Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Pool
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 19:32 -0700, David Lang wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Martin Pool wrote: > > > I haven't tested importing all 60,000+ changesets of the current bk tree, > > partly because I don't *have* all those changesets. (Larry said > > previously that someone (not me) tried to pull all

Re: [ANNOUNCE] April Release of LTP now Available

2005-04-06 Thread Alan Modra
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:52:01AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Looks to me like gcc is objecting to our (ppc64's) _syscall2 > definition; Alan Modra (cc'd) can probably say what we're doing wrong. I can't spot anything wrong. Take a look at preprocessed source. -- Alan Modra IBM OzLabs -

Low latency patches

2005-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Hi, I've recently come across Con Kolivas' isochronous scheduler and Ingo's RLIMIT_RT_CPU patch. I cannot comment on Ingo's patch, but I've been using Con's scheduler for a few days and I only have good things to say about it (latency is as good as running the process as root). The only thing

Re: init process freezed after run_init_process

2005-04-06 Thread rjy
Thanks for kindly reply, :) Jan Engelhardt wrote: This is my grub config: - root (hd0,0) kernel /bzImage.via.386 root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk=49152 initrd /initrd.gz - Does it work if you add " ramdisk=65536 init=/linuxrc " ? No. I got the

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 21:40, Martin Pool wrote: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:39:11 +0400, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote: > > http://bazaar-ng.org/ > > I'd like bazaar-ng to be considered too. It is not ready for adoption > yet, but I am working (more than) full time on it and hope to have it > be

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:27:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Barry K. Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ok, I've narrowed the problem down to one patch. In 2.6.11-mm3, the > > problem goes away if I remove this patch: > > swsusp-enable-resume-from-initrd.patch > > That really helps,

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc3 md/ext3 problems (ext3 gurus : please check)

2005-04-06 Thread Hifumi Hisashi
Hi, At 23:20 05/04/06, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: >Yes. But it is conventional to interpret a short write as being a >failure. Returning less bytes than were requested in the write >indicates that the rest failed. It just doesn't give the exact nature >of the failure (EIO vs ENOSPC etc.) For

Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

2005-04-06 Thread Roland Dreier
> > -#define module_init(x) __initcall(x); > > +#define module_init(x) __initcall(x); __module_init_disable(x); > > It would be better if there is brackets around them... like > > #define module_init(x) { __initcall(x); __module_init_disable(x); } > > then we know it wont break some code

Re: x86-64 bad pmds in 2.6.11.6

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:41:17PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 04:44:55PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > [apologies to Andi for getting this twice, I goofed the l-k address > > the first time] > > > > > > I arrived at the office today to find my workstation had this

[patch] sched: consolidate sbe sbf

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Piggin
Hi Ingo, What do you think of the following patch? I won't send the whole series again, I'll queue them up with Andrew if you think this one looks OK (which is the only major change). Thanks, Nick -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Consolidate balance-on-exec with balance-on-fork. This is made easy by the

Kernel oops and debugging (help wanted)

2005-04-06 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I recently installed a new kernel 2.6.11 with some netfilter patches, I also upgraded iproute2. No I have been getting oops like this one Apr 6 15:46:24 sydlxfw01 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0221 Apr 6 15:46:24 sydlxfw01 kernel: printing

uid of person who mounts and user unmount

2005-04-06 Thread Steve French
smbfs displays the uid of the mounter in show_mounts (viewable in /proc/mounts ) and this would allow a setuid unmount program to check the uid of the mounter via /proc/mounts (there is also an ioctl which does something similar). Is this approach secure enough? I slightly prefer an approach

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Martin Pool wrote: I haven't tested importing all 60,000+ changesets of the current bk tree, partly because I don't *have* all those changesets. (Larry said previously that someone (not me) tried to pull all of them using bkclient, and he considered this abuse and blacklisted

Re: scheduler/SCHED_FIFO behaviour

2005-04-06 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 07:11 +0530, Arun Srinivas wrote: > I am not sure if my question was clear enough or I couldnt interpret you > answer correctly.(If it was the case I apologise for that). > > My question is, as I said I am measuring the schedule time difference > between my 2 of my

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Pool
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:47:27 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> The operations that are already done are pretty fast: ~60s to import a >> kernel tree, ~10s to import a new revision from a patch. > > By "importing", are you saying that importing all 60,000+ changesets of > the current kernel tree took

