Re: Page fault scalability patch V18: Drop first acquisition of ptl

2005-03-03 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: This is not relevant since it only deals with file pages. OK. And CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC? Its a debug feature that can be fixed if its broken.

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-03-02 at 22:21, Linus Torvalds wrote: - 2.6.odd: still a stable kernel, but accept bigger changes leading up to it (timeframe: a month or two). - 2.odd.x: aim for big changes that may destabilize the kernel for several releases (timeframe: a year or two) - odd.x.x:

Re: Support for GEODE CPU's in Kernel 2.6.10.

2005-03-03 Thread Alan Cox
I'm not sure the change is any better. AMD now use Geode for two totally unrelated CPU families and they need different configuration. - 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: [thomas_cj_chang@wistron.com.tw: Kernel 2.4.28 can't boot into OS without noapic]

2005-03-03 Thread Len Brown
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:27, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Hi Thomas, I'm forwarding your message to Mikael and Len, who have knowledge on the IOAPIC infrastructure. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:37:03 +0800 To: [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH]: Speed freeing memory for suspend.

2005-03-03 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. Here are the stats: 1GB P4, 2.6.11+Suspend2 2.1.8. Soft image size limit set to 2MB to emulate Pavel's implementation (eat as much memory as we can). Without patch: Freed 16545 pages in 4000 jiffies = 16.16 MB/s Freed 83281 pages in 14060 jiffies = 23.14 MB/s Freed 237754 pages in 41482

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-03-03 at 01:27, Dave Jones wrote: In an ideal world, we'd see a single 'y' release of 2.6.x.y, but if x+1 takes too long to be released, bits of x+1 should also appear in x.y+1 The only question in my mind is 'how critical does a bug have to be to justify a .y release. Once a new

Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems

2005-03-03 Thread Trond Myklebust
to den 03.03.2005 Klokka 22:46 (+0100) skreiv Andi Kleen: As far as the kernel is concerned, asm/posix_types defines __kernel_ino_t as unsigned long on most platforms (except a few which define is as unsigned int). We don't care what size type glibc itself uses. That could easily be

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:15:46PM +, Alan Cox wrote: We still need 2.6.x.y updates on a more official footing and with more than one person as the 2.6.x.y maintainer. I think that is actually more important. That appears to be the consensus conclusion we've arrived at. Jeff -

Re: [PATCH] trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec

2005-03-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
Jeff Garzik writes: Rene Rebe wrote: Hi, --- linux-2.6.11/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc.vanilla2005-03-02 16:44:56.407107752 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc2005-03-02 16:45:22.424152560 +0100 @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ int raid6_have_altivec(void) {

Re: I/O error propagation

2005-03-03 Thread V P
I agree. But what if the file systems can handle certain errors better than what the drivers can do now ? Take for e.g., data corruption. If the driver finds a corrupted sector that it cannot recover, it is going to convert this specific error in to a more generic error code (-EIO) and report it

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [2.6 patch] drivers/video/: more cleanups

2005-03-03 Thread Jon Smirl
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:01:19 +0100, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch contains cleanups including the following: Are you cleaning up all of that annoying trailing whitespace too? It is always giving me problems on diffs. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, deactivate() scheduling issue

2005-03-03 Thread Esben Nielsen
As I read the code the driver task (A) should _not_ be removed from the runqueue. It has to be waken up to call schedule_timeout() such it gets back on the runqueue after 10 ms. If it is taken out of the runqueue at line 76 it will stay off the runqueue forever in the TASK_UNINTERRUBTIBLE state!

Re: [PATCH] raw1394 missing failure handling

2005-03-03 Thread Panagiotis Issaris
Hi, Jody McIntyre wrote: I'll apply this to the 1394 tree and send it to Linus after testing if you add a Signed-off-by: line per Documentation/SubmittingPatches . Also, please cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] with ieee1394 changes. Sure! Thanks! Adds the missing failure handling for a __copy_to_user call.

