Re: [patch 2.4.29-rc1] i810_audio: offset LVI from CIV to avoid stalled start

2005-01-17 Thread Thomas Voegtle
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, John W. Linville wrote: > Offset LVI past CIV when starting DAC/ADC in order to prevent > stalled start. > --- > Here is the (working) patch I'm using against a later 2.4. This makes > sound work fine with Enemy Territory. > This patch, hand-modified for 2.6.10 enabled

[BK PATCH] PCI fixes and PCI Express drivers for 2.6.11-rc1

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
Hi, Here are some small PCI patches for 2.6.11-rc1, and the addition of a new PCI Express subsystem (it's self contained, if you don't have PCI Express, or select it, the code never gets built.) All of these patches have been in the past few -mm releases. Please pull from:

Re: kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler

2005-01-17 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:40:55PM +, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Okay, this is driving me utterly crazy... > > How the heck do I get kbuild to *not* think that because I'm using a > different C compiler (including "gcc" versus "distcc"), or I'm on a > different host, that it has to rebuild every

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 21:31, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: > I also can't keep a recent 2.6 or 2.6*-ac* kernel up more than a few > hours on a machine under real load. Perhaps us folks with the problem > need to talk to the powers who be to come up with a strategy to make a > report they can use.

[PATCH] PCI: fix release_pcibus_dev() crash

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2329.2.8, 2005/01/14 15:59:20-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] PCI: fix release_pcibus_dev() crash During the course of a hotplug removal of a PCI bus, release_pcibus_dev() attempts to remove attribute files from a kobject directory that no longer exists. This patch moves these

How to detect ongoing activity on PCI/AGP?

2005-01-17 Thread Pasi Savolainen
Hi, After upgrading my graphics, matrox g400 AGP to radeon rv280 AGP, I noticed severe horizontal distortions in outputted image (parts move randomly a pixel-or-two right or left). I tracked it down to my use of amd76x_pm module, which supposedly disconnects CPU's (this is 2xK7 SMP) from PCI bus.

Re: [2.6 patch] net/802/: some cleanups

2005-01-17 Thread David S. Miller
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:14:38 +0100 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:49:23PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > > > drivers/net/net_init.c no longer exists in the source tree :) > > Updated patch: > > > <-- snip --> > > > This patch contains the following

[BK PATCH] USB patches for 2.6.11-rc1

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
Hi, Here are a few usb bugfixes and a new usb driver for 2.6.11-rc1. All of these patches have been in the past few -mm releases. Please pull from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/usb-2.6 Patches will be posted to linux-usb-devel as a follow-up thread for those who want to see

[PATCH] PCI: Downgrade printk that complains about unsupported PCI PM caps

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2329.2.6, 2005/01/14 15:58:36-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] PCI: Downgrade printk that complains about unsupported PCI PM caps The attached patch downgrades to KERN_DEBUG level the printk that issues a notification that an unsupported version of the PCI power management registers

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 15:32 -0500, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > You're either on crack or I don't know how to read english. Here's what > you said: Maybe you should read your own comment about ad-hominem attacks earlier in this thread and consider if it might apply to you. I know, what I have said. I

Re: [patch] mm: Reimplementation of dynamic percpu memory allocator

2005-01-17 Thread Andrew Morton
Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So... is it not possible to enhance vmalloc() for node-awareness, then > > just use it? > > > > Memory for block management (free lists, bufctl lists) is also resident > in one block. A typical block in this allocator looks like

Re: [BK PATCH] I2C fixes for 2.6.11-rc1

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:45:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Hi, > > Here are some i2c driver fixes and updates for 2.6.11-rc1. There is a > new chip and a new bus driver, as well as a bunch of minor fixes. All > of these patches have been in the past few -mm releases. Oops, no new chip and bus

Re: [UPDATE] Severe performance problems with kernel 2.6.10

2005-01-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 19:50, Gabriel Tataranu wrote: > For those interested: > > The performance issues (below) where due to a strange bug in the kernel > VM triggered by the motherboard BIOS. This affects Asus P4P800 > motherboards(-MX and -VM tested) with more that 1 GB RAM. The built-in > VGA

Re: kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler

2005-01-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Sam Ravnborg wrote: It better be difficult. You want to recompile when changing gcc. Try this untested patch. Sorry, but that's baloney. Saying "it better be difficult" is equivalent to saying "kbuild is smarter than you." I don't mind the current default, but saying I shouldn't be able to

Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0

2005-01-17 Thread Andi Kleen
> Seems like the unwinder should be running client-side, like it does on > kgdb. Or does kdb not have a client at all? (If so, I have no sympathy > for it.) kdb runs 100% in the kernel. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler

2005-01-17 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:03:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I don't mind the current default, but saying I shouldn't be able to > override it is asinine. No-one asked for it until now. Any preferred syntax to disable this dependency check? > > It also means "make install" is largely

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:58:10PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > No idea what hit me just yet. x86-64 doesn't boot. Still going through > the various architectures. The same system (including the initrd FPOS > bullcrap, though, of course, I'm using an initrd built just for this > kernel)

[PATCH] PCI: rom.c cleanups

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2329.2.5, 2005/01/14 15:58:13-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] PCI: rom.c cleanups Greg, here's some whitespace and long line cleanup I wanted to do last time I touched rom.c, but forgot. Does it look ok to you, Jon? Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by:

PCI: move pcie build into the drivers/pci/ subdirectory

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2329.2.9, 2005/01/17 10:06:44-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PCI: move pcie build into the drivers/pci/ subdirectory Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/Makefile |1 - drivers/pci/Makefile |2 ++ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

[PATCH] I2C: Cleanups to the eeprom driver

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2329.2.6, 2005/01/14 14:43:10-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: Cleanups to the eeprom driver Here comes a cleanup patch to the i2c eeprom client driver: * Get rid of the unused i2c_client client_id. * Get rid of the redundant non-ISA bus check. * Fix the adapter capability

[PATCH] I2C-MPC: use wait_event_interruptible_timeout between transactions

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2329.2.10, 2005/01/14 14:44:42-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C-MPC: use wait_event_interruptible_timeout between transactions Use wait_event_interruptible_timeout so we dont waste time waiting between transactions like we use to. Also, we use the adapters timeout so the ioctl

[PATCH] Block: move struct disk_attribute to genhd.h

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2331, 2005/01/14 11:57:48-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Block: move struct disk_attribute to genhd.h This allows other block devices to add attributes to their sysfs entries. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c |9 +

[PATCH] I2C: add EMC6D100 support in lm85 driver

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2329.2.8, 2005/01/14 14:43:50-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: add EMC6D100 support in lm85 driver I have ported the support for the EMC6D100 sensor from kernel 2.4 to kernel 2.6. In the process I received some comments from Jean Delvare. Signed-off-by: Rafael Ávila de

[PATCH] I2C: it87 fan update

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2329.2.3, 2005/01/14 14:42:04-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: it87 fan update On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:26:22AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > 1* Jonas, please send a modified version of your original patch to Greg. > The only difference would be that you wouldn't force on/off

[PATCH] w1: add ->search() method.

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2329.2.1, 2005/01/14 15:01:17-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] w1: add ->search() method. Patch allows w1_search() to be overwritten by bus_master drivers. It is very usefull for several devices, like found in iPaq w1 bus master, which does not support bit operations but has hardware

[BK PATCH] AOE and Block fixes for 2.6.11-rc1

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
Hi, Here are some AOE driver fixes and a block /proc file updates for 2.6.11-rc1. All of these patches have been posted to lkml, and been in the past few -mm releases. Please pull from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/block-2.6 Individual patches will follow, sent to the linux-kernel

[PATCH] I2C: adm1026.c fixes

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2329.2.4, 2005/01/14 14:42:28-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: adm1026.c fixes Ok, take 3 on the adm1026 patch. In this patch: (1) Code has been added which ensures that the fan divisor registers are properly read into the data structure before fan minimum speeds are

[PATCH] I2C: add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE to via686a.c driver

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2329.2.1, 2005/01/14 14:41:19-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE to via686a.c driver Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/i2c/chips/via686a.c |9 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -Nru

[PATCH] Block: Remove block_subsys.rwsem usage

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2330, 2005/01/14 11:50:41-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Block: Remove block_subsys.rwsem usage A new, local semaphore is used, and the major_names_lock spinlock is dropped, as it is no longer needed with this patch. The goal is to remove the subsys.rwsem entirely in the future,

