Re: [PATCH]: proc: export a processes resource limits via proc/

2007-08-13 Thread Neil Horman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 01:04:02AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:11:30PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > --- a/fs/proc/base.c > > +++ b/fs/proc/base.c > > @@ -323,6 +324,68 @@ static int proc_oom_score(struct task_struct *task, > > char *buffer) > > return sprintf(bu

[PATCH] drivers/net/tlan: Convert to generic boolean

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Knutsson
Convert to generic boolean Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Compile-tested with all(yes|mod|no)config on x86(|_64) & sparc(|64) Diffed against Linus' git-tree. Sent 2007-05-01, no replys diff --git a/drivers/net/tlan.c b/drivers/net/tlan.c index 106dc1e..db630c4 100644 ---

Re: Linux 2.6.22.2

2007-08-13 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 05:40:16PM -0400, Ayaz Abdulla wrote: > Yes, you are right. Copy and paste error. I have attached a patch which will > fix this issue. > > Thanks for catching it. > Ayaz > > Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Prakash Punnoor wrote: > > Hi, > > I

Re: [PATCH] [384/2many] MAINTAINERS - PPP PROTOCOL DRIVERS AND COMPRESSORS

2007-08-13 Thread Paul Mackerras
Joe Perches writes: > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 19:38 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Except for drivers/net/ppp_synctty.c. > > It seems poor form to have 5 file entries where 1 would do. > > Would renaming this one file to pppsynctty.c work? It seems poor form to have to rename the file just beca

Re: [PATCH 1/23] document preferred use of volatile with atomic_t

2007-08-13 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 07:04:15AM -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > From: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Document proper use of volatile for atomic_t operations. Looks good, as did a once-over on the arch-specific files. Good stuff!!! Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off

Re: binutils trouble was Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 12:54:10AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 12:42:05AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:29:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Debian 4.0 has older ones, and all distributions released more than a > > > year ago for sure also have

[PATCH] drivers/net/3c505: Convert to generic boolean

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Knutsson
Convert to generic boolean Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Compile-tested with all(yes|mod|no)config on x86(|_64) & sparc(|64) Diffed against Linus' git-tree. Sent 2007-05-01, no replys diff --git a/drivers/net/3c505.c b/drivers/net/3c505.c index e985a85..acede30 100644 -

RE: [PATCH] [429/2many] MAINTAINERS - SGI SN-IA64 (Altix) SERIAL CONSOLE DRIVER

2007-08-13 Thread Luck, Tony
@@ -4084,6 +4084,7 @@ P:Pat Gefre M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S: Supported +F: Documentation/ia64/serial.txt SGI VISUAL WORKSTATION 320 AND 540 P: Andrey Panin Huh? Perhaps this should be: +F: drivers/serial/sn_console.c -Tony - To unsubscr

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

2007-08-13 Thread Alan Cox
> So the only systems really affected are lance systems with >16MB. > I don't think we can stop Linux evolution for those sorry. They'll > just have to live with it. I think thats fair enough too. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

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

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:25:23PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > But they use GFP_DMA right now and drivers cannot use DMA32 if they want > > > > The way it was originally designed was that they use GFP_DMA32, > > which would map to itself on x8

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

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:27:42PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Ok then lets do it. > > > > Conversion only makes sense once an API with a explicit mask > > is in. Otherwise we have muddled semantics again. > > pci_set_consistent_dma_mask > >

[PATCH] arch/i386: Convert to generic boolean

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Knutsson
Convert to generic boolean (+ some minor cleanup). Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Compile-tested with all(yes|mod|no)config on i386 Diffed against Linus' git-tree Sent on 2007-05-12, no replys amd.c |2 -- cyrix.c |2 +- generic.c | 20 +--

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions

2007-08-13 Thread Luca Tettamanti
Michal Piotrowski ha scritto: > Hi all, > > Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc3. > > Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. > http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions [...] > > Subject : FATAL: drivers/acpi/video: sizeof(struct acpi_device_id)=20 > is n

Re: [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface

2007-08-13 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:11:45 +0200 Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Andrew, > > Here's my first shot at changing the timerfd() interface; patch > is against 2.6.23-rc1-mm2. > > I think I got to the bottom of understanding the timer code in > the end, but I may still have missed some things... > > This

