Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Ondrej Zary
Stas Sergeev wrote: Hello. Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: Does the bug also egsist on AMD CPU's? Yes. As well as the ones of a Transmeta etc. I just haven't tested the old Cyrixes, that AFAIK were trying to ignore some Intel bugs. The test-case for the bug is here:

Re: IA32 (2.6.11 - 2005-03-12.16.00) - 56 New warnings

2005-03-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Johannes Stezenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:08:45PM -0800, John Cherry wrote: > > drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c:104: warning: (near initialization > for `dvb_pll_unknown_1.entries') > > drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c:104: warning: excess

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

2005-03-13 Thread Elladan
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:03:20PM +, James Simmons wrote: > > > > > Thats why moving the eye candy console into user space is such a good > > > > idea. You don't have to run it 8) It also means that the console > > > > development is accessible to all the crazy rasterman types. > > > > > >

Re: 2.6.11: keyboard stopped working after memory upgrade

2005-03-13 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Sunday, 13 of March 2005 19:36, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > I'm just having a weird problem with 2.6.11. Namely, the keyboard stopped > > working after I'd added more RAM to the box (Asus L5D notebok, x86-64 > > kernel). It works on 2.6.11-mm1. > > Custom DSDT? DSDTs are known to

IDE failure on ACPI resume

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
On resume, an HP nc6220 fails during resuming of the IDE devices. In this section of code from ide-iops.c: stat = hwif->INB(hwif->io_ports[IDE_STATUS_OFFSET]); if ((stat & BUSY_STAT) == 0) return 0; /* *

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: Does the bug also egsist on AMD CPU's? Yes. As well as the ones of a Transmeta etc. I just haven't tested the old Cyrixes, that AFAIK were trying to ignore some Intel bugs. The test-case for the bug is here:

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Sean Neakums
Sean Neakums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Both patches give me a successful sleep, although I had to alter the > second to not #if 0 core99_ata100_enable -- there's another call to > that function in pmac_feature.c's set_initial_features(). > > I will try to gather some power numbers. With the

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

2005-03-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > Thats why moving the eye candy console into user space is such a good > > > > > idea. You don't have to run it 8) It also means that the console > > > > > development is accessible to all the crazy rasterman types. > > > > > > > > Yep. The basic

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Stas Sergeev wrote: Hi Alan. Attached patch works around the corruption of the high word of the ESP register, which is the official bug of x86 CPUs. The bug triggers only when the one is using the 16bit stack segment, and is described here:

Re: 2.6.11: keyboard stopped working after memory upgrade

2005-03-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I'm just having a weird problem with 2.6.11. Namely, the keyboard stopped > working after I'd added more RAM to the box (Asus L5D notebok, x86-64 > kernel). It works on 2.6.11-mm1. Custom DSDT? DSDTs are known to depend on ammount of memory...

Re: Capabilities across execve

2005-03-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > This makes it possible for a root-task to pass capabilities to > nonroot-task across execve. The root-task needs to change it's > cap_inheritable mask and set prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, 1) to pass on > capabilities. > At execve time the capabilities will be passed on to the new > nonroot-task

Re: spin_lock error in arch/i386/kernel/time.c on APM resume

2005-03-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >>And more... That this occures implies we are attempting to update the cmos > >>clock on resume seems wrong. One would presume that the time is wrong at > >>this > >>time and we are about to save that wrong time. Possibly the APM code > >>should > >>change time_status to STA_UNSYNC on

[patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi Alan. Attached patch works around the corruption of the high word of the ESP register, which is the official bug of x86 CPUs. The bug triggers only when the one is using the 16bit stack segment, and is described here: http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/specupdt/27287402.PDF Patch helps running

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

2005-03-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > Thats why moving the eye candy console into user space is such a good > > > > idea. You don't have to run it 8) It also means that the console > > > > development is accessible to all the crazy rasterman types. > > > > > > Yep. The basic console we already have. Everyone who wants

Re: [PATCH] x86-64 kprobes: handle %RIP-relative addressing mode

2005-03-13 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Roland McGrath wrote: > > + * This basically replicates __vmalloc, except that it uses a > + * range of addresses starting at MODULE_END. This also Could you look at these patches: [PATCH 1/5] vmalloc: introduce __vmalloc_area() function

Petition against software patents in Europe

2005-03-13 Thread Mikael Voss
http://petition.eurolinux.org/ Is there anyone who has not signed this petition yet? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: [2.6.11.3] gcc4 / psmouse.h - compilation fix.

