Re: bonnie++ benchmarks for ext2,ext3,ext4,jfs,reiserfs,xfs,zfs on software raid 5

2007-07-30 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> Extrapolating these %cpu number makes ZFS the fastest. > > Are you sure these numbers are correct? Note, that %cpu numbers for fuse filesystems are inherently skewed, because the CPU usage of the filesystem process itself is not taken into account. So the numbers are not all that good, but

Re: Section mismatch warnings

2007-07-30 Thread Gabriel C
Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:48:09PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote: >> Hi Sam , >> >> I get this warnings with a randconfig ( >> http://194.231.229.228/git-current/randconfig-auto-36 ) : >> >> >> ... >> > I only looked at the Section mismatch warnings. > They are fixed by following

Re: [PATCH] Remove fs.h from mm.h

2007-07-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 7/30/07, Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 05:08:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > > > > Cross-compile tested without regressions on my two usual configs and > > > (sigh): > > > > > > alpha

Re: [PATCH] usb-serial: Fix edgeport regression on non-EPiC devices

2007-07-30 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:03:29AM -0400, Adam Kropelin wrote: > Fix serious regression on non-EPiC edgeport usb-serial devices. Baud > rate and MCR/LCR registers are not being written on these models due > to apparent copy-n-paste errors introduced with EPiC support. > > Failure reported by

Re: [PATCH] create /proc/all-interrupts

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:33:17 -0700 Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 11:56 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Joe Korty wrote: > > > Create /proc/all-interrupts for some architectures. > > > > > > Create a version of /proc/interrupts that displays _every_ >

Re: [TULIP] Need new maintainer

2007-07-30 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:04:13PM -0600, Valerie Henson wrote: > The Tulip network driver needs a new maintainer! I no longer have > time to maintain the Tulip network driver and I'm stepping down. Jeff > Garzik would be happy to get volunteers. > Since I already take care of a major consumer

problem with huawei e630 data card

2007-07-30 Thread Inguna
hello i use a kernel 2.6.22.1 (last stabile kernel from kernel.org) i have a huewei e630 hsdpa/umts/edge/gprs/gsm data card, who set in pcmcia slot on notebook ( acer 2413 travelmate, linux mandriva 2007. there is dmesg output: pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0 yenta EnE: chaning

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Use mutex instead of semaphore in the Host AP driver

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:09:38 +0200 Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 30 July 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > > > On Sunday 29 July 2007 23:34, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: > > > > The Host AP driver uses a semaphore as mutex.

Re: ATI driver problems.

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:01:48 -0500 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just thought I would pass this along, hopefully everyone will stop > buying the hardware > If anyone has contacts at ATI they might want to let them know they are > pissing off the community every time they send this response

[GIT PULL] SLUB updates

2007-07-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
Please pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/slab.git to-linus Peter Zijlstra (2): slub: add lock debugging check slub: fix bug in slub debug support mm/slub.c |3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) - To unsubscribe from this list:

[GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB fixes

2007-07-30 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Linus, Please pull from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git master For some fixes at V4L/DVB drivers: - zr36067: proper standard handling, proper raw capture, fix at poll(), V4L2 API compliance for image size and video formats; - bttv: fix

Re: [bug] pcwd_init_module(): WARNING: at lib/kref.c:33 kref_get()

2007-07-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Wim Van Sebroeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See below fix. Please test it. thanks, this fixes the crash! Michal, please mark this .23 regression entry as resolved: Subject : pcwd_init_module(): WARNING: at lib/kref.c:33 kref_get() References :

ATI driver problems.

