Re: [PATCH] Bad rounding in timeval_to_jiffies [was: Re: Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)]

2005-04-21 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:40:16PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: Is 11 jiffies correct for 10ms? Consider the 1 jiffy case. How long does waiting one jiffy actually wait? j=01 2 +--+--+-- t A B C D If you start timing one jiffy from A,

[RFC/PATCH 20/22] W1: add w1_device_id/MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for automatic driver loading

2005-04-21 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
W1: support for automatic family drivers loading via hotplug: - allow family drivers support list of families; - export supported families through MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/w1/w1.c |6 -- drivers/w1/w1.h

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Jan Dittmer
Linus Torvalds wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven: [PATCH] M68k: Update defconfigs for 2.6.11 [PATCH] M68k: Update defconfigs for 2.6.12-rc2 Why do I still get this error when trying to cross-compile for m68k? toolchain: Reading specs from

Re: Disk output lockup 2.6.12_rc2 2.6.11.7

2005-04-21 Thread Mikael Andersson
Mikael Andersson wrote: During heavy io-load a lockup occurs that appears to prevent any disk output from taking place. fs is reiserfs on two device-mapper mirrored 200G maxtor disks. After the lockup occurs you can to things like 'ls', but echo test.txt will hang. fs is now ext3 A

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Jan Dittmer wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven: [PATCH] M68k: Update defconfigs for 2.6.11 [PATCH] M68k: Update defconfigs for 2.6.12-rc2 Why do I still get this error when trying to cross-compile for m68k? Because to build m68k kernels, you

Re: [RFC/PATCH] unregister_node() for hotplug use

2005-04-21 Thread Keiichiro Tokunaga
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:35:10 +0200 Arjan van de Ven wrote: diff -puN drivers/base/node.c~numa_hp_base drivers/base/node.c --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3/drivers/base/node.c~numa_hp_base 2005-04-14 20:49:37.0 +0900 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3-kei/drivers/base/node.c2005-04-14

COMPILE-ERROR: 'make prepare ARCH=um' fails on 2.6.11.7

2005-04-21 Thread Frank Schruefer
Hello, 'make prepare ARCH=um' spits out some serious errors. 'make ARCH=um' works though - just takes ways longer ... Here are the 3 commands to reproduce plus the errornous output: - Stone:/usr/src/linux-2.6.11.7 # uname -a Linux Stone

Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Bartlomiej ZOLNIERKIEWICZ
Hi! A small update. Patching mm/filemap.c is not necessary in order to get the improved performance! It's sufficient to remove roundup_pow_of_two from |get_init_ra_size ... So a simple one-liner changes to picture dramatically. But why ?!?!? roundup_pow_of_two() uses fls() and ia64 has buggy

Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent!

2005-04-21 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:24:17AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: If you change it now, how many tools would break? Maybe if you can list what statistics you think should be common to all systems, that could be presented in another file that is always the same format on each architecture.

Re: Development Model

2005-04-21 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:24:00PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: The current development model seems to go much smoother than anything I've seen before. It violates conventional wisdom and that psychological thing is the lion share of why some people feel uneasy about it. Dealing with the

Re: [PATCH] introduce generic 64bit rotations and i386 asm optimized version

2005-04-21 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:20:38PM +0200, Domen Puncer wrote: Please keep using __inline__, not inline. Why? Couldn't find any threads about this, and even SubmittingPatches has: 'static inline' is preferred over 'static __inline__'... Unlike inline __inline__ will be recogniced by gcc

Re: [PATCH] kill old EH constants

2005-04-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: tree 932c6f9689fd08a7a9d689cfbec8682ccde8175d parent 84011ae88da62a20b3ae7b48e2ae3b1ef0fc810a author [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:19:25 -0500 committer James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 17 Apr 2005 06:14:52 -0500 [PATCH]

