Re: Merging the Suspend2 freezer implementation.

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > The main change involves the introduction of a new SYNCTHREAD flag. We > > > use this to avoid deadlocking over processes that are running sys_sync > > > and siblings. Processes that enter those routines get the flag added, > > > and it's removed when they exit the sync routine. We then

Re: [PATCH 2.4] SIOCSIFNAME wildcard support (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:04:45 -0200 Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:14:36AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > Hi Marcelo, > > > > I did not receive any feedback on this e-mail, so I assume it > > was lost on the way. Would you mind pushing that in

Re: [PATCH] hot-swapping support for PSX controllers

2005-02-08 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 07:21:54PM +0100, Eric Piel wrote: > Hello, > > For now, a bug in the PSX controllers support in gamecon prevents > hot-swapping of such controllers. If a controllers is removed then all > the controllers stop working and cpu usage gets high. The attached patch >

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > I wonder if reverting the patch will restore the old behaviour? > > > > This seems to be minimal fix to get Kylix application back to the > > working state... Maybe it is good idea for 2.6.11? > > Why does clearing the BSS fail? Are the program headers bogus? > (readelf -l). No

Re: [PATCH] Linux joydev joystick disconnect patch 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-08 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:22:19AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:20:33 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:21:13PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > > Opening braces should go on the same line as the statement (if (...) > >

Re: [RFC][PATCH] swsusp: do not use higher order allocations on resume [update 2]

2005-02-08 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 8 of February 2005 20:10, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > so it is okay, but... > > > > ... I could have done it more elegantly. You're right, I've now introduced > > a function eat_page() that adds a page to the list of unusable pages and > > used it instead of the free_page()

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Matthew Dobson
Martin J. Bligh wrote: Sorry to reply a long quiet thread, but I've been trading emails with Paul Jackson on this subject recently, and I've been unable to convince either him or myself that merging CPUSETs and CKRM is as easy as I once believed. I'm still convinced the CPU side is doable, but

Re: the "Turing Attack" (was: Sabotaged PaXtest)

2005-02-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/pax-future.txt > >To understand the future direction of PaX, let's summarize what we >achieve currently. The goal is to prevent/detect exploiting of >software bugs that allow arbitrary read/write access to

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Matthew Dobson
Paul Jackson wrote: Matthew wrote: The reason Paul and I decided that they weren't totally reconcilable is because of the memory binding side of the CPUSETs code. Speak for yourself, Matthew ;). I agree you that the scheduler experts (I'm not one, nor do I aspire to be one) may well find that

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:51:12PM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:01:16PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > Hi Jean, > > > > I'm very ignorant about wireless but it doesnt appear to me that "Wireless > > Extension v17" > > is a critical feature. > > You

Re: Merging the Suspend2 freezer implementation.

2005-02-08 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 03:36, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > I'm keen to see if we can merge Suspend2's freezer implementation after > > 2.6.11. Does that conflict with any of your intended changes? If it > > doesn't, I'll submit a patch for review/merge as quickly as I can. > > Freezer is

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:01:16PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Hi Jean, > > I'm very ignorant about wireless but it doesnt appear to me that "Wireless > Extension v17" > is a critical feature. You are right, it's not critical, and I was already thinking of not pushing WE-18 to

Re: [PATCH 2.4] SIOCSIFNAME wildcard support (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Jean, On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:14:36AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > > I did not receive any feedback on this e-mail, so I assume it > was lost on the way. Would you mind pushing that in 2.4.x ? > Thanks... As an ignorant person I have no problems with

Question regarding e1000 driver and dropped packets (2.6.5 / 2.6.10)?

