Re: [PATCH] Implement barrier support for single device DM devices

2008-02-17 Thread David Chinner
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:07:54PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: Alasdair G Kergon wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:08:21PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Implement barrier support for single device DM devices Thanks. We've got some (more-invasive) dm patches in the works that attempt to

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 CD/DVD burning broken

2008-02-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
changing ide-cd (take 4)] I cannot burn any CD/DVD any more, getting the following error from wodim: Errno: 0 (Success), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00

Re: [PATCH 1/2] workqueues: shrink cpu_populated_map when CPU dies

2008-02-17 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 02/17, Jarek Poplawski wrote: This patch looks OK to me. Thanks for looking at this! But while reading this I got some doubts in nearby places, so BTW 2 small questions: 1) ... workqueue_cpu_callback(...) { ... list_for_each_entry(wq, workqueues, list) {

Re: Subject: [PATCH] Revert [RTNETLINK]: Send a single notification on device state changes.

2008-02-17 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 18 of February 2008, Jiri Kosina wrote: This reverts commit 45b503548210fe6f23e92b856421c2a3f05fd034. It contains deadlock, and breaks userspace applications (wpa_supplicant, networkmanager). References: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10002

Re: Kernel oops with bluetooth usb dongle

2008-02-17 Thread Quel Qun
-- Original message -- From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Quel Qun wrote: Unfortunately we only see that the list is corrupted but not which code caused it. This looks like something forgot to delete the timer before freeing the

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1

2008-02-17 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:25:22 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc2/2.6.25-rc2-mm1/ Building i386 kernel on x86_64, I see a build error in linking: kernel/built-in.o: In function `jiffies_64_to_usecs': (.text+0xeaed): undefined

Re: [patch] move wakeup code to .c

2008-02-17 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 16 of February 2008, Len Brown wrote: On Friday 15 February 2008 17:22, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Ok, below is the version that survives checkpatch.pl, compiles on x86-32 and has been successfully tested on 32-bit and 64-bit systems. works on my t61 in 64-bit mode too.

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 CD/DVD burning broken

2008-02-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 18 2008 00:21, Joerg Schilling wrote: changing ide-cd (take 4)] I cannot burn any CD/DVD any more, getting the following error from wodim: Errno: 0 (Success), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00

Re: What is ERROR: LGUEST_PAGES_guest_gdt_desc [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] undefined!

2008-02-17 Thread Peter Teoh
On 2/17/08, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:58:39 +0800 Peter Teoh wrote: Can some explain the cause of this error (it has been like this for the last two git pull from linus tree): Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#1) Building modules, stage 2.

mips yosemite_defconfig compile error

2008-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
Commit 9e2779fa281cfda13ac060753d674bbcaa23367e also broke the mips yosemite_defconfig: -- snip -- ... CC arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.s In file included from /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14:

2.6.25-rc2 hangs after Suspending console(s)

2008-02-17 Thread Tino Keitel
Hi folks, with 2.6.25-rc2, my Mac mini Core Duo hangs at suspend. The last message on the console is Suspending console(s). I also tried some other versions after 2.6.24, all of them fail with this hang. I attached the lspci output for the case that it matters. Regards, Tino 00:00.0 Host bridge

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2 regression: LVM cannot find volume group

2008-02-17 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 16.02.2008 23:37 schrieb Jiri Slaby: On 02/16/2008 09:12 PM, Alan Cox wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:14:30 +0100 Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.25-rc2 fails to bring up my openSUSE 10.3 PC because LVM cannot find the volume group containing the root file system. 2.6.25-rc1 has

Re: 2.6.24-git16 Oops @ sysfs_move_dir w/ btdelconn

2008-02-17 Thread Dave Young
On Feb 18, 2008 8:52 AM, Barnaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 17, 2008 4:59 AM, Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 16, 2008 1:16 PM, Barnaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:04 AM,

Re: [build bug] lguest build failure: drivers/lguest/x86/switcher_32.S:(.text+0x3815f8): undefined reference to `LGUEST_PAGES_regs_trapnum'

2008-02-17 Thread Sergio Luis
Christian Kujau wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Sergio Luis wrote: It doesn't fix the problem totally. If we select Virtualization-Linux hypervisor example code (CONFIG_LGUEST) as a module, we will get the same build errors, Confirmed, the build errors persist with CONFIG_LGUEST=m and Rusty's

