Re: [PATCH][BLUETOOTH] add HCI_BROKEN_ISOC for 0e5e:6622 (bugzilla #9027)

2008-02-19 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi, This patch fix bugzilla #9027. ``Syslog flooded with "hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for unknown connection handle 92" message" see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9027 when we get the content of /proc/bus/usb/devices for this one. Do you have the manufacturer name

[PATCH] put ledstate in the keyboard notifier

2008-02-19 Thread Karl Dahlke
I think there is general agreement, including myself, that led state should be part of the key event, like shiftstate, and not grabbed asynchronously after the fact. So here is the patch that would do this. I tested it with my keyboard modules and it works. It only changes a couple lines of code,

Re: [PATCH] Provide u64 version of jiffies_to_usecs() in kernel/tsacct.c

2008-02-19 Thread Jonathan Lim
It's possible that the values used in and returned from jiffies_to_usecs() are incorrect because of truncation when variables of type u64 are involved. So a function specific to that type is used instead. Diff'd against: linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lim

Re: [PATCH] block: fix kernel-docbook parameters and files

2008-02-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Feb 18 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote: > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > kernel-doc for block/: > - add missing parameters > - fix one function's parameter list (remove blank line) > - add 2 source files to docbook for non-exported kernel-doc functions Care to rediff and resend, it

Re: [PATCH 4/5] [PATCH] introduce paravirt helpers

2008-02-19 Thread Ravikiran Thirumalai
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:56:56PM -0200, Glauber Costa wrote: >On Feb 17, 2008 4:05 PM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> * Glauber Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > config X86_VSMP >> > bool "Support for ScaleMP vSMP" >> > depends on X86_64 && PCI >> > - help

2.6.25-rc2 Thinkpad T30 docking fails with oops.

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Martin
Now, this was working in 2.6.23, but is not in any later kernel. Previously reported, but I guess that the previous report was ignored due to the kernel being tainted. Well, there's nothing other than pure Linus here. When booted up docked, there is no oops until you try to undock. Whilst I will

Re: 2.6.24-sha1: RIP [] iov_iter_advance+0x38/0x70

2008-02-19 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:42:02PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2008 11:17, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 February 2008 09:27, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > > It's a trivial dumb module which does nothing but loads and unloads. > > > I redid ftest03 later without

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi, On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > Hi, > [...] > > > > I've tried the patch but, unfortunately, my wireless LAN still dies after a > > few pings. > > Could you use below patch instead, and make a new dump of the register? > I'm still convinced the breakage occurs in the

Re: [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem_notify v6

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Jackson
pj, talking to himself: > Of course > for embedded use, I'd have to adapt it to a non-cpuset based mechanism > (not difficult), as embedded definitely doesn't do cpusets. I'm forgetting an important detail here. Kosaki-san has clearly stated that this hook, at vmscan's writepage, is too late for

[PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool

2008-02-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
From: Soren Sandmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool The sysprof tool is a very easy to use GUI tool to find out where userspace is spending CPU time. See http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sandmann/sysprof/ for more information and screenshots on

Re: 2.6.25-rc[12] Video4Linux Bttv Regression

2008-02-19 Thread Bongani Hlope
More info add Ingo to CC, maybe he can explain what might cause such failure in the mutex code (sorry Ingo, I need to bother you once more) Ingo: I got the oops bellow whilst using the radio functionality of the bttv-drivers, nothing seems obvious except that I dies while calling

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]* - mostly resolved

2008-02-19 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/16/2008 10:35 PM, Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: Until this thread, I was not even aware that ACPI was related to USB; I had largely conflated it with a similar acronym which I think is related to power management and which I can suddenly not even find in

[PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area v3

2008-02-19 Thread Mike Travis
* Declare the pda as a per cpu variable. This will move the pda area to an address accessible by the x86_64 per cpu macros. Subtraction of __per_cpu_start will make the offset based from the beginning of the per cpu area. Since %gs is pointing to the pda, it will then also

[PATCH 0/2] x86: Optimize percpu accesses v3

2008-02-19 Thread Mike Travis
This patchset is the x86-specific part split from the generic part of the zero-based patchset. This patchset provides the following: * x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area Declare the pda as a per cpu variable. This will move the pda area to an address accessible by the x86_64 per cpu

