Location of character device of Matrox agpcard driver

2005-04-11 Thread karthik
Hi,           Can anybody tell me where the device corresponding to the graphics driver is created ie whether its in /dev or /sys/class etc in 2.6 kernel.         Also can i uses ioctls after opening the device to see its working. Thanks Regards Karthik R - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-11 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: But I hope that I can get non-conflicting merges done fairly soon, and maybe I can con James or Jeff or somebody to try out GIT then... I don't mind being a guinea pig as long as someone else does the hard work of finding a new way to merge :)

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c: possible cleanups

2005-04-11 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Apr 10 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - remove the following unused global functions: - blkdev_scsi_issue_flush_fn Kill the function completely, it is not used anymore. - __blk_attempt_remerge

Re: [discuss] [21/31] x86_64: Always use CPUID 80000008 to figure out MTRR address space size

2005-04-11 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
We need to use the size_and_mask in set_mtrr_var_ranges(which is called while programming MTRR's for AP's Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c~ 2005-04-10 14:07:11.82144 -0700 +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-11 Thread Jan Hudec
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 04:56:06 +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote: On 2005-04-11, at 04:26, Miles Bader wrote: Marcin Dalecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Better don't waste your time with looking at Arch. Stick with patches you maintain by hand combined with some scripts containing a list of

Re: Processes stuck on D state on Dual Opteron

2005-04-11 Thread Nick Piggin
Claudio Martins wrote: On Sunday 10 April 2005 03:47, Andrew Morton wrote: Suggest you boot with `nmi_watchdog=0' to prevent the nmi watchdog from cutting in during long sysrq traces. Also, capture the `sysrq-m' output so we can see if the thing is out of memory. Hi Andrew, Thanks for the

Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-11 Thread Ryan Anderson
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:15:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: But I hope that I can get non-conflicting merges done fairly soon, and maybe I can con James or Jeff or somebody to try out GIT then... I don't mind being a guinea pig as long as

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc1-mm4] fork_connector: add a fork connector

2005-04-11 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:43:24PM -0700, Jay Lan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I based my listen program on the fclisten.c posted by Kaigai Kohei with my own modification. Unfortunately i lost my test machine in the lab. I will recreate the listen program Monday. The original listener did not

Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: Then the bad news: the merge algorithm is going to suck. It's going to be just plain 3-way merge, the same RCS/CVS thing you've seen before. With no Actually 3-way merge is not that bad. It's definitely better than ClearCase's merge (I always fall back

question about execve()

2005-04-11 Thread Tomko
Hi, I would like to ask when a userprogram called in user space called execve(/bin/abc will this system call finally copy the code of /bin/abc into kernel space before kernel runs it or just leave the code in the userspace and run directly ? If the system really copy the program into

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-11 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 03:38:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: compressed with zlib, they are all named by the sha1 file, and they all Now I know this is a concious decision, but recent zlib allows you to write out gzip content, at a cost of 14 bytes I think per file, by adding 32 to the

Re: Oops in swsusp

2005-04-11 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Monday, 11 of April 2005 01:17, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: Pavel, during testing of the encrypted swsusp_image on x86_64 I did get an Oops from time to time at memcpy+11 called from swsusp_save+1090 which turns out to be the memcpy in copy_data_pages() of swsusp.c. The Oops is caused by

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc1-mm4] fork_connector: add a fork connector

2005-04-11 Thread Andrew Morton
Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:43:24PM -0700, Jay Lan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I based my listen program on the fclisten.c posted by Kaigai Kohei with my own modification. Unfortunately i lost my test machine in the lab. I will recreate the listen

[PATCH 2.6.11.7 1/1] x86 reboot: Add reboot fixup for gx1/cs5530a

2005-04-11 Thread jayalk
Hi Riley, Dave, Peter, i386 boot/workaround maintainers, I'm resending this patch (from March 28). This patch incorporates the suggestions from the previous thread and also switches to using pci_get_device since pci_find_device is deprecated, and made some of the variables static. Please let

Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-11 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 09:10 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Do you intend to continue posting commited patches to a mailing list like bk scripts did to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? As I said a while ago, I find this very useful, especially with the actual patch included in the commit message

Re: Linux Alpha port: kernel panik under moderate DISK IO conditions

2005-04-11 Thread Rao Davide
I'm not using the qlogic controller as boot controller. I'm mooting from the internal disk connected to LSI controller. In any case I'll try out the suggested 1280 right now. Can I build a modular kernel with the 2.6 kernel series ? I would find it handy to have som parts colpiled as modules.