[PATCH] I2C support for Intel ICH7 - 2.6.10 - resubmit

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2329.2.2, 2005/01/14 14:41:41-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C support for Intel ICH7 - 2.6.10 - resubmit This patch adds the Intel ICH7 DID to the i2c-i801.c driver and adds an entry to Kconfig for I2C(SMBus) support. Note: This patch relies on the already submitted and

[PATCH] I2C-MPC: Convert to platform_device driver

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2329.2.11, 2005/01/14 14:45:49-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C-MPC: Convert to platform_device driver Converted the driver to work as either a OCP or platform_device driver. The intent in the future (once we convert all PPC sub-archs from OCP to platform_device) is to remove the

[PATCH] aoe: fix __init calling __exit

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2333, 2005/01/14 12:09:10-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] aoe: fix __init calling __exit Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > static void __exit > aoe_exit(void) > { > ... > } > > static int __init > aoe_init(void) > { > ... > aoe_exit(); > ... > }

[BK PATCH] W1 patch for 2.6.11-rc1

2005-01-17 Thread Greg KH
Hi, Here is a single drivers/w1 patch against the latest 2.6.11-rc1 tree. This was included in the last -mm release. Please pull from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/w1-2.6 thanks, greg k-h drivers/w1/w1.c| 210 ++---

Re: [rfc] i810_audio: offset LVI from CIV to avoid stalled start

2005-01-17 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:39:30AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:37:08PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > "Some" OSS applications have trouble with later versions of the > > i810_audio driver. Wolfenstein Enemy Territory from idSoftware is > > one such application. > >

Re: smbfs in 2.6.8 SMP kernel

2005-01-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 18:13, Brian Henning wrote: > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > If I remember correctly there was some smbfs breakage a few releases back > > - 2.6.8 sounds about right. I'd suggest you try a newer kernel like 2.6.10 > > or 2.6.11-rc1 and see if that works better. > > No luck with

kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler

2005-01-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Okay, this is driving me utterly crazy... How the heck do I get kbuild to *not* think that because I'm using a different C compiler (including "gcc" versus "distcc"), or I'm on a different host, that it has to rebuild every single object file in my directory? This is an unbelievable headache.

Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0b file/swap crypto package

2005-01-17 Thread Paul Walker
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:08:04PM +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote: > Unlikely to go to mainline kernel. Mainline folks are just too much in > love with their backdoored device crypto implementations [1]. If you want "Backdoored" is a bit strong, I think; that tends to imply deliberate placing of a

Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0b file/swap crypto package

2005-01-17 Thread Paul Walker
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:04:49PM +0100, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: > You will find the same information on my site. Therefore, I do NOT decline > this vulnerability. I decline it's security implications. It's on the same I'm making no comment either way, I simply wanted to make sure everyone on

Re: Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP

2005-01-17 Thread Manu Abraham
omes wrote: I have the same problem as you. At least our problems are much alike. I got two Western digital hard disks. One 120GB 7200RPM 2MB Cache IDE, and one 80GB 7200 2MB Cache IDE. I get high loads when reading large files for some time, as well as when copying from one partition to

Re: [PATCH] A new entry for /proc

2005-01-17 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:30:23PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > You want to update your patch to handle the new 4level pagetables > which introduces a new indirection table: the PUD. > Check 2.6.11-rc1 - mm/rmap.c. > BTW: What does PUD stand for? Page Upper Directory. It also is used in a

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Chistoph, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The thing I'm unhappy with is what the code does currently. I haven't > looked at the code enough nor through about the problem enough to tell > you what's the right thing to do. Knowing that will involve review of > the architecture and serious

journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
For more of this look up subjects: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald and from author: Anders Saaby I also can't keep a recent 2.6 or 2.6*-ac* kernel up more than a few hours on a machine under real load. Perhaps us folks with the problem need to talk to

Re: [PATCH] A new entry for /proc

2005-01-17 Thread Mauricio Lin
Hi Tosatti, On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:30:23 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Mauricio, > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:02:14PM -0400, Mauricio Lin wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > > I figured out the error. This patch works for others editors as well. > > > > > diff -uprN

Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0b file/swap crypto package

2005-01-17 Thread markus reichelt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fruhwirth Clemens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is FUD. To get serious in-depth information about the problems > associated with dm-crypt and loop-aes read, > > http://clemens.endorphin.org/LinuxHDEncSettings excuse me, but that's just too

Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

2005-01-17 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:11:18PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote: > I don't think that solves the problem. B should receive copies (with > shared semantics if called for) of all mountpoints C1,..,Cn that are > children of A if A->A. This is regardless of whether or not propagation > occurs before

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Roman, Roman Zippel wrote: > Periodically can also mean a buffer start call back from relayfs > (although that would mean the first entry is not guaranteed) or a > (per cpu) eventcnt from the subsystem. The amount of needed search would > be limited. The main point is from the relayfs

Re: Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP

2005-01-17 Thread omes
I have the same problem as you. At least our problems are much alike. I got two Western digital hard disks. One 120GB 7200RPM 2MB Cache IDE, and one 80GB 7200 2MB Cache IDE. I get high loads when reading large files for some time, as well as when copying from one partition to another. All my

Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0b file/swap crypto package

2005-01-17 Thread Fruhwirth Clemens
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 19:29 +, Paul Walker wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:14:58PM +0100, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: > > > > Unlikely to go to mainline kernel. Mainline folks are just too much in > > > love > > > with their backdoored device crypto implementations [1]. > > Just to add

Re: usb-storage on SMP?

2005-01-17 Thread William Park
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:01:23PM +, Paulo Marques wrote: > William Park wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:26:33PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > >>On Monday, 17 of January 2005 18:17, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>can anyone confirm that writing to usb-storage

Re: Re: Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP

2005-01-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
Yes, only with NFS. On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Norbert van Nobelen wrote: Only with NFS? I have a raid array of the same discs and the system just sometimes seems to hang completely (for a second or less) and then to go on again at a normal speed (110MB/s). I am running a SuSE 9.1 stock kernel

Re: Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP

2005-01-17 Thread Norbert van Nobelen
Only with NFS? I have a raid array of the same discs and the system just sometimes seems to hang completely (for a second or less) and then to go on again at a normal speed (110MB/s). I am running a SuSE 9.1 stock kernel (2.6.5-7.111-smp) on that machine. On Monday 17 January 2005 21:06, you

Re: [rfc] i810_audio: offset LVI from CIV to avoid stalled start

2005-01-17 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:37:08PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > "Some" OSS applications have trouble with later versions of the > i810_audio driver. Wolfenstein Enemy Territory from idSoftware is > one such application. Would it be possible to create a minimal program (something that

Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0

2005-01-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Andi Kleen wrote: To be fair there isn't a nice library for it on x86-64. There is libunwind on IA64, but afaik nobody ported it to x86-64 yet. Just various projects have their own private unwind implementation. The kernel including KDB has always lived with imprecise backtraces and no argument

Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

2005-01-17 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:11:18PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote: > I don't think that solves the problem. B should receive copies (with > shared semantics if called for) of all mountpoints C1,..,Cn that are > children of A if A->A. This is regardless of whether or not propagation > occurs

Re: [PATCH] A new entry for /proc

2005-01-17 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Mauricio, On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:02:14PM -0400, Mauricio Lin wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I figured out the error. This patch works for others editors as well. > diff -uprN linux-2.6.10/fs/proc/task_mmu.c > linux-2.6.10-smaps/fs/proc/task_mmu.c > --- linux-2.6.10/fs/proc/task_mmu.c

[PATCH] fix verify_command to allow burning more than 1 DVD

2005-01-17 Thread Michal Schmidt
Hello, I use K3B with growisofs to burn DVDs. After boot I can burn a DVD as a normal user. But only the first one. When I want to burn another one, K3B complains that it is unable to prevent media removal. Then only root can burn DVDs. The bug is in the kernel in the function verify_command.

Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0b file/swap crypto package

2005-01-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:11:18 +, Jari Ruusu wrote: > Mainline folks are just too much in love with their backdoored device > crypto implementations [1]. If you want strong device crypto in mainline > kernel, maybe you should take a look at FreeBSD gbde. what about dm-crypt? I lost track,

Re: [RFC] Instrumentation (was Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1)

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Thats the point. Adding another hardwired implementation does not give > us a possibility to solve the hardwired problem of the already available > stuff. Well then, like I said before, you know what you need to do:

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Sorting out disabled events is the filtering you have to do in kernel > and you should do it in the hot path or remove the unneccecary > tracepoints at compiletime. Do you actually read my replies or do you just grep for something you can object to? If you care to read

Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0

2005-01-17 Thread Andi Kleen
"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tigran Aivazian wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> Actually, having cc'd Linus made me think very _carefully_ about what I say and I went and checked how the userspace does it, as I couldn't believe that such

driver model: pass pm_message_t down to pci drivers

2005-01-17 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This passes pm_message_t down to PCI drivers. Ugly translation code can be removed and this will allow PCI devices to do right thing during swsusp snapshot -- like not unneccessarily blanking display. Only obscure /sysfs code passes anything but 3 to to pci_device_suspend, anyway, so this is

Re: [PATCH] PPC64: EEH Recovery

2005-01-17 Thread Linas Vepstas
Andrew, The attached file describes PCI bus EEH "Extended Error Handling" concepts and operation; could you drop this into the kernel documentation tree, at linux-2.6/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt ? Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --linas p.s. It was not

Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

2005-01-17 Thread Mike Waychison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:30:27PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote: > >>Well, if I understand it correctly: >> >>(assuming /foo is vfsmount A) >> >>$> mount --make-shared /foo >> >>will make A->A >> >>$> mount --bind /foo

Re: Linux Kernel Audit Project?

2005-01-17 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Cox wrote: [...] > There are also people other than Linus who read every single changeset. > I do for one. > Yes but (off the record) you people can't even keep hysterical raisins out of fs/proc/base.c :) [...] - -- All content of all

Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP

2005-01-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
When writing to or from the drive via NFS, after 1GB or 2GB, it "feels" like the system slows to a crawl, the mouse gets very slow, almost like one is burning a CD at 52X under PIO mode. I originally had this disk in my main system with an Intel ICH5 chipset (ABIT IC7-G mobo) and a Pentium 4

Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup

2005-01-17 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:58:15PM -0500, Matthew Harrell wrote: > : > : I expect the problem to be coming from the fact that the keyboard > : controller uses ports 0x60 and 0x64, not 0x66 as ACPI tries to tell us > : here. > : > > Interesting - hadn't noticed that. Is there an easy solution

Re: usb-storage on SMP?

2005-01-17 Thread Paulo Marques
William Park wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:26:33PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Monday, 17 of January 2005 18:17, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: Hi, can anyone confirm that writing to usb-storage devices is working on SMP systems? Generally, it is. Recently, I've written some stuff to a USB

Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup

2005-01-17 Thread Matthew Harrell
: : I expect the problem to be coming from the fact that the keyboard : controller uses ports 0x60 and 0x64, not 0x66 as ACPI tries to tell us : here. : Interesting - hadn't noticed that. Is there an easy solution around it that doesn't entail turning off acpi? -- Matthew Harrell

Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup

2005-01-17 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:31:09PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2005 06:06 pm, Matthew Harrell wrote: > > To qualify that more, the same setup used to compile 2.6.10, 2.6.10-mm2, > > 2.6.10-mm3, 2.6.11-rc1 only gives me a working keyboard and mouse on the > > 2.6.10 kernel.

Re: 2.6 Series Mem Mgmt

2005-01-17 Thread Brian Gerst
Chris Bookholt wrote: I'm hoping someone can help explain part of the layout of a process' virtual address space in the 2.6 series kernel. Below is the output of "cat /proc/self/maps" on Fedora Core 3 (2.6.9-1.6_FC2) with exec-shield[-randomize] disabled and legacy_vm_layout enabled. What is

[UPDATE] Severe performance problems with kernel 2.6.10

2005-01-17 Thread Gabriel Tataranu
For those interested: The performance issues (below) where due to a strange bug in the kernel VM triggered by the motherboard BIOS. This affects Asus P4P800 motherboards(-MX and -VM tested) with more that 1 GB RAM. The built-in VGA can use 1-32 MB RAM for display but configured with less than 16

Re: [PATCH] SCSI NCR53C9x.c: some cleanups

2005-01-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:41:29PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > > > ChangeSet 1.2034.61.36, 2004/12/21 09:41:18-06:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb-storage on SMP?

