On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:00:17 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
Should we copy Andrew or is someone else going to collect up all of these
patches?
Andrew is cowering in terror, because utrace goes tromping through this
code.
It would be rather good to get utrace moving along
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:17:04 +0800
Zhao Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We're using RHEL5 with kernel version 2.6.18-8.el5.
When doing a stress test on raw device for about 3-4 hours, we found
the soft lockup message in dmesg.
I know we're not reporting the bug on the latest kernel, but does
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:14:59 +0200
Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Morton napisa__(a):
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:03:17 +0200
Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa__(a):
The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-04-11-02-24.tar.gz has been uploaded
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:07:00 +0200
Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:43:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
OK. If you add initcall_debug to the kernel boot command line, what's the
last thing we call?
The last messages (handwritten, somewhat shortened
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:33:57 -0700
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is the call ordering ,
ktime_get()
ktime_get_ts() - read_seqretry(xtime_lock, seq)
getnstimeofday()
__get_realtime_clock_ts() - read_seqretry(xtime_lock, seq)
I wonder if there is a weird
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:39:25 +0200 Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 15:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
There used to be a cond_resched() in invalidate_mapping_pages() which would
have prevented this, but I rudely removed it to support
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:36:02 +0200 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, so I resurrected x86_64-mm-sched-clock-share.patch and
x86_64-mm-sched-clock64.patch. The x86_64 box hangs on boot when using
netconsole and printk timestamps too. Removing time from the kernel boot
command
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:42:57 +0200 Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jiri Kosina wrote:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Jiri Kosina wrote:
Could you please
- try booting without any HID devices plugged in (i.e. usb mice, usb
keyboards) if the problem persists?
- recompile
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:21:22 +0200 Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Remove duplicate work in kill_bdev().
It currently invalidates and then truncates the bdev's mapping.
invalidate_mapping_pages() will opportunistically remove pages from the
mapping. And truncate_inode_pages() will
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:31:52 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Jiri Kosina wrote:
- try booting without any HID devices plugged in (i.e. usb mice, usb
keyboards) if the problem persists?
- recompile 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 with git-hid.patch reverted to
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:45:39 +0200 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was proposing that i386 and x86_64 be given a new, lockless,
high-resolution printk_clock(). Presently x86 uses the default
printk_clock(), which uses sched_clock(). Presumably copying the
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:43:03 -0700
Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
hm. People (ab)use sched_clock() for all sorts of things nowadays. I
wouldn't
do anything to degrade it just on behalf of printk-timestamping.
printk was the only non-scheduler
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:27:27 +0200
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Add a blink driver for debugging
Simple driver that blinks the keyboard LEDs when loaded. Useful
for checking that the kernel is still alive or for crashdumping.
The kdump kernel currently typically doesn't give any
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:38:30 -0600
Cameron Schaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am running the latest FC5-i686-smp kernel, 2.6.20, on a machine with
8Gb of RAM, and 2 Xeon processors. The system has a 750Mb ramdisk,
and one process allocating and deallocating memory that is also
writing lots of
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:57:23 +0100
David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmmm you're right. Is your security work going into the next -mm?
I don't know. Andrew hasn't said anything. Andrew? Are you waiting for it
to go through DaveM's networking tree?
AF_RXRPC is a davem thing and
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:28:08 +0200
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if this facility would be more effective if it were to use
schedule_delayed_work(). That way, we're using more of the kernel and it
will more reliably detect kernel deadness.
Hmm, maybe
??
+static void
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:17:40 +0200 (MEST)
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the following patch series turns some menus into menuconfigs, so they
can be disabled whilst walking thorugh the parent menu
So I merged the 23 of these which survived review and which do not
intersect with
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:52:49 +1000
CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:13:00AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:43:19 +1000 CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I take minute by minute snapshots of network traffic by sampling
/proc/net/dev and most
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:10:50 -0700
William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:43:30PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
This patch series introduces /proc/pid/pagemap and /proc/kpagemap,
which allow detailed run-time examination of process memory usage at a
page
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:16:35 +0200 (MEST)
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 12 2007 15:50, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:17:40 +0200 (MEST)
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the following patch series turns some menus into menuconfigs, so they
can
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:15:24 +1000 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ ((char *)page)[1] = PAGE_SHIFT;
OK.
