Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-06 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 5, 2005 4:01 PM, Jaco Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw Dmitri, that patch does not seem to work. But the kernel panic that kicks in when X starts up does imply that _something_ changed. No sync however, so no stack trace in the logs either. In fact, looking at

nm256 oss build failure

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Jones
static declaration follows non static blah blah.. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 2.6.12rc2mm1/sound/oss/nm256_audio.c~ 2005-04-06 02:00:08.0 -0400 +++ 2.6.12rc2mm1/sound/oss/nm256_audio.c2005-04-06 02:00:39.0 -0400 @@ -28,10 +28,12 @@ #include

Re: [patch 4/5] sched: RCU sched domains

2005-04-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4/5 One of the problems with the multilevel balance-on-fork/exec is that it needs to jump through hoops to satisfy sched-domain's locking semantics (that is, you may traverse your own domain when not preemptable, and you may traverse others'

kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interupt

2005-04-06 Thread shaun
+Hardware Specs Dual Xeon 800FSB Intel Server Board 4GB ECC DDR 3ware 9500 Sata Raid Card 5x200 GB sata drives in a raid 10 Config (1 hot spare) Dual Nic +OS Specs CentOS 3.4 running a custom 2.6.x kernel patched with UML SKA's Patch eth0 is 0.0.0.0 promisc and assigned to a bridge (br0) tuntap

Re: [patch 5/5] sched: consolidate sbe sbf

2005-04-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5/5 Any ideas about what to do with schedstats? Do we really need balance on exec and fork as seperate statistics? Consolidate balance-on-exec with balance-on-fork. This is made easy by the sched-domains RCU patches. As well as the general

[ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-4.0 for 2.6.11 and 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-06 Thread Peter Williams
A patch of PlugSched-4.0 (containing ingosched, nicksched, staircase, spa_no_frills and zaphod CPU schedulers) against a 2.6.11 kernel is available for download from: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-4.0-for-2.6.11.patch?download and for 2.6.12-rc2 at:

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Chen, Kenneth W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tested on x86, the calibration results look ok there. Calibration result on ia64 (1.5 GHz, 9 MB), somewhat smaller in this version compare to earlier estimate of 10.4ms. The optimal setting found by a db workload is around 16 ms. with idle

Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

2005-04-06 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Wednesday, 6 of April 2005 06:05, Robert Hancock wrote: Alan Cox wrote: On Sad, 2005-04-02 at 05:50, Robert Hancock wrote: I'm wondering if one does a ton of these cache-bypassing stores whether something gets hosed because of that. Not sure what that could be though. I don't

Re: AOE and large filesystems?

2005-04-06 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: As a tangent, I'd also like to see iSCSI over SCTP. http://ds9a.nl/klogbot/?year=2005month=3day=21hour=12.5 See conversation between 'nab_' and ahu (me). -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software

RE: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1: ACPI=y, ACPI_BOOT=n problems

2005-04-06 Thread Brown, Len
@Len: ACPI=y and ACPI_BOOT=n seems to be a legal configuration (with X86_HT=y), but it breaks into pieces if you try the compilation. yeah, don't do that:-) I'm sorry I didn't push the patch to delete CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT earlier. For now, just enable them both. thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from

IDE CMD 64x PCI driver

2005-04-06 Thread rob . mlist
Hello, I am having difficultly getting the IDE CMD 64x PCI driver to work for the CMD PCI-648 device. I have decided to dig through kernel and driver code to find out why and hopefully correct the problem. I am running linux, version 2.4.21, on a PowerPC in the PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) form

Re: [patch 1/5] sched: remove degenerate domains

2005-04-06 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:44:12AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is Suresh's patch with some modifications. Remove degenerate scheduler domains during the sched-domain init. actually, i'd suggest to not do this patch. The point of booting with

Re: [patch 1/5] sched: remove degenerate domains

2005-04-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Siddha, Suresh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Similarly I am working on adding a new core domain for dual-core systems! All these domains are unnecessary and cause performance isssues on non Multi-threading/Multi-core capable cpus! Agreed that performance impact will be minor but still...