Re: [PATCH 4/6] freepgt2: arm26 FIRST_USER_ADDRESS PAGE_SIZE

2005-04-06 Thread Ian Molton
Hugh Dickins wrote: ARM26 define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS as PAGE_SIZE (beyond the machine vectors when they are mapped low), and use that definition in place of locally defined MIN_MAP_ADDR. Previously, ARM26 permitted user mappings at 0 if the machine vectors were mapped high; but that's inconsistent

[PATCH] r128_state.c: break missing in switch statement (fwd)

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Airlie
Hi Andrew/Linus, Can you make sure this goes into 2.6.12? until you sort out the bk thing I'll adopt this approach :-) Dave. drm: fix r128_state.c switch statements.. in drivers/char/drm/r128_state.c (linux-2.6.12-rc2), some breaks are missing in the switch statement. See trivial fix

Re: [PATCH] CON_CONSDEV bit not set correctly on last console

2005-04-06 Thread Greg Edwards
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:53:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: | Greg Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > According to include/linux/console.h, CON_CONSDEV flag should be set on | > the last console specified on the boot command line: | > | > 86 #define CON_PRINTBUFFER (1) | > 87

we can work together

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we can work together

2005-04-06 Thread HOWARD_JONES
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Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:40:23AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:39:11 +0400, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote: > > > http://bazaar-ng.org/ > > I'd like bazaar-ng to be considered too. It is not ready for adoption > yet, but I am working (more than) full time on it and hope to have

Re: scheduler/SCHED_FIFO behaviour

2005-04-06 Thread Arun Srinivas
I am not sure if my question was clear enough or I couldnt interpret you answer correctly.(If it was the case I apologise for that). My question is, as I said I am measuring the schedule time difference between my 2 of my SCHED_FIFO process in schedule() .But, I get only one set of readings

hard lockup on nx5000 laptop with 2.6.11+hack and FC2's 2.6.10-1.770_FC2

2005-04-06 Thread Ben Greear
Several wierd things with my laptop since I upgraded from 2.6.9+hack, which works beautifully. 1) With 2.6.11+hack, compiled for the Pentium-M, the system freezes at or soon after I close the LCD screen. Out of curiosity, I tried the FN - [F4] combination, which I believe should try to flip

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Pool
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:39:11 +0400, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote: > http://bazaar-ng.org/ I'd like bazaar-ng to be considered too. It is not ready for adoption yet, but I am working (more than) full time on it and hope to have it be usable in a couple of months. bazaar-ng is trying to integrate a

Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

2005-04-06 Thread AsterixTheGaul
Hi, > -#define module_init(x) __initcall(x); > +#define module_init(x) __initcall(x); __module_init_disable(x); It would be better if there is brackets around them... like #define module_init(x) { __initcall(x); __module_init_disable(x); } then we know it wont break some code like if (..)

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > There is a large difference in the behavior of corporations with huge > source bases and college students with no money. The corporations will > pay to have someone responsible for ensuring that the product works. Or they will merge with some other entity

[PATCH 5/6] freepgt2: arch FIRST_USER_ADDRESS 0

2005-04-06 Thread Hugh Dickins
Replace misleading definition of FIRST_USER_PGD_NR 0 by definition of FIRST_USER_ADDRESS 0 in all the MMU architectures beyond arm and arm26. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/asm-alpha/pgtable.h |2 +- include/asm-cris/pgtable.h |2 +-

[PATCH 6/6] freepgt2: remove FIRST_USER_ADDRESS hack

2005-04-06 Thread Hugh Dickins
Once all the MMU architectures define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, remove hack from mmap.c which derived it from FIRST_USER_PGD_NR. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/mmap.c |5 - 1 files changed, 5 deletions(-) --- 2.6.12-rc2-mm1+/mm/mmap.c 2005-04-05 18:59:01.0

[PATCH 4/6] freepgt2: arm26 FIRST_USER_ADDRESS PAGE_SIZE

2005-04-06 Thread Hugh Dickins
ARM26 define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS as PAGE_SIZE (beyond the machine vectors when they are mapped low), and use that definition in place of locally defined MIN_MAP_ADDR. Previously, ARM26 permitted user mappings at 0 if the machine vectors were mapped high; but that's inconsistent with ARM, and

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB glitches after suspend on ppc

2005-04-06 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 4:50 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 16:28 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 4:02 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks for the testing update. I'm glad to know that there seems to > > > > be only one

