[patch 6/8] PCI Error Recovery: e1000 network device driver

2005-08-23 Thread Linas Vepstas
Various PCI bus errors can be signaled by newer PCI controllers. This patch adds the PCI error recovery callbacks to the intel gigabit ethernet e1000 device driver. The patch has been tested, and appears to work well. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

[patch 7/8] PCI Error Recovery: ixgb network device driver

2005-08-23 Thread Linas Vepstas
Various PCI bus errors can be signaled by newer PCI controllers. This patch adds the PCI error recovery callbacks to the intel ten-gigabit ethernet ixgb device driver. The patch has been tested, and appears to work well. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

[patch 8/8] PCI Error Recovery: PPC64 core recovery routines

2005-08-23 Thread Linas Vepstas
Various PCI bus errors can be signaled by newer PCI controllers. The core error recovery routines are architecture dependent. This patch adds a recovery infrastructure for the PPC64 pSeries systems. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- arch/ppc64/kernel/Makefile |2

[patch 5/8] PCI Error Recovery: e100 network device driver

2005-08-23 Thread Linas Vepstas
Various PCI bus errors can be signaled by newer PCI controllers. This patch adds the PCI error recovery callbacks to the intel ethernet e100 device driver. The patch has been tested, and appears to work well. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: message: do_vfs_lock: VFS is out of sync with lock manager!

2005-08-23 Thread Trond Myklebust
ty den 23.08.2005 Klokka 19:00 (+0200) skreiv [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello list, developers! I have seriously get this message: [43124719.93] do_vfs_lock: VFS is out of sync with lock manager! [43124720.94] do_vfs_lock: VFS is out of sync with lock manager! [43124721.95]

Re: CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME woes

2005-08-23 Thread Tim Bird
Andrew Morton wrote: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about just using jiffies, then? Really, sched_clock() is very broken for this (I know you're not arguing against that). It can go backwards when called twice from the same CPU, and the number returned by one CPU need have no

Re: mremap() use is racy

2005-08-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Ulrich Drepper wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: Especially if you use MAP_SHARED, you don't even need to mprotect anything: you'll get a nice SIGBUS if you ever try to access past the last page that maps the file. If you guarantee this (and test for this) it's

conexant modem driver for 2.6.12

2005-08-23 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
I have ported the Conexant modem driver to the 2.6.12 kernel. The port is based on the lattest BSD/GPL version that I could find: 5.03.27. To make the port easier, I have considered only the model that I have: the HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev 01). The port is still quite a mess, but it can be

Re: CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME woes

2005-08-23 Thread Tim Bird
Andrew Morton wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about we give each arch a printk_clock()? Which might be as simple as this.. --- devel/kernel/printk.c~printk_clock2005-08-21 02:14:05.0 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/kernel/printk.c2005-08-21

Re: [patch 8/8] PCI Error Recovery: PPC64 core recovery routines

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linas Vepstas writes: In this patch at least, your mailer seems to have blanked out lines that match ^[-+]$. Could you send them to me again with a different mailer or put them on a web or ftp site somewhere? Thanks, Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

[OT] Mailing list set up for discussion of kernel keyring implementation + utils

2005-08-23 Thread Trond Myklebust
Hey, Following a mini-bof (lunch actually) at OLS, we decided to set up a dedicated mailing list on which to discuss development of the Linux key retention code (a.k.a. keyrings, a.k.a. AFS, NFS, and CIFS? authentication tokens) and the associated userland utilities. The list will be moderated

Re: [Samba] Re: New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem

2005-08-23 Thread Ian Kent
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ian Kent wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven French wrote: | | We are close, but not quite ready to disable

Re: select() efficiency / epoll

2005-08-23 Thread Davy Durham
Jari Sundell wrote: On 8/23/05, Davy Durham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was hoping you would mention in your reply that you knew epoll_data_t was an union and you didn't touch epoll_data::fd, so i wouldn't have to say it explicitly. ;) No, I saw that epoll_data_t was a union (although,

Re: [PATCH] blk queue io tracing support

2005-08-23 Thread Nathan Scott
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:32:36PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: Hi, This is a little something I have played with. It allows you to see exactly what is going on in the block layer for a given queue. Currently it can logs request queueing and building, dispatches, requeues, and completions. Ah,

Re: [PATCH] (20/43) Kconfig fix (ppc32 SMP dependencies)

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Mackerras
Al Viro writes: ppc SMP is supported only for 6xx/POWER3/POWER4 - i.e. ones that have PPC_STD_MMU. Dependency fixed. Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: [PATCH] Add MCE resume under ia32

2005-08-23 Thread Shaohua Li
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 12:32 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: It's widely seen a MCE non-fatal error reported after resume. It seems MCE resume is lacked under ia32. This patch tries to fix the gap. Well, you patch seems like missing piece of puzzle, but: a) we probably want to do it for

Re: [patch] suspend: update warnings

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:53:49AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: - CPU Freq (improving too) It might be good to mention these areas too. Well, right; but those 'only' cause system to crash during suspend. I was talking about really dangerous stuff. Both usb and

