[Patch 02/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the mips arch.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Ralf Baechle [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/mips/au1000/common/dbdma.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: b/arch/mips/au1000/common/dbdma.c === ---

Re: [Patch 16/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the jfs filesystem.

2007-07-31 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Looks good. I'll push it through the jfs git tree. Thanks, Shaggy On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:53 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: David Kleikamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c |8 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6

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

2007-07-31 Thread Matthew Hawkins
On 7/31/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CFS generally seemed a lot smoother as the load increased, while SD broke down to a highly unstable fps count that fluctuated massively around the third loop. Seems like I will stick to CFS for gaming

Re: [rft] Kill junk from s2ram resume paths

2007-07-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This removes some stale debugging infrastructure from s2ram paths. Also, there's no need to verify_cpu on x86-64 -- cpu can't change during s2ram, and removed #if 0-ed code. Some testing would be useful, perpahs it will even fix someone's machine :-). (VGA accesses could

[Patch 10/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the irda drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Samuel Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/irda/kingsun-sir.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/net/irda/kingsun-sir.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 4/7] sysfs: simplify sysfs_remove_dir()

2007-07-31 Thread Tejun Heo
Cornelia Huck wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:15:08 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the shadow directories gone, sysfs_remove_dir() can be simplified. * parent doesn't need to be grabbed separately. Just access old_dentry-d_parent. * parent sd can never change. Remove

Re: regression on HP zx1 platform from ACPI autoload modules patches - PATCH that fixes it

2007-07-31 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:01 +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 08:06 -0400, Doug Chapman wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 01:07 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi Doug, On 31/07/07, Doug Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing a regression on the HP ia64 zx1

Re: [PATCHSET 2.6.23-rc1] sysfs: locking fix and cleanups

2007-07-31 Thread Tejun Heo
Cornelia Huck wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:15:08 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all. This patchset contains a locking fix and cleanup patches for sysfs. #01 locking fix #02 shadow support removal from Eric adapted to apply after #01 #03-07 clean up patches

[PATCH 0/2][RFC] VFCIPI v3

2007-07-31 Thread Gregory Haskins
Changelog from v2: 1) Converted smp_call_funtion[_single]__nodelay to raw_smp_call_function[_single] to match existing nomenclature in the -rt series. 2) Removed all PI related code from Patch #1 and moved it to #2 where it belonged. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[PATCH 1/2] RT: Preemptible Function-Call-IPI Support

2007-07-31 Thread Gregory Haskins
This code allows FUNCTION_CALL IPIs to become preemptible by executing them in kthread context instead of interrupt context. They are referred to as Virtual Function Call IPIs (VFCIPI) because we no longer rely on the actual FCIPI facility. Instead we schedule a thread to run. This essentially

[PATCH 2/2] RT: Add priority inheritance to the VFCIPI facility

2007-07-31 Thread Gregory Haskins
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/vfcipi/thread.c | 144 1 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/vfcipi/thread.c b/kernel/vfcipi/thread.c index 45bb4e2..306560a 100644 ---

Re: [PATCH 6/7] sysfs: make sysfs_add_one() automatically check for duplicate entry

2007-07-31 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:15:08 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sysfs_add_one() check for duplicate entry and return -EEXIST if such entry exists. This simplifies node addition code a bit. This patch doesn't introduce any noticeable behavior change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

Re: Crypto API Weirdnesses

2007-07-31 Thread Akinobu Mita
Failed to setup dm-crypt key mapping. Check kernel for support for the aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 cipher spec and verify that /dev/hda4 contains at least 133 sectors. Failed to read from key storage Looks like a cryptsetup error message, not kernel's. I can't find CONFIG_DM_CRYPT in the

Re: Crypto API Weirdnesses

2007-07-31 Thread Felipe Balbi
On 7/31/07, Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Failed to setup dm-crypt key mapping. Check kernel for support for the aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 cipher spec and verify that /dev/hda4 contains at least 133 sectors. Failed to read from key storage Looks like a cryptsetup error message,

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

2007-07-31 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
] that makes -ck to behave like CFS then you are comparing apples to apples. Details on the SCHED_YIELD implementation on [2]. Please correct it if it's wrong. 1 - http://www.debianpt.org/~elmig/pool/kernel/20070731/sched_yield_hack.patch 2 - http://bhhdoa.org.au/pipermail/ck/2007-July/008297.html

