Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make struct jprobe.entry a void *

2007-06-25 Thread Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:48:50AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: --- It isn't obvious where kprobes patches should go, is anyone the maintainer? Instead I've just sent this to everyone who'd touched the code lately, or might be otherwise interested. There isn't a single maintainer for the

Re: [PATCH try #2] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-25 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 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

Re: [PATCH] SLOB allocator imcompatible SLAB

2007-06-25 Thread Nick Piggin
Yoshinori Sato wrote: At Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:56:35 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 05:08:07PM +0900, Yoshinori Sato wrote: Because the page which SLOB allocator got does not have PG_slab, This is for a NOMMU system? Yes. You're using an old kernel with an old

Re: [PATCH try #2] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-25 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jun 25, 2007, at 16:37:58, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: 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

Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?

2007-06-25 Thread Jan Harkes
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:54:52PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Consider this scenario: vendor tivoizes Linux in the device, and includes the corresponding sources only in a partition that is theoretically accessible using the shipped kernel, but that nothing in the software available in the

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-06-20-10-12.tar.gz uploaded

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:14:22 -0400 Bob Picco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy Dunlap wrote: [Wed Jun 20 2007, 09:07:11PM EDT] On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:51:22 -0400 Bob Picco wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Wed Jun 20 2007, 01:14:34PM EDT] [snip] Build breakage.

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-25 Thread Al Boldi
Alexandre Oliva wrote: Consider this scenario: vendor tivoizes Linux in the device, and includes the corresponding sources only in a partition that is theoretically accessible using the shipped kernel, but that nothing in the software available in the machine will let you get to. Further,

Re: Patent or not patent a new idea

2007-06-25 Thread Graeme Sheppard
Neil Brown wrote: ??? (reads original description in more detail). So... the filesystem images are identical in both copies, and the interesting bit is that the image is just a file on some filesystem. So could I implement your idea by: dd if=/dev/zero of=/1/bigfile count=lotsandlots dd

Re: [PATCH try #2] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-25 Thread Kyle Moffett
Oops, typo: On Jun 26, 2007, at 00:09:24, Kyle Moffett wrote: This sounds suspiciously like The mere fact that the Linux-2.6-VM cannot be built as a module is a rather weak argument for disabling VFS modules as a whole Meant to say: ...disabling VM modules as a whole. Cheers, Kyle Moffett

Re: [PATCH] IOATDMA: fix section mismatches

2007-06-25 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:51:47PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rename struct pci_driver data so that false section mismatch warnings won't be produced. Sam, ISTM that depending on variable names is the weakest worst part of modpost section checking.

Re: Patent or not patent a new idea

2007-06-25 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday June 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the brief howto there. I'll install the mdadm suite and experiment. It seems like a userspace driver? mdadm is a userspace tool for managing the 'md' driver which is in the linux kernel. I don't know what you mean by '2'. 2 meant

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make struct jprobe.entry a void *

2007-06-25 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 09:29 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:48:50AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: --- It isn't obvious where kprobes patches should go, is anyone the maintainer? Instead I've just sent this to everyone who'd touched the code lately,

Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc: add rtc-m41t80 driver

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:09:34 +0900 (JST) Atsushi Nemoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a new-style i2c driver for ST M41T80 series RTC chip, derived from works by Alexander Bigga [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote the original rtc-m41txx.c based on drivers/i2c/chips/m41t00.c driver. This driver

Re: [PATCH] SLOB allocator imcompatible SLAB

2007-06-25 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:06:15PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Yoshinori Sato wrote: At Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:56:35 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 05:08:07PM +0900, Yoshinori Sato wrote: Because the page which SLOB allocator got does not have PG_slab, This is for a

Re: [PATCH] SLOB allocator imcompatible SLAB

2007-06-25 Thread Nick Piggin
Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:06:15PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Yoshinori Sato wrote: At Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:56:35 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 05:08:07PM +0900, Yoshinori Sato wrote: Because the page which SLOB allocator got does not have

Re: [patch 2/2] HFS+: Add custom dentry hash and comparison operations

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:17:19 +0200 (CEST) Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +/* + * Hash a string to an integer as appropriate for the HFS+ filesystem. + * Composed unicode characters are decomposed and case-folding is performed + * if the appropriate bits are (un)set on the superblock.

