Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo, It would seem that in the latest patch RT-V0.7.45-00 we have reverted back to removing the define of jbd_debug which the attached patch (against one of the 2.6.11 versions) fixed. +#define jbd_debug(f, a...) /**/ oops, indeed. '/**/'

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: I've rsync'ed the new git repository to kernel.org, it should all be there in /pub/linux/kernel/people/torvalds/git.git/ (and it looks like the mirror scripts already picked it up on the public side too). GCC 4 isn't very happy. Mostly sign changes,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will also need to do more testing on the linux kernel tree. Committing patch-2.6.7 on 2.6.6 kernel and then diffing results in $ time gitdiff.sh `parent-id` `tree-id` p real5m37.434s user1m27.113s sys

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Ralph wrote: but good enough for most uses that people will get caught out when it fails. Exactly. If Linus persists in this diff-tree output format, using two lines for changed files, then I will have to add the following sed script to my arsenal: sed '/^/ { N; s/\n/ / }' It collapses

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GCC 4 isn't very happy. Mostly sign changes, but also something that looks like a real error: gcc -g -O3 -Wall -c -o fsck-cache.o fsck-cache.c fsck-cache.c: In function 'main': fsck-cache.c:59: warning: control may reach end of non-void function

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-10 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 19:27 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * K.R. Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo, It would seem that in the latest patch RT-V0.7.45-00 we have reverted back to removing the define of jbd_debug which the attached patch (against one of the 2.6.11 versions) fixed.

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Ingo wrote: With default gzip it's 3.3 seconds though, and that still compresses it down to 57 MB. Interesting. I'm surprised how much a bunch of separate, modest sized files can be compressed. I'm unclear what matters most here. Space on disk certainly isn't much of an issue. Even with

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 07:33:49PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will also need to do more testing on the linux kernel tree. Committing patch-2.6.7 on 2.6.6 kernel and then diffing results in $ time gitdiff.sh `parent-id` `tree-id` p

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo wrote: With default gzip it's 3.3 seconds though, and that still compresses it down to 57 MB. Interesting. I'm surprised how much a bunch of separate, modest sized files can be compressed. sorry, what i measured was in essence the tarball.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will also need to do more testing on the linux kernel tree. Committing patch-2.6.7 on 2.6.6 kernel and then diffing results in $ time gitdiff.sh `parent-id` `tree-id` p real5m37.434s user1m27.113s sys

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would there be any harm with changing that to #define jbd_debug(f, a...) do {} while(0) The compiler would strip it anyway, and you wouldn't have to worry about your scripts removing the macro. yeah, that's what i did in -45-01. Since it's not

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
It's possible to generate another object with the same hash, but: Yeah - the real check is that the modified object has to compile and do something useful for someone (the cracker if no one else). Just getting a random bucket of bits substituted for a real kernel source file isn't going to get

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-10 Thread Matthias Andree
Andrea Arcangeli schrieb am 2005-04-09: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:12:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: really designed for something like a offline http grabber, in that you can just grab files purely by filename (and verify that you got them right by running sha1sum on the resulting

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Ingo wrote: not the compression of every file separately. ok -- 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 unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[2.6 patch] drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c: make some code static

2005-04-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm2-full/drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c.old2005-04-10 02:01:50.0 +0200 +++

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Simple privacy enhancement for /proc/pid

2005-04-10 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Rene Scharfe wrote: First, configuring via kernel parameters is sufficient. I don't remember: Would a mount option be equally easy to implement? (Kernel parameters are OK for me, too.) I have another idea: let's keep the details of _every_ process owned by user root

swsuspend scheduling while atomic

2005-04-10 Thread Marco Gaddoni
Hello i am playing a little with swsuspend and getting scheduling while atomic: bash/0x0001/5244 messages while the system is resuming. Apparently the resume work correctly. Do i have to fear for my data? Some data about my system: kernel 2.6.11.5 modules Module Size Used

[2.6 patch] drivers/cdrom/cm206.c: cleanups

2005-04-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following cleanups: - make needlessly global functions static - remove the following unused global function: - cm206_delay Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/cdrom/cm206.c | 115 ++ 1 files changed, 51

