On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Note that I am amazed that the kernbench even worked. On small machine
How small? The machines I am testing on aren't "big" but they aren't
misterable either.
I
seem to be getting into trouble with order 1 allocations.
That in itself is
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I consider policy issues to be hopeless political quagmires and
>> therefore stick to mechanism. So even though I may have started the
>> code in question, I have little or nothing to say about that sort of
>> use for it.
>> There's my longwinded excuse for having
Original-Nachricht
Datum: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:57:34 -0800 (PST)
Von: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: Uwe Bugla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: Re: bugs in kernel 2.6.21 (both two release candidates) and kernel
2.6.20
>
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:
Note that the 16kb page size has a major
impact on SLUB performance. On IA64 slub will use only 1/4th the locking
overhead as on 4kb platforms.
It'll be interesting to see the kernbench tests then with
On Friday 09 March 2007 13:19, Michael K. Edwards wrote:
> On 3/8/07, Benjamin LaHaise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Any number of things can cause a short write to occur, and rewinding the
> > file position after the fact is just as bad. A sane app has to either
> > serialise the writes itself
* Kok, Auke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-02-08 16:09
>
> From: Peter Waskiewicz Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Several newer e1000 chipsets support multiple RX and TX queues. Most
> commonly, 82571's and ESB2LAN support 2 rx and 2 rx queues.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Waskiewicz Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Kok, Auke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-02-08 16:09
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 455d589..42b635c 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -1477,6 +1477,49 @@ gso:
> skb->tc_verd = SET_TC_AT(skb->tc_verd,AT_EGRESS);
> #endif
> if (q->enqueue) {
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:07:27PM +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>> nobody actually cares about a precise accounting and
>> calculating shares or partitions of whatever resource,
>> all that matters is that you have a way to prevent a
>> potential hostile environment from sucking up all your
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:31:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > No. Really.
> > I absolutely *detest* pluggable schedulers. They have a huge downside:
> > they allow people to think that it's ok to make special-case schedulers.
> > And I simply very fundamentally
On 2/16/07, Ivan Babkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thank for the job you've done!
Your driver works with 1 Gb sd-card (x86_64 suse's 2.16.18.2 kernel).
Read rate for me was around 250 Kb/s, write - 28 Kb/s (using dd utility).
BTW, I get continuous flow of "sdricoh_cs: timeout waiting for data"
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:23:55PM +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>>> There have been various projects attempting to provide
>>> resource management support in Linux, including
>>> CKRM/Resource Groups and UBC.
>>
>> let me note here, once again, that you forgot Linux-VServer
>> which does quite
At some point in time, I wrote:
> > Btw, what we can do is delay closing the actual revoked file until the
> > task terminates. This has the unfortunate side-effect that a task has
> > no way of freeing the resources now. But, I am beginning to think it's
> > not a big problem because the inode
> Btw, what we can do is delay closing the actual revoked file until the
> task terminates. This has the unfortunate side-effect that a task has
> no way of freeing the resources now. But, I am beginning to think it's
> not a big problem because the inode mapping will be zapped immediately
> upon
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 13:24 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > > 'time' here is relative, so the restarted syscall will do a /full/ wait
> > > > again.
> > >
> > > But it has been modified by schedule_timeout?
> >
> > But this does not change the syscall registers, so it is restarted in
> > the
> - radeonfb_pm_init(rinfo, rinfo->is_mobility ? 1 : -1,
> ignore_devlist, force_sleep);
> + radeonfb_pm_init(rinfo, rinfo->is_mobility && rinfo->family !=
> CHIP_FAMILY_RS480 ? 1 : -1, ignore_devlist, force_sleep);
I'd rather you add a check for RS480 inside
.../...
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nice catch !
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> @@ -476,8 +476,13 @@ void flush_thread(void)
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
> struct
> 1003.1 unless O_NONBLOCK is set. (Not that f_pos is interesting on a
> pipe except as a "bytes sent" indicator -- and in the multi-threaded
f_pos is undefined on a FIFO or similar object.
> As to what a "sane app" has to do: it's just not that unusual to write
> application code that treats
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 15:08 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:58:16 -0500 Mimi Zohar wrote:
>
> > This is a request for comments for a new Integrity Based Access
> > Control(IBAC) LSM module which bases access control decisions
> > on the new integrity framework services.
