Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] reworking load_balance_monitor

2008-02-14 Thread Gregory Haskins
>>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:57 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Here the current patches that rework load_balance_monitor. > > The main reason for doing this is to eliminate the wakeups the thing > generates, > esp. on an idle system.

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Menage
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The "flags" argument could be the same as for regular mount, and > > contain the mnt_flags - so the extra argument could maybe usefully be > > a "mnt_flags_mask", to indicate which flags we actually care about > >

Re: [PATCH] Fix left over EFI cache mapping problems

2008-02-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- linux.orig/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c > +++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c > @@ -413,17 +413,31 @@ void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void) > > efi.systab = NULL; > for (p = memmap.map; p < memmap.map_end; p += memmap.desc_size) { > +

Re: [PATCH] gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems

2008-02-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 13:58 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > This is a bugfix for the 2.6.24.x stable releases. > > gdth_exit would first remove all cards then stop the timer > and would not sync with the timer function. This caused a crash > in gdth_timer() when module was unloaded. > So

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For recursive bind mounts, only the root of the tree being bound > > > inherits the per-mount flags from the mount() arguments; sub-mounts > > > inherit their per-mount flags from the source tree as usual. > > >

[RFC][PATCH 1/2] sched: fair-group: rework load_balance_monitor

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
The biggest issue with load_balance_monitor atm is that it never goes to sleep, and generates a huge amount of wakeups, even on idle systems. I tried doing a simple interruptible sleep on idle, but wake_up_process can't be used while holding the rq lock, so that didn't quite work out. The next

Re: [Bluez-devel] [PATCH 14/14] net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi, > The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are > more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. > > So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at > linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly > > Cc: [EMAIL

[RFC][PATCH 0/2] reworking load_balance_monitor

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Hi, Here the current patches that rework load_balance_monitor. The main reason for doing this is to eliminate the wakeups the thing generates, esp. on an idle system. The bonus is that it removes a kernel thread. Paul, Gregory - the thing that bothers me most atm is the lack of

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Andy Whitcroft
is no nice name for the real base point for your merges anyhow. I guess there are a couple of sensible names for these. Either a simple date or using the nearest sane tag. So either: next-20080214 or: v2.6.25-rc1-next1 Where the "base" version would be determinable from:

Re: [PATCH] Fix direct mapping correctly in ioremap

2008-02-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - if (ioremap_change_attr(vaddr, size, mode) < 0) { > + /* Fix up the direct mapping for the new cache attributes */ > + err = ioremap_change_attr((unsigned long)__va(phys_addr), > + size + offset, mode); Ugh.

Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash

2008-02-14 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Wed, Feb 13 2008 at 21:38 +0200, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 13 2008 11:03, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >>> I've tested this patch now - and it works fine. Now rmmod, halt and >>> reboot also works. >>> >>> Stefan Priebe >>> >> This is grate news Stefan. Thank you very much for

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-02-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 06:10:19PM +0300, Dmitry wrote: > 2008/2/13, Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > +#define WM97XX_ADCSEL_X0x1000 /* x coord measurement */ > > +#define WM97XX_ADCSEL_Y0x2000 /* y coord measurement */ > > +#define WM97XX_ADCSEL_PRES

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-14 Thread Robin Holt
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 09:09:08AM -0600, Steve Wise wrote: > Note that for T3, this involves suspending _all_ rdma connections that are > in the same PD as the MR being remapped. This is because the driver > doesn't know who the application advertised the rkey/stag to. So without Is there a

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 02:00 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > I would prefer that the trees be added by the subsystem maintainers and > they can tell me which branch represents their expectations for the next > kernel release (in this case 2.6.26). But thanks, hopefully you will have > prodded

PL2303 Driver missing support for USB to Serial Cable

2008-02-14 Thread Stephan Rose
I recently purchased a USB->Com Port serial cable from Radio Shack (Model number 26-183) which did no seem to want to work. After looking into it I discovered that it is based on the Prolific chipset using the PL2303 driver. I then checked the Vendor and Product ID against the list in the drive

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Mundt
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:00:19AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Rafael, > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:45:55 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Perhaps you can add: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 test > > I would prefer

