Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:10 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 06:13 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can trigger latencies up to ~1.1 ms with a CVS checkout. It looks like inside ext3_try_to_allocate_with_rsv, we spend a long time in

Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests

Hi, On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 02:35, Andrew Morton wrote: Without the below patch it's possible to make ext3 leak at around a megabyte per minute by arranging for the fs to run a commit every 50 milliseconds, btw. Ouch! (Stephen, please review...) Doing so now. The patch teaches

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 08:45 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: This introduces various AUDIT_ARCH numerical constants, which is a blatantly stupid idea. We already have a way to uniquely identify architectures, and that's the ELF headers, no need for another parallel namespace. We do use the

[04/08] I2C: Fix oops in eeprom driver

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- This fixes an oops in the eeprom driver. It was first reported here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4347 It was additionally discussed here (while tracking a completely different bug):

[BUG mm] fixed i386 memcpy inlining buggy

Hi Denis, the new i386 memcpy macro is a ticking timebomb. I've been debugging a new mISDN crash, just to find out that a memcpy was not inlined correctly. Andrew, you should drop the fix-i386-memcpy.patch (or have it fixed). This source code: mISDN_pid_t pid; [...]

[07/08] [TCP] Fix BIC congestion avoidance algorithm error

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- Since BIC is the default congestion control algorithm enabled in every 2.6.x kernel out there, fixing errors in it becomes quite critical. A flaw in the loss handling caused it to not perform the binary

[05/08] [IPSEC]: Do not hold state lock while checking size

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- This patch from Herbert Xu fixes a deadlock with IPsec. When an ICMP frag. required is sent and the ICMP message needs the same SA as the packet that caused it the state will be locked twice. [IPSEC]: Do

[01/08] Fix Oops with ALSA timer event notification

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- the patch below fixes the bug of ALSA timer notification, which is used in the recent ALSA dmix plugin. - fixed Oops in read() - fixed wake-up polls and signals with new events Signed-off-by: Takashi

Re: debug: sleeping function...slab.c:2090

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 10:38 -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: I got the debug statement below during boot. Environment: Pentium M, Thinkpad R40 Debian unstable Linux 2.6.12-rc2 Gnu C 3.3.5

[08/08] uml: va_copy fix

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- 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] Signed-off-by: Greg

[00/11] -stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.11.7 release. There are 8 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a

[02/08] Prevent race condition in jbd

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- This patch from Stephen Tweedie which fixes a race in jbd code (it demonstrated itself as more or less random NULL dereferences in the journal code). Acked-by: Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by:

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