> >
Alan Cox wrote:
Add suspend/resume support
Write 0x5B to 0 not 0x5C
The former is important as we must kill the FIFO on a resume
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Conke Hu wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> (snip)
>> I've read your last posting about this, but forgot to follow up. TUR is
>> supposed to fail if ATAPI device doesn't have media loaded. TUR fails
>> and sense data returns device not ready - media not present. That's
Hello,
Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> Erm, before I do that, could somebody explain what
>>
>> #define HAVE_PCI_REQ_REGIONS 2
>>
>> accompanying their declaration is for? I have't found any references to it
>> in
>> the source. Should I duplicate it for CONFIG_PCI=n case (I guess not)?
>
> I
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > if someone can't immediately see what i'm trying
> > to do given the previously-posted patch, then they shouldn't be
> > commenting on it one way or the other.
>
> I'm not sure if you are addressing me too. Just to clarify:
Hi Christoph,
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:39:13AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> sorry for my later reply, this has been on my to answer list for the last
> month and I only managed to get back to it now.
No worries, I haven't had much time to work on it since then anyway.
Thanks
Robert Hancock wrote:
Commit 721449bf0d51213fe3abf0ac3e3561ef9ea7827a added support for using the
ADMA notifier bits to determine which commands to check for completion.
However there have been reports that this causes command timeouts in
certain
cases. This is still being investigated. In
Tejun Heo wrote:
Some platform devices are driven without driver attached, so managed
resources can be acquired without driver attached. Make sure such
resources are released by calling devres_release_all() in
device_del().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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This one fixes oops
Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
> Hello Tejun!
>
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:46:07AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:10:10PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
* Does applying the attached patch over unpatched 2.6.20.1 fix the problem?
>>> Yes, it
Paul Rolland wrote:
> Hell Tejun,
>
> I've boot-tested this yesterday, with no real luck...
>
> 1 - Tested on top of 2.6.21-rc2 (hope it's fine for you),
> 2 - Collected a full dmesg before and after
>
> Extract is :
> ata7: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00019c00 ctl 0x00019882 bmdma
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> if someone can't immediately see what i'm trying
> to do given the previously-posted patch, then they shouldn't be
> commenting on it one way or the other.
I'm not sure if you are addressing me too. Just to clarify: I wasn't
commenting on the patch, I only commented on
On 3/9/07, Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To fix this, change sys_revoke() not to close the actual revoked file
immediately. Instead, we do filp_close() when the user does close(2)
on the revoked file descriptor.
Btw, this is safe because a filesystem implementing f_ops->revoke must
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:07:17PM +, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Prevent the WARN_ON() in arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/sleep.c:init_low_mapping()
> > from triggering by disabling nonboot CPUs before we finally enter the
> > platform
> > suspend.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As explained by Eric Dumazet, one of the interests of fget_light() is
to avoid dirtying struct file which is broken by the newly added
file->f_light. In addition, fget_light() currently has a race window
between fcheck_files() and set_f_light().
To fix
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:38:35AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 06:10 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > i think that's quite right. I'm wondering why this never came up before?
> > > But your fix is not complete i think:
> > >
> > > > + restart->arg2 = time;
>
On 3/7/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(snip)
I've read your last posting about this, but forgot to follow up. TUR is
supposed to fail if ATAPI device doesn't have media loaded. TUR fails
and sense data returns device not ready - media not present. That's the
normal operation. Does
On 3/8/07, Benjamin LaHaise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Any number of things can cause a short write to occur, and rewinding the
file position after the fact is just as bad. A sane app has to either
serialise the writes itself or use a thread safe API like pwrite().
Not on a pipe/FIFO. Short
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:55:06PM +0200, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Return EBADF for all revoked file operations except for read(2) which
> returns zero for special files as the BSDs do and close(2) which is
> always zero.
>
> Cc: Alan Cox <[EMAIL
On 3/9/07, Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Then just drop the fget_light() 'optimisation' and always take a reference
> (atomic on f_count) regardless of single-thread or not. Instead of dirtying
> f_light, just do the straightforward thing and be with it.
On 3/9/07, Pekka Enberg
Ed Cashin found a bug in the error handling code for the case where
a page allocation fails. Here's the updated version:
Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
===
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c 2007-03-08
* Jan Engelhardt wrote, On 09/03/07 10:19:
> Hello,
>
> On Mar 9 2007 09:35, Amin Azez wrote:
>
>> * Jan Engelhardt wrote, On 08/03/07 20:26:
>>
>>> xt_portscan needs to keep track of what packets the machine has already
>>> seen. So on the first SYN, the connection is marked with "1".
From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Return EBADF for all revoked file operations except for read(2) which
returns zero for special files as the BSDs do and close(2) which is
always zero.