Re: [PATCH 7/7] sysfs: make sysfs_addrm_finish() return void

2007-07-31 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:15:09 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the previous sysfs_add_one() update, there is only one user of the return value of sysfs_addrm_finish() and the user can switch to testing @sd easily. Make sysfs_addrm_finish() return void for cleaner semantics as

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

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: On Monday 30 July 2007 22:32, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Second, you still need to set skb-ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY when modified packets are flushed, else the stack will see bad checksums for packets from CHECKSUM_COMPLETE drivers using the skb interface. Fixed

Re: [rft] Kill junk from s2ram resume paths

2007-07-31 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:18, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! This removes some stale debugging infrastructure from s2ram paths. Also, there's no need to verify_cpu on x86-64 -- cpu can't change during s2ram, and removed #if 0-ed code. Some testing would be useful, perpahs it will

Re: Crypto API Weirdnesses

2007-07-31 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi, On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Felipe Balbi wrote: On 7/31/07, Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Failed to setup dm-crypt key mapping. Check kernel for support for the aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 cipher spec and verify that /dev/hda4 contains at least 133 sectors. Failed to read from

Re: Crypto API Weirdnesses

2007-07-31 Thread Felipe Balbi
On 7/31/07, Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Felipe Balbi wrote: On 7/31/07, Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Failed to setup dm-crypt key mapping. Check kernel for support for the aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 cipher spec and verify that /dev/hda4

How to enable XEN in 2.6.23-rcS kernel?

2007-07-31 Thread 2004 ruffneck
Hello to everybody! I did read, that Lguest and Xen was merged to upstream and must be in 2.6.23-rc1 kernel, but I can't see it in make menuconfig. So, what's the deal? Can anybody explain me, how to enable XEN support? Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Crypto API Weirdnesses

2007-07-31 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Felipe Balbi wrote: On 7/31/07, Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Ugh, you should at least be checking if you've built the kernel with the same config options :-) Of course, if you did a simple make oldconfig but still lost some config options, then

Re: How to enable XEN in 2.6.23-rcS kernel?

2007-07-31 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 31/07/07, 2004 ruffneck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to everybody! I did read, that Lguest and Xen was merged to upstream and must be in 2.6.23-rc1 kernel, but I can't see it in make menuconfig. So, what's the deal? Can anybody explain me, how to enable XEN support? Thanks. Go to

Re: [Patch 09/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the pci subsystem.

2007-07-31 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- a/drivers/pci/rom.c +++ b/drivers/pci/rom.c @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ void __iomem *pci_map_rom_copy(struct pc IORESOURCE_ROM_BIOS_COPY)) return rom; - res-start = (unsigned long)kmalloc(*size,

Re: fallocate() man page

2007-07-31 Thread Amit K. Arora
Hi Michael, On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:43:08PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: Hello Amit. On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 08:09:45AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: Amit, I've taken the page that you sent and made various minor formatting and wording fixes. I've also added various FIXMEs to

Re: How to enable XEN in 2.6.23-rcS kernel?

2007-07-31 Thread 2004 ruffneck
Go to Processor type and features - then enable Paravirtualization support (EXPERIMENTAL), you'll get a new option called Enable support for Xen hypervisor. Oh, thank you very much. I'll be more attentive next time! :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

Re: [PATCH] SCTP: IPv4 mapped addr not returned in SCTPv6 accept()

2007-07-31 Thread Vlad Yasevich
David Miller wrote: From: Vlad Yasevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:49:40 -0400 Feel free to clean it up and submit both patches. Ping? Somebody? I am head deep in an ugly bug. I might take a break and do this mindless excercise later today if nobody beats me to it.

