Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-mm3] [1/2] kprobes += function-return

2005-04-04 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Hi Hien, This patch looks good to me, but I have some comments on this patch. >This patch adds function-return probes (AKA exit probes) to kprobes. > When establishing a probepoint at the entry to a function, you can also >establish a handler to be run when the function returns. >The

Re: A problem with kswapd

2005-04-04 Thread Triffid Hunter
try 2.4.30 which has just been released (unchanged from 2.4.30-rc4) Jose Ángel De Bustos Pérez wrote: Hi, I have a problem with kswapd and I didn't find anything in the archives of the list (I hope not having missed someone). kswapd is using 100% of CPU in a suse sles8 with kernel 2.4.241. This

RE: 2.6.11, USB: High latency?

2005-04-04 Thread kus Kusche Klaus
> * kus Kusche Klaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >IRQ 7-724 0d..11us : end_8259A_irq (do_hardirq) > >IRQ 7-724 0d..11us!: enable_8259A_irq (do_hardirq) > >IRQ 7-724 0d... 832us : do_hardirq (do_irqd) > >IRQ 7-724 0d... 833us : trace_irqs_on (do_hardirq) > > >

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 0/6] S3 SMP support with physcial CPU hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. I'm switching suspend2 to use hotplug too. Li, I'll try adding your patches as well as Zwane's if you like (suspend2 can enter S3, S4 or S5 after writing the image). I'd love to try it on my HT desktop, and hotplug will get more testing too :> Nigel On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 12:49, Li Shaohua

Re: sata_sil Mod15Write quirk workaround patch for vanilla kernel avaialble.

2005-04-04 Thread Tejun Heo
Alexander Trotsai wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 07:51:28AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: TH> Hello, John. TH> TH> John Lash wrote: TH> >On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:01:23 +0900 TH> >Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TH> > TH> > TH> >>Hello, guys. TH> >> TH> >>I generated m16w workaround patch for

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 22:27 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 20:08 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > > Did anyone have a preference for the API? I was thinking > > > ioread32_native, but ioread32be is fine too. > > > > I think doing foo{be,le}{8,16,32}() would be consistent

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 21:40 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > Actually, ioread8be is unnecessary, but I was planning to add > ioread16/ioread32 and iowritexx be on be variants (equivalent to > _raw_readw et al.) > > After all, the driver must know the card is BE, so the routines that > make use of

ChangeLog-2.4.30

2005-04-04 Thread Christophe Lucas
Is this normal ;-) ChangeLog-2.4.30 is not found on www.kernel.org ? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.30 Have a nice day, ~Christophe PS: Please CC me :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

A problem with kswapd

2005-04-04 Thread Jose Ángel De Bustos Pérez
Hi, I have a problem with kswapd and I didn't find anything in the archives of the list (I hope not having missed someone). kswapd is using 100% of CPU in a suse sles8 with kernel 2.4.241. This machine has its FS under LVM and ResiserFS, except for /boot which is in ext2. Any idea? Thanks in

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Jackson
Ingo wrote: > the problem i mentioned earlier is that there is no other use Eh ... whatever. The present seems straight forward enough, with a simple sched domain tree and your auto-tune migration cost calculation bolted directly on top of that. I'd better leave the futures to those more

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Jackson
Ingo wrote: > agreed - i've changed it to domain_distance() in my tree. Good - cool - thanks. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - To

Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!.

2005-04-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:01:45PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > Mark wrote: > > Probably all Linux binary drivers *are* compiled using GPL'd header files, > > and thus are themselves subject to the GPL. > > I doubt that there is a consensus that simply compiling something with > a GPL header

Re: Re: sata_sil Mod15Write quirk workaround patch for vanilla kernel avaialble.

2005-04-04 Thread Alexander Trotsai
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 07:51:28AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: TH> Hello, John. TH> TH> John Lash wrote: TH> >On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:01:23 +0900 TH> >Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TH> > TH> > TH> >>Hello, guys. TH> >> TH> >>I generated m16w workaround patch for 2.6.11.6 (by just removing two

Re: [PATCH 4/4] psmouse: dynamic protocol switching via sysfs

2005-04-04 Thread Kenan Esau
Am Montag, den 04.04.2005, 00:45 -0500 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov: > Hi Kenan, > [..] > > If I do "echo -n 50 > resolution" "0xe8 0x01" is sent. I don't know if > > this is correct for "usual" PS/2-devices but for the lifebook it's > > wrong. > > > > For the lifebook the parameters are as

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would be a good idea to rename 'cpu_distance()' to something more > specific, like 'cpu_dist_ndx()', and reserve the generic name > 'cpu_distance()' for later use to return a scaled integer distance, > rather like 'node_distance()' does now. [...]