Cc: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/revoked_inode.c
On 3/8/07, Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dont even try, you *cannot* do that, without breaking the standards, or
without a performance drop.
The only safe way would be to lock the file during the whole read()/write()
syscall, and we dont want this (this would be more expensive than
On 3/9/07, Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Then just drop the fget_light() 'optimisation' and always take a reference
(atomic on f_count) regardless of single-thread or not. Instead of dirtying
f_light, just do the straightforward thing and be with it.
That's what I did first but akpm
Hi there,
Please try first a newer kernel of FC6.
2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6
That's 2.6.19.7.
That's the newest one.
Greetings,
Jim,
> Hi,
>
> I just bought a brand new notebook and wanted to install FC6 on it.
Unfornately there are some issues reported by the console during boot.
Here are some
Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I meant to suggest is that I would start from a safety point of view
> with get_user_pages/access_process_vm refusing to do force& to
> MAP_PRIVATE pages that are in fact being shared (ETXTBSY or something).
That's a good idea. The other
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:15:15 +0200 (EET)
Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > +static ssize_t revoked_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb,
> > +const struct iovec *iov,
> > +unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
> > +{
> > +
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:18:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - The wireless changes in here need a lot of testers, please. It is major
> rework.
[...]
> I was able to get ipw2200 working after some fumbling,
Any details on the symptoms? I'm unable to boot rc3-mm2, and it hangs
right after
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > each simplification could be submitted as
> > a separate arch-specific patch, as many things are.
> >
> > i was more asking about the *philosophy* of that patch,
>
> The justification of this initial patch is more obvious if
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:56:32PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> __builtin_types_compatible_p() has been around since gcc 2.95, and we
> don't use it anywhere. This patch quietly fixes that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Is your clock set correctly? Looks like this mail
Hi!
> >>Can you take this as a wishlist item?
> >>
> >>It would be nice if next version of acpi specs supported table
> >>
> >>'AML / SMM BIOS will access these ports'
> >>
> >>...so we can get it correct with acpi4 or something..?
> >>
> >
> >I can only second Pavel's wish here. This would
Hi!
> > disabling the following radeonfb options in the .config made resume work
> > again:
>
> In general, don't even *try* to use radeonfb for suspend/resume.
>
> I don't think it has ever worked, except on some very rare laptops
> (largely PPC Macs) where people had enough information to
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:12:27 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Fix sparc TIF_USEDFPU flag atomicity
>> Non atomic update of TIF can be very dangerous, except at thread structure
>> creation time. Here I standardize the TIF_USEDFPU usage of the sparc arch.
>> Applies on 2.6.20.
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> each simplification could be submitted as
> a separate arch-specific patch, as many things are.
>
> i was more asking about the *philosophy* of that patch,
The justification of this initial patch is more obvious if followed up
by those subsequent patches which make use
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:27:13 -0800
Amit Choudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Description: Check the return value of kmalloc() in function con_init(), in
> file drivers/char/vt.c.
NAK; This occurs at boot and if it fails we are wasting our time
recovering.
Alan
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Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Make revokeat and frevoke system calls available to user-space on i386.
Acked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The revokeat(2) and frevoke(2) system calls invalidate open file
> descriptors and shared mappings of an inode. After an successful
> revocation, operations on file
On Friday 09 March 2007 11:43, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 3/9/07, Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Cannot we use a flag in 'struct files_struct', set to one when the task
> > is mono-thread (at task creation in fact), and set to 0 when it creates a
> > new thread (or when someone
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:16:09 +0200 (EET)
Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This documents revoke file operation in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:13:00PM +0530, Niklaus wrote:
> yes now lets take 2 dest machines , source ip is fixed , source port (2^16
> - 1)
> destip is fixed (a.a.a.a and b.b.b.b) ,dest port(2^16 -1) each ,
>
> for a connection we have one port used , say connection 1 is
>
> source ip,port 1 ,
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:14:09 +0200 (EET)
Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This adds special handling for revoked memory mappings. We want to
> raise SIGBUS when accessing revoked mappings and return ENODEV when
> trying to remap with mmap(2).
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:49:34PM +0530, Niklaus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I could be wrong in the below description or might have misunderstood
> many of the concepts , please correct appropriately.
>
> 65535 ports can allowed . So on a machine namely C you can have max
> 65535 outbound connections
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 2/16/07, Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> > On Thursday 15 February 2007 20:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:55:29 -0500
>> >> Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [...]
>> >> Perhaps a nicer
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > disabling the following radeonfb options in the .config made resume
> > work again:
>
> In general, don't even *try* to use radeonfb for suspend/resume.