Re: "mount: could not find filesystem" - aacraid? (was: Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot)

2008-02-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 13:07 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > I worry that another git-bisect session will be needed unless SCSI > > developers are already aware of the problem source. > > Yinghai Lu noticed that it may be actually a SES problem: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/14/88 >

[PATCH 08/14] mm/: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 12/14] fs/binfmt_aout.c: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 07/14] drivers/net/ax88796.c: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 11/14] drivers/net/wireless/atmel.c: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 10/14] drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 13/14] kernel/irq/spurious.c: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL

[PATCH 14/14] net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 05/14] arch/sparc64/kernel/unaligned.c: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patchset implements usage of the time_* macros, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c

[PATCH 09/14] net/mac80211/: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 01/14] arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: Richard Henderson <[EMAIL

[PATCH 06/14] drivers/net/arcnet/arcnet.c: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 02/14] arch/ia64/kernel/: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() & time_before() macros, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: [EMAIL

[PATCH 03/14] arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 04/14] arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/pci.c: Use time_* macros

2008-02-14 Thread S . Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IO queueing and complete affinity w/ threads: Some results

2008-02-14 Thread Alan D. Brunelle
Taking a step back, I went to a very simple test environment: o 4-way IA64 o 2 disks (on separate RAID controller, handled by separate ports on the same FC HBA - generates different IRQs). o Using write-cached tests - keep all IOs inside of the RAID controller's cache, so no perturbations

Re: Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:23:37 +0100 (CET) schrieb Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Feb 14 2008 16:19, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > >> > >> Q: What if a program attempts to mkdir /dev/nullmnt/foo to just > >>create a file /dev/nullmnt/foo/barfile? > >> A: /dev/nullmnt/foo must continue

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 02:00 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > I would prefer that the trees be added by the subsystem maintainers and > they can tell me which branch represents their expectations for the next > kernel release (in this case 2.6.26). But thanks, hopefully you will have > prodded them

Re: [PATCH] call gpio_cansleep only after gpio_request succeeded

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c b/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c > index 6c0a9c4..76ddcf3 100644 > --- a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c > +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c > @@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ static int gpio_led_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > cur_led

Re: Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 14 2008 16:19, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: >> >> Q: What if a program attempts to mkdir /dev/nullmnt/foo to just >>create a file /dev/nullmnt/foo/barfile? >> A: /dev/nullmnt/foo must continue to exist or be accepted for a while, >>or perhaps for eternity. > >Well, the problem seems to

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Menage
[ cc: linux-fsdevel ] On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think this concept is reasonable, but I don't think MS_BIND_FLAGS > > is a descriptive name for this flag.

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Menage
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this concept is reasonable, but I don't think MS_BIND_FLAGS > is a descriptive name for this flag. MS_EXPLICIT_FLAGS might be better > but still isn't optimal. > MS_BIND_FLAGS_OVERRIDE ? Paul -- To

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Thomas Gleixner (1): > > x86: EFI: fix use of unitialized variable and the cache logic > > Your honor, I would like to register a differing opinion... As i mentioned it (in the portion of my email

Re: Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:00:06 +0100 (CET) schrieb Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Feb 14 2008 10:46, Andi Kleen wrote: > >Jasper Bryant-Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> This could be done fairly trivially with FUSE, and IMHO is a good > >> use for FUSE because since you're

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Menage
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For recursive bind mounts, only the root of the tree being bound > > inherits the per-mount flags from the mount() arguments; sub-mounts > > inherit their per-mount flags from the source tree as usual. > > This is

[PATCH 5/6] drivers/atm: Use DIV_ROUND_UP

2008-02-14 Thread Julia Lawall
In each case below, I have followed the original semantics, but in drivers/atm/eni.c and drivers/atm/horizon.c, I have some doubts as to whether the original semantics is correct. In drivers/atm/eni.c, is the division intended to be by div or by div-1? In drivers/atm/horizon.c, it seems strange

[PATCH 6/6] drivers/hid: Use DIV_ROUND_UP

2008-02-14 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The kernel.h macro DIV_ROUND_UP performs the computation (((n) + (d) - 1) / (d)) but is perhaps more readable. An extract of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @haskernel@ @@ #include