[2.6 patch] floppy driver: make fd_routine static

2005-04-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global fd_routine static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/asm-i386/floppy.h |2 +- include/asm-parisc/floppy.h |2 +- include/asm-sh/floppy.h |2 +- include/asm-x86_64/floppy.h |2 +- 4 files changed, 4

[2.6 patch] drivers/block/rd.c: make a variable static

2005-04-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global variable static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm2-full/drivers/block/rd.c.old2005-04-10 02:00:08.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm2-full/drivers/block/rd.c2005-04-10 02:01:00.0 +0200 @@ -74,7

[2.6 patch] drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c: possible cleanups

2005-04-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - remove the following unused global functions: - blkdev_scsi_issue_flush_fn - __blk_attempt_remerge - remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's: - blk_phys_contig_segment - blk_hw_contig_segment

[2.6 patch] drivers/cdrom/mcdx.c: make code static

2005-04-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/cdrom/mcdx.c | 28 +--- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm2-full/drivers/cdrom/mcdx.c.old 2005-04-10 02:16:00.0

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Tony wrote: Or maybe the files should be named objects/xx/yy/? I tend to size these things with the square root of the number of leaf nodes. If I have 2,560,000 leaves (your 10,000 files in each of 16*16 directories), then I will aim for 1600 directories of 1600 leaves each. My

[2.6 patch] drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c: make a function static

2005-04-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global function static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm2-full/drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c.old 2005-04-10 02:19:08.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm2-full/drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c 2005-04-10 02:19:56.0 +0200 @@ -5895,7

Re: Code snippet to reconstruct ancestry graph from bk repo

2005-04-10 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote: (borrowed from Tommi Virtanen) Code snippet to reconstruct ancestry graph from bk repo: bk changes -end':I: $if(:PARENT:){:PARENT:$if(:MPARENT:){ :MPARENT:}} $unless(:PARENT:){-}' |tac format is: newrev parent1 [parent2]

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Hi! What about doing it right? Encrypt it with symmetric cypher and store key in suspend header. That way key is removed automagically while fixing signatures. No need to clear anythink. Good idea. I'll have a look though it will take a while (busy with my job). OTOH we may want

smp swsusp [was Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2]

2005-04-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Hi! The patch is ok, but this should be rewriten to use cpu hotplug instead. I have some patches but they need more testing. --p Heh yeah on the whole it didn't work too well ;), tell me if you need smp testing. I only have S{0,1,4,5} here though (shouldn't there be a S2 at

formatting CD-RW locks the system

2005-04-10 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. I am trying to format the CD-RW disc on my NEC ND-3520A DVD writer, and the results are completely unexpected: I do cdrwtool -d /dev/cdrom -q It proceeds with the formatting, but while it does so, the system is pretty much dead. It can do some trivial tasks like the console switching, but

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-10 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Sonntag, 10. April 2005 15:13 schrieb Andreas Steinmetz: It may not be desireable to leave swsusp saved pages on disk after resume as they may contain sensitive data that was never intended to be stored on disk in an way (e.g. in-kernel dm-crypt keys, mlocked pages). The attached simple

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-10 Thread Oliver Neukum
Hi! What about doing it right? Encrypt it with symmetric cypher and store key in suspend header. That way key is removed automagically while fixing signatures. No need to clear anythink. You might want to leave the key in the kernel image. You need to boot the same image anyway. Leaving

[PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 00/07] scsi: timer updates

2005-04-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, James, Jens and Christoph. This patchset removes misuses of scmd-eh_timeout and unexports SCSI timer interface such that no one can misuse it anymore. #02 assumes that the preceding scsi_send_eh_cmnd() patch is applied. Tested and worked for me. The following bugs are fixed. * Race

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 01/07] scsi: make aic7xxx use its own timer instead of scmd-eh_timeout

2005-04-10 Thread Tejun Heo
01_scsi_timer_update_aic7xxx.patch aic7xxx used scmd-eh_timeout in its dv routines. This kind of usage requires knowledge of and creates dependency into the SCSI midlayer unnecessarily. This patch makes aic7xxx driver use its own timer instead of scmd-eh_timeout.

