Re: + git-netdev-all-e1000-fix.patch added to -mm tree

2007-01-09 Thread Auke Kok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patch titled git-netdev-all: e1000 fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is git-netdev-all-e1000-fix.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this

Re: [PATCH -MM] e1000: rewrite hardware initialization code

2007-01-09 Thread Auke Kok
Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:36:29 -0800 Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: git-pull git://lost.foo-projects.org/~ahkok/git/linux-2.6 e1000 That tree appears to be based on the -mm git tree? That's a somewhat unusual thing to do - a tree which is based on current Linus

[PATCH 3/3] eCryptfs: Encrypted passthrough

2007-01-09 Thread Michael Halcrow
Provide an option to provide a view of the encrypted files such that the metadata is always in the header of the files, regardless of whether the metadata is actually in the header or in the extended attribute. This mode of operation is useful for applications like incremental backup utilities

[PATCH 2/3] eCryptfs: Generalize metadata read/write

2007-01-09 Thread Michael Halcrow
Generalize the metadata reading and writing mechanisms, with two targets for now: metadata in file header and metadata in the user.ecryptfs xattr of the lower file. Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c | 224

Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

2007-01-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 9 2007 11:41, Shaya Potter wrote: > >Again, what about fibre channel support? Imagine I have multiple blades >connected to a SAN. For whatever reason I format the san w/ ext3 (I've >actually done this when we didn't need sharing, just needed a huge disk, >for instance for doing

[PATCH 1/3] eCryptfs: xattr flags and mount options

2007-01-09 Thread Michael Halcrow
Add extended attribute support to version bit vector, flags to indicate when xattr or encrypted view modes are enabled, and support for the new mount options. Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c | 20

[PATCH 0/3] eCryptfs: Support metadata in xattr

2007-01-09 Thread Michael Halcrow
This patch set introduces the ability to store cryptographic metadata into an lower file extended attribute rather than the lower file header region. This patch set implements two new mount options: ecryptfs_xattr_metadata - When set, newly created files will have their cryptographic

[GIT PULL] please pull infiniband.git

2007-01-09 Thread Roland Dreier
Linus, please pull from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus This tree is also available from kernel.org mirrors at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus This includes the small patches from my previous

oprofile broken on 2.6.19

2007-01-09 Thread Gert Vervoort
When I try to use oprofile on 2.6.19, it does not seem to work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ sudo opcontrol --no-vmlinux [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ sudo opcontrol --start /usr/bin/opcontrol: line 911: /dev/oprofile/0/enabled: No such file or directory/usr/bin/opcontrol: line 911:

RE: [PATCH 4/4] x86_64 ioapic: Improve the heuristics for when check_timer fails.

2007-01-09 Thread Lu, Yinghai
-Original Message- From: Tobias Diedrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 2:01 PM To: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Linus Torvalds; Lu, Yinghai; Andrew Morton; Adrian Bunk; Andi Kleen; Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86_64 ioapic: Improve the

Re: [PATCH] local_t : Documentation

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:06:16 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:14:46 -0500 > > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > +* How to use local atomic operations > > > + > > > +#include > > >

Re: [PATCH] local_t : Documentation

2007-01-09 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:14:46 -0500 > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > +* How to use local atomic operations > > + > > +#include > > +#include > > + > > +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(local_t, counters) = LOCAL_INIT(0); > > + > > + > > +*

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20] ehca: use proper flag for get_zeroed_page() to prevent BUG:scheduling while atomic...

2007-01-09 Thread Roland Dreier
Thanks, applied. - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [2.6 patch] x86_64: re-add a newline to RESTORE_CONTEXT

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:01:21 +0100 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 03:55, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > RESTORE_CONTEXT lost a newline in > > commit 658fdbef66e5e9be79b457edc2cbbb3add840aa9: > >

RE: Understanding cpufreq?

2007-01-09 Thread Langsdorf, Mark
> These machines are running a 2.6.9-42 RHEL4 kernel with the > powernow-k8 module loaded - which I believe have backported > cpufreq support from more recent mainline kernels. To an extent. The problem is not the powernow-k8 driver, but the cpufreq infrastructure. See below. > In trying to

Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86_64 ioapic: Improve the heuristics for when check_timer fails.

