[PATCH] [28/34] i386: pte xchg optimization

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
From: Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In situations where page table updates need only be made locally, and there is no cross-processor A/D bit races involved, we need not use the heavyweight xchg instruction to atomically fetch and clear page table entries. Instead, we can just read and

[PATCH] [24/34] x86_64: Auto compute __NR_syscall_max at compile time

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
No need to maintain it anymore Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86_64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 10 ++ arch/x86_64/kernel/syscall.c |1 + include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h |2 -- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index:

[PATCH] [23/34] i386: check capability

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
From: "Joachim Deguara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Currently the i386 architecture checks the family for mce capability and this removes that and uses the CPUID information. Tested on a K8 revE and a family10h processor. This eliminates checking of a set AMD procesor family if mce is allowed and

[PATCH] [17/34] x86: PARAVIRT: Add a sched_clock paravirt_op

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The tsc-based get_scheduled_cycles interface is not a good match for Xen's runstate accounting, which reports everything in nanoseconds. This patch replaces this interface with a sched_clock interface, which matches both Xen and VMI's requirements.

[PATCH] [26/34] i386: remove xtime_lock'ing around cpufreq notifier

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
From: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The locking of the xtime_lock around the cpu notifier is unessesary now. At one time the tsc was used after a frequency change for timekeeping, but the re-write of timekeeping no longer uses the TSC unless the frequency is constant. The variables that

[PATCH] [34/34] x86_64: ignore vgacon if hardware not present

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
From: Gerd Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Avoid trying to set up vgacon if there's no vga hardware present. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by:

[PATCH 02/12] i386 head.S: Remove unnecessary use of %ebx as the boot cpu flag

2007-04-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Currently in head.S there are two ways we test to see if we are the boot cpu. By looking at %ebx and by looking at the static variable ready. When changing things around I have found that it gets tricky to preserve %ebx. So this patch just switches head.S over to the more reliable test of

[PATCH] [32/34] x86_64: unexport cpu_llc_id

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WARNING: arch/x86_64/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:cpu_llc_id from __ksymtab between '__ksymtab_cpu_llc_id' (at offset 0x4a0) and '__ksymtab_smp_num_siblings' It is strange to export a __cpuinitdata symbols to modules,

[PATCH] [31/34] i386: convert to the kthread API

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch just trivial converts from calling kernel_thread and daemonize to just calling kthread_run. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PATCH 03/12] i386 head.S: Always run the full set of paging state

2007-04-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
I am preparing to convert the boot time page table to the kernels native format. To achieve that I need to enable PAE. Enabling PSE and the no execute bit would not hurt. So this patch modifies the boot cpu path to execute all of the kernels enable code if and only if we have the proper bits

[PATCH] [25/34] x86_64: skip cache_free_alien() on non NUMA

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Set use_alien_caches to 0 on non NUMA platforms. And avoid calling the cache_free_alien() when use_alien_caches is not set. This will avoid the cache miss that happens while dereferencing slabp to get nodeid. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[EMAIL

[PATCH] [30/34] i386: convert the monitor thread to use the kthread API

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch just trivially replaces kernel_thread and daemonize with a single call to kthread_run. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by:

[PATCH] [27/34] i386: pte clear optimization

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
From: Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When exiting from an address space, no special hypervisor notification of page table updates needs to occur; direct page table hypervisors, such as Xen, switch to another address space first (init_mm) and unprotects the page tables to avoid the cost of

[PATCH] [4/34] x86: Save and restore the fixed-range MTRRs of the BSP when suspending

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
From: Bernhard Kaindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Note: This patch didn'nt need an update since it's initial post. Some BIOSes may modify fixed-range MTRRs in SMM, e.g. when they transition the system into ACPI mode, which is entered thru an SMI, triggered by Linux in acpi_enable(). SMIs which cause

[PATCH] [29/34] i386: pte simplify ops

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
From: Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add comment and condense code to make use of native_local_ptep_get_and_clear function. Also, it turns out the 2-level and 3-level paging definitions were identical, so move the common definition into pgtable.h Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL

[PATCH] [2/34] x86: Adds mtrr_save_fixed_ranges() for use in two later patches.