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 07:45:12PM CEST, I got a letter where Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... * Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will also need to do more testing on the linux kernel tree. Committing patch-2.6.7 on 2.6.6 kernel and then diffing

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Linus wrote: It's a filesystem - although a fairly strange one. Ah ha - that explains the read-tree and write-tree names. The read-tree pulls stuff out of this file system into your working files, clobbering local edits. This is like the read(2) system call, which clobbers stuff in your read

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Hi! What about doing it right? Encrypt it with symmetric cypher and store key in suspend header. That way key is removed automagically while fixing signatures. No need to clear anythink. You might want to leave the key in the kernel image. You need to boot the same image

[PATCH] re-export cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue

2005-04-10 Thread James Bottomley
This was unexported by Arjan because we have no current users. However, during a conversion from tasklets to workqueues of the parisc led functions, we ran across a case where this was needed. In particular, the open coded equivalent of cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue was implemented

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 08:45:22PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: It turns out to be the forks for doing all the cuts and such what is bogging it down so awfully (doing diff-tree takes 0.48s ;-). I do about 15 forks per change, I guess, and for some reason cut takes a long of time on its own.

Is it possible to reset the processor to a sane state at boot?

2005-04-10 Thread Olivier Fourdan
Hi, Sorry if this post sounds a bit off topic now. It seems I've narrowed down the issue with the timer running too fast on my AMD 64 based Compaq laptop. As said previously, after a cold restart, the system runs 3x too fast. The processor speed as reported by both the Linux kernel and memtest86

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 07/07] scsi: make reuse of SCSI cmd timer strict

2005-04-10 Thread Tejun Heo
07_scsi_timer_strict_reuse.patch SCSI cmd timer shouldn't be reused while it's active. Make sure that the unused condition is marked with eh_timeout-function = NULL and BUG() active reuse path. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] scsi_error.c | 12 +++-

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 06/07] scsi: Delete scsi_{add|delete}_timer() from scsi_mid_low_api.txt

2005-04-10 Thread Tejun Heo
06_scsi_timer_update_api_doc.patch As scsi_{add|delete}_timer() got unexported, remove them from the API doc. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] scsi_mid_low_api.txt | 41 - 1 files changed, 41 deletions(-) Index:

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 02/07] scsi: make scsi_send_eh_cmnd use its own timer instead of scmd-eh_timeout

2005-04-10 Thread Tejun Heo
02_scsi_timer_eh_timer_fix.patch scmd-eh_timeout is used to resolve the race between command completion and timeout. However, during error handling, scsi_send_eh_cmnd uses scmd-eh_timeout. This creates a race condition between eh and normal completion for a

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 05/07] scsi: unexport scsi_{add|delete}_timer()

2005-04-10 Thread Tejun Heo
05_scsi_timer_unexport_timer_functions.patch SCSI cmd timer has specific synchronization/semantic requirements and shouldn't be directly used outside SCSI midlayer. With aic7xxx driver updated, there's no user left. This patch unexports scsi_{add|delete}_timer()

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 04/07] scsi: remove unnecessary scsi_delete_timer() call in scsi_reset_provider()

2005-04-10 Thread Tejun Heo
04_scsi_timer_remove_delete_timer_from_reset_provider.patch scsi_reset_provider() calls scsi_delete_timer() on exit which isn't necessary. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] scsi_error.c |1 - 1 files changed, 1 deletion(-) Index:

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 03/07] scsi: remove a timer race in scsi_queue_insert()

2005-04-10 Thread Tejun Heo
03_scsi_timer_dispatch_race_fix.patch scsi_queue_insert() has four callers. Three callers call with timer disabled and one (the second invocation in scsi_dispatch_cmd()) calls with timer activated. scsi_queue_insert() used to always call scsi_delete_timer()

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Some thing like the following patch, may be turn off able. Take out an old envelope and compute on it the odds of this happening. Say we have 10,000 kernel hackers, each producing one new file every minute, for 100 hours a week. And we've cloned a small army of Andrew Morton's to integrate the

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-10 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Oliver Neukum wrote: What is the point in doing so after they've rested on the disk for ages? The point is not physical access to the disk but data gathering after resume or reboot. -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-10 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Hi! What about doing it right? Encrypt it with symmetric cypher and store key in suspend header. That way key is removed automagically while fixing signatures. No need to clear anythink. Good idea. I'll have a look though it will take a while (busy with my job).

