Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity.

2008-02-26 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually I think the _GPL exports are really harmful - somebody distributing a binary module may claim he/she doesn't violate the GPL because the module uses only non-GPL exports. OTOH GPL symbols give They can claim that anyway. The can claim to be alien

Re: arcmsr areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:35:31 +0100 (CET) Nikola Ciprich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: Hi Andrew, thanks a lot for reply, I'm attaching requested information. please let me know if You need more information/testing, whatever. I'll be glad to help.

Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-26 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:32:41PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote: Hi Brad, Hello Boris, Bart, On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:57:06PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote: ... it would suggest the option 'hda=noprobe' was entered

Re: broken suspend in .2.6.25-rc3 on T61p (was Re: new regression in 2.6.25-rc3: no keyboard/lid acpi events on thinkpad T61p)

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:11:17AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Andrew is trying to get s2ram to work on Fedora: Please try s2ram, there's good chance it will just work. configure: error: Required libx86 was not found apt-get install libx86-dev?

Re: [2.6 patch] cris: proper defconfig setup

2008-02-26 Thread Jesper Nilsson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:28:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch moves the cris defconfigs to arch/cris/configs/ where they belong. As a side effect they can now directly be used through e.g. make ARCH=cris artpec_3_defconfig The default defconfig is set through

Re: Performance problems with 3ware 9500S-4LP and 2.6.25-rc3

2008-02-26 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello Andre, On Tuesday 26 February 2008 18:43:14 Andre Noll wrote: Hi we are experiencing massive performance problems with two of our Linux servers that contain 3ware controllers on a Tyan mainboard and a couple of 1T disks. During the daily cron job that uses rsync to sync a 500G file

Re: Proposal for proper durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jamie Lokier wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Nick Piggin wrote: Anyway, the idea of making fsync/fdatasync etc. safe by default is a good idea IMO, and is a bad bug that we don't do that :( Agreed... it's also disappointing that [unless I'm mistaken] you have to hack each filesystem to support

Re: [patch 3/6] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Jackson
return do_mbind(start, len, mode, mode_flags, nodes, flags); The intermingling of 'flags', 'mode' and 'mode_flags' to refer to the low bits, the high bits or all the bits of the flags field is handled fairly carefully in your patch, but can still be a bit difficult to keep track of which

Re: [PATCH 00/28] Swap over NFS -v16

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:50:42 +0100 Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 17:03 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: On Saturday February 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the NFS and net people's take on all of this? Well I'm only vaguely an NFS person, barely a net

Re: broken suspend in .2.6.25-rc3 on T61p (was Re: new regression in 2.6.25-rc3: no keyboard/lid acpi events on thinkpad T61p)

2008-02-26 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2008-02-26 12:46:13, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:11:17AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Andrew is trying to get s2ram to work on Fedora: Please try s2ram, there's good chance it will just work. configure: error: Required libx86 was not found

Re: [2.6 patch v2] cris: proper defconfig setup

2008-02-26 Thread Jesper Nilsson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:47:03PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch moves the cris defconfigs to arch/cris/configs/ where they belong. As a side effect they can now be used directly through e.g. make ARCH=cris artpec_3_defconfig The default defconfig is set through

Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 5/9] adaptive real-time lock support

2008-02-26 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2008-02-26 08:03:43, Gregory Haskins wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:03 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static inline void +prepare_adaptive_wait(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct adaptive_waiter *adaptive) ... +#define

Re: broken suspend in .2.6.25-rc3 on T61p (was Re: new regression in 2.6.25-rc3: no keyboard/lid acpi events on thinkpad T61p)

2008-02-26 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2008-02-26 13:10:01, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:59:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: if by 'custom' you mean the solution everyone agreed to work toward at the power management summit several years ago (hal/pm-utils) then, yes. I must have been on

-next build logs

2008-02-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Stephen, the allmodconfig builds at http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/branch/9/ seem to lack a few drivers even though they are properly enabled in the respective config. Is it simply because everything is rebuilt on top of a previous build? Do you mail only errors to maintainers or also

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity.

