Arjan == Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Arjan On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 17:30 -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote:
For userspace it's used by some of the MPI type apps in userland.
Arjan you got to be kidding. Why are these MPI apps accessing memory
Arjan that the kernel has mapped cached (eg
However what happens if someone wants to share say some
texture ram between the kernel and a video card and that has to be
mapped uncached? Though up example here though.
also that's surely supposed to be controlled by some kernel driver,
which in turn can and should export it's own mmap
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
The most recent one was yesterday: I had run lsusb in the morning and had no
problems, but at the end of the day I ran it again, and after outputting 3
lines of data, it hung, stuck in D-state. So now I have this:
[/home/user]$ ps aux|grep D
USER
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 23:20 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
Kaigai Kohei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The common agreement for the method of dealing with process aggregation
has not been constructed yet, I understood. And, we will not able to
integrate each process aggregation model because of
Guillaume Thouvenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
We really want to avoid doing such stuff in-kernel if at all possible, of
course.
Is it not possible to implement the fork/exec/exit notifications to
userspace so that a daemon can track the process relationships and perform
Hello,
This patch replaces the relay_fork module and it implements a fork
connector in the kernel/fork.c:do_fork() routine. The connector sends
information about parent PID and child PID over a netlink interface. It
allows to several user space applications to be informed when a fork
occurs in
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
There are already a bunch of r8169 patches in Jeff's tree. The combination
isn't pretty:
[removed by parental advisory]
I sent r8169-4{0/1/2/3/4}0 on netdev + Jeff the 22/02/2005. Jeff's netdev
(thus your tree) already had the r8169-3xx changes.
Jeff has
Guillaume Thouvenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
This patch replaces the relay_fork module and it implements a fork
connector in the kernel/fork.c:do_fork() routine. The connector sends
information about parent PID and child PID over a netlink interface. It
allows to several user
Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- do something else until I verify the above and generate a dedicated
patchsets for your tree.
That sounds great to me ;)
2.6.11-rc4-mm1 should be on kernel.org in an hour or so.
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On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 00:51 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
It's what I'm proposing. The problem is to be alerted when a new process
is created in order to add it in the correct group of processes if the
parent belongs to one (or several) groups. The notification can be done
with the fork
Guillaume Thouvenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I will run benchmarks found at http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ to see
how the fork connector impacts on the kernel.
The lmbench fork microbenchmark would suffice.
All stuff that was previously done in kernel space and provided by the
Greg KH writes:
Following the discussion in [1], the attached patch creates /sys/class/block
as a symlink to /sys/block. The patch applies to 2.6.11-rc4-bk7.
Please cc: me on any replies - I'm not subscribed to the mailing list.
Hm, your patch is linewrapped, and can't be applied :(
Bah,
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
We really want to avoid doing such stuff in-kernel if at all possible, of
course.
Is it not possible to implement the fork/exec/exit notifications to
userspace so that a daemon can track the process relationships and perform
aggregation based upon
Andrew == Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andrew Jes Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After applying the clue 2x4 to my head a couple of times, I came
up with this patch. Hopefully it will work a bit better ;-)
Andrew I know it's repetitious, but it's nice to maintain a changelog
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 22:05 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
Chris Friesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[...]
Maybe I'm on crack, but would it not be technically possible to have all
resource usage be tracked so that when a task tries to do something and
hangs, eventually it gets cleaned up?
Hi all,
I have an application on x86-64 that will require me sharing two memory
segments upwards of 10+ GB each among several processes. Would it be better
performance-wise to mmap in two files from a tmpfs filesystem, or, create two
large ramdisks (/dev/ram0 /dev/ram1) and mmap those in?
I'm not
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:07:47 -0800
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Guillaume Thouvenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
This patch replaces the relay_fork module and it implements a fork
connector in the kernel/fork.c:do_fork() routine. The connector sends
information about
Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:07:47 -0800
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Guillaume Thouvenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
This patch replaces the relay_fork module and it implements a fork
connector in the
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait dernirement que :
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc4/2.6.11-rc4-mm1/
- Various fixes and updates all over the place. Things seem to have slowed
down a bit.
