Re: [patch 2/3] only allow nonlinear vmas for ram backed filesystems

2007-03-26 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 23:09 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >>> Dirty page accounting/limiting doesn't work for nonlinear mappings, so >>> for non-ram backed filesystems emulate with linear mappings. This >>> retains ABI compatibility with previous kernels at minimal code cost. >>> All known users of

Re: [PATCH -mm] Blackfin: rtc fix rtc_update_irq augument

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 3/26/07, Wu, Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Replacing class_dev to directly using rtc_dev. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -mike - 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: dead CONFIG variables in kernel Makefiles

2007-03-26 Thread David Miller
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:32:00 -0400 (EDT) > > the output from a short script i wrote, locating all CONFIG_ > variables in makefiles that don't appear to exist in any Kconfig file > anywhere in the source tree. > > first, from the drivers/ direct

[PATCH update/RFC] ieee1394: eth1394: don't autoload by hotplug when ohci1394 starts

2007-03-26 Thread Stefan Richter
I wrote: > - add a new kernel config option which brings back the old behavior > for those who liked it. We don't re-use the old config option > because then nobody would notice that there is a choice now. This > new option is scheduled to be removed soon. ... > Instead of keeping t

Re: dead CONFIG variables in kernel Makefiles

2007-03-26 Thread Roland Dreier
> = IPATH_CORE = > ./drivers/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_IPATH_CORE) += infiniband/ Thanks, I was just noticing that myself. I'll remove it for 2.6.22. - R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More major

dead CONFIG variables in kernel Makefiles

2007-03-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
the output from a short script i wrote, locating all CONFIG_ variables in makefiles that don't appear to exist in any Kconfig file anywhere in the source tree. first, from the drivers/ directory: = DRM_FFB = ./drivers/char/drm/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_FFB) += ffb.o = INPUT_POW

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:35:48PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Greg, please update your copy with this version of the patch. The only > change is that sound/ppc/beep.c is removed from the patch. Done. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

[PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] MSI: read-flush MSI-X table

2007-03-26 Thread Mitch Williams
This patch fixes a kernel bug which is triggered when using the irqbalance daemon with MSI-X hardware. Because both MSI-X interrupt messages and MSI-X table writes are posted, it's possible for them to cross while in-flight. This results in interrupts being received long after the kernel thinks t

[PATCH] ieee1394: eth1394: don't autoload by hotplug when ohci1394 starts

2007-03-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Until now, ieee1394 put an IP-over-1394 capability entry into each new host's config ROM. As soon as the controller was initialized --- i.e. right after modprobe ohci1394 --- this entry triggered a hotplug event which typically caused auto-loading of eth1394. This irritated or annoyed many users

Re: [PATCH 2.6.16.44] ieee1394: dv1394: fix CardBus card ejection

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 09:26:05PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Fix NULL pointer dereference on hot ejection of a FireWire card while > dv1394 was loaded. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7121 > I did not test card ejection with open /dev/dv1394 files yet. >... Thanks, applied. > St

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 15:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: .. > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0020 > > RIP: > > [] __sched_text_start+0x460/0x889 > > PGD 1c1898067 PUD 1c1897067 PMD 0 > > Oops: [1] SMP > > last sysfs file: block/hda/range > > CPU 3 > > Modules

Re: [PATCH -mm] Blackfin: spi driver cleanup and coding style fixing

2007-03-26 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 26 March 2007 3:14 am, Wu, Bryan wrote: > Hi folks, > > This patch cleanup blackfin SPI driver code and fix some coding style > problems. Good, thanks. I'll forward the current state of my review, after I cross-check it against these two patches. That'll mean I need to re-start that r

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

2007-03-26 Thread Tino Keitel
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 00:21:24 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: [...] > this is the bisect result: > > $ git bisect good > 1d619f128ba911cd3e6d6ad3475f146eb92f5c27 is first bad commit > commit 1d619f128ba911cd3e6d6ad3475f146eb92f5c27 I just tested 2.6.21-rc5 with this commit reverted and the iPod wa

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:43:08 +0200 Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_ctime and > > > st_mtime as defined by SUSv3: > > > > Boy this is complicated. > > You tell me? > > > Is there a simpler way of doing all this? Say, w

Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5 1/3] parport->dev driver model support

2007-03-26 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 26 March 2007 2:59 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:06:19 -0700 > David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Currently a parport_driver can't get a handle on the device node for the > > underlying parport (PNPACPI, PCI, etc). That prevents correct placement > > of

