On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:37:57 +0200 Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What we could do is add a I am revoked flag to struct file which
blocks any future -readpage, -readpages, and -direct_IO on the
file. Alternatively, we could change the -f_mapping to point to an
address space that has
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:16:39 + Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does freeze_processes() / unfreeze_processes() solve this by only
freezing processes that have voluntarily scheduled (opposed to just
being preempted)?
It goes much much further than that. Those processes need to
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:31:49 + Keir Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 16/3/07 09:58, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These mb()'s are pretty standard for lock-free producer/consumer
rings. Write descriptor /then/ write the updated producer. Read the
producer /then/ read any
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:07:14 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Subject: Add a sched_clock paravirt_op
The tsc-based get_scheduled_cycles interface is not a good match for
Xen's runstate accounting, which reports everything in nanoseconds.
This patch replaces this
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:27:29 + Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:16:39 + Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does freeze_processes() / unfreeze_processes() solve this by only
freezing processes that have voluntarily scheduled
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:32:30 +0200 S.Çağlar Onur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi;
31 Oca 2007 Çar tarihinde, [EMAIL PROTECTED] şunları yazmıştı:
The patch titled
kvm: Fix asm constraint for lldt instruction
has been added to the -mmtree. Its filename is
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:16:15 +0530 Srinivasa Ds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ if (p-pre_handler == pre_handler_kretprobe)
This breaks on sparc64:
kernel/kprobes.c: In function `report_probe':
kernel/kprobes.c:826: error: `pre_handler_kretprobe' undeclared (first use in
this function)
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To
: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/i386/lib/Makefile |2
arch/i386/lib/msr-on-cpu.c | 70 +
arch/x86_64/lib/Makefile |2
arch/x86_64/lib/msr-on-cpu.c
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:03:33 -0600 Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In kernel version 2.6.20, my network interface, a Uniden PCN 300 PCMCIA card
that uses the 8139too
driver fails to initialize with Yenta and 8139too as modules. It worked
correctly in 2.6.19. Using
git bisect, the bad
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:24:44 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I backed out x86_64-mm-msr-on-cpu.patch (again) and went with Alexey's
second version (again). It works fine.
I think I'll just drop the thing. Nuisance:gain seems to be out of order
It hasn't caused me any
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:29:19 -0800 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a patch, tested both ways (SYSFS=y, SYSFS=n).
---
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix source files to build with CONFIG_SYSFS=n.
module_subsys is not available.
erk. Can we get some stubs in the header
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:50:40 -0800 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2.6.20-git8 on x86_64:
LD init/built-in.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
mm/built-in.o: In function `sys_mincore':
(.text+0xe584): undefined reference to `swapper_space'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
oops.
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:27:42 -0600 James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When discussion about TRUE and FALSE came up a long time a go in the
context of the mid layer we agreed to strip the defined constants out of
that code and just go with 1 and 0 inline ... because the code was
pretty
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:35:10 +0300 Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew, do you consider kevent for inclusion or declining?
I haven't had time to think about it in the past month or two, sorry.
However we might as well get it back in there for review-and-test - please
send a new
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:10:13 -0500 (EST) Pete Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
2.6.20-git8 fails compile:
CHK include/linux/compile.h
UPD include/linux/compile.h
CC init/version.o
LD init/built-in.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
net/built-in.o: In function
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:53:37 -0800 Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
diff -puN fs/file_table.c~14-24-tricky-elevate-write-count-files-are-open-ed
fs/file_table.c
--- lxc/fs/file_table.c~14-24-tricky-elevate-write-count-files-are-open-ed
2007-02-09 14:26:54.0 -0800
+++
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:51:23 +0100 Miguel Ojeda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew, Daniel who reported the crash has tested this patch and says that it
works fine avoiding it, so you can merge.
drivers-add-lcd-support-fix-crash-when-built-in-and-no-parport-present.patch
Signed-off-by: Miguel
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:23:30 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[PATCH v4] Fix rmmod/read/write races in /proc entries
This:
static ssize_t
proc_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct inode *inode =
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:58:16 -0800 Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yipes. A new mount-wide spin_lock/unlock for each for-writing open() and
close().