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:56:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Odd. Yes, it is odd... 2.6.11-bk9 works (actually it takes under 2 seconds, not 5-10). 2.6.11-bk10 has the weird slowdown. Unfortunately that's a pretty bug diff (2 megs). Yeah, I know. *sigh* [snip] but you'd be getting a

Info Regarding how the Redeon driver access EDID info

2005-04-06 Thread karthik
Hi, I am not able to understand how the radeon video card driver access EDID info of Monitors attached to the cards.The driver is calling one funtion get_property(dp, propnames[i], NULL); But in this funtion its just return some value ie dp-property-value; how this property-value

Re: [IrDA] Oops with NULL deref in irda_device_set_media_busy

2005-04-06 Thread Michal Rokos
Hello again, I'm gonna provide more info this time... On Tuesday 05 April 2005 19:01, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:02:26AM +0200, Michal Rokos wrote: I've problems with IrDA - when debug is off, I'm getting oops for obvious reason... (I don't have a log, this is just

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 06 avril 2005 à 02:10 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : It merely depends on the definition of aggregation. I'd say that two works that are only aggregated can be easily distinguished and separated. This is not the case for a binary kernel module, from which you cannot easily

ACPI + preempt + swsusp (S4) still no go in 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-06 Thread Romano Giannetti
Hi, I had a bit of time and tested yesterday 2.6.12-rc2. swsusp works (modulo the alps resume patch, which are not in yet) provided that preempt is disabled. A working[Note 1] config/patch/dmesg is here:

Re: klists and struct device semaphores

2005-04-06 Thread Patrick Mochel
Sorry about the delay in responding, there were some bugs to attend to, some of which you may have inadvertantly caught below. On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Alan Stern wrote: I looked through the new driver model code a bit more. There appears to be a few problems (unless I'm using out-of-date code).

Re: [patch 1/5] sched: remove degenerate domains

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Piggin
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is Suresh's patch with some modifications. Remove degenerate scheduler domains during the sched-domain init. actually, i'd suggest to not do this patch. The point of booting with a CONFIG_NUMA kernel on a non-NUMA box is mostly for

Re: [patch 2/5] sched: NULL domains

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Piggin
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2/5 The previous patch fixed the last 2 places that directly access a runqueue's sched-domain and assume it cannot be NULL. We can now use a NULL domain instead of a dummy domain to signify no

Re: [2.6.12-rc1][ACPI][suspend] /proc/acpi/sleep vs /sys/power/state issue - 'standby' on a laptop

2005-04-06 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! So nobody minds if I make this into a CONFIG option marked as Deprecated? :) Actually it should probably go through Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt ...and give it *long* timeout, since it is API change.

Re: [patch 3/5] sched: multilevel sbe and sbf

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Piggin
Ingo Molnar wrote: Acked-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] note that no matter how much scheduler logic, in the end cross-scheduling of tasks between nodes on NUMA will always have a permanent penalty (i.e. the 'migration cost' is 'infinity' in the long run), so the primary focus _hast to be_

Re: [patch 4/5] sched: RCU sched domains

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Piggin
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4/5 One of the problems with the multilevel balance-on-fork/exec is that it needs to jump through hoops to satisfy sched-domain's locking semantics (that is, you may traverse your own domain when not preemptable, and you may traverse

HELP:(VIPER BOARD)AC'97 controller driver for rtlinux(rtlinux core driver)

2005-04-06 Thread nobin matthew
Dear friends, I am trying to develop a codec driver (rtlinux driver) from scratch. In Viper board (PXA255) physical memory range 0x4000-0x43FF is used by the PXA255 peripherals.In that address range 0x4050-0x405005FC is needed for AC'97 controller registers. Is this memory range is