Shouldn't we just expose page size and endianness by other means? (another
file or
syscall).
I don't think so - this file exposes fairly deep kernel
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:14:20 +1000 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:15:24 +1000 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ for (; i 2 * chunk / KPMSIZE; i += 2, pfn++) {
+ ppage = pfn_to_page(pfn
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:42:29 +1000 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:14:20 +1000 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
It *will* be viable. If the application wants to know if a page is dirty,
it looks up PG_dirty
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:18:56 +1000 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess one could generate an answer to the static question with systemtap,
by accumulating running counts across the application lifetime and then
snapshotting them. Sounds hard though.
Can't you just traverse
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:54:28 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Maybe someone here knows better.
I have several user-mode processes using shared mmap. There can be several
reader processes and only one writer. Readers access the shared region
frequently, writer seldom.
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:45:37 +0200 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cache_k8_northbridges() is storing config values to incorrect locations
(in flush_words) and also its overflowing beyond the allocation, causing
slab verification failures.
Oops. Thanks for tracking that down,
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:24:36 -0500 Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It *will* be viable. If the application wants to know if a page is dirty,
it looks up PG_dirty in /proc/pg_foo-to-bitnumber and uses PG_dirty's
numerical offset when inspecting fields in /proc/kpagemap. If correctly
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:24:51 -0500 Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From /proc/kpagemap + /proc/*/pagemap, you can
basically synthesize any statistic you want, including all the
existing ones. For some data, /proc/pid/smaps (or /proc/meminfo) will
be considerably more efficient.
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:58:56 -0400
Jeffrey Layton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A while back, Christoph mentioned that he thought that iunique ought to be
cleaned up to use a more conventional loop construct. This patch does that,
turning the strange goto loop into a do/while.
Signed-off-by:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:16:39 -0700
Richard Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:01:10PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
[CIX stuff reworked, .got change dropped as Richard suggested]
Override compiler .arch directive for generic kernel build.
Signed-off-by:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:08:38 -0400
Jeff Layton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ino_t iunique(struct super_block *sb, ino_t max_reserved)
{
static ino_t counter;
struct inode *inode;
struct hlist_head * head;
ino_t res;
spin_lock(inode_lock);
do {
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:13:32 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On top of Eric's
kthread-dont-depend-on-work-queues-take-2.patch
Currently kernel threads use sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK) to protect against
signals.
This
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:02:01 +0400
Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If kernel_thread(kthread) succeeds, kthread() can not fail on its path to
complete(create-started) + schedule(). After that it can't be woken because
nobody can see the new task yet. This means:
- we don't need
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:23:12 -0500
Stephen Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Make cciss unconditionally include scsi/scsi.h
For what reason?
From: Stephen M. Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/block/cciss.c |1 +
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:51:29 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:02:01 +0400
Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If kernel_thread(kthread) succeeds, kthread() can not fail on its path to
complete(create
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:39:36 -0400
Jason Lunz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:15:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
All of ZONE_NORMAL got used by ramdisk, and networking wants to
allocate a page from ZONE_NORMAL. An oom-killing is the correct
response, although probably
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:54:33 -0700
William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:46:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
It's just weird - it exploits internal knowledge of VFS behaviour, diddles
with pagecache within a fake disk strategy handler, etc.
Furthermore
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:20:21 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sunday, 18 February 2007 20:43, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:44:54 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sunday, 18 February 2007 06:51, Andrew Morton wrote
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:24:33 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Kok, Auke wrote:
I think we need to drop this now. The report that says that this *fixes*
something might have been on regular interrupts only. I currently suspect
that
it breaks
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:31:41 -0500
Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greg KH wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.5 release.
This will probably be the last release of the 2.6.19-stable series, so
if there are patches that you feel should be applied to
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:03:35 -0800
Siddha, Suresh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ int cpu = smp_processor_id(), idle_at_tick = idle_cpu(cpu);
argh. Please, do
int cpu = smp_processor_id();
int idle_at_tick = idle_cpu(cpu);
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:08:42 -0800
Siddha, Suresh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Changes since v1:
- Move the idle load balancer selection from schedule()
to the first busy scheduler_tick() after restarting the tick.