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
From: Bernhard Kaindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In this current implementation which is used in other patches, mtrr_save_fixed_ranges() accepts a dummy void pointer because in the current implementation of one of these patches, this function may be called from smp_call_function_single() which requires

[PATCH 0/12] Early USB debug port and i386 boot cleanups

2007-04-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Modern hardware relies primarily on memory mapped I/O which is typically at addresses that are not mapped by the kernels initial page tables, which makes using them currently unusable for early debugging print support. So this patch set digs in and fixes the early page tables on both arch/i386

[PATCH 01/12] x86_64: Allow fixmaps to be used with the initial page table.

2007-04-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
This patch preallocates the intermediate page table entries so that all that is needed to setup a fixmap is to fill in the appropriate pte. By doing this modern hardware that uses memory mapped access can be talked to early in boot through a fixmap. Allowing USB debugging and the like.

Re: [patch] megaraid: fix CONFIG_PROC_FS compile errors

2007-04-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:35:00 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes wrote: > Only declare mega_proc_dir_entry() in CONFIG_PROC_FS. We should call > mega_create_proc_entry() only in this configuration so make sure it's defined > if we call it. > > Only define mega_adapinq() in CONFIG_PROC_FS.

Re: [PATCH] [1/1] CPU-i386-Geode: Chipset access macros do not work as expected (2nd try)

2007-04-30 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:33:41 +0200, Juergen Beisert wrote: > Replace NSC/Cyrix specific chipset access macros by inlined functions. > With the macros a line like this fails (and does nothing): > setCx86(CX86_CCR2, getCx86(CX86_CCR2) | 0x88); > With inlined functions this line will work as

2.6.21-mm1: many processes end up in D state

2007-04-30 Thread Jiri Slaby
Hi, I have a problem with higher disk loads (e.g. running git-log or yum update). Many processes end up in D state and system is unusable -- I'm not able to run anything but smooth mouse moving when this happens. If I wait for a 20-30sec it becomes usable. This happens in 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 and also

Re: [PATCH 28/36 #2] Use menuconfig objects II - sound

2007-04-30 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 17:21 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Here's the updated thing wrt. AOA. Looks good, thanks. There is the quirk that now you need the core module if you want just i2sbus, but that's ok since i2sbus without the rest of aoa is currently useless (it might become useful if we

Re: Kernel oops with 2.6.21 while using cdda2wav & cooked_ioctl (x64-64) [untainted]

2007-04-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Ross Alexander wrote: [warning: all of the below is just generic bug triage, I have no idea what is really wrong] Call Trace: run_timer_softirq+0x156/0x1ac __do_softirq+0x50/0xbb call_softirq+0x1c/02x8 do_softieq+0x2f/x097 irq_exit+0x3d/0x4f smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x46/0x58

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [19/40] i386: fix paravirt-documentation

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
> > Is the subject for this right? Obviously not. Fixed. -Andi - 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

Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.22

2007-04-30 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:17:01PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, 29 April 2007 13:52, Matt Mackall wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 01:01:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:02:33 -0400 Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > please pull from:

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

2007-04-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 21:38 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Rusty Russell wrote: >> > >> > Dammit, Eric, you spend a lot of time using words like "insane" where >> > you mean we didn't do everything all at once. >> > >> > It's *not* clear that using

Re: [PATCH] [1/1] CPU-i386-Geode: Chipset access macros do not work as expected (2nd try)

2007-04-30 Thread Juergen Beisert
From: Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Replace NSC/Cyrix specific chipset access macros by inlined functions. With the macros a line like this fails (and does nothing): setCx86(CX86_CCR2, getCx86(CX86_CCR2) | 0x88); With inlined functions this line will work as expected. Note about a

Re: [patch 3/9] AVR32: Spinlock initializer cleanup

2007-04-30 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:10:34 - Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied to my avr32-arch branch. Thanks. Where did the rest of the series go, btw? I didn't see any patches on LKML... Haavard - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [19/40] i386: fix paravirt-documentation

2007-04-30 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 12:27 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Remove #defines, add enum for PARAVIRT_LAZY_FLUSH. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Krufky
Uwe Bugla wrote: > And I swear that this dvb-pll.c is completely obsolete for this scenario! > For that reason (old variant): > # CONFIG_DVB_TUNER_LGH06XF is not set > > And this old variant was NOT done by Trent Piepho, it was NOT done by Andrew > Quincey, > but it was produced by Michael Krufky