Re: [PATCH] kill old EH constants

2005-04-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:58:12AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: sun3_NCR5380.c still uses the following: - SCSI_ABORT_SUCCESS - SCSI_ABORT_ERROR - SCSI_ABORT_SNOOZE - SCSI_ABORT_BUSY - SCSI_ABORT_NOT_RUNNING - SCSI_RESET_SUCCESS - SCSI_RESET_BUS_RESET causing the

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_epp.c: cleanups

2005-04-21 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On 4/20/05, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The times when tricky goto's produced better codes are long gone. This patch should express the same in a better way, please check whether I made any mistake. By the way, it solves compile errors with gcc-4: a lot of

Re: Git-commits mailing list feed.

2005-04-21 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 14:22 +1000, David Woodhouse wrote: As of some time in the fairly near future, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list will be carrying real commits from Linus' live git repository, instead of just testing patches. Have fun. with BK this was not possible, but could we

strange incremental patch size [2.6.12-rc2 to 2.6.12-rc3]

2005-04-21 Thread Maciej Soltysiak
Hi, These are the sizes of rc2 and rc3 patches # ls -la patch-2.6.12* -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 18011382 Apr 4 18:50 patch-2.6.12-rc2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 19979854 Apr 21 02:29 patch-2.6.12-rc3 Let us make an incremental patch from rc2 to rc3 # interdiff patch-2.6.12-rc2 patch-2.6.12-rc3 x

Re: [PATCH] hpt366: HPT372N rev 2 controller fix

2005-04-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-04-21 at 06:54, Albert Lee wrote: A particular revision of the HPT372N oopses hpt366 consistently. It's a regression caused by Alan's changes in 2.6.9 to support the HPT372N using only PLL timings. The driver works correctly in prior versions, where the the PCI clock is used

Re: [PATCH] Bad rounding in timeval_to_jiffies [was: Re: Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)]

2005-04-21 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 09:51 +0100, Russell King wrote: [...] The problem is that when you add a timer, you don't have any idea which point you're going to be starting your timer at. This is why we always round up to the next jiffy when we convert times to jiffies - this ensures that you will

[patch] swsusp: documentation updates

2005-04-21 Thread Pavel Machek
This updates documentation and fixes pointers in MAINTAINERS file. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- clean/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt2005-01-22 21:24:50.0 +0100 +++ linux/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt2005-04-17 21:06:32.0 +0200 @@ -164,11

Re: strange incremental patch size [2.6.12-rc2 to 2.6.12-rc3]

2005-04-21 Thread Joost Remijn
Maciej Soltysiak wrote: Hi, These are the sizes of rc2 and rc3 patches # ls -la patch-2.6.12* -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 18011382 Apr 4 18:50 patch-2.6.12-rc2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 19979854 Apr 21 02:29 patch-2.6.12-rc3 Let us make an incremental patch from rc2 to rc3 # interdiff

Re: x86_64: Bug in new out of line put_user()

2005-04-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:10:09AM +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: The new out of line put_user() assembly on x86_64 changes %rcx without telling GCC about it causing things like: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4515 See to it that %rcx is not changed (made it consistent with

Re: [PATCH] X86_64: fix hpet for systems that don't support legacy replacement (v. A2)

2005-04-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:41:00PM -0700, john stultz wrote: Andrew, All, Currently the x86-64 HPET code assumes the entire HPET implementation from the spec is present. This breaks on boxes that do not implement the optional legacy timer replacement functionality portion of the spec.

