Re: USB extension (repeater) cable

2007-01-20 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Udo van den Heuvel wrote: Actually, what it looks like is even simpler. The extension cable contains a four-port hub chip (which is the most common commodity chip) and haven't bothered changing the descriptor to tell the computer only one port is actually active. So only one port can be

Re: Realtime-preemption for 2.6.20-rc5 ?

2007-01-20 Thread Pavel Pisa
Hello Sunil and Ingo, Date: 2007-01-20 02:56:40 GMT (20 hours and 26 minutes ago) > 2007-01-20, Sunil Naidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did refer the same. Is it necessary to use only base kernel, say > 2.6.19? Or, can I go ahead with 2.6.19 + 2.6.19.2 patch + 2.6.19-rt > patch? > > If yes,

Re: USB extension (repeater) cable

2007-01-20 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:40:34PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: >>> >>> I just tried my shiny new usb extension cable (repeater): >>> >>> Jan 19 16:01:17 epia kernel: usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using >>> ehci_hcd and address 60 >>> Jan 19

Re: USB extension (repeater) cable

2007-01-20 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:40:34PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: Hello, I just tried my shiny new usb extension cable (repeater): Jan 19 16:01:17 epia kernel: usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 60 Jan 19 16:01:17 epia kernel: usb 5-1: configuration

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-20 Thread H. Peter Anvin
David Schwartz wrote: Talk about a cure worse than the disease! So you're saying that 256MB flash cards could be advertised as having 268.4MB? A 512MB RAM stick is mislabelled and could correctly say 536.8MB? That's just plain craziness. Adopting IEC 60027-2 just replaces a

Re: Serial port blues

2007-01-20 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Joe Barr wrote: I'm forwarding this post by the author of a great little program for digital amateur radio on Linux, because I'm curious whether or not the problem he is seeing can be resolved outside the kernel. All comments welcome on/off list. Thanks, Joe Barr K1GPL [...] I've spent

Re: Serial port blues

2007-01-20 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Joe Barr wrote: I'm forwarding this post by the author of a great little program for digital amateur radio on Linux, because I'm curious whether or not the problem he is seeing can be resolved outside the kernel. All comments welcome on/off list. Thanks, Joe Barr K1GPL [...] I've spent

Re: Serial port blues

2007-01-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:54:56AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:36:44PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:37:34PM -0600, Joe Barr wrote: > > > > > > I'm forwarding this post by the author of a great little program for > > > digital amateur radio

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-20 Thread Robert Hancock
Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.01.20 22:34:27 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: change in 2.6.20-rc is either causing or triggering this problem. It would be useful if you could try git bisect between 2.6.19 and 2.6.20-rc5, keeping the latest sata_nv.c each time, and see if

Re: Serial port blues

2007-01-20 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:36:44PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:37:34PM -0600, Joe Barr wrote: > > > > I'm forwarding this post by the author of a great little program for > > digital amateur radio on Linux, because I'm curious whether or not the > > problem he is

RE: Serial port blues

2007-01-20 Thread Stuart MacDonald
From: On Behalf Of Joe Barr > I'm forwarding this post by the author of a great little program for > digital amateur radio on Linux, because I'm curious whether or not the > problem he is seeing can be resolved outside the kernel. From: w1hkj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I am now convinced that

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-20 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.20 22:34:27 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: > >change in 2.6.20-rc is either causing or triggering this problem. It > >would be useful if you could try git bisect between 2.6.19 and > >2.6.20-rc5, keeping the latest sata_nv.c each time, and see if that > > > Yes,

Re: [PATCH 9/12] repost: cciss: add busy_configuring flag

2007-01-20 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Jan 19 2007, dann frazier wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:52:36PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 12 2006, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:32:00PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 06 2006, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote: > > > > > PATCH 9

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 20 January 2007 22:41, Stephen Clark wrote: >Willy Tarreau wrote: >>On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:56:20PM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote: >>>Sunil Naidu wrote: On 1/20/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It is not expected to increase write performance, but it should help

