Re: [linux-pm] [demo patch/RFC] sleepy linux

2008-02-26 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:26:53 +0100 Pavel Machek wrote: Hi Pavel, Is this limited to UP and only one disk? [comments below] > Sleepy linux support, demo version, but it works on my thinkpad x60 ;-). > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > diff --git

Re: Proposal for "proper" durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nick Piggin wrote: Anyway, the idea of making fsync/fdatasync etc. safe by default is a good idea IMO, and is a bad bug that we don't do that :( Agreed... it's also disappointing that [unless I'm mistaken] you have to hack each filesystem to support barriers. It seems far easier to make

Re: 2.6.24.2: 4KSTACKS + pcdrw + dm + mount -> stack overflow: ide-cd related? dm-related?

2008-02-26 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 26-02-08 12:37:17, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > + name = kmalloc(sizeof(char) * UDF_NAME_LEN, GFP_KERNEL); > > > + fname = kmalloc(sizeof(char) * UDF_NAME_LEN, GFP_KERNEL); > > > + > > > + if (!name || !fname) { > > > + *err = -ENOMEM; > > >

Re: vmlinux.lds cleanup

2008-02-26 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Sam Ravnborg - Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:33:07PM +0100] | On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:58:00PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | > Hi Sam, | > | > you know I've just take a look on different architectures and I suddenly | > realized that I even can't test my changes I'm bringnin in. For example - | >

Re: [RFC] ext3 freeze feature ver 0.2

2008-02-26 Thread Eric Sandeen
Takashi Sato wrote: > o Elevate XFS ioctl numbers (XFS_IOC_FREEZE and XFS_IOC_THAW) to the VFS > As Andreas Dilger and Christoph Hellwig advised me, I have elevated > them to include/linux/fs.h as below. > #define FIFREEZE_IOWR('X', 119, int) >   #define FITHAW

Re: [BUG] using smp_processor_id() in preemptible as suspending

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:24:11 +0800 Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know whom I should mail to, could you cc the proper guy? Thanks. > > [ 118.331674] acpi LNXSYSTM:00: suspend > [ 118.331674] Disabling non-boot CPUs ... > [ 118.331674] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain. > [

Re: 2.6.24-git: kmap_atomic() WARN_ON()

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: + unsigned long flags; + + local_irq_save(flags); hm, couldnt we attach the irq disabling to some spinlock, in a natural way? Explicit flags fiddling is a PITA once we do things like threaded irq handlers, -rt, etc.

Re: Proposal for "proper" durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:07:45 + Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE scans all pages in the range, looking for dirty > pages which aren't already queued for write-out. It marks those with > a "write-out" flag, and starts write I/Os at some unspecified time in > the

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: fix nmi intr or system hanging in rhel4u6 adma.

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Hancock wrote: Kuan Luo wrote: Hi, robert One customer reported that their system received a nmi interrupt after issuing "dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null" on a defective disk in rhel4u6. I tested it and found that my system hung both in rhel4u6(2.6.9-67) and 2.6.24-rc7. The patch can work

Re: [ugly patch] Save .15W-.5W by AHCI powersaving

2008-02-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 05:42:58PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > BTW we can also save power by allowing the user to choose to disable > hotplugging support. Then we can power down PHYs that are not in use. > > That requires the addition of some policy controls, because it is > user-specific

Re: [dm-devel] Re: device mapper not reporting no-barrier-support?

2008-02-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Feb 26 2008, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:20:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:26:15 +0100 Anders Henke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm currently stuck between Kernel LVM and DRBD, as I'm using Kernel > > > 2.6.24.2 with DRBD 8.2.5 on

[PATCH] pidns: make pid->level and pid_ns->level unsigned

2008-02-26 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
These values represent the nesting level of a namespace and pids living in it, and it's always non-negative. Turning this from int to unsigned int saves some space in pid.c (11 bytes on x86 and 64 on ia64) by letting the compiler optimize the pid_nr_ns a bit. E.g. on ia64 this removes the

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm

2008-02-26 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Ben On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Ben Dooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I build all of my ARM kernels on an x86 box, it is much faster > and I don't have to ensure I have a read/write capable filesystem > for any of my ARM boards. The patch has been merged into Andrew's -mm tree.