Can we have a microbenchmark on this please?
Yeah, I'll schedule some dbench time on a NUMA machine.
dbench doesn't do open() a
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:40:56 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linux please pull from
git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6
This is not all, but I pruned lots of stuff that still wasn't
quite ready. Less is more I guess.
I guess this means that hrtimersdynticks
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:24:43 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it's only a few pages you don't need any resource accounting. If
it's more then it's nasty to steal the users quota. I think plain
gup() would be better.
get_user_pages() would have to be limited in some way -
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:48:39 -0800 Stephane Eranian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have released another version of the perfmon new code base package.
Can we have a bug push to get this merged up please?
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:55:31 -0600 Eric Van Hensbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
+int v9fs_prepare_write(struct file *file, struct page *page,
+unsigned from, unsigned to)
+{
+ if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
+ if (to - from != PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) {
+
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:55:31 -0600 Eric Van Hensbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
+static int v9fs_vfs_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control
*wbc)
+{
+ char *buffer = NULL;
+ struct address_space *mapping = page-mapping;
+ int retval = -EIO;
+ loff_t offset
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:55:31 -0600 Eric Van Hensbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
+static ssize_t
+v9fs_file_write(struct file *filp, const char __user * data,
+ size_t count, loff_t * offset)
+{
+ struct inode *inode = filp-f_path.dentry-d_inode;
+
+ ssize_t ret;
+
+
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:07:44 -0600 Eric Van Hensbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 2/13/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:55:31 -0600 Eric Van Hensbergen [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
+int v9fs_prepare_write(struct file *file, struct page *page
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:05:44 +1100 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
libfs.c is wrong. Nick has fixes, but they got tangled up in other stuff.
Yeah. 1/9 in that series should be applied on its own and sent upstream.
Need me to resend?
Yes please.
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On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:43:17 +0300 Vitaly Wool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
^^^ Sorry.
Hello Andrew,
probing for UART_BUG_TXEN in 8250 driver leads to weird effects on some ARM
boards (pnx4008 for instance). That is, the driver detects UART_BUG_TXEN
(though it apparently
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:37:52 +0300 Vitaly Wool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/14/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think this should be a module option/boot parameter, not a config-time
option.
Hmm, why? I can't think of a platform where one 8250-compatible UART
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:41:53 -0800
Vitaly Wool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/14/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:37:52 +0300 Vitaly Wool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm, why? I can't think of a platform where one 8250-compatible UART is
problematic
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:11:19 +1100
Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NeilBrown wrote:
Another nfsd patch for 2.6.21...
### Comments for Changeset
When NFSD receives a write request, the data is typically in a number
of 1448 byte segments and writev is used to collect them
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:43:35 -0800
Trond Myklebust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Trond Myklebust [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix invalidate_inode_pages2_range() so that it does not immediately exit
just because a single page in the specified range could not be removed.
One man's fix is another
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:43:38 -0800
Trond Myklebust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Trond Myklebust [EMAIL PROTECTED]
invalidate_inode_pages2() should not try to fix races between direct_IO and
mmap(). It should only be trying to clear out pages that were dirty before
the direct_IO write (see
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:29:32 -0800
Stephane Eranian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 02:05:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:48:39 -0800 Stephane Eranian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have released another version of the perfmon new code base package
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:51:33 +0300 Ananiev, Leonid I [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Fix kernel bug when IO page is temporally busy:
invalidate_inode_pages2_range() returns EIOCBRETRY but not EIO.
invalidate_inode_pages2() returns EIO as earlier.
Signed-off-by: Leonid Ananiev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:12:57 -0600 Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Convert over to the new NMI handling for getting IPMI watchdog
timeouts via an NMI. This add config options to know if there
is the ability to receive NMIs and if it has an NMI post processing
call. Then it modifies
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:05:56 +1100 Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Morton writes:
This is all fairly unpleasant.