>
> I don't think it has ever worked, except on some very rare laptops
> (largely PPC Macs)
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Some platform devices are driven without driver attached, so managed
> resources can be acquired without driver attached. Make sure such
> resources are released by calling devres_release_all() in
> device_del().
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> This
* David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >From 1171ef62b18d7eef093ecf961dd09b11339d53d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:28:37 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] [SPARC64]: Add clocksource/clockevents support.
>
> I'd like to thank John
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:31:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No. Really.
> I absolutely *detest* pluggable schedulers. They have a huge downside:
> they allow people to think that it's ok to make special-case schedulers.
> And I simply very fundamentally disagree.
> If you want to play with
On 08/03/07, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Catalin Marinas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to track down a kmemleak report (on an ARM platform) which
> seems to have appeared with commit
> ab521dc0f8e117fd808d3e425216864d60390500. As I'm not familiar with the
> TTY
Implement pcim_iounmap_regions() - the opposite of
pcim_iomap_regions().
Signed-off-by: Tejun heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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This one is used by libata's new init model and generally useful for
driver midlayers. Please push it through libata-dev#upstream.
Thanks.
include/linux/pci.h |1 +
On 3/9/07, David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> i read on the web that terry lambert has got 1.6 million simultaneous
>> connection ? how is the way it is done.
>
> Multiple IP addresses, I guess.
what must be unique is the four-parts of a
On 3/9/07, Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Cannot we use a flag in 'struct files_struct', set to one when the task is
mono-thread (at task creation in fact), and set to 0 when it creates a new
thread (or when someone remotely access to this "struct files_struct"
in /proc/pid/fd/... )
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:03:50PM -0800, Nate Diller wrote:
> i had a patch integrating the iodesc idea, but after some thought, had
> decided to call it struct file_io. That name reflects the fact that
> it's doing I/O in arbitrary lengths with byte offsets, and struct
> file_io *fio contrasts
Jean Delvare wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 07:18:56 +, Pavel Machek wrote:
Port (and memory) addresses can be dynamically generated by the AML code
and thus, there is no way that the ACPI subsystem can statically predict
any addresses that will be accessed by the AML.
Can you take
Hi Nick,
sorry for my later reply, this has been on my to answer list for the last
month and I only managed to get back to it now.
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:07:36PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Add a new "perform_write" aop, which replaces prepare_write and commit_write
> as a single call to
William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:07:06PM +0300, Serge Belyshev wrote:
>> If you see sched_yield() when stracing any 3d program, I suggest you
>> to try this bruteforce workaround, which works fine for me,
>> disable sched_yield():
>
> May I suggest
Some platform devices are driven without driver attached, so managed
resources can be acquired without driver attached. Make sure such
resources are released by calling devres_release_all() in
device_del().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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This one fixes oops on pata_platform and
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Which patch?
>
> Since this affects libata directly, and since devres came in via libata,
> I would rather that libata bugs not get /too/ blocked by patches in
> other trees.
This one.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/495515
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Weird behaviour of numlock and capslock on USB keyboard in X. After
Hmm, it's
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 07:18:56 +, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Port (and memory) addresses can be dynamically generated by the AML code
> > and thus, there is no way that the ACPI subsystem can statically predict
> > any addresses that will be accessed by the AML.
>
> Can you take this as a wishlist
Hello,
On Mar 9 2007 09:35, Amin Azez wrote:
>* Jan Engelhardt wrote, On 08/03/07 20:26:
>> xt_portscan needs to keep track of what packets the machine has already
>> seen. So on the first SYN, the connection is marked with "1". (Then we
>> send our SYN-ACK... and the connection turns
Hi Andrew
Please find a new version of this patch : I realized d_path() has very
uncommon semantic (it seems nobody caught the point in previous patches), and
had to change the documentation and pipefs_dname() / sockfs_dname()
accordingly.
Now, readlink("/proc/pid/fd/xx", buffer, 4096)
Hi folks,
A new structure is added to i2c-core for GPIO-based I2C interface
adapter. My latest GPIO based I2C adapter driver for Blackfin system
will use this stuff. And also IXP4XX GPIO based I2C driver can also be
moved to this.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Friday 09 March 2007 09:14, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This adds a f_light flag to struct file to indicate that the file was
> looked up with fget_light(). Needed by revoke to ensure we don't
> close a file pointer while someone is using it without
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:25:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:25:54 +0100
> "Joerg Roedel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > From: Joerg Roedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > This patch simplifies the get_cycles_sync() function by removing the
> > #ifdefs from it. Further
On Friday 09 March 2007 19:53, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:56:44AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > I did make oldconfig from http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/ck/config.txt
> > and chose all the defaults. Then building your fat config with -rc3, 'ps'
> > hangs on qemu for almost
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i asked about this a while back, but i still haven't heard a
> > definitive response as to whether it's acceptable.