[PATCH] ext2: correct type miss (linux-2.6.24.3)

2008-02-26 Thread ohyama_sec
From: Hiroyasu Ohyama Maybe I found a type miss in fs/ext2/ext2.h which is in linux-2.6.24.3, and write difference below. Signed-off-by: Hiroyasu OHYAMA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- fs/ext2/ext2.h.orig 2008-02-27 00:56:34.0 +0900 +++ fs/ext2/ext2.h 2008-02-26 19:12:55.0

Re: problem with starting 2.6.25-rc1 and latest git

2008-02-26 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:28:32 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:27:34 +0100, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > > > Of course there is a typo in the subject :) > > > > > > 2.5.25-rc1 -> 2.6.25-rc1 > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I tried 2.6.25-rc1 and latest

Re: [linux-pm] Fundamental flaw in system suspend, exposed by freezer removal

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Stern
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, David Newall wrote: > David Brownell wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 February 2008, David Newall wrote: > > > >> Hardware can be inserted and removed while we're in a suspend state; and > >> there's nothing that we can do about it until we resume. Is it fair to > >> say, then,

Re: Sata-MV, Intergated Sata Device Support

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Lord
saeed wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: ... Saeed: isn't this what your SOC patches already implemented for us? As near as I can tell, sata_mv now already has support for the 60x1C0. Saeed's stuff didn't support PCI though, and Jon Li is definitely talking about PCI... yes, my

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

2008-02-26 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now back to coding, oh and don't forget send a patch for CodingStyle > since a mail without one is often taken even less seriously. Someone with a patch to Emacs to use tabs for ident + spaces for alignment maybe? :-) -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To

Re: [ugly patch] Save .15W-.5W by AHCI powersaving

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Lord
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! This is a patch (very ugly, assumes you have just one disk) to bring powersaving to AHCI. You need Alan's SCSI autosuspend (attached) patch as a base. It saves .5W compared to config with disk spinning, and even .15W compared to hdparm -y... on my thinkpad x60 anyway.

Re: Kernel oops with bluetooth usb dongle

2008-02-26 Thread Quel Qun
-- Original message -- From: Marcel Holtmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi Quel, > > > Bad news: I still cannot use the device. > > > > hcitool inq, hcitool scan, hcitool name and hcitool info > > > > commands work. > > > > hcitool cc , sdptool , rfcomm connect

Re: [PATCH 00/28] Swap over NFS -v16

2008-02-26 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > > > mm-page_file_methods.patch > > > > > > > > This makes page_offset and others more expensive by adding a > > > > conditional jump to a function call that is not usually made. > > > > > > > > Why do swap pages have a different index to everyone else? > > > > > > Because the

Re: [linux-pm] Fundamental flaw in system suspend, exposed by freezer removal

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > IMO the device driver should assure that no new children will be > > > registered > > > concurrently with the ->suspend() method (IOW, ->suspend() should wait for > > > all such registrations to complete and should prevent any new ones from > >

Re: [PATCH 00/28] Swap over NFS -v16

2008-02-26 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:29 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > mm-page_file_methods.patch > > > > > > This makes page_offset and others more expensive by adding a > > > conditional jump to a function call that is not usually made. > > > > > > Why do swap pages have a different index

Re: Proposal for "proper" durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jamie Lokier
Ric Wheeler wrote: > >>I was surprised that fsync() doesn't do this already. There was a lot > >>of effort put into block I/O write barriers during 2.5, so that > >>journalling filesystems can force correct write ordering, using disk > >>flush cache commands. > >> > >>After all that effort, I was

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity.

2008-02-26 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
"David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know who told you that or why, but it's obvious nonsense, Correct. > Exports should be marked GPL if and only if they cannot be used > except in a derivative work. If it is possible to use them without taking > sufficient protectable

Re: [PATCH 00/28] Swap over NFS -v16

2008-02-26 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:29 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > mm-page_file_methods.patch > > > > > > This makes page_offset and others more expensive by adding a > > > conditional jump to a function call that is not usually made. > > > > > > Why do swap pages have a different index

[BUG] Potential data corruption when splice data spliced from socket to another socket

2008-02-26 Thread Changli Gao
After reviewing the tcp splice receive code, I found that instead of increasing the page reference counter, pipe buffer holds the socket buffer by calling skb_get(skb). When you splice this pipe buffer to another socket, such as a TCP socket, though the function sendpage returns, the page buffer

