Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

2006-11-28 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 14:33 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:04:53 -0800 > Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks, I have acked most of them, and will port them to ext3/4 soon. > > You've acked #2 and #3. #4, #5 and #6 remain un-commented-upon and #1 is >

Re: 2.6.19-rc5-mm2: paravirt X86_PAE=y compile error

2006-11-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:36:14 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:16:26 +0100 > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Paravirt breaks CONFIG_X86_PAE=y compilation: > > > > <-- snip --> > > > > ... > > CC init/main.o > > In file included from

Re: [PATCH] [NET] dont insert socket dentries into dentry_hashtable.

2006-11-28 Thread David Miller
Andrew, I'm fine with these three patches, specifically: [PATCH] dont insert pipe dentries into dentry_hashtable. [PATCH] [DCACHE] : avoid RCU for never hashed dentries [PATCH] [NET] dont insert socket dentries into dentry_hashtable. Could you toss them into -mm if you haven't already? This

Re: [PATCH 5/6] ext2 balloc: say rb_entry not list_entry

2006-11-28 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:43 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > The reservations tree is an rb_tree not a list, so it's less confusing to > use rb_entry() than list_entry() - though they're both just container_of(). > > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > Acked. Thanks, Mingming >

Re: [PATCH 6/6] ext2 balloc: use io_error label

2006-11-28 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:44 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > ext2_new_blocks has a nice io_error label for setting -EIO, > so goto that in the one place that doesn't already use it. > > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > Acked, Mingming > fs/ext2/balloc.c |7 +++ > 1

Re: [PATCH 4/6] ext2 balloc: fix off-by-one against grp_goal

2006-11-28 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:42 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > grp_goal 0 is a genuine goal (unlike -1), > so ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv should treat it as such. > > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked. Thanks, Mingming > --- > > fs/ext2/balloc.c |4 ++-- > 1 file changed,

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns

2006-11-28 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 13:35 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 13:04 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 12:37 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:09 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano

Re: [PATCH 2.6.15.4 rel.2 1/1] libata: add hotswap to sata_svw

2006-11-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 16:09 +0100, Martin Devera wrote: > From: Martin Devera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Add hotswap capability to Serverworks/BroadCom SATA controlers. The > controler has SIM register and it selects which bits in SATA_ERROR > register fires interrupt. > The solution hooks on

Regression: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 appears in 2.6.19-rc6-git10

2006-11-28 Thread Martin MOKREJŠ
Hi, I have just tested for fun the upcoming release candidate and have found the following difference with a 'spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7' message, possibly triggered by the --- linux-2.6.19-rc5.txt2006-11-28 19:23:54.145722821 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-git10.txt 2006-11-28

Re: [PATCH] i386-pda UP optimization

2006-11-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Eric Dumazet wrote: > Seeing %gs prefixes used now by i386 port, I recalled seeing strange oprofile > results on Opteron machines. Hi Eric, Could you try this patch out and see if it makes much performance difference for you. You should apply this on top of the %fs patch I posted earlier (and

Re: [PATCH] Don't compare unsigned variable for <0 in sys_prctl()

2006-11-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > Friends don't let friends use "-W". > > Hehe, ok, I'll stop cleaning this stuff up then. > Nice little hobby out the window there ;) You might want to look at some of the other warnings gcc spits out, but this class isn't one of them. Other

Friends dont let friends use GCC -W (was Re: [PATCH] Don't compare unsigned

2006-11-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:17:13 +0100, Jesper Juhl said: > In kernel/sys.c::sys_prctl() the argument named 'arg2' is very clearly > of type 'unsigned long', and when compiling with "gcc -W" gcc also warns : > kernel/sys.c:2089: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always > false > >

[PATCH] for 2.6.20 infiniband/ib_cm: fix path migration support

2006-11-28 Thread Sean Hefty
Fix issues in the ib_cm regarding support for path migration over infiniband. The ib_cm_establish() call is replaced with a more generic ib_cm_notify(). This routine is used to notify the CM that failover has occurred, so that future CM messages (LAP, DREQ) reach the remote CM. (Currently, we

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/mtd/nand/rtc_from4.c: use lib/bitrev.c

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:19:36 + David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 05:38 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This patch converts drivers/mtd/nand/rtc_from4.c to use the new > > lib/bitrev.c > > > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Applied; thanks.

