Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-21 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hi! I'm not shure but perhaps it isn't an XFS Bug. Here is what i find out: We've about 300 servers at the momentan and 5 of them are "old" Intel Pentium 4 Machines with a DFI PM-12 Mainboard with VIA chipset. It only happens on THESE Machines. Other P4 Machines with a Tyan Mainboard or a

[Need Help] Cpuhotplug operations on 32-bit mode of xeon-64bit processor crashes the system.

2007-01-21 Thread Srinivasa Ds
I saw cpuhotplug operations on 32-bit mode of xeon-64bit processors crashing the system. This happens on latest 2.6.20-rc5 kernel also. Same (i386 cpuhotplug code) runs fine on xeon-32bit processors. Steps to reproduce. echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu6/online echo 1 >

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-21 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:05:44 -0700, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:00:40PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: >Ah, think I see the problem now: > >--- kernel-source-2.4.27.orig/fs/smbfs/proc.c 2007-01-19 17:53:57.247695476 >-0700 >+++

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 1/1] MM: enhance Linux swap subsystem

2007-01-21 Thread yunfeng zhang
My patch is based on my new idea to Linux swap subsystem, you can find more in Documentation/vm_pps.txt which isn't only patch illustration but also file changelog. In brief, SwapDaemon should scan and reclaim pages on UserSpace::vmalist other than current zone::active/inactive. The change will

2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Hi folks, It's time to start kicking off the 2007 Kernel Summit planning process. This year, the Kernel Summit will be held in Cambridge, England, at the DeVere University Arms Hotel, September 5-6 (with a welcome reception on the 4th). The decision to move the Kernel Summit to England

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

2007-01-21 Thread Tony Foiani
> "Tony" == Tony Foiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tony> How fast is your Ethernet port? 100Mbps or 95.37Mbps? > "Jan" == Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> Same lie like with harddrives. It's around 80, not 100. But it Jan> depends on how you look at it. 80 for Layer3,

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible (multi-threaded USB no go)

2007-01-21 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:29:51PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Good luck, > > > Jurriaan > > > -- > > > > What does ELF stand for (in respect to Linux?) > > > ELF is the first rock group that Ronnie James Dio performed

Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-21 Thread David Chinner
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 01:30:15PM +0100, Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: > Hello! > > I've 3 Servers which works wonderful with 2.6.16.X (also testet the > latest 2.6.16.37) > > but with 2.6.18.6 i get these errors: [ EIP is at xfs_bmap_add_extent_hole_delay+0x58d/0x59b ] [ EIP is at

Re: [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction

2007-01-21 Thread Benny Halevy
Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> - Introduce a new enum dma_data_direction data_dir member in struct request. >> and remove the RW bit from request->cmd_flag >> - Add new API to query request direction. >> - Adjust existing API and implementation. >> - Cleanup wrong use of

Re: [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction

2007-01-21 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:21:28AM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > - Introduce a new enum dma_data_direction data_dir member in struct request. > and remove the RW bit from request->cmd_flag Some architecture use 'enum dma_data_direction' and some 'int dma_data_direction'. The consensus was to

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] Register the bus, vendor and product IDs for dvb-usb remote device

2007-01-21 Thread Michael Krufky
Chris Rankin wrote: > 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", >

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-21 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 16:16 +1100, Jean-Marc Valin wrote: > >> I just encountered the following oops and general protection fault > >> trying to suspend/resume my laptop. I've got a Dell D820 laptop with a 2 > >> GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It usually suspends/resumes fine but not always. The > >>

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-21 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
>> I just encountered the following oops and general protection fault >> trying to suspend/resume my laptop. I've got a Dell D820 laptop with a 2 >> GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It usually suspends/resumes fine but not always. The >> relevant errors are below but the full dmesg log is at >>

Re: intel-agp PM experiences (was: 2.6.20-rc5: usb mouse breaks suspend to ram)

2007-01-21 Thread Wang Zhenyu
On 2007.01.18 23:16:51 +, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > Especially the PCI video_state trick finally got me a working resume on > > > > 2.6.19-ck2 r128 Rage Mobility M4 AGP *WITH*(!) fully enabled and working > > > > (and keeping working!) DRI (3D). > > > > > > Can we get whitelist

