On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:50:15AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
- EEVDF concentrates on real-time (SCHED_RR-alike) workloads where they
know the length of work units
This is what I was thinking when I wrote earlier that EEVDF expects each
task will specify length of each new request
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Gerd, in change 11196:b85da7cd9ea5 front: Fix rx buffer leak when
tearing down an interface. you added a call to
add_id_to_freelist(np-rx_skbs, id);. However, rx_skbs doesn't have
an extra entry for the list head, and there's never any corresponding
On 3/5/07 15:27, Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The function has an effect in page flipping mode only. It walks the
whole list of rx skbufs (id is the loop variable ...), checks whenever
they are handed out to the frontend driver to fill in packet data and
not returned yet,
On May 3 2007 10:14, Albert Cahalan wrote:
On 5/3/07, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 3 2007 02:17, Albert Cahalan wrote:
Those sizes are unreadable on the 200 dpi OLPC XO screen,
Hm that should have read, for you:
I don't object implementing support for larger sizes.
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 15:17 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:21:29AM -0400, simo wrote:
Separate modules would mean the user have to know which protocol to
choose each time. And this make little sense.
Of course it makes a lot of sense. We don't have anyfs.ko
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Gerd, in change 11196:b85da7cd9ea5 front: Fix rx buffer leak when
tearing down an interface. you added a call to
add_id_to_freelist(np-rx_skbs, id);. However, rx_skbs doesn't have
an extra entry for the list head, and there's never any
Besides, based on the actual binary representation of UTF-8, it's
extremely unlikely for any ISO-8859-1 string to be detected as UTF-8. VIm
already does this: UTF-8 it handles natively, but open up one of these
unpatched files in VIm and you'll see [converted] at the bottom of your
Andrew Morton napsal(a):
+static int phantom_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, u_int cmd,
+u_long arg)
Could we please use standard-looking types in this driver? u32 and u64 and
things?
However in this case, as it's an ioctl handler it should be int and
unsigned long.
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:36:53AM -0400, simo wrote:
I guess DFS referrals can work cross protocol, so if you are redirected
from a longhorn server to a windoes 2000 or a samba server you want to
be able to follow the DFS referral and not return an error.
To do that you need to have either 1
Uwe Bugla wrote:
On the technical layer I noticed that I heard some Pinnacle relais click
during testing, but there were some i2c_bus symbols missing during
compilation. So I guess those missing symbols are responsible for getting
neither picture nor sound.
Can you send your compile
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:29:32PM +0200, Damien Wyart wrote:
What are your thoughts/plans concerning merging CFS into mainline ? Is
it a bit premature to get it into 2.6.22 ? I remember Linus was ok to
change the default scheduler rapidly (the discussion was about sd at
that time) to get more
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Mark Lord wrote:
If the code never gets stuck in a loop, then there's no need to check
whether the loop is unbounded! :-)
Yes, except here we know it does actually get stuck in a loop,
and having unbounded loops in device-driver code is a known baddy.
One cannot
* Christoph Hellwig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:11:04PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
My statement was probably not clear enough. The actual marker code is
useful as-is without any further kernel patching required : SystemTAP is
an example where they use external
Hi Andi,
This plan makes sense. I will split the patched in enabled/disable
flags part into a separate piece (good idea!) and then submit the LTTng
core to Andrew. Christoph's has a good point about wanting a usable
infrastructure to go ini. Regarding your plan, I must argue that
blktrace is not
From: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The inode_matches and need_revoke functions have confusing names so
rename them to can_revoke_file and can_revoke_vma respectively.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/revoke.c | 33 -
1 file changed, 16
From: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The revoke_table struct is overloaded because it serves two purposes:
it manages the pre-allocated set of files and tracks the revoke
operation so that we know where to start restore if the operation
fails. This splits file set management to separate struct
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 15:43 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:36:53AM -0400, simo wrote:
I guess DFS referrals can work cross protocol, so if you are redirected
from a longhorn server to a windoes 2000 or a samba server you want to
be able to follow the DFS referral
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 09:46 -0500, Gerald Carter wrote:
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Simo,
I guess DFS referrals can work cross protocol, so if you are redirected
from a longhorn server to a windoes 2000 or a samba server you want to
be able to follow the DFS referral
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 00:05 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 02 May 2007 11:17:33 -0500 Paul Fulghum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Change synclink_gt driver to use dynamic tty device registration.
