Re: [PATCH] Fix leaks on /proc/{*/sched,sched_debug,timer_list,timer_stats}

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Wright
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry, but I can't be bothered splitting it up. Greg, Chris: please just > apply the bits which apply and drop the other bits if that's OK. Yup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH] Fix leaks on /proc/{*/sched,sched_debug,timer_list,timer_stats}

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Wright
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sorry, but I can't be bothered splitting it up. Greg, Chris: please just apply the bits which apply and drop the other bits if that's OK. Yup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Linux 2.6.22.1

2007-07-13 Thread Chris Wright
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In that case, it's almost certainly that that tree isn't doing the proper > "git update-server-info" when people push to it. Yup, should be fixed now. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: Linux 2.6.22.1

2007-07-13 Thread Chris Wright
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In that case, it's almost certainly that that tree isn't doing the proper git update-server-info when people push to it. Yup, should be fixed now. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.22.1

2007-07-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Nish Aravamudan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 7/12/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That is a tree that Chris did, and I didn't realize we were maintaining > > it as the "official" stable tree, that is why it is not mentioned in the > > release notes :) > > Fair enough -- it's just

Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.22.1

2007-07-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Nish Aravamudan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 7/12/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is a tree that Chris did, and I didn't realize we were maintaining it as the official stable tree, that is why it is not mentioned in the release notes :) Fair enough -- it's just a little bit

Re: [stable] generic clockevents/ (hr)time(r) patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok by me, although I suspect a lot of the cases where the hpet one > was needed got resolved with the PCI HPET resource fix But it's still > safer to check. > > However I don't think patches should go into stable before they > hit Linus' tree. Agreed,

Re: [stable] generic clockevents/ (hr)time(r) patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Andrew, > > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > They all look pretty innocuous to me. > > > > Could you please take a second look, decide if any of them should also be > > in 2.6.22.x and let me know? > >

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The equivalent to the powerpc way would be essentially to report i386 > into the x86-64 code base and leave the really old hardware only > in arch/i386. I've considered doing it, but it would be an awful > lot of work and to tempt distributions to actually

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The HPET change, which is the larger part of the conversion set simply > because we now share the code with i386, might be split out by disabling > HPET in the first step, doing the PIT / APIC conversion and then the > HPET one in a separate step.

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > For example, we can make sure that the code in question that actually > touches the hardware stays exactly the same, and then just move the > interfaces around - and basically guarantee that _zero_ hardware-specific > issues pop up when you switch

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Andrew - how do you feel about keeping this in the -mm tree until Linus, > Andi, Ingo, and Thomas get on the same page (which may be around the 2.6.24 > merge window, by my guesstimate)? Well, that's supposed to be Andi's tree and aggregated by

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:16:38 +0200, Andi Kleen said: > (Note - I'm just a usually-confused crash test dummy here...) > > > Well I spent a lot of time making the x86-64 timing code work > > well on a variety of machines; working around a wide

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > If that isn't possible it needs very careful review which just hasn't > > happened yet. But I'm not convinced even step by step is not possible > > here. > > There is no step by step thing. You convert an arch to clock events or > you convert it

Re: [PATCH 1/1] file capabilities: clear caps cleanup

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
> +static inline void bprm_clear_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm) > +{ > + cap_clear (bprm->cap_inheritable); > + cap_clear (bprm->cap_permitted); > + cap_clear (bprm->cap_effective); While there, can you clean that bit up a touch? cap_clear(bprm->cap_inheritable);

Re: [PATCH 1/1] file capabilities: clear caps cleanup

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
+static inline void bprm_clear_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm) +{ + cap_clear (bprm-cap_inheritable); + cap_clear (bprm-cap_permitted); + cap_clear (bprm-cap_effective); While there, can you clean that bit up a touch? cap_clear(bprm-cap_inheritable);

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If that isn't possible it needs very careful review which just hasn't happened yet. But I'm not convinced even step by step is not possible here. There is no step by step thing. You convert an arch to clock events or you convert it not.

