Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 09:11 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: I lost track of Michaels various nested problems. Michael can you please give a summary on _all_ entries in the regressions list against Linus latest ? I tested 2 different configurations on my T60: - With CONFIG_NO_HZ

Re: Early hang with 2.6.21-rc4-rt1

2007-03-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, another data point. The config below boots and works with 2.6.21-rc4-rt1, but enabling CONFIG_CRITICAL_IRQSOFF_TIMING causes the early boot hang. Any idea? ah, i havent tried that option in quite some time, so bitrot is pretty likely. Does

[PATCH] USB Elan FTDI: check for driver registration status

2007-03-25 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
This patch adds checking of driver registration status and if it fails release allocated resources. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Pete, please review the patch and Ack it then. drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c | 37 +++-- 1 files changed,

Re: Early hang with 2.6.21-rc4-rt1

2007-03-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use 2.6.21-rc4-rt1 to track down who's keeping interrupts off for too long. [...] btw., is this something you know for sure (if yes, how do you know?) - or is it that you would like to double-check the irqs-off times of v2.6.21-to-be?

Re: [-mm patch] lguest: #if 0 check_bug_kill()

2007-03-25 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 14:06 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:56:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.21-rc3-mm1: ... +lguest-use-read-only-pages-rather-than-segments-to-protect-high-mapped-switcher.patch ... x86/x86_64 updates ...

Re: Early hang with 2.6.21-rc4-rt1

2007-03-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, another data point. The config below boots and works with 2.6.21-rc4-rt1, but enabling CONFIG_CRITICAL_IRQSOFF_TIMING causes the early boot hang. ah, i havent tried that option in quite some time, so bitrot is pretty likely. Does the

[patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For an rsdl 0.33 patched kernel. Comments? Overhead worth it? we want to do this - and we should do this to the vanilla scheduler first and check the results. I've back-merged the patch to before RSDL and have tested it - find the patch below. Vale,

Re: Early hang with 2.6.21-rc4-rt1

2007-03-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hm - on 32-bit, CRITICAL_IRQSOFF_TIMING+FUNCTION_TRACING works fine for me. I'll try the 64-bit kernel too. the 64-bit kernel indeed hangs. Does the patch below fix it for you? Ingo Index: linux/kernel/timer.c

Re: [Patch 3/7] integrity: EVM as an integrity service provider

2007-03-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:09:36 -0400 Mimi Zohar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a re-release of EVM as an integrity service provider. What a huge set of patches. Frankly, I don't know how we're going to get these reviewed and mergeable and merged - there doesn't seem to be a lot of interest and

Re: [Patch 3/7] integrity: EVM as an integrity service provider

2007-03-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:09:36 -0400 Mimi Zohar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++ linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/security/evm/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +config INTEGRITY_EVM + boolean EVM support + depends on INTEGRITY KEYS + select CRYPTO_HMAC + select CRYPTO_MD5 + select CRYPTO_SHA1

[BUG] __copy_to_user_inatomic broken on non Pentium machines

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Environment: Pre Pentium systems, (boot_cpu_data.wp_works_ok == 0) Last known working kernel: 2.6.18 (did not try 2.6.19 yet) Enabling CONFIG_PREEMPT on latest mainline as well as 2.6.20 trigger [ 14.15] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at

Re: [Patch 4/7] integrity: IMA integrity_measure() support

2007-03-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:09:50 -0400 Mimi Zohar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +void create_htable(void); I notice a bit of a tendency in these patches to create ill-chosen global identifiers. Please review the whole patchset for that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [Patch 5/7] integrity: mtime patch for mmap files

2007-03-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:09:58 -0400 Mimi Zohar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mmaped files are hashed and hmac'ed properly by EVM after being modified when the file's mtime is updated correctly. Peter Staubach's 'memory mapped files not updating timestamps v2' patch properly updates the mmapped

HID OOPS running hid2hci on logitech diNovo dongle

2007-03-25 Thread CIJOML
Hi hid guys, in combination of kernel 2.6.20-mh1 and hid2hci from bluez-utils-3.9 I am getting following OOPS: BUG: at drivers/hid/hid-core.c:785 implement() [c027a9c3] hid_output_report+0x213/0x2be [fcaf73fb] hid_submit_ctrl+0x52/0x1bc [usbhid] [fcaf76b9] usbhid_submit_report+0x154/0x187