2007-01-09 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Tobias. I don't have a box with the problem yours does, and this > doesn't quite try any of the cases you have been asked to test > so could you please test this one? Works fine with BIOS 0402. patches/series: patch-2.6.20-rc4 patch-2.6.19-rc3-nokmem myconfig ccache

RE: [PATCH] support O_DIRECT in tmpfs/ramfs

2007-01-09 Thread Hua Zhong
> > Here is a simple patch that does it. > > Looks more likely to work than Ken's - which I didn't try, > but I couldn't see what magic prevented it from just going BUG. > > But I have to say, having seen the ensuing requests for this > to impose the same constraints as other implementations

Re: .version keeps being updated

2007-01-09 Thread Luca Tettamanti
Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Hi all, Hi Jean, > Since 2.6.20-rc1 or so, running "make" always builds a new kernel with > an incremented version number, whether there has actually been any > change done to the code or configuration or not. This increases the > build time quite a

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Auke Kok
Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: root=/dev/hda2 is what was passed to the kernel from grub. Jeff I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux

Re: mprotect abuse in slim

2007-01-09 Thread Mimi Zohar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/09/2007 02:27:19 PM: >Which, unfortunately, creates incredibly brittle code when some attacker >reads the SLIM source code and finds a way to force the non-simple case >you ignore. > >This is an area where you really need to do it *right*, or not at all. For the

Re: .version keeps being updated

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:44:21 +0100 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, Linus, Andrew, can you please take a look and revert or fix what > needs to be? Am afraid to touch it. Sam should be back on deck soon and will hopefully have time to fix this stuff up. > This new behavior of the

Re: mprotect abuse in slim

2007-01-09 Thread Mimi Zohar
Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/08/2007 10:07:25 PM: > Hi, > >maybe this is a silly question, but do you revoke not only the current >fd entries, but also the ones that are pending in UNIX domain sockets >and that are already being sent to the process? If not.. then you might

Re: [kvm-devel] guest crash on 2.6.20-rc4

2007-01-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Roland Dreier wrote: I'm running a 64-bit Fedora 6 install as a guest on a host running 2.6.20-rc4 with the kvm-10 userspace release. The CPU is a Xeon 5160 and I have 6 GB of RAM. The guest is given 512 MB of memory. I left the guest idle overnight, and the makewhatis cron job seems to have

Re: Experimental driver for Ricoh Bay1Controller SD Card readers

2007-01-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Sascha Sommer, le Sun 07 Jan 2007 00:32:26 +0100, a écrit : > Attached is a very experimental driver for a Ricoh SD Card reader that can be > found in some notebooks like the Samsung P35. Yehaaaw! That reader can be found on DELL X300 too. It works almost fine for me, see attached dmesg.

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jeff V. Merkey wrote: root=/dev/hda2 is what was passed to the kernel from grub. Jeff I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. The chip worked

Re: Gaming Interface

2007-01-09 Thread Akula2
If there is no problem with Linux gaming I should shut the hell up and start buying all these Linux games I keep hearing about and seeing in those TV commercials. I feel that you are getting confused Linux = linux (kernel)? This effort is pretty much lies with the distro guys. I have played

Re: NTFS deadlock on 2.6.18.6

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Sergey Vlasov wrote: Yep. Hello! I have encountered a deadlock in the NTFS filesystem on a 2.6.18.6-based kernel (x86_64, CONFIG_SMP set, but the machine has only one CPU (Athlon64 3200+), no PREEMPT). The kswapd0 and mklocatedb processes were apparently involved in the deadlock: kswapd0

SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. The chip worked for about 30 seconds before liquifying in the chassis. I note that the 945 chipset in the

Re: [Re: 2.6.20-rc3-mm1] BUG: at kernel/sched.c:3415 sub_preempt_count()

2007-01-09 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:50:20PM +0100, Maciej Rutecki wrote: > Frederik Deweerdt napisał(a): > > > See: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc3/2.6.20-rc3-mm1/hot-fixes/ > > This should fix it. > > Regards, > > Frederik > >> > > I don't use reiser4 or

Fix the reproducible oops in scsi

2007-01-09 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
I got the oops after some hotplug events. And the similar oops can reproduce by the following step. plug usb-storage (e.g. scsi_host of usb is "host5", and device is sde) # mount /dev/sde1 /mnt # echo 1 > /sys/block/sde/device/delete # echo - - - > /sys/class/scsi_host/host5/scan #

Re: Jumping into Kernel development: About -rc kernels...