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:10:09 -0500 Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:00:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:21 +0200 > > Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_c

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:57:57 -0800 Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Temporarily at > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ > > > > Will appear later at > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel

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

2007-03-26 Thread Tino Keitel
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 23:26:14 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 17:15:53 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > [...] > > > The lack of messages from the iPod seems to indicate that the hub isn't > > working right. You could try plugging the iPod into a different hub or > > directly i

Re: [PATCH] USB Elan FTDI: check for driver registration status

2007-03-26 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:27:33 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch adds checking of driver registration status > and if it fails release allocated resources. > + if (status_queue) { > + destroy_workqueue(status_queue); > + status_queue = NULL;

[PATCH] Correct bad CONFIG names in drivers/usb/input/Makefile.

2007-03-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Correct the incorrect CONFIG_ variables currently in drivers/usb/input/Makefile that prevent three of the touchscreen source files from being built. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- it *looks* like this is the right fix, but i'm just on my way out the door so i'll leave i

Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5] arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c compiler warning

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:17:44 -0700 David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fix "unused variable" compiler warning on non-SMP x86_64 configs. > > Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c > +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c > @@ -73,9

Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5 1/3] parport->dev driver model support

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:06:19 -0700 David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently a parport_driver can't get a handle on the device node for the > underlying parport (PNPACPI, PCI, etc). That prevents correct placement > of sysfs child nodes, which can affect things like power management.

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

2007-03-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Srivatsa Vaddagiri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:35:37AM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > > +static int ns_create(struct container_subsys *ss, struct container *cont) > > > +{ > > > + struct nscont *ns; > > > + > > > + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) > > > + ret

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

2007-03-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Srivatsa Vaddagiri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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 > >

Re: [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB fixes

2007-03-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > Please pull 'master' from: > git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git > master "Already up-to-date". Forgot to push? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

Re: [PATCH -mm] Blackfin arch: add kdebug header file

2007-03-26 Thread Arnd Bergmann
I can see nothing wrong with your patches, but you should make the patch descriptions a little clearer: On Monday 26 March 2007, Wu, Bryan wrote: > Hi folks, No need for this line, if it's there, Andrew just needs to remove it from the changelog. > This patch adds kdebug.h header file to blackfi

Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

2007-03-26 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:30:42 -0400, "Dmitry Torokhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regarding the synaptics driver and scroll problem. Yesterday I > scrolled twice through entire Remarque's "Spark of Life" off lib.ru > (once with 0.14.2 and once with latest git pull) and did not see any > scrollbar

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-26 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_ctime and > > st_mtime as defined by SUSv3: > > Boy this is complicated. You tell me? > Is there a simpler way of doing all this? Say, we define a new page flag > PG_dirtiedbywrite and we do SetPageDirtiedByWrite() inside write()

Re: forced umount?

2007-03-26 Thread Phillip Susi
Is this revoke system supported for the filesystem as a whole? I thought it was just to force specific files closed, not the whole filesystem. What if the filesystem itself has pending IO to say, update inodes or block bitmaps? Can these be aborted? Pekka Enberg wrote: FYI, the revoke impl

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

2007-03-26 Thread Tino Keitel
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 17:15:53 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: [...] > The lack of messages from the iPod seems to indicate that the hub isn't > working right. You could try plugging the iPod into a different hub or > directly into the computer. Or maybe into a different port of that hub. Uh, I thi

[patch 6/8] dasd: Add sysfs attribute status and generate uevents.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Horst Hummel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch adds a sysfs-attribute 'status' to make the DASD device-status accessible from user-space. In addition, the DASD driver generates an uevent(CHANGE) for the ccw-device on each device-status change. This enables user-space applications (e.g. udev) to

Linux 2.6.16.45

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
Location: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git Changes since 2.6.16.44: Adrian Bunk (2): Linux 2.6.16.45-rc1 Linux 2.6.16.45 Alexey Dobriyan (1): [NET]: Copy mac_len in skb_clone() as wel

[patch 5/8] cio: Channel-path configure function.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Peter Oberparleiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add a new attribute to the channel-path sysfs directory through which channel-path configure operations can be triggered. Also listen for hardware events requesting channel-path configure operations and process them accordingly. Signed-off-by: Peter O

