Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

2005-08-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Who can tell? rmk's mail sugggests it should work on some valid RAM. Not really. If I understand Russell here, that RAM has been put aside for use by fancy stuff and is de-facto out of control of the normal page allocator and refcounting. In this case, I see no reason why it couldn't be

Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

2005-08-09 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 08:08:53 +0100): On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 02:59:53PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: That would work for swsusp, but there are other users that want to know if a struct page is valid ram (eg. ioremap), so in that case swsusp would

Re: Soft lockup in e100 driver ?

2005-08-09 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:55:49PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: On 8/9/05, Matti Aarnio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running very recent Fedora Core Development kernel I can following soft-oops.. ( 2.6.12-1.1455_FC5smp ) Various patches to the e100 driver have been merged since 2.6.12.1

Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

2005-08-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
We do what's most efficient for the core. Which I think is refcount both ways regardless, since these pages are exceptional, and the majority really do need refcounting. Well, refcounting _might_ be useful for some usage of these, but we simply must make sure that those pages are never

Re: VGER news

2005-08-09 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:33:47PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Folks at Dell have donated a new machine to be VGER, and folks at RedHat have installed it into co-location facility with 1000Mbps network connection into the machine. May 24 2004 on kernel.org: ISC has upgraded our

Re: VGER news

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:12 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: We did system switchover last weekend, and nobody reacted trulu adversely.Probably nobody noticed it either. :-) It's definitely faster. Lately I have had a few replies to list messages where the reply hit LKML several minutes

Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

2005-08-09 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: ioremap is making a similar check to the one remap_pfn_range used to make; but I see no good reason for it at all. ioremap should be allowed to map whatever the caller asked, just as memset is allowed to set whatever the caller asked.

Dual 2.8ghz xeon, software raid, lvm, jfs

2005-08-09 Thread Phil Dier
Hi, I have 2 identical dual 2.8ghz xeon machines with 4gb ram, using software raid 10 with lvm layered on top, formatted with JFS (though at this point any filesystem with online resizing support will do). I have the boxes stable using 2.6.10, and they pass my stress test. I was trying to update

Re: VGER news

2005-08-09 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:31:30PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote: Matti Aarnio wrote: We did system switchover last weekend, and nobody reacted trulu adversely.Probably nobody noticed it either. :-) Ah, that's the reason why commit messages are now sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead

Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

2005-08-09 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: But you don't mind if they are refcounted, do you? Just so long as they start out from 1 so never get freed. Well, a refcounting bug would let them be freed and kaboom ... That's why a PG_not_your_ram_dammit bit would be useful. It could

Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

2005-08-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:50 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: But you don't mind if they are refcounted, do you? Just so long as they start out from 1 so never get freed. Well, a refcounting bug would let them be freed and kaboom ... That's

Re: [PATCH] Kernels Out Of Memoy(OOM) killer Problem ?

2005-08-09 Thread Thomas Habets
Once upon a midnight dreary, Alan Cox pondered, weak and weary: 0 - overcommit except if something is obviously silly 1 - overcommit always (some scientific workloads) 2 - don't overcommit (databases etc) Exactly. Which is what the code and D/sysctl/vm.txt say, and why the description in

Re: VGER news

2005-08-09 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:39:24PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:33:47PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Folks at Dell have donated a new machine to be VGER, and folks at RedHat have installed it into co-location facility with 1000Mbps network connection into the

Re: GFS

2005-08-09 Thread Pekka J Enberg
Hi David, Here are some more comments. Pekka +/** +*** +** +** Copyright (C) Sistina Software, Inc. 1997-2003 All

Re: datagram queue length

2005-08-09 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Jonathan Ellis wrote: (Posted a few days ago to c.os.l.networking; no replies there.) I seem to be running into a limit of 64 queued datagrams. This isn't a data buffer size; varying the size of the datagram makes no difference in the observed queue size. If more

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 5003] New: Problem with symbios driver on recent -mm trees

2005-08-09 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 21:41 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: Nope, is the same as before with this patch Dear novice bug reporter, Thank you for taking the trouble to test this. Unfortunately, without any dmesg output, it's rather hard to tell what's going on here. Would you be so kind as

Re: datagram queue length

2005-08-09 Thread Jonathan Ellis
linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: I seem to be running into a limit of 64 queued datagrams. This isn't a data buffer size; varying the size of the datagram makes no difference in the observed queue size. If more datagrams are sent before some are read, they are silently dropped. (By silently, I

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 5003] New: Problem with symbios driver on recent -mm trees

2005-08-09 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 09:26:44 -0500): On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 21:41 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: Nope, is the same as before with this patch Dear novice bug reporter, Thank you for taking the trouble to test this. Unfortunately,

Re: GFS

2005-08-09 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 11:32 -0700, Zach Brown wrote: Sorry if this is an obvious question but what prevents another thread from doing mmap() before we do the second walk and messing up num_gh? Nothing, I suspect. OCFS2 has a problem like this, too. It wants a way for a file system to

Re: Soft lockup in e100 driver ?