- Last, final, ultimate call: if anyone has patches in
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 02:58:06 -0800
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:07:47 -0800
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Guillaume Thouvenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
This patch replaces the
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It shouldn't be. If one read writer is active, another should be able to
come in, regardless of any pending writer trying to access it. At least
that's always been the rule for the rw-spinlocks _exactly_ for this
reaseon.
But not with rw-semaphores.
Hi, Thanks for your comments.
Andrew Morton wrote:
Some process-aggregation model have own philosophy and implemantation,
so it's hard to integrate. Thus, I think that common 'fork/exec/exit' event
handling
framework to implement any kinds of process-aggregation.
We really want to avoid
Hi,
I'm back :) just shortly, to report an annoying kernel crash that
sometimes I'm experiencing at boot time on my laptop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/UP),
running 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02 (PREEMPT_RT=y, config attached).
This BUG is happening in some probabilistic fashion, like 1 on each 3
boots,
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is uglee.
True. You could just wrap it up in inline functions and hide it in a header
file as I suggested in the email I've just sent.
We really have this already, and it's called current-preempt. It
handles any lock at all, and doesn't add yet
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
wrt this down_read/down_write/down_read deadlock: iirc, the reason why
down_write() takes precedence over down_read() is to avoid the permanent
writer starvation which would occur if there is heavy down_read() traffic.
down_write() doesn't actually take
- Last, final, ultimate call: if anyone has patches in here which are 2.6.11
material, please tell me.
I guess that depends on how you define 2.6.11 material at this point, but
I have a few patches that I wrote in there, that I think are potential
candidates due to them being fairly
Today lilo (the FreeNode network owner) has decided to make one step away in a
direction opposite of freedom, and banned all Tor users from the FreeNode
network.
Tor ( http://tor.eff.org ) is an open source anonymous gateway system. Many
users who are not in the position to be able to use IRC
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:42:19 -0800
Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Probably the best long term solution is to make the protocol choice
be a property of the destination cache
[..]
The protocol choices are mutually exclusive, if you walk through the code
(or do experiments), you
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testfile count=N, N6
It turns out N6 is variable. But large enough and it will hang. Sugests
some kind of race I am afraid.
I get into an endless loop in __find_get_block_slow.
The only way in which __find_get_block_slow() can loop is if something
wrecked the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas S. Iversen) wrote:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testfile count=N, N6
It turns out N6 is variable. But large enough and it will hang. Sugests
some kind of race I am afraid.
I get into an endless loop in __find_get_block_slow.
The only way in which
On 2004-05-08 at 22:00, James Morris wrote:
Under SELinux, and potentially other LSMs, we need
to be able to distinguish between user sockets and
kernel sockets. For SELinux specifically, kernel
sockets need to be specially labeled during
creation, then bypass access control checks (they
Hi,
I wrote a kernel tool for my personnal usage which goal is to keep a
record of recent task preemptions and interruptions that appears under
linux. Either for debugging through KDB, or for monitoring/analyze
with a graphics representation.
as adviced, SourceForge project is now opened:
The current SCx200 drivers use a fixed base address of 0x9000 for the
Configuration Block, but some systems (at least the Soekris net4801)
uses a base address of 0x6000. This patch first tries the fixed address
then - if no configuration block could be found - tries the address
written to the
OK, so we're looking for the buffer_head for block 101 and the first
buffer_head which is attached to the page represents block 100. So the
next buffer_head _should_ represent block 101. Please print it out:
Not quite the same, but simelar:
Feb 23 14:50:24 localhost kernel:
This kernel came up, but my boot script complained about no /dev/hdb3
when trying to mount /var.
(I have two IDE disks on the same cable, and an IDE cdrom on another.)
They are usually hda, hdb, and hdc.
MAKEDEV hdq did not help. Looking at sysfs, it turns out that
/dev/hdq1 is at major:3
Matt Mackall wrote:
[...]