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Cox
From what I've seen its helped make binary module abusers more cautious. Those not using _GPL exports? In general. To be honest there is very little binary only stuff left now -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: broken suspend in .2.6.25-rc3 on T61p (was Re: new regression in 2.6.25-rc3: no keyboard/lid acpi events on thinkpad T61p)

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:59:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: if by 'custom' you mean the solution everyone agreed to work toward at the power management summit several years ago (hal/pm-utils) then, yes. I must have been on different summit... I believe it is bad to tie s2ram to

Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 5/9] adaptive real-time lock support

2008-02-26 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:06 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue 2008-02-26 08:03:43, Gregory Haskins wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:03 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static inline void

Re: [2.6.25-rc2-mm1] Oops in __kmalloc

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:18:55 +0100 Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, while booting up a notebook on 32 bit, this oopses appeared on the console after ext3 fsck: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/sklad/mem_oops/ It's 2.6.25-rc2-mm1, I can't find similar reports, is this known or

Re: epoll and shared fd's

2008-02-26 Thread Bodo Eggert
Michael Kerrisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) I did a s/internal kernel handle/open file description/ since that is the POSIX term for the internal handle. b) It seems to me that you text doesn't quite make the point explicit enough. I've tried to rewrite it; could you please check:

Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] Linux 2.6.25-rc3 - various unexported functions () on powerpc

2008-02-26 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:59:08PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Hi, The 2.6.25-rc3 kernel build fails on powerpc with allyesconfig config option, the .config has been attached. ... Builds fine here. Local problem (e.g. disk full) on your machine? cu Adrian Hi

RE: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity.

2008-02-26 Thread David Schwartz
David Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know who told you that or why, but it's obvious nonsense, Correct. Exports should be marked GPL if and only if they cannot be used except in a derivative work. If it is possible to use them without taking sufficient protectable

Re: broken suspend in .2.6.25-rc3 on T61p (was Re: new regression in 2.6.25-rc3: no keyboard/lid acpi events on thinkpad T61p)

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:16:11PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: On Tue 2008-02-26 13:10:01, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:59:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: if by 'custom' you mean the solution everyone agreed to work toward at the power management summit several

Re: 2.6.24-git: kmap_atomic() WARN_ON()

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:32:24 -0500 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + unsigned long flags; + + local_irq_save(flags); hm, couldnt we attach the irq disabling to some spinlock, in a natural way? Explicit flags

Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] Linux 2.6.25-rc3 - various unexported functions () on powerpc

2008-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:48:29PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:59:08PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Hi, The 2.6.25-rc3 kernel build fails on powerpc with allyesconfig config option, the .config has been attached. ... Builds

[PATCH 0/2] (was Re: [ofa-general] fmr pool free_list empty)

2008-02-26 Thread Pete Wyckoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:02 -0800: Ugh. [pw wrote:] Looking at the FMR dirty list unmapping code in ib_fmr_batch_release(), there is a section that pulls all the dirty entries onto a list that it will later unmap and put back on the free list. But it also

[PATCH 1/2] Revert IB/fmr_pool: ib_fmr_pool_flush() should flush all dirty FMRs

2008-02-26 Thread Pete Wyckoff
This reverts commit a3cd7d9070be417a21905c997ee32d756d999b38. The original commit breaks iSER reliably, making it complain: iser: iser_reg_page_vec:ib_fmr_pool_map_phys failed: -11 The FMR cleanup thread runs ib_fmr_batch_release() as dirty entries build up. This commit causes clean but

[PATCH 2/2] ib fmr pool: flush used clean entries

2008-02-26 Thread Pete Wyckoff
Commit a3cd7d9070be417a21905c997ee32d756d999b38 (IB/fmr_pool: ib_fmr_pool_flush() should flush all dirty FMRs) caused a regression for iSER and was reverted in e5507736c6449b3253347eed6f8ea77a28cf688e. This change attempts to redo the original patch so that all used FMR entries are flushed when

Re: + rcu-split-listh-and-move-rcu-protected-lists-into-rculisth.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-26 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Hi, Josh Triplett wrote: [I did not see this patch go by on any mailing list, so I replied to the -mm mail and CCed LKML.] Well I'm pretty sure to have always CC'ed LKML, see for example: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/150 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/151 Thanks,