2005-03-13 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:54, PaweÅ Sikora wrote: > On Sunday 13 of March 2005 17:48, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Sunday 13 March 2005 08:20, PaweÅ Sikora wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Attched patch fixes gcc error: > > > `drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h:40: error: field `ps2dev' has incomplete >

Re: [2.6.11.3] gcc4 / psmouse.h - compilation fix.

2005-03-13 Thread PaweÅ Sikora
On Sunday 13 of March 2005 17:48, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Sunday 13 March 2005 08:20, PaweÅ Sikora wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Attched patch fixes gcc error: > > `drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h:40: error: field `ps2dev' has incomplete > > type` > > What file fails compilation? custom patch for

Re: [2.6.11.3] gcc4 / psmouse.h - compilation fix.

2005-03-13 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Sunday 13 March 2005 08:20, PaweÅ Sikora wrote: > Hi, > > Attched patch fixes gcc error: > `drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h:40: error: field `ps2dev' has incomplete type` > What file fails compilation? As far as I can see all users of psmouse.h do #include first. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe

Re: [patch 2/3] cdrom/cdu31a update

2005-03-13 Thread Domen Puncer
Use semaphores instead of sleep_on*. Stolen from patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/18/107 from Ondrej Zary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Ondrej Zary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ./drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c.orig2 2005-03-13 14:12:23.0 +0100

Re: [PATCH] x86-64 kprobes: handle %RIP-relative addressing mode

2005-03-13 Thread Andi Kleen
Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The existing x86-64 kprobes implementation doesn't cope with the > %RIP-relative addressing mode. Kprobes work by single-stepping a copy of Thanks for fixing that long standing bug. > + static const unsigned char onebyte_has_modrm[256] = { Can

Re: [patch 1/3] cdrom/cdu31a update

2005-03-13 Thread Domen Puncer
Pretty trivial cleanups: - reordered #includes - improved some printk's (note: this actually enabled some debug printk's) - removed ()'s from returns - removed SONY_POLL_EACH_BYTE, as grep doesn't find it anywhere else - removed panic() as it can't happen. Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL

Re: [patch 3/3] cdrom/cdu31a update

2005-03-13 Thread Domen Puncer
Use wait_event instead of sleep_on. Also, remove two unused variables. Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Ondrej Zary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ./drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c.orig3 2005-03-06 22:04:42.0 +0100 +++ ./drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c2005-03-12

[patch 0/3] cdrom/cdu31a update

2005-03-13 Thread Domen Puncer
Hi. These cdu31a patches are based on http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/18/107 from Ondrej Zary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Split into three files (see replies): 1 - printk and other trivial cleanups 2 - semaphorifization (hey, i invented a new word) 3 - use wait_event instead of sleep_on in irq handling

Re: Linux 2.6.11.3

2005-03-13 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 04:38:24PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > A bitkeeper tree for the 2.6.11.y releases can be found at: > > bk://linux-release.bkbits.net/linux-2.6.11 > > Do we then start switching trees with every new minor release? Yes.

Re: 2.6.11-mm3

2005-03-13 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:42:22AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > - A new version of the "acpi poweroff fix". People who were having trouble > with ACPI poweroff, please test and report. I've tested this set of ACPI poweroff patches with both clean, proper shutdowns and Alt-SysRq-O, on hardware

Re: linux dvb alps_tdlb7 removed

2005-03-13 Thread Peter Waechtler
Am 11.03.2005 um 21:10 schrieb Kenneth Aafløy: On Friday 11 March 2005 13:58, Juri Haberland wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: With version 2.6.10 the driver for the tuner frontend from ALPS TDLB7 was removed. Why do you think that this is a dead file? While I'm happy with the work

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Sean Neakums
Both patches give me a successful sleep, although I had to alter the second to not #if 0 core99_ata100_enable -- there's another call to that function in pmac_feature.c's set_initial_features(). I will try to gather some power numbers. -- Dag vijandelijk luchtschip de huismeester is dood - To

