Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 10:57 -0800, Nate Edel wrote: > From: "Arjan van de Ven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jason Luo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous > >> memory for DMA. > > > > (or want to reserve memory at the boot commandline and then

Re: BUG: Slowdown on 3000 socket-machines tracked down

2005-03-10 Thread Ben Greear
Andi Kleen wrote: If he had a lot of RX traffic (it is hard to figure out because his bug reports are more or less useless and mostly consists of rants): The packets are allocated with GFP_ATOMIC and a lot of traffic overwhelms the free memory. Some drivers work around this by doing the RX ring

Re: BUG: Slowdown on 3000 socket-machines tracked down

2005-03-10 Thread Christian Schmid
Andrew Morton wrote: Christian Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, maybe a VM problem? That would be a good place to focus since > I think we can be fairly certain it isn't a problem in just the > networking code. Otherwise, my tests would show lower bandwidth. Thanks to your tests I am

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jon Smirl
Here's a big clue, if I build ata_piix in I can boot. If it is a module I can't. The console output definitely shows that the module is being loaded. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

fsck error on flashcard with ext2 filesystem

2005-03-10 Thread Santosh Gupta
Hi All, I am facing filesystem corruption on flashcard ext2 filesystem. How could I get rid of these fsck error messages? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Problem The rw partition on flashcard shows fsck errors if a file is deleted from it. Its fixed only on umount

2.6.11 oops in skb_drop_fraglist

2005-03-10 Thread Chuck Lever
testing NFS client workloads on a dual Pentium-III system running 2.6.11 with some NFS patches. i hit this oops while doing simple-minded ftps and tars. the system locks up once or twice a day under this workload. this is the first time i had the console and captured the oops output. Unable

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jon Smirl
I see: Loading libata.ko module Loading ata_piix.ko module ACPI: PCI interupt :00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE00 ctl 0xFE12 bmdma 0xFEA0 irq 169 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE20 ctl 0xFE32 bmdma 0xFEA0 irq 169 then raid autorun, one of the raid

Re: [PATCH] lookup traps, for compact autofs/devfs functionality

2005-03-10 Thread Sergey Vlasov
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:38:22PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: > The following patch implements a facility for invoking a user > level helper program whenever a program attempts to access a > nonexistent file on a given tmpfs file system. It can provide > functionality like autofs or

Re: [PATCH] AB-BA deadlock between uidhash_lock and tasklist_lock.

2005-03-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Robin Holt wrote: > > reparent_to_init() does write_lock_irq(_lock) then calls > switch_uid() which calls free_uid() which grabs the uidhash_lock. > > Independent of that, we have seen a different cpu call free_uid as a > result of sys_wait4 and, immediately after

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 09:43 -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > * Lee Revell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:43 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > That, and a zillion other specific wordings that people suggested fall > > > under the: > > > or some "oh, that's not good" issue > > >

Errors in sigaction struct definition

2005-03-10 Thread Jordi Brinquez
I found a problem while using sigaction structure because of problems on definition of that structure. I found it on version 2.6.10 but it was confirmed on version 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 (so probably on other 2.6.x versions) Extract from /include/asm-i386/signal.h (lines 142-172) #ifdef __KERNEL__

RE: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel

2005-03-10 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Andrew Morton wrote on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:10 PM > > 2.6.9 kernel is 6% slower compare to distributor's 2.4 kernel (RHEL3). > > Roughly > > 2% came from storage driver (I'm not allowed to say anything beyond that, > > there > > is a fix though). > > The codepaths are indeed longer in

Re: [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver

2005-03-10 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:35:36 -0800, Nish Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:42:01 -0800, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ChangeSet 1.2035, 2005/03/09 10:12:19-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver > > > > > +void

Re: bk commits and dates

2005-03-10 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:11:45AM -0700, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 01:13 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Speaking strictly in terms of implementation, David Woodhouse's > > bk-commits mailer scripts could probably easily be tweaked to -not- set > > an explicit Date header on