[PATCH] net: tun/tap: fixed hw address handling

2007-03-25 Thread Brian Braunstein
From: Brian Braunstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fixed tun/tap driver's handling of hw addresses. The hw address is stored in both the net_device.dev_addr and tun.dev_addr fields. These fields were not kept synchronized, and in fact weren't even initialized to the same value. Now during both init and

Re: [PATCH] max_loop limit

2007-03-25 Thread Tomas M
here's one. Allocates all the fluff dynamically. It does not create any dev nodes by itself, so you need to do it (à la mdadm) I'm afraid that this would break a lot of things, for example mount -o loop will not work anymore unless you create /dev/loop* manually first, am I correct? In this

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 25 March 2007 17:51, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For an rsdl 0.33 patched kernel. Comments? Overhead worth it? we want to do this - and we should do this to the vanilla scheduler first and check the results. I've back-merged the patch to before RSDL

Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
- Without CONFIG_NO_HZ I last tested this with cd05a1f818073a623455a58e756c5b419fc98db9. After systems comes out of suspend to ram, I observed the following behaviour (I used s2ram from console): 1. The first disk access takes much longer than with 2.6.20 2. System clock does

problem: init_termios = tty_std_termios;

2007-03-25 Thread Mockern
Hi, I just added mydriver_tty_driver-init_termios = tty_std_termios to my init driver function. Problem: But now I can't see data at user level application. It looks like flip_buffer needs to get termination character(or new line character) to push data to high level. Which character

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +/* + * Some helpers for converting nanosecond timing to jiffy resolution + */ +#define NS_TO_JIFFIES(TIME) ((TIME) / (10 / HZ)) +#define JIFFIES_TO_NS(TIME) ((TIME) * (10 / HZ)) + This hunk is already in mainline so it

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 1/7] containers (V7): Generic container system abstracted from cpusets code

2007-03-25 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:43:48PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: I'm unsure here, but this 'tsk-cpuset == cs' test feels fragile to me. How about a bit earlier in attach_task(), right at the point we overwrite the victim tasks cpuset pointer, we decrement the count on the old cpuset, and if it

Re: [PATCH] utsns: fix !CONFIG_UTS_NS behavior

2007-03-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:00:39 -0500 Serge E. Hallyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When CONFIG_UTS_NS=n, clone(CLONE_NEWUTS) quietly refuses. So correctly does not unshare a new uts namespace, but also does not return -EINVAL. Fix this to return -EINVAL so the caller knows his request was denied.

Re: [PATCH] Avoid time_offset overflows

2007-03-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:20:45 +0100 (CET) Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, john stultz wrote: @@ -314,8 +314,8 @@ #endif freq_adj += time_freq; freq_adj = min(freq_adj, (s64)MAXFREQ_NSEC); time_freq =

Re: keyboard.c: Stop flooding dmesg with useless warnings

2007-03-25 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Parag Warudkar wrote: Yes this is a USB keyboard. Any hint as to where I should start looking to make the driver not emit input event for keycode==0? Was it always doing that? I'll add Jiri Kosina to the CC list as he's involved with HID now. Something (some

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] DVB: Delete unused header file linux/dvb/version.h.

2007-03-25 Thread Arjan van de Ven
There are cases where we need an API update since newer systems do show up. In such a case, the only way is to provide backward compatibility while adding in newer stuff. Currently we use the version major/minor for the userspace to identify the in kernel API, while the userspace apps can

Re: sata-vsc broken on SGI Prism

2007-03-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:17:24 +0100 Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting this panic when loading sata-vsc on a SGI Prism: With what kernel? Loading sata_vsc ACPI: Unable to derive IRQ for device 0001:00:03.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0001:00:03.0[A]: no GSI FRZ XN request short

Re: sata-vsc broken on SGI Prism

2007-03-25 Thread Andreas Schwab
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:17:24 +0100 Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting this panic when loading sata-vsc on a SGI Prism: With what kernel? Linus' latest at this point in time. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux-VServer example results for sharing vs. separate mappings ...