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick wrote: > > In a sense, the information *is* already there - in node_distance. > > What I think should be done is probably to use node_distance when > > calculating costs, ... > > Hmmm ... perhaps I'm confused, but this sure sounds like the

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Jackson
Nick wrote: > In a sense, the information *is* already there - in node_distance. > What I think should be done is probably to use node_distance when > calculating costs, ... Hmmm ... perhaps I'm confused, but this sure sounds like the alternative implementation of cpu_distance using node_distance

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a numa scheduler domain at the top level and cache_hot_time will be > > set to 0 in that case on smp box. Though this will be a mutt point > > with recent patch from Suresh Siddha for removing the extra bogus > > scheduler domains. > >

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Chen, Kenneth W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote on Sunday, April 03, 2005 7:30 AM > > how close are these numbers to the real worst-case migration costs on > > that box? > > I booted your latest patch on a 4-way SMP box (1.5 GHz, 9MB ia64). This > is what it produces. I think

[PATCH 3/4] serport oops fix

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
=== Input: serport - avoid calling serio_interrupt or serio_write_wakeup on unregistered port. Also fix memory leak which could happen if serport was left unused by moving serio allocation down to

[PATCH 2/4] ALPS resume fix

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
=== Input: ALPS needs to be reset for detection to work reliably when reconnecting. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> alps.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+) Index:

[PATCH 4/4] serio 'id' attributes

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
=== Input: move serio port's id attributes into separate subdirectory: ..devices/serioX/id_type -> ..devices/serioX/id/type ..devices/serioX/id_proto -> ..devices/serioX/id/proto Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL

[PATCH 1/4] serio resume fix

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
=== Input: serio - do not attempt to immediately disconnect port if resume failed, let kseriod take care of it. Otherwise we may attempt to unregister associated input devices which will generate hotplug events

[PATCH 0/4] Input patches for 2.6.12

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Vojtech, I have some patches that I would like to get in before 2.6.12 is out: 01-serio-resume-fix.patch - do not attempt to disconnect port in resume handler if reconect failed - let kseriod handle it. This fixes problem with swsusp resuming devices before writing the image. If

[PATCH 0/4] Input patches for 2.6.12

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Vojtech, I have some patches that I would like to get in before 2.6.12 is out: 01-serio-resume-fix.patch - do not attempt to disconnect port in resume handler if reconect failed - let kseriod handle it. This fixes problem with swsusp resuming devices before writing the image. If

[PATCH 2/4] ALPS resume fix

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
=== Input: ALPS needs to be reset for detection to work reliably when reconnecting. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] alps.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+) Index:

[PATCH 4/4] serio 'id' attributes

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
=== Input: move serio port's id attributes into separate subdirectory: ..devices/serioX/id_type - ..devices/serioX/id/type ..devices/serioX/id_proto - ..devices/serioX/id/proto Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL

[PATCH 3/4] serport oops fix

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
=== Input: serport - avoid calling serio_interrupt or serio_write_wakeup on unregistered port. Also fix memory leak which could happen if serport was left unused by moving serio allocation down to

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Chen, Kenneth W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote on Sunday, April 03, 2005 7:30 AM how close are these numbers to the real worst-case migration costs on that box? I booted your latest patch on a 4-way SMP box (1.5 GHz, 9MB ia64). This is what it produces. I think the

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Jackson
Nick wrote: In a sense, the information *is* already there - in node_distance. What I think should be done is probably to use node_distance when calculating costs, ... Hmmm ... perhaps I'm confused, but this sure sounds like the alternative implementation of cpu_distance using node_distance

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a numa scheduler domain at the top level and cache_hot_time will be set to 0 in that case on smp box. Though this will be a mutt point with recent patch from Suresh Siddha for removing the extra bogus scheduler domains.