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:28:52PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: I've watched you periodically announce hey, I'm doing an update for FC3/FC2, please test on the mail list, and a handful of people go test. If we could convince many of the the less risk-averse but lazy users

[PATCH] cpuid takes unsigned arguments

2005-03-03 Thread Rik van Riel
Because Xen is compiled with -Wall -Werror, has inherited processor.h from Linux and Fedora is now built with gcc4, I discovered this bug. The few callers I verified all call cpuid with unsigned ints, but the function is defined with signed ints. This trivial patch fixes that. Signed-off-by: Rik

Re: [PATCH] trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec

2005-03-03 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:30:22AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: Jeff Garzik writes: Rene Rebe wrote: Hi, --- linux-2.6.11/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc.vanilla2005-03-02 16:44:56.407107752 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc2005-03-02

[2.6 patch] kernel/posix-timers.c: cleanups

2005-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following cleanups: - make a needlessly global function static - remove the unused global function do_posix_clock_notimer_create Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/posix-timers.h |3 +-- kernel/posix-timers.c|9 ++--- 2

Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems

2005-03-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:37:26PM -0800, Trond Myklebust wrote: to den 03.03.2005 Klokka 10:19 (+0100) skreiv Andi Kleen: The problem here is that glibc uses stat64() which supports 64bit inode numbers. But glibc does the overflow checking itself and generates the EOVERFLOW in user space.

RE: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Hua Zhong wrote: Indeed. What I have in mind (and suggested in the past) is that we have a real 2.6 stable release maintainer. The only difference is that he starts from a random 2.6.x release he picks, and releases 2.6.x.y until he thinks stable enough, and he moves on

Re: [PATCH] trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec

2005-03-03 Thread Olof Johansson
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:30:22AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: I nominate this as a candidate for linux-2.6.11 release branch. :) No. Unfortunately if you fix ppc64 here you will break ppc, and vice versa. Yes, we are going to reconcile the cur_cpu_spec definitions between ppc and

Keyboard doesn't work with CONFIG_PNP in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-03 Thread Alexander Nyberg
Hi! I had accidently chosen CONFIG_PNP and noticed that my keyboard didn't work with bk-dtor-input.patch in the tree (backing out makes keyboard work). diff -up working_dmesg nokeyboard_dmesg --- working_dmesg 2005-03-03 22:15:52.0 +0100 +++ nokeyboard_dmesg2005-03-03

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 13:53 -0800, David Lang wrote: Actually, the 5 was pretty pointless anyway. What I got from talking to people is that they wanted a release that only got fixes that would crash the machine, or cause a root exploit. That's what I thought Linus was trying to say.

Re: RivaFB and GeForce FX

2005-03-03 Thread Oded Shimon
On Friday 04 March 2005 00:53, Alan Jenkins wrote: Having a GeForce FX 5200 which I expected to work under rivafb (kernel version 2.6.11), I found the attached message on google groups. I know it is a little later now, but would you think about getting the work you've done committed? I

Re: RivaFB and GeForce FX

2005-03-03 Thread Oded Shimon
On Friday 04 March 2005 01:03, Oded Shimon wrote: - ods15 Oops. diff -U 3 -r -N -X /usr/src/diffignore -- linux-2.6.6/drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c linux/drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c --- linux-2.6.6/drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c 2004-05-10 05:32:54.0 +0300 +++ linux/drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c

Re: [PATCH] trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:45:15PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:30:22AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: Jeff Garzik writes: Rene Rebe wrote: Hi, --- linux-2.6.11/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc.vanilla2005-03-02 16:44:56.407107752 +0100 +++

[PATCH] kernel/power/disk.c trivial cleanups

2005-03-03 Thread Todd Poynor
* Remove duplicate include. * Avoid mode set to '' message when error updating /sys/power/disk. Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc4-orig/kernel/power/disk.c 2005-02-23 09:47:03.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc4-pm/kernel/power/disk.c 2005-03-03

[2.6 patch] make savagefb one module

2005-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch links all selected files under drivers/video/savagefb/ into one module. This required a renaming of savagefb.c to savagefb_driver.c . As a side effect, the EXPORT_SYMBOL's in this directory are no longer required. --- Other names than savagefb_driver.c (e.g. savagefb_main.c) are

