Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-12-04 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Neil Brown wrote: > As Andrew correctly pointed out, this bit error is not a RAM problem. It > is actually the low bit of a counter a spinlock that was decremented > just before the WARN_ON. So it simply indicates that the inode had > already been freed, which I think we

Re: PMTMR running too fast

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 12:14 -0800, john stultz wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 19:40 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 11:19 -0800, john stultz wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 13:50 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > In older kernels

Re: [PATCH] mm: D-cache aliasing issue in cow_user_page

2006-12-04 Thread Matt Reimer
In light of James Bottomsley's commit[1] declaring that kmap() and friends now have to take care of coherency issues, is the patch "mm: D-cache aliasing issue in cow_user_page"[2] correct, or could it potentially cause a slowdown by calling flush_dcache_page() a second time (i.e. once in an

[PATCH] CPEI gets warning at kernel/irq/migration.c:27/move_masked_irq()

2006-12-04 Thread Hidetoshi Seto
Hi, While running my MCA test (hardware error injection) on 2.6.19, I got some warning like following: > BUG: warning at kernel/irq/migration.c:27/move_masked_irq() > > Call Trace: > [] show_stack+0x40/0xa0 > sp=e0006b2578d0 bsp=e0006b2510b0 > []

Re: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-04 Thread Rene Herman
Nick Piggin wrote: Aucoin wrote: Ummm, shm_open, ftruncate, mmap ? Is it a trick question ? The process responsible for initially setting up the shared area doesn't stay resident. The issue is that the shm pages should show up in the active and inactive lists. But they aren't, and you

Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

2006-12-04 Thread David Miller
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:42:42 +1100 > - It's horribly broken in at least two area : > > DO NOT USE BITFIELDS FOR DATA ON THE WIRE !!! > > and > > Where do you handle endianness ? (no need to shout for > that one). > > (Or in general, do

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20

2006-12-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Dec 04 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > libata_resume_fix.patch > > > > I thought this was resolved long ago? Are there still open reports that > > this solves, where upstream doesn't work? > > Heck, I don't know. I'm not aware of any, and resume works for me. Did that patch ever

Re: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-04 Thread Nick Piggin
Aucoin wrote: From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I actually suspect you should be _fairly_ close to such a situation We run with min_free_kbytes set around 4k to answer your earlier question. Louis, exactly how do you allocate that big 1.6GB shared area? Ummm, shm_open,

Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

2006-12-04 Thread Nick Piggin
Hi, I'd like to try to state where we are WRT the buffered write patches, and ask for comments. Sorry for the wide cc list, but this is an important issue which hasn't had enough review. Well the next -mm will include everything we've done so far. I won't repost patches unless someone would

Re: v2.6.19-rt1, yum/rpm

2006-12-04 Thread Karsten Wiese
Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 01:19 schrieb Karsten Wiese: > Am Donnerstag, 30. November 2006 09:33 schrieb Ingo Molnar: > > i have released the 2.6.19-rt1 tree, which can be downloaded from the > > Hi Ingo, > > here comes a freerunning trace explaining the weirdness I see here. > I tried

in HP nx8220 S3 resume does not work in stock kernels 2.6.15-2.6.19. Ide light stays on.

2006-12-04 Thread Honkala Mikko
Hi, in HP nx8220 S3 resume does not work in stock kernels 2.6.15-2.6.19. Ide light stays on. The attached patch for ide.c for 2.6.18.2 fixes this for me, but the patch does not apply anymore in 2.6.19. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2039

RE: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-04 Thread Aucoin
> From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I actually suspect you should be _fairly_ close to such a situation We run with min_free_kbytes set around 4k to answer your earlier question. > Louis, exactly how do you allocate that big 1.6GB shared area? Ummm, shm_open, ftruncate, mmap ? Is

Re: mmc: pxamci compilation fix

2006-12-04 Thread Pierre Ossman
Sascha Hauer wrote: > Hi Pierre and all, > > since commit fcaf71fd51f9cfc504455d3e19ec242e4b2073ed > struct mmc_host does not have a dev field. Retrieve the device with > mmc_dev() instead. > > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bad Greg ;) Applied, thanks. Rgds -- --

[PATCH 2/2] Add device probing, sysfs interface and char device code.