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

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Ok then lets do it. > > Conversion only makes sense once an API with a explicit mask > is in. Otherwise we have muddled semantics again. pci_set_consistent_dma_mask has that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-13 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Monday 13 August 2007 02:12, Jens Axboe wrote: > > It is a system wide problem. Every block device needs throttling, > > otherwise queues expand without limit. Currently, block devices > > that use the standard request library get a slipshod form of > > throttling for free in the form of limit

[PATCH] hres_timers_resume must block interrupts

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Korty
Retrigger_next_event() must be called with interrupts disabled. All internal (to hrtimer.c) uses of retrigger_next_event() are correct. But the version exported to other files, hres_timers_resume(), does not do the IRQ blocking, nor does the (single) external caller of it. Rather than require tha

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

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
> Ok then lets do it. Conversion only makes sense once an API with a explicit mask is in. Otherwise we have muddled semantics again. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.ke

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

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > But they use GFP_DMA right now and drivers cannot use DMA32 if they want > > The way it was originally designed was that they use GFP_DMA32, > which would map to itself on x86-64, to GFP_DMA on ia64 and to > GFP_KERNEL on i386. Unfortunately that seems

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

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 12:22:23AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > The only tricky part were skbs in a few drivers, but luckily they are only > > needed for bouncing which can be done without a skb too. For RX it adds > > one copy, but we can live with that because they're only slow devices. > > Usuall

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

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:12:17PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > What would be the point? > > > > "so that drivers not need to ifdef" > > But they use GFP_DMA right now and drivers cannot use DMA32 if they want The way it was originally desig

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

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > I converted all of those that applied to x86. > > > > Converted to what? > > Hmm, do you actually read my emails? I spelled that out at least two > times now. It's converted to a new dma page allocator that specifies > an address mask. Yes I do but f

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

2007-08-13 Thread Alan Cox
> The only tricky part were skbs in a few drivers, but luckily they are only > needed for bouncing which can be done without a skb too. For RX it adds > one copy, but we can live with that because they're only slow devices. Usually found on slow hardware that can't cope with extra copies very well

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

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > What would be the point? > > "so that drivers not need to ifdef" But they use GFP_DMA right now and drivers cannot use DMA32 if they want to be cross platforms compatible? Doesnt the dma API completely do away with these things? - To unsubscribe fro

Re: How to make -mm a more viable testbed (was: [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD)

2007-08-13 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 05:07:23PM -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 17:09 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:40:06PM -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: > > > I thought most people running -mm were running klive, which shou > > > ld tell kernel versions, uptime and other

RE: [PATCH] [61/2many] MAINTAINERS - ARM/INTEL IOP13XX ARM ARCHITECTURE

2007-08-13 Thread Williams, Dan J
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Add file pattern to MAINTAINER entry > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index dd0806c..aaacc55 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -565,6 +565,8 @@ P:Dan Will

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

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:54:34PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:38:10PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > I just did a grep for GFP_DMA and I still see a large list of GFP_DMA > > > kmallocs??? > > > > I converted a

Re: How to make -mm a more viable testbed (was: [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD)

2007-08-13 Thread Zan Lynx
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 17:09 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:40:06PM -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: > > I thought most people running -mm were running klive, which shou > > ld tell kernel versions, uptime and other things. I run it, anyway. > > > > http://klive.cpushare.com/ > >

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

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Because we get to the code of interest when we have no memory on the > > buddy free lists... > > Ah wait, that statement is incorrect and may well be the crux of your > misunderstanding. Buddy free lists are not exhausted until the entire > memal

RE: [PATCH] [253/2many] MAINTAINERS - INTEL IOP-ADMA DMA DRIVER

2007-08-13 Thread Williams, Dan J
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 11:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Williams, Dan > J; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PATCH] [253/2many] MAINTAINERS - INTEL IOP-ADMA DMA DRIVER > > Add file pattern to MAINTAINER entry >

Re: System call interposition/unprotecting the table

2007-08-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:05:35 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a question about changing the page attributes of the > system call table. Please don't do that. > This works fine on my debian system, but apparently the stock Fedora > kernel (2.6.22) has the system call table write protected.