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:16:38 +0200, Andi Kleen said: (Note - I'm just a usually-confused crash test dummy here...) Well I spent a lot of time making the x86-64 timing code work well on a variety of machines; working around a wide variety of

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Andrew - how do you feel about keeping this in the -mm tree until Linus, Andi, Ingo, and Thomas get on the same page (which may be around the 2.6.24 merge window, by my guesstimate)? Well, that's supposed to be Andi's tree and aggregated by Andrew

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: For example, we can make sure that the code in question that actually touches the hardware stays exactly the same, and then just move the interfaces around - and basically guarantee that _zero_ hardware-specific issues pop up when you switch over,

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The HPET change, which is the larger part of the conversion set simply because we now share the code with i386, might be split out by disabling HPET in the first step, doing the PIT / APIC conversion and then the HPET one in a separate step. The

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The equivalent to the powerpc way would be essentially to report i386 into the x86-64 code base and leave the really old hardware only in arch/i386. I've considered doing it, but it would be an awful lot of work and to tempt distributions to actually use

Re: [stable] generic clockevents/ (hr)time(r) patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Andrew, On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: They all look pretty innocuous to me. Could you please take a second look, decide if any of them should also be in 2.6.22.x and let me know?

Re: [stable] generic clockevents/ (hr)time(r) patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ok by me, although I suspect a lot of the cases where the hpet one was needed got resolved with the PCI HPET resource fix But it's still safer to check. However I don't think patches should go into stable before they hit Linus' tree. Agreed, we're

Re: [PATCH] VMI: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE and associated bitrotted code

2007-07-06 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Zachary Amsden wrote: > >I'd rather keep it, even with bitrot - it was non-trivial to get > >correct, and found many surprises in the code; most notably, it can > >detect > > > >1) PTE writes to pages not declared as page tables > >2) Failure to

[PATCH] VMI: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE and associated bitrotted code

2007-07-06 Thread Chris Wright
LTIPLE_NODES dependency, dunno if VMI has the same limitation). It definitely should not have a misleading Kconfig name. I'd nuke it all rather than #if 0. thanks, -chris -- Subject: [PATCH] VMI: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE and associated bitrotted code From: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[PATCH] VMI: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE and associated bitrotted code

2007-07-06 Thread Chris Wright
if VMI has the same limitation). It definitely should not have a misleading Kconfig name. I'd nuke it all rather than #if 0. thanks, -chris -- Subject: [PATCH] VMI: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE and associated bitrotted code From: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove the poorly named (non Kconfig

Re: [PATCH] VMI: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE and associated bitrotted code

2007-07-06 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Zachary Amsden wrote: I'd rather keep it, even with bitrot - it was non-trivial to get correct, and found many surprises in the code; most notably, it can detect 1) PTE writes to pages not declared as page tables 2) Failure to allocate or

Re: 2.6.21.5 june 30th to july 1st date hang?

2007-07-04 Thread Chris Wright
* Uli Luckas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tuesday, 3. July 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > On 07/03/2007 03:28 PM, Chris Friesen wrote: > > > Arne Georg Gleditsch wrote: > > >> An interesting exercise might be to > > >> code up a small program to call adjtimex with timex.status |= STA_INS, > > >>

Re: 2.6.21.5 june 30th to july 1st date hang?

2007-07-04 Thread Chris Wright
* Uli Luckas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tuesday, 3. July 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: On 07/03/2007 03:28 PM, Chris Friesen wrote: Arne Georg Gleditsch wrote: An interesting exercise might be to code up a small program to call adjtimex with timex.status |= STA_INS, to see if this

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] security: add hook inode_post_removexattr

2007-06-27 Thread Chris Wright
* Hawk Xu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Add hook inode_post_removexattr for updating inode security field after > successful removexattr operation. That is an insufficient explanation of why it's needed, who is using it, etc. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] security: add hook inode_post_removexattr