2005-02-08 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have two identical machines [mobo/hardware wise]: Each machine is a Dell GX1p (500MHZ). I have two Intel Gigabit NICs, one in each box, hooked up to a GigE switch. Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Jean, I'm very ignorant about wireless but it doesnt appear to me that "Wireless Extension v17" is a critical feature. It seems more appropriate to declare it as 2.6 functionality ? Cheers On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:16:37AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > >

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [BUG report] UML linux-2.6 latest BK doesn't compile

2005-02-08 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > the Makefiles were heavily changed, however, recently (after 2.6.10). There was a bug in that patch. The fix is: Index: 2.6.10/arch/um/Makefile === --- 2.6.10.orig/arch/um/Makefile2005-02-08

Re: [PATCH] Makefiles are not built using a Fortran compiler

2005-02-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:20:27PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > In my inbox I have a patch that enables SCCS support for all files. > Today it fails for Kconfig files at least. I guess the kconfig system needs to try to make Kconfig files before including them ... this works for me, checking a

Re: [ATTN: Dmitry Torokhov] About the trackpad and 2.6.11-rc[23] but not -rc1

2005-02-08 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:00:20 -0600, Joseph Pingenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From Joseph Pingenot on Monday, 07 February, 2005: > >Hope that helps. > > Did it help any? > Yes, thank you. A patch is forthcoming later tonight. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Sabotaged PaXtest (was: Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer)

2005-02-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > but what this discussion was about was the _dl_make_stack_executable() > > function. > > the jury is still out on that one, i just don't have the time and beer > to do the full research that a real exploit writer would do. in > security, unless

Re: [PATCH] Makefiles are not built using a Fortran compiler

2005-02-08 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 2005.02.08, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:23:48PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > > Enabling the following in the Makefile should have the same effect: > > > > # For maximum performance (+ possibly random breakage, uncomment > > # the following) > > > > #MAKEFLAGS += -rR >

Re: Real-Time Preemption and UML?

2005-02-08 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Jeff, any objections against adding this change to UML at some point? > > No, not at all. I just need to understand what CONFIG_PREEMPT requires of > UML. Ingo can probably tell you in much more detail. My problem when I tried

Re: prezeroing V6 [2/3]: ScrubD

2005-02-08 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > We also need to try to identify workloads whcih might experience a > regression and test them too. It isn't very hard. I'd be glad if you could provide some instructions on how exactly to do that. I have run lmbench, aim9, aim7, unixbench, ubench for a

Video recovery after S3 on arima / eMachines notebook (and if S3 works for you, please tell me)

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I found out that vbetool is enough to get me back video after suspend/resume. Good and thanks! Here's my current version of video.txt file. If you have any comment, or have machine where S3 works and it is not listed below, please let me know and I'll update video.txt file.

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Paul Jackson
Matthew wrote: > The reason Paul and I decided that they weren't totally reconcilable is > because of the memory binding side of the CPUSETs code. Speak for yourself, Matthew ;). I agree you that the scheduler experts (I'm not one, nor do I aspire to be one) may well find that it makes sense

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:51:06PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > I wonder if reverting the patch will restore the old behaviour? > > This seems to be minimal fix to get Kylix application back to the > working state... Maybe it is good idea for 2.6.11? Why does clearing the BSS fail?

swsusp logic error?

2005-02-08 Thread martin f krafft
I am trying to get swsusp working on a 2.6.10 Debian kernel (2.6.10-1-686, custom compile, enabling only CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND and leaving CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION empty) on this Sony Vaio Z1RSP Centrino 1.7 Pentium M laptop... without much success. Whenever I enter swsusp mode, the kernel

Re: M7101

2005-02-08 Thread Ondrej Zary
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 03:06:11PM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: Looks pretty good to me. For clarity, I'd change: - m7101 = pci_scan_single_device(dev->bus, 0x18); + m7101 = pci_scan_single_device(dev->bus, PCI_DEVFN(3, 0)); No, it's pretty broken regardless of

Re: prezeroing V6 [2/3]: ScrubD

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > No its a page fault benchmark. Dave Miller has done some kernel compiles > > > and I have some benchmarks here that I never posted because they do not > > > show any material change as far as I can

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

2005-02-08 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:33:06AM -0600, Brian King wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:35:05AM -0600, Brian King wrote: > > > >>>If we've done a write to config space while the adapter was blocked, > >>>shouldn't we replay those accesses at this point? > >> > >>I did not

Re: ARM undefined symbols. Again.