2005-01-17 Thread William Park
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:26:33PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, 17 of January 2005 18:17, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > can anyone confirm that writing to usb-storage devices is working on SMP > > systems? > > Generally, it is. Recently, I've written some stuff to a

2.6 Series Mem Mgmt

2005-01-17 Thread Chris Bookholt
I'm hoping someone can help explain part of the layout of a process' virtual address space in the 2.6 series kernel. Below is the output of "cat /proc/self/maps" on Fedora Core 3 (2.6.9-1.6_FC2) with exec-shield[-randomize] disabled and legacy_vm_layout enabled. What is being mapped in at

Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

2005-01-17 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:30:27PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote: > Well, if I understand it correctly: > > (assuming /foo is vfsmount A) > > $> mount --make-shared /foo > > will make A->A > > $> mount --bind /foo /foo/bar > > will create a vfsmount B based off A, but because A is in a p-node,

Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0b file/swap crypto package

2005-01-17 Thread Paul Walker
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:14:58PM +0100, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: > > Unlikely to go to mainline kernel. Mainline folks are just too much in love > > with their backdoored device crypto implementations [1]. Just to add back in Jari's link, so the folks added know what you're talking about: >

Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

2005-01-17 Thread Mike Waychison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:31:02PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote: > >>Corner case: how do we handle the case where: >> >>mount --make-shared /foo >>mount --bind /foo /foo/bar >> >>A nested --bind without sharing makes sense,

Re: [patch] Remove limit on MCA recoveries

2005-01-17 Thread Russ Anderson
Matthias Fouquet-Lapar wrote: > Keith Owens wrote: > > Russ Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The MCA recovery driver saves the addresses of memory errors > > >in an array. The array has 32 entries. The effect is > > >that after 32 recoveries, the driver stops recovering. > > > > > >This

[PATCH] pci_proc_domain

2005-01-17 Thread Matthew Wilcox
There's no need for the architectures to know how to name busses, so replace pci_name_bus with pci_proc_domain -- a predicate to allow architectures to choose whether domains are included in /proc/bus/pci or not. I've converted all architectures but only tested ia64 and a CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS=n

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-17 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Simone, > While we're at it, the fan speed sensor reports an absurd speed when > the fan is driven with very low but non-zero pwm values. For > example, driving it with pwm=2 I get speeds over 50K rpms, while of > course the fan is stopped (almost?). This could be just an hardware >

Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0b file/swap crypto package

2005-01-17 Thread Fruhwirth Clemens
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:08 +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote: > Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Is this eventually going in the mainline kernel? I'd like to use it, but > > if I'm going to have to maintain my own crypto kernels indefinitely this > > probably isn't the one for me. > > Unlikely to go to mainline

Re: [PATCH 10/13] FAT: Lindent fs/vfat/namei.c

2005-01-17 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:49:21AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > diff -puN fs/vfat/namei.c~fat_lindent-vfat fs/vfat/namei.c > --- linux-2.6.10/fs/vfat/namei.c~fat_lindent-vfat 2005-01-10 > 01:57:31.0 +0900 > +++ linux-2.6.10-hirofumi/fs/vfat/namei.c 2005-01-10 01:57:44.0

Re: [PATCH] A new entry for /proc

2005-01-17 Thread Mauricio Lin
Hi Andrew, I figured out the error. This patch works for others editors as well. diff -uprN linux-2.6.10/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt linux-2.6.10-smaps/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt --- linux-2.6.10/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 2004-12-24 17:34:29.0 -0400 +++

Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

2005-01-17 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:31:02PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote: > Corner case: how do we handle the case where: > > mount --make-shared /foo > mount --bind /foo /foo/bar > > A nested --bind without sharing makes sense, but doesn't when sharing is > enabled (infinite loop). How does this force

Re: [PATCH] __get_cpu_var should use __smp_processor_id() not smp_processor_id()

2005-01-17 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:40:16PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > no ... normally you should only use __get_cpu_var() if you know that > you are in a non-preempt case. It's a __ internal function for a > reason. Where did it trigger? XFS has statistics which are 'per cpu' but doesn't use per_cpu

Re: usb-storage on SMP?