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/mtd/nand/rtc_from4.c: use lib/bitrev.c

2006-11-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 14:49 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Won't compile - you don't have the bitrev library patches. Hm, yeah -- I'd just come to that conclusion :) > I'll take that as an ack and shall merge this once > crc32-replace-bitreverse-by-bitrev32.patch is merged ;) I assume the bitrev

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-28 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2006-11-28 19:42, Phillip Susi wrote: > what good does a non root user do by writing to random? If it > does not increase the entropy estimate, and it may not actually increase > the entropy, why bother allowing it? It is not guaranteed to actually increase the entropy, but it might. And in

Re: [patch] genapic: default to physical mode on hotplug CPU kernels

2006-11-28 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:23:22PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Siddha, Suresh B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:33:46AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > - if (clusters <= 1 && max_cluster <= 8 && cluster_cnt[0] == max_cluster) > > > + if (max_apic < 8) > > > >

Re: [PATCH 1/2 -mm] fault-injection: safer defaults, trivial optimization, cleanup

2006-11-28 Thread Don Mullis
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 13:37 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > We'd prefer one-patch-per-concept, please. This all sounds like about > six patches. Understood. > We _could_ merge this patch as-is, but it means that when this stuff > finally hits mainline it would go in as a nice sequence of logical

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt5

2006-11-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Forwarding it off list. Thanks Ingo. I'm very interested if it works for you to do this. Cheers, Mark On 11/28/06, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I know there were some comments awhile back about being required > > to switch to PAM. Has

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8

2006-11-28 Thread Karsten Wiese
Am Montag, 27. November 2006 10:49 schrieb Ingo Molnar: > i have released the 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 tree, which can be downloaded from I saw usb transport errors here before rebooting with nmi_watchdog=0 contained in kernel command line. Testcase stalled within 2 minutes before change, ticks

Re: [PATCH] Don't compare unsigned variable for <0 in sys_prctl()

2006-11-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > In kernel/sys.c::sys_prctl() the argument named 'arg2' is very clearly > of type 'unsigned long', and when compiling with "gcc -W" gcc also warns : > kernel/sys.c:2089: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always > false > > So this

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-11-28 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:35:43PM +0100, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > Hello, > > When CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD is not set then this happens: > > CC kernel/module.o > kernel/module.c:852: error: `initstate' undeclared here (not in a function) > kernel/module.c:852: error: initializer

Re: [PATCH] Don't compare unsigned variable for <0 in sys_prctl()

2006-11-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 28/11/06, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > In kernel/sys.c::sys_prctl() the argument named 'arg2' is very clearly > of type 'unsigned long', and when compiling with "gcc -W" gcc also warns : > kernel/sys.c:2089: warning: comparison of

Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:04:53 -0800 Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, I have acked most of them, and will port them to ext3/4 soon. You've acked #2 and #3. #4, #5 and #6 remain un-commented-upon and #1 is unclear? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [2.6 patch] make drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c:mtdpart_setup() static

2006-11-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 20:15 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch makes the needlessly global mtdpart_setup() static. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied; thanks. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/mtd/nand/rtc_from4.c: use lib/bitrev.c

2006-11-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 05:38 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch converts drivers/mtd/nand/rtc_from4.c to use the new > lib/bitrev.c > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied; thanks. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [Patch1/4]: fake numa for x86_64 patch

2006-11-28 Thread Rohit Seth
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:34 +, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Rohit Seth wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 13:24 +, Mel Gorman wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Rohit Seth wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Mel, > >>> > >>> On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 13:18 +, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Wed,

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken MTD_PCMCIA driver

2006-11-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 22:40 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The MTD_PCMCIA driver has: > - already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and > - is still marked as BROKEN. > > Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be > unlikely to be revived in the forseeable

[PATCH] Don't compare unsigned variable for <0 in sys_prctl()