[PATCH] Fix for bad lock balance in Containers

2007-06-25 Thread Dhaval Giani
Hi, I have been going through the containers code and trying it out. I tried mounting the same hierarchy at two different points and I got a bad locking balance warning. = [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ] - mount/4467

Re: [PATCH] fix section mismatch in chipsfb

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:15:28 +0200 Olaf Hering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe this is the correct fix: WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x8742a): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:chipsfb_fix (between 'chipsfb_pci_init' and 'chipsfb_set_par') WARNING:

Re: [PATCH update] Documentation/HOWTO: update URLs of git trees

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:45:58 +0200 (CEST) Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Jun, Chris Wright wrote: * Stefan Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: + Other kernel trees can be found listed at http://kernel.org/git and in Should be http://git.kernel.org/ these days Right.

Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc: add rtc-m41t80 driver

2007-06-25 Thread Atsushi Nemoto
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:46:20 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + const static struct m41t80_chip_info *chip; It's a bit weird that `chip' has static storage class here. Was that deliberate? Oh the variable should not be static! I will send updated patch. BTW, I reveived

Re: [PATCH try #3] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-25 Thread Marcus Meissner
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you 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. Needlessly exported LSM symbols have been unexported, to help reduce API

Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc: add rtc-m41t80 driver

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:15:36 +0900 (JST) Atsushi Nemoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:46:20 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + const static struct m41t80_chip_info *chip; It's a bit weird that `chip' has static storage class here. Was that deliberate?

Re: [PATCH] SLOB allocator imcompatible SLAB

2007-06-25 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 03:00:56PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:06:15PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Yoshinori Sato wrote: At Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:56:35 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 05:08:07PM +0900, Yoshinori Sato wrote:

Re: [Intel IOMMU 06/10] Avoid memory allocation failures in dma map api calls

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:06:39 +0200 Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 14:37 -0700, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote: plain text document attachment (intel_iommu_pf_memalloc.patch) Intel IOMMU driver needs memory during DMA map calls to setup its internal page tables

2.6.22-rc6: NMI oops and long pauses during boot

2007-06-25 Thread Meelis Roos
I compiled 2.6.22-rc6 yesterday and testbooted it. First boot hung with oops/bug dump. I did not have a camera ready but it was an oops-like dump that included die_nmi or something similar about NMI. Second boot booted fine until INIT had started and then came a long pause (tens of seconds).

Re: [Intel IOMMU 02/10] PCI generic helper function

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:37:03 -0700 Keshavamurthy, Anil S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +struct pci_dev * +pci_find_upstream_pcie_bridge(struct pci_dev *pdev) You didn't need a newline there, but that's what the rest of that file does. Hu hum. +{ + struct pci_dev *tmp = NULL; + + if

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Remove JPROBE_ENTRY()

2007-06-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:48:51AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: AFAICT now that jprobe.entry is a void *, JPROBE_ENTRY doesn't do anything useful - so remove it .. I've left a do-nothing version so that out-of-tree jprobes code will still compile without modifications. Please kill the

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Make jprobes a little safer for users

2007-06-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:48:51AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: I realise jprobes are a razor-blades-included type of interface, but that doesn't mean we can't try and make them safer to use. This guy I know once wrote code like this: struct jprobe jp = { .kp.symbol_name = foo, .entry =

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 -- x86_64 ACPI panic

2007-06-25 Thread Len Brown
Applied. thanks, -Len On Friday 08 June 2007 14:12, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:15:45 +0800 Luming Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only problem known as to the acpi throttling changes in the mm tree is a typo ,and the patch to fix it is available here. Please test and

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