2007-06-27 Thread Chris Wright
* Hawk Xu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Add hook inode_post_removexattr for updating inode security field after successful removexattr operation. That is an insufficient explanation of why it's needed, who is using it, etc. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH try #2] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-26 Thread Chris Wright
* Crispin Cowan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > and simple LSMs that can be > unloaded safely can permit it. there are none, and making the above possible is prohibitively expensive. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH try #2] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-26 Thread Chris Wright
* Crispin Cowan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: and simple LSMs that can be unloaded safely can permit it. there are none, and making the above possible is prohibitively expensive. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Serge E. Hallyn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sigh, as much as I would *like* to stay out of this (I don't > use modules at all on any system where I can avoid it), won't > it make development - and especially testing - of new lsms > much more painful and therefore less likely? Dev, hopefully

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Casey Schaufler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just hoping to avoid a change collision. If I have to deal > with this today it's easy, if it doesn't show up anywhere > until 2.6.28 I'm breezing, but if it all hits in two weeks I > have some scrambling and yet another delay to deal with. Not > your

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Casey Schaufler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So, for planning purposes, when ought I expect to have to start > dealing with this? What is your specific concern or use case? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Chris Wright wrote: > > > * James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > -module_param_named(disable, capability_disable, int, 0); > > > -MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, "To disable capabil

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -module_param_named(disable, capability_disable, int, 0); > -MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, "To disable capabilities module set disable = 1"); > + > +static int __init capability_disable_setup(char *str) > +{ > + capability_disable = simple_strtol(str,

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: -module_param_named(disable, capability_disable, int, 0); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, To disable capabilities module set disable = 1); + +static int __init capability_disable_setup(char *str) +{ + capability_disable = simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0);

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Chris Wright wrote: * James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: -module_param_named(disable, capability_disable, int, 0); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, To disable capabilities module set disable = 1); + +static int

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Casey Schaufler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So, for planning purposes, when ought I expect to have to start dealing with this? What is your specific concern or use case? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Casey Schaufler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just hoping to avoid a change collision. If I have to deal with this today it's easy, if it doesn't show up anywhere until 2.6.28 I'm breezing, but if it all hits in two weeks I have some scrambling and yet another delay to deal with. Not your

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Serge E. Hallyn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sigh, as much as I would *like* to stay out of this (I don't use modules at all on any system where I can avoid it), won't it make development - and especially testing - of new lsms much more painful and therefore less likely? Dev, hopefully not.

Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Mason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm sure people there will have a different versions of events. The > one part that was discussed was if pathname based security was > useful, and a number of the people in the room (outside of > novell) said it was. Now, it could be that nobody wanted

Re: [PATCH -rt] CONFIG_PARAVIRT and CONFIG_MCOUNT don't play well together

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Steven Rostedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Chris, thanks a hell of a lot for looking into this!!! > > -rt doesn't do much with paravirt, but since both -rt and lguest are two > things I love to play with, it was really bothering me that they were > not getting along. It was bugging me too,

Re: [PATCH -rt] CONFIG_PARAVIRT and CONFIG_MCOUNT don't play well together

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Current -rt is broken when compiling with CONFIG_PARAVIRT and > > CONFIG_MCOUNT both enabled. Because CONFIG_MCOUNT disables > > CONFIG_REGPARM, the calling convention

[PATCH -rt] CONFIG_PARAVIRT and CONFIG_MCOUNT don't play well together

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Wright
debugging. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Patch against patch-2.6.21.5-rt17 arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c | 98 ++-- 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/i386/kernel/para

[PATCH -rt] CONFIG_PARAVIRT and CONFIG_MCOUNT don't play well together

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Wright
debugging. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Patch against patch-2.6.21.5-rt17 arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c | 98 ++-- 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c

Re: [PATCH -rt] CONFIG_PARAVIRT and CONFIG_MCOUNT don't play well together

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Current -rt is broken when compiling with CONFIG_PARAVIRT and CONFIG_MCOUNT both enabled. Because CONFIG_MCOUNT disables CONFIG_REGPARM, the calling convention must once again be explicit with fastcall