[PATCH 3/6] freepgt2: arm FIRST_USER_ADDRESS PAGE_SIZE

2005-04-06 Thread Hugh Dickins
ARM define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS as PAGE_SIZE (beyond the machine vectors when they are mapped low), and use that definition in place of locally defined MIN_MAP_ADDR. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c | 11 ++- include/asm-arm/pgtable.h |7

[PATCH 2/6] freepgt2: sys_mincore ignore FIRST_USER_PGD_NR

2005-04-06 Thread Hugh Dickins
Remove use of FIRST_USER_PGD_NR from sys_mincore: it's inconsistent (no other syscall refers to it), unnecessary (sys_mincore loops over vmas further down) and incorrect (misses user addresses in ARM's first pgd). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/mincore.c |3 --- 1

[PATCH 1/6] freepgt2: free_pgtables from FIRST_USER_ADDRESS

2005-04-06 Thread Hugh Dickins
The patches to free_pgtables by vma left problems on any architectures which leave some user address page table entries unencapsulated by vma. Andi has fixed the 32-bit vDSO on x86_64 to use a vma. Now fix arm (and arm26), whose first PAGE_SIZE is reserved (perhaps) for machine vectors. Our

Re: [ANNOUNCE] April Release of LTP now Available

2005-04-06 Thread Chris Friesen
Paul Mackerras wrote: if (__sc_err & 0x1000) \ { \ errno = __sc_ret; \ __sc_ret = -1;

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

2005-04-06 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-04-04 at 21:47, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Bluntly, Debian is being a pain in the ass ;-) > > There will always be non-free firmware to deal with, for key hardware. Firmware being seperate does make a lot of sense. It isn't going away but it doesn't generally belong in kernel now we have

Re: [ANNOUNCE] April Release of LTP now Available

2005-04-06 Thread Paul Mackerras
Andrew Morton writes: > Marty Ridgeway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The April release of LTP is now on SourceForge. > > > > LTP-20050405 > > It seems to have an x86ism in it which causes the compile to fail on ppc64: Looks to me like gcc is objecting to our (ppc64's) _syscall2

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 03:05, Andrew Morton wrote: > - x86 NMI handling seems to be bust in 2.6.12-rc2.  Try using >   `nmi_watchdog=0' if you experience weird crashes. > > - The possible kernel-timer related hangs might possibly be fixed.  We >   haven't heard yet. > > - Nobody said anything

Re: [PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options

2005-04-06 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Dave Hansen wrote: > > Why is this choice needed at all? Why would one choose SPARSEMEM over > > DISCONTIGMEM? > > For now, it's only so people can test either one, and we don't have to > try to toss DICONTIGMEM out of the kernel in fell swoop. When the > memory

Re: 2.4.30: pwc pwc_isoc_handler() called with status -84

2005-04-06 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:55:52 -0300 Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CCing Pete. > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:59:57PM +0200, Gabor Z. Papp wrote: > > It was working fine with 2.4.29 and earlier kernels, often with > > 100-150 days uptime. > > > > As I upgraded to 2.4.30-rc kernels,

Re: [PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:40 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Dave Hansen wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 22:58 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > > > Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > --- memhotplug/mm/Kconfig~A6-mm-Kconfig 2005-04-04 09:04:48.0 > > > > -0700 > > > > +++

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB glitches after suspend on ppc

2005-04-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 16:28 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 4:02 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the testing update. I'm glad to know that there seems to > > > be only one (minor) glitch that's PPC-specific! > > > > Which is just an

Re: [PATCH] CON_CONSDEV bit not set correctly on last console

2005-04-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Greg Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> According to include/linux/console.h, CON_CONSDEV flag should be set on >> the last console specified on the boot command line: >> >> 86 #define CON_PRINTBUFFER (1) >>

Re: [PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options

2005-04-06 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 22:58 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > > Dave Hansen wrote: > > > --- memhotplug/mm/Kconfig~A6-mm-Kconfig 2005-04-04 09:04:48.0 > > > -0700 > > > +++ memhotplug-dave/mm/Kconfig2005-04-04 10:15:23.0 -0700 > > >

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB glitches after suspend on ppc

2005-04-06 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 4:02 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Thanks for the testing update. I'm glad to know that there seems to > > be only one (minor) glitch that's PPC-specific! > > Which is just an off-the-shelves NEC EHCI chip. The wakeup-after-suspend hasn't been reported by