Re: [PATCH] raw1394 missing failure handling

2005-03-03 Thread Panagiotis Issaris
Hi Jody, My previous e-mail seemed to be messed up by Thunderbird... so now I'm using good old Mutt again. On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:48:43PM -0500 or thereabouts, Jody McIntyre wrote: Thanks. Here's my third try :-) With friendly regards, Takis I'll apply this to the 1394 tree and

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's perfectly workable from a BK standpoint to do - linux-2.6 commit - cpcset into linux-2.6.X.Y [see Documentation/BK-usage/cpcset] - pull from linux-2.6.X.Y into linux-2.6 [dups cset, but no real code change] That's fine with

[PATCH][25/26] IB/mthca: implement query of device caps

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
From: Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Set device_cap_flags field in mthca's query_device method. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cmd.h 2005-01-25

[PATCH][23/26] IB/mthca: mem-free multicast table

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Tie up one last loose end by mapping enough context memory to cover the whole multicast table during initialization, and then enable mem-free mode. mthca now supports enough of mem-free mode so that IPoIB works with a mem-free HCA. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCH][26/26] IB: MAD cancel callbacks from thread

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
From: Sean Hefty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modify ib_cancel_mad() to invoke a user's send completion callback from a different thread context than that used by the caller. This allows a caller to hold a lock while calling cancel that is also acquired from their send handler. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty

[PATCH][22/26] IB/mthca: mem-free work request posting

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Implement posting send and receive work requests for mem-free mode. Also tidy up a few things in send/receive posting for Tavor mode (fix smp_wmb()s that should really be just wmb()s, annotate tests in the fast path with likely()/unlikely()). Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCH][24/26] IB/mthca: QP locking optimization

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
From: Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. Split the QP spinlock into separate send and receive locks. The only place where we have to lock both is upon modify_qp, and that is not on data path. 2. Avoid taking any QP locks when polling CQ. This last part is achieved by getting rid

[PATCH][20/26] IB/mthca: mem-free QP initialization

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Update QP initialization and cleanup to handle mem-free mode. In mem-free mode, work queue sizes have to be rounded up to a power of 2, we need to allocate doorbells, there must be memory mapped for the entries in the QP and extended QP context table that we use, and the entries of the receive

[PATCH][18/26] IB/mthca: mem-free CQ initialization

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Update CQ initialization and cleanup to handle mem-free mode: we need to make sure the HCA has memory mapped for the entry in the CQ context table we will use and also allocate doorbell records. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCH][19/26] IB/mthca: mem-free CQ operations

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Add support for CQ data path operations (request notification, update consumer index) in mem-free mode. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c2005-03-03 14:13:00.312829664 -0800 +++

[PATCH][13/26] IB/mthca: tweak firmware command debug messages

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Slightly improve debugging output for UNMAP_ICM and MODIFY_QP firmware commands. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cmd.c 2005-01-25 20:48:02.0 -0800 +++ linux-export/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cmd.c

[PATCH][16/26] IB/mthca: mem-free doorbell record writing

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Add a mthca_write_db_rec() to wrap writing doorbell records. On 64-bit archs, this is just a 64-bit write, while on 32-bit archs it splits the write into two 32-bit writes with a memory barrier to make sure the two halves of the record are written in the correct order. Signed-off-by: Roland

[PATCH][10/26] IB/mthca: mem-free memory region support

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Add support for mem-free mode to memory region code. This mostly amounts to properly munging between keys and indices. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_mr.c2005-01-15 15:16:11.0 -0800 +++

[PATCH][12/26] IB/mthca: mem-free interrupt handling

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Update interrupt handling code to handle mem-free mode. While we're at it, improve the Tavor interrupt handling to avoid an extra MMIO read of the event cause register. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_dev.h 2005-03-03

[PATCH][9/26] IB/mthca: dynamic context memory mapping for mem-free mode

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Add support for mapping more memory into HCA's context to cover context tables when new objects are allocated. Pass the object size into mthca_alloc_icm_table(), reference count the ICM chunks, and add new mthca_table_get() and mthca_table_put() functions to handle mapping memory when allocating

[PATCH][8/26] IB/mthca: add UAR allocation

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Add support for allocating user access regions (UARs). Use this to allocate a region for kernel at driver init instead using hard-coded MTHCA_KAR_PAGE index. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/Makefile 2005-01-15

[PATCH][3/26] IB/mthca: improve CQ locking part 1

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
From: Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Avoid taking the CQ table lock in the fast path path by using synchronize_irq() after removing a CQ from the table to make sure that no completion events are still in progress. This gets a nice speedup (about 4%) in IP over IB on my hardware.