[PATCH 2/2] x86_64: Cleanup non-smp usage of cpu maps v3

2008-02-19 Thread Mike Travis
Cleanup references to the early cpu maps for the non-SMP configuration and remove some functions called for SMP configurations only. Based on git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- v3: * split generic/x86-specific

Re: Markers: multi-probe locking fun (was: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Markers Implementation for RCU Tracing - Ver II)

2008-02-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Jan Kiszka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:47:31PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> K. Prasad wrote: > >>> Hi Ingo, > >>> Please accept these patches into the rt tree which convert the > >>> existing RCU tracing mechanism for Preempt RCU and RCU

[PATCH 2/2] generic: Percpu infrastructure to rebase the per cpu area to zero v3

2008-02-19 Thread Mike Travis
* Support an option CONFIG_HAVE_ZERO_BASED_PER_CPU that makes offsets for per cpu variables to start at zero. If a percpu area starts at zero then: - We do not need RELOC_HIDE anymore - Provides for the future capability of architectures providing

[PATCH 1/2] init: move setup of nr_cpu_ids to as early as possible v3

2008-02-19 Thread Mike Travis
Move the setting of nr_cpu_ids from sched_init() to init/main.c, so that it's available as early as possible. Based on git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- v3: * split generic/x86-specific into two patches v2: *

[PATCH 0/2] percpu: Optimize percpu accesses v3

2008-02-19 Thread Mike Travis
This is the generic (non-x86) changes for zero-based per cpu variables. This patchset provides the following: * Init: Move setup of nr_cpu_ids to as early as possible for usage by early boot functions. * Generic: Percpu infrastructure to rebase the per cpu area to zero This

Re: [PATCH] splice: fix problem with sys_tee and SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK

2008-02-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Feb 19 2008, Johann Felix Soden wrote: > From: Johann Felix Soden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > With SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK sys_tee should return number of duplicated bytes, > not only -EAGAIN on success. ? The current behaviour is to return bytes tee'd, or return -EAGAIN for zero bytes if

Re: random wedges with 2.6.25-rc*

2008-02-19 Thread David Rees
On Feb 19, 2008 10:10 AM, Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somewhere post 2.6.24, the kernel started getting very > temperamentful. I experience random hangs and wedges very often. FWIW, on my Fedora 8 Dell Vostro 1000 notebook, ever since updating to kernel 2.6.23.15-137 I am getting

Re: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 5/9]

2008-02-19 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:53:09 +1100 Nick Andrew wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:06:09AM +1100, Nick Andrew wrote: > > Here is a series of 9 patches to init/Kconfig intended to improve the > > usefulness and consistency of the help descriptions. The patches are > > against linux-2.6.24.2. > >

Re: [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem_notify v6

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Jackson
Rik wrote: > Basically in all situations, the kernel needs to warn at the same point > in time: when the system is about to run out of RAM for anonymous pages. > > ... > > In the HPC case, it leads to swapping (and a management program can kill or > restart something else). Thanks for stopping

[PATCH] splice: fix problem with sys_tee and SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK

2008-02-19 Thread Johann Felix Soden
From: Johann Felix Soden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> With SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK sys_tee should return number of duplicated bytes, not only -EAGAIN on success. This patch also solves the problem, which is described on http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/642502. Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden

[PATCH] trivial: fix typo at tick-broadcast.c

2008-02-19 Thread Glauber Costa
braodcast -> broadcast Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c index e1bd50c..b3c8265 100644 ---

[GIT PULL] 2 x kbuild fixes

2008-02-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Linus. Please pull two kbuild fixes from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-linus.git Note - new git tree to avoid clash with new stuff. Full diff below the details. Sam Geert Uytterhoeven (1): kbuild: fix reversed symbol name order in modpost Sam

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Pekka Enberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Mathieu, > > On Feb 19, 2008 4:02 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - stat(c, ALLOC_FASTPATH); seems to be using a var++, therefore > > indicating it is not reentrant if IRQs are disabled. Since those are > > only stats, I

Re: [GIT PATCH] split up feature-removal-schedule.txt

2008-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:49:10AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:34:22AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:07:45 -0800 Greg KH wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:13:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008,