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick wrote: In a sense, the information *is* already there - in node_distance. What I think should be done is probably to use node_distance when calculating costs, ... Hmmm ... perhaps I'm confused, but this sure sounds like the alternative

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would be a good idea to rename 'cpu_distance()' to something more specific, like 'cpu_dist_ndx()', and reserve the generic name 'cpu_distance()' for later use to return a scaled integer distance, rather like 'node_distance()' does now. [...] agreed

Re: [PATCH 4/4] psmouse: dynamic protocol switching via sysfs

2005-04-04 Thread Kenan Esau
Am Montag, den 04.04.2005, 00:45 -0500 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov: Hi Kenan, [..] If I do echo -n 50 resolution 0xe8 0x01 is sent. I don't know if this is correct for usual PS/2-devices but for the lifebook it's wrong. For the lifebook the parameters are as following: 50cpi =

Re: Re: sata_sil Mod15Write quirk workaround patch for vanilla kernel avaialble.

2005-04-04 Thread Alexander Trotsai
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 07:51:28AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: TH Hello, John. TH TH John Lash wrote: TH On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:01:23 +0900 TH Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TH TH TH Hello, guys. TH TH I generated m16w workaround patch for 2.6.11.6 (by just removing two TH lines :-) and set

Re: Can't use SYSFS for Proprietry driver modules !!!.

2005-04-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:01:45PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: Mark wrote: Probably all Linux binary drivers *are* compiled using GPL'd header files, and thus are themselves subject to the GPL. I doubt that there is a consensus that simply compiling something with a GPL header necessarily

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Jackson
Ingo wrote: the problem i mentioned earlier is that there is no other use Eh ... whatever. The present seems straight forward enough, with a simple sched domain tree and your auto-tune migration cost calculation bolted directly on top of that. I'd better leave the futures to those more

A problem with kswapd

2005-04-04 Thread Jose Ángel De Bustos Pérez
Hi, I have a problem with kswapd and I didn't find anything in the archives of the list (I hope not having missed someone). kswapd is using 100% of CPU in a suse sles8 with kernel 2.4.241. This machine has its FS under LVM and ResiserFS, except for /boot which is in ext2. Any idea? Thanks in

ChangeLog-2.4.30

2005-04-04 Thread Christophe Lucas
Is this normal ;-) ChangeLog-2.4.30 is not found on www.kernel.org ? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.30 Have a nice day, ~Christophe PS: Please CC me :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 0/6] S3 SMP support with physcial CPU hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. I'm switching suspend2 to use hotplug too. Li, I'll try adding your patches as well as Zwane's if you like (suspend2 can enter S3, S4 or S5 after writing the image). I'd love to try it on my HT desktop, and hotplug will get more testing too : Nigel On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 12:49, Li Shaohua

Re: A problem with kswapd

2005-04-04 Thread Triffid Hunter
try 2.4.30 which has just been released (unchanged from 2.4.30-rc4) Jose Ángel De Bustos Pérez wrote: Hi, I have a problem with kswapd and I didn't find anything in the archives of the list (I hope not having missed someone). kswapd is using 100% of CPU in a suse sles8 with kernel 2.4.241. This

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-mm3] [1/2] kprobes += function-return

2005-04-04 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Hi Hien, This patch looks good to me, but I have some comments on this patch. This patch adds function-return probes (AKA exit probes) to kprobes. When establishing a probepoint at the entry to a function, you can also establish a handler to be run when the function returns. The subsequent

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

2005-04-04 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Pavel! On Mon, 04 Apr 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: I'd like to fix the problem, but first I need to know where the problem is. If it works with minimal config, I know that it is one of drivers you deselected. It's b44. It *was* working with b44 insmod-ed and up and running, but now as soon

Re: Oops in set_spdif_output in i810_audio

2005-04-04 Thread Herbert Xu
SuD Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * It seems to me that it detects only 1 card with 1 only codec which is the sound card (sound works if i avoid the null pointer oops). So one of the problems is the wrong detection. Googling i found that jgarzik already got a patch for this

Re: [SCSI] Driver broken in 2.6.x?

