Re: HPA patches

2007-03-23 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:08:19 + Alan Cox wrote: +static int ata_ignore_hpa = 0; Don't init to 0. Not needed, bloats binary files. It'll be one for the final release 8) +module_param_named(ignore_hpa, ata_ignore_hpa, int, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ignore_hpa, Ignore HPA

Re: request_queue_t depends on CONFIG_BLOCK

2007-03-23 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Friday 23 March 2007, Olaf Hering wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Because it is needed in a few places. Is there really any PPC64 specific code which needs linux/ide.h (ppc_ide_md is used only by PPC32)? I suspect that the answer to my question is not

Re: HPA patches

2007-03-23 Thread Alan Cox
What is 0x40? can it be #defined (or enum-ed) instead of a magic value? please? (more of same below) It's 0x40. Its a command dependant bit - no useful name. dependent. OK, thanks. IDE is a bit like that. I'm amazed some of the command flags arent in latin. Already corrected

Re: HPA patches

2007-03-23 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:22:32 -0700 (PDT) David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:08:19 + u64 is always unsigned long long (and its debug anyway) It's plain unsigned long on sparc64 and some other 64-bit platforms. I stand

Re: HPA patches

2007-03-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:13:21PM +, Alan Cox wrote: +static int ata_ignore_hpa = 0; +module_param_named(ignore_hpa, ata_ignore_hpa, int, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ignore_hpa, Ignore HPA (0=off 1=on)); I'm not sure I like the language here. Ignore HPA appears to mean Explicitly disable

[2/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to 2.6.20. 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 breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly

[3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to 2.6.20. 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 breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-23 Thread Maxim
On Friday 23 March 2007 20:50:22 Adrian Bunk wrote: Subject: suspend to disk hangs References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/16/126 Submitter : Maxim Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caused-By : Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] commit e3c7db621bed4afb8e231cb005057f2feb5db557

Re: HPA patches

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Alan Cox wrote: What is 0x40? can it be #defined (or enum-ed) instead of a magic value? please? (more of same below) It's 0x40. Its a command dependant bit - no useful name. dependent. OK, thanks. IDE is a bit like that. I'm amazed some of the command flags arent in latin. Hmm,

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use correct IDE error recovery

2007-03-23 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Thursday 08 March 2007, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: On Mar 7, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Please respin the patch so I could merge it. Ok. Since I think that it's worth to have it in 2.6.21-final and respin didn't happen I did the required changes myself (it

[PATCH 2.6.21-rc3] pci: set pci=bfsort for PowerEdge R900

2007-03-23 Thread Matt Domsch
This patch automatically enables pci=bfsort for the Dell PowerEdge R900. This is necessary to ensure the onboard NICs enumerate in the proper order, similar to the other systems already on the list. I'd appreciate this being applied before 2.6.21-final if possible. Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch

Re: [patch] rfc: introduce /dev/hugetlb

2007-03-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:44:38 -0700 Ken Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/21/07, Adam Litke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main reason I am advocating a set of pagetable_operations is to enable the development of a new hugetlb interface. During the hugetlb BOFS at OLS last year, we talked

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:10:29 +0100 Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:55:51 -0500, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cornelia Huck wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:23:06 -0500, This would indicate that dev_uevent had been called. But how could

Re: [QUICKLIST 1/5] Quicklists for page table pages V4

2007-03-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:39:24 +1100 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: but it crashes early in the page allocator (i386) and I don't see why. It makes me wonder if we have a use-after-free which is hidden by the presence of the quicklist buffering or something.

Re: [PATCH] Avoid time_offset overflows

2007-03-23 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, john stultz wrote: @@ -314,8 +314,8 @@ #endif freq_adj += time_freq; freq_adj = min(freq_adj, (s64)MAXFREQ_NSEC); time_freq = max(freq_adj, (s64)-MAXFREQ_NSEC); - time_offset = (time_offset /

Re: [patch] rfc: introduce /dev/hugetlb

2007-03-23 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 3/23/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:44:38 -0700 Ken Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/21/07, Adam Litke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main reason I am advocating a set of pagetable_operations is to enable the development of a new hugetlb interface.

Re: Linux-VServer example results for sharing vs. separate mappings ...

2007-03-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:30:00 +0100 Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Eric! Hi Folks! here is a real world example result from one of my tests regarding the benefit of sharing over separate memory the setup is quite simple, a typical machine used by providers all over the

Re: [patch] rfc: introduce /dev/hugetlb

2007-03-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:32:31 -0700 Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably the kernel team should be maintaining, via existing processes, a separate libkernel project, to fix these distributional problems. The advantage in this case is of course that our new hugetlb functionality

Re: [QUICKLIST 1/5] Quicklists for page table pages V4

2007-03-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:54:12 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are the results of aim9 tests on x86_64. There are some minor performance improvements and some fluctuations. There are a lot of numbers there - what do they tell us? 2.6.21-rc4 bare 2.6.21-rc4

Re: [2/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Ray, On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 17:14 -0700, Ray Lee wrote: (I wondered about the IPI on a UP system, seemed a bit weird :-).) Works great, booting both with NOAPIC and without. *Much* thanks for debugging this while you're also handling a bunch of other issues at the same time. Thank you for

Re: [patch] rfc: introduce /dev/hugetlb

2007-03-23 Thread Sam Ravnborg
But for non-programming reasons, we're just not there yet: people want to program direct to the kernel interfaces simply because of the distribution/coordination problems with libraries. It would be nice to fix that problem. What is then needed to get a small subset of user-space in the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] possible USB regression with 2.6.21-rc4: iPod doesn't work

2007-03-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:46:53PM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 14:29:11 -0700, David Brownell wrote: On Thursday 22 March 2007 12:54 pm, Tino Keitel wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 15:40:40 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: _Something_ is generating those

[5/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to 2.6.20. 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 breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly

Re: 2.6.20.3 AMD64 oops in CFQ code

2007-03-23 Thread linux
As an additional data point, here's a libata problem I'm having trying to rebuild the array. I have six identical 400 GB drives (ST3400832AS), and one is giving me hassles. I've run SMART short and long diagnostics, badblocks, and Seagate's seatools diagnostic software, and none of these find

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 7/7] containers (V7): Container interface to nsproxy subsystem

2007-03-23 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:15:28AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +/* + * Rules: you can only create a container if + * 1. you are capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) + * 2. the target container is a descendant of your own container + */ +static int ns_create(struct container_subsys *ss, struct

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