Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI Compression

2005-04-01 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
David Woodhouse wrote: Hm. Could we avoid using Z_SYNC_FLUSH and stick with a larger amount? That would give us better compression. Yes, the compression will be better. But the implementation will be more complicated. We can try to use the bound functions to predict how many bytes to pass to the

Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI Compression

2005-04-01 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 18:57 +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote: Yes, the compression will be better. But the implementation will be more complicated. We can try to use the bound functions to predict how many bytes to pass to the deflate's input, but there is no guarantee they'll fit into the

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rui Nuno Capela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thx - i've uploaded -43-01 which should fix this. Now it's dying-on-the-beach: needs unknown symbol __compat_down_failed_interruptible ok - does -43-02 work any better? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-04-01 Thread Romano Giannetti
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:17:08AM +0200, Romano Giannetti wrote: and nothing more. Well, this was done with the double console, so that I will try again as soon as I have a bit of time with just the serial console on. Much better now. Configuration, dmesg at boot, etc are at

Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch from kernel.

2005-04-01 Thread Måns Rullgård
linux-os [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [PATCH snipped] Cruel joke. Now 80 percent of the Intel clones won't boot. Those are the ones that run industry, you know, the stuff that is necessary to earn money. For now, yes. Hopefully it will change some day. Without i386 support, you don't have

Re: [PATCH] Set MS_ACTIVE in isofs_fill_super()

2005-04-01 Thread Jan Kara
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:39:07PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: snip I wonder if it would make more sense for all the -fill_super callers to set MS_ACTIVE prior to calling -fill_super(), and clear MS_ACTIVE if fill_super() failed? This sounds like a better solution, although filesystems

Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch from kernel.

2005-04-01 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Renate Meijer wrote: On Apr 1, 2005, at 3:09 PM, linux-os wrote: [PATCH snipped] Cruel joke. Now 80 percent of the Intel clones won't boot. Those are the ones that run industry, you know, the stuff that is necessary to earn money. Without i386 support, you don't have any

Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch from kernel.

2005-04-01 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-1] Måns Rullgård wrote: linux-os [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [PATCH snipped] Cruel joke. Now 80 percent of the Intel clones won't boot. Those are the ones that run industry, you know, the stuff that is necessary to earn money. For now, yes. Hopefully it will change

Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch from kernel.

2005-04-01 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Apr 1, 2005 10:16 AM, Richard B. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Renate Meijer wrote: On Apr 1, 2005, at 3:09 PM, linux-os wrote: [PATCH snipped] Cruel joke. Now 80 percent of the Intel clones won't boot. Those are the ones that run industry, you know,

Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI Compression

2005-04-01 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 18:57 +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote: Yes, the compression will be better. But the implementation will be more complicated. We can try to use the bound functions to predict how many bytes to pass to the deflate's input, but there is no guarantee

Re: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files

2005-04-01 Thread Wiktor
Måns Rullgård wrote: So you are proposing the addition of a per-file attribute, with restricted access, and potentially dangerous effects if set incorrectly. This, combined with the fact that is unlikely to receive much testing, all speaks against it. Almost every attribute can be dangerous if

Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI Compression

2005-04-01 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:36:23PM +0100, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote: In our code we do zlib_deflate(stream, Z_SYNC_FLUSH), so we always flush the output. So the final zlib_deflate(stream, Z_FINISH) requires 1 byte for the EOB marker and 4 bytes for adler32 (5 bytes total). Thats all. If we

Re: Slow SCSI perf in RH 7.3

2005-04-01 Thread Nachman Yaakov Ziskind
Burton Windle wrote (on Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 06:01:21PM -0500): On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Nachman Yaakov Ziskind wrote: I have a server: 2.4.20-28.7 #1 Thu Dec 18 11:31:59 EST 2003 i686 Looking at the output of 'top' may be helpful, as it will show if the system is CPU or IO bound. However,

[PATCH] Keys: Fix request_key default keyring handling

2005-04-01 Thread David Howells
The attached patch fixes the way request_key handles the default destination key when it's the group keyring. It also removes the check for the no-change default keyring spec, which shouldn't appear in the task_struct::jit_keyring member (it's purely for getting the old value from the keyctl

[PATCH] Clarify -rc definition in Documentation/feature-list-2.6.txt

2005-04-01 Thread Steven Cole
Gentlehackers, The day to clarify the real definition of -rc is finally here. Steven --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/Documentation/feature-list-2.6.txt.orig 2005-04-01 07:56:23.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/Documentation/feature-list-2.6.txt 2005-04-01 07:59:21.0 -0700 @@

Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI Compression

2005-04-01 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 1 April 2005 16:22:50 +0100, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote: Another question, does JFFSx *really* need the peaces of a 4K page to be independently uncompressable? It it wouldn't be required, we would achieve better compression if we have saved the zstream state. :-) But it is too late

Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch from kernel.

