Re: CFS review

2007-08-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 4544 roman 20 0 1796 520 432 S 32.1 0.4 0:21.08 lt > > 4545 roman 20 0 1796 344 256 R 32.1 0.3 0:21.07 lt > > 4546 roman 20 0 1796 344 256 R 31.7 0.3 0:21.07 lt > > 4547 roman 20 0 1532 272 216 R 3.3

2.6.23-rc2-mm2

2007-08-09 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc2/2.6.23-rc2-mm2/ - Various problems from 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 were fixed Boilerplate: - See the `hot-fixes' directory for any important updates to this patchset. - To fetch an -mm tree using git, use (for example)

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] pass open file to ->setattr()

2007-08-09 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> >> > This is needed to be able to correctly implement open-unlink-fsetattr > >> > semantics in some filesystem such as sshfs, without having to resort > >> > to "silly-renaming". > >> > >> How do you plan to do that? > > > > Easy: the SFTP protocol has stateful opens and defines an FSTAT call.

Re: [PATCH][Take2] PCI legacy I/O port free driver - Making Intel e1000 driver legacy I/O port free

2007-08-09 Thread Tomohiro Kusumi
Dear Auke Sorry I sent the wrong patch. I resubmit the patch. Tomohiro Kusumi Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -Nurp linux-2.6.22.org/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h linux-2.6.22/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h --- linux-2.6.22.org/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h 2007-07-09

Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:86

2007-08-09 Thread Josh Triplett
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:23:07 +0200 > Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> This probably doesn't have great impact ;) but ... >> To reproduce: run torture tests for RCU and then sysrq+q. >> >> SysRq : Show Pending Timers >> Timer List Version:

[GIT PULL] SLUB fixes

2007-08-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
The following changes are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/slab.git to-linus Christoph Lameter (2): SLUB: Remove checks for MAX_PARTIAL from kmem_cache_shrink SLUB: Fix dynamic dma kmalloc cache creation Jesper Juhl (1):

[PATCH][Take2] PCI legacy I/O port free driver - Making Intel e1000 driver legacy I/O port free

2007-08-09 Thread Tomohiro Kusumi
Dear Auke http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/16/275 > I'm ok with the bottom part of the patch, but I do not like the modification > of > the pci device ID table in this way. As Arjan van der Ven previously commented > as well, this makes it hard for future device ID's to be bound to the driver. > > On

Question about PF_NOFREEZE

2007-08-09 Thread jidong xiao
if one thread set its current->flag with PF_NOFREEZE, then it means this thread is unfreezable,does this mean, when the system entered into a suspended state, even though all the other threads have already gone sleep, this thread still keeps awaken? One thing I am very confused is, if all the

Re: EFI e820 map handling

2007-08-09 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 8/9/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hallo, > > I thought a bit about the zero page problem. I really would prefer to not > having it used in a boot loader right now because it's not extensible anymore > when external users start (ab)using it. > > When I asked for separate

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday August 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 8/1/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, this does not use indefinite stack. > > > > loop will schedule each request to be handled by a kernel thread, so > > requests to 'loop' are serialised, never stacked. > > > > In 2.6.22,

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-08-09 Thread Dan Merillat
On 8/1/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, this does not use indefinite stack. > > loop will schedule each request to be handled by a kernel thread, so > requests to 'loop' are serialised, never stacked. > > In 2.6.22, generic_make_request detects and serialises recursive calls, > so

Re: [-mm PATCH 0/9] Memory controller introduction (v4)

2007-08-09 Thread Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:51:39 +0900 > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:39:37 +0530 >> Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> At OLS, the resource management BOF, it was discussed that we need to manage >>> RSS and unmapped

Re: Problems with USB disk

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:26:15PM +0200, Niels wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with a new 500 GB USB disk. It works, but sometimes I get these in dmesg: usb 1-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 usb 5-1: USB disconnect, address 2

Re: rtc max frequency setting

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: Hi, with the old rtc.ko module, there was a /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq that could be set. With rtc_cmos.ko (or the new rtc infrastructure in general), I am missing this file. Where can I set the max-user-freq now, or is this obsolete now?