2005-04-04 Thread |TEcHNO|
As told, I tested it w/o nvidia module loaded, here's what I found: 1. It now doesn't hang on scanning for devices. 2. It now hangs on acquiring preview, logs will follow. ... Apr 3 15:54:27 techno kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 014c Apr 3

Re: module for controlling kprobes with /proc

2005-04-04 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Hi Piotr, Good way to make kprobes useful, but I have some comments. I have programmed a universal module to register/remove kprobes handlers by interacting with /proc with simple commands. why /proc ? You can use a combination of SysRq key to enter a kprobe command line prompt. Initially you

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 21:40 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: Actually, ioread8be is unnecessary, but I was planning to add ioread16/ioread32 and iowritexx be on be variants (equivalent to _raw_readw et al.) After all, the driver must know the card is BE, so the routines that make use of the

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 22:27 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 20:08 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: Did anyone have a preference for the API? I was thinking ioread32_native, but ioread32be is fine too. I think doing foo{be,le}{8,16,32}() would be consistent with our

Re: sata_sil Mod15Write quirk workaround patch for vanilla kernel avaialble.

2005-04-04 Thread Tejun Heo
Alexander Trotsai wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 07:51:28AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: TH Hello, John. TH TH John Lash wrote: TH On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:01:23 +0900 TH Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TH TH TH Hello, guys. TH TH I generated m16w workaround patch for 2.6.11.6 (by just removing

RE: 2.6.11, USB: High latency?

2005-04-04 Thread kus Kusche Klaus
* kus Kusche Klaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IRQ 7-724 0d..11us : end_8259A_irq (do_hardirq) IRQ 7-724 0d..11us!: enable_8259A_irq (do_hardirq) IRQ 7-724 0d... 832us : do_hardirq (do_irqd) IRQ 7-724 0d... 833us : trace_irqs_on (do_hardirq) mmap-1000

Re: Use of C99 int types

2005-04-04 Thread Dag Arne Osvik
Herbert Xu wrote: Dag Arne Osvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and with such name 99% will assume (at least at the first reading) that it _is_ 32bits. We have more than enough portability bugs as it is, no need to invite more by bad names. Agreed. The way I see it there are two

Re: [RFC 0/6] S3 SMP support with physcial CPU hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! The patches are against 2.6.11-rc1 with Zwane's CPU hotplug patch in -mm tree. Should I merge that thing into mainline? It seems that a few people are needing it. Yes, it would be great. I have patch that cleans up smp/swsusp to depend on Zwane's patch, too. Its ready AFAIK, but

Re: [RFC 1/6]SEP initialization rework

2005-04-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Make SEP init per-cpu, so is hotplug safe. Thanks, Shaohua --- linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c |6 ++ linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c | 10 ++ linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c |6 ++ 3

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 0/6] S3 SMP support with physcial CPU hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Li Shaohua
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:01, Nigel Cunningham wrote: Hi. I'm switching suspend2 to use hotplug too. Li, I'll try adding your patches as well as Zwane's if you like Great! (suspend2 can enter S3, S4 or S5 after writing the image). I'd love to try it on my HT desktop, and hotplug will get

Re: A problem with kswapd

2005-04-04 Thread Jose Ángel De Bustos Pérez
On Apr 4, 2005 10:07 AM, Triffid Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try 2.4.30 which has just been released (unchanged from 2.4.30-rc4) Sorry kernel is 2.4.21. We have other machines in the same conditions and they have a normal behavour. We don't know the reason for this awkward behavour. I

Re: [RFC 1/6]SEP initialization rework

2005-04-04 Thread Li Shaohua
Hi, On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:46, Pavel Machek wrote: --- linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c |6 ++ linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c | 10 ++ linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c |6 ++ 3 files

Re: x86 TSC time warp puzzle

2005-04-04 Thread P
Jonathan Lundell wrote: Well, not actually a time warp, though it feels like one. I'm doing some real-time bit-twiddling in a driver, using the TSC to measure out delays on the order of hundreds of nanoseconds. Because I want an upper limit on the delay, I disable interrupts around it. The

Re: [RFC 4/6]Add kconfig for S3 SMP

2005-04-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Add kconfig for IA32 S3 SMP. Thanks, Shaohua --- linux-2.6.11-root/kernel/power/Kconfig |7 +++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff -puN kernel/power/Kconfig~smp_s3_kconfig kernel/power/Kconfig --- linux-2.6.11/kernel/power/Kconfig~smp_s3_kconfig 2005-03-31

Problem in log_do_checkpoint()?

