On Tuesday 11 September 2007 22:47, Daniel Walker wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 21:07 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
This patch is needed for --gc-sections to work, regardless
of which final form that support will have.
This patch renames .text.xxx and .data.xxx sections
into .xxx.text
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 22:03, Andi Kleen wrote:
Denys Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
text data bss dec hex filename
5159478 1005139 406784 6571401 644589 linux-2.6.23-rc4.org/vmlinux
5131822 996090 401439 6529351 63a147 linux-2.6.23-rc4.gc/vmlinux
Hi Sam,
This patch is preparatory: it adds a few KEEP() directives where
I forgot them in previous patch set, adds comments which explains
places where KEEP() is definitely not needed, and fixes i386 vdso generation
in an obviously safe way.
Please apply.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko [EMAIL
is analogous to last patch of first series -
run-tested and looks safe, but needs to go into -mm first.
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, maybe statistically it will have a bit less
alignment padding because I placed together a few page-aligned
chunks, but that's all).
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is compile tested with various combinations of CONFIGs.
Please put it into -mm.
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--- linux-2.6.23-rc6/include/linux/module.h Wed Sep 12 22:35:32 2007
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc6.structmodule/include/linux/module.h Thu Sep 13 10:04:33 2007
@@ -264,28 +264,30
On Friday 14 September 2007 00:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
In short, patch makes trivial changes which are obviously correct
(famous last words).
The intent seems reasonable. Would have preferred separate patches for the
separate things though..
This:
akpm:/usr/src/25 grep '^+#'
Hi Tapio,
You are the author of these files. Are you still maintaining them?
If not, do you know who is the current maintainer?
These two object files hold the biggest data objects in the whole Linux kernel
after lockdep:
textdata bss dec hex filename
1258 160516 0
declarations in hda_patch.h
The rest of the patch (bulk of it) adds const
in many places.
Patch is compile tested. Please apply.
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On Friday 14 September 2007 19:09, Joe Perches wrote:
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 18:48 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Patch is attached.
The SND_HDA_PRESETS define doesn't seem useful.
It's only used once.
It is defined in .h file and used in .c file.
It is made so because defining static data
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On Friday 14 September 2007 18:48, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
There is a lot of data structures in that code,
and most of them seems to be read-only.
I added const modifiers to most of such places:
textdata bss dec hex filename
106315 179564 36 285915 45cdb snd-hda
On Saturday 15 September 2007 11:29, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Sep 15 2007 12:18, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
textdata bss dec hex filename
106315 179564 36 285915 45cdb snd-hda-intel.o
2830512624 36 285711 45c0f snd-hda-intel_patched.o
This is kinda
On Saturday 15 September 2007 13:40, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Denys Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ELF is not as rigid as old a.out (which had only one text, one data
and one bss segment per .o file IIRC), but size was born in a.out days,
so it sort of translates ELF into a.out.
Try
On Saturday 15 September 2007 16:17, Rene Herman wrote:
On 09/15/2007 10:47 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
The stub source file is usually considered a good way to do this.
Mmm. If I'll have to live with it, I can, but thought I'd ask if there was
some nice build trickery available instead.
struct hda_codec_preset snd_hda_preset_analog[]
are checked to match declarations in hda_patch.h
The rest of the patch (bulk of it) adds const
in many places.
Patch is compile tested. Please apply.
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Sorry for the late reply.
First
Hi Mathieu,
I was looking through kernel/module.c and if understand it
correctly, it doesn't handle .altinstructions in modules at all.
Am I reading code correctly?
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Hi Michael,
In bnx2_fw.h I see the following:
static u32 bnx2_RXP_b06FwBss[(0x13dc/4) + 1] = { 0x0 };
static struct fw_info bnx2_rxp_fw_06 = {
...
.bss= bnx2_RXP_b06FwBss,
...