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 16:36 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: Running very recent Fedora Core Development kernel I can following soft-oops.. ( 2.6.12-1.1455_FC5smp ) e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! Could this be a false positive?

Re: understanding Linux capabilities brokenness

2005-08-09 Thread Christopher Warner
In my observer pragmatic view; yes. On many occasion, i've come to CAP calls only to be frustrated with the sheer disconnect of it all. It simply doesn't work. If it means having to break posix conformance for a working implementation. Then so be it. -- Christopher Warner On Tue, 2005-08-09 at

Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

2005-08-09 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:18:28PM +0800, David Teigland wrote: Hi, GFS (Global File System) is a cluster file system that we'd like to see added to the kernel. The 14 patches total about 900K so I won't send them to the list unless that's requested. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Re: Soft lockup in e100 driver ?

2005-08-09 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:58 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 16:36 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: Running very recent Fedora Core Development kernel I can following soft-oops.. ( 2.6.12-1.1455_FC5smp ) e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex BUG: soft

Re: [OT] util-linux 2.13-pre1

2005-08-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:46:58PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: util-linux 2.13-pre1 is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/testing/util-linux-2.13-pre1.tar.gz You missed my fixes to cal to fix a possible crash bug for certain terminal

Re: Soft lockup in e100 driver ?

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 11:23 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: I just downloaded 2.6.13-rc6-git and I don't see the merge of the soft lockup code. Is this a Fedora thing? If so, could someone point me to a link to download this Fedora kernel. I'm currently using Debian. I seem to recall seeing

Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

2005-08-09 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:50 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Well, a refcounting bug would let them be freed and kaboom ... That's why a PG_not_your_ram_dammit bit would be useful. It could

Re: Soft lockup in e100 driver ?

2005-08-09 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:37 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:55:49PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: On 8/9/05, Matti Aarnio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running very recent Fedora Core Development kernel I can following soft-oops.. ( 2.6.12-1.1455_FC5smp ) Various

oops in VMWARE vmnet, on 2.6.12.x

2005-08-09 Thread Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz
I know that in general no one here is interested in vmware affairs, but in hope that VMware folks are reading this list too, here's the oops: It's the newest vmware5 for linux from vmware.com ksymoops 2.4.9 on i686 2.6.12.4. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l

dmi_table counting in ipmi_si_intf.c

2005-08-09 Thread Vernon Mauery
I am working on getting one of the IBM blades to use ipmi and have run into a problem. The driver doesn't load because it says it can't find the device. dmidecode shows that there are 39 entries and that the last one is the BMC. I looked into dmi_table and noticed that it parses the table by

[-mm patch] DLM must depend on IPV6 || IPV6=n

2005-08-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
If you select something, you have to ensure that the dependencies of what you are selecting are fulfilled. This patch fixes the following compile error with CONFIG_DLM=y and CONFIG_IPV6=m: -- snip -- ... LD .tmp_vmlinux1 net/built-in.o: In function `sctp_v6_err':

Re: oops in VMWARE vmnet, on 2.6.12.x

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:44 +0200, Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz wrote: I know that in general no one here is interested in vmware affairs, but in hope that VMware folks are reading this list too, here's the oops: It's the newest vmware5 for linux from vmware.com ksymoops 2.4.9 on i686

Re: [Linux-parport] Incorrect permissions on parport sysctls.

2005-08-09 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:11:10AM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:44:41AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: We have a bunch of 'probe' sysctl's in parport, which are readable. (world readable even). Make them write-only. Without this, sysctl -a will try to read these

Re: oops in VMWARE vmnet, on 2.6.12.x

2005-08-09 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz wrote: I know that in general no one here is interested in vmware affairs, but in hope that VMware folks are reading this list too, here's the oops: It's the newest vmware5 for linux from vmware.com ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update93.tar.gz

Re: Soft lockup in e100 driver ?

