Re: Proposed changes for libata speed handling

2007-01-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Alan wrote: > O> Wouldn't it be better to have ->determine_xfer_mask() and >> ->set_specific_mode() than having two somewhat overlapping callbacks? >> Or is there some problem that can't be handled that way? > > I'm not sure I follow what you are suggesting - can you explain further. > > Right no

Re: heavy nfs[4]] causes fs badness Was: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

2007-01-14 Thread Florin Iucha
Jiri and Trond, On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 01:14:09AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > All the testing was done via a ssh into the workstation. The console > > was left as booted into, with the gdm running. The remote nfs4 > > directory was mounted on "/

Re: 2.6.19.2 regression introduced by "IPV4/IPV6: Fix inet{,6} device initialization order."

2007-01-14 Thread David Stevens
I expect this is the failure to join the all-nodes multicast group, in which case the fix has already been posted to netdev. I believe the router advertisements are sent to that, and if the join failed, it wouldn't receive any of them. I think it's better to add the fix than withdraw this patch, s

[PATCH -mm] AVR32: fix build breakage

2007-01-14 Thread Ben Nizette
Remove an unwanted remnant of the recent revert of AVR32/AT91 SPI patches in -mm. Without this patch, the AVR32 build of 2.6.20-rc[34]-mm1 breaks. Signed-off-by: Ben Nizette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux-2.6.20-rc3/arch/avr32/mach-at32ap/at32ap7000.c

Re: ahci_softreset prevents acpi_power_off

2007-01-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Arjan van de Ven wrote: > I'd be interested in finding out how to best test this; if the bios is > really broken I'd love to add a test to the Linux-ready Firmware > Developer Kit for this, so that BIOS developers can make sure future > bioses do not suffer from this bug... As reported, this is al

Re: [PATCH] flush_cpu_workqueue: don't flush an empty ->worklist

2007-01-14 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 02:54:10AM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > How about the pseudo-code below? Some quick comments: - singlethread_cpu needs to be hotplug safe (broken currently) - Any reason why cpu_populated_map is not modified on CPU_DEAD? - I feel more comfortable if workqueue_cpu_callba

Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Antoniac
On Monday 15 January 2007 05:31, Stefan Richter wrote: > On 14 Jan, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > vmalloc space is limited; you really can't assume you can get any more > > than 64Mb or so (and even then it's thight on some systems already); > > I suppose "grep VmallocChunk /proc/meminfo" shows what

Re: 2.6.19.2 regression introduced by "IPV4/IPV6: Fix inet{,6} device initialization order."

2007-01-14 Thread David Miller
From: David Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:47:49 -0800 > I think it's better to add the fix than withdraw this patch, since > the original bug is a crash. I completely agree. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

[GIT PULL] MMC updates

2007-01-14 Thread Pierre Ossman
Linus, please pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc.git for-linus to receive the following updates: drivers/mmc/imxmmc.c|3 --- drivers/mmc/omap.c | 15 +-- drivers/mmc/pxamci.c|2 +- drivers/mmc/tifm_sd.c |3 --- inc

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] How to mmap a shadow framebuffer in virtual memory

2007-01-14 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > It's known to work for the PS3 frame buffer device driver, which copies the > virtual frame buffer to the GPU on every vsync. Check out ps3fb_mmap() in > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git;a=blob_plain;f=drivers/video/ps3fb.c;hb=HEAD I st

Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Antoniac
On Monday 15 January 2007 13:14, Peter Antoniac wrote: > This is more the answer that I expect. But is there a way, function or > constant from **libdc** that can give you the answer, or you have to get it ... What was I thinking... not from libdc but from LIBC :) - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Björn Steinbrink writes: > Hi, > > with 2.6.20-rc{2,4,5} (no other tested yet) I see SATA exceptions quite > often, with 2.6.19 there are no such exceptions. dmesg and lspci -v > output follows. In the meantime, I'll start bisecting. > > Thanks > Björn > > > Linux version 2.6.20-rc2

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] intel_rng: substitue magic PCI IDs with macros

2007-01-14 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:37:21AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:24 +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > Substitue intel_rng magic PCI IDs values used in the IDs table > > with the macros defined in pci_ids.h > > > Hi, > > > hmm this is actually the opposite direction t

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 md problem

2007-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My system hangs on this > http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tbf/euridica/2.6.20-rc4-mm1/bug2.jpg > http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tbf/euridica/2.6.20-rc4-mm1/mm-config > > Debug plan: > - revert md-* patches > - binary search > > Does

Re: [stable] 2.6.19.2 regression introduced by "IPV4/IPV6: Fix inet{, 6} device initialization order."

