Re: [BUID_FAILURE] regression from 2.6.24-git18 to 2.6.25-rc1-git1 on section type conflict psmouse-base

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:10:02 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This build failure is seen on the powerpc from the 2.6.24-git18 kernel and is still visible in the 2.6.25-rc1-git1. drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c:44: error: __param_proto causes a section type conflict

Re: [PATCH 9/9] firewire: fw-sbp2: fix I/O errors during reconnect

2008-02-12 Thread Stefan Richter
Jarod Wilson wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: perceived unplugs can happen if a third node is slowly plugged in or out [...] I wonder if there's any sort of guidance on this sort of thing in the firewire specs... I am not aware of any. The hardware related parts of the 1394a PHY layer spec have

Re: [PATCH] mm: tidy up follow_hugetlb_page() and get_user_pages()

2008-02-12 Thread Eugene Teo
quote sender=Andrew Morton On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:28:40 +0800 Eugene Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch extends Jonathan Corbet's patch to avoid buffer overflows in get_user_pages(). It cleans up follow_hugetlb_page(), and get_user_pages() so that it is easier to read. It also

Open bugs

2008-02-12 Thread Natalie Protasevich
Hello, The bugs listed are over a month old, and haven't been addressed yet. It would be appreciated if corresponding maintainers identify whether the bugs have been fixed, or need to be worked on, and take appropriate action. In most cases, reporters are standing by and ready to provide

Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (adm1026) Properly terminate sysfs groups (Was: panic about sysfs with adm1026)

2008-02-12 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Yinghai, On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:39:39 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: On Feb 10, 2008 10:01 AM, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I am an idiot. In 5b34dbcd88251508d02e48ad9b0f9b8232a13ee0 I introduced two new sysfs file groups but forgot to NULL-terminate them. Sorry about that,

Re: IO queuing and complete affinity with threads (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] IO queuing and complete affinity)

2008-02-12 Thread Jeremy Higdon
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:22:11PM +1100, David Chinner wrote: What I think Nick is referring to is the comments I made that at a higher layer (e.g. filesystems) migrating completions to the submitter CPU may be exactly the wrong thing to do. I don't recall making any comments on migrating

[PATCH] trivial: fix alignment of IP-Config output

2008-02-12 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
make the intended lines aligned in the output (not in the code) Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/ipv4/ipconfig.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c index a52b585..10013cc 100644 ---

Re: [PATCH] [7/8] CPA: Don't flush caches on CPUs that support self-snoop

2008-02-12 Thread Andi Kleen
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:47:12 -0800 Siddha, Suresh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:58:46PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: On Monday 11 February 2008 18:36:06 Siddha, Suresh B wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:27:23PM +0100, Andi Kleen

Re: lock_task_group_list() can be called from the atomic context

2008-02-12 Thread Denis V. Lunev
Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 14:33 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:09 +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote: Curious, I hadn't yet seen it... Does the below fix it? BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at

Re: [PATCH] fib_trie: rcu_assign_pointer warning fix

2008-02-12 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On 12-02-2008 02:16, David Miller wrote: From: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:59:54 -0800 linux-kernel added to CC:, any change to generic kernel infrastructure should be posted there Eliminate warnings when rcu_assign_pointer is used with unsigned long. It

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] Strange regression with CONFIG_HZ_300=y

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Piel
Carlos R. Mafra wrote: I apologize in advance if I am crazy about this, but I noticed a strange regression wrt 2.6.24 in cpufreq (I think) in 2.6.25-rc1, which goes away if I revert the following commit: commit bdc807871d58285737d50dc6163d0feb72cb0dc2 Author: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH]intel-iommu batched iotlb flushes

2008-02-12 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:41:05PM -0800, mark gross wrote: The intel-iommu hardware requires a polling operation to flush IOTLB PTE's after an unmap operation. Through some TSC instrumentation of a netperf UDP stream with small packets test case it was seen that the flush operations where

Re: simple questions about net/ipv4; kara_am

2008-02-12 Thread am kara
What are the general functionalities of net/ipv4/tunnel4.c and net/ipv4/ipip.c? Are these modules necessary and compulsory to implement IPsec by Linux kernel? I mean if I do not load them I can not make IPsec , layer 3 between two points of a network?