[patch] some rtc documentation updates

2007-01-21 Thread Mike Frysinger
find attached a patch to update the rtc documentation a bit. i fixed a typo, added a bunch of helpful pointers (thanks to Paul Mundt and the linux/sh guys for holding my hand :D), and improved a bunch of the error messages in the test program hope this helps -mike pgprYOnYyYAXF.pgp

[PATCH] fix various kernel-doc in header files

2007-01-21 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix a number of kernel-doc entries for header files in include/linux by making sure they begin with the appropriate '/**' notation and use @var notation. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL

new rtc driver for Blackfin using rtc framework

2007-01-21 Thread Mike Frysinger
i'm not looking to submit this as that'll be done with the rest of the Blackfin stuff, i'm just looking for feedback from some bored people who know the RTC framework :) the attached driver implements full functionality for the Blackfin on-chip RTC using the new RTC framework ... anyone mind

RE: [RFC] [PATCH] Power S3 Resume Optimization Patch. Request for Comment

2007-01-21 Thread Seshadri, Harinarayanan
My initial idea was to execute only block device resume on the separate thread, as it take almost 80% of the total device resume time ( I did detailed profile of each device resume through rdtsc() counter) and rest of them takes less than 20% in total( each device ( including char and net)on its

Re: High CPU usage with sata_nv

2007-01-21 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, ris wrote: and dmesg Please report... 1. 'vmstat 1' result during file copy (w/ cpu 100%) 2. 'dmesg' result after file copy -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH 4/4] atl1: Ancillary C files for Attansic L1 driver

2007-01-21 Thread Jay Cliburn
Randy Dunlap wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:07:37 -0600 Jay Cliburn wrote: [snip] + value = ioread16(hw->hw_addr + REG_PCIE_CAP_LIST); + return ((value & 0xFF00) == 0x6C00) ? 0 : 1; Are there defines or enums for these? Fewer magic numbers would be nice/helpful/readable. [snip]

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-21 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 13:34 +1100, Jean-Marc Valin wrote: > Hi, > > I just encountered the following oops and general protection fault > trying to suspend/resume my laptop. I've got a Dell D820 laptop with a 2 > GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It usually suspends/resumes fine but not always. The >

Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-21 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Hi, I just encountered the following oops and general protection fault trying to suspend/resume my laptop. I've got a Dell D820 laptop with a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It usually suspends/resumes fine but not always. The relevant errors are below but the full dmesg log is at

Re: SATA exceptions triggered by XFS (since 2.6.18)

2007-01-21 Thread Tejun Heo
Paolo Ornati wrote: I don't know. It's a two years old ST380817AS. # smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda smartctl version 5.36 [x86_64-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Chr wrote: Ok, you won't believe this... I opened my case and rewired my drives... And guess what, my second (aka the "good") HDD is now failing! I guess, my mainboard has a (but maybe two, or three :( ) "bad" sata-port(s)! Or, you have power related problem. Try to rewire the

Re: [PATCH 4/4] atl1: Ancillary C files for Attansic L1 driver

2007-01-21 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:07:37 -0600 Jay Cliburn wrote: > This patch contains auxiliary C files for the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet > adapter driver. > > Signed-off-by: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > atl1_ethtool.c | 436

Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: core dump masking support

2007-01-21 Thread Kawai, Hidehiro
Hi Pavel, The /proc// approach doesn't have these demerits, and it has an advantage that users can change the bitmask of any process at anytime. >>> >>>Well... not sure if it is advantage. >> >>For example, consider the following case: >> a process forks many children and system

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] SPI: alternative fix for spi_busnum_to_master

2007-01-21 Thread Atsushi Nemoto
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:28:49 +0900 (JST), Atsushi Nemoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The commit was to fix spi_busnum_to_master(). Here is a patch fixes > this function in other way, just searching children list of > class_device. Here is a revised version. The children list of

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

2007-01-21 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bleh. Except for storage, base 1024 was used for almost everything > I remember. 4 MB memory meant 4096 KB, and that's still the case today. > Most likely the same for transfer rates. Nope, transfer rates were initially 1000-based: 9.6 kbps = 9600

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

2007-01-21 Thread Samium Gromoff
At Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:36:27 -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2007, at 18:34:56, David Wagner wrote: > > [1] In comparison, suidperl was designed to be installed setuid- > > root, and it takes special precautions to be safe in this usage. > > (And even it has had some security