[PATCH 3/6] fs/ocfs2: Use DIV_ROUND_UP

2008-02-14 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The kernel.h macro DIV_ROUND_UP performs the computation (((n) + (d) - 1) / (d)) but is perhaps more readable. An extract of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @haskernel@ @@ #include

[PATCH 4/6] fs/udf: Use DIV_ROUND_UP

2008-02-14 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The kernel.h macro DIV_ROUND_UP performs the computation (((n) + (d) - 1) / (d)) but is perhaps more readable. An extract of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @haskernel@ @@ #include

[PATCH 2/6] fs/direct-io.c: Use DIV_ROUND_UP

2008-02-14 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The kernel.h macro DIV_ROUND_UP performs the computation (((n) + (d) - 1) / (d)) but is perhaps more readable. An extract of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @haskernel@ @@ #include

Re: linux-next: quilt series

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Jiri, On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:08:06 +0100 (CET) Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The daily snapshots are not tagged in Linus' tree, right? So I don't think > this would suffice. Its ok, I know how to convert them to SHA1s. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL

[PATCH 1/6] arch/x86/xen: Use DIV_ROUND_UP

2008-02-14 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The kernel.h macro DIV_ROUND_UP performs the computation (((n) + (d) - 1) / (d)) but is perhaps more readable. An extract of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @haskernel@ @@ #include

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-02-14 Thread Dmitry
Hi, 2008/2/13, Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > diff --git a/include/linux/wm97xx.h b/include/linux/wm97xx.h > new file mode 100644 > index 000..f0d9fc0 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/include/linux/wm97xx.h > @@ -0,0 +1,308 @@ ... > +#define WM97XX_POLL0x8000 /* initiate a

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-14 Thread Steve Wise
Felix Marti wrote: That is correct, not a change we can make for T3. We could, in theory, deal with changing mappings though. The change would need to be synchronized though: the VM would need to tell us which mapping were about to change and the driver would then need to disable DMA to/from

Re: linux-next: quilt series

2008-02-14 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jean Delvare wrote: > > To make my life easier, can I ask that the series file for any quilt > > trees in the linux-next tree have a comment at the top to identify > > their base (either a SHA1 or some other ref in Linus' tree). Like > > this: > > # BASE > Done. Right

Re: [PATCH] kprobes: remove sparse warnings from x86

2008-02-14 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Harvey Harrison : > arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c:584:16: warning: symbol > 'kretprobe_trampoline_holder' was not declared. Should it be static? > arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c:676:6: warning: symbol 'trampoline_handler' was not > declared. Should it be static? > > Make them static and add the __used

Re: linux-next: quilt series

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Jean, On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:04:42 +0100 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Done. Right now it says: > > # BASE 2.6.25-rc1-git3 > > Is it OK with you? That is great. Thanks. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

Re: [SCSI] gdth: update deprecated pci_find_device

2008-02-14 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 02/14/2008 03:50 PM, James Bottomley wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 23:43 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=99109301d103fbf0de43fc5a580a406c12a501e0 Commit:

Re: Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread linux-os (Dick Johnson)
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Mika Lawando wrote: > Jasper Bryant-Greene schrieb: >> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 10:30 +0100, rzryyvzy wrote: >> >>> /dev/null is often very useful, specially if programs force to save data in >>> some file. But some programs like to creates different temporary file >>> names,

Re: cups slow on linux-2.6.24

2008-02-14 Thread Jozsef Kadlecsik
Hi, On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Jeff Chua wrote: > Please note the lastest git commit is missing one part (which was in Jozsef's > original patch). Sorry everyone, that's my fault: the patch I sent for the stable branch was correct, however I mistyped a state in the patch for the newest git tree -

Re: "gdth: update deprecated pci_find_device" is incorrect

2008-02-14 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 02/14/2008 03:47 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: On 02/14/2008 03:44 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: commit 99109301d103fbf0de43fc5a580a406c12a501e0 in jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6.git is incorrect. You don't decrement pci [...] BTW if you have more than one card, you protected the driver from no race, since you

