Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:05:56 -0400 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main worry with keventd is that we might get stuck behind an unrelated process for an undefined length of time. I don't think it has ever been demonstrated that keventd latency is excessive, or a problem. I guess we

Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

2007-04-10 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 07:30:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: : root 319 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S18:51 0:00 [pccardd] hm. One per PC card socket to avoid the sysfs locking crappyness that would otherwise deadlock, and to convert from the old unreadable state machine

Re: [patch 0/8] [Intel IOMMU] Support for Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O

2007-04-10 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 09 April 2007 23:55:52 Ashok Raj wrote: Please help review and provide feedback. High level question: how did you solve the user X server needs IOMMU bypass problem? -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: I give up

2007-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Olaf Hering wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, Dave Dillow wrote: It's not /dev he's backing up -- its /home, /usr, and others. GNU tar saves the device and inode numbers from the {,l}stat() call on each file and decides it is a new file if either number changes from run to run.

Re: I give up

2007-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Olaf Hering wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, Dave Dillow wrote: It's not /dev he's backing up -- its /home, /usr, and others. GNU tar saves the device and inode numbers from the {,l}stat() call on each file and decides it is a new file if either number changes from run to run.

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-10 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:59:03PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc6/2.6.21-rc6-mm1/broken-out/forcedeth-work-around-null-skb-dereference-crash.patch It sounded this was specific to Ingo. I'm not sure, it sounds a bit like

Re: [patch 0/8] [Intel IOMMU] Support for Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O

2007-04-10 Thread Shaohua Li
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:49 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 23:55:52 Ashok Raj wrote: Please help review and provide feedback. High level question: how did you solve the user X server needs IOMMU bypass problem? Please see patch 5. We have two workarounds for graphics.

Re: Alternative to 'git bisect visualize'?

2007-04-10 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:10:23 -0400 Stuart MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is that I don't have wish/tk installed. Is there a text-based alternative to visualize that I can use? Or is there a different method to locate a nearby commit? The answer may involve something as simple

Re: [patch 0/8] [Intel IOMMU] Support for Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O

2007-04-10 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:57:28PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:49 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 23:55:52 Ashok Raj wrote: Please help review and provide feedback. High level question: how did you solve the user X server needs IOMMU bypass

Re: [patch 2/8] [Intel IOMMU] Some generic search functions required to lookup device relationships.

2007-04-10 Thread Shaohua Li
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 20:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:55:54PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote: +/* + * find the upstream PCIE-to-PCI bridge of a PCI device + * if the device is PCIE, return NULL + * if the device isn't connected to a PCIE bridge (that is its parent is a +

Re: CPU offline but power consumption increased?

2007-04-10 Thread Len Brown
On Saturday 07 April 2007 19:38, Andi Kleen wrote: Andika Triwidada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [cc linux-acpi] Question: is that normal? I thought power consumption will be automatically reduced if one core offlined. Known? Yes. What people would expect? No.

Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

2007-04-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Russell King wrote: Could probably be eliminated if we had some mechanism to spawn a helper thread to do some task as required which didn't block other helper threads until it completes. kthread_run() should go that for you. Creates a new thread with kthread_create(), and wakes it up

Re: I give up

2007-04-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Olaf Hering wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, Dave Dillow wrote: It's not /dev he's backing up -- its /home, /usr, and others. GNU tar saves the device and inode numbers from the {,l}stat() call on each file and decides it is a new file if either number

Re: [PATCH 2/2] NET: Multiqueue network device support implementation.

2007-04-10 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:28:41PM -0700, Peter P Waskiewicz Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: + alloc_size = (sizeof(struct net_device_subqueue) * queue_count); + + p = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!p) { + printk(KERN_ERR alloc_netdev: Unable to allocate

Re: [patch 0/8] [Intel IOMMU] Support for Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O

2007-04-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ashok Raj wrote: 1. Support for ACPI framework to parse and work with DMA Remapping Tables. 2. Add support for PCI infrastructure to search parent relationships. 3. Hardware support for providing DMA remapping support for Intel Chipsets. 4. Supporting Zero Length Reads on DMAR's not able to