Re: select() efficiency / epoll

2005-08-23 Thread Davy Durham
Jari Sundell wrote: On 8/23/05, Davy Durham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was hoping you would mention in your reply that you knew epoll_data_t was an union and you didn't touch epoll_data::fd, so i wouldn't have to say it explicitly. ;) Oh!.. unless the epoll_data_t is a union just for

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] i386: fix incorrect FP signal delivery

2005-08-23 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:55:21 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: Wouldn't this simpler patch result in exactly the same behaviour? I thought the extra code would be good documentation, but the comments work just as well. This is a little clearer (hand edited patch:) ---

Re: [PATCH] Add MCE resume under ia32

2005-08-23 Thread Andi Kleen
Shaohua Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: x86-64 has resume support. It uses 'on_each_cpu' in resume method, which is known broken. We'd better fix it. What is broken with it? -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Add MCE resume under ia32

2005-08-23 Thread Shaohua Li
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 03:52 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Shaohua Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: x86-64 has resume support. It uses 'on_each_cpu' in resume method, which is known broken. We'd better fix it. What is broken with it? It's a sysdev. The resume method is invoked with interrupt

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-23 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:05:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just making a suggestion to whoever it may concern, because I think it would extend the usefullness of initramfs. I have a path for initramfs to use tmpfs. It's sorta hacky so I never submitted it and solves a niche

Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-23 Thread robotti
I have a path for initramfs to use tmpfs. It's sorta hacky so I never submitted it and solves a niche problem for embedded people. Ultimately we might one day still want to change how we initialize the early userspace (Al suggesting a reasomably nice way to move the decompressor(s)

Re: [PATCH] Add MCE resume under ia32

2005-08-23 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:59, Shaohua Li wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 03:52 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Shaohua Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: x86-64 has resume support. It uses 'on_each_cpu' in resume method, which is known broken. We'd better fix it. What is broken with it? It's a

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-23 Thread Lincoln Dale
Denis Vlasenko wrote: This is what I would expect if run on an otherwise idle machine. sched_yield just puts you at the back of the line for runnable processes, it doesn't magically cause you to go to sleep somehow. When a kernel build is occurring??? Plus `top` itself It damn well

Re: [PATCH] Add MCE resume under ia32

2005-08-23 Thread Shaohua Li
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 05:12 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:59, Shaohua Li wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 03:52 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Shaohua Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: x86-64 has resume support. It uses 'on_each_cpu' in resume method, which is known

Re: [PATCH] Add MCE resume under ia32

2005-08-23 Thread Andi Kleen
[adding discuss to cc] On Wednesday 24 August 2005 05:47, Shaohua Li wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 05:12 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:59, Shaohua Li wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 03:52 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Shaohua Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: x86-64 has

Re: [PATCH] Add MCE resume under ia32

2005-08-23 Thread Shaohua Li
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 05:59 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: [adding discuss to cc] On Wednesday 24 August 2005 05:47, Shaohua Li wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 05:12 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:59, Shaohua Li wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 03:52 +0200, Andi Kleen

[PATCH 2.6.12.5]error condition fix in usbnet

2005-08-23 Thread lepton
Hi! I thinks this condition is strange, it could be a type error. See the following patch. Signed-off-by: Wu Tao [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -pru linux-2.6-curr/drivers/usb/net/usbnet.c linux-2.6-curr-lepton/drivers/usb/net/usbnet.c --- linux-2.6-curr/drivers/usb/net/usbnet.c 2005-06-30

Re: [PATCH] Add MCE resume under ia32

2005-08-23 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 06:16, Shaohua Li wrote: The boot code already initialized MCE for APs, it isn't required to initialize again. The MCE entries are cpuhotplug friendly, so for suspend/resume. Ok so you're saying the only change needed is to remove the on_each_cpu() in the resume

Re: [PATCH] Add MCE resume under ia32

2005-08-23 Thread Shaohua Li
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 06:26 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 06:16, Shaohua Li wrote: The boot code already initialized MCE for APs, it isn't required to initialize again. The MCE entries are cpuhotplug friendly, so for suspend/resume. Ok so you're saying the only

Re: debug a high load average

2005-08-23 Thread Rajesh
Erik Mouw wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:38:36PM +0530, Rajesh wrote: I have a case occasionally when I copy data from a usb storage (ipod) to my hard drive the load average goes up from 0.4 to about 15.0, and the system becomes very unusable till I kill the cp command. I have checked

Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
Hullo. I really wanted to release a 2.6.13, but there's been enough changes while we've been waiting for other issues to resolve that I think it's best to do a -rc7 first. Most of the -rc7 changes are pretty trivial, either one-liners or affecting some particular specific driver or unusual

Re: [-mm PATCH] drivers/char/speakup/synthlist.h - Fix warnings with -Wundef

2005-08-23 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:00:35PM -0400, Nick Sillik wrote: This patch fixes (it should) the following warnings generated with -Wundef in the file drivers/char/speakup/synthlist.h drivers/char/speakup/synthlist.h:13:35: warning: CONFIG_SPEAKUP_ACNTPC is not defined ---