Unable to Handle kernel paging request at virtual address during rmmod/insmod

2007-08-09 Thread Grace Baldonasa
Hi, I'm kind of lost in my debugging. Hope someone out there can help me figure out the problem. I am loading 4 modules-> class driver, device controller, interface layer(working on a dual-core) abstraction layer. Device has to work as a mass storage class. After doing some file transfer and

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andi Kleen wrote: richard kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is on a standard desktop machine so there are lots of other processes running on it, and although there is a degree of variability in the numbers,they are very repeatable and your patch always out performs the stock mm2. looks

Oops in 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 during rsync

2007-08-09 Thread Sol Jerome
Hi, I get the following error when doing an 'rsync -avz --progress.' Any help would be appreciated. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at RIP: [] __rmqueue+0x6c/0x140 PGD 7b24f067 PUD 71ab9067 PMD 0 Oops: [1] SMP CPU 1 Modules linked in: rfcomm snd_seq

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Diego Calleja wrote: El Sun, 5 Aug 2007 09:13:20 +0200, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Measurements show that noatime helps 20-30% on regular desktop workloads, easily 50% for kernel builds and much more than that (in excess of 100%)

[PATCH] [MTD] Fix CFI build error with meaningless nonfunctional .config

2007-08-09 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 18:15 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > randconfig testing on .23-rc2 triggered the following build error: When building NOR flash support, you have compile-time options for the bus width and the number of individual chips which are interleaved together onto that bus. The code to

Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK

2007-08-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > If you believe that the deadlock problems we address here can be > better fixed by making reclaim more intelligent then please post a > patch and we will test it. I am highly skeptical, but the proof is in > the patch. Then please test the patch that

[PATCH] Minor fix to Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX

2007-08-09 Thread Rob Landley
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have a python script to convert 00-INDEX files into index.html files, and a second script to show 404 errors in the result as well as files/directories nothing links to. (It's not very useful yet, but in case you're wondering

mlock() is working?

2007-08-09 Thread Tiago Vignatti
Hi guys, I'm trying to lock some piece of the code in memory using mlock(). I did a simple program to test it and to certify I using my own simple page fault notifier [0]. The program is below. -- cut -- #include #include #define SIZE 1 int mlock_all = 0; int f(void) { int

Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK

2007-08-09 Thread Daniel Phillips
On 8/9/07, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The allocations problems that this patch addresses can be fixed by making > reclaim > more intelligent. If you believe that the deadlock problems we address here can be better fixed by making reclaim more intelligent then please post a

[PATCH] obsolete fragment from ext4

2007-08-09 Thread Coly Li
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Once ext4 will not implement fragment, it is believed it will never be implement in future. Therefore fragment related source code in ext4 should be obsoleted -- no one will use it. This patch obsolete fragment from ext4. Another patch posted on

Re: JFFS2/mtdsuper modprobe "unknown symbol" in 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-09 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adrian Bunk writes: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:38:18PM -0400, Erez Zadok wrote: > > I'm getting an error modprobing jffs2 due to mtdsuper failing to insmod: > >... > > Does anyone know what am I missing? > > You miss that 2.6.23-rc2 with this bug fixed has

Re: JFFS2/mtdsuper modprobe "unknown symbol" in 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:38:18PM -0400, Erez Zadok wrote: > I'm getting an error modprobing jffs2 due to mtdsuper failing to insmod: >... > Does anyone know what am I missing? You miss that 2.6.23-rc2 with this bug fixed has already been released. > Thanks, > Erez. cu Adrian -- "Is

JFFS2/mtdsuper modprobe "unknown symbol" in 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-09 Thread Erez Zadok
I'm getting an error modprobing jffs2 due to mtdsuper failing to insmod: # modprobe jffs2 WARNING: Error inserting mtdsuper (/lib/modules/2.6.23-rc1/kernel/drivers/mtd/mtdsuper.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting jffs2

Re: [PATCH 3/3] sysctl: Error on bad sysctl tables

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 > 14:09:29 -0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) says: > >> After going through the kernels sysctl tables several times it has >> become clear that code review and testing

Re: [PATCH 04/10] sysctl: Fix neighbour table sysctls.