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Hello everyone, This is a long thread about O_DIRECT surprisingly without a single bugreport in it, that's a good sign that O_DIRECT is starting to work well in 2.6 too ;) On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 02:47:48PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:35:09 -0700 > Erik Andersen <[EMAIL

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Horst H. von Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly >> > increase the number of testers. >> > ... >> > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms

Another possible dumb question re usb

2007-01-21 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I am attempting to get into a wap11 radio through its usb port, because that port offers a way to restore factory defaults and in the year its been quiet, I've forgotten the uname/pw. To access it with snmp over cat5, the uname & pw are a requirement. I have rebuilt the 2.6.20-rc4

2.6.20-rc4-mm1 aio bug

2007-01-21 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, I get this while running aiostress. Jan 22 01:50:05 black-mamba kernel: === Jan 22 01:50:05 black-mamba kernel: [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] Jan 22 01:50:05 black-mamba kernel: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 #1 Jan 22 01:50:05

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

2007-01-21 Thread Samium Gromoff
At Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:35:46 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > the core of the problem are the cores which are customarily > > dumped by lisps during the environment generation (or modification) stage, > > and then mapped back, every time the environment is invoked. > > > > > at the current

i_ino 4 billion file limitation

2007-01-21 Thread Jeffrey V. Merkey
I am now pushing up against the i_ino (unsigned long) file limitation when I use virtual inode numbers in DSFS. This field needs to be increased to 64 bit to allow more than 4 billion unique inode numbers. I am running out of inode address space with the current architecture. Jeff - To

[RFC 0/6] bidi support: block, SCSI, and iSCSI layers

2007-01-21 Thread Boaz Harrosh
Following are 6 (large) patches that introduce support for bidirectional requests in the kernel. Since all this is going to interfere with everyone's work, let us all comment on the implementation, naming, and future directions. (or forever hold your peace). The submitted work is against

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

2007-01-21 Thread Samium Gromoff
David Wagner wrote: > Samium Gromoff wrote: > >[...] directly setuid root the lisp system executable itself [...] > > Like I said, that sounds like a bad idea to me. Sounds like a recipe for > privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Was the lisp system executable > really implemented to be

Re: SATA exceptions triggered by XFS (since 2.6.18)

2007-01-21 Thread Jiri Slaby
Chr wrote: >> 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 083 060 030Pre-fail Always >> - 204305750 >> 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 059 049 006Pre-fail Always >> - 215927244 >> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 059 049 000Old_age Always

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

2007-01-21 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:14:33 +0100 Bauke Jan Douma wrote: > 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

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

2007-01-21 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jan 21, 2007, at 18:34:56, David Wagner wrote: [1] In comparison, suidperl was designed to be installed setuid- root, and it takes special precautions to be safe in this usage. (And even it has had some security vulnerabilities, despite its best efforts, which illustrates how tricky this

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

2007-01-21 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> the core of the problem are the cores which are customarily > dumped by lisps during the environment generation (or modification) stage, > and then mapped back, every time the environment is invoked. > > at the current step of evolution, those core files are not relocatable > in certain

Re: [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction

2007-01-21 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Boaz Harrosh wrote: > - Introduce a new enum dma_data_direction data_dir member in struct request. > and remove the RW bit from request->cmd_flag > - Add new API to query request direction. > - Adjust existing API and implementation. > - Cleanup wrong use of DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL > - Introduce new

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Robert Hancock
Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.01.21 13:58:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Björn Steinbrink wrote: All kernels were bad using that approach. So back to square 1. :/ Björn OK guys, here's a new patch to try against 2.6.20-rc5: Right now when switching between ADMA mode and legacy mode

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

2007-01-21 Thread David Wagner
Samium Gromoff wrote: >[...] directly setuid root the lisp system executable itself [...] Like I said, that sounds like a bad idea to me. Sounds like a recipe for privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Was the lisp system executable really implemented to be secure even when you make it setuid

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-21 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:03:21 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Grant ! > >On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:52:44AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:05:44 -0700, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:00:40PM -0700, dann frazier

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-21 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:21:16 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Grant ! > >On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:09:57AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: >(...) >> >} else { >> >- mnt->file_mode = mnt->dir_mode = S_IRWXU | S_IRGRP | S_IXGRP | >> >-