Re: 2.6.24.2-rt2

2008-02-26 Thread Jan Kiszka
Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> At this chance: We still see the same unbalanced sched-other load on our >>> NUMA box as Gernot once reported [1]: >>> >>> top - 11:19:20 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 29.52, 9.54, 3.37 >>> Tasks: 502

Re: 2.6.25-rc[12] Video4Linux Bttv Regression

2008-02-26 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> Bisecting this won't be that easy. The support for the depreciated V4L1 API > were removed from bttv driver. Now, it uses v4l1-compat module, that > translates > a V4L1 call into a V4L2 one. I'll try to seek for troubles at the current > code. I think I might have seen this problem but it

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

2008-02-26 Thread Chris Holvenstot
Jiri - For what it is worth, and understand that it is hard to prove a negitive, on slack moments over the weekend I repeatedly booted my system into single user (console) mode using a kernel with CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED set to yes. To date I have NOT been able to recreate the repeating key issue

[2.6.25 patch] drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c: fix 64bit division

2008-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:21:00PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > With 2.6.25-rc3 and a config file with > > CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HIFN_795X=m > CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HIFN_795X_RNG=y > > I get the following build error on at least ARM and MIPS: > > Building modules, stage 2. > MODPOST 759 modules

Re: [PATCH 00/28] Swap over NFS -v16

2008-02-26 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > mm-page_file_methods.patch > > > > This makes page_offset and others more expensive by adding a > > conditional jump to a function call that is not usually made. > > > > Why do swap pages have a different index to everyone else? > > Because the page->index of an anonymous page

Re: Linux 2.6.24.3 (if_addrlabel.h HEADERS_CHECK failure)

2008-02-26 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:38:47 + Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.24.3 > >> kernel. > > > > When HEADERS_CHECK=y: > > > > make[3]: *** No rule to make target > >

Re: Proposal for "proper" durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jamie Lokier
Jörn Engel wrote: > On Tue, 26 February 2008 20:16:11 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Yeah, sync_file_range has slightly unusual semantics and introduce > > the new concept, "writeout", to userspace (does "writeout" include > > "in drive cache"? the kernel doesn't think so, but the only way to > >

Re: [RFC] mmiotrace full patch, preview 1

2008-02-26 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:49:48AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andy Whitcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok, so that would be the following, work for everyone? > > > > WARNING: mutexes are preferred for single holder semaphores > > #1: FILE: Z95.c:1: > > + DECLARE_MUTEX(); > >

[2.6.25-rc2-mm1] Oops in __kmalloc

2008-02-26 Thread Jiri Slaby
Hi, while booting up a notebook on 32 bit, this oopses appeared on the console after ext3 fsck: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/sklad/mem_oops/ It's 2.6.25-rc2-mm1, I can't find similar reports, is this known or hardware issue (unlikely, 2.6.24.2 seems to be OK)? -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: 2.6.24.2-rt2

2008-02-26 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: > > At this chance: We still see the same unbalanced sched-other load on our > > NUMA box as Gernot once reported [1]: > > > > top - 11:19:20 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 29.52, 9.54, 3.37 > > Tasks: 502 total, 41 running, 461

Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] Linux 2.6.25-rc3 - various unexported functions () on powerpc

2008-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:59:08PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > Hi, > > The 2.6.25-rc3 kernel build fails on powerpc with allyesconfig config option, > the .config has been attached. >... Builds fine here. Local problem (e.g. disk full) on your machine? cu Adrian -- "Is there not

Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 6/9] add a loop counter based timeout mechanism

2008-02-26 Thread Gregory Haskins
>>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:06 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe you have _way_ too many config variables. If this can be set > at runtime, does it need a config option, too? Generally speaking, I think until this algorithm has an

Re: epoll design problems with common fork/exec patterns

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, David Schwartz wrote: > >> Eric Dumazet wrote: >> >>> Events are not necessarly reported "by descriptors". epoll uses an opaque >>> field provided by the user. >>> >>> It's up to the user to properly chose a tag that will makes sense >>> if the user

Re: epoll and shared fd's

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Following up after quite some time: Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > >> On Jan 25, 2008 12:57 AM, Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:10:18PM +, Davide Libenzi