2005-08-09 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:41:40AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:37 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:55:49PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: On 8/9/05, Matti Aarnio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running very recent Fedora Core Development kernel I can

Re: [-mm patch] DLM must depend on IPV6 || IPV6=n

2005-08-09 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Tue, 2005-08-09 17:50:01 +0200, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch fixes the following compile error with CONFIG_DLM=y and CONFIG_IPV6=m: [...] --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm3-modular/drivers/dlm/Kconfig.old 2005-07-30 14:07:12.0 +0200 +++

Re: oops in VMWARE vmnet, on 2.6.12.x

2005-08-09 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz wrote: I know that in general no one here is interested in vmware affairs, but in hope that VMware folks are reading this list too, here's the oops: It's the newest vmware5 for linux from vmware.com You must update vmnet with vmware-any-any-update93 patch

my kernel sometimes did a crash, but no panic

2005-08-09 Thread Klasyk
my kernel sometimes did a crash, but no panic Keyboard hunged up :( Network were working and I can log in. Without the keybord - it generally worked. In logs: for example: Aug 6 15:30:02 o kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00 00 Aug 6 15:30:02 o

Why don't register a d_delete function for externfs_dentry_ops in 2.4 kernel?

2005-08-09 Thread lepton
Hi! I read about code of linux-2.4.31/arch/um/fs/hostfs/externfs.c I found you have defined a function named exterfs_d_delete, but you don't register this function in externfs_dentry_ops. This behavior is diffrent from the hostfs code in 2.6 kernel It

Re: [PATCH -mm] removes pci_find_device from i6300esb.c

2005-08-09 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 8/9/05, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, care to resend all of your pci changes, including the documentation ones, to me? Sure: This removes very old functions from pci docs, which aren't no longer in the kernel. Generated in 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 kernel version. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-09 Thread Jochen Friedrich
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Tuesday, 9 of August 2005 15:52, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Aug 9, 2005, at 05:09:55, Jochen Friedrich wrote: Third, both ndiswrapper and binary-only drivers only work on one platform. E.g. broadcom has a binary-only driver for their WLAN card on Linux, but

Re: [linux-pm] PowerOP 1/3: PowerOP core

2005-08-09 Thread Geoff Levand
Todd Poynor wrote: ... === --- linux-2.6.12.orig/include/linux/powerop.h 1970-01-01 00:00:00.0 + +++ linux-2.6.12/include/linux/powerop.h 2005-08-03 01:10:55.0 + @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +/* + * PowerOP

Re: Soft lockup in e100 driver ?

2005-08-09 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 18:55 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: The fundamental thing is, IT LOCKS UP (for a while), when I do ifconfig eth0 down and there is active traffic but the card DIES somehow. Apparently it requires marginal/unreliable hardware to happen as well. (Which for e100 is rather

Re: dmi_table counting in ipmi_si_intf.c

2005-08-09 Thread Corey Minyard
I have no idea why that value was a 1. However, looking at this, the 0 does seem correct; this is a valid patch. -Corey Vernon Mauery wrote: I am working on getting one of the IBM blades to use ipmi and have run into a problem. The driver doesn't load because it says it can't find the

linux 2.6.13-rc6 Marvell/Yukon networking problems

2005-08-09 Thread Mws
hi there, due to non supporting Marvell Network drivers for the i have to use the syskonnect sk98lin driver from their homepage. even if these drivers are open-source they were rejected by kernel net maintainers until now. there is a skge driver that is integrated into mainline kernel, but

Re: [PATCH] Kernels Out Of Memoy(OOM) killer Problem ?

2005-08-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-08-09 at 16:55 +0200, Thomas Habets wrote: Once upon a midnight dreary, Alan Cox pondered, weak and weary: 0 - overcommit except if something is obviously silly 1 - overcommit always (some scientific workloads) 2 - don't overcommit (databases etc) Exactly. Which is what the

Re: [RFC] atomic open(..., O_CREAT | ...)

2005-08-09 Thread Bryan Henderson
Intents are meant as optimisations, not replacements for existing operations. I'm therefore not really comfortable about having them return errors at all. That's true of normal intents, but not what are called intents here. A normal intent merely expresses an intent, and it can be totally

Re: [RFC] atomic open(..., O_CREAT | ...)

2005-08-09 Thread Trond Myklebust
ty den 09.08.2005 Klokka 08:47 (-0700) skreiv Bryan Henderson: Intents are meant as optimisations, not replacements for existing operations. I'm therefore not really comfortable about having them return errors at all. That's true of normal intents, but not what are called intents here. A

Re: irqpoll causing some breakage?