2005-04-01 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 10:16 AM, Richard B. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Renate Meijer wrote: On Apr 1, 2005, at 3:09 PM, linux-os wrote: [PATCH snipped] Cruel joke. Now 80 percent of the Intel clones won't boot. Those are the ones that

Re: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files

2005-04-01 Thread Wiktor
Horst von Brand wrote: Even better: Write a C wrapper for each affected program that just renices it as needed. I suggest to implement scalable solution, so the final user wont't have to write separate wrapper for *each* program. universal wrapper is better solution, but (now i know, that

Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI Compression

2005-04-01 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
I thought stored blocks (incompressible blocks) were limited to 64K in size, no? Blocks are limited in size by 64K, true. But why it matters for us? Suppose we compress 1 GiB of input, and have a 70K output buffer. We reserve 5 bytes at the end and start calling zlib_deflate(stream,

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-01 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
* Rui Nuno Capela wrote: thx - i've uploaded -43-01 which should fix this. Now it's dying-on-the-beach: needs unknown symbol __compat_down_failed_interruptible ok - does -43-02 work any better? Nope. Same error output as last report. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch from kernel.

2005-04-01 Thread Måns Rullgård
Richard B. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-1] Måns Rullgård wrote: linux-os [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [PATCH snipped] Cruel joke. Now 80 percent of the Intel clones won't boot. Those are the ones that run industry, you know, the stuff that is necessary to

Re: [RFC][PATCH] timers fixes/improvements

2005-04-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Oleg Nesterov wrote: This patch replaces and updates 6 timer patches which are currently in -mm tree. This version does not play games with __TIMER_PENDING bit, so incremental patch is not suitable. It is against 2.6.12-rc1. Please comment. I am sending pseudo code in a

Re: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files

2005-04-01 Thread Måns Rullgård
Wiktor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Måns Rullgård wrote: So you are proposing the addition of a per-file attribute, with restricted access, and potentially dangerous effects if set incorrectly. This, combined with the fact that is unlikely to receive much testing, all speaks against it.

Re: PCI-Express not working/unuseable on Intel 925XE Chipset since 2.6.12-rc1[mm1-4]

2005-04-01 Thread Michael Thonke
hello Jacek, its not related to the vendor so far we are :-) Maybe Andrew Morton or some other will read this. Because 2.6.12 should be a stable version not a flacky one. But what is wrong now on 2.6.12-rc1 **. It work flawlessly on 2.6.11.X kernels. Mebye we back that out :-) Greetz |Jacek

Re: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files

2005-04-01 Thread Måns Rullgård
Wiktor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Horst von Brand wrote: Even better: Write a C wrapper for each affected program that just renices it as needed. I suggest to implement scalable solution, so the final user wont't have to write separate wrapper for *each* program. universal wrapper is

Re: 2.6.12-rc1 swsusp broken [Was Re: swsusp not working for me on a PREEMPT 2.6.12-rc1 and 2.6.12-rc1-mm3 kernel]

2005-04-01 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Mar 31, 2005 8:09 PM, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works, too. Which one is the best one? Both of them are needed as they address two different problems. I tried to boot with the 2 patches applied (and the patch which solves noresume) and now touchpad/touchpoint no

Re: NFS client latencies

2005-04-01 Thread Orion Poplawski
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This fixes all the NFS related latency problems I was seeing. Now the longest latency from an NFS kernel compile with make -j64 is 391 usecs in get_swap_page. great! The latest patches (-42-08 and later) have the reworked

Re: 2.6.12-rc1 swsusp broken [Was Re: swsusp not working for me on a PREEMPT 2.6.12-rc1 and 2.6.12-rc1-mm3 kernel]