2007-07-30 Thread Greg.Chandler
Just thought I would pass this along, hopefully everyone will stop buying the hardware If anyone has contacts at ATI they might want to let them know they are pissing off the community every time they send this response out. I especially liked the part at the bottom where it talks about

patch usb-fix-bug-sleeping-function-called-from-invalid-context-at-home-jeremy-hg-xen-paravirt-linux-drivers-usb-core-urb.c-524-in_atomic-1-irqs_disabled-0.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

2007-07-30 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: USB: fix BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /home/jeremy/hg/xen/paravirt/linux/drivers/usb/core/urb.c:524, in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0 to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is

Re: [1/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions with patches v3

2007-07-30 Thread Adam Kropelin
Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc1 > with patches available. I don't know which list this belongs in (good: 2.6.20.6, bad 2.6.22.1), but here's a clear regression with patch: Subject : Edgeport UPS Monitoring Problems

patch usb-clean-up-duplicate-includes-in-drivers-usb.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

2007-07-30 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: USB: Clean up duplicate includes in drivers/usb/ to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is usb-clean-up-duplicate-includes-in-drivers-usb.patch This tree can be found at

patch kernel-doc-fixes-for-pci-and-drivers-base.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

2007-07-30 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: kernel-doc fixes for PCI and drivers/base/ to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is kernel-doc-fixes-for-pci-and-drivers-base.patch This tree can be found at

patch driver-core-revert-device-link-creation-check.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

2007-07-30 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: driver core: revert "device" link creation check to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is driver-core-revert-device-link-creation-check.patch This tree can be found at

[PATCH] tulip: Remove tulip maintainer

2007-07-30 Thread Valerie Henson
Remove Val Henson as tulip maintainer and let her roam free, FREE! Signed-off-by: Val Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.orig/MAINTAINERS +++ linux-2.6/MAINTAINERS @@ -3569,11 +3569,9 @@ W: http://www.auk.cx/tms380tr/ S: Maintained TULIP NETWORK DRIVER -P: Valerie Henson

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Kenneth Prugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Hello, I have a gaming rig and would love to help benchmark with my > copy of UT2004(E6600 Core2 and a 7950GTO card). Or if you have > anything else that would better serve as a benchmark I could grab it > and try. > >

[PATCH] Fallout from "Remove fs.h from mm.h" patch

2007-07-30 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
While I was busy compile-testing my patch, ENOSYS sneaked into pm.h leading to some compile-breakages mostly on ia64 and some mips configs. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/pm.h |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/include/linux/pm.h +++

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ah, you mean Kasper Sandberg's report? That turned out to be based > > on an older CFS version, not v2.6.23-rc1. Kasper said he'll redo his > > tests, and if there's still any regression left we'll fix it. > > probably. I delete lkml messages

Re: cris port lacks a merge?

2007-07-30 Thread Roland Dreier
> The problem is that every time I try the following happens: > > 1. I download the bleeding edge latest stuff that you can get > 2. I prepare and submit patches > 3. I get replies with comments on my patches > 4. I fix the patches. > 5. I get told that the patches are against a too old

Re: [2/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions v3

2007-07-30 Thread Ismail Dönmez
On Monday 30 July 2007 19:33:57 you wrote: > Subject         : New ACPI error/warning with Linus' latest GIT > References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/395 > Last known good : ? > Submitter       : Ismail Dönmez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Caused-By       : ? > Handled-By      : ? > Status      

Re: [PATCH] Remove fs.h from mm.h

2007-07-30 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:00:47PM +0900, Hirokazu Takata wrote: > This change breaks m32r, too. Apologies. I just finished adding m32r to my cross-build setup, so there shouldn't be any more such breakages. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: bonnie++ benchmarks for ext2,ext3,ext4,jfs,reiserfs,xfs,zfs on software raid 5

2007-07-30 Thread Al Boldi
Justin Piszcz wrote: > CONFIG: > > Software RAID 5 (400GB x 6): Default mkfs parameters for all filesystems. > Kernel was 2.6.21 or 2.6.22, did these awhile ago. > Hardware was SATA with PCI-e only, nothing on the PCI bus. > > ZFS was userspace+fuse of course. Wow! Userspace and still that

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread david
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would you be interested in trying CFS and doing some numers perhaps? It requires some work: you have to start up your favorite game in a way that gives a reliable framerate number. (many games allow the