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-11 Thread Christer Weinigel
bert hubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 03:38:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: compressed with zlib, they are all named by the sha1 file, and they all Now I know this is a concious decision, but recent zlib allows you to write out gzip content, at a cost of 14

[patch] reparent_to_init-cleanup

2005-04-11 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
Hello, Split out from my oom-killer patch, this patch hides reparent_to_init(). reparent_to_init() should only be called by daemonize(). This applies to 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 too. Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c |1 -

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc1-mm4] fork_connector: add a fork connector

2005-04-11 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:51:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:43:24PM -0700, Jay Lan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I based my listen program on the fclisten.c posted by Kaigai Kohei with my own

Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then the bad news: the merge algorithm is going to suck. It's going to be just plain 3-way merge, the same RCS/CVS thing you've seen before. With no understanding of renames etc. I'll try to find the best parent to base the merge off of, although

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-11 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Barry K. Nathan wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:27:47PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Can you try without XFS? No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) Yes, although it is not totally trivial. I'll see if I can

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-11 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Pavel Machek wrote: Encrypting swsusp image is of course even better, because you don't have to write large ammounts of zeros to your disks during resume ;-). and while we are at it: compressing before encryption will also reduce the amount of data you have to write during suspend... ;-)

Re: GIT license (Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1)

2005-04-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw, does anybody have strong opinions on the license? I didn't put in a COPYING file exactly because I was torn between GPLv2 and OSL2.1. I'm inclined to go with GPLv2 just because it's the most common one, but I was wondering if anybody really

Re: bdflush/rpciod high CPU utilization, profile does not make sense

2005-04-11 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 05:52:32PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: lau den 09.04.2005 Klokka 23:35 (+0200) skreiv Jakob Oestergaard: 2.6.11.6: (dual PIII 1GHz, 2G RAM, Intel e1000) File Block Num Seq ReadRand Read Seq Write Rand Write DirSize Size Thr Rate

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 0/3] encrypted swsusp image

2005-04-11 Thread folkert
The following patches allow for encryption of the on-disk swsusp image to prevent data gathering of e.g. in-kernel keys or mlocked data after resume. For this purpose the aes cipher must be compiled into the kernel as module load is not possible at resume time. A random key is generated at

Unable to boot 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 with command line maxcpus=1

2005-04-11 Thread Vivek Goyal
Hi, I am having problems while booting 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 on i386 with command line maxcpus=1. Without this commandline, system boots fine otherwise it hangs. Serial output is pasted below. If maxcpus=1 is given along with acpi=off then system boots fine. I am not sure where the problem is.

[PATCH] ppc64: very basic desktop g5 sound support

2005-04-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi ! This patch hacks the current PowerMac Alsa driver to add some basic support of analog sound output to some desktop G5s. It has severe limitations though: - Only 44100Khz 16 bits - Only work on G5 models using a TAS3004 analog code, that is early single CPU desktops and all dual CPU

Re: [PATCH] bootmem.c clean up bad pfn convertions

2005-04-11 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Dave Hansen wrote: The only arch with phys_to_pfn() defined is UML, so the patch simply won't compile anything but UML on current kernels (unless I'm missing something). oops, I forgot to send the part of the patch that defines these macros, sorry. Could you try to give us a more complete

RE: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-11 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] i'd not mind merging the extra bits to PREEMPT_RT to enable fusyn's, if they come in small, clean steps. E.g. Daniel's plist.h stuff was nice and clean. I am finishing breaking it up in small bits so you can take a look at it. Should be finished

Re: question about execve()

2005-04-11 Thread Tommy Reynolds
Uttered Tomko [EMAIL PROTECTED], spake thus: I would like to ask when a userprogram called in user space called execve(/bin/abc will this system call finally copy the code of /bin/abc into kernel space before kernel runs it or just leave the code in the userspace and run directly ?

