On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:37:27 -0800, Kent Overstreet said:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:59:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Did this get fixed?
> With the patches I sent you, yes - not seeing a new linux-next tree yet?
Well, it's a mixed bag at my end. Finally got a chance to do some more
tes
pon
>
> [1] forgot to initialize spin_lock so lockdep is whingeing
> about it. This patch fixes it.
>
> [1] 0f181e0e4, swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile
>
> Cc: Shaohua Li
> Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim
I applied this to a next
Seen in my linux-next dmesg. I'm suspecting commit ac07b1ffc:
commit ac07b1ffc27d575013041fb5277dab02c661d9c2
Author: Shaohua Li
Date: Thu Jan 24 13:13:50 2013 +1100
swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile
as (a) it was OK in -20130117, and (b) 'git blame mm/swapfile.c | grep 2013'
sho
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:40:40 -0800, Hugh Dickins said:
> My reservations so far would be: how many installations actually have
> more than one swap area, so is it a good tradeoff to add more overhead
> to help those at the (slight) expense of everyone else? The increasingly
> ugly page_mapping()
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:19:47 +0300, Dan Carpenter said:
> Yeah. I think it would be, but adding bitflags together instead of
> doing bitwise ORs is very common as well.
The fact it's common doesn't mean it's good programming practice,
or even correct. Consider:
#define F_FOO 0x01
#define F_BAR
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:11:01 -0500, ling.ma.prog...@gmail.com said:
> Based on above reasons, we compiled linux kernel 3.6.9 with O2 and Os
> respectively. The results show Os improve performance netperf 4.8%,
> 2.7% for volano as below
Am I allowed to NAK this? What the numbers given so far *ac
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:34:57 -0500, rapier said:
> My name is Chris Rapier and I'm on the Web10G dev team. We are
> interested in moving this into consideration for the mainline Linux
> kernel, in fact it's the primary goal of this project. We haven't
> brought this to the linux kernel community a
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:38:59 -0800, Dominic Hamon said:
> Hello Valdis
>
> I actually just finished patching a fork from the kernel github repo here:
> https://github.com/dominic-mlab/linux with a view to pushing it up. I
> haven't pushed a patch upstream before, so any guidance is welcome.
A quic
I had a user who's working on tuning high-performance network file systems what
the chances of upstreaming the Web10G patch to provide the RFC4898 TCP Extended
Statistics MIB via netlink.
Yes, it's a tad on the intrusive side, and there's performance costs attached -
but so are a lot of *other* th
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:32:41 +0800, Chen Gang said:
> Plan Details:
>
> 10 patches per month: (at least)
Even Dave Miller only averages 12-15 patches a month, and he does it for a
living, and they're all in the one part of the kernel he maintains. It's going
to be a really hard time for a newcom
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:44:09 -0500, Steven Rostedt said:
> Again, I want to stress that this doesn't touch the debugfs code. Here's
> the real change that I've been testing. It includes the code for the
> "new" and "free" files but those are not created because of an early
> 'return' I added. Noti
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:10:03 +0800, Hillf Danton said:
> Try again?
> ---
>
> --- a/fs/aio.cTue Jan 22 21:37:54 2013
> +++ b/fs/aio.cWed Jan 23 20:06:14 2013
Now seeing this:
[ 2941.495370] [ cut here ]
[ 2941.495379] WARNING: at fs/aio.c:336 put_ioctx+0x1
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:43:27 +0800, Hillf Danton said:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Valdis Kletnieks
> wrote:
> > Am seeing a reproducible BUG in the kernel with next-20130117
> > whenever I fire up VirtualBox. Unfortunately, I hadn't done that
> > in a w
Am seeing a reproducible BUG in the kernel with next-20130117
whenever I fire up VirtualBox. Unfortunately, I hadn't done that
in a while, so the last 'known good' kernel was next-20121203.