[patch] properly stop devices before poweroff

2005-04-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Without this patch, Linux provokes emergency disk shutdowns and similar nastiness. It was in SuSE kernels for some time, IIRC. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- clean/kernel/sys.c 2005-03-19 00:32:32.0 +0100 +++ linux/kernel/sys.c 2005-03-22 12:20:53.0 +0100 @@

[patch] acpi: fix video docs

2005-04-21 Thread Pavel Machek
This fixes typos/formatting in video_extension.txt. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- clean/Documentation/power/video_extension.txt 2004-12-25 13:34:57.0 +0100 +++ linux/Documentation/power/video_extension.txt 2005-03-22 12:20:53.0 +0100 @@ -1,13

[patch] hp100: fix card names

2005-04-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Those cards really need A in their names. Otherwise it is pretty hard to find anything about them on the net. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- clean/drivers/net/hp100.c 2005-03-03 12:34:19.0 +0100 +++ linux/drivers/net/hp100.c 2005-03-22 12:20:53.0 +0100 @@

[patch] s-t-RAM: load gdt the right way

2005-04-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Sleep code uses wrong version of lgdt, that does the wrong thing when gdt is beyond 16MB or so... Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- clean/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S2005-01-22 21:24:51.0 +0100 +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S2005-04-14

[patch] swsusp: kill config_pm_disk

2005-04-21 Thread Pavel Machek
CONFIG_PM_DISK is long gone, but it still managed to survived at few places. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- clean/arch/i386/mm/init.c 2005-03-19 00:31:06.0 +0100 +++ linux/arch/i386/mm/init.c 2005-03-25 09:08:37.0 +0100 @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ #endif }

Re: nVidia stuff again

2005-04-21 Thread Helge Hafting
Dave Airlie wrote: The main reasons they don't like open source is from where I'm standing, their IP lawyers and probably not being able to do sneaky hacks in the driver because people can see them.. Well . . . if *that* is a reason for disliking open source then the problem is solved. We

journal_callback_set

2005-04-21 Thread Roland Fehrenbacher
Hi, I noticed, that starting from 2.6.10, the function (fs/jbd/transaction.c) void journal_callback_set(handle_t *handle, void (*func)(struct journal_callback *jcb, int error), struct journal_callback *jcb) along with the structure members of handle_s

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! And for the crazy people, the git archive on kernel.org is up and running under /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git. For the adventurous of you, the name of the 2.6.12-rc3 release is a very nice and readable: a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb and

Re: [patch] properly stop devices before poweroff

2005-04-21 Thread tvrtko . ursulin
On 21/04/2005 12:13:46 linux-kernel-owner wrote: Without this patch, Linux provokes emergency disk shutdowns and similar nastiness. It was in SuSE kernels for some time, IIRC. OMG! And I did try to raise that issue 10 months ago, see below:

Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Andreas Hirstius
Hi, The fls() patch from David solves the problem :-)) Do you have an idea, when it will be in the mainline kernel?? Andreas Bartlomiej ZOLNIERKIEWICZ wrote: Hi! A small update. Patching mm/filemap.c is not necessary in order to get the improved performance! It's sufficient to remove

Re: [patch] properly stop devices before poweroff

2005-04-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Without this patch, Linux provokes emergency disk shutdowns and similar nastiness. It was in SuSE kernels for some time, IIRC. OMG! And I did try to raise that issue 10 months ago, see below: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0406.0/0242.html Heh, verify that this patch

Re: [discuss] [Patch] X86_64 TASK_SIZE cleanup

2005-04-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:17:40AM +0800, Zou, Nanhai wrote: Hi Andi, What is your comment on this patch? There is at least one wrong change in there, you have a check for test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) (flags MAP_32BIT) and that is wrong because MAP_32BIT is used from 64bit code -Andi - To

Re: [discuss] [Patch] X86_64 TASK_SIZE cleanup - more comments

2005-04-21 Thread Andi Kleen
Another comment: In general I am not too happy about the variable size TASK_SIZE. There was a patch for this earlier, but it broke 32bit emulation completely. And I think it needs auditing of all uses of TASK_SIZE, because I suspect there are more bugs lurking in it. The way hugetlb etc. mmap