This will avoid the unnecessay ownership changes when
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:11:55 +0100
Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about this?
I still don't understand this bug.
Solves the FUSE deadlock, but not the throttle_vm_writeout() one.
I'll try to tackle that one as well.
If the per-bdi dirty counter goes below 16,
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:13:56 -0500
Josef Sipek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 08:37:34AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
On 2/20/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CC fs/unionfs/copyup.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.20-mm2/fs/unionfs/copyup.c: In
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:29:04 +0100
Petr Tesak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've found a bug when executing scripts:
You've found more than that.
When a script is loaded, load_script() replaces argv[0] with the
name of the interpreter and the filename passed to the exec syscall.
However,
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:01:27 + Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Misc audit patches (resend again...); the most intrusive one is AUDIT_FD_PAIR,
allowing to log descriptor numbers from syscalls that do not return them in
usual way (i.e. pipe() and socketpair()). It took some massage of
the
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:00:39 -0500 Josef Sipek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't say more until I've managed to understand your description, which
might take a while.
It is intended for reallocation of a buffer. The code in lookup.c allocates
some memory, and it may have to reallocate the
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:35:16 +1100
NeilBrown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ for (i = conf-raid_disks ; i-- ; ) {
That statement should be dragged out, shot, stomped on then ceremonially
incinerated.
What's wrong with doing
for (i = 0; i conf-raid_disks; i++) {
in a manner
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:36:22 +0100
Oleg Verych [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Andrew Morton
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.raid,gmane.linux.kernel
Subject: Re: [PATCH 006 of 6] md: Add support for reshape of a raid6
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:48:06 -0800
Hallo.
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:35:16
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:51:52 +0100 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_ctime and
st_mtime as defined by SUSv3:
The st_ctime and st_mtime fields of a file that is mapped with
MAP_SHARED and PROT_WRITE shall be marked for
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:53:12 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Some generic early printk boot console fixups
(already sent to lkml).
hm, this patch series seems to have gone out of its way to cause problems.
This particular (pathetically changelogged) patch is already in my
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:42:26 +0100 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Index: linux/mm/page-writeback.c
===
--- linux.orig/mm/page-writeback.c2007-02-19 17:32:41.0
+0100
+++
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:10:39 -0600 Mike Miller (OS Dev) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Patch 1/2
This patch changes the way we determine if a logical volume is larger than
2TB. The
original test looked for a total_size of 0. Originally we added 1 to the
total_size.
That would make our
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:12:51 -0600 Mike Miller (OS Dev) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
@@ -3293,6 +3327,12 @@ #endif
((hba[i]-nr_cmds + BITS_PER_LONG -
1) / BITS_PER_LONG) * sizeof(unsigned long));
+ if (notify_count == 0) {
+
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:39:56 +1100 Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I must right code that Andrew can read.
That's write.
But more importantly, things that people can immediately see and understand
help reduce the possibility of mistakes. Now and in the future.
If we did all loops like
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:18:45 +0900
OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I usually run the following twice to get the hang state:
time ./trunc_test bar 1
time ./trunc_test baz 1
I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:22:17 -0500 (EST)
Alan Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
It seems like usb-storage and aio are completely off in the weeds.
Ideas?
It seems usb-storage should remove some kmalloc and use mempool() for
urb
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:50:23 -0500 (EST)
Alan Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ if ((gfp_mask (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) {
Is that really the correct test? I don't know enough about the memory
management subsystem to say one way or the other. What's special about
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:22:47 -0500 Stephen Smalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 16:03 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
Looking at the changes to audit_receive_msg():
if (sid) {
if (selinux_sid_to_string
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:04:08 +0100 Pierre Ossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michal Piotrowski wrote:
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a):
The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-02-21-22-18.tar.gz has been uploaded to
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:51:06 +
David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ brelse(bh);
A little fyi: brelse() is rather old-fashioned, and has a usually unneeded
test for non-null bh in it. In situations where we know that the pointer is
valid, let's please use put_bh().
Anyway,
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:20:06 -0600 Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ if ((gfp_mask (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) {
The second seems to make more sense. I tested with the first last
night which didn't help.