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-03-10 at 16:56, Bill Davidsen wrote: > - leave it the way it is > - fix the hole and break tar > - wait for FSF to fix tar, then fix the hole > - try to fix it without breaking tar, which may not be really possible >and could leave part of the problem and still break tar

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 09:31 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:27:23PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:43 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > That, and a zillion other specific wordings that people suggested fall > > > under the: > > > or some "oh, that's not good"

Re: [PATCH] 0/2 Buddy allocator with placement policy (Version 9) + prezeroing (Version 4)

2005-03-10 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 09:22 -0800, Paul Jackson wrote: > In particular, I am working on preparing a patch proposal for a policy > that would kill a task rather than invoke the swapper. In > mm/page_alloc.c __alloc_pages(), if one gets down to the point of being > about to kick the swapper, if

Re: 64-bit resources?

2005-03-10 Thread Kumar Gala
On Mar 10, 2005, at 11:35 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:46:10AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > Greg, > > I was wondering what the state of the change to 64-bit resources was? On hold till I get the time to fix all of the kernel tree up due to the changes required. Unless someone

Re: Average power consumption in S3?

2005-03-10 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Martin Josefsson wrote: > I also have an X31 and I noticed that the e1000 has Wake-On-Lan enabled > by default and the S3 code doesn't disable that (kind of defeats the > purpose :) > Disabling that will make the e1000 driver power down the chip during S3. > > I've had mine suspended for 2-3 days

[PATCH] silence sort(..., swap) warning on ia64

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wedgwood
Not tested but seems plausible :-) = arch/ia64/mm/extable.c 1.11 vs edited = --- 1.11/arch/ia64/mm/extable.c 2005-03-07 20:41:46 -08:00 +++ edited/arch/ia64/mm/extable.c 2005-03-10 10:14:55 -08:00 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ static int cmp_ex(const void *a, const v return lip - rip;

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wright
* Lee Revell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:43 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > That, and a zillion other specific wordings that people suggested fall > > under the: > > or some "oh, that's not good" issue > > rule. > > So just to be 100% clear, no sound with 2.6.N where the

Re: 2.6.11-mm2 + Radeon crash

2005-03-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:25 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:12 +0100, Christian Henz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wanted to try 2.6.11-mm2 for the low latency/realtime lsm stuff and > > I've run into a severe > > problem. > > There is absolutely no reason to use the -mm kernel

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:28:39AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > > >>I've been looking at the UDI project[1] and thinking about binary >>drivers and the like, and wondering what most peoples' take on these are >>and what

Re: link(2) and symlinks

2005-03-10 Thread Gunnar Ritter
Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:14:36PM -0800, Nick Stoughton wrote: > > Most Unix implementations behave in the manner specified by POSIX. One > > notable exception is Solaris 8 (I don't know about later Solarises). It's still the same on Solaris 10.

Re: 64-bit resources?

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:46:10AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > Greg, > > I was wondering what the state of the change to 64-bit resources was? On hold till I get the time to fix all of the kernel tree up due to the changes required. Unless someone else wants to volunteer to do the work :)

[PATCH] printk-times bugfix for loglevel-only printks

2005-03-10 Thread Tim Bird
Linus, This patch fixes a bug with the recently added printk-times feature. In the case where a printk consists of only the log level (followed subsequently by printks with more text for the same line), the printk-times code doesn't correctly recognize the end of the string, and starts emitting

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:27:23PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:43 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > That, and a zillion other specific wordings that people suggested fall > > under the: > > or some "oh, that's not good" issue > > rule. > > So just to be 100% clear, no sound

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > So just to be 100% clear, no sound with 2.6.N where the sound worked > with 2.6.N-1 absolutely does qualify. Right? If you can send in a patch that fixes it in an obvious way and in less than 100 lines of context diff, hell yes. Remember: all the

Re: Average power consumption in S3?

