access_flags_to_mode() gets on-the-wire data (little-endian)
and treats it as host-endian.
Introduced in commit e01b64001359034d04c695388870936ed3d1b56b
([CIFS] enable get mode from ACL when cifsacl mount option specified)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
diff --git
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:25:52PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
Hello.
I posted a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
11 hours ago, but it seems to me my message has not delivered yet.
Usually it won't take 10 minutes to be delivered.
So, I'm thinking my
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:
On Mon 2007-12-03 22:45:06, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:
I compiled a .24-ish kernel for it with CONFIG_NO_HZ and
CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS. To get the system boot at least sometimes I
have
to
Introduce list_for_each_entry_reverse_from() needed by a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/list.h | 13 +
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -562,6 +562,19 @@ static inline void
This patch does some whitespace cleanups in the paging code to fix some
checkpatch.pl warnings of my formerly merged cleanup patches.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c|2 +-
include/asm-x86/pgtable_64.h | 22 +++---
2 files
Changes to keep dirent cache uptodate.
Dirent cache stored as part of topmost directory's struct file needs to
be marked stale whenever there is a modification in any of the directories
that is part of the union. Modifications(like addition/deletion of new
entries) to a directory can occur from
Remove the existing readdir implementation.
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/readdir.c | 10 +
fs/union.c| 333 --
include/linux/union.h | 23 ---
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 358 deletions(-)
Hi,
In Union Mount, the merged view of directories of the union is obtained
by enhancing readdir(2)/getdents(2) to read and merge the entries of
all the directories by eliminating the duplicates. While we have tried
a few approaches for this, none of them could perfectly solve all the problems.
Matt Mackall wrote:
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:23:12PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
Matt Mackall wrote:
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:18:27PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
Matt Mackall wrote:
which would have been in v2.6.22-rc4 through the normal CVE process.
The only
* Markus Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Changes to the last version:
- split implementation into two layers: ds/bts and ptrace
- renamed TIF's
- save/restore ds save area msr in __switch_to_xtra()
- make block-stepping only look at BTF bit
hm, i tried to merge your patches, but they were
When a executable that is greater than 2GB in size is attempted on a 64-bit
system on a file system that calls, or uses generic_file_open() as its
open handler, it fails with an EOVERFLOW erro. This patch adds a call
to force_o_largefile() call in open_exec(), as done in sys_open() and
Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Jie Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Simon Holm Th??gersen wrote:
ons, 21 11 2007 kl. 20:52 -0500, skrev Jie Chen:
There is a backport of the CFS scheduler to 2.6.21, see
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/19/127
Hi, Simon:
I will try that after the thanksgiving holiday to find
Hi,
I found the initialization code of the sysfs in version 2.6.22:
int __init sysfs_init(void)
{
int err = -ENOMEM;
sysfs_dir_cachep = kmem_cache_create(sysfs_dir_cache,
sizeof(struct sysfs_dirent),
0, 0, NULL, NULL);
if
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:20:15 -0700
Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Haavard,
Some (delayed) comments.
Thanks for the feedback.
A few questions:
The one change that seems to be missing, at least in my mind, is
extending struct dma_client to include details about the slave device.
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 07:42:02PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
Hi Andrew,
The 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 kernel build fails with build failure,
CC drivers/char/hvcs.o
drivers/char/hvcs.c: In function ‘hvcs_open’:
drivers/char/hvcs.c:1180: error: wrong type argument to unary exclamation mark
Nick Piggin wrote:
Am I missing something here? I wonder how s390 works without this change?
--
ext2 should not worry about checking sb-s_blocksize for XIP before the
sb's blocksize actually gets set.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext2/super.c
* Joerg Roedel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch does some whitespace cleanups in the paging code to fix
some checkpatch.pl warnings of my formerly merged cleanup patches.
thanks, applied.
btw., if there's any file you are particularly interested in cleaning up
as a whole, you can use
From: Luís Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Added pci vendor id Quatech - 0x135c - to include/linux/pci_id.h
Added pci device id for the Quatech SPPXP-100 ExpressCard - 0x278 - to
include/linux/pci_id.h
Modified drivers/parport/parport_pc.c to support the Quatech SPPXP-100
Parallel port PCI Expresscard
Another readdir implementation for union uounted directories.
Reads dirents from all layers of the union into a cache, eliminates duplicates,
before returning them into userspace. The cache is stored persistently as part
of struct file of the topmost directory. Instead of original directory
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On Wed, Dec 5, 2007 at 6:44 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Gregory Haskins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, that said, Steven's testing work on the mainline port of our
series sums it up very nicely, so I will present that in lieu of
digging
Hello.