Re: [PATCH] re-export cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue

2005-04-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 14:07 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: This was unexported by Arjan because we have no current users. However, during a conversion from tasklets to workqueues of the parisc led functions, we ran across a case where this was needed. In particular, the open coded equivalent

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-10 Thread Ladislav Michl
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 06:44:53PM +0100, James Chapman wrote: The only reason I can think about is when suspending device, so it is likely pm job. /sys entry might help as well, but I do not see any point making driver more complicated and bigger just to make someone else happy. Why not

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread Thomas Graf
* jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-04-10 10:39 Please crosspost on netdev - you should know that by now;- I actually disagreee with Herbert on this. Theres definetely good need to have a more usable messaging system that rides on top of netlink. It is not that netlink cant be extended (I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Sean
On Sun, April 10, 2005 12:55 pm, Linus Torvalds said: Larry was ok with the idea to make my export format actually be natively supported by BK (ie the same way you have bk export -tpatch), but Tridge wanted to instead get at the native data and be difficult about it. As a result, I can now

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-10 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Sonntag, 10. April 2005 21:29 schrieb Andreas Steinmetz: Oliver Neukum wrote: What is the point in doing so after they've rested on the disk for ages? The point is not physical access to the disk but data gathering after resume or reboot. After resume or reboot normal access control

Problem with dual pentium on hx-board and kernel 2.4.x

2005-04-10 Thread Dieter Ferdinand
hello, i have problems with the new kernel on my old systems. with kernel 2.2.x it works fine, with kernel 2.4.x (last testet 2.4.29), the system hangs after some time (some minutes to some hours). on new p3-systems (also dual-systems) i don't have this problem. can you give me some help to

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Oliver Neukum wrote: What is the point in doing so after they've rested on the disk for ages? The point is not physical access to the disk but data gathering after resume or reboot. After resume or reboot normal access control mechanisms will work again. Those who can read a

uitverkoop horloges

2005-04-10 Thread omega
Wij hebben geheel nieuw in ons aanbod edel horloges opgenomen. Wij hebben bijna alle fantastische modelle voor u, die u zich maar wensen kunt. Alles van Bulgari, Cartier tot Chopard en Omega en Gucci uurwerken is te verkrijgen. Gesorteerd naar mannen en vrouwen uurwerken, of als geschenkbox is er

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

2005-04-10 Thread David Schwartz
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 08:07:03PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: The way you stop someone from distributing part of your work is by arguing that the work they are distributing is a derivative work of your work and they had no right to *make* it in the first place. See, for

[2.6 patch] arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c: make generic_get_mtrr static

2005-04-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global function static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 27 Mar 2005 - 20 Mar 2005 --- linux-2.6.11-mm4-full/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c.old 2005-03-20 19:43:46.0 +0100 +++

Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system

2005-04-10 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:29, you wrote: Hello. I am trying to format the CD-RW disc on my NEC ND-3520A DVD writer, and the results are completely unexpected: I do cdrwtool -d /dev/cdrom -q It proceeds with the formatting, but while it does so, the system is pretty much dead. It can do

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: It turns out to be the forks for doing all the cuts and such what is bogging it down so awfully (doing diff-tree takes 0.48s ;-). I do about 15 forks per change, I guess, and for some reason cut takes a long of time on its own. Heh. Can you pull my

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Good lord - you don't need to use arrays for this. The old-fashioned ways have their ways. Both the 'set' command and the 'read' command can split args and assign to distinct variable names. Try something like the following: diff-tree -r $id1 $id2 | sed -e '/^/ { N; s/\n/ / }' -e

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Paul Jackson wrote: Ah ha - that explains the read-tree and write-tree names. The read-tree pulls stuff out of this file system into your working files, clobbering local edits. This is like the read(2) system call, which clobbers stuff in your read buffer. Yes.