2007-01-09 Thread Akula2
On 1/9/07, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Depends on what you want to do. If you want a stable kernel to use in production you should probably pick the latest stable kernel I am a Linux user/developer in all my IT career which began in 1997. But always my goal to be a kernel developer

Re: [PATCH] local_t : Documentation

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:14:46 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +* How to use local atomic operations > + > +#include > +#include > + > +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(local_t, counters) = LOCAL_INIT(0); > + > + > +* Counting > + > +In preemptible context, use get_cpu_var() and

Re: mprotect abuse in slim

2007-01-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Christoph Hellwig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:07:25PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > maybe this is a silly question, but do you revoke not only the current > > fd entries, but also the ones that are pending in UNIX domain sockets > > and that are already being

NTFS deadlock on 2.6.18.6

2007-01-09 Thread Sergey Vlasov
Hello! I have encountered a deadlock in the NTFS filesystem on a 2.6.18.6-based kernel (x86_64, CONFIG_SMP set, but the machine has only one CPU (Athlon64 3200+), no PREEMPT). The kswapd0 and mklocatedb processes were apparently involved in the deadlock: kswapd0 D 810005dea304 0

Re: [Re: 2.6.20-rc3-mm1] BUG: at kernel/sched.c:3415 sub_preempt_count()

2007-01-09 Thread Maciej Rutecki
Frederik Deweerdt napisał(a): > See: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc3/2.6.20-rc3-mm1/hot-fixes/ > This should fix it. > Regards, > Frederik >> I don't use reiser4 or cpufreq, see my .config. -- Maciej Rutecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.unixy.pl

Re: [PATCH] support O_DIRECT in tmpfs/ramfs

2007-01-09 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Hua Zhong wrote: > A while ago there was a discussion about supporting direct-io on tmpfs. Ah, I think I can just about remember that... ;) > > Here is a simple patch that does it. Looks more likely to work than Ken's - which I didn't try, but I couldn't see what magic

Re: .version keeps being updated

2007-01-09 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Andrey, On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:05:49 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: > > Since 2.6.20-rc1 or so, running "make" always builds a new kernel with > > an incremented version number, whether there has actually been any > > change done to the code or configuration or not. This

Re: [PATCH] Discuss a couple common errors in kernel-doc usage.

2007-01-09 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Explain a couple of the most common errors in kernel-doc usage. > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > seems useful to emphasize these issues since they occur occasionally > in the source. > > diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt >

Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

2007-01-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:58:19AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > Subject : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page() (reiserfs) > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/7/117 > > Submitter : Malte Schröder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

Re: macros: "do-while" versus "({ })" and a compile-time error

2007-01-09 Thread Stefan Richter
linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: >> The limitations are certainly highly compiler-specific. > > I don't think so. I referred to the ({ expr; }) in this remark, not to do-while. It's not a valid construct in many flavors of the C language in the first

Re: Finding hardlinks

2007-01-09 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > > Yes but "cp -rl" is typically done by _developers_ and they tend to > have a better understanding of this (uh, at least within linux context > I hope so). > > Also, just adding hard-links doesn't increase the number of inodes. No, but it

Re: Finding hardlinks

2007-01-09 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:26:25AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:00 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > 50% probability of false positive on 4G files seems like very ugly > > > design problem to me. > > > > 4 billion files, each with more than one link is pretty far

Re: [PATCH -MM] e1000: rewrite hardware initialization code

2007-01-09 Thread Auke Kok
Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:16:27 +0100 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: drivers/net/e1000/Makefile| 19 drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h | 95 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_80003es2lan.c | 1330 +

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 1/10] cxgb3 - main header files

2007-01-09 Thread Steve Wise
> > In the interest of expediting this I'll go implement it... > > Steve. > Here it is. I think this is the correct way to solve the issue (now that I've implemented it :). This is a delta from the driver patch series just for reviewing purposes. commit

