Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: claim block dev in file struct rather than inode struct, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (3/8)

2005-02-08 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:24:50 CST, Michael Halcrow said: While the program is waiting for a keystroke, mount the block device. Enter a keystroke. The result without the patch is 1, which is a security violation. This occurs because the

Re: ARM undefined symbols. Again.

2005-02-08 Thread Alex Muradin
I'm getting your mail! Check out you code cause if I'm getting your mail, then you're sending it out to all your customers. -Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gmail user On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:42:43 +0100, Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:43:59AM +, Russell King

Re: [PATCH 1/1] pci: Block config access during BIST (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:33:06AM -0600, Brian King wrote: Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:35:05AM -0600, Brian King wrote: If we've done a write to config space while the adapter was blocked, shouldn't we replay those accesses at this point? I did not think that was

Re: [BUG report] UML linux-2.6 latest BK doesn't compile

2005-02-08 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why not simply disable CONFIG_GCOV for him, in this case? Anton presumably turned on CONFIG_GCOV because he wanted to do some profiling... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: prezeroing V6 [2/3]: ScrubD

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: No its a page fault benchmark. Dave Miller has done some kernel compiles and I have some benchmarks here that I never posted because they do not show any material change as far as I can see. I will be

Re: M7101

2005-02-08 Thread Ondrej Zary
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 03:06:11PM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: Looks pretty good to me. For clarity, I'd change: - m7101 = pci_scan_single_device(dev-bus, 0x18); + m7101 = pci_scan_single_device(dev-bus, PCI_DEVFN(3, 0)); No, it's pretty broken regardless of

swsusp logic error?

2005-02-08 Thread martin f krafft
I am trying to get swsusp working on a 2.6.10 Debian kernel (2.6.10-1-686, custom compile, enabling only CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND and leaving CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION empty) on this Sony Vaio Z1RSP Centrino 1.7 Pentium M laptop... without much success. Whenever I enter swsusp mode, the kernel

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:51:06PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I wonder if reverting the patch will restore the old behaviour? This seems to be minimal fix to get Kylix application back to the working state... Maybe it is good idea for 2.6.11? Why does clearing the BSS fail? Are the

Video recovery after S3 on arima / eMachines notebook (and if S3 works for you, please tell me)

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I found out that vbetool is enough to get me back video after suspend/resume. Good and thanks! Here's my current version of video.txt file. If you have any comment, or have machine where S3 works and it is not listed below, please let me know and I'll update video.txt file.

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Paul Jackson
Matthew wrote: The reason Paul and I decided that they weren't totally reconcilable is because of the memory binding side of the CPUSETs code. Speak for yourself, Matthew ;). I agree you that the scheduler experts (I'm not one, nor do I aspire to be one) may well find that it makes sense

Re: prezeroing V6 [2/3]: ScrubD

2005-02-08 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: We also need to try to identify workloads whcih might experience a regression and test them too. It isn't very hard. I'd be glad if you could provide some instructions on how exactly to do that. I have run lmbench, aim9, aim7, unixbench, ubench for a

Re: Real-Time Preemption and UML?

2005-02-08 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jeff Dike wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jeff, any objections against adding this change to UML at some point? No, not at all. I just need to understand what CONFIG_PREEMPT requires of UML. Ingo can probably tell you in much more detail. My problem when I tried to

Re: [PATCH] Makefiles are not built using a Fortran compiler

2005-02-08 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 2005.02.08, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:23:48PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: Enabling the following in the Makefile should have the same effect: # For maximum performance (+ possibly random breakage, uncomment # the following) #MAKEFLAGS += -rR aic7xxx

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

2005-02-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but what this discussion was about was the _dl_make_stack_executable() function. the jury is still out on that one, i just don't have the time and beer to do the full research that a real exploit writer would do. in security, unless proven