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:20:52PM -0600, Bob Gill wrote: > OK. So far so good. I can get 2.6.12-rc2 to run fine if: > 1. I do not in any way attempt to *ahem* overclock the box. > --if I do, I get really ugly race errors flying around from just about > everywhere (pick a device at random,

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Jon Masters
On Apr 6, 2005 4:42 PM, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as a number of people are already aware (and in some > cases have been aware over the last several weeks), we've > been trying to work out a conflict over BK usage over the last > month or two (and it feels like longer ;). That

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-06 Thread Bob Gill
OK. So far so good. I can get 2.6.12-rc2 to run fine if: 1. I do not in any way attempt to *ahem* overclock the box. --if I do, I get really ugly race errors flying around from just about everywhere (pick a device at random, have it trip, and the scheduler tripping right behind it). 2. I do not

Re: bdflush/rpciod high CPU utilization, profile does not make sense

2005-04-06 Thread Greg Banks
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:01:23PM +0200, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > > Problem; during simple tests such as a 'cp largefile0 largefile1' on the > client (under the mountpoint from the NFS server), the client becomes > extremely laggy, NFS writes are slow, and I see very high CPU > utilization by

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB glitches after suspend on ppc

2005-04-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Interesting. Looks like pci_enable_wake(dev, state, 0) isn't actually > disabling wakeup on your hardware. (Assuming CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND=n; if > not, then it's odd that the system went back to sleep!) Do you think > that might be related to those calls manipulating the Apple ASICs being > in

Re: [PATCH] CON_CONSDEV bit not set correctly on last console

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Greg Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > According to include/linux/console.h, CON_CONSDEV flag should be set on > the last console specified on the boot command line: > > 86 #define CON_PRINTBUFFER (1) > 87 #define CON_CONSDEV (2) /* Last on the command line */ > 88 #define

Re: [03/08] fix ia64 syscall auditing

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Ryan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:49:18PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:27 -0700, David Mosberger wrote: > > > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:46:48 -0700, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > > Greg> -stable review patch. If anyone

Re: [PATCH] radeonfb: (#2) Implement proper workarounds for PLL accesses

2005-04-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 00:35 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hrm... it should only add a few ms, maybe about 20 ms to the mode > > switching... If you remove the radeon_msleep(5) call from the > > radeon_pll_errata_after_data() routine in

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 19:14 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > > o radeonfb: Implement proper workarounds for PLL accesses > > o radeonfb: DDC i2c fix > > o radeonfb: Fix mode setting on CRT monitors > > o radeonfb: Preserve TMDS setting

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: PS. Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading up on "monotone". That seems to be the most viable alternative, but don't pester the developers so much that they don't get any work done. They are already aware of my problems

Re: [PATCH] radeonfb: (#2) Implement proper workarounds for PLL accesses

2005-04-06 Thread Andreas Schwab
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hrm... it should only add a few ms, maybe about 20 ms to the mode > switching... If you remove the radeon_msleep(5) call from the > radeon_pll_errata_after_data() routine in radeonfb.h, does it make a > difference ? Yes, it does. Without the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.6 1/6] irq and pci_ids: patch for Intel ESB2

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do I also need to create and submit these patches for 2.6.12-rc2 in > order to get them into 2.6.12 or will these make it into 2.6.12 as is? Is OK - I'll take care of the patch, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: non-fatal oops with EIP at skb_release_data, available for debugging

2005-04-06 Thread Alessandro Suardi
Quoting my post of over a month ago, hit another non-fatal oops this time with 2.6.12-rc1-bk2... [17330.816664] Adding 232932k swap on /dev/hdb4. Priority:-2 extents:1 [42120.713332] UDP: bad checksum. From 84.188.199.xxx:57483 to 192.168.1.7:10600 ulen 27 [56984.872784] UDP: bad checksum.

Re: 2.6.12-rc2 compile error in drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Ben Castricum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Ben Castricum wrote: > > > ... > > > CC fs/quota_v2.o > > > fs/quota_v2.c: In function `v2_write_dquot': > > > fs/quota_v2.c:399: warning: unknown

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday April 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > - Nobody said anything about the PM resume and DRI behaviour in > > 2.6.12-rc1-mm4. So it's all perfect now? > > Well, Seeing you asked... > > PM resume certainly seems to be improving. > My main

Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

2005-04-06 Thread Magnus Damm
On Apr 6, 2005 4:28 PM, Malcolm Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Magnus Damm writes: > > And I guess the idea of replacing the initcall pointer with NULL will > > work both with and without function descriptors, right? So we should > > be safe on IA64 and PPC64. > > I think so, though I don't

[PATCH] Re: clock runs at double speed on x86_64 system w/ATI RS200 chipset (workaround for APIC mode?)