Re: UID/GID override on CIFS mounts to Samba and proposed new mount parameter to disable Unix Extensions on the client

2007-04-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:26:16 -0500 Steve French wrote: replying to the inline patch :( Use a space between "if" and "(" (multiple occurrences). Thanks. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Markus Rechberger
all these discussions are about Makefile and documentation changes as far as I see. I don't see the point why there's a need for such a big discussion here just about these changes. Uwe please resend your patch files and lets get this story done, if your work breaks something we can point you out

Re: [PATCH 28/36 #2] Use menuconfig objects II - sound

2007-04-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Somehow I managed to have the wrong patch on the MUA machine. Here's the updated thing wrt. AOA. CONFIG_SOUND, CONFIG_SND, CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME, ...: Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so that the user can disable the whole feature without having to enter the menu first.

Re: [PATCH] [1/1] CPU-i386-Geode: Chipset access macros do not work as expected

2007-04-30 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On 30 Apr 2007 17:32:04 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > From: Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Replace NSC/Cyrix specific chipset access macros by inlined functions. > > With the macros a line like this fails (and does nothing): > > setCx86(CX86_CCR2, getCx86(CX86_CCR2) | 0x88); > >

Re: [PATCH] ia64 sn xpc: Convert to use kthread API.

2007-04-30 Thread Dean Nelson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:33:32PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Dean Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:34:02PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> Dean Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > > >> > XPC is in need of threads that can block indefinitely,

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Uwe Bugla
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:49:52 -0700 (PDT) Von: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Uwe Bugla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Markus Rechberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 28/36] Use menuconfig objects II - sound

2007-04-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Apr 30 2007 16:19, Johannes Berg wrote: > >For the aoa bits this ends up having two "Apple Onboard Audio driver" >bits which is a bit confusing. Hold it hold it. You confuse the hell out of me. :p There is exactly one SND_AOA in my patch, where do you see the second menu entry in menuconfig?

2.6.21-ext4-1

2007-04-30 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I've respun the ext4 development patchset, with Amit's updated fallocate patches. I've added Dave's patch to add ia64 support to the fallocate system call, but *not* the XFS fallocate support patches. (Probably better for them to live in an xfs tree, where they can more easily tested and

Re: [PATCH] h8300 generic irq

2007-04-30 Thread Yoshinori Sato
At Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:09:35 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:34:37 +0900 > Yoshinori Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > h8300 using generic irq handler patch. > > > > Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Minor things: > > > > > --- /dev/null > >

Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Reflect the relocatability of the kernel in the ELF header.

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 30 April 2007 17:12:39 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Currently because vmlinux does not reflect that the kernel is relocatable > we still have to support CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START. So this patch adds a small > c program to do what we cannot do with a linker script set the elf header > type

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 hangs in boot

2007-04-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:23:54 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:01:32 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:57:16 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH 28/36] Use menuconfig objects II - sound

2007-04-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Apr 30 2007 17:12, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >On Apr 30 2007 16:19, Johannes Berg wrote: >> >>For the aoa bits this ends up having two "Apple Onboard Audio driver" >>bits which is a bit confusing. > >Hold it hold it. You confuse the hell out of me. :p >There is exactly one SND_AOA in my patch,

[PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Reflect the relocatability of the kernel in the ELF header.

2007-04-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Currently because vmlinux does not reflect that the kernel is relocatable we still have to support CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START. So this patch adds a small c program to do what we cannot do with a linker script set the elf header type to ET_DYN. Since last time I have fixed the type to be in my code

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Helge Hafting
Uwe Bugla wrote: Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:21:29 +0200 Von: Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Uwe Bugla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Betreff: Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

Re: [PATCH] change global zonelist order on NUMA v2

2007-04-30 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 18:25 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > > > DMA memory. > > > > > It seems a bit complicated. If we do so, following can occur, > > > > Node1: cpu0,1,2,3 > > Node0: cpu4,5,6,7 > > We were discussing a two node NUMA system.