Re: [ATTN: Dmitry Torokhov] About the trackpad and 2.6.11-rc[23] but not -rc1

2005-02-08 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:00:20 -0600, Joseph Pingenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Joseph Pingenot on Monday, 07 February, 2005: Hope that helps. Did it help any? Yes, thank you. A patch is forthcoming later tonight. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] Makefiles are not built using a Fortran compiler

2005-02-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:20:27PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: In my inbox I have a patch that enables SCCS support for all files. Today it fails for Kconfig files at least. I guess the kconfig system needs to try to make Kconfig files before including them ... this works for me, checking a

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Jean, I'm very ignorant about wireless but it doesnt appear to me that Wireless Extension v17 is a critical feature. It seems more appropriate to declare it as 2.6 functionality ? Cheers On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:16:37AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: Hi Marcelo, I did

Question regarding e1000 driver and dropped packets (2.6.5 / 2.6.10)?

2005-02-08 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have two identical machines [mobo/hardware wise]: Each machine is a Dell GX1p (500MHZ). I have two Intel Gigabit NICs, one in each box, hooked up to a GigE switch. Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit

Re: [PATCH 2.4] SIOCSIFNAME wildcard support (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Jean, On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:14:36AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: Hi Marcelo, I did not receive any feedback on this e-mail, so I assume it was lost on the way. Would you mind pushing that in 2.4.x ? Thanks... As an ignorant person I have no problems with it.

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:01:16PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Hi Jean, I'm very ignorant about wireless but it doesnt appear to me that Wireless Extension v17 is a critical feature. You are right, it's not critical, and I was already thinking of not pushing WE-18 to you (the

Re: Merging the Suspend2 freezer implementation.

2005-02-08 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 03:36, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I'm keen to see if we can merge Suspend2's freezer implementation after 2.6.11. Does that conflict with any of your intended changes? If it doesn't, I'll submit a patch for review/merge as quickly as I can. Freezer is very

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [BUG report] UML linux-2.6 latest BK doesn't compile

2005-02-08 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: the Makefiles were heavily changed, however, recently (after 2.6.10). There was a bug in that patch. The fix is: Index: 2.6.10/arch/um/Makefile === --- 2.6.10.orig/arch/um/Makefile2005-02-08

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:51:12PM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:01:16PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Hi Jean, I'm very ignorant about wireless but it doesnt appear to me that Wireless Extension v17 is a critical feature. You are right, it's not

Re: the Turing Attack (was: Sabotaged PaXtest)

2005-02-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/pax-future.txt To understand the future direction of PaX, let's summarize what we achieve currently. The goal is to prevent/detect exploiting of software bugs that allow arbitrary read/write access to the

Re: [RFC][PATCH] swsusp: do not use higher order allocations on resume [update 2]

2005-02-08 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 8 of February 2005 20:10, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! so it is okay, but... ... I could have done it more elegantly. You're right, I've now introduced a function eat_page() that adds a page to the list of unusable pages and used it instead of the free_page() here.

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I wonder if reverting the patch will restore the old behaviour? This seems to be minimal fix to get Kylix application back to the working state... Maybe it is good idea for 2.6.11? Why does clearing the BSS fail? Are the program headers bogus? (readelf -l). No idea, probably

Re: [PATCH] Linux joydev joystick disconnect patch 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-08 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:22:19AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:20:33 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:21:13PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Opening braces should go on the same line as the statement (if (...) {).

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Matthew Dobson
Paul Jackson wrote: Matthew wrote: The reason Paul and I decided that they weren't totally reconcilable is because of the memory binding side of the CPUSETs code. Speak for yourself, Matthew ;). I agree you that the scheduler experts (I'm not one, nor do I aspire to be one) may well find that

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Matthew Dobson
Martin J. Bligh wrote: Sorry to reply a long quiet thread, but I've been trading emails with Paul Jackson on this subject recently, and I've been unable to convince either him or myself that merging CPUSETs and CKRM is as easy as I once believed. I'm still convinced the CPU side is doable, but

Re: [PATCH] hot-swapping support for PSX controllers

2005-02-08 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 07:21:54PM +0100, Eric Piel wrote: Hello, For now, a bug in the PSX controllers support in gamecon prevents hot-swapping of such controllers. If a controllers is removed then all the controllers stop working and cpu usage gets high. The attached patch (against

Re: [PATCH 2.4] SIOCSIFNAME wildcard support (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:04:45 -0200 Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:14:36AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: Hi Marcelo, I did not receive any feedback on this e-mail, so I assume it was lost on the way. Would you mind pushing that in 2.4.x ?