};
I grepped for the usage of .bss member (grepped for '[.]bss[^_]')
and it is
On Monday 17 September 2007 19:42, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
===
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h2007-09-17
13:25:06.0 -0400
+++
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 19:45, Michael Chan wrote:
We can compress all the different sections of the firmware. Currently,
we only compress the biggest chunks and the rest are uncompressed.
These zeros should compress to almost nothing. But I agree that the
firmware is still big.
You
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 18:59, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
* Denys Vlasenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Monday 17 September 2007 19:42, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
230a3 net.org/bnx2.o
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--- linux-2.6.23-rc6.org/drivers/net/bnx2.c Tue Sep 11 22:33:54 2007
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc6.gunzip/drivers/net/bnx2.c Wed Sep 19 00:01:19 2007
@@ -2767,93 +2767,61 @@
spin_unlock_bh(bp-phy_lock);
}
-#define FW_BUF_SIZE
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 21:47, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
* Denys Vlasenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 18:59, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
* Denys Vlasenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Monday 17 September 2007 19:42, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
Index: linux
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 21:47, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
* Denys Vlasenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 18:59, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
* Denys Vlasenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Monday 17 September 2007 19:42, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
Index: linux
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 12:37, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
===
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h 2007-09-14
10:11:18.0 -0400
+++
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 22:00, Michael Chan wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 09:30 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
+ /* gzip header (1f,8b,08... 10 bytes total + possible asciz filename)
+* is stripped, 32-bit unpacked size (LE) is prepended instead */
+ sz = *zbuf
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 14:53, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...] Do you think I should also remove the __markers_strings
section from here ?
Current systemtap marker support code relies on the __markers_strings
section.
Let users know
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 22:07, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
i386 optimization of the immediate values which uses a movl with code patching
to set/unset the value used to populate the register used as variable source.
Changelog:
- Use text_poke_early with cr0 WP save/restore to patch the
On Monday 27 August 2007 16:59, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
+We can therefore affirm that adding 2 markers to getppid, on a system with
high
+memory pressure, would have a performance hit of at least 6.0% on the system
+call time, all within the uncertainty limits of these tests. The same
Hi Andi,
arch/x86_64/kernel/Makefile has
EXTRA_AFLAGS := -traditional
and this is causing me trouble with #define MACRO(a,b) a.b
(defined in one of included header file).
It expands incorrectly, as a. b - extra space.
If I use a.##b, all other .S files suffer - I am getting
a.##b expansion in
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 22:43, Michael Chan wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 21:29 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Are you saying that you successfully run-tested it?
I've only reviewed the code. Let's resolve these issues first before
testing the code.
Please test these two patches.
I
On Sunday 02 September 2007 23:06, Rene Herman wrote:
On 09/02/2007 10:15 PM, Satyam Sharma wrote:
sound/isa/sb16/sb16.c: In function ‘snd_sb16_isa_probe’:
Blah. Your message has:
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-2022-jp
This apparently is caused by a combination of GCC
On Sunday 11 November 2007 11:33, Tino Keitel wrote:
The dd command reads 100 MB from each partition two times in a row. It
looks like sda1 and sda2 are not bufferd (the first 4 dd runs), but
sda3 and sda4 are (the last 4 dd runs).
The computer is a Mac mini with a 2,5 SATA hard disk. The
On Tuesday 13 November 2007 07:08, Mark Lord wrote:
Ingo Molnar wrote:
..
This is all QA-101 that _cannot be argued against on a rational basis_,
it's just that these sorts of things have been largely ignored for
years, in favor of the all-too-easy open source means many eyeballs and
On Tuesday 13 November 2007 10:56, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:13:56PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:52:32PM +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
Btw, I used to test every -mm kernel. But since I've switched distros
(gentoo-ubuntu)
and I have less
On Tuesday 13 November 2007 11:57, Gabriel C wrote:
The main problem is finding experienced developers who spend time on
looking into bug reports.
There are already. IMO the problem is the development model.
