Re: [PATCH] arp_queue: serializing unlink + kfree_skb

2005-02-03 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:19:01PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: They are for cases where you want strict ordering even for the non-return-value-giving atomic_t ops. I see. I got atomic_dec and atomic_dec_and_test mixed up. So the problem isn't as big as I thought which is good. sk_buff is

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 21/29] ide: Merge do_rw_taskfile() and flagged_taskfile().

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:06:03 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 21_ide_do_taskfile.patch Merged do_rw_taskfile() and flagged_taskfile() into do_taskfile(). During the merge, the following changes took place. 1. flagged taskfile now

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 29/29] ide: make data_phase explicit in NO_DATA cases

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:12:38 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 29_ide_explicit_TASKFILE_NO_DATA.patch Make data_phase explicit in NO_DATA cases. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-ide-export/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 22/29] ide: convert REQ_DRIVE_TASK to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello again, Bartlomiej. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:07:27 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 22_ide_taskfile_flush.patch All REQ_DRIVE_TASK users except ide_task_ioctl() converted to use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE. 1. idedisk_issue_flush() converted to use

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 29/29] ide: make data_phase explicit in NO_DATA cases

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:59:22 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:12:38 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 29_ide_explicit_TASKFILE_NO_DATA.patch Make data_phase explicit in NO_DATA cases. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 25/29] ide: convert REQ_DRIVE_CMD to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:06:29 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:15:59 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 25_ide_taskfile_cmd.patch All in-kernel REQ_DRIVE_CMD users except for ide_cmd_ioctl()

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 22/29] ide: convert REQ_DRIVE_TASK to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:54:23 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again, Bartlomiej. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:07:27 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 22_ide_taskfile_flush.patch All REQ_DRIVE_TASK users except ide_task_ioctl()

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 05/29] ide: merge pci driver .h's into .c's

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:47:12 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 05_ide_merge_pci_driver_hc.patch Merges drivers/ide/pci/*.h files into their corresponding *.c files. Rationales are 1. There's no reason to separate pci drivers into header and body. No

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 26/29] ide: map ide_cmd_ioctl() to ide_taskfile_ioctl()

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:10:37 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 26_ide_taskfile_cmd_ioctl.patch ide_cmd_ioctl() converted to use ide_taskfile_ioctl(). This is the last user of REQ_DRIVE_CMD. ide_cmd_ioctl() needs to map to taskfile transport not

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 25/29] ide: convert REQ_DRIVE_CMD to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:15:59 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 25_ide_taskfile_cmd.patch All in-kernel REQ_DRIVE_CMD users except for ide_cmd_ioctl() converted to use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 26/29] ide: map ide_cmd_ioctl() to ide_taskfile_ioctl()

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:11:57 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:10:37 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 26_ide_taskfile_cmd_ioctl.patch ide_cmd_ioctl() converted to use ide_taskfile_ioctl(). This is the

[patch 0/9] convert IDE device drivers to driver model

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, Patches are against ide-dev-2.6 tree. #1-8 are IDE fixes/changes needed #9 is the actual conversion Bartlomiej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[patch 1/9] ide-tape: fix character device -open() vs -cleanup() race

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Similar to the same race but for the block device. * store pointer to struct ide_tape_obj in idetape_chrdevs[] * rename idetape_chrdevs[] to idetape_devs[] and kill idetape_chrdev_t * add ide_tape_chrdev_get() for getting reference to the tape * store tape pointer in file-private_data and fix

[patch 3/9] drive-dsc_overlap fix

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
drive-dsc_overlap is supported only by ide-{cd,tape} drivers. Add missing clearing of -dsc_overlap to ide_{cd,tape}_release() and move -dsc_overlap setup from ide_register_subdriver() to ide_cdrom_setup() (ide-tape enables it unconditionally). diff -Nru a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c

[patch 5/9] add ide_{un}register_region()

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Add ide_{un}register_region() and fix ide-{tape,scsi}.c to register block device number ranges. In ata_probe() only probe for modules. Behavior is unchanged because: * if driver is already loaded and attached to drive ata_probe() is not called et all * if driver is loaded by ata_probe() it