I posted a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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Usually it won't take 10 minutes to be delivered.
So, I'm thinking my messages was dropped.
Does vger.kernel.org have spam filter and
do_signal_stop() counts all sub-thread and sets -group_stop_count accordingly.
Every thread should decrement -group_stop_count and stop, the last one should
notify the parent.
However a sub-thread can exit before it notices the signal_pending(), or it may
be somewhere in do_exit() already. In
Current progress: 11 revisions left to test. The current partial
git bisect log is available per Ingo's suggestion on bugzilla.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9457
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on., 05.12.2007 kl. 16.46 +0900, skrev Tejun Heo:
Kjartan Maraas wrote:
fr., 30.11.2007 kl. 19.39 +0900, skrev Tejun Heo:
Kjartan Maraas wrote:
on., 28.11.2007 kl. 10.09 +0900, skrev Tejun Heo:
Kjartan Maraas wrote:
I get this exact error message on a normal first time boot here. I'm
Em Qua, 2007-12-05 às 11:33 +0100, Jiri Kosina escreveu:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
Hmm, seems like -common part contains also code that is not completely
common to all the modules.
How about this?
that does the trick and 2.6.24-rc4 now builds boots fine with that
Mr. Grep says warn_if_not_ulong() is not used anymore anywhere
in the code. So, we remove it.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/asm-x86/system_64.h |2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/system_64.h
As pointed out by Andi, linux never really uses this register
so saving and restoring is not really necessary. This patch
removes all references to it.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_64.c |1 -
arch/x86/kernel/suspend_64.c |
This patch moves the i386 control registers manipulation functions,
wbinvd, and clts functions to system.h. They are essentially the same
as in x86_64.
With this, system.h paravirt comes for free in x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/asm-x86/system.h
the p parameter is an explicit memory reference, and is
enough to prevent gcc to being nasty here. The volatile
seems completely not needed.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/asm-x86/system_32.h |2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Jie Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the moment you saturate the system a bit more, the numbers should
improve even with such a ping-pong test.
You are right. If I manually do load balance (bind unrelated processes
on the other cores), my test code perform as well as it did
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:14:13 -0800
Brett T. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
---
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/bw-qcam.c b/drivers/media/video/bw-qcam.c
index 5842352..b74a9cb 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/bw-qcam.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/bw-qcam.c
@@ -82,11 +82,16 @@ OTHER
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 20:07 +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
In this approach, the cached dirents are given offsets in the form of
linearly increasing indices/cookies (like 0, 1, 2,...). This helps us to
uniformly define offsets across all the directories of the union
irrespective of the type of
On 05.12.07 08:51:02, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
which kernel code is using or going to use these export?
For IBS it is Perfmon. See here:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/eranian/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7caef3e19d17349f869884f5adf7c9823e32ade7
MCE export has been added for consistency
* Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
git-x86, in commit 70aa1bd3839e3ec74ce65316528a82570e8de666, changed a
lot of the sigcontext field names. This patch changes UML usage to
match.
thanks, we indeed missed those. Should we carry this in x86.git, or
would you like to carry this in your
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:15:59 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Convert USB mon driver from nopage to fault.
if (offset = rp-b_size)
- return NOPAGE_SIGBUS;
+ return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
chunk_idx = offset / CHUNK_SIZE;
pageptr = rp-b_vec[chunk_idx].pg;
Ingo Molnar a écrit :
* Jie Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just ran the same test on two 2.6.24-rc4 kernels: one with
CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED on and the other with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
off. The odd behavior I described in my previous e-mails were still
there for both kernels. Let me know
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Changes to the last version:
- ported to v 2.68
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Index: man-pages-2.68/man2/ptrace.2
===
---
On Dec 5, 2007 9:37 AM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Although I would suggest that aggressive may not be the best term - I'm
not such of a good one however - skip_passive ?
How about force_init?
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On 1 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt uttered the following:
On Dec 1 2007 06:19, Justin Piszcz wrote:
RAID1, 0.90.03 superblocks (in order to be compatible with LILO, if
you use 1.x superblocks with LILO you can't boot)
Says who? (Don't use LILO ;-)
Well, your kernels must be on a
single list_head variable initialized with LIST_HEAD_INIT could almost
always can be replaced with LIST_HEAD declaration, this shrinks the code
and looks better.