(regression) kernel/timeconst.h bugs with HZ=128

2008-02-26 Thread David Brownell
I see these warnings on 32 bit ARM systems: CC kernel/time.o kernel/time.c: In function 'msecs_to_jiffies': kernel/time.c:472: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type kernel/time.c: In function 'usecs_to_jiffies': kernel/time.c:487: warning: integer constant is too large for

Re: Performance problems with 3ware 9500S-4LP and 2.6.25-rc3

2008-02-26 Thread Chris Snook
Andre Noll wrote: we are experiencing massive performance problems with two of our Linux servers that contain 3ware controllers on a Tyan mainboard and a couple of 1T disks. During the daily cron job that uses rsync to sync a 500G file system from another machine to the raid on the 3ware

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: make amd quad core 8 socket system not be clustered_box v2

2008-02-26 Thread Ravikiran Thirumalai
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:27:42PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Ravikiran Thirumalai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:46:25AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: If you can't support that in your hardware you're supposed to clear it. Hmm! How would

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 Regression Thinkpad acpi

2008-02-26 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:00:35PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: volume keys work. But anything through acpid does not. Even AC/battery switch is not signalized. So the bug may be somewhere else? Yeah, there is an EC-related

Re: [2.6.25 patch] drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c: fix 64bit division

2008-02-26 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hi Adrian. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:34:21PM +0200, Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Using ndelay() with a 64bit variable as parameter can result in build errors like the following on some 32bit systems when it results in a 64bit division: -- snip -- ... MODPOST 759

Is there a memory block device?

2008-02-26 Thread rzryyvzy
I know that tmpfs is a memmory filesystem. Is there a possibility to create also a memory block device? Is there a possibility to create for example a 1 GB memory block device (from the RAM)? -- E-Mail sent with anti-spam site TrashMail.net! Free disposable email addresses:

[PATCH] x86_64: Seperate mmconf for fam10h out from setup_64.c

2008-02-26 Thread Yinghai Lu
Seperate mmconf for fam10h out from setup_64.c Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile index 199f8b5..4f2b9ed 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile @@ -101,4 +101,6 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_64),y)

Re: extra bytes written to SATA DVD drive on kernel 2.6.23 till 2.6.24.2

2008-02-26 Thread Gerold Jury
It does happen with 2.6.22 too. Do you see any known pattern in these extra bytes ? Best Regards Gerold 2a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| 0010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 || * 0002 2a 00 00 00 00 40

Re: broken suspend in .2.6.25-rc3 on T61p (was Re: new regression in 2.6.25-rc3: no keyboard/lid acpi events on thinkpad T61p)

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:16:11 +0100 Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue 2008-02-26 13:10:01, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:59:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: if by 'custom' you mean the solution everyone agreed to work toward at the power management summit

Odd performance observation for RAID0

2008-02-26 Thread Joe Landman
Hi folks: I posted this in linux-raid, though I thought it might interest the kernel folks due to the subsystems in question. No responses there. Executive summary version: building a RAID0 across 2 large hardware RAIDed disks results in buffered I/O performance that is similar to a single

Re: epoll and shared fd's

2008-02-26 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote: Following up after quite some time: Davide Libenzi wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 12:57 AM, Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at

Re: Is there a memory block device?

2008-02-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:53:36 +0100, rzryyvzy said: I know that tmpfs is a memmory filesystem. Is there a possibility to create also a memory block device? Is there a possibility to create for example a 1 GB memory block device (from the RAM)? A better question would be: What problem are

Re: + rcu-split-listh-and-move-rcu-protected-lists-into-rculisth.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-26 Thread Josh Triplett
Franck Bui-Huu wrote: Josh Triplett wrote: [I did not see this patch go by on any mailing list, so I replied to the -mm mail and CCed LKML.] Well I'm pretty sure to have always CC'ed LKML, see for example: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/150 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/151 I

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-26 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi, I've bisected anyway and although the results are not absolutely conclusive, as I neared the end of the process, I was amongst a bunch of mac80211 patches. This set me on a path that resulted in me discovering that with the rt61pci driver, I can freeze my wireless network connection

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: make amd quad core 8 socket system not be clustered_box v2

2008-02-26 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Ravikiran Thirumalai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:27:42PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Ravikiran Thirumalai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:46:25AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