2005-04-01 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Apr 1, 2005 11:14 AM, Benoit Boissinot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 31, 2005 8:09 PM, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works, too. Which one is the best one? Both of them are needed as they address two different problems. I tried to boot with the 2 patches applied

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rui Nuno Capela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: needs unknown symbol __compat_down_failed_interruptible Nope. Same error output as last report. does -43-04 work for you? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: NFS client latencies

2005-04-01 Thread Trond Myklebust
fr den 01.04.2005 Klokka 09:16 (-0700) skreiv Orion Poplawski: Just a question - would these changes be expected to improve NFS client *read* access at all, or just write? Just write. Cheers, Trond -- Trond Myklebust [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

RE: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels

2005-04-01 Thread Manfred Spraul
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: With that said, here goes our first data point along with some historical data we have collected so far. 2.6.11 -13% 2.6.9 - 6% 2.6.8 -23% 2.6.2 - 1% baseline(rhel3) Is it possible to generate an instruction level

Touchpad does not work anymore

2005-04-01 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:28:05AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 11:14 AM, Benoit Boissinot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 31, 2005 8:09 PM, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works, too. Which one is the best one? Both of them are needed as they address

Re: Touchpad does not work anymore

2005-04-01 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Apr 1, 2005 11:43 AM, Benoit Boissinot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:28:05AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 11:14 AM, Benoit Boissinot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 31, 2005 8:09 PM, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works, too. Which

Re: build logs for -mm

2005-04-01 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Miklos Szeredi wrote: do I believe correctly that you do automatic builds of -mm for lots of architectures? If yes, is there some place where the output is available? This would be useful for fixing warnings. The OSDL PLM tool also does automated builds of all -linus and -mm releases.

fs/partitions/msdos.c, scripts/packages/Makefile

2005-04-01 Thread Uwe Zybell
First things first: Pls CC me, I'm not subscribed. There is a line in fs/partitions/msdos.c that lets extended partitions be max 1k (...==1 ? 1 : 2...). The comment explains it to protect sysadmins from themselves. But /dev/hda isn't similarly protected. That is because it would prohibit other

2.6.x (x=4|10|11) doesn't detect my scsi devices on my aic7880 scsi interface

2005-04-01 Thread folkert
Hi, I have a dual pentium-II with on-board adaptec aic7880 controller. 2.4.x runs nicely, but 2.6 no longer. The details. lspci: :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX Host bridge (rev 03) :00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX AGP bridge (rev 03)

Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

2005-04-01 Thread Ray Lee
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:37 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: This is getting pretty ridiculous.. I've tried memory timings down to the slowest possible, ran Memtest86 for 4 passes with no errors, and it's been stable in Windows for a few months now. Still something is blowing up in Linux with

Some (unqualified) changes and extensions to the Kernel documentation

2005-04-01 Thread Pavel Pisa
Hello All, excuse me for taking your time. I have tried to send patch below to the [EMAIL PROTECTED], where I think it belongs more than there, but because there has not been any reaction, I am sending it to whole community. I have not found who is right target for DocBook changes in

RE: 2.6.11, USB: High latency?

2005-04-01 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, kus Kusche Klaus wrote: The biggest advantage would come from using a bottom-half handler to do most of the work. Right now the uhci-hcd driver does everything in its interrupt handler. This would certainly help IRQ latency; it might not affect

Re: Linux virtual memory manager

2005-04-01 Thread Jon Smirl
On Mar 31, 2005 9:31 AM, Josef E. Galea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can someone point me to a document explaining the differences between the 2.4 and the 2.6 virtual memory manager. Particularly I am looking for the function/s that replaces the try_to_swap_out() in the 2.6.x series of

How do you do

2005-04-01 Thread Mary B.
Greeting I think we had correspondence a long time ago if it was not you I am sorry. If it was I could not answer you because my Mozilla mail manager was down for a long time and I could not fix it only with my friend's help I got the emails address out for me ..:) I hope it was whom we

Re: Touchpad does not work anymore

2005-04-01 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:00:42PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 11:43 AM, Benoit Boissinot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:28:05AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 11:14 AM, Benoit Boissinot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 31, 2005 8:09 PM,