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-10 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ladislav, Driver has no chance to know about hardware design. If you want the driver to somehow interact with the battery charging register, it will have to. We just can't let the user write random value to this register. Based on your and Jean's input, following so far sounds reasonable:

Re: [PATCH] re-export cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue

2005-04-10 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 21:48 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: I have absolutely no problem with such an export / unstatic if there are users... could you just send them in one go ? Actually, no ... this is a nasty cross tree dependency. The piece of code is queued in the parisc tree, but Matthew

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
(Sorry I took so long to respond. I was busy with tons of stuff offline...) On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:33:27PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Do you have XFS compiled in, by chance? Yes. You are not actually resuming from initrd, right? That is correct. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To

Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:13:19PM CEST, I got a letter where Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 08:45:22PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: It turns out to be the forks for doing all the cuts and such what is bogging it down so awfully (doing

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! (Sorry I took so long to respond. I was busy with tons of stuff offline...) On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:33:27PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Do you have XFS compiled in, by chance? Yes. Can you try without XFS? I do not why it interferes, but I've seen that before on suse kernels...

Re: Status of new kernel.org servers

2005-04-10 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 04.10, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Andre Tomt wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: For those of you that are interested... snip I kind of sort of miss the load and bandwidth statistics on the kernel.org front page. Did they just go boring now with sufficient hardware resources? :-)

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: Can you pull my current repo, which has diff-tree -R that does what the name suggests, and which should be faster than the 0.48 sec you see.. Actually, I changed things around. Everybody hated the lines, so I put a changed thing on a line of

Re: 2.6.11.x: bootprompt: ALSA: no soundcard detected

2005-04-10 Thread Dennis Heuer
Aehhm, you are completely on the wrong track! I installed 2.6.11.7 the same way I installed 2.6.11, with sound support statically included, but, though it worked fine without ACPI under 2.6.11, the same configuration under 2.6.11.7 does not work. There was no change in practise, only a change

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Christopher Li
I totally agree that odds is really really small. That is why it is not worthy to handle the case. People hit that can just add a new line or some thing to avoid it, if it happen after all. It is the little peace of mind to know for sure that did not happen. I am just paranoid. Chris On Sun,

RE: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Luck, Tony
Also, I did actually debate that issue with myself, and decided that even if we do have tons of files per directory, git doesn't much care. The reason? Git never _searches_ for them. Assuming you have enough memory to cache the tree, you just end up doing a lookup, and inside the kernel that's

Re: RE: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 12:07:37AM CEST, I got a letter where Luck, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... ..snip.. Hey, I may end up being wrong, and yes, maybe I should have done a two-level one. The good news is that we can trivially fix it later (even dynamically - we can make

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Christopher Li
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:57:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: That way of thinking really doesn't work well here. I will have to look more closely at pasky's GIT toolkit if I want to see an SCM style interface. Yes. You really should think of GIT as a filesystem, and of me as a

Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:38:11PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: It turns out to be the forks for doing all the cuts and such what is bogging it down so awfully (doing diff-tree takes 0.48s

Re: Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 08:42:53PM CEST, I got a letter where Christopher Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... I totally agree that odds is really really small. That is why it is not worthy to handle the case. People hit that can just add a new line or some thing to avoid it, if it

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Stas Sergeev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - p-thread.esp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1); +p-thread.esp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1) - 8; This is utterly obscure - it needs a comment so that readers know what that - 8 is doing there. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-10 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:29:24PM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 14:13, Dmitry Yusupov wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 13:54 -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: Three years ago, there was no fully working open source distributed scm code base to use as a starting point,

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Christopher Li wrote: BTW, one thing I learn from ext3 is that it is very useful to have some compatible flag for future development. I think if we want to reserve some room in the file format for further development of git Way ahead of you. This is (one reason) why

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

2005-04-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
But it's not specific to X11; I've applied the patch you posted and the same symptoms occur for pure tty switching as well, the delay has decreased a bit (it's hard to measure, but around a second), but it's still rather annoying to work with. Is it distinguishable which M6 models are

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
kernel-rcupdatec-make-the-exports-export_symbol_gpl.patch add-deprecated_for_modules.patch add-deprecated_for_modules-fix.patch deprecate-synchronize_kernel-gpl-replacement.patch deprecate-synchronize_kernel-gpl-replacement-fix.patch change-synchronize_kernel-to-_rcu-and-_sched.patch Please drop

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:27:47PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Can you try without XFS? No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) I'll see if I can reproduce this on one of my test boxes. I'll *try* to get to it later today,

