On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >This is why I want to get rid of sendfile(). It's a fundamentally broken
> >interface. Really. In contrast, the pipe buffers _can_ be used for direct
> >socket->file interfaces.
>
> How will userspace access these pipe buffers?
You can fill
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:50:46AM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> I believe some OSs do buffered IO, if there is a problem with alignment.
That's what I said. They all do buffered I/O if the alignment
is not 512B. They do _not_ try to accept alignments that are smaller.
There's no
Hello,
Motherboard: Tyan Tiger 230T
Memory: 1.5GB
CPU: 2 x 1.13GHz P3
kernel config file attached.
[20975.810849] [ cut here ]
[20975.871509] kernel BUG at kernel/sched.c:2579!
[20975.929776] invalid operand: [#1]
[20975.978911] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>> >With union mount and cowlink, there are two users already. cp(1)
>> >could use it as well, even if the improvement is quite minimal.
>>
>> FTP PUT could use this too - ...
>
>No, FTP PUT _cannot_ use it, exactly because sendfile() can't do anything
>but file sources (and not even all file
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Jan Blunck wrote:
>
> This patch adds bogo dirent sizes for ramfs like already available for
> tmpfs.
I really think you should update the "simple_xxx()" functions instead, and
thus make this happen for _any_ filesystem that uses the simple fs helper
functions.
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Elias Kesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Looking at the archives I see that a an intel patch
>> was submitted back in October but I am unable to
>> determine what the resolution was.
>
> What patch was that?
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/29/332
> OK. But adding fiddle new
On 7/16/05, Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * aq ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Function lib/cmdline.c:memparse() wrongly calculates the memory if the
> > given string has K/M/G suffix. This patch (against 2.6.13-rc3) fixes
> > the problem. Please apply.
>
> Patch looks incorrect.
>
>
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:15:21PM -0400, Tom Vier wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:09:29PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > However with 90+W CPUs I would strongly recommend having support
> > for PowerNow! and the old style PST table doesn't support
> > dual core or SMP, so you need ACPI for that
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:09:29PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> However with 90+W CPUs I would strongly recommend having support
> for PowerNow! and the old style PST table doesn't support
> dual core or SMP, so you need ACPI for that anyways.
Do opterons even support powernow? The proc or sysfs
* aq ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Function lib/cmdline.c:memparse() wrongly calculates the memory if the
> given string has K/M/G suffix. This patch (against 2.6.13-rc3) fixes
> the problem. Please apply.
Patch looks incorrect.
> --- 2.6.13-rc3/lib/cmdline.c 2005-04-30 10:31:37.0 +0900
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:57:01PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I wouldn't say it is totally impossible. There are ways in which Linux can
> > work
> > without a reliable Local APIC timer. One option being - make one CPU that
> > gets
> > the external timer interrupt multicast an IPI to all the
Hi Marcelo,
Thank you for the quick response. I actually didn't anticipate that
quick of a response.
> > I was wondering if someone could help me with this. I'm porting an
> > ASPLOV paper miss ratio curve from 2.4.20 2.6.11.6 and eventually to
> > Planet Labs kernel. It's a novel idea for
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 06:54:30PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't say it is totally impossible. There are ways in which Linux can
> > work
> > without a reliable Local APIC timer. One option being - make one CPU that
> > gets
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:17:53PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> Thanks for redirecting to the correct list.
>
> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 13:38 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 16:52 +0530, Amrut Joshi wrote:
> > > Currently linux scsi subsystem doesnt store the 8-byte luns
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> That's like scratching your left ear with your right hand -- broadcasting
> that external timer interrupt in the first place is more straightforward.
> If you want to exclude CPUs from the list of receivers, just use the
> logical destination mode appropriately.
The problem with that is
> I wouldn't say it is totally impossible. There are ways in which Linux can
> work
> without a reliable Local APIC timer. One option being - make one CPU that
> gets
> the external timer interrupt multicast an IPI to all the other CPUs that
> wants to get periodic timer interrupt.
That
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 17:23 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Badari Pulavarty wrote:
...
> >> I don't know why you wanna relax the alignment requirement, but
> >> wouldn't it be easier to just write/use block-aligned allocator for
> >> such buffers? It will even make the program more portable.