Re: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files

2005-04-01 Thread Horst von Brand
Wiktor [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Horst von Brand wrote: Even better: Write a C wrapper for each affected program that just renices it as needed. I suggest to implement scalable solution, so the final user wont't have to write separate wrapper for *each* program. Final user doesn't. It is a

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 April 2005 05:47, Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the -V0.7.43-00 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ this release too is a step towards more robustness. I found a bug that caused an infinite

Re: connector.c

2005-04-01 Thread Paul Jackson
I don't think it's entirely accidental that Python Hmmm ... cutting off a brace-war at the pass by escalating to a Python war -- good work ;). Please suppress any urge to reply ... -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability

[PATCH] 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 x86_64 genapic update

2005-04-01 Thread Jason Davis
Hello, x86_64 genapic mechanism should be aware of machines that use physical APIC mode regardless of how many clusters/processors are detected. ACPI 3.0 FADT makes this determination very simple by providing a feature flag force_apic_physical_destination_mode to state whether the machine

Re: [ACPI] Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 and suspend2ram (and synaptics)

2005-04-01 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Same issue here. Suspend-to-ram works perfectly fine with kernel 2.6.12-rc1-mm1, in mm2,3 and mm4 it is broken. It suspends properly but does not resume. Just a blackscreen and no reaction on keypress/usb plug-in/network/power button. regards, Stefan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Newland: I second Torvalds Motion, It's Time to Dump the Penguin

2005-04-01 Thread Wyl Newland
20050401 Newland: I second Torvalds Motion, It's Time to Dump the Penguin Let us, on this most sacred day only, become a world of fools. Let us imagine the unimaginable. Upon reading Torvalds: It's Time to Dump the Penguin http://www.linux.org/news/LO2005/mascot_20050401.html I replied: I

[PATCH][4/3] IPoIB: document conversion to debugfs

2005-04-01 Thread Roland Dreier
Update IPoIB documentation now that multicast debugging files have moved from ipoibdebugfs to debugfs. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt2005-03-31 19:07:01.0 -0800 +++

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 01/13] scsi: don't use blk_insert_request() for requeueing

2005-04-01 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 14:01 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Well, REQ_SPECIAL is the signal to the mid-layer that we've allocated the resources necessary to process the command, so in practice it will be turned on for every requeue request (because we set it when the command is prepared),

Re: Low file-system performance for 2.6.11 compared to 2.4.26

2005-04-01 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: linux-os wrote: For those interested, some file-system tests and a test-tools are attached. I'll give it a run when I get a chance. Thanks. In the meantime, can you try with different io schedulers? I was trying to emulate some old servers that had new

Linux Kernel Performance Testing

2005-04-01 Thread Grecko OSCP
Hey All, I noticed yesterday a news article on Linux.org about more kernel performance testing being called for, and I decided it would be a nice project to try. I have 10 completely identical systems that can be used for this, and would like to get started while I know I have them for a while.

Re: PCI-Express not working/unuseable on Intel 925XE Chipset since 2.6.12-rc1[mm1-4]

2005-04-01 Thread Jacek Luczak
hello Michael :) This message: ACPI: No ACPI bus support for 00:00 means that acpi_get_bus_type() is unable to determinate bus type! Mayby someone forgot about PCI-E? Regards Jacek - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: 64bit build of tulip driver

2005-04-01 Thread Grant Grundler
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 08:46:33AM -0800, Jim Gifford wrote: Code paths exist in tulip_select_media() where the last thing the driver does to the NIC is io_write(). This could easily be a posted write flush problem. Does replacing flush_cache_all() with ioread32(ioaddr + CSR12) also work?

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 07/13] scsi: move error handling out of scsi_init_io() into scsi_prep_fn()

2005-04-01 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 18:08 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: When scsi_init_io() returns BLKPREP_DEFER or BLKPREP_KILL, it's supposed to free resources itself. This patch consolidates defer and kill handling into scsi_prep_fn(). This fixes a queue stall bug which occurred when

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one didn't go in cleanly Ingo. From my build-src scripts output: --- Applying patch realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-04 Adding the attached patch on top of the above should resolve the failures, at least in the patching. Still

Re: rootdelay

2005-04-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi David, David N. Welton wrote: [ Please CC replies to me, thanks! ] Hi, I was looking at your patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/21/132 Very small, which is nice. I was wondering if there were any interest in my own efforts in that direction:

Re: [RFC][PATCH] timers fixes/improvements

2005-04-01 Thread Andrew Morton
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Oleg Nesterov wrote: This patch replaces and updates 6 timer patches which are currently in -mm tree. This version does not play games with __TIMER_PENDING bit, so incremental patch is not suitable. It is against 2.6.12-rc1.

