Re: [2.6.11-rc2] kernel BUG at fs/reiserfs/prints.c:362

2005-01-27 Thread Vladimir Saveliev
Hello On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 10:24, Sergey S. Kostyliov wrote: Hello all, Here is a BUG() I've just hited on quota enabled reiserfs disk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rathamahata $ mount | grep /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb2 on /var/www type reiserfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime,data=writeback,grpquota,usrquota)

Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl

2005-01-27 Thread Andi Kleen
Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This first patch of the series introduces a sysctl (default off) that enables/disables the randomisation feature globally. Since randomisation may make it harder to debug really tricky situations (reproducability goes down), the sysadmin needs a way

Re: Patch 2/6 introduce helper infrastructure

2005-01-27 Thread Andi Kleen
Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +unsigned int get_random_int(void) +{ + static unsigned int val = 0; + + val += current-pid + jiffies; Shouldn't there be some kind of locking for this? It's random, but still random corruption sounds a bit too random. Also you probably

Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [XEN] using shmfs for swapspace

2005-01-27 Thread Nuutti Kotivuori
Mark Williamson wrote: If multiple platforms want to do this, we could refactor the code so that the core of the balloon driver can be used in multiple archs. We could have an arch_release/request_memory() that the core balloon driver can call into to actually return memory to the VMM. This

Advice sought on how to lock multiple pages in -prepare_write and -writepage

2005-01-27 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, I am looking for advice on how to lock multiple pages in -prepare_write and -writepage. Here is an example scenario where I need to do this: We have a mounted NTFS volume with a cluster, i.e. logical block, size of 64kiB on a system with a PAGE_CACHE_SIZE of 4kiB. This means we can

parport disabled?

2005-01-27 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
Whenever I modprobe parport_pc, I get this message: Jan 27 10:55:47 hummus kernel: pnp: Device 00:0b activated. Jan 27 10:55:47 hummus kernel: parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. Jan 27 10:55:47 hummus kernel: pnp: Device 00:0b disabled. and the parallel port is unusable ever after. This is with

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11-rc2 ALSA

2005-01-27 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:20:26 +0100, Biker wrote: Hello list, after upgrading to 2.6.11-rc2 my soundcard doesn't work anymore: I get this message during initialization of ALSA: /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:805: warning: name mismatch (External Amplifier/Headphone Jack Sense) for

[2.6 patch] update the email address of Romain Liévin

2005-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch updates a bouncing email address of Romain Liévin. It was already ACK'ed by Romain Liévin. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/tipar.txt |2 +- Documentation/usb/silverlink.txt |2 +- MAINTAINERS |4 ++--

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: SuperIO scx200 breakage

2005-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:27:43PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: ... I greatly appreciate your comments, and they were addressed. Part of exported symbols are unexported, patch is just waiting to be sent, Ah, sorry. I only saw that the patch I sent two months ago still applies completely

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11-rc2 ALSA

2005-01-27 Thread Biker
On Thursday 27 January 2005 08:46, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Hello list, after upgrading to 2.6.11-rc2 my soundcard doesn't work anymore: I get this message during initialization of ALSA: /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:805: warning: name mismatch

Re: reiser4 core patches: [Was: [RFC] per thread page reservation patch]

2005-01-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
So, currently, reiser4 depends on the core patches listed below. Would you please look over them and let us know which look reasonable and which are to be eliminated. reiser4-sb_sync_inodes.patch This patch adds new operation (sync_inodes) to struct super_operations. This operation allows a

[2.6 patch] #ifdef ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE acpi_ut_create_pkg_state_and_push

2005-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
The prototype of the unused global function acpi_ut_create_pkg_state_and_push was already #ifdef ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE'd, but the actual function wasn't. Most likely this was a bug in my patch that added ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl

2005-01-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 11:36 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This first patch of the series introduces a sysctl (default off) that enables/disables the randomisation feature globally. Since randomisation may make it harder to debug really tricky

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Sebastian Piechocki
Dnia czwartek, 27 stycznia 2005 11:25, Vojtech Pavlik napisa: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:23:07AM +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: Sebastian Piechocki wrote: As I said I'm sending you mails from kernel masters:) Thanks. If you haven't such a problem, please send them your dmesg with

Re: USB API, ioctl's and libusb

2005-01-27 Thread DervishD
Hi Johannes :) * Johannes Erdfelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005, DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Oliver Neukum [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: You are supposed to use libusb. That's irrelevant, the program I was trying to fix uses libusb. My question is about the

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:12:23PM +0100, Sebastian Piechocki wrote: Dnia czwartek, 27 stycznia 2005 11:25, Vojtech Pavlik napisa: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:23:07AM +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: Sebastian Piechocki wrote: As I said I'm sending you mails from kernel masters:) Thanks.