Re: [PATCH] Fix msr register allocation

2007-07-30 Thread Andi Kleen
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Note that the EAX output constraint is re-used in the input section for > > (u32)val, i.e. the lower half of the value to be written. And "wrmsr" > > needs that in EAX, so you cannot change the output constraint without > > touching the

[TULIP] Need new maintainer

2007-07-30 Thread Valerie Henson
The Tulip network driver needs a new maintainer! I no longer have time to maintain the Tulip network driver and I'm stepping down. Jeff Garzik would be happy to get volunteers. The only current major outstanding patch I know of is Grant's shutdown race patch, which was incorrectly dropped as

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would you be interested in trying CFS and doing some numers perhaps? > > It requires some work: you have to start up your favorite game in a > > way that gives a reliable framerate number. (many games allow the > > display of FPS in-game) In

[PATCH] ufs: implement show_options

2007-07-30 Thread Evgeniy Dushistov
This patch contains implementation of show_options method for UFS, it depend on add-in-sunos-41x-compatible-mode-for-ufs.patch and add-in-sunos-41x-compatible-mode-for-ufs-fix.patch. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux-2.6.23-rc1/fs/ufs/super.c

Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

2007-07-30 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:05:35AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Borislav Petkov wrote: >> Breakpoint 4, 0x00040200 in ?? () >> 1: x/i ($cs << 4) + $eip 0x40300: lea(%si),%dx >> (gdb) p/x $ds >> $1 = 0x18 > > > This isn't the setup code, it's doing something else. > > Could you try this

Re: [PATCH] Remove fs.h from mm.h

2007-07-30 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 05:08:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > > Cross-compile tested without regressions on my two usual configs and (sigh): > > > > alpha arm-mx1adsmips-bigsur powerpc-ebony > .. > > Heh. > >

Re: Section mismatch warnings

2007-07-30 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:48:09PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote: > Hi Sam , > > I get this warnings with a randconfig ( > http://194.231.229.228/git-current/randconfig-auto-36 ) : > > > ... > I only looked at the Section mismatch warnings. They are fixed by following patch. James - I assume you

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1

2007-07-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:27:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > ho hum, crap. Yes, ioctl_by_bdev() doesn't have a file* and so it makes > unlocked_ioctl() rather tricky. We could cook up a `struct file' on the > stack (we do that in various places), but that sucks. > > Christoph, have you any

RE: [PATCH] ia64: fix a few section mismatch warnings

2007-07-30 Thread Luck, Tony
> > Oops. You moved the multiply by sizeof(struct ia64_mca_cpu) up into > > the mca_bootmem() function to make it very specific to this use. But > > mutiply has higher precedence than addition. > > Oh crap - good catch. > Shall I resubmit a corrected patch? Are there any other ways that we might

Ok, lets kill the 'PCI hidden behind bridge' message (was: pci=assign-busses)

2007-07-30 Thread Bernhard Kaindl
Adrian Bunk wrote: Alois Nešpor wrote PCI: Bus #0b (-#0e) is hidden behind transparent bridge #0a (-#0b) (try 'pci=assign-busses') Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently" dmesg: "Yenta: Raising subordinate bus# of parent bus (#0a) from #0b to #0e" without

Re: bug in slab.c

2007-07-30 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:05:09AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Looks like the slab header was corrupted. If this can be reproduced then > you need to enable slub debugging to find the kernel function that > corrupts memory. Yup, I'll try that if it happens again. > Otherwise it could be

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Miguel Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in mainline (2.6.22): > /** > * sys_sched_yield - yield the current processor to other threads. > * > * This function yields the current CPU by moving the calling thread > * to the expired array. If there are no other threads running on this

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:58:34 + "Dave Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I get an oops when trying to mount an ISO file using the loopback device. > > If I revert the patch 'loop-use-unlocked_ioctl.patch' the mount works. > > > > Here's the oops: > > > > [ 85.697033] Unable to

Re: [PATCH] fs: Add romfs version 2

2007-07-30 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/30/2007 08:12 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: Lindsay Roberts wrote: * Increases romfs partition size limit from 2GB to 4GB. * Adds new derivative of romfs filesystem (rom2fs) with block aligned regular file data to bring performance parity with ext2/3. This is about 225% of the read speed of