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/edac/edac_device.c |2 +-
drivers/edac/edac_mc.c |2 +-
LIST_HEAD has been widely used, so switch to this simpler method.
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/base/attribute_container.c |9 +
drivers/base/base.h|1 -
drivers/base/init.c|1 -
3 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 10
Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2007 17:34:23 schrieb Pete Zaitcev:
Looks good to me, shorter than my patch, has no duplication, allows to
use the storage, looks like a winner. Unfortunately, it leaves ub for dead,
Is that new? How could ub do this up to now?
Regards
Oliver
Hi,
At Ingo's request, here it goes a new patchset, that actually
applies ontop of the x86 tree (mm branch). Besides this issue,
I've also included a patch that remove the cr8 references, as Andi
suggested.
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This patch puts together pieces of system_{32,64}.h that
looks like the same. It's the first step towards integration
of this file.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c |2 +-
include/asm-x86/system.h | 70
From: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Update GPIO mapping for T3C.
Update xgmac for T3C support.
Fix typo in mtu table.
Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/cxgb3/regs.h | 27 ++-
drivers/net/cxgb3/t3_hw.c |6 +++---
Okay... I'm getting to the point where I want to release my local caching
patches again and have NFS work with them. This means making NFS mounts share
or not share appropriately - something that's engendered a fair bit of
argument.
So I'd like to solicit advice on how best to deal with this
Inter Process Networking:
a kernel module (and some simple kernel patches) to provide
AF_IPN: a new address family for process networking, i.e. multipoint,
multicast/broadcast communication among processes (and networks).
WHAT IS IT?
---
Berkeley socket have been designed for client
Sorry, forgot to copy back to the lists.
On Dec 5, 2007 8:49 AM, Brett Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 4, 2007 4:46 PM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone still has a bw-qcam device ?
Yes. I haven't found a better option for very-low-light, although I
admit I haven't looked
From: Luís P Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Added pci vendor id Quatech - 0x135c - to include/linux/pci_id.h
Added pci device id for the Quatech SPPXP-100 ExpressCard - 0x278 - to
include/linux/pci_id.h
Modified drivers/parport/parport_pc.c to support the Quatech SPPXP-100 Parallel
port PCI
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 19:23:14 +0100, Oliver Neukum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2007 17:34:23 schrieb Pete Zaitcev:
Looks good to me, shorter than my patch, has no duplication, allows to
use the storage, looks like a winner. Unfortunately, it leaves ub for dead,
Is that
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Changes to the last version:
- split implementation into two layers: ds/bts and ptrace
- renamed TIF's
- save/restore ds save area msr in __switch_to_xtra()
- make block-stepping only look at BTF bit
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric's fix clone(CLONE_NEWPID) eliminated the last reason for this hack.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- PT/kernel/sys.c~2007-11-27 16:58:38.0 +0300
+++ PT/kernel/sys.c 2007-12-05 21:31:53.0 +0300
@@ -1056,11 +1056,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_setsid(void)
hi,
is this boot warning anything to worry about:
[0.00] ALSA sound/core/info.c:852: BUG? (root)
x86 64-bit config (randconfig generated) attached. fuller dmesg below.
(let me know if you need more info)
Ingo
[0.00] Calling initcall
On Dec 5, 2007, at 12:11 PM, David Howells wrote:
Okay... I'm getting to the point where I want to release my local
caching
patches again and have NFS work with them. This means making NFS
mounts share
or not share appropriately - something that's engendered a fair bit of
argument.
So I'd
Dave Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When a executable that is greater than 2GB in size is attempted on a 64-bit
system on a file system that calls, or uses generic_file_open() as its
open handler, it fails with an EOVERFLOW erro. This patch adds a call
to force_o_largefile() call in
Implement shared-writable mmap for AFS.
The key with which to access the file is obtained from the VMA at the point
where the PTE is made writable by the page_mkwrite() VMA op and cached in the
affected page.
If there's an outstanding write on the page made with a different key, then
Add a function - cancel_rejected_write() - to excise a rejected write from the
pagecache. This function is related to the truncation family of routines. It
permits the pages modified by a network filesystem client (such as AFS) to be
excised and discarded from the pagecache if the attempt to
Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
crypto/fcrypt.c | 88 ---
1 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crypto/fcrypt.c b/crypto/fcrypt.c
index d161949..a32cb68 100644
--- a/crypto/fcrypt.c
+++
This one-line patch fixes the missing export of copy_page introduced
by the cachefile patches. This patch is not yet upstream, but is required
for cachefile on ia64. It will be pushed upstream when cachefile goes
upstream.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: David
Display the local caching state in /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes.
Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/nfs/client.c |7 ---
fs/nfs/fscache.h | 15 +++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c
index
The attached patch makes it possible for the NFS filesystem to make use of the
network filesystem local caching service (FS-Cache).
To be able to use this, an updated mount program is required. This can be
obtained from:
http://people.redhat.com/steved/fscache/util-linux/
To mount an
Provide an add_wait_queue_tail() function to add a waiter to the back of a
wait queue instead of the front.
Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/wait.h |2 ++
kernel/wait.c| 18 ++
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff
Recruit a couple of page flags to aid in cache management. The following extra
flags are defined:
(1) PG_fscache (PG_owner_priv_2)
The marked page is backed by a local cache and is pinning resources in the
cache driver.
(2) PG_fscache_write (PG_owner_priv_3)
The marked page
Add a keyctl() function to get the security label of a key.
The following is added to Documentation/keys.txt:
(*) Get the LSM security context attached to a key.
long keyctl(KEYCTL_GET_SECURITY, key_serial_t key, char *buffer,
size_t buflen)
This function
Check the starting keyring as part of the search to (a) see if that is what
we're searching for, and (b) to check it is still valid for searching.
The scenario: User in process A does things that cause things to be
created in its process session keyring. The user then does an su to
another user
These patches add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS and AFS.
The patches can roughly be broken down into a number of sets:
(*) 01-keys-inc-payload.diff
(*) 02-keys-search-keyring.diff
(*) 03-keys-callout-blob.diff
Three patches to the keyring code made to help the
Increase the size of a payload that can be used to instantiate a key in
add_key() and keyctl_instantiate_key(). This permits huge CIFS SPNEGO blobs to
be passed around. The limit is raised to 1MB. If kmalloc() can't allocate a
buffer of sufficient size, vmalloc() will be tried instead.
Check the starting keyring as part of the search to (a) see if that is what
we're searching for, and (b) to check it is still valid for searching.
The scenario: User in process A does things that cause things to be
created in its process session keyring. The user then does an su to
another user
This patch moves the switch_to() macro to system.h
As those macros are fundamentally different between i386 and x86_64,
they are enclosed around an ifdef.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/asm-x86/system.h| 61
This patch unifies the load_segment() macro, making them equal in both
x86_64 and i386 architectures. The common version goes to system.h,
and the old are deleted.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/asm-x86/system.h| 21 +
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:12:11PM -0600, Doug Maxey wrote:
Overall, looks nice. Good work.
Thank you.
comments inline below...
.. snip ..
+#include linux/iscsi_ibft.h
Is the current include from open-iscsi being duplicated? If not, why
not consolidate in one file?
The include
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 07:49 +, Oleg Verych wrote:
On Dec 4, 2007 9:59 PM, Hollis Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I found this thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/1/237
I guess the complete patch was never finished? I could sure it (for
pretty much the same reason as lguest).
single list_head variable initialized with LIST_HEAD_INIT could almost
always can be replaced with LIST_HEAD declaration, this shrinks the code
and looks better.
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
crypto/async_tx/async_tx.c |3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2
Re: warning on suspend-to-RAM caused by
pnp-request-ioport-and-iomem-resources-used-by-active-devices.patch,
thread here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/22/110
On Saturday 01 December 2007 05:00:34 am Jiri Slaby wrote:
I didn't get it. Maybe some trolls poking around or something (maybe the
ext3
Andi Kleen wrote:
I agree in theory. We've only seen instances on 64-bitters...
I think that's because gcc does not support the medium/large code models
for i386. Although in theory someone could create an executable with
a large enough .data.
-Andi
Or perhaps huge debuginfo section(s)?
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thanks, this one applied fine to x86.git.
Ingo
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The attached patch makes the kAFS filesystem in fs/afs/ use FS-Cache, and
through it any attached caches. The kAFS filesystem will use caching
automatically if it's available.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/Kconfig |8 +
fs/afs/Makefile|3
Changes to the kernel configuration defintions and to the NFS mount options to
allow the local caching support added by the previous patch to be enabled.
Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/Kconfig|8
fs/nfs/client.c |2 ++
fs/nfs/internal.h |1 +
Add an address space operation to write one single page of data to an inode at
a page-aligned location (thus permitting the implementation to be highly
optimised). The data source is a single page.