Re: bug in checkpatch (on pointers to typedefs?)

2008-02-12 Thread Benny Halevy
On Feb. 11, 2008, 20:42 +0200, Andy Whitcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:58:08PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote: OK, but the return type doesn't have to be in the patched line, it could be in a synchronization line or even missing if the function has a long multi-line

netdev

2008-02-12 Thread RM
Bonjour Since kernel-2.6.24 i cannot connect to internet networking process is not ok ; avahi bad the problem for me in only with Amd64 processor with Dell laptop and pentium4m kernel-2.6.24 and avahi service is ok i sent you syslog 2.6.24.1 and syslog and syslog-2.6.23.14 thanks for back

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fix make V=1

2008-02-12 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:38:24AM +0100, Oleg Verych wrote: * Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:47:09 +0100 [] Mike spotted another missing thing from his initial patch so I folded it into the fix and pushed out a new kbuild.git tree. See updated patch below. Sam Sam, do you agree

Re: [PATCH 6/9] firewire: fw-sbp2: don't add scsi_device twice

2008-02-12 Thread Stefan Richter
Stefan Richter wrote: Jarod Wilson wrote: Was the spurious __scsi_add_device simply failing, or was it causing other problems as well? SCSI core looks up whether the scsi_target and the scsi_device already exist. If so, __scsi_add_device succeeds (there should also be a log message scsi

Re: xfs [_fsr] probs in 2.6.24.0

2008-02-12 Thread David Chinner
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:02:05PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: I'm getting similar errors on an x86-32 x86-64 kernel. The x86-64 system (2nd log below w/date+times) was unusable this morning: one or more of the xfs file systems had gone off line due to some unknown error (upon reboot, no

Re: [PATCH]intel-iommu batched iotlb flushes

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:52:56 +0200 The streaming DMA-API was designed to conserve IOMMU mappings for machines where IOMMU mappings are a scarce resource, and is a poor fit for a modern IOMMU such as VT-d with a 64-bit IO address space (or even an

Re: [PATCH 2.6.25-rc1] i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel ICH10 DeviceID's

2008-02-12 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Jason, On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:45:17 -0800, Gaston, Jason D wrote: This patch adds the Intel ICH10 SMBus Controller DeviceID's and updates Tolapai support. Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patch applied. Please note that your e-mail client corrupted the patch and I had to

Re: One minute delay when booting 2.6.24.1

2008-02-12 Thread Tvrtko A. Ursulin
On Saturday 09 February 2008 22:01:44 Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Feb 9 2008 13:29, Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote: Hi all, As the subject says I get ~1 minute delay when booting 2.6.24.1 pretty reliably. It is possible it is not new to 2.6.24.1 but I can't tell due recent hardware changes. dmesg

Re: [-mm PATCH] register_memory/unregister_memory clean ups

2008-02-12 Thread Yasunori Goto
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 11:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:23:18 -0800 Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, While testing hotplug memory remove against -mm, I noticed that unregister_memory() is not cleaning up /sysfs entries correctly.

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH10 DeviceID's

2008-02-12 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:20:36 -0800, Jason Gaston wrote: This patch adds the Intel ICH10 LPC and SMBus Controller DeviceID's. Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.24/include/linux/pci_ids.h.orig 2008-01-24 14:58:37.0 -0800 +++

Re: BTRFS partition usage...

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:21:39 -0800 (PST) Filesystems like ext2 put their superblock 1 block into the partition in order to avoid overwriting disk labels and other uglies. UFS does this too, as do several others. One of the few exceptions I've been

Re: [PATCH] Avoid buffer overflows in get_user_pages()

2008-02-12 Thread Bodo Eggert
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:17:33 -0700 Jonathan Corbet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Avoid buffer overflows in get_user_pages() So I spent a while pounding my head against my monitor trying to figure out the vmsplice() vulnerability - how could a failure to

[PATCH] Configure out DMI scanning code v2 (Linux Tiny)

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Hi, Enclosed patch is an updated version, with proper credits to Matt Mackall and the Linux Tiny project. Sincerly, Thomas --- Turn CONFIG_DMI into a selectable option if EMBEDDED is defined, in order to be able to remove the DMI table scanning code if it's not needed, and then reduce the

Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot

2008-02-12 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Hi, On Monday 11 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 2/7/08, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 06

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fix make V=1

2008-02-12 Thread Oleg Verych
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:56:05AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:38:24AM +0100, Oleg Verych wrote: * Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:47:09 +0100 [] Mike spotted another missing thing from his initial patch so I folded it into the fix and pushed out a new kbuild.git

Re: [PATCH #upstream] libata: implement libata.force module parameter

2008-02-12 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Garzik wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: This patch implements libata.force module parameter which can selectively override ATA port, link and device configurations including cable type, SATA PHY SPD limit, transfer mode and NCQ. For example, you can say use 1.5Gbps for all fan-out ports attached

Re: [PATCH]intel-iommu batched iotlb flushes

2008-02-12 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 01:00:06AM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:52:56 +0200 The streaming DMA-API was designed to conserve IOMMU mappings for machines where IOMMU mappings are a scarce resource, and is a poor fit for a

CRC32C big endian bugs...

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
The CRC32C implementation in the btrfs progs is different from the one in the kernel, so obviously nothing can possibly work on big-endian. This is getting less and less fun by the minute, I simply wanted to test btrfs on Niagara :-/ Here is a patch to fix that: ---

Re: Scheduler(?) regression from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24 for short-lived threads

2008-02-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 14:31 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:58:46PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: It shouldn't matter if you yield or not really, that should reduce the number of non-work spin cycles wasted awaiting preemption as threads execute in series (the

IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-12 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
Hi, I suffer from unreliable cdrom operations (failing DAE and burn sessions) with the openSUSE 2.6.18.8-0.7-bigsmp kernel. Additionally, the syslog is continuesly spammed with: Feb 12 00:03:22 kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01). Trying to recover by

Re: [git pull] kgdb-light -v9

2008-02-12 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:03:35AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: The synchronization code looks as bad as it was before. First nobody answered the kgdb clean enough for a module high level question yet. Is it good enough for that? i reworked and cleaned up all the kgdb locking code completely.

Re: [PATCH - BUGFIX] Smack: Check for 'struct socket' with NULL sk

2008-02-12 Thread Joerg Platte
Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Ahmed S. Darwish: Hi Joerg, There's a small problem with smack and NFS. A similar report was also sent here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/27/85 Could you please check below patch ? I think it should fix your problem. Hi Ahmed, your patch fixes the nfs

Re: [PATCH 7/8] Do not recompute msgmni anymore if explicitely set by user

2008-02-12 Thread Nadia Derbey
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:16:53 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [PATCH 07/08] This patch makes msgmni not recomputed anymore upon ipc namespace creation / removal or memory add/remove, as soon as it has been set from userland. As soon as msgmni is explicitely set via procfs

Re: [git pull] kgdb-light -v9

2008-02-12 Thread Sam Ravnborg
+/** + * kgdb_arch_handle_exception - Handle architecture specific GDB packets. All the kerneldoc comments are useless if you don't add the file to Documentation/DocBook/*.tmpl 1) The content is valid no matter the formatting 2) It is a well known format 3) And it is widely used Using a

[PATCH] 2.6.25-rc1 ml4x network driver build failure

2008-02-12 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
The 2.6.25-rc1 kernel build fails on the powerpc with the error drivers/net/mlx4/alloc.c: In function ‘mlx4_buf_alloc’: drivers/net/mlx4/alloc.c:162: error: implicit declaration of function ‘vmap’ drivers/net/mlx4/alloc.c:162: error: ‘VM_MAP’ undeclared (first use in this function)

Re: [PATCH] Silent compiler warning introduced by commit 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 (UBI: Unsorted Block Images)

2008-02-12 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
S.Çağlar Onur wrote: Hi; 10 Şub 2008 Paz tarihinde, Jiri Slaby şunları yazmıştı: I think this is not correct. You change the err which caused the failure. You change it even to 0 if it doesn't fail and the whole function will seem like non-failing. My bad, sorry for not looking carefully.