What architecture is preventing us from using DIE_NMI_POST on all
architectures which support ipmi? ia64?
It would be better to simply require that all
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:42:26 + Ralf Baechle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Time for a little bit of dead horse flogging.
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:05:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
--- a/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:09:38 + David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These patches provide a GPG-based kernel module signing facility. Their use
is
not fully automated within the confines of the kernel build process because it
needs provision of keys from outside of the kernel before
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:18:12 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
local_t : powerpc extension
This diff contains changes which are also present in [PATCH 07/10]
atomic.h : Add atomic64 cmpxchg, xchg and add_unless to powerpc, resulting
in rather a mess.
I dropped the duplicated
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:03:22 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You will find, in the following posts, the latest revision of the Linux Kernel
Markers.
looks for the documentation
And what can I do with these markers?
And once I've done it, are there any userspace applications
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:03:27 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linux Kernel Markers, non optimized architectures
This patch also includes marker code for non optimized architectures.
I think once we've done this we can nuke
CONFIG_MARKERS_ENABLE_OPTIMIZATION? (Please, let it
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:03:24 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linux Kernel Markers, architecture independant code.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
+
+#ifndef MARK
+#define MARK GEN_MARK
+#define MARK_ENABLE_TYPE GEN_MARK_ENABLE_TYPE
+#define
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:07:40 -0800 Sriram Chidambaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch provides the Fabric7 VIOC driver source code.
This git mbox patch is built against
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git
The patch can be pulled from
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:02:11 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Add clockevent drivers for i386: lapic (local) and PIT (global). Update
the timer IRQ to call into the PIT driver's event handler and the
lapic-timer IRQ to call into the lapic clockevent driver. The
assignement of
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:06:24 -0600 Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Add pci_remove handling to the driver, so it will clean up if
the device is hot-removed.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: linux-2.6.19/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:40:32 +0100 Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Contact fbcon people...
There aren't any, basically. Since Tony disappeared James has been helping out
but doesn't have a lot of time. So we're pretty much on our own with problems
in
this area.
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:43:41 +0100 Blaisorblade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I sent an equivalent patch in earlier today:
Doh! Interesting this timing...
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86_64/ia32/ptrace32.c
===
---
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:08:06 +1100 Nigel Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch add x86_64 support for PM_TRACE, and shifts per-arch code to
the appropriate subdirectories.
ia64 allmodconfig:
include/linux/resume-trace.h:4:30: asm/resume-trace.h: No such file or directory
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:28:23 -0500 (EST)
James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hit a BUG() via lvm:
Scanning logical volumes
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group VolGroup00 using metadata type lvm2
Activating logical volumes
[ 75.215078]
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:34:41 +
Ralf Baechle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:39:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
Can someone please tell us how this magic works? (And it does appear to
work).
It seems to assuming that the compiler will assume that members
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:37:20 +0100
Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Morton napisa__(a):
Temporarily at
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-mm1/
Will appear later at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm1
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:06:23 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Add missing #include linux/irq.h, which caused
| init/main.c: In function ‘do_basic_setup’:
| init/main.c:705: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘init_irq_proc’
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
On 15 Feb 2007 10:28:57 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Ch. Eigler) wrote:
akpm wrote:
[...] And what can I do with these markers? And once I've done it,
are there any userspace applications I can use to get the data out
in human-usable form? [...]
The LTTng user-space programs
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:49:15 -0600
Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I see the following options besides what's already there:
1) add asm/kdebug.h and DIE_NMI_POST to everything that might have an
IPMI implementation.
2) use CONFIG_X86 to tell if NMI will work, since that's the
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:01:27 +0100
Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trying to build 2.6.20-mm1 on i386 with C=1, sparse 0.2 chokes
on arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c:
CHECK arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c
linux/marker.h: No such file or directory
include/linux/jiffies.h:18:5: warning:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:25:49 -0800
Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are we ready to do this?
I'd love for Tony to return, but he's been missing for awhile now.