...
+ for (i=0; i port_count; ++i)
+ tty_register_device(serial_driver,
Hi, Ingo
This is the test case that I think worth discuss and it leads me to
find 2 things.
[...] but there are still some nice issues.
Try running 3 chew.c's, then renicing one to -10, starves others for
some seconds while switching prio-level. Now renice it back to 10, it
starves
Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Ting Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Authors of this paper proposed a scheduler: Earlist Eligible Virtual
Deadline First (EEVDF). EEVDF uses exactly the same method as CFS to
track the execution of each running task. The only difference between
EEVDF and CFS is that
Hi,
the commits
411187fb05cd11676b0979d9fbf3291db69dbce2 (GTOD: persistent clock support)
c1d370e167d66b10bca3b602d3740405469383de (i386: use GTOD persistent clock
support)
caused a change in the way uptime is measured and introduced a regression such
that it's no longer possible to
On Fri 27-04-07 16:54:20, Eric Sandeen wrote:
Jan Kara wrote:
Hello,
the patches attached to six following emails implement some cleanup and
fixes in the UDF code. The main two fixes are:
1) UDF now works correctly for files larger than 1GB.
2) Deleting a directory updates
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Although some, like Christoph and myself, think that it would benefit to
the kernel community to have a common infrastructure for more than just
markers (meaning common serialization and buffering mechanism), it does
not change the fact that the
Andi Kleen wrote:
As Andy already submitted it to Linus with http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/2/346
we may have to create a patch which reverts this patch.
Ok thanks for the explanation. I will queue a revert patch
I'm also planning to add some function headers to the MTRR functions
and also fix
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Can we please stop the bullshitting now? And can you please get a realname
before playing smart ass on filesystem developers lists?
Simo's full name is in his .sig
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On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:04:15AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
- blk_add_trace_rq(q, rq, BLK_TA_INSERT);
+ MARK(blk_request_insert, %p %p, q, rq);
I don't really like the shouting MARK name very much. Can we have
a less-generic, less shouting name, e.g. trace_marker? The aboe
* Ting Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+s64 __delta = curr-fair_key - p-fair_key;
+
+/*
+ * Take scheduling granularity into account - do not
+ * preempt the current task unless the best task has
+ * a larger than sched_granularity fairness advantage:
+ */
+if
Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
Em Qua, 2007-05-02 às 04:10 -0700, Trent Piepho escreveu:
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
However, when dst is selected, I got those errors:
When I made this patch I was basing it off a patch I made around 9 months
ago. I thought since that one
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:33:43AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Guess so. It defaults to flip. I simplified the rx_copy/flip module
parameter to a simple rx_mode=0/1, but this is preserved from the
original. My guess is that originally there was only flip, and copy was
added later.
Yep,
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Simo,
I guess DFS referrals can work cross protocol, so if you are redirected
from a longhorn server to a windoes 2000 or a samba server you want to
be able to follow the DFS referral and not return an error.
To do that you need to have either 1
Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:50:15AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
- EEVDF concentrates on real-time (SCHED_RR-alike) workloads where they
know the length of work units
This is what I was thinking when I wrote earlier that EEVDF expects each
task will specify
On May 3 2007 09:21, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
There's no reason for any non-UTF-8 to be in the tree at all, so
eventually it won't be a problem. I'm (slowly but surely) working on
converting everything in the tree. GCC handles UTF-8 just fine, and all
In fact, GCC gives a crap about
Andrew, there are suggested changes in the attached patch. Maybe merge it with
misc-add-sensable-phantom-driver.patch if possible.