[PATCH] Break the Frobnozzle Gadget

2005-04-01 Thread Daniel Barkalow
An significant typo in the driver for the Frobnozzle got omitted. This patch causes parts of some writes to be silently lost, and is probably responsible for http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5362. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCH][3/6] IB: Fix FMR pool crash

2005-04-01 Thread Roland Dreier
Mask bits correctly from jhash result in ib_fmr_hash() so that the computed bucket index is within our hash table. This fixes an SDP crash. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/core/fmr_pool.c2005-03-31 19:07:05.0 -0800 +++

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-01 Thread K.R. Foley
Gene Heskett wrote: snip It was up to 43-04 by the time I got there. This one didn't go in cleanly Ingo. From my build-src scripts output: --- Applying patch realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-04 [...] patching file lib/rwsem-spinlock.c Hunk #5 FAILED at 133. Hunk #6 FAILED at

[OT] Character representation in video ram when using unicode font

2005-04-01 Thread Elias Oltmanns
Hi all, very sorry for bothering you with this question but I didn't know a better place to post it to. My problem is this: As I understand, I can load a fixed unicode font with either 256 or 512 different characters into video rom. Now, I'd like to know how the slots and their attributes are

Re: [RFC][PATCH] timers fixes/improvements

2005-04-01 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Sure. Christoph and (I think) Ken have been seeing mysterious misbehaviour which _might_ be due to Oleg's first round of timer patches. I assume CK will test this new patch? Yes will be tested. The hangs disappeared here when we removed Oleg's

[PATCH][4/6] IB: Trivial FMR printk cleanup

2005-04-01 Thread Roland Dreier
From: Libor Michalek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add missing newline in printk. Signed-off-by: Libor Michalek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/core/fmr_pool.c2005-04-01 10:08:58.240241456 -0800 +++

[PATCH][5/6] IB: Fix user MAD registrations with class 0

2005-04-01 Thread Roland Dreier
Fix handling of MAD agent registrations with mgmt_class == 0. In this case ib_umad should pass a NULL registration request to the MAD core rather than a request with mgmt_class set to 0. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c

[PATCH][6/6] IB: Remove incorrect comments

2005-04-01 Thread Roland Dreier
From: Hal Rosenstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eliminate unneeded and misleading comments Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/core/agent.c 2005-03-31 19:06:48.0 -0800 +++

RE: [RFC][PATCH] timers fixes/improvements

2005-04-01 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Oleg Nesterov wrote: This patch replaces and updates 6 timer patches which are currently in -mm tree. This version does not play games with __TIMER_PENDING bit, so incremental patch is not suitable. It is against 2.6.12-rc1.

Re: PCI-Express not working/unuseable on Intel 925XE Chipset since 2.6.12-rc1[mm1-4]

2005-04-01 Thread Michael Thonke
Hello Jacek, I finially got it working :-) my PCI-Express devices working now... I grabbed the last bk-snapshot from kernel.org 2.6.12-rc1-bk3 and et volia everything except the Marvell Yokon PCI-E device working. I hope Andrew will look into the mm-line to find the bug? Greets and Best regards

[PATCH][1/6] IB: Keep MAD work completion valid

2005-04-01 Thread Roland Dreier
From: Sean Hefty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Replace the *wc field in ib_mad_recv_wc from pointing to a structure on the stack to one allocated with the received MAD buffer. This allows a client to access the *wc field after their receive completion handler has returned. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty [EMAIL

[PATCH][2/6] IB: remove unneeded includes

2005-04-01 Thread Roland Dreier
From: Hal Rosenstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eliminate no longer needed include files Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c 2005-04-01 10:08:54.939957801 -0800 +++

Virtual Memory tuning and Buffers

2005-04-01 Thread Luke Miller
We have a system that is running SUSE 8 kernel 2.4.21-273. Recently we have seen some interesting behavior with the virtual memory system. When buffer memory gets low (below 10 MB) the system re-allocates memory causes buffer memory to go up to around 500 MB. The re-allocation can take up to 30

Re: question about do_IRQ + 4k stacks

2005-04-01 Thread Terence Ripperda
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:14:22PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It checks for both process context (system call or kernel thread) or interrupt context (nested irqs) stack overflows. ok, thanks. so we really only have 3k stacks rather than 4k stacks, right? if any code exceeds 3k stacks

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Re: [1/1] CBUS: new very fast (for insert operations) message bus based on kenel connector.