Re: x86-64 Uncorrected machine check panic on boot

2005-04-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:12:43PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote: Hello, I got the following Machine Check Exception on 4-way Opteron Server. I've tried 2.6.11.7 and 2.6.12-rc2. The kernel parameter nomce could help to boot it up. Sounds like a bogus BIOS. It should disable these machine checks

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! And for the crazy people, the git archive on kernel.org is up and running under /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git. For the adventurous of you, the name of the 2.6.12-rc3 release is a very nice and readable: a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb and

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:20 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! And for the crazy people, the git archive on kernel.org is up and running under /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git. For the adventurous of you, the name of the 2.6.12-rc3 release is a very nice and readable:

Re: nVidia stuff again

2005-04-21 Thread Doug Ledford
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 09:12 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: But *that's* the point people keep ignoring: the specs for programming the hardware, in some cases, reveals details about the hardware's implementation that nVidia does *not* want to release (in addition to suggesting their software

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
It's available both as a patch (against 2.6.11) and as a tar-ball, and Where IS the tarball? Not on www.kernel.org, that's for sure. -- Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des IT-Zentrum) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charite - Universitätsmedizin BerlinTel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Gemeinsame

Re: Git-commits mailing list feed.

2005-04-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:29 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: with BK this was not possible, but could we please have -p added to the diff parameters with git ? It makes diffs a LOT more reasable! With BK this was not possible, but could you please provide your criticism in 'diff -up' form? I've

Need AES benchmark on Intel 64 bit

2005-04-21 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Hi, can anybody help out? I don't have access to Intel 64 bit CPUs and need some microbenchmark results on Intel 64 bit. Usage guide for the attached archive: 'ref' contains the current generic AES implementation 'new' contains the 64 bit AES assembler implementation Do 'make' in both

[PATCH] scan all enabled ports on ata_piix

2005-04-21 Thread Hannes Reinecke
Hi all, on this ACER travelmate (ICH6 chipset) the BIOS somehow sets the PIIX_PORT_ENABLED bit, but not the PIIX_PORT_PRESENT bit. Appearently the BIOS did not do any device scan / initialisation, and then, the ICH6 spec does not actually require it. As the current code scans for

[PATCH] zfcp: fix compile error

2005-04-21 Thread Andreas Herrmann
Jan Dittmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 21.04.2005 10:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [PATCH] zfcp: convert to compat_ioctl This does not seem to compile anymore with defconfig: CC drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_aux.o /usr/src/ctest/rc/kernel/drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_aux.c:63:

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 03/05] scsi: make scsi_queue_insert() use blk_requeue_request()

2005-04-21 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 08:10 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: I wondered about this action recently myself. What is the point in requeueing this request, only to call scsi_run_queue() - blk_run_queue() - issue same request. If the point really is to reissue the request immediately, I can think of many

Re: nVidia stuff again

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Airlie
Ha! That's the whole damn point Dave. Use your head. Just because ATI is getting more complex with their GPU does *not* mean nVidia is. Go No I rely on things I read from hardware review websites and from the GPU manufacturers to wonder what they are doing, unless putting more transistors

Re: x86_64: Bug in new out of line put_user()

2005-04-21 Thread Nicolas Boichat
Hello, On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 01:10 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: The new out of line put_user() assembly on x86_64 changes %rcx without telling GCC about it causing things like: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4515 Thank you, this patch fixes the message queue problem. Best

fix for ISDN ippp filtering

2005-04-21 Thread Karsten Keil
Hi, We do not longer use DLT_LINUX_SLL for activ/pass filters but DLT_PPP_WITHDIRECTION witch need 1 as outbound flag. Please apply. Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urN linux-2.6.12-rc2.org/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c linux-2.6.12-rc2/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c ---

Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/22] W1: sysfs, lifetime and other fixes

2005-04-21 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 02:07 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi, Hello, Dmitry. I happened to take a look into drivers/w1 and found there bunch of thigs that IMO should be changed: - custom-made refcounting is racy Why do you think so? Did you find exactly the place which races against