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Can you try without XFS? No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) Yes, loading xfs from initrd should help. [At least it did during suse9.3 testing.] I'll see if I can reproduce this on one of my test boxes. I'll

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Christopher Li
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 03:38:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Christopher Li wrote: BTW, one thing I learn from ext3 is that it is very useful to have some compatible flag for future development. I think if we want to reserve some room in the file format for

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: (I repeat the xxx in the leaf name - easier to code.) It is a bit OT, but just a note: there are file systems (hash functions) out there who dont like a lot of files named the same way. For example NTFS with the 8.3 short names. Greetings Bernd - To

Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: I currently already do a merge when you track someone's source - it will throw away your previous HEAD record though Not only that, it doesn't do what I consider a merge. A real merge should have two or more parents. The commit-tree command already

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

2005-04-10 Thread Brice Goglin
Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : But it's not specific to X11; I've applied the patch you posted and the same symptoms occur for pure tty switching as well, the delay has decreased a bit (it's hard to measure, but around a second), but it's still rather annoying to work with. Is it distinguishable

New SCM and commit list

2005-04-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi Linus ! Do you intend to continue posting commited patches to a mailing list like bk scripts did to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? As I said a while ago, I find this very useful, especially with the actual patch included in the commit message (which isn't the case with most other projects CVS commit

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Useful explanation - thanks, Linus. Is this picture and description accurate: == working directory files (foo.c) ^ ^| | upward ops|downward

Re: Disc driver is module, software suspend fails

2005-04-10 Thread Jim Carter
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: You do not want to mount journaling filesystems; they tend to write to disks even during read-only mounts... But doing it from initrd should be okay. ext2 and init=/bin/bash should do the trick, too. I did give it a try -- successfully. For

[PATCH encrypted swsusp 0/3] encrypted swsusp image

2005-04-10 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
The following patches allow for encryption of the on-disk swsusp image to prevent data gathering of e.g. in-kernel keys or mlocked data after resume. For this purpose the aes cipher must be compiled into the kernel as module load is not possible at resume time. A random key is generated at

Oops in swsusp

2005-04-10 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Pavel, during testing of the encrypted swsusp_image on x86_64 I did get an Oops from time to time at memcpy+11 called from swsusp_save+1090 which turns out to be the memcpy in copy_data_pages() of swsusp.c. The Oops is caused by a NULL pointer (I don't remember if it was source or destination).

[PATCH encrypted swsusp 2/3] configuration

2005-04-10 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
The following patch includes the necessary kernel configuration option. -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11.2/kernel/power/Kconfig.ast 2005-04-10 20:44:48.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.11.2/kernel/power/Kconfig 2005-04-10

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Christopher Li wrote: How about deleting trees from the caches? I don't need to delete stuff from the official tree. It is more for my local version control. I have a plan. Namely to have a list-needed command, which you give one commit, and a flag implying how much

Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Do you intend to continue posting commited patches to a mailing list like bk scripts did to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? As I said a while ago, I find this very useful, especially with the actual patch included in the commit message (which isn't

[PATCH encrypted swsusp 3/3] documentation

2005-04-10 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
The following patch adds some information for encrypted suspend to the swsusp documentation. -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11.2/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt.ast 2005-04-10 21:07:01.0 +0200 +++

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Petr wrote: That reminds me, is there any tool which will take .rej files and throw them into the file to create rcsmerge-like conflicts? Check out 'wiggle' http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/wiggle/ -- I won't rest till it's the best ...

Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 01:10:58AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: I currently already do a merge when you track someone's source - it will throw away your previous HEAD record though Not

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-10 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Apr 6, 2005 1:41 PM, Richard B. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you know? Windows will just run it as PIOW and be done with it. Yes, but there's a way to know which mode you're using (maybe not precisely, but at least PIO vs DMA). Did you ever try to copy a large file in XP?

[PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-10 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
The following patch adds the core functionality for the encrypted suspend image. -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11.2/kernel/power/swsusp.c.ast2005-04-10 14:08:55.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.11.2/kernel/power/swsusp.c

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Paul Jackson wrote: Useful explanation - thanks, Linus. Hey. You're welcome. Especially when you create good documentation for this thing. Because: Is this picture and description accurate: [ deleted, but I'll probably try to put it in an explanation file

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