Re: wibbling over the cpuset shed domain connnection

2007-10-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 15:21, Paul Jackson wrote: > > In the meantime, that patch should be merged though, shouldn't it? > > Which patch do you refer to: > 1) the year old patch to disconnect cpusets and sched domains: > cpuset-remove-sched-domain-hooks-from-cpusets.patch > 2) my

Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

2007-10-02 Thread Crispin Cowan
Linus Torvalds wrote: > Security, on the other hand, very much does depend on the circumstances > and the wishes of the users (or policy-makers). And if we had one module > that everybody would be happy with, I'd not make it pluggable either. But > as it is, we _know_ that's not the case. >

Re: [PATCH] cpuset and sched domains: sched_load_balance flag

2007-10-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Monday 01 October 2007 13:42, Paul Jackson wrote: > Nick wrote: > > Moreover, sched_load_balance doesn't really sound like a good name > > for asking for a partition. > > Yup - it's not a good name for asking for a partition. > > That's because it isn't asking for a partition. > > It's asking

More ext3 panics on 2.6.22 [Fwd: ext3_ordered_writepage panic on shiny new 2.6.22]

2007-10-02 Thread Mitch
Yes i know my kernel is tainted with vmblock and nvidia, but i'm not convinced it is related. I'm putting the panics here if anyone interested. Oct 2 20:08:39 home kernel: Assertion failure in journal_unmap_buffer() at fs/jbd/transaction.c:1886: "!buffer_jbddirty(bh)" Oct 2 20:08:39 home

Re: wibbling over the cpuset shed domain connnection

2007-10-02 Thread Paul Jackson
> In the meantime, that patch should be merged though, shouldn't it? Which patch do you refer to: 1) the year old patch to disconnect cpusets and sched domains: cpuset-remove-sched-domain-hooks-from-cpusets.patch 2) my patch of a few days ago to add a 'sched_load_balance' flag:

Re: File corruption when using kernels 2.6.18+

2007-10-02 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Neil, On 10/3/07, Neil Romig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your help on this. I have narrowed it down to commit > "c22ce143d15eb288543fe9873e1c5ac1c01b69a1 x86: cache pollution aware > __copy_from_user_ll()". This fits with the errors I'm getting, so now I need > to find out if I can

Re: [PATCH] Version 4 (2.6.23-rc8-mm2) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

2007-10-02 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:45:42PM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote: > > From: Casey Schaufler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Smack is the Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel. > > Smack implements mandatory access control (MAC) using labels > attached to tasks and data containers, including files,

Re: wibbling over the cpuset shed domain connnection

2007-10-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 07:34, Paul Jackson wrote: > In -mm merge plans for 2.6.24, Andrew wrote: > > cpuset-remove-sched-domain-hooks-from-cpusets.patch > > > > Paul continues to wibble over this. Hold, I guess. > > Oh dear ... after looking at the following to figure out what > a wibble

Re: [PATCH] sky2: jumbo frame regression fix

2007-10-02 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:34:34 +0200 Ian Kumlien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On tis, 2007-10-02 at 18:02 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Remove unneeded check that caused problems with jumbo frame sizes. > > The check was recently added and is wrong. > > When using jumbo frames the sky2 driver

Re: [PATCH] sky2: jumbo frame regression fix

2007-10-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:07:22 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephen Hemminger wrote: Remove unneeded check that caused problems with jumbo frame sizes. The check was recently added and is wrong. When using jumbo frames the sky2 driver does fragmentation,

Re: [Question] How to represent SYSTEM_RAM in kerenel/resouce.c

2007-10-02 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:52:42 -0600 Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:31:36AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > i386 and x86_64 registers System RAM as IORESOUCE_MEM | IORESOUCE_BUSY. > > ia64 registers System RAM as IORESOURCE_MEM. > > > > Which is better ?