So this give us the following major areas that are marked as Orphan:
Firmware loader
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:30:17 +0100
J.A. Magall__n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:14:08 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Temporarily at
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-mm1/
Will appear later at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:18:39 +
Ralf Baechle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:53:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
The whole union thing was only needed to get rid of a warning but Marcel's
solution does the same thing by attaching the packed keyword to the entire
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:46:56 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Me too. It's due to the linux-kernel-markers patches. Mathieu, can you
take a look please?
I will give a deeper look in sparse, but I should say up front that I
add this to the root build tree Makefile :
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:41:59 +
Frederik Deweerdt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:14:08AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
Temporarily at
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-mm1/
Hi,
It appears that the pcim_iomap_regions() function doesn't get the error
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:24:35 +0100
Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Morton napisa__(a):
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:37:20 +0100
Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Morton napisa__(a):
Temporarily at
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-mm1
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:23:47 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sparse chokes on arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c
Here is a marker fix that puts the correct -i include/linux/marker.h in
the top level Makefile so sparse works correctly. The tricky part is to
keep the kernel compiling
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:08:21 -0500
Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Initial framework for disabling PS/2 protocol extensions. The current
protocols can only be disabled if CONFIG_EMBEDDED is selected. No
source files are changed, merely build stuff.
ugleee. What benefit do we get
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:37:39 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For what reason was that change made?
It was made so that we can use the markers in C code without actually
including marker.h everywhere. I am sure someone has a better way to do
it : I would be happy to use
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:55:29 -0500
Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:08:21 -0500
Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Initial framework for disabling PS/2 protocol extensions. The current
protocols can only be disabled
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:43:17 +
Ralf Baechle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:38:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
hm. So if I have
struct bar {
unsigned long b;
} __attribute__((packed));
struct foo {
unsigned long u
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:58:04 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -309,7 +309,8 @@ AFLAGS_KERNEL =
LINUXINCLUDE:= -Iinclude \
$(if $(KBUILD_SRC),-Iinclude2 -I$(srctree)/include) \
-include
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:26:29 -0600
Marc St-Jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ status = *(volatile u32 *)up-port.private_data;
It distresses me that this patch uses a variable which this patch
doesn't initialise anywhere. It isn't complete.
The sub-driver code whch sets up
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:29:49 -0800 (PST) Zwane Mwaikambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
VBE1.2 doesn't support function 15h (DDC) resulting in a 'hang' whilst
uncompressing kernel with some video cards. Make sure we check VBE version
before fiddling around with DDC.
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:39:12 +0100 J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ee1394 usblp evdev
CPU:1
EIP:0060:[c0195f12]Tainted: P VLI
EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.20-jam01 #1)
EIP is at sysfs_lookup+0x5b/0x20a
eax: f6707118 ebx: f6b33e5c ecx: f6917d38 edx:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:35:35 -0800 (PST) Zwane Mwaikambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
This makes the long-suffering-but-vigorously-defended Vaio come up with a
black display. Everything's working OK otherwise. Sort of a Black Screen
of Life. I
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:45:06 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:35:35 -0800 (PST) Zwane Mwaikambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
This makes the long-suffering-but-vigorously-defended Vaio come up with a
black
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:11:42 -0800 (PST) Tim Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There appears to be a inconsistenancy with reference
counts on pages allocated with alloc_pages when order
is greater than zero. In buffered_rmqueue when order
!= 0 then __rmqueue is called. This returns a page
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:10:53 -0800 Brandeburg, Jesse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
@@ -1431,6 +1427,10 @@ e1000_open(struct net_device *netdev)
e1000_update_mng_vlan(adapter);
}
+ err = e1000_request_irq(adapter);
+ if (err)
+ goto
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:59:06 -0800 (PST) Zwane Mwaikambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:45:06 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:35:35 -0800 (PST) Zwane Mwaikambo [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:24:59 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Add hooks to allow a paravirt implementation to track the lifetime of
an mm.
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c
@@ -706,6 +706,10 @@ struct paravirt_ops paravirt_ops = {
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:25:00 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given
function to every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm
structure. This is a generic alternative to cut-and-pasting the Linux
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:25:01 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
+void lock_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area)
+{
+ unsigned long i;
+ char c;
+
+ /*
+ * Prevent context switch to a lazy mm that doesn't have this area
+ * mapped into its page tables.