2005-08-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-08-09 at 10:57 +0200, Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote: PortA --- Keyboard with integrated mouse PortB --- Hub HubPortA --- Mouse HubPortA --- Trackball The mice don't work, when I plug them directly into Port A or B . The keyboard works ervery time. Then its not irqpoll

Re: Soft lockup in e100 driver ?

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel Walker
It looks like this might be an SMP race , it seem that both processors are in e100_down(). There is a while loop in e100_clean_cbs() that appears to have an unsafe looping condition . It looks like cbs_avail might jump over params.cbs.count , then you would have to wait for a rollover . Is this

Re: [PATCH] ide-disk oopses on boot

2005-08-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Petr Vandrovec wrote: Problem is that pci_dev may be NULL - and it is NULL for example with kernel I've just built, with amd IDE driver built as a module while with ide-disk built into the kernel. Yes that was discussed extensively by Andi and me and finally fixed by

Re: Soft lockup in e100 driver ?

2005-08-09 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 09:16:21AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: It looks like this might be an SMP race , it seem that both processors are in e100_down(). There is a while loop in e100_clean_cbs() that appears to have an unsafe looping condition . It looks like cbs_avail might jump over

FW: [PATCH] shorten workqueue name length

2005-08-09 Thread James . Smart
Can anyone give some history on why the workqueue name length is limited to 10 characters ? Can it be raised ? and if so to what limit ? -- James S -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christoph Hellwig Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 12:32 PM

Re: oops in VMWARE vmnet, on 2.6.12.x

2005-08-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 05:56:45PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote: You should report problems related to the VMware at the VMware community forums, http://www.vmware.com/community/index.jspa. Most of peoples on LKML does not care about these opensource modules. Nothing in the tarball

Re: [RFC] atomic open(..., O_CREAT | ...)

2005-08-09 Thread Bryan Henderson
Have you looked at how we're dealing with this in NFSv4? No. -- Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA Filesystems - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFC] atomic open(..., O_CREAT | ...)

2005-08-09 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Intents are meant as optimisations, not replacements for existing operations. I'm therefore not really comfortable about having them return errors at all. In my case they are not an optimization, rather the only way to correctly perform an open with O_CREAT. + nd-intent.open.file =

[2.6 patch] net/irda/: possible cleanups

2005-08-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make the following needlessly global function static: - irnet/irnet_ppp.c: irnet_init - remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's: - irlmp.c: sysctl_discovery_timeout - irlmp.c: irlmp_reasons - irlmp.c: irlmp_dup - irqueue.c:

Re: Patch of a new driver for kernel 2.4.x that need review

2005-08-09 Thread Mark Gross
On Monday 08 August 2005 08:35, Mark Gross wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2005 14:14, Mark Gross wrote: On Wednesday 22 June 2005 08:12, Bouchard, Sebastien wrote: Hi, Here is a driver (only for 2.4.x) I've done to provide support of a hardware module (available on some ATCA board)

Re: [SLAB] __builtin_return_address use without FRAME_POINTER causes boot failure

2005-08-09 Thread Manfred Spraul
Alexander Nyberg wrote: My fault, I introduced a debugging patch (i think i cc'ed you on it) which used __builtin_return_address([12]) to save traces of who the caller of an object is. Ups. I still have your original mail in my inbox. The correct way is check the whole stack and store all

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-08-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Nigel Cunningham wrote: No it wont. A process that has notifications to process should do that before being put into the freezer. Only after the notification list is empty will the process be notified and as long as the notification is pending no second notification

Re: Swapper crash / Kernels Out Of Memoy(OOM) killer Problem ?

2005-08-09 Thread Masoud Sharbiani
Hello, 1) What is your kernel version? 2) It is tainted; Why? 3) Make sure your app/kernel combo works with SIGKILL. If it doesn't, then you have a serious bug. cheers, Masoud vinay wrote: Hi. Why I wanted to force OOM killer to send SIGTERM is that - When my application receives SIGKILL

Re: irqpoll causing some breakage?

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Alan Cox wrote: Without the parameters it has exactly zero effect on the operation of the kernel, the algorithms and the behaviour. So something odd is afoot if its causing gentoo breakages. Thats what I thought, yet it seems to be the difference between mouse and no mouse in this case.

Re: [PATCH] Kernels Out Of Memoy(OOM) killer Problem ?