2006-12-04 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
This patch add code to probe devices and integrate with the device model, adds minimal sysfs structure and implements a char device for user space control. --- drivers/fw/Makefile |3 drivers/fw/fw-device-cdev.c | 580 +

[PATCH 0/2] fw-core resend

2006-12-04 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Oops, looks like the fw-core patch was to big for the list. I've split it into two parts: fw-core which is the transaction logic and bus reset handling and fw-device which is device probing and sysfs integration. cheers, Kristian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

2006-12-04 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 00:22 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: Hi, I'm announcing an alternative firewire stack that I've been working on the last few weeks. I'm aiming to implement feature parity with the current firewire stack, but not necessarily interface

RE: [patch] add an iterator index in struct pagevec

2006-12-04 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Andrew Morton wrote on Monday, December 04, 2006 9:45 PM > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:21:31 -0800 > "Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > pagevec is never expected to be more than PAGEVEC_SIZE, I think a > > unsigned char is enough to count them. This patch makes nr, cold > > to be

Re: 2.6.18-rc7-git1: AHCI not seeing devices on ICH8 mobo (DG965RY)

2006-12-04 Thread Kurtis D. Rader
On Sun, 2006-09-17 16:49:29, Tejun Heo wrote: > Can you please try the attached patch? I'm seeing the same problem reported by Robin Johnson: that is, the first two SATA disks are seen by the Linux kernel but the third is not. The third drive is seen by the BIOS. I attempted to apply the patch

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Import fw-sbp2 driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Kristian Høgsberg wrote: Pull in the fw-sbp2 driver for firewire storage devices. Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/fw/fw-ohci.c |2 drivers/fw/fw-sbp2.c | 1083 ++ 2 files changed, 1084 insertions(+), 1

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Import fw-ohci driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > +struct descriptor { > > + u32 req_count:16; > > + > > + u32 wait:2; > > + u32 branch:2; > > + u32 irq:2; > > + u32 yy:1; > > + u32 ping:1; > > + > > + u32 key:3; > > + u32 status:1; > > + u32 command:4; > > + > > + u32 data_address; > > + u32 branch_address; > > + > > +

Re: [PATCH] Add Broadcom PHY support

2006-12-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> I believe that this fiber enabling can be done by defining config_init in the > phy_driver struct. > > struct phy_driver { > > /* Called to initialize the PHY, >* including after a reset */ > int (*config_init)(struct phy_device *phydev); > > }; Well... I don't know

Oops in pata_pdc2027x

2006-12-04 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi all, I get an oops during initialisation of the pata_pdc2027x module on a POWER 285 machine. This is on a very recent Linus kernel tree (ff51a98799931256b555446b2f5675db08de6229) with Paulus' powerpc tree (that has now been merged). The oops looks like this:

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives

2006-12-04 Thread Kurtis D. Rader
On Sat, 2006-12-02 17:17:37, Kurtis D. Rader wrote: > I'm also experiencing silent data corruption on writes to SATA disks > connected to a Nvidia controller (nForce 4 chipset). The problem is > 100% reproducible. Details of my configuration (mainboard model, lspci, > etc.) are near the bottom of

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Import fw-ohci driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Kristian Høgsberg wrote: Add the OHCI driver to the stack and build system. Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/fw/fw-ohci.c | 1334 ++ drivers/fw/fw-ohci.h | 152 ++ 2 files changed, 1486 insertions(+), 0

Re: [PATCH] Add Broadcom PHY support

2006-12-04 Thread Amy Fong
> On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 16:15 -0400, Amy Fong wrote: > > [PATCH] Add Broadcom PHY support > > > > This patch adds a driver to support the bcm5421s and bcm5461s PHY > > > > Kernel version: linux-2.6.18-rc6 > > > > Signed-off-by: Amy Fong > > Some 5421's need special initialisation (see

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20

2006-12-04 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:14:03 +1100 Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside.patch There's no reason to merge this yet. We want to use it in some powerpc arch code. Currently we use a per-cpu array of spinlocks, and this patch would let

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Import fw-ohci driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:22:45 -0500, "Kristian Høgsberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your wonderful crossed-o might be ok here (or it would've been if only your mailer worked -- notice that the name is right in the "On" tag line above): > Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20