Re: UID/GID override on CIFS mounts to Samba and proposed new mount parameter to disable Unix Extensions on the client

2007-04-30 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On 30 Apr 2007, at 15:26, Steve French wrote: When CIFS Unix Extensions are negotiated we get the Unix uid and gid owners of the file from the server (on the Unix Query Path Info levels), but if the server's uids don't match the client uid's users were having to disable the Unix Extensions

Re: [PATCH] [1/1] CPU-i386-Geode: Chipset access macros do not work as expected

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:09:58 +0200 Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Replace NSC/Cyrix specific chipset access macros by inlined functions. > With the macros a line like this fails (and does nothing): > setCx86(CX86_CCR2,

Re: Geode-GX1 processor in 2.6.21

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
> > In arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c function geode_configure() tries to enable > > the "suspend on halt power saving feature". This is the line: > > > > setCx86(CX86_CCR2, getCx86(CX86_CCR2) | 0x88); That will go wrong > > #define setCx86(reg, data) do { \ > > outb((reg), 0x22); \

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 30 April 2007, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >For I somehow feel that most people here dislike bugzilla because of >misconceptions - which only arose as bugzilla.kernel.org is *really* >misconfigured. Bugzilla was indeed miss-conceived. It shoulda been on birth control pills. I'm not

Re: [PATCH 28/36] Use menuconfig objects II - sound

2007-04-30 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 16:45 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >+config SND_AOA_CORE > >+tristate > > Why the extra AOA_CORE? Are there some options that require only AOA > but not AOA_CORE? Oh, I did the extra AOA_CORE so that AOA doesn't affect the build at all and because it's useless to

Re: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modules too

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:50:09 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:28:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Otherwise non GPL modules cannot even do basic operations > > like disabling interrupts anymore, which would be excessive. > > > > Longer term

Re: [linux-pm] Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 suspend bug. [kernel/kthread.c]

2007-04-30 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 30 April 2007 12:05, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:39:46AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:27:44 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:51, Dan Kruchinin wrote: > > > > Hi all. > > >

Re: [patch] pm: include EIO from errno-base.h

2007-04-30 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 30 April 2007, David Rientjes wrote: > call_platform_enable_wakeup() uses EIO, so it needs to be defined. > > Cc: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Actually, in that PM-is-disabled case returning zero (success) rather than -EIO would

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Uwe Bugla wrote: > > So please Linus - rip that crap out of 2.6.21-git2. And if you do see > questions what parts you need to rip out, please feel free to ask me > Uwe. I'll say this ONCE more. No. And unless you can become politer and more respectful and stop

Re: [PATCH 28/36] Use menuconfig objects II - sound

2007-04-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Apr 30 2007 16:19, Johannes Berg wrote: > >> --- linux-2.6.21-mm_20070428.orig/sound/aoa/Kconfig >> +++ linux-2.6.21-mm_20070428/sound/aoa/Kconfig >> @@ -1,9 +1,12 @@ >[...] > >For the aoa bits this ends up having two "Apple Onboard Audio driver" >bits which is a bit confusing. What, where?

Re: [PATCH 11/36] Use menuconfig objects II - IPMI

2007-04-30 Thread Corey Minyard
I checked this out and it seems to work fine. This does seem a little nicer than the way it was, so if this is the way the kernel is heading I'll ack it. -corey Jan Engelhardt wrote: Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so that the user can disable the whole feature

Re: Kernel oops with 2.6.21 while using cdda2wav & cooked_ioctl (x64-64) [untainted]

2007-04-30 Thread Ross Alexander
Hello, I have repeated the cdda2wav run without the nvidia module and I get a very similar kernel oops. I have to hand copy the oops so it could well contain errors. If somebody can tell me exactly what information they require it would be helpful.I have run this a number of times and

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v7

2007-04-30 Thread S.Çağlar Onur
Hi Ingo; 29 Nis 2007 Paz tarihinde, Ingo Molnar şunları yazmıştı: > * S.Çağlar Onur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll report if i can find any reproducable problem, so far CFSv7 works > > as expected :) After complete 2 day usage, i still can't reproduce previous problems. And even can