[patch 4/9] destroy_proc_ide_device() cleanup

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
When this function is called device is already unbinded from a driver so there are no driver /proc entries to remove. diff -Nru a/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c b/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c --- a/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c2005-02-04 03:31:24 +01:00 +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c2005-02-04 03:31:24 +01:00

[patch 6/9] kill ide_drive_t-disk

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* move -disk from ide_drive_t to driver specific objects * make drivers allocate struct gendisk and setup rq-rq_disk (there is no need to do this for REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE requests) * add ide_init_disk() helper and kill alloc_disks() in ide-probe.c * kill no longer needed ide_open() and ide_fops[]

[patch 7/9] get driver from rq-rq_disk-private_data

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* add ide_driver_t * to device drivers objects * set it to point at driver's ide_driver_t * store address of this entry in disk-private_data * fix ide_{cd,disk,floppy,tape,scsi}_g accordingly * use rq-rq_disk-private_data instead of drive-driver to obtain driver (this allows us to kill

[patch 9/9] convert device drivers to driver-model

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* add ide_bus_match() and export ide_bus_type * split ide_remove_driver_from_hwgroup() out of ide_unregister() * move device cleanup from ide_unregister() to drive_release_dev() * convert ide_driver_t-name to driver-name * convert ide_driver_t-{attach,cleanup} to driver-{probe,remove} * remove

[patch 8/9] kill ide-default

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* add ide_drives list to list devices without a driver * add __ide_add_setting() and use it for adding no auto remove entries * kill ide-default pseudo-driver diff -Nru a/drivers/ide/Makefile b/drivers/ide/Makefile --- a/drivers/ide/Makefile 2005-02-04 03:32:17 +01:00 +++

[patch 2/9] drive-nice1 fix

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
It is drive's property independent of the driver being used so move drive-nice1 setup from ide_register_subdriver() to probe_hwif() in ide-probe.c. As a result changing a driver which controls the drive no longer affects this flag. diff -Nru a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c

Re: [PATCH] arp_queue: serializing unlink + kfree_skb

2005-02-03 Thread David S. Miller
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:12:24 +1100 Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This paradigm is repeated throughout the kernel. I bet the same race can be found in a lot of those places. So we really need to sit down and audit them one by one or else come up with a magical solution apart from

[PATCH 2.4] SIOCSIFNAME wildcard support

2005-02-03 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
Hi Marcelo, This patch adds wildcard support for the SIOCSIFNAME ioctl, like what was done in 2.6.1. SIOCSIFNAME allow a user space tool to change network interface names (such as nameif, ifrename, or ip link), this patch allow those tools to specify a pattern, such as eth%d or

Re: [PATCH] arp_queue: serializing unlink + kfree_skb

2005-02-03 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:49:22PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: If we see the count dropped to 1, whoever set it to 1 made sure that all outstanding memory operations (including things like __skb_unlink()) are globally visible before the atomic_dec_and_test() which put the thing to 1 from

Re: [PATCH] arp_queue: serializing unlink + kfree_skb

2005-02-03 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:20:53 +1100 Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is true if CPU 0 reads the count before reading skb-list. Without a memory barrier, atomic_read and reading skb-list can be reordered. Put it another way, reading skb-list could return a cached value that was read

[PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17

2005-02-03 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
Hi Marcelo, This patch adds Wireless Extensions v17 to kernel 2.4.X. This patch is the same as what went into 2.6.10-rc1, except for the minor differences between 2.4.X and 2.6.X. This was tested on 2.4.29. The main reason of this patch is wireless driver outside the

Re: [PATCH] arp_queue: serializing unlink + kfree_skb

2005-02-03 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:23:57PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: You're absolutely right. Ok, so we do need to change kfree_skb(). I believe even with the memory barrier, the atomic_read() optimization is still worth it. atomic ops on sparc64 take a minimum of 40 some odd cycles on

