Re: 2.6.19 and up to 2.6.20-rc2 Ethernet problems x86_64

2007-01-02 Thread Sid Boyce
Jarek Poplawski wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 02:21:15AM +, Sid Boyce wrote: Jarek Poplawski wrote: On 28-12-2006 04:23, Sid Boyce wrote: I first saw the problem on the 64x2 box after upgrading to 2.6.19. The network appeared OK with ifconfig and route -n, but I had no network access. Pin

Re: 2.6.20-rc2+: CFQ halving disk throughput.

2007-01-02 Thread Mark Lord
Jens Axboe wrote: I did have to massage the second patch to get it to apply cleanly after the first patch. You may want to regenerate it against -rc3. Hmm odd, I thought I did. Will double check. Ahh.. I get it now. I tried to apply the second patch *on top* of the first patch, whereas it

Re: 2.6.20-rc2+: CFQ halving disk throughput.

2007-01-02 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Jan 02 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > >>I did have to massage the second patch to get it to apply cleanly > >>after the first patch. You may want to regenerate it against -rc3. > > > >Hmm odd, I thought I did. Will double check. > > Ahh.. I get it now. > > I tried to ap

Re: error handling in sysfs, fill_read_buffer()

2007-01-02 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 16:26 schrieb Alan Stern: > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > if a driver returns an error in fill_read_buffer(), the buffer will be > > > marked as filled. Subsequent reads will return eof.

Re: error handling in sysfs, fill_read_buffer()

2007-01-02 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 16:47 schrieb Alan Stern: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 16:26 schrieb Alan Stern: > > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > if a driver returns an error in fill_read_buffer(), the bu

Re: Happy New Year (and v2.6.20-rc3 released)

2007-01-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Alan wrote: > > If you revert the commit you end with all the PCI resource tree breakage > back Which weren't a regression or anything new. Alan: regressions are what we don't do. Ever. If your second patch is found to have some other problems, we revert them both. It's th

Re: [PATCH] libata: fix combined mode (was Re: Happy New Year (and v2.6.20-rc3 released))

2007-01-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 11:58:34AM +, Alan wrote: > This is a slight variant on the patch I posted December 16th to fix > libata combined mode handling. The only real change is that we now > correctly also reserve BAR1,2,4. That is basically a neatness issue. Thanks, I can confirm that with t

slab: remove broken PageSlab check from kfree_debugcheck

2007-01-02 Thread Pekka J Enberg
From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The PageSlab debug check in kfree_debugcheck() is broken for compound pages. It is also redundant as we already do BUG_ON for non-slab pages in page_get_cache() and page_get_slab() which are always called before we free any actual objects. Signed-off-by:

Re: [BUG-RT] RTC has been stopped-> long delay during boot, soft reboot->GRUB fails to call getrtsecs()

2007-01-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Remy Bohmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Ingo, > > I have discovered 3 problems that are likely all related to the same > root-cause, likely to be caused by the RT-kernel. > I use the 2.6.19-rt15 kernel, with the configuration attached to this mail. > It is running on a standard x86, i94

Re: [PATCH] slab: cache alloc cleanups

2007-01-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > + > + if (nodeid == -1 || nodeid == numa_node_id()) { > + if (unlikely(current->flags & (PF_SPREAD_SLAB | PF_MEMPOLICY))) > { > + obj = alternate_node_alloc(cache, flags); > + if (obj) > +

[PATCH] atiixp: Old drivers/ide layer driver for the ATIIXP hang fix

2007-01-02 Thread Alan
When the old IDE layer calls into methods in the driver during error handling it is essentially random whether ide_lock is already held. This causes a deadlock in the atiixp driver which also uses ide_lock internally for locking. Switch to a private lock instead. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

2007-01-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Segher Boessenkool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070102 12:37]: > Are you really suggesting that using a kernel copy of the > device tree is the correct thing to do, and the only correct > thing to do -- with the sole argument that "that's what the > current ports do"? There might also be a speed advanta

