Re: any chance to bypass BIOS check for VT?

2006-12-30 Thread Avi Kivity
Jeff Chua wrote: kvm: disabled by bios I know this has been asked before and the answer was no. Does it still stand or is there a way to bypass the bios? I'm using Lenovo X60s and there's no option to enable VT in the BIOS setup. When it says disabled by bios it means what it says. There is

Re: OpenAFS gatekeepers request addition of AFS_SUPER_MAGIC to magic.h

2006-12-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 03:56:12PM -0800, Adam Megacz wrote: Hello, Jeffrey Altman, one of the gatekeepers of OpenAFS (the open source project which inherited the Transarc/IBM AFS codebase) has requested that the magic number 0x5346414F (little endian 'OAFS') be allocated for the f_type

Re: [patch] fix typo in i2c smbus documentation

2006-12-30 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Mike, On 12/28/2006, Mike Frysinger wrote: the i2c smbus documentation has a typo ... when it describes the SMBus Write Word Data function, it says that it is meant to read from a device when in reality it should obviously be writing to the device Good catch, applied, thanks. I've also

Re: 2.6.19-rt14 slowdown compared to 2.6.19

2006-12-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Chen, Tim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: If you'd like to profile this yourself then the lowest-cost way of profiling lock contention on -rt is to use the yum kernel and run the attached trace-it-lock-prof.c code on the box while your workload is in 'steady state'

Re: make headers_install headers problem on sparc64

2006-12-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 10/19/06, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. That header should not be exposed to userspace. Just fix reiserfsprogs instead. It's not as if unaligned access is _hard_ -- you just have to ask the compiler to do it for you: reiserfsprogs 3.6.20 already handles the case where

2.6.20-rc2-mm1 -- INFO: possible recursive locking detected

2006-12-30 Thread Miles Lane
Sorry Andrew, I am not sure which maintainer to contact about this. I CCed gregkh for sysfs and Yi for ipw2200. Hopefully this is helpful. BTW, I also found that none of my network drivers were recognized by hal (lshal did not show their net entries) unless I set CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y. I

Re: Want comments regarding patch

2006-12-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 30 2006 01:00, Bodo Eggert wrote: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 29 2006 07:57, Daniel Marjamäki wrote: It was my goal to improve the readability. I failed. I personally prefer to use standard functions instead of writing code. In my opinion using standard functions

Re: [BUG 2.6.20-rc2] atkbd.c: Spurious ACK

2006-12-30 Thread Laurent Riffard
Le 30.12.2006 08:20, Rene Herman a écrit : Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Somehow you get 2 ACks in a row, I wonder if on your boxes i8042 pumps command and data into keyboard before i8042_interrupt gets a chance to run. Could you please apply the debug patch below and tell me the pattern of the data

Re: [PATCH] lock stat for -rt 2.6.20-rc2-rt2 [was Re: 2.6.19-rt14 slowdown compared to 2.6.19]

2006-12-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Bill Huey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 04:51:21PM -0800, Chen, Tim C wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: If you'd like to profile this yourself then the lowest-cost way of profiling lock contention on -rt is to use the yum kernel and run the attached trace-it-lock-prof.c

Re: Want comments regarding patch

2006-12-30 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Yeah I don't do assembler soo often that I would know everything from heart. All your comments are valid of course. I just wanted to point out the idea. (However, if it's not repz, then it's repnz! :-) it's better to use a gcc builtin than handcoding the asm yourself; better for performance

Re: 2.6.20-rc2: kernel BUG at include/asm/dma-mapping.h:110!