Re: [PATCH] arp_queue: serializing unlink + kfree_skb

2005-02-03 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:50:44 +1100 Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the problem isn't as big as I thought which is good. sk_buff is only in trouble because of the atomic_read optimisation which really needs a memory barrier. However, instead of adding a memory barrier which makes the

Re: [PATCH] s390: qeth network driver

2005-02-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: ChangeSet 1.2072, 2005/02/03 17:04:37-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] s390: qeth network driver From: Steffen Thoss [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Frank Pavlic [EMAIL PROTECTED] qeth network driver changes: -

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 26/29] ide: map ide_cmd_ioctl() to ide_taskfile_ioctl()

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:10:37 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 26_ide_taskfile_cmd_ioctl.patch ide_cmd_ioctl() converted to use ide_taskfile_ioctl(). This is the last user of REQ_DRIVE_CMD. ide_cmd_ioctl() needs to map to taskfile transport not ide_taskfile_ioctl()

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] ide_pci: cleanup ide pci drivers and merges .h files into .c files

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Bartlomiej. These patches are the split versions of 05_ide_merge_pci_driver_hc. I removed crappy/unused macros from aec62xx, pdc202xx_old and serverworks drivers in respective *_cleanup patches and merged .h into .c files in *_merge patches. [ Start of patch descriptions ]

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 02/14] ide_pci: Merges aec62xx.h into aec62xx.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
02_ide_pci_aec62xx_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/aec62xx.h into aec62xx.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/aec62xx.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 05/14] ide_pci: Merges generic.h into generic.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
05_ide_pci_generic_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/generic.h into generic.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/generic.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 03/14] ide_pci: Merges cmd64x.h into cmd64x.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
03_ide_pci_cmd64x_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/cmd64x.h into cmd64x.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 11/14] ide_pci: Merges pdc202xx_old.h into pdc202xx_old.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
11_ide_pci_pdc202xx_old_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/pdc202xx_old.h into pdc202xx_old.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/pdc202xx_old.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 06/14] ide_pci: Merges hpt366.h into hpt366.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
06_ide_pci_hpt366_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/hpt366.h into hpt366.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 14/14] ide_pci: Merges serverworks.h into serverworks.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
14_ide_pci_serverworks_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/serverworks.h into serverworks.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/serverworks.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 09/14] ide_pci: Merges pdc202xx_new.h into pdc202xx_new.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
09_ide_pci_pdc202xx_new_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/pdc202xx_new.h into pdc202xx_new.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/pdc202xx_new.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 12/14] ide_pci: Merges piix.h into piix.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
12_ide_pci_piix_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/piix.h into piix.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/piix.c === --- linux-idepci-export.orig/drivers/ide/pci/piix.c

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6] 4/7 replace uml_strdup by kstrdup

2005-02-03 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 12:55, you wrote: Pekka Enberg wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 03:28:31 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: diff -buprN -X dontdiff vanilla-2.6.11-rc2-bk9/arch/um/os-Linux/drivers/tuntap_user.c

Re: Race condition in ptrace

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Piggin
Bodo Stroesser wrote: Working with the new UML skas0 mode on my Xeon HT host, sporadically I saw some processes on UML segfaulting. In all cases, I could track this down to be caused by a gs segment register, that had the wrong contents. This again is caused by a problem in the host linux: A

[BK PATCH] USB fixes for 2.6.11-rc3

2005-02-03 Thread Greg KH
Hi, Here are a few usb bugfixes 2.6.11-rc3. All of these patches have been in the past few -mm releases. Please pull from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/2.6.11-rc3/usb Patches will be posted to linux-usb-devel as a follow-up thread for those who want to see them. thanks, greg

Re: [PATCH] Devices.txt, update with LANANA

2005-02-03 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:48:39PM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: ChangeSet 1.1992.2.74, 2005/02/02 08:48:39-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Devices.txt, update with LANANA Attached is diff for bringing devices.txt uptodate with lanana. Please

Re: [PATCH] Devices.txt, update with LANANA

2005-02-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:48:39PM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: ChangeSet 1.1992.2.74, 2005/02/02 08:48:39-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Devices.txt, update with LANANA Attached is diff for bringing devices.txt uptodate with lanana.