[IPv6] PROBLEM? Network unreachable despite correct route

2007-01-09 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Hi, I'm having a really ugly problem I'm trying to pinpoint, but failed so far. I'm neither completely convinced it is not related to my local setup(s), nor do I have any clue how this might be caused. I have several boxes with native IPv6 connectivity at various places. Some of them show

[PATCH] cpia.c: buffer overflow

2007-01-09 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
If assigned minor is 10 or greater, terminator will be put beyound the end. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/media/video/cpia.c |8 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/media/video/cpia.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/cpia.c @@

Re: mprotect abuse in slim

2007-01-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:38:25 EST, Mimi Zohar said: > revoked. Based on previous comments on lkml, we understand > that this is not really possible in general, so SLIM only > attempts to revoke access in certain simple cases. Which, unfortunately, creates incredibly brittle code when some

Re: [PATCH -MM] e1000: rewrite hardware initialization code

2007-01-09 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:16:27 +0100 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > drivers/net/e1000/Makefile| 19 > > drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h | 95 > > drivers/net/e1000/e1000_80003es2lan.c | 1330 + > >

[PATCH 2/3] Handle 32 bit PerfMon Counter writes cleanly in i386 nmi_watchdog

2007-01-09 Thread Venkatesh Pallipadi
Change i386 nmi handler to handle 32 bit perfmon counter MSR writes cleanly. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.20-rc-mm/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c === ---

[PATCH 3/3] Handle 32 bit PerfMon Counter writes cleanly in oprofile

2007-01-09 Thread Venkatesh Pallipadi
Handle these 32 bit perfmon counter MSR writes cleanly in oprofile. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.20-rc-mm/arch/i386/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c === ---

Re: macros: "do-while" versus "({ })" and a compile-time error

2007-01-09 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> just to stir the pot a bit regarding the discussion of the two >> different ways to define macros, > > You mean function-like macros, right? > >> i've just noticed that the "({ })" >> notation is not universally acceptable.

Re: [PATCH] include/linux/slab.h: new KFREE() macro.

2007-01-09 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:02:35 -0800 (PST) Amit Choudhary wrote: > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:06:12 PST, Amit Choudhary said: > > > I do not see how a double free can result in _logical_wrong_behaviour_ of > > > the program and the > > > program keeps on running

[PATCH 1/3] Handle 32 bit PerfMon Counter writes cleanly in x86_64 nmi_watchdog

2007-01-09 Thread Venkatesh Pallipadi
P6 CPUs and Core/Core 2 CPUs which has 'architectural perf mon' feature, only supports write of low 32 bits in Performance Monitoring Counters. Bits 32..39 are sign extended based on bit 31 and bits 40..63 are reserved and should be zero. This patch: Change x86_64 nmi handler to handle this

Re: [PATCH -MM] e1000: rewrite hardware initialization code

2007-01-09 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > drivers/net/e1000/Makefile| 19 > drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h | 95 > drivers/net/e1000/e1000_80003es2lan.c | 1330 + > drivers/net/e1000/e1000_80003es2lan.h | 89 > drivers/net/e1000/e1000_82540.c | 586 ++ >

Re: [PATCH -MM] e1000: rewrite hardware initialization code

2007-01-09 Thread Auke Kok
Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:36:29 -0800 Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: git-pull git://lost.foo-projects.org/~ahkok/git/linux-2.6 e1000 That tree appears to be based on the -mm git tree? That's a somewhat unusual thing to do - a tree which is based on current Linus

Re: [PATCH] include/linux/slab.h: new KFREE() macro.