[patch] megaraid: fix CONFIG_PROC_FS compile errors

2007-04-30 Thread David Rientjes
Only declare mega_proc_dir_entry() in CONFIG_PROC_FS. We should call mega_create_proc_entry() only in this configuration so make sure it's defined if we call it. Only define mega_adapinq() in CONFIG_PROC_FS. mega_internal_dev_inquiry() and mega_print_inquiry() were never declared without

[patch] pci: type may be unused in pci_access_init()

2007-04-30 Thread David Rientjes
The automatic 'type' variable is unused in !CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT and !CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/pci/init.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git

[patch] nmi: move do_nmi_callback()

2007-04-30 Thread David Rientjes
Define do_nmi_callback() only after unknown_nmi_panic_callback() so we don't need to put its prototype in between #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL. Otherwise we have a prototype for a function we never define. {enable,disable}_lapic_nmi_watchdog() should only be defined in CONFIG_SYSCTL. Cc: Ingo Molnar

[patch] pm: include EIO from errno-base.h

2007-04-30 Thread David Rientjes
call_platform_enable_wakeup() uses EIO, so it needs to be defined. Cc: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/pm.h |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/pm.h b/include/linux/pm.h ---

Re: [PATCH] [1/1] CPU-i386-Geode: Chipset access macros do not work as expected

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Replace NSC/Cyrix specific chipset access macros by inlined functions. > With the macros a line like this fails (and does nothing): > setCx86(CX86_CCR2, getCx86(CX86_CCR2) | 0x88); > With inlined

[patch] cpufreq: do not declare undefined functions

2007-04-30 Thread David Rientjes
fill_powernow_table_pstate() and fill_powernow_table_fidvid() are only defined and used for X86_POWERNOW_K8_ACPI. Cc: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.h |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0

Re: BAD_SG_DMA panic in aha1542

2007-04-30 Thread Bob Tracy
Apologies to all concerned for an unfortunate delay in resolving this. I chose "unwisely" when I picked a popular experimental distro's 2.6.20 kernel source as a base for my troubleshooting efforts. The resulting kernel panics when it tries to load the initial ramdisk, and I don't have the

Re: Nvidia nForce5 NCQ support status?

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Hancock
Jan De Luyck wrote: Hello list, I was wondering what has happened with the NCQ support for nForce5 chipsets? I've got one (on an Abit KN9-SLI), and I've found no further mentions about it for a while. Kind regards, Jan Still waiting for information or a patch from NVIDIA to implement

Re: Greylisting

2007-04-30 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 21:51 +0100, Simon Arlott wrote: > This is really starting to annoy me. The LKML itself does it too... That's strange. After first seeing that a given host does actually queue and resend, there's really not a lot of point in ever delaying more mail from that host. -- dwmw2

UID/GID override on CIFS mounts to Samba and proposed new mount parameter to disable Unix Extensions on the client

2007-04-30 Thread Steve French
When CIFS Unix Extensions are negotiated we get the Unix uid and gid owners of the file from the server (on the Unix Query Path Info levels), but if the server's uids don't match the client uid's users were having to disable the Unix Extensions (which turned off features they still wanted). The

Re: [PATCH 28/36] Use menuconfig objects II - sound

2007-04-30 Thread Johannes Berg
> For the aoa bits this ends up having two "Apple Onboard Audio driver" > bits which is a bit confusing. How about this instead? I can of course do that on top of your change instead if that's easier to handle. johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH 28/36] Use menuconfig objects II - sound

2007-04-30 Thread Johannes Berg
Jan, Thanks for doing this. > --- linux-2.6.21-mm_20070428.orig/sound/aoa/Kconfig > +++ linux-2.6.21-mm_20070428/sound/aoa/Kconfig > @@ -1,9 +1,12 @@ [...] For the aoa bits this ends up having two "Apple Onboard Audio driver" bits which is a bit confusing. How about this instead? SND_AOA was

Re: vmstat: use our own timer events

2007-04-30 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: on each node at the second and then each of the other processor on a node on a subsequent tick. That may be useful to keep a large amount of the second free of timer activity. Maybe the timer folks will have some feedback on

Re: Nvidia nForce5 NCQ support status?