2007-03-25 Thread Balbir Singh
Andrew Morton wrote: snip The problem is memory reclaim. A number of schemes which have been proposed require a per-container page reclaim mechanism - basically a separate scanner. This is a huge, huge, huge problem. The present scanner has been under development for over a decade and has had

Re: [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty_pages()

2007-03-25 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 22:55 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: This is a slightly different take on the fix for the deadlock in fuse with dirty balancing. David Chinner convinced me, that per-bdi counters are too expensive, and that it's not worth trying to account the number of pages under

Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 10:57 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Can you please test the following: Add clocksource=acpi_pm to the kernel commandline. If this does not change anything, then disable CONFIG_HPET and retry. I have: $ grep CONFIG_HPET .config CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y

Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2) On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 10:57 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Can you please test the following: Add clocksource=acpi_pm to the kernel commandline. If this does not change

Re: HID OOPS running hid2hci on logitech diNovo dongle

2007-03-25 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, CIJOML wrote: in combination of kernel 2.6.20-mh1 and hid2hci from bluez-utils-3.9 I am getting following OOPS: BUG: at drivers/hid/hid-core.c:785 implement() [c027a9c3] hid_output_report+0x213/0x2be [fcaf73fb] hid_submit_ctrl+0x52/0x1bc [usbhid] [fcaf76b9]

Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 12:15 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Quoting Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2) On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 10:57 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Can you please test the following: Add

Re: [patch] rfc: introduce /dev/hugetlb

2007-03-25 Thread Arjan van de Ven
But libraries are hard, for a number of distributional reasons. I don't see why this is the case to be honest. You can ask distros to ship your library, and if it's a sensible one, they will. And if you can't wait, you can always bundle the library with your application, it's really not a big

Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2) On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 12:15 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Quoting Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2) On Sun, 2007-03-25 at

Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 12:25 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Sorry, now I'm confused. Could you pls list the full set of tests you want me to run, and what information to collect from each of them? 1. Test: add clocksource=acpi_pm to command line with your current kernel config. Check,

Re: HID OOPS running hid2hci on logitech diNovo dongle

2007-03-25 Thread CIJOML
Hi, with bluez-utils-3.9 dongle switches itself to hci mode. Only problem is that I see this oops, but dongle normally works, can communicate with my BT keyboard, mouse, mobile and also printer. hci1: Type: USB BD Address: 00:07:61:46:8F:98 ACL MTU: 1017:8 SCO MTU: 64:0 UP

Re: [PATCH] Avoid time_offset overflows

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 01:09 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:20:45 +0100 (CET) Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, john stultz wrote: @@ -314,8 +314,8 @@ #endif freq_adj += time_freq; freq_adj =

Re: [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty_pages()

2007-03-25 Thread Miklos Szeredi
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 22:55 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: This is a slightly different take on the fix for the deadlock in fuse with dirty balancing. David Chinner convinced me, that per-bdi counters are too expensive, and that it's not worth trying to account the number of pages under

[patch] ntp: avoid integer overflow in do_adjtimex()

2007-03-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here you go. It's ugly, but it should do the trick for now. tglx here's your patch with proper metadata: - From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [patch] ntp: avoid integer overflow in do_adjtimex() John Stultz

Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, now I'm confused. Could you pls list the full set of tests you want me to run, and what information to collect from each of them? 1. Test: I suspect step 0 would be use Linus' latest tree, ontop of -rc4:

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread malc
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For an rsdl 0.33 patched kernel. Comments? Overhead worth it? we want to do this - and we should do this to the vanilla scheduler first and check the results. I've back-merged the patch to before RSDL and have

Re: [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty_pages()

2007-03-25 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Please have a look at this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/220 + if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK) = + bdi_thresh) + break; Yes, this will resolve the deadlock as well, where

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Meyer
Eric W. Biederman schrieb: Thomas could you verify the patch below makes the problem go away for you. The patch solves the problem. I'm writing this after the third suspend and resume cycle. msi irq stays enabled for libata device: cat /sys/devices/pci\:00/\:00\:1f.2/irq 218 cat

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:34, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For an rsdl 0.33 patched kernel. Comments? Overhead worth it? we want to do this - and we should do this to the vanilla scheduler first and check the results. I've

Re: [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty_pages()

2007-03-25 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 13:34 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: Please have a look at this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/220 + if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK) = + bdi_thresh) + break;

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-03-24-00-14.tar.gz uploaded

2007-03-25 Thread Michal Piotrowski
David Miller napisał(a): From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:16:53 -0800 On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:18:42 +0100 Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-03-24-00-14.tar.gz

Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 13:16 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, now I'm confused. Could you pls list the full set of tests you want me to run, and what information to collect from each of them? 1. Test: I suspect step 0 would be use

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] DVB: Delete unused header file linux/dvb/version.h.