[PATCH][4/26] IB/mthca: improve CQ locking part 2

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
From: Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Locking during the poll cq operation can be reduced by locking the cq while qp is being removed from the qp array. This also avoids an extra atomic operation for reference counting. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by:

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:17:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: That's the only way it _can_ work. The maintainer of 2.6.x.y shouldn't be Andrew, what about my suggestion of shifting left x.y of 8 bits? ;) Do we risk the magic 2.7 number to get us stuck in unstable mode for 2 years instead of 2

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-03-03 at 16:59, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:55:13AM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: I'll tell you what the problem is: I don't think you'll find anybody to do the parallell only trivial patches tree. Isn't this what -ac and -as

Re: [PATCH] Fixing address space lock contention in 2.6.11

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Chubb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As part of the Gelato scalability focus group, we've been running OSDL's Re-AIM7 benchmark with an I/O intensive load with varying numbers of processors. The current kernel shows severe contention

Re: 2.6.10-ac10 oops in journal_commit_transaction

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Brice Figureau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm reporting an oops on a bi-Xeon database server under 2.6.10-ac10 quite similar to: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext3-usersm=110848085314238w=2 I also got another server crashing (a mail server this time), but I couldn't get the oops/panic.

Re: [PATCH][26/26] IB: MAD cancel callbacks from thread

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
Roland Dreier wrote: +void cancel_sends(void *data) +{ + struct ib_mad_agent_private *mad_agent_priv; + struct ib_mad_send_wr_private *mad_send_wr; + struct ib_mad_send_wc mad_send_wc; + unsigned long flags; + + mad_agent_priv = (struct ib_mad_agent_private *)data;

Re: [PATCH: 2.6.11-rc5] i2c chips: ds1337 RTC driver

2005-03-03 Thread James Chapman
Revised patch is attached. Jean Delvare wrote: Hi James, A revised ds1337 patch addressing all of Jean's comments is attached. Fine with me except for: + if (!i2c_check_functionality(adapter, I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_BYTE_DATA | +I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK)) I

Re: radeonfb blanks my monitor

2005-03-03 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:38 -0300, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: Maybe we are having conflicting bus names between radeonfb and matroxfb, or 2 instances of radeonfb ? Can you send the entire log please ? I don't have matroxfb and there aren't 2

2.6.11-rc3-mm2: broken NFS ?

2005-03-03 Thread J.A. Magallon
Hi... I have a problem with nfs. It always worked, so I don't know what is failing now. I have a server running 2.6.11-rc3-mm2. I try to export a dir via nfs: /etc/exports: /raid belly.cps.unizar.es(ro,insecure,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) nada:/proc/fs/nfs# exportfs -v /raid

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread CaT
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:51:42PM +, Alan Cox wrote: -ac is essentially base security fixes + working IDE locking + pwc + fixes for the bugs everyone hit that needed fixing urgently. I consider working locking on my storage essential because I like my data to still be there. Working IDE

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Bill Nottingham
Dave Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: [*] I don't know any details of the /proc incompatibility which davej mentions, and I'd like to. That sounds like a screw-up. We changed the format of /proc/slabinfo. Running slabtop threw up an error message complaining that the format had

[UPDATE PATCH] cdrom/mcdx: fix wait-queue compile-time breakage

2005-03-03 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:57:10AM +0100, Domen Puncer wrote: A new release from kernel janitors (http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/). Apologies to janitors that this took so long. This time we have a new record: 354 patches! I'll start sending/resending what's not already in -mm soon.