JPEG data is DCT of 8x8 pixel chunks. If you can get at that, you can
compare the DC terms of each chunk with minimal decoding. Various
thumbnailers do this for speed already.
I really doubt that this would work. It seems to me that you can have
very different DC terms
Hi!
I still get the following messages and my mouse jumps around weirdly
making work rather difficult regardless of which 2.6 kernel I use (tried
2.6.8, 2.6.9, 2.6.10, 2.6.11-rc2 with patch-see below, 2.6.11-rc4):
psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost synchronization, throwing
2 bytes
These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness. It is
configurable to any workload but the default ck* patch is aimed at the
desktop and ck*-server is available with more emphasis on serverspace.
This is a maintenance release and is identical to 2.6.10-ck5 apart from
using
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote:
linux-os [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You don't seem to understand. A process that's stuck in 'D' state
shows a SEVERE error, usually with a hardware driver.
Or a network filesystem mount to a no longer existing server or share.
But that's a whole different
Jan Blunck (JB) writes:
JB Nope, d_alloc() is setting d_flags to DCACHE_UNHASHED. Therefore it is not
found
JB by __d_lookup() until it is rehashed which is implicit done by -lookup().
that means we can have two processes allocated dentry for
same name. they'll call -lookup() each against
Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
Hi,
I'm back :) just shortly, to report an annoying kernel crash that
sometimes I'm experiencing at boot time on my laptop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/UP),
running 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02 (PREEMPT_RT=y, config attached).
This BUG is happening in some probabilistic fashion, like 1 on
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:22:42 +0100, Nils Kalchhauser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I still get the following messages and my mouse jumps around weirdly
making work rather difficult regardless of which 2.6 kernel I use (tried
2.6.8, 2.6.9, 2.6.10, 2.6.11-rc2 with patch-see below, 2.6.11-rc4):
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 06:34:54PM -0800, Anil Kumar wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to install RHEL 4, 2.6.9-5.EL. I have adaptec 39320
controller, The install CD already has aic79xx driver in it. The
driver does NOT load for some reason. If I take the same aic79xx
driver source, Create an img
Hello Linus,
you can either use bk receive to patch with this mail,
or you can
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or in cases of dire need, you can apply the patch below.
BK: Parent repository is file://var/bitkeeper/BK-kernel-tools
Patch description:
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:30:27PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
We really have this already, and it's called current-preempt. It
handles any lock at all, and doesn't add yet another special case to all
the architectures.
Just do
repeat:
Trying to run an old server with a new kernel. A connection
fails with interrupted system call as soon as a client
attempts to connect. A trap in the code to continue
works, but subsequent send() and recv() calls fail in
the same way.
Anybody know how to mask that SIGIO (or whatever signal)?
Hi there,
looks like xfsdumpis broken with recent 2.6.11-rc Kernels. 2.6.11-rc4 is the
one I tried.
Strange enough ist does seem to work _sometimes_, but it does not work
most of the time.
If it does not work I just get the following message:
xfsdump: ERROR: /dev/sda2 does not identify a file
Hi Andreas
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:08:40 -0500, Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Here's 2.6.10-as5. 2.6.10-as4 was never officially announced; it had
issues (note to self; test, *then* tag). Distributors should note that
there is an ABI/API change in this release, due to
Patrick,
Today lilo (the FreeNode network owner) has decided to make one step away
in a direction opposite of freedom, and banned all Tor users from the
FreeNode network.
The actual PDPC policy on access to Freenode via the Electronic Frontier
Foundation's Tor project is here:
This patch fixes confliction types for pcibios_align_resource.
CC arch/mips/pci/pci.o
arch/mips/pci/pci.c:55: error: conflicting types for 'pcibios_align_resource'
include/linux/pci.h:729: error: previous declaration of
'pcibios_align_resource' was here
make[1]: *** [arch/mips/pci/pci.o]
This patch fixes the following errores.