ATA over ethernet swapping and obfuscated code

2007-07-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I wanted to know if it is possible/okay to swap over AOE... According to http://www.coraid.com/support/linux/EtherDrive-2.6-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.20 .. it runs OOM even during normal use, so I guess swapping over it is no-no? Can I build both client and server for these using free software? In

Re: rpc.mountd crashes when extensively using netgroups

2007-07-31 Thread Steve Dickson
Stefan Walter wrote: We do this on a much larger scale though. The bug we ran into is in line 96 in utils/mountd/auth.c. The strcpy can corrupt memory when it copies the string returned by client_compose() to my_client.m_hostname which has a fixed size of 1024 bytes. For our example above,

Re: [rft] Kill junk from s2ram resume paths

2007-07-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! # Running in *copy* of this code, somewhere in low 1MB. - movb$0xa1, %al ; outb %al, $0x80 Well, what was this for? Debugging leds on port 80. I still have that card somewhere :-). Interesting parties can reinsert it. Ah, I see. Hmm, can you

SATA CD Support

2007-07-31 Thread Brian D. McGrew
On my FC5 box with the stock 2.6.15 kernel the system works with SATA CD's. When I put my own 2.6.16.16 kernel in the SATA CD's do not work. What could I have missed in the configuration options??? -brian Brian D. McGrew{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] } -- Do not read this

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Bill Huey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the problem, *a lot* of folks can do scheduler development in and outside community, so what's with exclusive-only attitude towards the scheduler ? You came to us as an ex-BSD developer (which has a completely different contribution culture) and

Re: [Patch 08/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the parisc drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - a = (unsigned long)kmalloc(sizeof(struct irt_entry) * num_entries + 8, GFP_KERNEL); + a = kmalloc(sizeof(struct irt_entry) * num_entries + 8, GFP_KERNEL); NAK. Same as in some other patches. void * - ulong is not auto casted and

Re: [Patch 04/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the sparc arch.

2007-07-31 Thread WANG Cong
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:53:20PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/sparc/kernel/ebus.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/arch/sparc/kernel/ebus.c

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

2007-07-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Miguel Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CFS does not requeue_task() on SCHED_YIELD (used by graphic drivers) as until 2.6.22 and -ck. [...] as i pointed it out to you it does, the function's name changed: /* * sched_yield() support is very simple - we dequeue and enqueue */

Re: [Patch 02/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the mips arch.

2007-07-31 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: === --- a/arch/mips/au1000/common/dbdma.c +++ b/arch/mips/au1000/common/dbdma.c [...] - desc_base = (u32)kmalloc(entries * sizeof(au1x_ddma_desc_t), + desc_base =

Re: [patch 2/4] Expose Power Management Policy option to users

2007-07-31 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:27 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Any chance the SCSI peeps could ACK this, and then let me include it in the ALPM patchset in the libata tree? ATA link PS is pretty complex with HIPM, DIPM and AHCI ALPM. I'm not sure whether this three level knob

Re: [Patch 11/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in drivers/net.

2007-07-31 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- a/drivers/net/lance.c +++ b/drivers/net/lance.c [...] - lp-rx_buffs = (unsigned long)kmalloc(PKT_BUF_SZ*RX_RING_SIZE, - GFP_DMA | GFP_KERNEL); + lp-rx_buffs =

Re: [PATCH] libata: Correct IORDY handling

2007-07-31 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Alan Cox wrote: Debugging a report of a problem with an ancient solid state disk showed up some problems in the IORDY handling 1. We check the wrong bit to see if the device has IORDY 2. Even then some ancient creaking piles of crap don't support SETXFER at all.

Re: regression on HP zx1 platform from ACPI autoload modules patches - PATCH that fixes it

2007-07-31 Thread Doug Chapman
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:01 +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 08:06 -0400, Doug Chapman wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 01:07 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi Doug, On 31/07/07, Doug Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing a regression on the HP ia64 zx1

Re: [patch 2/4] Expose Power Management Policy option to users

2007-07-31 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:27 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Any chance the SCSI peeps could ACK this, and then let me include it in the ALPM patchset in the libata tree? ATA link PS is pretty complex with HIPM, DIPM and AHCI ALPM. I'm not sure whether this three level knob

Re: [Patch 06/16] This removes unnecessary kmalloc casts and corrects a test for kmalloc failure.

2007-07-31 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- a/drivers/media/video/zoran_driver.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/zoran_driver.c [...] - mem = - (unsigned long) kmalloc(fh-jpg_buffers. -

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

2007-07-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Matthew Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/31/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CFS generally seemed a lot smoother as the load increased, while SD broke down to a highly unstable fps count that fluctuated massively around the

Re: [Patch 14/16] Remove needless kmalloc casts in the zd1211rw drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread Daniel Drake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAK: this patch adds a sparse warning zd_chip.c:116:15: warning: implicit cast to nocast type --- drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1

Re: [Patch 09/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the pci subsystem.