[XFS] INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected

2007-04-10 Thread Paolo Ornati
I've not seen this reported... [ 9564.772749] [ 9564.772752] === [ 9564.772757] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] [ 9564.772760] 2.6.21-rc6-gc2481cc4 #9 [ 9564.772762]

Re: [patch 0/8] [Intel IOMMU] Support for Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O

2007-04-10 Thread Shaohua Li
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 11:09 +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:57:28PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:49 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 23:55:52 Ashok Raj wrote: Please help review and provide feedback. High level

Re: [PATCH 0/8] RSS controller based on process containers (v2)

2007-04-10 Thread Pavel Emelianov
Peter Zijlstra wrote: *ugh* /me no like. The basic premises seems to be that we can track page owners perfectly (although this patch set does not yet do so), through get/release It looks like you have examined the patches not very carefully before concluding this. These patches DO track page

Re: [patch 0/8] [Intel IOMMU] Support for Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O

2007-04-10 Thread Shaohua Li
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 04:21 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Ashok Raj wrote: 1. Support for ACPI framework to parse and work with DMA Remapping Tables. 2. Add support for PCI infrastructure to search parent relationships. 3. Hardware support for providing DMA remapping support for Intel Chipsets.

Re: [patch 5/8] [Intel IOMMU] Graphics driver workarounds to provide unity map

2007-04-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:55:57PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote: Most GFX drivers don't call standard PCI DMA APIs to allocate DMA buffer, Such drivers will be broken with IOMMU enabled. To workaround this issue, we added two options. All drm drivers do it. If the usual out of tree crap vendors

Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

2007-04-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:05:56 -0400 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main worry with keventd is that we might get stuck behind an unrelated process for an undefined length of time. I don't think it has ever been demonstrated that keventd latency is excessive, or a

Re: [PATCH] x86_64/acpi: make kernel to be compiled when CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA is set and power management with acpi is not enabled

2007-04-10 Thread Len Brown
grep ACPI .config # CONFIG_X86_64_ACPI_NUMA is not set # CONFIG_PNPACPI is not set This config builds fine. Let me know if you have one that doesn't. thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [patch 0/8] [Intel IOMMU] Support for Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O

2007-04-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Shaohua Li wrote: DMA remapping just uses ACPI table to tell which dma remapping engine a pci device is controlled by at boot time. At run time, DMA remapping hasn't any interactive with ACPI. The Linux kernel _really_ wants a non-ACPI way to detect this. Just use the hardware registers

Re: [patch 0/8] unprivileged mount syscall

2007-04-10 Thread Ram Pai
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 22:10 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: The one in pam-0.99.6.3-29.1 in opensuse-10.2 is totally broken. Are you interested in the details? I can reproduce it, but forgot to note down the details of the brokenness. I don't know how far removed that is from the one

Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:33:57 -0400 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:05:56 -0400 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main worry with keventd is that we might get stuck behind an unrelated process for an undefined length of time.

Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

2007-04-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: Well that obviously would be a dumb way to use keventd. One would need to do schedule_work(), kick off the reset then do schedule_delayed_work() to wait (or poll) for its termination. Far too complex. See what Russell wrote, for instance. When you are in a kernel

Re: [patch 0/8] unprivileged mount syscall

2007-04-10 Thread Ian Kent
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 16:16 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: - users can use bind mounts without having to pre-configure them in /etc/fstab This is by far the biggest concern I see. I think the security implication of allowing anyone to do bind mounts are poorly understood. And

Re: Performance Stats: Kernel patch

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:22:22 +0400 Maxim Uvarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S @@ -236,6 +236,11 @@ ENTRY(system_call) movq %r10,%rcx call *sys_call_table(,%rax,8) # XXX:rip

Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

2007-04-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One per PC card socket to avoid the sysfs locking crappyness that would otherwise deadlock, and to convert from the old unreadable state machine implementation to a much more readable linearly coded implementation. Could probably be eliminated if

Re: [PATCH] NET: [UPDATED] Multiqueue network device support implementation.