Re: [PATCH 7/8] Do not recompute msgmni anymore if explicitely set by user

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:32:31 +0100 Nadia Derbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it builds fine, modulo some changes in ipv4 and ipv6 (see attached patch - didn't find it in the hot fixes). OK, thanks for checking. Did you confirm that we don't have unneeded code in vmlinux when CONFIG_PROCFS=n? I

Re: [PATCH] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-02-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:00:30PM -0500, Pete MacKay wrote: In wm97xx-core.c, should +int wm97xx_resume(struct device *dev) be static? Also, should Yes, and in fact I had both fixes present in the development branch but had forgotten to cherry pick them over into the upstream branch -

[GIT-PULL] UBI updates

2008-02-12 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
Linus, please pull from git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6.git master to receive few UBI updates and fixes. Artem Bityutskiy (2): Documentation: add UBI sysfs ABI docs UBI: be verbose when debuggin is enabled S.Çağlar Onur (1): UBI: silence warning

Re: [BUID_FAILURE] regression from 2.6.24-git18 to 2.6.25-rc1-git1 on section type conflict psmouse-base

2008-02-12 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:59:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:10:02 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This build failure is seen on the powerpc from the 2.6.24-git18 kernel and is still visible in the 2.6.25-rc1-git1.

Re: 2.6.25-rc1, weird build error

2008-02-12 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:04:48AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: i've got a build log from a weird build error below: LD init/built-in.o distcc[12023] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs LD

Re: [PATCH 7/8] Do not recompute msgmni anymore if explicitely set by user

2008-02-12 Thread Nadia Derbey
Nadia Derbey wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:16:53 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [PATCH 07/08] This patch makes msgmni not recomputed anymore upon ipc namespace creation / removal or memory add/remove, as soon as it has been set from userland. As soon as msgmni is

Re: [BUID_FAILURE] regression from 2.6.24-git18 to 2.6.25-rc1-git1 on section type conflict psmouse-base

2008-02-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:17:02PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:59:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:10:02 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This build failure is seen on the powerpc from the

[PATCH 2/6] Add chip driver for WM9705 touchscreen

2008-02-12 Thread Mark Brown
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Mike Arthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Stanley Cai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 4/6] Add chip driver for WM9713 touchscreen

2008-02-12 Thread Mark Brown
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Mike Arthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Stanley Cai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 1/3] Remove unused variable from send_signal()

2008-02-12 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
This function doesn't change the ret's value and thus always returns 0, with a single exception of returning -EAGAIN explicitly. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/signal.c |3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c

[PATCH 2/3] Turn LEGACY_QUEUE macro into static inline function

2008-02-12 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
This makes the code more readable, due to less brackets and small letters in name. I also move it above the send_signal() as a preparation for the 3rd patch. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/signal.c | 12 +++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5

[PATCH 5/6] Driver for WM97xx touchscreens in streaming mode on Mainstone

2008-02-12 Thread Mark Brown
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Mike Arthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Stanley Cai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 6/6] Build system and MAINTAINERS entry for WM97xx touchscreen drivers

2008-02-12 Thread Mark Brown
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- MAINTAINERS|9 ++ drivers/input/touchscreen/Kconfig | 52 drivers/input/touchscreen/Makefile |7 + 3 files changed, 68

[PATCH] USB: OTG: Fix weirdnesses on enumerating partial otg devices

2008-02-12 Thread Felipe Balbi
Remove the check for is_b_host upon enumerating otg devices as it can trigger some weird behaviors on otg sessions. Some devices claim to be b_host even though they have an a_connector attached to it. Checking b_hnp_enable flag should be secure enough or terms of otg compliancy. Signed-off-by:

Re: [ALSA] HDA: no sound in headphone-out caused by commit f889fa91ad47e (2.6.25-rc1 regression)

2008-02-12 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:58:41 +0100, Matej Laitl wrote: Hi, after upgrading from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25-rc1, I lost headphone-out sound output of my Intel HDA card - it is quiet no matter what the mixer settings are. After playing wit git bisect a bit, I narrowed it down to commit

Re: [PATCH] sound: opl3: Fix up opl3_synth build.