Re: epoll and shared fd's

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Kerrisk
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote: Following up after quite some time: Davide Libenzi wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 12:57 AM, Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: epoll design problems with common fork/exec patterns

2008-02-26 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote: Davide Libenzi wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, David Schwartz wrote: Eric Dumazet wrote: Events are not necessarly reported by descriptors. epoll uses an opaque field provided by the user. It's up to the user to properly chose a tag that

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert IB/fmr_pool: ib_fmr_pool_flush() should flush all dirty FMRs

2008-02-26 Thread Benny Halevy
Pete, the subject says PATCH 1/2 but I didn't see any follow-up message for PATCH 2/2. Just wondering :) Benny On Feb. 26, 2008, 10:27 -0800, Pete Wyckoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This reverts commit a3cd7d9070be417a21905c997ee32d756d999b38. The original commit breaks iSER reliably, making

Re: arcmsr areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load

2008-02-26 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Hi Andrew, no, right now I have the machine in the weird state, swap is empty (3GB), and so is bigger part of RAM (~100MB free), and the gcc crashes even when trying to compile c program with empty main function. so it doesn't seem to be problem with memory exhaustion. Hopefully the areca guys

Re: epoll and shared fd's

2008-02-26 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote: Okay -- I'll look at it some more. I am however loathe to drop the term open file description, because POSIX uses, as well as a number of other Linux man pages by now. Heh, POSIX. Now doesn't take a genius to see that file description and file

Re: oops when using git gc --auto

2008-02-26 Thread Otavio Salvador
Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 27 February 2008 00:22, Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello, Today I got this oops, someone has an idea of what's going wrong? Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0200 RIP: [802735c3] find_get_pages+0x3c/0x69 At this

Re: [dm-devel] Re: device mapper not reporting no-barrier-support?

2008-02-26 Thread Anders Henke
On Tue, Feb 26 2008 Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Feb 26 2008, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:20:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:26:15 +0100 Anders Henke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently stuck between Kernel LVM and DRBD, as I'm using Kernel

Re: [PATCH] bluetooth: delete timer in l2cap_conn_del()

2008-02-26 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Quel, Delete a possibly armed timer before kfree'ing the connection object. Solves: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/15/514 Reported-by:Quel Qun [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/bluetooth/l2cap.c |2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Index:

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert IB/fmr_pool: ib_fmr_pool_flush() should flush all dirty FMRs

2008-02-26 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:23:01AM -0800, Benny Halevy wrote: Pete, the subject says PATCH 1/2 but I didn't see any follow-up message for PATCH 2/2. Just wondering :) I think the problem's on your end ... I got it and so did marc: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsim=120405067313933w=2 -- Intel

Kconfig configuration restore bug [Was: x86: vSMP selection in config]

2008-02-26 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Roman. We discovered a situation where we could set a choice value in menuconfig but later when we either was running menuconfig or oldconfig the value were changed. I have created a minimal config that exhibit the error. It was created in a pure mechanical trial-and-error fashion. First the

Re: [dm-devel] Re: device mapper not reporting no-barrier-support?

2008-02-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Feb 26 2008, Anders Henke wrote: On Tue, Feb 26 2008 Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Feb 26 2008, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:20:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:26:15 +0100 Anders Henke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently

Re: [Bluez-devel] forcing SCO connection patch

2008-02-26 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Loius, --- linux-2.6.23/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c.orig 2008-02-25 17:17:11.0 +0900 +++ linux-2.6.23/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c 2008-02-25 17:30:23.0 +0900 @@ -1313,8 +1313,17 @@ hci_dev_lock(hdev); conn = hci_conn_hash_lookup_ba(hdev, ev-link_type, ev-bdaddr); - if (!conn) -

Re: [PATCH 00/37] Permit filesystem local caching

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 06:33, David Howells wrote: Suppose one were to take a mundane approach to the persistent cache problem instead of layering filesystems. What you would do then is change NFS's -write_page and variants to fiddle the persistent cache It is a requirement laid

Re: [2.6 patch v2] cris: proper defconfig setup

2008-02-26 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:04:02PM +0100, Jesper Nilsson wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:47:03PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch moves the cris defconfigs to arch/cris/configs/ where they belong. As a side effect they can now be used directly through e.g. make ARCH=cris