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:25:47AM +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote: > > The ATI drivers (current 8.39.4) were broken by > commit e21ea246bce5bb93dd822de420172ec280aed492 > Author: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Bad call on the "nobody was using these", Martin :( Sorry to use foul

Re: [RFC 00/26] VFS based Union Mount (V2)

2007-07-30 Thread Al Boldi
Jan Blunck wrote: > Here is another post of the VFS based union mount implementation. Unlike > the traditional mount which hides the contents of the mount point, union > mounts present the merged view of the mount point and the mounted > filesytem. Great! > Recent changes: > - brand new union

Re: Problem with saa7134 driver (tuner doesn't tune specific stations)

2007-07-30 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Hi Khelben, It seems to be something related to tda8290/8275 tuner. This may be standard related. Are those channels analog or digital? If analog, what's your video standard? Can you do a bissect and help us to identify what patch broke it? You can do a -git bissect or use our Mercurial

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Debug handling of early spurious interrupts

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:58:14 +0900 Fernando Luis V__zquez Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So bad things might happen because of this change. And if they do, they > > will take a lng time to be discovered, because non-shared interrupt > > handlers tend to dwell in crufty old drivers

Re: [rfc] direct IO submission and completion scalability issues

2007-07-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > We have been looking into the linux kernel direct IO scalability issues with > database workloads. Comments and suggestions on our below experiments are > welcome. This was on an SMP system? These issues are much more pronounced on a NUMA system.

Re: [PATCH] flush icache before set_pte() take 5. [1/2] cache flush in migration

2007-07-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > In migration, a new page should be cache flushed before set_pte() > in some archs which have virtually-tagged cache.. > > V4 -> V5: >* changed flush_icache_page to flush_cache_page. > > Signed-Off-By: KAMEZAWA Hiruyoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PATCH] fs: Add romfs version 2

2007-07-30 Thread Phillip Susi
Lindsay Roberts wrote: * Increases romfs partition size limit from 2GB to 4GB. * Adds new derivative of romfs filesystem (rom2fs) with block aligned regular file data to bring performance parity with ext2/3. This is about 225% of the read speed of the existing romfs. Why does block

Re: [PATCH -rt] temporary WARN_ON removal

2007-07-30 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 21:55 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > These two WARN_ON calls send my system into a boot hang. They trigger > > over and over , some examples below. > > hm, could you try to figure out why they trigger on your box and not on >

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 - seems OK on Dell Latitude D820, except for tpm_tis

2007-07-30 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Friday 27 July 2007 04:43:13 pm Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Friday 27 July 2007 07:28:09 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Looks like the problematic code is in tpm_tis.c tpm_tis_init() near here: > > > > for (i = 3; i < 16 && chip->vendor.irq == 0; i++) { > >

Re: [1/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions v3

2007-07-30 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 06:33:50PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, > Hi all, > > Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc1. > > Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. > http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions > > List of Aces > > Name

schedular : No code : New interactive (ia) sched class : Part 1

2007-07-30 Thread Mitchell Erblich
Group, - Comments for or against the SCHED_IA class in the generic Linux kernel source tree. - General comments With Ingo Molnar's 2.6.22 latest inclusions into the Linux source base, he has opened an opportunity to add additional task

Re: bug in slab.c

2007-07-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Robert Schwebel wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:16:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > My Dell Latitude D520 just dies with this BUG: > > > > Reproducible, I assume. > > No, happened only one time. Looks like the slab header was corrupted. If this can be reproduced

Re: bug in slab.c

2007-07-30 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:16:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > My Dell Latitude D520 just dies with this BUG: > > Reproducible, I assume. No, happened only one time. > Have you tried testing a kernel which doesn't have those drivers? > > (It'd be a clever little driver to cause that BUG