Re: Linux 2.6.11.3

2005-03-13 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: > A bitkeeper tree for the 2.6.11.y releases can be found at: > bk://linux-release.bkbits.net/linux-2.6.11 Do we then start switching trees with every new minor release? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [ACPI] Re: Fw: Anybody? 2.6.11 (stable and -rc) ACPI breaks USB

2005-03-13 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: Can you do an "lspci -vvn"? I'm looking at quirk_via_irqpic() in 2.6.9, which is what printed this: PCI: Via IRQ fixup for :00:07.2, from 9 to 10 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for :00:07.3, from 9 to 10 but it looks like it should only run for

Re: indirect lcall without `*'

2005-03-13 Thread Hacksaw
Ahh, okay. I'm just jumpy because this is a production server. Thanks for the answer. :-) -- Nothing can plugh you now http://www.hacksaw.org -- http://www.privatecircus.com -- KB1FVD - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: XFS dm_crypt BUG?

2005-03-13 Thread Torben Viets
Hello, it works with Kernel 2.6.11, probably the problem was that I had used 4 kb stacks and now I use the 8kb, but I'm not sure whether this was the problem. greetings Torben Viets Nathan Scott schrieb: On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 09:31:01PM +0100, Torben Viets wrote: hello, I tried to

Re: Fw: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1: reiser4 eating cpu time

2005-03-13 Thread Alexander Gran
Am Sonntag, 13. MÃrz 2005 14:44 schrieben Sie: > That seems very much like expected behavior to me. I would expect kwrite > to start loading the file, and then having pdflush kick in to page out > parts of kwrite, so that it can allocate more memory. Then kwrite will > continue to load until more

Re: [MC] [CHECKER] Need help on mmap on FUSE (linux user-land file system)

2005-03-13 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mar 13, 2005, at 02:28, Junfeng Yang wrote: Forget to mention, we are checking linux 2.6. It appears to us that mmap doesnt' work for FUSE in linux 2.6. IIRC, the reason mmap doesn't work on FUSE is because when it dirties pages they cannot be flushed reliably, because writing them out

Re: [PATCH] break_lock forever broken

2005-03-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 09:35 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > \ > > > + if ((lock)->break_lock) \ > > > + (lock)->break_lock = 0;

Re: Fw: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1: reiser4 eating cpu time

2005-03-13 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 14:24 +0100, Alexander Gran wrote: > Hi, > > Well, of course it cannot handle that large files (I wouldn't expect that, > either). My Problem is that when I open the file, it's not just kwrite but > other processes that need so much cpu time. That kwrite is eating cpu is

Re: [CHECKER] crash + fsck cause file systems to contain loops (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-13 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Junfeng Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you be a little bit more specific? Please try kernel: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.11.tar.gz + http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.11-bk7.bz2 or later dosfstools:

Re: DRI breakage, 2.6.11-mm[123]

2005-03-13 Thread Dave Airlie
> > Same symptoms with 2.6.11-bk8. damn.. am travelling at the moment, won't get a chance to take a detailed look for a while.. I'll see can I figure it out just from code inspection... Dave. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

[PATCH][2.6.11-mm3] Warning fix and be extra careful about array in kernel/module.c

2005-03-13 Thread Jesper Juhl
Fix warning in kernel/module.c::who_is_doing_it() kernel/module.c:1405: warning: ignoring return value of `copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result by subtracting copy_from_user return value from 'len' - if we copy less data than we intend there's no point in looping over

Re: Fw: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1: reiser4 eating cpu time

2005-03-13 Thread Alexander Gran
Hi, Well, of course it cannot handle that large files (I wouldn't expect that, either). My Problem is that when I open the file, it's not just kwrite but other processes that need so much cpu time. That kwrite is eating cpu is ok. I cannot reproduce the behaviour for some reason however. So

[2.6.11.3] gcc4 / psmouse.h - compilation fix.