Re: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: RLIMIT_RT_CPU_RATIO feature

2005-01-27 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jack O'Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this extremely long discussion started with a request on behalf of a large group of audio developers and users for a way to gain realtime scheduling privileges without running as root. Several kernel developers felt that would be unacceptable,

Re: [2.6.11-rc2] kernel BUG at fs/reiserfs/prints.c:362

2005-01-27 Thread Jan Kara
Hello, On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 10:24, Sergey S. Kostyliov wrote: Hello all, Here is a BUG() I've just hited on quota enabled reiserfs disk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rathamahata $ mount | grep /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb2 on /var/www type reiserfs

Re: Bug in 2.4.26 in mm/filemap.c when using RLIMIT_RSS

2005-01-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:38:49AM +0100, Ake wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:49:04PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: There is also a misinformative comment in fs/proc/array.c in proc_pid_stat where it says mm ? mm-rss : 0, /* you might want to shift this left 3 */ the number 3

Re: Patch 0/6 virtual address space randomisation

2005-01-27 Thread Julien TINNES
Arjan van de Ven wrote: The randomisation patch series introduces infrastructure and functionality that causes certain parts of a process' virtual address space to be different for each invocation of the process. The purpose of this is to raise the bar on buffer overflow exploits; full

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: SuperIO scx200 breakage

2005-01-27 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 11:20 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:27:43PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: ... I greatly appreciate your comments, and they were addressed. Part of exported symbols are unexported, patch is just waiting to be sent, Ah, sorry. I only saw that

Re: Patch 0/6 virtual address space randomisation

2005-01-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:45 +0100, Julien TINNES wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: The randomisation patch series introduces infrastructure and functionality that causes certain parts of a process' virtual address space to be different for each invocation of the process. The purpose of this is

Re: Patch 2/6 introduce helper infrastructure

2005-01-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:41:33AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +unsigned int get_random_int(void) +{ + static unsigned int val = 0; + + val += current-pid + jiffies; Shouldn't there be some kind of locking for this? It's random, but still

[PATCH] scsi/sata write barrier support

2005-01-27 Thread Jens Axboe
Hi, For the longest time, only the old PATA drivers supported barrier writes with journalled file systems. This patch adds support for the same type of cache flushing barriers that PATA uses for SCSI, to be utilized with libata. It prepares to support barriers with 'real' SCSI hardware that can

Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

2005-01-27 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:29 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: Adds management of ZEROED and NOT_ZEROED pages and a background daemon called scrubd. scrubd is disabled by default but can be enabled by writing an order number to /proc/sys/vm/scrub_start. If a page is coalesced of that order or

Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

2005-01-27 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This mornings magic numbers are: 3 ip_dst_cache1292 1485256 151 I just did a q-n-d test here: send one UDP frame to 1.1.1.1 up to 1.1.255.255. The ip_dst_cache grew to ~15k entries

Re: Patch 2/6 introduce helper infrastructure

2005-01-27 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:58:29AM +, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:41:33AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +unsigned int get_random_int(void) +{ + static unsigned int val = 0; + + val += current-pid + jiffies;

Re: Patch 2/6 introduce helper infrastructure

2005-01-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 13:27 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: I guess the per MM prng would be still faster, but it's probably not worth tweaking unless it shows up as a problem. + if (end = start + len) + return 0; + return PAGE_ALIGN(get_random_int() % range + start); Division

[PATCH] correct sysfs name for watchdog devices

2005-01-27 Thread Olaf Hering
While looking for possible candidates for our udev.rules package, I found a few odd -name properties. /dev/watchdog has minor 130 according to devices.txt. Since all watchdog drivers use the misc_register() call, they will end up in /sys/class/misc/$foo. udev may create the /dev/watchdog node if

Re: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: RLIMIT_RT_CPU feature, -D8

2005-01-27 Thread Cal
Ingo Molnar wrote: thanks, this pinpointed the bug - i've uploaded the -D8 patch to the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/rt-limit-patches/ does it fix your crash? Mike Galbraith reported a crash too that i think could be the same one. Yep, with D8 and SMP the test completes successfully.