2006-12-30 Thread Andreas Schwab
Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The parent device of my bogus fw-host device should do the trick. Alas I can't test on ppc64 or with anything else than ohci1394 driven controllers... Successfully tested on ppc64. Thanks, Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH 1/6] containers: Generic container system abstracted from cpusets code

2006-12-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This patch creates a generic process container system based on (and parallel top) the cpusets code. At a coarse level it was created by copying kernel/cpuset.c, doing s/cpuset/container/g, and stripping out any code that was cpuset-specific rather than

[GIT PULL] ieee1394 fixes

2006-12-30 Thread Stefan Richter
Linus, please pull from the for-linus branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git for-linus to receive two IEEE 1394 subsystem fixes for 2.6.20-rc2. One addresses a grossly incorrect patch of mine after 2.6.19. (Andreas Schwab 2006-12-29, 2.6.20-rc2:

Re: [patch 2.6.20-rc1 5/6] SA1100 GPIO wrappers

2006-12-30 Thread pHilipp Zabel
On 12/30/06, David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 29 December 2006 7:15 pm, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, David Brownell wrote: Here's a version that compiles ... This patch is completely broken. It's just what Philipp sent, with the won't compile bugs fixed. Oh,

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

2006-12-30 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:59:31 +0900), Komuro [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: Do you see similar issue with other simple application? sorry, I don't reproduce this problem on other application. Can you reproduce it with other ftp client and/or server? Anyway...

Re: [Patch] scsi: megaraid_{mm,mbox}: init fix for kdump

2006-12-30 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Randy Dunlap wrote: On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:02:17 -0800 Sumant Patro wrote: See Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Please include output of diffstat -p1 -w70 so that we can easily see the scope of the changes. and see Documentation/CodingStyle for comments below: diff -uprN

Re: [PATCH] lock stat for -rt 2.6.20-rc2-rt2 [was Re: 2.6.19-rt14 slowdown compared to 2.6.19]

2006-12-30 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 12:19 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: - Documentation/CodingStyle compliance - the code is not ugly per se but still looks a bit 'alien' - please try to make it look Linuxish, if i apply this we'll probably stick with it forever. This is the major reason i havent

Re: [patch 2.6.20-rc1 5/6] SA1100 GPIO wrappers

2006-12-30 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 02:59:39PM +0100, pHilipp Zabel wrote: --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/generic.c 2006-12-27 21:50:03.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/generic.c 2006-12-30 14:50:42.0 +0100 @@ -138,6 +138,36 @@ return v; } +int

Re: The Input Layer and the Serial Port

2006-12-30 Thread Petr Stetiar
Loye Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-12-27 13:54:33]: To the King of Penguins and the Wise Architects of the Kernel: Greetings and Smooth Compiling to All, I, a humble pilgrim in the Land of Tux, have spent over a year seeking a simple answer to what seems to me a simple question: How do I

Fix backlight_device_register compile failures/breakage

2006-12-30 Thread Richard Purdie
Fix breakage from commit 519ab5f2be65b72cf12ae99c89752bbe79b44df6 which didn't update all references to backlight_device_register causing compile failures. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c |2 +- drivers/video/backlight/corgi_bl.c

Re: [patch 1/5] video sysfs support - take 2: Add dev argument for backlight_device_register.

2006-12-30 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 00:33 +0800, Yu Luming wrote: This patch set adds generic abstract layer support for acpi video driver to have generic user interface to control backlight and output switch control by leveraging the existing backlight sysfs class driver, and by adding a new video

[PATCH -mm] compile error in drivers/media/video

2006-12-30 Thread Daniel Walker
LD drivers/media/video/built-in.o drivers/media/video/saa7134/built-in.o:(.data+0x86ac): multiple definition of `ir_rc5_remote_gap' drivers/media/video/bt8xx/built-in.o:(.data+0x71b4): first defined here drivers/media/video/saa7134/built-in.o:(.data+0x86b0): multiple definition of

[PATCH -rt] panic on SLIM + selinux

2006-12-30 Thread Daniel Walker
If you have both SLIM and selinux compiled into your kernel selinux will panic if it can't register itself. The code below, if (register_security (selinux_ops)) panic(SELinux: Unable to register with kernel.\n); security/selinux/hooks.c 5014 lines --95%--

Should be [PATCH -mm] -- Re: [PATCH -rt] panic on SLIM + selinux

2006-12-30 Thread Daniel Walker
Sorry, really for -mm . On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 07:48 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: If you have both SLIM and selinux compiled into your kernel selinux will panic if it can't register itself. The code below, if (register_security (selinux_ops)) panic(SELinux: Unable to register with

[PATCH -mm] fix for crash in adummy_init()

2006-12-30 Thread Daniel Walker
This was reported by Ingo Molnar here, http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/18/119 The problem is that adummy_init() depends on atm_init() , but adummy_init() is called first. So I put atm_init() into subsys_initcall which seems appropriate, and it will still get module_init() if it becomes a module.