Re: GIT license (Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1)

2005-04-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ingo Molnar: is there any fundamental problem with going with v2 right now, and then once v3 is out and assuming it looks ok, all newly copyrightable bits (new files, rewrites, substantial contributions, etc.) get a v3 copyright? (and the collection itself would be v3 too) That method

Re: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OTOH, deadlock detection is another issue. It's quite expensive and i'm not sure we want to make it a runtime thing. But for fusyn's deadlock detection and safe teardown on owner-exit is a must-have i suspect? Not really. Deadlock check is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.2

2005-04-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, here goes git-pasky-0.2, my set of patches and scripts upon Linus' git, aimed at human usability and to an extent a SCM-like usage. works fine on FC4, i only minor issues: 'git' in the tarball didnt have the x permission. Also, your

RE: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-11 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OTOH, deadlock detection is another issue. It's quite expensive and i'm not sure we want to make it a runtime thing. But for fusyn's deadlock detection and safe teardown on owner-exit is a must-have i

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 04.11, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ Is this not needed anymore ? --- 25/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S~nmi_stack_correct-fix 2005-04-05 00:02:48.0 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S

Re: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me re-phrase then: it is a must have only on PI, to make sure you don't have a loop when doing it. Maybe is a consequence of the algorithm I chose. -However- it should be possible to disable it in cases where you are reasonably sure it

RE: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-11 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me re-phrase then: it is a must have only on PI, to make sure you don't have a loop when doing it. Maybe is a consequence of the algorithm I chose. -However- it should be possible to disable it in

Re: Light Scribe Technology

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can you tell me if there is currently support in the kernel for HP's new LightScribe technology? (http://h30015.www3.hp.com/hp_dec/lightscribe/index_FL.asp). If there is not, are there plans for it? Supposdly, you can burn DVD's or CD's, then

smbfs: lseek returns EINVAL when using large files.

2005-04-11 Thread Mathieu Fluhr
Hello It seems that the smbfs driver does not handle correctly large files (2GB). The thing is that statting them is correct (for example, the st_size field is correctly set), but as soon as you try to make a lseek with an offset larget than INT_MAX, you get a EINVAL error. Note: This is not

Re: smbfs: lseek returns EINVAL when using large files.

2005-04-11 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 11:07 +0200, Mathieu Fluhr wrote: Hello It seems that the smbfs driver does not handle correctly large files (2GB). The thing is that statting them is correct (for example, the st_size field is correctly set), but as soon as you try to make a lseek with an offset

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-11 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 01:04 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: (I repeat the xxx in the leaf name - easier to code.) It is a bit OT, but just a note: there are file systems (hash functions) out there who dont like a lot of files named the same way. For

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread Andrew Morton
(Please do reply-to-all) J.A. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04.11, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ Is this not needed anymore ? --- 25/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S~nmi_stack_correct-fix

Re: [PATCH] I2C rtc8564.c remove duplicate include (whitespace fixed)

2005-04-11 Thread Clemens Koller
[PATCH] I2C rtc8564.c remove duplicate include Trivial fix: removes duplicate include line. Patch applies to: 2.6.11.x (This is my very first patch to the linux-kernel, so let me start with small things first...) Signed-off-by: Clemens Koller [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff -Nur

Re: Processes stuck on D state on Dual Opteron

2005-04-11 Thread Nick Piggin
Claudio Martins wrote: On Sunday 10 April 2005 03:47, Andrew Morton wrote: Suggest you boot with `nmi_watchdog=0' to prevent the nmi watchdog from cutting in during long sysrq traces. Also, capture the `sysrq-m' output so we can see if the thing is out of memory. Hi Andrew, Thanks for the

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 0/3] encrypted swsusp image