Re: Merging the Suspend2 freezer implementation.

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! The main change involves the introduction of a new SYNCTHREAD flag. We use this to avoid deadlocking over processes that are running sys_sync and siblings. Processes that enter those routines get the flag added, and it's removed when they exit the sync routine. We then freeze in

Re: Merging the Suspend2 freezer implementation.

2005-02-08 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 09:32, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! The main change involves the introduction of a new SYNCTHREAD flag. We use this to avoid deadlocking over processes that are running sys_sync and siblings. Processes that enter those routines get the flag added, and it's

Re: [PATCH 2.4] SIOCSIFNAME wildcard support (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:24:22PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:04:45 -0200 Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:14:36AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: Hi Marcelo, I did not receive any feedback on this e-mail, so I assume it

Re: [RFC][PATCH] swsusp: do not use higher order allocations on resume [update 2]

2005-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! +static inline void eat_page(void *page) { Please put { on new line. Okay, as you can see, I could find very little wrong with this patch. That hopefully means it is okay ;-). I should still check error handling, but I guess I'll do it when it is applied because it is hard to do on a diff.

Re: the Turing Attack (was: Sabotaged PaXtest)

2005-02-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel This, on the face of it, seems like a ridiculous possibility as the chances of that are reverse proportional to the number of bits necessary to implement the simplest Turing Machine.

Re: where to export system tuneables, /proc/sys/kernel or /sys/?

2005-02-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Chris Friesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel I'm doing some kernel work that will export tuneables to userspace. In 2.4 I would have used /proc/sys/kernel, but now there is /sys, which was supposed to be for system information.

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Marcelo, On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:41:46PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: There need to be some unique features in 2.6.X to force people to upgrade, I guess... Faster, cleaner, way more elegant, handles intense loads more gracefully, When a CPU-hungry task freezes another one

2.6.10-ac12 + kernbench == oom-killer: (OSDL)

2005-02-08 Thread cliff white
Running 2.6.10-ac10 on the STP 1-CPU machines, we don't seem to be able to complete a kernbench run without hitting the OOM-killer. ( kernbench is multiple kernel compiles, of course ) Machine is 800 mhz PIII with 1GB memory. We reduce memory for some of the runs. Typical results: stp1-001

Re: Real-Time Preemption and UML?

2005-02-08 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Esben Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I don't really know who I am responding to. But both up()s now changed to complete()s are in something looking very much like an interrupt handler. But again, as I said, I didn't analyze the code in

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-08 Thread Peter Osterlund
Robert Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 22:22 +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote: EIP is a strncpy_from_user+0x33/0x47 ... Call Trace: getname+0x69/0xa5 sys_open+0x12/0xc6 sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x75

Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

2005-02-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:=?iso-8859-1?Q?Pozs=E1r_Bal=E1zs?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel Granted, I could override the default order by using a /etc/filesystems file. But the kernel should have a much more sane default on its own, namely try vfat

Re: [RFC][PATCH] swsusp: do not use higher order allocations on resume [update 2]

2005-02-08 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 8 of February 2005 23:42, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! +static inline void eat_page(void *page) { Please put { on new line. Oh, I still tend to forget about this. Corrected in the patch that is available on the web

[PATCH][I2C] Marvell mv64xxx i2c driver

2005-02-08 Thread Mark A. Greer
Marvell makes a line of host bridge for PPC and MIPS systems. On those bridges is an i2c controller. This patch adds the driver for that i2c controller. Please apply. Depends on patch submitted by Jean Delvare: http://archives.andrew.net.au/lm-sensors/msg29405.html Signed-off-by: Mark A.