2005-08-09 Thread Thomas Habets
Summary: Patch removes incorrect documentation. Correct documentation already exists in tree. Once upon a midnight dreary, Alan Cox pondered, weak and weary: 0 - overcommit except if something is obviously silly 1 - overcommit always (some scientific workloads) 2 - don't overcommit

Re: GFS

2005-08-09 Thread Zach Brown
Pekka Enberg wrote: In addition, the vma walk will become an unmaintainable mess as soon as someone introduces another mmap() capable fs that needs similar locking. Yup, I suspect that if the core kernel ends up caring about this problem then the VFS will be involved in helping file systems

[BUG] pfkey implementation vs. RFC

2005-08-09 Thread DuBuisson, Thomas
I've posted this to linux-net and netdev but have had no response. If there is any confusion about what the bug is then just e-mail me for clarification. If this is an intentional omission then could someone let me know why. Section 3.1.6 of RFC 2367 clearly indicates there are two cases in

Re: FYI: device_suspend(...) in kernel_power_off().

2005-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! There as been a fair amount of consensus that calling device_suspend(...) in the reboot path was inappropriate now, because the device suspend code was too immature. With this latest piece of evidence it seems to me that introducing

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version 2)

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same hardware) for removal. Scheduling the via82cxxx driver for removal was ACK'ed by Jeff Garzik. Someone on linux-audio-user just pointed out that the OSS

Re: [RFC] atomic open(..., O_CREAT | ...)

2005-08-09 Thread Trond Myklebust
ty den 09.08.2005 Klokka 18:40 (+0200) skreiv Miklos Szeredi: Intents are meant as optimisations, not replacements for existing operations. I'm therefore not really comfortable about having them return errors at all. In my case they are not an optimization, rather the only way to

Re: [RFC] atomic open(..., O_CREAT | ...)

2005-08-09 Thread Miklos Szeredi
+ nd-intent.open.file = NULL; Why is this NULL assignment needed? nd will not be used after this. + } + path_release(nd); +} + It could be dropped. The reason for putting it in is that some parts of the VFS may restart a

Re: Patch of a new driver for kernel 2.4.x that need review

2005-08-09 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 09.08.2005 [09:56:27 -0700], Mark Gross wrote: On Monday 08 August 2005 08:35, Mark Gross wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2005 14:14, Mark Gross wrote: On Wednesday 22 June 2005 08:12, Bouchard, Sebastien wrote: Hi, Here is a driver (only for 2.4.x) I've done to provide support

Re: [PATCH] spi

2005-08-09 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:47:21AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 07:35:36PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: + if (NULL == dev || NULL == driver) { Put the variable on the left side, gcc will complain if you incorrectly put a = instead of a == here, which is

Re: [linux-pm] PowerOP 0/3: System power operating point management API

2005-08-09 Thread Patrick Mochel
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Todd Poynor wrote: PowerOP is a system power parameter management API submitted for discussion. PowerOP writes and reads power operating points, comprised of arbitrary integer-valued values, called power parameters, that correspond to registers, clocks, dividers, voltage

Re: Signal handling possibly wrong

2005-08-09 Thread Robert Wilkens
Kernel code blocks both handled signal _and_ sa_mask only if SA_NODEFER isn't set. Which is the right behavior? Perhaps both? I'm novice here, but if i'm reading the man page correctly, it says: SA_NODEFER Do not prevent the signal from being received from within its own signal

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version 2)

2005-08-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:13:51PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same hardware) for removal. Scheduling the via82cxxx driver for removal was ACK'ed by Jeff

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version 2)

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:49 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: I'd deprecate them without moving them. OK, I think that will still be slightly confusing becuase it comes before Sound in the kernel config, but maybe the deprecated part will make people think twice. I think we should at least label

Re: [PATCH repost] PROT_DONTCOPY: ifiniband uverbs fork support

2005-08-09 Thread Hugh Dickins
Sorry for my delay in replying... On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Quoting Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [PATCH repost] PROT_DONTCOPY: ifiniband uverbs fork support On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: This patch adds PROT_DONTCOPY to mmap and

Re: [RFC 1/3] non-resident page tracking

2005-08-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Rik, Two hopefully useful comments: i) ARC and its variants requires additional information about page replacement (namely whether the page has been reclaimed from the L1 or L2 lists). How costly would it be to add this information to the hash table? ii) From my reading of the patch, the