2005-03-10 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Matthew Garrett wrote: > Radeons don't actually power down in D3 unless some registers are set, > and even then the kernel doesn't currently have any code that would put > the Radeon in D3. If you're willing to test something, could you try the > code at > >

[BK PATCHES] ide-2.6 update

2005-03-10 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi Linus, Please do a bk pull bk://bart.bkbits.net/ide-2.6 This will update the following files: drivers/ide/Kconfig|1 drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 58 drivers/ide/ide-default.c | 17 ++- drivers/ide/ide-disk.c | 213

Re: [PATCH] 0/2 Buddy allocator with placement policy (Version 9) + prezeroing (Version 4)

2005-03-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Mel Gorman, responding to Dave Hansen > > The other thing is that we'll probably have to be a lot more strict > > about how the allocations fall back. Some users will probably prefer to > > kill an application rather than let a kernel allocation fall back into a > > user memory area. > > > >

Re: 2.6.11-mm2 + Radeon crash

2005-03-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:12 +0100, Christian Henz wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to try 2.6.11-mm2 for the low latency/realtime lsm stuff and > I've run into a severe > problem. There is absolutely no reason to use the -mm kernel anymore for low latency audio. The -mm kernels were never stable

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:19:39PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > Please, the UDI stuff has been proven to be broken and wrong. If you > > want to work on it, feel free to do so, just don't expect for anyone to > > accept the UDI layer into the kernel mainline. > > 1.

Re: [PATCH] qtronix missing failure handling

2005-03-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 04:08:44PM +0100, Panagiotis Issaris wrote: > Hi, > > The Qtronix keyboard driver doesn't handle the possible failure of memory > allocation. Thanks, applied. Please copy Linux/MIPS-specific patches to me or [EMAIL PROTECTED]; it was more a coincidence that I noticed

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've done more thought, here's a small list of advantages on using binary drivers, specifically considering UDI. You can consider a different implementation for binary drivers as well, with most of the same advantages. - Smaller kernel tree The

Re: [PATCH] 0/2 Buddy allocator with placement policy (Version 9) + prezeroing (Version 4)

2005-03-10 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 14:31 +, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > There are 2 kinds of sections: user and kernel. The traditional > > > ZONE_HIGHMEM is full of user sections (except for vmalloc). > > And PTEs if configured to be allocated from high memory. I have not double > checked but I don't think

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:43 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > That, and a zillion other specific wordings that people suggested fall > under the: > or some "oh, that's not good" issue > rule. So just to be 100% clear, no sound with 2.6.N where the sound worked with 2.6.N-1 absolutely does qualify.

Re: [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver

2005-03-10 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:42:01 -0800, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ChangeSet 1.2035, 2005/03/09 10:12:19-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver > +void tpm_time_expired(unsigned long ptr) > +{ > + int *exp = (int *) ptr; > + *exp = 1; > +} > +

Re: minor 2.6.11-bk6 config issue or user error

2005-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:38, Prakash Punnoor wrote: >Hi, > >I went from bk4 to bk6. After patching i just typed make to > recompile (as I thought this would be enough). But it errored out > because CONFIG_BASE_SMALL wasn't defined. So I did make menuconfig > and saved my config again and now

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

2005-03-10 Thread Omkhar Arasaratnam
James Bottomley wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:17 +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: Heh, the devel version of sym2 (that isn't submitted yet because it depends on a few changes to the SPI transport that James hasn't integrated yet) would probably fix this as it doesn't call iounmap() until the

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > critical user data. > > > > In other words, it should work correctly or not at all. At the least this > > should be a config option, like UNSAFE_TAPE_POSITIONING or some such. > > And show the option if the build includes BROKEN features. That

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:28:39AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > >>I've been looking at the UDI project[1] and thinking about binary >>drivers and the like, and wondering what most peoples' take on these are >>and what impact

Re: make -j4 gets stuck w/ ccache over NFS - solved!