Re: How to flush the disk write cache from userspace

2007-01-20 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Jan 18 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: > Ricardo Correia wrote: > >On Tuesday 16 January 2007 00:38, you wrote: > >>As always with these things, the devil is in the details. It requires > >>the device to support a ->prepare_flush() queue hook, and not all > >>devices do that. It will work for

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Stephen Clark
Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:56:20PM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote: Sunil Naidu wrote: On 1/20/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is not expected to increase write performance, but it should help you do something else during that time, or also

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Hancock wrote: change in 2.6.20-rc is either causing or triggering this problem. It would be useful if you could try git bisect between 2.6.19 and 2.6.20-rc5, keeping the latest sata_nv.c each time, and see if that Yes, 'git bisect' would be the next step in figuring out this puzzle.

[PATCH] Register the bus, vendor and product IDs for dvb-usb remote device

2007-01-20 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, This patch writes the USB vendor and product IDs into the /sys/class/input/inputX/id/ files, so that udev can find them. A rule like this does the trick for me: KERNEL="event*", SYSFS{../id/vendor}=="2040", SYSFS{../id/product}=="9301", SYMLINK+="input/dvb-remote" ---

Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

2007-01-20 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 17:37 +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote: > This patch removes the dropping of ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE upon execution of setuid > binaries. > > Why? The answer consists of two parts: > > Firstly, there are valid applications which need an unadulterated memory map. > Some of those which

Re: Possible ways of dealing with OOM conditions.

2007-01-20 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 05:36:03PM -0500, Rik van Riel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Due to the way everything in the kernel works, you cannot > > prevent the memory allocator from allocating everything and > > running out, except maybe by setting aside reserves to deal > > with special

OnStream DI30: undescriptive message: CoD != 0 in idescsi_pc_intr

2007-01-20 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
OnStream Di30 (using ide-scsi and osst drivers), when reading or writing I regularly get these kernel messages: <3>ide-scsi: CoD != 0 in idescsi_pc_intr Let's assume flaky hardware; nothing we can hold the kernel to blame for (which is 2.6.19.1) -- it's a good thing it's calling our attention.

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-20 Thread Robert Hancock
Chr wrote: Could you (or anyone else) test what happens if you take the 2.6.20-rc5 version of sata_nv.c and try it on 2.6.19? That would tell us whether it's this change or whether it's something else (i.e. in libata core). Ok, did that! (got a fresh 2.6.19 tar ball, and used 2.6.20-rc5'

Re: Possible ways of dealing with OOM conditions.

2007-01-20 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 05:36:03PM -0500, Rik van Riel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 01:53:15PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >>>Even further development of such idea is to prevent such OOM condition > >>>at all - by

Re: [BUG] Sleeping function called from invalid context (2.6.18.6)

2007-01-20 Thread Chris Rankin
This is for a 2.6.18.6 UP-preempt kernel compiled with gcc-4.1.1, BTW. Cheers, Chris ___ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider.

Re: Running Linux on FPGA

2007-01-20 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:42:37PM +, sathesh babu wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to run Linux-2.6.18.2 ( with preemption enable) kernel on FPGA > board which has MIPS24KE processor runs at 12 MHZ. Programmed the timer to > give interrupt at every 10msec. > I am seeing some inconsistence

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-20 Thread Tony Foiani
> "David" == David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> The way RAM and flash are measured is correct. In my experience, RAM and flash *drives* are measured differently. I understand that individual flash chips come in powers of 2, but by the time they're packaged as a "flash

Weird XFS slowness

2007-01-20 Thread S.Çağlar Onur
Hi; After switching ext3 to xfs, i realize system starts to _really_ unresponsive and extracting tarballs, copying or deleting files or checking out svn repositories are really slow, so i basically try to measure some for both xfs and ext3 with same computer, same kernel (2.6.18.6), same disk,

pata_sil680 module, udev and changing drive node order

2007-01-20 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi all, I am using kernel 2.6.19 with the new pata and sata drivers. First of all, the drivers work great, no crashes nothing. There is one downside i found by using these drivers, and i am not sure how i can fix this. The drivers load correctly but my drives seem to be in a different order

[PATCH query] arm: i.MX/MX1 clock event source

2007-01-20 Thread Pavel Pisa
Hello Thomas, Sascha and Ingo please can you find some time to review next patch arm: i.MX/MX1 clock event source which has been sent to you and to the ALKML at 2007-01-13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/29510/focus=29533 There seems to be some problems, because this

Re: How to use an usb interface than is claimed by HID?