Re: kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interupt

2005-04-06 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, shaun wrote: +Hardware Specs Dual Xeon 800FSB Intel Server Board 4GB ECC DDR 3ware 9500 Sata Raid Card 5x200 GB sata drives in a raid 10 Config (1 hot spare) Dual Nic +OS Specs CentOS 3.4 running a custom 2.6.x kernel patched with UML SKA's Patch eth0 is 0.0.0.0

Re: [patch 5/5] sched: consolidate sbe sbf

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Piggin
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5/5 Any ideas about what to do with schedstats? Do we really need balance on exec and fork as seperate statistics? Consolidate balance-on-exec with balance-on-fork. This is made easy by the sched-domains RCU patches. As well as the

Re: Info Regarding how the Redeon driver access EDID info

2005-04-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:46 -0700, karthik wrote: Hi, I am not able to understand how the radeon video card driver access EDID info of Monitors attached to the cards.The driver is calling one funtion get_property(dp, propnames[i], NULL); This is specific to PowerMacs where

Re: [patch 1/5] sched: remove degenerate domains

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Piggin
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Siddha, Suresh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Similarly I am working on adding a new core domain for dual-core systems! All these domains are unnecessary and cause performance isssues on non Multi-threading/Multi-core capable cpus! Agreed that performance impact will be minor

Re: [patch 5/5] sched: consolidate sbe sbf

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Piggin
Nick Piggin wrote: One problem I just noticed, sorry. This is doing set_cpus_allowed without holding the runqueue lock and without checking the hard affinity mask either. Err, that is to say set_task_cpu, not set_cpus_allowed. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

REPOST [Followup: PROBLEM: Kernel bug at tg3.c:2456]

2005-04-06 Thread Sergio Chiesa
up :-D Original Message Subject: Followup: PROBLEM: Kernel bug at tg3.c:2456 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:34:22 +0200 From: Sergio Chiesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sergio Chiesa wrote: 7.7. Well, it seems that with the original

Re: 2.6.12-rc2 compile error in drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c

2005-04-06 Thread Ben Castricum
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Ben Castricum wrote: ... CC fs/quota_v2.o fs/quota_v2.c: In function `v2_write_dquot': fs/quota_v2.c:399: warning: unknown conversion type character `z' in format fs/quota_v2.c:399: warning: too

PROBLEM: Removing cwd of some process(if it's empty)

2005-04-06 Thread Alex Strilets
[1.] Removing cwd of some process(if it's empty) [2.] Syscalls rmdir() and rename() can remove directory that is the current working directory of some process. If the directory isn't empty, variable errno is set in ENOTEMPTY. If it's root directory of some process or mountpoint errno is set in

[PATCH] Dynamic Tick version 050406-1

2005-04-06 Thread Tony Lindgren
Hi all, Here's an updated dyn-tick patch. Some minor fixes: - Moved updating of time happen before other interrupts are called as noted by Russell King. - Moved call to next_timer_interrupt to generic code from a custom idle module to allow using other idle modules, such as amd76x_pm. -

Re: [BOOTMEM] bad physical address convertions.

2005-04-06 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Dave Hansen wrote: I suggest using something like discontigmem (or even sparsemem for that matter) to properly handles holes in your address space. I don't agree with you. First I don't see any advantages to use discontigmem just because physical ram address doesn't start to 0. I would embed

Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

2005-04-06 Thread Denis Vlasenko
[disregard my previous mail. I should have read the whole thread first] On Saturday 02 April 2005 07:50, Robert Hancock wrote: As it turns out, the memset in my version of glibc x86_64 is not using such a string instruction though - it seems to be using two different sets of instructions

Re: Coding style: mixed-case

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Piggin
Kenneth Aafløy wrote: On Wednesday 06 April 2005 04:09, Matt Mackall wrote: While there may be reasons why mixed case is suboptimal, the real reason is that it's hard to keep track of which style is used where. It's annoying and error-prone to have to remember the naming format for everything in