2007-01-09 Thread Amit Choudhary
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:06:12 PST, Amit Choudhary said: > > I do not see how a double free can result in _logical_wrong_behaviour_ of > > the program and the > > program keeps on running (like an incoming packet being dropped because of > > double free). > Double

[PATCH 4/4] MMCONFIG: Fix x86_64 ioremap base_address

2007-01-09 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Current mmconfig has some problems of remapped range. The base address always corresponds to bus number 0, but currently we are assuming it corresponds to start bus number. This patch fixes the above problems. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86_64/pci/mmconfig.c |

[PATCH 3/4] MMCONFIG: fix unreachable_devices()

2007-01-09 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Currently, unreachable_devices() compares value of mmconfig and value of conf1. But it doesn't check the device is reachable or not. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/pci/mmconfig-shared.c | 12 +++- arch/i386/pci/mmconfig.c|6 ++

[PATCH 2/4] MMCONFIG: Reject a broken MCFG tables on Asus etc

2007-01-09 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
This rejects a broken MCFG tables on Asus etc. Arjan and Andi suggest this. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/pci/mmconfig-shared.c | 24 +++- arch/i386/pci/mmconfig.c|9 - arch/x86_64/pci/mmconfig.c |9 -

[PATCH 1/4] MMCONFIG: cleanup

2007-01-09 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
This just cleans up. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/pci/mmconfig-shared.c | 50 +--- arch/i386/pci/mmconfig.c| 13 +++--- arch/i386/pci/pci.h |4 ++- arch/x86_64/pci/mmconfig.c | 16

Re: [2.6.20-rc4 regression] ibm-acpi: bay support disabled

2007-01-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 09 Jan 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig > > index 1639998..34cc8d5 100644 > > --- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig > > +++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig > > @@ -215,26 +215,29 @@ config ACPI_IBM > > config ACPI_IBM_DOCK > > bool "Legacy Docking

Understanding cpufreq?

2007-01-09 Thread James Pearson
I have a number of dual CPU and dual CPU/dual core Opteron systems that are used as compute servers. In an effort to reduce power consumption and reduce heat output, I would like to make use of the PowerNow! capabilities to clock back the CPUs when the machines are idle. These machines are

Re: [PATCH -MM] e1000: rewrite hardware initialization code

2007-01-09 Thread Auke Kok
Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:36:29 -0800 Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew, All, This patch contains a major rewrite to the e1000 driver that groups and separates e1000 hardware by chipset family. It abstracts the hardware specific code into an API that will

Re: [PATCH -MM] e1000: rewrite hardware initialization code

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:36:29 -0800 Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > git-pull git://lost.foo-projects.org/~ahkok/git/linux-2.6 e1000 That tree appears to be based on the -mm git tree? That's a somewhat unusual thing to do - a tree which is based on current Linus mainline would be

Re: [PATCH -MM] e1000: rewrite hardware initialization code

2007-01-09 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:36:29 -0800 Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew, All, > > This patch contains a major rewrite to the e1000 driver that groups and > separates e1000 > hardware by chipset family. It abstracts the hardware specific code into an > API that > will allow us to

RE: [openib-general] [PATCH 1/10] cxgb3 - main header files

2007-01-09 Thread Caitlin Bestler
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Michael S. Tsirkin > Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:57 AM > To: Steve Wise > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Roland Dreier; Divy Le Ray; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; openib-general > Subject:

Re: [PATCH 1/5] fixing errors handling during pci_driver resume stage [net]

2007-01-09 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:01:14 +0300 Dmitriy Monakhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > network pci drivers have to return correct error code during resume stage in > case of errors. > Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > - Please don't introduce one dev_err() call into a device

Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

2007-01-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Malte Schröder wrote: > > > So something interesting is definitely going on, but I don't know exactly > > what it is. Why does reiserfs do the truncate as part of a close, if the > > same inode is actually mapped somewhere else? And if it's a race with two > > different

Re: [PATCH 3/3] atiixp.c: add cable detection support for ATI IDE

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:54:01 +0100 "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The good news is that it doesn't matter now as Andrew fixed Conke's patches > manually and applied them to -mm I applied three pathces, but there's been such a storm of inadequately changelogged mangled

Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

2007-01-09 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)" writes: > On 1/9/07, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:03:35PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > > > > However, I must caution that a file system like

Re: Strange ethN numbering problem.

2007-01-09 Thread John Clark
Andrey Borzenkov schrieb: John Clark wrote: Then quite likely it remembered lower numbers for "old" interfaces and starts renaming with next available. The kernel is 2.6.19.1 the at-that-moment current linux kernel. What should I look for in terms of interface renaming. I

Re: [PATCH] slab: cache_grow cleanup

2007-01-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > The current implementation of cache_grow() has to either (1) use pre-allocated > memory for the slab or (2) allocate the memory itself which makes the error > paths messy. Move __GFP_NO_GROW and __GFP_WAIT processing to kmem_getpages() > and introduce a

Re: Jumping into Kernel development: About -rc kernels...