2007-01-20 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Ivan Ukhov wrote: > No, it won't do. Imagine that I'm not able to modify the kernel with its > drivers. Could I ask you what precisely is the driver you are talking about doing? Why is it not going to be a part of mainline kernel (i.e. being able to be put on blacklist

Re: How to use an usb interface than is claimed by HID?

2007-01-20 Thread Ivan Ukhov
Jiri Kosina wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Ivan Ukhov wrote: I'm writing a driver for an USB device that has one configuration with several interfacies and one of them is a HID interface. So when I check this interface whether it's claimed (usb_interface_claimed), I find out that it is, and

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/21/07, Tim Schmielau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes. You have a faster Disk that writes about 45 MB/s. But I am not sure I understand what you want to know? I got these results with a customized 2.6.20-rc5. [EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel]$ uname -a Linux Typhoon 2.6.20-rc5-Topol-M #1 SMP Sun

Re: How to use an usb interface than is claimed by HID?

2007-01-20 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Ivan Ukhov wrote: > I'm writing a driver for an USB device that has one configuration with > several interfacies and one of them is a HID interface. So when I check > this interface whether it's claimed (usb_interface_claimed), I find out > that it is, and it's claimed by

Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

2007-01-20 Thread David Wagner
Samium Gromoff wrote: >This patch removes the dropping of ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE upon execution of setuid >binaries. > >Why? The answer consists of two parts: > >Firstly, there are valid applications which need an unadulterated memory map. >Some of those which do their memory management, like lisp

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-20 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Saturday 20 January 2007 21:55, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:13, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> example, which isn't quite possible now from userspace. But as long as > >> O_DIRECT actually writes data before returning from write() call (as it

[BUG] Sleeping function called from invalid context (2.6.18.6)

2007-01-20 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have been testing my wireless zd1211rw driver with kismet, but have noticed my logs filling up with these messages instead: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:86 in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1 [] mutex_lock+0x12/0x1a [] netdev_run_todo+0x10/0x1f1 []

Re: Possible ways of dealing with OOM conditions.

2007-01-20 Thread Rik van Riel
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 01:53:15PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Even further development of such idea is to prevent such OOM condition at all - by starting swapping early (but wisely) and reduce memory usage. These just postpone execution but will

RE: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-20 Thread David Schwartz
> Nice observation, however, it still leaves quite an amount of internal > inconsistencies in the kernel output. I agree with the majority view that using the term 'MB' or 'GB' to mean a million or a billion bytes is inaccurate. The way RAM and flash are measured is correct. The way

[-mm patch] oops in drivers/net/shaper.c

2007-01-20 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
Hi, The following code: [...] s = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_ALL)); socket_address.sll_family = PF_PACKET; socket_address.sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_IP); /* * this happens to be shaper0 on my system */ =>

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-20 Thread Chr
On Saturday, 20. January 2007 20:59, you wrote: > Ian Kumlien wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I went from 2.6.19+sata_nv-adma-ncq-v7.patch, with no problems and adama > > enabled, to 2.6.20-rc5, which gave me problems almost instantly. > > > > I just thought that it might be interesting to know that it DID

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-20 Thread Ian Kumlien
On lör, 2007-01-20 at 21:43 +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:59, Robert Hancock wrote: > > Ian Kumlien wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I went from 2.6.19+sata_nv-adma-ncq-v7.patch, with no problems and adama > > > enabled, to 2.6.20-rc5, which gave me problems

Re: [-mm patch] fs/unionfs/: possible cleanups

2007-01-20 Thread Josef Sipek
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:55:54PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Let's start with a small exercise: > > Consider sparse tells you about a global function: > warning: symbol 'unionfs_d_revalidate_wrap' was not declared. Should > it be static? I ran sparse last week, and cleaned up a few