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Brice Goglin
Ingo Molnar a écrit : weird - none of the WARN_ON(1)'s show up. In particular, the sched_clock() ones should have triggered at least once! I've attached a new version of the patch below (please unapply the previous patch), could you try it and send me the log? (It will unconditionally print

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:34:44AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 06 avril 2005 à 02:10 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : It merely depends on the definition of aggregation. I'd say that two works that are only aggregated can be easily distinguished and separated. This is not the

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-06 Thread Jörn Engel
On Tue, 5 April 2005 15:28:01 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: * Firmwares such as tg3 should be shipped with the kernel tarball. As in /usr/src/linux/firmware/tg3.tar? Would be a simple patch to add that one. Jörn -- The cost of changing business rules is much more expensive for software than

Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

2005-04-06 Thread Philip Lawatsch
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Anyone have any suggestions on how to track this further? It seems fairly clear what circumstances are causing it, but as for figuring out what's at fault.. Well, I would start from changing memory modules. As I wrote earlier, I tried 4 different (but same brand)

NOMMU - How to reserve 1 MB in top of memory in a clean way

2005-04-06 Thread Bas Vermeulen
Hey all, I am currently working on the bfinnommu linux port for the BlackFin 533. I need to grab the top 1 MB of memory so I can give it out to drivers that need non-cached memory for DMA operations. I've tried the following approaches (which each failed, in different ways): 1. Allocate 1 MB in

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-06 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 06:35, Mingming Cao wrote: It seems we are holding the rsv_block while searching the bitmap for a free bit. Probably something to avoid! In alloc_new_reservation(), we first find a available to create a reservation window, then we check the bitmap to see if it

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc3 md/ext3 problems (ext3 gurus : please check)

2005-04-06 Thread Hifumi Hisashi
Hi. At 07:40 05/04/06, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Sorry, was offline for a week last week; I'll try to look at this more closely tomorrow. Checking the buffer_uptodate() without either a refcount or a lock certainly looks unsafe at first glance. There are lots of ways to pin the bh in that

Re: [BUG mm] fixed i386 memcpy inlining buggy

2005-04-06 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 19:34, Christophe Saout wrote: Hi Denis, the new i386 memcpy macro is a ticking timebomb. I've been debugging a new mISDN crash, just to find out that a memcpy was not inlined correctly. Andrew, you should drop the fix-i386-memcpy.patch (or have it fixed).

Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

2005-04-06 Thread Philip Lawatsch
Robert Hancock wrote: Alan Cox wrote: On Sad, 2005-04-02 at 05:50, Robert Hancock wrote: I'm wondering if one does a ton of these cache-bypassing stores whether something gets hosed because of that. Not sure what that could be though. I don't imagine the chipset is involved with any of

RE: [BUG mm] fixed i386 memcpy inlining buggy

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Denis Vlasenko Sent: 06 April 2005 11:14 Is this someone's idea of an April Fool's joke? Because if it is, I've suffered a serious sense-of-humour failure. Oh shit. I was trying to be too clever. I still run with this patch, so it must be happening very

RE: [BUG mm] fixed i386 memcpy inlining buggy

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Dave Korn Sent: 06 April 2005 12:06 Me and my big mouth. OK, that one does work. Sorry for the outburst. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

2005-04-06 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:59 +0200, Philip Lawatsch wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: Alan Cox wrote: On Sad, 2005-04-02 at 05:50, Robert Hancock wrote: I'm wondering if one does a ton of these cache-bypassing stores whether something gets hosed because of that. Not sure what that could

Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

2005-04-06 Thread Philip Lawatsch
Philip Lawatsch wrote: Anyone have any suggestions on how to track this further? It seems fairly clear what circumstances are causing it, but as for figuring out what's at fault.. It seems that mov'ing does not kill my machine while simply using movnti does. Forget about what I just wrote,

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-06 Thread Jörn Engel
On Tue, 5 April 2005 22:01:49 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Roland Dreier wrote: or simply if (!(ptr = kcalloc(n, size, ...))) goto out; and save an additional line of screen realestate while you are at it... No, please