Re: [patch] sched: introduce SD_BALANCE_FORK for ht/mc/smp domains

2007-07-30 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:16:44PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Siddha, Suresh B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > They might be doing more exec's and probably covered by exec balance. > > > > There was a small pthread test case which was calculating the time to > > create all the threads

Re: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels

2007-07-30 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 22:04, Andi Kleen wrote: > Better just write less bloated code. Perhaps mandatory bloatometer > runs during -rc*s for kernels with minimal config with public code pig shame > lists > similar to the regression lists are useful. Anyone volunteering? > > I suspect there is

Re: [PATCH 0/8] i386: bitops: Cleanup, sanitize, optimize

2007-07-30 Thread Denis Vlasenko
Hi Satyam, On Monday 23 July 2007 17:05, Satyam Sharma wrote: > There was a lot of bogus stuff that include/asm-i386/bitops.h was doing, > that was unnecessary and not required for the correctness of those APIs. > All that superfluous stuff was also unnecessarily disallowing compiler >

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Kenneth Prugh
Ingo Molnar wrote: > Hello, I have a gaming rig and would love to help benchmark with my copy of UT2004(E6600 Core2 and a 7950GTO card). Or if you have anything else that would better serve as a benchmark I could grab it and try. The only problem is I don't know what 2 kernels I should be using

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 02:25 +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote: > On 7/31/07, Jacob Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/30/07, kriko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would try the new cfs how it performs, but it seems that nvidia drivers > > > doesn't compile successfully under 2.6.23-rc1. > > >

Section mismatch warnings

2007-07-30 Thread Gabriel C
Hi Sam , I get this warnings with a randconfig ( http://194.231.229.228/git-current/randconfig-auto-36 ) : ... WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xeaf7): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:init_gdt (between 'voyager_smp_prepare_boot_cpu' and 'smp_vic_cmn_interrupt') WARNING:

Re: [1/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions v3

2007-07-30 Thread david
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 30/07/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Subject : /usr/bin/ld: section .text [ff700500 -> ff7007e3] overlaps section .gnu.version_d [ff7004d8 ->

Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] lro: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Here is a quick reply before something more official can be written up: Linas Vepstas wrote: > -- what is LRO? Large Receive Offload > -- Basic principles of operation? LRO is analogous to a receive side version of TSO. The NIC (or driver) merges several consecutive segments from the same

Re: k8temp on 2.6.18

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff Garrett
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 19:15 +0200, Clemens Koller wrote: > shacky schrieb: > > Hi. > > I'm using the 2.6.18 kernel (and I cannot upgrade it), but I need the > > "k8temp" module which is available only from the 2.6.21 version. > > Is there a way to use this module on my 2.6.18? > > What is your

Re: [1/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions v3

2007-07-30 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 30/07/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > > Subject : /usr/bin/ld: section .text [ff700500 -> > > ff7007e3] overlaps section .gnu.version_d [ff7004d8 -> > > ff70050f] > > References :

Re: [PATCH] remove unused TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME (take 2)

2007-07-30 Thread Stephane Eranian
Andrew, On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:21:15AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:30:34 -0700 Stephane Eranian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This following patch removes the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag for thread_info. It > > is unused > > on all but the IA-64 architecture. This is

Re: [linux-usb-devel] drivers/usb/gadget/dummy_hcd.c - DEBUG redefined warnings

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Gabriel C wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed the following warnings with a randconfig ( > http://194.231.229.228/git-current/randconfig-auto-34 ): > > ... > > CC [M] drivers/usb/gadget/dummy_hcd.o > drivers/usb/gadget/dummy_hcd.c:37:1: warning: "DEBUG" redefined > : warning:

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Use mutex instead of semaphore in the Host AP driver

2007-07-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:50:31PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: > > > [...] > > > > The Host AP driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API > > instead of the (binary) semaphore. > > > > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] create /proc/all-interrupts

2007-07-30 Thread Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 11:56 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Joe Korty wrote: > > Create /proc/all-interrupts for some architectures. > > > > Create a version of /proc/interrupts that displays _every_ > > IRQ vector, not just those that someone thought might be > > interesting, and add an entry in