Re: [BUG] using smp_processor_id() in preemptible as suspending

2008-02-26 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:33:54AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:24:11 +0800 Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know whom I should mail to, could you cc the proper guy? Thanks. Hello, Dave, Would you be willing to try out the following (untested, might not even

[RFC/PATCH] ipg: add jumbo frame support kconfig option

2008-02-26 Thread Pekka J Enberg
From: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Convert the internal JUMBO_FRAME #ifdef to CONFIG_IP1000_JUMBO_FRAME proper and fix compilation errors. Cc: Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sorbica Shieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jesse Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert IB/fmr_pool: ib_fmr_pool_flush() should flush all dirty FMRs

2008-02-26 Thread Benny Halevy
Diabolical ;-) Thanks for the pointer! Benny On Feb. 26, 2008, 11:39 -0800, Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:23:01AM -0800, Benny Halevy wrote: Pete, the subject says PATCH 1/2 but I didn't see any follow-up message for PATCH 2/2. Just wondering :) I think

[RFC/PATCH] ipg: add jumbo frame support kconfig option

2008-02-26 Thread Pekka J Enberg
[ Sorry for the duplicate. I typoed Francois' email address. ] From: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Convert the internal JUMBO_FRAME #ifdef to CONFIG_IP1000_JUMBO_FRAME proper and fix compilation errors. Cc: Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sorbica Shieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jesse Huang

Re: [2.6 patch v2] cris: proper defconfig setup

2008-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:44:53PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:04:02PM +0100, Jesper Nilsson wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:47:03PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch moves the cris defconfigs to arch/cris/configs/ where they belong. As a side effect

[2.6 patch] mips: use KBUILD_DEFCONFIG

2008-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
With KBUILD_DEFCONFIG we don't have to ship a second copy of ip22_defconfig Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/mips/Makefile |2 arch/mips/defconfig | 1158 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1158 deletions(-)

[2.6 patch] m68k: use KBUILD_DEFCONFIG

2008-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
The default defconfig should be one from arch/m68k/configs/ arch/m68k/defconfig was not exactly identical to amiga_defconfig but also considering how long they have been without any update that doesn't seem to have been on purpose. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[2.6 patch] m32r: use KBUILD_DEFCONFIG

2008-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
With using KBUILD_DEFCONFIG we don't have to ship a second copy of m32700ut.smp_defconfig Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/m32r/Makefile |2 arch/m32r/defconfig | 863 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 863 deletions(-)

Re: [2.6 patch v2] cris: proper defconfig setup

2008-02-26 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Please name the tools that are that broken that they wouldn't apply this patch correctly and don't claim my patch was broken (or shut up). It is only one or two weeks ago we ended up with a zero size file in the kernel tree - and I do not know why. I just wanted to make sure we did not see

Re: [RFC] mmiotrace full patch, preview 1

2008-02-26 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:49:22 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please feed the diff through scritps/checkpatch.pl and consider addressing the things which it finds. I checked that, but I didn't think any of them were worth fixing. And since this is a work in progress and a in a

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-26 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:11:39PM +, Chris Clayton wrote: Sorry, but that's not the case. I find the same results as without the patches. With the parameter set to 'pid', the network connection fails very quickly, but with it set to 'simple' I can ping and ftp files to and from my

Re: Is there a memory block device?

2008-02-26 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, rzryyvzy wrote: I know that tmpfs is a memmory filesystem. Is there a possibility to create also a memory block device? Is there a possibility to create for example a 1 GB memory block device (from the RAM)? There are the /dev/ram* devices, created through kernel

Re: [PATCH] x86: vSMP selection in config

2008-02-26 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:43:49PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: find out vSMP setting is going away in config after make oldconfig vSMP need to PARAVIRT and PCI. so move PARAVIRT out of if PARAVIRT_GUEST, and make vSMP select PCI instead of depends on PCI after patch vSMP could stick there.

Re: [xfs-masters] Re: filesystem corruption on xfs after 2.6.25-rc1 (bisected, powerpc related?)