Re: fix for ISDN ippp filtering

2005-04-21 Thread Patrick McHardy
Karsten Keil wrote: Hi, We do not longer use DLT_LINUX_SLL for activ/pass filters but DLT_PPP_WITHDIRECTION witch need 1 as outbound flag. Please apply. Won't this break compatibility with old ipppd binaries? Regards Patrick - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Compile error on x86_64: CC [M] drivers/usb/image/microtek.o drivers/usb/image/microtek.c: In function `mts_scsi_abort': drivers/usb/image/microtek.c:338: error: `FAILURE' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/usb/image/microtek.c:338: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported

Re: nVidia stuff again

2005-04-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:15:02AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: Ha! That's the whole damn point Dave. Use your head. Just because ATI is getting more complex with their GPU does *not* mean nVidia is. Go back to my original example of the aic7xxx cards. The alternative to their simple

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] aoe [1/6]: improve allowed interfaces configuration

2005-04-21 Thread Ed L Cashin
Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed L Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++ b/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt 2005-04-20 11:42:20.0 -0400 + When the aoe driver is a module, use Is there any reason for this inconsistent behaviour? Yes, the /sys/module/aoe area

Re: [PATCH] kill old EH constants

2005-04-21 Thread Sam Creasey
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:58:12AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: sun3_NCR5380.c still uses the following: - SCSI_ABORT_SUCCESS - SCSI_ABORT_ERROR - SCSI_ABORT_SNOOZE - SCSI_ABORT_BUSY - SCSI_ABORT_NOT_RUNNING -

Re: strange incremental patch size [2.6.12-rc2 to 2.6.12-rc3]

2005-04-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 12:32:59PM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: Hi, These are the sizes of rc2 and rc3 patches # ls -la patch-2.6.12* -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 18011382 Apr 4 18:50 patch-2.6.12-rc2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 19979854 Apr 21 02:29 patch-2.6.12-rc3 Let us make an incremental

Kdump Testing

2005-04-21 Thread Nagesh Sharyathi
Hi, I tested the kdump tool on x235 and x206 machines and found this problem where on kernel Panic, system instead of booting into the panic kernel jumps into BIOS and machine restarts. (I have given the hardware specifications at the bottom of the mail) Software: - 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 -

noddy question involving /dev/vc/0 and /dev/fb/0 on 2.6.7.11

2005-04-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hi, please reply cc to me as well because i am not on these lists (well i am but the receive post options are switched off), thank you. i have a noddy question where what used to work under 2.4.27 (echo 'hello world' /dev/vc/0) now doesn't work on 2.6.7.11, even though echo 'garbage' /dev/fb/0

Re: fix for ISDN ippp filtering

2005-04-21 Thread Karsten Keil
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 03:17:21PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: Karsten Keil wrote: Hi, We do not longer use DLT_LINUX_SLL for activ/pass filters but DLT_PPP_WITHDIRECTION witch need 1 as outbound flag. Please apply. Won't this break compatibility with old ipppd binaries? Not

Suspend/Resume

2005-04-21 Thread Davy Durham
Hi, I've been trying for the last few days to get my D810 to suspend and resume in linux. I'm doing it from klaptop in kde using Fedora Core 3, but I've now compiled my own linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3 kernel since I've seen some ACPI changes going in. At 2.6.11 it would seem to suspend ok, but when

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3: Oops on IDE flash disk eject

2005-04-21 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
As already reported to lkml and IDE maintainer for 2.6.12-rc2: Oops on 'cardctl eject' of an IDE flash disk (Pretec ATA Flash 16MB). 2.6.11.2 works fine. System: Linux (none) 2.6.12-rc3-gringo #1 Thu Apr 21 15:45:08 CEST 2005 x86_64 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Kernel messages from startup to and

Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/22] W1: sysfs, lifetime and other fixes