2005-04-04 Thread Jan Kara
Hello, I've been looking through the JBD code when trying to understand the assertion failure in log_do_checkpoint() (it was on old SUSE 2.6.5 kernel though the reporter claims to be able to get the failure even with the Stephen's patch fixing a race with journal_put_journal_head()) and I've

Re: [RFC 4/6]Add kconfig for S3 SMP

2005-04-04 Thread Li Shaohua
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:59, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Add kconfig for IA32 S3 SMP. Thanks, Shaohua --- linux-2.6.11-root/kernel/power/Kconfig |7 +++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff -puN kernel/power/Kconfig~smp_s3_kconfig kernel/power/Kconfig ---

[marcelo@hera.kernel.org: linux-2.4.30 released]

2005-04-04 Thread Athanasius
Nothing in the changelog for this is screaming patch now!!! at me, but it would probably be best to update. I'll see if I can sort out compiling it up as usual (unpack in /usr/local/src/kernel, tar.bz2 in /usr/local/dist/Kernel), but anyone else with the time feel free. -Ath -- - Athanasius

Re: [FyshRoot] [marcelo@hera.kernel.org: linux-2.4.30 released]

2005-04-04 Thread Athanasius
Apologies. I've no idea how hitting (r)eply in mutt ended up sending it to this list as well, I'll go check my .muttrc. -Ath -- - Athanasius = Athanasius(at)miggy.org / http://www.miggy.org/ Finger athan(at)fysh.org for PGP key And it's me who is my enemy. Me who

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 0/6] S3 SMP support with physcial CPU hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Li Shaohua
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:10, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I'm switching suspend2 to use hotplug too. Li, I'll try adding your patches as well as Zwane's if you like Great! (suspend2 can enter S3, S4 or S5 after writing the image). I'd love to try it on my HT desktop, and hotplug

Re: 2.6.11, USB: High latency?

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* kus Kusche Klaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moreover, we know from experience that the WBINDV instruction (Write back and invalidate CPU cache) can cause such latencies. Does this instruction occur anywhere in Linux? yes, they rarely occur when MTRR's are set (and some drivers like video

Re: [ACPI] 2.6.12-rc1-mm[1-3]: ACPI battery monitor does not work

2005-04-04 Thread Yu, Luming
Please testing patch filed at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3851#c64 My testing results on toshiba satellite M20 is: /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0#time cat state present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: charging present rate:1500 mA

Re: 2.6.11, nfsd, log_do_checkpoint()

2005-04-04 Thread Jan Kara
Hello! I woke up to a mostly-dead PE1850 this morning: Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Fri Apr 1 06:19:14 2005 ... storage kernel: Assertion failure in log_do_checkpoint() at fs/jbd/checkpoint.c:365: drop_count != 0 || cleanup_ret != 0 Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Fri Apr 1

Re: module for controlling kprobes with /proc

2005-04-04 Thread Piotr Muszynski
Joel Becker wrote: I have programmed a universal module to register/remove kprobes handlers by interacting with /proc with simple commands. Looking at your code, I'm thinking you could really use configfs. With configfs, kernelspace objects are created and controlled via regular

[PATCH] Make page-becoming-writable notification a VMA-op only

2005-04-04 Thread David Howells
The attached patch makes the page-becoming-writable notification a VMA operation only - it removes the equivalent address-space operation and the chaining of the call. Furthermore, it fixes the kAFS filesystem to take account of this. Signed-Off-By: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Hyperthreading and Kernel 2.4

2005-04-04 Thread duncan
Hey, I apologize in advance if this is not the right place to ask. Feel free to redirect me there :) I just wanted to know if the 2.4 kernel is aware of hyperthreading the same way the 2.6 kernel ist or if the issues posted earlier ( http://lwn.net/Articles/8553/ ) (

PARTTIME WORKER

2005-04-04 Thread Dayo Adam
My name is Dayo Adams and I am an artist.I live in Netherland,with my two kids, four cats, one dog and the love of my life. It is definitely a full house. I have been doing artwork since I was a small child. That gives me about 23 years of experience. I majored in art in high school and took a few

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 0/6] S3 SMP support with physcial CPU hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 12:37, Andrew Morton wrote: Li Shaohua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patches are against 2.6.11-rc1 with Zwane's CPU hotplug patch in -mm tree. Should I merge that thing into mainline? It seems that a few people are needing it. Perhaps we should address the