2005-04-06 Thread Christopher Allen Wing
The attached patch gets the clock to work normally for me without disabling APIC mode entirely. But I'm still not sure what's going on. dmesg of 2.6.11.6 with default options (ACPI, APIC, 'apic=debug'):

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Jindrich Makovicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > oes not compile on AthlonXP. For mmx_clear_page, only the prototype was > changed, but the implementation is still the same. I guess that part of > the patch slipped out somehow. > > -extern void mmx_clear_page(void *page); > > +extern void

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread kfogel
Linus Torvalds wrote: > PS. Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading > up on "monotone". That seems to be the most viable alternative, but don't > pester the developers so much that they don't get any work done. They are > already aware of my problems ;) By the way,

Re: bdflush/rpciod high CPU utilization, profile does not make sense

2005-04-06 Thread Trond Myklebust
on den 06.04.2005 Klokka 18:01 (+0200) skreiv Jakob Oestergaard: > What do I do? > > Performance sucks and the profiles do not make sense... > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, A look at "nfsstat" might help, as might "netstat -s". In particular, I suggest looking at the

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
"Barry K. Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, I've narrowed the problem down to one patch. In 2.6.11-mm3, the > problem goes away if I remove this patch: > swsusp-enable-resume-from-initrd.patch That really helps, thanks. The patch looks fairly innocent. I'll give up on this and cc the

Re: [2.6.12-rc1][ACPI][suspend] /proc/acpi/sleep vs /sys/power/state issue - 'standby' on a laptop

2005-04-06 Thread Shawn Starr
Yeah, I can do that, I don't need angry programmers chasing after me :-) Shawn. --- Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > So nobody minds if I make this into a CONFIG > option marked as Deprecated? :) > > Actually it should probably go through > >

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1: ACPI=y, ACPI_BOOT=n problems

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>arch/i386/kernel/setup.c: In function 'setup_arch': > >> arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:1571: warning: implicit declaration of function > >> 'acpi_boot_table_init' > >>

Re: [PATCH] Dynamic Tick version 050406-1

2005-04-06 Thread Frank Sorenson
Tony Lindgren wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's an updated dyn-tick patch. Some minor fixes: Doesn't look so good here. I get this with 2.6.12-rc2 (plus a few other patches). Disabling Dynamic Tick makes everything happy again (it boots). [4294688.655000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer

Re: Use of C99 int types

2005-04-06 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Apr 06, 2005, at 07:41, Renate Meijer wrote: On Apr 6, 2005, at 12:11 AM, Kyle Moffett wrote: Please don't remove Linux-Kernel from the CC, I think this is an important discussion. GAAH!!! Read my lips!!! Quit removing Linux-Kernel from the CC!!! As I see it, there are a number of issues - Use

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.11 - NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler

2005-04-06 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 21:08 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > I think the correct model for all of this is that the block driver > > shouldn't care (or be tied to) the scsi one. Thus, as long as SCSI can > > reject requests from a queue whose device has been released (without > > checking the device)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 22:58 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Dave Hansen wrote: > > --- memhotplug/mm/Kconfig~A6-mm-Kconfig 2005-04-04 09:04:48.0 > > -0700 > > +++ memhotplug-dave/mm/Kconfig 2005-04-04 10:15:23.0 -0700 > > @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ > > +choice > > + prompt "Memory

Re: kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interupt

2005-04-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, sorry, i have to run with bridging support other wise the guests(UML's) wont be able to communicate with the outside world. Best Regards, Shaun R - Original Message - From: "Zwane Mwaikambo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "shaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Re: [PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options

2005-04-06 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, Dave Hansen wrote: > diff -puN mm/Kconfig~A6-mm-Kconfig mm/Kconfig > --- memhotplug/mm/Kconfig~A6-mm-Kconfig 2005-04-04 09:04:48.0 > -0700 > +++ memhotplug-dave/mm/Kconfig2005-04-04 10:15:23.0 -0700 > @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ > +choice > + prompt "Memory model" > +