[RFC][PATCH] A new memory algorithm for the embedded linux system

2006-12-30 Thread Aubrey
Hi all, We know the buddy algorithm is very good at performance and deal with the external fragmentation about linux memory management. But IMHO it's not a best algorithm for the embedded linux system, especially on NOMMU arches. Here I wrote a memory algorithm and I really hope it's a starting

[PATCH 3/2] fix flush_workqueue() vs CPU_DEAD race

2006-12-30 Thread Oleg Nesterov
[PATCH 1/2] reimplement flush_workqueue() fixed one race when CPU goes down while flush_cpu_workqueue() plays with it. But there is another problem, CPU can die before flush_workqueue() has a chance to call flush_cpu_workqueue(). In that case pending work_structs can migrate to CPU which was

Re: [Patch] scsi: megaraid_{mm,mbox}: init fix for kdump

2006-12-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:31:38 -0500 Douglas Gilbert wrote: Randy Dunlap wrote: On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:02:17 -0800 Sumant Patro wrote: See Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Please include output of diffstat -p1 -w70 so that we can easily see the scope of the changes. and see

Re: fuse, get_user_pages, flush_anon_page, aliasing caches and all that again

2006-12-30 Thread Russell King
Given that no one has any outstanding issues with the following patch, I'm going to ask akpm to put this into -mm, and shortly after (a week or so) I'll submit it and the ARM flush_anon_page() patch to Linus for -rc to fix ARM data corruption issues. If anyone _does_ have a problem, holler ASAP.

Re: fuse, get_user_pages, flush_anon_page, aliasing caches and all that again

2006-12-30 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 04:39:55PM +, Russell King wrote: Given that no one has any outstanding issues with the following patch, I'm going to ask akpm to put this into -mm, and shortly after (a week or so) I'll submit it and the ARM flush_anon_page() patch to Linus for -rc to fix ARM data

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 28 December 2006 04:14, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 04:02, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 02:41, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: [snip] Here's a current decompilation of vmlinux/pipe_poll() from the running kernel, the

ip_tables init broken

2006-12-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hello, when the ip_tables module is loaded automatically when inserting the first rule, something gets screwed up, as -L -v -n shows: 17:39 ichi:~ # lsmod | grep ip_tables 17:39 ichi:~ # iptables -t mangle -A FORWARD -i eth1 -j MARK --set-mark 161 17:39 ichi:~ # iptables -t mangle -A FORWARD

Re: [updated PATCH] remove 555 unneeded #includes of sched.h

2006-12-30 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:23:58AM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Tim Schmielau wrote: On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: To cover these, you need to build at least rpc_defconfig, lubbock_defconfig, netwinder_defconfig, badge4_defconfig, cerf_defconfig,

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-30 Thread Chuck Ebbert
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:59:35 +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: I've eliminated 2.6.19.1 as the culprit, and also tried toggling optimize for size, various debug options. 2.6.19 compiled with GCC 4.1.1 on an Via Nehemiah C3-2 seems to crash in pipe_poll

Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Since 2.6.20-rc1 (tested both -rc1 and rc2), system notification sounds under KDE, and sound in games (e.g. TuxPaint) no longer seem to work on my T60 thinkpad. Works fine under 2.6.19 though. The strange thing is e.g. Amarok still plays music fine. Tis is on Kubuntu

[PATCH] preliminary sata_promise ATAPI support

2006-12-30 Thread Mikael Pettersson
This patch against 2.6.20-rc2 adds partial ATAPI support to the sata_promise driver. This patch is preliminary and for review only. Current Status: - Tested with PATA optical devices on 20378 and 20575 chips. - Mounting and reading CD/DVD discs in DMA mode works fine. - Using cdrecord to write