I'm strongly suspecting one of Kent Overstreet's 32 patches against aio,
because 'git blame' shows those la
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:18:19 +, Hugo Mills said:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 03:05:35PM -0500, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> > So I'm looking at playing with btrfs, and I start looking at the
> > userspace pieces I'll need. What I can't find is an equivalent
&g
So I'm looking at playing with btrfs, and I start looking at the
userspace pieces I'll need. What I can't find is an equivalent
of the ext[34] "dump/restore" package to dump data to an external
backup device. Is 'tar cf --acls --selinux --xattrs /external/fs.dump'
as good as it gets, or is somethi
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:10:41 -0500, Johannes Weiner said:
> From: Johannes Weiner
> Subject: [patch] mm: vmscan: fix endless loop in kswapd balancing
>
> Kswapd does not in all places have the same criteria for when it
> considers a zone balanced. This leads to zones being not reclaimed
> becaus
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:51:24 -0800, Andrew Morton said:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:14:47 -0500
> Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> > > The temptation is to supply a patch that checks if kswapd was woken for
> > > THP and if so ignore pgdat->kswapd_max_order but it'll be a hack and not
> > > backed up by proper
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:32:50 -0800, Yinghai Lu said:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > or you prefer to cast them to pointer and use %pR for them all?
> >
> > or fix printk to add extra 2 for "0x" when # is found?
>
> looks like we have lots of %#010llx or %#010Lx there in
While trying to clean old cruft out of grub.conf, I
chased down a 'threadirqs' parameter.
kernel/irq/manage.c has this in it:
#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
__read_mostly bool force_irqthreads;
static int __init setup_forced_irqthreads(char *arg)
{
force_irqthreads = true;
re
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:12:19 +, Matthew Garrett said:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:46:32PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > You have it backwards. The conclusion here is that having a case where
> > a non-interactive install is possible is not a given.
>
> I deal with customers who perform
On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 20:04:58 +0100, Ove Karlsen said:
> And have you given consideration to the fact that most distros and OS
> grow with some levels of bloat, and everyone can`t be an expert, so
> maybe one shold consider a (scheduler) queue for "bloat", and one queue
> for main app, so that e
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:43:31 +0900, Akinobu Mita said:
> This patchset introduces new functions into random32 library for
> getting the requested number of pseudo-random bytes.
>
> Before introducing these new functions into random32 library,
> prandom32() and prandom32_seed() with "prandom32" pref
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:01:13 -0700, Kees Cook said:
> This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is
> almost always enabled by default (especially in distro builds). As agreed
> during the Linux kernel summit, it should be removed.
>
> As such, this is the patch series for re
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:36:33 -0700, Andi Kleen said:
> Thinking about it more PowerPC has a 16GB page, so we probably
> need to move this to prot.
Gaak - is that a typo? If not, what is the use case - allowing a small number
of
pages to cover all memory, with big wins on TLB hit ratios? I cert
For starters, yes, I *do* understand the security issues involved, and
no, I *don't* want to hear about NVidia evilness, because this looks like
a modpost problem not an NVidia problem.
I built next-20121011 with CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y, and MODULE_SIG_FORCE=n,
so that I could test the feature, and ju
twork people see it.
If you fix both of those, feel free to add this as well:
Acked-by: Valdis Kletnieks
pgpzcDo5A4a0a.pgp
Description: PGP signature
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:59:33 +0200, Jiri Slaby said:
> On 10/11/2012 07:56 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:34:24 +0200, Jiri Slaby said:
> >> On 10/11/2012 03:44 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> >>> So at least we know we're not hallucinating. :)
> >>
> >> Just a t
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:34:24 +0200, Jiri Slaby said:
> On 10/11/2012 03:44 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> > So at least we know we're not hallucinating. :)
>
> Just a thought? Do you have raid?
Nope, just a 160G laptop spinning hard drive. Filesystems are
ext4 on LVM on a cryptoLUKS partitio
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:52:28 +0200, Jiri Slaby said:
> Hi,
>
> with 3.6.0-next-20121008, kswapd0 is spinning my CPU at 100% for 1
> minute or so.
> [] ? put_super+0x25/0x40
> [] ? grab_super_passive+0x24/0xa0
> [] ? prune_super+0x149/0x1b0
> [] ? shrink_slab+0xa1/0x2d0
> [] ? kswapd+0x66d/0x
On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:23:36 +0200, Paul Bolle said:
> By the way, GCC doesn't warn if I add an early check whether 'val_count'
> is non-zero:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
> index c241ae2..d41527b 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
> +++ b/d
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:54:07 +0200, Uwaysi Bin Kareem said:
> Compiled 3.6-rc7, with a hz timer of 3956 for a "natural" psychovisual
> profile jitter level in OpenGL, and a shaved config for minimal jitter.
I'll bite - how did you measure the difference between 3956 and 4000?