Re: Light Scribe Technology

2005-04-06 Thread Alan Bryan
--- "John W. Linville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:56:35PM -0700, Alan Bryan > wrote: > > > Can you tell me if there is currently support in > the > > kernel for HP's new LightScribe technology? > > > (http://h30015.www3.hp.com/hp_dec/lightscribe/index_FL.asp). > > If

Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

2005-04-06 Thread Daniel Egger
On 05.04.2005, at 21:33, Ross Biro wrote: The problem with always setting the bit is that some PCI hardware, notably some Intel E-1000 chips (Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1076) cannot properly handle the target abort bit. In the case of the E-1000 chip, the driver

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

2005-04-06 Thread Raul Miller
> Josselin Mouette wrote: > >It merely depends on the definition of "aggregation". I'd say that two > >works that are only aggregated can be easily distinguished and > >separated. This is not the case for a binary kernel module, from which > >you cannot easily extract the firmware and code parts.

Re: clock runs at double speed on x86_64 system w/ATI RS200 chipset

2005-04-06 Thread Christopher Allen Wing
I noticed that the x86_64 kernel has 4 different ways of configuring the timer interrupt in APIC mode: arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c : /* style 1 */ if (pin1 != -1) { /* * Ok, does IRQ0 through the IOAPIC work? */ /* style 2 */

RE: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Hua Zhong
> Even with a GPL'd Linux Bitkeeper I'll bet half of the existing Linux > paying customers will continue to use a paid version. By what? How much do you plan to put down to pay Larry in case you lose your bet? Hua - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: Out of memory with Java 1.5 and 2.6.11.6

2005-04-06 Thread Ivan Yosifov
Apr 5 22:05:20 xine kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0 The oom-killer a piece of code which starts killing processes when you run out of memory. OOM-killer = Out Of Memory Killer. My guess is that the second jvm consumed all the memory left ( this may me be a memory leak, if so report it to SUN,

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.11 - NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler

2005-04-06 Thread Mike Anderson
Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 06 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > >>>@@ -324,6 +334,7 @@ > >>> issue_flush_fn *issue_flush_fn; > >>> prepare_flush_fn*prepare_flush_fn; > >>> end_flush_fn*end_flush_fn; > >>>+

Re: Light Scribe Technology

2005-04-06 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:56:35PM -0700, Alan Bryan wrote: > Can you tell me if there is currently support in the > kernel for HP's new LightScribe technology? > (http://h30015.www3.hp.com/hp_dec/lightscribe/index_FL.asp). > If there is not, are there plans for it? I don't know of any. Are the

Re: [stable] [patch 1/1] uml: quick fix syscall table [urgent]

2005-04-06 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:38:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm resending this for inclusion in the -stable tree. I've deleted whitespace > cleanups, and hope this can be merged. I've been asked to split the former > patch, I don't know if I must split

2.6 libipq kernel hang

2005-04-06 Thread Chris Lalancette
All, I am having a kernel hang with all the latest versions of the 2.6 kernel (2.6.8.1, 2.6.9, 2.6.10, and 2.6.12-rc2). Basically, my test is this: I have a simple ipq program that just takes packets in, makes a copy of them (using memcpy), then accepts the packets with the new buffer (which

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

2005-04-06 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:28:01PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > * Most firmwares are a -collection- of images and data. The firmware > infrastructure should load an -archive- of firmwares and associated data > values. Why don't you use multiple firmware loading calls with different names?

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB glitches after suspend on ppc

2005-04-06 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 10:20 am, Colin Leroy wrote: > On 05 Apr 2005 at 13h04, David Brownell wrote: > > > > > > What kind of work on these is needed so that they get in? > > > > Briefly, given 2.6.12-rc2 plus the patches mentioned above, > > find out what else is needed. > > ... > > How's

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc3 md/ext3 problems (ext3 gurus : please check)

2005-04-06 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 11:01, Hifumi Hisashi wrote: > I have measured the bh refcount before the buffer_uptodate() for a few days. > I found out that the bh refcount sometimes reached to 0 . > So, I think following modifications are effective. Thanks --- it certainly looks like this should

[patch 1/1] uml: quick fix syscall table [urgent]

2005-04-06 Thread blaisorblade
CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm resending this for inclusion in the -stable tree. I've deleted whitespace cleanups, and hope this can be merged. I've been asked to split the former patch, I don't know if I must split again this one, even because I don't want to split this correct patch into multiple