2008-02-12 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:06:16 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: opl3 breaks allmodconfig in current git: The patch already presents on ALSA tree. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/298 thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

[UPDATED v6] WM97xx touchscreen drivers

2008-02-12 Thread Mark Brown
This patch series adds support for the touchscreen controllers provided by Wolfson Microelectronics WM97xx series chips in both polled and streaming modes. The series can also be pulled via git from: git://opensource.wolfsonmicro.com/linux-2.6-touch upstream This version incorporates

Re: [ALSA] HDA: no sound in headphone-out caused by commit f889fa91ad47e (2.6.25-rc1 regression)

2008-02-12 Thread Matej Laitl
Takashi Iwai wrote: Matej Laitl wrote: after upgrading from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25-rc1, I lost headphone-out sound output of my Intel HDA card - it is quiet no matter what the mixer settings are. (...) The box is Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo Mobile M9400 laptop. Could you give the output of

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:00 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 09:09 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: (a) create a base tree with _just_ that fundamental infrastructure change, and make sure that base branch is so

Re: [ALSA] HDA: no sound in headphone-out caused by commit f889fa91ad47e (2.6.25-rc1 regression)

2008-02-12 Thread Matej Laitl
Takashi Iwai wrote: Matej Laitl wrote: Yes, this slightly better patch applied on top of your first patch against hda_codec.c did the trick, but with some side-effects: * the Speaker switch now mutes/unmutes speakers * muting/unmuting Front channel now has zero effect (in 2.6.24 it had

Re: Linux 2.6.22.18

2008-02-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Greg KH: the logic is a little different in 2.6.22 and earlier in regards to this area of code. This way we are safer. Your patch doesn't include the CVE-2006-0010 hunk. Is this because get_user() implies an access_ok() check (while __copy_from_user() obviously does not)? -- To unsubscribe

Re: [git pull] kgdb-light -v10

2008-02-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: - the kgdb commands should always act on the *current* CPU only - add one command that says switch over to CPU #n which just releases the current CPU and sends an IPI to that CPU #n (no timeouts, no synchronous waiting, no nothing - it's

Re: vmsplice exploits, stack protector and Makefiles

2008-02-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:50:12 +0100 Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I realize that certain distros have patched gcc to compensate for their lack of distro wide CFLAGS, and it's great to work around that... but would there be a way to NOT disable this for

Re: [PATCH 1/2] add task migration_disable critical section

2008-02-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Gregory Haskins wrote: This patch adds a new critical-section primitive pair: migration_disable() and migration_enable() This is similar to what Mathieu once posted: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/11/13 Not sure the arguments against (no time to read the thread again).

[PATCH 1/2] add task migration_disable critical section

2008-02-12 Thread Gregory Haskins
This patch adds a new critical-section primitive pair: migration_disable() and migration_enable() This allows you to force a task to remain on the current cpu, while still remaining fully preemptible. This is a better alternative to modifying current-cpus_allowed because you dont have to worry

[PATCH 2/2] fix cpus_allowed settings

2008-02-12 Thread Gregory Haskins
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/kthread.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index dcfe724..b193b47 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ void

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:48 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: But you're all ignoring my fundamental objection: you're talking as if cross-tree fundamental API changes should be the norm, and that we should try to solve the workflow issues that stem from that. And I'm saying that I think we

Re: [git pull] kgdb-light -v10

2008-02-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: There tend to be timeouts (e.g. softlock/nmi watchdog at least). I think some of the IPIs eventually time out too. In general losing a lot of time can lead to weird side effects. I do agree that kgdb and watchdogs aren't like to work well together.

Re: [PATCH] Configure out DMI scanning code v2 (Linux Tiny)

2008-02-12 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:04 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: Turn CONFIG_DMI into a selectable option if EMBEDDED is defined, in order to be able to remove the DMI table scanning code if it's not needed, and then reduce the kernel code size. With CONFIG_DMI (i.e before) : textdata

Re: [git pull for -mm] CPU isolation extensions (updated2)

2008-02-12 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 20:10 -0800, Max Krasnyansky wrote: Andrew, looks like Linus decided not to pull this stuff. Can we please put it into -mm then. My tree is here git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maxk/cpuisol-2.6.git Please use 'master' branch (or 'for-linus' they

[PATCH 3/4] UML - Fix helper_wait calls in watchdog

2008-02-12 Thread Jeff Dike
From: Johann Felix Soden [EMAIL PROTECTED] In 1aa351a308d2c3ddb92b6cc45083fc54271d0010 the arguments of helper_wait() were changed. The adaptation of harddog_user.c was forgotten, so this errors occur: /arch/um/drivers/harddog_user.c: In function 'start_watchdog':