2005-03-13 Thread PaweÅ Sikora
Hi, Attched patch fixes gcc error: `drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h:40: error: field `ps2dev' has incomplete type` Please apply. -- /* Copyright (C) 2003, SCO, Inc. This is valuable Intellectual Property. */ #define say(x) lie(x) drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h:40:

Re: DRI breakage, 2.6.11-mm[123]

2005-03-13 Thread Sean Neakums
Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:13:49AM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:29:20 +, Sean Neakums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sean Neakums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > The following happens with 2.6.11-mm[123]. (I

Re: IA32 (2.6.11 - 2005-03-12.16.00) - 56 New warnings

2005-03-13 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:08:45PM -0800, John Cherry wrote: > drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c:104: warning: (near initialization for > `dvb_pll_unknown_1.entries') > drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c:104: warning: excess elements in array > initializer >

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 23:30 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:01 +, Sean Neakums wrote: > > Machine check in kernel mode. > > Caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal > > Oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1] > > TASK = etc. 'pmud' etc. > > (for

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:01 +, Sean Neakums wrote: > Machine check in kernel mode. > Caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal > Oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1] > TASK = etc. 'pmud' etc. > (for registers and such, see: >

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:01 +, Sean Neakums wrote: > Machine check in kernel mode. > Caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal > Oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1] > TASK = etc. 'pmud' etc. > (for registers and such, see: >

Re: [CHECKER] sync doesn't flush everything out (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-13 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Junfeng Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /å004 and > /0005 > share clusters. > Truncating second to 0 bytes. > /0005 > File size is 4 bytes, cluster chain length is 0 bytes. > Truncating file to 0 bytes. > Performing changes. > /dev/sbd0: 5 files, 4/8167 clusters > > This causes file

Re: [patch] del_timer_sync scalability patch

2005-03-13 Thread Oleg Nesterov
I suspect that del_timer_sync() in its current form is racy. CPU 0 CPU 1 __run_timers() sets timer->base = NULL del_timer_sync() starts, calls del_timer(), it returns

2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Sean Neakums
Machine check in kernel mode. Caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal Oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1] TASK = etc. 'pmud' etc. (for registers and such, see: http://flynn.zork.net/~sneakums/pmac-machine-check-on-sleep-2611mm3.jpeg ) Call trace: pmac_ide_pci_suspend

Re: indirect lcall without `*'

2005-03-13 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:46:24 -0500, Hacksaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In compiling 2.4.29 I get this during the compilation of pci-pc.c: > >Warning: indirect lcall without `*' > >I note from looking around the net that this is an old "problem", dating back >at least to 2.4.18, if not earlier. >

Re: [PATCH][2.6.11-mm3] perfctr ia32 syscalls on x86-64 fix

2005-03-13 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:55:49 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >It would be nice to start folding these patches together a bit to reduce >such problems, but that's rather non-trivial because there is no way to >simply join these patches together which maintains a sensible sequencing. > >If we're going

Re: [CHECKER] crash + fsck cause file systems to contain loops (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-13 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Junfeng Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using dosfsck 2.10, 22 Sep 2003, FAT32, LFN, and yes, > I do see root directory after I run dosfsck on the crashed disk > image. You can download fixed version of dosfsck at http://user.parknet.co.jp/hirofumi/tmp/fatfsprogs.tar.bz2 (vanilla

Re: script to send changesets per mail

2005-03-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:59:50AM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote: > hoi :) > > I just tested my little script that can send changesets per mail. > okok, it still had a bug when I first tested it but that should be > fixed now. Greg has a similar script - could you take a look and tell which is the

ide0=ata66 doesn't seem obsolete

2005-03-13 Thread David Liontooth
On my laptop, idebus=66 or nothing gets me this: hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33) In contrast, ide0=ata66 gets me this (never mind the geometry): ide_setup: ide0=ata66 -- OBSOLETE OPTION, WILL BE REMOVED SOON! hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/1768KiB

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-13 Thread Jan Rychter
> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Now, I haven't actually gotten any complaints about 2.6.11 (apart >> from "gcc4 still has problems" with fairly trivial solutions) Andrew> There have been quite a few. Mainly

Re: ancient portmap segfault

2005-03-13 Thread Andi Kleen
Mark Studebaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I upgraded from 2.6.5 to 2.6.11.2 and my ancient (libc4 a.out) /sbin/portmap > from 1994 that's been running without complaint > on kernels for 11 years now consistently segfaults. > > I upgraded to a version 4 RPM (circa 2002) and that fixed it. > >