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 strange messages

2005-01-27 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! I used the patch by Joe and got: Built 1 zonelists iounmap: bad address c00fffd9 [c0404430] trap_init+0x30/0x190 [c03fe697] start_kernel+0x47/0x1c0 Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with lapic On Mit, 26 Jan 2005, Len Brown wrote: Better yet, can you please add this?

Re: don't let mmap allocate down to zero

2005-01-27 Thread William Lee Irwin III
William Lee Irwin III writes: There's a long discussion here, in which no one appears to have noticed that SHLIB_BASE does not exist in mainline. Is anyone else awake here? On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:29:12AM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: About the only kernel-level enforcement I would feel

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserving backup region for kexec based crashdumps.

2005-01-27 Thread Vivek Goyal
Hi Eric, It looks like we are looking at things a little differently. I see a portion of the picture in your mind, but obviously not entirely. Perhaps, we need to step back and iron out in specific terms what the interface between the two kernels should be in the crash dump case, and the

Re: [2.6.11-rc2] kernel BUG at fs/reiserfs/prints.c:362

2005-01-27 Thread Sergey S. Kostyliov
On Thursday 27 January 2005 13:17, Vladimir Saveliev wrote: Hello On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 10:24, Sergey S. Kostyliov wrote: Hello all, Here is a BUG() I've just hited on quota enabled reiserfs disk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rathamahata $ mount | grep /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb2 on /var/www type

Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

2005-01-27 Thread Robert Olsson
Andrew Morton writes: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ip_dst_cache1292 1485256 151 I guess we should find a way to make it happen faster. Here is route DoS attack. Pure routing no NAT no filter. Start = ip_dst_cache 5 30256 151 :

Re: Possible bug in keyboard.c (2.6.10)

2005-01-27 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:16:14AM +0100, Sasa Stevanovic wrote: I had some problems with my laptop's onetouch keys and it eventually led me to keyboard.c file from 2.6.10 kernel (Vojtech Pavlik and others). There may be a bug in the file, please read below. Well, actually, when all

Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

2005-01-27 Thread Robert Olsson
Oh. Linux version 2.6.11-rc2 was used. Robert Olsson writes: Andrew Morton writes: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ip_dst_cache1292 1485256 151 I guess we should find a way to make it happen faster. Here is route DoS attack. Pure routing

Re: dmesg command output

2005-01-27 Thread Michal Schmidt
cranium2003 wrote: [...] On my RH9 i386 arch i got 16kb output from dmesg. how to increase it? man dmesg (parameter -s). You may also want to increase the kernel buffer size in General Setup - Kernel log buffer size (CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT). Michal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

2005-01-27 Thread Robin Holt
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:15:24PM +, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:29 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: Adds management of ZEROED and NOT_ZEROED pages and a background daemon called scrubd. scrubd is disabled by default but can be enabled by writing an order number to

Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

2005-01-27 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 07:12 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: An earlier proposal that Christoph pushed would have used the BTE on sn2 for this. Are you thinking of using the BTE on sn0/sn1 mips? I wasn't being that specific. There's spare DMA engines on a lot of PPC/ARM/FRV/SH/MIPS and other machines,

drivers/char/ite_gpio.c, GPIO_MINOR missing

2005-01-27 Thread Olaf Hering
What is the minor number for this driver? Its not referenced in the makefile, it has no official minor number. 2.4 has MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR. Should 2.6 use the same? 2.6 driver came already broken. http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

initrd / initramfs - root*,ro,rw parameters

2005-01-27 Thread syrius . ml
Hi, It seems a lot of initrd images expect to find the final root filesystem device in the root= boot parameter while Documentation/initrd.txt states root should be set to /dev/ram0. I'm not sure, but it seems this patch introduced in 2.6.11-rc1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] init/initramfs.c:

