On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Takashi Iwai wrote:
[..]
ALSA still does not provides good soud devices virtualization for more
then one application. Each day I'm using bludy words when I'm try to use
skype which oppens /dev/mixer after run galeon with flash plugin which
opens /dev/snd/pcm* or when I start
Driver for the CompactFlash slot on the PA Semi Electra eval board. It's
a simple device sitting on localbus, with interrupts and detect/voltage
control over GPIO.
The driver is implemented as an of_platform driver, and adds localbus
as a bus being probed by the of_platform framework.
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 18:50 +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
The Siemens Gigaset ISDN base driver uses tasklets in its isochronous
data paths. These will be scheduled for each completion of an isochronous
URB, or every 8 msec for each of the four isochronous pipes if both B
channels are
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:48:21PM +0200, Tomasz K?oczko wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
[..]
In my experience OSS is a pile of crap compared to ALSA.
Could you say something more detailed about this compare ?
Well the last time I bothered to look at OSS, it was still
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
In many situations the page struct passed to flush_dcache_page is
simply used to calculate the virtual address. So its mostly harmless.
Trouble starts when page attributes like the mapping is used.
Ok I have tried it on a Pentium-M ( 32 Bit ,) with 512 MB RAM and Core
2 Duo with 1Gig RAM ( running SMP kernel , 2 CPUS) with same results.
Cant go more than ~4K addresses. I have tried them with vanilla and
custom kernels all 2.6.19+ versions. Results are same on both systems ,
so thats
I'd just like to take the chance also to ask about a VM/FS meetup some
time around kernel summit (maybe take a big of time during UKUUG or so).
Yeah, I'd be interested.
More issues:
- chris mason's patches to normalize buffered and direct locking
- z
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Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 22:05 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
Merging both limits will eliminate the issue, however we would need
individual limits for pagecache and RSS for better control. There are
use cases for pagecache_limit alone without RSS_limit like the
On 6/22/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Merging both limits will eliminate the issue, however we would need
individual limits for pagecache and RSS for better control. There are
use cases for pagecache_limit alone without RSS_limit like the case of
database application
On 6/25/07, Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/22/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Merging both limits will eliminate the issue, however we would need
individual limits for pagecache and RSS for better control. There are
use cases for pagecache_limit alone without
Fixes errors and supports multiple
architectures.Corrected errors and warnings are:
Errors:
(E22.1.1003) Section [SourceDisksNames] not defined.
(E22.1.1017) Primary revision number must be greater
than 0.
(E22.1.1110) File usbser.sys is not listed in the
[SourceDisksFiles].
Warnings:
Fixes wrong, outdated path of vgacon.c
Hello we are Ioannis Barkas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and
Nikos Barkas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
VGA-softcursor.txt points to vgacon.c at a wrong
directory so we fix it.
There is the patch(we do not attach it as many people
suggest not to do so) from diff -u:
---
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Jun 25 2007 09:37, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:15:50 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Jun 25 2007 11:12, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
It is also quite likely the reply was written before reading the other
comments. With the volume on lkml, reading all
When one llseek's past the end of the file and then writes, every page
past the previous end of the file should be cleared. Trevor found that
the code, as is, does not assure that the very last page is always
cleared. This patch takes care of that.
This patch, including the two that I sent on
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:47:21 -0700 (PDT) Ioannis Barkas wrote:
Fixes wrong, outdated path of vgacon.c
Hello we are Ioannis Barkas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and
Nikos Barkas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
VGA-softcursor.txt points to vgacon.c at a wrong
directory so we fix it.
There is the patch(we do
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 22:05 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
Merging both limits will eliminate the issue, however we would need
individual limits for pagecache and RSS for better control. There are
use cases for pagecache_limit alone without RSS_limit like the
I find document messages to be a horrible idea conceptually, because I
think
the messages should _be_ documentation. If the message is unclear it should
be clarified. There's too much garbage on the floor, we should laminate it
so we can't smell it anymore. Er, no...
Document message
On Monday 25 June 2007 10:57:35 Kay Sievers wrote:
Sure, all devices have a subsystem link, you have to readlink()
that, and if it ends in block, you have a blockdev. But as mentioned
in an earlier mail, you should stop scanning /sys/devices/ and always
come from the subsystem
Hi Rudolf,
just one more update:
When I put my machine into s2ram and make it resume, one of the coretemp
sensors gets lost. Ahh and I am already rmmod coretemp / loading
microcode after resume / insmod coretemp...
Hello, If I understand correctly you unload the driver before suspend. Resume,
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can you be more specific about why this is a problem? Don't
we mostly define those crappy types using arch-specific knowledge, as
'int', 'long', etc?