The other stuff in y
On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:23:11 +0200, Nico Schottelius said:
> does anyone of you have a clue so far what may be causing the huge
> slab usage?
>
> I've just found an interesting detail: umounting and cryptsetup
> luksClosing frees up the used memory (not sure which one was freeing
> up)
For what i
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:03:21 +0100, Mark Brown said:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:15:55PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > Building regmap.o triggers this GCC warning:
> > drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c: In function âregmap_raw_readâ:
> > drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c:1172:6: warning: âretâ
On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 10:51:49 +1000, Chris Jones said:
> documentation, hopefully things will work out. And this might actually
> be the kick in the rear-end that AMD and NVIDIA need to get into gear
> and start developer some useful and Windows equivalent hardware drivers
> for ALL their cards for
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:41:21 +1000, NeilBrown said:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:22:10 +0200 "C. Schmid"
> wrote:
> > i want to complain about the removal of the --pid-owner Support for
> > iptables.
> > As far as i understand it this support was just removed without replacement.
>
> Yes, 7 years ag
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:03:59 +0200, richard -rw- weinberger said:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:00 PM, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > Thank you for your interest in fixing this problem. When we decide to
> > change this
> > ID, we will conform to the MSFT guidelines on constructing this guest ID.
> >
>
>
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:11:44 -, Seiji Aguchi said:
> [Solution]
>To avoid losing a critical message, this patchset is based on a following
> concept.
> - A basic policy is _not_ to overwrite existing entries.
>
> - However, if kernel panics while a system is rebooting, a critica
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:56:50 -0400, Josh Boyer said:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:33:42PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > What happens if someone does a yum update, and the kernel requirement
> > changes slightly. The yum update should update
> > this /usr/share/Linux/Kconfig. But it's still set a
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:55:44 -0700, Stephen Hemminger said:
> >+/* Course retransmit inefficiency- this packet has been
> >received twice. */
> >+tp->dup_pkts_recv++;
>
> I don't understand that comment, could you use a better sentence please?
I think what
On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:30:40 +0300, Meelis Roos said:
> It's actually more complicated than that. Old kernel images started
> misbehaving from around 2.6.35-rc5 and any kernel older than that was
> OK. When I recompiled the older kernels with squeeze gcc (migh have been
> lenny gcc before, or diff
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:53:36 +0100, rzryyvzy said:
> I know that tmpfs is a memmory filesystem. Is there a possibility to create
> also a memory block device?
> Is there a possibility to create for example a 1 GB memory block device (from
> the RAM)?
A better question would be:
What problem are
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:27:10 +0200, Adrian Bunk said:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:19:57PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
(Following was actually Steve Rostedt writing):
> > > The reason I added GPL is not because of some idea that this is all
> > > "chummy" with the kernel. But because I derived the mcou
.c already lists mcount as a
SYMBOL, not a SYMBOL_GPL - yet another inconsistency.
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
--- linux-2.6.25-rc2-mm1/kernel/trace/ftrace.c.dist 2008-02-16
23:34:36.0 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc2-mm1/kernel/trace/ftrace.c 2008-02-25
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:39:45 EST, Karl Dahlke said:
> Really, /proc is the only place for these virtual files that interact
> directly with the kernel and/or its modules;
> I just wanted a fixed place under /proc for adapters to live,
> like sys ttys scsi net, and so on.
There's an awful lot of s
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:38:55 +1100, Nick Andrew said:
> + Enable an auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
> + kernel subsystem, such as Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux),
> + which requires this option for logging of AVC messages output.
> +
> + AVC refers t
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:05:30 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:27:54 +0100 Clemens Koller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > That's not an issue in my case. The SM50x can be connected to
> > either an PCI or some Local/CPU-whateverbus IF.
> > I.e. on the MPC85xx PowerPC, PCI and LocalB
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:23:12 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi said:
> I'll dig it more, later. And for right now, please run "df" command, it
> will fix free cluster count.
Wow, that's a real kick in the head for all of us who have a mental concept
of 'df' being basically a read-only program, and "fixing co
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:11:14 MST, Eric W. Biederman said:
> Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On 02/16, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >> On 02/15, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> > : BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00200200
> >> > : Call Trace:
> >> > : [] ? release_task+0x1
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:27:10 GMT, David Howells said:
> __builtin_expect() is useful on FRV where you _have_ to give each branch and
> conditional branch instruction a measure of probability whether the branch
> will be taken.