2007-04-10 Thread Patrick McHardy
Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P wrote: Thanks Pat for the initial feedback. I can post a set of patches to e1000 using the new API; I'll try to get them out asap (need to apply to this kernel tree). Thanks. However, the PRIO qdisc still uses the priority in the bands for dequeueing priority, and

Re: 2.6.20-rt8 patch tweaked for 2.6.20.5

2007-04-10 Thread John
Ingo Molnar wrote: John wrote: I've tweaked patch-2.6.20-rt8 so that it applies to 2.6.20.5 The unified diff is attached to this message. thanks - this is useful to those who are not that much on the bleeding edge. I'd be happy to hear comments on what I've done wrong. 78 hunks had to

Re: [patch 5/8] [Intel IOMMU] Graphics driver workarounds to provide unity map

2007-04-10 Thread David Miller
From: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:33:51 +0100 On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:55:57PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote: Most GFX drivers don't call standard PCI DMA APIs to allocate DMA buffer, Such drivers will be broken with IOMMU enabled. To workaround this issue, we

Re: [patch 5/8] [Intel IOMMU] Graphics driver workarounds to provide unity map

2007-04-10 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 11:07:02 David Miller wrote: From: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:33:51 +0100 On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:55:57PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote: Most GFX drivers don't call standard PCI DMA APIs to allocate DMA buffer, Such drivers will

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-10 Thread Bartek
Apr 8 21:47:22 localhost kernel: EIP:0060:[c021b4d7] Tainted: P VLI Someone in private took me a noticed of a still tainted kernel. I didn't noticed that, I am sorry for that. I was sure that unloaded proprietary modules should resolve the problem. My fault. I will try to reproduce

Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

2007-04-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One per PC card socket to avoid the sysfs locking crappyness that would otherwise deadlock, and to convert from the old unreadable state machine implementation to a much more readable linearly coded implementation. Could probably

Re: HID bus prototype - 20070408

2007-04-10 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Li Yu wrote: The attachment is the latest HID bus prototype. It have such changes: 0. Move the hidp directory from net/bluetooth/ to drivers/hid/. Hi Li, we have been discussing this with Marcel previously, and the decission was to let the hidp code where it

Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: use memclear_highpage_flush to zero page data

2007-04-10 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On 10 Apr 2007, at 07:10, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:31:37 -0700 Nate Diller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's very common for file systems to need to zero part or all of a page, the simplist way is just to use kmap_atomic() and memset(). There's actually a library function in

Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

2007-04-10 Thread Robin Holt
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:48:54PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suspect there are quite a few kernel threads which don't really need to be threads at all: the code would quite happily work if it was changed to use keventd, via schedule_work()

Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes

2007-04-10 Thread Egmont Koblinger
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 10:59:19AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: As far as width handling -- in order to make all the text line up under all circumstances you need more than width handling. [...] is is ridiculous. It's much better to draw a line in the sand and say that this is beyond

Re: [PATCH] NET: [UPDATED] Multiqueue network device support implementation.

2007-04-10 Thread Patrick McHardy
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr wrote: + /* To retrieve statistics per subqueue - FOR FUTURE USE */ + struct net_device_stats* (*get_subqueue_stats)(struct net_device *dev, + int queue_index); Please no future use stuff, just add it when you

Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 15:15:56 -0700 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 10:43:39 +0200 Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: get_futex_key() does a check against sizeof(u32) regardless of futex being 64bits or not. So it is possible a 64bit futex spans two pages of

Re: [RFC, PATCH 1/3] introduce SYS_CLONE_MASK

2007-04-10 Thread Robin Holt
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:35:39PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Robin Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK. I just got the OK from management. The system we were booting was for research only. We had NR_CPUS=num_online_cpus()=4096 which were non-hyperthreaded. With no attached I/O and

[PATCH] MIPS: Replace incorrect __typeof with __typeof__.