There are tons new features in each new kernel release and 'tons new bugs'
which
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 00:27, Adrian Bunk wrote:
You missed the following in my email:
we slowly scare them away due to the many bug reports without any
reaction.
The problem is that bug reports take time. If you go away from easy
things like compile errors then even things like
hi Matthew,
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 06:35, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:46:20AM -0700, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Finally they replied and asked to rediff it against their
git tree. I did that and sent patches back. No reply since
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 09:08, Jesper Nilsson wrote:
Scrap the local __INLINE__ macro, and rename timeval_cmp to fasttime_cmp.
Inline macro was completely unnecessary since the macro was defined
locally to be inline.
timeval_cmp was inaccurately named since it does comparison on
struct
On Sunday 28 October 2007 21:51, Al Viro wrote:
-#define MAX_FAULT_REASON_IDX ARRAY_SIZE(fault_reason_strings)
+#define MAX_FAULT_REASON_IDX ARRAY_SIZE(fault_reason_strings) - 1
The macro is unsafe without yet another ()s around it.
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On Saturday 17 November 2007 10:15, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
Hi,
#define WARN_ON(condition) ({
\
int __ret_warn_on = !!(condition); \
if (unlikely(__ret_warn_on)) { \
-
on amd64:
textdata bss dec hex filename
5997 313 17736 240465dee 2.6.23.1.t64/kernel/printk.o
5858 313 17700 238715d3f 2.6.23.1.printk.t64/kernel/printk.o
Please take this patch into -mm.
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On Sunday 18 November 2007 20:14, Raymano Garibaldi wrote:
In kernel 2.6.23.8 USB_PERSIST feature does not work if the same USB
device is detached and reattached while computer is suspended. The
mount points for the USB storage device mounted before suspend are
lost and the device has to be
unit.
* Recommended usage: global flag or enum variables; flag/enum struct members
* Don't use for: local variables, members of user-visible structs
* Guaranteed to be at least byte-sized.
*/
Comments from architecture people are sought.
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On Tuesday 04 December 2007 11:41, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
On Dec 4, 2007 5:18 PM, Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no cr8 register on i386. This had better be protected by an
#ifdef.
Sure. I mentioned it in the changelog. I, however, am not sure If I
agree it should
Hi Sam,
On Sunday 18 November 2007 15:00, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:05:33PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux
Newer gcc and binutils can do dead code and data removal
at link time. It is achieved using combination
On Saturday 24 November 2007 15:14, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
2.modpost
Update scripts/mod/* machinery to correctly handle the case
when we have more than 64k sections.
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On Saturday 24 November 2007 15:14, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
3.gc
The meat of the patchset is here.
Introduce config option DISCARD_UNUSED_SECTIONS.
If it is selected:
Pass -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections to gcc and
--gc-sections --print-gc-sections to ld.
Use arch
On Thursday 22 November 2007 16:15, Daniel Drake wrote:
In summary: if your code causes unaligned memory accesses to happen, your
code will not work on some platforms, and will perform *very* badly on
others.
Although understanding alignment is important, there is another
extreme - what I call
On Sunday 25 November 2007 14:08, Roland McGrath wrote:
This adds the (internal) Kconfig macro CONFIG_X86_DEBUGCTLMSR,
to be defined when configuring to support only hardware that
definitely supports MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR with the BTF flag.
The Intel documentation says P6 family and later
On Sunday 25 November 2007 10:59, Jeroen wrote:
On Nov 25, 2007 7:36 PM, Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you sure forcedeth even supports that feature? I haven't seen any
code for it, and certainly it should never be enabled by default..
The windows driver does. I have to
On Sunday 25 November 2007 23:51, Roland McGrath wrote:
Why is it defined in configuration system instead of some *.h file?
That seems to be existing practice for this sort of thing.
I just followed what I saw.
I think that if such conditional constants can be defined
in header files (IOW:
On Wednesday 28 November 2007 11:02, Hugh Dickins wrote:
mm's printk has been showing %p in abominable upper case recently:
its trivial optimizations have changed the default from lower to upper,
so the 'p' case needs to enforce lower explicitly.