2007-07-31 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Christian Borntraeger wrote: Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- a/drivers/pci/rom.c +++ b/drivers/pci/rom.c @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ void __iomem *pci_map_rom_copy(struct pc IORESOURCE_ROM_BIOS_COPY)) return

Re: [Patch 15/16] Remove unnecesary kmalloc casts in the scsi drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:53 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: plain text document attachment (drivers_scsi_remove_kmalloc_casts.patch) Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/scsi/advansys.c |2 +- drivers/scsi/osst.c |2

Re: [PATCH] expand /proc/interrupts to include missing vectors, v3

2007-07-31 Thread Joe Korty
[ changes from v2: added documentation merged some #ifdef CONFIG_SMP's ] Add missing IRQs and IRQ descriptions to /proc/interrupts. /proc/interrupts is most useful when it displays every IRQ vector in use by the system, not just those somebody thought would be interesting. This patch

Re: Hangs and reboots under high loads, oops with DEBUG_SHIRQ

2007-07-31 Thread Attila Nagy
On 2007.07.30. 18:19, Alan Cox wrote: O MCE: [153103.918654] HARDWARE ERROR [153103.918655] CPU 1: Machine Check Exception:5 Bank 0: b2401400 [153104.066037] RIP !INEXACT! 10:802569e6 {mwait_idle+0x46/0x60} [153104.145699] TSC 1167e915e93ce [153104.183554]

Re: request for patches: showing mount options

2007-07-31 Thread Chuck Lever
Miklos Szeredi wrote: After a successful mount, the NFS mount command tucks some options into /etc/mtab that reflect which mountd was used for the mount, and what protocol version and port was used for the mount request. Those options are not passed to the kernel, and do not appear in

Re: [PATCH 1/2] RT: Preemptible Function-Call-IPI Support

2007-07-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Gregory Haskins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as far as the prioritization of function calls goes, _that_ makes sense, but it should not be a separate API but should be done to our normal workqueue APIs. That not only extends the effects of priorities to all current workqueue using

Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] VFCIPI v3

2007-07-31 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Hi Gregory, This patch set approaches the problem from the wrong angle (and has a few problems due to that). The idea to use a workqueue (or in your case workqueue-like) solution to the problem is valid, however instead of re-using (and improving) the current workqueue infrastructure, you

Re: [PATCH 1/2] RT: Preemptible Function-Call-IPI Support

2007-07-31 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 5:25 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as far as the prioritization of function calls goes, _that_ makes sense, but it should not be a separate API but should be done to our normal workqueue APIs. That not only extends the

Re: [PATCH 1/2] RT: Preemptible Function-Call-IPI Support

2007-07-31 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 5:25 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as far as the prioritization of function calls goes, _that_ makes sense, but it should not be a separate API but should be done to our normal workqueue APIs. That not only extends the

Re: [ck] Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-07-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* ::.. Teresa_II ..:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: У пн, 2007-07-30 у 22:25 +0200, ::.. Teresa_II ..:: пише: Ok, hier is small testing: I started gcc emerge. System load is between 1.47 and 1.61 I use SMP enabled 2.6.22.1-cfs-v19.1 kernel on ADM64 X2. In gnome-terminal window i just type

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

2007-07-31 Thread Danny ter Haar
Quoting Len Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hmmm, okay, the big hammer works. Please see if any of these smaller hammers work: acpi=noirq died within 2 minutes notsc After 36 minutes -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [rft] Kill junk from s2ram resume paths

2007-07-31 Thread Stefan Seyfried
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 04:01:40PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! # Running in *copy* of this code, somewhere in low 1MB. - movb$0xa1, %al ; outb %al, $0x80 Well, what was this for? Debugging leds on port 80. I still have that card somewhere

Re: [Patch 09/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the pci subsystem.