[PATCH 1/4] swiotlb bug fixes

2007-01-02 Thread Jan Beulich
This patch fixes - marking I-cache clean of pages DMAed to now only done for IA64 - broken multiple inclusion in include/asm-x86_64/swiotlb.h - missing phys-to-virt translation in swiotlb_sync_sg() - missing call to mark_clean in swiotlb_sync_sg() - a (perhaps only theoretical) issue in swiotlb_dma

[PATCH 2/4] make swiotlb use bus_to_virt/virt_to_bus

2007-01-02 Thread Jan Beulich
Convert all phys_to_virt/virt_to_phys uses to bus_to_virt/virt_to_bus, as is what is meant and what is needed in (at least) some virtualized environments like Xen. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: 2.6.20-rc3-swiotlb-bugs/lib/swiot

[PATCH 3/4] swiotlb cleanup

2007-01-02 Thread Jan Beulich
This patch - adds proper __init decoration to swiotlb's init code (and the code calling it, where not already the case) - replaces uses of 'unsigned long' with dma_addr_t where appropriate - does miscellaneous simplicfication and cleanup Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: 2.6

[PATCH 4/4] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen)

2007-01-02 Thread Jan Beulich
This patch adds abstraction so that the file can be used by environments other than IA64 and EM64T, namely for Xen. Even if this patch is considered too convoluted, I would appreciate if the other three ones could still be considered for merging. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In

[PATCH] ia64: missing exports hwsw_sync_...

2007-01-02 Thread Jan Beulich
This patch adds missing exports to allow several drivers to be built as module with CONFIG_IA64_HP_ZX1_SWIOTLB. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.20-rc3/arch/ia64/hp/common/hwsw_iommu.c 2006-11-29 22:57:37.0 +0100 +++ 2.6.20-rc3-ia64-zx1-swiotlb/arch/ia64/hp/

Re: 2.6.19 and up to 2.6.20-rc2 Ethernet problems x86_64

2007-01-02 Thread Sid Boyce
Same problem with 2.6.19-rc3. Apologies for the long spiel, if memory serves me correct, gzip'd attachments are verboten. openSUSE 10.2 Network does not get configured with "acpi=noirq" or "acpi=off". There may be something in dmesg that allows further analysis of the problem. 00:0a:e4:4e:a1:4

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

2007-01-02 Thread Stefan Richter
(list address corrected, and a question added...) On 1/2/2007 4:53 PM, I wrote: > Kyuma Ohta wrote: > ... >> Now,I'm testing 2.6.20-rc3 for x86_64, submitted patch for this issue; >> "Fault has happened in 'cleanuped' sbp2/1394 module in *not 32bit* >> architecture hardwares ." >> >> As result o

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread James Simmons
> > > > I can very easily believe it. The US patent system and "justice" > > > > system in the US is completely and totally insane, and companies > > > > often feel they have to act accordingly. Remember this is the > > > > country that has issued multi-million dollar awards to people who > > >

2.6.20-rc2-mm1: Makefile drops local version when checking headers

2007-01-02 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
When building 2.6.20-rc2-mm1 with CHECK_HEADERS=y, the Makefile will build the target "include/config/kernel.release" twice. The first time, the CONFIG_LOCALVERSION [and any auto local version] will correctly be appended. Then, when it builds the "headers_check" target, the Makefile will build th

[PATCH] slab: add missing debug_check_no_locks_freed for kmem_cache_free

2007-01-02 Thread Pekka J Enberg
From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add a missing debug_check_no_locks_freed() debug check for kmem_cache_free(). Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/slab.c |3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: 2.6/mm/slab.c

Re: [BUG-RT] RTC has been stopped-> long delay during boot, soft reboot->GRUB fails to call getrtsecs()

2007-01-02 Thread Remy Bohmer
Hello Ingo, In the mean time I have tested more with this problem: 1. Once, the RTC clock gets stopped during shutdown, it is **NEVER** going to run again. And I continuously see the problems with grub and the BIOS time-of-day. Finally I had to remove the battery from the motherboard to reset the