2005-04-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! The following patches allow for encryption of the on-disk swsusp image to prevent data gathering of e.g. in-kernel keys or mlocked data after resume. For this purpose the aes cipher must be compiled into the kernel as module load is not possible at resume time. A random key is

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Encrypting swsusp image is of course even better, because you don't have to write large ammounts of zeros to your disks during resume ;-). How does zeroing help if they steal the laptop? The data is there, they can just pull the hard disk out and mirror it before they boot. The

Re: [PATCH 0/5] autoparam

2005-04-11 Thread Magnus Damm
On 4/9/05, Domen Puncer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/03/05 00:06 +0100, Magnus Damm wrote: Here are a set of patches that makes it possible to autogenerate kernel command line documentation from the source code. The approach is rather straightforward - the parameter name, the type

Re: [RFC] Kprobes: Multiple probes feature at given address

2005-04-11 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Thanks Maneesh for your comments. Please find the patch below. [..] Assumption : If a user has already inserted a probe using old register_kprobe() routine, and later wants to insert another probe at the same address using register_multiprobe() routine, then register_multiprobe() will

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.2

2005-04-11 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 04:46:42AM CEST, I got a letter where Daniel Barkalow [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: Hello, here goes git-pasky-0.2, my set of patches and scripts upon Linus' git, aimed at human usability and to an

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.2

2005-04-11 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:50:51AM CEST, I got a letter where Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... * Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, here goes git-pasky-0.2, my set of patches and scripts upon Linus' git, aimed at human usability and to an extent

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! The following patch adds the core functionality for the encrypted suspend image. [Please inline patches, it makes it easier to comment on them.] You seem to reuse same key/iv for all the blocks. I'm no crypto expert, but I think that is seriously wrong... You probably should use block

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread Jan Dittmer
Andrew Morton wrote: bk-cifs.patch This breaks the build on mips, ppc64, sparc, sparc64 with the following error (defconfig, compared to mm2): CC [M] fs/cifs/misc.o fs/cifs/misc.c: In function `cifs_convertUCSpath': fs/cifs/misc.c:546: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-11 Thread folkert
The following patch adds the core functionality for the encrypted suspend image. [Please inline patches, it makes it easier to comment on them.] You seem to reuse same key/iv for all the blocks. I'm no crypto expert, but I think that is seriously wrong... You probably should use block

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-11 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Sonntag, 10. April 2005 22:14 schrieb Pavel Machek: Hi! Oliver Neukum wrote: What is the point in doing so after they've rested on the disk for ages? The point is not physical access to the disk but data gathering after resume or reboot. After resume or reboot normal

BUG in RT 45-01 when RT program dumps core

2005-04-11 Thread kus Kusche Klaus
When a process running with RT priority dumps core, I get the following BUG: Apr 11 13:44:23 OF455 kern.err kernel: BUG: rtc2:833 RT task yield()-ing! Apr 11 13:44:23 OF455 kern.warn kernel: [c026dad1] yield+0x61/0x70 (8) Apr 11 13:44:23 OF455 kern.warn kernel: [c0151e49]

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-11 Thread Thomas Graf
* Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-04-11 09:22 On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:27:27PM +0200, Thomas Graf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: + size = NLMSG_SPACE(sizeof(*msg) + msg-len); + + skb = alloc_skb(size, GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!skb) { + printk(KERN_ERR

Re: Re: GIT license (Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1)

2005-04-11 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:40:00AM CEST, I got a letter where Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... * Ingo Molnar: is there any fundamental problem with going with v2 right now, and then once v3 is out and assuming it looks ok, all newly copyrightable bits (new

Re: Oops in swsusp

2005-04-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! during testing of the encrypted swsusp_image on x86_64 I did get an Oops from time to time at memcpy+11 called from swsusp_save+1090 which turns out to be the memcpy in copy_data_pages() of swsusp.c. The Oops is caused by a NULL pointer (I don't remember if it was source or destination).