Re: [PATCH -rt] CONFIG_PARAVIRT and CONFIG_MCOUNT don't play well together

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Steven Rostedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Chris, thanks a hell of a lot for looking into this!!! -rt doesn't do much with paravirt, but since both -rt and lguest are two things I love to play with, it was really bothering me that they were not getting along. It was bugging me too, now if

Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Mason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm sure people there will have a different versions of events. The one part that was discussed was if pathname based security was useful, and a number of the people in the room (outside of novell) said it was. Now, it could be that nobody wanted to

Re: [PATCH] bonding: Fix use after free in unregister path

2007-06-20 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jay Vosburgh wrote: > > The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) removes use after free conditions in > >the unregister path for the bonding master. Without this patch, an > >operation of the form "echo

Re: [PATCH] bonding: Fix use after free in unregister path

2007-06-20 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jay Vosburgh wrote: The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]) removes use after free conditions in the unregister path for the bonding master. Without this patch, an operation of the form echo -bond0

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/HOWTO: remove stale git URL

2007-06-19 Thread Chris Wright
* Stefan Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > + Other kernel trees can be found listed at http://kernel.org/git and in Should be http://git.kernel.org/ these days - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/HOWTO: remove stale git URL

2007-06-19 Thread Chris Wright
* Stefan Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: + Other kernel trees can be found listed at http://kernel.org/git and in Should be http://git.kernel.org/ these days - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: Linux 2.6.21.5

2007-06-18 Thread Chris Wright
* Nish Aravamudan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6-stable.git;a=summary > shows 2.6.21.1 as the last 2.6.21.Y release. Is that intentional? Updated, thanks. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Linux 2.6.21.5

2007-06-18 Thread Chris Wright
* Nish Aravamudan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6-stable.git;a=summary shows 2.6.21.1 as the last 2.6.21.Y release. Is that intentional? Updated, thanks. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: OProfile issues

2007-06-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Stephane Eranian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * allocate_msrs() allocates two tables per CPU. One for the >counters, the other for the eventsel registers. But then >nmi_setup() copies the cpu_msrs[0] into cpu_msrs[] of all >other cpus. This operation overrides the

Re: Linux 2.6.21.5

2007-06-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Rankin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Shouldn't this patch from Tejun be applied to 2.6.21.x as well as 2.6.20.x? > > Tejun Heo (2): > ... > driver-core: don't free devt_attr till the device is released It is in both. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [stable] [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer accessbefore C3 arbiter shutdown

2007-06-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Pallipadi, Venkatesh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Thomas Gleixner (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I fixed this against -mm already. I don't think that it is relevant for > > stable. The issue was found with Venkis hpet force enable patches on a > > ICH4 system. I doubt that any of

Re: [stable] [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer accessbefore C3 arbiter shutdown

2007-06-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Pallipadi, Venkatesh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Thomas Gleixner (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I fixed this against -mm already. I don't think that it is relevant for stable. The issue was found with Venkis hpet force enable patches on a ICH4 system. I doubt that any of those

Re: Linux 2.6.21.5

2007-06-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Rankin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Shouldn't this patch from Tejun be applied to 2.6.21.x as well as 2.6.20.x? Tejun Heo (2): ... driver-core: don't free devt_attr till the device is released It is in both. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: OProfile issues

2007-06-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Stephane Eranian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * allocate_msrs() allocates two tables per CPU. One for the counters, the other for the eventsel registers. But then nmi_setup() copies the cpu_msrs[0] into cpu_msrs[] of all other cpus. This operation overrides the cpu_msrs[].counters

Re: [stable] [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer access before C3 arbiter shutdown

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
TED]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [chrisw: rebase against Len's changes in -mm] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c |9 + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/proc

Re: [stable] [PATCH] INPUT: Sanitize PIT locking in pcspkr

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The PC-speaker code has a quite creative method to serialize access to > the PIT: It uses a local lock. > > On i386 and x86_64 the access to the PIT is serialized by a lock in the > architecture code. The separate locking in the PC-speaker code