Re: [ANNOUNCE] April Release of LTP now Available

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Marty Ridgeway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The April release of LTP is now on SourceForge. LTP-20050405 It seems to have an x86ism in it which causes the compile to fail on ppc64: socketcall01.c: In function `socketcall': socketcall01.c:80: error: asm-specifier for variable `__sc_4' conflicts

Re: [08/08] uml: va_copy fix

2005-04-06 Thread Jörn Engel
On Tue, 5 April 2005 22:18:26 +0200, Renate Meijer wrote: If a function is prefixed with a double underscore, this implies the function is internal to the compiler, and may change at any time, since it's not governed by some sort of standard. Hence that code may start suffering from

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-06 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: On Apr 5, 2005 4:10 PM, Richard B. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: On Mar 26, 2005 12:59 AM, Julien Wajsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I own an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard with the Nforce4-Sli chipset, and I

[patch 4/6] DocBook: use informalexample for examples

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Waitz
DocBook: use informalexample for examples From: Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripts/kernel-doc | 13 + 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: linux-docbook/scripts/kernel-doc

[patch 2/6] DocBook: fix void/ xml tag

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Waitz
DocBook: fix void/ xml tag This fix is needed to create valid XML. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripts/kernel-doc |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-docbook/scripts/kernel-doc

[patch 0/6] DocBook updates

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Waitz
hoi :) The following mails contain all my current DocBook patches. Many KernelDoc comments are fixed, XML generation is fixed and jadetex+custom scripts are replaced by the standard xmlto tool. Thanks go to everybody who contributed! -- Martin Waitz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

[patch 3/6] DocBook: fix some descriptions

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Waitz
DocBook: fix some descriptions Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] drivers/acpi/scan.c |4 - drivers/base/platform.c |4 - drivers/pci/hotplug.c |4 + drivers/pci/rom.c | 14

[patch 1/6] DocBook: changes and extensions to the kernel documentation

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Waitz
DocBook: changes and extensions to the kernel documentation From: Pavel Pisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have recompiled Linux kernel 2.6.11.5 documentation for me and our university students again. The documentation could be extended for more sources which are equipped by structured comments for

[patch 6/6] DocBook: Use xmlto to process the DocBook files.

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Waitz
DocBook: Use xmlto to process the DocBook files. xmlto uses standared XSLT templates to generate manpages, (x)html pages, and XML FO files which can be processed with passivetex. This is much faster than using jadetex for everything. This patch also reduces the number of kernel-specific scripts

Info Regarding MCR tool

2005-04-06 Thread karthik
Hi, If anybody is having any idea of what is MCR and what is its use, just tell me. i think its some Monitor related software. But i want in more detail of what is it and how is it working. Karthik - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

Re: [08/08] uml: va_copy fix

2005-04-06 Thread Renate Meijer
On Apr 6, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Jörn Engel wrote: On Tue, 5 April 2005 22:18:26 +0200, Renate Meijer wrote: If a function is prefixed with a double underscore, this implies the function is internal to the compiler, and may change at any time, since it's not governed by some sort of standard. Hence

RE: [BUG mm] fixed i386 memcpy inlining buggy

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Dave Korn Sent: 06 April 2005 12:13 Original Message From: Dave Korn Sent: 06 April 2005 12:06 Me and my big mouth. OK, that one does work. Sorry for the outburst. well, actually, maybe it doesn't after all. What's that

RE: [BUG mm] fixed i386 memcpy inlining buggy

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Dave Korn Sent: 06 April 2005 12:53 Original Message From: Dave Korn Sent: 06 April 2005 12:13 Original Message From: Dave Korn Sent: 06 April 2005 12:06 Me and my big mouth. OK, that one does work. Sorry for the outburst.

