On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 21:58, Kai Makisara wrote:
While waiting for the application to be fixed, it was decided to restore
the old behaviour of the tape drivers.
Which means tar won't get fixed 8(
I don't think implementing proper read-only lseek for tapes is worth the
trouble (reliable
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:25:56PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
BTW, Linus: Any chance you ever change something to version or
extraversion in bk just after a release ? I know I already ask and it
degenerated into a flamefest, and I
On 2005-03-08T22:25:29, Alex Aizman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's (or at least was up until today) an ongoing discussion on our
mailing list at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/open-iscsi. The
short and long of it: the problem can be solved, and it will. Couple
simple things we
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:59:26PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
If you build 486 it will still use the TSC because it is available (The
PIT is buggy but the kernel knows about that anyway and handles it).
Hmm, I thought that was the whole point of the different cpu type
choices in the kernel. Then
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 12:45 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
Hi Benjamin,
Few coding style nitpicks follow.
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:11:59 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Index: linux-work/include/linux/pci.h
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:57:16PM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
Imagine we want to go from 2.6.11.3 to 2.6.12
The easiest way would be to keep a local fresh copy of 2.6.11 before
applying 2.6.11.3 anyway. That would solve a) and b) even more easily.
And yes, I find a) more logical. This is the
Where do you see that patch as being applied in the new .y stable series?
Chris
I got that patch description from here:
When you go to http://kernel.org, and click on the stand alone C to
the right of 2.6.11.2
It is a hyperlink to:
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/cset/
Have I
Convert i386 ioremap pagetable walkers to loops using p?d_addr_end.
Rename internal levels ioremap_p??_range. Don't cheat, give it a real
(but inlined) ioremap_pud_range; uninline lowest level to help debug.
Replace page already exists printk and BUG by BUG_ON.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins [EMAIL
Christian Schmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, maybe a VM problem? That would be a good place to focus since
I think we can be fairly certain it isn't a problem in just the
networking code. Otherwise, my tests would show lower bandwidth.
Thanks to your tests I am really sure that
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
I still think it's a bad idea to add arbitary process size limits like this:
The limit is pretty high: 2^31*PAGE_SIZE bytes. For the standard 4k
pagesize this will be 8TB.
+#ifdef CONFIG_ATOMIC_TABLE_OPS
+/*
+ * Atomic page table operations require
Egbert Eich reported a bug 2673 on bugs.freedesktop.org and tracked it
down to a missing memset in the setversion ioctl, this causes X server
crashes...
From: Egbert Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -Nru a/drivers/char/drm/drm_ioctl.c
http://localhost/blogAndi Kleen wrote:
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and what ones are not, into
the -stable tree:
- It must be obviously correct and tested.
- It can not bigger than 100 lines, with context.
This rule seems silly. What happens when
This patch adds support for more than 8 controllers. If we run out of
preallocated major numbers we dynamically allocate more.
Please consider this for inclusion.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cciss.c | 36 +++-
cciss.h |3 +++
2 files
Merged recent upstream changes into libata-dev queue. No new patches
have found their way into libata-dev since last email.
BK URL, Patch URL, and changelog attached.
Note that the patch is diff'd against 2.6.11-bk6, which won't exist
until four hours after this email is sent.
Jeff
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:25:56PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
BTW, Linus: Any chance you ever change something to version or
extraversion in bk just after a release ? I know I already ask and it
degenerated into a flamefest, and I
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:47 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:41:59 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know if I'm the only one to have a problem with that, but it
would be nice if it was possible, when you pull a bk tree, to have the
commit
Begin the pagetable walker cleanup with a straightforward example,
mprotect's change_protection. Started out from Nick Piggin's for_each
proposal, but I prefer less hidden; and these are all do while loops,
which degrade slightly when converted to for loops.