2007-03-25 Thread Manu Abraham
On 3/25/07, Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are cases where we need an API update since newer systems do show up. In such a case, the only way is to provide backward compatibility while adding in newer stuff. Currently we use the version major/minor for the userspace to

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:46, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:34, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For an rsdl 0.33 patched kernel. Comments? Overhead worth it? we want to do this - and we should do this to the

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Thomas Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric W. Biederman schrieb: Thomas could you verify the patch below makes the problem go away for you. The patch solves the problem. I'm writing this after the third suspend and resume cycle. msi irq stays enabled for libata device: cat

Re: [BUG] Code reordering in swsusp breaks suspend on SMP systems

2007-03-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 25 March 2007 01:40, Maxim wrote: On Friday 23 March 2007 16:42:44 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Friday, 23 March 2007 00:30, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Thursday, 22 March 2007 00:53, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Thursday, 22 March 2007 00:39, Maxim wrote: On Thursday 22

Re: [patch 2/3] only allow nonlinear vmas for ram backed filesystems

2007-03-25 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 23:09 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: From: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dirty page accounting/limiting doesn't work for nonlinear mappings, so for non-ram backed filesystems emulate with linear mappings. This retains ABI compatibility with previous kernels at minimal

Re: [patch 1/3] split mmap

2007-03-25 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 23:07 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: From: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a straightforward split of do_mmap_pgoff() into two functions: - do_mmap_pgoff() checks the parameters, and calculates the vma flags. Then it calls - mmap_region(), which does

Re: [patch 3/3] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-25 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 23:11 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: From: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changes: v3: o rename is_page_modified to test_clear_page_modified v2: o set AS_CMTIME flag in clear_page_dirty_for_io() too o don't clear AS_CMTIME in file_update_time() o check the dirty

[PATCH 1/2] MSR: Add support for safe variants

2007-03-25 Thread Jean Delvare
From: Rudolf Marek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add support for _safe (exception handled) variants of rdmsr_on_cpu and wrmsr_on_cpu. This is needed for the upcoming coretemp hardware monitoring driver, which might step into non-existing (poorly documented) MSR. Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek [EMAIL

Re: [1/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 09:45:09PM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:48:17 +0100 Subject: problem with sockets References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/21/248 Submitter : Jose Alberto Reguero [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status :

[PATCH] dynticks: fix hrtimer rounding error in next_timer_interrupt

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
The rework of next_timer_interrupt() fixed the timer wheel bugs, but invented a rounding error versus the next hrtimer event. This is caused by the conversion of the hrtimer internal representation to relative jiffies. This causes bug #8100: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8100

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 25 March 2007 14:03, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Thomas Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric W. Biederman schrieb: Thomas could you verify the patch below makes the problem go away for you. The patch solves the problem. I'm writing this after the third suspend and

Re: debug rsdl 0.33

2007-03-25 Thread Andy Whitcroft
Con Kolivas wrote: On Saturday 24 March 2007 08:45, Con Kolivas wrote: On Friday 23 March 2007 23:28, Andy Whitcroft wrote: Andy Whitcroft wrote: Con Kolivas wrote: On Friday 23 March 2007 05:17, Andy Whitcroft wrote: Ok, I have yet a third x86_64 machine is is blowing up with the latest

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 25 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:46, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:34, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For an rsdl 0.33 patched kernel. Comments? Overhead worth it? we

[PATCH] clocksource: Fix thinko in watchdog selection

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
The watchdog implementation excludes low res / non continuous clocksources from being selected as a watchdog reference unintentionally. Allow using jiffies/PIT as a watchdog reference as long as no better clocksource is available. This is necessary to detect TSC breakage on systems, which have no

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 25 March 2007 22:32, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:46, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:34, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For an rsdl 0.33

Re: [patch] ntp: avoid integer overflow in do_adjtimex()

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 13:14 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here you go. It's ugly, but it should do the trick for now. tglx here's your patch with proper metadata: - From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Kernel 2.6.20 takes a long time to load

2007-03-25 Thread Helmut Auer
Hello List, The kernel 2.6.20 makes a long delay during booting ( about 15 seconds ) after showing: NET: Registered protocol family 2 then it goes along with: IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes) ...