Re: arch/x86/mm/ioremap unification grew by 10x

2008-02-17 Thread Huang, Ying
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 19:09 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 17:17 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 15:21 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 21:32 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:25:54PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:

Re: Possible problem in linux file posix capabilities

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew G. Morgan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Serge E. Hallyn wrote: | Andrew, this pretty much was bound to happen... we need to figure out | what our approach here should be. My preference is still to allow | signals when p-uid==current-uid so long as !SECURE_NOROOT. Then as | people start

IO_DELAY documentation

2008-02-17 Thread George Spelvin
make oldconfig doesn't know how to display the per-item help, so something like this is needed. It was a squeeze to make all the help text, plus option prompt, fit into 24 lines. If you think that's not a concern, some of the wording could be improved. (Added text placed into the public domain;

finding per-process hw interrupt counts

2008-02-17 Thread Vince Weaver
Hello is there a way to find out how many times a userspace program is forced to context switch due to a hardware interrupt? The reason for this: I am measuring the retired instruction count of programs using performance counters (perfmon2 patchset), and trying to find out where the

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2 regression: LVM cannot find volume group

2008-02-17 Thread Jeff Chua
On Feb 18, 2008 8:57 AM, Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 16.02.2008 23:37 schrieb Jiri Slaby: On 02/16/2008 09:12 PM, Alan Cox wrote: Try to upgrade to at least lvm 2.02.29 (I guess this is the first version which understands the new sysfs layout). I'll have to investigate

Re: [2.6.25 patch] CRYPTO_NULL must select CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER

2008-02-17 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:09:45PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch fixes the following build error caused by commit 3631c650c495d61b1dabf32eb26b46873636e918: Patch applied. Thanks Adrian! -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: What is ERROR: LGUEST_PAGES_guest_gdt_desc [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] undefined!

2008-02-17 Thread Sergio Luis
Peter Teoh wrote: On 2/17/08, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:58:39 +0800 Peter Teoh wrote: Can some explain the cause of this error (it has been like this for the last two git pull from linus tree): Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#1) Building

Re: 2.6.24-git16 Oops @ sysfs_move_dir w/ btdelconn

2008-02-17 Thread Barnaby
On Feb 17, 2008 4:59 AM, Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 16, 2008 1:16 PM, Barnaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Barnaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Answers at the bottom..

Re: tbench regression in 2.6.25-rc1

2008-02-17 Thread Zhang, Yanmin
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 15:21 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: Zhang, Yanmin a écrit : On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 07:05 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: Zhang, Yanmin a �crit : Comparing with kernel 2.6.24, tbench result has regression with 2.6.25-rc1. 1) On 2 quad-core processor stoakley:

Re: IO_DELAY documentation

2008-02-17 Thread Calvin Walton
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 20:21 -0500, George Spelvin wrote: make oldconfig doesn't know how to display the per-item help, so something like this is needed. It was a squeeze to make all the help text, plus option prompt, fit into 24 lines. If you think that's not a concern, some of the wording

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

2008-02-17 Thread Huang, Ying
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 08:08 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Huang, Ying [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:12 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: this is indeed a bug (we change the attributes for a larger area than needed), but your fix is unclean. Find below a cleaner solution.

Re: [build bug] lguest build failure: drivers/lguest/x86/switcher_32.S:(.text+0x3815f8): undefined reference to `LGUEST_PAGES_regs_trapnum'

2008-02-17 Thread Sergio Luis
Sergio Luis wrote: Christian Kujau wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Sergio Luis wrote: It doesn't fix the problem totally. If we select Virtualization-Linux hypervisor example code (CONFIG_LGUEST) as a module, we will get the same build errors, Confirmed, the build errors persist with

Re: Possible problem in linux file posix capabilities

2008-02-17 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Andrew G. Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Serge E. Hallyn wrote: | Andrew, this pretty much was bound to happen... we need to figure out | what our approach here should be. My preference is still to allow | signals when p-uid==current-uid

Re: Possible problem in linux file posix capabilities

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew G. Morgan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Serge E. Hallyn wrote: | Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --- | security/commoncap.c |2 +- | 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) | | diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c | index

Re: [patch 3/6] mmu_notifier: invalidate_page callbacks

2008-02-17 Thread Nick Piggin
On Saturday 16 February 2008 14:37, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:49:02 -0800 Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two callbacks to remove individual pages as done in rmap code invalidate_page() Called from the inner loop of rmap walks to invalidate pages.