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

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:52:54PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > I am not sure what you mean by that. Ia64 ZONE_DMA == x86_84 ZONE_DMA32? > > > > Hmm, when I wrote GFP_DMA32 it was a #define GFP_DMA32 GFP_DMA > > on ia64 so that drivers not need

System call interposition/unprotecting the table

2007-08-13 Thread hinoue
I have a question about changing the page attributes of the system call table. I am writing a kernel module that does some system call interposition. This works fine on my debian system, but apparently the stock Fedora kernel (2.6.22) has the system call table write protected. So I would like th

Re: 2.6.23-rc3 regression and bisection query

2007-08-13 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Sergey Dolgov wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 07:44:48PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > > >> Git bisection (with manual fixups to i386 mmiocfg horror, thanks > >> for drawing attention to that in your changelog) accuses Alexey's > >> ACPI:

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

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:38:10PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > I just did a grep for GFP_DMA and I still see a large list of GFP_DMA > > kmallocs??? > > I converted all of those that applied to x86. Converted to what? drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c:

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

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I am not sure what you mean by that. Ia64 ZONE_DMA == x86_84 ZONE_DMA32? > > Hmm, when I wrote GFP_DMA32 it was a #define GFP_DMA32 GFP_DMA > on ia64 so that drivers not need to ifdef. Someone nasty > seems to have removed that too. I guess it would be

Re: binutils trouble was Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

2007-08-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 12:42:05AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:29:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Debian 4.0 has older ones, and all distributions released more than a > > year ago for sure also have older ones (the required patch went into > > binutils CVS on 2006-05

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

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:38:10PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > I just did a grep for GFP_DMA and I still see a large list of GFP_DMA > kmallocs??? I converted all of those that applied to x86. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

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

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:22:25PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > x86_64 is the only platforms that uses ZONE_DMA32. Ia64 and other 64 bit > > > platforms use ZONE_DMA for <4GB allocs. > > > > Yes, but ZONE_DMA32 == ZONE_DMA. > > I am not sure w

binutils trouble was Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:29:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Debian 4.0 has older ones, and all distributions released more than a > year ago for sure also have older ones (the required patch went into > binutils CVS on 2006-05-30 and 2.17.50.0.3 was released on 2006-07-15). I have no problem

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

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
I just did a grep for GFP_DMA and I still see a large list of GFP_DMA kmallocs??? arch/mips/au1000/common/dbdma.c:if ((desc_base = (u32)kmalloc(i, GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA)) == 0) arch/m68k/kernel/dma.c: map = kmalloc(sizeof(struct page *) << order, flag & ~__GFP_DMA); arch/s390/hypf

Re: [PATCH] [392/2many] MAINTAINERS - PS3 PLATFORM SUPPORT

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Perches
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:24 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > +F: include/asm-powerpc/lv1call.h Added to my tree. PS3 PLATFORM SUPPORT P: Geoff Levand M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S: Supported F: arch/powerpc/boot/ps3* F: arch/powe

Re: How to make -mm a more viable testbed (was: [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD)

2007-08-13 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:40:06PM -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 08:08 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > > > > This does make me wonder, why these weren't caught in -mm ? > > > > > > I'm worried that -mm

[PATCH] [TRIVIAL] fix spelling mistake in drivers/usb/host/Kconfig

2007-08-13 Thread mbressers
From: Maarten Bressers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greetings, A very trivial patch: fixes a spelling mistake in drivers/usb/host/Kconfig, wrt the R8A66597_HCD driver. The patch applies to kernel 2.6.23-rc3. Signed-off by: Maarten Bressers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- a/drivers/usb/host/Kconfig.orig

Re: Serial ports rearranged in 2.6.22?

2007-08-13 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Monday 13 August 2007 04:28:00 pm Michael Mauch wrote: > Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > On Saturday 11 August 2007 09:49:25 am Michael Mauch wrote: > > > Yinghai Lu wrote: > > > > > > > On 8/10/07, Michael Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > With 2.6.22 I get the names <-> ports/i

Re: [patch 00/10] [RFC] SLUB patches for more functionality, performance and maintenance

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > @@ -1554,23 +1564,20 @@ static void __always_inline *slab_alloc( > > gfp_t gfpflags, int node, void *addr) > > { > > void **object; > > - unsigned long flags; > > struct kmem_cache_cpu *c; > > > > What if we prefetch c->fr

Re: Serial ports rearranged in 2.6.22?