2007-07-31 Thread WANG Cong
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:00:12PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Christian Borntraeger wrote: Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- a/drivers/pci/rom.c +++ b/drivers/pci/rom.c @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ void __iomem *pci_map_rom_copy(struct pc

garmin_gps not working with etrex vista cx

2007-07-31 Thread Neal Becker
I can't seem to transfer routes to my garmin etrex vista cx. I get (repeatably) truncated routes, and: Jul 31 07:19:07 nbecker4 kernel: usb 2-2: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 Jul 31 07:24:05 nbecker4 kernel: usb 2-2: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and

Re: [patch 2/4] Expose Power Management Policy option to users

2007-07-31 Thread Tejun Heo
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:27 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Any chance the SCSI peeps could ACK this, and then let me include it in the ALPM patchset in the libata tree? ATA link PS is pretty complex with HIPM, DIPM and AHCI ALPM. I'm not sure whether this

Re: [TULIP] Need new maintainer

2007-07-31 Thread Grant Grundler
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:31:58PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: 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

Re: rpc.mountd crashes when extensively using netgroups

2007-07-31 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:55:14PM +0200, Stefan Walter wrote: There are however two issues for which we could not find an easy solution: 1. For every client rpc.mountd and the kernel seem to exchange and use lists with _all_ netgroups used in exports that are relevant for granting

Re: ATA over ethernet swapping and obfuscated code

2007-07-31 Thread Sébastien Dugué
Hi Pavel, On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:58:31 +0200 Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I wanted to know if it is possible/okay to swap over AOE... According to http://www.coraid.com/support/linux/EtherDrive-2.6-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.20 .. it runs OOM even during normal use, so I guess

Re: Time Problems with 2.6.23-rc1-gf695baf2

2007-07-31 Thread Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte
* Michal Piotrowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Eric, On 26/07/07, Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Len Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [ 13.506890] ACPI Exception (processor_throttling-0084): AE_NOT_FOUND, Evaluating _PTC [20070126] [

Re: [rft] Kill junk from s2ram resume paths

2007-07-31 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:43, Stefan Seyfried wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 04:01:40PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! # Running in *copy* of this code, somewhere in low 1MB. - movb$0xa1, %al ; outb %al, $0x80 Well, what was this for?

Re: [PATCH respin, was PATCH for review] During VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group

2007-07-31 Thread Will Schmidt
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 11:31 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! During VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group. We have had complaints where a threaded application is left in a bad state after one of it's threads is killed when we hit a VM: out_of_memory condition.

Re: [rft] Kill junk from s2ram resume paths

2007-07-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S index 1415da1..9cebef7 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S @@ -28,21 +28,6 @@ #define BEEP \ movb$15, %al; \ outb%al, $66;

Re: [patch 2/4] Expose Power Management Policy option to users

2007-07-31 Thread Tejun Heo
Arjan van de Ven wrote: either sucks. AHCI ALPM ought to work if it's supported; it's what other operating systems also use... A question. Does the other OS enable ALPM without checking against white/black list? Or is it enabled only on certain configurations - e.g. specific notebooks, etc?

Re: [patch 14/26] sched: fix next_interval determination in idle_balance()

2007-07-31 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:32:54PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. Hello, Greg, No objections here -- on the contrary, very nice not to have to manually taskset my rcutorture runs. ;-)

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB BIOS early handoff only when the we the driver is configured

2007-07-31 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, David Engraf wrote: When CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD, CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD or CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD is not configured we don't need to call the quirk_usb_handoff_ function in driver/usb/host/pci_quiks.c. I think the kernel shouldn't take the control over the usb controller

Re: ATA over ethernet swapping and obfuscated code

2007-07-31 Thread Ed L. Cashin
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 03:58:31PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I wanted to know if it is possible/okay to swap over AOE... According to http://www.coraid.com/support/linux/EtherDrive-2.6-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.20 .. it runs OOM even during normal use, so I guess swapping over it is no-no?

HowTo crashkernel hibernation (was: [PATH 0/1] Kexec jump - v2 - the first step to kexec based hibernation)

2007-07-31 Thread Al Boldi
Pavel Machek wrote: 3. Boot kernel compiled for normal usage, the reserved crash kernel memory region must be added to kernel command line as following: crashkernel=XXM@XXM Where, XX should be replaced by the real memory size and position. I used [EMAIL PROTECTED] . It's good to

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-07-31 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/30/2007 10:25 PM, ::.. Teresa_II ..:: wrote: first of all i am not sure if its scheduler issue. But i didn't found anything about that in google related to something else. So i tried 2.6.22.1 kernel with new cfs scheduler v19.1 from Ingo page. Previous i used 2.6.22-ck1. After 24 hours

Re: NETPOLL=y , NETDEVICES=n compile error ( Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 )