[PATCH] InfiniBand: remove unbalance refcnt decrement

2005-02-03 Thread Roland Dreier
From: Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fix unbalanced QP reference count decrement (introduced with QP lock optimization patch) Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-bk.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c

[PATCH] pci_raw_ops should use unsigned args

2005-02-03 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
Convert pci_raw_ops to use unsigned segment (aka domain), bus, and devfn. With the previous code, various ia64 config accesses fail due to segment sign-extension problems. ia64: - With a signed seg = 0x8, unwanted sign-extension occurs when seg 28 is cast to u64 in

Re: [PATCH] pci_raw_ops should use unsigned args

2005-02-03 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:08:05PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: Convert pci_raw_ops to use unsigned segment (aka domain), bus, and devfn. With the previous code, various ia64 config accesses fail due to segment sign-extension problems. ia64: - With a signed seg = 0x8, unwanted

Re: move-accounting-function-calls-out-of-critical-vm-code-paths.patch

2005-02-03 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Has any performance testing been done? Jay did some performance testing and found minor performance increases without my page fault patches. But then the performance without the page fault patches is already so bad due to the page_table_lock contention

Re: move-accounting-function-calls-out-of-critical-vm-code-paths.patch

2005-02-03 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Well your patch certainly cleans things up in there and would be a good thing to have as long as we can be sure that it doesn't break the accounting in some subtle way. I think it also fits well with the other accounting data which is only

Re: page fault scalability patch V16 [3/4]: Drop page_table_lock in handle_mm_fault

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 14:09 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 18:49 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: I mean we could just speculatively copy, risk copying crap and discard that later when we find that the pte has changed. This would

Re: move-accounting-function-calls-out-of-critical-vm-code-paths.patch

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope that Roland's changes for higher resolution of cputime would make that possible. But this is Jay's thing not mine. I just want to make sure that the CSA patches does not get in the way of our attempts to improve the performance of the page

Re: [PATCH] radeonfb update (new patch)

2005-02-03 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Thursday 03 of February 2005 07:38, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Are you seriously proposing this for 2.6.11?? Well... There should be no problem with add-try_acquire_console_sem.patch and update-aty128fb-sleep-wakeup-code-for-new-powermac-changes.patch. radeonfb is another story, but

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserving backup region for kexec based crashdumps.

2005-02-03 Thread Vivek Goyal
Hi, On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 12:32, Hirokazu Takahashi wrote: Hi Vivek and Eric, IMHO, why don't we swap not only the contents of the top 640K but also kernel working memory for kdump kernel? Initial patches of kdump had adopted the same approach but given the fact devices are not stopped

Re: Compactflash (Sandisk 512) hangs on access

2005-02-03 Thread Prashant Viswanathan
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:12:04 -0800, Prashant Viswanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying unsuccessfully over the last 2 weeks to get compactflash working on my Linux system based on mini-ITX (Via CL motherboard, pentium compatible). I use a CF-IDE adapter to access it

Re: Accelerated frame buffer functions

2005-02-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Haakon Riiser wrote: [Geert Uytterhoeven] mmap() the MMIO registers to userspace, and program the acceleration engine from userspace, like DirectFB (and XF*_FBDev 3.x for Matrox and Mach64) does. Right, this was how I originally intended to do it. The reason why I started to obsess about

Vendor kernel tree

2005-02-03 Thread Nigel Kukard
Hi Guys, A while ago I saw a post of somone who aims at maintaining a vendors kernel tree for each version released stable. Anyone know where I can find more info on this? Plz reply to me offlist. Thanks -Nigel Kukard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 2, 2005, Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:07:27 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With a Synaptics I suppose? You wouldn't like it with an ALPS. No, it's a Dualpoint, and so ALPS. Err... That doesn't follow. My Dell Inspiron 8000 has a

Re: Copyright / licensing question

2005-02-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Charles Cazabon wrote: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 06:49 -0800, Frank klein wrote: I am having some licensing questions. It would be really great if you can clarify on them 1. For explaining the internals of a filesystem in detail, I need to take their