Re: linux-next: Tree for Feb 19

2008-02-19 Thread David Teigland
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 06:38:25PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > We are up to 26 trees, more are welcome (even if they are currently empty). dlm (distributed lock manager) tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/dlm.git next Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Eric Dumazet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:02:30 -0500 > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Pekka Enberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Feb 19, 2008 8:54 AM, Torsten Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > [ 5282.056415] [ cut here

Re: hid device not claimed but /dev/input/event exists

2008-02-19 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > This bug is in a completely different place then I thought! The speakers > were plugged into the hub built into my monitor. I plugged it directly > into the mainboard and voila, it works. Even g15daemon, the lcd driver, > can now display a nice

Re: random wedges with 2.6.25-rc*

2008-02-19 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 18:10:35 Pierre Ossman wrote: > Primarily, the udev startup locks up. If I abort it, it just locks up on > more or less every action after that. Some quick debugging showed that I > had a whole bunch of modprobe processes sitting around. The new >

Re: LILO fatal error after going from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24.2

2008-02-19 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:22:27AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rasmus Andersen wrote: [...] > You have at least one file on a device mapper device (possibly an LVM > module), and LILO doesn't understand it. Hi Peter, and thanks for your reply. That was indeed the issue, my /boot was not

Re: Where to put adapters, /proc is cool

2008-02-19 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:39:45 -0500 Karl Dahlke wrote: > > So without knowing what an adapter is in this context /proc > > seems to be a bad choice. > > The best explanation might be an example. > I use my Jupiter speecha dapter all day, every day. > It basically sends text to a speech

[PATCH v2][POWERPC] Fix initial lmb add region with a non-zero base

2008-02-19 Thread Kumar Gala
If we add to an empty lmb region with a non-zero base we will not coalesce the number of regions down to one. This causes problems on ppc32 for the memory region as its assumed to only have one region. We can fix this easily by causing the initial add to replace the dummy region. Signed-off-by:

Re: [GIT PATCH] split up feature-removal-schedule.txt

2008-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:34:22AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:07:45 -0800 Greg KH wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:13:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > > > > > MAINTAINERS is the most frequently

Re: random wedges with 2.6.25-rc*

2008-02-19 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:55:13 -0500 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pierre Ossman wrote: > > > > Anyone else seeing these problems? Someone should as I've seen the problem > > on both a Lenovo and a HP laptop here. > > > I'm definitely seeing lockups here too. 2.6.24 is fine,

Re: [PATCH 6/8] net: use numa_node in net_devcice->dev instead of parent

2008-02-19 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Feb 19, 2008 11:42 AM, Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2008 03:41:10 am David Miller wrote: > > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:21:46 +0100 > > > > > > > > * Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > struct sk_buff

patch usb-usbatm-convert-heavy-init-dances-to-kthread-api.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

2008-02-19 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: USB: usbatm: convert heavy init dances to kthread API to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is usb-usbatm-convert-heavy-init-dances-to-kthread-api.patch This tree can be found at

Re: [2.6 patch] make dlm_print_rsb() static

2008-02-19 Thread David Teigland
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:29:38PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > dlm_print_rsb() can now become static. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks, added to dlm.git. Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] dlm: match signedness between dlm_config_info and cluster_set

2008-02-19 Thread David Teigland
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:54:29PM -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote: > cluster_set is only called from the macro CLUSTER_ATTR which defines > read/write > access functions. Make the signedness match to avoid sparse warnings every > time > CLUSTER_ATTR is used (lines 149-159) all of the form: > >

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-19 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Hi, [added rt2400-devel (rt2x00 development mailinglist) to the CC list.] > > > > I have a series of tests I would like to request from you, > > > > you mentioned you already enabled debugfs, and that is just what we > > > > need. ;) > > > > Please use attached script to create dumps of the

patch driver-core-register_memory-unregister_memory-clean-ups-and-bugfix.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

2008-02-19 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: driver core: register_memory/unregister_memory clean ups and bugfix to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is driver-core-register_memory-unregister_memory-clean-ups-and-bugfix.patch This tree can be found

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-19 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:18:48AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > > > AFAIK mapping PCI memory WB is not allowed, so WC is really our only > > > choice. > > > afaik that depends on the BAR being prefetchable or not. > > In my case the BAR is prefetchable. Even if the BAR is prefetchable, on

Re: [PATCH] export getledstate()