Re: [PATCH] sky2: jumbo frame regression fix

2007-10-02 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:07:22 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Remove unneeded check that caused problems with jumbo frame sizes. > > The check was recently added and is wrong. > > When using jumbo frames the sky2 driver does fragmentation, so > >

Re: [PATCH] Document x86-64 iommu kernel parameters

2007-10-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
Jeff Garzik wrote: Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:34:13 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- After having to go figure out what some of these means, I figured I would save others the trouble. Some of these are "best guess" based on a quick

Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

2007-10-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Unfortunately not so, I've been looking at schedulers since MULTICS, and > desktops since the 70s (MP/M), and networked servers since I was the ARPAnet > technical administrator at GE's Corporate R Center. And on desktops response > is (and should be

Re: [PATCH] mark read_crX() asm code as volatile

2007-10-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 04:27, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 10/02/2007 11:28 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:08:32 +0400 > > > > Kirill Korotaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Some gcc versions (I checked at least 4.1.1 from RHEL5 & 4.1.2 from > >> gentoo) can generate

Re: per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24)

2007-10-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 21:40, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 13:21 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > How about adding this information to the tree then, instead of > > creating a new top-level hack, just because something that you think > > you need doesn't exist. > > So you

[PATCH] fix bogus reporting of signals by audit

2007-10-02 Thread Al Viro
Async signals should not be reported as sent by current in audit log. As it is, we call audit_signal_info() too early in check_kill_permission(). Note that check_kill_permission() has that test already - it needs to know if it should apply current-based permission checks. So the

My kernel fails with kexec

2007-10-02 Thread Jun Koi
Greetings, I have a kernel (which is not Linux kernel), and want to have it worked with kexec. That means I want to get kexec boot my kernel. Fortunately, kexec crashes when booting it. (with kexec -e command) My suspect is that my kernel is not written to "support" kexec. So could anybody tell

Re: kdump info request

2007-10-02 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 09:31:45AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:35:04 -0600 Mukker, Atul wrote: > > > Thanks for the information and the effort. > > > > We need to support all currently shipping products with kdump support > > available (read Red Hat and SuSE) so sooner it

Re: [PATCH] Document x86-64 iommu kernel parameters

2007-10-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Randy Dunlap wrote: Maybe we can/should merge the doc files along with the x86 arch merge. Well, the x86 merge is pretty much mechanical. It should be followed up with a lot of manual merging. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 -- powerpc rtas panic

2007-10-02 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 11:19 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:30:16AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > I realise it'll make the patch bigger, but this doesn't seem like a > > particularly good name for the variable anymore. > > Sure, what about? Better .. but .. :D

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-10-02 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:59:04PM +0200, Dmitry Adamushko wrote: > The following patch (sched: disable sleeper_fairness on SCHED_BATCH) > seems to break GROUP_SCHED. Although, it may be > 'oops'-less due to the possibility of 'p' being always a valid > address. Thanks for catching it! Patch

Re: [PATCH] Document x86-64 iommu kernel parameters

2007-10-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:30:31 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:34:13 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > >> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> --- > >> After having to go figure out what some of these means, I figured I > >> would save others

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Add sysfs control to modify a user's cpu share

2007-10-02 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:12:39PM -0400, Eric St-Laurent wrote: > While a sysfs interface is OK and somewhat orthogonal to the interface > proposed the containers patches, I think maybe a new syscall should be > considered. We had discussed syscall vs filesystem based interface for resource

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

2007-10-02 Thread Eric St-Laurent
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 11:17 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: [...] > I have uploaded an update of the arch/x86 tree based on -rc9 to > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86.git x86 > [...] > If there is anything we can help with the transition, please do not

Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

2007-10-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: And yet you can make the exact same case for schedulers as security, you can quantify the behavior, but if your only choice is A it doesn't help to know that B is better. You snipped a key part of the argument. Namely:

Re: [PATCH 4/5] infiniband: add "dmabarrier" argument to ib_umem_get()

2007-10-02 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:49:06 -0700 > > Pass a "dmabarrier" argument to ib_umem_get() and use the new > argument to control setting the DMA_BARRIER_ATTR attribute on > the memory that ib_umem_get() maps for DMA. > > Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PATCH 4/5] ibmebus: Move to of_device and of_platform_driver, match eHCA and eHEA drivers