With the proper patch in place things look good. Is
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:51:23 -0600 Mike Miller (OS Dev) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 07:14:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:10:39 -0600 Mike Miller (OS Dev) [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
Patch 1/2
+ if (total_size == 0x
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:35:38 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i just got the lockdep warning below when doing:
echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
is this a known quirk in the drop_caches code?
It is - we're taking inode_lock at just the wrong level there and I don't
know how to
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:41:11 +0100 Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 09:19 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
At this point the PIT / HPET _is_ active and incrementing jiffies. The
switch to local apic timers happens afterwards.
Could be the switch over then
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:04:07 -0800 (PST) pgf111000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These solutions are laughable
Areca Support wrote:
Dear Sir,
This is Kevin Wang from Areca Technology, Tech-Support Team.
regarding your problem, please trying to disable ACPI in kernel loader.
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:38:03 +0200 Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I tested this:
commit 9654640d0af8f2de40ff3807d3695109d3463f54
and see 2 issues:
1. After suspend to RAM, system wakes up but no screen.
I can log in through ssh though.
dmesg output at this point below.
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:52:29 -0600 Mike Miller (OS Dev) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:06:41PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:02 -0600, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote:
Will this patch for my patch work for now?
Yes, I think that should be fine
(cc's restored. Please, always do reply-to-all)
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:57:27 + (UTC) Mark Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i2o/hda:3Buffer I/O error on device i2o/hda, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device i2o/hda, logical block 0
Same error here. Both 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 kernels,
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:25:05 +0100 Sacher Khoudari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- linux-2.6.20.1/drivers/pnp/isapnp/core.c.old 2007-02-23
16:20:46.0 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.20.1/drivers/pnp/isapnp/core.c 2007-02-23 16:21:25.0
+0100
@@ -943,9 +943,7 @@
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:35:50 - (GMT) Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
2.6.21-rc1 fails to boot on my machine. As soon as I switch
from grub the screen turns and remains black with no sign
of Tux or any output.
I've run a git-bisect between 2.6.20 (which works fine) and
2.6.21-rc1
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:54:24 +0100 Uwe Bugla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
Second attempt now:
I already reported to Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton that it is impossible
to mount a conventional floppy drive without hanging up the whole system.
Andrew's reaction was quite ambiguous
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:30:41 -0600 Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
--
From: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is a kernel oops on bcm43xx when resuming due
What an unpleasing patchset. I really really hope we really have a bug in
there, and that all this crap isn't pointless uglification.
We _do_ need a flush_dcaceh_page() in all cases which you're concerned
about. Perhaps we should stick the appropriate barriers in there.
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:08:11 +0100 Markus Rechberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
following patch prevents a mutex/semaphore deadlock within the pcmcia
framework when ejecting devices multiple times using pccardctl eject.
For some more details see:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/19/58
---
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:58:23 +0200 Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Avi Kivity wrote:
The patchset, along with the previous fixset, is available as a git
tree from git://kvm.qumranet.com/home/avi/kvm/linux-2.6. You may wish
to plant it in your little git forest.
This is now
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:27:12 + J.J. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
I got bitten by this problem on sparc64 (a blade 1000)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=297474
summary :
modprobe bbc
runs kenvctrld which uses 100% of a CPU for 5 seconds,
then 0% for 5
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:36:03 +1100 Dave Airlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've also got rid of the horrible populate API, and integrated nonlinear
pages
properly with the page fault path.
Downside is that this adds one more vector through which the buffered write
deadlock can occur.
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:35:17 -0800 Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The kernel already has several implmentations and usages of 64 by 64
bit divide.
Although it is significantly slower, there are places that need it so
provide one generic version using scaling, and allow
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:38:00 +0100 Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
kbuild spits outs following warning on a
defconfig x86_64 build:
WARNING: swiotlb.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:swiotlb_init
from __ksymtab between '__ksymtab_swiotlb_init' (at offset 0xa0) and
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:54:17 -0800 Inaky Perez-Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Monday 26 February 2007 16:33, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:13:38PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Introduce down_interruptible_timeout() using timers to make the waiter
stop
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:39:57 + (GMT) James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Here is the second round to the new display class. This is meant to unite
the various solutions to display units ie acpi output device, auxdisplay
and the defunct lcd class in the backlight directory. Please
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:53:02 +0100 Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any easy way to get cross-compile tools on ubuntu other than using Dan Kegel's
toolset or Linux Foundation precompield versions?