Re: EBDA Question

2005-02-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Moore, Eric Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel EBDA - Extended Bios Data Area Does Linux and various boot loaders(lilo/grub/etc) having any restrictions on where and how big memory allocated in EBDA is? Is this handled for

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

2005-02-08 Thread James Morris
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: I shot out the last patch too quickly. Having reviewed the mapping one more time I noticed, that there as the possibility of off-by-one unmapping, and instead of doing doubtful guesses, if that's the case, I added a base pointer to scatter_walk,

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Nick Piggin
Martin J. Bligh wrote: What about your proposed sched domain changes? Cant sched domains be used handle the CPU groupings and the existing code in cpusets that handle memory continue as is? Weren't sched somains supposed to give the scheduler better knowledge of the CPU groupings afterall ? sched

Re: prezeroing V6 [2/3]: ScrubD

2005-02-08 Thread cliff white
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:51:05 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: We also need to try to identify workloads whcih might experience a regression and test them too. It isn't very hard. I'd be glad if you could provide some

Re: 3TB disk hassles

2005-02-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel Since writing the above, I've been searching for more info. I downloaded four different versions of grub (GNU Grub Legacy, GNU Grub2, gentoo and Fedora Core 3). NONE of these showed

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:45:31PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: Hi Marcelo, On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:41:46PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: There need to be some unique features in 2.6.X to force people to upgrade, I guess... Faster, cleaner, way more elegant, handles intense

Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: claim block dev in file struct rather than inode struct, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (3/8)

2005-02-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Michael Halcrow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...]. This occurs because the bd_release function will bd_release(bdev) and set inode-i_security to NULL on the close(fd1). Hence, we want to place the control at the level of the file struct, not the inode. This is basically what I was referring

[PATCH] Fix ALPS sync loss

2005-02-08 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi, Here is the promised patch. It turns out protocol validation code was a bit (or rather a byte ;) ) off. Please let me know if it fixes your touchpad and I believe it would be nice to have it in 2.6.11. -- Dmitry === [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: nits, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (6/8)

2005-02-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Michael Halcrow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is the sixth in a series of eight patches to the BSD Secure Levels LSM. It makes several trivial changes to make the code consistent. These are inconsistent with CodingStyle. I'd drop this, and go the other way (patch is smaller) ala Lindent.

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

2005-02-08 Thread Fruhwirth Clemens
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 18:30 -0500, James Morris wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: I shot out the last patch too quickly. Having reviewed the mapping one more time I noticed, that there as the possibility of off-by-one unmapping, and instead of doing doubtful guesses, if

Re: [PATCH 2.4] SIOCSIFNAME wildcard support (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:37:15 -0800 Jean Tourrilhes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was sent to netdev : http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdevm=110747857226852w=2 Resend it to netdev instead, please. If nobody responds, it means the networking maintainers simply are backlogged and

2.6.10 kprobes/jprobes panic

2005-02-08 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Hi, I ran into this while playing with jprobes in 2.6.10. I tried to install jprobe handler on a invalid address, I get OOPS. I was hoping for a error check and a graceful exit rather than kernel Oops. Thanks, Badari plant jprobe at c01836b0, handler addr a080 Unable to

Re: [PATCH][I2C] Marvell mv64xxx i2c driver

2005-02-08 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, just a minor thing +static int __devinit +mv64xxx_i2c_init(void) +{ + return driver_register(mv64xxx_i2c_driver); +} __init +static void __devexit +mv64xxx_i2c_exit(void) +{ + driver_unregister(mv64xxx_i2c_driver); + return; +} __exit these functions relate

Re: Question about sendfile

2005-02-08 Thread Gianni Tedesco
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 22:26 -0500, Xiuduan Fang wrote: Hi, I am trying to beat the I/O bottleneck so as to speed up bulk data transfers in high speed network. It seems that the system call sendfile() can help to reduce CPU utilization and speedup data transfers. But I have one question