>
> Maybe you get response if you post a complete patch.
that *was* the complete patch -- its purpose was
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:07:06PM +0300, Serge Belyshev wrote:
> If you see sched_yield() when stracing any 3d program, I suggest you
> to try this bruteforce workaround, which works fine for me,
> disable sched_yield():
May I suggest LD_PRELOAD of a library consisting of only a nopped
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:04:59 +0800, Sonic Zhang wrote:
> On 3/8/07, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i2c-core can emulate SMBus transactions using master_xfer, so in
> > general when you have a complete master_xfer implementation you do not
> > need to define a separate smbus_xfer
On 12:05, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > > BTW: Are ext3 filesystem sizes greater than 8T now officially
> > > supported?
> >
> > I think so, but I don't know how much 16TB testing developers and
> > distros are doing - perhaps the linux-ext4 denizens can tell us?
> > -
>
> IBM has done some testing
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 03:56:55AM -0500, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> From: Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Call the new lookup_one_len_nd() rather than lookup_one_len(). This fixes an
> oops when stacked on NFS.
>
> Note that there are still some issues with eCryptfs on NFS having to
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 06:10 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > i think that's quite right. I'm wondering why this never came up before?
> > But your fix is not complete i think:
> >
> > > + restart->arg2 = time;
> > > + return -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK;
> > > + }
> >
> >
Kirill, responding to Herbert:
> > do we need or even want that? IMHO the hierarchical
> > concept CKRM was designed with, was also the reason
> > for it being slow, unuseable and complicated
> 1. cpusets are hierarchical already. So hierarchy is required.
I think that CKRM has a harder time
* Jan Engelhardt wrote, On 08/03/07 20:26:
> xt_portscan needs to keep track of what packets the machine has already
> seen. So on the first SYN, the connection is marked with "1". (Then we
> send our SYN-ACK... and the connection turns ESTABLISHED.) The next
> packet that is received will be
Just to alert potential readers, that the bug is now discussed there :
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8143
Eric Lacombe
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From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fix VM_REVOKED mask which overlaps with VM_ALWAYSDUMP.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/mm.h |3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index:
>>There have been various projects attempting to provide resource
>>management support in Linux, including CKRM/Resource Groups and UBC.
>
>
> let me note here, once again, that you forgot Linux-VServer
> which does quite non-intrusive resource management ...
Herbert, do you care to send patches
Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Friday 09 March 2007 18:53, Matt Mackall wrote:
...
>>
>> With a single non-parallel make running (all in cache, mind you), the
>> system kicks up into just about 100% CPU usage at full speed. Desktop
>> spinning becomes between 10x to 100x slower
Hi!
> When the console is in VT_AUTO/KD_GRAPHICS mode, switching to the
> SUSPEND_CONSOLE fails, resulting in vt_waitactive() waiting indefinately
> or until the task is interrupted. The following patch tests if a
> console switch can occur in set_console() and returns early if a console
>
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:02:19PM +0300, Andrey Panin wrote:
> Kernel compilation with Intel compiler is (was ?) supported.
> This patch will break it.
It was only put in under the premise that they'll fix whatever breaks,
we're not going to put any maintaince border on us to hack around
broken
On 067, 03 08, 2007 at 11:14:01PM -0800, Amit Choudhary wrote:
> Description: Check the return value of kmalloc() in function
> videocodec_build_table(), in file drivers/media/video/videocodec.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> diff --git
On 068, 03 09, 2007 at 07:53:08AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:50:56AM +0300, Andrey Panin wrote:
> > On 068, 03 09, 2007 at 04:56:32PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > __builtin_types_compatible_p() has been around since gcc 2.95,
> >
> > but it's not available
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 06:32:29PM -0500, Robin Getz wrote:
> On Thu 8 Mar 2007 15:40, Russell King pondered:
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:23:39PM -0500, Robin Getz wrote:
> > > Right - We both agree - And setting console=/dev/null in the bootargs
> > > still does not help.
> >
> > Ok, good.
> >
Hi!
> > > Index: linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm2/kernel/power/disk.c
> > > ===
> > > --- linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm2.orig/kernel/power/disk.c
> > > +++ linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm2/kernel/power/disk.c
> > > @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ static void
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