2007-10-02 Thread Paul Mackerras
Joachim Fenkes writes: > Replace struct ibmebus_dev and struct ibmebus_driver with struct of_device > and struct of_platform_driver, respectively. Match the external ibmebus > interface and drivers using it. > > Signed-off-by: Joachim Fenkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- >

Re: [PATCH 3/5] dma: document dma_flags_set_attr()

2007-10-02 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:47:52 -0700 > > Document dma_flags_set_attr(). > > Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: [PATCH 1/5] dma: add dma_flags_set_attr() to dma interface

2007-10-02 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:44:57 -0700 > > Introduce the dma_flags_set_attr() interface and give it a default > no-op implementation. > > Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH 2/5] dma: redefine dma_flags_set_attr() for sn-ia64

2007-10-02 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:46:41 -0700 > > define dma_flags_set_attr() for sn-ia64 - it "borrows" bits from > the direction argument (renamed "flags") to the dma_map_* routines > to pass an additional attributes. Also define routines to retrieve > the original direction

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8378] New: Averatec 3156X laptop doesn't reboot with kernels > 2.6.13.5 (responsible commit found)

2007-10-02 Thread Truxton Fulton
Andrew Morton wrote (at Sat, 12 May 2007 18:02:40 -0700) : > > OK, thanks. > > So that are we doing here? We try the pre-Truxton code and if that didn't > work we try the post-Truxton code? Hard to see how that could go wrong. > > Truxton, can you please test it for us? Hi, Hiroto Shibuya

Re: [PATCH 5/5] mthca: allow setting "dmabarrier" on user-allocated memory

2007-10-02 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:50:07PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > +struct mthca_reg_mr { > + __u32 mr_attrs; > +#define MTHCA_MR_DMAFLUSH 0x1/* flush in-flight DMA on a write to > + * memory region */ > + __u32 reserved; > +}; Seems like a very odd

[PATCH 5/5] mthca: allow setting "dmabarrier" on user-allocated memory

2007-10-02 Thread akepner
Allow setting a "dmabarrier" when the mthca driver registers user- allocated memory. Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mthca_provider.c |7 ++- mthca_user.h | 10 +- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH 3/5] dma: document dma_flags_set_attr()

2007-10-02 Thread akepner
Document dma_flags_set_attr(). Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- DMA-API.txt | 27 +++ 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index cc7a8c3..16e15c0 100644 ---

[PATCH 4/5] infiniband: add "dmabarrier" argument to ib_umem_get()

2007-10-02 Thread akepner
Pass a "dmabarrier" argument to ib_umem_get() and use the new argument to control setting the DMA_BARRIER_ATTR attribute on the memory that ib_umem_get() maps for DMA. Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c |8 ++--

Re: 2.6.23-rc9 boot failure (megaraid?)

2007-10-02 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:38:13 -0500 James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 20:15 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Cc's added, the complete bug report is at > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/2/243 > > > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:48:26PM -0400, Burton Windle wrote: > >

[PATCH 2/5] dma: redefine dma_flags_set_attr() for sn-ia64

2007-10-02 Thread akepner
define dma_flags_set_attr() for sn-ia64 - it "borrows" bits from the direction argument (renamed "flags") to the dma_map_* routines to pass an additional attributes. Also define routines to retrieve the original direction and attribute from "flags". Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <[EMAIL

[PATCH 1/5] dma: add dma_flags_set_attr() to dma interface

2007-10-02 Thread akepner
Introduce the dma_flags_set_attr() interface and give it a default no-op implementation. Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- dma-mapping.h |8 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h index

[PATCH 0/5] allow drivers to flush in-flight DMA v3

2007-10-02 Thread akepner
On Altix, DMA may be reordered between a device and host memory. This reordering can happen in the NUMA interconnect, and it usually results in correct operation and improved performance. In some situations it may be necessary to explicitly synchronize DMA from the device. This patchset

Traffic Controller Performance in Kernel 2.4 vs 2.6

2007-10-02 Thread Sonny
Hello This is a repost, there seems to have a misunderstanding before. I hope this is the right place to ask this. Does any know if there is a substantial difference in the performance of the traffic controller between kernel 2.4 and 2.6. We tested it using 1 iperf server and use 250 and 500