Re: [PATCH] leds: disable triggers on brightness set

2008-02-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Richard Purdie wrote: On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 12:52 +0100, Németh Márton wrote: Disable any active triggers when the brightness attribute is set to zero. I agree with this approach and will merge this as a clarification of the interface, thanks. I'll also merge your

Re: [PATCH] Configure out TSC support

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Petazzoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following patch allows to remove the code needed to support the TSC timer on x86 32 bits. The TSC seems to be mandatory on x86 64 bits. The patch adds a X86_TSC_TIMER option to enable/disable the support. A X86_TSC option already

Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: fix init_8259A() to not use outb_pic

2008-02-17 Thread Rene Herman
On 17-02-08 23:25, Alan Cox wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:56:28 -0500 (EST) David P. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fix init_8259A() which initializes the 8259 PIC to not use outb_pic, which is a renamed version of outb_p, and delete outb_pic define. NAK The entire point of inb_pic/outb_pic

Re: [PATCH x86] i8259A_32: Remove redundant irq_desc[NR_IRQ] initialization

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ahmed S. Darwish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remove redundant irq_desc[NR_IRQS] element initialization in init_ISA_irqs(). irq_desc[NR_IRQS] is already statically initialized with the same values in kernel/irq/handle.c . nice catch - applied. This also saves a few bytes of image space:

Re: 2.6.24-git16 Oops @ sysfs_move_dir w/ btdelconn

2008-02-17 Thread Dave Young
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:01:05AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: On Feb 18, 2008 8:52 AM, Barnaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 17, 2008 4:59 AM, Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 16, 2008 1:16 PM, Barnaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Dave

Re: [PATCH] snd-hda-intel: don't print using snd_printdd on device open

2008-02-17 Thread Chuck Ebbert
From: Adel Gadllah [EMAIL PROTECTED] snd-hda-intel: don't print using snd_printdd on device open When CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_DETECT is set the hda-intel driver prints verbose info like this: ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1259: azx_pcm_prepare: bufsize=0x4400, fragsize=0x1100, format=0x11 ALSA

Re: [PATCH 5/7] net/rxrpc: Use BUG_ON

2008-02-17 Thread David Miller
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:56:52 +0100 (CET) if (...) BUG(); should be replaced with BUG_ON(...) when the test has no side-effects to allow a definition of BUG_ON that drops the code completely. ... Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied,

Re: [PATCH 7/7] net/9p/trans_virtio.c: Use BUG_ON

2008-02-17 Thread David Miller
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:57:58 +0100 (CET) if (...) BUG(); should be replaced with BUG_ON(...) when the test has no side-effects to allow a definition of BUG_ON that drops the code completely. ... Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied,

ioatdma Self-test copy timeout

2008-02-17 Thread Tomas Hlavacek
Short description: In 2.6.25-rc2 ioatdma driver fails to initialize due to Self-test timeout when the ioatdma is linked into the kernel. Long descr: When I select to compile ioatdma into the kernel I get: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:08.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency

Re: [PATCH] x86: Coding style fixes for arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paolo Ciarrocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [PATCH] x86: Coding style fixes for arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c Kills more than 150 errors/warnings thanks Paolo, applied. This file was _really_ unclean. btw., there were more style inconsistencies in this file, some of which were reported by

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/patch-tags, one more time

2008-02-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday February 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jonathan Corbet wrote: + +These tags are: + +From: The original author of the patch. This tag will ensure + that credit is properly given when somebody other than the + original

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-17 Thread David Miller
From: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:24:56 +0100 No, that's not the real problem. Even if the kernel didn't lack any required functionality and it could all be done today without VirtualBox, pulling the rug from underneath it like that leaves all those who are

Re: My system stops during startup with curretn git tree of 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-17 Thread David Miller
From: Jiri Kosina [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:04:59 +0100 (CET) On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: It looks like there is something weird as my systems stops when the swap is mounted. I've played bisection game and this is the commit which makes the system

Re: cobalt_btns.c - struct platform_device compile error

2008-02-17 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
Hi, I already sent a patch to Dmitry. Yoichi On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:09:35 +0200 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Commit b037b08e59633d939d79f1df9c43c6625f8db904 broke the compilation of cobalt_btns.c: -- snip -- ... CC drivers/input/misc/cobalt_btns.o ...