[patch 2/8] Get rid of console setup functions.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We get this: Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:con3270_consetup from .data between 'con3270' (at offset 0x45c8) and 'con3270_fn' Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:con3215_consetup from .data between 'con3

[patch 7/8] dasd: Add ipldev parameter.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Peter Oberparleiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Specifying 'ipldev' in the dasd= kernel parameter will automatically activate the boot device for use by the dasd driver. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <

[patch 8/8] zfcpdump support.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Michael Holzheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> s390 machines provide hardware support for creating Linux dumps on SCSI disks. For creating a dump a special purpose dump Linux is used. The first 32 MB of memory are saved by the hardware before the dump Linux is booted. Via an SCLP interface, the saved m

[patch 1/8] Processor degredation support.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Emit a warning if cpu capability changes e.g. because the cpus are overheating. The new cpu capability can be read via /proc/sysinfo. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/s390

[patch 4/8] cio: Clean up online_store.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Detangle the online_store code and make it more readable. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/s390/cio/device.c | 109 ++

[patch 3/8] Improved kernel stack overflow checking.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Recent cvs versions of gcc have support for an improved stack overflow checking that calculates the size of the guard size for each function. If the compiler accepts -mstack-size without -mstack-guard then the new stack check is available. We always wan

[patch 0/8] s390 patches for 2.6.22

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
Couple of patches that haven't been posted before and which should be merged in the 2.6.22 merge window. - 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 Please

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

2007-03-26 Thread Tino Keitel
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 17:15:53 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: [...] > The lack of messages from the iPod seems to indicate that the hub isn't > working right. You could try plugging the iPod into a different hub or > directly into the computer. Or maybe into a different port of that hub. I already

[GIT PATCH] USB fixes for 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-26 Thread Greg KH
Here are some USB fixes against 2.6.21-rc5. These patches fix a number of reported problems and compiler warnings in the current tree. Yes, hte omap_udc. and uhci patches seem a bit "big" but both David and Alan ensure me that they are correct and needed for the 2.6.21 final release. All of thes

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-26 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:00:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:21 +0200 > Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_ctime and > > st_mtime as defined by SUSv3: > > Boy this is complicated. > > Is there

Re: [PATCH] net: tun/tap: fixed hw address handling

2007-03-26 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Brian Braunstein wrote: > > From: Brian Braunstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Fixed tun/tap driver's handling of hw addresses. The hw address is > stored in > both the net_device.dev_addr and tun.dev_addr fields. These fields were > not > kept synchronized, and in fact weren't even initialized to t

[GIT PATCH] PCI fixes for 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-26 Thread Greg KH
Here are some PCI fixes against 2.6.21-rc5 They fix some "problem" hardware, fix a warning message to display the correct information, and update the PCI documentation. Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6.git/ The full patches will be sent to the

[PATCH]: Fix overloaded use of acpi= on bootline

2007-03-26 Thread Prarit Bhargava
The use of "apic=" on the boot line is overloaded. It is used once to override the type of genapic, and then later on it is used to determine a debug level. Because of this a bogus error message is sent to the console when using the debug option: Unknown genapic `apic=debug' specified.

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

2007-03-26 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Tino Keitel wrote: > > > There are no messages from the iPod because, well, nothing happens when > > > I plug it in. I tried it 3 times. > > > > I don't understand. The dmesg log you attached shows the iPod was > > detected and recognized as scsi5 (sdc). Then some time late

Re: [PATCH] Add support for ITE887x serial chipsets

2007-03-26 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:17:02PM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote: > +/* > + * ITE support by Niels de Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > + */ > + > +static int __devinit pci_ite887x_init(struct pci_dev *dev) > +{ > + /* inta_addr are the configuration addresses of the ITE */ > + short inta_addr[] = { 0x

Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules

2007-03-26 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:38 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:35:47PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > I agree the non-legacy (CardBus and beyond) ones can be built in. I > > thought the legacy 8 and 16 bit type I and II still had to be modular > > because they still ne

Re: [PATCH] net: tun/tap: fixed hw address handling

2007-03-26 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:55:11PM +0200, ahmed wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:29:29AM -0700, Brian Braunstein wrote: > > --- linux-2.6.20.4-ORIG/drivers/net/tun.c 2007-03-23 > > 12:52:51.0 -0700 > > +++ linux-2.6.20.4/drivers/net/tun.c2007-03-25 00:44:20.0 > > -070