2007-01-09 Thread Stefan Richter
Akula2 wrote: > Should I start compile/test/debug one-after-one in this fashion:- > > 2.6.19 source + patch-2.6.20-rc1 > 2.6.19 source + patch-2.6.20-rc2 > 2.6.19 source + patch-2.6.20-rc3 > 2.6.19 source + patch-2.6.20-rc4 Or linux-2.6.19 + testing/patch-2.6.20-rc1 = linux-2.6.20-rc1

Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

2007-01-09 Thread Malte Schröder
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 18:58, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Subject : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page() (reiserfs) > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/7/117 > > Submitter : Malte Schröder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Status : unknown > >

[PATCH] JFS: possible recursive locking detected

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 07:56 -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 15:02 +0530, Srinivasa Ds wrote: > > Tomasz Kvarsin wrote: > > > This I got during boot with 2.6.20-rc4: > > > = > > > [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] > > ...

Re: [2.6 patch] remove duplicate MMAPPER Kconfig option

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:53:07PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This option is already in arch/um/Kconfig.char > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ACK, definitely. Jeff -- Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

2007-01-09 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
On 1/9/07, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:03:35PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > > However, I must caution that a file system like ecryptfs is very different > > from Unionfs, the latter being a fan-out

Re: 2.6.20-rc3-mm1 - git-block.patch causes hard lockups

2007-01-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:55:24 +0100, Jens Axboe said: > On Sat, Jan 06 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:02:00 PST, Andrew Morton said: > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc 3/2.6.20-rc3-mm1/ > > > > With git-block.patch

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc4 1/4] futex priority based wakeup

2007-01-09 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 17:16 +0100, Pierre Peiffer wrote: > @@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ struct futex_q { >* Split the global futex_lock into every hash list lock. >*/ > struct futex_hash_bucket { > - spinlock_t lock; > - struct list_head chain; > + spinlock_t

Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

2007-01-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Subject : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page() (reiserfs) > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/7/117 > Submitter : Malte Schröder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Status : unknown Adrian, this is also available as

Re: lvm backwards compatability

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:15:39PM +, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 06:01:11PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > Did backwards compatability with old LVM metadata break intentionally > > in 2.6.19 ? I have a volume that mounts just fine in 2.6.18, > > but moving to 2.6.19

Re: [2.6.20-rc4 regression] ibm-acpi: bay support disabled

2007-01-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:28:45PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > A new one for you, it exists since 2.6.20-rc2. > > Subject : ThinkPad removable bay support disabled unconditionally > References : > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi=116750681901208=2 > Caused-By

Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

2007-01-09 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:03:35PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > > However, I must caution that a file system like ecryptfs is very different > > from Unionfs, the latter being a fan-out file system---and both have very > > different goals.

Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

2007-01-09 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jan Kara writes: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Morton writes: > > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 23:12:53 -0500 > > > "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > +Modifying a Unionfs branch directly, while the union is mounted, is > > > >

[PATCH -MM] e1000: rewrite hardware initialization code

2007-01-09 Thread Auke Kok
Andrew, All, This patch contains a major rewrite to the e1000 driver that groups and separates e1000 hardware by chipset family. It abstracts the hardware specific code into an API that will allow us to continue to maintain the complex e1000 driver and add new hardware support to it without

Re: 2.6.20-rc4: regression: iptables failed to load rules

2007-01-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Tomasz Kvarsin wrote: > > During boot into 2.6.20-rc4 iptables says > iptables-restore: line 15 failed. > And works fine with my default kernel: 2.6.18.x I bet you enabled the new transport-agnostic netfilter, and didn't enable some of the actual rules needed for your

Re: fix typo in geode_configre()@cyrix.c

2007-01-09 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:41:56PM +0900, takada wrote: > In kernel 2.6, write back wrong register when configure Geode processor. > Instead of storing to CCR4, it stores to CCR3. > > --- linux-2.6.19/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c.orig2007-01-09 > 16:45:21.0 +0900 > +++

Re: macros: "do-while" versus "({ })" and a compile-time error

2007-01-09 Thread Stefan Richter
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > just to stir the pot a bit regarding the discussion of the two > different ways to define macros, You mean function-like macros, right? > i've just noticed that the "({ })" > notation is not universally acceptable. i've seen examples where > using that notation

PATCH: cyber2010 framebuffer on ARM Netwinder fix...

