Re: [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock

2005-02-23 Thread Jamie Lokier
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

Re: [PATCH] Replaces (2 * HZ) with DATA_TIMEOUT in /drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c

2005-02-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
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,

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-02-23 Thread Jay Lan
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

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
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

Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Hugh Dickins
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

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock

2005-02-23 Thread Olof Johansson
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

Re: intel8x0: no sound in 2.6.11 rc3 & 4 (fine with 2.6.10)

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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)

Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-23 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:11:05 +0100, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > Table of known working systems: > > Model hack (or "how to do it") > -- > IBM TP R32 / Type 2658-MMG

Linux 2.4.30-pre2

2005-02-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, Here goes the second pre of v2.4.30. It contains a bunch of important networking fixes, most noticeably the brlocks rework. Plus USB fixes, megaraid2 driver update, JFS update, amongst others. Read the changelog for detailed information Summary of changes from v2.4.30-pre1 to

Re: [PATCH] Reserve only needed regions for PC timers on i386 and x86_64

2005-02-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
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

Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Lee Revell
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

Re: [Patch 6/6] Bind Mount Extensions 0.06

2005-02-23 Thread Herbert Poetzl
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 > > > >

Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Hugh Dickins
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

[BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly)

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
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,

Re: Help tracking down problem --- endless loop in __find_get_block_slow

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
[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

Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Lee Revell
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

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 : IDE crazy numbers, hdb renumbered to hdq ?

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

Re: xfsdump broken with Kernel 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-23 Thread Nathan Scott
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:26:58PM +0100, Sven Geggus wrote: > 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

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

Help enabling PCI interrupts on Dell/SMP and Sun/SMP systems.

2005-02-23 Thread Alan Kilian
Folks, This group was instrumental in helping me get my first-ever linux/PCI-bus device driver working last year, and I'm back for some more help if you are willing. I have a PCI card that generates an interrupt when it completes a DMA transfer to

Re: [PATCH] Always send siginfo for synchronous signals

2005-02-23 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Valgrind is critically dependent on getting siginfo with its synchronous > (caused by an instruction fault) signals; if it gets, say, a SIGSEGV > which doesn't have siginfo, it must terminate ASAP because it really > can't make any more progress

ppc32 weirdness with gcc-4.0 in 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-23 Thread Mikael Pettersson
2.6.11-rc4 built with gcc-3.4.3 works fine on my eMac. Building with gcc-4.0.0 (20050220) however gives me a kernel with dead USB, and thus no keyboard or mouse, but everything else seems to be working. A diff between dmesg on the two kernels has an interesting nugget: ---

Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 20:06 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > Thanks, your patch fixes the copy_pte_range latency. > > Great, if the previous patch fixed that latency then this new one > will too, no need to report on that; but please get rid of the old > patch before it leaks too many of your

kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Ammar T. Al-Sayegh
Hi All, I recently installed Fedora RC3 on a new server. The kernel is 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp. The server crashes every few days. When I examine /var/log/messages, I find the following line just before the crash: Feb 22 23:50:35 hostname kernel: [ cut here ] Feb 22 23:50:35

Re: Help enabling PCI interrupts on Dell/SMP and Sun/SMP systems.

2005-02-23 Thread linux-os
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Alan Kilian wrote: callpci_enable_device(dev) ... before you use the IRQ in dev->irq. The reported IRQ is bogus until you make that call. It's a reported BUG, probably won't ever get fixed because it's considered a feature.

Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly)

2005-02-23 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 21:57, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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. > --- a/drivers/scsi/ahci.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/ahci.c > +static u8 ahci_check_err(struct ata_port

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-02-23 Thread Jay Lan
Kaigai Kohei wrote: Hi, Thanks for your comments. >> I think there are two issues about system accounting framework. >> >> Issue: 1) How to define the appropriate unit for accounting ? >> Current BSD-accountiong make a collection per process accounting >> information. >> CSA make

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2005-02-23 Thread PUBLINET
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Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Please replace by new patch below, which I'm now running through lmbench. That second patch seems fine, and I see no lmbench regression from it. Hugh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Ammar T. Al-Sayegh wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently installed Fedora RC3 on a new server. > The kernel is 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp. The server > crashes every few days. When I examine /var/log/messages, > I find the following line just before the crash: > > Feb 22

Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > > Thanks, your patch fixes the copy_pte_range latency. > > clear_page_range is also problematic. Yes, I saw that from your other traces too. I know there are plans to improve clear_page_range during 2.6.12, but I didn't realize that it had

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:42:33AM -0800, 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. > > - Last, final, ultimate call: if

[patch 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 1/2] r8169: IRQ races during change of mtu

2005-02-23 Thread Francois Romieu
IRQ races during change of mtu - NAPI poll must be enabled prior to IRQ activation or the IRQ handler will not know what to do with an incoming packet; - rtl8169_down() needs to try twice to sync with the IRQ handler when it is not issued under !netif_running() protection. Both changes make

Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly)

2005-02-23 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 23:45, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > +static void qs_ata_setup_port(struct ata_ioports *port, unsigned long base) > > +{ > > + port->cmd_addr = > > > + port->error_addr= > > > + port->status_addr = > > > + port->altstatus_addr= > >

Tulip (DFE-570tx) & keyboard lockup in 2.6.9 and other 2.6 kernels.

2005-02-23 Thread Ben Greear
I finally had some time to debug this one a little more thoroughly. On two different machines (Shuttle SB61G1) I get the same results, so I do not believe it is bad hardware... The bug is as follows: I have 1 4-port tulip NIC in the machine. If I generate traffic between two interfaces, it runs

[PATCH] drivers/net/wan/z85230.c

2005-02-23 Thread tom watson
While working on a driver for z85230 based board I noticed what looks like it could be a problem. If the interrupt handler is handling an interrupt on port b and an interrupt comes in for port a, it seems to me that the port b handler would be called instead of the port a handler, and possibly

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rogério Brito wrote: On Feb 20 2005, Folkert van Heusden wrote: My linux laptop says: irq 5: nobody cared! (...) Does anyone care? :-) Well, I'm getting similar stack traces with my system and those are sure scary, but it seems that my e-mails to the list are simply ignored, unfortunately. I

[patch 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 2/2] r8169: factor out some code.

2005-02-23 Thread Francois Romieu
Factor out some code Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -puN drivers/net/r8169.c~r8169-460 drivers/net/r8169.c --- a/drivers/net/r8169.c~r8169-460 2005-02-23 21:35:28.715271999 +0100 +++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c 2005-02-23 21:35:28.720271177 +0100 @@ -495,6 +495,13 @@

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Dominik Brodowski
Hi, On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:20:09PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: > Andrew Morton a écrit : > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc4/2.6.11-rc4-mm1/ > > I can't get PCMCIA to work anymore since rc4-mm1. > It was working great with rc4 and rc3-mm1. > > PCMCIA

Re: [PATCH][2.4.30-pre1] preliminary fixes for gcc-4.0

2005-02-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:28:58PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > Here is a preliminary set of patches to allow gcc-4.0 (20050130) > to compile the 2.4.30-pre1 kernel. I make no claim that the patches > are complete, but they have been tested successfully on i386 (multiple > boxes), x86-64, and

Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly)

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Thanks. All this stuff was minor, so I'll wait until 2.6.11 release to update. I forwarded the qstor stuff to maintainer Mark Lord. Jeff - 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: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly)

2005-02-23 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Alexey Dobriyan schrieb: > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 21:57, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>+ addr = sg_dma_address(sg); >>+ *(u64 *)prd = cpu_to_le64(addr); > > > *(__le64 *) prd > > >>+ prd += sizeof(u64); > > >>+ len = sg_dma_len(sg); >>+

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:42:33AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: >... > bk-kbuild.patch >... This adds -Wno-pointer-sign to the main Makefile a second time. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Ammar T. Al-Sayegh wrote: > > I recently installed Fedora RC3 on a new server. > The kernel is 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp. I can't really speak for Fedora RC3 kernels, perhaps there's some special patch in there that happens to trigger it for you, but certainly there have been