2008-02-19 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:57:23 -0500 Karl Dahlke wrote: > I write adapters for disabled people, and we often have to do > specialized functions based on keystrokes and key chords. > I would like to do certain things when keys are hit and num lock is on, > but there is no easy way to get the led

Where to put adapters, /proc is cool

2008-02-19 Thread Karl Dahlke
> So without knowing what an adapter is in this context /proc > seems to be a bad choice. The best explanation might be an example. I use my Jupiter speecha dapter all day, every day. It basically sends text to a speech synthesizer. It also has some virtual files. /proc/adapters/jupiter/synth can

Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 06/12] PCI Hotplug: make cpcihp driver use modern apis

2008-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 05:45:47PM -0500, Scott Murray wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > This removes the depandancy of the cpcihp driver from the PCI_LEGACY > > config option by removing its usage of the pci_find_bus() function. > > > > > > Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi

snd_bt87x crash with kernel 2.6.24.2 on amd64

2008-02-19 Thread Andreas Matthus
[1.] summary: snd_bt87x crash with kernel 2.6.24.2 on amd64 [2.] Full description of the problem/report: after upgrade from kernel 2.6.23.12 tu 2.6.24.2 on my amd64 the boot-process stop by loading snd_bt87x When I move this kernel-modul on another place, booting is OK.

Re: Where to put adapters

2008-02-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 19 2008 08:01, Karl Dahlke wrote: > >Now that notifiers are in, (yay!), people are going to start writing adapters >for visually and motor impaired individuals. >I suggest we place them in drivers/adapters in the source tree, Umph, that sounds a bit generic. Network cards are sometimes

Re: [GIT PATCH] split up feature-removal-schedule.txt

2008-02-19 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:07:45 -0800 Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:13:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > > > MAINTAINERS is the most frequently patched file > > > > Almost all of them merge perfectly, with no problems

Re: USB OOPS 2.6.25-rc2-git1

2008-02-19 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Andre Tomt wrote: > Got this on a serial console today, using 2.6.25-rc2-git1. Machine was > not doing anything interesting at the time, but has its / and kernel on > a usb-storage device (usb pen drive). > > Intel ICH8R chipset (and USB controller), running x86_64 kernel.

[2.6.25 patch] dm-raid1.c: fix NULL dereferences

2008-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes two NULL dereferences introduced by commit 06386bbfd2441416875d0403d405c56822f6ebac and spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/md/dm-raid1.c |7 --- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) ---

Re: [PATCH 5/8] try parent numa_node at first before using default v2

2008-02-19 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 09:54:23 am Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:20:41AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > > > in the device_add, we try to use use parent numa_node. > > need to make sure pci root bus's bridge device numa_node is set. > > then we could use device->numa_node direclty

ipwireless_network_packet_received(): inconsequent NULL checking

2008-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
The Coverity checker spotted the following inconsequent NULL checking in drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/network.c: <-- snip --> void ipwireless_network_packet_received(struct ipw_network *network, unsigned int channel_idx,

[2.6 patch] infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c: remove dead code

2008-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes dead code spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c |6 -- 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c.old 2008-02-19 20:23:02.0 +0200 +++

[2.6 patch] scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_isr.c: remove dead code

2008-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes dead code spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_isr.c | 18 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_isr.c.old2008-02-19

[2.6 patch] remove include/linux/hdsmart.h

2008-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 07:04:51PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Why can't we simply remove it? > > If it is safe w.r.t. userspace then please do it. > > [ I don't know and I couldn't get an answer on LKML so... ] The purpose of

[2.6 patch] make stk_camera_{suspend,resume}() static

2008-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global stk_camera_{suspend,resume}() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/media/video/stk-webcam.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 0142ed9da391bdcb89b8f029aaf7909a73bf4e20 diff --git

pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_acpi.c: inconsequent NULL checking

2008-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
The Coverity checker spotted the following inconsequent NULL checking introduced by commit 3c75e23784e6ed5f4841de43d0750fd9b37bafcb: <-- snip --> ... int aer_osc_setup(struct pcie_device *pciedev) { ...v while (pdev->bus && pdev->bus->self) pdev =

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-19 Thread Torsten Kaiser
On Feb 19, 2008 5:20 PM, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So: > - it might be something else entirely > - it might still be the local cmpxchg, just Torsten didn't happen to >notice it until later. My new hackbench-testcase also killed 2.6.24-rc2-mm1, so I really noticed to late.