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Shailabh Nagar
As best as I can figure out, CKRM is a fair share scheduler with a gussied up more modular architecture, so that the components to track usage, control (throttle) tasks, and classify tasks are separate plugins. I'm not an expert on CKRM, so I'll leave the refuting (or notrefuting) of your

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Roman, I suspect the most of the folks on LKML are sick and tired of this particular thread. Could you (and Larry) please take this off-line, please? Everyone who has an opinion on this matter is not likely to change their minds, so continued rehashing of old arguments is just noise

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

2005-02-08 Thread James Morris
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: You can't call kmap() in softirq context (why was it even trying?): Why not? What's the alternative, then? It can sleep in map_new_virtual(). The alternative is to use atomic kmaps. For this code, unless you can point to something concrete in

Re: [PATCH] New sys_chmod() hook for the LSM framework

2005-02-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As commented yesterday, I was going to release a few more hooks for some *critical* syscalls, this one adds a hook to sys_chmod(), and makes us able to apply checks and logics before releasing the operation to sys_chmod(). This is

Re: Problem in accessing executable files

2005-02-08 Thread Vineet Joglekar
Hi all, 1 more interesting observation regarding my executable file problem. If I copy an executable say prac from ext2 fs to my encrypted fs as prac1, prac1 doesnt run on the encrypted fs. but, if I make another copy, from prac1 to normal ext2 fs, as prac2, then the prac2 executes

Re: Problem in accessing executable files

2005-02-08 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 07:14:27PM -0500, Vineet Joglekar wrote: Hi all, 1 more interesting observation regarding my executable file problem. If I copy an executable say prac from ext2 fs to my encrypted fs as prac1, prac1 doesnt run on the encrypted fs. but, if I make another

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Paul Jackson
Matthew wrote: I should have been more clear that CKRM and CPUSETs (seem) to be unreconcilable. Sched_domains and CPUSETs (seem) to have some potential functionality overlap that leads me to (still) believe there is hope to integrate these two systems. Aha - now we're getting somewhere.

Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-08 Thread Paul Jackson
Shailabh wrote: Well, I'm not sure I want to minutely examine Paul's choice of words ! You're a wise man ;). Rereading the earlier posts on the thread, I'd agree. There are some similarities in our interfaces but not enough to warrant a merger. As I said ... a wise man ! --

Re: Question regarding e1000 driver and dropped packets (2.6.5 / 2.6.10)?

2005-02-08 Thread Bukie Mabayoje
Can you do a simple test? Connect the two box to the same switch. ( No other box should be on the physical bus) 1. Send packets from BoxA --- BoxB ( Record the stats) 2. Send packets from BoxB --- BoxA(Record the stats) 3. Send packets simultaneously from BoxB-BoxA and

Re: [PATCH][I2C] Marvell mv64xxx i2c driver

2005-02-08 Thread Mark A. Greer
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Hi, just a minor thing +static int __devinit +mv64xxx_i2c_init(void) +{ + return driver_register(mv64xxx_i2c_driver); +} __init +static void __devexit +mv64xxx_i2c_exit(void) +{ + driver_unregister(mv64xxx_i2c_driver); + return; +}

Re: VM disk cache behavior.

2005-02-08 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:06:14PM -0500, jon ross wrote: I have an app with a small fixed memory footprint that does a lot of random reads from a large file. I thought if I added more memory to the machine the VM would do more caching of the disk, but added memory does not seem to make any

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:41:46PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:51:12PM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: You are right, it's not critical, and I was already thinking of not pushing WE-18 to you (the WPA update). I'll stop updating 2.4.X with respect to

bttv : overlay mode and big disk io hang and could corrupt the fs

2005-02-08 Thread matthieu castet
Hi, if I run xawtv [1] and then do a grep -r toto /usr, my system quickly freeze. If there isn't any xawv running nothing happen. I don't try to use xawtv with grab mode (port 54) because I don't want to loose data by crashing again my / fs. I retry it and I arrived to get some log (see the