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 > 20:23:16 -0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) says: > >> YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Would you explain why it does not work properly >> > for

Re: [PATCH 3/3] sysctl: Error on bad sysctl tables

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 > 14:09:29 -0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) says: > >> After going through the kernels sysctl tables several times it has >> become clear that code review and testing

Re: [PATCH 04/10] sysctl: Fix neighbour table sysctls.

2007-08-09 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:23:16 -0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) says: > YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Would you explain why it does not work properly > > for those cases? > > Mostly no appropriate strategy routine was

Re: [PATCH 04/10] sysctl: Fix neighbour table sysctls.

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would you explain why it does not work properly > for those cases? Mostly no appropriate strategy routine was setup to report the data to the caller of sys_sysctl. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: rcutorture xtime usage

2007-08-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:00:40PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 03:31:46AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:51:06AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >... > > > Changes since 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: > > >... > > >

Re: [PATCH 04/10] sysctl: Fix neighbour table sysctls.

2007-08-09 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:56:09 -0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) says: > > - In ipv6 ndisc_ifinfo_syctl_change so it doesn't depend on binary > sysctl names for a function that works with proc. : Well, retrans_time_ms and base_reachable_time_ms

Re: [PATCH 04/10] sysctl: Fix neighbour table sysctls.

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But it is good to remove bad interfaces, if we possibly can. > > It is worth making the attempt. Does anyone know of anything which will > break? I fed NET_NEIGH_ANYCAST_DELAY at random into > http://www.google.com/codesearch and came up with

Re: [PATCH 04/10] sysctl: Fix neighbour table sysctls.

2007-08-09 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:49:21 -0700 (PDT)), David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:47:10 +0900 (JST) > > > I disagree. It is bad to remove existing interface. > > Ditto for other

Re: [PATCH] Fix typo in arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c

2007-08-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:58:09 -0700 Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - * We can use khz divisor instead of mhz to keep a better percision, since > + * We can use khz divisor instead of mhz to keep a better precision, since I have an arbitrary i-dont-do-typos policy (unless they're in

Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: rcutorture xtime usage

2007-08-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:00:40 -0700 "Paul E. McKenney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 03:31:46AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:51:06AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >... > > > Changes since 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: > > >... > > >

Re: [PATCH 04/10] mm: slub: add knowledge of reserve pages

2007-08-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > No matter how you look at this problem, you still need to have _some_ > sort of reserve, and limit access to it. We extend existing methods, The reserve is in the memory in the zone and reclaim can guarantee that there are a sufficient number of

Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: rcutorture xtime usage

2007-08-09 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 03:31:46AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:51:06AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >... > > Changes since 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: > >... > > +allow-rcutorture-to-handle-synchronize_sched.patch > >... > > 2.6.23 queue > >... > > All drivers were converted to

Re: [PATCH 3/3] sysctl: Error on bad sysctl tables

2007-08-09 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Hello. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:09:29 -0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) says: > After going through the kernels sysctl tables several times it has > become clear that code review and testing is just not effective in > prevent problematic sysctl tables

[PATCH] Fix typo in arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c

2007-08-09 Thread Josh Triplett
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c index debd7db..8a58d30 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c @@ -80,7

Re: [PATCH 04/10] sysctl: Fix neighbour table sysctls.

2007-08-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:47:10 +0900 (JST) YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:56:09 -0600), [EMAIL > PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) says: > > > > > - In ipv6 ndisc_ifinfo_syctl_change so it doesn't depend on

Re: [PATCH 04/10] mm: slub: add knowledge of reserve pages

2007-08-09 Thread Daniel Phillips
On 8/8/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:57:13 -0700 (PDT) > Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think in general irq context reclaim is doable. Cannot see obvious > > issues on a first superficial pass through rmap.c. The irq holdoff would > >

Re: [PATCH 04/10] sysctl: Fix neighbour table sysctls.