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! The following patch adds the core functionality for the encrypted suspend image. [Please inline patches, it makes it easier to comment on them.] You seem to reuse same key/iv for all the blocks. I'm no crypto expert, but I think that is seriously wrong... You probably should use

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! The following patch adds the core functionality for the encrypted suspend image. +#ifdef CONFIG_SWSUSP_ENCRYPT +static struct crypto_tfm *crypto_init(int mode) +{ + struct crypto_tfm *tfm; + int len; + + tfm = crypto_alloc_tfm(CIPHER, CRYPTO_TFM_MODE_CBC); +

Re: Problem in log_do_checkpoint()?

2005-04-11 Thread Jan Kara
I get OOPs in log_do_checkpoint() while using ext3 quotas. Is this anyway related to what you are working on ? Nope, it does not seem to be the same problem. In theory it could be a bug Stephen fixed some time ago - could you try to reproduce the problem with 2.6.12-rc2 (it contains the fix)?

swsusp vs. xfs [was Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) Yes, loading xfs from initrd should help. [At least it did during suse9.3 testing.] Once I modularized xfs and switched to using an initrd, the problem

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-11 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 12:45 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: * Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-04-11 09:22 On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:27:27PM +0200, Thomas Graf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: + size = NLMSG_SPACE(sizeof(*msg) + msg-len); + + skb = alloc_skb(size,

Re: Problem in log_do_checkpoint()?

2005-04-11 Thread Jan Kara
Hello, On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:04, Jan Kara wrote: In log_do_checkpoint() we go through the t_checkpoint_list of a transaction and call __flush_buffer() on each buffer. Suppose there is just one buffer on the list and it is dirty. __flush_buffer() sees it and puts it to an array

[rfc] git: combo-blobs

2005-04-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
i think all of the 'repository size' and 'bandwidth' concerns could be solved via a new (and pretty much simple and transparent) object type: the 'combo-blob'. Summary: This is a space/bandwidth-efficient blob that 'includes' arbitrary portions of (one, two, or more) simple blobs by

Re: Problem in log_do_checkpoint()?

2005-04-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 18:14, Badari Pulavarty wrote: I get OOPs in log_do_checkpoint() while using ext3 quotas. Is this anyway related to what you are working on ? Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address Doesn't look like it, no. If we understand

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-11 Thread folkert
The following patch adds the core functionality for the encrypted suspend image. [Please inline patches, it makes it easier to comment on them.] You seem to reuse same key/iv for all the blocks. I'm no crypto expert, but I think that is seriously wrong... You probably should use

RT 45-01: CF Card read: High latency?

2005-04-11 Thread kus Kusche Klaus
From the three sources of multi-millisecond latency in my experiments (console messages to dead serial console, USB I/O, CF Card bulk read), I've analyzed one: The latency of around 70 milliseconds in low-priority RT processes when running a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null in parallel (where hda is

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:10, Mingming Cao wrote: It still needs to be done under locking to prevent us from expanding over the next window, though. And having to take and drop a spinlock a dozen times or more just to find out that there are no usable free blocks in the current block

Re: RT 45-01: CF Card read: High latency?

2005-04-11 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Apr 11, 2005 1:38 PM, kus Kusche Klaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the question is, what exactly is the IDE priority? Is the PIO transfer done in the IRQ handler or in a bh? in the IRQ handler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.7 1/1] x86 reboot: Add reboot fixup for gx1/cs5530a

2005-04-11 Thread H. Peter Anvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Riley, Dave, Peter, i386 boot/workaround maintainers, I'm resending this patch (from March 28). This patch incorporates the suggestions from the previous thread and also switches to using pci_get_device since pci_find_device is deprecated, and made some of the

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

2005-04-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Glenn Maynard wrote: I've heard the claim, several times, that that creating a derivative work requires creative input, that linking stuff together with ld is completely uncreative, therefore no derivative work is created. (I'm not sure if you're making (here or elsewhere) that claim, but it

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

2005-04-11 Thread Humberto Massa
David Schwartz wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 08:07:03PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: The way you stop someone from distributing part of your work is by arguing that the work they are distributing is a derivative work of your work and they had no right to *make* it in the first place. See,