Re: 2.6.24 git2/mm1: cpu_to_node mapping to non-existant nodes causing boot failure

2008-02-19 Thread Mike Travis
Mel Gorman wrote: > On (19/02/08 08:12), Mike Travis didst pronounce: >> Mike Travis wrote: >>> Mel Gorman wrote: >>> If you send me patches to apply on top of 2.6.25-rc1, I'll give them a spin on the machine in question. Reverting didn't work out very well as there are too

[PATCH] ata: simplify clock divisor logic in pata_amd.c

2008-02-19 Thread Harvey Harrison
Current code is essentially choosing between dividing by 1 or dividing by two, make the conditions a little more obvious. As a bonus, removes a sparse error: drivers/ata/pata_amd.c:59:11: warning: symbol '__x' shadows an earlier one drivers/ata/pata_amd.c:59:11: originally declared here

Re: Where to put adapters

2008-02-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:01:48AM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote: > Now that notifiers are in, (yay!), people are going to start writing adapters > for visually and motor impaired individuals. > I suggest we place them in drivers/adapters in the source tree, > and I suggest they put their virtual files

Re: 2.6.24 git2/mm1: cpu_to_node mapping to non-existant nodes causing boot failure

2008-02-19 Thread Mel Gorman
On (19/02/08 08:12), Mike Travis didst pronounce: > Mike Travis wrote: > > Mel Gorman wrote: > > > >> If you send me patches to apply on top of 2.6.25-rc1, I'll give them a spin > >> on the machine in question. Reverting didn't work out very well as there > >> are > >> too many collisions with

Re: TG3 network data corruption regression 2.6.24/2.6.23.4

2008-02-19 Thread Tony Battersby
Michael Chan wrote: >> The SysKonnect NIC that does not exhibit this problem has a chip that >> says "BCM5411KQM" "TT0128 P2Q" and "56975E". > I think this is the 5700, but please send me the tg3 output that > identifies the chip and the revision. Something like this: > > eth2: Tigon3

Re: 2.6.24-sha1: RIP [] iov_iter_advance+0x38/0x70

2008-02-19 Thread Kevin Coffman
On Feb 18, 2008 8:20 PM, Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2008 09:27, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:04:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Can you try this patch please? Sorry, I still see (only with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC enabled): kernel: BUG:

Re: [PATCH 6/8] net: use numa_node in net_devcice->dev instead of parent

2008-02-19 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 03:41:10 am David Miller wrote: > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:21:46 +0100 > > > > > * Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev, > > > unsigned int

Re: [GIT PULL?] Create and populate toplevel tests/ for kernel tests

2008-02-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Anath. Linus did not pull this in the -rc1 to -rc2 timeframe so please resubmit the patch serie one week into the next merge window (when most of the trees has hit linus' tree and Andrew has made his first merge). IF you need an extra eye balling then you can submit a few weeks before the

[PATCH] Add write verify on dataflash.

2008-02-19 Thread michael
Add the write verification buffer to the dataflash. The mtd_dataflash has the CONFIG_DATAFLASH_WRITE_VERIFY so is better a change to Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/jffs2/wbuf.c | 12 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: [PATCH] ufs: [bl]e*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-19 Thread Evgeniy Dushistov
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 06:45:42PM +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:22:19AM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:41:44 +0100 Roel Kluin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> you may also want these: > > >> --- > > >>

Re: [patch] suspend/resume self-test

2008-02-19 Thread David Brownell
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thing is, this will catch not just regressions ... but cases where > > > STR never worked in the first place.  Video problems, etc.  Also > > > various system startup races, as in the PCMCIA and

Re: [GIT PATCH] split up feature-removal-schedule.txt

2008-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:13:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > MAINTAINERS is the most frequently patched file > > Almost all of them merge perfectly, with no problems what-so-ever. And the > merge conflicts, when they happen, are

Re: TG3 network data corruption regression 2.6.24/2.6.23.4

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Chan
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:16 -0500, Tony Battersby wrote: > iSCSI > performance drops to 6 - 15 MB/s when the 3Com NIC is doing heavy rx > with light tx, That's strange. The patch should only affect TX performance slightly since we are just turning off SG for TX. Please take an ethereal trace to