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Sunil Naidu wrote: > On 1/21/07, Tim Schmielau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Note that these dd "benchmarks" are completely bogus, because the data > > doesn't actually get written to disk in that time. For some enlightening > > data, try > > > > time dd if=/dev/zero

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-20 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:59, Robert Hancock wrote: > Ian Kumlien wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I went from 2.6.19+sata_nv-adma-ncq-v7.patch, with no problems and adama > > enabled, to 2.6.20-rc5, which gave me problems almost instantly. > > > > I just thought that it might be interesting to know

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:39:25PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:10:22PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: > > > > > > > also explains why you see better results is writeout starts

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:39:25PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:10:22PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: > > > > > > Note that these dd "benchmarks" are completely bogus, because the data > > > doesn't actually get written to

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Avuton Olrich wrote: > > > On 1/20/07, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Perhaps its time to back to a stable (2.6.17.13 kernel)? > > > > > > Anyway, when I run a cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 on a dual raptor sw

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/21/07, Tim Schmielau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note that these dd "benchmarks" are completely bogus, because the data doesn't actually get written to disk in that time. For some enlightening data, try time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1M count=1024; time sync The dd returns as soon

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Avuton Olrich wrote: > On 1/20/07, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps its time to back to a stable (2.6.17.13 kernel)? > > > > Anyway, when I run a cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 on a dual raptor sw raid1 > > partition, the OOM killer goes into effect and kills

Re: [PATCH 11/15] ide: make ide_hwif_t.ide_dma_{host_off,off_quietly} void

2007-01-20 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello again. :-) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [PATCH] ide: make ide_hwif_t.ide_dma_{host_off,off_quietly} void Below are my nits on the patch itself, and the code it changes. Index: b/drivers/ide/pci/atiixp.c === ---

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-20 Thread Michael Tokarev
Denis Vlasenko wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:13, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> example, which isn't quite possible now from userspace. But as long as >> O_DIRECT actually writes data before returning from write() call (as it >> seems to be the case at least with a normal filesystem on a

Re: [PATCH 12/15] ide: make ide_hwif_t.ide_dma_host_on void

2007-01-20 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello again. :-) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [PATCH] ide: make ide_hwif_t.ide_dma_host_on void * since ide_hwif_t.ide_dma_host_on is called either when drive->using_dma == 1 or when return value is discarded make it void, also drop "ide_" prefix * make __ide_dma_host_on() void and

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-20 Thread Avuton Olrich
On 1/20/07, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps its time to back to a stable (2.6.17.13 kernel)? Anyway, when I run a cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 on a dual raptor sw raid1 partition, the OOM killer goes into effect and kills almost all my processes. Completely 100% reproducible.

[PATCH -rt] whitespace cleanup for 2.6.20-rc5-rt7

2007-01-20 Thread Noah Watkins
fixes trailing whitespace and spaces before tab indents in 2.6.20-rc5-rt7 as reported with: git-apply --whitespace=error-all --- arch/arm/mach-omap1/time.c|2 +- arch/i386/kernel/entry.S |2 +- arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c |2 +- arch/ia64/Kconfig

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:10:22PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: > > > > Note that these dd "benchmarks" are completely bogus, because the data > > doesn't actually get written to disk in that time. For some enlightening > > data, try > > > > time dd

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:28:57PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > Anyway, in your situation with a very small buffer, this should not > > change by more than half a second or so. > > Well, his buffer is not small. He has half a GB of RAM, so when

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Anyway, in your situation with a very small buffer, this should not > change by more than half a second or so. Well, his buffer is not small. He has half a GB of RAM, so when writing 1 GB the buffer would roughly double the dd speed, exactly as he

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Tim, On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:10:22PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Ismail Dönmez wrote: > > > 20 Oca 2007 Cts 19:45 tarihinde ??unlar?? yazmt??n??z: > > [...] > > > > vaio cartman # hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > > > > > > > /dev/hda: > > > > Timing cached reads: 1576