Re: [BUG mm] fixed i386 memcpy inlining buggy

2005-04-06 Thread Christophe Saout
Am Mittwoch, den 06.04.2005, 13:14 +0300 schrieb Denis Vlasenko: Oh shit. I was trying to be too clever. I still run with this patch, so it must be happening very rarely. Yes, that's right, it happened with code that's not in the mainline tree but could have happened anywhere. Does this one

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-06 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 21:00, Jörn Engel wrote: On Tue, 5 April 2005 17:26:31 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: Would this be a good thing to clean up, or isn't it worth the effort at all? I would welcome such a stream of patches. But in spite of the calloc interface being rather stupid,

2.6.12-rc1: Mouse stopped working

2005-04-06 Thread Joe Button
Hi. My mouse stopped working in x.org with 2.6.12-rc1. Problem is still there in 2.6.12-rc2. Works on 2.6.11.x with same .config (except for make oldconfig / defaults). Mouse is ImPs2, xorg.conf is using /dev/input/mouse0, which seems to be present. Board is Asus p4p800 deluxe. More info

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-06 Thread Paulo Marques
Jörn Engel wrote: On Tue, 5 April 2005 22:01:49 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Roland Dreier wrote: or simply if (!(ptr = kcalloc(n, size, ...))) goto out; and save an additional line of screen realestate while you are at it... No, please

Re: Coding style: mixed-case

2005-04-06 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: Don't use PF_*. That namespace is already being used by at least process flags and protocol flags. Maybe page_locked, page_dirty, etc. might be better Much better. But... Lastly, it is quite likely that many people will consider this to be more

Re: [08/08] uml: va_copy fix

2005-04-06 Thread Jörn Engel
On Wed, 6 April 2005 14:04:39 +0200, Renate Meijer wrote: And you did read this thread as well, right? http://kerneltrap.org/node/4126 quote Things seem to have improved a bit lately. The gcc-3.x series was basically not worth it for plain C until 3.3 or so. /quote Yes. You did read

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.11 - NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler

2005-04-06 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Mar 29 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Mar 29 2005, Chris Rankin wrote: I have one IDE hard disc, but I was using a USB memory stick at one point. (Notice the usb-storage and vfat modules in my list.) Could that be the troublesome SCSI device? --- Jens Axboe [EMAIL

Re: [ACPI] Re: It's getting worse: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 and suspend2ram

2005-04-06 Thread Norbert Preining
On Die, 05 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: 2.6.12-rc2 suspends and resumes with the very same config file (well, after running make oldconfig) without any problem. So there is a change in -mm1 which triggers this. Should I start with backing out bk-acpi? or anything else? bk-acpi

[Fwd: Hyperthreading on dual Xeon VME board]

2005-04-06 Thread Doug Gray
Folks, How can I get Hyperthreading working on my dual Xeon board when the BIOS does not contain the ACPI support module? Is there a magic set of kernel options that will get the kernel to start the Hyperthreaded CPUs? Background: I am having a problem with a dual (physical) Xeon VME single

Re: [BUG mm] fixed i386 memcpy inlining buggy

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Haley
I'm having a little difficulty understanding what this is for. Is it that gcc's builtin memcpy expander generates bad code, or that older versions of gcc generate bad code, or what? gcc generates too much code? Andrew. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.11 - NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler

2005-04-06 Thread Arjan van de Ven
@@ -324,6 +334,7 @@ issue_flush_fn *issue_flush_fn; prepare_flush_fn*prepare_flush_fn; end_flush_fn*end_flush_fn; + release_queue_data_fn *release_queue_data_fn; /* * Auto-unplugging state where does this function method

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.11 - NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler

2005-04-06 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Apr 06 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: @@ -324,6 +334,7 @@ issue_flush_fn *issue_flush_fn; prepare_flush_fn*prepare_flush_fn; end_flush_fn*end_flush_fn; + release_queue_data_fn *release_queue_data_fn; /* *

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:56:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: I'll see if I can isolate it any further. Please, that would help. [Right now I'm in a race against my lack of sleep. I'm trying to send this e-mail before I involuntarily fall asleep, so the contents and/or recipient list may be

Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

2005-04-06 Thread Magnus Damm
On Apr 6, 2005 12:32 PM, Malcolm Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Magnus Damm writes: Here comes version 2 of the disable built-in patch. +void __init disable_initcall(void *fn) +{ + initcall_t *call; + + for (call = __initcall_start; call __initcall_end; call++) { + +

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-06 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi, On Apr 6, 2005 3:15 PM, Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However calloc is the standard C interface for doing this, so it makes some sense to use it here as well... :( I initally submitted kcalloc() with just one parameter but Arjan wanted it to be similar to standard calloc() so we

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc2-mm1] mips: remove #include linux/audit.h two times

2005-04-06 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
This patch removes #include linux/audit.h. Because it includes two times. Yoichi Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urN -X dontdiff rc2-mm1-orig/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c rc2-mm1/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c --- rc2-mm1-orig/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c Tue Apr 5 23:19:16 2005

Re: Info Regarding MCR tool

2005-04-06 Thread Nikita Danilov
karthik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, If anybody is having any idea of what is MCR and what is its use, just tell me. i think its some Monitor related software. But i want in more detail of what is it and how is it working. MCR stands for Monitor Console Routine. Press Ctrl-C to

2.6.12-rc2-mm1: inotify and directory removal

2005-04-06 Thread Sean Neakums
Using your glib sample thingy from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/glib/ $ mkdir snozzberries Event on wd=0: snozzberries, a directory, was created $ rmdir snozzberries Event on wd=0: snozzberries, a directory, was deleted $ mkdir snozzberries Event on wd=0:

Re: NOMMU - How to reserve 1 MB in top of memory in a clean way

2005-04-06 Thread Catalin Marinas
Bas Vermeulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently working on the bfinnommu linux port for the BlackFin 533. I need to grab the top 1 MB of memory so I can give it out to drivers that need non-cached memory for DMA operations. I did this long time ago (on a 2.4 kernel), trying to avoid a

[linux-2.6-bk] UML compile broken!

2005-04-06 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Uml compile is btoken in current linus bk 2.6: CC arch/um/kernel/ptrace.o arch/um/kernel/ptrace.c: In function `send_sigtrap': arch/um/kernel/ptrace.c:324: warning: implicit declaration of function `SC_IP' arch/um/kernel/ptrace.c:324: error: union has no member named `tt'

RE: [BUG mm] fixed i386 memcpy inlining buggy

2005-04-06 Thread Richard B. Johnson
Attached is inline ix86 memcpy() plus test code that tests its corner-cases. The in-line code makes no jumps, but uses longword copies, word copies and any spare byte copy. It works at all offsets, doesn't require alignment but would work fastest if both source and destination were longword

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.11 - NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler

2005-04-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Jens Axboe wrote: On Wed, Apr 06 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: @@ -324,6 +334,7 @@ issue_flush_fn *issue_flush_fn; prepare_flush_fn*prepare_flush_fn; end_flush_fn*end_flush_fn; + release_queue_data_fn *release_queue_data_fn; /*

Re: 2.6.12-rc1: Mouse stopped working

2005-04-06 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Apr 6, 2005 8:19 AM, Joe Button [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. My mouse stopped working in x.org with 2.6.12-rc1. Problem is still there in 2.6.12-rc2. Works on 2.6.11.x with same .config (except for make oldconfig / defaults). Mouse is ImPs2, xorg.conf is using /dev/input/mouse0, which

Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

2005-04-06 Thread Ross Biro
Randy.Dunlap wrote: Is this related (or could it be -- or should it be) at all to the current discussion on the linux-pci mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]) about PCI Error Recovery API Proposal ? I'm not familiar with the proposal, but this is not related to error recovery since master aborts are

Re: 2.6.12-rc1: Mouse stopped working

2005-04-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Joe Button wrote: Hi. My mouse stopped working in x.org with 2.6.12-rc1. Problem is still there in 2.6.12-rc2. Works on 2.6.11.x with same .config (except for make oldconfig / defaults). Mouse is ImPs2, xorg.conf is using /dev/input/mouse0, which seems to be present. Board is Asus p4p800