Re: bdflush/rpciod high CPU utilization, profile does not make sense

2005-04-11 Thread Trond Myklebust
m den 11.04.2005 Klokka 09:48 (+0200) skreiv Jakob Oestergaard: tcp with timeo=600 causes retransmits (as seen with nfsstat) to drop to zero. Good. File Block Num Seq ReadRand Read Seq Write Rand Write DirSize Size Thr Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.7 1/1] x86 reboot: Add reboot fixup for gx1/cs5530a

2005-04-11 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Riley, Dave, Peter, i386 boot/workaround maintainers, I'm resending this patch (from March 28). This patch incorporates the suggestions from the previous thread and also switches to using pci_get_device since pci_find_device is

Re: Processes stuck on D state on Dual Opteron

2005-04-11 Thread Nick Piggin
Nick Piggin wrote: The common theme seems to be: try_to_free_pages, swap_writepage, mempool_alloc, down/down_failed in .text.lock.md. Next I would suspect md/raid1 - maybe some deadlock in an uncommon memory allocation failure path? I'll see if I can reproduce it here. No luck yet (on SMP i386).

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 03/04] scsi: make scsi_requeue_request() use blk_requeue_request()

2005-04-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
+ cmd-request-flags |= REQ_SOFTBARRIER; + + spin_lock_irqsave(q-queue_lock, flags); + blk_requeue_request(q, cmd-request); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(q-queue_lock, flags); scsi_run_queue(q); This exact code sequence is duplicated in the previous patch, maybe time for

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

2005-04-11 Thread Humberto Massa
Adrian Bunk wrote: Even RedHat with a stronger financial background than Debian considered the MP3 patents being serious enough to remove MP3 support. Actually, they did it to spite the patent holders. []s Massa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

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

2005-04-11 Thread Humberto Massa
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:42:17 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Every book in my book shelf is software? If you digitalize it, yes. AFAIK software only refers to programs, not to arbitrary sequences of bytes. An MP3 file isn't software. Although it surely isn't

[1/1] connector/CBUS: new messaging subsystem. Revision number next.

2005-04-11 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
/*/ Kernel Connector. /*/ Kernel connector - new netlink based userspace - kernel space easy to use communication module. Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using netlink based network. One

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

2005-04-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:51, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: I'm currently running with the buffer-trace debug patch, on 2.4, with a custom patch to put every buffer jbd ever sees onto a per-superblock list, and remove it only when the bh is destroyed in put_unused_buffer_head(). At unmount

Re: RT 45-01: CF Card read: High latency?

2005-04-11 Thread P
I handled this issue by precaching all my files (15MB), from my readonly root filesystem. find / -type f | grep -v ^/boot | #kernel is 1MB and never read so don't put in cache while read file; do dd bs=32k if=$file of=/dev/null 2/dev/null done Pádraig. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Mason
On Monday 11 April 2005 03:38, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So anything that got modified in just one tree obviously merges to that version. Any file that got modified in two trees will end up just being passed to the merge program. See man merge and man

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-11 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following patch adds the core functionality for the encrypted suspend image. [Please inline patches, it makes it easier to comment on them.] Aiyeeh - good ole Mozilla tends to reformat things when inlining... You seem to reuse same key/iv for all the blocks. I'm no

Re: Oops in swsusp

2005-04-11 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, On Monday, 11 of April 2005 01:17, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: Pavel, during testing of the encrypted swsusp_image on x86_64 I did get an Oops from time to time at memcpy+11 called from swsusp_save+1090 which turns out to be the memcpy in copy_data_pages() of

Re: [Alsa-devel] [2.6 patch] sound/pci/ymfpci/ymfpci_main.c: remove dead code

2005-04-11 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:12:11 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch removes some dead code found by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied to ALSA tree. Thanks! Takashi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-11 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! The following patch adds the core functionality for the encrypted suspend image. +#ifdef CONFIG_SWSUSP_ENCRYPT +static struct crypto_tfm *crypto_init(int mode) +{ + struct crypto_tfm *tfm; + int len; + + tfm = crypto_alloc_tfm(CIPHER,

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.7 1/1] x86 reboot: Add reboot fixup for gx1/cs5530a

2005-04-11 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Richard B. Johnson wrote: Shouldn't it just be: #define mach_reboot_fixup(x) |___ Nothing here. Dear Wrongbot, No. -hpa - 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: [1/1] connector/CBUS: new messaging subsystem. Revision number next.