Re: [BUG] via c3/2.6.20 -- ps/2 keyboard doesn't work with console

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Paul Albrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Yes, i8042.noaux works. Here's the dmesg output: > > Linux version 2.6.21.4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3) #1 Does 2.6.21.5 work w/out noaux on command line? thanks -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Linux 2.6.21.5

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
Auke Kok (1): e1000: disable polling before registering netdevice Björn Steinbrink (1): timer statistics: fix race Chris Wright (2): x86: fix oprofile double free Linux 2.6.21.5 Daniel Drake (2): ALSA: usb-audio: explicitly match Logitech QuickCam zd1211rw: Add

Re: Linux 2.6.20.14

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index a87a7d1..710c004 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 20 -EXTRAVERSION = .13 +EXTRAVERSION = .14 NAME = Homicidal Dwarf Hamster # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-iop13xx/pci.c

Linux 2.6.20.14

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
mod_timer() interval ntfs_init_locked_inode(): fix array indexing Andy Green (1): kbuild: fixdep segfault on pathological string-o-death Chris Wright (1): Linux 2.6.20.14 Dan Williams (1): iop13xx: fix i/o address translation Daniel Drake (1): ALSA: usb-audio

Linux 2.6.20.14

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
mod_timer() interval ntfs_init_locked_inode(): fix array indexing Andy Green (1): kbuild: fixdep segfault on pathological string-o-death Chris Wright (1): Linux 2.6.20.14 Dan Williams (1): iop13xx: fix i/o address translation Daniel Drake (1): ALSA: usb-audio

Re: Linux 2.6.20.14

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index a87a7d1..710c004 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 20 -EXTRAVERSION = .13 +EXTRAVERSION = .14 NAME = Homicidal Dwarf Hamster # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-iop13xx/pci.c

Linux 2.6.21.5

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
Auke Kok (1): e1000: disable polling before registering netdevice Björn Steinbrink (1): timer statistics: fix race Chris Wright (2): x86: fix oprofile double free Linux 2.6.21.5 Daniel Drake (2): ALSA: usb-audio: explicitly match Logitech QuickCam zd1211rw: Add

Re: [BUG] via c3/2.6.20 -- ps/2 keyboard doesn't work with console

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Paul Albrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Yes, i8042.noaux works. Here's the dmesg output: Linux version 2.6.21.4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3) #1 Does 2.6.21.5 work w/out noaux on command line? thanks -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [stable] [PATCH] INPUT: Sanitize PIT locking in pcspkr

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The PC-speaker code has a quite creative method to serialize access to the PIT: It uses a local lock. On i386 and x86_64 the access to the PIT is serialized by a lock in the architecture code. The separate locking in the PC-speaker code ignores

Re: [stable] [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer access before C3 arbiter shutdown

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [chrisw: rebase against Len's changes in -mm] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c |9 + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi

Re: [stable] [patch 00/54] 2.6.21-stable review

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Roll-up patch available at: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch-2.6.21.5-rc1.{gz,bz2} Roll-up updated to fix broken aacraid patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch

Re: [stable] [patch 00/54] 2.6.21-stable review

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:47:29AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > * Chuck Ebbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Maybe a mailing list for stable-commits could be added, like mm-commits? > > > > I was thinking the same thing.

Re: [stable] [patch 37/54] SCSI: aacraid: Correct saplatformsupport. (Was: [Bug 8469] Bad EIP value on pentium3SMPkernel-2.6.21.1)

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
platform function pointer. The enclosed patch, unmodified as tested by Rainer, solves the problem. Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [chrisw: backport to 2.6.21.4]

Re: [stable] [patch 37/54] SCSI: aacraid: Correct sa platformsupport. (Was: [Bug 8469] Bad EIP value on pentium3 SMPkernel-2.6.21.1)

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Salyzyn, Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Yes, split the patch into the two pieces for 2.6.21.1/2.6.21.4 Sorry, didn't parse. Are you suggesting to use the patch I included (which simply drops the ->adapter_restart init), or the original patch plus Mark Havercamp's patch to add

Re: [patch 34/54] Fix roundup_pow_of_two(1)