We need C99 struct initialization.
CC arch/mips/kernel/setup.o
arch/mips/kernel/setup.c:89: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer
without a cast
arch/mips/kernel/setup.c:89: error: initializer element is not computable at
load time
Hi,
Does anyone know whether the BKCVS repository
(rsync.kernel.org::pub/scm/linux/kernel/bkcvs/linux-2.5) is still
updated? The last ChangeSet,v revision I got is 1.26750 which was
checked in more than a week ago.
(Sorry if I missed some e-mails about a planned down-time)
Thanks,
Catalin
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Parag Warudkar wrote:
Alan,
See below for stack traces and also note that the stack traces are after I
modified usb_device_read to do down_interruptible instead of down. (kudzu
gets stuck regardless though.) Let me know if you want me to revert the
down_interruptible
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Joe Korty wrote:
Perhaps this should be preempt_disable preempt_enable.
No, the problem with preempt_disable/enable is that they go away if
preemption is not enabled. So you really do have to do it by hand with the
inc_preempt_count.
Otherwise, a preempt attempt
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Can you try this patch?
If it fixes the oops, I'll forward upstream ASAP.
Jeff,
It fixes the oops (pasted below) for me; please do push it ASAP.
thanks,
BR
xlated vfy cmd LBA 0x14f500 cnt 20
ahci_interrupt: int on port 2
ahci_host_intr: fatal int seen
ahci_intr_error: port 2
Hi.
The device is: USB2.0 to IDE 3.5 hard disk enclosure.
Producer: Seven.
Part of /var/log/messages with USB debug enabled in kernel is
attached to this email.
Kernel: 2.6.9, 2.6.10 (i cant remember from which one is attached log).
Distribution: Gentoo.
I'm not subscribed to the list, pleas
Sebastian,
Try upgrading to 2.6.11-rc2-mm4 or newer, I've had better luck with my
USB/Firewire external case on there. Just make sure you don't turn on
usb-storage logging, it's way too verbose for general use!
John
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:39:08AM +, David Howells wrote:
Alternately, you could just have do_page_fault() do:
while (!down_read_trylock(current-mm-mmap_sem))
continue;
However, note that this can suffer from starvation due to a never ending flow
of mixed
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:22:42 +0100, Nils Kalchhauser
There were 2 versions of the psmouse-resend patch, the first one was
indeed producing worse results, the second one should work better.
Could you please try grabbing the patch against 2.6.10 from here:
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 12:03 +0100, Mathieu Segaud wrote:
it is the latest Robert Love posted against -mm kernels, but in
inotify_ignore():
I posted an updated patch last Friday, which fixed this.
Anyhow, this is the correct fix.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Andrew Morton wrote:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc4/2.6.11-rc4-mm1/
- Various fixes and updates all over the place. Things seem to have slowed
down a bit.
I am having trouble getting recent -mm kernels to boot on my test box.
For 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 and
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:31:03 +0100, Olaf Titz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
The most recent one was yesterday: I had run lsusb in the morning and had no
problems, but at the end of the day I ran it again, and after outputting 3
lines of data, it hung,
I have recently run into similar issue involving processes stuck in D state -
involves khubd and usb-storage. This happens with 2.6.11-rc4.
Check lkml for subject Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB Storage hangs mac..
Parag
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:31:03 +0100, Olaf Titz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dap,
I too have the same problem in relation to the IAL completion errors and
have upgraded from 2.6.9 to 2.6.11. But now I am unable to compile the
openbuild drivers for the highpoint 1820a raid controllers.
May I ask how you successfully comiled the drivers to work with 2.6.11?
My setup:
I'm getting several modules with undefined symbols :
Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
*** Warning: match_octal [fs/udf/udf.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: match_token [fs/udf/udf.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: match_int [fs/udf/udf.ko] undefined!
***
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 20:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CVS was pretty good at keeping files sane, but I'll go for a solution that
completely sidesteps said problem any day.