Re: [2.6 patch] kill xfrm_export.c

2005-02-08 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:17:15 +0100 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch removes xfrm_export.c and moves the EXPORT_SYMBOL{,_GPL}'s to the files where the actual functions are. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied, thanks Adrian. - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread kernel
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 13:41, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: There need to be some unique features in 2.6.X to force people to upgrade, I guess... Faster, cleaner, way more elegant, handles intense loads more gracefully, handles highmem decently, LSM/SELinux, etc, etc... Please *think*

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread kernel
Message below meant for Marcelo! (sorry rest!) On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:09, kernel wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 13:41, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: There need to be some unique features in 2.6.X to force people to upgrade, I guess... Faster, cleaner, way more elegant, handles intense

Re: [PATCH][I2C] Marvell mv64xxx i2c driver

2005-02-08 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:32:11 -0700, Mark A. Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Hi, just a minor thing +static int __devinit +mv64xxx_i2c_init(void) +{ + return driver_register(mv64xxx_i2c_driver); +} __init +static void __devexit

Re: out-of-line x86 put_user() implementation

2005-02-08 Thread Richard Henderson
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:20:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: +3: movl %eax,(%ecx) ... +3: movl %eax,(%ecx) +4: movl %edx,4(%ecx) ... + .long 3b,bad_put_user + .long 4b,bad_put_user The first 3 gets lost. r~ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: out-of-line x86 put_user() implementation

2005-02-08 Thread Richard Henderson
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:20:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: +#define __put_user_8(x, ptr) __asm__ __volatile__(call __put_user_8:=A (__ret_pu):0 ((typeof(*(ptr)))(x)), c (ptr)) This is not constrained enough. The compiler could choose to put the return value in edx. You want __asm__

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk5: XFS: fcron: could not write() buf to disk: Resource temporarily unavailable

2005-02-08 Thread Nathan Scott
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:51:36PM +0300, Alexander Y. Fomichev wrote: G' day It looks like XFS broken somewhere in 2.6.11-rc1, sadly i can't sand right bugreport, some facts only. Upgrade to 2.6.11-rc2 makes fcron non-working for me in case of crontabs directory is placed on XFS

2.6.11-rc3: oops in pdflush

2005-02-08 Thread Gerd v. Egidy
Hi, rc3 vanilla oopses within 2 or 3 hours of heavy io load (rdiff-backup of ide disk (reiserfs3) to usb-storage (reiserfs3 on dm-crypt) and listening to internet radio in parallel). This is 100% reproducable here. Usually there occur 4 or 5 of very similar looking oopses within 3 hours

Re: 2.6.10-ac12 + kernbench == oom-killer: (OSDL)

2005-02-08 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:57:07PM -0800, cliff white wrote: Running 2.6.10-ac10 on the STP 1-CPU machines, we don't seem to be able to complete a kernbench run without hitting the OOM-killer. ( kernbench is multiple kernel compiles, of course ) Machine is 800 mhz PIII with 1GB memory. We

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/: misc possible cleanups

2005-02-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 11:18:18AM +0100, Armin Schindler wrote: Hi Adrian, Hi Armin, thanks for the proposed patch. Making the functions static is a good idea, I will check and test this. Removing some functions, especially from io.* and di.* is not good. These functions are mainly used

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Jean Tourrilhes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The first is the handling of spyoffset which is potentially unsafe. Unfortunately, the fix involve some API/infrastructure change, so is not transparent. Fortunately drivers are clever enough to not trigger this bug. The second is a

[2.6 patch] kill drivers/scsi/hosts.h

2005-02-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
Since more than half a year ago, drivers/scsi/hosts.h gives a warning, so it seems to be time to remove it. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm1-full/drivers/scsi/hosts.h 2004-12-24 22:34:30.0 +0100 +++ /dev/null 2004-11-25 03:16:25.0