2006-12-04 Thread Nick Piggin
Paul Mackerras wrote: Andrew Morton writes: radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside.patch There's no reason to merge this yet. We want to use it in some powerpc arch code. Currently we use a per-cpu array of spinlocks, and this patch would let us get rid of that array. I'd like to get another

Re: [patch] add an iterator index in struct pagevec

2006-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:21:31 -0800 "Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pagevec is never expected to be more than PAGEVEC_SIZE, I think a > unsigned char is enough to count them. This patch makes nr, cold > to be unsigned char Is that on the right side of the speed/space tradeoff? >

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20

2006-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:14:03 +1100 Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside.patch > > > > There's no reason to merge this yet. > > We want to use it in some powerpc arch code. Currently we use a > per-cpu array of spinlocks, and this patch would let us get

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20

2006-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:56:42 -0500 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > via-pata-controller-xfer-fixes.patch > > via-pata-controller-xfer-fixes-fix.patch > > Tejun's 3d3cca37559e3ab2b574eda11ed5207ccdb8980a has been ack'd by the > reporter as fixing things, so these

Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

2006-12-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 00:22 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > Hi, > > I'm announcing an alternative firewire stack that I've been working on > the last few weeks. I'm aiming to implement feature parity with the > current firewire stack, but not necessarily interface compatibility. > For now, I

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20

2006-12-04 Thread Paul Mackerras
Andrew Morton writes: > ppc-m48t35-add-missing-bracket.patch > powerpc-replace-kmallocmemset-with-kzalloc.patch These are already in Linus' tree. > Am holding onto these until the powerpc git tree gets un-messied up. It should be fine now. Linus has pulled it, so there are currently no

Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-04 Thread Roland Dreier
> So will each new NIC implement some parts of TCP stack in theirs drivers? I hope not. The driver we merged (amso1100) did it completely in FW, with a separate MAC and IP interface for the RDMA connections. I think we better understand the Chelsio driver pretty well and think it over

[PATCH 2/3] Import fw-ohci driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Add the OHCI driver to the stack and build system. Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/fw/fw-ohci.c | 1334 ++ drivers/fw/fw-ohci.h | 152 ++ 2 files changed, 1486 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH 3/3] Import fw-sbp2 driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Pull in the fw-sbp2 driver for firewire storage devices. Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/fw/fw-ohci.c |2 drivers/fw/fw-sbp2.c | 1083 ++ 2 files changed, 1084 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

2006-12-04 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Hi, I'm announcing an alternative firewire stack that I've been working on the last few weeks. I'm aiming to implement feature parity with the current firewire stack, but not necessarily interface compatibility. For now, I have the low-level OHCI driver done, the mid-level transaction logic

[patch] add an iterator index in struct pagevec

2006-12-04 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
pagevec is never expected to be more than PAGEVEC_SIZE, I think a unsigned char is enough to count them. This patch makes nr, cold to be unsigned char and also adds an iterator index. With that, the size can be even bumped up by 1 to 15. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Nurp

Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-04 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:13:59PM -0800, Roland Dreier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > It is for iwarp/rdma from description. > > Yes, iWARP on top of 10G ethernet. > > > If it is 10ge, then why does it parse incomping packet headers and > > implements initial tcp state machine? > > To

Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-04 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:20:51AM -0600, Steve Wise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > This and a lot of other changes in this driver definitely says you > > > implement your own stack of protocols on top of infiniband hardware. > > > > ...but I do know this driver is for 10-gig ethernet HW. > >

Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-04 Thread Roland Dreier
> It is for iwarp/rdma from description. Yes, iWARP on top of 10G ethernet. > If it is 10ge, then why does it parse incomping packet headers and > implements initial tcp state machine? To establish connections to run RDMA over, I guess. iWARP is RDMA over TCP. - R. - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-04 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 07:45:52AM -0800, Roland Dreier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This and a lot of other changes in this driver definitely says you > > implement your own stack of protocols on top of infiniband hardware. > > ...but I do know this driver is for 10-gig ethernet HW. It is

[PATCH] Re: 2.6.19 git compile error - "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined

2006-12-04 Thread Frank Sorenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006/12/04/18:00 CST Building modules, stage 2. Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#2) MODPOST 1256 modules WARNING: "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined! make[1]: *** [__modpost]

Re: [PATCH] Fix up compiler warnings in megaraid driver

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Martin Bligh wrote: Fix up compiler warnings in megaraid driver Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -aurpN -X /home/mbligh/.diff.exclude linux-2.6.19/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: via-pata-controller-xfer-fixes.patch via-pata-controller-xfer-fixes-fix.patch Tejun's 3d3cca37559e3ab2b574eda11ed5207ccdb8980a has been ack'd by the reporter as fixing things, so these two shouldn't be needed. libata_resume_fix.patch I thought this was resolved long

[patch] optimize o_direct on block device - v2

2006-12-04 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
This patch implements block device specific .direct_IO method instead of going through generic direct_io_worker for block device. direct_io_worker is fairly complex because it needs to handle O_DIRECT on file system, where it needs to perform block allocation, hole detection, extents file on

RE: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Aucoin wrote: > > If I'm going to go through all the trouble to change the kernel and maybe > create a new proc file how much code would I have to touch to create a proc > file to set something like, let's say, effective memory and have all the vm > calculations use effective

Re: 2.6.19: OOPS in cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports

2006-12-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday December 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is 100% reproducible. It hangs exportfs on shutdown. > > Dec 4 19:50:13 glotze kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer > dereference at virtual address 0040 > Dec 4 19:50:13 glotze kernel: printing eip: > Dec 4 19:50:13

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-12-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday December 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I notice it says: > | > v > > 090: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b > > Single bit error detected. Probably bad RAM. > > Run memtest86+ or a similar memory test tool. > > Have you

RE: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-04 Thread Aucoin
> From: Nick Piggin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'd be interested to know how OOM and page reclaim behaves after these > patches > (or with a newer kernel). We didn't get far today. The various suggestions everyone has for solving this problem spurred several new discussions inside the office and

Is there way to reserve more MMIO resource for PCIE-hotplug-capable slot?

2006-12-04 Thread Zhao Forrest
Hi, Sometimes we could hotplug a PCIE device, which require more MMIO resource than that reserved by BIOS. My question is: is there a way for kernel to reserved more MMIO resource for a PCIE-hotplug-capable slot? I searched the kernel-parameters.txt, but didn't find any related information.

Re: [PATCH] Centralise definitions of sector_t and blkcnt_t

2006-12-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > CONFIG_LBD and CONFIG_LSF are spread into asm/types.h for no particularly > good reason. Centralising the definition in linux/types.h means that arch > maintainers don't need to bother adding it, as well as fixing the problem > with x86-64 users

Re: 2.6.19 git compile error - "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined

2006-12-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 2006/12/04/18:00 CST > > > > Building modules, stage 2. > > Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#2) > > MODPOST 1256 modules > > WARNING: "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined! > >

About watch dog timer limit of CPU (Xscale ->IXP425) How can I set more long time ?

2006-12-04 Thread Bob Zhang
Hello all , My embeded board hardware configuration is like this : # cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : XScale-IXP425/IXC1100 rev 1 (v5b) BogoMIPS: 266.24 Features: swp half thumb fastmult edsp Hardware: Intel IXDP425 Development Platform Revision:

Re: 2.6.19-rc5-mm1 progression

2006-12-04 Thread Larry Finger
Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:36:27 +0100 "Benoit Boissinot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/24/06, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there the equivalent of 'git bisect' for the -mmX kernels? http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/bisecting-mm-trees.txt

Re: BUG? atleast >=2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:36:09 +0100 Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i know i said i suspected this was another bug, but i have revised my > suspecisions, and i do believe its in relation to x86 chroot on x86_64 > install, as it has happened with more stuff now, inside the chroot, and

RE: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] x86_64: earlyprintk usb debug device support.