2007-04-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Replace what appears to be an incorrect spelling of __typeof with the correct spelling of __typeof__. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/include/asm-mips/paccess.h b/include/asm-mips/paccess.h index 147844e..8c08fa9 100644 --- a/include/asm-mips/paccess.h +++

Re: [patch 0/8] unprivileged mount syscall

2007-04-10 Thread Karel Zak
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 10:46:25AM -0700, Ram Pai wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 12:07 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Miklos Szeredi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): - need to set up mount propagation from global namespace to private ones, mount(8) does not yet have options to configure

Re: [PATCH 1/4] Generic Virtual Memmap suport for SPARSEMEM V3

2007-04-10 Thread Andy Whitcroft
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, David Miller wrote: Hey Christoph, here is sparc64 support for this stuff. Great! After implementing this and seeing more and more how it works, I really like it :-) Thanks a lot for doing this work Christoph! Thanks for the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] HID bus prototype - 20070408

2007-04-10 Thread Li Yu
Jiri Kosina wrote: Hi Li, we have been discussing this with Marcel previously, and the decission was to let the hidp code where it is right now, due to it being very closely connected to the bluetooth network stack. That's OK. 1. HID/Bluetooth support, ONLY FOR HIGHLY

Re: [PATCH 2/2] NET: Multiqueue network device support implementation.

2007-04-10 Thread Herbert Xu
Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @@ -3356,6 +3370,7 @@ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev) /* will free via device release */ put_device(dev-dev); #else +kfree((char *)dev-egress_subqueue); kfree((char *)dev - dev-padded); #endif } Ahem.

[PATCH 0/8] lguest

2007-04-10 Thread Rusty Russell
As promised to Andrew, and with much thanks to Andi Kleen for feedback, this is the new series of lguest patches. Main change is the move to drivers/lguest (for future non-i386 expansion), but lots of cleanups driven by Andi's feedback and the documentation effort (which made me examine every

[PATCH 3/8] lguest: the asm offsets

2007-04-10 Thread Rusty Russell
This is the structure offsets required by lg.ko's switcher.S. Unfortunately we don't have infrastructure for private asm-offsets creation. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 19 +++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

[PATCH 1/8] lguest: the guest code

2007-04-10 Thread Rusty Russell
This is the code and headers required to make an i386 kernel an lguest guest. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/lguest/lguest.c | 509 +++ drivers/lguest/lguest_asm.S | 59 drivers/lguest/lguest_bus.c | 148

[PATCH 4/8] lguest: the Makefile and Kconfig

2007-04-10 Thread Rusty Russell
This is the Kconfig and Makefile to allow lguest to actually be compiled. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/Kconfig |2 ++ drivers/Makefile|1 + drivers/lguest/Kconfig | 20 drivers/lguest/Makefile |7 +++ 4 files

[PATCH 5/8] lguest: the console driver

2007-04-10 Thread Rusty Russell
A simple console driver for lguest. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/char/Makefile |1 drivers/char/hvc_lguest.c | 99 + 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+)

Re: [PATCH 5/8] lguest: the net driver

2007-04-10 Thread Rusty Russell
A simple net driver for lguest. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/Makefile |1 drivers/net/lguest_net.c | 355 ++ 2 files changed, 356 insertions(+)

[PATCH 6/8] lguest: the net driver

2007-04-10 Thread Rusty Russell
Lguest net driver A simple net driver for lguest. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/Makefile |1 drivers/net/lguest_net.c | 355 ++ 2 files changed, 356 insertions(+)

PATCH 7/8] lguest: the block driver

2007-04-10 Thread Rusty Russell
Lguest block driver A simple block driver for lguest. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/block/Makefile |1 drivers/block/lguest_blk.c | 271 2 files changed, 272 insertions(+)

[PATCH 8/8] lguest: the documentation, example launcher

2007-04-10 Thread Rusty Russell
A brief document describing how to use lguest. Because lguest doesn't have an ABI we also include an example launcher in the Documentation directory. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/lguest/Makefile | 20 Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 982

[PATCH] Add spaces on either side of case ... operator.

