Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86_64 irq: Handle irqs pending in IRR during irq migration.

2007-02-02 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Once the migration operation is complete we know we will receive >> > no more interrupts on this vector so the irq pending state for >> > this irq will no longer be updated. If the irq is not pending and >> > we are in the intermediate state we

Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions (v2) (part 1)

2007-02-02 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adrian Bunk wrote: >> This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc7 compared to 2.6.19 >> that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. >> >> If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one >> of the bugs, maintainer of an

Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH 4/4] Add support to OProfile for profiling Cell BE SPUs -- update

2007-02-02 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Friday 02 February 2007 17:47, Maynard Johnson wrote: > > > We also want to be able to profile the context switch code itself, which > > means that we also need one event buffer associated with the kernel to > > collect events that for a zero context_id. > The hardware design precludes tracing

Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86_64 irq: Handle irqs pending in IRR during irq migration.

2007-02-02 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > Once the migration operation is complete we know we will receive > > no more interrupts on this vector so the irq pending state for > > this irq will no longer be updated. If the irq is not pending and > > we are in the intermediate state we immediately free the vector, > > otherwise in we

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3

2007-02-02 Thread Cedric Le Goater
Cedric Le Goater wrote: > Starikovskiy, Alexey Y wrote: >>> so it probably means that drivers/acpi/tables/tbxfroot.c is >>> obsolete ? >> Yes. Could you please try it? >>> sure, I'll cancel the current boot test in which I was using >>> acpi_find_root_pointer() in tbxfroot.c and restart one

Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling

2007-02-02 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 04:56:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Well, in my picture, 'only if you block' is a pure thread utilization > > decision: bounce a piece of work to another thread if this thread cannot > > complete it. (if the kernel

Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-02-02 Thread Len Brown
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 08:30, Theodore Tso wrote: > Well, Usenix has offerred to provide logistical support for some > mini-summits if anyoen wants to take them up on it. Using some of the > sponsorship money from last year, we've proposed to make some hotel > conference rooms right before

Re: [patch 0/9] buffered write deadlock fix

2007-02-02 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:52:32PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:31:37 +0100 (CET) > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The following set of patches attempt to fix the buffered write > > locking problems (and there are a couple of peripheral patches > > and

[RFC] Tracking mlocked pages and moving them off the LRU

2007-02-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
This is a new variation on the earlier RFC for tracking mlocked pages. We now mark a mlocked page with a bit in the page flags and remove them from the LRU. Pages get moved back when no vma that references the page has VM_LOCKED set anymore. This means that vmscan no longer uselessly cycles over

Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions (v2) (part 1)

2007-02-02 Thread Auke Kok
Adrian Bunk wrote: This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc7 compared to 2.6.19 that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a

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

2007-02-02 Thread TAKADA Yoshihito
Hi. I'm late. I'll to resend the patch against 2.6.19. original code doesn't write back to CCR4 register. this patch reflects a value of a register. diff -Narup linux-2.6.19.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c linux-2.6.19/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c ---

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Hancock
Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.01.24 01:39:23 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.01.23 17:18:43 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Larry Walton wrote: The last patch (sata_nv-force-int-dev-in-interrupt.patch) seems to have fix the problem. Much appreciated, thank you. I'd consider it a must

Re: [BUG] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference...as_move_to_dispatch+0x11/0x135

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Vasquez
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:25:41 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:56:30 -0800 > > Andrew Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > dt of=/dev/raw/raw1 procs=8 oncerr=abort bs=16k disable=stats > > > > > limit=2m

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] kexec: Fix CONFIG_SMP=n compilation (ia64)

2007-02-02 Thread Horms
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 08:53:00PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote: > On 2/2/07, Magnus Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/2/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Magnus Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > kexec: Fix CONFIG_SMP=n compilation (ia64) > > > > > > > > This patch

[PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
Hello, here is a bugfix to d_path. Please apply (after 2.6.20). First, when d_path() hits a lazily unmounted mount point, it tries to prepend the name of the lazily unmounted dentry to the path name. It gets this wrong, and also overwrites the slash that separates the name from the following