Re: Proposal for "proper" durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Ric Wheeler
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jamie Lokier wrote: By durable, I mean that fsync() should actually commit writes to physical stable storage, Yes, it should. I was surprised that fsync() doesn't do this already. There was a lot of effort put into block I/O write barriers during 2.5, so that

Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 5/9] adaptive real-time lock support

2008-02-26 Thread Gregory Haskins
>>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:03 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> +static inline void >> +prepare_adaptive_wait(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct adaptive_waiter > *adaptive) > ... >> +#define prepare_adaptive_wait(lock, busy) {} > > This is evil. Use

Re: Proposal for "proper" durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jamie Lokier
Jörn Engel wrote: > On Tue, 26 February 2008 20:16:11 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > Yeah, sync_file_range has slightly unusual semantics and introduce > > the new concept, "writeout", to userspace (does "writeout" include > > "in drive cache"? the kernel doesn't think so, but the only way to

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

2008-02-26 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Hmm, I have been seeing repeated keys a lot under X on my athlon 700, > but mainly when I have firefox running (which is of course quite a load > on the poor old thing). This has been going on for probably the last > year or so. I thought it was

Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized

2008-02-26 Thread Jaya Kumar
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Markus Armbruster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about pushing the fb_defio fixes independently of any new > fb_defio users? If fb_defio was worth merging into Linus's tree, it > should be worth fixing there, whether new users are in shape already > or

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

2008-02-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:45:00AM -0600, Chris Holvenstot wrote: > Jiri - > > I am tempted to lie to you and say it was in both modes, or when running > under X only, but to tell you the truth while I have not seen it while > running in console mode, I have not spent enough time there to make a

Re: [PATCH 2/3] exporting capability name/code pairs (final#2)

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew G. Morgan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tested-by: Andrew G. Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cheers Andrew Kohei KaiGai wrote: | [PATCH 2/3] exporting capability name/code pairs | | This patch enables to export code/name pairs of capabilities

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

2008-02-26 Thread Andreas Schwab
Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:08:55PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:38:22PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> >> "Kiyoshi Ueda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> >> > I'm

[PATCH] Misc: phantom, consistent whitespace

2008-02-26 Thread jan sonnek
Make it consistent with the rest of the header. Signed-off-by: jan sonnek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/phantom.h |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/phantom.h b/include/linux/phantom.h index

Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized

2008-02-26 Thread Markus Armbruster
"Jaya Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Markus Armbruster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Subject: [PATCH 1/1 2.6.24] fbdev: defio and Metronomefb >> From: Jaya Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2008-02-18 13:41:26 > > Hi Markus, > > Andrew

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: fix nmi intr or system hanging in rhel4u6 adma.

2008-02-26 Thread Robert Hancock
Kuan Luo wrote: Hi, robert One customer reported that their system received a nmi interrupt after issuing "dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null" on a defective disk in rhel4u6. I tested it and found that my system hung both in rhel4u6(2.6.9-67) and 2.6.24-rc7. The patch can work well, but I am not

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Dooks
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:37:09PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:44:04PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 February 2008 01:44:38 Gordon Farquharson wrote: > > > Hi Michael > > > > > > On Feb 19, 2008 3:41 AM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Linux 2.6.24.3 (if_addrlabel.h HEADERS_CHECK failure)

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Drake
Randy Dunlap wrote: We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.24.3 kernel. When HEADERS_CHECK=y: make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/local/linsrc/linux-2.6.24.3/include/linux/if_addrlabel.h', needed by `/local/linsrc/linux-2.6.24.3/usr/include/linux/if_addrlabel.h'.