2005-04-21 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Evgeniy, On 4/21/05, Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 02:07 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi, Hello, Dmitry. I happened to take a look into drivers/w1 and found there bunch of thigs that IMO should be changed: - custom-made refcounting is racy

Re: nVidia stuff again

2005-04-21 Thread Manu Abraham
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:15:02AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: Ha! That's the whole damn point Dave. Use your head. Just because ATI is getting more complex with their GPU does *not* mean nVidia is. Go back to my original example of the aic7xxx cards. The alternative to

Avoiding maps fragmentation Was: Leaks in mmap address space: 2.6.11.4

2005-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Wander
Looks like I have to answer myself here with you guys all busy gitting... I posted two sample programs last week that showed that large application can run out of memory a lot quicker on 2.6 than on 2.4. The reason is that the /proc/*/maps space fragments a lot faster on 2.6 than with 2.4

Re: [PATCH] Bad rounding in timeval_to_jiffies [was: Re: Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)]

2005-04-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: Thanks, I forgot about the guarantee of at least the time requested. I took this on because I noticed this in a driver I wrote. With the user passing in a timeval for a periodic condition. I noticed that this would drift quite a bit. Your user is

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] aoe [1/6]: improve allowed interfaces configuration

2005-04-21 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:36:17AM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed L Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++ b/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt 2005-04-20 11:42:20.0 -0400 + When the aoe driver is a module, use Is there any

Re: [patch] properly stop devices before poweroff

2005-04-21 Thread tvrtko . ursulin
On 21/04/2005 12:38:29 linux-kernel-owner wrote: Without this patch, Linux provokes emergency disk shutdowns and similar nastiness. It was in SuSE kernels for some time, IIRC. OMG! And I did try to raise that issue 10 months ago, see below:

Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread David Mosberger
Tony and Andrew, I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. Do you know what happened? --david On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:30:50 +0200, Andreas Hirstius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Andreas Hi, The fls() patch from David solves the problem :-)) Andreas Do you have an

Which Docbook stylesheets?

2005-04-21 Thread Karel Kulhavy
kestrel linux-2.6.11.7 # make htmldocs *** You need to install DocBook stylesheets *** * app-text/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets Latest version available: 1.77-r2 Latest version installed: 1.77-r2 Size of downloaded files: 385 kB Homepage:http://docbook.sourceforge.net

Re: FW: [RFC] SAS domain layout for Linux sysfs

2005-04-21 Thread Luben Tuikov
On 04/21/05 10:50, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:13:17AM -0500, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: Hi Christoph and James, Luben submitted this RFC back on Apr 13. There have been no responses either public or private. Does this proposal seem adequate? Is there something else

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3: Oops on IDE flash disk eject

2005-04-21 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
The following patch fixes the Oops though I don't know if this is the correct solution. --- linux-2.6.12-rc3/drivers/ide/ide.c.ast +++ linux-2.6.12-rc3/drivers/ide/ide.c @@ -2082,7 +2082,8 @@ static int ide_drive_remove(struct device * dev) { ide_drive_t * drive =

docbook stylesheets complaints when they are installed

2005-04-21 Thread Karel Kulhavy
kestrel linux-2.6.11.7 # make htmldocs *** You need to install DocBook stylesheets *** * app-text/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets Latest version available: 1.77-r2 Latest version installed: 1.77-r2 ^^^ Size of downloaded files: 385 kB

Re: [RFC/PATCH] unregister_node() for hotplug use

2005-04-21 Thread Keiichiro Tokunaga
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:32:35 -0700 Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:07:44PM +0900, Keiichiro Tokunaga wrote: This is to add a generic function 'unregister_node()'. It is used to remove objects of a node going away for hotplug. If CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y, it becomes available. This is

Re: [PATCH] Bad rounding in timeval_to_jiffies [was: Re: Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)]

2005-04-21 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 07:58 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: Thanks, I forgot about the guarantee of at least the time requested. I took this on because I noticed this in a driver I wrote. With the user passing in a timeval for a periodic