Re: Compiling with 2.6.25-rc2 with binutils 2.17 fails?

2008-02-17 Thread Roland McGrath
Still trying to track down why, but it works on a toolchain built from binutils 2.18 and gcc 4.1.3, but not with a toolchain from binutils 2.17 and gcc 4.1.2. And considering where it's failing... I don't think the vdso magic should require so new a binutils. Please try to figure out which

Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: fix pcspkr to not use inb_p/outb_p calls.

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:56:42 -0500 (EST) David P. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fix pcspkr driver to use explicit timing delay for access to PIT, rather than inb_p/outb_p calls, which use insufficiently explicit NAK. We now have inb_pit and

Re: [PATCH] x86: Coding style fixes for arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c

2008-02-17 Thread Joe Perches
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 03:56 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c | 394 +- 1 file changed, 199 insertions(+), 195 deletions(-) Index: linux-x86.q/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/patch-tags, one more time

2008-02-17 Thread Paul Jackson
Neil responding to Linus: From: is not a tag. It's a special marker at the *top* You may be right, but when I email patches to akpm Linus wasn't saying you don't need a 'From:' line in this case (as the *top* line of patches you didn't author). He's saying it's not an instance of the type

Re: arch/x86/mm/ioremap unification grew by 10x

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Huang, Ying [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And here's most of the cause: 02b8 0124 T early_ioremap 1000 1000 t bm_pte 2000 0004 T early_ioremap_debug static __initdata pte_t bm_pte[PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(pte_t)]

Re: [2.6.25-rc2] stack trace immediately before rebooting/switching off

2008-02-17 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
On Sunday 17 February 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Sunday, 17 of February 2008, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: In 2.6.25 I get stack trace immediately before system is switched off or reboots. It is too fast to capture it on VGA; netconsole does not capture it either - probably network is

Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: fix cmos read and write to not use inb_p and outb_p

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:56:39 -0500 (EST) David P. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fix code to access CMOS rtc registers so that it does not use inb_p and outb_p routines, which are deprecated. Signed-off-by: David P. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is ERROR: LGUEST_PAGES_guest_gdt_desc [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] undefined!

2008-02-17 Thread Peter Teoh
On 2/18/08, Sergio Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Teoh wrote: On 2/17/08, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:58:39 +0800 Peter Teoh wrote: Can some explain the cause of this error (it has been like this for the last two git pull from linus tree):

[RFC/PATCH] iomap: Add specific address space __iomap for iomap pointers

2008-02-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
The current iomap stuff (pci_iomap, ioport_map, pcim_iomap, ...) is confusing as it returns pointers in the _miomem address space. However, even if that would work on some architectures, the result of those functions is -not- to be used as an __iomem, with accessors such as readl/writel, but only

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-17 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10002 Subject : wpa_supplicant doens't work and froze the computer Submitter : François Valenduc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : 2008-02-16 08:25 [...] Bug-Entry :

Re: LatencyTOP: sync_page description

2008-02-17 Thread Nick Piggin
On Saturday 16 February 2008 08:56, Török Edwin wrote: Hi Arjan, LatencyTOP says that sync_page is 'Writing a page to disk', however I see that even when no writes are involved, such as during a readdir, lseek, etc. Naming it a write is misleading, as no program is running that is doing

Re: Compex FreedomLine 32 PnP-PCI2 broken with de2104x

2008-02-17 Thread Grant Grundler
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:23:06PM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: On Saturday 26 January 2008 21:58:10 Ondrej Zary wrote: Hello, I was having problems with these FreedomLine cards with Linux before but tested it thoroughly today. This card uses DEC 21041 chip and has TP and BNC connectors:

Re: What is ERROR: LGUEST_PAGES_guest_gdt_desc [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] undefined!