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:21:03 +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Any ideas? BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0009 83 ca 10 or $0x10,%edx 3b

Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
suggestion: change the Amarok audio backend options and test every one until it sounds good. reply with re results. That will help to understand the problem, if any. OK. Under 2.6.19, both alsa and oss backends work. Under 2.6.20-rc2, oss works but alsa does not. So I guess the

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 30 December 2006 17:21, Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:59:35 +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: I've eliminated 2.6.19.1 as the culprit, and also tried toggling optimize for size, various debug options. 2.6.19 compiled with GCC

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 30 December 2006 18:06, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I'd guess you have some kind of hardware problem. It could also be a kernel problem where the saved address was corrupted during an interrupt, but that's not likely. This looks rather strange. [snip] 2) Kernel modules

Re: ip_tables init broken

2006-12-30 Thread Sergey Vlasov
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:14:35 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt wrote: when the ip_tables module is loaded automatically when inserting the first rule, something gets screwed up, as -L -v -n shows: 17:39 ichi:~ # lsmod | grep ip_tables 17:39 ichi:~ # iptables -t mangle -A FORWARD -i eth1 -j MARK

Re: fuse, get_user_pages, flush_anon_page, aliasing caches and all that again

2006-12-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: Given that no one has any outstanding issues with the following patch, I'm going to ask akpm to put this into -mm, and shortly after (a week or so) I'll submit it and the ARM flush_anon_page() patch to Linus for -rc to fix ARM data corruption issues.

Re: fuse, get_user_pages, flush_anon_page, aliasing caches and all that again

2006-12-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: And here's the flush_anon_page() part. Add flush_anon_page() for ARM, to avoid data corruption issues when using fuse or other subsystems using get_user_pages(). Btw, since this doesn't actually change any code for anybody but ARM, just adds a

Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Friday 29 December 2006 06:25, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Virtual MIDI Card 1 Compile this feature out, I bet things start working again. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Virtual MIDI Card 1 Compile this feature out, I bet things start working again. I used to have it off, tried enabling this after I saw the problem with ALSA. -- MST - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Since 2.6.20-rc1 (tested both -rc1 and rc2), system notification sounds under KDE, and sound in games (e.g. TuxPaint) no longer seem to work on my T60 thinkpad. Works fine under 2.6.19 though. The strange thing is e.g. Amarok still plays music fine. Update: Amarok was set to auto-detect the

Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Friday 29 December 2006 06:25, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Virtual MIDI Card 1 Compile this feature out, I bet things start working again. Yes, this helped, thanks. BTW, is this expected? -- MST - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: [OOPS] PPC NULL pointer dereference from cache_alloc_refill (ide?)

2006-12-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:46:19PM -0800, john stultz wrote: Tried booting git from today (2.6.20-rc1+) on my PPC Mac Mini, and got the oops captured in the image attached. Is this issue still presentin the latest -git? thanks -john cu Adrian -- Is there not promise of rain?

Re: [PATCH] lock stat for -rt 2.6.20-rc2-rt2 [was Re: 2.6.19-rt14 slowdown compared to 2.6.19]

2006-12-30 Thread hui
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 06:56:08AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 12:19 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: - Documentation/CodingStyle compliance - the code is not ugly per se but still looks a bit 'alien' - please try to make it look Linuxish, if i apply this we'll

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc2-git1] start_kernel: Test if irq's got enabled early, barf, and disable them again

2006-12-30 Thread Ard -kwaak- van Breemen
The calls made by parse_parms to other initialization code might enable interrupts again way too early. Having interrupts on this early can make systems PANIC when they initialize the IRQ controllers (which happens later in the code). This patch detects that irq's are enabled again, barfs about it

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc2-git1] kernelparams: detect if and which parameter parsing enabled irq's