One way to get the benefits of both worlds would be to keep an
additional history of changes (in whatever form) that allows
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:54:06AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Otherwise, a preempt attempt in get_user would not be seen
until some future preempt_enable was executed.
True. I guess we should have a preempt_check_resched() there too. That's
what kunmap_atomic() does too (which is what
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Paulo Marques wrote:
Matt Mackall wrote:
[...]
JPEG data is DCT of 8x8 pixel chunks. If you can get at that, you can
compare the DC terms of each chunk with minimal decoding. Various
thumbnailers do this for speed already.
I really doubt that this would work. It
Hi all,
i'm trying to get an Adaptec 2015S Zero Channel Raid Controller up and running
in a very new Asus Mainboard (NCL-DS)
with Dual Xeons.
I already tried kernel 2.4.29 and plain 2.6.10 but both just lock up when
loading the dpt_i2o driver.
With 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 i could gather the following
Version 0.0.4 of yaird is now available at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekonijn/yaird/yaird-0.0.4.tar.gz
Yaird is a perl rewrite of mkinitrd. It aims to reliably identify the
necessary modules by using the same algorithms as hotplug, and comes
with a template system to to tune the tool for
Machine is sparc64, bk of today, gcc-3.4.2-6.fc3 (Aurora Corona). First 2.6
I try to build here, so it might be something known.
Build fails due to -Werror with:
include/asm/uaccess.h: In function `load_elf_binary':
arch/sparc64/kernel/../../../fs/binfmt_elf.c:811: warning: ignoring return
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 05:00, Matt Mackall wrote:
It's disappointing that this paper appears to be available only
through subscription sources. If I'm mistaken, please post a URL.
The authors are making a webpage with info and documentation.
I suppose that article you are referring
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 11:10 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:54:06AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Otherwise, a preempt attempt in get_user would not be seen
until some future preempt_enable was executed.
True. I guess we should have a preempt_check_resched()
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:29:49 +0100, Nils Kalchhauser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:22:42 +0100, Nils Kalchhauser
There were 2 versions of the psmouse-resend patch, the first one was
indeed producing worse results, the second one should work better.
Ingo,
Did something change recently in the VM that made copy_pte_range and
clear_page_range a lot more expensive? I noticed a reference in the
Page Table Iterators thread to excessive overhead introduced by
aggressive page freeing. That sure looks like what is going on in
trace2. trace1 and
Hi,
As the megaraid2 maintainers dont seem to care about v2.4 mainline at all,
completly
ignoring my requests to fix the NMI oopser bug for several months, I'm applying
the RHEL3
update + inline reordering, which should do it.
At this point I'm quite sure they wont answer this message
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 07:40:24AM -0800, Mickey Stein wrote:
Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 08:58:48AM -0800, Mickey Stein wrote:
From: Mickey Stein
Versions: linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk7, gcc4 (GCC) 4.0.0 20050217 (latest fc
rawhide from 19Feb DL)
gcc4 cvs seems to dislike
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 02:15:05PM +0100, Michal Januszewski wrote:
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 03:03:26PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Pavel, I agree with Michal, take a look at this version of the code
instead of the version that you posted. It's a _whole_ lot more sane,
and possibly even
Olof Johansson wrote:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:54:06AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Otherwise, a preempt attempt in get_user would not be seen
until some future preempt_enable was executed.
True. I guess we should have a preempt_check_resched() there too. That's
what
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Jamie Lokier wrote:
I suggest putting it into futex.c, and make it an inline function
which takes u32 __user *.
Agreed, except we've traditionally just made it int __user *.
Linus
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This Patch removes unnecessary if statement from a function without
implementation (in kernel 2.6.x and 2.4.x),
the function returns 0 with or without the if statement.
Signed-off-by: Telemaque Ndizihiwe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- linux-2.6.10/drivers/block/z2ram.c.orig2005-02-23
This Patch replaces (2 * HZ) with DATA_TIMEOUT which is defined as
#define DATA_TIMEOUT (2 * HZ)
in /drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c in kernel 2.6.10.