2005-02-08 Thread Alex Muradin
I'm getting your mail! Check out you code cause if I'm getting your mail, then you're sending it out to all your customers. -Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gmail user On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:42:43 +0100, Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:43:59AM +, Russell King

Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: claim block dev in file struct rather than inode struct, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (3/8)

2005-02-08 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:24:50 CST, Michael Halcrow said: > > > While the program is waiting for a keystroke, mount the block device. > > Enter a keystroke. The result without the patch is 1, which is a > > security violation. This occurs because

RE: BIOS Bug

2005-02-08 Thread Aleksey Gorelov
>>>-Original Message- >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Enrico Bartky >>>Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 7:12 AM >>>To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>Subject: BIOS Bug >>> >>>Hello, >>> >>>on my notebook, when I plugged in my USB keyboard the kernel

Re: VM disk cache behavior.

2005-02-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:06:14PM -0500, jon ross wrote: > I have an app with a small fixed memory footprint that does a lot of > random reads from a large file. I thought if I added more memory to > the machine the VM would do more caching of the disk, but added > memory does not seem to make

Re: [PATCH] fix ACPI_BOOT for ia64 (2.6.11-rc3-mm1)

2005-02-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:03:38PM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > One of your patches in 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 breaks ACPI_BOOT for ia64. It > removes the dependence on CONFIG_ACPI and makes it exclusively depend on > X86_HT, which is wrong. Thanks for the patch. Already fixed in my

Re: ARM undefined symbols. Again.

2005-02-08 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:42:43PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:43:59AM +, Russell King wrote: > > > > Maybe we need an architecture hook or something for post-processing > > vmlinux? > Makes sense. > For now arm can provide an arm specific cmd_vmlinux__ like um

[PATCH] fix ACPI_BOOT for ia64 (2.6.11-rc3-mm1)

2005-02-08 Thread Martin Hicks
Hi Andrew, One of your patches in 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 breaks ACPI_BOOT for ia64. It removes the dependence on CONFIG_ACPI and makes it exclusively depend on X86_HT, which is wrong. Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm1/drivers/acpi/Kconfig

Re: [PATCH] compile error: 2.6.10 / megaraid_mbox

2005-02-08 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:10:57AM +0100, Nico Schottelius wrote: > Good morning! > > I was trying to compile Megaraid on 2.6.10 and > noticed that pci_dma_sync_single and pci_dma_sync_sg > are deprecated. Greg seems to tried to patch it in 2.6.9 > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/19/425), but it

Re: [BUG report] UML linux-2.6 latest BK doesn't compile

2005-02-08 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Why not simply disable CONFIG_GCOV for him, in this case? Anton presumably turned on CONFIG_GCOV because he wanted to do some profiling... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: ARM undefined symbols. Again.

2005-02-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:43:59AM +, Russell King wrote: > > Maybe we need an architecture hook or something for post-processing > vmlinux? Makes sense. For now arm can provide an arm specific cmd_vmlinux__ like um does. The ?= used in Makefile snippet below allows an ARCH to override the

Re: [PATCH] Altix : ioc4 serial driver support

2005-02-08 Thread Patrick Gefre
I've update the patch with changes from the comments below. ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sn2/sn2-update/033-ioc4-support As usual forgot this: Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patrick Gefre wrote: I've update the patch with changes from the comments below.

Re: out-of-line x86 "put_user()" implementation

2005-02-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:20:06 PST, Linus Torvalds said: > I'm not going to put this into 2.6.11, since I worry about compiler > interactions, but the more people who test it anyway, the better. Well, since I'm a known glutton for punishment. ;) a 2.6.11-rc3-RT tree I had handy from last night

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Matthew Dobson
Nick Piggin wrote: Dinakar Guniguntala wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:59:49PM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote: Sorry to reply a long quiet thread, but I've been trading emails with Paul Jackson on this subject recently, and I've been unable to convince either him or myself that merging CPUSETs

Re: [PATCH] Makefiles are not built using a Fortran compiler

2005-02-08 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > The SCCS rules is the sole reason why -rR has not been enabled. An easy way to make sure that the SCCS business is not a factor would be to explicitly put the SCCS rules into the Makefile -- it's just two lines. This way one could easily make sure