2008-02-17 Thread Sergio Luis
Peter Teoh wrote: On 2/18/08, Sergio Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Teoh wrote: On 2/17/08, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:58:39 +0800 Peter Teoh wrote: Can some explain the cause of this error (it has been like this for the last two git pull from linus

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (cifs build errs)

2008-02-17 Thread Steve French
Thanks for spotting this - it only would happen if CONFIG_PROC_FS is disabled. I have fixed it in the cifs-2.6.git tree so should be fine next time akpm pulls. On Feb 17, 2008 6:14 PM, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:25:22 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:

Re: [PATCH] do_signal_stop: use signal_group_exit()

2008-02-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 02/16, Oleg Nesterov wrote: On 02/15, Andrew Morton wrote: ug. On about the fourth boot with the current -mm lineup I hit: : BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00200200

Re: [linux-kernel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: fix init_8259A() to not use outb_pic

2008-02-17 Thread David P. Reed
Rene Herman wrote: On 17-02-08 23:25, Alan Cox wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:56:28 -0500 (EST) David P. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fix init_8259A() which initializes the 8259 PIC to not use outb_pic, which is a renamed version of outb_p, and delete outb_pic define. NAK The entire point

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/patch-tags, one more time

2008-02-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday February 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil responding to Linus: From: is not a tag. It's a special marker at the *top* You may be right, but when I email patches to akpm Linus wasn't saying you don't need a 'From:' line in this case (as the *top* line of patches you didn't

Re: 2.6.24-git4+ regression

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Lukas Hejtmanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:25:51PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: The patch is against 2.6.25-rc1. I would request you to check for difference it makes with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED and CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED turned on. well, I tried the

Re: [RFC/PATCH] iomap: Add specific address space __iomap for iomap pointers

2008-02-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 14:35 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: The current iomap stuff (pci_iomap, ioport_map, pcim_iomap, ...) is confusing as it returns pointers in the _miomem address space. However, even if that would work on some architectures, the result of those functions is -not-

Re: [PATCH] x86: Coding style fixes for arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + if (e820.map[i].type == E820_RESERVED) { + if (e820.map[i].addr = 0x10UL + e820.map[i].addr clip) clip = e820.map[i].addr; Doesn't this look

Re: [PATCH] Add PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro

2008-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:13:24PM +0100, Jonas Bonn wrote: I'm a bit uncertain whether the definition really should include the 'static' modifier... for most definitions of these tables this is ok, but there are a couple of cases where it should not be static, so the line would need to be

Re: Plans for mISDN? Was: [PATCH 00/14] [ISDN] ...

2008-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:52:35PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Hi Karsten et al. Seeing the work Jeff puts into ISDN I was wondering what are the state of mISDN. Will we soon see mISDN hit the tree or has development stalled? I was wondering if Jeff should go for the much simpler patch:

Re: PL2303 Driver missing support for USB to Serial Cable

2008-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:35:16PM +1030, David Newall wrote: Stephan, Jiri Slaby wrote: On 02/14/2008 03:57 PM, Stephan Rose wrote: 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

iwl3945 not working properly.

2008-02-17 Thread Wael Nasreddine
Hello, I have a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4427 with and Intel 3945ABG card, the driver is not working properly. When I turn on my PC it works fine, but If I ever bring the interface down, I no longer can associate it with any AP without rebooting, even the one I was using, I tried rmmod/modprobe

RE: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1: WARNING at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:129

2008-02-17 Thread Brown, Len
evxfevnt-0091 [00] enable: Transition to ACPI mode successful khelper used greatest stack depth: 3144 bytes left net_namespace: 304 bytes NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered khelper used greatest stack depth: 3032 bytes left PCI: PCI BIOS

Re: [PATCH] linux/hdsmart.h: fix goofups

2008-02-17 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:17:20 EST, Robert P. J. Day said: if that header file isn't used by any kernel code, why bother having a check for __KERNEL__ in the first place? it's being exported to userspace unchecked: include/linux/Kbuild:header-y += hdsmart.h so why not just toss that

Re: 2.6.25-rc1: volanoMark 45% regression

2008-02-17 Thread Zhang, Yanmin
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:26 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: Zhang, Yanmin wrote: Did you have CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED enabled in both cases? Yes. CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED=y Interesting that you have CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED. Do you have any other users on