I recommend you to install Sun Studio and to try to compile star or cdrtools
using Sun Studio
Paul Menage wrote:
On 6/25/07, Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/22/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Merging both limits will eliminate the issue, however we would need
individual limits for pagecache and RSS for better control. There are
use cases for
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
PageSlab to avoid oopsing on page-mapping.
It is definitely intended to work. Otherwise we would not have code
like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/linux-2.6$ find . -name *.c | xargs grep
flush_dcache_page|grep virt
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
Memory management
Subject: bug in i386 MTRR initialization
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/19/93
Submitter : Andrea Righi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status : patch available
This one wasn't a bug in the first place, it was just the
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
I didn't claim that flush_dcache_page(virt_to_page(virt)) is not expected
to work. I claim that flush_dcache_page is expected to be a noop rather
than an oops on a kmalloced page.
There are no
Hi all,
I'll host another mm-related BOF at OLS:
Discussion for the Future of Linux Memory Management
Saturday Jun 30th, 2007 14:45-15:30
I'll share some experiences with the MM-related real world issues there.
Anyone who have something to pitch in is welcome.
Please contact me or grab me at
Alan Cox wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:19:18 -0700
Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Currently there are 97 occurrences where drivers need the pci
revision ID. We can do this once for all devices. Even the pci
subsystem needs the revision several times for quirks. The extra
u8 member pads out
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 23:59 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
so how about the following, different approach: anyone who has a tasklet
in any performance-sensitive codepath, please yell now. We'll also do a
proactive search for such places. We can convert those places to
softirqs, or move them back
* Björn Steinbrink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and of course i'm happy to test any patch that is simpler than the
brutal revert i sent.
wrmsrl() looks broken, dropping the upper 32bits of the value to be
written. Does this help?
this did the trick, rc6 plus your fix and the NMI watchdog
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
The sometimes we have kmalloced buffers locations need to be fixed.
I've said enough, I'd better leave it to others to deter you or not
from fiddling around pointlessly here.
Are there any locations left after the two fixes to pa-risc and arm?
If
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
The sometimes we have kmalloced buffers locations need to be fixed.
I've said enough, I'd better leave it to others to deter you or not
from fiddling around pointlessly here.
Are there any
Hi!
We've been over the AA is different discussion in threads about a
billion times, and at the last kernel summit. I think Lars and others
have done a pretty good job of describing the problems they are trying
to solve, can we please move on to discussing technical issues around
that?
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:34:48 +0200
Bj__rn Steinbrink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The performance counter allocator relies on the nmi watchdog being
probed, so we have to do that even if the watchdog is not enabled.
So... what's the status of this lot?
I've just merged this patch and the
Oops had done a reply instead of a reply to all...
---BeginMessage---
Albert Lee wrote:
The patch just workarounds the lost irq problem by polling; not real
fix. We still need to find out why irq is lost per Mark's comment:
This proves that the device does work correctly in most respects
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 14:48 -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
OK, here's a yell. I'm using tasklets in the new firewire stack for all
Thanks for speaking up!
interrupt handling. All my interrupt handler does is read out the event
mask and schedule the appropriate tasklets. Most of these
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:34:36PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
Hi Borislav,
On 6/24/2007, Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
Original author: Richard Gooch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Last updated on October 28, 2005
+ Last updated on
[PATCH] x86-64: disable the GART in shutdown
For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more than 4G RAM
installed. when using kexec to load second kernel. In the second kernel,
when mem is allocated for GART, it will do the memset for clear, it will cause
restart, because some
As some of you know, lately I've been trying to get rid of tasklets. In
doing so, I've come across this usage of tasklet_unlock.
The only user of tasklet_unlock in the kernel outside of softirq.c is
ipath_no_bufs_available in drivers/inifiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_ruc.c
Here's the offending code:
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 20:20 +0200, Rudolf Marek wrote:
Hi Rudolf,
just one more update:
When I put my machine into s2ram and make it resume, one of the coretemp
sensors gets lost. Ahh and I am already rmmod coretemp / loading
microcode after resume / insmod coretemp...
Hello, If
On Monday 25 June 2007 21:09, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:34:48 +0200
Bj__rn Steinbrink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The performance counter allocator relies on the nmi watchdog being
probed, so we have to do that even if the watchdog is not enabled.
So... what's the status
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:12:21PM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
Driver for the CompactFlash slot on the PA Semi Electra eval board. It's
a simple device sitting on localbus, with interrupts and detect/voltage
control over GPIO.