[RFC 6/6] bidi support: iSCSI bidi & varlen CDBs

2007-01-21 Thread Boaz Harrosh
This patch is intended to provide a working example of a use case for bidi and varlen CDBs. The actual patches will be sent via the open-iscsi project. - Use proposed SCSI implementation for iSCSI bidirectional commands. - Use proposed block layer implementation for iSCSI extended CDBs. -

[RFC 5/6] bidi support: varlen + OSD support

2007-01-21 Thread Boaz Harrosh
- Add support for varlen CDBs or large vendor specific commands in struct request. - Add support for above at SCSI level API's and devices. - Add the OSD device type. Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- block/ll_rw_blk.c

[RFC 4/6] bidi support: bidirectional SCSI layer

2007-01-21 Thread Boaz Harrosh
- Add bidi members to struct scsi_cmnd. - Add API at the SCSI level for bidirectional commands. - Implement support for BIDI requests in scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd() and scsi_io_completion(). Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[RFC 3/6] bidi support: bidirectional request

2007-01-21 Thread Boaz Harrosh
- Instantiate another request_io_part in request for bidi_read. - Define & Implement new API for accessing bidi parts. - API to Build bidi requests and map to sglists. - Define new end_that_request_block() function to end a complete request. Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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

2007-01-21 Thread Samium Gromoff
David Wagner wrote: > Samium Gromoff wrote: > >the core of the problem are the cores which are customarily > >dumped by lisps during the environment generation (or modification) stage, > >and then mapped back, every time the environment is invoked. > > > >at the current step of evolution, those

Re: USB extension (repeater) cable

2007-01-21 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: 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

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2007-01-21 Thread Samium Gromoff
David Wagner wrote: > Samium Gromoff wrote: > >the core of the problem are the cores which are customarily > >dumped by lisps during the environment generation (or modification) stage, > >and then mapped back, every time the environment is invoked. > > > >at the current step of evolution, those

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-21 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Grant ! On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:52:44AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:05:44 -0700, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:00:40PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > >Ah, think I see the problem now: > > > >---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] CIFS: Remove 2 unneeded kzalloc casts

2007-01-21 Thread Steven French
thx - I have added these to the cifs git tree. Steve French Senior Software Engineer Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin phone: 512-838-2294 email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com "Ahmed S. Darwish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/06/2007 07:17:44 AM: > Hi, > A patch to remove two

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Jakub Narebski
Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> * Reflog >> >> - Reflog records the history of where the tip of each branch >>was at each moment. > > It might make sense to reformulate that: > > Reflog records the history from the view point of the local

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

2007-01-21 Thread David Wagner
Samium Gromoff wrote: >the core of the problem are the cores which are customarily >dumped by lisps during the environment generation (or modification) stage, >and then mapped back, every time the environment is invoked. > >at the current step of evolution, those core files are not relocatable

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Robert Hancock
Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.01.21 23:08:11 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.01.21 13:58:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Björn Steinbrink wrote: All kernels were bad using that approach. So back to square 1. :/ Björn OK guys, here's a new patch to try against 2.6.20-rc5: Right

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.21 13:58:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Björn Steinbrink wrote: > >All kernels were bad using that approach. So back to square 1. :/ > > > >Björn > > > > OK guys, here's a new patch to try against 2.6.20-rc5: > > Right now when switching between ADMA mode and legacy mode (i.e. when

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Jakub Narebski
Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> Johannes Schindelin wrote: >>> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: >>> Also (apologies for the ignorance), how do I get the 1.5.0-rc2 release? >>> >>> Direct your browser to >>> >>>

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

2007-01-21 Thread David Schwartz
> > 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. > No, I meant to advertise it as a 256 MiB flash device and

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.21 23:08:11 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.01.21 13:58:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > >All kernels were bad using that approach. So back to square 1. :/ > > > > > >Björn > > > > > > > OK guys, here's a new patch to try against 2.6.20-rc5: > >

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

2007-01-21 Thread Samium Gromoff
At Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:16:04 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > 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

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.21 13:58:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Björn Steinbrink wrote: > >All kernels were bad using that approach. So back to square 1. :/ > > > >Björn > > > > OK guys, here's a new patch to try against 2.6.20-rc5: > > Right now when switching between ADMA mode and legacy mode (i.e. when