Re: Update: ide problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not:

2007-07-30 Thread Len Brown
On Sunday 29 July 2007 22:54, Danny ter Haar wrote: > Quoting Gabriel C ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Now while we think is ACPI this should be easy for you to bisect. > > This commit > >

Re: [PATCH] remove unused TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME (take 2)

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:30:34 -0700 Stephane Eranian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This following patch removes the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag for thread_info. It > is unused > on all but the IA-64 architecture. This is take 2 of this patch. In this > version, > The definition is removed but no

Re: k8temp on 2.6.18

2007-07-30 Thread Clemens Koller
shacky schrieb: Hi. I'm using the 2.6.18 kernel (and I cannot upgrade it), but I need the "k8temp" module which is available only from the 2.6.21 version. Is there a way to use this module on my 2.6.18? What is your problem that you cannot upgrade your kernel? Backporting the k8temp is

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Use mutex instead of semaphore in the Host AP driver

2007-07-30 Thread Michael Buesch
On Monday 30 July 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > On Sunday 29 July 2007 23:34, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: > > > The Host AP driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API > > > instead of the (binary) semaphore. > > > > > > Signed-off-by:

[PATCH 1/4] UML - Move userspace code to userspace file

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff Dike
Move some code from a kernelspace file to a userspace file where it fits better. This enables some tidying which is the subject of a later patch. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- arch/um/drivers/chan_kern.c | 48 ---

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Kyle Rose
> As for breaking binary crap, thats a bonus. Break them hard, break them > often. > I think there's a big difference in philosophy between "break binary drivers if you want to make a legitimate change for whatever reason" and "break binary drivers just to be a pain in the ass to the

[PATCH 4/4] UML - Console subsystem tidying

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff Dike
This does a lot of cleanup on the UML console system. This patch should be entirely non-functional. The tidying is as follows: header cleanups - the includes should be closer to minimal and complete all printks now have a severity lots of style fixes fd_close is

[PATCH 3/4] UML - Fix error cleanup ordering

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff Dike
I messed up the error cleanup ordering in the console port driver. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.21-mm/arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c

[PATCH 0/4] UML - Console cleanups

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff Dike
These patches resulting from noticing a lot of cleanups needed in the UML console system while fixing the previous spurious interrupt testing. There is one minor bug fix - a misordering of the error cleanups in one of the drivers. These are for 2.6.24. Jeff --

[PATCH 2/4] UML - Tidy recently-moved code

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff Dike
Now that the generic console operations are in a userspace file, we can do the following: directly call into libc instead of through the os_* wrappers eliminate os_window_size since it has only one user Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c |

drivers/usb/gadget/dummy_hcd.c - DEBUG redefined warnings

2007-07-30 Thread Gabriel C
Hi, I noticed the following warnings with a randconfig ( http://194.231.229.228/git-current/randconfig-auto-34 ): ... CC [M] drivers/usb/gadget/dummy_hcd.o drivers/usb/gadget/dummy_hcd.c:37:1: warning: "DEBUG" redefined : warning: this is the location of the previous definition CC

Re: 2.6.23-rc1, KVM-AMD problem

2007-07-30 Thread Avi Kivity
Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Monday 30 July 2007 14:00:13 Avi Kivity wrote: How about the attached patch? (I haven't yet tried to reproduce, but this can cause an AMD-only oops). This seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks Avi. Excellent. I'll submit this fix for 2.6.23.