2006-12-30 Thread Ard -kwaak- van Breemen
The parsing of some kernel parameters seem to enable irq's at a stage that irq's are not supposed to be enabled (Particularly the ide kernel parameters). Having irq's enabled before the irq controller is initialized might lead to a kernel panic. This patch only detects this behaviour and warns

Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:11, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Friday 29 December 2006 06:25, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Virtual MIDI Card 1 Compile this feature out, I bet things start working again. Yes, this helped, thanks. BTW, is this expected? It's a severe misfeature in my

Re: [OOPS] bcm43xx oops on 2.6.20-rc1 on x86_64

2006-12-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:15:28PM -0500, Aaron Sethman wrote: Just was loading the bcm43xx module and got the following oops. Note that this card is one of the newer PCI-E cards. If any other info is needed let me know. Is this issue still present in 2.6.10-rc2-git1? If yes, was 2.6.19

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc2-git1] PCI: prevent down_read when pci_devices is empty

2006-12-30 Thread Ard -kwaak- van Breemen
The pci_find_subsys gets called very early by obsolete ide setup parameters. This is a bogus call since pci is not initialized yet, so the list is empty. But in the mean time, interrupts get enabled by down_read. This can result in a kernel panic when the irq controller gets initialized. This

Re: replace memset(...,0,PAGE_SIZE) calls with clear_page()?

2006-12-30 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Friday 29 December 2006 07:16, Robert P. J. Day wrote: is there some reason there are so many calls of the form memset(addr, 0, PAGE_SIZE) rather than the apparently equivalent invocation of clear_page(addr) the majority of architectures appear to define the clear_page()

Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread Ismail Dönmez
30 Ara 2006 Cts 21:19 tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:11, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Friday 29 December 2006 06:25, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Virtual MIDI Card 1 Compile this feature out, I bet things start working again. Yes, this helped, thanks.

Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Virtual MIDI Card 1 Compile this feature out, I bet things start working again. Yes, this helped, thanks. BTW, is this expected? It's a severe misfeature in my opinion that caused me problems years ago. The first soundcard becomes default, which can probably be

Re: [OOPS] bcm43xx oops on 2.6.20-rc1 on x86_64

2006-12-30 Thread Larry Finger
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:15:28PM -0500, Aaron Sethman wrote: Just was loading the bcm43xx module and got the following oops. Note that this card is one of the newer PCI-E cards. If any other info is needed let me know. Is this issue still present in 2.6.10-rc2-git1?

Re: [OOPS] bcm43xx oops on 2.6.20-rc1 on x86_64

2006-12-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:23:42PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:15:28PM -0500, Aaron Sethman wrote: Just was loading the bcm43xx module and got the following oops. Note that this card is one of the newer PCI-E cards. If any other info is needed

Re: [RFC,PATCHSET] Managed device resources

2006-12-30 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 16:18, Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, all. This patchset implements managed device resources, in short, devres. I was working on a Linux device driver. Indeed, those error paths are notoriously prone to bugs. Patchset looks like good idea to me. -- vda - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] Make JFFS depend on CONFIG_BROKEN

2006-12-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:25:56AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: Mark JFFS as broken and provide a warning to users that it is deprecated and scheduled for removal in 2.6.21 Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index b3b5aa0..4ac367d 100644 ---

Re: bluetooth memory corruption (was Re: ext3-related crash in 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 12:36:47AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: On Sun 2006-12-24 15:39:23, Marcel Holtmann wrote: Hi Pavel, I got this nasty oops while playing with debugger. Not sure if that is related; it also might be something with bluetooth; I already know it corrupts memory

Re: ip_tables init broken [fixd]

2006-12-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 30 2006 21:30, Sergey Vlasov wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:14:35 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt wrote: when the ip_tables module is loaded automatically when inserting the first rule, something gets screwed up, as -L -v -n shows: 17:39 ichi:~ # lsmod | grep ip_tables 17:39 ichi:~ #

Re: replace memset(...,0,PAGE_SIZE) calls with clear_page()?