> >>
>
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> I wouldn't say it is totally impossible. There are ways in which Linux can
> work
> without a reliable Local APIC timer. One option being - make one CPU that
> gets
> the external timer interrupt multicast an IPI to all the other CPUs that
>
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 17:56 +0100, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:18:28PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > I can imagine a reason for relaxing the alignment. I keep getting asked
> > whether we can do "O_DIRECT mount option". Database folks wants to
> > make sure all the access
Hi, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Also GITtable, as soon as the mirrors' work is done:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/smurf/v2.6.13-rc3-mm1.git;a=summary
Moved to
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/smurf/linux-trees.git;a=summary
--
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Em Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:02:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds escreveu:
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Egry Gábor wrote:
> >
> > Yes, the patch 19/19 contains the translation of configuration
> > interfaces ([x|g|menu]config) and it is only 23 kb. The full version of
> > unfinished hu.po is 2 MB and the
I've updated my git quickstart guide at
http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html
It now points to DaveJ's daily snapshots for the initial bootstrap
tarball, is reorganized for better navigation, and other things.
Also, a bonus recipe: how to import Linus's pack files (it's easy).
This
Function lib/cmdline.c:memparse() wrongly calculates the memory if the
given string has K/M/G suffix. This patch (against 2.6.13-rc3) fixes
the problem. Please apply.
Signed-off-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# diffstat cmdline.patch
cmdline-aq.c |4 ++--
1 files changed, 2
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:02:24PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> At least on multi processor systems LAPIC has to work anyways (otherwise
> you cannot schedule other CPUs), so it is fine to use there.
>
> AFAIK there are no x86 CPUs right now that do both C3
> and SMP. If they ever do then they
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:37:22PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12:17AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> > > (/sbin/cardmgr chewing up lots of CPU cycles with 2.6.12 kernel)
> >
> > Please post the output of "lspci" and "lsmod" as I'd like to
Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:27:01 +0200, Thoralf Will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>I didn't find any useful answer anywhere so far, hope it's ok to ask here.
>>I'm currently trying to get a 2.4.31 up and running on an IBM
>>BladeCenter HS20/8843. (base system is a stripped
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:36:53AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> +update-filesystems-for-new-delete_inode-behavior-fix.patch
>
> This needs to be, too.
Applied.
Joel
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Quoting Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 22:54 -0600, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:08 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > > Audio did show slightly larger max latencies but nothing that would be
> of
> >
"Brown, Len" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >That's an APIC bug.
> >When Intel originally released the APIC (some
> >thirteen years ago) they stated it should be used as a source of the
> timer
> >interrupt instead of the 8254. There is no excuse for changing the
> >behaviour after so many years.
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 22:54 -0600, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:08 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > Audio did show slightly larger max latencies but nothing that would be of
> > > significance.
> > >
> > > On video, maximum
> -Original Message-
> From: Richard B. Johnson
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 8:53 AM
> To: karl malbrain
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel. Org
> Subject: RE: 2.6.9: serial_core: uart_open
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, karl malbrain wrote:
>
> > I've also noticed that the boot sequence probes
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:33:15PM -0400, Brown, Len wrote:
> So, the 13-year-old design advice will continue to apply to
> 13-year-old systems, but newer systems with C3 and HPET
> should be using them.
Last I looked HPET isn't everywhere yet (absent from nforce4
mainboards for example, but
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:18:28PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> I can imagine a reason for relaxing the alignment. I keep getting asked
> whether we can do "O_DIRECT mount option". Database folks wants to
> make sure all the access to files in a given filesystem are O_DIRECT
All
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 05:46, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >>On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> >>>And I'm incredibly frustrated by this insistence on hard data when it's
> >>>completely obvious to anyone who
SATA ATAPI support is disabled by default because the code is not yet
complete.
Jeff
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>That's an APIC bug.
>When Intel originally released the APIC (some
>thirteen years ago) they stated it should be used as a source of the
timer
>interrupt instead of the 8254. There is no excuse for changing the
>behaviour after so many years. So if you are on a broken system, you
may
>want to
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:59:17AM +0200, Bas Vermeulen wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 11:31 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > Hi Jeff,
hi all,
> > I have a Intel ICH6M chipset and am using ata_piix as my
> > default disk driver. With the SUSE patched 2.6.11.4 kernel
> > (it has some
* Jan Engelhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> And when is this becoming business? What made post_setUid go into the kernel?
That went as part of supporting capabilities as they were, to do fixups
on set{r,e,s}uid.
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> -Original Message-
> From: Russell King
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 12:29 AM
> To: karl malbrain
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel. Org
> Subject: Re: 2.6.9: serial_core: uart_open
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 03:35:07PM -0700, karl malbrain wrote:
> > AT LAST I HAVE SOME DATA!!!
> >
> >
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 12:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > PI is always good, cause it allows the tracking of what is high
> > priority , and what is not .
>
> that's just plain wrong. PI might be good if one cares about priorities
> and worst-case
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 08:57 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Try HPET which is pretty standard these days.