2006-11-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
In kernel/sys.c::sys_prctl() the argument named 'arg2' is very clearly of type 'unsigned long', and when compiling with "gcc -W" gcc also warns : kernel/sys.c:2089: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false So this patch removes the test of "arg2 < 0". For those of us

[PATCH 2/2] joystick/analog: force HWEIGHT for module

2006-11-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> input/joystick/analog (=m) uses hweight*(), but those functions are only linked into the kernel image if it is used inside the kernel image, not in loadable modules. Let modules force HWEIGHT to be built into the kernel image. Otherwise build fails:

[PATCH 1/2] lib + ntfs: let modules force HWEIGHT

2006-11-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NTFS (=m) uses hweight32(), but that function is only linked into the kernel image if it is used inside the kernel image, not in loadable modules. Let modules force HWEIGHT to be built into the kernel image. Otherwise build fails: Building modules,

What happened to CONFIG_TCP_NAGLE_OFF?

2006-11-28 Thread Matt Garman
I would like to globally disable nagling on my (2.6.9) system. There are several references on the web to the CONFIG_TCP_NAGLE_OFF kernel config option. However, it appears as though this no longer exists. How might I achieve having TCP_NODELAY effectively set for all sockets (by default)? Is

[PATCH] Pass struct dev pointer to dma_cache_sync()

2006-11-28 Thread Ralf Baechle
So following the previous patch to pass a struct dev pointer to dma_is_consistent() there is still dma_cache_sync left which does not receive a dev pointer. Ralf - Pass struct dev pointer to dma_cache_sync() dma_cache_sync() is ill-designed in that it does not have a struct

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns

2006-11-28 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:14 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:58 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > > Hi, I'm trying out the latest -rt patch and getting alsa xruns when > > > using jackd and jack clients. This is a sample

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-11-28 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:22:34PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > I decided to try building a relocatable kernel. I don't know if this > is why I got so many section mismatch errors. > > WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to > .init.data:boot_params from .text between '_text' (at offset

Re: [rfc PATCH] ieee1394: ohci1394: delete bogus spinlock, flush MMIO writes

2006-11-28 Thread Alan
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:24:11 +0100 (CET) Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All MMIO writes which were surrounded by the spinlock as well as the > very last MMIO write of the IRQ handler are now explicitly flushed by > MMIO reads of the respective register. MMIO is ordered anyway on the

Re: [PATCH] prune_icache_sb

2006-11-28 Thread Wendy Cheng
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:52:58 -0500 Wendy Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not sure about walking thru sb->s_inodes for several reasons 1. First, the changes made are mostly for file server setup with large fs size - the entry count in sb->s_inodes may not be

Re: Broken commit: [NETFILTER]: ipt_REJECT: remove largely duplicate route_reverse function

2006-11-28 Thread Patrick McHardy
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>How sure are you about this? I can see nothing wrong with that >>commit and can't reproduce the slab corruption. Please post >>the rule that triggers this. > > > 99% sure. Past this commit I get corruptions after 5

Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken VIDEO_ZR36120 driver

2006-11-28 Thread Pauline Middelink
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 around 20:11:35 +0100, Peter Schlaf wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to see this driver fixed and remaining in the kernel and > would give any support I can to achive this goal. > > I have a zr36120 based tv card and wrote a driver on my own based on > this kernel driver from

Re: [PATCH 1/2 -mm] fault-injection: safer defaults, trivial optimization, cleanup

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:44:26 -0800 Don Mullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Set /debug/fail*/* defaults supposed most likely to please a new user. > Clamp /debug/fail*/stacktrace-depth to MAX_STACK_TRACE_DEPTH. > > In should_fail(), move stack-unwinding test past cheaper tests (performance > gain

Re: [Patch1/4]: fake numa for x86_64 patch

2006-11-28 Thread Mel Gorman
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Rohit Seth wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 13:24 +, Mel Gorman wrote: On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Rohit Seth wrote: Hi Mel, On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 13:18 +, Mel Gorman wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Rohit Seth wrote: This patch provides a IO hole size in a given address

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns

2006-11-28 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 13:04 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 12:37 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:09 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, I'm trying out the latest -rt

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt7: Kernel BUG at kernel/rtmutex.c:672