[git patches] IDE fixes for 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-26 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6.git/ to receive the following updates: drivers/ide/Kconfig|6 -- drivers/ide/ide-io.c | 32 +--- drivers/ide/ide-iops.c | 11 +-- drivers/ide

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

2007-03-26 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 25 March 2007 22:37, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sunday, 25 March 2007 14:56, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > Yes, in kernel/power/disk.c:power_down() . > >> > > >> > Pleas

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:21 +0200 Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_ctime and > st_mtime as defined by SUSv3: Boy this is complicated. Is there a simpler way of doing all this? Say, we define a new page flag PG_dirtiedbywri

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Temporarily at > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ > > Will appear later at > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ > Panics my x86-64 box. 2.6.21-rc4 works fi

Re: [Patch 3/7] integrity: EVM as an integrity service provider

2007-03-26 Thread Mimi Zohar
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 13:23 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:09:36 -0400 Mimi Zohar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This is a re-release of EVM as an integrity service provider. > > > > What a huge set of patches. > > > >

Please pull git390 'for-linus' branch

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
Please pull from 'for-linus' branch of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6.git for-linus to receive the following updates: arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c |2 +- drivers/s390/block/dasd_diag.c | 10 +++--- drivers/s390/cio/device_status.c |6 +++- drivers/s390/cr

Re: [PATCH] net: tun/tap: fixed hw address handling

2007-03-26 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:29:29AM -0700, Brian Braunstein wrote: > > From: Brian Braunstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > No need for this line. This line is used when you _forward_ another patch from others. Signed-off-by is enough > > Signed-off-by: Brian Braunstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- >

[patch 2/6] Fix TCP/UDP pseudo header checksum computation.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> git commit f994aae1bd8e4813d59a2ed64d17585fe42d03fc changed the function declaration of csum_tcpudp_nofold. Argument types were changed from unsigned long to __be32 (unsigned int). Therefore we lost the implicit type conversion that zeroed the upper half of

[patch 5/6] zcrypt: Fix possible dead lock in AP bus module.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Ralph Wuerthner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If a AP device is unconfigured __ap_poll_all() will call device_unregister() in software interrupt context which can cause dead locks. To fix this the device will be only marked as unconfigured and the device_unregister() call will be done later by either

[patch 4/6] cio: Device status validity.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Only accumulate device status field in irb if it is valid. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/s390/cio/device_status.c |6 +- 1

[patch 3/6] kprobes: Align probe address.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: David Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Running a probe on s390 with a probe address that is not 4 byte aligned results in a Kernel BUG. The problem is that the stura instruction used by swap_instruction requires the destination address to be 4 byte aligned. As stura only writes 4 bytes, aligning

[patch 6/6] zcrypt: Fix ap_poll_requests counter in lost requests error path.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Ralph Wuerthner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In the unlikely event that an AP device lost requests, don't forget to update the ap_poll_requests counter too. Same must happen in case an AP device is removed while there are still outstanding requests. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-

[patch 0/6] s390 bug fixes for 2.6.21

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
s390 bug fixes for 2.6.21 - 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 Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[patch 1/6] dasd: Work around gcc bug.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Peter Oberparleiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gcc incorrectly removes initialization of register 0 in dasd diag inline assembly. Use different register to work around this compiler bug. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by

Re: [Patch 5/7] integrity: mtime patch for mmap files

2007-03-26 Thread Mimi Zohar
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 00:26 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:09:58 -0400 Mimi Zohar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > mmaped files are hashed and hmac'ed properly by EVM after being modified > > when the file's mtime is updated correctly. Peter Staubach's 'memory > > mapped fi

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

2007-03-26 Thread Tino Keitel
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 16:28:34 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Tino Keitel wrote: > > > Attached is a dmesg output with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND > > enabled. > > > > There are no messages from the iPod because, well, nothing happens when > > I plug it in. I tried

Re: HPA patches

2007-03-26 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:13:21PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > For reference this is what I am currently using with 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 and > it is working for all my test cases so far: Its basically Kyle's patch > with a libata switch to turn it on/off and some minor fixups from > the original patch as po

Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules

2007-03-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:35:47PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > I agree the non-legacy (CardBus and beyond) ones can be built in. I > thought the legacy 8 and 16 bit type I and II still had to be modular > because they still need setting up. nope. While I don't have a pcmcia scsi card my 16 b

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:27:09 +0100, "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Temporarily at > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ > > > > Will appear later at > > > > > > ftp://ft

Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules

2007-03-26 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:02 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > it would seem to make no sense that the "depends on" clause for this > > > option includes "m", forcing this (and all other four entries in that > > > Kconfig file, by the way) to be built as modules, while the help text > > > for

Re: Semi-typical watchdog bug re early misc_register()

2007-03-26 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi Alexey, > It seems that some watchdog drivers are doing following mistake: > > rv = misc_register(); > if (rv < 0) > return rv; > rv = request_region(); > if (rv < 0) { > misc_deregister(); > return rv; > } > > But, right

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

2007-03-26 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Tino Keitel wrote: > Attached is a dmesg output with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND > enabled. > > There are no messages from the iPod because, well, nothing happens when > I plug it in. I tried it 3 times. I don't understand. The dmesg log you attached shows the i

Re: [PATCH -mm] Revoke core code: fix nommu arch compiling error bug

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 3/26/07, David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [*] The FRV, for example, does have some limited protection capability - but it is really limited and not really useful in this case. how so ? the Blackfin processor lacks a MMU but it does have a MPU (memory protection unit) which allows gr

Re: Wrong IDE cable detection in libata [Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1]

2007-03-26 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:01:52 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J.A. Magallón wrote: > > Libata seems to misdetect my cable. > > I have double-checked and the cable is 80 pin... > > Does the following patch fix your problem? > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/17444 > > (Y

Re: revert PIE randomization?

2007-03-26 Thread Kees Cook
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:01:50PM +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > It was in doing kernel builds that I hit it, nothing special: an > overnight cycle of kernel building would collapse in a few hours. > openSUSE 10.2. I wonder it was the combination of the base addr randomization patch and something

Re: [PATCH] Add support for ITE887x serial chipsets

2007-03-26 Thread Andrey Panin
On 085, 03 26, 2007 at 04:17:02PM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote: > Hi, > > the Super I/O 887x-chipsets of ITE, are currently not completely > supported. Only parport_pc has the ability to activate the (optional) > parallel port. This patch adds support for the serial ports. > > Signed-off-by: Niels d

[Patch -mm] integrity: integrity_dummy_verify_metadata

2007-03-26 Thread Mimi Zohar
The following patch addresses the missing initialization values bug. signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/security/integrity_dummy.c === --- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1.orig/security/integrity_dummy

Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules

2007-03-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> > it would seem to make no sense that the "depends on" clause for this > > option includes "m", forcing this (and all other four entries in that > > Kconfig file, by the way) to be built as modules, while the help text > > for all five entries suggests you can select "y". In the old days pcmci

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

2007-03-26 Thread Luck, Tony
> What I'm proposing we do is move the irq allocation code out of > pci_enable_device and the irq freeing code out of pci_disable_device > in the future. Sounds rational ... in a world that wasn't dominated by PCI it would seem to be the logical approach (since the irq code would have much more ut

Re: [PATCH] USB Elan FTDI: check for driver registration status

2007-03-26 Thread Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
Em Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:33:12 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: | if usb registration failed we should release all worqueues we've | created and that is the reason why I've changed the code... I see, maybe something like the following (not tested): diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc

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

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:39:29PM +0200, Frederic Riss wrote: > 2007/3/26, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:53:20PM +0200, Frédéric Riss wrote: > > > >>... (In fact it hangs at the second suspend, but that's another ATA > >> problem that I think has already been repor

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

2007-03-26 Thread Frederic Riss
2007/3/26, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:53:20PM +0200, Frédéric Riss wrote: >... (In fact it hangs at the second suspend, but that's another ATA > problem that I think has already been reported). This sounds like the MSI problem. Do you have CONFIG_PCI_MSI enable

Re: [PATCH] USB Elan FTDI: check for driver registration status

2007-03-26 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino - Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:43:57PM -0300] | | Hi Cyrill, | | Em Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:27:33 +0400 | Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: | | | This patch adds checking of driver registration status | | and if it fails release allocated resources. | | | | Sign

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Badari, On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:05:56 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Temporarily at > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ > > > > Will appear later at > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-26 Thread Ayaz Abdulla
This issue might be resolved with the patch provided in the following bug report: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8058 Please try out the patch in the bug report without your patch and see if the issue reproduces. Ayaz Ingo Molnar wrote: * Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

2007-03-26 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 3/26/07, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:19:38 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to reproduce warping on console but could not for some reason. Could you > please try the patch below and tell me if it fixes the problem for you? > +++

Re: [PATCH] Add const to pointer qualifiers for __chk_user_ptr and __chk_io_ptr.