Re: Thoughts on the "No Linux Security Modules framework" old claims

2005-02-23 Thread Crispin Cowan
Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote: Also, it was a pretty good thing from them this piece of work. Think that they investors may dislike the model they followed when the merge happened, anyways, and as an example, I pretty ignore those patents claims,for example, think that Type Enforcement

Re: [PATCH][2.4.30-pre1] preliminary fixes for gcc-4.0

2005-02-23 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Adrian Bunk writes: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:28:58PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Here is a preliminary set of patches to allow gcc-4.0 (20050130) > > to compile the 2.4.30-pre1 kernel. I make no claim that the patches > > are complete, but they have been tested successfully on i386

[PATCH] process-wide itimer typo fixes

2005-02-23 Thread Roland McGrath
Thanks for finding that. Ack! I did a quick merge of my well-tested patches with the cputime_t stuff, and apparently didn't do quite as much testing as I thought I did. There was a little query/replace error in my per-process-itimer-cpu patch now in -mm. Your patch is necessary but not

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Jeff Garzik wrote: You should add this to your procmailrc :) # Nuke duplicate messages :0 Wh: msgid.lock | $FORMAIL -D 32768 msgid.cache That has the nasty side-effect of spreading messages for a single discussion amongst many different mailboxes depending on

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Ammar T. Al-Sayegh
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Ammar T. Al-Sayegh wrote: Hi All, I recently installed Fedora RC3 on a new server. The kernel is 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp. The server crashes every few days. When I examine /var/log/messages, I find the following line just before the crash: Feb 22 23:50:35 hostname

[reiserfs] 100% cpu consum - normal?

2005-02-23 Thread Nico Schottelius
Hello! I once again tried reiserfs, this time on my ibook: ei ~ # mkreiserfs -V mkreiserfs 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com) ei ~ # uname -a Linux ei 2.6.10 #5 Sun Feb 6 17:26:47 CET 2005 ppc 750CXe PowerBook4,1 GNU/Linux If I tar xf $big_tar (speaking about the gcc-source), my system hangs: -

[PATCH] fix posix-timer initialization

2005-02-23 Thread Roland McGrath
> The problem arises from code touching the union in alloc_posix_timer() > which makes firing go non-zero. When firing is checked in > posix_cpu_timer_set() it will be positive causing an infinite loop. > > So either the below fix or preferably move the INIT_LIST_HEAD(x) from >

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (compile stats)

2005-02-23 Thread John Cherry
Linux 2.6 (mm tree) Compile Statistics (gcc 3.4.1) Web page with links to complete details: http://developer.osdl.org/cherry/compile/ KernelbzImage bzImage bzImage modules bzImage modules (defconfig) (allno) (allyes) (allyes) (allmod) (allmod) ---

[PATCH] A few more sparse fixes

2005-02-23 Thread Peter Hagervall
Remove the sparse warnings about using plain integer as NULL pointer in the following files: arch/i386/oprofile/backtrace.c drivers/char/isicom.c drivers/char/drm/radeon_state.c drivers/mtd/maps/nettel.c drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c drivers/serial/8250_early.c fs/reiserfs/namei.c

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock

2005-02-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Olof Johansson wrote: > > How's this? I went with get_val_no_fault(), since it isn't really a > get_user.*() any more (ptr being passed in), and no_paging is a little > misleading (not all faults are due to paging). Applied with minor cosmetic changes. I'm like a dog who

tun/tap(bochs) on AMD64

2005-02-23 Thread Thomas Zehetbauer
Hi, I am trying to get bochs to use tun/tap on x86_64, strace reveals the following problem: open("/dev/net/tun", O_RDWR)= 7 ioctl(7, TUNSETIFF, 0x7fffe6c0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) I wonder if this a tun/tap or a bochs problem. Any clues? Tom -- T h o m a s Z e

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 16:45 -0500, Ammar T. Al-Sayegh wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Ammar T. Al-Sayegh wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I recently installed Fedora RC3 on a new server. > >> The kernel is 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp. The server > >> crashes every few days. When I examine

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Brice Goglin
Dominik Brodowski a écrit : +pcmcia-bridge-resource-management-fix.patch is responsible for this "no resource available" message, because the other ones relate to other areas. Yes, good catch, reverting it makes PCMCIA work again. Let me know if you want me to test some patches. Thanks, Brice - To