2007-08-09 Thread David Miller
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:47:10 +0900 (JST) > I disagree. It is bad to remove existing interface. > Ditto for other patches. I think perhaps you misunderstand what Eric is doing. sys_sysctl() isn't working properly for these cases and it is

Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK

2007-08-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > You can fix reclaim as much as you want and the basic deadlock will > still not go away. When you finally do get to writing something out, > memory consumers in the writeout path are going to cause problems, > which this patch set fixes. We currently

Re: 2.6.22 x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware

2007-08-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Zachary Amsden wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: We haven't seen any issue with the 2.6.22 boot decompressor. Which of the four (fs, gs, ldt, or tr) were proving problematic and why? It was tr that was affecting Workstation, since we boot through normal BIOS path, and only a 16-bit task was loaded

Re: [PATCH 04/10] sysctl: Fix neighbour table sysctls.

2007-08-09 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Hello. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:56:09 -0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) says: > > - In ipv6 ndisc_ifinfo_syctl_change so it doesn't depend on binary > sysctl names for a function that works with proc. > > - In neighbour.c reorder the table to put

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Embed zone_id information within the zonelist->zones pointer

2007-08-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > +#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT > ZONES_SHIFT > > > > Is this necessary? ZONES_SHIFT is always <= 2 so it will work with > > any pointer. Why disable this for UP? > > > > Caution in case the number of zones increases. There was

2.6.23-rc2-mm1: rcutorture xtime usage

2007-08-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:51:06AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: >... > +allow-rcutorture-to-handle-synchronize_sched.patch >... > 2.6.23 queue >... All drivers were converted to no longer use xtime directly since it might be quite outdated, but this patch

Re: [PATCH 1/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on alpha

2007-08-09 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:24:40PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > Paul E. McKenney wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:13:52PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > >>Paul E. McKenney wrote: > >>>On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:14:35PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > If you're

[RFC 3/3] SGI Altix cross partition memory (XPMEM)

2007-08-09 Thread Dean Nelson
This patch provides cross partition access to user memory (XPMEM) when running multiple partitions on a single SGI Altix. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xpmem-module.v002.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data

[RFC 2/3] SGI Altix cross partition memory (XPMEM)

2007-08-09 Thread Dean Nelson
This patch exports zap_page_range as it is needed by XPMEM. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- XPMEM would have used sys_madvise() except that madvise_dontneed() madvise_dontneed() returns an -EINVAL if VM_PFNMAP is set, which is always true for the pages XPMEM imports from

Re: [RFC 1/3] SGI Altix cross partition memory (XPMEM)

2007-08-09 Thread Dean Nelson
This patch exports __put_task_struct as it is needed by XPMEM. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- One struct file_operations registered by XPMEM, xpmem_open(), calls 'get_task_struct(current->group_leader)' and another, xpmem_flush(), calls 'put_task_struct(tg->group_leader)'.

[RFC 0/3] SGI Altix cross partition memory (XPMEM)

2007-08-09 Thread Dean Nelson
Terminology The term 'partition', adopted by the SGI hardware designers and which perculated up into the software, is used in reference to a single SSI when multiple SSIs are running on a single Altix. An Altix running multiple SSIs is said to be 'partitioned', whereas one that is running

[PATCH 06/10] sysctl: Remove broken sunrpc debug binary sysctls

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
This is debug code so no need to support binary sysctl, and the binary sysctls as they were written were not consistent with what showed up in /proc so remove the binary sysctl support. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/sunrpc/sysctl.c |4 1 files changed, 0

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-08-09 Thread Dan Merillat
On 8/1/07, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:33:58 +0200 > Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tweaking kernel ptes is prohibitive during clone() because that's > > kernel memory and it would require a flush tlb all with IPIs that > > won't scale (IPIs are

[PATCH 10/10] sysctl: Remove the binary interface for aio-nr, aio-max-nr, acpi_video_flags

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
aio-nr, aio-max-nr, acpi_video_flags are unsigned long values which sysctl does not handle properly with a 64bit kernel and a 32bit user space. Since no one is likely to be using the binary sysctl values and the ascii interface still works, this patch just removes support for the binary sysctl

[PATCH 09/10] sysctl: ipv4 remove binary sysctl paths where they are broken.