2007-04-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Following the programming advice laid down in the gcc manual, make sure the case ... operator has spaces on either side. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- According to: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case-Ranges: Be careful: Write spaces

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-10 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 10/04/07, Bartek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apr 8 21:47:22 localhost kernel: EIP:0060:[c021b4d7] Tainted: P VLI Someone in private took me a noticed of a still tainted kernel. I didn't noticed that, I am sorry for that. I was sure that unloaded proprietary modules should resolve

Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

2007-04-10 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:22:53AM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: Under all conditions it should be safe to mount a read-only block device, but that is not the same as mounting a filesystem read-only. In particular, it is a lame excuse when this claim is true. If the block-device is read-only,

Re: PATCH 7/8] lguest: the block driver

2007-04-10 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Rusty, On 4/10/07, Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +/* Jens gave me this nice helper to end all chunks of a request. */ +static void end_entire_request(struct request *req, int uptodate) +{ + if (end_that_request_first(req, uptodate, req-hard_nr_sectors)) + BUG();

[PATCH] cleanup compat ioctl handling

2007-04-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Merge all compat ioctl handling into compat_ioctl.c instead of splitting it over compat.c and compat_ioctl.c. This also allows to get rid of ioctl32.h Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6/fs/compat.c

Re: Ten percent test

2007-04-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Monday 09 April 2007 22:39, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 07:38 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: I don't think you can have very much effect on latency using nice with SD once the CPU is fully utilized. See below. /* * This contains a bitmap for each dynamic priority

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 ima BUG: held lock freed!

2007-04-10 Thread Joseph Fannin
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 02:35:59PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc6/2.6.21-rc6-mm1/ I'm seeing this while booting: ima (ima_init): No TPM chip found(rc = -19), activating TPM-bypass! = [ BUG: held

[PATCH] VIDEO: Add spaces on either side of the case ... operator.

2007-04-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Following the programming advice laid down in the gcc manual, make sure the case ... operator has spaces on either side. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- These are the only other examples of this in the entire kernel source tree, so no need to worry about an impending

Re: PATCH 7/8] lguest: the block driver

2007-04-10 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 4/10/07, Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +/* Jens gave me this nice helper to end all chunks of a request. */ +static void end_entire_request(struct request *req, int uptodate) +{ + if (end_that_request_first(req, uptodate, req-hard_nr_sectors)) + BUG(); +

Re: [PATCH 4/5] Char: cyclades, remove volatiles

2007-04-10 Thread Jiri Slaby
John Stoffel napsal(a): Jiri == Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jiri Andrew Morton napsal(a): On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 23:45:38 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cyclades, remove volatiles The other changes seem uncontroversial, but this one has the potential to change

Re: [2.4] (updated Watchdog wdt83627 (Winbond W83627HF/F/HG/G) driver, 2.6 backport

2007-04-10 Thread Tal Kelrich
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:24:24 +0300 Tal Kelrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (resent due to a combination of mailer stupidity and my own I had to mangle Padraig's name to make it stop encoding as Quoted-Printable. hope this is palatable. sorry for the resends) Hello, Tested and working on

Re: [2.4] resent Watchdog wdt83627 (Winbond W83627HF/F/HG/G) driver, 2.6 backport

2007-04-10 Thread Tal Kelrich
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:24:24 +0300 Tal Kelrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (resent due to a combination of mailer stupidity and my own I had to mangle Padraig's name to make it stop encoding as Quoted-Printable. hope this is palatable. sorry for the resends) Hello, Tested and working on

Re: [2.4] Watchdog w83977ef (Winbond W83977EF) driver

2007-04-10 Thread Tal Kelrich
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 07:38:34 +0200 Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 05:14:07PM +0300, Tal Kelrich wrote: (resent due to mailer stupidity) Hello, This is my first submitted kernel patch, please be gentle. Tested and working on AAEON GENE-6310B

Re: Ten percent test

2007-04-10 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 07:23 -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 22:39, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 07:38 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: I don't think you can have very much effect on latency using nice with SD once the CPU is fully utilized. See below.

Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

2007-04-10 Thread Jörn Engel
On Tue, 10 April 2007 07:27:18 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: I suppose what you could do is to read in the journal, and use it to create an remapping table so that when you want to read block #5126, and block number 5126 is in the journal, to read the journal version of the block instead of the

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-10 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:35:59 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc6/2.6.21-rc6-mm1/ +kprobes-the-on-off-knob-thru-debugfs-updated.patch +kprobes-the-on-off-knob-thru-debugfs-updated-fix.patch kprobes work Add

Re: w83l785ts: Couldn't read value from register

2007-04-10 Thread Jean Delvare
Hallo Christian, On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:21:57 +0100 (BST), Christian Kujau wrote: I've got this Asus A7N8X-X board and when using lm-sensors, these messages occasionally show up in my kernel logs: w83l785ts 1-002e: Couldn't read value from register 0x53. Please report. Is it always this

Re: I give up

2007-04-10 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
So fix tar to not do silly things. Kernel major:minor numbers are not stable. YOU Tell the tar people, they are flabbergasted that linux is apparently the only unstable OS that tar can be run on. Linux is not unstable. It's developmental! Linux is like one giant international research

Re: [-mm3 PATCH] (Retry) Check the return value of kobject_add and etc.

2007-04-10 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 10:53:43 +0800, WANG Cong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. Then I send it again. Hopefully it can be accepted this time. ;-p Looks sane. (Note that there is still a pathological case where kobject_put() is not enough to trigger release after the failed kobject_add(). I'm sending

[Patch -mm] kobject: kobject_add() reference leak

2007-04-10 Thread Cornelia Huck
This patch is the pathological case in the referenced mail. We leak a reference if we attempt to add a kobject with no name. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- lib/kobject.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) --- linux-2.6.21-rc6-mm1.orig/lib/kobject.c +++

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-10 Thread Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 02:24:21PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:35:59 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc6/2.6.21-rc6-mm1/ +kprobes-the-on-off-knob-thru-debugfs-updated.patch

Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Replace incorrect __typeof with __typeof__.

2007-04-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:23:27AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Replace what appears to be an incorrect spelling of __typeof with the correct spelling of __typeof__. Not a bug, just old fashioned. Ralf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

[PATCH] Build break on ppc64 for 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-10 Thread Srinivasa Ds
When I tried to compile 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 on ppc64, I got the below error message. == arch/powerpc/sysdev/timer.c:51: error: variable ‘timer_sysclass’ has initializer but incomplete type arch/powerpc/sysdev/timer.c:52: error: unknown field ‘resume’ specified in initializer

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU

2007-04-10 Thread David Howells
Robin Getz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David - I know you have been reworking the noMMU vma handling - is there a solution to vm_insert_page? The reason vm_insert_page() is being called, I imagine, is because packet_mmap() has to insert mappings to an already existing buffer. All it does is

Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Replace incorrect __typeof with __typeof__.

2007-04-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:23:27AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Replace what appears to be an incorrect spelling of __typeof with the correct spelling of __typeof__. Not a bug, just old fashioned. i suspected as much, but i was just going by the

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 ima BUG: held lock freed!

2007-04-10 Thread Reiner Sailer
We are looking into this. Thanks! Reiner --forwarded by Reiner Sailer: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 02:35:59PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc6/2.6.21-rc6-mm1/ I'm seeing this while booting: ima (ima_init): No TPM chip

Re: [PATCH 4/7] Containers (V8): Simple CPU accounting container subsystem

2007-04-10 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:32:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +struct container_subsys cpuacct_subsys = { + .name = cpuacct, + .create = cpuacct_create, + .destroy = cpuacct_destroy, + .populate = cpuacct_populate, + .subsys_id = cpuacct_subsys_id, +};

Re: [patch 2/8] [Intel IOMMU] Some generic search functions required to lookup device relationships.

2007-04-10 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:11:38PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 20:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:55:54PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote: +/* + * find the upstream PCIE-to-PCI bridge of a PCI device + * if the device is PCIE, return NULL + * if the

Re: [PATCH (revised)] device_schedule_callback needs a module reference

2007-04-10 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:07:22 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This revised patch (as896b) fixes an oversight in the design of device_schedule_callback(). It is necessary to acquire a reference to the module owning the callback routine, to prevent the module from being unloaded

[PATCH] epson1355fb.c, kernel 2.6.21-rc6-git3

2007-04-10 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, I'm attaching a fix for the error handling code in epson1355fb.c. Roland epson1355fb.c: Fixes error handling code --- drivers/video/epson1355fb.c.orig 2007-04-10 14:01:48.0 +0200 +++ drivers/video/epson1355fb.c 2007-04-10 14:02:17.0 +0200 @@ -650,9 +650,10 @@ } info =

Re: 2.6.20-rt8 patch tweaked for 2.6.20.5

2007-04-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be happy to generate a clean patch! (Would you agree to host it in your directory?) http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/older/ sure, i can put it there. 3. linux/kernel/futex.c [ I'm not sure I've made the appropriate changes here ]

Does V4L driver support audio capture?