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19.2] SCSI sd: udev accessing an uninitialized scsi_disk results in a crash

2007-02-02 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 17:56 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > Thanks - I'll queue this up for 2.6.20 also. > > No objection from me, as long as James says this is ok. > > I wonder why we haven't noticed this in the past? Because the race is so small ... I'll queue it in the rc-fixes tree .. I have

Re: [PATCH 1/1] - Altix: more ACPI PRT support

2007-02-02 Thread Len Brown
On Friday 02 February 2007 20:37, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:54:12 -0600 > John Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The SN Altix platform does not conform to the > > IOSAPIC IRQ routing model. Add code in acpi_unregister_gsi() > > to check if (acpi_irq_model ==

[patch 17/59] PCI: prevent down_read when pci_devices is empty

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Ard van Breemen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The pci_find_subsys gets called very early by obsolete ide setup parameters. This is a bogus call since pci is not initialized yet, so the list is empty. But in

[patch 09/59] NETFILTER: arp_tables: fix userspace compilation

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The included patch translates arpt_counters to xt_counters, making userspace arptables compile against recent kernels. Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <[EMAIL

[patch 18/59] IPV6 MCAST: Fix joining all-node multicast group on device initialization.

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Join all-node multicast group after assignment of dev->ip6_ptr because it must be assigned when ipv6_dev_mc_inc() is called. This fixes Bug#7817, reported by

Re: [stable] [patch 00/59] -stable review

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Responses should be made by Mon Feb 3 02:30 UTC 2007 Yes, that's Mon Feb 5 (thanks to those on their toes ;-) And the roll-up will be available at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chrisw/stable/patch-2.6.19.3-rc1.{gz,bz2} once

[patch 03/59] Check for populated zone in __drain_pages

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Both process_zones() and drain_node_pages() check for populated zones before touching pagesets. However, __drain_pages does not do so, This may result in a

[patch 08/59] NETFILTER: tcp conntrack: fix IP_CT_TCP_FLAG_CLOSE_INIT value

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IP_CT_TCP_FLAG_CLOSE_INIT is a flag and should have a value of 0x4 instead of 0x3, which is IP_CT_TCP_FLAG_WINDOW_SCALE | IP_CT_TCP_FLAG_SACK_PERM.

[patch 20/59] NETFILTER: ctnetlink: fix leak in ctnetlink_create_conntrack error path

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c |2 +- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

[patch 22/59] ALSA hda-codec - Fix NULL dereference in generic hda code

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix NULL dereference in hda_generic.c. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris

[patch 27/59] x86: Work around gcc 4.2 over aggressive optimizer

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The new PDA code uses a dummy _proxy_pda variable to describe memory references to the PDA. It is never referenced in inline assembly, but exists as input/output

[patch 19/59] NETFILTER: ctnetlink: check for status attribute existence on conntrack creation

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check that status flags are available in the netlink message received to create a new conntrack. Fixes a crash in ctnetlink_create_conntrack when the

[patch 24/59] IB/iser: return error code when PDUs may not be sent

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Erez Zilber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iSER limits the number of outstanding PDUs to send. When this threshold is reached, it should return an error code (-ENOBUFS) instead of setting the suspend_tx bit

[patch 28/59] NETFILTER: Fix iptables ABI breakage on (at least) CRIS

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> With the introduction of x_tables we accidentally broke compatibility by defining IPT_TABLE_MAXNAMELEN to XT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN instead of XT_TABLE_MAXNAMELEN,

[patch 26/59] ACPI: fix cpufreq regression

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> recently cpufreq support on my laptop (Lenovo T60) broke completely: when it's plugged into AC it would never go higher than 1 GHz - neither 1.3 GHz nor 1.83 GHz is

[patch 01/59] i2c-mv64xxx: Fix random oops at boot

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Maxime Bizon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have a Marvell board which has the same i2c hw block than mv64xxx, so I'm trying to use i2c-mv64xxx driver. But I get the following random oops at boot: Unable