Not that I know of - it's all rather non-trivial.
I have uploaded a bunch of precompiled
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:15:30 +0100 Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Andrew, all,
I appear to need the following fix to be able to build 2.6.20-mm2 on
x86_64. Without the fix, my build attempt dies on:
In file included from drivers/pci/quirks.c:532:
include/asm/io_apic.h:61:
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:10:36 +0530 Aneesh Kumar K.V [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
From: Aneesh Kumar K.V [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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arch/i386/kernel/ldt.c |2 +-
arch/x86_64/kernel/ldt.c |2 +-
kernel/fork.c|2 +-
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On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:00:31 + Simon Arlott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When the device is polled for status there is a lot of useful status
information available that is ignored. This patch stores the device
info array when the status is polled and adds sysfs files to the usb
device to
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:06:55 -0800 Siddha, Suresh B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
move_native_irqs tries to do the right thing when migrating irqs
by disabling them. However disabling them is a software logical
thing, not a hardware thing. This has always been a little flaky
and after
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:27:00 -0800 akuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wolfgang Wander submitted a fix to address a mmap fragmentation issue.
The git patch ( 1363c3cd8603a913a27e2995dccbd70d5312d8e6 ) is somewhat
different and yields different results when running Wolfgang's test case
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:28:19 -0600 Marc St-Jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[PATCH] drivers: PMC MSP71xx GPIO char driver
Patch to add a GPIO char driver for the PMC-Sierra
MSP71xx devices.
This patch references some platform support files previously
submitted to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:06:21 +0300 Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
page_lock_anon_vma() uses spin_lock() to block RCU. This doesn't work with
PREEMPT_RCU, we have to do rcu_read_lock() explicitely. Otherwise, it is
theoretically possible that slab returns anon_vma's memory to the system
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:18:40 -0800 Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:24:37 -0800
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:35:17 -0800 Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The kernel already has several implmentations
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:42:39 -0600 Mike Miller (OS Dev) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This patch supercedes yesterdays cciss-shutdown patch. The primary difference
is
removing __devexit from cciss_remove_one. Instead of create another function
I'd
rather use the code that was intended to
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:51:54 -0800 Stephane Eranian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I have come across an issue with a monitoring using the
hardware debug registers on ia64/i386/x86-64.
It seems that the way debug registers are inherited across fork
differs between ia-64 and i386/x86-64.
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:11:11 +0900
Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:31:20PM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
This patch changes arch_setup_additonal_pages() to honor vdso_enabled.
For i386 it also allows the option of a fixed addresss to avoid
fragmenting the address
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:34:10 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8100
Summary: dynticks makes ksoftirqd1 use unreasonable amount of cpu
time
Kernel Version: 2.6.21-rc2
Status: NEW
Severity: low
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:22:11 +
Ralf Baechle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sysdev.h uses THIS_MODULE so should include linux/module.h.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff --git a/include/linux/sysdev.h b/include/linux/sysdev.h
index 389ccf8..e699ab2 100644
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:45:00 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florin Iucha) wrote:
Hello, it's me and my 70 GB of photos again.
I have tested both CIFS and NFSv4 clients in kernel 2.6.20-rc1 . CIFS
passed with flying colors and NFSv4 stalled after 7 GB.
Configuration:
Server: PIII/1GHz, 512
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:10:37 -0800 Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
How come I'm the only person around here with a Reply button?
Looking into the thread flags, I found out that some architecture
specific kernel functions (in 2.6.20) sets the thread flags with non
atomic
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:22:00 -0500 Prarit Bhargava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Replace call_smp_function with stop_machine_run in the Intel RNG driver.
CPU A has done read_lock(lock)
CPU B has done write_lock_irq(lock) and is waiting for A to release the lock.
A third CPU calls
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:38:12 +0100 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This deadlock happens, when dirty pages from one filesystem are
written back through another filesystem. It easiest to demonstrate
with fuse although it could affect looback
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