2006-12-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Friday 29 December 2006 07:16, Robert P. J. Day wrote: is there some reason there are so many calls of the form memset(addr, 0, PAGE_SIZE) rather than the apparently equivalent invocation of clear_page(addr) the majority of

Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread Ismail Dönmez
30 Ara 2006 Cts 22:45 tarihinde, Michael S. Tsirkin şunları yazmıştı: Virtual MIDI Card 1 Compile this feature out, I bet things start working again. Yes, this helped, thanks. BTW, is this expected? It's a severe misfeature in my opinion that caused me problems

Re: replace memset(...,0,PAGE_SIZE) calls with clear_page()?

2006-12-30 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Saturday 30 December 2006 23:08, Robert P. J. Day wrote: clear_page assumes that given address is page aligned, I think. It may fail if you feed it with misaligned region's address. i don't see how that can be true, given that most of the definitions of the clear_page() macro are

Re: replace memset(...,0,PAGE_SIZE) calls with clear_page()?

2006-12-30 Thread Arjan van de Ven
i don't see how that can be true, given that most of the definitions of the clear_page() macro are simply invocations of memset(). see for yourself: *MOST*. Not all. For example an SSE version will at least assume 16 byte alignment, etc etc. clear_page() is supposed to be for full real

new harddrive with media error

2006-12-30 Thread Alexander Nagel
Hi all, i installed a new drive (WDC WD5000KS-00M) in my computer and installed WinXP on it. Afterwards i installed Debian etch on the second one (HDS722512VLSA80). Everything works fine so far, but during every boot i get following messages in dmesg [1] Kernel [2] is 2.6.18 as default

Re: replace memset(...,0,PAGE_SIZE) calls with clear_page()?

2006-12-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: rday wrote: ... most of the definitions of the clear_page() macro are simply invocations of memset(). see for yourself: *MOST*. Not all. i did notice that. while the majority of the architectures simply define clear_page() as a macro calling

Re: fuse, get_user_pages, flush_anon_page, aliasing caches and all that again

2006-12-30 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:26:20AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: And here's the flush_anon_page() part. Add flush_anon_page() for ARM, to avoid data corruption issues when using fuse or other subsystems using get_user_pages(). Btw, since

Re: [OOPS] bcm43xx oops on 2.6.20-rc1 on x86_64

2006-12-30 Thread Larry Finger
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:23:42PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:15:28PM -0500, Aaron Sethman wrote: Just was loading the bcm43xx module and got the following oops. Note that this card is one of the newer PCI-E cards. If any

Re: new harddrive with media error

2006-12-30 Thread Rik van Riel
Alexander Nagel wrote: Hi all, i installed a new drive (WDC WD5000KS-00M) in my computer and installed WinXP on it. Afterwards i installed Debian etch on the second one (HDS722512VLSA80). Everything works fine so far, but during every boot i get following messages in dmesg [1] Kernel [2] is

[PATCH 1/1] Char: mxser_new, do not put pdev

2006-12-30 Thread Jiri Slaby
mxser_new, do not put pdev We don't call pci_dev_get, so do not call pci_dev_put in the pci release function. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit c614729fee9638269d0881cf6ab895f1915a tree 84e4d767dbd91faf59e2e4dd93ea780439451cfd parent

Re: new harddrive with media error

2006-12-30 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 06:33:52PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: Alexander Nagel wrote: Hi all, i installed a new drive (WDC WD5000KS-00M) in my computer and installed WinXP on it. Afterwards i installed Debian etch on the second one (HDS722512VLSA80). Everything works fine so far, but

Device does not have a release() function

2006-12-30 Thread Avuton Olrich
Please excuse me if this has already been discussed. Anything else that's needed please let me know. kernel: Linux version 2.6.20-rc2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)) #6 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 28 21:07:58 PST 2006 Spotted this in the dmesg: --- Fixed PHY: Registered new

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

2006-12-30 Thread Komuro
Can you reproduce it with other ftp client and/or server? O.K. I wiil try to test other ftp client and server. Please provide the output of netstat -na command during the transfer, and the output of lsmod | grep conntrack (just for sure). Please see the output of netstat -na when stuck.