[PATCH] use misc dynamic minor for sonypi driver

2005-01-27 Thread Olaf Hering
Whats the reason for using -1 as minor number? No idea if that works well, it probably does. Maybe add a comment if -1 is supposed to work. --- ../linux-2.6.11-rc2/drivers/char/sonypi.c 2005-01-22 02:48:34.0 +0100 +++ ./drivers/char/sonypi.c 2005-01-27 14:40:47.873882682 +0100 @@

bk chmod o+r drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c please

2005-01-27 Thread George G. Davis
Greetings, Just a silly request but can someone with http://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5 admin priviliges make it so? TIA! -- Regards, George - 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] use misc dynamic minor for sonypi driver

2005-01-27 Thread Stelian Pop
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:46:40PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: Whats the reason for using -1 as minor number? No idea if that works well, it probably does. Maybe add a comment if -1 is supposed to work. --- ../linux-2.6.11-rc2/drivers/char/sonypi.c 2005-01-22 02:48:34.0 +0100

Re: [PATCH 0/16] New set of input patches

2005-01-27 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Vojtech, I have dropped the patches that have already been applied and re-diffed the remaining patches. I have also merged Adrian's global - static cleanup and 2 patches from Prarit Bhargava (one re: releasing resources acquired by i8042_platform_init if controller initialization fails and the

Re: [PATCH] Fix kallsyms/insmod/rmmod race

2005-01-27 Thread David Howells
David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The more I looked at this, the more I warmed to it. I've known for a while that people are using kallsyms not for OOPS (eg. /proc/$$/wchan), so we should provide a grabs locks version, but this solution

[PATCH] Fix kallsyms/insmod/rmmod race [try #2]

2005-01-27 Thread David Howells
The attached patch fixes a race between kallsyms and insmod/rmmod. The problem is this: (1) The various kallsyms functions poke around in the module list without any locking so that they can be called from the oops handler. (2) Although insmod and rmmod use locks to exclude each other,

Re: [2.6.11-rc2] kernel BUG at fs/reiserfs/prints.c:362

2005-01-27 Thread Vladimir Saveliev
Hello On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 14:26, Jan Kara wrote: Hello, On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 10:24, Sergey S. Kostyliov wrote: Hello all, Here is a BUG() I've just hited on quota enabled reiserfs disk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rathamahata $ mount | grep /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb2 on /var/www type

Preempt Xfs Question

2005-01-27 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Hi! I have a question: Why do I get such debug messages: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [0001] code: khelper/892 caller is _pagebuf_lookup_pages+0x11b/0x362 [c03119c7] smp_processor_id+0xa3/0xb4 [c02ef802] _pagebuf_lookup_pages+0x11b/0x362 [c02ef802]

Re: don't let mmap allocate down to zero

2005-01-27 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:52:54AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:29:12AM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: About the only kernel-level enforcement I would feel comfortable with is to have non-fixed mmap()s refuse to grab the _page_ at address 0. Any range

Re: don't let mmap allocate down to zero

2005-01-27 Thread Mikael Pettersson
William Lee Irwin III writes: William Lee Irwin III writes: There's a long discussion here, in which no one appears to have noticed that SHLIB_BASE does not exist in mainline. Is anyone else awake here? On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:29:12AM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: About the

Re: swap on dmcrypt crashes machine

2005-01-27 Thread Christophe Saout
Am Dienstag, den 25.01.2005, 18:28 +0100 schrieb Michael Buesch: I set up swap on an encrypted dmcrypt device. While stressing swap usage with make -j200 in the kernel tree, the machine crashes: Adding 1461872k swap on /dev/mapper/swap. Priority:-2 extents:1 [ cut here

ixdp4xx restart. watchdog enable value

2005-01-27 Thread Ara Avanesyan
in file: include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4x//system.h function: arch_reset code snap -- /* disable watchdog interrupt, enable reset, enable count */ *IXP4XX_OSWE = 0x3; -- according to intel's documentation the appropriate bits are in the following order: bit 2: wdog_cnt_ena bit 1: wdog_int_ena bit 0:

Re: ixdp4xx restart. watchdog enable value

2005-01-27 Thread Ben Dooks
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:40:17PM +0400, Ara Avanesyan wrote: in file: include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4x//system.h function: arch_reset code snap -- /* disable watchdog interrupt, enable reset, enable count */ *IXP4XX_OSWE = 0x3; -- according to intel's documentation the appropriate bits are

Re: [PATCH] oprofile: falling back on timer interrupt mode

2005-01-27 Thread Akinobu Mita
On Thursday 27 January 2005 04:05, Olaf Hering wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: ChangeSet 1.2038, 2005/01/25 20:31:01-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] oprofile: falling back on timer interrupt mode This misses arch/ppc Thanks for pointing that out. This is

Re:parport disabled?