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Currently tcp_available_congestion_control does not even attempt being read from sys_sysctl, and ipfrag_max_dist while it works allows setting of invalid values using sys_sysctl. So just kill the binary sys_sysctl support for these sysctls. If the support is not important enough to test and get

[PATCH 08/10] sysctl: Remove broken cdrom binary sysctls

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
The binary interface for the cdrom sysctls can't possilby work. So remove the binary sysctls and update the test for finding out which sysctl table entry we are dealy with to use the procname and not the ctl_name (which I am removing). Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[PATCH 07/10] sysctl: x86_64 remove unnecessary binary paths.

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_binfmt.c |1 - arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c | 10 +- 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_binfmt.c b/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_binfmt.c index

[PATCH 06/10] sysctl: Remove broken sunrpc debug binary sysctls

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
>From ddf280c9de903f1fb5d4ecf9c68df0c479d7c7d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 16:00:00 -0600 Subject: This is debug code so no need to support binary sysctl, and the binary sysctls as they were written were not consistent with what

[PATCH 05/10] sysctl: ipv6 route flushing (kill binary path)

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
We don't preoperly support the sysctl binary path for flushing the ipv6 routes. So remove support for a binary path. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/ipv6/route.c |1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c

[PATCH 04/10] sysctl: Fix neighbour table sysctls.

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
- In ipv6 ndisc_ifinfo_syctl_change so it doesn't depend on binary sysctl names for a function that works with proc. - In neighbour.c reorder the table to put the possibly unused entries at the end so we can remove them by terminating the table early. - In neighbour.c kill the entries with

[PATCH 03/10] sysctl: Remove binary sysctl support where it clearly doesn't work.

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
These functions all of wrapper functions for the proc interface that are needed for them to work correctly. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/sysctl.c |7 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c

[PATCH 02/10] sysct mqueue: Remove the binary sysctl numbers

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Because of a conflict with FS_INODE_NR none of the binary sysctl numbers use by mqueue, were available to user space. So just remove them. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ipc/mqueue.c | 10 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH 01/10] sysctl: Update sysctl_check_table

2007-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Well it turns out after I dug into the problems a little more I was returning a few false positives so this patch updates my logic to remove them. - Don't complain about 0 ctl_names in sysctl_check_binary_path It is valid for someone to remove the sysctl binary interface and still keep the

Re: [-mm patch] DMA engine kconfig improvements

2007-08-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:15:31PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > On 7/25/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:03:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >... > > > Changes since 2.6.22-rc6-mm1: > > >... > > > +dma-arch-fix.patch > > > > > > Fix git-dma.patch > >

Re: SLUB doesn't work with kdump kernel on Cell

2007-08-09 Thread Michael Ellerman
On 8/9/07, Lucio Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 23:10 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Lucio Correia wrote: > > > DMA 0 ->12288 > > > Normal 12288 ->12288 > > > early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges > > > 0:

Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: kernel BUG at mm/swap_state.c:78!

2007-08-09 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:37:35PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Nothing unusual happening, allmodconfig compiling etc. > > Not sure why it says kernel was tainted though ... hmmm. > > > > [ cut here ] > >

Re: SLUB doesn't work with kdump kernel on Cell

2007-08-09 Thread Michael Ellerman
On 8/9/07, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Lucio Correia wrote: > > DMA 0 -> 12288 > > Normal 12288 -> 12288 > > early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges > > 0: 0 -> 2560 > > 1: 12287 -> 12288 > > As Christoph found, this memory map is really strange. Other

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:10:15 -0700 "Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why isn't this easily fixable by just adding an additional dirty flag that says atime has changed? Then we only cause a write when we remove the inode from the inode cache, if only atime is

Re: Documentation files in html format?

2007-08-09 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/10/2007 12:27 AM, Francois Romieu wrote: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] I don't think that is used by Linuxdoc. Try a make pdfdocs and see for yourself. It reminds me of an old PII but it does not really make clear how html to pdf conversion would improve the situation.

Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK

2007-08-09 Thread Daniel Phillips
On 8/9/07, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On 8/8/07, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > Maybe we need to kill PF_MEMALLOC > > Shrink_caches needs to be able to

Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:86

2007-08-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:23:07 +0200 Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > This probably doesn't have great impact ;) but ... > To reproduce: run torture tests for RCU and then sysrq+q. > > SysRq : Show Pending Timers > Timer List Version: v0.3 > HRTIMER_MAX_CLOCK_BASES:

Re: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address

2007-08-09 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 01:44:24AM +0200, shacky wrote: > > You snipped the most important part. Even a digital photo of the > > crash would be more useful than what we have above. > > So far, there's not really much to go on. > > Could you tell me what is the most important part, so I try

Re: problems while mounting /boot partition

2007-08-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Aug 8 2007 18:28, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > >Hi Brian, > >Brian J. Murrell pisze: >> I am using Ubuntu Gutsy, which is the in-development branch heading for >> their next stable release. > >You forgot about message subject, so no one has read this report. Actually, given the volume on LKML,

Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: rtl8139 inconsistent lock state

2007-08-09 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, = [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 #7 - inconsistent {in-hardirq-W} -> {hardirq-on-W} usage. ifconfig/5492 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: (>lock){+...}, at: [] rtl8139_interrupt+0x27/0x46b [8139too]

Re: [PATCH] pata_artop: fix UDMA5 for AEC6280[R] and UDMA6 for AEC6880[R]

2007-08-09 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Friday 10 August 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:19:34 +0200 > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Maximum supported UDMA mode for AEC6280[R] is UDMA5 (not UDMA4) > > and for AEC6880[R] it is UDMA6 (not UDMA5): > > > > * Fix the problem by adding

Re: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address

2007-08-09 Thread shacky
> You snipped the most important part. Even a digital photo of the > crash would be more useful than what we have above. > So far, there's not really much to go on. Could you tell me what is the most important part, so I try to rewrite it by hand? I don't think a digital photo will be much

Re: 2.6.22 x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware

2007-08-09 Thread Zachary Amsden
Avi Kivity wrote: We haven't seen any issue with the 2.6.22 boot decompressor. Which of the four (fs, gs, ldt, or tr) were proving problematic and why? It was tr that was affecting Workstation, since we boot through normal BIOS path, and only a 16-bit task was loaded at this point. Just

Re: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address

2007-08-09 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 01:17:14AM +0200, shacky wrote: > [87.935473] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual > address 6d207972 > [...] printing eip: > [...] 6d207972 > [...] *pde = > [...] Oops: 000 [#2] > [...] SMP >

Re: [2.6 patch] cpqphp_ctrl.c: remove dead code

2007-08-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:20:01PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:04:36 +0200 > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:47:02PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > > > > > fine by me - let's NAK this patch (and all future ones

Re: i386 doublefault handler is broken with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK

2007-08-09 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 08/09/2007 07:16 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I tested it. Even on a box without spin lock debugging I get a hard > hang after > > double fault, gdt at c1404000 [255 bytes] > > even though it should have printed the registers. > So it looks like there is more broken in the DF handler than just

Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1

2007-08-09 Thread Gabriel C
Alan Cox wrote: >>> [ 28.828484] :00:1f.1: cannot adjust BAR0 (not I/O) >>> [ 28.828487] :00:1f.1: cannot adjust BAR1 (not I/O) >>> [ 28.828489] :00:1f.1: cannot adjust BAR2 (not I/O) >>> [ 28.828491] :00:1f.1: cannot adjust BAR3 (not I/O) > > This means it didn't do

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Embed zone_id information within the zonelist->zones pointer

2007-08-09 Thread Mel Gorman
On (09/08/07 14:37), Christoph Lameter didst pronounce: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > } > > > > +#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT > ZONES_SHIFT > > Is this necessary? ZONES_SHIFT is always <= 2 so it will work with > any pointer. Why disable this for UP? >

Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:86

2007-08-09 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, This probably doesn't have great impact ;) but ... To reproduce: run torture tests for RCU and then sysrq+q. SysRq : Show Pending Timers Timer List Version: v0.3 HRTIMER_MAX_CLOCK_BASES: 2 now at 1764338760370 nsecs cpu: 0 clock 0: .index: 0 .resolution: 1 nsecs

Re: [2.6 patch] cpqphp_ctrl.c: remove dead code

2007-08-09 Thread Alan Cox
> Silly is in the eye of the beholder. I don't want to take this patch > because it needs to be reviewed by someone who really knows the intent > of the driver. Seems silly to me to blindly take patches. For unmaintained code we usually work on wackipedia theory ("its probably right but if not

Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP ports from the host TCP port space.