Re: 2.6.11: iostat values broken, or IDE siimage driver ?

2005-03-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgrades one of our newsservers from 2.6.9 to 2.6.11. I use iostat -k -x 2 to see live how busy the disks are. But I don't believe that

[PATCH][0/26] InfiniBand merge

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Here's another series of patches that applies on top of the fixes I posted yesterday. This series syncs the kernel with everything ready for merging from the OpenIB subversion tree. Most of these patches add more support for mem-free mode to mthca. This allows PCI Express HCAs to operate by

Re: Keyboard doesn't work with CONFIG_PNP in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-03 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Thursday 03 March 2005 16:58, Alexander Nyberg wrote: Hi! I had accidently chosen CONFIG_PNP and noticed that my keyboard didn't work with bk-dtor-input.patch in the tree (backing out makes keyboard work). Hi, It looks like some old stuff in my tree overwrites good stuff from

Re: [PATCH][16/26] IB/mthca: mem-free doorbell record writing

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Jeff Are you concerned about ordering, or write-combining? ordering... write combining would be fine. Jeff I am unaware of a situation where writes are re-ordered into Jeff a reversed, descending order for no apparent reason. Hmm... I've seen ppc64 do some pretty freaky reordering

Re: [PATCH][26/26] IB: MAD cancel callbacks from thread

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Jeff don't add casts to a void pointer, that's silly. Fair enough... Jeff dumb question... why is the lock dropped? is it just for Jeff the send_handler(), or also for wr_id assigned, kfree, and Jeff wake_up() ? Not sure... Sean? - R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

2005-03-03 Thread Pierre Ossman
Nish Aravamudan wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:51:40 +0100, Pierre Ossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded to Linux 2.6.11 and the soundcard on my machine went silent. All volume controls are correct and there are no errors reported. But no sound coming from the speakers. And here's the

RE: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][26/26] IB: MAD cancel callbacks fromthread

2005-03-03 Thread Sean Hefty
Roland Dreier wrote: +void cancel_sends(void *data) +{ +struct ib_mad_agent_private *mad_agent_priv; +struct ib_mad_send_wr_private *mad_send_wr; +struct ib_mad_send_wc mad_send_wc; +unsigned long flags; + +mad_agent_priv = (struct ib_mad_agent_private *)data; don't

Re: [PATCH][3/26] IB/mthca: improve CQ locking part 1

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
Roland Dreier wrote: @@ -783,6 +777,11 @@ cq-cqn (dev-limits.num_cqs - 1)); spin_unlock_irq(dev-cq_table.lock); + if (dev-mthca_flags MTHCA_FLAG_MSI_X) + synchronize_irq(dev-eq_table.eq[MTHCA_EQ_COMP].msi_x_vector); + else + synchronize_irq(dev-pdev-irq); + Tangent: I think we need

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

2005-03-03 Thread Pierre Ossman
Andrew Morton wrote: Mark Canter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To close this issue out of the LKML and alsa-devel, a bug report has been written. It appears to be an issue with the 'headphone jack sense' (as kde labels it). The issue is in the way the 8x0 addresses the docking station/port

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][26/26] IB: MAD cancel callbacks fromthread

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
don't add casts to a void pointer, that's silly. How should we handle this nit? Should I post a new version of this patch or an incremental diff that fixes it up? - R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH][16/26] IB/mthca: mem-free doorbell record writing

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
Roland Dreier wrote: Jeff Are you concerned about ordering, or write-combining? ordering... write combining would be fine. Jeff I am unaware of a situation where writes are re-ordered into Jeff a reversed, descending order for no apparent reason. Hmm... I've seen ppc64 do some pretty

[2.6 patch] panic_timeout

2005-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/panic.c.old2005-03-04 00:54:46.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/panic.c2005-03-04 00:54:54.0 +0100 @@ -24,8 +24,6 @@

[2.6 patch] unexport insert_resource

2005-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/resource.c.old 2005-03-04 01:01:30.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/resource.c 2005-03-04 01:01:42.0 +0100 @@ -371,8 +371,6