>
Really? None of my machines have it. I suspect lots of "embeddable"
systems don't either.
Lee
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On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> >> I don't know if we want to add this feature, really. It's such a
> >> specialised thing.
> >
> >With union mount and cowlink, there are two users already. cp(1)
> >could use it as well, even if the improvement is quite minimal.
>
> FTP PUT
> -Original Message-
> From: Russell King
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 12:29 AM
> To: karl malbrain
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel. Org
> Subject: Re: 2.6.9: serial_core: uart_open
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 03:35:07PM -0700, karl malbrain wrote:
> > AT LAST I HAVE SOME DATA!!!
> >
> >
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> I don't know if we want to add this feature, really. It's such a
> specialised thing.
It is, in this format, and I agree - I don't want to add it.
What I'd really like to see is somebody taking a look at my old "pipe as a
zero-copy buffer"
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > Linux can already provide a response time within < 3 usecs from user space
> > using f.e. the Altix RTC driver which can generate an interrupt that then
> > sends a signal to an application. The Altix
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:45:17AM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:49:47PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:44:26AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> > I think the patch is
2005-07-16 (Sat) 00:07 +0900 Akinobu Mita wrote:
> Currently, mbcache is used only for xattr on ext2/ext3 and reiserfs.
> In other words, only one type of mbcache is used per-filesystem.
> So any problems don't happen without the patch I sent.
>
> But, for example when someone use mbcache as
2005-07-15 (Fri) 16:36 +0200 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> The cache parameter could indeed be removed. Not that it would matter much...
>
Currently, mbcache is used only for xattr on ext2/ext3 and reiserfs.
In other words, only one type of mbcache is used per-filesystem.
So any problems don't
Hi Ben,
--- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
escribió:
> Yes. We discussed that with Linus back then. The
> problem is that the
> printk subsystem tend to abuse calling low level
> drivers at interrupt
> time, and in the case of blanking/unblanking, this
> can be a problem.
> Radeonfb
Con Kolivas wrote: {
Version 0.21 update
Changed the design to run the benchmarked and background loads as separate
processes that spawn their own threads instead of everything running as a
thread of the same process.
}
Great!
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Ken Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: {
...Linux kernel needs a systematic and disciplined way to measure and track
kernel performance on a regular basis.
}
Nice, but the numbers would have more meaning if they were put in relation
to System Load ( CPU,MEM,DISK,NET,... )
Also, a test that
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:36:53AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/
>
> (http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-rc3-mm1.gz until
> kernel.org syncs up)
>
>
> - Added the CKRM patches. This
When running depmod to check for the correct version number, extra
output we don't need to see, such as "depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not
implemented" may show up. Redirect stderr to /dev/null as the version
information that we do care about comes to stdout.
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[EMAIL
>So keep the patch part of your module, it has no business in mainline
>so far.
And when is this becoming business? What made post_setUid go into the kernel?
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Patrick Boettcher wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Andrew Benton wrote:
Hi, I tried the patch but unfortunately the kernel didn't compile, it
ended like this
CC drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-blackbird.o
CC drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.o
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.c:169:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:36:53AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >...
> > Changes since 2.6.13-rc2-mm2:
> >...
> > git-scsi-misc.patch
> >...
> > Subsystem trees
> >...
>
...
> +obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_QLA24XX) += qla2xxx.o
>
>
> I don't know what exactly
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Only on uniprocessor machines.
Question for the AMD guys: is there a chance of getting
non-proprietary-bios ACPI tables from AMD directly? I.e. ACPI tables as
needed for power-now etc. could be released under GPL, making inclusion
into linuxbios a bit
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 01:46 +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:07:34AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > I'm don't think it has ever been working in the 2.6 series. If you are
> > getting rid of it get rid of the #define PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_VGA in pci.h
> > too since this code was the
On Friday 15 July 2005 15:41, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> > > --- 2.6-rc/fs/mbcache.c.orig 2005-07-14 20:40:34.0 +0900
> > > +++ 2.6-rc/fs/mbcache.c 2005-07-14 20:43:42.0 +0900
> > > @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ mb_cache_shrink(struct mb_cache *cache,
> > > list_for_each_safe(l, ltmp,
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:54:40AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> >> the following patch adds a post_setgid() security hook, and necessary
> >> dummy
> >> funcs.
> >
> >... and why exactly would we want these?
>
> I am working on a sec module which, among other things, raises certain
>
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 13:38 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Before 2.6.12-rc2, the console was unblanked by just
> >writing to the console.