Re: i386 HPET code

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew Walrond
On Thursday 03 February 2005 02:05, john stultz wrote: Hey Venkatesh, I've been looking into a bug where i386 2.6 kernels do not boot on IBM e325s if HPET_TIMER is enabled (hpet=disable works around the issue). When running x86-64 kernels, the issue isn't seen. It appears that after FWIW The

Re: kdump on non-boot cpu

2005-02-03 Thread Itsuro Oda
Hi, This is not for kdump but an experience of our project(mkdump). The dump kernel(not SMP config) boot hangs if machine_kexec() excutes on non-boot CPU on x86_64 platform. We don't found why. (Please let me know if you know why.) but fix that the boot-cpu excutes machine_kexec() in the nmi

Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

2005-02-03 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:56 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: Hello! I'm writing a module under a proprietary license. I decided to use sysfs to do the configuration. Unfortunately, all sysfs exports are available to GPL modules only because they are exported by EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. I suggest

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-03 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:30:14AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Feb 2, 2005, Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:07:27 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With a Synaptics I suppose? You wouldn't like it with an ALPS. No, it's a Dualpoint, and

Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

2005-02-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Zan Lynx wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 16:30 -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:07:21PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:23:30PM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote: What is wrong with creating a (GPL'd)

Re: ppc32 MMCR0_PMXE saga.

2005-02-03 Thread Albert Herranz
--- Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I'm at a loss to explain whats been happening with this symbol. My patch was against the -mm series, as reported in the original subject. In the -mm series, the perfctr-ppc.patch already defines that symbol. As that patch contains all the perfctr

Re: [PATCH] Devices.txt, update with LANANA

2005-02-03 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, Feb 03, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: ChangeSet 1.1992.2.74, 2005/02/02 08:48:39-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Devices.txt, update with LANANA Attached is diff for bringing devices.txt uptodate with lanana. Please note: The devices.txt file

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-03 Thread Fruhwirth Clemens
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 13:40 +1300, Michal Ludvig wrote: Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: Especially, if James ask me to redo Michal's conflicting patches (done btw), which are totally off-topic for me. Great, thanks! Has the interface for multiblock modules changed or should my old modules

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserving backup region for kexec based crashdumps.

2005-02-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Itsuro Oda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, On 02 Feb 2005 08:24:03 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: So the kernel+initrd that captures a crash dump will live and execute in a reserved area of memory. It needs to know which memory regions are valid, and it needs to

Re: [linux-pm] Re: driver model u32 - pm_message_t conversion: help needed

2005-02-03 Thread Jes Sorensen
Pavel == Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for being late responding to this, but I'd say this is a prime example for typedef's considered evil (see Greg's OLS talk ;). It would be a lot cleaner if it was made a struct and then passing a struct pointer as the argument

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserving backup region for kexec based crashdumps.

2005-02-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Hirokazu Takahashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Vivek and Eric, IMHO, why don't we swap not only the contents of the top 640K but also kernel working memory for kdump kernel? I guess this approach has some good points. 1.Preallocating reserved area is not mandatory at boot time.

Re: Sabotaged PaXtest (was: Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer)

2005-02-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can simulate the overflow itself so no need to find any real application vulnerability, but show me _working code_ (or a convincing description) that can call glibc's do_make_stack_executable() (or the 'many ways of doing this'), _and_

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserving backup region for kexec based crashdumps.

2005-02-03 Thread Hirokazu Takahashi
Hi Vivek, Hi Vivek and Eric, IMHO, why don't we swap not only the contents of the top 640K but also kernel working memory for kdump kernel? Initial patches of kdump had adopted the same approach but given the fact devices are not stopped during transition to new kernel after a

Oops: 0000

2005-02-03 Thread Sakellarios Gerakios
Hello, I am not sure if sending you this Oops message form my Kernel is politically correct but here you go If you can help, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance, Larry Feb 2 14:37:45 geezer kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0074

Re: [Fastboot] Re: kdump on non-boot cpu

2005-02-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Itsuro Oda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, This is not for kdump but an experience of our project(mkdump). The dump kernel(not SMP config) boot hangs if machine_kexec() excutes on non-boot CPU on x86_64 platform. ?? x86_64 is Opteron cpu, amd64, Intel cpu? Are the kernels running in 32bit or

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserving backup region for kexec based crashdumps.