Signed-off-by: Telemaque Ndizihiwe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- linux-2.6.10/drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c.orig2005-02-20
12:44:22.235267848 +
+++
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:22:04PM +, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Olof Johansson wrote:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:54:06AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Otherwise, a preempt attempt in get_user would not be seen
until some future preempt_enable was executed.
True. I guess we should
Olof Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alternately, you could just have do_page_fault() do:
while (!down_read_trylock(current-mm-mmap_sem))
continue;
However, note that this can suffer from starvation due to a never ending
flow of mixed write-locks and read-locks
Linus Torvalds wrote:
I suggest putting it into futex.c, and make it an inline function
which takes u32 __user *.
Agreed, except we've traditionally just made it int __user *.
The type signatures in futex.c are a bit mixed up - most places say
int __user * but sys_futex() says u32 __user
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Telemaque Ndizihiwe wrote:
This Patch replaces (2 * HZ) with DATA_TIMEOUT which is defined as
#define DATA_TIMEOUT (2 * HZ)
in /drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c in kernel 2.6.10.
Your patches are white-space damaged due to linewrap (and possibly other
issues, but the
Guillaume Thouvenin wrote:
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 23:20 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
Kaigai Kohei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The common agreement for the method of dealing with process aggregation
has not been constructed yet, I understood. And, we will not able to
integrate each process aggregation
d.c wrote:
El Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:34:23 -0500 (EST),
Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
BK already feeds patches out at the head, surely if it's as powerful as
you think, it could feed a free SCM too for your non-bk friends in the
community.
Who cares, really?
1) Linux was never supposed to have a
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
Did something change recently in the VM that made copy_pte_range and
clear_page_range a lot more expensive? I noticed a reference in the
Page Table Iterators thread to excessive overhead introduced by
aggressive page freeing. That sure looks like what
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:49:46PM +, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Linus Torvalds wrote:
I suggest putting it into futex.c, and make it an inline function
which takes u32 __user *.
Agreed, except we've traditionally just made it int __user *.
The type signatures in futex.c are a bit
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Hello
I have read a post in lkml.org that states that the problem experienced in
rc3 has gone (1). That is not the case for me.
My audio device is
:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:11:05 +0100, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
snip
Table of known working systems:
Model hack (or how to do it)
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IBM TP R32 / Type 2658-MMG none
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:06:18PM +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
On Llu, 2005-02-07 at 09:29, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote:
- Why is the generic timer using this address ? isn't it reserving a too
wide portion of IO ports ? Should it be modified for this board ?
It
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 19:16 +, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
Did something change recently in the VM that made copy_pte_range and
clear_page_range a lot more expensive? I noticed a reference in the
Page Table Iterators thread to excessive overhead
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:58:45AM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
ty den 22.02.2005 Klokka 13:13 (+0100) skreiv Herbert Poetzl:
diff -NurpP --minimal
linux-2.6.11-rc4-bme0.06-bm0.01-at0.01-cc0.01-co0.01-xa0.01/arch/sparc64/solaris/fs.c
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 19:16 +, Hugh Dickins wrote:
I'm just about to test this patch below: please give it a try: thanks...
I'm very sorry, there's two things wrong with that version: _must_
increment addr before breaking out, and better to check
This BK push includes additional hardware support, but that's only
because it's (a) obviously low impact and (b) it was in the queue.
Far more important are:
1) API additions, to fix a severe bug: advanced drivers such as AHCI
were directly bitbanging --non-existent-- PCI IDE registers,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas S. Iversen) wrote:
OK, so we're looking for the buffer_head for block 101 and the first
buffer_head which is attached to the page represents block 100. So the
next buffer_head _should_ represent block 101. Please print it out:
Not quite the same, but simelar:
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 20:06 +, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 19:16 +, Hugh Dickins wrote:
I'm just about to test this patch below: please give it a try: thanks...
I'm very sorry, there's two things wrong with that version:
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