Re: [PATCH 10/15] ide: add ide_set_dma() helper

2007-01-20 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello again. :-) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [PATCH] ide: add ide_set_dma() helper * add ide_set_dma() helper and make ide_hwif_t.ide_dma_check return -1 when DMA needs to be disabled (== need to call ->ide_dma_off_quietly) 0 when DMA needs to be enabled (== need to call

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Ismail Dönmez wrote: > 20 Oca 2007 Cts 22:10 tarihinde, Tim Schmielau şunları yazmıştı: > > > > Note that these dd "benchmarks" are completely bogus, because the data=20 > > doesn't actually get written to disk in that time. For some enlightening=20 > > data, try > > > >

[2.6 patch] remove the broken FB_S3TRIO driver

2007-01-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
The FB_S3TRIO driver: - has been marked as BROKEN for more than two years 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 future. But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still

2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
Perhaps its time to back to a stable (2.6.17.13 kernel)? Anyway, when I run a cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 on a dual raptor sw raid1 partition, the OOM killer goes into effect and kills almost all my processes. Completely 100% reproducible. Does 2.6.19.2 have some of memory allocation bug as

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:16:15PM +0200, Ismail Dönmez wrote: > 20 Oca 2007 Cts 22:10 tarihinde, Tim Schmielau ??unlar?? yazmt??: > [...] > > > > Note that these dd "benchmarks" are completely bogus, because the data=20 > > doesn't actually get written to disk in that time. For some

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Ismail Dönmez
20 Oca 2007 Cts 22:10 tarihinde, Tim Schmielau şunları yazmıştı: [...] > > Note that these dd "benchmarks" are completely bogus, because the data=20 > doesn't actually get written to disk in that time. For some enlightening=20 > data, try > > time dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/tmp/1GB bs=3D1M

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Ismail Dönmez
20 Oca 2007 Cts 22:05 tarihinde, Willy Tarreau şunları yazmıştı: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 01:14:41AM +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote: > > On 1/20/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > It should not have changed the throughput at all if the > hardware was not a bit strange (well, it's a

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Ismail Dönmez wrote: > 20 Oca 2007 Cts 19:45 tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: > [...] > > > vaio cartman # hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > > > > > /dev/hda: > > > Timing cached reads: 1576 MB in 2.00 seconds = 788.18 MB/sec > > > Timing buffered disk reads: 74 MB in 3.01

Re: Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-20 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
when there is no longer anything to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:58:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Ken Moffat's message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:18:38 +") Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7)

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:56:20PM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote: > Sunil Naidu wrote: > > >On 1/20/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>It is not expected to increase write performance, but it should help > >>you do something else during that time, or also give more

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 01:14:41AM +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote: > On 1/20/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > > > > >It is not expected to increase write performance, but it should help > >you do something else during that time, or also give more responsiveness > >to Ctrl-C. It is

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-20 Thread Robert Hancock
Ian Kumlien wrote: Hi, I went from 2.6.19+sata_nv-adma-ncq-v7.patch, with no problems and adama enabled, to 2.6.20-rc5, which gave me problems almost instantly. I just thought that it might be interesting to know that it DID work nicely. CC since i'm not on the ml (I'm ccing more of the

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Stephen Clark
Sunil Naidu wrote: On 1/20/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is not expected to increase write performance, but it should help you do something else during that time, or also give more responsiveness to Ctrl-C. It is possible that you have fast and slow RAM, or that your video

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/20/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is not expected to increase write performance, but it should help you do something else during that time, or also give more responsiveness to Ctrl-C. It is possible that you have fast and slow RAM, or that your video card uses shared

[PATCH 2/2] Explicitly set pgid/sid of init

2007-01-20 Thread Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Pls treat this patch as Patch 2/2 where Patch 1/2 is http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/19/159 --- From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Explicitly set pgid and sid of init process to 1. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: MSI failure on nForce 430 (WAS: intel 82571EB gigabit fails to see link on 2.6.20-rc5 in-tree e1000 driver (regression))