2007-07-31 Thread Gabriel C
Jarek Poplawski wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:14:36PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote: Jarek Poplawski wrote: On 28-07-2007 20:42, Gabriel C wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:44:45 +0200 Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I got this compile error with a randconfig (

Re: SATA CD Support

2007-07-31 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 07:03:21AM -0700, Brian D. McGrew wrote: On my FC5 box with the stock 2.6.15 kernel the system works with SATA CD's. When I put my own 2.6.16.16 kernel in the SATA CD's do not work. What could I have missed in the configuration options??? iirc, the upstream

RE: Time Problems with 2.6.23-rc1-gf695baf2

2007-07-31 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
-Original Message- From: Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 7:55 AM To: Michal Piotrowski Cc: Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte; Len Brown; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; IDE/ATA development list; Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz; [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: [Patch 02/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the mips arch.

2007-07-31 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/31/2007 02:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - desc_base = (u32)kmalloc(entries * sizeof(au1x_ddma_desc_t), + desc_base = kmalloc(entries * sizeof(au1x_ddma_desc_t), The unnessary bit in kmalloc casts is due to void pointers being assignment compatible to other pointer types

Re: [PATCH 000 of 35] Refactor block layer to improve support for stacked devices.

2007-07-31 Thread Avi Kivity
NeilBrown wrote: To achieve this, the for_each macros are now somewhat more complex. For example, rq_for_each_segment is: #define bio_for_each_segment_offset(bv, bio, _i, offs, _size) \ for (_i.i = 0, _i.offset = (bio)-bi_offset + offs, \ _i.size =

Re: ATA over ethernet swapping and obfuscated code

2007-07-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! (and thanks for the response). I wanted to know if it is possible/okay to swap over AOE... According to http://www.coraid.com/support/linux/EtherDrive-2.6-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.20 .. it runs OOM even during normal use, so I guess swapping over it is no-no? It can be done (e.g.,

Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] VFCIPI v3

2007-07-31 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:25 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gregory, This patch set approaches the problem from the wrong angle (and has a few problems due to that). The idea to use a workqueue (or in your case workqueue-like) solution to

Re: [PATCH] libata: Correct IORDY handling

2007-07-31 Thread Alan Cox
+ dev-pio_mode = XFER_PIO_2) Overindented line (to my taste :-). And do we really need to check this? Yes - if it refuses SET_XFER_MODE we really don't want to run any mode above PIO2. No hardware *should* do this but then this is IDE... - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Time Problems with 2.6.23-rc1-gf695baf2

2007-07-31 Thread Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte
* Pallipadi, Venkatesh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This means things should work fine with processor.max_cstate=2 boot option as well. Can you please double check that. yes, system boots fine with this kernel parameter Also, please send in the acpidump from your system. here we go, if you

Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] VFCIPI v3

2007-07-31 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 11:33 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:25 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (with mistakes). If there was anything more than what you already mention here, please point them out so I don't port them

Re: Can't unload uhci_hcd module with 2.6.22 -- also oops

2007-07-31 Thread Alan Stern
Tejun: Can you look at this oops message please? It appears similar to the sysfs bug in 2.6.23-rc1, but it occurred under 2.6.22. Is a similar fix needed for the 2.6.22-stable series? Thanks, Alan Stern On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Gabriel C wrote: A. Kalten wrote: [ added usb peoples to CC ]

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-31 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Bill Huey wrote: Here's the problem, *a lot* of folks can do scheduler development in and outside community, so what's with exclusive-only attitude towards the scheduler ? There is no exclusive-only attitude towards the scheduler. If you send me small and obvious

Re: How to enable XEN in 2.6.23-rcS kernel?

2007-07-31 Thread Andi Kleen
Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 31/07/07, 2004 ruffneck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to everybody! I did read, that Lguest and Xen was merged to upstream and must be in 2.6.23-rc1 kernel, but I can't see it in make menuconfig. So, what's the deal? Can anybody explain me,

Re: inotify and /proc/pid

2007-07-31 Thread Ray Lee
On 7/30/07, Joseph Pingenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the way to check for a process exiting without spinning? I think you can get it from the taskstats interface, though I haven't tried it. See Documentation/accounting/ for details. Ray - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [Patch 09/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the pci subsystem.