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] aoe [1/6]: improve allowed interfaces configuration

2005-04-21 Thread Ed L Cashin
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:36:17AM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed L Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++ b/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt 2005-04-20 11:42:20.0 -0400 + When the aoe

RE: [discuss] [Patch] X86_64 TASK_SIZE cleanup

2005-04-21 Thread Zou, Nanhai
Isn't that a !test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) (flags MAP_32BIT) in my patch? Zou Nan hai -Original Message- From: Andi Kleen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 7:51 PM To: Zou, Nanhai Cc: Andi Kleen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Siddha,

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:19:10 +0200 Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: | It's available both as a patch (against 2.6.11) and as a tar-ball, and | Where IS the tarball? Not on www.kernel.org, that's for sure. in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH] Bad rounding in timeval_to_jiffies [was: Re: Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)]

2005-04-21 Thread Chris Friesen
Linus Torvalds wrote: If you calculate the expected timeout from the time-of-day in the caller, your drift not only goes away, but you'll actually be able to handle things like oops, the machine is under load so I missed an event. Does mainline have a high precision monotonic wallclock that is

Re: Need AES benchmark on Intel 64 bit

2005-04-21 Thread Wes Felter
Andreas Steinmetz wrote: Hi, can anybody help out? I don't have access to Intel 64 bit CPUs and need some microbenchmark results on Intel 64 bit. Usage guide for the attached archive: 'ref' contains the current generic AES implementation 'new' contains the 64 bit AES assembler implementation This

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] aoe [1/6]: improve allowed interfaces configuration

2005-04-21 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:30:06AM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote: Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:36:17AM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed L Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++

Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/22] W1: sysfs, lifetime and other fixes

2005-04-21 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
One more thing... On 4/21/05, Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 02:07 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: w1-master-drop-attrs.patch Get rid of unneeded master device attributes: - 'pointer' and 'attempts' are meaningless for userspace; - information

RE: [discuss] [Patch] X86_64 TASK_SIZE cleanup - more comments

2005-04-21 Thread Zou, Nanhai
Hi Andi, PPC64 IA64 and S390 use variable size TASK_SIZE for 32 bit and 64 bit program. I feel it is hard to maintain if we try to audit TASK_SIZE use everywhere, because most of them are in generic code. And maintaining those audit code in separate place is also a problem. E.g. in current 32 bit

Re: [PATCH] Bad rounding in timeval_to_jiffies [was: Re: Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)]

2005-04-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Chris Friesen wrote: Does mainline have a high precision monotonic wallclock that is not affected by time-of-day changes? Something like nano/mico seconds since boot? High precision? No. We do have jiffies since boot. We don't actually expose it anywhere, although

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [RFC PATCH] Dynamic sched domains aka Isolated cpusets

2005-04-21 Thread Dinakar Guniguntala
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:09:46PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: Earlier, I wrote to Dinakar: What are your invariants, and how can you assure yourself and us that your code preserves these invariants? Ok, Let me begin at the beginning and attempt to define what I am doing here 1. I need a

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc3-V0.7.46-00

2005-04-21 Thread Daniel Walker
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the -V0.7.46-00 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ this is a merge to 2.6.12-rc3, plus the 'ping localhost' fix from [EMAIL PROTECTED] there

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:03:27PM CEST, I got a letter where Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... You should put this into .git/remotes linus rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git (git addremote is preferred for that :-)

/sys/module (was Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] aoe [1/6]: improve allowed interfaces configuration)

2005-04-21 Thread Ed L Cashin
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... It's not for things other than modules, it's filling a real need that you yourself just pointed out. Namely, we need to be able to have access to module paramaters in a consistant place, no matter if the driver is built into the kernel or not. Man, you