2007-08-13 Thread Michael Mauch
Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Saturday 11 August 2007 09:49:25 am Michael Mauch wrote: > > Yinghai Lu wrote: > > > > > On 8/10/07, Michael Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > With 2.6.22 I get the names <-> ports/irqs the other way around: > > > > > > > > 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq =

Re: Process stuck in md_wakeup_thread

2007-08-13 Thread Russ Dill
On 8/12/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:34:34 + (UTC) Russ Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 2.6.22 from debian (stock), I have a process (dpkg) stuck with the > > following > > calltrace: > > > > SysRq : Show Blocked State > > > >

Re: [PATCH] [392/2many] MAINTAINERS - PS3 PLATFORM SUPPORT

2007-08-13 Thread Geoff Levand
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add file pattern to MAINTAINER entry Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- I also maintain the file include/asm-powerpc/lv1call.h. This updated patch adds that file. -Geoff MAINTAINERS |7 +++ 1 file c

Re: 2.6.23-rc2 swsusp, suddenly increased uptime

2007-08-13 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 14 August 2007 00:12, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Monday, 13 August 2007 23:31, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > > On Sunday, 12 August 2007 21:39, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > > > > >

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

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > x86_64 is the only platforms that uses ZONE_DMA32. Ia64 and other 64 bit > > platforms use ZONE_DMA for <4GB allocs. > > Yes, but ZONE_DMA32 == ZONE_DMA. I am not sure what you mean by that. Ia64 ZONE_DMA == x86_84 ZONE_DMA32? > Also when the slab use

Re: [patch 00/10] [RFC] SLUB patches for more functionality, performance and maintenance

2007-08-13 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Some review here. I think we could do much better.. * Christoph Lameter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Index: linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/mm/slub.c > === > --- linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1.orig/mm/slub.c 2007-07-09 15:04:46.0 > -0700

Re: EHCI Regression in 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-13 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 13 August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With the VIA controller I have, Which kind is that? The VT6202 is buggy as all get-out, and they sold a *LOT* of those discrete chips for use in add-on PCI cards. We generally warn people away from those. A more current version is the VT6212,

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

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:09:55PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > There are still other architectures that use it. Biggest offender > > > > is s390. I'll leave them to their respective maintainers. > > > > > > IA64 also uses ZONE_DMA to support 32bit controllers. > > > > ZONE_DMA32 I th

Re: 2.6.23-rc3 regression and bisection query

2007-08-13 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Sergey Dolgov wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 07:44:48PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > >> Git bisection (with manual fixups to i386 mmiocfg horror, thanks >> for drawing attention to that in your changelog) accuses Alexey's >> ACPI: EC: If ECDT is not found, look up EC in DSDT >> cd8c93a4e04dc

Re: 2.6.23-rc2 swsusp, suddenly increased uptime

2007-08-13 Thread Thomas Voegtle
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, 13 August 2007 23:31, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > On Sunday, 12 August 2007 21:39, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > today I saw this (output from my suspend

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

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:00:14PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > You said that ZONE_DMA will still be there right? So the zone will be > > There will be a (variable sized) dma zone, but not a ZONE_DMA entry in pgdat > or in the the fallback lists.