[ARM] Regression somewhere between 2.6.19 and 2.6.19-rc1

2007-01-02 Thread Russell King
I'm seeing utterly random behaviour from kernels on ARM SMP hardware built after 2.6.19. I won't bother trying to paste the kernel output; sometimes the kernel locks solid (no IRQs, no output to say what's wrong). Other times I get the first line of an oops repeating but with random addresses. Ot

Re: [PATCH] quiet MMCONFIG related printks

2007-01-02 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Tuesday, January 2, 2007 2:36 am, Alan wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:01:38 -0800 > > Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Using MMCONFIG for PCI config space access is simply an > > optimization, not a requirement. Therefore, when it can't be used, > > there's no need for > > Some hardw

Re: [ARM] Regression somewhere between 2.6.19 and 2.6.19-rc1

2007-01-02 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:39:23PM +, Russell King wrote: > I'm seeing utterly random behaviour from kernels on ARM SMP hardware > built after 2.6.19. I won't bother trying to paste the kernel output; > sometimes the kernel locks solid (no IRQs, no output to say what's wrong). > Other times I

Re: Cut power to a USB port?

2007-01-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:28:38 -0500 Andrew Barr wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 00:32 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 03:56:25PM -0500, Andrew Barr wrote: > > > I have a simple question perhaps someone can help me with here... > > > > > > I have one of those simple LED keyboard la

Re: [Bluez-devel] regression: bluetooth oopses because of multiple kobject_add()

2007-01-02 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Pavel, > On 2.6.20-rc2, I got: > > This used to work before... certainly with 2.6.19. > > Running this multiple times seems to trigger it: > > #!/bin/bash > # > # Run tui on desktop machine, using t68i instead of a modem. > # > > hciconfig hci0 name billionton > hciconfig hci0 up > hcid > r

Re: 2.6.20-rc2+: CFQ halving disk throughput.

2007-01-02 Thread Tejun Heo
Mark Lord wrote: > The code (written 10 years ago) isn't the best in the world, > and will be redone entirely for hdparm-7.0 this year. OT but care to make -i and -I work equivalently? Such that -i reports more detailed info and user can dump stored id block. Support for IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE w

Re: [ARM] Regression somewhere between 2.6.19 and 2.6.19-rc1

2007-01-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Russell King wrote: > > How do I tell git bisect "I can't test this, this is neither good nor bad, > please choose another to try" ? Or is git bisect hopeless given the large > amount of unbuildable commits thanks to our weekly merges? The easiest way to do this is to start

Re: Cut power to a USB port?

2007-01-02 Thread Andrew Barr
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 08:36 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:28:38 -0500 Andrew Barr wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 00:32 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 03:56:25PM -0500, Andrew Barr wrote: > > > > I have a simple question perhaps someone can help me wit

Re: [PATCH] slab: add missing debug_check_no_locks_freed for kmem_cache_free

2007-01-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Add a missing debug_check_no_locks_freed() debug check for > kmem_cache_free(). hm, i have a similar fix in -rt already, and i sent a patch for this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/18/104 have i missed so

Re: 2.6.20-rc2+: CFQ halving disk throughput.

2007-01-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 2 2007 10:01, Mark Lord wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: >> >> > But surely one of (not sure which) sync+async or async+sync may also >> > be okay? >> > Or would it? >> >> Async merge to sync request should be ok. But I wonder what happens with >> hdparm, since it seems to trigger one of these

Re: tty->low_latency + irq context

2007-01-02 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 01:08 +0059, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Hi! > > * tty_flip_buffer_push- terminal > * @tty: tty to push > * > * Queue a push of the terminal flip buffers to the line discipline. This > * function must not be called from IRQ context if tty->low_laten

Re: Nothing since 2.6.19 will boot for me.