2005-02-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Hirokazu Takahashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Vivek, Hi Vivek and Eric, IMHO, why don't we swap not only the contents of the top 640K but also kernel working memory for kdump kernel? Initial patches of kdump had adopted the same approach but given the fact devices are

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserving backup region for kexec based crashdumps.

2005-02-03 Thread Hirokazu Takahashi
Hi Eric, Hi Vivek and Eric, IMHO, why don't we swap not only the contents of the top 640K but also kernel working memory for kdump kernel? I guess this approach has some good points. 1.Preallocating reserved area is not mandatory at boot time. And the reserved area can be

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc3 - BT848 no signal

2005-02-03 Thread Gerd Knorr
Markus Trippelsdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tuner: chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus bt878 #0 [sw] tuner: type set to 33 (MT20xx universal) by bt878 #0 [sw] tuner: microtune: companycode=4d54 part=04 rev=04 tuner: microtune MT2032 found, OK tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86 ...

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-03 Thread Stelian Pop
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:29:00AM +, H. Peter Anvin wrote: And now a question to Larry and whoever else is involved in the bkcvs mirror on kernel.org: what is the periodicity of the CVS repository update ? Currently it's nightly. Larry has offered to run it more often if

Re: [PATCH 3/4] readahead: factor out duplicated code

2005-02-03 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Steven Pratt wrote: +static int make_ahead_window(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, +struct file_ra_state *ra, int force) +{ +int block, ret; + +block = force || (ra-prev_page = ra-ahead_start); +ret = blockable_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp,

2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy

2005-02-03 Thread Terje Fåberg
I recently upgraded my desktop from 2.4.28 to 2.6.10. Even under moderate memory pressure kswapd regularly eats almost all available cpu time whenever there is a little more IO throughput, like copying large files. The system is extremely sluggish during this. The system load goes up to 7.5 or

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-03 Thread Stelian Pop
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:15:16PM +0100, Lethalman wrote: (first sorry for my poor English) Very nice howto. It's useful for generic use of svn too. The notations about converting bk to svn is really interesting... nice job! Just a little error: How to I ignore temporary build files ? -

Re: [PATCH 3/4] readahead: factor out duplicated code

2005-02-03 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Ram wrote: unsigned long page_cache_readahead(mapping, ra, filp, offset, req_size) { unsigned long max, newsize = req_size; int sequential = (offset == ra-prev_page + 1); if (offset == ra-prev_page req_size == 1 ra-size != 0) goto out; ra-prev_page =

Re: [linux-pm] Re: driver model u32 - pm_message_t conversion: help needed

2005-02-03 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Sorry for being late responding to this, but I'd say this is a prime example for typedef's considered evil (see Greg's OLS talk ;). It would be a lot cleaner if it was made a struct and then passing a struct pointer as the argument instead of passing the struct by value

Re: cpufreq problem wrt suspend/resume on Athlon64

2005-02-03 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I have noticed that the condition (cur_freq != cpu_policy-cur), which is unlikely() according to cpufreq.c:cpufreq_resume(), occurs on every resume on my box (Athlon64-based Asus). Every time the box resumes, I get a message like that: Warning: CPU frequency out of

Re: 2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:29 +0100, Terje Fberg wrote: I recently upgraded my desktop from 2.4.28 to 2.6.10. Even under moderate memory pressure kswapd regularly eats almost all available cpu time whenever there is a little more IO throughput, like copying large files. The system is extremely

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-03 Thread Stelian Pop
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:47:58PM +0100, Daniele Venzano wrote: Il giorno 02/feb/05, alle 16:54, Stelian Pop ha scritto: Hi, I've played lately a bit with Subversion and used it for managing the kernel sources, using Larry McVoy's bk2cvs bridge and Ben Collins' bkcvs2svn conversion

Re: ppc32 MMCR0_PMXE saga.