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, in kernel/power/disk.c:power_down() . Please comment out the disable_nonboot_cpus() in there and retest (but please test the latest Linus' tree). rant Why do we even need a disable_nonboot_cpus in that path? machine_shutdown on i386 and

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread malc
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:46, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:34, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For an rsdl 0.33 patched kernel. Comments? Overhead worth it? we want to do

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread malc
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:46, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:34, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For an rsdl 0.33 patched kernel. Comments? Overhead worth it? [..snip..]

some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules

2007-03-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
drivers/scsi/pcmcia/Kconfig: ... config PCMCIA_AHA152X tristate Adaptec AHA152X PCMCIA support depends on m !64BIT select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS help Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA SCSI host adapter to your computer.

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 25 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 22:32, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:46, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:34, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Con Kolivas

Re: [PATCH] Add additional error check to mm/mincore.c

2007-03-25 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I some circumstances, mincore can succeed when it shouldn't. Example: Two files are mmapped to a process and they are adjacent in memory. If mincore is run with a requested length that is too large, the function does not differentiate between the

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Meyer
Eric W. Biederman schrieb: Sounds possible. You could probably verify it isn't my patch but running an unpatched kernel without msi support. As I think the crash you saw should only be reproducible when using devices that support msi. Without your patch and with pci=nomsi option the same

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Meyer
Rafael J. Wysocki schrieb: On Sunday, 25 March 2007 14:03, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Thomas Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric W. Biederman schrieb: Thomas could you verify the patch below makes the problem go away for you. The patch solves the problem. I'm

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 25 March 2007 23:06, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:46, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:34, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For an rsdl 0.33 patched kernel.

Re: keyboard.c: Stop flooding dmesg with useless warnings

2007-03-25 Thread Parag Warudkar
On 3/25/07, Jiri Kosina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, is there any specific kernel version where this started to happen to you, or is this long-standing bug you have been experiencing with older kernels too? I am not sure about specific kernel version but I think this (2.6.20) is the first

Re: Early hang with 2.6.21-rc4-rt1

2007-03-25 Thread Roland Dreier
I'm trying to use 2.6.21-rc4-rt1 to track down who's keeping interrupts off for too long. [...] btw., is this something you know for sure (if yes, how do you know?) - or is it that you would like to double-check the irqs-off times of v2.6.21-to-be? I finally got curious enough to

Re: Linux-VServer example results for sharing vs. separate mappings ...

2007-03-25 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:29:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:21:56 +0200 Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) slice the machine into 128 fake NUMA nodes, use each node as the basic block of memory allocation, manage the binding between these memory

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:41:33PM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote: ... The first suspend to disk is ok. The second suspend to disk has a strange behaviour: 1.) write pm image 2.) the system disable the non-boot cpus again (i guess this happens in power_down()) 3.) the system doesn't power down.

[-mm patch] lguest: remove check_bug_kill()

2007-03-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 05:33:45PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 14:06 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:56:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.21-rc3-mm1: ...

[2.6 patch] drivers/media/video/cpia_pp.c: convert to module_{init,exit}

2007-03-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
After looking at a section bug (in the non-modular case, clearly non-init code referenced the __initdata parport_nr[]), I thought it was time to convert this driver to module_{init,exit}. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/media/video/cpia_pp.c | 46

[-mm patch] drivers/eisa/pci_eisa.c:pci_eisa_init() should be init

2007-03-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
I was looking at the following section error: -- snip -- WARNING: drivers/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:eisa_root_register from .text between 'pci_eisa_init' (at offset 0xabf670) and 'virtual_eisa_release' -- snip -- AFAIK a PCI to EISA bridge isn't anything

[2.6 patch] make remove_inode_dquot_ref() static

2007-03-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
remove_inode_dquot_ref() can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 20 Feb 2007 fs/dquot.c |3 ++- include/linux/quotaops.h |3 --- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4

[2.6 patch] block2mtd_paramline[] mustn't be __initdata

2007-03-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
block2mtd_paramline[] is used in the non-__init block2mtd_setup() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c.old2007-03-25 15:56:10.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c2007-03-25

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread malc
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 23:06, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:46, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:34, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[2.6 patch] make mptspi_target_destroy() static

2007-03-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global mptspi_target_destroy() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Eric Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 20 Feb 2007 --- linux-2.6.20-mm1/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c.old2007-02-18

[2.6 patch] remove nfs4_acl_add_ace()

2007-03-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
nfs4_acl_add_ace() can now be removed. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 20 Feb 2007 fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c| 17 - include/linux/nfs4_acl.h |1 - 2 files changed, 18 deletions(-) ---

2.6.21-rc3-rt0 hang randomely + usb can't set config #1, error -62

2007-03-25 Thread Dominique Michel
Hi all, My system hang randomly with a 2.6.21-rc3-rt0. I also have a 2.6.19.1-rt15 that is working fine. I googled a lot and find at I missed the shift to the APIC timer with such rt kernels with the 2.6.19-rt15. I try to enable it in the 2.6.21-rc3-rt0, but it continue to hang from time to time.