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

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:00:14PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > You said that ZONE_DMA will still be there right? So the zone will be There will be a (variable sized) dma zone, but not a ZONE_DMA entry in pgdat or in the the fallback lists. > > > There are still other architectures that u

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

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:25:36PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Hallelujah. You are my hero! x86_64 will switch off CONFIG_ZONE_DMA? > > > > Yes. i386 too actually. > > > > The DMA zone will be still there, but only reachable with special funct

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

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > The DMA zone will be still there, but only reachable with special > > > functions. > > > > Not too happy with that one but this is going the right direcrtion. > > > > On NUMA this would still mean allocating space for the DMA zone on all > > nodes a

Re: [PATCH 00/16] Permit filesystem local caching [try #3]

2007-08-13 Thread Casey Schaufler
--- David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Casey Schaufler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The specification of your push interface that the push operation > > not affect how others access the process is OK for SELinux, but > > not for any other MAC scheme that I've dealt with, and I think

Re: [PATCH] [428/2many] MAINTAINERS - SERIAL ATA (SATA) SUBSYSTEM:

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Perches
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 12:02 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > @@ -4077,6 +4077,7 @@ M:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > T: git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git > > S: Supported > > +F: drivers/ata/sata_* > > NAK > sata_inic is Tejun > > and various ot

Re: 2.6.23-rc2 swsusp, suddenly increased uptime

2007-08-13 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 13 August 2007 23:31, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Sunday, 12 August 2007 21:39, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > today I saw this (output from my suspend script): > > > > > > -> woke up at Sun Aug 12 11:39:17 CEST 20

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] [534/2many] MAINTAINERS - VIDEO FOR LINUX

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Perches
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 20:32 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote: > --- MAINTAINERS.org 2007-08-13 20:23:47.0 +0200 > +++ MAINTAINERS 2007-08-13 20:28:17.0 +0200 > +IVTV VIDEO4LINUX DRIVER > +P: Hans Verkuil > +M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +L: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [patch] encapsulate uevent()/add_uevent_var() buffer handling

2007-08-13 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:37:11PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > Hi, > this changes the uevent buffer stuff to use a struct instead > of tons of parameters. It does no longer require the caller to > do the proper buffer termination and size accounting, which is > currently wrong in a lot of places. >

Re: [PATCH] [545/2many] MAINTAINERS - XEN HYPERVISOR INTERFACE

2007-08-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 09:54:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Agreed. But not everyone wants to or should have to use git, > > so what are the alternatives? > > Export the recent git history each release into an XML file at known > locations on the kernel web site. Wait for tools to appear How c

Re: Serial ports rearranged in 2.6.22?

2007-08-13 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Saturday 11 August 2007 09:49:25 am Michael Mauch wrote: > Yinghai Lu wrote: > > > On 8/10/07, Michael Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > until 2.6.21, I had the normal assignments for ttyS0 and ttyS1: > > > > > > 00:08: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > > > 00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3

Re: Advice on a userspace tty serial driver

2007-08-13 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:55:23PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen escreveu: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 04:28:19PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: > > I'm building a bit of hardware. It's basically a serial multiplexer that > > communicates to the PC using a single usb-serial port. It has the ability > > to r

UDP broadcast packets not looped back

2007-08-13 Thread Benoit PAPILLAULT
Hi there, I wrote a small C program using the BSD socket API to send a UDP broadcast packet to all interfaces of my machine. To do so, i sendto() it to 255.255.255.255 after using setsockopt(SO_BINDTODEVICE) on the correct interface. It works perfectly. However, in the same program, either u

Re: [-mm patch] kconfig syntax cleanups

2007-08-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:17:01PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:05:10 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > This patch removes the following redundant and never or rarely used > > kconfig syntax: > > - "def_boolean" (same as "def_bool") > > - "requires" (same as "depends on") >

Re: 2.6.23-rc2 swsusp, suddenly increased uptime

2007-08-13 Thread Thomas Voegtle
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, 12 August 2007 21:39, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > today I saw this (output from my suspend script): > > > > -> woke up at Sun Aug 12 11:39:17 CEST 2007 > > -> uptime is > > 11:39am up 8 days 0:41, 10 users, load avera

Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

2007-08-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:56:53PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:24:52PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > On 13/08/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Unclassified > > > > > > > > Subject : reset during bootup - 2.6.23-rc2 (git d23cf676) > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] [443/2many] MAINTAINERS - HIBERNATION (aka Software Suspend, aka swsusp):

2007-08-13 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 13 August 2007 23:21, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 23:25 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > + include/linux/suspend.h > > + include/linux/freezer.h > > + include/linux/pm.h > > + include/asm-*/suspend.h > > > > Hm, they are also relevant for suspend to RAM, so perhaps one