Re: [-mm PATCH] drivers/char/speakup/synthlist.h - Fix warnings with -Wundef

2005-08-23 Thread Nick Sillik
Alexey Dobriyan wrote: -#define CFG_TEST(name) (name) +#define CFG_TEST(name) defined(name) No. Just remove this obfuscating macro. Agreed, here is the fixed patch Signed-Off-By: Nick Sillik [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

Re: [-mm PATCH] drivers/char/speakup/synthlist.h - Fix warnings with -Wundef

2005-08-23 Thread Nick Sillik
Nick Sillik wrote: Alexey Dobriyan wrote: -#define CFG_TEST(name) (name) +#define CFG_TEST(name) defined(name) No. Just remove this obfuscating macro. Agreed, here is the fixed patch Signed-Off-By: Nick Sillik [EMAIL PROTECTED] No here it really is... (sorry) Signed-Off-By: Nick

Re: New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem

2005-08-23 Thread Hal Wigoda
is a maintainer still needed? and if so, what are the qualifications? hal wigoda chicago - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:48 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I don't mind if the fancy DSP algorithms and EAX is windows only Actually the emu10k1 DSP code to implement EAX 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x is known. Someone could easily implement it on Linux, it's just never happened. Lee - To unsubscribe

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-23 Thread john stultz
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 23:34 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: In the case above, you're accumulating in fixed cycle intervals. This does avoid having to do the mult/shift combo each interrupt, however since you do not accumulate the entire

Re: select() efficiency / epoll

2005-08-23 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:55:26AM -0500, Davy Durham wrote: Thanks for the info.. I did find this thread and was wondering if this patch ever got put in http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.3/1139.html Interesting ! At least it does

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-23 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: I'm assuming gettimeofday()/clock_gettime() looks something like: xtime + (get_cycles()-last_update)*(mult+ntp_adj)shift Where did you get the ntp_adj from? It's not in my example. gettimeofday() was in the previous mail: xtime + (cycle_offset *

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] cpu_exclusive sched domains on partial nodes temp fix

2005-08-23 Thread John Hawkes
+ for_each_cpu_mask(i, cur-cpus_allowed) { + for_each_cpu_mask(j, node_to_cpumask(cpu_to_node(i))) { + if (!cpu_isset(j, cur-cpus_allowed)) + return; Looks good to me. Feel free to add: Acked-by: John Hawkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Hawkes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-23 Thread George Anzinger
Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: I'm assuming gettimeofday()/clock_gettime() looks something like: xtime + (get_cycles()-last_update)*(mult+ntp_adj)shift Where did you get the ntp_adj from? It's not in my example. gettimeofday() was in the previous mail:

Re: select() efficiency / epoll

2005-08-23 Thread Davy Durham
Davide Libenzi wrote: I should mention that the 2.4 patch is old WRT mainline epoll in 2.6 (I stopped maintaining it when 2.6 went stable). I'd definitely suggest to use 2.6 if you are looking at epoll. I am using linux-2.6.11 and glibc-2.3.4 .. and using select() in it's place seems to

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-23 Thread john stultz
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 13:30 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: The reason why we calculate the interval_length in the continuous timesource case is because we are not assuming anything about the frequency that the timekeeping_periodic_hook() is called.

Re: [PATCH] fix send_sigqueue() vs thread exit race

2005-08-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 20:17 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote: Thomas Gleixner wrote: I still think the last patch I sent is still necessary. Thomas, you know that I like this change in __exit_{signal,sighand}, but i think this change is dangerous, should go in a separate patch, and needs a lot

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-23 Thread Peter Zubaj
This is too expensive card to be only able use it as simple card. My advice buy something else. I don't think fight with creative can bring anything good to linux. Leave Creative as is. There is plenty of other hardware from other manufacturer worth money. Peter Zubaj On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 17:54

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:41:11PM +0100, Peter Zubaj wrote: This is too expensive card to be only able use it as simple card. My advice buy something else. I don't think fight with creative can bring anything good to linux. Leave Creative as is. There is plenty of other hardware from other

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-23 Thread john stultz
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 13:30 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: The reason why we calculate the interval_length in the continuous timesource case is because we are not assuming anything about the frequency that the timekeeping_periodic_hook() is

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-23 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: In the case above, you're accumulating in fixed cycle intervals. This does avoid having to do the mult/shift combo each interrupt, however since you do not accumulate the entire interval, and there is some sub-tick remainder in cycle_offset. We

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 21:41 +0100, Peter Zubaj wrote: This is too expensive card to be only able use it as simple card. My advice buy something else. I don't think fight with creative can bring anything good to linux. Leave Creative as is. There is plenty of other hardware from other

Re: select() efficiency / epoll

2005-08-23 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Davy Durham wrote: Davide Libenzi wrote: I should mention that the 2.4 patch is old WRT mainline epoll in 2.6 (I stopped maintaining it when 2.6 went stable). I'd definitely suggest to use 2.6 if you are looking at epoll. I am using linux-2.6.11 and glibc-2.3.4 ..

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