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1: ACPI=y, ACPI_BOOT=n problems

2005-04-06 Thread Steven Cole
Andrew Morton wrote: Steven Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: arch/i386/kernel/setup.c: In function 'setup_arch': arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:1571: warning: implicit declaration of function 'acpi_boot_table_init' arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:1572: warning: implicit declaration of function 'acpi_boot_init'

Re: [BUG mm] fixed i386 memcpy inlining buggy

2005-04-06 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 16:18, Richard B. Johnson wrote: Attached is inline ix86 memcpy() plus test code that tests its corner-cases. The in-line code makes no jumps, but uses longword copies, word copies and any spare byte copy. It works at all offsets, doesn't require alignment but

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc3 md/ext3 problems (ext3 gurus : please check)

2005-04-06 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 11:01, Hifumi Hisashi wrote: Certainly it's normal for a short read/write to imply either error or EOF, without the error necessarily needing to be returned explicitly. I'm not convinced that the Singleunix language actually requires that, but it seems the most

Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

2005-04-06 Thread Malcolm Rowe
Magnus Damm writes: Regardless of anything else, won't this break booting with initcall_debug on PPC64/IA64 machines? (see the definition of print_fn_descriptor_symbol() in kallsyms.h) Correct, thanks for pointing that out. The code below is probably better: static void __init

Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-06 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:43:45PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Big Question: does most Coldfire or I2C use volatile so heavily, or is it just this one driver that does that? Volatile here semms very overused. It's not a i2c issue, volatile should not be needed here at all. thanks, greg k-h

Re: 2.6.12-rc1: Mouse stopped working

2005-04-06 Thread Joe Button
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 14:50, Helge Hafting wrote: Joe Button wrote: My mouse stopped working in x.org with 2.6.12-rc1. Problem is still there in 2.6.12-rc2. Works on 2.6.11.x with same .config (except for make oldconfig / defaults). Yes, but it may have moved to mouse1 or some such.

Re: NOMMU - How to reserve 1 MB in top of memory in a clean way

2005-04-06 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Catalin Marinas wrote: Bas Vermeulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently working on the bfinnommu linux port for the BlackFin 533. I need to grab the top 1 MB of memory so I can give it out to drivers that need non-cached memory for DMA operations. I did this long time ago

Re: NOMMU - How to reserve 1 MB in top of memory in a clean way

2005-04-06 Thread Catalin Marinas
Richard B. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 Megabyte of DMA RAM should be available using conventional means __get_dma_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0x100) soon after boot. The problem is that he needs to get this memory from the last MB only, __get_dma_pages would return pages from ZONE_DMA but this is

Re: [LTP] Re: [ANNOUNCE] April Release of LTP now Available

2005-04-06 Thread Dan Kegel
Andrew Morton wrote: LTP-20050405 It seems to have an x86ism in it which causes the compile to fail on ppc64: socketcall01.c: In function `socketcall': socketcall01.c:80: error: asm-specifier for variable `__sc_4' conflicts with asm clobber list That might be a problem with your toolchain. Other

Re: NOMMU - How to reserve 1 MB in top of memory in a clean way

2005-04-06 Thread Bas Vermeulen
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 16:53, Richard B. Johnson wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Catalin Marinas wrote: Bas Vermeulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently working on the bfinnommu linux port for the BlackFin 533. I need to grab the top 1 MB of memory so I can give it out to drivers that

Re: NOMMU - How to reserve 1 MB in top of memory in a clean way

2005-04-06 Thread Bas Vermeulen
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:26, Catalin Marinas wrote: Bas Vermeulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently working on the bfinnommu linux port for the BlackFin 533. I need to grab the top 1 MB of memory so I can give it out to drivers that need non-cached memory for DMA operations. I did

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