--
phantom, diff to -v3
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
commit b5c1fc64195b18d3919bfa7dddfb76e9f2a05786
tree
Hi!
The kernel can already do compression and encryption.
Yes, if we all could agree on _which_ compression and encryption
Any of those available in the kernel. Where's the problem?
gzip is too slow for this. lzf works okay. Oh and swsusp wants rsa
crypto.
Hi!
1) if the kernel threads are frozen, we know that they don't hold any locks
that could interfere with the freezing of device drivers,
2) if they are frozen, we know, for example, that they won't call user mode
helpers or do similar things,
3) if they are frozen, we know that they
Hi!
It makes it harder to debug (wouldn't it be *nice* to
just ssh in, and do
gdb -p snapshotter
Make the machine being suspended a VM and you can
already do that.
when something goes wrong?) but we also *depend* on
user space for various things (the same way we depend
on
Original-Nachricht
Datum: Thu, 03 May 2007 18:44:36 +0400
Von: Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: Uwe Bugla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: Re: [linux-dvb] DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical
pointsabout ...)
Hi!
While that would certainly be nifty, I think we're arguably starting
from the wrong point here. Why are we booting a kernel, trying to poke
the hardware back into some sort of mock-quiescent state, freeing memory
and then (finally) overwriting the entire contents of RAM rather than
To clarify:
1) SMB2 is negotiated like a new dialect (of SMB/CIFS). The new
dialects is sent in the same SMB negotiate protocol request that has
been used for years. The protocol header format changes to that of
SMB2 (if accepted by the server) on all subsequent requests.
2) If the server does
Original-Nachricht
Datum: Thu, 03 May 2007 19:15:32 +0400
Von: Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: Mauro Carvalho Chehab [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Trent Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED],
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Betreff: Re: [linux-dvb] Re: DST/BT878 module
There's no reason for any non-UTF-8 to be in the tree at all, so
eventually it won't be a problem. I'm (slowly but surely) working on
converting everything in the tree. GCC handles UTF-8 just fine, and all
In fact, GCC gives a crap about comments :)
and otherwise sees things as octets,
On Thu, 3 May 2007 13:38:22 +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:04:44PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
Only ext2 supports it today: see Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
IIRC JFFS2 also supports XIP.
Definitely not. AXFS does, if you want to consider out-of-tree patches.
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:33:43AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Guess so. It defaults to flip. I simplified the rx_copy/flip module
parameter to a simple rx_mode=0/1, but this is preserved from the
original. My guess is that originally there was only flip, and copy
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] {
+ compatible = 8xx;
The compatible property should be a little more specific, imho. Since
there
are differences in how things are done depending on the board, it
would be
good to tell the exact method from the pcmcia node itself.
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:35:41AM -0500, Steve French wrote:
If SMB2 protocol support were coded as a distinct module, the smb2.ko
would need to load cifs.ko to complete session setup in many cases
(presumably when mounting to NetApp, EMC, most older Windows servers
and some Samba servers -
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:17:18PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
#define INTEL_I820_RDCR 0x51
@@ -664,7 +671,7 @@
if ((pg_start + mem-page_count) num_entries)
goto out_err;
- /* The i830 can't check the GTT for entries since its read only,
+ /* The
Hello,
At the moment, data specific to a CPU is stored in different, fixed-
size separate arrays by means of the percpu framework. I'm working
on some changes to modify the way some CPUs are represented, and I'm
wondering what's the rationale behind such a representation.
At first sight,
Uwe Bugla wrote:
Hi Manu,
But it would be an acceptable compromise FOR NOW, wouldn't it?
The reason is i do not wish to make changes to it, till i can fix it. It
is indeed hard to fix things that support a lot of devices, with
different issues. There are enough of issues in there.