[patch 11/59] [stable] [PATCH] IB/mthca: Fix off-by-one in FMR handling on memfree

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Michael S. Tsirkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mthca_table_find() will return the wrong address when the table entry being searched for is exactly at the beginning of a sglist entry (other than the first),

[patch 02/59] i2c/m41t00: Do not forget to write year

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Philippe De Muyter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> m41t00.c forgets to set the year field in set_rtc_time; fix that. Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Mark A. Greer <[EMAIL

[patch 10/59] Repair snd-usb-usx2y over OHCI

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The previous patch "Repair snd-usb-usx2y for usb 2.6.18" assumed urb->start_frame roll over beyond MAX_INT for both UHCI & OHCI. This isn't true until now (kernel

[patch 07/59] NETFILTER: nf_conntrack_ipv6: fix crash when handling fragments

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When IPv6 connection tracking splits up a defragmented packet into its original fragments, the packets are taken from a list and are passed to the network stack

[patch 06/59] NETFILTER: Fix routing of REJECT target generated packets in output chain

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Packets generated by the REJECT target in the output chain have a local destination address and a foreign source address. Make sure not to use the foreign source

[patch 36/59] knfsd: fix type mismatch with filldir_t used by nfsd.

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nfsd defines a type 'encode_dent_fn' which is much like 'filldir_t' except that the first pointer is 'struct readdir_cd *' rather than 'void *'. It then casts

[patch 34/59] knfsd: fix setting of ACL server versions.

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Due to silly typos, if the nfs versions are explicitly set, no NFSACL versions get enabled. Also improve an error message that would have made this bug a little easier

[patch 48/59] SPARC32: Fix over-optimization by GCC near ip_fast_csum.

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Bob Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In some cases such as: iph->check = 0; iph->check = ip_fast_csum((unsigned char *)iph, iph->ihl); GCC may optimize out the previous store. Observed as

[patch 58/59] move_task_off_dead_cpu() should be called with disabled ints

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Kirill Korotaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> move_task_off_dead_cpu() requires interrupts to be disabled, while migrate_dead() calls it with enabled interrupts. Added appropriate comments to functions and

[patch 59/59] sched: fix cond_resched_softirq() offset

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Remove the __resched_legal() check: it is conceptually broken. The biggest problem it had is that it can mask buggy cond_resched() calls. A cond_resched() call is

[patch 51/59] AF_PACKET: Fix BPF handling.

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This fixes a bug introduced by: commit fda9ef5d679b07c9d9097aaf6ef7f069d794a8f9 Author: Dmitry Mishin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Aug 31 15:28:39 2006 -0700

[patch 55/59] TCP: skb is unexpectedly freed.

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Masayuki Nakagawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I encountered a kernel panic with my test program, which is a very simple IPv6 client-server program. The server side sets IPV6_RECVPKTINFO on a listening

[patch 54/59] TCP: Fix sorting of SACK blocks.

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The sorting of SACK blocks actually munges them rather than sort, causing the TCP stack to ignore some SACK information and breaking the assumption of ordered SACK

[patch 53/59] TCP: rare bad TCP checksum with 2.6.19

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The patch "Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL/CHECKSUM_COMPLETE" changed to unconditional copying of ip_summed field from collapsed skb. This patch reverts

[patch 52/59] AF_PACKET: Check device down state before hard header callbacks.

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If the device is down, invoking the device hard header callbacks is not legal, so check it early. Based upon a shaper OOPS report from Frederik Deweerdt.

[patch 15/59] Fix up CIFS for "test_clear_page_dirty()" removal

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix up CIFS for "test_clear_page_dirty()" removal This also adds he required page "writeback" flag handling, that cifs hasn't been doing and that the page dirty

[patch 47/59] DECNET: Handle a failure in neigh_parms_alloc (take 2)

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> While enhancing the neighbour code to handle multiple network namespaces I noticed that decnet is assuming neigh_parms_alloc will allways succeed, which is

[patch 50/59] IPV4: Fix single-entry /proc/net/fib_trie output.