2005-01-27 Thread castet . matthieu
Hi, Whenever I modprobe parport_pc, I get this message: Jan 27 10:55:47 hummus kernel: pnp: Device 00:0b activated. Jan 27 10:55:47 hummus kernel: parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. Jan 27 10:55:47 hummus kernel: pnp: Device 00:0b disabled. and the parallel port is unusable ever after.

Re: [2.6.11-rc2] kernel BUG at fs/reiserfs/prints.c:362

2005-01-27 Thread Jan Kara
Hi! On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 14:26, Jan Kara wrote: Hello, On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 10:24, Sergey S. Kostyliov wrote: Hello all, Here is a BUG() I've just hited on quota enabled reiserfs disk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rathamahata $ mount | grep /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb2 on

Re: don't let mmap allocate down to zero

2005-01-27 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:52:54AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: FIRST_USER_PGD_NR is a matter of killing the entire box dead where it exists, not any kind of process' preference. Userspace should be prevented from setting up vmas below FIRST_USER_PGD_NR. On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at

[PATCH] scsi/sata write barrier support #2

2005-01-27 Thread Jens Axboe
Hi, A few changes: - Cleanup up the driver additions even more, blk_complete_barrier_rq() does all the work now. - Fixed up the exports - Comment functions - Fixed a bug with SCSI and write back caching disabled - Rename blk_queue_flush() to blk_queue_flushing() to indicate it's a state

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: SuperIO scx200 breakage

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:54:49 +0100 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems noone who reviewed the SuperIO patches noticed that there are now two modules scx200 in the kernel... They are almost mutually exlusive(SuperIO contains more advanced), so I do not see any

Re: Preempt Xfs Question

2005-01-27 Thread Steve Lord
Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Hi! I have a question: Why do I get such debug messages: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [0001] code: khelper/892 caller is _pagebuf_lookup_pages+0x11b/0x362 [c03119c7] smp_processor_id+0xa3/0xb4 [c02ef802] _pagebuf_lookup_pages+0x11b/0x362 [c02ef802]

Re: Preempt Xfs Question

2005-01-27 Thread Chris Wedgwood
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [0001] code: khelper/892 fixed in CVS, I guess it will hit mainline soon - 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: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: fuse patch needs new libs

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Sytse Wielinga wrote: Hi Andrew, On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:15:16AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: fuse-transfer-readdir-data-through-device.patch fuse: transfer readdir data through device It is great that this is fixed, don't remove it, but it does require the fuse libs to be updated at the same

Re: Preempt Xfs Question

2005-01-27 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Steve Lord wrote: Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Hi! I have a question: Why do I get such debug messages: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [0001] code: khelper/892 caller is _pagebuf_lookup_pages+0x11b/0x362 [c03119c7] smp_processor_id+0xa3/0xb4 [c02ef802]

Re: Preempt Xfs Question

2005-01-27 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Chris Wedgwood wrote: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [0001] code: khelper/892 fixed in CVS, I guess it will hit mainline soon How did you fix it? Matthias-Christian Ott -- http://unixforge.org/~matthias-christian-ott/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Preempt Xfs Question

2005-01-27 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:46:54PM +, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: How did you fix it? I suggested: = fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_stats.h 1.9 vs edited = Index: cw-current/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_stats.h === ---

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: fuse patch needs new libs

2005-01-27 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:45:09AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sytse Wielinga wrote: It is great that this is fixed, don't remove it, but it does require the fuse libs to be updated at the same time, or opening dirs for listings will break like this: open(.,

[PATCH] ftape syntax error

2005-01-27 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
2.6.11-rc2-bk5 introduces two syntax errors under drivers/char/ftape. The following patch replaces ); at the end of two printks which were accidentally removed. thanks, -serge Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.10/drivers/char/ftape/compressor/zftape-compress.c

Re: ixdp4xx restart. watchdog enable value

2005-01-27 Thread David Vrabel
Ara Avanesyan wrote: in file: include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4x//system.h function: arch_reset code snap -- /* disable watchdog interrupt, enable reset, enable count */ *IXP4XX_OSWE = 0x3; -- See: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=2437 I do not know why 0x3 works at all. Btw,

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: SuperIO scx200 breakage

2005-01-27 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:19:51 -0500 Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:54:49 +0100 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems noone who reviewed the SuperIO patches noticed that there are now two modules scx200 in the kernel...

