Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption?

2006-12-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-16 18:20]: > Very disturbing. I'm not aware of any problem with them, and we > surely wouldn't have released 2.6.19 with any known-corrupting patches > in. There's some doubts about 2.6.19 itself in the links below: were > it not for those, I'd suspect

Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption?

2006-12-16 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-16 18:20]: > > Very disturbing. I'm not aware of any problem with them, and we > > surely wouldn't have released 2.6.19 with any known-corrupting patches > > in. There's some doubts about 2.6.19 itself in

Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption?

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 16:50 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Debian recently applied a number of mm changes that went into 2.6.19 > to their 2.6.18 kernel for LSB 3.1 compliance (msync() had problems > before). Since then, some filesystem corruption has been observed > which can be traced back to

Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption?

2006-12-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-16 21:55]: > What is not clear from all these reports is what architectures this is > seen on. I suspect some of them are i686, which together with the > explicit mention of ARM make it a cross platform issue. Problems have been seen at least on x86,

[patch 2/2] Convert the bay driver to be a platform driver

2006-12-16 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
Convert the bay driver to be a platform driver, so that we can have sysfs entries. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/acpi/bay.c | 87 + 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) ---

[patch 0/2] more patches for removable drive bay

2006-12-16 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
Hi Len, Here's a set of patches for changing the removable drive bay driver (drivers/acpi/bay) from using the old proc interface to using a sysfs interface instead. I made the bay driver a platform driver, and so it's entries will now be located in /sys/devices/platform/bay.X. There are still 2

[patch 1/2] acpi: Remove procfs from bay

2006-12-16 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
Remove the procfs related code from the bay driver. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/acpi/bay.c | 152 - 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-) --- kristen-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/bay.c +++

Re: r8169 on n2100 (was Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions))

2006-12-16 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:14:35PM +, Russell King wrote: > > > > Is there a way we can have this done by default on the n2100? I guess > > > > that since it's a PCI device, there isn't much hope for that..? > > > > > > Do you mean an automagically tuned default value based on CONFIG_ARM ?

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kill_something_info: misc cleanups

2006-12-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On top of > signal-rewrite-kill_something_info-so-it-uses-newer-helpers.patch > > - Factor out sending PIDTYPE_PGID wide signals. > > - Use is_init(p) instead of "p->pid > 1". We don't hash idle threads anymore, > no need to worry about p->pid

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-16 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Moving the cleaning of the page out from under the private_lock opened > up a window where newly attached buffer might still see the page dirty > status and were thus marked (incorrectly) dirty themselves; resulting in > filesystem data corruption. I'm

Re: r8169 on n2100 (was Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions))

2006-12-16 Thread Francois Romieu
Lennert Buytenhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > Sounds good. How about something like the patch below plus the > corresponding r8169 diff? Go wild. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Tobias Diedrich wrote: > > With commit b0268726 backed out, 2.6.20-rc1 boots fine. Ok. It's sad, because that thing really did clean stuff up, and seemed like a nice and robust approach. Your dmesg is kind of interesting: ..TIMER: trying IO-APIC=0 PIN=0 with 8259 IRQ0

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.13

2006-12-16 Thread Catalin Marinas
Hi Ingo, On 16/12/06, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FYI, i'm working on integrating kmemleak into -rt. Firstly, i needed the fixes below when applying it ontop of 2.6.19-rt15. Do you need these fixes to avoid a compiler error? If yes, this is caused by a bug in gcc-4.x. The kmemleak

Re: r8169 on n2100 (was Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions))

2006-12-16 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 12:31:34AM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > > Sounds good. How about something like the patch below plus the > > corresponding r8169 diff? > > Go wild. Martin/Riku, I'm pretty busy with other stuff at the moment, can you give this (on top of 2.6.20-rc1) a spin?

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work

2006-12-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Tobias Diedrich wrote: > > No such luck, it still panics and the APIC error is also unchanged. Ok. I don't see anything wrong off-hand, but I'll keep the patch in the tree in the hopes that Andi and/or Eric can see what's wrong and solve it. If we don't find a solution,

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-16 Thread Andrei Popa
Hello, I had filesystem data corruption with rtorrent with 2.6.19. I tried recent git with Peter Zijlstra patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/144 and it seems that the problem is fixed. Please CC as I am not subscribed to lkml. Andrei - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Ricardo Galli
On Saturday 16 December 2006 22:01, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Ricardo Galli wrote: > > As you probably know, the GPL, the FSF, RMS or even GPL "zealots" never > > tried to change or restrict "fair use". GPL[23] covers only to > > "distibution" of the covered program. The freedom

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kill_something_info: misc cleanups

2006-12-16 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 12/16, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On top of > > signal-rewrite-kill_something_info-so-it-uses-newer-helpers.patch > > > > - Factor out sending PIDTYPE_PGID wide signals. > > > > - Use is_init(p) instead of "p->pid > 1". We don't hash idle

Schedule tsdev.c for removal

2006-12-16 Thread Richard Purdie
Schedule drivers/input/tsdev.c for removal, nobody should be using this anymore. See the patch for details. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 14 ++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) Index:

kernel-rt-15 give NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out

2006-12-16 Thread Sergio Monteiro Basto
Hi, kernel-rt-14 rocks but wiht kernel-rt-15 I got kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out, I downgrade to kernel-rt-14 and that got this problem anymore. I not use my on-board via-rhine II Ethernet. This tests has been made with one external Ethernet card, one Realtek Semiconductor

[patch] scrub non-__GLIBC__ checks in linux/socket.h and linux/stat.h

2006-12-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 11/30/06, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but there are a few other cases which still contain compound preprocessor directives such as: #if defined(__KERNEL__) || !defined(__GLIBC__) || (__GLIBC__ < 2) having never worked with unifdef before, i guess i was being overly

Re: [patch] scrub non-__GLIBC__ checks in linux/socket.h and linux/stat.h

2006-12-16 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sat Dec 16, 2006 at 01:42:11PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 11/30/06, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >but there are a few other > >cases which still contain compound preprocessor directives such as: > > > > #if defined(__KERNEL__) || !defined(__GLIBC__) || (__GLIBC__ < 2) >

[ANN] Acrypto asynchronous crypto layer 2.6.19 release.