2005-04-11 Thread Thomas Graf
* Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-04-11 16:59 + size = NLMSG_SPACE(sizeof(*msg) + msg-len); + + skb = alloc_skb(size, gfp_mask); + if (!skb) { + printk(KERN_ERR Failed to allocate new skb with size=%u.\n, size); + return -ENOMEM; + } + +

Re: bdflush/rpciod high CPU utilization, profile does not make sense

2005-04-11 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 08:35:39AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: ... That certainly shouldn't be the case (and isn't on any of my setups). Is the behaviour identical same on both the PIII and the Opteron systems? The dual opteron is the nfs server The dual athlon is the 2.4 nfs client The

[ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-11 Thread Petr Baudis
Hello, here goes git-pasky-0.3, my set of patches and scripts upon Linus' git, aimed at human usability and to an extent a SCM-like usage. If you already have a previous git-pasky version, just git pull pasky to get it (but see below!!!). Otherwise, you can get it from:

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-11 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Christopher Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel There is one problem though. How about the SHA1 hash collision? Even the chance is very remote, you don't want to lose some data do due to software error. I think it is OK that no

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

2005-04-11 Thread Michael Poole
Humberto Massa writes: David Schwartz wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 08:07:03PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: The way you stop someone from distributing part of your work is by arguing that the work they are distributing is a derivative work of your work and they had no right to *make*

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

2005-04-11 Thread Humberto Massa
Michael Poole wrote: Copyright law only _explicitly_ grants a monopoly on preparation of derivative works. However, it is trivial, and overwhelmingly common, for a copyright owner to grant a license to create a derivative work that is conditional on how the licensee agrees to distribute (or not

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-11 Thread Jan Niehusmann
Andreas is right, his patches are needed. Currently, if your laptop is stolen after resume, they can still data in swsusp image. Which shows that swsusp is a security risk if you have sensitive data in RAM. A thief stealing a running computer can get access to memory contents much more easy

Re: [patch] MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete ACP/MWAVE MODEM entry

2005-04-11 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Adrian, ./drivers/char/mwave/Makefile also references Paul's email address, at least in v2.4. Applied, thanks. On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:15:45AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: Both maintainer email addresses are bouncing and the web address is no longer valid. Seems to be a good time to

Re: bdflush/rpciod high CPU utilization, profile does not make sense

2005-04-11 Thread Trond Myklebust
m den 11.04.2005 Klokka 15:47 (+0200) skreiv Jakob Oestergaard: Certainly; http://unthought.net/binary.dmp.bz2 I got an 'invalid snaplen' with the 9 you suggested, the above dump is done with 9000 - if you need another snaplen please just let me know. So, the RPC itself looks good,

Re: bdflush/rpciod high CPU utilization, profile does not make sense

2005-04-11 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:35:25AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: må den 11.04.2005 Klokka 15:47 (+0200) skreiv Jakob Oestergaard: Certainly; http://unthought.net/binary.dmp.bz2 I got an 'invalid snaplen' with the 9 you suggested, the above dump is done with 9000 - if you need

Re: [rfc] git: combo-blobs

2005-04-11 Thread Paul Jackson
Hmmm ... I have this strong sense that I am about 2 hours away from smacking my forehead and groaning Duh - so that's what Ingo meant! However, one must play out one's destiny. Could you provide an example scenario, which results in the creation of a combo-blob? The best I can come up with is

[PATCH] Kprobes: Oops! in unregister_kprobe()

2005-04-11 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Hi, Please find the patch below to fix Oops! in unregister_kprobe(). Please let me know if you any issues. Thanks Prasanna kernel oops! when unregister_kprobe() is called on a non-registered kprobe. This patch fixes the above problem by checking if the probe exists before unregistering.

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