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

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Hallelujah. You are my hero! x86_64 will switch off CONFIG_ZONE_DMA? > > Yes. i386 too actually. > > The DMA zone will be still there, but only reachable with special functions. Not too happy with that one but this is going the right direcrtion. On NU

Re: [PATCH] [438/2many] MAINTAINERS - SLAB ALLOCATOR

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Perches
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 14:21 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Joe Perches wrote: > > Do you want slob too? > Sure we usually have to update all the slab allocators for changes. SLAB/SLOB/SLUB ALLOCATORS P: Christoph Lameter M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: Pekka Enberg M

Re: [PATCH] [443/2many] MAINTAINERS - HIBERNATION (aka Software Suspend, aka swsusp):

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Perches
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 23:25 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > + include/linux/suspend.h > + include/linux/freezer.h > + include/linux/pm.h > + include/asm-*/suspend.h > > Hm, they are also relevant for suspend to RAM, so perhaps one common > list of files for suspend to RAM and hibernation would b

Re: 2.6.23-rc3 regression and bisection query

2007-08-13 Thread Sergey Dolgov
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 07:44:48PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Git bisection (with manual fixups to i386 mmiocfg horror, thanks > for drawing attention to that in your changelog) accuses Alexey's > ACPI: EC: If ECDT is not found, look up EC in DSDT > cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b > and

Re: [PATCH] [438/2many] MAINTAINERS - SLAB ALLOCATOR

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Joe Perches wrote: > Do you want slob too? Sure we usually have to update all the slab allocators for changes. > SLAB/SLUB ALLOCATOR > P:Christoph Lameter > M:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > P:Pekka Enberg > M:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > L:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > S:Maintain

Re: [patch 00/23] Atomic operations updates: add cmpxchg_local

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > I have been asked for a cmpxchg_local implementation by Christoph Lameter so > he > can use it to accelerate the slub allocator. Hmmm... I have run my own and tested a variety of approaches on cmpxchg a couple of weeks ago on an Athlong64. There w

Re: [PATCH] [444/2many] MAINTAINERS - SUSPEND TO RAM:

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Perches
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 23:22 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > What about arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi.c ? > Well, there's no such file in current -git. > > F: arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi.c > Please remove the above SUSPEND TO RAM: P: Pavel Machek M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: Rafael J. Wysocki

Re: [PATCH] [438/2many] MAINTAINERS - SLAB ALLOCATOR

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Perches
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 13:46 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Add file pattern to MAINTAINER entry > > > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > index b2dd6f5..a3c6123 100644 > > --- a

Re: [PATCH] [443/2many] MAINTAINERS - HIBERNATION (aka Software Suspend, aka swsusp):

2007-08-13 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 13 August 2007 22:54, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 22:50 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Please add > > arch/i386/power/ > > arch/x86_64/kernel/suspend_asm.S > > arch/x86_64/kernel/suspend.c > > drivers/base/power/ > > There also is a couple of headers. Do you want to

Re: Unexpected busfree in Message-in phase

2007-08-13 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 13/08/07, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jesper, > > On 11/08/07, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just noticed this in dmesg : > > > > [ 3216.262987] (scsi0:A:4:0): Unexpected busfree in Message-in phase > > [ 3216.263058] SEQADDR == 0x16c > > [ 3216.2

Re: [PATCH] [444/2many] MAINTAINERS - SUSPEND TO RAM:

2007-08-13 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 13 August 2007 22:57, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 22:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > +F: drivers/base/power > > +F: arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi > > +F: arch/i386/kernel/acpi/ > > What about arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi.c ? Well, there's no such file in current -git. > Per

Re: [-mm patch] kconfig syntax cleanups

2007-08-13 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:05:10 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:13:30PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:38:09AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >

Re: Advice on a userspace tty serial driver

2007-08-13 Thread Alan Cox
> I don't think you can do any serial specific stuff, like parity and stop > bits and the like across a pty. You might have to actually write a They will let you do that. Any options you set one side become visible the other. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: [PATCH]: proc: export a processes resource limits via proc/