2007-01-20 Thread Adam Kropelin
Adam Kropelin wrote: I've attached the contents dmesg, 'lspci -vvv', and 'cat /proc/interrupts' from 2.6.20-rc5. Actually attached this time. --Adam proc-irq-2.6.20-rc5 Description: Binary data dmesg-2.6.20-rc5 Description: Binary data lspci-2.6.20-rc5 Description: Binary data

MSI failure on nForce 430 (WAS: intel 82571EB gigabit fails to see link on 2.6.20-rc5 in-tree e1000 driver (regression))

2007-01-20 Thread Adam Kropelin
(cc: list trimmed and thread moved to linux-pci) I have a PCI-E e1000 card that does not see interrupts on 2.6.20-rc5 unless CONFIG_PCI_MSI is disabled. An e1000 maintainer indicated that the PHY state is correct, it's just that the interrupt is not getting thru to the kernel. Interestingly,

BUG: incorrect MD5 hash value on x86_64 with TCP-MD5

2007-01-20 Thread Torsten Luettgert
Hello all, There's still a bug in the new TCP-MD5 feature. On x86_64, the hash function is fed wrong TCP payload content. The same kernel, same conf (except arch -> x86) on an Athlon doesn't have the problem. Kernel is a vanilla 2.6.20-rc5. I put debugging printk()s into

How to use an usb interface than is claimed by HID?

2007-01-20 Thread Ivan Ukhov
Hello everyone, I'm writing a driver for an USB device that has one configuration with several interfacies and one of them is a HID interface. So when I check this interface whether it's claimed (usb_interface_claimed), I find out that it is, and it's claimed by the HID driver. So here is the

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-20 Thread Chr
On Saturday, 20. January 2007 03:41, Robert Hancock wrote: > Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 01:53, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Robert Hancock wrote: > >>> I'll try your stress test when I get a chance, but I doubt I'll run > >>> into the same problem and I haven't seen

[PATCH] Remove final reference to superfluous smp_commence().

2007-01-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove the last (and commented out) invocation of the obsolete smp_commence() call. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index 8b4a7d7..4e88bdd 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -395,11 +395,6 @@ static void __init

Re: [PATCH 8/15] ide: disable DMA in ->ide_dma_check for "no IORDY" case

2007-01-20 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: The other advantage of doing cleanups is that code becomes cleaner/simpler which matters a lot for this codebase, i.e. ide-dma-off-void.patch exposed (yet to be fixed) bug in set_using_dma() (->ide_dma_off_quietly always returns 0 which is passed by

Re: [PATCH 8/15] ide: disable DMA in ->ide_dma_check for "no IORDY" case

2007-01-20 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > I've looked thru the code, and found more issues with the PIO fallback > there. Will try to cook up patches for at least some drivers... > Great, if possible please base them on top of the IDE tree... > >>> Erm,

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-20 Thread Leon Woestenberg
Hello, On 1/20/07, David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2 Letter symbols to be used in > electrical > technology – Part 2) > Should be everywere KiB, MiB, GiB, ... according to IEC 60027-2 Bytes are not

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Ismail Dönmez
20 Oca 2007 Cts 20:03 tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:52:53PM +0200, Ismail Dönmez wrote: > > 20 Oca 2007 Cts 19:45 tarihinde ??unlar?? yazmt??n??z: > > [...] > > > > > > vaio cartman # hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > > > > > > > /dev/hda: > > > > Timing cached reads:

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:52:53PM +0200, Ismail Dönmez wrote: > 20 Oca 2007 Cts 19:45 tarihinde ??unlar?? yazmt??n??z: > [...] > > > vaio cartman # hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > > > > > /dev/hda: > > > Timing cached reads: 1576 MB in 2.00 seconds = 788.18 MB/sec > > > Timing buffered disk

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Ismail Dönmez
20 Oca 2007 Cts 19:45 tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: [...] > > vaio cartman # hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > > Timing cached reads: 1576 MB in 2.00 seconds = 788.18 MB/sec > > Timing buffered disk reads: 74 MB in 3.01 seconds = 24.55 MB/sec > > > > > > [~]> time dd if=/dev/zero