2006-11-28 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:06 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (a normal non-root user was left logged in and was running jackd with > > realtime privileges, irqs' priority reordered with the rtirq script - > > I was getting, and still are

[PATCH] remove useless carta_random32.h

2006-11-28 Thread Stephane Eranian
Hello, Here is a small patch to remove the carta_random32.h header file. The carta_random32() function was was put in and removed in favor of random32(). In the removal process, the header file was forgotten. This patch is relative to 2.6.19-rc6-ak-061128 (firstfloor.org). Changelog: -

[rfc PATCH] ieee1394: ohci1394: delete bogus spinlock, flush MMIO writes

2006-11-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Remove a per-host spinlock which was only taken by the IRQ handler, i.e. where no concurrency was involved. All MMIO writes which were surrounded by the spinlock as well as the very last MMIO write of the IRQ handler are now explicitly flushed by MMIO reads of the respective register.

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-11-28 Thread Miles Lane
I decided to try building a relocatable kernel. I don't know if this is why I got so many section mismatch errors. WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:boot_params from .text between '_text' (at offset 0xc0100036) and 'checkCPUtype' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch:

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] remove DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE

2006-11-28 Thread Trent Piepho
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE was (except for some OSS drivers) the only option > that was still compiling a binary-only user-supplied firmware file at > build-time into the kernel. > > This patch changes the driver to always use the standard > request_firmware()

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns

2006-11-28 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 12:37 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:09 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, I'm trying out the latest -rt patch and getting alsa xruns when > > > using jackd and jack clients. This

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-28 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! > That is exactly my point. Since you can not tell how much randomness is > in the data you provide, you can not tell the kernel how much to add to > its entropy estimate. Instead it just has to estimate based on the > amount of data you provide. No, the only safe thing the kernel

Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

2006-11-28 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:38 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > And could you check the start and end block for every rsv_window_add and > > rsv_window_remove, to see if it was keep creating and removing the same > > window in the same block group? > > The same every time it settled on a usable

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc6] i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel ICH9

2006-11-28 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:20:39 -0800, Gaston, Jason D wrote: > Jean, > > I send the patches you requested. Please let me know if you > see anything that needs to change. Looks all OK, thanks! -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: [PATCH] REPORTING-BUGS: request .config file

2006-11-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 28/11/06, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add kernel .config file to REPORTING-BUGS. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Given how often people ask for the config, it makes good sense to have that in the document. -- Jesper Juhl

Re: Broken commit: [NETFILTER]: ipt_REJECT: remove largely duplicate route_reverse function

2006-11-28 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The following commit breaks ipt_REJECT on my machine. Tested with latest >> 2.6.19rc*, found with git-bisect. i386, gcc-4.1.1, the usual stuff. >> All details available on request, of course. >> >> commit 9d02002d2dc2c7423e5891b97727fde4d667adf1 > >

Re: O2micro smartcard reader driver.

2006-11-28 Thread Laurent Bigonville
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:19:26 +0100 Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maybe post once more, and make clear whether you are looking for: Yep it's about a smartcard reader. This reader need a kernel module to be acceded by pcscd. > > also o2micro might also create pcmcia card

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns

2006-11-28 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:09 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, I'm trying out the latest -rt patch and getting alsa xruns when > > using jackd and jack clients. This is a sample from the output of > > qjackctl / jackd (jack 0.102.25,

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc6] i2c-i801: Documentation patch for Intel ICH9/ICH8/ESB2

2006-11-28 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:53:11 -0800, Jason Gaston wrote: > This patch adds the Intel ICH9/ICH8/ESB2 SMBus Controller text to i2c-i801 > documentation. > > Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- linux-2.6.19-rc6/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.orig 2006-11-27 >

[patch] genapic: default to physical mode on hotplug CPU kernels

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Siddha, Suresh B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:33:46AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > - if (clusters <= 1 && max_cluster <= 8 && cluster_cnt[0] == max_cluster) > > + if (max_apic < 8) > > Patch mostly looks good. Instead of checking for max_apic, can we use >

Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

2006-11-28 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Mingming Cao wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 16:19 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > After four days of running, the EM64T has at last reproduced the same > > hang as it did in an hour before: stuck in > > ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv, > > repeatedly ext2_rsv_window_add,