2.6.20-rc2: known unfixed regressions (v2)

2006-12-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc2 compared to 2.6.19 that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm

[PATCH 1/8] Char: moxa, remove unused allocated page

2006-12-30 Thread Jiri Slaby
moxa, remove unused allocated page moxaXmitBuff is almost unused -- only one byte from the whole PAGE_SIZE bytes is used. Do not alloc so much space for almost anything. Also remove lock protecting this page allocation. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit

[PATCH 2/8] Char: moxa, do not initialize global static

2006-12-30 Thread Jiri Slaby
moxa, do not initialize global static Remove useless initialization of variables a) statically b) dynamically at module_init c) dynamically after kzalloc (those with '= 0/NULL') Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit bc5dff44602d67db9d08ae1735e6f29162264704 tree

[PATCH 3/8] Char: moxa, timers cleanup

2006-12-30 Thread Jiri Slaby
moxa, timers cleanup Use kernel macros and functions for timer encapsulation -- do not access fileds directly. Also del_timer on inactive is legal, so that noting if it runs is senseless, delete these variables. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit

[PATCH 4/8] Char: moxa, remove hangup bottomhalf

2006-12-30 Thread Jiri Slaby
moxa, remove hangup bottomhalf call tty_hangup directly, we do not need a bottomhalf for this. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 9146480faf6469f789229e4f09d99a90b3e05c26 tree 58eb5f2f3943a17ad05b3fd869ab987e63a4fe14 parent 8171e38961018ef16df52084d1356f891f43ba6f author

[PATCH 6/8] Char: moxa, devids cleanup

2006-12-30 Thread Jiri Slaby
moxa, devids cleanup Move them to pci_ids.h Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 9e4d8826dd1dbaa7bb9d520b02da25a5a5cefa13 tree 09ff5e387adce87a70c388e83af678fd5552062b parent c2eee5df210da17dfdea909b89f5db31b577f92a author Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:54:13

[PATCH 5/8] Char: moxa, remove unused functions

2006-12-30 Thread Jiri Slaby
moxa, remove unused functions Remove ifdeffed functions and cleanup comments including too long license terms. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit c2eee5df210da17dfdea909b89f5db31b577f92a tree cace45a59508ef209c42e662836ba861ecd06e81 parent

[PATCH 7/8] Char: moxa, use PCI_DEVICE

2006-12-30 Thread Jiri Slaby
moxa, use PCI_DEVICE Use PCI_DEVICE macro in pci_device_id list. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 5b7f53b3500ebd3aa2cc25bb68fdcd88af3643c0 tree 8392124992e5eeb1eaad6f652468f1b1caa65dac parent 9e4d8826dd1dbaa7bb9d520b02da25a5a5cefa13 author Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun,

[PATCH 8/8] Char: moxa, eliminate typedefs

2006-12-30 Thread Jiri Slaby
moxa, eliminate typedefs Do not use typedefs, use directly struct something instead. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 5eb77a193f47ab2a0ed35c7f949f103e740b24dc tree a815e0033c9707e5df2ebee36c9acf32cf7cf6f8 parent 5b7f53b3500ebd3aa2cc25bb68fdcd88af3643c0 author Jiri Slaby

Regression in 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 for snd_hda_intel

2006-12-30 Thread Larry Finger
I have a new laptop - an HP Pavilion dv2125nr with an AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile CPU. With any kernel later than 2.6.18, the sound does not work. The audio interface is reported by lspci as Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2), and uses the snd_hda_intel module.

[PATCH] DocBook/HTML: Generate chapter/section level TOCs for functions

2006-12-30 Thread Pavel Pisa
Simple increase of section TOC level generation significantly enhances navigation experience through generated kernel API documentation. This change restores back state from SGML tools time. Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.19/Documentation/DocBook/stylesheet.xsl

[PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

2006-12-30 Thread Mitch Bradley
Request for comments. This patch creates a virtual filesystem that represents an Open Firmware device tree. It has been tested on an OLPC x86 system, but the code is not processor-specific (apart from its current location under arch/i386). It requires an Open Firmware implementation that can

Re: Regression in 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 for snd_hda_intel

2006-12-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Larry Finger wrote: When this commit is reverted, I get sound, but playing a sound file results in about an 0.5 sec fragment being replayed over and over forever. If commit 7376d013fc6d3a45..., which is entitled Simple patch to enable Message Signalled Interrupts for the HDA Intel audio

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc2] [BUGFIX] drivers/atm/firestream.c: Fix infinite recursion when alignment passed is 0.