2007-01-02 Thread Paul Slootman
Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The last kernel from Linus' tree[1] that boots for me is v2.6.19. And >before I take my first stab at git-bisect, I thought I'd ask here in >case it's just a PEBCAK. > >What happens in kernels since v2.6.19 is: > > o Choose the kernel to boot from lilo

Re: pata_marvell and Marvell 88SE6121

2007-01-02 Thread Jose Alberto Reguero
El Sábado, 16 de Diciembre de 2006 18:41, Jose Alberto Reguero escribió: > I am trying to make work the driver pata_marvell of linux-2.6.20-rc1 with > Marvell 88SE6121. > I added the PCI ID: 0x6121 > > { PCI_DEVICE(0x11AB, 0x6101), }, > { PCI_DEVICE(0x11AB, 0x6145), }, > { P

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 2 2007 16:15, David Weinehall wrote: >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: >> >> 1) mcdonald's was not merely serving their coffee "hot," but >> *scalding* hot (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit), a temperature that >> wil

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-02 Thread Len Brown
> it's been nothing but trouble in 32-bit mode. > It still works fine when I boot it in 64-bit mode. A shot in the dark at the spontaneous reset issue, but no clue on the 32 vs 64-bit observation... See if ACPI exports any temperature readings under /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature and if

Re: [PATCH] Print sysrq-m messages with KERN_INFO priority

2007-01-02 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:33:32AM +, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 23:37:43 -0500 > Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is this patch a consistency thing? > > > > The goal of the patch was to avoid filling /var/log/messages huge > > amounts of sysrq text. Some of the s

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

2007-01-02 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:50:41 -0600 Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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: > > co

Re: 2.6.20-rc2+: CFQ halving disk throughput.

2007-01-02 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: OT but care to make -i and -I work equivalently? Such that -i reports more detailed info and user can dump stored id block. hdparm -I works just fine now. hdparm -i requires the HDIO_GET_IDENTITY ioctl() from drivers/ide, to retrieve the "boot time" copy of the identify bloc

Re: 2.6.20-rc2+: CFQ halving disk throughput.

2007-01-02 Thread Tejun Heo
Mark Lord wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> >> OT but care to make -i and -I work equivalently? Such that -i reports >> more detailed info and user can dump stored id block. > > hdparm -I works just fine now. No objection there. > hdparm -i requires the HDIO_GET_IDENTITY ioctl() from drivers/ide, >

Re: [PATCH] Print sysrq-m messages with KERN_INFO priority

2007-01-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:33:32AM +, Alan wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 23:37:43 -0500 > Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is this patch a consistency thing? > > > > The goal of the patch was to avoid filling /var/log/messages huge > > amounts of sysrq text. Some of the sysrq comma

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 12:25:57PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > it's been nothing but trouble in 32-bit mode. > > It still works fine when I boot it in 64-bit mode. > > A shot in the dark at the spontaneous reset issue, but no clue on the 32 vs > 64-bit observation... > > See if ACPI exports any

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

2007-01-02 Thread Mimi Zohar
Being able to compile both SELinux and SLIM into the kernel was done intentionally. The kernel parameters 'selinux' and 'slim' can enable or disable the LSM module at boot. Perhaps, for the time being, the SECURITY_SLIM_BOOTPARAM_VALUE should default to 0. Mimi - To unsubscribe from this list: s

RE: 2.6.19-rt14 slowdown compared to 2.6.19

2007-01-02 Thread Chen, Tim C
Ingo Molnar wrote: > > (could you send me the whole trace if you still have it? It would be > interesting to see a broader snippet from the life of individual java > threads.) > > Ingo Sure, I'll send it to you separately due to the size of the complete trace. Tim - To unsubscribe from th

Re: 2.6.20-rc2+: CFQ halving disk throughput.