Re: [PATCH] fs : reorder some 'struct inode' fields to speedup i_size manipulations

2006-11-28 Thread Eric Dumazet
Andrew Morton a écrit : This all depends on the offset of the inode, and you don't know what that is. offsetof(ext3_inode_info, vfs_inode) != offsetof(nfs_inode, vfs_inode), etc. Doh... yes you are absolutly right :) I feel dumb now :( - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 2/2 -mm] fault-injection: lightweight code-coverage maximizer

2006-11-28 Thread Don Mullis
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:18 +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:51:30PM -0800, Don Mullis wrote: > > Upon keying in > > echo 1 >probability > > echo 3 >verbose > > echo -1 >times > > a few dozen stacks are printk'ed, then system responsiveness > > recovers to

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt5

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I know there were some comments awhile back about being required > > to switch to PAM. Has that occurred? > > > >If not then there is a regression issue for realtime-lsm. > > As Realtime LSM is an out of tree module and there's no stable

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:58 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > Hi, I'm trying out the latest -rt patch and getting alsa xruns when > > using jackd and jack clients. This is a sample from the output of > > qjackctl / jackd (jack 0.102.25, qjackctl

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt5

2006-11-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:53 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > I know you've pushed > me to move to PAM telling me realtime-lsm wasn't going to work in the > future. I really just wanted to know that PAM was now a requirement > instead of only best practice. I said it was not guaranteed to work. It

Re: ieee1394: host adapter disappears on 1394 bus reset

2006-11-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Robert Crocombe wrote: > On 11/27/06, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Posted writes are still enabled. phys_dma=0 disables only the physical >> response unit. ... > What I need is for write requests directed to > address 0 to be directed to the asynchronous unit so that I can treat >

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns

2006-11-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:58 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > Hi, I'm trying out the latest -rt patch and getting alsa xruns when > using jackd and jack clients. This is a sample from the output of > qjackctl / jackd (jack 0.102.25, qjackctl 0.2.21): Any improvement if you disable high res

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt7: Kernel BUG at kernel/rtmutex.c:672

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nov 28 03:26:39 localhost kernel: Kernel BUG at kernel/rtmutex.c:672 hm, this means the lock was taken twice by the same task: enabling CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING ought to tell us the precise locking info and backtraces that causes this

Re: [PATCH 1/6] ext2 balloc: fix _with_rsv freeze

2006-11-28 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Mingming Cao wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:40 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > After several days of testing ext2 with reservations, it got caught inside > > ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv: alloc_new_reservation repeatedly succeeding > > on the window [12cff,12d0e],

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt7: Kernel BUG at kernel/rtmutex.c:672

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (a normal non-root user was left logged in and was running jackd with > realtime privileges, irqs' priority reordered with the rtirq script - > I was getting, and still are under -rt8, lots of audio xruns but > that's for another thread).

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm trying out the latest -rt patch and getting alsa xruns when > using jackd and jack clients. This is a sample from the output of > qjackctl / jackd (jack 0.102.25, qjackctl 0.2.21): > (japa-4096 |#0): new 17 us

Re: Oops with 2.6.18.2: load_elf_binary

2006-11-28 Thread Sebastian Kärgel
Hi, On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:29:29 -0800 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why doesn't that list include .config file? :( > > Please send me your .config file. duh.. sorry.. see attachment, again :) Today I got a similar Oops with 2.6.18.3 but I couln't capture it. But it was quite

[PATCH] Convert i386 PDA code to use %fs.

2006-11-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
This patch adjusts the PDA code to use %fs rather than %gs. It is patch to 2.6.19-rc6-mm1, which I think should apply cleanly to Andi's tree as well. -- Subject: Convert PDA code to use %fs. This patch converts the PDA code to use %fs rather than %gs as the segment for per-processor data. This

Re: [patch] x86_64: fix earlyprintk=...,keep regression

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - if (!strcmp(buf,"keep")) > + if (!strncmp(buf,"keep", 4)) { > keep_early = 1; > - > - if (!strncmp(buf, "serial", 6)) { > + } else if (!strncmp(buf, "serial", 6)) { > early_serial_init(buf + 6); >

