Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-04 Thread Diego Calleja
As usually, if someone finds errors in http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_24 , let me know it or change it yourself. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info

Re: [local DoS] Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | The problem is on SMP: if sched_rr_get_interval() gets a task from > | an otherwise idle runqueue, then rq->load.weight is 0. Normally > | sched_slice() is only used on a busy runqueue. So the correct fixup > | site is not in sched_s

Re: [local DoS] Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-04 Thread Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
Em Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:00:05 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: | | * Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > | > | > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote: | > > | > > sched_rr_get_interval(1, NULL); | > | > Looks like we have a zero "cfs_rq->load.weight

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: That said, none of the changes are really _exciting_ or really scary. And we should have fixed a number of regressions, although more certainly remain. Any reason for this: mode change 100644 => 100755 drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2

Re: [local DoS] Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote: > > > > sched_rr_get_interval(1, NULL); > > Looks like we have a zero "cfs_rq->load.weight". > > Ingo? Both sched_slice() and __sched_slice() do a divide by the > runqueue weight, and

Re: [local DoS] Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote: > > sched_rr_get_interval(1, NULL); Looks like we have a zero "cfs_rq->load.weight". Ingo? Both sched_slice() and __sched_slice() do a divide by the runqueue weight, and at least dequeue_task_fair() explicitly checks for that being

[local DoS] Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-04 Thread Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
Em Mon, 3 Dec 2007 21:08:12 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: | That said, none of the changes are really _exciting_ or really scary. And | we should have fixed a number of regressions, although more certainly | remain. A Mandriva user reported this bug last week. Run th

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-04 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That said, none of the changes are really _exciting_ or really scary. And > we should have fixed a number of regressions, although more certainly > remain. Any reason for this: mode change 100644 => 100755 drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c mode change 10

Re: [build failure] Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4 on S390x

2007-12-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The patch ctc: make use of alloc_netdev() (commit > 1c1478859017452a1179dbbdf7b9eb5b48438746) introduces the build failure > > CC [M] drivers/s390/net/fsm.o > CC [M] drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv.o > CC [M] drivers/s390/net/ctcmain.o > driver

Re: [build failure] Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4 on S390x

2007-12-04 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 15:53 +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > The patch ctc: make use of alloc_netdev() (commit > 1c1478859017452a1179dbbdf7b9eb5b48438746) > introduces the build failure > > CC [M] drivers/s390/net/fsm.o > CC [M] drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv.o > CC [M] drivers/s390/net/ctcma

[build failure] Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4 on S390x

2007-12-04 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Hi, The patch ctc: make use of alloc_netdev() (commit 1c1478859017452a1179dbbdf7b9eb5b48438746) introduces the build failure CC [M] drivers/s390/net/fsm.o CC [M] drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv.o CC [M] drivers/s390/net/ctcmain.o drivers/s390/net/ctcmain.c: In function `ctc_init_netdevice': d

Linux 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
We should have one week between -rc releases, but I was gone for a week over thanksgiving (as were some other kernel developers), so this one is a bit late. It's been almost the rule rather than the exception, but I promise I'll be better... Anyway, there aren't a lot of exciting changes here,