[PATCH 1/4] UML - Fix initrd printk

2008-02-12 Thread Jeff Dike
From: Johann Felix Soden [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the initrd file has zero-length, the error message should contain the filepath. Cc: WANG Cong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/um/kernel/initrd.c |2 +- 1

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, J. Bruce Fields wrote: But the author is still preserved, right? Why do you need the committer name to be preserved? (I'm not denying that there could be reasons, I'm just curious what they are.) It's not that the committer should be preserved, but: - the chain

Re: [PATCH] Configure out DMI scanning code v2 (Linux Tiny)

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:56:45 -0600 Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:04 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: Turn CONFIG_DMI into a selectable option if EMBEDDED is defined, in order to be able to remove the DMI table scanning code if it's not needed, and then

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:55:45AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote: That's the point. Not it isn't. To quote you a number of years ago: Linux is evolution, not intelligent design Umm. Have you read a lot of books on evolution? It doesn't

Re: stuck with 2.6.23.14 on x86_64

2008-02-12 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 12 of February 2008, Fabio Coatti wrote: Alle martedì 12 febbraio 2008, Randy Dunlap ha scritto: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:03:41 +0100 Fabio Coatti wrote: Hi all, I'm stuck in a weird situation: I'm unable to go beyond 2.6.23.14, so to fix the splice bug I've had to apply by

Re: stuck with 2.6.23.14 on x86_64

2008-02-12 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 12 of February 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:47:19 +0100 Fabio Coatti wrote: Alle martedì 12 febbraio 2008, Randy Dunlap ha scritto: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:03:41 +0100 Fabio Coatti wrote: Hi all, I'm stuck in a weird situation: I'm unable to go beyond

Re: BTRFS partition usage...

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:49:34 -0500 So, if Btrfs starts zeroing at 1k, will that be acceptable for you? Sure. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH] [8/8] RFC: Fix some EFI problems

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2008 21:04:06 Thomas Gleixner wrote: And you just copied the real bug in that logic as well: set_memory_uc(md-virt_addr, size); Oops you're right. I wanted to fix that, but didn't. Ok I'll put up my brown

Re: stuck with 2.6.23.14 on x86_64

2008-02-12 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:47:19 +0100 Fabio Coatti wrote: Alle martedì 12 febbraio 2008, Randy Dunlap ha scritto: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:03:41 +0100 Fabio Coatti wrote: Hi all, I'm stuck in a weird situation: I'm unable to go beyond 2.6.23.14, so to fix the splice bug I've had to apply

Re: [RFC v3 5/7] dmaengine: Make DMA Engine menu visible for AVR32 users

2008-02-12 Thread Olof Johansson
Hi, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:43:56PM +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/dma/Kconfig |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/Kconfig b/drivers/dma/Kconfig index 893a3f8..1a727c1

Re: [PATCH] Add IPv6 support to TCP SYN cookies

2008-02-12 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 01:07:46PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:44:46PM -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:53:57AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: My initial test is end-to-end 1000Mbps, but I've got a few different packet rates. If the young/old

[PATCH] x86: include prototype for no_broadcast in mach-default/setup.c

2008-02-12 Thread Harvey Harrison
Fixes sparse warning: arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c:19:5: warning: symbol 'no_broadcast' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: Bug#464962: immediate crash on boot on TM5800

2008-02-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
maximilian attems wrote: sure, ack. so i'll circumvent bugzilla and add the new x86 maintainers on cc to let them know about the 2.6.24 and 2.6.25-rc1 boot error on shiny fujitsu p700 lifebook, with a Crusoe processor. http://bugs.debian.org/464962 686 config attached. INT 6 is #UD,

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Russell King wrote: 3. rebase the branch on top of the conflicting change, throw out the patches which prove to be a problem and ask the original author of those patches to fix them up for the conflicting change. The result is a completely bisectable tree.