You can
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:29:32PM +0200, Damien Wyart wrote:
What are your thoughts/plans concerning merging CFS into mainline ? Is
it a bit premature to get it into 2.6.22 ? I remember Linus was ok to
change the default scheduler rapidly (the discussion was about sd at
that time) to get more
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- If replying, please be sure to cc the appropriate individuals.
Please also consider rewriting the Subject: to something
appropriate.
i'm wondering about swap-prefetch:
mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch
There's a bug in the MCA bus matching algorithm in that it promotes from
signed short to int before comparing with the actual id and does sign
extension on anything 0x7fff (which means that pos ids 0x7fff never
get correctly matched).
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
diff
Yes, this was discovered through code inspection last week and I've
already made a fix (as I mentioned to Auke off-thread). It should be
submitted upstream shortly.
-Original Message-
From: Kok, Auke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 8:37 AM
To: Michel Lespinasse
Coverity (CID 1614) spotted new_seb being dereferenced after kfree() in
create_vtbl's write_error path.
Signed-off-by: Florin Malita [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
vtbl.c | 11 +--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c
On 5/3/07, Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uwe Bugla wrote:
Hi Manu,
But it would be an acceptable compromise FOR NOW, wouldn't it?
The reason is i do not wish to make changes to it, till i can fix it. It
is indeed hard to fix things that support a lot of devices, with
different
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On May 3 2007 10:14, Albert Cahalan wrote:
On 5/3/07, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 3 2007 02:17, Albert Cahalan wrote:
Those sizes are unreadable on the 200 dpi OLPC XO screen,
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Drawback is that the guest kernel wouldn't work with older xen
versions (dom0 netback driver to be exact) any more. Probably
wouldn't be a showstopper though, given that xen 3.0.3 probably is
almost one year out by the time 2.6.22 will be released ...
I don't think we've
Hi, Ingo
I wrote that email in a hurry, therefore might not explain the
problem clearly. However I do think there is a problem for this part,
after I carefully read the code again. Now I want to try again :-)
Hopefully, this time I will do a right job.
Starting from the following code:
Hi, Ingo
This is the test case that I think worth discuss and it leads me to
find 2 things.
[...] but there are still some nice issues.
Try running 3 chew.c's, then renicing one to -10, starves others for
some seconds while switching prio-level. Now renice it back to 10, it
starves for
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:43:48AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
Hi all,
Lguest is a simple hypervisor which runs Linux under Linux, without
needing VT hardware.
Two people asked if I had a version of lguest which worked on
other-than-bleeding-edge-mm kernels, so I did a
PNI (Prescott New Instructions) was the original engineering code name.
Unfortunately
it was added too early before the marketing name was known and then it
couldn't be
changed anymore.
... and just to make things more fun, SSE4 is sometimes called Penryn
New Instructions -- PNI all
The MCA bus has a few integrated functions, which are effectively
virtual slots on the bus. The problem is that these special functions
don't have dedicated pos IDs, so we have to manufacture ids for them
outside the pos space ... and these ids can't be matched by the standard
matching function,
Original-Nachricht
Datum: Thu, 03 May 2007 19:48:50 +0400
Von: Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: Uwe Bugla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL
PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: Re: [linux-dvb]
Thanks.
On 5/3/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Gary,
On 03/05/07, Gary Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a system running Fedora Core 6 on a Dell PE4400 that crashed
and became unresponsive, I captured the following kernel oops in
/var/log/messages:
Apr 30 08:52:11
Hi,
On 03/05/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- If replying, please be sure to cc the appropriate individuals.
Please also consider rewriting the Subject: to something
appropriate.
i'm wondering about swap-prefetch:
Uwe Bugla wrote:
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Datum: Thu, 03 May 2007 19:48:50 +0400
Von: Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: Uwe Bugla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Markus Rechberger wrote:
Manu,
to me it looks like your attitude is not acceptable here, I sent
several mails already which you just use to ignore.