Re: kernel 2.6.9 failure

2005-02-08 Thread gl34
Quoting Burton Windle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Make sure your CPU type is set correctly. CONFIG_MK6=y It is. Here's the latest config filtered through grep ^C CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=y

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:09:04PM -0500, kernel wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 13:41, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: There need to be some unique features in 2.6.X to force people to upgrade, I guess... Faster, cleaner, way more elegant, handles intense loads more gracefully, handles

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Theodore Ts'o wrote: I don't know how many years it was before people decided to give up on the emacs vs. vi wars, but can we please put a more hasty end to the bk license flamewars? Many thanks, It's not really the same, if it would be just about personal

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:51:29PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: * Jean Tourrilhes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The first is the handling of spyoffset which is potentially unsafe. Unfortunately, the fix involve some API/infrastructure change, so is not transparent. Fortunately drivers are

Re: out-of-line x86 put_user() implementation

2005-02-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Richard Henderson wrote: The first 3 gets lost. Thanks. So here's v3 (which also removes the now stale __put_user_check() macro). Andrew - do you want to put it in -mm? Linus --- # This is a BitKeeper generated diff -Nru style patch. # # ChangeSet #

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 18:51:06 +0100 Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I wonder if reverting the patch will restore the old behaviour? This seems to be minimal fix to get Kylix application back to the working state... Maybe it is

Re: out-of-line x86 put_user() implementation

2005-02-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Richard Henderson wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:20:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: +#define __put_user_8(x, ptr) __asm__ __volatile__(call __put_user_8:=A (__ret_pu):0 ((typeof(*(ptr)))(x)), c (ptr)) This is not constrained enough. The compiler could choose

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Jean Tourrilhes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:51:29PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: Hmm, having ability to read kernel data is not so nice. It's not like you can read any arbitrary address, exploiting such a flaw is in my mind theoritical. Let's not overblow

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Jon Smirl
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:05:18 +0100 (CET), Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current problem is more serious and I want that bk users to understand that. A large part of kernel history is currently practically locked into bk. bk isn't doing what I need, so naturally I'm looking for

Re: out-of-line x86 put_user() implementation

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew - do you want to put it in -mm? I'll take patches from anyone ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: out-of-line x86 put_user() implementation

2005-02-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: Hmm.. I always thought A was the _pairing_ of %eax/%edx, not eax or edx? Ahh. Some testing shows that gcc really seems to think of it as eax or edx, ie you can do asm(uglee %0 %1: :a (1), A (2)); and it will output movl$1,

[ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-3.0 meets CKRM-E17

2005-02-08 Thread Peter Williams
A patch of PlugSched-3.0 against a 2.6.10 kernel with ckrm-e17.2610.patch and cpu.ckrm-e17.v10.patch already applied is available for download from: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-3.0%2Bckrm-E17-for-2.6.10.patch?download and a patchset and series file are available in at

Re: out-of-line x86 put_user() implementation

2005-02-08 Thread Richard Henderson
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:27:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: That brings up another issue: if I don't care which registers a 64-bit value goes into, can I get the low reg and high reg names some way? Nope. We never needed one in the i386 backend itself, so we never added anything like

Re: out-of-line x86 put_user() implementation

2005-02-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: I'll take patches from anyone ;) You'll never live it down. Once you get a name for being easy, you'll always be known as Andrew patch-ho Morton. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: out-of-line x86 put_user() implementation

2005-02-08 Thread Richard Henderson
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:16:15PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: I'd happily use your version, but I thought that some versions of gcc require that input output registers cannot overlap, and would refuse to do that thing? But if you tell me differently.. No, you're thinking of asm( :

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: Larry has said he will do the work you want if you pay him. Usually I'm all for giving the benefit of the doubt, but in this case I'd prefer to know exactly, what I would get for the money. But as I said by now I know enough about this that I can do

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Jon Smirl
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:35:37 +0100 (CET), Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: Larry has said he will do the work you want if you pay him. Usually I'm all for giving the benefit of the doubt, but in this case I'd prefer to know exactly, what I

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