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 0/6] S3 SMP support with physcial CPU hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi Li. On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 19:24, Li Shaohua wrote: so that cpu_up mechanism can handle them? If S4 also calls a smp_prepare_cpu, then the patches don't break S4. If people don't complain warm boot a CPU is slow, I'd like S4 also use smp_prepare_cpu. So you have some more changes? Can I

Re: module for controlling kprobes with /proc

2005-04-04 Thread Piotr Muszynski
Hello Prasanna, On Apr 4, 2005 5:35 PM, Prasanna S Panchamukhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why /proc ? Thank you for your remarks. I originally thought of writing a simple CLI app to sit over /proc , do basic sanity checks and be simple to use. You can use a combination of SysRq key to enter a

[PATCH] Fix Oops in MXB driver (v4l2 subsystem)

2005-04-04 Thread Michael Hunold
Hi Linus, Andrew, the attached patch fixes a NULL pointer dereference Oops in my Multimedia eXtension Board driver. The tda9840 i2c driver dereferences the argument pointer, but the MXB driver is supplying a NULL pointer for one of the commands. The patch makes this one command behave like the

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 12:09 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: please take this discussion elsewhere. Also please never cc three such lists on the same posting, there is absolutely no point in doing that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

PROBLEM: v2.4.29 won't compile with PCI support disabled

2005-04-04 Thread Don Guy
PROBLEM: Attempts to compile v2.4.29 with PCI support disabled result in the following errors: drivers/char/char.o: In function `siig10x_init_fn': drivers/char/char.o(.text.init+0x12cd): undefined reference to `pci_siig10x_fn' drivers/char/char.o: In function `siig20x_init_fn':

crypting filesystems

2005-04-04 Thread Andreas Hartmann
Hello, I want to crypt some filesystems (/var, /home, /Data). I'm running LVM I on all these partitions yet. I searched, how to do this with linux and found 3 ways to achieve, what I want to do. 1. crypto-loop (with kernel 2.6) 2. loop-AES (with kernel 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x) 3. dm-crypt (with

Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

2005-04-04 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-04-02 at 05:50, Robert Hancock wrote: I'm wondering if one does a ton of these cache-bypassing stores whether something gets hosed because of that. Not sure what that could be though. I don't imagine the chipset is involved with any of that on the Athlon 64 - either the CPU or

Re: Use of C99 int types

2005-04-04 Thread Dag Arne Osvik
Renate Meijer wrote: On Apr 4, 2005, at 12:08 AM, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Apr 03, 2005, at 16:25, Kenneth Johansson wrote: But is this not exactly what Dag Arne Osvik was trying to do ?? uint_fast32_t means that we want at least 32 bits but it's OK with more if that happens to be faster on this

Re: Isn't there race issue during fput() and the dentry_open()?

2005-04-04 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:42:30AM +0900, Tomita, Haruo wrote: Indeed, Is there a good method of debugging this issue? In the check on the source, a doubtful place was not found except file_kill(). The obvious way would be to add a variable and do something like #define file_list_lock() \

Is there anybody there?

2005-04-04 Thread Sergio Chiesa
What about my last post about broadcom ethernet and megaraid irq issue on v2.4.29 ? Ciao, Sergioc. - 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 Please read

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm4

2005-04-04 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:25, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc1/2. 6.12-rc1-mm4/ snip Hello Andrew, I finally managed connecting the target machine over a serial console and run gdb debugging session as explained in

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:21:05PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 12:09 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: please take this discussion elsewhere. Also please never cc three such Ok, can you please point to me where is the place it should be taken off ? I suppose you mean LKML ?

[PATCH] I2C rtc8564.c remove duplicate include

2005-04-04 Thread Clemens Koller
[PATCH] I2C rtc8564.c remove duplicate include Trivial fix: removes duplicate include line. Patch applies to: 2.6.11.x (This is my very first patch to the linux-kernel, so let me start with small things first...) Signed-off-by: Clemens Koller [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Nur

[PATCH] I2C rtc8564.c remove duplicate include (fixed)

2005-04-04 Thread Clemens Koller
[PATCH] I2C rtc8564.c remove duplicate include Trivial fix: removes duplicate include line. Patch applies to: 2.6.11.x (This is my very first patch to the linux-kernel, so let me start with small things first...) Signed-off-by: Clemens Koller [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Nur

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 0/6] S3 SMP support with physcial CPU hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! The patches are against 2.6.11-rc1 with Zwane's CPU hotplug patch in -mm tree. Should I merge that thing into mainline? It seems that a few people are needing it. Perhaps we should address the MTRR issue first. I've had code in Suspend2 for quite a while (6 months+) that