2005-04-01 Thread Andrew Morton
Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew, CBUS is not intended to be faster than connector itself, it is just not possible, since it calls connector's methods with some preparation, which takes time. Right - it's simply transferring work from one place to another. CBUS was

Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

2005-04-01 Thread Philip Lawatsch
Ray Lee wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:37 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: This is getting pretty ridiculous.. I've tried memory timings down to the slowest possible, ran Memtest86 for 4 passes with no errors, and it's been stable in Windows for a few months now. Still something is blowing up

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 April 2005 13:27, K.R. Foley wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: snip It was up to 43-04 by the time I got there. This one didn't go in cleanly Ingo. From my build-src scripts output: --- Applying patch realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-04 [...] patching file

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 April 2005 13:29, Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one didn't go in cleanly Ingo. From my build-src scripts output: --- Applying patch realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-04 Adding the attached patch on top of the above should

Re: PCI-Express not working/unuseable on Intel 925XE Chipset since 2.6.12-rc1[mm1-4]

2005-04-01 Thread Jacek Luczak
Michael Thonke napisa(a): Hello Jacek, I finially got it working :-) my PCI-Express devices working now... I grabbed the last bk-snapshot from kernel.org 2.6.12-rc1-bk3 and et volia everything except the Marvell Yokon PCI-E device working. I hope Andrew will look into the mm-line to find the bug?

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-01 Thread K.R. Foley
Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 13:27, K.R. Foley wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: snip It was up to 43-04 by the time I got there. This one didn't go in cleanly Ingo. From my build-src scripts output: --- Applying patch realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-04 [...] patching

[RFC][PATCH] make all non-file-backed madvise() calls fail

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Hansen
This is related to this bug: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2995 The kernel currently only checks that the memory is file-backed if MADV_WILLNEED is set. It's not entirely clear from the manpage at least that *all* non-file-backed madvise() calls should fail. The attached patch returns

[PATCH] I2C: Move functionality handling from i2c-core to i2c.h

2005-04-01 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2340, 2005/04/01 11:49:04-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: Move functionality handling from i2c-core to i2c.h So far, the functionality handling of i2c adapters was done in i2c-core by two exported functions: i2c_get_functionality and i2c_check_functionality. I found that both

[PATCH] I2C: pcf8574 doesn't need a lock

2005-04-01 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2339, 2005/04/01 11:48:28-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: pcf8574 doesn't need a lock While investigating the i2c chips drivers that were not properly locking, we found that the pcf8574 driver does the exact contrary. It uses a lock where it's not needed. While we were there,

[BK PATCH] More I2C patches for 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-01 Thread Greg KH
Hi, I messed up on the last batch of i2c patches, and forgot 3 of them that I had accepted, and were in my trees, but didn't get copied into the tree that I sent for you to pull from. All 3 of them are bugfixes. Please pull from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/i2c-2.6 Patches will

[ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.11-050330

2005-04-01 Thread Stephen Hemminger
An updated version of the iproute2 utilities is available at: http://developer.osdl.org/dev/iproute2/download/iproute2-2.6.11-050330.tar.gz It supports the latest features from 2.6, but is backwards compatiable with 2.4. This update includes several bugfixes and build clean from the previous

[PATCH] clean up kernel messages

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Mackall
This patch tidies up those annoying kernel messages. A typical kernel boot now looks like this: Loading Linux... Uncompressing kernel... # See? Much nicer. This patch saves about 375k on my laptop config and nearly 100k on minimal configs. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index:

Re: [PATCH] remove all kernel bugs

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:34:54AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been sitting on this patch for a while, figured it's high time I shared it with the world. This patch eliminates all kernel bugs, trims about 35k off the typical kernel, and makes