[PATCH] iomap: Fix 64 bits resources on 32 bits

2008-02-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Almost all implementations of pci_iomap() in the kernel, including the generic lib/iomap.c one, copies the content of a struct resource into unsigned long's which will break on 32 bits platforms with 64 bits resources. This fixes all definitions of pci_iomap() to use resource_size_t. I also fixed

Re: Possible problem in linux file posix capabilities

2008-02-17 Thread Casey Schaufler
--- Serge E. Hallyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two quick fixes for you right now (apart from the one you've already got :) would be 1. give wireshark cap_kill, by doing something like capset cap_kill=ep /bin/wireshark 2. compile a kernel with

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (x86 MCE build error)

2008-02-17 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:25:22 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc2/2.6.25-rc2-mm1/ It's possible to config a specific CPU and also enable Intel MCE checks and AMD MCE checks, ending with this: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In

Re: 2.6.25-rc1: volanoMark 45% regression

2008-02-17 Thread Balbir Singh
Zhang, Yanmin wrote: Did you have CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED enabled in both cases? Yes. CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED=y Interesting that you have CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED. Do you have any other users on the system (are they running anything at the time of the benchmark)?

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1: WARNING at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:129

2008-02-17 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:58:03 -0500 Brown, Len [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len: This WARN_ON says that ACPI is trying to call ioremap() on memory that the e820_table lists as kernel owned. Do you know why ACPI would do this? Would ACPI get upset if the kernel would tell it to take a hike?

Re: 2.6.25-rc1: volanoMark 45% regression

2008-02-17 Thread Balbir Singh
Zhang, Yanmin wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:26 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: Zhang, Yanmin wrote: Did you have CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED enabled in both cases? Yes. CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED=y Interesting that you have CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED. Do you have any other

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-17 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:03:59 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [This is a bit late, for which I'm sorry, but I waited for things to calm down a bit, to have something less of a moving target. Now, following an Ingo's advice, the list has been generated directly out of the

[PATCH 1/7] cgroup: fix and update documentation

2008-02-17 Thread Li Zefan
Misc fixes and updates, make the doc consistent with current cgroup implementation. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/cgroups.txt | 65 +++- 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH 2/7] cgroup: fix comments

2008-02-17 Thread Li Zefan
fix: - comments about need_forkexit_callback - comments about release agent - typo and comment style, etc. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/cgroup.h |2 +- kernel/cgroup.c| 44 +--- 2 files changed, 22

[PATCH 4/7] cgroup: fix memory leak in cgroup_get_sb()

2008-02-17 Thread Li Zefan
opts.release_agent is not kfree()ed in all necessary places. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/cgroup.c |5 - 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 0c35022..aa76bbd 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++

[PATCH 3/7] cgroup: clean up cgroup.h

2008-02-17 Thread Li Zefan
- replace old name 'cont' with 'cgrp' (Paul Menage did this cleanup for cgroup.c in commit bd89aabc6761de1c35b154fe6f914a445d301510) - remove a duplicate declaration of cgroup_path() Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/cgroup.h | 48

[PATCH 5/7] cgroup: fix subsys bitops

2008-02-17 Thread Li Zefan
Cgroup uses unsigned long for subsys bitops, not unsigned long long. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/cgroup.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index aa76bbd..e8c8e58 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++

[PATCH 6/7] cgroup: remove duplicate code in find_css_set()

2008-02-17 Thread Li Zefan
The list head res-tasks gets initialized twice in find_css_set(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/cgroup.c |1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index e8c8e58..71cf961 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++

[PATCH 7/7] cgroup: remove dead code in cgroup_get_rootdir()

2008-02-17 Thread Li Zefan
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/cgroup.c |1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 71cf961..879a056 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -926,7 +926,6 @@ static int

[PATCH 1/3] memcgroup: fix and update documentation

2008-02-17 Thread Li Zefan
- remove trailing Bytess in the demonstration - remove section 4.4 (feature control_type has been removed) - fix reference section Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | 24 +--- 1

[PATCH 2/3] memcgroup: fix typo in VM_BUG_ON()

2008-02-17 Thread Li Zefan
No need for VM_BUG_ON(pc), since 'pc' is the list entry. This should be VM_BUG_ON(page). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mm/memcontrol.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c