2007-03-26 Thread Christopher Li
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:59:39PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > No, you have it backward. > It is valid to pass void* to a const void* function. > It is *not* valid to pass const void* to a void* function. > > Right now __chk_user_ptr is a void* function, meaning > that all the places where it gets pa

Re: [patch -mm] i386: use pte_update_defer in ptep_test_and_clear_{dirty,young}

2007-03-26 Thread Zachary Amsden
David Rientjes wrote: Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:07:43 -0800 From: Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If you actually clear the bit, you need to: + pte_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep); The reason is, when updating PTEs, the hypervisor must be

Re: [patch -mm 1/2] i386: add ptep_test_and_clear_{dirty,young}

2007-03-26 Thread Zachary Amsden
David Rientjes wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Zachary Amsden wrote: If you actually clear the bit, you need to: + pte_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep); The reason is, when updating PTEs, the hypervisor must be notified. Using atomic operations to do this is fine for all hyperviso

Re: [patch -mm 1/2] i386: add ptep_test_and_clear_{dirty,young}

2007-03-26 Thread Zachary Amsden
Hugh Dickins wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Zachary Amsden wrote: If you actually clear the bit, you need to: + pte_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep); The reason is, when updating PTEs, the hypervisor must be notified. Using atomic operations to do this is fine for all hypervisors

Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

2007-03-26 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:19:38 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to reproduce warping on console but could not for some reason. Could > you > please try the patch below and tell me if it fixes the problem for you? > +++ work/drivers/input/mousedev.c > @@ -124,32 +124,33 @

[PATCH] IRQ: Check for PERCPU flag only when adding first irqaction.

2007-03-26 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
Hi, An irqaction structure won't be added to the IRQ line irqaction list if they don't agree wrt the IRQF_PERCPU flag. Only check and set this flag in IRQ descriptor `status' field when the first irqaction is added to the line list. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Patch

mm snapshot broken-out-2007-03-26-12-03.tar.gz uploaded

2007-03-26 Thread akpm
The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-03-26-12-03.tar.gz has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-03-26-12-03.tar.gz It contains the following patches against 2.6.21-rc5: knfsd-allow-nfsd-readdir-to-return-64bit-cookies.patch knfsd-nfsd4-fix-inherit

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Temporarily at > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ > > Will appear later at > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ # make -j8 modules CHK include/linux/v

Re: 2.6.21-rc5: maxcpus=1 crash in cpufreq: kernel BUG at drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:82!

2007-03-26 Thread Venki Pallipadi
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:12:02AM -0700, Venki Pallipadi wrote: > > >Calling initcall 0x8021e003: powernowk8_init+0x0/0x88() > >powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ > >processors (version 2.00.00) > >powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects >

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

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:53:20PM +0200, Frédéric Riss wrote: >... (In fact it hangs at the second suspend, but that's another ATA > problem that I think has already been reported). This sounds like the MSI problem. Do you have CONFIG_PCI_MSI enabled? If yes, does disabling it fix it? If yes, d

Re: [PATCH] Add const to pointer qualifiers for __chk_user_ptr and __chk_io_ptr.

2007-03-26 Thread Russ Cox
On 3/26/07, Christopher Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:23:56AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > Change prototypes for __chk_user_ptr and __chk_io_ptr > to take const void* instead of void*, so that code can pass > const void* to them. (Right now sparse does not warn > about pa

Re: [PATCH] clockevents: remove bad designed sysfs support for now

2007-03-26 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:25:05AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The current sysfs support of clockevents does not obey the "only one > > value per file" rule. > > > > The real fix is not 2.6.21 material. Therefor remove the sysfs support > >

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

2007-03-26 Thread Tino Keitel
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 14:12:25 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Tino Keitel wrote: > > > > Please recompile > > > with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG > > > and without CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND > > > > With CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND disabled, the iPod works. The dmesg output is > > attached. > > In fact, b

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

2007-03-26 Thread Frédéric Riss
Le lundi 26 mars 2007 à 11:14 +0200, Thomas Gleixner a écrit : > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 08:45 +0200, Frédéric RISS wrote: > > Additional data point: I just tried with -rc5 and the issue is still > > present. The config I used for this test defines neither NO_HZ nor > > HIGH_RES_TIMERS. > > Do you h

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