2006-12-04 Thread Lu, Yinghai
-Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 4:45 PM To: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Lu, Yinghai; USB development list; Stefan Reinauer; Peter Stuge; linuxbios@linuxbios.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2]

Re: BUG? atleast >=2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-04 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 03:36 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > i know i said i suspected this was another bug, but i have revised my > suspecisions, and i do believe its in relation to x86 chroot on x86_64 > install, as it has happened with more stuff now, inside the chroot, and > only inside the

Re: BUG? atleast >=2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-04 Thread Kasper Sandberg
i know i said i suspected this was another bug, but i have revised my suspecisions, and i do believe its in relation to x86 chroot on x86_64 install, as it has happened with more stuff now, inside the chroot, and only inside the chroot, while the same apps dont do it outside chroot. 2.6.19

Re: [2.6 patch] USB_RTL8150 must select MII

2006-12-04 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 04 December 2006 3:13 pm, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:02:06 +0100 Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > USB_RTL8150 must select MII to avoid link errors. > > > > Stolen from a patch by Randy Dunlap. > > > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Thanks, Adrian. > >

Re: [patch 2.6.19-rc6] fix hotplug for legacy platform drivers

2006-12-04 Thread David Brownell
On Thursday 30 November 2006 11:04 pm, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 05:27:31PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 3:02 pm, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > > Here's my fix. ... > > > > ... I audited all the drivers using the relevant APIs, and I can't > > > >

[PATCH] Fix up compiler warnings in megaraid driver

2006-12-04 Thread Martin Bligh
Fix up compiler warnings in megaraid driver Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -aurpN -X /home/mbligh/.diff.exclude linux-2.6.19/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c 2.6.19-megaraid/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c --- linux-2.6.19/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c2006-12-04 17:52:00.0

Re: [rfc] possible page manipulation simplifications?

2006-12-04 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:55:52PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Hi Mel, > > I think you're right about the leakage, thanks for catching it. Yeah, it caused oom storm here. The pagevec simplification looks nice. I've ported it to -mm, hope it is useful. I'm prepared to test your revised patch :)

Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
Jeff Garzik wrote: Bernard Pidoux wrote: I am asking why need to compile the following modules while I do not have any SCSI device ? libata uses SCSI to provide a lot of infrastructure that it would otherwise have to recreate. Also, using SCSI meant that it automatically worked in existing

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-12-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday November 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc6/2.6.19-rc6-mm2/ > > md-change-lifetime-rules-for-md-devices.patch gives me the following early > during boot (first

Re: 2.6.19 git compile error - "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined

2006-12-04 Thread Horst H. von Brand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2006/12/04/18:00 CST > > Building modules, stage 2. > Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#2) > MODPOST 1256 modules > WARNING: "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined! > make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 > make: *** [modules] Error 2 Also

Re: 2.6.19-git6 header error

2006-12-04 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:03:24 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote: > linux-2.6.19-git6/usr/include/linux/netfilter.h requires linux/rcupdate.h, > which does not exist in exported headers > make[3]: *** > [/var/linsrc/linux-2.6.19-git6/usr/include/linux/.check.netfilter.h] Error 1 > make[2]: *** [linux]

Re: reiserfs NET=n build error

2006-12-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday December 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ingo, Neil: > > Al has summarized that csum_partial() is arch-specific. > However, drivers/md/md.c uses it. Yep. > > Does that mean that RAID volumes are not portable across > (some) architectures? Yep. version-0.90 superblocks are already

Re: [PATCH] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations that may be migrated

2006-12-04 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Hi, your plan looks good to me. some comments. On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 23:45:32 + (GMT) Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Use lumpy-reclaim to intelligently reclaim contigous pages. The same > logic can be used to reclaim within a PFN range > 2. Merge anti-frag to help high-order

2.6.19-git6 header error

2006-12-04 Thread Randy Dunlap
linux-2.6.19-git6/usr/include/linux/netfilter.h requires linux/rcupdate.h, which does not exist in exported headers make[3]: *** [/var/linsrc/linux-2.6.19-git6/usr/include/linux/.check.netfilter.h] Error 1 make[2]: *** [linux] Error 2 make[1]: *** [headers_check] Error 2 make: *** [vmlinux]

Re: Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

2006-12-04 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:36:20PM -0800, Valerie Henson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:10:07PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:54:53AM +, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > > > In the future, I'd like to see a "relative atime" mode, which functions >

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] x86_64: earlyprintk usb debug device support.