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:47:37AM -0500, Mark M. Hoffman wrote: > Finally I noticed this patch from -mm1... and it solves the problem. > > nfsd--lockd-dont-try-to-match-callback-requests-against-export-table.patch > > How I tested: I applied the first 12 patches in 2.6.11-mm1; the above >

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 11:56 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > critical user data. > > > > > > In other words, it should work correctly or not at all. At the least this > > > should be a config option, like UNSAFE_TAPE_POSITIONING or some such. >

Re: 2.6.11-mm1

2005-03-10 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:32:15AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: [snip] > +fix-scripts-mkubootsh-to-return-status.patch > > kbuild fix Please drop this. The problem is that 'make uImage' was saying that it sucessfully built a uImage when it didn't. The reason we have a wrapper script around

Re: [patch 4/5] audit mips fix

2005-03-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:16:57PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > @@ -307,7 +308,7 @@ asmlinkage void do_syscall_trace(struct > { > if (unlikely(current->audit_context)) { >

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:28:39AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > I've been looking at the UDI project[1] and thinking about binary > drivers and the like, and wondering what most peoples' take on these are > and what impact that UDI support would have on the kernel's development. UDI is

x86-64 linux-2.6.11-mm2 - BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! (ohci_hub_resume)

2005-03-10 Thread Sam Elstob
Just booted 2.6.11-mm2 with a new .config and ran into this BUG(). Here is the snippet from dmesg. [ 25.088135] ohci_hcd :00:02.0: wakeup [ 25.113120] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! [ 25.113128] [ 25.113135] Modules linked in: ehci_hcd ohci_hcd usbcore i2c_nforce2 it87 eeprom

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] fix: drivers/base/class.c

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:08:56PM +0300, JustMan wrote: > fix: drivers/base/class.c "fix" how? What are you fixing? > diff -uNrp linux/drivers/base/class.orig.c linux/drivers/base/class.c > --- linux/drivers/base/class.orig.c 2005-03-10 12:19:00.0 +0300 > +++

Re: [PATCH] PCI: One more Asus SMBus quirk

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:54:57AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:06:15AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:18:16PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] PPC64 NUMA memory fixup

2005-03-10 Thread mike kravetz
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:36:13AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > This patch causes the non-numa G5 to oops very early in boot in > smp_call_function(). > OK - Let me take a look. -- Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:28:39AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > I've been looking at the UDI project[1] and thinking about binary > drivers and the like, and wondering what most peoples' take on these are > and what impact that UDI support would have on the kernel's development. Please, the

Re: [PATCH] add timing information to printk messages

2005-03-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:50:52 PST, Tim Bird said: > Tony Luck wrote: > > Setting CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y I see (the "" pieces are actually > > each a single ASCII '\0' character): > > Tony, > > Can you try the patch below? (inspired by a patch from Tom Zanussi - > gotta give credit where credit is

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:00:51PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > On Tuesday March 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So here's a first cut at how this 2.6 -stable release process is going > > to work that Chris and I have come up with. Does anyone have any > > problems/issues/questions with this? > >

Re: [PATCH] new driver for ITM Touch touchscreen

2005-03-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:41:42PM +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:18 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:01:00PM +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote: > > > > > I really don't think the controller can now anything about the size of > > >

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-03-10 at 12:10, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > CONFIG_SECURITY_HOLES doesn't make sense. > Better to just fix the security holes instead. In the case of st its merely broken. I reviewed the code again to double check for Marcelo. Still should be a "ask your vendor to fix tar" item. Alan

Re: [PATCH] new driver for ITM Touch touchscreen

2005-03-10 Thread Hans-Christian Egtvedt
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:18 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:01:00PM +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote: > > > I really don't think the controller can now anything about the size of > > the screen. > > > > I've attached version 1.2.1 of the driver, fixed some typo,

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Joost Remijn
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:08 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:00 +0100, Lorenzo HernÃndez GarcÃa-Hierro > wrote: it tries to fill the > > ipaddr member of the task_struct structure with the IP address > > associated to the user running @current task/process,if available. >

binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been looking at the UDI project[1] and thinking about binary drivers and the like, and wondering what most peoples' take on these are and what impact that UDI support would have on the kernel's development. I know the immediate first reactions