What does gcc do the 99.998% of the time we don't have likely/unlikely
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:22:05 +0800, Shi Weihua said:
> - /*
> - * If we are on the alternate signal stack and would overflow it, don't.
notice this ^
> - * Return an always-bogus address instead so we will die with SI
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:12:38 +0800, "Zhang, Yanmin" said:
> I also think __refcnt is the key. I did a new testing by adding 2 unsigned
> long
> pading before lastuse, so the 3 members are moved to next cache line. The
> performance is
> recovered.
>
> How about below patch? Almost all performan
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:18:47 +0100, Krzysztof Helt said:
> I know two fb drivers which use endianess information (pm2fb and s3c2410fb).
> Both resolve endianess at driver level. Actually, both handle it by setting
> special
> bits so the graphics chip itself reorder bytes to transform foreign
> e
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:17:20 EST, "Robert P. J. Day" said:
> if that header file isn't used by any kernel code, why bother having a
> check for __KERNEL__ in the first place? it's being exported to
> userspace unchecked:
>
> include/linux/Kbuild:header-y += hdsmart.h
>
> so why not just toss
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:39:08 +0100, Willy Tarreau said:
> I don't understand why kernel developers always think that users spend
> their whole time testing their new stuff. That is mostly true for a lot
> of desktop users, but definitely not for servers. On a server, you may
> *ignore* that a new
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:08:13 EST, Bill Davidsen said:
> can never make you see why technological extortion is evil. People have
> always moved to new drivers without pushing because they were *better*,
> guess that model is dead.
And the drivers get better because the Code Fairy comes and sprin
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:19:11 PST, Linda Walsh said:
> I'm wondering how the generic, builtin PC-Speaker (config option
> "INPUT_PCSPKR") can be used as an input device.
>
> If it can not be used for input, why is it under the input config section:
>
> "Device Drivers"
> + -> "Input Device Support
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:43:45 +0100, Miklos Szeredi said:
> I'm trying out 2.6.24-mm1 on my work laptop (T60), and generally it
> - mounting isofs always results in an empty directory
I hit this in 24-rc8-mm1, and bisected it down to
iget-stop-isofs-from-using-read_inode-fix-2.patch
Apparently i
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:26:45 EST, Gene Heskett said:
> On Friday 15 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:32:02 EST, Gene Heskett said:
> >> Nvidia vs 2.6.25-rc1 being a case in point, and they (nvidia) are
> >> appearing to indicate its not a problem until some distro a
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:32:29 PST, Greg KH said:
> How about "weeks". Both Fedora and openSUSE's next release is going to
> be based on 2.6.25, and the first round of -rc1 kernels should be
> showing up in their trees in a few days. So for this instance, I think
> you will be fine :)
a few days =
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:32:02 EST, Gene Heskett said:
> Nvidia vs 2.6.25-rc1 being a case in point, and they (nvidia) are appearing
> to
> indicate its not a problem until some distro actually ships a kernel with the
> changes that broke it. That could be months or even a year plus.
Actually fo
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:50:17 +0100, Marcel Holtmann said:
> go ahead and create an application that uses a GPL only library. Then
> ask a lawyer if it is okay to distribute your application in binary only
> form without making the source code available (according to the GPL).
>
> http://www.gnu.o
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:15:01 +0100, Marcel Holtmann said:
> And while you are talking to a lawyer. Ask him/her if it is okay to
> create a binary only application that uses a GPL library. Tell him/her
It's perfectly legal to create such an application.
It only gets interesting if you *distribute
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:12:54 +0100, Christer Weinigel said:
> If I use an in kernel API, but from a piece of code which is external
> to the kernel, is that really a derived work? If you say it is, do you
> realise that you are advocating something which is very close to an API
> copyright, someth
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:27:21 GMT, Hugh Dickins said:
> When change_page_attr splits a large page on x86_32 (without PAE), it is
> currently corrupting every process's page directory: fix that by removing
> the thinko which passes down a physical instead of a virtual address -
> this version of the
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:50:11 PST, Arjan van de Ven said:
> > A bugfix?
>
> yes it was a really painful bugfix, but still.
I'm not saying that it wasn't needed, it *was* a busticated API.
> I'll repeat the question. What would waiting for an -mm release have bought
> for this bugfix?