[PATCH] [1/1] RFC: Fix some EFI problems v2

2008-02-12 Thread Andi Kleen
From code review the EFI memory map handling has a couple of problems: - The test for _WB memory was reversed so it would set cache able memory to uncached - It would always set a wrong uninitialized zero address to uncached (so I suspect it always set the first few pages in phys memory to

BTRFS only works with PAGE_SIZE = 4K

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:00:13 -0500 So, here's v0.12. Any page size larger than 4K will not work with btrfs. All of the extent stuff assumes that PAGE_SIZE = sectorsize. I confirmed this by forcing mkfs.btrfs to use an 8K sectorsize on sparc64 and I was

Re: [PATCH] libata: Add MMIO support to pata_sil680

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Cox
That's strange though. Somebody with knowledge of that HW (or specs) who can spot something ? Could it be an issue with timing ? I don't have HW access to this machine. If somebody could send one to me I could do more investigation. Did anyone fix all the mmio posting bugs in libata-core

Re: [PATCH 00/18] ide: warm-plug support for IDE devices and other goodies

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:04:07 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 19:40 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 01:44 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: - couple of fixes and preparatory patches - rework of PowerMac

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:39:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: In general 2.6.25 if looking quite good on my desktop, but there's one important issue: the system no longer powers off after shutdown.

Re: xfs [_fsr] probs in 2.6.24.0

2008-02-12 Thread Linda Walsh
Eric Sandeen wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: David Chinner wrote: Filesystem bugs rarely hang systems hard like that - more likely is a hardware or driver problem. And neither of the lockdep reports below are likely to be responsible for a system wide, no-response hang. --- Ish, the

Re: [Bug-fix]:2.6.25-rc0 Generic thermal management [Patch 1/2]: validating input parameters

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:27:44 +0530 Thomas, Sujith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patch is fairly seriously wordwrapped. Should be fixed now. No, even after I fixed all the wordwrapping I saw a large amount of fuzz and several rejects when trying to apply the patch. There's a reason why Len

Re: Bug#464962: immediate crash on boot on TM5800

2008-02-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
maximilian attems wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 01:14:04PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Are you sure that build matches the bug report? urrgs right sorry, the posted vmlinux is a newer 2.6.24-git22 and not Version: 2.6.24-3 The EIP given falls inside the .data segment of that kernel,

Re: [RFC PATCH] ide-floppy: use rq-cmd for preparing and sending packet cmds to the drive

2008-02-12 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi Borislav, On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: Hi Bart, here's a first go at converting ide-floppy to using rq-cmd for packet commands. The code below is pretty rough and from what i can tell needs to be hammered a lot more, for it raises a lot of issues: I think that

Re: currently active Linux kernel versions

2008-02-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
On mar, 2008-02-12 at 22:18 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On mar, 2008-02-12 at 21:27 +0100, Wagner Ferenc wrote: which are the currently active Linux kernel versions at any point in time? The quote is taken from

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:48:13PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: I have tried, and successfully done this many times in the past. The kobject change was one example: add a new function, migrate all users of a direct pointer over to that function, after that work is all done and in, change the

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create and populate toplevel tests/ for kernel tests

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:44:52 -0500 Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:14:52PM +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: The following series of patches create and populate the toplevel tests/ directory. This will henceforth be the place where all in-kernel

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:08:08PM +, Al Viro wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:50:51PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: I can run the numbers, but almost every one of those changes has at least 2 signed-off-by: on them, so they should all be being reviewed properly. AFAICS, we are in

Re: currently active Linux kernel versions

2008-02-12 Thread Oliver Pinter
and 2.6.22.y too On 2/12/08, Ferenc Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On mar, 2008-02-12 at 21:27 +0100, Wagner Ferenc wrote: which are the currently active Linux kernel versions at any point in time? The quote is taken from

Re: [PATCH], issue EOI to APIC prior to calling crash_kexec in die_nmi path

2008-02-12 Thread Neil Horman
Neil, is it possible to do some serial console debugging to find out where exactly we are hanging? Beats me, what's that operation which can not be executed while being in NMI handler and makes system to hang. I am also curious to know if it is nested NMI case. Thanks Vivek Hey-

Re: [ALSA] HDA: no sound in headphone-out caused by commit f889fa91ad47e (2.6.25-rc1 regression)

2008-02-12 Thread Matej Laitl
On Tuesday 12 of February 2008 19:24:35 Matej Laitl wrote: Yes, this slightly better patch applied on top of your first patch against hda_codec.c did the trick, but with some side-effects: (...) Now I just found that the new Speaker switch forgets it's value from time to time, ie. it's

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