Re: [PATCH] ide: hdio.txt update

2005-03-10 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:16:38 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + [2] Both the input and output buffers are copied from the > + user and written back to the user, even when not used. The > + out_flags and in_flags are written back to the user after > +

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:01:55 +0100, Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what are the major/minor numbers of /dev/root? > > > If I boot on a working system it is 8,5 I see no /dev/sda detected in your system from the dmesg. Ahh this is where it

Re: make -j4 gets stuck w/ ccache over NFS - solved!

2005-03-10 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:47:37AM -0500, Mark M. Hoffman wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. It wasn't very important to me so I didn't > make time to follow up on it. I was just playing w/ ccache at the time. > > Finally I noticed this patch from -mm1... and it solves the problem. > >

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Paul P Komkoff Jr
Replying to Arjan van de Ven: > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:00 +0100, Lorenzo HernÃndez GarcÃa-Hierro > wrote: it tries to fill the > > ipaddr member of the task_struct structure with the IP address > > associated to the user running @current task/process,if available. > > but... a use doesn't hane

Re: [Ipsec] Issue on input process of Linux native IPsec

2005-03-10 Thread Dave Dillow
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 02:37 -0800, Park Lee wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 at 16:15, David Dillow wrote: > > xfrm_lookup() is only called for outgoing packets, > > not for received packets. I don't think ping > > replies (ICMP echo replies) will ever have a non- > > NULL sk, as they are not

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jon Smirl
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:01:55 +0100, Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what are the major/minor numbers of /dev/root? If I boot on a working system it is 8,5 mkrootdev is a nash command mkrootdev path Makes path a block inode for the device which should be mounted

Re: [PATCH] new driver for ITM Touch touchscreen

2005-03-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:01:00PM +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote: > I really don't think the controller can now anything about the size of > the screen. > > I've attached version 1.2.1 of the driver, fixed some typo, code cleanup > and discovered I used depricated functions so I moved to

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:00 +0100, Lorenzo HernÃndez GarcÃa-Hierro wrote: it tries to fill the > ipaddr member of the task_struct structure with the IP address > associated to the user running @current task/process,if available. but... a use doesn't hane an IP. a host does. - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 2/2] readahead: improve sequential read detection

2005-03-10 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Ram wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 11:08, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > out: > > - return newsize; > > + return ra->prev_page + 1; > > This change introduces one key behavioural change in > page_cache_readahead(). Instead of returning the number-of-pages > successfully read, it now returns the

Compile into static and dynamic problem

2005-03-10 Thread govind raj
Hai all, I recompiled kernel and copied to Compact Flash and also copy the library file from the samecompiled machine. now dhcpd I copied from the source machine to Compact flash .CF hard disk for into net4521. This is not working in the net4521 When I downloaded source code and compiled as

Re: bk commits and dates

2005-03-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Now, if James trigger scripts set the date of the email by the date of the > > commit, that sounds like a misfeature, but you'd better talk to James, not > > me, since he's the one doing that part.. > > Hah ok. Which James ? I was

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > Here's what it is doing... looks like the first mount is failing > > echo Creating root device > mkrootdev /dev/root > umount /sys > echo Mounting root filesystem > mount -o defaults --ro -t ext3 /dev/root /sysroot > mount -t tmpfs --bind /dev /sysroot/dev

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
El jue, 10-03-2005 a las 16:38 +0100, Arjan van de Ven escribió: > but tasks don't have an IP address. Hosts do. Hosts can have > multiple IP addresses. Both ipv4 and ipv6. Users don't have IP > addresses either (they do have user IDs so that link is clear). > I think I'm missing something

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jon Smirl
Here's what it is doing... looks like the first mount is failing echo Creating root device mkrootdev /dev/root umount /sys echo Mounting root filesystem mount -o defaults --ro -t ext3 /dev/root /sysroot mount -t tmpfs --bind /dev /sysroot/dev echo Switching to new root switchroot /sysroot umount