> Answer: n
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:01:24 PST, Arjan van de Ven said:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:16:34 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24/2.6.24-mm1/
> >
> > Builds, boots, mostly seems to run for limited testing.
> >
>
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:16:34 PST, Andrew Morton said:
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24/2.6.24-mm1/
Builds, boots, mostly seems to run for limited testing.
One note - the following commit(s) (and related CPA reworking) broke the NVidia
binary driver (which
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:43:27 EST, Lennart Sorensen said:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:45:38PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > http://www.jbb.de/judgment_dc_munich_gpl.pdf
> > http://www.jbb.de/judgment_dc_frankfurt_gpl.pdf
>
> Good point. They seem to be the place that actually has enforced the
> G
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:32:58 CST, Matt Mackall said:
> "Use the exact same C compiler." -> OK, idiomatic
> "Use the same exact C compiler." -> OK, idiomatic
> "Use the exactly same C compiler." -> very awkward
> "Use exactly the same C compiler." -> formally correct
"You are trapped in a maze of
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:22:45 EST, Pavel Roskin said:
> Hello!
>
> It have come to my attention that a patch has been committed to the
> kernel with the explicit purpose of tainting ndiswrapper - the kernel
> module allowing Windows NDIS drivers for Ethernet and Wireless cards to
> be used by the k
Sorry for the late notice - I hit the original issue with this code,
and I tested the *first* patch, which addressed my immediate problem, but
didn't test the subsequent flurry of "better" patches due to time issues
here.
I back up my laptop by doing one or more 'dump' commands into a $STAGE
dire
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:31:01 +0100, Stefan Richter said:
> Does your laptop have for example chained sg lists? :-)
Beats me - I don't see it on an 'lspci' ;) But I'm pretty sure it doesn't
have a 'powerpc' in it, so those threads get *totally* skipped...
My point was "personal interest in the d
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:42:43 +0100, Stefan Richter said:
> Even if you only look at the Subject: and number of postings in a
> thread, how to judge whether there is a stability risk for the next -rc
> in the making, without experience or personal interest in the domain?
My general rule of thumb i
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:05:26 +0100, Ingo Molnar said:
> all it takes for me on Fedora is to boot a modular distro kernel once,
> then copy the /dev to the real (persistent) /dev:
>
>mkdir /tmp2
>mount /dev/sda1 /tmp2
>cp -a /dev/* /tmp2/dev/
>
> and from that point on a bzImage/vmli
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:50:44 +0100, Stefan Richter said:
> How often is "bisectability" being broken already before merge in
> subsystem trees, and how often only in the context of the merge result?
I don't bisect git trees often - but I'd say that at least half the time
I have to bisect -mm, I'll
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:25:59 EST, Lennart Sorensen said:
> Personally I just don't bother with memtest anymore. The only thing it
> tells you is that you have errors or that you might have errors but it
> didn't find them. It never tells you that you do not have errors and it
> often does miss t
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:26:45 +0100, Jiri Kosina said:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Bodo Eggert wrote:
>
> > Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a
> > soft panic, which does not stop the system completely.
> > You can still scroll the screen and read the messages.
>
> Hi Bodo,
>
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:21:33 +0100, Jan Engelhardt said:
>
> On Jan 25 2008 13:44, Frank Seidel wrote:
> >> >+/*
> >> >+ * CHANGELOG
> >>
> >> Changelogs go into git, not files, at least that is what was mentioned
> >> time and again.
> >
> >i removed them
> >
> If you want to keep them, add it t
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:10:11 +0100, "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" said:
> As a tester I would like:
> - slow merges, so that developer could rebase and test
>(compile test) the interaction of the new code.
An amazing amount of stuff gets caught when it's tested in Andrew Morton's -mm
tree. You thin
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:56:09 +0100, Jan Engelhardt said:
> So what is needed is an Oops with an explaining message
> if (kernel_tainted) "blame that proprietary module first",
> and make sure the user sees that oops even if in X.
The person who solves the "even if in X" problem will probably be no
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:44:05 +1030, David Newall said:
> The benefit is not zero. Repeating myself: While the code is there, it
> encourages either removal or repair. If the option to remove is taken
> off the table then it will eventually be repaired.