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Robert Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When main table is just a single leaf this gets printed as belonging to the local table in /proc/net/fib_trie. A fix is below. Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <[EMAIL

[patch 57/59] SUNRPC: Give cloned RPC clients their own rpc_pipefs directory

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch fixes a regression in 2.6.19 in which the use of multiple krb5 mounts against the same NFS server may result in an Oops on unmount. The Oops is due to

[patch 44/59] uml: fix signal frame alignment

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Use the same signal frame alignment calculations as the underlying architecture. x86_64 appeared to do this, but the "- 8" was really subtracting 8 * sizeof(struct

[patch 46/59] jmicron: 40/80pin primary detection

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jmicron module detects all JMB36x as JMB361 and PATA0 has wrong pin status of XICBLID. Cc: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

[patch 49/59] IPV4: Fix the fib trie iterator to work with a single entry routing tables

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In a kernel with trie routing enabled I had a simple routing setup with only a single route to the outside world and no default route. "ip route table list

[patch 56/59] NETFILTER: xt_connbytes: fix division by zero

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When the packet counter of a connection is zero a division by zero occurs in div64_64(). Fix that by using zero as average value, which is correct as long as the

[patch 29/59] elevator: move clearing of unplug flag earlier

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A flag was recently added to the elevator code to avoid performing an unplug when reuests are being re-queued. The goal of this flag was to avoid a deep recursion

[patch 39/59] md: make repair actually work for raid1.

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When 'repair' finds a block that is different one the various parts of the mirror. it is meant to write a chosen good version to the others. However it currently

[patch 42/59] libata: use kmap_atomic(KM_IRQ0) in SCSI simulator

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We are inside spin_lock_irqsave(). quoth akpm's debug facility: [ 231.948000] SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB) [ 232.232000]

[patch 45/59] bonding: ARP monitoring broken on x86_64

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Andy Gospodarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> While working with the latest bonding code I noticed a nasty problem that will prevent arp monitoring from always functioning correctly on x86_64 systems.

[patch 32/59] SPARC64: Set g4/g5 properly in sun4v dtlb-prot handling.

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mirror the logic in the sun4u handler, we have to update both registers even when we branch out to window fault fixup handling. The way it works is that if we

[patch 43/59] Dont allow the stack to grow into hugetlb reserved regions

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Adam Litke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When expanding the stack, we don't currently check if the VMA will cross into an area of the address space that is reserved for hugetlb pages. Subsequent faults on

[patch 40/59] md: fix a few problems with the interface (sysfs and ioctl) to md.

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> While developing more functionality in mdadm I found some bugs in md... - When we remove a device from an inactive array (write 'remove' to the 'state' sysfs file -

[patch 37/59] knfsd: fix up some bit-rot in exp_export

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The nfsservctl systemcall isn't used but recent nfs-utils releases for exporting filesystems, and consequently the code that is uses - exp_export - has suffered some

[patch 41/59] md: fix potential memalloc deadlock in md

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If a GFP_KERNEL allocation is attempted in md while the mddev_lock is held, it is possible for a deadlock to eventuate. This happens if the array was marked 'clean',

[patch 38/59] md: assorted md and raid1 one-liners

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix few bugs that meant that: - superblocks weren't alway written at exactly the right time (this could show up if the array was not written to - writting to the

[patch 30/59] Revert "[PATCH] Fix up mmap_kmem"

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This reverts commit 99a10a60ba9bedcf5d70ef81414d3e03816afa3f. As per Hugh Dickins: "Nadia Derbey has reported that mmap of /dev/kmem no longer works with

[patch 33/59] sis190: failure to set the MAC address from EEPROM

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7747 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu

[patch 35/59] knfsd: fix an NFSD bug with full sized, non-page-aligned reads.