2006-12-30 Thread Amit Choudhary
Description: Fix infinite recursion when alignment passed is 0 in function aligned_kmalloc(), in file drivers/atm/firestream.c. Also, a negative value for alignment does not make sense. Check for negative value too. The function prototype is: static void __devinit

Re: Regression in 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 for snd_hda_intel

2006-12-30 Thread Larry Finger
Daniel Drake wrote: Larry Finger wrote: When this commit is reverted, I get sound, but playing a sound file results in about an 0.5 sec fragment being replayed over and over forever. If commit 7376d013fc6d3a45..., which is entitled Simple patch to enable Message Signalled Interrupts for the

Re: Regression in 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 for snd_hda_intel

2006-12-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Larry Finger wrote: You are correct. Only the hda_codec-Add independent headphone volume control needs to be reverted. The best course of action is probably to file a report here: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback

2006-12-30 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrea Gelmini wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 06:59:02PM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7658cc289288b8ae7dd2c2224549a048431222b3 Commit: 7658cc289288b8ae7dd2c2224549a048431222b3 Parent:

Re: any chance to bypass BIOS check for VT?

2006-12-30 Thread Jeff Chua
On 12/30/06, Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When it says disabled by bios it means what it says. There is no workaround other than going to the bios and enabling it; if your bios doesn't support enabling VT, complain to your vendor. Ok, I tried and proved the point. Kernel crashed. A

2.6.19 bluetooth PPP (rfcomm) regression

2006-12-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Testing from Bill Kenworthy indicates that commit 0a85b964e141a4b8db6eaf500ceace12f8f52f93 introduces a ppp-over-bluetooth regression. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159277 Dec 28 21:56:54 rattus hcid[22749]: pin_code_request (sba=00:0A:3A:59:39:38, dba=00:07:E0:06:AC:7A) Dec

Re: [OOPS] bcm43xx oops on 2.6.20-rc1 on x86_64

2006-12-30 Thread Aaron Sethman
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:15:28PM -0500, Aaron Sethman wrote: Just was loading the bcm43xx module and got the following oops. Note that this card is one of the newer PCI-E cards. If any other info is needed let me know. Is this issue still present

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc2] Add a quirk to allow at least some ENE PCI SD card readers to work again

2006-12-30 Thread Darren Salt
Add a quirk to allow at least some ENE PCI SD card readers to work again Support for these devices was broken for 2.6.18-rc1 and later by commit 146ad66eac836c0b976c98f428d73e1f6a75270d, which added voltage level support. This restores the previous behaviour for these devices (PCI ID 1524:0550).

Re: [Alsa-devel] Regression in 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 for snd_hda_intel

2006-12-30 Thread Larry Finger
Tobin Davis wrote: Which alsa patch was this? I'm not seeing anything in the hg logs for this. Or is this something from the kernel side? It seems to have come from suse. The full commit message is: commit a7da6ce564a80952d9c0b210deca5a8cd3474a31 Author: Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re: [OOPS] bcm43xx oops on 2.6.20-rc1 on x86_64

2006-12-30 Thread Larry Finger
Aaron Sethman wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:15:28PM -0500, Aaron Sethman wrote: Just was loading the bcm43xx module and got the following oops. Note that this card is one of the newer PCI-E cards. If any other info is needed let me know. Is

Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

2006-12-30 Thread David Miller
From: Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:38:46 -1000 Request for comments. This patch creates a virtual filesystem that represents an Open Firmware device tree. It has been tested on an OLPC x86 system, but the code is not processor-specific (apart from its current

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