2006-12-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:26:52PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 12:18:30PM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>

Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

2006-12-04 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:10:07PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:54:53AM +, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > > In the future, I'd like to see a "relative atime" mode, which functions > > > in the manner described by Valerie Henson at: > > > > > >

Re: reiserfs NET=n build error

2006-12-04 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:47:57 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote: > 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

Re: Mounting NFS root FS

2006-12-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Trond Myklebust wrote: On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 22:05 +0200, Janne Karhunen wrote: On Monday 04 December 2006 20:21, Trond Myklebust wrote: 2) NFS provides persistent storage. To me this sounds like a chicken and an egg problem. It both depends and provides this at the same time :/. But hey, if

Re: [RFC] rfkill - Add support for input key to control wireless radio

2006-12-04 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:28:11 +0100 Ivo van Doorn wrote: > rfkill with the fixes as suggested by Arjan. > - instead of a semaphore a mutex is now being used. > - open_count changing is now locked by the mutex. > > --- > > diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/input/misc/Kconfig >

Re: v2.6.19-rt1, yum/rpm

2006-12-04 Thread Karsten Wiese
Am Donnerstag, 30. November 2006 09:33 schrieb Ingo Molnar: > i have released the 2.6.19-rt1 tree, which can be downloaded from the Hi Ingo, here comes a freerunning trace explaining the weirdness I see here. I tried max_latency tracing first, didn't see anything usefull, went on with tracing

2.6.19 git compile error - "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined

2006-12-04 Thread art
to: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006/12/04/18:00 CST Building modules, stage 2. Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#2) MODPOST 1256 modules WARNING: "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined! make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 make: ***

Re: why can't I remove a kernel module (or: what uses a given module)?

2006-12-04 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:10:01AM +0100, Tobias Oed wrote: > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > > Yes, something's using that drive, be it a program, a module (unlikely), > > or something that is compiled directly in the kernel (for example, > > md/raid1). > > Since you mention md, dm comes to mind.

Re: What's in ocfs2.git

2006-12-04 Thread Mark Fasheh
Hi Steve, On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:54:53AM +, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > In the future, I'd like to see a "relative atime" mode, which functions > > in the manner described by Valerie Henson at: > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/25/380 > > > I'd like to second that. [adding Val Henson

[git patches] ocfs2 and configfs updates

2006-12-04 Thread Mark Fasheh
Hi Linus, This patch set comprises the bulk of my 2.6.20 features which need to be pushed upstream. My description of the changes is below: * Various ocfs2 cleanups, including a patchset by me intended to clean up some of the internal ocfs2 journal api. Mostly this revolves around

Re: [PATCH 0/4] lock stat for 2.6.19-rt1

2006-12-04 Thread hui
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:08:56AM -0800, Bill Huey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:21:29PM +0100, bert hubert wrote: > > How tightly is your work bound to -rt? Iow, any chance of separating the > > two? Or should we even want to? > > There's other uses for it as well. Think about RCU

Re: [PATCH] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations that may be migrated

2006-12-04 Thread Mel Gorman
On (04/12/06 14:34), Andrew Morton didst pronounce: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 20:34:29 + (GMT) Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IOW: big-picture where-do-we-go-from-here stuff. > > > > Start with lumpy reclaim, I had lumpy-reclaim in my todo-queue but it seems to have gone away. I

Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bernard Pidoux wrote: I am asking why need to compile the following modules while I do not have any SCSI device ? libata uses SCSI to provide a lot of infrastructure that it would otherwise have to recreate. Also, using SCSI meant that it automatically worked in existing installers.

scst support for kernels above 2.6.15

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I have noticed that scsi_do_req has apparently been obsoleted in 2.6.18 and above. Is scst and target support for FC-AL going to remain supported and/or merged at some point? If so, what is planned for scst support for later kernels? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[PATCH v2] libata: Simulate REPORT LUNS for ATAPI devices

2006-12-04 Thread Darrick J. Wong
The Quantum GoVault SATAPI removable disk device returns ATA_ERR in response to a REPORT LUNS packet. If this happens to an ATAPI device that is attached to a SAS controller (this is the case with sas_ata), the device does not load because SCSI won't touch a "SCSI device" that won't report its