2006-12-16 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hello. I am pleased to announce new release of the acrypto for 2.6.19 kernel - first asynchronous crypto layer for Linux kernel 2.6. Acrypto allows to handle crypto requests asynchronously in hardware. Acrypto supports following features: * multiple asynchronous crypto device queues * crypto

Re: cxgb3 and 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, On Dec 13 2006 21:40, Divy Le Ray wrote: > > A corresponding monolithic patch is posted at the following URL: > http://service.chelsio.com/kernel.org/cxgb3.patch.bz2 I was unable to compile this on 2.6.20-rc1, because: CC [M] drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.o

Re: [PATCH 0/10] cxgb3, p1

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> I resubmit the patch supporting the latest Chelsio T3 adapter. > It incorporates the last feedbacks for code cleanup. > It is built gainst Linus'tree. > > We think the driver is now ready to be merged. > Can you please advise on the next steps for inclusion in 2.6.20 ? > > A corresponding

Re: [PATCH 0/10] cxgb3, p2

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> A corresponding monolithic patch is posted at the following URL: > http://service.chelsio.com/kernel.org/cxgb3.patch.bz2 Stylistic stuff that was mentioned. (TYPE * a -> TYPE *a) Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.20-rc1/drivers/net/cxgb3/common.h

Re: [Fwd: escape key]

2006-12-16 Thread Stephen Clark
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 16 2006 08:45, Pavel Machek wrote: Two escapes works now. :-) Actually could we fix our consoles, somehow, to make esc usable? Having important key like esc unusable on consoles is quite ugly. It's something between a misdesign and a

Re: [PATCH][2.6.20-rc1-mm1] sparsemem vmem_map optimzed pfn_valid() [0/2]

2006-12-16 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:38:53 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > > By this, we'll not access mem_section[] in usual ops. > > Why do we need mem_section? We have a page table that fulfills the same > role. > Basically, we

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kill_something_info: misc cleanups

2006-12-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
I'm CC'ing the containers list these namespaces are what it is setup to talk about. Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/16, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On top of >> >

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 01:33:01PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 09:20:15AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Anything else, you have to make some really scary decisions. Can a judge > > decide that a binary module is a derived work even though you didn't > > actually

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:56:09AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > Otherwise, it seems to be highly unlikely that anyone will want to sue a > company that is often located in a different country, and the only > possible legal action will be cease and desist letters against people > who are

[BUG KERNEL 2.6.20-rc1] ftp: get or put stops during file-transfer

2006-12-16 Thread Komuro
Hello, On kernel 2.6.20-rc1, ftp (get or put) stops during file-transfer. Client: ftp-0.17-33.fc6 (192.168.1.1) Server: vsftpd-2.0.5-8 (192.168.1.3) This problem does _not_ happen on kernel-2.6.19. is it caused by network-subsystem change on 2.6.20-rc1?? Best Regards Komuro - To

Re: [BUG KERNEL 2.6.20-rc1] ftp: get or put stops during file-transfer

2006-12-16 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:27:52PM +0900, Komuro wrote: > > Hello, > > On kernel 2.6.20-rc1, ftp (get or put) stops > during file-transfer. > > Client: ftp-0.17-33.fc6 (192.168.1.1) > Server: vsftpd-2.0.5-8 (192.168.1.3) > > This problem does _not_ happen on kernel-2.6.19. > is it caused by

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:22:12AM +0100, Ricardo Galli wrote: > OK, let assume your perspective of the history is the valid and real one, > then, ¿where are all lawsits against other big GPL only projects? For example > libqt/kdelibs. You can hardly provide any example where the GPL wasn't hold

Re: [RFC 2.6.19 1/1] fbdev,mm: hecuba/E-Ink fbdev driver v2

2006-12-16 Thread Jaya Kumar
On 12/13/06, Franck Bui-Huu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/12/06, Jaya Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that PTEs set up by vmalloc are marked cacheable and via the > above nopage end up as cacheable. I'm not doing DMA. So the accesses > are through the cache so I don't think cache

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work

2006-12-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Tobias Diedrich wrote: >> >> No such luck, it still panics and the APIC error is also unchanged. > > Ok. I don't see anything wrong off-hand, but I'll keep the patch in the > tree in the hopes that Andi and/or Eric can see what's

Re: [BUG KERNEL 2.6.20-rc1] ftp: get or put stops during file-transfer

2006-12-16 Thread Komuro
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:02:22 + Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:27:52PM +0900, Komuro wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > On kernel 2.6.20-rc1, ftp (get or put) stops > > during file-transfer. > > > > Client: ftp-0.17-33.fc6 (192.168.1.1) > > Server:

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work

2006-12-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Tobias Diedrich wrote: >> >> No such luck, it still panics and the APIC error is also unchanged. > > Ok. I don't see anything wrong off-hand, but I'll keep the patch in the > tree in the hopes that Andi and/or Eric can see what's

Re: 2.6.18.5 usb/sysfs bug.

2006-12-16 Thread Chuck Ebbert
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:18:28 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > That's strange. Remove_files called sysfs_hash_and_remove() > > with dir==0xfff3 (-13 decimal.) > > Hmm, That's -EACCESS. Something not checking a return code at a lower > level maybe ? In

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