Re: [PATCH] Makefiles are not built using a Fortran compiler

2005-02-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:44:17PM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:23:48PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > > Enabling the following in the Makefile should have the same effect: > > > > # For maximum performance (+ possibly random breakage, uncomment > > # the following) > >

Re: ieee1394 needs CONFIG_NET but does not depend on it

2005-02-08 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! If I attempt to compile IEE1394 without CONFIG_NET, I get: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xcf885): In function `hpsb_alloc_packet': : undefined reference to `alloc_skb' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xd03a6): In function `hpsb_send_packet': : undefined reference to `skb_queue_tail'

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-08 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 18:51:06 +0100 Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > I wonder if reverting the patch will restore the old behaviour? > > This seems to be minimal fix to get Kylix application back to the > working state... Maybe it is good idea for 2.6.11? > > Signed-off-by:

Re: [RFC][PATCH] swsusp: do not use higher order allocations on resume [update 2]

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > so it is okay, but... > > ... I could have done it more elegantly. You're right, I've now introduced > a function eat_page() that adds a page to the list of unusable pages and > used it instead of the free_page() here. Thanks. > > > + p = pbe; > > > + pbe +=

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Matthew Dobson
Dinakar Guniguntala wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:59:49PM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote: Sorry to reply a long quiet thread, but I've been trading emails with Paul Jackson on this subject recently, and I've been unable to convince either him or myself that merging CPUSETs and CKRM is as easy

Re: out-of-line x86 "put_user()" implementation

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > boots fine and shrinks the image size quite noticeably: > > > > [Nr] Name TypeAddr OffSize > > [ 1] .textPROGBITSc010 001000 2771a9 [vmlinux-orig] > > [ 1] .textPROGBITSc010 001000 2742dd [vmlinux-patched] > > > > that's 11980 bytes

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I wonder if reverting the patch will restore the old behaviour? This seems to be minimal fix to get Kylix application back to the working state... Maybe it is good idea for 2.6.11? Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

ieee1394 needs CONFIG_NET but does not depend on it

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! If I attempt to compile IEE1394 without CONFIG_NET, I get: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xcf885): In function `hpsb_alloc_packet': : undefined reference to `alloc_skb' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xd03a6): In function `hpsb_send_packet': : undefined reference to `skb_queue_tail'

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > I think you are dreaming. You've gone from wanting enough information > > > to supposedly debug your source tree to being explicit about wanting to > > > recreate the entire BK history in a different system. The former is a > > > reasonable

Kernel Crash with Oops and possible file corruption

2005-02-08 Thread Peter Englmaier
Dear Kernel Developers, I've got a machine where nfsd dies with an oops from time to time. When this happens I need to reboot it to get nfsd working again. Sometimes it also crashes (stops responding to network, keyboard). The ksymoops output is attached below. This happens quite often (every

Re: [RFC][PATCH] swsusp: do not use higher order allocations on resume [update 2]

2005-02-08 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Monday, 7 of February 2005 17:23, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > The (updated) patch follows. > > Okay, few comments... > > > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > diff -Nru linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm1-orig/arch/i386/power/swsusp.S > >

Re: Real-Time Preemption and UML?

2005-02-08 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Jeff, any objections against adding this change to UML at some point? No, not at all. I just need to understand what CONFIG_PREEMPT requires of UML. >From a quick read of Documentation/preempt-locking.txt, this looks like it's implementing Rule #3 (unlock by the same

Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data

2005-02-08 Thread Adam Belay
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:18:20PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:00:27PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Currently, code exists in the pci layer to allow userspace to specify > > driver data when adding a pci dynamic id from sysfs. However, this data > > is never used

Re: Need advice on amd76x_pm [patch included]

2005-02-08 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Joerg Sommrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050208 04:07]: > Hi all, > > can anybody comment on some amd76x_pm issues? I've played around with > this module for months and I'm quite satisfied with it now, but a couple > of questions remain. > > The changes I made: > - rediffed to 2.6.10 > - new module

[PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
Hi Marcelo, I did not receive any feedback on this e-mail either, so I assume it was also lost on the way. Would you mind pushing that in 2.4.x ? Thanks... Jean - Forwarded message from jt - Subject: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 E-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:17:30PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > I think you are dreaming. You've gone from wanting enough information > > to supposedly debug your source tree to being explicit about wanting to > > recreate the entire BK

[PATCH 2.4] SIOCSIFNAME wildcard support (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
Hi Marcelo, I did not receive any feedback on this e-mail, so I assume it was lost on the way. Would you mind pushing that in 2.4.x ? Thanks... Jean - Forwarded message from jt - Subject: [PATCH 2.4] SIOCSIFNAME wildcard support E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ATTN: Dmitry Torokhov] About the trackpad and 2.6.11-rc[23] but not -rc1

2005-02-08 Thread Joseph Pingenot
>From Joseph Pingenot on Monday, 07 February, 2005: >Hope that helps. Did it help any? -Joseph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [An Intel exec] said, basically, that customers are "wed" to the Windows desktop. What he didn't say is that hardware suppliers are wed to Microsoft as well. And as long as the

[OOps] 2.6.11-rc3 rmmod ide-scsi

2005-02-08 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, got this oops while unloading ide-scsi (rmmod segfaulted) UP P4 1.7Ghz non Preempt, No HT, IDE DVD/CD-RW, IDE Disk, Vanilla Kernel, (-chaos -> Debian make-kpkg --append-to-version=-chaos) Linux chaos 2.6.11-rc3-chaos #1 Fri Feb 4 23:27:57 CET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Unable to handle kernel

2.6.11-rc3-bk5: XFS: fcron: could not write() buf to disk: Resource temporarily unavailable

2005-02-08 Thread Alexander Y. Fomichev
G' day It looks like XFS broken somewhere in 2.6.11-rc1, sadly i can't sand "right" bugreport, some facts only. Upgrade to 2.6.11-rc2 makes fcron non-working for me in case of crontabs directory is placed on XFS partition. When i try to install new crontab fcrontab die with error: "could not

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [BUG report] UML linux-2.6 latest BK doesn't compile

2005-02-08 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 11:40, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:22 +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 February 2005 11:09, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > With the current linux-2.6 BK tree I get this when trying to compile > > > UML: > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: claim block dev in file struct rather than inode struct, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (3/8)

2005-02-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:24:50 CST, Michael Halcrow said: > While the program is waiting for a keystroke, mount the block device. > Enter a keystroke. The result without the patch is 1, which is a > security violation. This occurs because the bd_release function will > bd_release(bdev) and set

Re: [BUG] linux-2.6.11-rc3 probably in ACPI battery procfs ...

2005-02-08 Thread Aurélien Francillon
Stefan Seyfried wrote: aurelien francillon wrote: hi, since just before linux-2.6.11-rc3 ( i think it's rc2-bk10 ) there seems to have a bug in the acpi part of the proc file system : reading /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info takes a very long time and locks up the computer, time gives: cat

Re: [BUG report] UML linux-2.6 latest BK doesn't compile

2005-02-08 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 19:29, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > arch/um/kernel/exec_kern.c:59: undefined reference to `__bb_init_func' > > The __bb_init_func export is to allow modules to be built with a > gcov-enabled UML. I get a bunch of undefines in the module links when I >

[PATCH] device-mapper: Export map_info

2005-02-08 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
Export map_info (part of bio->bi_private) for targets like multipath to use for storing context. Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff/drivers/md/dm.c2005-02-08 16:38:49.0 + +++ source/drivers/md/dm.c 2005-02-08 16:41:09.0 + @@ -43,6

Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: claim block dev in file struct rather than inode struct, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (3/8)

2005-02-08 Thread Michael Halcrow
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:26:03PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > * Michael Halcrow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This is the third in a series of eight patches to the BSD Secure > > Levels LSM. It moves the claim on the block device from the inode > > struct to the file struct in order to address

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I wonder if reverting the patch will restore the old behaviour? Yes, this fixes it: kylix application now works for me. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb

Re: VM disk cache behavior.