The driver is implemented as an of_platform driver, and adds
Hi,
On 6/9/07, Jeff Layton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:30:04 +1000
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please cc networking patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff Layton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The following patch is a first stab at removing this need. It makes it
so
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:34:03PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
[PATCH] x86-64: disable the GART in shutdown
For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more than 4G RAM
installed. when using kexec to load second kernel. In the second kernel,
when mem is allocated for GART, it
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 11:49 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:19:18 -0700
Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Currently there are 97 occurrences where drivers need the pci
revision ID. We can do this once for all devices. Even the pci
subsystem needs the
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
index ae091cd..6c4fe16 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
@@ -571,6 +571,27 @@ static const struct dma_mapping_ops gart_dma_ops = {
.unmap_sg =
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:50:03 +0200
Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so how about the following, different approach: anyone who has a tasklet
in any performance-sensitive codepath, please yell now.
Getting rid of tasklet's may seem like a good
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:11:20 +0530
Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On 6/9/07, Jeff Layton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:30:04 +1000
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please cc networking patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff Layton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 10:31:06PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
Al Viro wrote:
Joy. OK, folks, disregard 16/16 in the current form; everything prior
to it stands on its own.
Acknowledged. The rest of the patches look good to me, so I'll merge 1-15
soon, and ignore 16.
Do you have
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:52:48PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
I suggest include/asm-x86_64/iommu.h for this. proto.h doesn't have
anything to do with it.
move iommu releated to iommu.h and add iommu_ops struct?
That's how I would do it, to complement dma_mapping.h.
Cheers,
Muli
-
To
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:36:17PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Monday 25 June 2007 21:09, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:34:48 +0200
Bj__rn Steinbrink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The performance counter allocator relies on the nmi watchdog being
probed, so we have to do
Subject: [patch] sys_time() speedup
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
improve performance of sys_time(). sys_time() returns time in seconds,
but it does so by calling do_gettimeofday() and then returning the
tv_sec portion of the GTOD time. But the data structure xtime, which
is updated by
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 15:11 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 14:48 -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
...
However, I don't really understand how you can discuss a wholesale
replacing of tasklets with workqueues, given the very different
execution sematics of the two
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:53:55PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
star needs ext2_fs.h. This file is not usable at all on many Linux
distributions, even with GCC.
I was curious so I did:
$ mkdir ~/foo
$ cd ~/kernel/linux-2.6
$ make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=~/foo
$ cd ~/foo
$ cat j.c
#include stdio.h
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix gcc warning and add parameter checking when CONFIG_EVENTFD=n:
fs/aio.c: In function 'aio_complete':
fs/aio.c:955: warning: statement with no effect
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/eventfd.h |3 ++-
1 file changed, 2
Alas that won't work so good, because nobody reads help texts.
I thought about adding some crude multiple choice selection (build the
old stack, build the new stack, build both stacks). It's possible, but
it would introduce awkward dummy config variables.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter [EMAIL
Takashi Iwai kirjoitti:
At Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:06:18 +0100,
Alan Cox wrote:
If it is native ALSA driver then it will restart after each underrun
and overrun. It is the applications job to do this, alsa-lib provides
all support for this. I have no idea of OSS and OSS emulation in ALSA.
Christoph Lameter wrote:
What testing was done? Would you include the results of tests in your next
post?
Sorry for the delay in responding -- I was chasing phantom failures.
I created a stress test which involved using cpusets and mems_allowed
to split memory so that all
On Jun 25, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 03:00:30AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
I was here to dispell the lies that were being spread about GPLv3, the
spirit and the goals of the GPL, as far as I understood them.
Just because someone has a
Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can you be more specific about why this is a problem? Don't
we mostly define those crappy types using arch-specific knowledge, as
'int', 'long', etc?
I recommend you to install Sun Studio and to try
Tomasz Kłoczko kirjoitti:
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Jun 24 2007 21:24, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
Try to answer on question ALSA or OSS ? using *only* technical
arguments.
Ok: The OSS cs46xx driver did not support the rear 2 channels.
The cs46xx OSS driver in the kernel is
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 22:26 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Well, I was in hope that a small typo (in special as the correct
spelling is in the file README.compile) should not be a problem.
You need to use CCOM=suncc
No, I need someone else to use CCOM=suncc for me. Unless suncc works on
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 16:07 -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
Maybe we should be looking at something like GENERIC_SOFTIRQ to run
functions that a driver could add. But they would run only on the CPU
that scheduled them, and do not guarantee non-reentrant as tasklets do
today.