2007-01-09 Thread Woody Suwalski
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Stuart Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-05 09:40]: shark w/o any changes to the kernel. I dug a bit further, both in the driver, and in the HW spec for the shark, and discovered that the video chip on the shark is connected via the VL bus, not the PCI bus. The

[2.6.20-rc4 regression] ibm-acpi: bay support disabled

2007-01-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
A new one for you, it exists since 2.6.20-rc2. Subject : ThinkPad removable bay support disabled unconditionally References : http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi=116750681901208=2 Caused-By: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Handled-By : Henrique de Moraes

Re: [PATCH] support O_DIRECT in tmpfs/ramfs

2007-01-09 Thread Michael Reed
Peter Staubach wrote: > Hua Zhong wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A while ago there was a discussion about supporting direct-io on tmpfs. >> >> Here is a simple patch that does it. >> >> 1. A new fs flag FS_RAM_BASED is added and the O_DIRECT flag is ignored >>if this flag is set (suggestions on a

Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

2007-01-09 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Trond Myklebust writes: > I'm saying that at the very least it should not Oops in these > situations. As to whether or not they are something you want to handle > more gracefully, that is up to you, but Oopses are definitely a > showstopper. > > Trond I totally

Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

2007-01-09 Thread Jan Kara
> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 11:30 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 13:15 +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:18:52AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 23:12:53 -0500 > > > > > "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

2007-01-09 Thread Shaya Potter
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 12:03 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > I'm saying that at the very least it should not Oops in these > situations. As to whether or not they are something you want to handle > more gracefully, that is up to you, but Oopses are definitely a > showstopper. I don't think anyone

Re: [PATCH 1/10] cxgb3 - main header files

2007-01-09 Thread Roland Dreier
> The time for adding new stuff to 2.6.20 is /long/ past. We stop > adding things like new drivers when Linus releases 2.6.X-rc1. Well, in the past I think new drivers have been added after the merge window, given that there's no chance of regressions (old kernel == no support for device X, so

Re: macros: "do-while" versus "({ })" and a compile-time error

2007-01-09 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Robert P. J. Day wrote: just to stir the pot a bit regarding the discussion of the two different ways to define macros, i've just noticed that the "({ })" notation is not universally acceptable. i've seen examples where using that notation causes gcc to produce: error: braced-group within

[PATCH 2.6.20] ehca: use proper flag for get_zeroed_page() to prevent BUG:scheduling while atomic...

2007-01-09 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
Hello Roland! Here is a patch for ehca to use proper flag, ie. GFP_ATOMIC resp. GFP_KERNEL, when calling get_zeroed_page() to prevent "Bug: scheduling while atomic...". This error does not cause a kernel panic but makes ipoib un-usable afterwards. It is reproducible on 2.6.20-rc4 if one does

Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

2007-01-09 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 18:04 +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > But once you have MS_RDONLY set, there should be no modifications of > the underlying filesystem, should they? And I have understood that the > only problem is modifying the filesystem underneath unionfs. But maybe > I'm missing something.

Re: [patch 1/5] video sysfs support - take 2: Add dev argument for backlight_device_register.

2007-01-09 Thread James Simmons
> > To top it off, someone noticed some of the failures and fixed them but > > nobody thought to fix the drivers in drivers/video/backlight itself and > > a mac reference seems to have escaped too. > > If my memory serves me well, there is a patch for mac in mm. > Not sure other drivers in

Re: .version keeps being updated

2007-01-09 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > Since 2.6.20-rc1 or so, running "make" always builds a new kernel with > an incremented version number, whether there has actually been any > change done to the code or configuration or not. This increases the > build time quite a bit. > > I've tracked it down

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