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NFSd assumes that largest number of pages that will be needed for a request+response is 2+N where N pages is the size of the largest permitted read/write request. The

[patch 31/59] remove __devinit markings from rtc_sysfs_add_device()

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rtc_sysfs_add_device is needed even after dev initialization, so drop __devinit. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo

[patch 25/59] Fix UML on non-standard VM split hosts

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This fixes UML on hosts with non-standard VM splits. We had changed the config variable that controls UML behavior on such hosts, but not propogated the change

[patch 21/59] IPSEC: Policy list disorder

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The recent hashing introduced an off-by-one bug in policy list insertion. Instead of adding after the last entry with a lesser or equal priority, we're adding after

[patch 23/59] SELinux: fix an oops with NetLabel and non-MLS SELinux policy

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In the case where a user has configured NetLabel in the kernel but is not using a SELinux policy with the MLS/MCS feature enabled there is a bug in mls_export_cat() where a NULL

[patch 13/59] ieee1394: sbp2: fix probing of some DVD-ROM/RWs

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Since commit 98e238cd42be6c0852da519303cf0182690f8d9f in Linux 2.6.19, "ieee1394: sbp2: don't prefer MODE SENSE 10", some FireWire DVD-ROMs and DVD-RWs were

[patch 05/59] md: pass down BIO_RW_SYNC in raid{1,10}

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Lars Ellenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> md raidX make_request functions strip off the BIO_RW_SYNC flag, thus introducing additional latency. Fixing this in raid1 and raid10 seems to be straightforward

[patch 04/59] Fix HWRNG built-in initcalls priority

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This changes all HWRNG driver initcalls to module_init(). We must probe the RNGs after the major kernel subsystems are already up and running (like PCI). This

[patch 16/59] start_kernel: test if irqs got enabled early, barf, and disable them again

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Ard van Breemen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The calls made by parse_parms to other initialization code might enable interrupts again way too early. Having interrupts on this early can make systems PANIC

[patch 12/59] [PATCH] Fix reparenting to the same thread group. (take 2)

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch fixes the case when we reparent to a different thread in the same thread group. This modifies the code so that we do not send signals and do not

[patch 14/59] sched: tasks cannot run on cpus onlined after boot

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Nathan Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Commit 5c1e176781f43bc902a51e5832f789756bff911b ("sched: force /sbin/init off isolated cpus") sets init's cpus_allowed to a subset of cpu_online_map at boot time,

[patch 00/59] -stable review

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Wright
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.3 release. There are 59 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a

Re: [patch 1/9] fs: libfs buffered write leak fix

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 06:19:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 03:09:26 +0100 > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > argh. Yesterday all my emails were getting a mysterious >

Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:03:48 -0500 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 06:49:16 +0100 > > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc7 compared to 2.6.19 > >> that are not yet fixed in

Re: [patch 1/9] fs: libfs buffered write leak fix

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 03:09:26 +0100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> argh. Yesterday all my emails were getting a mysterious s/osdl/linux-foundation/ done to them at the server, so I switched everything over.

libata_uli puts second channel to PIO4 on 2.6.18

2007-02-02 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
Hi, I got this SATA PCI card: 00:04.0 Mass storage controller: ALi Corporation ALi M5281 Serial ATA / RAID Host Controller (rev a4) (prog-if 85) Subsystem: ALi Corporation ALi M5281 Serial ATA / RAID Host Controller Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-

[PATCH/RFC] alternative aproach to: Ban module license tag string termination trick

2007-02-02 Thread Bodo Eggert
This patch changes the module license handling code to: - allow modules to have multiple licenses - access GPL symbols if at least one license is GPL-compatible - prevent the "GPL\0 for nothing"-trick - fix an off-by-one buffer overflow (exploitable only if the attacker can load modules) - move

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19.2] SCSI sd: udev accessing an uninitialized scsi_disk results in a crash

2007-02-02 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:19:24PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:34:56 +0530 > Nagendra Singh Tomar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > sd_probe() calls class_device_add() even before initializing the > > sdkp->device variable. class_device_add() eventually results

Re: [patch 1/9] fs: libfs buffered write leak fix

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:58:01PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 02:33:16 +0100 > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think just setting page uptodate in commit_write might do the > > trick? (and getting rid of the set_page_dirty there). > > Yes, the page just isn't

Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions

2007-02-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 06:49:16 +0100 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc7 compared to 2.6.19 that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. There are still a few things hanging around. I have these queued:

Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86_64 irq: Handle irqs pending in IRR during irq migration.