2005-02-08 Thread Robert Love
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 12:06 -0500, jon ross wrote: > I have an app with a small fixed memory footprint that does a lot of > random reads from a large file. I thought if I added more memory to > the machine the VM would do more caching of the disk, but added memory > does not seem to make any

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why should I pay for something, I could easily do myself in less time? > > Why does the phrase "Shut up and code..." suddenly wander through my mind??? You didn't really read what I explained in detail, didn't you? bye, Roman - To

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > I think you are dreaming. You've gone from wanting enough information > to supposedly debug your source tree to being explicit about wanting to > recreate the entire BK history in a different system. The former is a > reasonable request, I suppose,

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:15:53 +0100, Roman Zippel said: > Why should I pay for something, I could easily do myself in less time? Why does the phrase "Shut up and code..." suddenly wander through my mind??? pgpO0Xrma93ma.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > How should one set about reproducing this problem? > > > > IIRC, Some minimal "personal" version can be downloaded from borland.com. > > Well I'd prefer that we not back out the whole patch. Could someone please > test with something like the below, let us know exactly where it's

2.6.10 devfs oops without devfs mounted at all

2005-02-08 Thread Sergey S. Kostyliov
Hello all, Here is an oops I've just get on my smp system: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 001c printing eip: c01afe5b *pde = Oops: [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter CPU:2 EIP:

VM disk cache behavior.

2005-02-08 Thread jon ross
I have an app with a small fixed memory footprint that does a lot of random reads from a large file. I thought if I added more memory to the machine the VM would do more caching of the disk, but added memory does not seem to make any difference. I played with some of the params in /proc/sys/vm and

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-08 Thread Peter Osterlund
Stephane Raimbault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using 2.6.11-rc3 + Peter's patch and xorg from Fedora Core 3, I > still have touchpad problems. > > Tapping and focus work fine with 2.6.10 and 2.6.11-rc1 but not with : > - 2.6.11-rc2 > - 2.6.11-rc3 > I read a similar report on LKML from

Re: [PATCH] Makefiles are not built using a Fortran compiler

2005-02-08 Thread Ryan Anderson
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:44:17PM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:23:48PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > > Enabling the following in the Makefile should have the same effect: > > > > # For maximum performance (+ possibly random breakage, uncomment > > # the following) > >

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
> Roman, if you want this so bad why don't you just pay Larry for the > three month's work? It's just not reasonable to ask someone to do work > for free that the only purpose of is to help someone clone their > system. That's an interesting idea, thanks, but we'd need both money and a new

Re: [PATCH] Altix : ioc4 serial driver support

2005-02-08 Thread Patrick Gefre
I've update the patch with changes from the comments below. ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sn2/sn2-update/033-ioc4-support Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:58:33AM -0600, Patrick Gefre wrote: Latest version with review mods:

Re: Sabotaged PaXtest (was: Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer)

2005-02-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Julien TINNES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But if you consider code injection as in your previous post: > > >btw., do you consider PaX as a 100% sure solution against 'code > >injection' attacks (meaning that the attacker wants to execute an > >arbitrary piece of code, and assuming the

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-08 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:42:27 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've written a driver for probably the most common touchscreen type - > the serial Elo touchscreen. > Hi, Looks very nice, unfortunately I don;t have a touchscreen to test it. One thing - now that kcalloc in

[PATCH] device-mapper: Record & restore bio state.

2005-02-08 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
Simple functions to record and restore bio state so we can resubmit a bio that returned an error. DM multipath (following shortly) uses this. This patch has it private to device-mapper: is it any use elsewhere? Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

the "Turing Attack" (was: Sabotaged PaXtest)

2005-02-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > btw., do you consider PaX as a 100% sure solution against 'code > > injection' attacks (meaning that the attacker wants to execute an > > arbitrary piece of code, and assuming the attacked application has a > > stack overflow)? I.e. does PaX

[PATCH] device-mapper: Store name directly against device

2005-02-08 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
Add a name field to struct dm_dev so we don't have to use format_dev_t() all over the place for informative error messages. Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c 2005-02-08 16:38:49.0 + +++

[RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-08 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! I've written a driver for probably the most common touchscreen type - the serial Elo touchscreen. The driver should handle all generations of serial Elos, as it handles Elo 10-byte, 6-byte, 4-byte and 3-byte protocols. I do not have any touchscreen, so I can't test the driver myself. So if

Re: [PATCH] raw1394 : Fix hang on unload

2005-02-08 Thread Parag Warudkar
> I looked also at other 1394 drivers and all have the calls in 'bad' order. > Sure this ordering has to be reversed or it is correct and is triggering > other hidden bug ? > Quite possibly it's triggering (or is triggered by) some other bug. There is also a possibility that raw1394.c might be

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-08 Thread Fruhwirth Clemens
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 17:08 +0100, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 09:48 -0500, James Morris wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: > > > > > + * The generic scatterwalker applies a certain function, pf, utilising > > > + * an arbitrary number of scatterlist data

Re: Merging the Suspend2 freezer implementation.

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I'm keen to see if we can merge Suspend2's freezer implementation after > 2.6.11. Does that conflict with any of your intended changes? If it > doesn't, I'll submit a patch for review/merge as quickly as I can. Freezer is very independend, and no, I do not plan any changes in that area. >

Re: [BUG report] UML linux-2.6 latest BK doesn't compile

2005-02-08 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > arch/um/kernel/exec_kern.c:59: undefined reference to `__bb_init_func' The __bb_init_func export is to allow modules to be built with a gcov-enabled UML. I get a bunch of undefines in the module links when I get rid of it. This is probably being too intimate with libc,

Re: [RFC] Changing COW detection to be memory hotplug friendly

2005-02-08 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, IWAMOTO Toshihiro wrote: > > The current implementation of memory hotremoval relies on that pages > > can be unmapped from process spaces. After successful unmapping, > > subsequent accesses to the pages are blocked and don't interfere

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > Roman, if you want this so bad why don't you just pay Larry for the > three month's work? Why should I pay for something, I could easily do myself in less time? bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Martin J. Bligh
> Sorry to reply a long quiet thread, but I've been trading emails with > Paul Jackson on this subject recently, and I've been unable to convince > either him or myself that merging CPUSETs and CKRM is as easy as I once > believed. I'm still convinced the CPU side is doable, but I haven't >

[PATCH] New sys_chmod() hook for the LSM framework

2005-02-08 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
Hi, As commented yesterday, I was going to release a few more hooks for some *critical* syscalls, this one adds a hook to sys_chmod(), and makes us able to apply checks and logics before releasing the operation to sys_chmod(). The main goal is to provide a simple way to handle chmod() calls and

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Martin J. Bligh
>> What about your proposed sched domain changes? >> Cant sched domains be used handle the CPU groupings and the >> existing code in cpusets that handle memory continue as is? >> Weren't sched somains supposed to give the scheduler better knowledge >> of the CPU groupings afterall ? >> > > sched

Re: Linux Virtual Network Device

2005-02-08 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
William Stearns wrote: Good afternoon, Matthias-Christian, (This isn't a linux kernel development issue; please do further discussion on the uml-user mailing list only.) On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: I have the following the problem: I have server which is connected to

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-08 Thread Fruhwirth Clemens
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 09:48 -0500, James Morris wrote: > On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: > > > + * The generic scatterwalker applies a certain function, pf, utilising > > + * an arbitrary number of scatterlist data as it's arguments. These > > + * arguments are supplied as an array of

Re: prezeroing V6 [2/3]: ScrubD

2005-02-08 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > No its a page fault benchmark. Dave Miller has done some kernel compiles > > and I have some benchmarks here that I never posted because they do not > > show any material change as far as I can see. I will be posting that soon > > when this is complete

Re: [PATCH] hid-core: Configurable USB HID Mouse Interrupt Polling Interval

2005-02-08 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:15:53PM +0100, zyphr wrote: > Something looks odd. > I've tested this with 2.6.11-rc3-bk5 + your lasted patch > > cat /sys/module/usbhid/parameters/mousepoll says it's at 2ms > but if I check /proc/bus/usb/devices it's reading 10ms > > I've used parameter under

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