Re: [PATCH 5/5] writeback: introduce writeback_control.more_io to indicate more io

2007-10-02 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:34:39AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:47:45AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:41:48PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > > wbc.pages_skipped = 0; > > > @@ -560,8 +561,9 @@ static void background_writeout(unsigned

Re: [PATCH] Document x86-64 iommu kernel parameters

2007-10-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:34:13 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- After having to go figure out what some of these means, I figured I would save others the trouble. Some of these are "best guess" based on a quick scan of the code, so

Re: [PATCH] Document x86-64 iommu kernel parameters

2007-10-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:34:13 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > After having to go figure out what some of these means, I figured I > would save others the trouble. > > Some of these are "best guess" based on a quick scan of the code, so it >

Re: [PATCH 4/5] writeback: remove pages_skipped accounting in __block_write_full_page()

2007-10-02 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:43:33AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:55:18AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > > > > > do not quite agree with each other. The page writeback should be skipped > > > for > > > 'locked buffer', but here it is 'clean buffer'! > > > > Ok, so that

Re: RTC wakealarm write-only, still has 644 permissions

2007-10-02 Thread David Brownell
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/class/rtc/rtc0# cat wakealarm > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/class/rtc/rtc0# echo 132719 > wakealarm > > > > At which point I'd expect > > > > # echo $? > > > > would indicate the write failed. That's a LONG time in the > > past (January 2, 1970), so that

Re: [Question] How to represent SYSTEM_RAM in kerenel/resouce.c

2007-10-02 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:31:36AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > i386 and x86_64 registers System RAM as IORESOUCE_MEM | IORESOUCE_BUSY. > ia64 registers System RAM as IORESOURCE_MEM. > > Which is better ? Should probably be BUSY. Non-BUSY regions can have io resources requested underneath

Re: [PATCH 4/5] writeback: remove pages_skipped accounting in __block_write_full_page()

2007-10-02 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:55:18AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > > > do not quite agree with each other. The page writeback should be skipped for > > 'locked buffer', but here it is 'clean buffer'! > > Ok, so that means we need an equivalent fix in xfs_start_page_writeback() > as it will skip

Re: linux cache routines for Write-back cache policy on MIPS24KE

2007-10-02 Thread veerasena reddy
hi Geert, here i mean 'flush' is 'write-back only' Regards, Veerasena. --- Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, veerasena reddy wrote: > > In linux-2.6.18 (for MIPS24KE processor): > > suppose if i want to do flush only then which API > i > > should use? > >

Re: kswapd min order, slub max order [was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24]

2007-10-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 02:06, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > # > > # slub && antifrag > > # > > have-kswapd-keep-a-minimum-order-free-other-than-order-0.patch > > only-check-absolute-watermarks-for-alloc_high-and-alloc_harder-allocation > >s.patch

[PATCH] libata: fix for sata_mv >64KB DMA segments

2007-10-02 Thread Olof Johansson
Fix bug in sata_mv for cases where the IOMMU layer has merged SG entries to larger than 64KB. They need to be split up before being sent to the driver. Just for simplicity's sake, split up at 64K boundary instead of 64K size, since that's what the common code does anyway. Signed-off-by: Olof

Re: [PATCH 5/5] writeback: introduce writeback_control.more_io to indicate more io

2007-10-02 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:47:45AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:41:48PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > wbc.pages_skipped = 0; > > @@ -560,8 +561,9 @@ static void background_writeout(unsigned > > min_pages -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;

Re: [PATCH] sky2: jumbo frame regression fix

2007-10-02 Thread Ian Kumlien
On tis, 2007-10-02 at 18:02 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Remove unneeded check that caused problems with jumbo frame sizes. > The check was recently added and is wrong. > When using jumbo frames the sky2 driver does fragmentation, so > rx_data_size is less than mtu. Confirmed working. Now

[PATCH] Document x86-64 iommu kernel parameters

2007-10-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- After having to go figure out what some of these means, I figured I would save others the trouble. Some of these are "best guess" based on a quick scan of the code, so it certainly needs a sanity review before going upstream. diff --git