You very well know the reason why i am ignoring your mails. You just
tend to flame people for nothing. I tend to ignore the flamers.
If you
On Thu, 3 May 2007 09:01:31 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On May 2 2007 15:35, Randy Dunlap wrote:
Add hex_dumper() to lib/hexdump.c and linux/kernel.h.
Right - we've got the second user already, namely the PANIC/OOPS
code print. (The last line, aka bytes at EIP under Windows.)
On 03/05/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On 03/05/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- If replying, please be sure to cc the appropriate individuals.
Please also consider rewriting the Subject: to something
Julio M. Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Similarly, and if I understood it correctly, the PDA (Per-processor
Data Area) also aims to do the above, but at the moment it only
contains some fields and is not defined in all platforms. There are
still a lot of usages of the percpu
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Yes. I guess in this context, I am generally for building the ELF
headers by hand instead of with a linker script, because then we
know exactly what is happening and can ensure everything is just so.
Yes, it seems easiest - particularly given how flaky binutils
Original-Nachricht
Datum: Thu, 3 May 2007 17:59:18 +0200
Von: Markus Rechberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Uwe Bugla [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
On Thu, 3 May 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
I've seen this crash in flush_old_exec() before. ISTR it being due to
slub vs. pagetable alignment or something on that order.
From from other discussion regarding SLAB: It may be necessary for
powerpc to set the default alignment to 8 bytes on
Manu Abraham wrote:
Uwe Bugla wrote:
If you download the thing as tar.bz2 you get a zero file down.
I think could be a bug in hgweb probably.
[snip]
Let me see why hgweb gives a zero length archive
Manu,
We reported this bug to the selenic guys quite a long time ago... You
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:30:36PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
Olaf Hering wrote:
On Thu, May 03, Stefan Richter wrote:
ieee1394-old
Noone will seriously ship two firewire stacks, so that cant be the
issue (for distributors).
I don't actively watch distributions, but I
Michael Krufky wrote:
Manu Abraham wrote:
Uwe Bugla wrote:
If you download the thing as tar.bz2 you get a zero file down.
I think could be a bug in hgweb probably.
[snip]
Let me see why hgweb gives a zero length archive
Manu,
We reported this bug to the selenic guys quite a
H...There are a gazillion configs to choose from. It works fine with
cell_defconfig. If I switch to 2 processors I can enable SLUB if I switch
to 4 I cannot.
I saw some other config weirdness like being unable to set SMP if SLOB is
enabled with some configs. This should not work and does
On Thu, 03 May 2007 11:32:23 +1000 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
void fastcall unlock_page(struct page *page)
{
+ VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
smp_mb__before_clear_bit();
- if (!TestClearPageLocked(page))
- BUG();
- smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
-
On May 03, 2007, at 11:10:47, Pavel Machek wrote:
How mature is freezing filesystems -- will it work on at least
ext2/3 and vfat?
I'm pretty sure it works on ext2/3 and xfs and possibly others, I
don't know either way about VFAT though. Essentially the freeze
part involves telling the
Hi Jan,
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:28:29 +0200 (MEST), 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]
---
On 5/3/07, kernel coder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm profiling some part of kernel code.Mine profiling mechanism
is based on rdtsc instruction.
Why dont you use oprofile?
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+static unsigned char rep_scancode;
+static struct timer_list atakeyb_rep_timer = {
+ .function = atakeyb_rep,
+};
Is there a problem with repeat implementation in input core that
requres custom-made repeater here?
Apparently not - the homebrew repeater has not been active pretty
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:09:46AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
I'm having problems with a font I just created. It's a rather big one,
intended for a framebuffer console in UTF-8 mode. The strace program
reports that /bin/setfont fails on a KDFONTOP ioctl with EINVAL.
In reading the kernel
On 5/3/07, Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Markus Rechberger wrote:
Manu,
to me it looks like your attitude is not acceptable here, I sent
several mails already which you just use to ignore.