2007-08-09 Thread Sean Hefty
How about we just remove the RDMA stack altogether? I am not at all kidding. If you guys can't stay in your sand box and need to cause problems for the normal network stack, it's unacceptable. We were told all along the if RDMA went into the tree none of this kind of stuff would be an issue.

Re: [2.6 patch] cpqphp_ctrl.c: remove dead code

2007-08-09 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:04:36 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:47:02PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > > > fine by me - let's NAK this patch (and all future ones for this driver) > > until > > someone with hardware steps up to maintain this

Re: [2.6 patch] cpqphp_ctrl.c: remove dead code

2007-08-09 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:04:36 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have tons of unmaintained drivers and none of them has such a silly > auto-NAK policy. > > cu > Adrian Silly is in the eye of the beholder. I don't want to take this patch because it needs to be reviewed by someone

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address

2007-08-09 Thread shacky
Hi. I installed Ubuntu 7.04 and then upgraded to the future 7.10 on my system based on an Asus Pundit barebone with 512 mb RAM and 120 Gb IDE hard disk. The system works without any problem, but when I try to shutdown or restart the system, after a while during the shutdown process, the system

Re: i386 doublefault handler is broken with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK

2007-08-09 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:40:27PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 08/09/2007 01:49 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Initializing FS in the doublefault_tss should fix it. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> --- > >> > >> NOTE:

Re: [2.6 patch] cpqphp_ctrl.c: remove dead code

2007-08-09 Thread Alan Cox
> fine by me - let's NAK this patch (and all future ones for this driver) until > someone with hardware steps up to maintain this driver. Eventually it > will just die I guess. If you want to NAK it perhaps you should become maintainer ;) Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: CFS review

2007-08-09 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > just to make sure, how does 'top' output of the l + "lt 3" testcase look > like now on your laptop? Yesterday it was this: > > 4544 roman 20 0 1796 520 432 S 32.1 0.4 0:21.08 lt > 4545 roman 20 0 1796 344 256 R 32.1 0.3

Re: [2.6 patch] cpqphp_ctrl.c: remove dead code

2007-08-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:47:02PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > fine by me - let's NAK this patch (and all future ones for this driver) until > someone with hardware steps up to maintain this driver. Eventually it > will just die I guess. We have tons of unmaintained drivers and

Re: [PATCH 1/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on alpha

2007-08-09 Thread Segher Boessenkool
So, why not use the well-defined alternative? Because we don't need to, and it hurts performance. It hurts performance by implementing 32-bit atomic reads in assembler? No, I misunderstood the question. Implementing 32-bit atomic reads in assembler is redundant, because any sane compiler,

Re: [PATCH] at91 pm: Compilation fix for at91sam926x

2007-08-09 Thread Ulf Samuelsson
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_AT91RM9200) > > at91_sys_write(AT91_SDRAMC_SRR, 1); /* > > self-refresh mode */ > Why don't use: > if (cpu_is_at91rm9200()) > at91_sys_write(AT91_SDRAMC_SRR, 1); What is the benefit? Will the optimizer remove the code if the CPU is not

Re: [2.6 patch] cpqphp_ctrl.c: remove dead code

2007-08-09 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:24:27 -0700 Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:51:40PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:51:05 +0200 > > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If !mem_node we did already return -ENOMEM

Re: [PATCH] pata_artop: fix UDMA5 for AEC6280[R] and UDMA6 for AEC6880[R]

2007-08-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:19:34 +0200 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maximum supported UDMA mode for AEC6280[R] is UDMA5 (not UDMA4) > and for AEC6880[R] it is UDMA6 (not UDMA5): > > * Fix the problem by adding missing struct ata_port_info to artop_init_one(). > > * Use

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