[Question] How to represent SYSTEM_RAM in kerenel/resouce.c

2007-10-02 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Hi, Now, SYSTEM_RAM is registerd to resouce list and a user can see memory map from /proc/iomem, like following. == [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm2]$ grep RAM /proc/iomem -0009 : System RAM 0010-03ff : System RAM 0400-04f1bfff : System RAM 04f1c000-6b4b9fff : System

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 -- powerpc rtas panic

2007-10-02 Thread Tony Breeds
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:30:16AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > I realise it'll make the patch bigger, but this doesn't seem like a > particularly good name for the variable anymore. Sure, what about? Clarify when RTAS logging is enabled. Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PATCH 05/12] mm: trylock_page

2007-10-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Sunday 30 September 2007 01:01, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 13:11 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Friday 28 September 2007 17:42, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > Replace raw TestSetPageLocked() usage with trylock_page() > > > > I have such a thing queued too, for the lock bitops

Re: [PATCH] Add ability to dump mapped pages with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

2007-10-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Monday 01 October 2007 04:03, Soeren Sandmann wrote: > This patch adds the ability to drop mapped pages with > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. This is useful to get repeatable > measurements of startup time for applications. > > Without it, pages that are mapped in already-running applications will >

Re: [15/17] SLUB: Support virtual fallback via SLAB_VFALLBACK

2007-10-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 06:50, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > I thought it was slower. Have you fixed the performance regression? > > (OK, I read further down that you are still working on it but not > > confirmed yet...) > > The problem is with the weird

Re: [15/17] SLUB: Support virtual fallback via SLAB_VFALLBACK

2007-10-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 07:01, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 11:20 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Really? That means we can no longer even allocate stacks for forking. > > > > I think I'm running with 4k stacks... > > 4k

Re: [PATCH] sky2: jumbo frame regression fix

2007-10-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stephen Hemminger wrote: Remove unneeded check that caused problems with jumbo frame sizes. The check was recently added and is wrong. When using jumbo frames the sky2 driver does fragmentation, so rx_data_size is less than mtu. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [PATCH 0/4] allow drivers to flush in-flight DMA v2

2007-10-02 Thread akepner
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:43:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > My only beef with this patch set is that it seems > a bit much to create a totally new function name every > time we want to set some kind of new attribute on some > DMA object. Why not add a "dma_set_flags()" or similar >

Re: [4/4] mthca: allow setting "dmabarrier" on user-allocated memory

2007-10-02 Thread akepner
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:50:00PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > Sorry for not mentioning this earlier, but this patch should really be > two (or more) patches: one to add dmabarrier support to the core user > memory stuff in drivers/infiniband, and a second one to add support to > mthca (and

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: I'm proposing that the existing bzImage format be retained, but that the payload of the decompressor (already a gzip file) simply be vmlinux.gz -- i.e. a gzip compressed ELF file, notes and all. A pointer in the header will point to the offset

[PATCH] sky2: jumbo frame regression fix

2007-10-02 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Remove unneeded check that caused problems with jumbo frame sizes. The check was recently added and is wrong. When using jumbo frames the sky2 driver does fragmentation, so rx_data_size is less than mtu. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- a/drivers/net/sky2.c

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I'm proposing that the existing bzImage format be retained, but that > the payload of the decompressor (already a gzip file) simply be > vmlinux.gz -- i.e. a gzip compressed ELF file, notes and all. A > pointer in the header will point to the offset of the payload (this is

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
H. Peter Anvin wrote: No, not at all. I'm proposing that the existing bzImage format be retained, but that the payload of the decompressor (already a gzip file) simply be vmlinux.gz -- i.e. a gzip compressed ELF file, notes and all. A pointer in the header will point to the offset of the

[BUG] sky2 errors in 2.6.23-rc9-git1

2007-10-02 Thread Ian Kumlien
Hi, Sorry about this but the latest sky2 seems damned odd. I have been running with jumbo frames at home for quite some time but with this kernel that doesn't work, i instead get loads of: sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x5e60500 length 1510 sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x5e60500

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: This series looks like a good start for Xen, but we still need to work out where to stash the metadata which normally lives in ELF notes. Using ELF is convenient for Xen because it lets a large chunk of domain builder code be reused; on the