[PATCH] x86-64 kprobes: handle %RIP-relative addressing mode

2005-03-13 Thread Roland McGrath
The existing x86-64 kprobes implementation doesn't cope with the %RIP-relative addressing mode. Kprobes work by single-stepping a copy of an instruction overwritten by a breakpoint. When a probe is inserted on an instruction that uses the %RIP-relative data addressing mode, the copy run in a

Re: [PATCH] break_lock forever broken

2005-03-13 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > \ > > + if ((lock)->break_lock) \ > > + (lock)->break_lock = 0; \ > > }

Re: Strange Linking Problem

2005-03-13 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
linux-os wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Hi! I hope I'm right here. I've the following assembler code: SECTION .DATA hello: db 'Hello world!',10 helloLen: equ $-hello SECTION .TEXT GLOBAL main main: ; Write 'Hello world!' to the screen

Re: [PATCH] Fix scripts/mkuboot.sh to return status

2005-03-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:16:41PM -0500, George G. Davis wrote: > Sam, > > If `mkimage` is either not found in search path or returns non-zero status, > `make uImage` succeeds when it should fail. This changes scripts/mkuboot.sh > to return status so build succeeds or fails as appropriate. As

Re: inconsistent kallsyms data [2.6.11-mm2]

2005-03-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:12:22PM +, Paulo Marques wrote: > Paulo Marques wrote: > >[...] > >A simple and robust way is to do the sampling on a list of symbols > >sorted by symbol name. This way, even if the symbol positions that are > >given to scripts/kallsyms change, the symbols sampled

Re: [PATCH] be more verbose in gen-devlist

2005-03-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sun, Mar 13, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:17:09AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 12, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > Why #if this? Why not just always do this? > > > > Because it always triggers with current sf.net snapshot. > > Someone said they were going to submit

Re: [PATCH] be more verbose in gen-devlist

2005-03-13 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:17:09AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, Greg KH wrote: > > > Why #if this? Why not just always do this? > > Because it always triggers with current sf.net snapshot. Someone said they were going to submit those shorter strings that the kernel has, back to

Re: More trouble with i386 EFLAGS and ptrace

2005-03-13 Thread Roland McGrath
This patch further cleans up the appearance of TF in eflags when ptrace is involved. With this, PTRACE_SINGLESTEP will not cause TF to appear in eflags as seen by PTRACE_GETREGS and the like, when the instruction faulted for some reason other than the single-step trap. This moves the check added

Re: [PATCH] break_lock forever broken

2005-03-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> \ > + if ((lock)->break_lock) \ > + (lock)->break_lock = 0; \ > }\ if it really worth

Re: nvidia fb licensing issue.

2005-03-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 21:59 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The nvidia framebuffer code added recently is marked as > > MODULE_LICENSE(GPL), but some things seem a little odd to me.. > > > > 1. The boilerplate at the top of

Re: [PATCH] be more verbose in gen-devlist

2005-03-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, Mar 12, Greg KH wrote: > Why #if this? Why not just always do this? Because it always triggers with current sf.net snapshot. - 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: [PATCH] be more verbose in gen-devlist

2005-03-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, Mar 12, Greg KH wrote: Why #if this? Why not just always do this? Because it always triggers with current sf.net snapshot. - 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: nvidia fb licensing issue.

2005-03-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 21:59 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The nvidia framebuffer code added recently is marked as MODULE_LICENSE(GPL), but some things seem a little odd to me.. 1. The boilerplate at the top of drivers/video/nvidia/nv_dma.h,

Re: [PATCH] break_lock forever broken

2005-03-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
\ + if ((lock)-break_lock) \ + (lock)-break_lock = 0; \ }\ if it really worth an

Re: More trouble with i386 EFLAGS and ptrace

2005-03-13 Thread Roland McGrath
This patch further cleans up the appearance of TF in eflags when ptrace is involved. With this, PTRACE_SINGLESTEP will not cause TF to appear in eflags as seen by PTRACE_GETREGS and the like, when the instruction faulted for some reason other than the single-step trap. This moves the check added