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:39:15 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So is this a for-2.6.20 thing? The bug was present in 2.6.19, so > > I assume it doesn't affect many people? > > If it's not to late, and this patch isn't too

Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 06:49:16 +0100 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc7 compared to 2.6.19 > that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. There are still a few things hanging around. I have these queued:

Re: [patch 1/9] fs: libfs buffered write leak fix

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 02:33:16 +0100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > === > > > --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/buffer.c > > > +++ linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c > > > @@ -2344,6 +2344,8 @@ int nobh_prepare_write(struct page *page > > > > >

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-02-02 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.24 01:39:23 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.01.23 17:18:43 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > Larry Walton wrote: > > >The last patch (sata_nv-force-int-dev-in-interrupt.patch) > > >seems to have fix the problem. Much appreciated, > > >thank you. I'd consider it a must have in

Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86_64 irq: Handle irqs pending in IRR during irq migration.

2007-02-02 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So is this a for-2.6.20 thing? The bug was present in 2.6.19, so > I assume it doesn't affect many people? If it's not to late, and this patch isn't too scary. It's a really rare set of circumstances that trigger it, but the possibility of being hit

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-02-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:13:03PM +0300, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > Hello Hi Vladimir, > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 10:02, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > reiserfs: > > commit de14569f94513279e3d44d9571a421e9da1759ae > > [PATCH] resierfs: avoid tail packing if an inode was ever mmapped > >

Re: [PATCH 1/1] - Altix: more ACPI PRT support

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:54:12 -0600 John Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The SN Altix platform does not conform to the > IOSAPIC IRQ routing model. Add code in acpi_unregister_gsi() > to check if (acpi_irq_model == ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_PLATFORM) and > return. > > Signed-off-by: John Keller <[EMAIL

Re: [patch 9/9] mm: fix pagecache write deadlocks

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:53:11PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:33:03 +0100 (CET) > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Modify the core write() code so that it won't take a pagefault while > > holding a > > lock on the pagecache page. There are a number of

Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick

2007-02-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 2 2007 17:12, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> >> >if (MODULE_LICENSE_contains_null(license)) >> >> > printk(KERN_WARNING "this module's license is suspicious\n"); >> >> Whatever, I just want to see how you are going to implement >> MODULE_LICENSE_contains_null. > >I was busy on other things this

Re: [patch 1/9] fs: libfs buffered write leak fix

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:52:36PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:31:46 +0100 (CET) > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > simple_prepare_write and nobh_prepare_write leak uninitialised kernel data. > > They do? Under what situation? Yes, I have at least

Re: [BUG] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference...as_move_to_dispatch+0x11/0x135

2007-02-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:25:41 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:56:30 -0800 > Andrew Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > dt of=/dev/raw/raw1 procs=8 oncerr=abort bs=16k disable=stats > > > > limit=2m passes=100 pattern=iot dlimit=2048 > > What is this

Re: [patch 0/9] buffered write deadlock fix

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:52:32PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:31:37 +0100 (CET) > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The following set of patches attempt to fix the buffered write > > locking problems (and there are a couple of peripheral patches > > and

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19.2] SCSI sd: udev accessing an uninitialized scsi_disk results in a crash

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:34:56 +0530 Nagendra Singh Tomar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > sd_probe() calls class_device_add() even before initializing the > sdkp->device variable. class_device_add() eventually results in the user mode > udev program to be called. udev program can read the

Re: [patch 4/9] Remove the TSC synchronization on SMP machines

2007-02-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TSC is either synchronized by design or not reliable to be used for anything, let alone timekeeping. This refers to eliminating the offset between multiple synchronized TSCs. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

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