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

2007-01-21 Thread Stefan Richter
Eduard Bloch wrote: > * Bodo Eggert [Sun, Jan 21 2007, 11:40:40AM]: >> 2) No sane person would say kibibyte as required by the standard. You'd need >>a sppech defect in order to do this, and a mental defect in order to try. >>So why should anybody adhere to the rest of this bullshit? > >

Re: [BUG] e100: eth0 appers many times in /proc/interrupts after resume

2007-01-21 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 01:45:27PM -0800, Auke Kok wrote: > Frederik Deweerdt wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:17:41PM +0200, Andrei Popa wrote: > >>It's the 10th resume and in /proc/interrupts eth0 appers 10 times. > >The e100_resume() function should be calling netif_device_detach and >

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20 1/2] ehca: ehca_cq.c: fix unproper use of yield within spinlock context

2007-01-21 Thread Roland Dreier
Very minor but > Signed-off-by Hoang-Nam Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> should be Signed-off-by: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (':' after the "-by") Anyway, queued for 2.6.20, thanks. - R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > > > >> Also (apologies for the ignorance), how do I get the 1.5.0-rc2 release? > > > > Direct your browser to > > > >

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > - 'git pack-refs' appeared in v1.4.4; You should probably mention that it is not necessary to run git-pack-refs by hand: git-gc is what you want. BTW have I praised y'all for inventing git-gc? It is _awesome_. I think I will turn into a DWIM

Re: [BUG] e100: eth0 appers many times in /proc/interrupts after resume

2007-01-21 Thread Auke Kok
Frederik Deweerdt wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:17:41PM +0200, Andrei Popa wrote: It's the 10th resume and in /proc/interrupts eth0 appers 10 times. The e100_resume() function should be calling netif_device_detach and free_irq. Could you try the following (compile tested) patch? I just

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.{h,c}: remove kernel 2.4 code

2007-01-21 Thread Samuel Ortiz
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:56:13PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch removes kernel 2.4 compatibility code. Looks correct to me, thanks. > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c | 16

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

2007-01-21 Thread Samium Gromoff
At Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:16:04 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > 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

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Jakub Narebski
Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > >> Also (apologies for the ignorance), how do I get the 1.5.0-rc2 release? > > Direct your browser to > > http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=snapshot;h=eaf6459e4d482af51429f9464125621b805eb5f Better URL is

Re: Weird XFS slowness

2007-01-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 21 2007 02:29, S.Çağlar Onur wrote: >After switching ext3 to xfs, i realize system starts to _really_ >unresponsive and extracting tarballs, Please have a look at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/22/278 -`J' --

Re: Running Linux on FPGA

2007-01-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 21 2007 00:14, Ralf Baechle wrote: >On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:42:37PM +, sathesh babu wrote: > >> 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

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

2007-01-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 21 2007 17:06, Heikki Orsila wrote: > >> 2) No sane person would say kibibyte as required by the standard. You'd need >>a sppech defect in order to do this, and a mental defect in order to try. >>So why should anybody adhere to the rest of this bullshit? > >I think I'm not sane

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > Also (apologies for the ignorance), how do I get the 1.5.0-rc2 release? Direct your browser to http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=snapshot;h=eaf6459e4d482af51429f9464125621b805eb5f BTW please don't top post. It uses bandwidth unnecessarily (both in terms

Re: [BUG] eth0 appers many times in /proc/interrupts after resume

2007-01-21 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:17:41PM +0200, Andrei Popa wrote: > It's the 10th resume and in /proc/interrupts eth0 appers 10 times. > Hi, The e100_resume() function should be calling netif_device_detach and free_irq. Could you try the following (compile tested) patch? Regards, Frederik

status of: tasklet_unlock_wait() causes soft lockup with -rt and ieee1394 audio

2007-01-21 Thread Pieter Palmers
Dear all, What is the status with respect to this problem? I see that in the current -rt patch the problematic code piece is different. I personally haven't tried to reproduce this myself on a more recent kernel, but I just got a report from one of our users who experienced the same problem

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

2007-01-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>How fast is your Ethernet port? 100Mbps or 95.37Mbps? Same lie like with harddrives. It's around 80, not 100. But it depends on how you look at it. 80 for Layer3, possibly a little more for Layer2/1. -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