Re: [PATCH 2/4][RFC] lro: Kconfig and Makefile

2007-07-30 Thread Kok, Auke
Jeff Garzik wrote: Stephen Hemminger wrote: Why make this a user selectable option at all? Unless you want to deal with out of tree drivers (not my problem), it should be hidden to avoid having to explain an support it. In this case it's an optional library kernel module. That seems to be a

[PATCH] Fix ENOSYS undeclared errors from linux/pm.h

2007-07-30 Thread Luck, Tony
With CONFIG_SUSPEND=n I get build errors from at least a couple of files because of the use of ENOSYS in the stub for pm_suspend(). Should those .c files be forced to include errno.h? Or should we have the include in pm.h? Assuming the latter ... Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] lro: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic

2007-07-30 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 05:24:33PM +0200, Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: > > Changes to http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg36912.html > > 1) A new field called "features" has been added to the net_lro_mgr struct. >It is set by the driver to indicate: >- LRO_F_NAPI:Use NAPI /

Re: 2.6.23-rc1, KVM-AMD problem

2007-07-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 30 July 2007 14:00:13 Avi Kivity wrote: > How about the attached patch? (I haven't yet tried to reproduce, but > this can cause an AMD-only oops). This seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks Avi. -- Cheers, Alistair. 137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Rashkae
Martin Schwidefsky wrote: Do we care ? The code should be replaced with ptep_get_and_clear + pte_modify anyway.. Since the general direction of this thread was for people to test 3D game performance with the shiny new CFS cpu scheduler, I would say yes, we do care if people with the only

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 02:25 +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote: > On 7/31/07, Jacob Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/30/07, kriko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would try the new cfs how it performs, but it seems that nvidia drivers > > > doesn't compile successfully under 2.6.23-rc1. > > >

why does selecting ACPI now require PNP?

2007-07-30 Thread david
in the current thread 'long term regression' we're troubleshooting printing problems that seem to be triggered by ACPI_PNP. in sometime between 2.6.18 and 2.6.22 configuring ACPI started forcing ACPI_PNP even if PNP was otherwise disabled. given the recent discussion on ACPI forcing

Re: [1/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions v3

2007-07-30 Thread david
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Subject : /usr/bin/ld: section .text [ff700500 -> ff7007e3] overlaps section .gnu.version_d [ff7004d8 -> ff70050f] References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/239 Last known good : ? Submitter :

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 02:25 +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote: > On 7/31/07, Jacob Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/30/07, kriko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would try the new cfs how it performs, but it seems that nvidia drivers > > > doesn't compile successfully under 2.6.23-rc1. > > >

Re: [PATCH 3/4][RFC] ehea: LRO support

2007-07-30 Thread Kok, Auke
Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: Added LRO support using the "SKB aggregate" interface Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h |9 - drivers/net/ehea/ehea_ethtool.c | 15 +++ drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c| 82

Re: [PATCH 2/4][RFC] lro: Kconfig and Makefile

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stephen Hemminger wrote: Why make this a user selectable option at all? Unless you want to deal with out of tree drivers (not my problem), it should be hidden to avoid having to explain an support it. In this case it's an optional library kernel module. That seems to be a common setup for

[PATCH][RFC] RT: Preemptible Function-Call-IPI Support

2007-07-30 Thread Gregory Haskins
This patch is an RFC for the "Threaded IPI" idea I was talking about last week on the linux-rt/kvm list. It builds and boots fine for me. However, note the following: 1) Currently only x86_64 has been converted. After I get more feedback I will convert the other relevant architectures as

Re: [PATCH] Fix msr register allocation

2007-07-30 Thread Glauber de Oliveira Costa
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 17:37 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.07.30 12:25:54 -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > > Since the value in ret will go through a return statement, > ^^^ > You mean "err" I guess? Yeah, you're right. > Note that the EAX output constraint

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Em Segunda, 30 de Julho de 2007 12:46, Ingo Molnar escreveu: > * John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/29/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ingo- > > > > > > > > Why not perform the same test using the native linux Q3 client to > > > >

Re: [3/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions with patches v3

2007-07-30 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc1 with patches available. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk6

Re: [2/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions with patches v3

2007-07-30 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc1 with patches available. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk6

[1/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions with patches v3

2007-07-30 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc1 with patches available. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk6

Re: [3/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions v3

2007-07-30 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc1. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk6 Andi Kleen

Re: [2/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions v3

2007-07-30 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc1. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk6 Andi Kleen

[1/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions v3

2007-07-30 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc1. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk6 Andi Kleen

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