2007-07-31 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, WANG Cong wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:00:12PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: [...] It better not be, else we have a bug already anyway. Pointers are 64-bit on 64-bit archs. [ it turns out res-start is resource_size_t which is set properly as per

WARN_ON() which sometimes sucks

2007-07-31 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
It started when I tried to write WARN_ON(m-seq_ops_allocated); in today's [PATCH] single_open/seq_release leak diagnostics¹. Suprisingly compiler told me piss off with: CC fs/seq_file.o fs/seq_file.c: In function 'seq_release': fs/seq_file.c:285: error:

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

2007-07-31 Thread Matthew Hawkins
On 7/31/07, Miguel Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CFS does not requeue_task() on SCHED_YIELD (used by graphic drivers) as until 2.6.22 and -ck. Please try this hack [1] that makes -ck to behave like CFS then you are comparing apples to apples. Hi Miguel, I tested with sched_yield_ctl set

[patch] genirq: temporary fix for level-triggered IRQ resend

2007-07-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
Linus, with -rc2 approaching i think we should apply the minimal fix below to get Marcin's ne2k-pci networking back in working order. The WARN_ON_ONCE() will not prevent the system from working and it will be a reminder. a better workaround would be to inhibit the resent vector via the

Re: How to enable XEN in 2.6.23-rcS kernel?

2007-07-31 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Go to Processor type and features - then enable Paravirtualization support (EXPERIMENTAL), you'll get a new option called Enable support for Xen hypervisor. Perhaps it would be clearer to make

sdio: set the functions' block size

2007-07-31 Thread David Vrabel
Prior to calling the driver's probe(), set the functions' block size to the largest that's supported by both the card and the driver. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 6d367fd822cbb2b8089ab7ef83f706f1984ab25b tree 8c9cc84b4c8c1c8f959abe540aa02f14aa95c51d parent

Re: WARN_ON() which sometimes sucks

2007-07-31 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 07:55:27PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: It started when I tried to write WARN_ON(m-seq_ops_allocated); in today's [PATCH] single_open/seq_release leak diagnostics?. Suprisingly compiler told me piss off with: CC fs/seq_file.o

Re: [patch] genirq: temporary fix for level-triggered IRQ resend

2007-07-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus, with -rc2 approaching i think we should apply the minimal fix below to get Marcin's ne2k-pci networking back in working order. The WARN_ON_ONCE() will not prevent the system from working and it will be a reminder. there's one more

sdio: extend sdio_readsb() and friends to handle any length of buffer

2007-07-31 Thread David Vrabel
Extend sdio_readsb(), sdio_writesb(), sdio_memcpy_fromio(), and sdio_memcpy_toio() to handle any length of buffer by splitting the transfer into several IO_RW_EXTENDED commands. Typically, a transfer would be split into a single block mode transfer followed by a byte mode transfer for the

Re: [PATCH] expand /proc/interrupts to include missing vectors, v3

2007-07-31 Thread Andi Kleen
Joe Korty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: spurious interrupts A threshold interrupt occurs when ECC memory correction is occuring at too high a frequency. It's configurable and the default is off. Also it's only on AMD hardware. Your description is a little misleading. Thresholds are

sdio: parameterize SDIO FBR register defines

2007-07-31 Thread David Vrabel
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 51755c3d59be1ba778bef45888f9f5e341dc4af4 tree c7bbb562b2d801197eefb619a17c94467c1299cd parent 1cf0b6019aa3916197eecafe058bd2f3d700d24a author David Vrabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:20:59 +0100 committer David Vrabel [EMAIL

sdio: enhance IO_RW_EXTENDED support

2007-07-31 Thread David Vrabel
These three patches enhance the support for the SDIO IO_RW_EXTENDED command. The block size of functions is managed and the I/O ops (sdio_readsb() etc) are extended to handle arbitrary lengths of data (by using multiple commands). I've not yet had a chance to test this stuff as I don't (yet) have

Re: [Patch 09/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the pci subsystem.

2007-07-31 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:46:19PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:00:12PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Christian Borntraeger wrote: Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- a/drivers/pci/rom.c +++ b/drivers/pci/rom.c @@

[PATCH -mm] Introduce U16_MAX and U32_MAX

2007-07-31 Thread Satyam Sharma
... in kernel.h and clean up home-grown macros elsewhere in the tree. Leave out the one in reiserfs_fs.h as it is in the userspace-visible part of that header. Still, #undef the (equivalent) kernel version there to avoid seeing redefined, previous definition was here gcc warnings.

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