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: fuse patch needs new libs

2005-01-27 Thread Miklos Szeredi
As I personally like for my ls to keep on working, and I assume others will, too, I would appreciate it if you could add a warning to your announcements the following one or two weeks or so, so that people can remove this patch if they don't want to update their libs. By any chance

Re: [PATCH 0/16] New set of input patches

2005-01-27 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:04:06AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Vojtech, I have dropped the patches that have already been applied and re-diffed the remaining patches. I have also merged Adrian's global - static cleanup and 2 patches from Prarit Bhargava (one re: releasing resources

Flashing BIOS of a PCI IDE card (IT8212F)

2005-01-27 Thread Rahul Karnik
Hello, I was just wondering if it is possible to flash the BIOS of a PCI IDE card from within Linux. I have an OEM IT8212 card with a really old BIOS which the vendor does not support with a BIOS flashing tool. ITE Tech's flashing tool appears to work, but it fails to verify that the flash was

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-01-25 at 20:37, Lee Revell wrote: Seems like a comment along the lines of foo hardware doesn't work right unless we delay a bit here is the obvious solution. Then someone can easily disprove it later. Myths are not really involved here. The IBM PC hardware specifications are

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:14:36PM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Maw, 2005-01-25 at 20:37, Lee Revell wrote: Seems like a comment along the lines of foo hardware doesn't work right unless we delay a bit here is the obvious solution. Then someone can easily disprove it later. Myths are not

Re: Preempt Xfs Question

2005-01-27 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:46:54PM +, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: How did you fix it? I suggested: = fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_stats.h 1.9 vs edited = Index: cw-current/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_stats.h

Re: Fwd: Patch to control VGA bus routing and active VGA device.

2005-01-27 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:59 am, Jon Smirl wrote: Another item I need to add is generating an initial hotplug event for each secondary card. This event has to happen even if there is a card specific driver loaded. The event will be used to run the reset program needed by secondary cards.

Re: critical bugs in md raid5 and ATA disk failure/recovery modes

2005-01-27 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:51:02AM +0100, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree. When not working in degraded mode, it's absolutely reasonable to e.g. use only the non-parity data. A crash with raid5 is in no way Yep. But when you go into degraded mode during the crash recovery

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:14:36PM +, Alan Cox wrote: Myths are not really involved here. The IBM PC hardware specifications are fairly well defined and the various bits of we glued a 2Mhz part onto the bus stuff is all well documented. Nowdays its more complex because most kbc's aren't

Re: [PATCH 0/16] New set of input patches

2005-01-27 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:15:18PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: OK. I'll go through them, and apply as appropriate. I still need to wrap my mind around the start() and stop() methods and see the necessity. I still think a variable in the serio struct, only accessed by the serio.c core driver

Re: [PATCH] add AMD NS 5535 support

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Malek
On Jan 27, 2005, at 1:39 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: How about you first submit all these patches for 2.6? I know. They are on the way. I was passing these patches through (with some minor fixing) from AMD as part of another project we are working on. It doesn't make much sense to add new features to

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:34:31AM -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:14:36PM +, Alan Cox wrote: Myths are not really involved here. The IBM PC hardware specifications are fairly well defined and the various bits of we glued a 2Mhz part onto the bus stuff is all

Re: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: RLIMIT_RT_CPU feature, -D8

2005-01-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
At 09:51 AM 1/27/2005 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Cal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the delay, some sleep required. A build without SMP also fails, with multiple oops. http://www.graggrag.com/200501271213-oops/. thanks, this pinpointed the bug - i've uploaded the -D8 patch to the usual

AT-Keyboard probing too strict in current bk?