> >For keyboardless and mouseless systems (which is my
> >case, embedded) this new behaviour is a bit annoying.
>
> Interesting. I have observed the
>
> I have this problem since 2.6.12-rc2.
> If I add back the patch hunk specified in my original
> message, the blanking behaviour changes to that
> present in pre-2.6.12-rc2 kernels.
And you'll have nice scheduling in atomic for any printk() done in
atomic context that triggers the unblank()
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:12 +0200, Albert Herranz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looks like, since [1] was merged, a blanked console
> (due to inactivity for example) doesn't get unblanked
> anymore when new output is written to it.
>
> This hunk of the already metioned patch, which
> modifies
Joe Seigh wrote:
A bit sketchy. You can see a working example of this using
C++ refcounted pointers (which can't be used in the kernel
naturally, you'll have to implement your own) at
http://atomic-ptr-plus.sourceforge.net/
The APPC stuff is in the atomic-ptr-plus package if anyone is
> > --- 2.6-rc/fs/mbcache.c.orig2005-07-14 20:40:34.0 +0900
> > +++ 2.6-rc/fs/mbcache.c 2005-07-14 20:43:42.0 +0900
> > @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ mb_cache_shrink(struct mb_cache *cache,
> > list_for_each_safe(l, ltmp, _cache_lru_list) {
> > struct
> I have always wondered how Windows got it right circa 1995 - Version after
> version, several different hardwares and it always works reliably.
> I am using Linux since 1997 and not a single time have I succeeded in getting
> it to suspend and resume reliably.
Because Windows at the time
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
Patrick,
Patrick Boettcher wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Andrew Benton wrote:
Hi, I tried the patch but unfortunately the kernel didn't compile, it
ended like this
CC drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-blackbird.o
CC
Patrick,
Patrick Boettcher wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Andrew Benton wrote:
>
>> Hi, I tried the patch but unfortunately the kernel didn't compile, it
>> ended like this
>>
>> CC drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-blackbird.o
>> CC drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.o
>>
>> I don't know if we want to add this feature, really. It's such a
>> specialised thing.
>
>With union mount and cowlink, there are two users already. cp(1)
>could use it as well, even if the improvement is quite minimal.
FTP PUT could use this too - currently, only FTPGETs can use sendfile
On 7/15/05, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >
> > It's buggy, that I know. setting kernel_hz (the new boot parameter) to
> > 250 causes my system clock to run at something like 4-5 times normal
> > speed
>
> 4 times normal. You don't
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Andrew Benton wrote:
Hi, I tried the patch but unfortunately the kernel didn't compile, it ended
like this
CC drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-blackbird.o
CC drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.o
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.c:169: error: unknown field
Patrick Boettcher wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
Andrew Benton wrote:
My pci TV card (a Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T) works fine with a 2.6.13-rc2
kernel but won't work with a 2.6.13-rc3 by a process of elimination I've
found that if I reverse this part of the 2.6.13-rc3
Quoting Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:54, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Con Kolivas wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:57, David Lang wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> for audio and video this would seem to be a fairly simple
Con Kolivas wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:54, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Con Kolivas wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:57, David Lang wrote:
for audio and video this would seem to be a fairly simple scaleing factor
(or just doing a fixed amount of work rather then a fixed percentage of
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
And I'm incredibly frustrated by this insistence on hard data when it's
completely obvious to anyone who knows the first thing about MIDI that
HZ=250 will fail in
On Gwe, 2005-07-15 at 00:19, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That's not what "jiffies" are about. If you want accurate time, use
> something else, like gettimeofday. The timeouts are _only_ relevant on the
> scale of a timer interrupt, since by definition that's what we're waiting
> for.
Ok makes sense -
Lee Revell wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
YOUR argument is "nobody else matters, only I do".
MY argument is that this is a case of give and take.
I wouldn't say that. I do agree with you that HZ=1000 for everyone is
problematic, I just feel that a
Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>+static inline size_t
>>+filemap_copy_from_kernel(struct page *page, unsigned long offset,
>>+const char *buf, unsigned bytes)
>>+{
>>+ char *kaddr;
>>+
>>+ kaddr = kmap(page);
>>+ memcpy(kaddr + offset, buf, bytes);
>>+
Russell King wrote:
>No no no no no. Repeat after me ten times. Empty or non-existant release
>functions are bad and cause oopsen. I will not create code which does
>this.