[PATCH 4/4] atl1: Ancillary C files for Attansic L1 driver

2007-01-21 Thread Jay Cliburn
From: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains auxiliary C files for the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet adapter driver. Signed-off-by: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- atl1_ethtool.c | 436

[PATCH 2/4] atl1: Header files for Attansic L1 driver

2007-01-21 Thread Jay Cliburn
From: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the header files needed by the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet adapter driver. Signed-off-by: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- atl1.h| 288

[PATCH 1/4] atl1: Build files for Attansic L1 driver

2007-01-21 Thread Jay Cliburn
From: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the build files for the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet adapter driver. Signed-off-by: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Kconfig | 11

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 19 2007 10:11, Pavel Machek wrote: > >> 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 amount of time. This event can be >> successively >>

[PATCH 0/4] atl1: Attansic L1 ethernet driver

2007-01-21 Thread Jay Cliburn
This is the latest submittal of the patchset providing support for the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet adapter. This patchset is built against kernel version 2.6.20-rc5. This version incorporates all comments from: Christoph Hellwig: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/11/43

Re: Linux 2.6.16.38

2007-01-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Ralf Baechle wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 06:37:24PM +0200, S.Çağlar Onur wrote: 21 Oca 2007 Paz tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: RSS feed of the git tree: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=r I already mailed to webmaster _at_ kernel.org 2 days ago but

Re: Linux 2.6.16.38

2007-01-21 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 06:37:24PM +0200, S.Çağlar Onur wrote: > 21 Oca 2007 Paz tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: > > RSS feed of the git tree: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=r > > I already mailed to webmaster _at_ kernel.org 2 days ago but still all

Re: Linux 2.6.16.38

2007-01-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
S.Çağlar Onur wrote: 21 Oca 2007 Paz tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: RSS feed of the git tree: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=r I already mailed to webmaster _at_ kernel.org 2 days ago but still all RSS feeds gaves "Internal Server Error" We're

Re: Serial port blues

2007-01-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
H. Peter Anvin wrote: So write a kernel driver. It's not like we're locking anybody out. There is certainly enough Amateur Radio/Linux crossover that a kernel enhancement to support Amateur Radio is going to get frowned upon. Argh! Not only did the message go out twice, but that should

Re: SATA exceptions triggered by XFS (since 2.6.18)

2007-01-21 Thread Chr
On Sunday, 21. January 2007 20:25, Paolo Ornati wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:32:02 -0600 > Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It looks like what you're getting is an actual NCQ write timing out. > > That makes the bisect result not very interesting since obviously it > >

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Chr
On Sunday, 21. January 2007 19:01, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.01.21 18:34:40 +0100, Chr wrote: > > I run those two in parallel: > while /bin/true; do ls -lR / > /dev/null 2>&1; done > while /bin/true; do echo 255 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; sleep 1; done > > Not sure if running them in

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of > surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old > git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it > would help people to try out and find wrinkles before

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

2007-01-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Yeah, and Ethernet speed is measured in Mbps, not Mibps. Indeed. -hpa - 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

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-21 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Sunday 21 January 2007 13:09, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > 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.

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

2007-01-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly > > increase the number of testers. > > ... > > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms coupled with a freshmeat announcement should > > get you a

Re: [RFCLUE3] flagging kernel interface changes

2007-01-21 Thread William D Waddington
Jesper Juhl wrote: On 15/11/06, William D Waddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tried submitting a patch a while back: "[PATCH] IRQ: ease out-of-tree migration to new irq_handler prototype" to add #define __PT_REGS to include/linux/interrupt.h to flag the change to the new interrupt handler

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Robert Hancock
Björn Steinbrink wrote: All kernels were bad using that approach. So back to square 1. :/ Björn OK guys, here's a new patch to try against 2.6.20-rc5: Right now when switching between ADMA mode and legacy mode (i.e. when going from doing normal DMA reads/writes to doing a FLUSH CACHE) we

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Junio C Hamano wrote: One worry I had about releasing git-1.5.0-rc2-1.rpm and friends just like the "official" ones was that people might have scripts to automate downloading & updating of packages, and they may not like to get "beta" installed for them. I wonder if kernel.org machines are

Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.

2007-01-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 05:03 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > Introduce the TRUE and FALSE boolean macros so that everyone can > > stop re-inventing them, and remove the one occurrence in the > > source tree that clashes with that change. > If

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