Re: Signal handling possibly wrong

2005-08-09 Thread Bodo Stroesser
Robert Wilkens wrote: Kernel code blocks both handled signal _and_ sa_mask only if SA_NODEFER isn't set. Which is the right behavior? Perhaps both? I'm novice here, but if i'm reading the man page correctly, it says: SA_NODEFER Do not prevent the signal from being received from within

Re: GFS

2005-08-09 Thread Pekka J Enberg
Hi Zach, Zach Brown writes: I'll try, briefly. Thanks for the excellent explanation. Zach Brown writes: And that's the problem. Because they're acquired in -nopage they can be acquired during a fault that is servicing the 'buf' argument to an outer file-{read,write} operation which has

Re: Signal handling possibly wrong

2005-08-09 Thread Robert Wilkens
Bodo, SA_MASK is a flag... Which you use to tell it what to do with the data you've given it and/or it gets. You gave it sa_mask (lower-case). SA_NOMASK means don't use the mask -- the pseudonym (new-word) for SA_NOMASK is SA_NODEFER (renamed, perhaps, because it may defer some or all signals

Re: my kernel sometimes did a crash, but no panic

2005-08-09 Thread Bodo Eggert
Klasyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my kernel sometimes did a crash, but no panic Keyboard hunged up :( Network were working and I can log in. Without the keybord - it generally worked. In logs: for example: Aug 6 15:30:02 o kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at

Re: Signal handling possibly wrong

2005-08-09 Thread Bodo Stroesser
Robert Wilkens wrote: Bodo, SA_MASK is a flag... Which you use to tell it what to do with the data you've given it and/or it gets. You gave it sa_mask (lower-case). SA_NOMASK means don't use the mask -- the pseudonym (new-word) for SA_NOMASK is SA_NODEFER (renamed, perhaps, because it may

[PATCH] Update email addresses for Zwane

2005-08-09 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
Some folks have been emailing me and having trouble due to these stale addresses; Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.13-rc5-mm1/CREDITS === RCS file: /home/cvsroot/linux-2.6.13-rc5-mm1/CREDITS,v

smbus driver for ati xpress 200m

2005-08-09 Thread yhlu
anyone is working on add driver for ati xpress 200m? without that My turion notebook, can not work read the battery status. I guess sbs-cm need that driver in kernel. YH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: VGER news

2005-08-09 Thread David S. Miller
From: Matti Aarnio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:47:18 +0300 Davem may have changed list name at this time as well. Yes, I did a s/bk-/git-/ on those list names last week while I was in the UK due to popular request. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Signal handling possibly wrong

2005-08-09 Thread Robert Wilkens
[resent - previous message not properly addressed] It says signal is blocked, UNLESS SA_NODEFER is used.. Which means if NODEFER is used, it's not masked (SA_NOMASK).. I don't understand how i'm wrong (maybe I have mental problems that are worse than I thought). If you want to explain off-list

Re: [RFC] atomic open(..., O_CREAT | ...)

2005-08-09 Thread Trond Myklebust
ty den 09.08.2005 Klokka 19:44 (+0200) skreiv Miklos Szeredi: There is quite a bit of code out there that assumes it is free to stuff things into nd-mnt and nd-dentry. Some of it is Al Viro's code, some of it is from other people. For instance, the ESTALE handling will just save

Re: [PATCH] spi

2005-08-09 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:54:34AM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:47:21AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 07:35:36PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: + if (NULL == dev || NULL == driver) { Put the variable on the left side, gcc will

Re: my kernel sometimes did a crash, but no panic

2005-08-09 Thread Michael Krufky
Bodo Eggert wrote: Klasyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my kernel sometimes did a crash, but no panic Keyboard hunged up :( Network were working and I can log in. Without the keybord - it generally worked. In logs: for example: Aug 6 15:30:02 o kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer

Re: [BUG] pfkey implementation vs. RFC

2005-08-09 Thread David S. Miller
From: DuBuisson, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:22:15 -0400 I've posted this to linux-net and netdev but have had no response. It is possible that people who are qualified in this area are just too busy to reply to you, or simply disinterested for one reason or another. - To

Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 10:15, Nick Piggin wrote: Daniel Phillips wrote: Why don't you pass the vma in zap_details? For that matter, why are addr and end still passed down the zap chain when zap_details appears to duplicate that information? OK, it is because zap_details is NULL in

Re: [RFC 1/3] non-resident page tracking

2005-08-09 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:25 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Hi Rik, Two hopefully useful comments: i) ARC and its variants requires additional information about page replacement (namely whether the page has been reclaimed from the L1 or L2 lists). How costly would it be to add this

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