Hi Linux,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even if ARM is able to handle any arbitrary C code between the
load locked and store conditional API, other architectures can not
by definition.
Maybe so, but I think you and Linus are missing the middle ground.
Nobdy argued against adding nice arch
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:55:25 -0500 (EST) Nicolas Pitre wrote:
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:17:55 -0500 (EST) Nicolas Pitre wrote:
Please consider what SND_CONFIG_AC97_BUS corresponds to. It is
sound/pci/ac97/ac97_bus.c and if you look into this
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:39:01 -0800, mariusn wrote:
I am a graduate student at University of Washington, building a tool
automatically discover portability bugs in system-level code written
in C. My definition of portability is at the data layout level,
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:39:30 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
Is it possible to give some other way to get the hardware NX bit working
in 32-bit mode, without the apparently massive performance penalty of
HIGHMEM64?
If your hardware can run the x86_64 kernel,
Hi David-san.
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Yasunori Goto wrote:
Hello.
This patch is to fix compile error when config memory hotplug
with numa on i386.
The cause of compile error was missing of arch_add_memory(),
remove_memory(),
and memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() when NUMA config is
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Chuck Ebbert wrote:
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:39:30 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
Is it possible to give some other way to get the hardware NX bit working
in 32-bit mode, without the apparently massive
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:26:16AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
something like the pseudocode further below - when applied to a data
structure it has semantics and scalability close to that of
preempt_disable(), but it is still preemptible and the lock is specific.
Ingo,
The psuedo-code
Hi, Adrian Friends!
Like the other patch (by that other person), I think it is faster to not
do a strlen first.
There are PowerPC architectures, where a strlen is a matter of a single
instruction of the CPU.
Quote: PowerPC 405 and 440 instruction sets offer the powerful
Determine Left-Most
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:58:00 -0500 John Richard Moser wrote:
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Chuck Ebbert wrote:
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:39:30 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
Is it possible to give some other way to get the
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 04:16:00AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
One quite different way of addressing all of this is to stop using
stop_machine_run() for hotplug synchronisation and switch to the swsusp
freezer infrastructure: all kernel threads and user processes need to stop
and park
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:55:39PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:22 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
plain text document attachment (mthca-rbc.patch)
Use new pci interfaces to set read request tuning values
Untested because of lack of hardware.
Sorry...I
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:15:45 +0530 Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 04:16:00AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
One quite different way of addressing all of this is to stop using
stop_machine_run() for hotplug synchronisation and switch to the swsusp
freezer
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
{
int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
/*
* Interrupts/softirqs are hotplug-safe:
*/
if (in_interrupt())
return;
Update the rtc-rs5c372 driver:
I suspect the
issue wasn't that mode 1 didn't work on that board; the original
code to fetch the trim was broken. If mode 1 really won't work,
that's almost certainly a bug in that board's I2C driver.
It was not related to trim fetching. Yes, it very likely
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 22:17:00 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll renew this in the next week.
Hi, this is a fix patch. Sorry for my carelessness.
I'll post next add-on patch against the next -mm which will be shipped.
What I have now are
- pfn_valid() optimization
- memory
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 03:18:38PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Sunday, 10 December 2006 13:16, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:49:43 +0100
Hm, currently we're using the CPU hotplug to disable the nonboot CPUs before
the freezer is called. ;-)
However, we're now trying
* Jarek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
@@ -567,12 +601,10 @@ static noinline int print_circular_bug_t
if (debug_locks_silent)
return 0;
- /* hash_lock unlocked by the header */
- __raw_spin_lock(hash_lock);
this.class = check_source-class;
if
* Jarek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
@@ -1212,7 +1244,8 @@ register_lock_class(struct lockdep_map *
hash_head = classhashentry(key);
raw_local_irq_save(flags);
- __raw_spin_lock(hash_lock);
+ if (!graph_lock())
! raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
+
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:02:05 -0800 (PST)
David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:59:52 +1100
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 03:19:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
Like this?
/* don't get messages out of order, and no
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:45:08PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
It spits a nasty during bringup
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.59.
netconsole: device eth0 not up yet, forcing it
e1000: eth0:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Yasunori Goto wrote:
No.
Other arch's arch_add_memory() and remove_memory() have been already
used for NUMA case too. But i386 didn't do it because just
contig_page_data is used.
Current NODE_DATA() macro is defined both case appropriately.
So, this #ifdef is
* Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It spits a nasty during bringup
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.59.
netconsole: device eth0 not up yet, forcing it
e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While I agree that LL/SC can't be part of the kernel API for people to
get arbitrarily clever with in the device driver du jour, they are *very*
nice abstractions for shrinking the arch-specific code size.
I'm not sure.
The thing is, it's
atomic_ll() / atomic_sc() with the restriction that they cannot be
nested, you cannot write any C code between them, and may only call
into some specific set of atomic_llsc_xxx primitives, operating on
the address given to ll, and must not have more than a given number
of instructions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
atomic_ll() / atomic_sc() with the restriction that they cannot be
nested, you cannot write any C code between them, and may only call
into some specific set of atomic_llsc_xxx primitives, operating on
the address given to ll, and must not have more than a given number
On Saturday 09 December 2006 23:42, SuD wrote:
Hi, I recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.18.2 and noticed these problems:
- I realized that having CONFIG_ISA=y makes it always crash when i
insert the card (complains about unexpected LVT TMR interrupt). So i
disabled Isa.
- Hostap_cs gets a
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/locking.txt
Should be in Documentation/infiniband/.
Docs go in the Documentation/ dir, not in drivers/ dir.
Or put it in a comment in the appropriate header, if you want to keep
it close to the driver source...