Re: [PATCH 00/37] Permit filesystem local caching

2008-02-26 Thread David Howells
Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to respond to this in pieces... first the bit that is bugging > me: > > > > * two new page flags > > > > I need to keep track of two bits of per-cached-page information: > > > > (1) This page is known by the cache, and that the cache must

Re: Linux 2.6.24.3 (incr patch missing)

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Drake
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.24.3 kernel. patch-2.6.24.2-3.* files are missing from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/incr/ The 2.6.23.17 patches which were released at the same time are there, so it doesn't seem to be a

Re: oops when using git gc --auto

2008-02-26 Thread Otavio Salvador
Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 27 February 2008 00:22, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Today I got this oops, someone has an idea of what's going wrong? >> >> Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0200 RIP: >> [] find_get_pages+0x3c/0x69 > > At this

Re: Linux 2.6.24.3

2008-02-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Tino Keitel a écrit : I can see the patch in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/, but no incremental patch in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/incr/. Is this due to some delay, or was is just not uploaded? It seems that the 2->3 incremental patch was uploaded in

Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized

2008-02-26 Thread Jaya Kumar
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Markus Armbruster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Subject: [PATCH 1/1 2.6.24] fbdev: defio and Metronomefb > From: Jaya Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008-02-18 13:41:26 Hi Markus, Andrew pointed out that there may be race conditions associated

Re: Proposal for "proper" durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jörn Engel
On Tue, 26 February 2008 20:16:11 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Yeah, sync_file_range has slightly unusual semantics and introduce > the new concept, "writeout", to userspace (does "writeout" include > "in drive cache"? the kernel doesn't think so, but the only way to > make sync_file_range

Re: [PATCH] I found a type miss in fs/ext2/ext2

2008-02-26 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:24 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I found a type miss in fs/ext2/ext2.h which is in linux-2.6.24.3, and > write difference below. You probably want to read Documentation/SubmittingPatches first and re-send the patch in the proper format.

Re: Linux 2.6.24.3

2008-02-26 Thread Sven Köhler
no incremental patch in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/incr/. Is this due to some delay, or was is just not uploaded? Would be really nice to have indeed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.36.1 hangs.

2008-02-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
dann frazier a écrit : Correcting the le16_to_cpu placement as Glen described fixes the issue for me. One of my boxes has at least six directories triggering the issue (I must be very unlucky), and Glen's patch fixes it all. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

usb detecting only high speed devices only - not detecting low speed devices

2008-02-26 Thread mahendra varman
Hello all In a project Iam using 7448 powerpc processor . In that board iam using ISP 1562 philips PCI based usb controller. The problem iam facing is in Linux level the usb ports are detecting only ehci high speed devices(flash mem stick) But it is not detecting low speed

[PATCH 3/6] Add chip driver for WM9712 touchscreen

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Brown
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Mike Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Stanley Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <[EMAIL

Re: Please, put 64-bit counter per task and incr.by.one each ctxt switch.

2008-02-26 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On 2/26/08, J.C. Pizarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008/2/25, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:12:47 +0100 "J.C. Pizarro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > It's statistic, yes, but it's a very important parameter for the > CPU-scheduler. > > > The

[PATCH 6/6] Build system and MAINTAINERS entry for WM97xx touchscreen drivers

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Brown
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- MAINTAINERS| 10 +++ drivers/input/touchscreen/Kconfig | 52 drivers/input/touchscreen/Makefile |7 + 3 files changed,

[PATCH 5/6] Driver for WM97xx touchscreens in streaming mode on Mainstone

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Brown
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Mike Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Stanley Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <[EMAIL

[PATCH 4/6] Add chip driver for WM9713 touchscreen

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Brown
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Mike Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Stanley Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <[EMAIL

[PATCH 2/6] Add chip driver for WM9705 touchscreen

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Brown
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Mike Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Stanley Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <[EMAIL

[PATCH 1/6] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Brown
This patch series adds support for the touchscreen controllers provided by Wolfson Microelectronics WM97xx series chips in both polled and streaming modes. These drivers have been maintained out of tree since 2003. During that time the driver the primary maintainer was Liam Girdwood and a number

Re: oops when using git gc --auto

2008-02-26 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 00:22, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hello, > > Today I got this oops, someone has an idea of what's going wrong? > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0200 RIP: > [] find_get_pages+0x3c/0x69 At this point, the most likely candidate is a memory

Re: 2.6.25-rc3: "__divdi3" [drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.ko] undefined!