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Nick Warne
> But not all cases could be accounted in that way. If you > report back that memtest86 ran cleanly... Hugh, Nothing to do with the 'problem' in this thread, but an aside that is perhaps relevant. On my main gateway, I couldn't get any kernel greater than 2.6.4 to run without an 'oops' after

Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly)

2005-02-23 Thread Roland Dreier
Prakash> If I am not totally mistaken this is not gcc4 friendly Prakash> code. (lvalue thing...) Actually you misread the code slightly. It's a little subtle, but code like *(__le32 *)prd = cpu_to_le32(len); is not using a cast as an lvalue. It's dereferencing a cast

Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly)

2005-02-23 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Roland Dreier schrieb: > Prakash> If I am not totally mistaken this is not gcc4 friendly > Prakash> code. (lvalue thing...) > > Actually you misread the code slightly. It's a little subtle, but > code like > > *(__le32 *)prd = cpu_to_le32(len); > > is not using a cast as an

Re: Thoughts on the "No Linux Security Modules framework" old claims

2005-02-23 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
El mié, 23-02-2005 a las 13:37 -0800, Crispin Cowan escribió: > Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote: > You are confused. It is Secure Computing Corporation that holds patents > that threaten SELinux > http://www.securecomputing.com/pdf/Statement_of_Assurance.pdf > > Immunix has never

[PATCH] [i2c]: Fix some gcc 4.0 compile failures and warnings

2005-02-23 Thread Mickey Stein
From: Mickey Stein Versions: linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk11, gcc4 (GCC) 4.0.0 20050217 (latest fc rawhide from 19Feb DL) gcc 4.0.x cvs seems to dislike "include/linux/i2c.h file" and others due to a current gcc 4.0.x change having to do with array declarations. Example error msg:

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Steven Cole
Andrew Morton wrote: Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am having trouble getting recent -mm kernels to boot on my test box. For 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 and 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 I get the following: VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel

Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 20:53 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > Please replace by new patch below, which I'm now running through lmbench. > > That second patch seems fine, and I see no lmbench regression from it. Should go into 2.6.11, right? Lee - To

Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:03 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks, your patch fixes the copy_pte_range latency. > > > > clear_page_range is also problematic. > > Yes, I saw that from your other traces too. Heh, sorry, that one was a dupe...

Re: Thoughts on the "No Linux Security Modules framework" old claims

2005-02-23 Thread Crispin Cowan
Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote: El mié, 23-02-2005 a las 13:37 -0800, Crispin Cowan escribió: Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote: You are confused. It is Secure Computing Corporation that holds patents that threaten SELinux

Re: Help tracking down problem --- endless loop in __find_get_block_slow

2005-02-23 Thread Thomas S. Iversen
Something has caused the page at offset 51 (block 102) to have buffer_heads for blocks 128 and 129 attached to it. Ok. I'd be suspecting that the sector remapping is the cause of the problem. How is it implemented? Quite simple actually. You're most welcome to see the code, but I have just done

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Francois Romieu
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > - Last, final, ultimate call: if anyone has patches in here which are 2.6.11 > material, please tell me. Any chance to convince the alien who took control of Jeff's libata queue to push: r8169: synchronization and balancing when the device is closed

Re: Help enabling PCI interrupts on Dell/SMP and Sun/SMP systems.

2005-02-23 Thread Alan Kilian
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Dick Johnson wrote: > > callpci_enable_device(dev) > ... before you use the IRQ in dev->irq. > > The reported IRQ is bogus until you make that > call. It's a reported BUG, probably won't > ever get fixed because it's considered a >

Re: Thoughts on the "No Linux Security Modules framework" old claims

2005-02-23 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
El mié, 23-02-2005 a las 14:07 -0800, Crispin Cowan escribió: > If that is what you meant, then we had no issue. > > It looked like you were referring to Immunix because, in the quoted > text, one paragraph only discussed Immunix (by name) and then the > subsequent paragraph just said "them"

Re: [patch -mm series] ia64 specific /dev/mem handlers

2005-02-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> + page = pfn_to_page(p >> PAGE_SHIFT); > + /* > + * On ia64 if a page has been mapped somewhere as > + * uncached, then it must also be accessed uncached > + * by the kernel or data corruption may occur > + */ > +#ifdef

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 : IDE crazy numbers, hdb renumbered to hdq ?