Re: [patch] minor syctl fix in vsyscall_init

2005-04-21 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On 13 Apr 2005 20:29:13 +0200, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:45:18AM -0700, Matt Tolentino wrote: Andi, If CONFIG_SYCTL is not enabled then the x86-64 tree fails to build due to use of a symbol that is not compiled in. Don't bother compiling in the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] aoe [1/6]: improve allowed interfaces configuration

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:30:06 -0400 Ed L Cashin wrote: | Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:36:17AM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote: | Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Ed L Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | +++

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Al Viro
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:10:15AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Jan Dittmer wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven: [PATCH] M68k: Update defconfigs for 2.6.11 [PATCH] M68k: Update defconfigs for 2.6.12-rc2 Why do I still get this error

Gentoo livecd - unionfs module problem

2005-04-21 Thread Antonio Nevado
Hi! i´m working on a linux livecd gentoo-based using the linux-live scripts. Ok, then, i use the gentoo kernel 2.6.11 with squashfs support (not module, incore) and i compile the unionfs.ko module. I gzip the module unionfs.ko and i copy it to the: kernel-modules/'uname -r'/ directory for a

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3: various swsusp problems

2005-04-21 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Hi Pavel, there's some problems with swsusp in 2.6.12-rc3 (x86_64): 1. Is it necessary to print the following message during regular boot? swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature? It is a bit annoying and I believe it will confuse some swsusp users. 2. PCMCIA related hangs during

[RFC PATCH] Dynamic sched domains aka Isolated cpusets (v0.2)

2005-04-21 Thread Dinakar Guniguntala
Based on the Paul's feedback, I have simplified and cleaned up the code quite a bit. o I have taken care of most of the nits, except for the output format change for cpusets with isolated children. o Also most of my documentation has been part of my earlier mails and I have not yet

Mercurial distributed SCM v0.2

2005-04-21 Thread Matt Mackall
This is my continuing attempt to make an SCM suitable for kernel hacking. It supports a distribution model similar to BK and Monotone but is orders of magnitude simpler than both (about 1k lines of code). http://selenic.com/mercurial/ New in this version: - much improved command line tool -

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Luck, Tony
I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. Do you know what happened? If BitKeeper were still in use, I'd have dropped that patch into my release tree and asked Linus to pull ... but it's not, and I was stalled. I should have a git tree up and running in the next couple of

Re: Need AES benchmark on Intel 64 bit

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:28:54PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: Hi, can anybody help out? I don't have access to Intel 64 bit CPUs and need some microbenchmark results on Intel 64 bit. Usage guide for the attached archive: 'ref' contains the current generic AES implementation

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread David Mosberger
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:19:28 -0700, Luck, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. Do you know what happened? Tony If BitKeeper were still in use, I'd have dropped that patch Tony into my release tree and asked Linus to pull ... but

2.6.12-rc3 compile error in aic7xxx_osm.c

2005-04-21 Thread Martin J. Bligh
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c: In function `ahc_linux_init': drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c:3608: parse error before `int' drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c:3609: `rc' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c:3609: (Each undeclared identifier is

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Luck, Tony
Yeah, I'm facing the same issue. I started playing with git last night. Apart from disk-space usage, it's very nice, though I really hope someone puts together a web-interface on top of git soon so we can seek what changed when and by whom. Disk space issues? A complete git repository of the

SATA/ATAPI

2005-04-21 Thread Tais M. Hansen
Hi, I know there has been some talking about SATA/ATAPI being experimental and might not work at all under kernel-2.6.x. One of my linux boxes has a Plextor DVD-RW drive with a SATA interface. The kernel sees this drive (ata3) but apparently doesn't tie it to a sdx device. The box also have a

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread David Mosberger
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:41:52 -0700, Luck, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Tony Disk space issues? A complete git repository of the Linux Tony kernel with all changesets back to 2.4.0 takes just over 3G Tony ... which is big compared to BK, but 3G of disk only costs Tony about $1 (for IDE

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