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are
performance critical.
Result as reported by size:
textdata bss dec hex filename
- 6451 380 8869191b07 ip_tables.o
+ 6339 348 7267591a67 ip_tables.o
Please take this patch into netfilter queue.
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On Monday 17 December 2007 14:47, Patrick McHardy wrote:
Please CC netfilter-devel on netfilter patches.
Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Hi Patrick, Harald,
I was working on unrelated problem and noticed that ip_tables.c
seem to abuse inline. I prepared a patch which removes inlines
except
and thus are performance-critical.
Please take this patch into netfilter queue.
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--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4
On Monday 31 December 2007 17:00, Patrick McHardy wrote:
Denys Vlasenko wrote:
ip[6]_tables.c seem to abuse inline.
This patch removes inlines except those which are used
by packet matching code and thus are performance-critical.
Some people also consider the ruleset replacement
On Thursday 25 October 2007 16:21, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
is there any particular reason we're using -traditional in
EXTRA_AFLAGS in Makefiles?
What? Where? I thought I removed them all. Or is this from the x86_64
tree?
This is from arch/x86/kernel/Makefile_64
Indeed.
On Thursday 25 October 2007 22:41, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
-static const struct ide_port_info generic_chipsets[] __devinitdata = {
+static struct ide_port_info generic_chipsets[] __devinitdata = {
/* 0 */ DECLARE_GENERIC_PCI_DEV(Unknown, 0),
{ /* 1 */
I
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 15:27, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:28:10AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
OK, so it's no secret that I'm the last of the subsystem maintainers
whose day job isn't working on the linux kernel. If you want a full
time person, who did you have
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 22:12, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
Consecutive calls to printk are non-atomic, which leads to various
implementations for accumulating strings which can be printed in one call.
This is a generic string buffer which can also be used for non-printk
purposes. There is no
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 10:54, Richard Knutsson wrote:
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---
Diffed against linus-git
Checked with script/checkpatch.pl
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hw.h b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hw.h
index 451accd..6f56528 100644
---
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 05:55, Huang, Ying wrote:
+static inline unsigned long native_get_wallclock(void)
+{
+ unsigned long retval;
+
+ if (efi_enabled)
+ retval = efi_get_time();
+ else
+ retval = mach_get_cmos_time();
+
+ return retval;
+}
Hi Andrew, James,
On Monday 15 October 2007 14:53, Gabriel C wrote:
Compile tested and applies cleanly to 2.6.23.
I don't have this hardware anymore and cannot run test these patches.
I can test these patches on an aic7892 controller later on today if you
want.
Works fine for me
On Thursday 18 October 2007 23:11, Roland McGrath wrote:
When gcc uses --build-id by default, the gate.lds.S linker script runs afoul
of the new note section and produces a bad DSO image. This fixes it.
I wonder why we bother having --build-id.
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On Thursday 18 October 2007 20:54, Roland McGrath wrote:
Some versions of ld with --build-id support will crash when using the flag
with a linker script that discards notes. This bites ia64's check-segrel.lds.
The bug is easy to avoid.
It's fixed in newer ld (not released yet IIRC), but why
On Friday 19 October 2007 08:05, Jan Dittmer wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Building on x86-64, I'm betting? :)
I fell victim to the same thing a few days ago, missing some compile
breakage that only appeared with
make ARCH=i386 allmodconfig make ARCH=i386 -sj9
Though am I
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:21 AM, George Spelvin li...@horizon.com wrote:
The same multiply-by-inverse technique can be used to
convert division by 1 to a 32x32-64-bit multiply.
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin li...@horizon.com
---
lib/vsprintf.c | 60
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:21 AM, George Spelvin li...@horizon.com wrote:
Shrink the reciprocal approximations used in put_dec_full4
based on the comments in put_dec_full9.