2008-02-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-26 13:28]: >> I get the following build error on at least ARM and MIPS: >> Building modules, stage 2. >> MODPOST 759 modules >> ERROR: "__divdi3" [drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.ko] undefined! > > Does this patch fix it? Nope. -- Martin Michlmayr

Re: [linux-pm] Fundamental flaw in system suspend, exposed by freezer removal

2008-02-26 Thread David Newall
David Brownell wrote: > On Tuesday 26 February 2008, David Newall wrote: > >> Hardware can be inserted and removed while we're in a suspend state; and >> there's nothing that we can do about it until we resume. Is it fair to >> say, then, that having started suspend, we could reasonably ignore

Re: regression: CD burning (k3b) went broke

2008-02-26 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 10:48 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Greetings, > > I straced both a good and a bad kernel (good being .git with attached > revert patch applied) and filtered/diffed/merged the output. Scroll > down to "HERE" to see the problem (resid). > > I'm poking around, but not

oops when using git gc --auto

2008-02-26 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, Today I got this oops, someone has an idea of what's going wrong? Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0200 RIP: [] find_get_pages+0x3c/0x69 PGD 0 Oops: [1] SMP CPU 3 Modules linked in: sha256_generic aes_generic aes_x86_64 cbc blkcipher nvidia(P) rfcomm l2cap

Re: Please, put 64-bit counter per task and incr.by.one each ctxt switch.

2008-02-26 Thread J.C. Pizarro
On 2008/2/25, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:12:47 +0100 "J.C. Pizarro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's statistic, yes, but it's a very important parameter for the > CPU-scheduler. > > The CPU-scheduler will know the number of context switches of each

Re: [PATCH] Compress kernel modules on installation.

2008-02-26 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:30:16PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:22:03AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:14:55AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:21:38PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > >... > > > > Have you tried keeping

Re: [PATCH 22/28] mm: add support for non block device backed swap files

2008-02-26 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:45 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Starting review in the middle, because this is the part I'm most > familiar with. > > > New addres_space_operations methods are added: > > int swapfile(struct address_space *, int); > > Separate ->swapon() and ->swapoff() methods

Re: Print long messages to console from kernel module

2008-02-26 Thread Arvid Brodin
On 2008-02-25 23:27, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Arvid Brodin wrote: > >> I need to write messages > 1023 characters long to the console from a >> module*. printk() is limited to 1023 characters, and splitting the message >> over several printk()'s results in a line

Re: GAK!!!! Re: PCI: AMD SATA IDE mode quirk

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Cox
> I agree. I [obviously] missed this when I ack'd, mainly ack'ing the > overall change. > > BIOS certainly may modify that PCI config register, but that's before > the kernel boots. So, using pdev->class is fine. I don't think the resume quirk is needed either as the core PCI save/restore

Doesn't work in 2.6.24.3 either - Was: Re: cd/dvd inaccessible in 2.6.24-rc2

2008-02-26 Thread Felix Homann
Hi, it's still an issue in 2.6.24.3. Syslog looks just like in 2.6.24.2, look here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/21/241 Latest kernel I've tried with working CD/DVD access was 2.6.23.14. Kind regards, Felix -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [RFC] Disk shock protection (revisited)

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Cox
> The general idea: A daemon running in user space monitors input data > from an accelerometer. When the daemon detects a critical condition, That sounds like a non starter. What if the box is busy, what if the daemon or something you touch needs memory and causes paging ? Given the

Re: [PATCH 22/28] mm: add support for non block device backed swap files

2008-02-26 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Starting review in the middle, because this is the part I'm most familiar with. > New addres_space_operations methods are added: > int swapfile(struct address_space *, int); Separate ->swapon() and ->swapoff() methods would be so much cleaner IMO. Also is there a reason why 'struct file *'

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity.

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Cox
> I don't know who told you that or why, but it's obvious nonsense, as this > issue shows. Exports should be marked GPL if and only if they cannot be used > except in a derivative work. If it is possible to use them without taking > sufficient protectable expression, they should not be marked GPL.

[PATCH try #1] Kconfig: cleanup block/Kconfig.iosched help descriptions

2008-02-26 Thread Nick Andrew
Modify the help descriptions of block/Kconfig.iosched for clarity, accuracy and consistency. More information is added to each of the I/O scheduler choices and they are also reordered to improve the flow of information to the user. IOSCHED_CFQ is the default because it distributes the bandwidth

Re: SMACK or SELinux, but not both

2008-02-26 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 20:28 +1100, James Morris wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > If SELinux is registered before SMACK, SMACK panics after > > register_security() call. > > > > If SMACK is registered before SELinux, SELinux panics after > > register_security() call. >

Re: [PATCH] video: limit stack usage of ir-kbd-i2c.c

2008-02-26 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Marcin, On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:51:00 +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > ir_probe allocated struct i2c_client on stack; > it's pretty big structure, so allocate it with kzalloc > > make checkstack output without this patch: > x059d ir_probe [ir-kbd-i2c]: 1000 > > compile

Re: [PATCH] Compress kernel modules on installation.