2007-01-02 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Support for IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE would be nice too. It already does that, using HDIO_DRIVE_CMD to retrieve it in the same way as for regular IDENTIFY DEVICE commands. Hmmm... My hdparm doesn't seem to do that. Sure it does. Try "strace hdparm -I /dev/sr0

Re: [PATCH] Print sysrq-m messages with KERN_INFO priority

2007-01-02 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:03:54PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > or perhaps better, making the sysrq-m information > available via either /proc or /sys? or debugfs ? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [patch] remove redundant iov segment check

2007-01-02 Thread Zach Brown
I wonder if it wouldn't be better to make this change as part of a larger change that moves towards an explicit iovec container struct rather than bare 'struct iov *' and 'nr_segs' arguments. I suspect it should be rather trivial to get this started. As a first step we simply add a struct iod

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] fix for bugzilla #7544 (keyspan USB-to-serial converter)

2007-01-02 Thread Rainer Weikusat
At least the Keyspan USA-19HS USB-to-serial converter supports two different configurations, one where the input endpoints have interrupt transfer type and one where they are bulk endpoints. The default UHCI configuration uses the interrupt input endpoints. The keyspan driver, OTOH, assumes that th

RE: [patch] remove redundant iov segment check

2007-01-02 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Zach Brown wrote on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:22 AM > >> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to make this change as part of a > >> larger change that moves towards an explicit iovec container struct > >> rather than bare 'struct iov *' and 'nr_segs' arguments. > > > I suspect it should be rather

Re: [PATCH -- RFC] Add support to OProfile for profiling Cell BE SPUs

2007-01-02 Thread Maynard Johnson
Any comments on the attached patch would be appreciated. Thank you. -Maynard --- Maynard Johnson wrote: The attached patch extends OProfile's Cell support (committed into 2.6.20-rc1), adding the capability to do time-based profiling of the SPUs. This is a prelimina

Re: tty->low_latency + irq context

2007-01-02 Thread Alan
> with tty->low_latency set, but it doesn't AFAICS. One possibility for > deadlock is if the tty->buf.lock spinlock is taken on behalf of a user > process... The case to watch out for is flip_buffer_push -> ldisc -> driver write of echo/^S/^Q if you call flip_buffer_push while holding yo

Re: ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10

2007-01-02 Thread Len Brown
On Monday 01 January 2007 09:56, Thomas Meyer wrote: > I know this topic was already on the list. But 2.6.20-rc3 still gives me > tons of these messages in the log buffer: > > "ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10 > ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10 > ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10 > ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10 > ACPI: EC

Re: Removing MAX_ARG_PAGES (request for comments/assistance)

2007-01-02 Thread David Howells
Ollie Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - I haven't tested this on a NOMMU architecture. Could someone please > validate this? There are a number of potential problems with NOMMU: (1) The argument data is copied twice (once into kernel memory and once out of kernel memory). (2) The perm

Re: [PATCH] OHCI: disallow autostop when wakeup is not available

2007-01-02 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 15 November 2006 00:28, Alan Stern wrote: > > This patch (as822) prevents the OHCI autostop mechanism from kicking in > > if the root hub is not able or not allowed to issue wakeup reque

Re: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-01-02 Thread David Howells
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, i have forward ported your MAX_ARG_PAGES limit removal patch to > 2.6.20-rc2 and have included it in the -rt kernel. It's working great - > i can now finally do a "ls -t patches/*.patch" in my patch repository - > something i havent been able to do

Re: tty->low_latency + irq context

2007-01-02 Thread Paul Fulghum
Paul Fulghum wrote: With low_latency == 1, flush_to_ldisc() is deferred until the ISR is complete and the internal spinlock is released. Oops, I meant low_latency == 0 of course. -- Paul Fulghum Microgate Systems, Ltd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-02 Thread Len Brown
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 13:04, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 12:25:57PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > > it's been nothing but trouble in 32-bit mode. > > > It still works fine when I boot it in 64-bit mode. > > > > A shot in the dark at the spontaneous reset issue, but no clue on t

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Bodo Eggert
David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> 1) mcdonald's was not merely serving their coffee "hot," but >> *scalding* hot (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit), a temperature that >> will produce third-degree burns almost immediately