Sounds
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:39:09PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:12:21PM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
Driver for the CompactFlash slot on the PA Semi Electra eval board. It's
a simple device sitting on localbus, with interrupts and detect/voltage
control over
I looked at the code I have in my tree coming from Bjon's patches and
I am a bit confused by the flow for probing as well.
Yes, it's a little risky. Perhaps it's better to readd the separate CPU switch
from .21 there again for 2.6.22. Ugly, but should be safe
-Andi
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This was fixed by a patch that Arthur Jones sent out to
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Tue Jun 19 16:42:09 PDT 2007
[PATCH 17/28] IB/ipath - wait for PIO available interrupt
I imagine that it is working its way into Roland's git tree
for Linus.
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 15:33 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
As
On Monday 25 June 2007 06:33, James Morris wrote:
Convert LSM into a static interface, as the ability to unload a security
module is not required by in-tree users and potentially complicates the
overall security architecture.
It's useful for some LSMs to be modular, and LSMs which are y/n
Am 25.06.2007 19:06 schrieb Steven Rostedt:
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 18:50 +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
The Siemens Gigaset ISDN base driver uses tasklets in its isochronous
data paths. [...]
Does that qualify as performance sensitive for the purpose of this
discussion?
Actually, no. 16ms,
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are there peculiarities about Cyrix that mean this isn't needed?
main.c::mtrr_add() or mtrr_del() [exported]
calls main.c::mtrr_add_page() or mtrr_del_page() or mtrr_restore() [resume]
calls main.c::set_mtrr()
calls main.c::ipi_handler()
calls
Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
Hi Linus,
Please pull the 'for-linus' branch of
git://www.atmel.no/~hskinnemoen/linux/kernel/avr32.git for-linus
to receive the following updates.
The status of the various SL*B allocators on AVR32 is now as follows:
* SLAB works, but debugging is effectively
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 13:37 -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
This was fixed by a patch that Arthur Jones sent out to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Great!
Tue Jun 19 16:42:09 PDT 2007
[PATCH 17/28] IB/ipath - wait for PIO available interrupt
I imagine that it is working its way into Roland's git tree
GMail On 16/06/07, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 16 June 2007 13:11, Richard Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 15:53 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 10:29 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
On 6/15/07, Richard Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 09:51:44AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:32:08 -0700 Mark A. Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
From: Jay Lubomirski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don't clobber the interrupt cause bits for both MPSC controllers when
clearing the interrupt for one of
* Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ Ok, so we know that XFS wants to lock inodes in ascending inode
number order and not strictly the parent-first-child-second order that
rest of the fs/ code does, so that makes it difficult to teach lockdep
about this kind of lock ordering ... ]
On 2007.06.25 13:01:58 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:36:17PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Monday 25 June 2007 21:09, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:34:48 +0200
Bj__rn Steinbrink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The performance counter allocator
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
We've been over the AA is different discussion in threads about a
billion times, and at the last kernel summit. I think Lars and others
have done a pretty good job of describing the problems they are trying
to solve, can we please move on to
From: Jay Lubomirski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The interrupt clearing code in mpsc_sdma_intr_ack() mistakenly clears the
interrupt for both controllers instead of just the one its supposed to.
This can result in the other controller appearing to hang because its
interrupt was effectively lost.
So, don't
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 22:50 +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
Ok, I'm reassured. I'll look into converting these to a work queue
then, although I can't promise when I'll get around to it.
In fact, if these timing requirements are so easy to meet, perhaps
it doesn't even need its own work queue,
On 2007.06.25 21:36:17 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Monday 25 June 2007 21:09, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:34:48 +0200
Bj__rn Steinbrink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The performance counter allocator relies on the nmi watchdog being
probed, so we have to do that even if the
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix ensoniq driver sections when HOTPLUG=n, but code is used
during resume, so it cannot be discarded:
WARNING: sound/pci/snd-ens1371.o(.text+0x5c0): Section mismatch: reference to
.init.text: (between 'snd_ensoniq_chip_init' and 'snd_ensoniq_free')
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 16:31 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 16:07 -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
Maybe we should be looking at something like GENERIC_SOFTIRQ to run
functions that a driver could add. But they would run only on the CPU
that scheduled them, and do not
Hi,
On Monday 25 June 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
the patch improves the sysbench OLTP macrobenchmark significantly:
Has that any real practical relevance?
@@ -373,6 +376,20 @@ void do_gettimeofday (struct timeval *tv
tv-tv_sec = sec;
tv-tv_usec = usec;
+
+ /*
+ *
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:05:09PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
size of memory?); but I rather think validate_anon_vma has outlived its
usefulness, and is better just removed - which gives a magnificent
Probably yes. But the most fundamental issue is that this code
probably was never meant to be
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
It's useful for some LSMs to be modular, and LSMs which are y/n options won't
have any security architecture issues with unloading at all.