You very well know the reason why i am ignoring your mails. You just
tend to flame people
Here is the reworked patch, except a comment :
* Christoph Hellwig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
+void blk_probe_disconnect(void)
+{
+ uint8_t i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i NUM_PROBES; i++) {
+ marker_remove_probe(probe_array[i].name);
+ }
+ synchronize_sched();/* Wait
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:28:45PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
Replace function instances of __attribute__((unused)) with
__attribute_unused__.
Cc: Ralf Baechle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ralf
-
To
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:16:46PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
kprobes does this kind of synchronization internally, so the marker
wrapper should probabl aswell.
The problem appears on heavily loaded systems. Doing 50
synchronize_sched() calls in a row can take up to a few seconds
This patch fixes error paths in module_init and probe
functions in cm4000_cs and cm4040_cs drivers.
Cc: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4000_cs.c |9 +++--
drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4040_cs.c |7 ++-
2 files
Cleanup using bitrev8 in cm4000_cs driver.
Cc: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/char/pcmcia/Kconfig |1 +
drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4000_cs.c | 35 ++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
From: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cleanup using simple_read_from_buffer() in binfmt_misc,
configfs, and sysfs.
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Joel Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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fs/binfmt_misc.c | 13 +
Cleanup using simple_read_from_buffer() for /dev/cpuset/tasks
and /proc/config.gz.
Cc: Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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kernel/configs.c | 15 +++
kernel/cpuset.c |7 +--
2 files changed, 4
Hi,
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Michael Schmitz wrote:
+ for (i = 1; i 0x72; i++) {
+ atakbd_keycode[i] = i;
+ set_bit(atakbd_keycode[i], atakbd_dev-keybit);
It looks like this driver is not using standard input event codes.
Actually it does, it just sort
Add compat_ioctl method for tty code to allow processing
of 32 bit ioctl calls on 64 bit systems by tty core,
tty drivers, and line disciplines.
Based on patch by Arnd Bergmann:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.0/1732.html
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Arnd
Andrew Morton wrote:
We can make great improvements here, and I've (twice) previously decribed
how: hoist the entire ordered-mode data handling out of ext3, and out of
the buffer_head layer and move it up into the VFS pagecache layer.
Basically, do ordered-data with a commit-time inode walk,
On Thu, 03 May 2007 14:40:01 +0200 Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+static int phantom_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
+{
+ struct phantom_device *dev = file-private_data;
+
+ if (mutex_lock_interruptible(dev-open_lock))
+ return -ERESTARTSYS;
+
+
Al Boldi wrote:
Dmitry Krivoschekov wrote:
Al Boldi wrote:
Now, if there were only an easy way to make tmpfs persistent?
It would be not a tmpfs (*temporary* fs)then,
Isn't everything really just temporary?
Would you like to talk about this?
Not with me, I'm not a psychoanalyst :)
but
Adrian Bunk wrote:
| An advantage of changing the names is that they are now prefixed.
Is the opportunity to clean up module names compelling enough, vs. (the
wish for) minimized trouble with scripts which refer to module names?
...
How big is the trouble actually?
Exactly. In Fedora we've
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:16:15AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
If we don't want any warnings with CONFIG_PCI=n, CONFIG_SYSFS=n or
CONFIG_PROC_FS=n, we'd have to annotate _many_ functions.
If the lonterm goal is to compile the kernel with -Werror
Remove the single snippet of code conditional on the non-existent
CONFIG_NO_ATA_LEGACY Kconfig variable.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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i would have mailed a note about this to the ATA maintainer but it
wasn't clear who that was. this is the only dead CONFIG_ variable
This patch set simplifies the statistics code of the adaptive readahead
feature by using the proposed statistic infrastructure.
Patches are against 2.6.21-rc7-mm2.
[RFC] [Patch 1/3] readahead statistics slimmed down, statistics prereq
[RFC] [Patch 2/3] readahead statistics slimmed down, adapt
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