Re: linux-next: quilt series

2008-02-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Stephen, On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:42:10 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > To make my life easier, can I ask that the series file for > any quilt trees in the linux-next tree have a comment at the > top to identify their base (either a SHA1 or some other ref > in Linus' tree). Like this: > > #

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Rafael, On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:45:55 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps you can add: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 test I would prefer that the trees be added by the subsystem maintainers and they can tell me which branch

Re: "gdth: update deprecated pci_find_device" is incorrect

2008-02-14 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 02/14/2008 03:47 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: On 02/14/2008 03:44 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: Hi, commit 99109301d103fbf0de43fc5a580a406c12a501e0 in jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6.git is incorrect. You don't decrement pci refcount on exit. Also you do not so on fail paths... I wonder why these mistakes happen

Re: Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 14 2008 10:46, Andi Kleen wrote: >Jasper Bryant-Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> This could be done fairly trivially with FUSE, and IMHO is a good use >> for FUSE because since you're just throwing most data away, performance >> is not a concern. There is a much more interesting

2.6.24 sysprof induced MCE on Core 2 Duo (was: Machine check exception with a kernel dependency)

2008-02-14 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:25:28PM +0100, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > On at least two Dell optiplex 755 systems with a Core 2 Duo I get s/two/three/ > > Feb 13 15:14:01 inari CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0004 > Feb 13 15:14:01 inari CPU 0: Machine Check Exception:

Re: [SCSI] gdth: update deprecated pci_find_device

2008-02-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 23:43 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > Gitweb: > > http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=99109301d103fbf0de43fc5a580a406c12a501e0 > > Commit: 99109301d103fbf0de43fc5a580a406c12a501e0 > >

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 14 of February 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > I have created the first cut of the linux-next tree at > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git. > > Things to know about this tree: > > It has two branches - master and stable. Stable is

Re: "gdth: update deprecated pci_find_device" is incorrect

2008-02-14 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 02/14/2008 03:44 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: Hi, commit 99109301d103fbf0de43fc5a580a406c12a501e0 in jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6.git is incorrect. You don't decrement pci refcount on exit. Also you do not so on fail paths... I wonder why these mistakes happen every second time somebody tries to do

linux-next: quilt series

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi all, To make my life easier, can I ask that the series file for any quilt trees in the linux-next tree have a comment at the top to identify their base (either a SHA1 or some other ref in Linus' tree). Like this: # BASE Also, if you only want a subset of the series file included, you can

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:06:28 +0100 (CET) Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > The tree consists of subsystem git and quilt trees. Currently, the > > quilt trees are integrated by importing them into appropriately based > > git branches

Re: 2.6.24.2 won't compile UML

2008-02-14 Thread Ph. Marek
On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:13:09PM +0100, Ph. Marek wrote: > > make -C linux-2.6.24.2/ O=output_path/build ARCH=um bzImage > > > > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `bzImage'. Stop. > > This seems pretty clear, no? > > bzImage is a

[PATCH] call gpio_cansleep only after gpio_request succeeded

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
If you have GPIO_LIB gpio_cansleep oopses on an invalid gpio. So better gpio_request your pin first. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Raphael Assenat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Hello, I currently

Re: [PATCH] markers: Fix build for MODULES=n.

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Mundt
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:32:44AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > * Paul Mundt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > CC kernel/marker.o > > kernel/marker.c: In function 'marker_update_probes': > > kernel/marker.c:627: error: too few arguments to function > > 'module_update_markers' > >

Re: [PATCH 6/8] IPMI: Update driver version

2008-02-14 Thread Corey Minyard
Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:30:48 -0600 Corey Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Enough bug fixes and changes that we need a new driver version. Are none of them serious enough to warrant a 2.6.24.x backport? No, nothing really terribly urgent. Just minor stuff.

Re: strange SysRq problem

2008-02-14 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 schrieb Arnd Hannemann: > Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > I'm suffering from a strange SysRq problem: > > > > syslog shows haphazardly "SysRq : HELP" lines, while I definitely > > didn't triggered them, neither via (PS/2) keyboard, nor via > > /proc/sysrq-trigger. This

Re: 2.6.24.2 won't compile UML

2008-02-14 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:13:09PM +0100, Ph. Marek wrote: > make -C linux-2.6.24.2/ O=output_path/build ARCH=um bzImage > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `bzImage'. Stop. This seems pretty clear, no? bzImage is a x86-ism. Just leave it off, and you'll get linux and vmlinux.