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi, On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:20:53PM +0200, Ismail Dönmez wrote: > Hi all, > > I own a Sony Vaio VGN-FS285B and disk performance to say at least is very > very > slow. Writing 1 GB data makes the laptop unresponsive. Here is some data > identifying the drive. Hope someone can tell me how to

Re: Serial port blues

2007-01-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi, On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:37:34PM -0600, Joe Barr wrote: > > I'm forwarding this post by the author of a great little program for > digital amateur radio on Linux, because I'm curious whether or not the > problem he is seeing can be resolved outside the kernel. At least, I see one wrong

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 3/6] containers: Add generic multi-subsystem API to containers

2007-01-20 Thread Balbir Singh
Paul Menage wrote: On 1/11/07, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: to 0. To walk the hierarchy, I have no root now since I do not have any task context. I was wondering if exporting the rootnode or providing a function to export the rootnode of the mounter hierarchy will make programming

Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Ismail Dönmez
Hi all, I own a Sony Vaio VGN-FS285B and disk performance to say at least is very very slow. Writing 1 GB data makes the laptop unresponsive. Here is some data identifying the drive. Hope someone can tell me how to debug and find out whats the problem. FWIW since 2.6.16 the problem is same

Re: unable to mmap /dev/kmem

2007-01-20 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
On 1/19/07, Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apology surely accepted, it's a confusing area (inevitably: in a driver for mem, the distinction between addresses and offsets become blurred). But please note, the worst of it was, that your patch comment gave no hint that you were knowingly

Re: [PATCH 8/15] ide: disable DMA in ->ide_dma_check for "no IORDY" case

2007-01-20 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: I've looked thru the code, and found more issues with the PIO fallback there. Will try to cook up patches for at least some drivers... Great, if possible please base them on top of the IDE tree... Erm, I had doubts about it (having in mind that

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-20 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Sunday 14 January 2007 10:11, Nate Diller wrote: > On 1/12/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most applications don't get the kind of performance analysis that > Digeo was doing, and even then, it's rather lucky that we caught that. > So I personally think it'd be best for libc or

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-20 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:13, Michael Tokarev wrote: > example, which isn't quite possible now from userspace. But as long as > O_DIRECT actually writes data before returning from write() call (as it > seems to be the case at least with a normal filesystem on a real block > device - I don't

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-20 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:50, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > Speaking of which, why did we obsolete raw devices? And/or why not just > > go with a minimal O_DIRECT on block device support? Not a rhetorical > > question -- I wasn't involved in the

Re: [patch 3/3] clockevent driver for arm/pxa2xx

2007-01-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 17:08 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > static int hpet_next_event(unsigned long delta, > >struct clock_event_device *evt) > > { > > unsigned long cnt; > > > > cnt = hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER); > > cnt += delta; > >

[patch] remove __devinit markings from rtc_sysfs_add_device()

2007-01-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
the sysfs interface from the rtc framework seems to incorrectly label the add function with __devinit ... the proc and dev interfaces do not have this label on their add functions ive been trying to develop a rtc module and it kept crashing ... after debugging it, i'm pretty sure ive traced it

Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

2007-01-20 Thread Samium Gromoff
At Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:37:22 +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote: [snip] > So, here we have a buffer-overflow protection technique, which does not > actually protect against buffer overflows[1], breaking valid applications. > > I suggest getting rid of it. i botched it slightly: ---

Re: [patch 3/3] clockevent driver for arm/pxa2xx

2007-01-20 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 20:13 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > +static u32 clockevent_mode = 0; > > > + > > > +static void pxa_set_next_event(unsigned long evt, > > > + struct clock_event_device *unused) > > > +{ > > >

Serial port blues

2007-01-20 Thread Joe Barr
I'm forwarding this post by the author of a great little program for digital amateur radio on Linux, because I'm curious whether or not the problem he is seeing can be resolved outside the kernel. All comments welcome on/off list. Thanks, Joe Barr K1GPL -- It's a strange world when

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-20 Thread Alessandro Di Marco
Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alessandro Di Marco wrote: > Hi all, > > this is a new 2.6.20 module implementing a user inactivity trigger. Basically > it acts as an event sniffer, issuing an ACPI event when no user activity is > detected for more than a certain

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