Re: [PATCH] be more verbose in gen-devlist

2005-03-13 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:17:09AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, Greg KH wrote: Why #if this? Why not just always do this? Because it always triggers with current sf.net snapshot. Someone said they were going to submit those shorter strings that the kernel has, back to

Re: [PATCH] be more verbose in gen-devlist

2005-03-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sun, Mar 13, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:17:09AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, Greg KH wrote: Why #if this? Why not just always do this? Because it always triggers with current sf.net snapshot. Someone said they were going to submit those shorter

Re: inconsistent kallsyms data [2.6.11-mm2]

2005-03-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:12:22PM +, Paulo Marques wrote: Paulo Marques wrote: [...] A simple and robust way is to do the sampling on a list of symbols sorted by symbol name. This way, even if the symbol positions that are given to scripts/kallsyms change, the symbols sampled will be

Re: [PATCH] Fix scripts/mkuboot.sh to return status

2005-03-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:16:41PM -0500, George G. Davis wrote: Sam, If `mkimage` is either not found in search path or returns non-zero status, `make uImage` succeeds when it should fail. This changes scripts/mkuboot.sh to return status so build succeeds or fails as appropriate. As per

Re: Strange Linking Problem

2005-03-13 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
linux-os wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Hi! I hope I'm right here. I've the following assembler code: SECTION .DATA hello: db 'Hello world!',10 helloLen: equ $-hello SECTION .TEXT GLOBAL main main: ; Write 'Hello world!' to the screen

Re: [PATCH] break_lock forever broken

2005-03-13 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: \ + if ((lock)-break_lock) \ + (lock)-break_lock = 0; \ }

[PATCH] x86-64 kprobes: handle %RIP-relative addressing mode

2005-03-13 Thread Roland McGrath
The existing x86-64 kprobes implementation doesn't cope with the %RIP-relative addressing mode. Kprobes work by single-stepping a copy of an instruction overwritten by a breakpoint. When a probe is inserted on an instruction that uses the %RIP-relative data addressing mode, the copy run in a

Re: ancient portmap segfault

2005-03-13 Thread Andi Kleen
Mark Studebaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I upgraded from 2.6.5 to 2.6.11.2 and my ancient (libc4 a.out) /sbin/portmap from 1994 that's been running without complaint on kernels for 11 years now consistently segfaults. I upgraded to a version 4 RPM (circa 2002) and that fixed it. If some

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-13 Thread Jan Rychter
Andrew == Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I haven't actually gotten any complaints about 2.6.11 (apart from gcc4 still has problems with fairly trivial solutions) Andrew There have been quite a few. Mainly driver stuff again:

ide0=ata66 doesn't seem obsolete

2005-03-13 Thread David Liontooth
On my laptop, idebus=66 or nothing gets me this: hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33) In contrast, ide0=ata66 gets me this (never mind the geometry): ide_setup: ide0=ata66 -- OBSOLETE OPTION, WILL BE REMOVED SOON! hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/1768KiB

Re: script to send changesets per mail

2005-03-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:59:50AM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote: hoi :) I just tested my little script that can send changesets per mail. okok, it still had a bug when I first tested it but that should be fixed now. Greg has a similar script - could you take a look and tell which is the better

Re: [CHECKER] crash + fsck cause file systems to contain loops (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-13 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Junfeng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using dosfsck 2.10, 22 Sep 2003, FAT32, LFN, and yes, I do see root directory after I run dosfsck on the crashed disk image. You can download fixed version of dosfsck at http://user.parknet.co.jp/hirofumi/tmp/fatfsprogs.tar.bz2 (vanilla

Re: [PATCH][2.6.11-mm3] perfctr ia32 syscalls on x86-64 fix

2005-03-13 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:55:49 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: It would be nice to start folding these patches together a bit to reduce such problems, but that's rather non-trivial because there is no way to simply join these patches together which maintains a sensible sequencing. If we're going to do

Re: indirect lcall without `*'

2005-03-13 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:46:24 -0500, Hacksaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In compiling 2.4.29 I get this during the compilation of pci-pc.c: Warning: indirect lcall without `*' I note from looking around the net that this is an old problem, dating back at least to 2.4.18, if not earlier. What does