Re: build error

2007-10-02 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:28:27 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:19:42 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:12:13 +0200 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > [please CC: me, my subscribe mail was greylisted] > > > > > > Morning! > > > >

Re: kswapd min order, slub max order [was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24]

2007-10-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The maximum order of allocation used by SLUB may have to depend on the > number of page structs in the system since small systems (128M was the > case that Peter found) can easier get into trouble. SLAB has similar > measures to avoid order 1

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 -- powerpc rtas panic

2007-10-02 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:26 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:28:19PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:35:31PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > > Seeing the following from an older power LPAR, pretty sure we had > > > this in the previous -mm also: >

Re: build error

2007-10-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:19:42 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:12:13 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [please CC: me, my subscribe mail was greylisted] > > > > Morning! > > > > My make run for 2.6.23-rc9 ends like this: > > > > GEN .version > > CHK

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 -- powerpc rtas panic

2007-10-02 Thread Tony Breeds
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:28:19PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:35:31PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > Seeing the following from an older power LPAR, pretty sure we had > > this in the previous -mm also: > > I haven't forgetten about this ... and am looking at it

Re: build error

2007-10-02 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:12:13 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [please CC: me, my subscribe mail was greylisted] > > Morning! > > My make run for 2.6.23-rc9 ends like this: > > GEN .version > CHK include/linux/compile.h > UPD include/linux/compile.h > CC init/version.o >

Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

2007-10-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > Smack seems a perfectly good simple LSM module, its clean, its based upon > credible security models and sound theory (unlike AppArmor). The problem with SELinux isn't the theory. It's the practice. IOW, it's too hard to use. Apparently Ubuntu is

Re: Kernel 2.4 vs 2.6 Traffic Controller performance

2007-10-02 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 08:05:30 +0800 Sonny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > I hope this is the right place to ask this.Does any know if there is a > substantial difference in the performance of the traffic controller > between kernel 2.4 and 2.6. We tested it using 1 iperf server and use > 250

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Patch series to add of_platform binding to xilinxfb

2007-10-02 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 09:57 -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > (resend due to mailer issues. Apologies to anyone receiving this twice) > > This patch series reworks the Xilinx framebuffer driver and then adds > an of_platform bus binding. The of_platform bus binding is needed to use > the driver in

Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

2007-10-02 Thread Alan Cox
> situations. For example, I find SELinux to be so irrelevant to my usage > that I don't use it at all. I just don't have any other users on my > machine That you know about... The value of SELinux (or indeed any system compartmentalising access and limiting damage) comes into play when you

Re: 2.6.23-rc9 boot failure (megaraid?)

2007-10-02 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:38:13 -0500 James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 20:15 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Cc's added, the complete bug report is at > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/2/243 > > > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:48:26PM -0400, Burton Windle wrote: > >

Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

2007-10-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:02:13 -0400 Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Stephen Smalley wrote: > >> You argued against pluggable schedulers, right? Why is security > >> different? > > > > Schedulers can be objectively tested. There's this

Kernel 2.4 vs 2.6 Traffic Controller performance

2007-10-02 Thread Sonny
Hello I hope this is the right place to ask this.Does any know if there is a substantial difference in the performance of the traffic controller between kernel 2.4 and 2.6. We tested it using 1 iperf server and use 250 and 500 clients, altering the burst. We use the top command to check the idle

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> This series looks like a good start for Xen, but we still need to work >> out where to stash the metadata which normally lives in ELF notes. >> Using ELF is convenient for Xen because it lets a large chunk of domain >> builder code be reused; on the other hand, loading a

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Rusty Russell wrote: Hi all, Jeremy had some boot changes for bzImages, but buried in there was an update to the boot protocol to support Xen and lguest (and kvm-lite). I've copied those fairly simple patches, and if HPA is happy I'd like to push them for

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Rusty Russell wrote: > Hi all, > > Jeremy had some boot changes for bzImages, but buried in there was an > update to the boot protocol to support Xen and lguest (and kvm-lite). > I've copied those fairly simple patches, and if HPA is happy I'd like to > push them for 2.6.24 (after correcting

