6.21-rc2-git3-kdump/log2.txt Kernel command line: irqpoll Misrouted IRQ fixup and polling support enabled It might be related to irqpoll. Not sure how to track

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Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v3

2007-03-04 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mar 04, 2007, at 11:23:37, Kirk Kuchov wrote: So here we are, 2007. epoll() works with files, pipes, sockets, inotify and anything pollable (file descriptors) but aio, timers, signals and user-defined event. Can we please get those working with epoll ? Something as simple as: [code

Re: [Regression] Bluetooth RFComm: using it locks up the machine

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Any attempt to open/use a bluetooth rfcomm device locks up scheduling completely on my machine. Interrupts (ping, alt-sysrq) seem to be alive, but nothing else. This was working fine in 2.6.20, broken now in 2.6.21-rc2-git* Further info: Reverting this

[PATCH] Fix 2.6.21 rfcomm lockups (2.6.21 regression)

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Any attempt to open/use a bluetooth rfcomm device locks up scheduling completely on my machine. Interrupts (ping, alt-sysrq) seem to be alive, but nothing else. This was working fine in 2.6.20, broken now in 2.6.21-rc2-git* Further info: Reverting this change (below) fixes

Re: [1/3] Bugfix: Don't use the TSC in sched_clock if unstable

2007-03-04 Thread Guillaume Chazarain
2007/3/4, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On what hardware? Pentium M 798 MHz - 2GHz And how many frequency transitions do you have per second? 10 in a kernel compile exhibiting audio skips. Anyway, the Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -263211549 ns) line in the dmesg I attached to the

macbook pro suspend to ram broken in linux-2.6.git HEAD

2007-03-04 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
a rather long git bisect session between v2.6.20 and HEAD identified the commit below this as the cause. please note that the machine does not return from resume and although all PM debug was turned on there is nothing in the logs. happens with a minimalistic setup (console only no audio/network

2.6.21-rc2 : Oops in rtc_cmos...

2007-03-04 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, My machine is Oopsing at boot time, and ends up in a panic when I have : CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS=y in my .config Here is a transcript of the Oops - no serial console at the moment - I made my best to copy without a mistake ! rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 Unable to

[PATCH] dvb-core: Fix several locking related problems.

2007-03-04 Thread Simon Arlott
Fix several instances of dvb-core functions using mutex_lock_interruptible and returning -ERESTARTSYS where the calling function will either never retry or never check the return value. These cause a race condition with dvb_dmxdev_filter_free and dvb_dvr_release, both of which are filesystem

Re: [PATCH] libata: warn if speed limited due to 40-wire cable (v2)

2007-03-04 Thread Stephen Clark
Bill Davidsen wrote: Alan Cox wrote: it seems broken to manipulate xfer_mask after returning from the driver's -mode_filter hook. this patch is more than just a speed-limited warning printk, afaics I actually suggested that order because the only way the printk can be done

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