Re: 2.6.24.2 won't compile UML

2008-02-14 Thread Ph. Marek
Sorry about the noise ... Going to another machine with a recent gcc, and re-applying the config file seems to work, I now got a image. Just have to get it working now ... Gabriel: I just got it working. That was a plain 2.6.24.2 untar - but the "make ARCH=um bzImage" seems to make a mess.

Re: 2.6.24.2 won't compile UML

2008-02-14 Thread Gabriel C
Ph. Marek wrote: > Hello everybody, Hi, > > On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Ph. Marek wrote: >> I'm trying to compile an UML binary from 2.6.24. >> >> make ARCH=um O=... bzImage >> >> gives >> >> make -C linux-2.6.24.2/ O=output_path/build ARCH=um bzImage >> make[1]: Entering directory

Re: [RFC] bitmap relative operator for mempolicy extensions

2008-02-14 Thread KOSAKI Motohiro
Hi Paul, > The following adds one more bitmap operator, with the usual > cpumask and nodemask wrappers. This operator computes one > bitmap relative to another. If the n-th bit in the origin > mask is set, then the m-th bit of the destination mask will > be set, where m is the position of

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > The tree consists of subsystem git and quilt trees. Currently, the > quilt trees are integrated by importing them into appropriately based > git branches and then merging those branches. Now, would it be possible to have somewhere listed the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rt1] SMC91x: Use special_lock when CONFIG_PREEMPT_[HARD|SOFT]IRQS

2008-02-14 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Kevin Hilman wrote: > The smc_special_locks should also be used when either softIRQs or hard > IRQs are preempted which may lead to the same problems as under SMP. > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- >

Re: nmi_watchdog on x86_64

2008-02-14 Thread Jike Song
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:12 AM, Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just found my on hand ck804, and mcp55 based AMD servers: > nmi_watchdog=1 doesn't work > but nmi_watchdog=2 does work > > =1, it say: IOAPIC 8259A virtual wire mode... > > Did nmi_watchdog=1 work on any other amd64

MMC core debugfs support (was Re: [RFC v2 5/5] Atmel MCI: Driver for Atmel on-chip MMC controllers)

2008-02-14 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
[removing lots of people from Cc] On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:30:51 +0100 Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +static int req_dbg_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) > > +{ > > And this should go into the core. I've started working on this, but I've run into a problem: The mmc

[GIT PATCH] HID updates for 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-14 Thread Jiri Kosina
Linus, could you please pull from 'for-linus' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git for-linus to receive fixes for HID layer. There is one important fix for hid <-> input mapping processing. The rest are just addidions of new device ids that came after

Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-14 Thread Boris Petkov
On 2/14/08, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37:50AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > > > [Added Bart to CC] > > > > > Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov: > > > > On Tue,

Re: [PATCH] spufs support multiple probes markers

2008-02-14 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Christoph Hellwig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 06:56:50PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > Update spufs to the new linux kernel markers API, which supports connecting > > more than one probe to a single marker. > > Compiles and works for me. But saying I like the odd

linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi all, I have created the first cut of the linux-next tree at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git. Things to know about this tree: It has two branches - master and stable. Stable is currently just Linus' tree and will never rebase. Master will rebase on an almost

Re: Semaphores with timeouts

2008-02-14 Thread Ricardo J. Rodríguez
Hi Alan, > It's certainly possible to add one but the first question would be "why > do you need it - what sort of API are you trying to build" > The protocol works in adhoc wireless mode, so when I send a packet, I've to wait a while before I send it again, like TCP timeout retransmistions

Re: 2.6.24.2 won't compile UML

2008-02-14 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello everybody, On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Ph. Marek wrote: > I'm trying to compile an UML binary from 2.6.24. > > make ARCH=um O=... bzImage > > gives > > make -C linux-2.6.24.2/ O=output_path/build ARCH=um bzImage > make[1]: Entering directory `output_path/linux-2.6.24.2' > GEN

Re: [PATCH] samples: build fix

2008-02-14 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Roland McGrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > The samples/ subdirectory contains only modules. > But the only make run done there is in commands for vmlinux. > I can't see why this was ever done in this nonstandard fashion. > As things stand, the modules don't get built by 'make modules'. > >

Re: [PATCH] markers: Fix build for MODULES=n.