[2.6 patch] unexport idle_cpu

2005-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/sched.c.old2005-03-04 01:06:21.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/sched.c2005-03-04 01:06:36.0 +0100 @@ -3387,8

[2.6 patch] unexport is_console_locked

2005-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/printk.c.old 2005-03-04 00:58:16.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/printk.c 2005-03-04 00:58:22.0 +0100 @@ -675,7 +675,6

[2.6 patch] unexport complete_all

2005-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/sched.c.old2005-03-04 01:04:28.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/sched.c2005-03-04 01:04:34.0 +0100 @@ -3053,7

Re: [PATCH][3/26] IB/mthca: improve CQ locking part 1

2005-03-03 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 07:35:00PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Roland Dreier wrote: @@ -783,6 +777,11 @@ cq-cqn (dev-limits.num_cqs - 1)); spin_unlock_irq(dev-cq_table.lock); +if (dev-mthca_flags MTHCA_FLAG_MSI_X) +

Re: [PATCH][3/26] IB/mthca: improve CQ locking part 1

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Greg Sure, I have no problem accepting that into the pci core. What would pci_irq_sync() do exactly? - R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][26/26] IB: MAD cancel callbacks fromthread

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't add casts to a void pointer, that's silly. How should we handle this nit? Should I post a new version of this patch or an incremental diff that fixes it up? I'll fix it up. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][26/26] IB: MAD cancel callbacks fromthread

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't add casts to a void pointer, that's silly. How should we handle this nit? Should I post a new version of this patch or an incremental diff that fixes it up? I'll fix it up. Actually,

Re: 2.4.29 sk98lin patch for Asus K8W SE Deluxe

2005-03-03 Thread Philippe Troin
Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:00:30PM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote: + /* Asus K8V Se Deluxe bugfix. Correct VPD content */ + /* MBo April 2004 */ + if( ((unsigned char)pAC-vpd.vpd_buf[0x3f] == 0x38) + ((unsigned

Re: [PATCH] clean up FIXME in do_timer_interrupt

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAICT this code is equivalent and cleans up the (efi_)set_rtc_mmss code referred to as horrible... FIXME in the comments. Completely untested. Signed-Off-By: Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc4/arch/i386/kernel/time.c.orig

[2.6 patch] unexport __print_symbol

2005-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/kallsyms.c.old 2005-03-04 00:49:34.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/kallsyms.c 2005-03-04 00:49:49.0 +0100 @@ -408,4 +408,3

[2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem

2005-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/sys.c.old 2005-03-04 01:19:18.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/sys.c 2005-03-04 01:19:29.0 +0100 @@ -1382,8 +1382,6 @@

2.6.11-rc5-mm1: reiser4 panic

2005-03-03 Thread Alexander Gran
Hi, after my external USB hdd disconnected itself reiser4 paniced. I dont think a journalingfs should panic if its device fails.. Log: scsi2 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device reiser4[ktxnmgrd:dm-0:t(25324)]: reiser4_handle_error (fs/reiser4/vfs_ops.c:1315)[foobar-42]: reiser4 panicked

2.6.11-rc5-mm1: reiser4 eating cpu time

2005-03-03 Thread Alexander Gran
Hi, I have a reiser4 partition on a local IDE disk. I opened a 130MB textfile with kwrite, and killed it while ot opened the file (took to long...) diskio was finished at this point. a [ent:hda6.] Process was eating 100% CPU time for several (54) seconds. Is this a normal, expected behaviour?

Re: [PATCH] clean up FIXME in do_timer_interrupt

2005-03-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 16:45 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: If efi_enabled is true and efi_set_rtc_mmss(xtime.tv_sec) returns zero, the new code will run set_rtc_mmss(xtime.tv_sec) whereas the old code won't. Argh, I should know better then to send patches before having coffee. Here's a new patch.