+
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:25:06 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
===
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/early_printk.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/early_printk.c
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
+#ifndef CONFIG_XEN
#include
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:25:07 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
+int gnttab_grant_foreign_access(domid_t domid, unsigned long frame,
+ int readonly)
+{
+ int ref;
+
+ if (unlikely((ref = get_free_entry()) == -1))
+ return
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:24:49 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This patch series implements the Linux Xen guest in terms of the
paravirt-ops interface.
The whole patchset exports 67 symbols to modules. How come?
Are they all needed?
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:14:45 -0800 Dan Hecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
config PREEMPT
bool Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)
+ depends on !XEN
help
This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making
all kernel code (that is not executing in a critical
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:06:45 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:25:00 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range()[...]
There was some discussion about this sort
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:08:02 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Andrew Morton wrote:
This won't work when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y. The pagefault handler will see
in_atomic() and will scram.
Is there some other way to get the pagetable populated for the address
range
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:30:57 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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If you really need to run atomically, that gets ugly. Even of one were to
run handle_mm_fault() by hand, it still needs to allocate memory.
Two ugly options might be:
a) touch all the pages, then go
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:00:39 -0800 Christian Limpach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:14:45 -0800 Dan Hecht
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config PREEMPT
bool Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:47:11 + Keir Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 16/2/07 10:09, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are the places where the domU code references machine addresses splattered
all over the code? If not, they can just be wrapped with
preempt_disable
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:57:08 +0100 Michael Holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hallo Evgeniy,
On s390 we are looking for a good mechanism to notify userspace
about kernel events. Currently such events are handled with printks
in most cases. There are automation tools, which want to
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:39:45 -0800 (PST) Zwane Mwaikambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
It's not an X problem - the screen is black immediately upon loading the
kernel.
But I guess you knew that and you're just after display info:
http
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:05:13 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Move include linux/marker.h to kernel.h
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Oh. One could whack [include linux/marker.h] in kernel.h: pretty
much everything includes that.
But it'd be better
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:14:17 -0600 Steve Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Full log at
http://test.kernel.org/abat/71719/debug/test.log.0
Config at
http://test.kernel.org/abat/71719/build/dotconfig
CHK include/linux/compile.h
UPD include/linux/compile.h
CC init/version.o
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:37:01 -0600 Eric Van Hensbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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+static int v9fs_vfs_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control
*wbc)
+{
+ char *buffer = NULL;
+ struct address_space *mapping = page-mapping;
+ int retval = -EIO;
+ loff_t offset
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:37:28 +0100
Rolf Eike Beer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't bring up my machine with root LVM anymore using x86_64. The same
machine from same kernel tree boots fine as x86. The error message is quoted
in subject. The tree is at 86a71dbd3e81e8870d0f0e56b87875f57e58222b
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olof Johansson) wrote:
+ nfsi-req_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
This can confound lockdep. Please use spin_lock_init().
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Eric Van Hensbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Loose cache mode was added primarily to asssist exclusive, read-only
mounts (like venti) -- however, there is also a case for using loose
write cacheing in support of read/write exclusive mounts. This feature
is
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:05:32 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olof Johansson) wrote:
Seems like req_lock is never initialized. CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK reported:
BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, mount/1073
lock: c0007fdca108, .magic: , .owner: /24576, .owner_cpu: 0
Call Trace:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:06:54 +0100
Olaf Hering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Un-Breaks pthreads, since Oct 2003.
Oh come on, that's not a changelog. I refuse to believe that nobody has
used pthreads on ia64 for the past three years.
Index:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:42:12 -0600 James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 12:27 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
Given that we now have a standard kernel-wide, c99-friendly way of
expressing true and false, I'd suggest that this decision can be revisited.
Because
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:42:27 -0600 James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:34 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:42:12 -0600 James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 12:27 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
Given that we now
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