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 26 March 2007 00:57, malc wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 23:06, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:46, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:34, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Ingo

Re: [BUG] Code reordering in swsusp breaks suspend on SMP systems

2007-03-25 Thread Maxim
On Sunday 25 March 2007 14:13:07 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Sunday, 25 March 2007 01:40, Maxim wrote: On Friday 23 March 2007 16:42:44 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Friday, 23 March 2007 00:30, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Thursday, 22 March 2007 00:53, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread malc
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Monday 26 March 2007 00:57, malc wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 23:06, malc wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:46, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:34,

Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting

2007-03-25 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 26 March 2007 01:19, malc wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: So before we go any further with this patch, can you try the following one and see if this simple sanity check is enough? Sure (compiling the kernel now), too bad old axiom that testing can not confirm

drivers/pci/probe.c patch in 2.6.20.4 causes 'cannot adjust BAR0 (not I/O)' on NVidia MCP51

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
I just upgraded from 2.6.20.2 to 2.6.20.4 on my Compaq V6000 laptop, which has an NVidia core chipset. It has the MCP51 and uses it for PATA and SATA. Booting the 2.6.20.4 kernel causes two messages (and a kernel lockup) like this: :00:0d.0: cannot adjust BAR0 (not I/O) :00:0d.0: cannot

Re: kmem_cache_create loop for find the proper gfporder

2007-03-25 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 3/25/07, Bin Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is done by increase gfporder for low number to high(possibly 0 to MAX_GFP_ORDER). But why increase the gfporder(or slab size) can decrease the internal fragmentation?) A simple example, suppose the slab management stuff is kept off-slab, if the

[PATCH] Fix kernel build with EMBEDDED PROC_FS !PROC_SYSCTL

2007-03-25 Thread Mika Kukkonen
Without attached patch against current -git I get following with !PROC_SYSCTL (with EMBEDDED and PROC_FS set): CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD vmlinux fs/built-in.o: In function `do_proc_sys_lookup': proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26583): undefined reference to

Re: [Patch 7/7] IBAC Patch

2007-03-25 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This is a new Integrity Based Access Control(IBAC) LSM module which bases access control decisions on the new integrity framework services. IBAC is a sample LSM module to help clarify the interaction between LSM and Linux Integrity Modules(LIM). - Updated Kconfig SECURITY_IBAC

Re: [Patch 3/7] integrity: EVM as an integrity service provider

2007-03-25 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! +++ linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/security/evm/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +config INTEGRITY_EVM + boolean EVM support + depends on INTEGRITY KEYS + select CRYPTO_HMAC + select CRYPTO_MD5 + select CRYPTO_SHA1 + default 0 + help + The Extended Verification Module

[PATCH -mm] drivers/char/ip2/i2ellis.c remove unused function

2007-03-25 Thread Michal Piotrowski
This patch removes unused function CC drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.o drivers/char/ip2/i2ellis.c:108: warning: ‘iiEllisCleanup’ defined but not used Regards, Michal -- Michal K. K. Piotrowski LTG - Linux Testers Group (PL) (http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/) LTG - Linux Testers Group (EN)

[PATCH -mm] drivers/kvm/svm.c remove unused function

2007-03-25 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Remove unused function CC drivers/kvm/svm.o drivers/kvm/svm.c:207: warning: ‘inject_db’ defined but not used Regards, Michal -- Michal K. K. Piotrowski LTG - Linux Testers Group (PL) (http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/) LTG - Linux Testers Group (EN)

Re: [patch 2/3] only allow nonlinear vmas for ram backed filesystems

2007-03-25 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 02:12:32PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 23:09 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: From: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dirty page accounting/limiting doesn't work for nonlinear mappings, so for non-ram backed filesystems emulate with linear

apm.c: get rid of unused variables

2007-03-25 Thread Parag Warudkar
The patch below (against latest git) gets rid of following unused variables - clock_cmos_diff and got_clock_diff. 2 less compiler warnings. Compile tested on i386. Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c2007-03-24 21:43:35.0 -0400

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