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin li...@horizon.com
Cc: Denys Vlasenko vda.li...@googlemail.com
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz min
Hi,
I noticed the following:
In linux-mmotm and parisc-2.6.git trees,
arch/parisc/include/asm/compat_signal.h file is just:
/* Use generic */
#include asm-generic/compat_signal.h
which isn't correct since asm-generic/compat_signal.h doesn't exist.
Nobody noticed this because
at the moment.
Denys Vlasenko (4):
coredump: pass siginfo_t* to do_coredump() and below, not merely
signr
compat: move compat_siginfo_t definition to asm/compat.h
coredump: add a new elf note with siginfo of the signal
coredump: extend core dump note section to contain file names of
mapped
This is a preparatory patch for the introduction of NT_SIGINFO elf note.
With this patch we pass siginfo_t *siginfo instead of int signr to
do_coredump() and put it into coredump_params. It will be used
by the next patch. Most changes are simple s/signr/siginfo-si_signo/.
Signed-off-by: Denys
to be replaced by
__compat_uid[32]_t. compat_uptr_t had to be moved up before compat_siginfo_t
in asm/compat.h on a several architectures (tile already had it moved up).
compat_sigval_t had to be relocated from linux/compat.h to asm/compat.h.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko vda.li...@googlemail.com
---
arch
This note has the following format:
long count -- how many files are mapped
long page_size -- units for file_ofs
array of [COUNT] elements of
long start
long end
long file_ofs
followed by COUNT filenames in ASCII: FILE1 NUL FILE2 NUL...
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko vda.li
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:35 PM, George Spelvin li...@horizon.com wrote:
Here is the comparison of the x86-32 assembly
of the fragment which does x / 1 thing,
before and after the patch:
-01 c6 add%eax,%esi
-b8 59 17 b7 d1 mov$0xd1b71759,%eax
-f7 e6
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:44 PM, George Spelvin li...@horizon.com wrote:
Thanks to Denys Vlasenko for sending me his benchmarking code.
I went and hacked on it to ransomize the numbers being converted more,
since repeatedly converting the same number underestimates the number
of branch
, cursor bitmaps,
whatever.
Patch is run tested by Michael Chan (driver author).
Michael, can you add your ACK?
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On Friday 21 September 2007 12:01, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
I will move this code
out of the driver and into zlib in follow-on patch.
No, I won't. I accidentally attached both patches to first email,
you can find it there. Sorry.
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On Friday 21 September 2007 14:31, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
Immediates make code bigger, right?
Nope.
Example:
char x;
void testb(void)
{
if (x 5)
testa();
}
Would turn into:
56: b0 00 mov$0x0,%al
58: 3c 05
On Friday 21 September 2007 17:14, David Miller wrote:
From: Denys Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:01:24 +0100
Hi Jeff,
BNX2 and TG3 patches goes through Michael Chan and myself,
and I usually merge them in instead of Jeff.
Didn't know that, sorry.
Do patches look
On Friday 21 September 2007 18:49, David Miller wrote:
From: Denys Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:03:55 +0100
Do patches look ok to you?
I'm travelling so I haven't looked closely yet :-)
Michael can take a look and I'll try to do so as well
tonight.
Good.
I
On Friday 21 September 2007 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:05:23 BST, Denys Vlasenko said:
I plan to use gzip compression on following drivers' firmware,
if patches will be accepted:
textdata bss dec hex filename
17653 109968 240
On Friday 21 September 2007 21:13, Andi Kleen wrote:
Denys Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I plan to use gzip compression on following drivers' firmware,
if patches will be accepted:
textdata bss dec hex filename
17653 109968 240 127861 1f375 drivers
On Friday 21 September 2007 20:33, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
On Friday 21 September 2007 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:05:23 BST, Denys Vlasenko said:
I plan to use gzip compression on following drivers' firmware
On Friday 28 September 2007 05:41, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:35:34AM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Hi Tapio,
You are the author of these files. Are you still maintaining them?