2007-04-30 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
Hi, Hello list, I was wondering what has happened with the NCQ support for nForce5 chipsets? I've got one (on an Abit KN9-SLI), and I've found no further mentions about it for a while. Kind regards, Jan I asked about it almost two months ago on this list, a month before that in

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Uwe Bugla
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:06:11 +0200 Von: "Markus Rechberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: "Uwe Bugla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff:

Re: [PATCH] [1/1] CPU-i386-Geode: Chipset access macros do not work as expected

2007-04-30 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:09:58 +0200, Juergen Beisert wrote: > Replace NSC/Cyrix specific chipset access macros by inlined functions. > With the macros a line like this fails (and does nothing): > setCx86(CX86_CCR2, getCx86(CX86_CCR2) | 0x88); > With inlined functions this line will work as

Re: [PATCH] change global zonelist order on NUMA v2

2007-04-30 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 09:27 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:48:19 -0700 (PDT) > Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > > > > (1)Use new zonelist ordering always and move init_task's tied cpu to a > > > cpu

Re: [PATCH 18/36] Use menuconfig objects II - MMC

2007-04-30 Thread Pierre Ossman
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so > that the user can disable the whole feature without having to > enter the menu first. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just a heads up, I'll be pushing the restructuring stuff to

Re: [PATCH 13/36] Use menuconfig objects II - KVM/Virt

2007-04-30 Thread Avi Kivity
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Make a "menuconfig" out of the Kconfig objects "menu, ..., endmenu", so that the user can disable all the options in that menu at once instead of having to disable each option separately. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL

Re: 2.6.21: ACPI related kernel panic

2007-04-30 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi Alexey, On 30/04/07, Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please take a look at 8385 bug report here, as it might be relevant: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8385 I updated info about this bug http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions Thanks! Sebastian, please test

Linux 2.6.21: pmtmr losing time

2007-04-30 Thread Joerg Sommrey
Hi all, after switching to 2.6.21 the system clock sporadically loses time on my box (i386, Athlon MP). It's always around 4.68 seconds and happened 7 times in the last 12 hours. A simple calculation (2 ^ ACPI_PM_MASK / PMTMR_TICKS_PER_SEC = 2 ^ 24 / 3579545 = 4.686968875) shows: There is almost

Re: [patch 00/33] 2.6.20-stable review

2007-04-30 Thread koan
What is the status of 2.6.20.10/11? I have been using the 2.6.20.10-rc1 with great success, but now I see 2.6.20.10 has been release with only two patches, and no 2.6.20.11 with the 2.6.20.10-rc1 patchset? I haven't seen much on the list about this.. Thanks, Jesse - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Geode-GX1 processor in 2.6.21

2007-04-30 Thread Juergen Beisert
On Monday 30 April 2007 14:20, Andreas Mohr wrote: > Also, it would probably be good to convert these macros into inline > functions in this header. I tried with inlined functions and it works now as expected. I sent a patch, maybe it helps others too. Juergen - To unsubscribe from this list:

[PATCH] [1/1] CPU-i386-Geode: Chipset access macros do not work as expected

2007-04-30 Thread Juergen Beisert
From: Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Replace NSC/Cyrix specific chipset access macros by inlined functions. With the macros a line like this fails (and does nothing): setCx86(CX86_CCR2, getCx86(CX86_CCR2) | 0x88); With inlined functions this line will work as expected. Note about a

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 4/30/07, Uwe Bugla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:48:34 +0200 Von: "Markus Rechberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: "Uwe Bugla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: "hermann pitton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: CFQ IO scheduler patch series - AIM7 DBase results on a 16-way IA64

2007-04-30 Thread Alan D. Brunelle
Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Alan D. Brunelle wrote: The results from a single run of an AIM7 DBase load on a 16-way ia64 box (64GB RAM + 144 FC disks) showed a slight regression (~0.5%) by adding in this patch. (Graph can be found at

[PATCH] lguest: properly kill guest userspace programs accessing kernel mem

2007-04-30 Thread Rusty Russell
Kernel pages on x86 are protected by not having the _PAGE_USER bit set. When guest userspace accesses a kernel page, we didn't check this, so we'd think we'd handled the fault and return to the guest, causing the guest userspace program to loop instead of segfaulting. Signed-off-by: Rusty

Re: X display shift with disabled console blanking

2007-04-30 Thread James Pearson
Antonino A. Daplas wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 18:08 +0100, James Pearson wrote: I have a problem whereby the X display 'shifts' to left when anything writes to /dev/console - where console screen blanking has been disabled i.e. doing something like: boot to run level 3 If not root, then

Re: 2.6.21: ACPI related kernel panic

2007-04-30 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Please take a look at 8385 bug report here, as it might be relevant: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8385 On 4/30/07, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On 30/04/07, Sebastian Kemper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have updated some different boxes to

Nvidia nForce5 NCQ support status?