Re: [patch 1/6] DocBook: changes and extensions to the kernel documentation

2005-04-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Martin Waitz wrote: --- linux-docbook.orig/drivers/video/fbmem.c 2005-04-06 12:13:12.674832161 +0200 +++ linux-docbook/drivers/video/fbmem.c 2005-04-06 12:24:11.946113964 +0200 @@ -1257,6 +1257,8 @@ int fb_new_modelist(struct fb_info *info static char *video_options[FB_MAX]; static int ofonly;

Fwd: [uml-devel] [UML/2.6] -bk7 tree does not run when compiled as SKAS-only

2005-04-06 Thread Blaisorblade
Andrew, could you please put this in your -rc regressions folder? Thanks. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [uml-devel] [UML/2.6] -bk7 tree does not run when compiled as SKAS-only Date: Tuesday 22 March 2005 18:32 From: Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL

Re: [uml-devel] [linux-2.6-bk] UML compile broken!

2005-04-06 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 15:16, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Uml compile is btoken in current linus bk 2.6: > > CC arch/um/kernel/ptrace.o > arch/um/kernel/ptrace.c: In function `send_sigtrap': > arch/um/kernel/ptrace.c:324: warning: implicit declaration of function > `SC_IP' >

Light Scribe Technology

2005-04-06 Thread Alan Bryan
Hi all, Can you tell me if there is currently support in the kernel for HP's new LightScribe technology? (http://h30015.www3.hp.com/hp_dec/lightscribe/index_FL.asp). If there is not, are there plans for it? Supposdly, you can burn DVD's or CD's, then flip the media over and burn a label directly

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [RFC] Driver States

2005-04-06 Thread Adam Belay
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:24 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > You have a few things here that can easily conflict, and that will be > > > developed at different paces. I like the direction that it's going, but > > > how do you intend to do it gradually. I.e. what to do first? > > > > I

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Jon Smirl
On Apr 6, 2005 3:24 PM, Matan Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > > ODSL could then GPL the code and quiet the > > critics. > > And also cause aaid GPL'ed code to be immediatly ported over to Windows. I > don't > think BitMover could ever agree to that. Windows Bitkeeper

Re: klists and struct device semaphores

2005-04-06 Thread Alan Stern
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > Third, why does device_release_driver() call klist_del() instead of > > klist_remove() for dev->knode_driver? Is that just a simple mistake? > > The klist_node doesn't seem to get unlinked anywhere. > > It can be called from driver_for_each_device()

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Paul P Komkoff Jr
Replying to Linus Torvalds: > Ok, > as a number of people are already aware (and in some cases have been Actually, I'm very disappointed things gone such counter-productive way. All along the history, I was against Larry's opponents, but at the end, they are right. That's pity. To quote vin

Re: [RFC 1/6]SEP initialization rework

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Waitz
hoi :) On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:05:56AM +0800, Li Shaohua wrote: > - on_each_cpu(enable_sep_cpu, NULL, 1, 1); with this on_each_cpu call gone, you should also be able to remove the useless info pointer in enable_sep_cpu. -- Martin Waitz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Out of memory with Java 1.5 and 2.6.11.6

2005-04-06 Thread Robin Rosenberg
I see regular crashes with 2.6.11.6 (mandrake-patched) and Java 1.5.02 (01 too btw, but not 1.4.2). Gentoo people report the same problem sugesting that it may have appeared between 2.6.11.4 and 2.6.11.5. If I start eclipse and then, outside of eclipse, starts a java 1.5 process eclipse dies

Re: [08/08] uml: va_copy fix

2005-04-06 Thread Jörn Engel
On Wed, 6 April 2005 21:09:50 +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > I'm reattaching the patch, so that you can look at the changelog (I'm also > resending it as a separate email so that it is reviewed and possibly merged). > Basically this is an error in GCC 2 and not in GCC 3: > > int [] list = { >

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Matan Peled
Jon Smirl wrote: > ODSL could then GPL the code and quiet the > critics. And also cause aaid GPL'ed code to be immediatly ported over to Windows. I don't think BitMover could ever agree to that. -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] ::

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.6 1/6] irq and pci_ids: patch for Intel ESB2

2005-04-06 Thread Jason Gaston
Hello, Do I also need to create and submit these patches for 2.6.12-rc2 in order to get them into 2.6.12 or will these make it into 2.6.12 as is? Thanks, Jason Gaston On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:00, Jason Gaston wrote: > Hello, > > This patch adds the Intel ESB2 DID's to the irq.c and

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