If not, do you know who is the current maintainer?
These two object files hold the biggest
Hi Ulrich,
On Friday 28 September 2007 18:34, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
One more small change to extend the availability of creation of
file descriptors with FD_CLOEXEC set. Adding a new command to
fcntl() requires no new system call and the overall impact on
code size if minimal.
Tangential
On Monday 01 October 2007 00:11, Davide Libenzi wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Hi Ulrich,
On Friday 28 September 2007 18:34, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
One more small change to extend the availability of creation of
file descriptors with FD_CLOEXEC set. Adding a new
On Monday 01 October 2007 04:15, Davide Libenzi wrote:
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
My use case is: I want to do a nonblocking read on descriptor 0 (stdin).
It may be a pipe or a socket.
There may be other processes which share this descriptor with me,
I simply cannot
On Monday 01 October 2007 19:16, Al Viro wrote:
* it's on a bunch of cyclic lists. Have its neighbor
go away while you are doing all that crap = boom
* there's that thing call current position... It gets buggered.
* overwriting it while another task might be in the middle
On Monday 01 October 2007 20:04, Davide Libenzi wrote:
They don't even need to read in parallel, just having shared fd is enough.
Think about pipes, sockets and terminals. A real-world scenario:
* a process started from shell (interactive or shell script)
* it sets O_NONBLOCK and does a
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 17:35, Greg KH wrote:
I suggest the following optimizations:
Change structure to
typedef struct _INTEL_HEX_RECORD
{
__u8 type;
__u8 length;
__u16 address;
__u8
On Sunday 07 October 2007 17:47, Malte Schröder wrote:
Hello,
I am encountering some strange data corruption when transferring
data from one of my PCs that I use as a file-server.
on the server:
FILE=large file; | cut -d -f1 | nc -lp5000 -q0; while nc
-lp5000 -q0 $FILE; do : ; done
$
On Saturday 06 October 2007 20:13, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Colored kernel message output (1/2)
This patch makes it possible to give kernel messages a selectable
color. It can be chosen at compile time, overridden at boot time,
and changed at run time.
IMHO: useless bloat.
And yes, I've read
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 12:25, Malte Schröder wrote:
Does it happen over loopback?
I just tried a few times and yes, it also happens on loopback, but
much less frequently. Now I am really confused ...
Actually, that eliminates a lot of cases.
Run memtest86 overnight (bad hardware
On Friday 31 August 2007 13:13, anon... anon.al wrote:
Hi!
This is a driver-related question on non-blocking writes and poll.
Setup:
there is a single output-buffer (in kernel-space) of 24 bytes for
writes from all processes A, B, and C: each process is restricted to
use at most 8 bytes:
On Friday 31 August 2007 14:42, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 30 2007 13:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
Well, you can send it to Linus/Andrew, that will usually upset people
and they start commenting on it. Or they don't, and everything is fine.
(The default y approach so
On Friday 31 August 2007 16:13, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Attached are three patches which fix that:
textdata bss dec hex filename
261433 500181172 312623 4c52f
linux-2.6.23-rc1.org.t/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/built-in.o
199654 500181172 250844 3d3dc
linux
On Friday 31 August 2007 16:15, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
On Friday 31 August 2007 16:13, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Attached are three patches which fix that:
textdata bss dec hex filename
261433 500181172 312623 4c52f
linux-2.6.23-rc1.org.t/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx
On Friday 31 August 2007 16:16, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
On Friday 31 August 2007 16:15, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
On Friday 31 August 2007 16:13, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Attached are three patches which fix that:
textdata bss dec hex filename
261433 500181172
On Friday 31 August 2007 15:35, Jörn Engel wrote:
On Fri, 31 August 2007 12:11:25 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
KSYM_NAME_LEN = 128 sounds stupid. The name which is wider than 80 chars??
Kernel shouldn't have names that long.
Say, 50 chars ought to be enough.
Might be an enforcement
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