2007-04-10 Thread code GG
Hi all, Are there any V4L API supporting audio capture (supposing the TV card hardware has such ability), just like the APIs and structures for video capture? CodeGG - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH] Build break on ppc64 for 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-10 Thread Johannes Berg
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 18:20 +0530, Srinivasa Ds wrote: Below patch fixes this problem. please let me know comments on this. +#include linux/sysdev.h Yeah, I heard about that change but didn't have a chance to check it out yet. Patch looks good to me, of course. johannes signature.asc

Re: CPU offline but power consumption increased?

2007-04-10 Thread Andi Kleen
Speaking for all Intel hardware implemented from pre-history until now, deep C-states is the best you can do, and there is no special offline mode to save more power. We don't use deep c states currently; just HLT. Right now it doesn't make much difference because no multi socket servers do

Re: [PATCH] epson1355fb.c, kernel 2.6.21-rc6-git3

2007-04-10 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 14:45 +0200, Roland Stigge wrote: Hi, I'm attaching a fix for the error handling code in epson1355fb.c. I already responded to your entry in Kernel Bugzilla. Thanks. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

2007-04-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: no. Two _completely separate_ lists. i.e. a to-be-reaped task will still be on the main list _too_. The main list is for all the PID semantics rules. The reap-list is just for wait4() processing.

Re: [lm-sensors] Hardware monitoring subsystem maintainer position is open

2007-04-10 Thread David Hubbard
Jean, I for one will greatly miss your knowledge and helpful hints when I work on hardware monitoring drivers. I hope you find success in all the things you do! I understand the difficult position you're in, and if there's any way I could convince you to stay, I would. Maybe you would be

Re: If not readdir() then what?

2007-04-10 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 10:03:15AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: We could perhaps teach nfsd to open the file without the O_LARGEFILE attribute in the case of NFSv2? That might work. But if in the long term we want to separate out what we can send back via telldir/seekdir, and some future new

Help Understanding Linux memory management

2007-04-10 Thread Mouawad, Tony
Hello, I've been a MS Windows based programmer for a very long time and was recently tossed in an environment where I am developing embedded apps on the m68k / Linux platform. That makes me a Linux newbie. I started asking a few questions on various IRC channels and was directed to this group.

Re: [-mm3 PATCH] (Retry) Check the return value of kobject_add and etc.

2007-04-10 Thread WANG Cong
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 02:31:06PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 10:53:43 +0800, WANG Cong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. Then I send it again. Hopefully it can be accepted this time. ;-p Looks sane. (Note that there is still a pathological case where kobject_put() is not enough

Re: [PATCH] HPA support: Revised patch

2007-04-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 10:22:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Please apply Tejun's fix for LBA48 data and try again. Hopefully its just that which is causing the problem. Yes, that works absolutely fine now. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 3/10] I386 mcheck p4 grotesque and needless warning fix.patch

2007-04-10 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Zachary Amsden wrote: No, just no. You do not use goto to skip a code block. You do not return an obvious variable from a singly-inlined function and give the function a return value. You don't put unexplained comments about kmalloc in code which doesn't do dynamic allocation. And you

Re: [PATCH] HPA support: Revised patch

2007-04-10 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:06:18PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 10:22:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Please apply Tejun's fix for LBA48 data and try again. Hopefully its just that which is causing the problem. Yes, that works absolutely fine now. Thanks Alan,

Re: If not readdir() then what?

2007-04-10 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On 4/10/07, Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That might work. But if in the long term we want to separate out what we can send back via telldir/seekdir, and some future new Posix interface, [...] With all these discussions about fixes for telldir, do we want to persue an alternative

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