2008-02-26 Thread Eric Sandeen
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:13:56AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Tuesday, 26 of February 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:52:56AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: I'm not suggesting a partial revert; I just wonder which part of the change

Re: [2.6 patch v2] cris: proper defconfig setup

2008-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:58:02PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Please name the tools that are that broken that they wouldn't apply this patch correctly and don't claim my patch was broken (or shut up). It is only one or two weeks ago we ended up with a zero size file in the kernel tree

Re: 2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Mark McLoughlin wrote: @@ -371,6 +372,9 @@ void __init dmi_scan_machine(void) } } else { + if (e820_all_mapped(0xF, 0xF+0x1, E820_RAM)) + goto out; One issue with using the e820 map for this is that a

Intel 945GM: 2.6.25-rc3 report (with a possible regression)

2008-02-26 Thread Romano Giannetti
Hi, this mail is to give feedback about the 2.6.25-rc3 kernel, on an Ubuntu 7.10 system, running on a Toshiba Satellite U305. Video is a Intel 845GM, and I run 915resolution at start to make X happy with the correct widescreen resolution. A lot of data is collected here (if more is needed,

Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/2] ib fmr pool: flush used clean entries

2008-02-26 Thread Roland Dreier
This looks like a really nice approach to me. Olaf? - R. -- 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Proposal for "proper" durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jamie Lokier
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:26:50 + Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (It would be nicer if sync_file_range() > > took a vector of ranges for better elevator scheduling, but let's > > ignore that :-) > > Two passes: > > Pass 1: shove each of the segments into

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.36.1 hangs.

2008-02-26 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:36:12PM -1000, Glen Nakamura wrote: > Aloha, > > The "ext2_readdir() filp->f_pos fix" patch looks weird... > Perhaps the "filp->f_pos += le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len);" line should be > outside of the if statement like the indentation implies? good catch! At least it's what

Re: [PATCH] fbcon: replace mono_col macro with static inline

2008-02-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote: > Use __u32 for max_len to match the declaration of length in the > struct fb_bitfield. > > Suppresses sparse shadowed variable warnings from the nested max() > macros: > drivers/video/console/fbcon.h:130:8: warning: symbol '_x' shadows an earlier >

[RFC] ext3 freeze feature ver 0.2

2008-02-26 Thread Takashi Sato
Hi, Takashi Sato wrote: >>> Instead, I'd like the sec to timeout on freeze API in order to thaw >>> the filesystem automatically. It can prevent a filesystem from staying >>> frozen forever. >>> (Because a freezer may cause a deadlock by accessing the frozen filesystem.) >> >>I'm still not very

[BUG] using smp_processor_id() in preemptible as suspending

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Young
Hi, andrew I don't know whom I should mail to, could you cc the proper guy? Thanks. [ 118.331674] acpi LNXSYSTM:00: suspend [ 118.331674] Disabling non-boot CPUs ... [ 118.331674] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain. [ 118.331674] CPU1 attaching NULL sched-domain. [ 118.438750] CPU 1 is now

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-26 Thread Anders Eriksson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Could you try bisecting it down to the guilty commit using git-bisect? > > [ the "old" stuff got few hundred commits in 2.6.25 ] > > Thanks, Bart Ok, I got this: 852738f39258deafb3d89c187cb1a4050820d555 is first bad commit commit

Re: [linux-pm] Fundamental flaw in system suspend, exposed by freezer removal

2008-02-26 Thread David Newall
David Brownell wrote: > This "flaw" isn't a new thing, of course. I remember pointing out the rather > annoying proclivity of the PM framework to deadlock when suspend() tried to > remove USB devices ... back around 2.6.10 or so. Things have shuffled around > a bit, and gotten better in some

Re: [2.6.25-rc3] ACPI _PPC limiting processor speed...

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:29:24 + "Daniel J Blueman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > My 2.2GHz [1] Thinkpad T61 is unable to get past 1.2GHz, seemingly > > because of the _PPC ACPI objects [2]. > > > > Given that

[PATCH] bluetooth: delete timer in l2cap_conn_del()

2008-02-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Delete a possibly armed timer before kfree'ing the connection object. Solves: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/15/514 Reported-by:Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/bluetooth/l2cap.c |2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Index:

Re: 2.6.24 new perfmon kernel code base + libpfm + pfmon finally available!