2005-02-23 Thread Laurent Riffard
Le 23.02.2005 21:12, Andrew Morton a écrit : Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 02.23, 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. > > - Last, final, ultimate call: if anyone has patches in here which

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Ammar T. Al-Sayegh
- Original Message - From: "Hugh Dickins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ammar T. Al-Sayegh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:31 PM Subject: Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483! On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Ammar T. Al-Sayegh wrote: Any suggestion on what else I can do to

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:37:53AM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: > I copied a working .config from an earlier kernel(-rc3), and ran make > oldconfig, answering most of the new questions 'n'. Then you get into trouble with stuff under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Answering 'n' turns off stock functionality.

Re: [Patch 4/6] Bind Mount Extensions 0.06

2005-02-23 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:45:37AM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > ty den 22.02.2005 Klokka 13:12 (+0100) skreiv Herbert Poetzl: > > > diff -NurpP --minimal > > linux-2.6.11-rc4-bme0.06-bm0.01-at0.01-cc0.01/fs/namei.c > > linux-2.6.11-rc4-bme0.06-bm0.01-at0.01-cc0.01-co0.01/fs/namei.c > > ---

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Ammar T. Al-Sayegh
- Original Message - From: "Arjan van de Ven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ammar T. Al-Sayegh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:01 PM Subject: Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483! On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 16:45 -0500, Ammar T. Al-Sayegh wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at

ipt_owner panic on 2.6.10-1.12_FC2

2005-02-23 Thread Fredrik Tolf
Hi! On the Linux router I'm running, I use the ipt_owner iptables module, and since a few kernel versions back, I've begun getting kernel panics in the ipt_owner module. Unfortunately, the start of it coincided with a CPU upgrade of the router, so at first I thought it was a hardware failure.

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Steven Cole
Steven Cole wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am having trouble getting recent -mm kernels to boot on my test box. For 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 and 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 I get the following: VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1) Please append a correct "root="

Well, powersaving weirdness.

2005-02-23 Thread zhilla
Not the most clever subject, I agree :) hell, i'm not sure if this is a KERNEL bug. but it definitely is an annoyance, so... distro is slackware 10. i have a small script i run every time i connect to the internet (and i connect via dial-up when ) this is one command in the script:

Re: [Patch 1/6] Bind Mount Extensions 0.06

2005-02-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:10:49PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > > ; > ; Bind Mount Extensions > ; > ; This part adds support for the RDONLY, NOATIME and NODIRATIME > ; vfsmount flags, propagates those options into loopback (bind) > ; mounts and displays them properly in show_vfsmnt()/proc

Re: Help enabling PCI interrupts on Dell/SMP and Sun/SMP systems.

2005-02-23 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Alan" == Alan Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan> kernel: SSE: Found a DeCypher card. kernel: ACPI: PCI Alan> interrupt :13:03.0[A] -> GSI 36 (level, low) -> IRQ 217 If ACPI has set this device up to use interrupt 217, why are you registering it on IRQ 5? -- Dr Peter

Re: [Patch 2/6] Bind Mount Extensions 0.06

2005-02-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:11:29PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > > ; > ; Bind Mount Extensions > ; > ; This part adds the required checks for touch_atime() to allow > ; for vfsmount based NOATIME and NODIRATIME > ; autofs4 update_atime is the only exception (ignored on purpose) and that

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 03:03:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> I am having trouble getting recent -mm kernels to boot on my test box. > > >> For 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 and

Re: [Patch 6/6] Bind Mount Extensions 0.06

2005-02-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> +++ > linux-2.6.11-rc4-bme0.06-bm0.01-at0.01-cc0.01-co0.01-xa0.01-ro0.01/fs/ext2/ioctl.c > 2005-02-19 06:32:05 +0100 > @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ int ext2_ioctl (struct inode * inode, st > case EXT2_IOC_SETFLAGS: { > unsigned int oldflags; > > - if

Xterm Hangs - Possible scheduler defect?