Re: tty->low_latency + irq context

2007-01-02 Thread Paul Fulghum
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 11:17 -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 01:08 +0059, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > * Queue a push of the terminal flip buffers to the line discipline. > > This > > * function must not be called from IRQ context if tty->low_latency is > > set. > > >

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

2007-01-02 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 13:05 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote: > Being able to compile both SELinux and SLIM into the kernel was done > intentionally. The kernel parameters 'selinux' and 'slim' can enable > or disable the LSM module at boot. Perhaps, for the time being, the > SECURITY_SLIM_BOOTPARAM_VALUE

[OT] Hot coffee (was: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers))

2007-01-02 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 08:22 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > I can very easily believe it. The US patent system and "justice" > > system in the US is completely and totally insane, and companies > > often feel they have to act accordingly. Remember t

[PATCH] ppc: pic pmacpic_find_viaint cleanup

2007-01-02 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, Litte rework to supress this warning: arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/pic.c: In function 'pmacpic_find_viaint': arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/pic.c:625: warning: label 'not_found' defined but not used Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> arch/powerpc/platforms

Re: 2.6.19.1, sata_sil: sata dvd writer doesn't work

2007-01-02 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi Tejun, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Please do the following and post the result. > > # strace mplayer -v dvd:// > out 2>&1 > See attachment. I was lucky: On the first run with strace mplayer could play the DVD (still using Tron). But this was not reproducible. Both strace files are attached. Hope

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Bernd Petrovitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I don't know about others but I wouldn't write an offer with a fixed > price for "look into assembler dumps, reverse engineer it and find an > infringement on a list of given patents" so the patent holder has to > list the patents and the amoun

2.6.20-rc3: known regressions with patches available (part 1)

2007-01-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc3 compared to 2.6.19 with patches available. 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 considering you in any oth

Re: 2.6.20-rc3: known regressions with patches available (part 1)

2007-01-02 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Jan 02 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Subject: CFQ disk throughput halved > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/01/1/104 > Submitter : Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Caused-By : Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > commit 719d340

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, David Weinehall wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 1) mcdonald's was not merely serving their coffee "hot," but > > *scalding* hot (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit), a temperature that > > will produce third-degree burns almost immediate

Re: 2.6.20-rc3: known regressions with patches available (part 1)

2007-01-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:26:52PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Subject: CFQ disk throughput halved > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/01/1/104 > > Submitter : Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > C

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:42:32PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > You might remove and re-insert the DIMMS. > Sometimes there are poor contacts if the DIMMS are not fully seated and > clicked in. > > The real mystery is the 32 vs 64-bit thing. > Are the devices configured the same way -- ie are the

Re: tty->low_latency + irq context

2007-01-02 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 18:38 +, Alan wrote: > > with tty->low_latency set, but it doesn't AFAICS. One possibility > for > > deadlock is if the tty->buf.lock spinlock is taken on behalf of a > user > > process... > > The case to watch out for is > > flip_buffer_push -> ldisc -> driver w

Performance bttv versus sharedmem

2007-01-02 Thread Keith Chew
Hi This is just a general question to understand where the improvement can be made. In the first setup, I have these processes: - mencoder recording from bttv chip at 8 fps (cpu 3.5 %) - mplayer playing from bttv chip at 10 fps (cpu 2.1 %) In the second setup, I have these processes: - mencoder

Re: [RFC] HZ free ntp

2007-01-02 Thread john stultz
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 17:27 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 02:32, john stultz wrote: > > > > I know and all you have to change in the ntp and some related code is to > > > replace HZ there with a variable, thus make it changable, so you can > > > increase the update int

Re: [stable] CVE-2006-6106 (bluetooth CAPI) not fixed in mainline?