2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Sean Neakums
Machine check in kernel mode. Caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal Oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1] TASK = etc. 'pmud' etc. (for registers and such, see: http://flynn.zork.net/~sneakums/pmac-machine-check-on-sleep-2611mm3.jpeg ) Call trace: pmac_ide_pci_suspend

Re: [patch] del_timer_sync scalability patch

2005-03-13 Thread Oleg Nesterov
I suspect that del_timer_sync() in its current form is racy. CPU 0 CPU 1 __run_timers() sets timer-base = NULL del_timer_sync() starts, calls del_timer(), it returns

Re: [CHECKER] sync doesn't flush everything out (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-13 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Junfeng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /å004 and /0005 share clusters. Truncating second to 0 bytes. /0005 File size is 4 bytes, cluster chain length is 0 bytes. Truncating file to 0 bytes. Performing changes. /dev/sbd0: 5 files, 4/8167 clusters This causes file /0005 to be

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:01 +, Sean Neakums wrote: Machine check in kernel mode. Caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal Oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1] TASK = etc. 'pmud' etc. (for registers and such, see:

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:01 +, Sean Neakums wrote: Machine check in kernel mode. Caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal Oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1] TASK = etc. 'pmud' etc. (for registers and such, see:

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 23:30 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:01 +, Sean Neakums wrote: Machine check in kernel mode. Caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal Oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1] TASK = etc. 'pmud' etc. (for registers and such,

Re: IA32 (2.6.11 - 2005-03-12.16.00) - 56 New warnings

2005-03-13 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:08:45PM -0800, John Cherry wrote: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c:104: warning: (near initialization for `dvb_pll_unknown_1.entries') drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c:104: warning: excess elements in array initializer

Re: DRI breakage, 2.6.11-mm[123]

2005-03-13 Thread Sean Neakums
Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:13:49AM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:29:20 +, Sean Neakums [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sean Neakums [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The following happens with 2.6.11-mm[123]. (I didn't have time to

[2.6.11.3] gcc4 / psmouse.h - compilation fix.

2005-03-13 Thread Pawe Sikora
Hi, Attched patch fixes gcc error: `drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h:40: error: field `ps2dev' has incomplete type` Please apply. -- /* Copyright (C) 2003, SCO, Inc. This is valuable Intellectual Property. */ #define say(x) lie(x) drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h:40:

Re: Fw: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1: reiser4 eating cpu time

2005-03-13 Thread Alexander Gran
Hi, Well, of course it cannot handle that large files (I wouldn't expect that, either). My Problem is that when I open the file, it's not just kwrite but other processes that need so much cpu time. That kwrite is eating cpu is ok. I cannot reproduce the behaviour for some reason however. So

[PATCH][2.6.11-mm3] Warning fix and be extra careful about array in kernel/module.c

2005-03-13 Thread Jesper Juhl
Fix warning in kernel/module.c::who_is_doing_it() kernel/module.c:1405: warning: ignoring return value of `copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result by subtracting copy_from_user return value from 'len' - if we copy less data than we intend there's no point in looping over

Re: DRI breakage, 2.6.11-mm[123]

2005-03-13 Thread Dave Airlie
Same symptoms with 2.6.11-bk8. damn.. am travelling at the moment, won't get a chance to take a detailed look for a while.. I'll see can I figure it out just from code inspection... Dave. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: Fw: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1: reiser4 eating cpu time

2005-03-13 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 14:24 +0100, Alexander Gran wrote: Hi, Well, of course it cannot handle that large files (I wouldn't expect that, either). My Problem is that when I open the file, it's not just kwrite but other processes that need so much cpu time. That kwrite is eating cpu is ok.

Re: [CHECKER] crash + fsck cause file systems to contain loops (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-13 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Junfeng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you be a little bit more specific? Please try kernel: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.11.tar.gz + http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.11-bk7.bz2 or later dosfstools:

Re: [MC] [CHECKER] Need help on mmap on FUSE (linux user-land file system)

2005-03-13 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mar 13, 2005, at 02:28, Junfeng Yang wrote: Forget to mention, we are checking linux 2.6. It appears to us that mmap doesnt' work for FUSE in linux 2.6. IIRC, the reason mmap doesn't work on FUSE is because when it dirties pages they cannot be flushed reliably, because writing them out

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