Well, if the 2.4 version hasn't been porte
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:36:00 +0300, Al Boldi said:
> data=ordered mode has proven reliable over the years, and it does this by
> ordering filedata flushes before metadata flushes. But this sometimes
> causes contention in the order of a 10x slowdown for certain apps, either
> due to the misuse
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:47:04 EST, Mathieu Desnoyers said:
> I am throwing this one-liner in and let's see how people react. It only makes
> sure that a module that has been "forced" to be loaded won't have its markers
> used. It is important to leave this check to make sure the kernel does not
> c
Dell Latitude D820 laptop, T7200 Core2 Duo, x86_64 kernel built with
PREEMPT, NO_HZ, and HZ=1000. It's running basically idle with an X desktop
session.
I'm seeing large masses of rescheduling interrupts that are basically killing
the C3 residency rate for no obvious reason/gain. I'm taking close
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:38:53 PST, john stultz said:
> I recently noticed on one of my boxes that when synched with an NTP
> server, the drift value reported for the system was ~283ppm. While in
> some cases, clock hardware can be that bad, it struck me as unusual as
> the system was using the acpi_
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:25:58 +1100, Nick Piggin said:
>
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
> ===
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -4920,8 +4920,7 @@ static void show_task(struct task_struct
>
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:48:12 EST, Mathieu Desnoyers said:
> This specific one is a kernel policy matter, and I personally don't
> have a strong opinion about it. I agree that you raise a good counter
> argument : it can be useful to proprietary modules users to be able to
> extract tracing informa
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:38:30 +1100, David Chinner said:
> Perhaps instead of swapping immediately, a SIGLOWMEM could be sent
> to a processes that aren't masking the signal followed by a short
> grace period to allow the processes to free up some memory before
> swapping out pages from that proces
ng cared/flagged before.
Pigheaded-and-probably-wrong brute-force fix that works on my laptop, but
somebody who actually understands the vesafb code should check that in fact
the space *should* be non-caching.
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1/drivers
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:35:14 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc8/2.6.24-rc8-mm1/
>
> - selinux is busted on one of my two selinux-enabled test machines.
This problem is fixed in Paul Moore's latest spin of the networking patches - I
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:35:33 +0530, Balbir Singh said:
> Control groups is derived from cpusets and for those interested in
> grouping tasks for control, is the preferred method of providing
> control.
Ahh, that's why I didn't notice it - "cpusets" didn't seem to do much for the 1
and 2 CPU syste
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:51:44 +0100, Pavel Machek said:
> I guess I should try to measure it. (Linux already does writeback
> caching, with 2GB of memory. I wonder how important disks's 2MB of
> cache can be).
It serves essentially the same purpose as the 'async' option in /etc/exports
(i.e. we de
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:15:41 +0530, Balbir Singh said:
> Thanks for doing this. I am going to review the patches in greater
> detail and also test them. Why do you use configfs when we have a
> control group filesystem available for grouping tasks and providing a
> file system based interface for
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:03:17 +0800, Dave Young said:
> On Jan 16, 2008 5:46 PM, Rogier Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wrote a small app yesterday that updates a file by mmapping the
> > file (RW), changing the thing around, and then exiting.
> >
> > This did not trigger a c
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:26:14 +0800, Shaohua Li said:
> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 22:56 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Do you have any numbers on what the added latency is for powersave mode, and
> > a rough idea of how quickly chipsets will drop to low-power? It may affect
> > usability a lot if i
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:04:39 EST, Steven Rostedt said:
>
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:37:37 +0200, =?utf-8?q?S=2E=C3=87a=C4=9Flar?= Onur
> > said:
> > > And because of mcount-add-basic-support-for-gcc-profiler-instrum.patch,
> > > closed
> > > sour
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:09:16 EST, Ric Wheeler said:
> I actually think that the value of this kind of reduction is huge. We
> have seen fsck run for days (not just hours) which makes the "restore
> from backup" versus "fsck" decision favor the tapes...
Funny thing is that for many of these sorts
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:04:41 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> In any decent environment, people will fsck their ext3 filesystems during
> planned downtime, and the benefit of reducing that downtime from 6
> hours/machine to 2 hours/machine is probably fairly small, given that there
> is no service inter
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:02:26 +0800, Shaohua Li said:
> In my test, power difference between powersave mode and performance mode
> is about 1.3w in a system with 3 PCIE links.
Do you have any numbers on what the added latency is for powersave mode, and
a rough idea of how quickly chipsets will dro
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