2007-01-02 Thread Chris Wright
* Chuck Ebbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It's not in the queue for 2.6.19.2, though. Should be there shortly, thanks. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/maj

Re: [RFC] HZ free ntp

2007-01-02 Thread john stultz
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 19:29 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 02:54, john stultz wrote: > > > And here would be the follow on patch (again *untested*) for > > CONFIG_NO_HZ slowing the time accumulation down to once per second. > > Changing it to one creates a potential pr

Re: [BUG 2.6.20-rc2-mm1] init segfaults when CONFIG_PROFILE_LIKELY=y

2007-01-02 Thread john stultz
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 11:45 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 23:04 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The following messages keeps popping up when CONFIG_PROFILE_LIKELY=y: > > > > init[1]: segfault at 8118c110 rip 8118c110 rsp > > 7fff9a9d14d8 error 1

OT Coffee (was Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:30:17 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven said: > > > 2) there had, for a decade prior, been some *700* cases where people > > > had burned themselves with mcdonald's coffee, so it's not as if > > > mcdonald's was unaware of the danger, yet continued to ignore it. > > Given the popul

Re: [PATCH] romsignature/checksum cleanup

2007-01-02 Thread Rene Herman
Zachary Amsden wrote: Rusty Russell wrote: Rene Herman wrote: Hmm, by the way, if romsignature() needs this probe_kernel_address() thing, why doesn't romchecksum()? I assume it's all in the same page, but CC'ing Zach is easier than reading the code 8) Some hypervisors don't emulate the

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 07:44:24PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >> 1) mcdonald's was not merely serving their coffee "hot," but > >> *scalding* hot (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit), a

RE: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread David Schwartz
> The recommendet _serving_ temperature for coffe is 55 °C or below. Nonsense! 55C (100F) is ludicrously low for coffee. 70C (125F) is the *minimum* recommended serving temperature. 165-190F is the preferred serving range. I can cite source after source for this. For example: http://www.bunn.com

Re: OT Coffee (was Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 1/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:30:17 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven said: > > > 2) there had, for a decade prior, been some *700* cases where people > > > had burned themselves with mcdonald's coffee, so it's not as if > > > mcdonald's was unaware of th

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:13:46PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jan 2 2007 16:15, David Weinehall wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > >> > >> 1) mcdonald's was not merely serving their coffee "hot," but

Re: [PATCH] slab: cache alloc cleanups

2007-01-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:47:06 +0200 (EET) Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been unable to find a NUMA-capable tester for this patch, Any x86_64 box can be used to test NUMA code via the numa=fake=N boot option. fake-numa is somewhat sick in mainline and you might find that it do

Re: [PATCH] slab: add missing debug_check_no_locks_freed for kmem_cache_free

2007-01-02 Thread Pekka Enberg
Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add a missing debug_check_no_locks_freed() debug check for > kmem_cache_free(). On 1/2/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hm, i have a similar fix in -rt already, and i sent a patch for this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/18/104 have i miss

Re: [PATCH] slab: cache alloc cleanups

2007-01-02 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > + > + if (nodeid == -1 || nodeid == numa_node_id()) { > + if (unlikely(current->flags & (PF_SPREAD_SLAB | PF_MEMPOLICY))) { > + obj = alternate_node_alloc(cache, flags); > + if (obj) > +

Re: 2.6.20-rc3: known regressions with patches available (part 1)

2007-01-02 Thread Rene Herman
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:26:52PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: Patch is already merged in -git. Thanks for this information, I missed this (as well as the merged SATA fix) since it isn't yet at the git mirrors. What's "-git" here? I just now pulled git://git2.kernel.org/

Re: 2.6.20-rc3: known regressions with patches available (part 1)

2007-01-02 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Jan 02 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:26:52PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > >>Patch is already merged in -git. > > > >Thanks for this information, I missed this (as well as the merged SATA > >fix) since it isn't yet at the git mirrors. > > W

Re: 2.6.19 and up to 2.6.20-rc2 Ethernet problems x86_64

2007-01-02 Thread Sid Boyce
Apologies for the long spiel, if memory serves me correct, gzip'd attachments are verboten. openSUSE 10.2 Network does not get configured with "acpi=noirq" or "acpi=off". There may be something in dmesg that allows further analysis of the problem. 00:0a:e4:4e:a1:42 is the laptop MAC address. 00