2005-01-27 Thread Michael Gernoth
Hi, since the introduction of libps2 in the mainline 2.6 kernel I had the issue that my keyboard[1] was no longer recognized. The cause of this is that my keyboard responds to all commands with an acknowledgement (0xFA), even if the command is not implemented. One of those not implemented

[PATCH] Use LANANA-assigned major in ib_umad

2005-01-27 Thread Roland Dreier
Update the ib_umad module to use major 231 instead of a dynamic major, as assigned in the LANANA Linux 2.6+ Device List (http://lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices-2.6+.txt). Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-bk.orig/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c2005-01-23

Re: Flashing BIOS of a PCI IDE card (IT8212F)

2005-01-27 Thread linux-os
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Rahul Karnik wrote: Hello, I was just wondering if it is possible to flash the BIOS of a PCI IDE card from within Linux. I have an OEM IT8212 card with a really old BIOS which the vendor does not support with a BIOS flashing tool. ITE Tech's flashing tool appears to work, but

Re: confguring grub to load new kernel

2005-01-27 Thread David Hollis
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 01:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just compiled kernel 2.6.10 and now wondering how to make the grub to load the newkernel. The grub.conf file is configured as: #boot=/dev/hda default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red

Re: Preempt Xfs Question

2005-01-27 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:24:13PM +, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Well calling such a internal function (__function) is not a cleaning coding style but works best :-) . __foo does NOT mean it's an internal function necessarily or that it's unclean to use it (sadly Linux has pretty vague

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-01-27 Thread Jesse Pollard
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 13:56, Bill Davidsen wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Jesse Pollard wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 15:05, linux-os wrote: This isn't relevant at all. The Navy doesn't have any secure systems connected to a network to which any hackers could connect. The TDRS

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] I2C: lm80 driver improvement -

2005-01-27 Thread Shawn Starr
Description: Cleanup some cluttered macros, add error checking for fan divisor value set. Approved-by: Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Sytse Wielinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Shawn Starr [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Greg KH [EMAIL

Re: critical bugs in md raid5

2005-01-27 Thread pcg
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:51:02AM +0100, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The nasty part there is that it can affect completely unrelated data too (on a traditional disk you normally only lose the data that is currently being written) because of of the relationship between stripes on

Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

2005-01-27 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:56:30PM +0100, Robert Olsson wrote: Andrew Morton writes: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ip_dst_cache1292 1485256 151 I guess we should find a way to make it happen faster. Here is route DoS attack. Pure routing no NAT no

[bk patches] Input update for 2.6.11 [0/6]

2005-01-27 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! I'm sending you a few fixes hopefully for the 2.6.11 release. They should fix reboot problems due to the BIOS not expecting the i8042 controller to be in MUX mode, problems with incorrectly assigned buttons on mice with horizontal scroll wheels, spurious kernel messages and endless message

Re: [PATCH 1/1] pci: Block config access during BIST (resend)

2005-01-27 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-01-26 at 22:10, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 10:34 -0600, Brian King wrote: Well, I honestly think that this is unnecessary burden. I think that just dropping writes returning data from the cache on reads is enough, blocking userspace isn't necessary, but

Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

2005-01-27 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 07:12 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: An earlier proposal that Christoph pushed would have used the BTE on sn2 for this. Are you thinking of using the BTE on sn0/sn1 mips? I wasn't being that specific. There's spare DMA engines on

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] modules: add version and srcversion to sysfs

2005-01-27 Thread Matt Domsch
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:38:51PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: The autoinstaller feature, for example, which determines if your system has a good version of a driver (i.e. if the one provided by DKMS has a newer verson than that provided by the kernel package installed), and to

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1

2005-01-27 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:22:52 -0500 Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:07:12 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chip driver provides access methods to the attached logical devices. It probes and activates them, if appropriate module is loaded.

[PATCH 6/6] Fix ACK/NAK handling in libps2.c - don't ignore bytes before ACK

2005-01-27 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
You can pull this changeset from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/vojtech/for-linus === [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-01-27 01:18:50-05:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Input: ACK/NAK processing rules in libps2 were too strict - while it is a

[PATCH 5/6] Add missing input_sync() calls to atkbd.c

2005-01-27 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
You can pull this changeset from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/vojtech/for-linus === [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-01-27 14:58:43+01:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] input: Add missing input_sync() calls to atkbd.c. Signed-off-by: Vojtech

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