2007-04-30 Thread Jan De Luyck
Hello list, I was wondering what has happened with the NCQ support for nForce5 chipsets? I've got one (on an Abit KN9-SLI), and I've found no further mentions about it for a while. Kind regards, Jan -- A watched clock never boils. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: 2.6.21: ACPI related kernel panic

2007-04-30 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, On 30/04/07, Sebastian Kemper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, I have updated some different boxes to 2.6.21 with success. One laptop, though, has some issue with it. It's an Acer TravelMate 4002WLMi. Sometimes it boots fine and sometimes not. Thanks to netconsole you can see what

Re: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modules too

2007-04-30 Thread Andi Kleen
> FWIW I think doing this first will be better, exposing _all_ to non GNU > modules will weaken whatever case we might have to take it away later. I have no problems taking it away later again. Or rather taking away the symbols where non GPL code clearly has no business messing with. I don't

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Uwe Bugla
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:48:34 +0200 Von: "Markus Rechberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: "Uwe Bugla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: "hermann pitton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],

[PATCH 36/36] Use menuconfig objects II - V4L

2007-04-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so that the user can disable the whole feature without having to enter the menu first. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/media/radio/Kconfig |9 +-- drivers/media/video/Kconfig

Re: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modules too

2007-04-30 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 13:19 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 30 April 2007 13:15:36 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > On Apr 30 2007 13:00, Andi Kleen wrote: > > >On Monday 30 April 2007 12:50:09 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:28:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > >> >

Re: CFQ IO scheduler patch series - AIM7 DBase results on a 16-way IA64

2007-04-30 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Alan D. Brunelle wrote: > The results from a single run of an AIM7 DBase load on a 16-way ia64 box > (64GB RAM + 144 FC disks) showed a slight regression (~0.5%) by adding > in this patch. (Graph can be found at > http://free.linux.hp.com/~adb/cfq/cfq_dbase.png ) It is

[PATCH 35/36] Use menuconfig objects II - DVB

2007-04-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so that the user can disable the whole feature without having to enter the menu first. Also remove one indirection (CONFIG_DVB) that does not seem to be really used inside the kernel. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Geode-GX1 processor in 2.6.21

2007-04-30 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:51:05PM +0200, Juergen Beisert wrote: > Hi all, > > I do not understand it, but setting up some chipset features (tweaks) fail on > Geode GX1. > > In arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c function geode_configure() tries to enable > the "suspend on halt power saving

Re: Geode-GX1 processor in 2.6.21

2007-04-30 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:51:05 +0200, Juergen Beisert wrote: > setCx86(CX86_CCR2, getCx86(CX86_CCR2) | 0x88); > > If this register is 0x00 before, it is still 0x00 after this line. If I > change > the line into this: > > ccr2 = getCx86(CX86_CCR2); > ccr2 |= 0x88; >

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 BUG at kernel/sched-clock.c:175 init_sched_clock()

2007-04-30 Thread Berck E. Nash
Tejun Heo wrote: > Hmmm... Once properly initialized, ahci is highly unlikely to cause > runaway IRQs which results in nobody cared. It has proper IRQ mask and > pending bits allowing the driver to reliably detect when and why the > controller is raising interrupt and disable it if necessary.

Re: can a kmalloc be both GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_KERNEL at the same time?

2007-04-30 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 4/30/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >> > drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c: aic_dev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct aic_dev_data), GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_KERNEL); > >> > drivers/message/i2o/device.c: resblk = kmalloc(buflen + 8, GFP_KERNEL |

[PATCH 34/36] Use menuconfig objects II - watchdog

2007-04-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so that the user can disable the whole feature without having to enter the menu first. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig | 123 -- 1 file

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