2005-02-23 Thread Chad N. Tindel
Hello- We have hit a defect where an exiting xterm process will hang. This is running on a 2-cpu IA-64 box. We have a multithreaded application, where one thread is SCHED_FIFO and is running with priority 98, and the other thread is just a normal SCHED_OTHER thread. The SCHED_FIFO thread is in

Re: Help tracking down problem --- endless loop in __find_get_block_slow

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
"Thomas S. Iversen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd be suspecting that the sector remapping is the cause of the problem. > > How is it implemented? > > Quite simple actually. You're most welcome to see the code, but I have > just done a test like the one below. Never mind the performance

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 : IDE crazy numbers, hdb renumbered to hdq ?

2005-02-23 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:36:50PM +0100, Laurent Riffard wrote: > Le 23.02.2005 21:12, Andrew Morton a ?crit : > >Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>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

Re: [PATCH] [i2c]: Fix some gcc 4.0 compile failures and warnings

2005-02-23 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 05:57:14PM -0500, linux-os wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Mickey Stein wrote: > > >From: Mickey Stein > >Versions: linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk11, gcc4 (GCC) 4.0.0 20050217 (latest fc > >rawhide from 19Feb DL) > > > >gcc 4.0.x cvs seems to dislike "include/linux/i2c.h file" and

Re: Help enabling PCI interrupts on Dell/SMP and Sun/SMP systems.

2005-02-23 Thread Alan Kilian
> Alan> kernel: SSE: Found a DeCypher card. kernel: ACPI: PCI > Alan> interrupt :13:03.0[A] -> GSI 36 (level, low) -> IRQ 217 > > If ACPI has set this device up to use interrupt 217, why are you > registering it on IRQ 5? > Peter, Maybe that's it. I ask the

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:38, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 02.23, 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

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It does not seem to be finding the keyboard at all... Can you confirm that Linus's tree is OK? You'd best use the patch at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/ to make sure you have the latest stuff. - To unsubscribe from this

Re: accept() fails with EINTER

2005-02-23 Thread Robert Hancock
linux-os wrote: 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

[PATCH 2.6.11+ sata_qstor] libata: sata_qstor cosmetic fixes

2005-02-23 Thread Mark Lord
Minor patch for new 2.6.xx sata_qstor driver attached, as per Alexey's fine-toothed comb! :) Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cheers -- Mark Lord Real-Time Remedies Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux/drivers/scsi/sata_qstor.c.orig2005-02-16 20:31:57.0 -0500 +++

Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Nick Piggin
Hugh Dickins wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Lee Revell wrote: Thanks, your patch fixes the copy_pte_range latency. clear_page_range is also problematic. Yes, I saw that from your other traces too. I know there are plans to improve clear_page_range during 2.6.12, but I didn't realize that it had

Re: Help enabling PCI interrupts on Dell/SMP and Sun/SMP systems.

2005-02-23 Thread Robert Hancock
Alan Kilian wrote: kernel: SSE: Found a DeCypher card. kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt :13:03.0[A] -> GSI 36 (level, low) -> IRQ 217 The first message is in my driver after pci_find_device() The second is from when I do pci_enable_device(dev); Can you decode the

Re: [PATCH] Always send siginfo for synchronous signals

2005-02-23 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Chris Wright wrote: >It's not quite inexplicable. It means that task has hit its limit for >pending signals ;-) But I agree, this should be fixed. I think I had >tested this with broken test cases, thanks for catching. > > It's particularly confusing for users, because it's a per-user limit

Re: OT: Why is usb data many times the cpu hog that firewire is?

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Motherboard is a biostar with nforce2 chipset, 2800xp cpu, gig of ram. I've recently made the observation that while I can view 30fps video from my firewire equipt movie camera with a minimal cpu hit of 2-3%, but viewing the video from a webcam on a usb 1.1 circuit

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 : IDE crazy numbers, hdb renumbered to hdq ?

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Laurent Riffard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le 23.02.2005 21:12, Andrew Morton a écrit : > > Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>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

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 04:42, 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. > > - Last, final, ultimate call: if anyone

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