Re: [2.6 patch] OSS gameport fixes

2005-03-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:36:57AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:32:17 +0100, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This patch adds dummy gameport_register_port, gameport_unregister_port > > and gameport_set_phys functions to gameport.h for the case when a driver > >

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:31:51 +0100, Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > LABEL=/ / ext3defaults1 > > > 1 > > > label / is on /dev/sda6 > > > > > > Creating

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jon Smirl
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:31:51 +0100, Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > > LABEL=/ / ext3defaults1 1 > > label / is on /dev/sda6 > > > > Creating root device > > Mounting root filesystem > > mount: error 6

minor 2.6.11-bk6 config issue or user error

2005-03-10 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Hi, I went from bk4 to bk6. After patching i just typed make to recompile (as I thought this would be enough). But it errored out because CONFIG_BASE_SMALL wasn't defined. So I did make menuconfig and saved my config again and now it compiles through. Is it needed to run make oldconfig or make

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:28 +0100, Lorenzo HernÃndez GarcÃa-Hierro wrote: > > 2) Can you explain briefly what this is useful for? > > For keeping track on the "originating ip address of the > task/process" (the ipv4 address of the user that started the > task/process). but tasks don't have

Re: [2.6 patch] OSS gameport fixes

2005-03-10 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:32:17 +0100, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch adds dummy gameport_register_port, gameport_unregister_port > and gameport_set_phys functions to gameport.h for the case when a driver > can't use gameport. > > This fixes the compilation of some OSS drivers

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > LABEL=/ / ext3defaults1 1 > label / is on /dev/sda6 > > Creating root device > Mounting root filesystem > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 if 6 is the errno, it looks like it is trying to open a device that

Re: [patch 1/1] SELinux AVC audit log ipaddr field support (for task_struct->curr_ip)

2005-03-10 Thread Steve Grubb
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:16, Stephen Smalley wrote: > (e.g. the exe= information currently generated by avc_audit could be done > by audit_log_exit instead). I already have a patch that does that. It tells you what program is being run instead of /bin/bash. I'll send it in a day or two for

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
El jue, 10-03-2005 a las 15:26 +0100, Arjan van de Ven escribió: > a few questions > 1) Why is this a config option; if it's useful it should just be always > on really Just to be removed if it applies for mainline. > 2) Can you explain briefly what this is useful for? For keeping track on the

Re: [patch 1/1] SELinux AVC audit log ipaddr field support (for task_struct->curr_ip)

2005-03-10 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:05 +0100, Lorenzo HernÃndez GarcÃa-Hierro wrote: > Provides support for a new field ipaddr within the SELinux > AVC audit log, relying in task_struct->curr_ip (ipv4 only) > provided by the task-curr_ip or grSecurity patch to be applied > before.It was first implemented by

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / $B5HF#1QL@(B
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:16:42 +0100), Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > Ported feature from grSecurity that makes possible to add an ipaddr > entry in each /proc/ (/proc//ipaddr), where the task originating > IP address is stored, and

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

2005-03-10 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:17 +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Heh, the devel version of sym2 (that isn't submitted yet because > it depends on a few changes to the SPI transport that James hasn't > integrated yet) would probably fix this as it doesn't call iounmap() > until the driver exits. They're

Re: oom with 2.6.11

2005-03-10 Thread Christian Kujau
ok, as "promised", it the OOM happened again with the same plain 2.6.11, details here. http://nerdbynature.de/bits/sheep/2.6.11/oom/oom_2.6.11_2.txt the following is a quite long, but please read on (if anyone is reading at all :)) this time it happened at 08:01, and i could image some heavy

[patch 1/1] SELinux AVC audit log ipaddr field support (for task_struct->curr_ip)