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Theodore Tso ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If this doesn't fix a user-visiable bug, should we be including it in > the stable patch series? (Assuming that it doesn't, I wouldn't, but I > tend to be more conservative about what I would include in a stable > production release.) Rolf, despite

Re: [stable] [patch 00/54] 2.6.21-stable review

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Chuck Ebbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Maybe a mailing list for stable-commits could be added, like mm-commits? I was thinking the same thing. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [stable] [patch 37/54] SCSI: aacraid: Correct sa platform support. (Was: [Bug 8469] Bad EIP value on pentium3 SMP kernel-2.6.21.1)

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
: Mark Salyzyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [chrisw: backport to 2.6.21.4] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.h |1 + drivers/scsi/aacr

Re: [stable] [patch 00/32] 2.6.20-stable review

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Roll-up patch available at: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch-2.6.20.14-rc1.{gz,bz2} Roll-up updated to fix broken patch. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch-2.6.

Re: [patch 29/32] NET: Fix race condition about network device name allocation.

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
OTECTED]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [chrisw: backport to 2.6.20] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/core/dev.c | 10 ++ net/core/net-sysfs.c |8 +++- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- linux-2

Re: [patch 00/32] 2.6.20-stable review

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have encoutered a bug using fixdep when compiling the Apani VPN > contivity client v3.3 (v3.5 seems fine). The bug started happening with > the release of the 2948 build of FC6 kernel (corresponding to a post > 2.6.20.7) and caused

[patch 16/54] Input: i8042 - fix AUX port detection with some chips

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- X-Git-Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinu

[patch 03/54] NOHZ: Rate limit the local softirq pending warning output

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
til we found the root cause of that problem. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/time/tick-sched

Re: [stable] [patch 00/54] 2.6.21-stable review

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.21.5 release. > There are 54 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response Roll-up patch available at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch-2.

Re: [stable] [patch 00/32] 2.6.20-stable review

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.20.14 release. > There are 32 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response Roll-up patch available at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review

[patch 40/54] Fix AF_UNIX OOPS

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
rything and retry the lookup. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/net/af_unix.h |8 +-- net/unix/af_unix.c| 127 +++-

[patch 54/54] BLUETOOTH: Fix locking in hci_sock_dev_event().

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
ROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c |6 -- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.21.4.orig/n

[patch 51/54] SPARC64: Fix _PAGE_EXEC_4U check in sun4u I-TLB miss handler.

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
13-bit, this the mask being tested against the PTE was 0x1000 sign-extended to 32-bits instead of just plain 0x1000. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/sp

[patch 43/54] IPSEC: Fix panic when using inter address familiy IPsec on loopback.

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. - From: Kazunori MIYAZAWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/ipv4/xfrm4_input.c |6 ++ net/ipv4/xfrm4_mode_tunnel.c |2 ++ net/ipv6/xfrm6_input.c |6 ++

[patch 42/54] NET: parse ip:port strings correctly in in4_pton

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
ddress is completely parsed. This function is indeed called from nf_conntrack_sip.c in this way to parse textual ip:port combinations which fails due to the reason stated above. Signed-off-by: Jerome Borsboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Si

[patch 22/54] ntfs_init_locked_inode(): fix array indexing

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
Cc: "Christoph Lameter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signe

[patch 02/54] Ignore bogus ACPI info for offline CPUs

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
t info for the offline CPUs. This results in a stuck for ever call to smp_call_function_single() on an offline CPU. Ignore the bogus information and print a kernel error to remind ACPI folks to fix it. Affects 2.6.21 / 2.6.22-rc Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wr

[patch 41/54] ICMP: Fix icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr sysctl

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
erface is chosen as ICMP source address since skb->dev doesn't point to the incoming interface anymore. Fix this by doing an interface lookup on rt->dst.iif and using that device. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[patch 08/54] make freezeable workqueues singlethread

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/workqueue.h |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.21.4.orig/include/linux/workqueu

[patch 45/54] NET: Fix BMSR_100{HALF,FULL}2 defines in linux/mii.h

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. - From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Noticed by Matvejchikov Ilya. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-

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