2007-08-13 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:11:30PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > --- a/fs/proc/base.c > +++ b/fs/proc/base.c > @@ -323,6 +324,68 @@ static int proc_oom_score(struct task_struct *task, char > *buffer) > return sprintf(buffer, "%lu\n", points); > } > > +struct limit_names { > + char *name

Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl

2007-08-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:09:08AM -0700, Ray Lee wrote: > On 8/12/07, Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I grew weary of looking up the appropriate > > maintainer email address(es) to CC: for a patch. > > > > I added flags to the MAINTAINERS file > > > > F: file pattern > > > > for ea

Re: How to make -mm a more viable testbed (was: [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD)

2007-08-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:40:06 MDT, Zan Lynx said: > I thought most people running -mm were running klive, which shou > ld tell kernel versions, uptime and other things. I run it, anyway. > > http://klive.cpushare.com/ That page says there's a whole whopping 587 people reporting back, of which 1

Re: [PATCH] [444/2many] MAINTAINERS - SUSPEND TO RAM:

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Perches
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 22:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > +F: drivers/base/power > +F: arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi > +F: arch/i386/kernel/acpi/ What about arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi.c ? Perhaps: SUSPEND TO RAM: P: Pavel Machek M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: Rafael J. Wysocki M: [

Re: [patch] slab: revert "slab: fix alien cache handling"

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > Can we revert git commit 3cdc0ed0cea50ea08dd146c1bbc82b1bcc2e1b80 ? Only if you find another way to fix the bug that is addressed there. > This is introducing a performance regression and nullifies the previous > commit. The implementation of noali

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23] cxgb3 - Fix dev->priv usage

2007-08-13 Thread David Miller
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:33:04 -0700 > From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > cxgb3 used netdev_priv() and dev->priv for different purposes. > In 2.6.23, netdev_priv() == dev->priv, cxgb3 needs a fix. > This patch is a partial backport of Dave Miller's ch

Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

2007-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:24:52PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > On 13/08/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Unclassified > > > > > > Subject : reset during bootup - 2.6.23-rc2 (git d23cf676) > > > > This is already fixed in mainline > > commit b8d3f2448b8f4ba24f301e235855

Re: 2.6.23-rc2 swsusp, suddenly increased uptime

2007-08-13 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 12 August 2007 21:39, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > > Hi, > > today I saw this (output from my suspend script): > > -> woke up at Sun Aug 12 11:39:17 CEST 2007 > -> uptime is > 11:39am up 8 days 0:41, 10 users, load average: 26.12, 6.35, 2.17 > > > Then I did a software suspend. Afte

Re: [PATCH] [443/2many] MAINTAINERS - HIBERNATION (aka Software Suspend, aka swsusp):

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Perches
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 22:50 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Please add > arch/i386/power/ > arch/x86_64/kernel/suspend_asm.S > arch/x86_64/kernel/suspend.c > drivers/base/power/ > There also is a couple of headers. Do you want to list them too? Your choice. Just let me know. HIBERNATION (aka

Re: Advice on a userspace tty serial driver

2007-08-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 04:28:19PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: > I'm building a bit of hardware. It's basically a serial multiplexer that > communicates to the PC using a single usb-serial port. It has the ability > to run between 2 and 8 standard async ports over this single interface. > > I'd

Re: [PATCH] [467/2many] MAINTAINERS - SVGA HANDLING

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Perches
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 04:18 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > video.S is no more. Replaced by arch/i386/boot/video-*.c SVGA HANDLING P: Martin Mares M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: Documentation/svga.txt H. Peter Anvin is added via t

Re: [3/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions v2

2007-08-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:59:41PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, 13 August 2007 20:35, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The patch changes the warning to a different warning, it's now > > > > > kernel/power/

Re: question about b1c931e39327ef121797927d4b3198d370e75b9b

2007-08-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 01:32:26PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > Yinghai Lu wrote: > >andrew, > > > >Can you check to see if you can put Eric's i386 left over clean up to -mm? Could you do a proper submission of these patches cc:ing lkml? Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: [patch 2/8] Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code

2007-08-13 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:07:04AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Immediate values are used as read mostly variables that are rarely updated. > They > use code patching to modify the values inscribed in the instruction stream. It > provides a way to save precious cache lines that would otherwis

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