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Mikael Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Gleixner writes: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 23:47 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: I'm at a loss to explain whats been happening with this symbol. The macro was duplicated in -mm1. I sent a patch against -mm1 The patch went upstream

Re: cpufreq problem wrt suspend/resume on Athlon64

2005-02-03 Thread Dominik Brodowski
Hi, On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:41:26AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Okay, you are right, restoring it unconditionaly would be bad idea. Still it would be nice to tell cpufreq governor please change the frequency ASAP so it does not run at 800MHz for half an hour compiling kernels on AC power.

Re: cpufreq problem wrt suspend/resume on Athlon64

2005-02-03 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:41:26AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Okay, you are right, restoring it unconditionaly would be bad idea. Still it would be nice to tell cpufreq governor please change the frequency ASAP so it does not run at 800MHz for half an hour compiling kernels on AC

Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick, version 050127-1

2005-02-03 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I used your config advices from second mail, still it does not work as expected: system gets too sleepy. Like it takes a nap during boot after dyn-tick: Maximum ticks to skip limited to 1339, and key is needed to make it continue boot. Then cursor stops blinking

Re: cpufreq problem wrt suspend/resume on Athlon64

2005-02-03 Thread Dominik Brodowski
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:58:46AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:41:26AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Okay, you are right, restoring it unconditionaly would be bad idea. Still it would be nice to tell cpufreq governor please change the frequency ASAP so it

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserving backup region for kexec based crashdumps.

2005-02-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Hirokazu Takahashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Eric, Hi Vivek and Eric, IMHO, why don't we swap not only the contents of the top 640K but also kernel working memory for kdump kernel? I guess this approach has some good points. 1.Preallocating reserved area is not

Re: ppc32 MMCR0_PMXE saga.

2005-02-03 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Thomas Gleixner writes: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 23:47 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: I'm at a loss to explain whats been happening with this symbol. The macro was duplicated in -mm1. I sent a patch against -mm1 The patch went upstream without the perfctr-ppc.patch, which contained the

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc3 - BT848 no signal

2005-02-03 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:17 +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote: tuner: chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus bt878 #0 [sw] tuner: type set to 33 (MT20xx universal) by bt878 #0 [sw] tuner: microtune: companycode=4d54 part=04 rev=04 tuner: microtune MT2032 found, OK tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86 ...

Re: [ide-dev 3/5] generic Power Management for IDE devices

2005-02-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-02-01 at 23:03, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:41:24 +0100, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you need to have state-machine? During suspend we are running single-threaded, it should be okay to just do the calls directly.

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Fix pointer jumps to corner of screen problem on ALPS Glidepoint touchpads.

2005-02-03 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Peter Osterlund wrote: Only parse a z == 127 packet as a relative Dualpoint stick packet if the touchpad actually is a Dualpoint device. The Glidepoint models don't have a stick, and can report z == 127 for a very wide finger. If such a packet is parsed as a stick packet, the mouse pointer

Re: [2.6 patch] remove subscribers-only tlinux-users address

2005-02-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-01-31 at 22:17, Adrian Bunk wrote: This MAINTAINERS entry still contain the link to the web page - and from there the information about the mailing list is easily available. It would still be far better to just add (subscriber only) on the end of the list name line - To

creating daemons

2005-02-03 Thread root
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Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-03 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: No I don't but by the looks of it (constant stream of bad data) it looks like somehow the touhcpad was reset back into PS/2 compatibility mode. resetafter would catch it and reinitialize touchpad restoring proper protocol. My Dell Inspiron 8200 shows very sluggish

Re: Deadlock in serial driver 2.6.x

2005-02-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-01-31 at 08:48, Andrew Morton wrote: The tty layer cannot fix this for now, and I don't intend to fix it. Fix the serial driver: the fix is quite simple since you can keep a field in the driver for now to detect recursive calling into the echo case and don't relock. Are

creating daemons

2005-02-03 Thread root
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