[PATCH 3/3] memcgroup: return negative error code in mem_cgroup_create()

2008-02-17 Thread Li Zefan
Cgroup requires the subsystem to return negative error code on error in the create method. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mm/memcontrol.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (x86 MCE build error)

2008-02-17 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Feb 17, 2008 9:17 PM, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:25:22 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc2/2.6.25-rc2-mm1/ It's possible to config a specific CPU and also enable Intel MCE checks and AMD

Re: 2.6.25-rc1: volanoMark 45% regression

2008-02-17 Thread Zhang, Yanmin
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:52 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: Zhang, Yanmin wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:26 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: Zhang, Yanmin wrote: Did you have CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED enabled in both cases? Yes. CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=y CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED=y

Re: [PATCH 1/3] memcgroup: fix and update documentation

2008-02-17 Thread Balbir Singh
Li Zefan wrote: - remove trailing Bytess in the demonstration - remove section 4.4 (feature control_type has been removed) - fix reference section Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [PATCH 2/3] memcgroup: fix typo in VM_BUG_ON()

2008-02-17 Thread Balbir Singh
Li Zefan wrote: No need for VM_BUG_ON(pc), since 'pc' is the list entry. This should be VM_BUG_ON(page). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] pc is of type page_cgroup and we use list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse. Not sure why we can't bug

Re: [PATCH 3/3] memcgroup: return negative error code in mem_cgroup_create()

2008-02-17 Thread Balbir Singh
Li Zefan wrote: Cgroup requires the subsystem to return negative error code on error in the create method. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh

Re: [PATCH 2/3] memcgroup: fix typo in VM_BUG_ON()

2008-02-17 Thread YAMAMOTO Takashi
Li Zefan wrote: No need for VM_BUG_ON(pc), since 'pc' is the list entry. This should be VM_BUG_ON(page). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] pc is of type page_cgroup and we use list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse. Not sure why we

Re: [PATCH 2/3] memcgroup: fix typo in VM_BUG_ON()

2008-02-17 Thread Balbir Singh
YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote: Li Zefan wrote: No need for VM_BUG_ON(pc), since 'pc' is the list entry. This should be VM_BUG_ON(page). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] pc is of type page_cgroup and we use list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse. Not

[GIT PULL] XFS update for 2.6.25-rc3

2008-02-17 Thread Lachlan McIlroy
Please pull from the for-linus branch: git pull git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6.git for-linus This will update the following files: fs/xfs/Kbuild |6 -- fs/xfs/Makefile | 118 - fs/xfs/Makefile-linux-2.6 | 117

Re: [PATCH 2/3] memcgroup: fix typo in VM_BUG_ON()

2008-02-17 Thread YAMAMOTO Takashi
No need for VM_BUG_ON(pc), since 'pc' is the list entry. This should be VM_BUG_ON(page). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mm/memcontrol.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c

Re: [PATCH 27/27] [ALSA] hdsp - fix section mismatch warnings

2008-02-17 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:23:04 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Fix following warnings: WARNING: sound/pci/rme9652/snd-hdsp.o(.text+0x34bc): Section mismatch in reference from the function hdsp_check_for_firmware() to the function .devinit.text:hdsp_request_fw_loader() WARNING:

Re: [PATCH] snd-hda-intel: don't print using snd_printdd on device open

2008-02-17 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:40:32 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: From: Adel Gadllah [EMAIL PROTECTED] snd-hda-intel: don't print using snd_printdd on device open When CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_DETECT is set the hda-intel driver prints verbose info like this: ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1259:

Re: [PATCH 2/3] memcgroup: fix typo in VM_BUG_ON()

2008-02-17 Thread Li Zefan
Balbir Singh wrote: YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote: Li Zefan wrote: No need for VM_BUG_ON(pc), since 'pc' is the list entry. This should be VM_BUG_ON(page). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] pc is of type page_cgroup and we use

Re: [PATCH] snd-hda-intel: don't print using snd_printdd on device open

2008-02-17 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:31:09 +0100, Adel Gadllah wrote: Hi, When CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_DETECT is set the hda-intel driver prints verbose info like this: ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1259: azx_pcm_prepare: bufsize=0x4400, fragsize=0x1100, format=0x11 ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:682:

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