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rusty Russell wrote: Hi all, Jeremy had some boot changes for bzImages, but buried in there was an update to the boot protocol to support Xen and lguest (and kvm-lite). I've copied those fairly simple patches, and if HPA is happy I'd like to push them for 2.6.24 (after correcting for

[PATCH 4/5] Revert lguest magic and use hook in head.S

2007-10-02 Thread Rusty Russell
Version 2.07 of the boot protocol uses 0x23C for the hardware_subarch field, that for lguest is "1". This allows us to use the standard boot entry point rather than the "GenuineLguest" string hack. This entry point also clears the BSS and copies the boot parameters and commandline for us, saving

[PATCH 5/5] lguest: loading bzImage directly

2007-10-02 Thread Rusty Russell
Now arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S understands the hardware_platform field, we can directly execute bzImages. No more horrific unpacking code. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/lguest/lguest.c| 97 --

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle

2007-10-02 Thread Mark Lord
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:46:18 -0400 On a related note, {set/get}itimer() currently are buggy (since 2.6.11 or so), also due to this round_jiffies() thing I believe. I very much believe that it is totally unrelated... most of all since round_jiffies() wasn't in the

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

2007-10-02 Thread Mel Gorman
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 18:09 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Mel Gorman wrote: > > On (02/10/07 14:15), Ingo Molnar didst pronounce: > >> * Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Dirt. Booting with "profile=sleep,2" is broken in 2.6.23-rc9 and > >>> 2.6.23-rc8 but working in 2.6.22. I was

Re: [git patches] net driver updates

2007-10-02 Thread David Miller
From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:41:50 -0400 > Please pull from the 'upstream' branch of > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream Pulled and pushed back out to net-2.6.24, thanks Jeff! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

[PATCH 2/5] add WEAK() for creating weak asm labels

2007-10-02 Thread Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/linkage.h |6 ++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) === --- a/include/linux/linkage.h +++

[PATCH 3/5] i386: paravirt boot sequence

2007-10-02 Thread Rusty Russell
This patch uses the updated boot protocol to do paravirtualized boot. If the boot version is >= 2.07, then it will do two things: 1. Check the bootparams loadflags to see if we should reload the segment registers and clear interrupts. This is appropriate for normal native boot and some

[PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread Rusty Russell
Hi all, Jeremy had some boot changes for bzImages, but buried in there was an update to the boot protocol to support Xen and lguest (and kvm-lite). I've copied those fairly simple patches, and if HPA is happy I'd like to push them for 2.6.24 (after correcting for the Great Arch Merge of

[PATCH 1/5] update boot spec to 2.07

2007-10-02 Thread Rusty Russell
Proposed updates for version 2.07 of the boot protocol. This includes: load_flags.KEEP_SEGMENTS- flag to request/inhibit segment reloads hardware_subarch- what subarchitecture we're booting under hardware_subarch_data - per-architecture data The intention of these changes is to make

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

2007-10-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Diego Calleja wrote: > > Also...if someone dislikes something in http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_23 > , > or wants to fix my english, do it soon :) Heh. The "remove sk98lin driver" bullet is sadly wrong. We had to reinstate it because it supported some cards that the

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 -- powerpc rtas panic

2007-10-02 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:35:31PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Seeing the following from an older power LPAR, pretty sure we had > this in the previous -mm also: I haven't forgetten about this ... and am looking at it now. Seems that whenever I go to reserve the machine pSeries-102, someone

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle

2007-10-02 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:33:58 -0400 > Or, everybody wakes up at once right when we are taking a sample. :) nice try but we sample every timer tick; this code being timer driven makes it what you say it is regardless of *which* timer tick it happens at ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Point of gpl-only modules (flame)

2007-10-02 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:49:04 +0200 Jimmy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know I'll be getting hell for this, I must be a masochist. > DO NOT FEED THE TROLL. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

2007-10-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I don't know who came up with it, or why people continue to feed the > insane ideas. Why do people think that servers don't care about latency? > Why do people believe that desktop doesn't have multiple processors or > through-put intensive

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