[PATCH] quiet ide-cd warning

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Mackall
This shuts up a potential uninitialized variable warning. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: af/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c === --- af.orig/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c2005-04-01 11:17:37.0 -0800 +++

Re: 64bit build of tulip driver

2005-04-01 Thread Jim Gifford
Grant, Thank you, I took your driver as a reference and added in the cobalt specifics to the eeprom.c file, works perfectly now. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[patch 1/1] uml: fix compilation for __CHOOSE_MODE addition

2005-04-01 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had added the __CHOOSE_MODE syntax to fix some warnings with newer GCC's in the uml-fix-cond-expr-as-lvalues-warning patch. Here is the update from the version I sent to make it work also when only one mode (TT or SKAS) is enabled.

[PATCH] drivers/net/tulip/: fix for Lite-On 82c168 PNIC (2.6.11)

2005-04-01 Thread Guido Classen
Hi, this small patch fixes two issues with the Lite-On 82c168 PNIC adapters. I've tested it with two cards in different machines both chip rev 17 The first is the wrong register address CSR6 for writing the MII register which instead is 0xB8 (this may get a symbol too?) (see similar exisiting code

Re: [PATCH] clean up kernel messages

2005-04-01 Thread Andrew Morton
Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch tidies up those annoying kernel messages. A typical kernel boot now looks like this: Loading Linux... Uncompressing kernel... # See? Much nicer. This patch saves about 375k on my laptop config and nearly 100k on minimal configs.

Re: [PATCH] clean up kernel messages

2005-04-01 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Fri, 2005-04-01 12:08:51 -0800, Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This patch tidies up those annoying kernel messages. A typical kernel boot now looks like this: Loading Linux... Uncompressing kernel... # See? Much nicer. This patch saves about 375k on

[bktools patch] mailsplit: handle tabs in headers

2005-04-01 Thread Benjamin LaHaise
Hello Linus et al, The patch below fixes mailsplit to cope with non-' ' space characters in mail headers. Some people seem to have mail clients that use tabs which would result in mailsplit omitting those headers from its substitutions. -ben -- Time is what keeps everything

[PATCH] Fix SELinux for removal of i_sock

2005-04-01 Thread Stephen Smalley
Hi, This patch against -bk eliminates the use of i_sock by SELinux as it appears to have been removed recently, breaking the build of SELinux in -bk. Simply replacing the i_sock test with an S_ISSOCK test would be unsafe in the SELinux code, as the latter will also return true for the inodes of

[PATCH] ppc32: rename head_e500.S to head_fsl_booke.S

2005-04-01 Thread Kumar Gala
Andrew, Renamed head_e500.S to head_fsl_booke.S since the file is applicable to other PowerPC Book-E implementations from Freescale, not just the e500. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff -Nru a/arch/ppc/Makefile b/arch/ppc/Makefile --- a/arch/ppc/Makefile 2005-04-01

[patch 1/1] uml: va_copy fix

2005-04-01 Thread blaisorblade
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uses __va_copy instead of va_copy since some old versions of gcc (2.95.4 for instance) don't accept va_copy. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- clean-linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/kernel/skas/uaccess.c |3 ++- 1 files changed, 2

Re: [PATCH] clean up kernel messages

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:26:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch tidies up those annoying kernel messages. A typical kernel boot now looks like this: Loading Linux... Uncompressing kernel... # See? Much nicer. This patch saves

Re: [PATCH] Fix SELinux for removal of i_sock

2005-04-01 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:06:37 -0500 Stephen Smalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch against -bk eliminates the use of i_sock by SELinux as it appears to have been removed recently, breaking the build of SELinux in -bk. Simply replacing the i_sock test with an S_ISSOCK test would be unsafe

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [stable] [patch 3/8] uml: quick fix syscall table [urgent]

2005-04-01 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 21:05, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:33:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *) Uml 2.6.11 does not compile with gcc 2.95.4 because some entries are duplicated, and that GCC does not accept this (unlike gcc 3). Plus various

[PATCH][2/27] IB/mthca: fill in more device query fields

2005-04-01 Thread Roland Dreier
Implement more of the device_query method in mthca. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cmd.c 2005-03-31 19:07:00.0 -0800 +++ linux-export/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cmd.c2005-04-01 12:38:20.843436141

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