2008-02-14 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Paul Mundt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > CC kernel/marker.o > kernel/marker.c: In function 'marker_update_probes': > kernel/marker.c:627: error: too few arguments to function > 'module_update_markers' > make[1]: *** [kernel/marker.o] Error 1 > make: *** [kernel] Error 2 > >

[PATCH] Fix left over EFI cache mapping problems

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
Fix left over EFI cache mapping problems [History: this was originally part of a larger patch that got partially added earlier. This patch fixes the left-over bugs and also fixes another bug I noticed while revising this] cpa/set_memory_* does not properly support ioremap or fixmap (efi_ioremap

Re: pci_get_device_reverse(), why does Calgary need this?

2008-02-14 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PATCH] ide: mark "ide=reverse" option as obsolete - it is valid only if "Probe IDE PCI devices in the PCI bus order (DEPRECATED)" config option is used - Greg needs to remove pci_get_device_reverse() for PCI core changes Cc:

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:30 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > And this is where we usually conclude, that a new userspace mount API > is long overdue. So for starters, how about a new syscall for bind > mounts: > > int mount_bind(const char *src, const char *dst, unsigned flags, >

Re: [PATCH] libata: Register for dock events when the drive is inside a dock station

2008-02-14 Thread Holger Macht
On Thu 14. Feb - 13:40:48, Holger Macht wrote: > If a device/bay is inside a docking station, we need to register for dock > events additionally to bay events. If a dock event occurs, the dock driver > will call the appropriate handler (ata_acpi_ap_notify() or > ata_acpi_dev_notify()) for us. > >

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/cpuset.c: make 3 functions static

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
Adrian wrote: > This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static: > - cpuset_test_cpumask() > - cpuset_change_cpumask() > - cpuset_do_move_task() Thanks. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- I won't rest till it's the best ...

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rt1] timer:fix build warning in timer.c

2008-02-14 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Shi Weihua wrote: > Fix the following compile warning without CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT: > kernel/timer.c:937: warning: ‘count_active_rt_tasks’ defined but not used > > Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks, applied. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH] libata: Forcing PIO0 mode on reset must not freeze system

2008-02-14 Thread Holger Macht
On Mon 11. Feb - 22:11:32, Tejun Heo wrote: > Holger Macht wrote: > >> It should be called via ata_acpi_{ap|dev}_notify() callbacks installed > >> via acpi_install_notify_handler(). Can you add dump_stack() in the > >> function and verify that it actually is being called? It could be that > >>

[PATCH] libata: Register for dock events when the drive is inside a dock station

2008-02-14 Thread Holger Macht
If a device/bay is inside a docking station, we need to register for dock events additionally to bay events. If a dock event occurs, the dock driver will call the appropriate handler (ata_acpi_ap_notify() or ata_acpi_dev_notify()) for us. Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff

[RFC] bitmap relative operator for mempolicy extensions

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
From: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Beware - never tested, never booted.] The following adds one more bitmap operator, with the usual cpumask and nodemask wrappers. This operator computes one bitmap relative to another. If the n-th bit in the origin mask is set, then the m-th bit of the

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
I had taken a vow of silence on this one, but couldn't resist one more round. David wrote: > My preference (both mode and flags stored in the same member of struct > mempolicy): > >Advantages: > > - completely consistent with the userspace API of passing modes > and flags

Re: strange SysRq problem

2008-02-14 Thread Arnd Hannemann
Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > I'm suffering from a strange SysRq problem: > > syslog shows haphazardly "SysRq : HELP" lines, while I definitely didn't > triggered them, neither via (PS/2) keyboard, nor via /proc/sysrq-trigger. > This is accompanied with stalls of about 15-60 secs. Any chance

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