Which LSMs? Upstream, there are SELinux and capabilty, and they're not
safe as loadable modules.
The
* Kristian H?gsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, here's a yell. I'm using tasklets in the new firewire stack for
all interrupt handling. All my interrupt handler does is read out the
event mask and schedule the appropriate tasklets. Most of these
tasklets typically just end up
On 25/06/07, Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On Monday 25 June 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
the patch improves the sysbench OLTP macrobenchmark significantly:
Has that any real practical relevance?
It seems to me that Ingo's patch offers slightly improved performance
for any program
Takashi Iwai kirjoitti:
At Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:51:38 +0200 (CEST),
Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
Few dayas ago OSS source code was oppened uder CDDL for Solaris and GLPv2
for Linux:
http://www.opensound.com/press/2007/oss-gpl-cddl.txt
So this source without problems code can be integragrated in
Il Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 07:42:44AM -0500, Jay Cliburn ha scritto:
Jay L. T. Cornwall wrote:
Jay Cliburn wrote:
For reasons not yet clear to me, it appears the L1 driver has a bug or
the device itself has trouble with DMA in high memory. This patch,
drafted by Luca Tettamanti, is being
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 22:49 +0200, Bartók Albert wrote:
GMail On 16/06/07, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 16 June 2007 13:11, Richard Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 15:53 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 10:29 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
Hello,
to catch some memory corruption bug in our code I've modified malloc to do
mmap + mprotect - which has unfortunate effect that it creates thousands and
thousands of VMAs. Everything works (though rather slowly on kernel with
On some machines, buggy BIOSes don't properly setup WB MTRRs to
cover all available RAM, meaning the last few megs (or even gigs)
of memory will be marked uncached. Since Linux tends to allocate
from high memory addresses first, this causes the machine to be
unusably slow as soon as the kernel
Luca Tettamanti wrote:
Il Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 07:42:44AM -0500, Jay Cliburn ha scritto:
Jay L. T. Cornwall wrote:
Jay Cliburn wrote:
For reasons not yet clear to me, it appears the L1 driver has a bug or
the device itself has trouble with DMA in high memory. This patch,
drafted by Luca
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:48:51 -0700
Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are there peculiarities about Cyrix that mean this isn't needed?
main.c::mtrr_add() or mtrr_del() [exported]
calls main.c::mtrr_add_page() or mtrr_del_page() or mtrr_restore()
On Mon 2007-06-25 19:49:57, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
On 06/25, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
On 06/25, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:43:32PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
Sadly, you can't use srcu/qrcu because it doesn't handle timeouts.
Interesting... So
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) writes:
If I actually install smake, as J�rg recommends, the message becomes:
smake: Can't find any source for 'CCOM_suncc'.
smake: Couldn't make 'CCOM_suncc'.
Well, I was in hope that a small typo (in special as the correct spelling is
in
the file
[I hope the ACKs still apply.]
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From: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At present, if a user mode helper is running while usermodehelper_pm_callback()
is executed, the helper may be frozen and the completion in
call_usermodehelper_exec() won't be completed until user space processes are
Will try this patch shortly w/ 2.6.22-rc6.
p34:/usr/src/linux-2.6.22-rc6# patch -p1 ../mtrr-v3.patch
patching file Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
patching file arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
patching file arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/if.c
patching file arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
On Jun 25, 2007 20:33 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
I have not implemented FA_FL_FREE_ENOSPC and FA_ZERO_SPACE flags yet, as
*suggested* by Andreas in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/14/323 post.
If it is decided that these flags are also needed, I will update this
patch. Thanks!
Can you clarify
[PATCH 1/2] x86-64: disable the GART in shutdown
For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more than 4G RAM
installed. when using kexec to load second kernel. In the second kernel,
when mem is allocated for GART, it will do the memset for clear, it will cause
restart, because
[PATCH 2/2] x86_84: move iommu declaration from proto to iommu.h
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
arch/x86_64/kernel/aperture.c |2 +-
arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c |1 +
arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-dma.c |2 +-
arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c |1 +
Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) writes:
If I actually install smake, as J�rg recommends, the message becomes:
smake: Can't find any source for 'CCOM_suncc'.
smake: Couldn't make 'CCOM_suncc'.
Well, I was in hope that a small typo (in special as
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 07:52:23 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
[I hope the ACKs still apply.]
Mine does :
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