This is used by CacheFiles to store the contents of netfs pages into their
backing file pages.
Export a number of functions for CacheFiles's use.
Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/super.c |1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index ceaf2e3..cd199ae 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@
Add a function to install a monitor on the page lock waitqueue for a particular
page, thus allowing the page being unlocked to be detected.
This is used by CacheFiles to detect read completion on a page in the backing
filesystem so that it can then copy the data to the waiting netfs page.
Change current-fs[ug]id to current_fs[ug]id() so that fsgid and fsuid can be
separated from the task_struct.
Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c|4 ++--
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c |4 ++--
Allow the callout data to be passed as a blob rather than a string for internal
kernel services that call any request_key_*() interface other than
request_key(). request_key() itself still takes a NUL-terminated string.
The functions that change are:
request_key_with_auxdata()
Jon Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the shared superblock approach is the right one, but I'm a
little concerned that there would now be different behavior for fscache
and non-cached setups. Not sure of any better idea though.
The behaviour varies a bit anyway because there's a
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 08:46:47AM +, Al Viro wrote:
endianness annotations in networking code had been in place for
quite a while; in particular, sin_port and s_addr are annotated as
big-endian. Code in ocfs2 had __force casts added apparently to shut the
sparse warnings up; of
This patch finishes the unification of system.h file.
i386 needs a constant to be defined, and it is defined inside an ifdef
Other than that, pretty much nothing but includes are left in the arch
specific headers, and they are deleted.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The memory barrier parts of system.h are not very different between
i386 and x86_64, the main difference being the availability of
instructions, which we handle with the use of ifdefs.
They are consolidated in system.h file, and then removed from
the arch-specific headers.
Signed-off-by: Glauber
From: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add parity initialization for T3C adapters.
Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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drivers/net/cxgb3/adapter.h |1
drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c| 82
drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c | 15 ++
Allow the callout data to be passed as a blob rather than a string for internal
kernel services that call any request_key_*() interface other than
request_key(). request_key() itself still takes a NUL-terminated string.
The functions that change are:
request_key_with_auxdata()
On Wed, Dec 05 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:
Use msecs_to_jiffies() and jiffies_to_msecs() in scsi_ioctl().
Sometimes callers use very large values for e.g. vendor specific media
clear command and calculation can overflow.
Thanks Tejun, applied.
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Greetings,
Oki, here is a more standard Kconfig setting for both platforms. Nothing major
really.
Note that touchscreen for hp6xx was called TOUCHSCREEN_HP600 and I've changed
it to HP6XX to get it inline with everything else.
This should be pushed through dmitry I assume. Its against
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:04:33PM -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote:
Sam,
This piece of the top-level Makefile in current git causes an
out-of-tree driver Makefile to fail.
101 ifdef O
102 ifeq ($(origin O), command line)
103 KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(O)
104 endif
105 endif
The out-of-tree
We discovered performance degradation with dbench when using kernel 2.6.23
compared to kernel 2.6.22.
In our case we booted a Linux in a IBM System z9 LPAR with 256MB of ram with
4 CPU's. This system uses a striped LV with 16 disks on a Storage Server
connected via 8 4GBit links.
A dbench was
--- David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Add a keyctl() function to get the security label of a key.
The following is added to Documentation/keys.txt:
(*) Get the LSM security context attached to a key.
long keyctl(KEYCTL_GET_SECURITY, key_serial_t key, char *buffer,
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:48:16PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
thanks, we indeed missed those. Should we carry this in x86.git, or
would you like to carry this in your UML tree?
Probably better for it to go in x86.git - that way it travels with
your sigcontext patch.
Willy Tarreau wrote:
Hi Avi,
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:07:05PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
Willy Tarreau wrote:
With 10Gbit/s ethernet working you start to care about every cycle.
If you have 10M packets/sec no amount of cycle-saving will help
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c | 31 +++
1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
index 1872f88..ce6e341 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:40:12PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
This patch does some whitespace cleanups in the paging code to fix some
checkpatch.pl warnings of my formerly merged cleanup patches.
...
- set_pmd(pmd + i,__pmd(addr | __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC));
+
Ingo Molnar a écrit :
* Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
$ gcc -O2 -o burner burner.c
$ ./burner
Time to perform the unit of work on one thread is 0.040328 s
Time to perform the unit of work on 2 threads is 0.040221 s
ok, but this actually suggests that scheduling is fine for this,
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