2005-03-10 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
Provides support for a new field ipaddr within the SELinux AVC audit log, relying in task_struct->curr_ip (ipv4 only) provided by the task-curr_ip or grSecurity patch to be applied before.It was first implemented by Joshua Brindle (a.k.a Method) from the Hardened Gentoo project. An example of the

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-03-10 at 09:06, Tupshin Harper wrote: > Alan...since you disagreed with the earlier characterization of what it > would take to get into the mainline kernels, could you let us know what > it would take in your opinion? FWIW, I'm happily using it with a -ac kernel. It needs some

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jon Smirl
LABEL=/ / ext3defaults1 1 label / is on /dev/sda6 Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none Switching to new root Switchroot: mount failed 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 This is what

Re: ITE8212

2005-03-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-03-10 at 12:28, CaT wrote: > hda: max request size: 128KiB > hda: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24321/255/63, BUG > hda: cache flushes not supported > hda:hda: recal_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: recal_intr: error=0x04 {

Re: [PATCH] Reduce cacheline bouncing in cpu_idle_wait

2005-03-10 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > Zwane Mwaikambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Andi noted that during normal runtime cpu_idle_map is bounced around a > > lot, and occassionally at a higher frequency than the timer interrupt > > wakeup which we normally exit pm_idle from. So switch

Re: [PATCH] 0/2 Buddy allocator with placement policy (Version 9) + prezeroing (Version 4)

2005-03-10 Thread Mel Gorman
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 19:39 +, Mel Gorman wrote: > > The placement policy patch should now be more Hotplug-friendly and I > > would like to hear from the Hotplug people if they have more > > requirements of this patch. > > It looks like most of what we

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 15:16 +0100, Lorenzo HernÃndez GarcÃa-Hierro wrote: > Ported feature from grSecurity that makes possible to add an ipaddr > entry in each /proc/ (/proc//ipaddr), where the task originating > IP address is stored, and subsequently made available (readable) by the > process >

[patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
Ported feature from grSecurity that makes possible to add an ipaddr entry in each /proc/ (/proc//ipaddr), where the task originating IP address is stored, and subsequently made available (readable) by the process itself and also the root user with CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE capability (that can be managed

Re[2]: [leo@yuriev.ru: [PATCH] ethernet-bridge: update skb->priority in case forwarded frame has VLAN-header]

2005-03-10 Thread Leo Yuriev
>>From looking at the patch: j> -- j> + /* j> +* We map VLAN_TCI priority (0..7) to skb->priority (0..15) j> +* most similarly e.g. 0->0, 1->1, .., 7->7 j> +*/ j> + skb->priority = (vlan_TCI >> 13) & 7; j> --

Re: bk commits and dates

2005-03-10 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 01:13 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Speaking strictly in terms of implementation, David Woodhouse's > bk-commits mailer scripts could probably easily be tweaked to -not- set > an explicit Date header on the outgoing emails. > > It then becomes a matter of deciding whether

Re: dm-crypt vs. cryptoloop reminder

2005-03-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > 2.6.3-mm1 'dm-crypt vs. cryptoloop' discussion was some time ago, it is > > time to bring this up again: > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/2433 > > Are you a troll? > > This is not something to be quoted by anybody serious. > > Andrew referred to "well-known weaknesses" in cryptoloop, >

Re: [announce 7/7] fbsplash - documentation

2005-03-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > +The userspace helper > + > + > +The userspace splash helper (by default: /sbin/splash_helper) is called by > the > +kernel whenever an important event occurs and the kernel needs some kind of > +job to be carried out. Important events include console switches and

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > The fact that not a script, but Linus Torvalds, decides that the tree is > > in a state he likes to share with others. You have been doing -pre's all > > this time, it's just that you are calling them -rc's. > > No. > > I used to do "-pre", a long time ago. Exactly because they were

Re: [patch -mm series] ia64 specific /dev/mem handlers

2005-03-10 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> Jes Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Convert /dev/mem read/write calls to use arch_translate_mem_ptr if >> available. Needed on ia64 for pages converted fo uncached mappings >> to avoid it being accessed in cached mode

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