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
* stephane eranian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have done that in the past. I will do this again. But if you look at > the patch as it is released, you will see that it is very large. Not > that easy to split for LKML review. If you want a feature merged upstream it is in your basic

Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-26 Thread Brad Rosser
Hello Boris, Bart, On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:57:06PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote: > > > > ... it would suggest the option 'hda=noprobe' was entered correctly? > > ok, let's try something else: change the line "#if 0"

Re: iwl4965 dropping packets and __dev_addr_discard: address leakage! da_users=1

2008-02-26 Thread Johannes Berg
> > Possibly because of the frequent renegotiating my iwl4965 card has > > been making, it has now decided it's not going to pass packets > > reliably until presumably next time I reboot. Can't say anything about that. > > I've noticed messages in syslog that I hadn't seen when things were > >

Re: 2.6.24-git: kmap_atomic() WARN_ON()

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + unsigned long flags; > + > + local_irq_save(flags); hm, couldnt we attach the irq disabling to some spinlock, in a natural way? Explicit flags fiddling is a PITA once we do things like threaded irq handlers, -rt, etc. Ingo -- To

Re: new regression in 2.6.25-rc3: no keyboard/lid acpi events on thinkpad T61p

2008-02-26 Thread Klaus S. Madsen
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:46:11 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:19:24 +0200 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On my T61p, 2.6.25-rc2 seems to get acpi events from keypresses > > such as Fn-F4 and lid open/close, prints them in /var/log/acpid > > and

Re: 2.6.24-git: kmap_atomic() WARN_ON()

2008-02-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Welcome to test this... (attached, not tested nor even compiled, really) Works, but I agree with Ingo vs. the stand alone irq_en/disable. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc3 hangs in early boot on Sun Ultra5

2008-02-26 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Mikael Pettersson writes: > Booting 2.6.25-rc3 on my Ultra5 causes a hang before or as > the console is switched over to the framebuffer. The console > output is (extrapolated from dmesg in -rc2 and handwritten > notes, as I don't have a serial cable to my U5): > > PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot

Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You could try passing the --callgraph option to opcontrol. > > > > Hmm, perhaps I am missing something but I don't think that does what > > sysprof does. At

Re: [RFC] mmiotrace full patch, preview 1

2008-02-26 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:42:00PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Quoting Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:49:22PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>the things which it finds. > >> > >>> +static DECLARE_MUTEX(kmmio_init_mutex); > >> > >>That's not a mutex. > >> >

Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Anton Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thanks, looks good to me - applied. > > Woah slow down guys. Did I miss the review? note that it was applied to x86.git#testing. It's as if Andrew applied something to -mm. This is not a guarantee of upstream merging (at all). Ingo --

Re: [PATCH] Memory Resource Controller Add Boot Option

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Menage
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - foo doesn't show up in /proc/cgroups > > Or we can print out the disable flag, maybe this will be better? > Because we can distinguish from disabled and not compiled in from > > /proc/cgroups. Certainly possible,

Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Anton Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This surprises me. Can you please elaborate on why oprofile is "much > less useful" than sysprof? see the thread you are replying to. > Anton - who has used oprofile to analyse and tune databases, JVMs, > compilers and operating systems.

Re: boot_delay broken ?

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Young
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:59:31PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:14:36 +0800 Dave Young wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb

Re: [PATCH] Memory Resource Controller Add Boot Option

2008-02-26 Thread Li Zefan
Paul Menage wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > - foo doesn't show up in /proc/cgroups >> >> Or we can print out the disable flag, maybe this will be better? >> Because we can distinguish from disabled and not compiled in from >> >>

Re: Sata-MV, Intergated Sata Device Support

2008-02-26 Thread saeed
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > ... > > > > Saeed: isn't this what your SOC patches already implemented for us? > > As near as I can tell, sata_mv now already has support for the 60x1C0. > > Saeed's stuff didn't support PCI though, and Jon Li is definitely talking > about PCI...

Re: [patch 2.6.25-rc2-git 1/2] atmel_tc library

2008-02-26 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:06:44 -0800 David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Which reminds me...you were talking about a patch that adds oneshot > > > > support for the count/compare clocksource and more cleanups, but I > > > > don't think I've seen it...? > > > > > > I avoid sending

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