Firmly agree with Andi and Nick that
Hi Tridge, Greg, et. al.:
I wrote, some months ago:
I'm using ccache version 2.4 [1]. I just changed ~/.ccache to a symbolic
link to a directory which is NFS mounted [2]. The kernel source itself is
on a local FS. With the ccache suitably primed, when I do a kernel compile
using
Brett Russ wrote:
I noticed that the AHCI CI (cmd issue) reg wasn't getting cleared
after error ints resulting in no further commands being successfully
issued to the port. This patch fixes. All that's really needed is
the 1's complement but I also removed the disabling/enabling of the
FIS_RX
All the stuff that was waiting for Linus has been sent. Here's what's
sitting around in the netdev-2.6 to stew for a bit:
* wireless-2.6 tree (bk://gkernel.bkbits.net/wireless-2.6)
* 8139cp updates
* starfire update
* 8139too iomap conversion
* natsemi long/short cable option (no longer
Changelog:
V18-V19 Fall back to obtaining the page table lock before calling
do_wp_page. Keep mark_page_accessed in do_swap_page and
add SetPageReferenced in do_anonymous_page
Diff against 2.6.11.
V17-V18 Rediff against 2.6.11-rc5-bk4
V16-V17 Do not increment page_count
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:28 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
I don't know if I'm the only one to have a problem with that, but it
would be nice if it was possible, when you pull a bk tree, to have the
commit messages for the csets in that
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:12, Russell King wrote:
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:42:33AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unify the spinlock initialization as
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:47 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote:
I confirmed that this occurs with the 2.6.11 code straight from
kernel.org Here is an error from the bringup:
So if 2.6.9 works, and 2.6.11 does not, can you check 2.6.10? And
Hi,
I wanted to try 2.6.11-mm2 for the low latency/realtime lsm stuff and
I've run into a severe
problem.
When I try to start X, my machine reboots. The screen goes dark as
usual when setting the video mode, but then I get a beep and I'm
greeted with the BIOS boot messages. This happened 4/5
Jens/Hari,
The patch which you both supplied does solve the problem.
I'd imagine this patch is probably not critical enough for a
2.6.11.x-series patch, but it would be nice to see this included in 2.6.12.
Thanks!
James Roberts-Thomson
--
A synonym is a word you use if you can't spell
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:34:08AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:56:33AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and what ones are not, into
the -stable tree:
- It must be obviously correct and
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:47 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:41:59 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know if I'm the only one to have a problem with that, but it
would be nice if it was possible, when you pull a bk
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:53:48AM -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote:
My question is, what is the current status of huge filesystems - IE,
filesystems that exceed 2 terabytes, and hopefully also exceeding 16
terabytes?
people can and do have 2T filesystems now. some people on x86 have
hit the 16TB
Jes Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Convert /dev/mem read/write calls to use arch_translate_mem_ptr if
available. Needed on ia64 for pages converted fo uncached mappings to
avoid it being accessed in cached mode after the conversion which can
lead to memory corruption. Introduces
Vivek Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to fill the virtual addresses of linearly mapped region. That is
physical addresses from 0 to MAXMEM (896 MB) are mapped by kernel at
virtual addresses PAGE_OFFSET to (PAGE_OFFSET + MAXMEM). Values of
PAGE_OFFSET and MAXMEM are already known and
Dipankar Sarma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:17:49AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Beyond that I prefer a little command line tool that will do the
ELF64 to ELF32 conversion and possibly add in the kva mapping to
make the core dump usable with gdb. Doing it in a
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:25 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:13:26PM -0600, Jake Moilanen wrote:
diff -puN arch/ppc64/mm/hash_utils.c~nx-kernel-ppc64
arch/ppc64/mm/hash_utils.c
--- linux-2.6-bk/arch/ppc64/mm/hash_utils.c~nx-kernel-ppc64 2005-03-08
16:08:57
Greg,
I was wondering what the state of the change to 64-bit resources was?
thanks
- kumar
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On Wed, Mar 09 2005, Jon Smirl wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:09:26 +0100, Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
probably not worth the bother, looks like barrier problems. get the
serial console running instead and send the full output, I'll take a
look in the morning.
serial console boot
Vivek Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
Well this discussion has been going on for quite sometime now that
what's the best way to capture the dump? There seems to be two lines of
arguments.
Export ELF view through /proc/vmcore
This basically
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:12 +0100, Christian Henz wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to try 2.6.11-mm2 for the low latency/realtime lsm stuff and
I've run into a severe
problem.
When I try to start X, my machine reboots. The screen goes dark as
usual when setting the video mode, but then I get a beep
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