Re: [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem_notify v6

2008-02-19 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:00:08 -0600 Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Depending on what we're trying to do: > 1) warn applications of swap coming soon (your case), > 2) show how close we are to swapping, > 3) show how much swap has happened already, > 4) kill instantly if try to swap

RE: ioatdma Self-test copy timeout

2008-02-19 Thread Nelson, Shannon
>-Original Message- >From: Tomas Hlavacek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:22 PM >To: Nelson, Shannon; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Subject: ioatdma Self-test copy timeout > >Short description: In 2.6.25-rc2 ioatdma driver fails to >initialize due >to

[PATCH 3/4] MN10300: Make the kernel jump into gdbstub on a BUG

2008-02-19 Thread David Howells
Make the kernel jump into gdbstub (if configured) on a BUG with the register set from the BUG rather than interpolating another illegal instruction and leaving gdbstub's idea of the process counter in unsupported_syscall() where the original BUG was detected. With this patch, gdbstub reports a

[PATCH 4/4] MN10300: Update asb2303_defconfig

2008-02-19 Thread David Howells
Update the ASB2303 default configuration. Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/mn10300/configs/asb2303_defconfig | 33 +++- 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mn10300/configs/asb2303_defconfig

[PATCH 1/4] MN10300: Call update_process_times() outside of the xtime_lock

2008-02-19 Thread David Howells
Call update_process_times() outside of the xtime_lock. Somewhere somewhere inside one of the functions called by that, xtime_lock is readlocked, which ends up in a deadlock situation. Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/mn10300/kernel/time.c |4 +++- 1 files changed,

[PATCH 2/4] MN10300: Introduce barriers to replace removed volatiles in gdbstub

2008-02-19 Thread David Howells
Introduce into the MN10300 gdbstub a couple of barrier() calls to replace the removed volatility of the input/output index variables for the Rx ring buffer. Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/mn10300/kernel/gdb-io-ttysm.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0

Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

2008-02-19 Thread Paulo Marques
Mark Lord wrote: Theodore Tso wrote: .. The following ld_preload can help in some cases. Mutt has this hack encoded in for maildir directories, which helps. .. Oddly enough, that same spd_readdir() preload craps out here too when used with "rm -r" on largish directories. From looking at

RE: [RFC v3 4/7] dmaengine: Add slave DMA interface

2008-02-19 Thread Nelson, Shannon
>From: Haavard Skinnemoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 5:30 AM >To: Nelson, Shannon >Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen; Williams, Dan J; >linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; David Brownell; >[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Francis Moreau; Paul Mundt; Vladimir A. >Barinov; Pierre Ossman

[PATCH] export getledstate()

2008-02-19 Thread Karl Dahlke
I write adapters for disabled people, and we often have to do specialized functions based on keystrokes and key chords. I would like to do certain things when keys are hit and num lock is on, but there is no easy way to get the led state. There is a nice function getledstate() in keyboard.c, it

patch debugfs-fix-sparse-warnings.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

2008-02-19 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: debugfs: fix sparse warnings to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is debugfs-fix-sparse-warnings.patch This tree can be found at

[GIT PULL] please pull infiniband.git

2008-02-19 Thread Roland Dreier
Linus, please pull from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus This tree is also available from kernel.org mirrors at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus This will get a couple of small post-2.6.25-rc2

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1: build failure (x86)

2008-02-19 Thread Russell Leidich
On Feb 17, 2008 1:56 AM, Marcin Slusarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:37:09AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Saturday, 16 of February 2008, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:09:49AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008

Re: [PATCH 1/5] signal(x86_32): Improve the signal stack overflow check

2008-02-19 Thread Roland McGrath
This change looks bogus to me. Before I get to the content, there is a nit that annoys me. You changed the punctuation in my comment so that it no longer means what it did, and now the comment is nonsensical. I don't demand decent English from hackers of any linguistic bent, but please don't

Re: USB OOPS 2.6.25-rc2-git1

2008-02-19 Thread David Brownell
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Andre Tomt wrote: > Got this on a serial console today, using 2.6.25-rc2-git1. Machine was > not doing anything interesting at the time, but has its / and kernel on > a usb-storage device (usb pen drive). Can you try this diagnostic patch, to see if it reports any

Re: [PATCH] enclosure: add support for enclosure services

2008-02-19 Thread Pavel Machek
On Wed 2008-02-13 09:45:02, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:28:15 -0600 > James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:07 -0800, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > > I understand what you are trying to do - I guess I just doubt the > > > value

Re: [patch 07/13] Initialize per cpu lowcores on cpu hotplug.