2005-01-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 17:26, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, 17 of January 2005 18:17, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > can anyone confirm that writing to usb-storage devices is working on SMP > > systems? > > Generally, it is. Recently, I've written some stuff to a USB pendrive

Re: smbfs in 2.6.8 SMP kernel

2005-01-17 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Brian Henning wrote: > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > If I remember correctly there was some smbfs breakage a few releases back - > > 2.6.8 sounds about right. I'd suggest you try a newer kernel like 2.6.10 or > > 2.6.11-rc1 and see if that works better. > > No luck with smbfs in

Re: [patch 2/2] mm: Reimplementation of alloc_percpu

2005-01-17 Thread Ravikiran G Thirumalai
Here's the alloc_percpu reimplementation changed to - Use qsort - Use GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_HIGHMEM|__GFP_ZERO for BLOCK_MANAGEMENT_PAGES (GFP_HIGHZERO would have been ideal) - Changed currency size to sizeof (int) from sizeof (void *) for better utilization for small objects The allocator can be

[rfc] i810_audio: offset LVI from CIV to avoid stalled start

2005-01-17 Thread John W. Linville
"Some" OSS applications have trouble with later versions of the i810_audio driver. Wolfenstein Enemy Territory from idSoftware is one such application. I did a little legwork in BK and tracked-down the exact change which caused the break. The changelog comments are dismissive to the original

Re: [PATCH 3/13] FAT: IS_BADCHAR/IS_REPLACECHR/IS_SKIPCHAR cleanup

2005-01-17 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:41:05AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > +static inline wchar_t vfat_bad_char(wchar_t w) > +{ > + return (w < 0x0020) > + || (w == 0x002A) /* * */|| (w == 0x003F) /* ? */ > + || (w == 0x003C) /* < */|| (w == 0x003E) /* > */ > + || (w ==

[patch 2.4.29-rc1] i810_audio: offset LVI from CIV to avoid stalled start

2005-01-17 Thread John W. Linville
Offset LVI past CIV when starting DAC/ADC in order to prevent stalled start. --- Here is the (working) patch I'm using against a later 2.4. This makes sound work fine with Enemy Territory. drivers/sound/i810_audio.c | 10 ++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+) ---

[patch 1/2] mm: Reimplementation of alloc_percpu - move qsort from xfs/support to linux/lib

2005-01-17 Thread Ravikiran G Thirumalai
Here's a patch to move qsort.c from fs/xfs/support/ to linux/lib so that alloc_percpu reimplementation can use it. Thanks, Kiran Patch to move qsort routine from the xfs file system to linux/lib so that other subsystems can make use of it. Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <[EMAIL

Re: [patch] mm: Reimplementation of dynamic percpu memory allocator

2005-01-17 Thread Ravikiran G Thirumalai
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:34:25AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Why cannot the code simply call vmalloc rather than copying its > > internals? > > > > Node local allocation. vmalloc cannot ensure pages for correspomding > >

Re: Linux Kernel Audit Project?

2005-01-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:23:35PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > - Tools like coverity and sparse are significantly increasing the number > of flaws found. In particular they are turning up long time flaws in > code, but they also mean new flaws of that type are being found. People > aren't really

Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

2005-01-17 Thread Mike Waychison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Al Viro wrote: > 3. bind > > bind works almost identically to mount; new vfsmount is created for every > place that gets propagation from mountpoint and propagation is set up to > mirror that between the mountpoints. However, there is a

Satelco driver stopped development - new developer wanted

2005-01-17 Thread Michal Semler
Hi guys, people which developed original driver stopped supporting it. Will you please maintain it? Original driver is here: http://instinct-wp8.no-ip.org/pluto/ Michal Re: 2.6.10 and your driver for Pluto From: Dany Salman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Dnes

Re: Linux Kernel Audit Project?

2005-01-17 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 07:40, John Richard Moser wrote: > >>On the same line, I've been graphing Ubuntu Linux Security Notices for a >>while. I've noticed that in the last 5, the number of kernel-related >>vulnerabilities has

Re: smbfs in 2.6.8 SMP kernel

2005-01-17 Thread Brian Henning
Jesper Juhl wrote: If I remember correctly there was some smbfs breakage a few releases back - 2.6.8 sounds about right. I'd suggest you try a newer kernel like 2.6.10 or 2.6.11-rc1 and see if that works better. No luck with smbfs in 2.6.10 with SMP either; however, I discovered the existence

Re: Linux Kernel Audit Project?

2005-01-17 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:47:32AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > [...] > > What exactly do you want to audit for? > Security holes > If it's only for "ordinary" bugs, that's simply not feasible. > The amount of

Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0

2005-01-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Tigran Aivazian wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: Actually, having cc'd Linus made me think very _carefully_ about what I say and I went and checked how the userspace does it, as I couldn't believe that such fine piece of software as gdb would be broken as well. And to my

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