Re: [RFC] rfkill - Add support for input key to control wireless radio

2006-12-04 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Hi, > > This patch is a resend of a patch I has been send to the linux kernel > > and netdev list earlier. The most recent version of a few weeks back > > didn't compile since I missed 1 line in my patch that changed > > include/linux/input.h. > > > > This patch will offer the handling of

Re: Intel 82559 NIC corrupted EEPROM

2006-12-04 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
On 12/1/06, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can you try adding mdelay(100); in e100_eeprom_load before the for loop, > and then change the multiple udelay(4) to mdelay(1) in e100_eeprom_read I applied the attached patch. Loading the driver now takes around one minute :-) ouch, but yep,

Re: [PATCH] make sata_promise PATA ports work

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:47:37 -0700 Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This patch vs 2.6.19, based on the not-actually-working-for-me code lurking in libata-dev.git#promise-sata-pata, makes the PATA ports on my promise sata card actually work. Since the plan as Nice, this is

[PATCH 3/4] UML - Size register files correctly

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Dike
We were using the wrong symbol to size register files. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.18-mm/arch/um/include/sysdep-i386/ptrace.h === --- linux-2.6.18-mm.orig/arch/um/include/sysdep-i386/ptrace.h

[PATCH 1/4] UML - include stddef.h correctly

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Dike
We were not including stddef.h in files that used offsetof. One file was also including linux/stddef.h for no perciptible reason. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.18-mm/arch/um/sys-i386/ldt.c === ---

Re: [2.6 patch] USB_RTL8150 must select MII

2006-12-04 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:02:06 +0100 Adrian Bunk wrote: > USB_RTL8150 must select MII to avoid link errors. > > Stolen from a patch by Randy Dunlap. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks, Adrian. David B. may prefer a patch similar to the one that was merged for

[PATCH 2/4] UML - Include asm/page.h in order to get PAGE_SHIFT

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Dike
Include the proper header to get a definition of PAGE_SHIFT. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.17/arch/um/include/sysdep-i386/stub.h === --- linux-2.6.17.orig/arch/um/include/sysdep-i386/stub.h

[PATCH 4/4] UML - Use get_random_bytes after random pool is seeded

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Dike
When the UML network driver generates random MACs for its devices, it was possible for a number of UMLs to get the same MACs because the ethernet initialization was done before the random pool was properly seeded. This patch moves the initialization later so that it gets better randomness.

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2: uli526x only works after reload

2006-12-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:08:28AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:32, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > [Trimmed the Cc list a bit.] > > > > On Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:12, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:21:27 +0100 > > > "Rafael J. Wysocki"

Re: libata: Simulate REPORT LUNS for ATAPI devices when not supported

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Darrick J. Wong wrote: The Quantum GoVault SATAPI removable disk device returns ATA_ERR in response to a REPORT LUNS packet. If this happens to an ATAPI device that is attached to a SAS controller (this is the case with sas_ata), the device does not load because SCSI won't touch a "SCSI device"

Re: [PATCH 32/36] driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.

2006-12-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:15:03PM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Greg, > > > > > Provide a function device_move() to move a device to a new parent > > > > device. Add > > > > auxilliary functions kobject_move() and sysfs_move_dir(). > > > > kobject_move() generates a new uevent of type

libata: Simulate REPORT LUNS for ATAPI devices when not supported

2006-12-04 Thread Darrick J. Wong
The Quantum GoVault SATAPI removable disk device returns ATA_ERR in response to a REPORT LUNS packet. If this happens to an ATAPI device that is attached to a SAS controller (this is the case with sas_ata), the device does not load because SCSI won't touch a "SCSI device" that won't report its

Re: /sys/bus/pci/drivers//new_id

2006-12-04 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:18:04PM +, Russell King wrote: > Unfortunately, the .../new_id feature does not work with the 8250_pci > driver. > > The reason for this comes down to the way .../new_id is implemented. > When PCI tries to match a driver to a device, it checks the modules > static

Re: [PATCH] fully support linker generated .eh_frame_hdr section

2006-12-04 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:23:27 + Jan Beulich wrote: > Now that binutils' ld is able to properly populate .eh_frame_hdr in the > Linux kernel case, here's a patch to add some functionality to the Dwarf2 > unwinder to actually be able to make use of this (applies on firstfloor > tree with the

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