2008-02-19 Thread Segher Boessenkool
+ /* +* Only need to copy the first 512 bytes from address 0. But since + * the compiler emits a warning if src == NULL for memcpy use copy_page + * instead. Copies more than needed but this code is not performance +* critical. +*/ + copy_page(lowcore,

[PATCH] kvm: fix sparse warnings in x86_emulate.c

2008-02-19 Thread Harvey Harrison
Nesting __emulate_2op_nobyte inside__emulate_2op produces many shadowed variable warnings on the internal variable _tmp used by both macros. Change the outer macro to use __tmp. Avoids a sparse warning like the following at every call site of __emulate_2op arch/x86/kvm/x86_emulate.c:1091:3:

Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Theodore Tso wrote: .. The following ld_preload can help in some cases. Mutt has this hack encoded in for maildir directories, which helps. .. Oddly enough, that same spd_readdir() preload craps out here too when used with "rm -r" on largish directories. I added a bit more

Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: ensure we do not reference a surplus page after handing it to buddy

2008-02-19 Thread Adam Litke
Indeed. I'll take credit for this thinko... On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 18:28 +, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > When we free a page via free_huge_page and we detect that we are in > surplus the page will be returned to the buddy. After this we no longer > own the page. However at the end free_huge_page

Re: Intel Core2Duo mobile - how does the VID get set?

2008-02-19 Thread Brian Morrison
Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: After a fair bit of Googling and reading around, I'm none the wiser about exactly how Linux 2.6.x sets the processor VID (or for that matter how it decides the FID settings) when using the ondemand governor and cpufreq stuff. Can anyone tell me a) whether this

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: remove never used nodenumer in pda

2008-02-19 Thread Mike Travis
Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:48:54AM -0800, Mike Travis wrote: >> Andi Kleen wrote: >>> Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> we don't need copy too. already have x86_cpu_to_node_map >>> That's a regression (probably from Mike's patches?). Until recently it was >>>

[PATCH] kvm: make iopm_base static

2008-02-19 Thread Harvey Harrison
Fixes sparse warning as well. arch/x86/kvm/svm.c:69:15: warning: symbol 'iopm_base' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c

Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Lord
Theodore Tso wrote: .. The following ld_preload can help in some cases. Mutt has this hack encoded in for maildir directories, which helps. .. Oddly enough, that same spd_readdir() preload craps out here too when used with "rm -r" on largish directories. I added a bit more debugging to it,

[PATCH] hugetlb: ensure we do not reference a surplus page after handing it to buddy

2008-02-19 Thread Andy Whitcroft
When we free a page via free_huge_page and we detect that we are in surplus the page will be returned to the buddy. After this we no longer own the page. However at the end free_huge_page we clear out our mapping pointer from page private. Even where the page is not a surplus we free the page

[PATCH] kvm: sparse fixes for kvm/x86.c

2008-02-19 Thread Harvey Harrison
In two case statements, use the ever popular 'i' instead of index: arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:1063:7: warning: symbol 'index' shadows an earlier one arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:1000:9: originally declared here arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:1079:7: warning: symbol 'index' shadows an earlier one arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:1000:9:

Re: hid device not claimed but /dev/input/event exists

2008-02-19 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Jiri Kosina wrote: Does anything appear in dmesg when you press those buttons? There should be messages resembling the one you already have there: drivers/hid/hid-core.c: report (size 8) (unnumbered) drivers/hid/hid-core.c: report 0 (size 8) = 00 00 28 00 00 00 00 00 and they should react to

Re: SMP-related kernel memory leak

2008-02-19 Thread Oliver Pinter
Helló! this patch fixed them http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/18/405 ? On 2/19/08, Bart Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed that the amount of memory used by the Linux kernel steadily > increases over time on SMP systems (x86 architecture, 32-bit kernel). > This problem

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