Re: Regression in kernel linux-2.6.20-rc1/2: Problems with poweroff

2007-01-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 12:41:59AM +0100, Berthold Cogel wrote: > Adrian Bunk schrieb: > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 01:15:38AM +0100, Berthold Cogel wrote: > > > >> Hello! > > > > Hi Berthold! > > > >> 'shutdown -h now' doesn't work for my system (Acer Extensa 3002 WLMi) > >> with linux-2.6.20-rc

Re: Finding hardlinks

2007-01-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > >> It seems like the posix idea of unique doesn't > > >> hold water for modern file systems > > > > > > are you really sure? > > > > Well Jan's example was of Coda that uses 128-bit internal file ids. > > > > > and if so, why don't we fix *THAT* instead > > > > Hmm, sometimes you can

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

2007-01-02 Thread Dan Williams
On 1/1/07, Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:15:04PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > I'm willing to do that - and I guess this means we can probably do this > > > > instead of walking the list of VMAs for the shared mapping, thereby > > > > hitting both anony

Re: 2.6.19 and up to 2.6.20-rc2 Ethernet problems x86_64

2007-01-02 Thread Len Brown
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 10:41, Sid Boyce wrote: > Same problem with 2.6.19-rc3. Do you mean 2.6.20-rc3 still does not work? What was the last kernel that worked properly with no cmdline parameters? > Apologies for the long spiel, if memory serves me correct, gzip'd > attachments are verboten.

[patch] selinux: fix selinux_netlbl_inode_permission() locking

2007-01-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a glaring bug in selinux_netlbl_inode_permission() - taking > lock_sock() inside rcu_read_lock(). Note that the bug is still in -rc3, and is easily triggerable via a default FC6 bootup. It's fixed by the (slightly modified) patch from Parag

Re: ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10

2007-01-02 Thread Thomas Meyer
Len Brown schrieb: The bigger question is why you get "tons of these" -- as EC events are usually infrequent. Do you have a big number next to "acpi" in /proc/interrupts? If so, at what rate is it growing? thanks, -Len maybe tons were a bit to overstated... After a fresh reboot, i count 110

Re: Finding hardlinks

2007-01-02 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > > >> It seems like the posix idea of unique doesn't > > > >> hold water for modern file systems > > > > > > > > are you really sure? > > > > > > Well Jan's example was of Coda that uses 128-bit internal file ids. > > > > > > > and if so, why don't we fix *THAT* instead > > > > > > Hmm, so

Re: Finding hardlinks

2007-01-02 Thread Mikulas Patocka
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote: It seems like the posix idea of unique doesn't hold water for modern file systems are you really sure? Well Jan's example was of Coda that uses 128-bit internal file ids. and if so, why don't we fix *THAT* instead Hmm, sometimes you can't fix

Re: [RFC] HZ free ntp

2007-01-02 Thread john stultz
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 11:46 -0800, john stultz wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 19:29 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 02:54, john stultz wrote: > > > > > And here would be the follow on patch (again *untested*) for > > > CONFIG_NO_HZ slowing the time accumulation down to

Re: [PATCH] libata: fix combined mode (was Re: Happy New Year (and v2.6.20-rc3 released))

2007-01-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan wrote: This is a slight variant on the patch I posted December 16th to fix libata combined mode handling. The only real change is that we now correctly also reserve BAR1,2,4. That is basically a neatness issue. Jeff was unhappy about two things 1. That it didn't work in the case of one cha

[PATCH] Sanely size hash tables when using large base pages. take 2.

2007-01-02 Thread Paul Mundt
This is a resubmission of the earlier patch with the pidhash bits dropped. At the moment the inode/dentry cache hash tables (common by way of alloc_large_system_hash()) are incorrectly sized by their respective detection logic when we attempt to use large base pages on systems with little memory.

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