>
>
Sorry. I thought it was a generic cleanup function and since nothing was
allocated in the register function I
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:27:40 +0100
"Stephen C. Tweedie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The inotify patch just added a line
>
> + fsnotify_open(f->f_dentry);
>
> to sys_open, but it missed the x86_64 compatibility sys32_open()
> equivalent in
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 13:53 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Bas Vermeulen schrieb:
> > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 11:31 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Jeff,
> >>
> >>I have a Intel ICH6M chipset and am using ata_piix as my
> >>default disk driver. With the SUSE patched 2.6.11.4
Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 02:08 schrieb William Weston:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Karsten Wiese wrote:
>
> > i've only tested on 2005ish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: it doesn't need any of the
> > quirks
> > IOAPIC_POSTFLUSH, sis_bug, level-edge cleanup.
> > IOAPIC_POSTFLUSH caused no negative influence
Dear Linux-lovers.
I am trying to build a 2.6.10 linux kernel module to print messages to a
file. I have done this 2.4 and I was successful but I am failing here.
I am using the sys_open, sys_write calls to do so.
I am getting a compilation warning and I find no .ko file created
finally
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 05:04:57 -0600 (MDT)
> Zwane Mwaikambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > {
> > + printk("CPU %d:", smp_processor_id());
>
> Isn't there a space after the : missing here?
I don't believe
Bas Vermeulen schrieb:
> On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 11:31 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>
>>Hi Jeff,
>>
>>I have a Intel ICH6M chipset and am using ata_piix as my
>>default disk driver. With the SUSE patched 2.6.11.4 kernel
>>(it has some libata patches) my DVD-RAM drive works, with
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 05:04:57 -0600 (MDT)
Zwane Mwaikambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> + printk("CPU %d:", smp_processor_id());
Isn't there a space after the : missing here?
-Andi
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On 7/15/05, Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could you try doing:
>
> echo 1 > /sys/modules/i8042/parameters/debug
>
> before suspending and the post your dmesg, please? Maybe we see something
> there.
Here you go:
12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs 20)
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Linux can already provide a response time within < 3 usecs from
user space using f.e. the Altix RTC driver which can generate an
interrupt that then sends a signal to an application. The Altix RTC
clock is supported via POSIX timer syscalls and
Patrick,
We'll include it at V4L.
Mauro.
Patrick Boettcher wrote:
>
> Hmm, yes. When I changed the cx22702-driver to make it work with the
> cxusb-driver, I added another field to the struct cx22702_config to
> determine the output type.
>
> I was well aware that this breaks support
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 16:47 +0530, RVK wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >so it's new? so what? doesn't make it less true that it nowadays is a
> >lot harder to exploit such bugs on recent distros.
> >
> >
> >
> How about using ProPolice etc ?
that's also a good one; gcc 4.1 will have a
Hi,
The inotify patch just added a line
+ fsnotify_open(f->f_dentry);
to sys_open, but it missed the x86_64 compatibility sys32_open()
equivalent in arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c.
Andi, perhaps it's time to factor out the guts of sys_open from the flag
munging to
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 13:56 +0530, RVK wrote:
except this is no longer true really ;)
randomisation for example makes this a lot harder to do.
gcc level tricks to prevent buffer overflows are widely in use nowadays
too (FORTIFY_SOURCE and -fstack-protector). The
On Fri, 15 July 2005 04:06:11 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +
> > + /* There is no sane reason to use O_DIRECT */
> > + BUG_ON(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT);
>
> err, this seems like an easy way for people to make the kernel go BUG.
Is there a sane use for O_DIRECT in combination with
During recovery, set the RESEND flag on locks waiting for a lookup so
they'll be resent when recovery completes.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6.12-mm1/drivers/dlm/lock.c
===
---
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
Andrew Benton wrote:
My pci TV card (a Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T) works fine with a 2.6.13-rc2
kernel but won't work with a 2.6.13-rc3 by a process of elimination I've
found that if I reverse this part of the 2.6.13-rc3 patch the card works
fine.
Fix potential race in lowcomms.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6.12-mm1/drivers/dlm/lowcomms.c
===
---
Replace test/set/clear_bit of rsb flags with new inline functions that use
the less expense non-atomic bit ops.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6.12-mm1/drivers/dlm/debug_fs.c
===
---
Andrew Benton wrote:
> My pci TV card (a Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T) works fine with a 2.6.13-rc2
> kernel but won't work with a 2.6.13-rc3 by a process of elimination I've
> found that if I reverse this part of the 2.6.13-rc3 patch the card works
> fine. Please do not include this in the 2.6.13
Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is a generic sendpage() for regular files.
>
> +static inline size_t
> +filemap_copy_from_kernel(struct page *page, unsigned long offset,
> + const char *buf, unsigned bytes)
> +{
> + char *kaddr;
> +
> + kaddr =
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