2008-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:22:03AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:14:55AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:21:38PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: >... > > > Have you tried keeping the module names intact (.ko, not .ko.gz) ? > > > It's what I was doing

Re: [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps (f.e. for XPmem)

2008-02-26 Thread Robin Holt
> > That is it. That is all our allowed interaction with the users process. > > OK, when you said something along the lines of "the MPT library has > control of the comm buffer", then I assumed it was an area of virtual > memory which is set up as part of initialization, rather than during >

Re: [ofa-general] Re: [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps (f.e. for XPmem)

2008-02-26 Thread Robin Holt
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:52:41PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Tuesday 26 February 2008 18:21, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:11:32PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > You are missing one point here. The MPI specifications that have > > > > been out there for decades do not

Re: 2.6.25-rc3: "__divdi3" [drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.ko] undefined!

2008-02-26 Thread Patrick McHardy
Martin Michlmayr wrote: With 2.6.25-rc3 and a config file with CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HIFN_795X=m CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HIFN_795X_RNG=y I get the following build error on at least ARM and MIPS: Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 759 modules ERROR: "__divdi3" [drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.ko]

2.6.25-rc3: "__divdi3" [drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.ko] undefined!

2008-02-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
With 2.6.25-rc3 and a config file with CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HIFN_795X=m CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HIFN_795X_RNG=y I get the following build error on at least ARM and MIPS: Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 759 modules ERROR: "__divdi3" [drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.ko] undefined! -- Martin Michlmayr

Re: problem with starting 2.5.26-rc1 and latest git

2008-02-26 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:28:32 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:27:34 +0100, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > > Of course there is a typo in the subject :) > > > > 2.5.25-rc1 -> 2.6.25-rc1 > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I tried 2.6.25-rc1 and latest git on my laptop (x86 32bit) and

Re: 2.6.24.2-rt2

2008-02-26 Thread Jan Kiszka
Jan Kiszka wrote: > At this chance: We still see the same unbalanced sched-other load on our > NUMA box as Gernot once reported [1]: > > top - 11:19:20 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 29.52, 9.54, 3.37 > Tasks: 502 total, 41 running, 461 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu0 :100.0%us,

Re: [PATCH 00/28] Swap over NFS -v16

2008-02-26 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:50 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > mm-reserve.patch > > > >I'm confused by __mem_reserve_add. > > > > + reserve = mem_reserve_root.pages; > > + __calc_reserve(res, pages, 0); > > + reserve = mem_reserve_root.pages - reserve; > > > >__calc_reserve will

Re: [xfs-masters] Re: filesystem corruption on xfs after 2.6.25-rc1 (bisected, powerpc related?)

2008-02-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:13:56AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 26 of February 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:52:56AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > I'm not suggesting a partial revert; I just wonder which part of the > > > > change is

Re: + rcu-split-listh-and-move-rcu-protected-lists-into-rculisth.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-26 Thread Josh Triplett
[I did not see this patch go by on any mailing list, so I replied to the -mm mail and CCed LKML.] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The patch titled > rcu: split list.h and move rcu-protected lists into rculist.h > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is >

Re: 2.6.24.2: 4KSTACKS + pcdrw + dm + mount -> stack overflow: ide-cd related? dm-related?

2008-02-26 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > + name = kmalloc(sizeof(char) * UDF_NAME_LEN, GFP_KERNEL); > > + fname = kmalloc(sizeof(char) * UDF_NAME_LEN, GFP_KERNEL); > > + > > + if (!name || !fname) { > > + *err = -ENOMEM; > > + return NULL; > > + } > > + > > if

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - boot hangs on ia64

2008-02-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
* KOSAKI Motohiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fujitsu machine can't boot too. my bisect indicate git-sched.patch > cause regression too. hm, that's a bit weird - nothing really should have broken it. Could you try to do a specific bisection of sched-devel.git:

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