2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns

2006-11-28 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
Hi, I'm trying out the latest -rt patch and getting alsa xruns when using jackd and jack clients. This is a sample from the output of qjackctl / jackd (jack 0.102.25, qjackctl 0.2.21): alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.034 msecs 11:38:03.681 XRUN callback (154). delay of 18710.000 usecs

Re: Broken commit: [NETFILTER]: ipt_REJECT: remove largely duplicate route_reverse function

2006-11-28 Thread Patrick McHardy
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Hi, > > The following commit breaks ipt_REJECT on my machine. Tested with latest > 2.6.19rc*, found with git-bisect. i386, gcc-4.1.1, the usual stuff. > All details available on request, of course. > > commit 9d02002d2dc2c7423e5891b97727fde4d667adf1 How sure are you

RE: Reserving a fixed physical address page of RAM.

2006-11-28 Thread Jon Ringle
linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Jon Ringle wrote: > > > Robert Hancock wrote: > >> Jon Ringle wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I need to reserve a page of memory at a specific area of RAM that > >>> will be used as a "shared memory" with another processor > over PCI. > >>>

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt5

2006-11-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/28/06, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 06:06 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Ingo, >I started building the new kernels a few days ago with your > 2.6.19-rc6-rt0 announcement. The kernels have built fine but so far I > am unable to build the realtime-lsm package

Re: reiserfs NET=n build error

2006-11-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:32:11 -0500 Jeff Mahoney wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Al Viro wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 11:04:33AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> Andi Kleen wrote: > > I would copy a relatively simple C implementation, like > >

What's in infiniband.git

2006-11-28 Thread Roland Dreier
Since Linus hinted that 2.6.19 is very near, I thought it would be a good idea to say what I have queued for 2.6.20. And it turns out that I really don't have anything all that interesting. Basically, I just have a pile of fixes and cleanups all over drivers/infiniband. The most obvious thing

Re: failed 'ljmp' in linear addressing mode

2006-11-28 Thread Jun Sun
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:46:44AM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Jun Sun wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:58:57AM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > >> > >> I think it probably resets the instant that you turn off paging. To > >> turn off paging,

Re: [PATCH 3/6] ext2 balloc: fix off-by-one against rsv_end

2006-11-28 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:41 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > rsv_end is the last block within the reservation, > so alloc_new_reservation should accept start_block == rsv_end as success. > > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > Thanks, Acked. This is not a problem for now, as

Re: [patch] genapic: always use physical delivery mode on > 8 CPUs

2006-11-28 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:33:46AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > - if (clusters <= 1 && max_cluster <= 8 && cluster_cnt[0] == max_cluster) > + if (max_apic < 8) Patch mostly looks good. Instead of checking for max_apic, can we use cpus_weight(cpu_possible_map) <= 8 This will help

RE: Reserving a fixed physical address page of RAM.

2006-11-28 Thread Jon Ringle
Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 28/11/06, Fawad Lateef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/28/06, Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/28/06, Jon Ringle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > It looks promising, however, I need to reserve a > physical address > > > > area that is well

Re: [PATCH 2/6] ext2 balloc: reset windowsz when full

2006-11-28 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:40 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > ext2_new_blocks should reset the reservation window size to 0 when squeezing > the last blocks out of an almost full filesystem, so the retry doesn't skip > any groups with less than half that free, reporting ENOSPC too soon. > I realize

Re: i686 apicid_to_node compile failure.

2006-11-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:01:32 -0500 Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:18:41AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:38:19 -0500 Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:27:47AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o: In

Re: Oops with 2.6.18.2: load_elf_binary

2006-11-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:18:30 +0100 Sebastian Kärgel wrote: > Hi, > > 1. Oops while running 'lunar update' (system update) > > 2. unable to reproduce > > 4. 2.6.18.2 without any patches > > 6. See attachment Why doesn't that list include .config file? :( Please send me your .config file.