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][26/26] IB: MAD cancel callbacks fromthread

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't add casts to a void pointer, that's silly. How should we handle this nit? Should I post a new version of this patch or an incremental diff that

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-03-04 at 00:19, CaT wrote: Working IDE locking? Does this mean if I have 2 promise cards, a HD on each card and I copy from one to the other it wont all blow up in my face? Depends on your PCI bus and also if the are on the same IRQ. In the same IRQ case you may find 2.6.11 is a

Re: [PATCH][3/26] IB/mthca: improve CQ locking part 1

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
@@ -783,6 +777,11 @@ cq-cqn (dev-limits.num_cqs - 1)); spin_unlock_irq(dev-cq_table.lock); +if (dev-mthca_flags MTHCA_FLAG_MSI_X) + synchronize_irq(dev-eq_table.eq[MTHCA_EQ_COMP].msi_x_vector); + else +

Re: [PATCH][16/26] IB/mthca: mem-free doorbell record writing

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Jeff Well, we don't just add code to hope and pray for an event Jeff that nobody is sure can even occur... The hardware requires that if the record is written in two 32-bit chunks, then they must be written in order. Of course the hardware probably won't be reading just as we're writing,

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mar 03, 2005, at 14:35, Sean wrote: Wait a second though, this tree will be branched from the development mainline. So it will contain many patches that entered with less testing. What will be the policy for dealing with regressions relative to the previous $sucker release caused by huge

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I haven't actually gotten any complaints about 2.6.11 (apart from gcc4 still has problems with fairly trivial solutions) There have been quite a few. Mainly driver stuff again: Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.4.27 - 2.4.29 tar: /dev/nst0: Warning: Cannot

[PATCH][15/26] IB/mthca: mem-free doorbell record allocation

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Mem-free mode requires the driver to allocate additional doorbell pages for each user access region. Add support for this in mthca_memfree.c, and have the driver allocate a table in db_tab for kernel use. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCH][11/26] IB/mthca: mem-free EQ initialization

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Add code to initialize EQ context properly in both Tavor and mem-free mode. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_eq.c2005-03-03 14:12:56.154732247 -0800 +++ linux-export/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_eq.c 2005-03-03

[PATCH][5/26] IB/mthca: CQ cleanups

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
Simplify some of the code for CQ handling slightly. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c2005-03-03 14:12:52.923433653 -0800 +++ linux-export/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c 2005-03-03 14:12:53.538300187 -0800 @@

Re: [PATCH][16/26] IB/mthca: mem-free doorbell record writing

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
Roland Dreier wrote: Add a mthca_write_db_rec() to wrap writing doorbell records. On 64-bit archs, this is just a 64-bit write, while on 32-bit archs it splits the write into two 32-bit writes with a memory barrier to make sure the two halves of the record are written in the correct order.

Re: trouble with Dell dimension 3000 network adapter

2005-03-03 Thread Zhonghua Dai
thanks Ganesh Brice! Now it works! i use the driver specified by ganesh at sourceforge. thanks. On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 05:19:02 -0800, Ganesh Venkatesan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try e100? What kernel are you using? You could download the latest e100 from

IDE locking (was: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering)

2005-03-03 Thread CaT
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:44:04AM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Gwe, 2005-03-04 at 00:19, CaT wrote: Working IDE locking? Does this mean if I have 2 promise cards, a HD on each card and I copy from one to the other it wont all blow up in my face? Depends on your PCI bus and also if the are

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-03-03 at 23:17, Andrew Morton wrote: Ideally, the 2.6.x.y maintainer wouldn't need any particular kernel development skills - it's just patchmonkeying the things which maintainers send him. I would disagree, and I suspect anyone else who has maintained a distro stable kernel would

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 15:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4282] New: ALSA driver in Linux 2.6.11 causes a kernel panic when loading the EMU10K1 driver Um... this one is highly suspect. Myself and others have been doing a lot of work on this driver lately, and have

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[PATCH][2/26] IB/mthca: CQ minor tweaks

2005-03-03 Thread Roland Dreier
From: Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clean up CQ code so that we only calculate the address of a CQ entry once when using it. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c

Re: [PATCH] trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Morton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olof Johansson) wrote: Here's a patch that will work for both PPC and PPC64. The proper way to fix this in mainline is to merge -mm's cpu_has_feature patch, but for the stable 2.6.11-series, this much less intrusive (i.e. just the pure bugfix, not the cleanup part).

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