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Chen, Kenneth W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote on Saturday, April 02, 2005 11:04 PM the default on ia64 (32MB) was way too large and caused the search to start from 64MB. That can take a _long_ time. i've attached a new patch with your changes included, and a couple of

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 0/6] S3 SMP support with physcial CPU hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi again. On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 21:31, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! The patches are against 2.6.11-rc1 with Zwane's CPU hotplug patch in -mm tree. Should I merge that thing into mainline? It seems that a few people are needing it. Perhaps we should address the MTRR issue

Re: PROBLEM: v2.4.29 won't compile with PCI support disabled

2005-04-04 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Don Guy writes: PROBLEM: Attempts to compile v2.4.29 with PCI support disabled result in the following errors: drivers/char/char.o: In function `siig10x_init_fn': drivers/char/char.o(.text.init+0x12cd): undefined reference to `pci_siig10x_fn' drivers/char/char.o: In function

RE: Followup: PROBLEM: Kernel bug at tg3.c:2456

2005-04-04 Thread Ju, Seokmann
On Thursday, March 31, 2005 7:34 AM, Sergio wrote: I made some tests again, switching back to the onboard dual aic7902 scsi controller (non raid) the tg3 dont hung anymore. I just noticed the IRQ mappings change between the two settings. The Broadcom eth get always the IRQ #25, the two

Re: PROBLEM: v2.4.29 won't compile with PCI support disabled

2005-04-04 Thread Andrey Panin
On 094, 04 04, 2005 at 02:14:47 +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Don Guy writes: PROBLEM: Attempts to compile v2.4.29 with PCI support disabled result in the following errors: drivers/char/char.o: In function `siig10x_init_fn': drivers/char/char.o(.text.init+0x12cd):

Re: 2.6.11, nfsd, log_do_checkpoint()

2005-04-04 Thread John Madden
Assertion failure in log_do_checkpoint() at fs/jbd/checkpoint.c:365: drop_count != 0 || cleanup_ret != 0 Could you try running a kernel with the attached patch? Are you able to reproduce the problem even with the patch? Funny thing: Assuming this was an ext3 problem, I moved the data to

dd hangs with SIGINT

2005-04-04 Thread Guillaume Chazarain
Hi, With recent linux distributions (using NPTL), I noticed that dd can hang waiting on a futex when being killed. The problem sould be reproduceable with the following script : ---$---$---$---$---$---$---$ #!/bin/sh echo 'When you only see dd frozen in a loop

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Michael Poole
Sven Luther writes: Hello, quick sumary Current linux kernel source hold undistributable non-free firmware blobs, and to consider them as mere agregation, a clear licence statement from the copyright holders of said non-free firmware blobls is needed, read below for details. /quick sumary

Re: x86 TSC time warp puzzle

2005-04-04 Thread Joe Korty
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:59:22AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Lundell wrote: Well, not actually a time warp, though it feels like one. I'm doing some real-time bit-twiddling in a driver, using the TSC to measure out delays on the order of hundreds of nanoseconds. Because I

Re: [RESEND 1] 8250_hp300: unuse register_serial/unregister_serial

2005-04-04 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:43:32PM +0200, Kars de Jong wrote: Sorry, I've been busy the past few days (getting married and stuff), I did look at the patch but didn't get around to send a reply. Congrats. I needed the following extra changes, after that it compiles and works on my HP300:

Re: [PATCH] don't check for NULL before calling kfree() in fs/ntfs/

2005-04-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:25 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: (please keep me on CC) There's no need to check a pointer for NULL before calling kfree() on it - kfree() handles NULL pointers just fine on its own. Thanks. Applied to my ntfs development tree so it should be in the next -mm tree.

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:50 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: I disagree. The driver will never know ... ? the driver has to know. Look at the 53c700 to see exactly how awful it is. This beast has byte and word registers. When used BE, all the byte registers alter their position (to both

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:59:03AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: Well ... it's like this. Native means pass through without swapping and has an easy implementation on both BE and LE platforms. Logically io{read,write}{16,32}be would have to do byte swaps on LE platforms. Being lazy, I'm

Re: [PATCH] Fix SELinux for removal of i_sock

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 12:35 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: 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

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