Re: [PATCH 1/6] ext2 balloc: fix _with_rsv freeze

2006-11-28 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:40 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > After several days of testing ext2 with reservations, it got caught inside > ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv: alloc_new_reservation repeatedly succeeding > on the window [12cff,12d0e], ext2_try_to_allocate repeatedly failing to > find the free

[PATCH] REPORTING-BUGS: request .config file

2006-11-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add kernel .config file to REPORTING-BUGS. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- REPORTING-BUGS |4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.19-rc6-git10.orig/REPORTING-BUGS +++

RE: Reserving a fixed physical address page of RAM.

2006-11-28 Thread Jon Ringle
Robert Hancock wrote: > Jon Ringle wrote: > > Robert Hancock wrote: > >> Jon Ringle wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I need to reserve a page of memory at a specific area of RAM that > >>> will be used as a "shared memory" with another processor > over PCI. > >>> How can I ensure that the this area

Re: Kevent POSIX timers support.

2006-11-28 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:13:00AM -0800, David Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:16:02 +0300 > > > Although ukevent has pointer embedded, it is unioned with u64, so there > > should be no problems until 128 bit arch

Re: Kevent POSIX timers support.

2006-11-28 Thread David Miller
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:16:02 +0300 > Although ukevent has pointer embedded, it is unioned with u64, so there > should be no problems until 128 bit arch appeared, which likely will not > happen soon. There is also unused in kevent posix timers patch >

Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken VIDEO_ZR36120 driver

2006-11-28 Thread Peter Schlaf
Mauro Carvalho Chehab schrieb: > Hi Joe, > > Em Seg, 2006-11-27 às 22:36 -0800, Joe Feise escreveu: >> Adrian Bunk wrote on 11/27/06 22:07: >> >>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:30:27PM -0800, Joe Feise wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote on 11/25/06 11:15: > But if anyone wants to ever revive

Re: i686 apicid_to_node compile failure.

2006-11-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 20:01, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:18:41AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:38:19 -0500 Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:27:47AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o: In

Re: ieee1394: host adapter disappears on 1394 bus reset

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Crocombe
On 11/27/06, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Posted writes are still enabled. phys_dma=0 disables only the physical response unit. You have to change the source if you want to disable posted writes. See the top of ohci_initialize. Should this be a module load parameter too? Er. I

Re: i686 apicid_to_node compile failure.

2006-11-28 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:18:41AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:38:19 -0500 Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:27:47AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o: In function `apicid_to_node': > > >

Re: [patch] x86_64: fix earlyprintk=...,keep regression

2006-11-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > the following cleanup patch: > > commit 2c8c0e6b8d7700a990da8d24eff767f9ca223b96 > Author: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue Sep 26 10:52:32 2006 +0200 > > [PATCH] Convert x86-64 to early param > > Instead of hackish manual

Re: [patch] x86_64: fix earlyprintk=...,keep regression

2006-11-28 Thread Andi Kleen
> > Or is there some reason you really _want_ "keep" to be different? If so, > it should probably be commented on. It's just that keep is the only option that can only be at the end, all others can be followed by more, so it made minor sense to use strcmp() to match the \0 too. But using

Re: [patch] x86_64: fix earlyprintk=...,keep regression

2006-11-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Or is there some reason you really _want_ "keep" to be different? If so, > it should probably be commented on. Hmm. Looking at the commit that broke, the "strstr()" was there originally, so in that sense your patch is obviously the minimal and

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm1 -- sched-improve-migration-accuracy.patch slows boot

2006-11-28 Thread Don Mullis
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > could you run this utility: > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/time-warp-test.c > > on your box for a while (10 minutes or so) - what does it print? > > Ingo 1 CPUs, running 1 parallel test-tasks. checking for

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-28 Thread Phillip Susi
Martin Mares wrote: Yes, but the point is that you cannot tell how much randomness is in the data you provide. That is exactly my point. Since you can not tell how much randomness is in the data you provide, you can not tell the kernel how much to add to its entropy estimate. Instead it

[PATCH 2.6.19-rc6][reRESEND] ata_piix: IDE mode SATA patch for Intel ICH9

2006-11-28 Thread Jason Gaston
This updated patch adds the Intel ICH9 IDE mode SATA controller DID's. Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.19-rc6/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c.orig2006-11-20 04:58:48.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.19-rc6/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c 2006-11-22 02:59:05.0

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