-
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Hi "Linux",
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even if ARM is able to handle any arbitrary C code between the
"load locked" and store conditional API, other architectures can not
by definition.
Maybe so, but I think you and Linus are missing the middle ground.
Nobdy argued against adding nice arch
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:55:25 -0500 (EST) Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:17:55 -0500 (EST) Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >
> > > Please consider what SND_CONFIG_AC97_BUS corresponds to. It is
> > > sound/pci/ac97/ac97_bus.c and if you look
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:39:01 -0800, mariusn wrote:
> I am a graduate student at University of Washington, building a tool
> automatically discover portability bugs in system-level code written
> in C. My definition of "portability" is at the data layout level,
>
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:39:30 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> Is it possible to give some other way to get the hardware NX bit working
> in 32-bit mode, without the apparently massive performance penalty of
> HIGHMEM64?
If your hardware can run the x86_64
Hi David-san.
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Yasunori Goto wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > This patch is to fix compile error when config memory hotplug
> > with numa on i386.
> >
> > The cause of compile error was missing of arch_add_memory(),
> > remove_memory(),
> > and memory_add_physaddr_to_nid()
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Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:39:30 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to give some other way to get the hardware NX bit working
>> in 32-bit mode, without the apparently
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:26:16AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> something like the pseudocode further below - when applied to a data
> structure it has semantics and scalability close to that of
> preempt_disable(), but it is still preemptible and the lock is specific.
Ingo,
The
Hi, Adrian & Friends!
Like the other patch (by that other person), I think it is faster to not
do a strlen first.
There are PowerPC architectures, where a strlen is a matter of a single
instruction of the CPU.
Quote: "PowerPC 405 and 440 instruction sets offer the powerful
Determine
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:58:00 -0500 John Richard Moser wrote:
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>
>
>
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:39:30 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> >
> >> Is it possible to give some other way
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 04:16:00AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> One quite different way of addressing all of this is to stop using
> stop_machine_run() for hotplug synchronisation and switch to the swsusp
> freezer infrastructure: all kernel threads and user processes need to stop
> and park
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:55:39PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:22 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > plain text document attachment (mthca-rbc.patch)
> > Use new pci interfaces to set read request tuning values
> > Untested because of lack of hardware.
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:15:45 +0530 Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 04:16:00AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > One quite different way of addressing all of this is to stop using
> > stop_machine_run() for hotplug synchronisation and switch to the swsusp
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > {
> > > > > > int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
> > > > > > /*
> > > > > > * Interrupts/softirqs are hotplug-safe:
> > > > > > */
> > > > > > if (in_interrupt())
> > > > > >
> Update the rtc-rs5c372 driver:
> I suspect the
> issue wasn't that "mode 1" didn't work on that board; the original
> code to fetch the trim was broken. If "mode 1" really won't work,
> that's almost certainly a bug in that board's I2C driver.
It was not related to trim fetching. Yes, it very
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 22:17:00 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll renew this in the next week.
>
Hi, this is a fix patch. Sorry for my carelessness.
I'll post next add-on patch against the next -mm which will be shipped.
What I have now are
- pfn_valid() optimization
-
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 03:18:38PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 December 2006 13:16, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:49:43 +0100
>
> Hm, currently we're using the CPU hotplug to disable the nonboot CPUs before
> the freezer is called. ;-)
>
> However, we're now
* Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > @@ -567,12 +601,10 @@ static noinline int print_circular_bug_t
> > if (debug_locks_silent)
> > return 0;
> >
> > - /* hash_lock unlocked by the header */
> > - __raw_spin_lock(_lock);
> > this.class = check_source->class;
* Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> > @@ -1212,7 +1244,8 @@ register_lock_class(struct lockdep_map *
> > hash_head = classhashentry(key);
> >
> > raw_local_irq_save(flags);
> > - __raw_spin_lock(_lock);
> > + if (!graph_lock())
>
> !
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:02:05 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:59:52 +1100
>
> > On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 03:19:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > Like this?
> > >
> > > /* don't get messages out of
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:45:08PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> It spits a nasty during bringup
>
> e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.59.
> netconsole: device eth0 not up yet, forcing it
> e1000:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Yasunori Goto wrote:
> No.
> Other arch's arch_add_memory() and remove_memory() have been already
> used for NUMA case too. But i386 didn't do it because just
> contig_page_data is used.
> Current NODE_DATA() macro is defined both case appropriately.
> So, this #ifdef is
* Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It spits a nasty during bringup
> >
> > e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> > forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.59.
> > netconsole: device eth0 not up yet, forcing it
> > e1000: eth0:
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> While I agree that LL/SC can't be part of the kernel API for people to
> get arbitrarily clever with in the device driver du jour, they are *very*
> nice abstractions for shrinking the arch-specific code size.
I'm not sure.
The thing is, it's
> atomic_ll() / atomic_sc() with the restriction that they cannot be
> nested, you cannot write any C code between them, and may only call
> into some specific set of atomic_llsc_xxx primitives, operating on
> the address given to ll, and must not have more than a given number
> of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
atomic_ll() / atomic_sc() with the restriction that they cannot be
nested, you cannot write any C code between them, and may only call
into some specific set of atomic_llsc_xxx primitives, operating on
the address given to ll, and must not have more than a given number
On Saturday 09 December 2006 23:42, SuD wrote:
> Hi, I recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.18.2 and noticed these problems:
> - I realized that having CONFIG_ISA=y makes it always crash when i
> insert the card (complains about unexpected LVT TMR interrupt). So i
> disabled Isa.
> - Hostap_cs gets
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/locking.txt
> Should be in Documentation/infiniband/.
> Docs go in the Documentation/ dir, not in drivers/ dir.
Or put it in a comment in the appropriate header, if you want to keep
it close to the driver source...
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