2007-01-14 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:30:08PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: David Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:47:49 -0800 > > > I think it's better to add the fix than withdraw this patch, since > > the original bug is a crash. > > I completely agree. Great, can someone for

Re: [PATCH -mm 7/8] user_ns: handle file sigio

2007-01-14 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:12:57 -0600 > "Serge E. Hallyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A process in one user namespace could set a fowner and sigio on a file in a > > shared vfsmount, ending up killing a task in another user namespace. > > > > Prevent t

[PATCH] i386: modpost apic related warning fixes

2007-01-14 Thread Vivek Goyal
o Modpost generates warnings for i386 if compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:find_unisys_acpi_oem_table from .text between 'acpi_madt_oem_check' (at offset 0xc0101eda) and 'enable_apic_mode' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: refer

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 PCI issue

2007-01-14 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 01:11:59PM +0300, Vladislav Dembskiy wrote: > Dear Kernel developers, > > I am running 2.6.19.2 kernel on ASUS W2V laptop and I have the > following boot messages" > > PCI: Transparent bridge - :00:1e.0 > PCI: Bus #04 (-#07) is hidden behind transparent bridge #03

Re: [patch] faster vgetcpu using sidt (take 2)

2007-01-14 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, dean gaudet wrote: > ok here is the latest rev of this patch (against 2.6.20-rc4). > > timings in cycles: > > baseline patchedbaseline patched > no cache no cachecache cache > k8 pre-revF2116 14

Re: Display class

2007-01-14 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 10:40:55PM +, James Simmons wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:03, James Simmons wrote: > > > +int probe_edid(struct display_device *dev, void *data) > > > +{ > > > +???struct fb_monspecs spec; > > > +???ssize_t size = 45; > > That code wa

Re: Display class

2007-01-14 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 10:40:55PM +, James Simmons wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:03, James Simmons wrote: > > > +int probe_edid(struct display_device *dev, void *data) > > > +{ > > > +???struct fb_monspecs spec; > > > +???ssize_t size = 45; > > That code wa

Re: No more "device" symlinks for classes

2007-01-14 Thread Kay Sievers
On 1/14/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:10:59AM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Pierre Ossman wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > I just wanted to know the rationale behind > > 99ef3ef8d5f2f5b5312627127ad63df27c0d0d05 (no more "device" symlink in > > class devices). I

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-14 Thread Nate Diller
On 1/12/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:35:09 -0700 Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri Jan 12, 2007 at 05:09:09PM -0500, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I suspect a lot of people actually have other reasons to avoid caches. > > > > For example, the re

WIFEXITED returns odd value when preempt enabled

2007-01-14 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Hi, I'm using pam-keyring[1] (a pam-module which launch gnome-keyring and unlock it). The module fails with preempt kernel version 2.6.20 but works with 2.6.20 without preempt enabled. I have a look at the code of the module and the problem seems to come from the value returned by WIFEXITED(). I

[2.6 patch] powerpc: remove the broken Gemini support

2007-01-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes the broken Gemini support. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S |5 arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/Kconfig |9 arch/ppc/Kconfig |9 arch/ppc/boot/simple/Makefile

[patch] disable NMI watchdog by default

2007-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [patch] disable NMI watchdog by default there's a new NMI watchdog related problem: KVM crashes on certain bzImages because ... we enable the NMI watchdog by default (even if the user does not ask for it) , and no other OS on this planet does that s

KVM: vmwrite error in

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Meyer
Hi. I have a few of these entries in my log buffer: vmwrite error: reg 6802 value d19e0464 (err 26626) [] kvm_mmu_zap_page+0x8f/0x1d7 [] __pagevec_free+0x18/0x22 [] free_mmu_pages+0x10/0x81 [] kvm_mmu_destroy+0x3c/0x56 [] kvm_free_vcpu+0x8/0x15 [] kvm_dev_release+0x13/0x37 [] __fput+0xa5/0x14d []

Re: Bus #06 (-#09) is hidden behind transparent bridge

2007-01-14 Thread Jiri Slaby
Michael Ringe wrote: > I am posting this because my kernel told me so... > The attached file contains dmesg's with and without pci-assign-busses. > My hardware is a Samsung Q35 Pro. Feel free to contact me > if you need any further information. Please, look at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/14/26 re

Re: 2.6.20-rc4: usb somehow broken

2007-01-14 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Am Donnerstag 11 Januar 2007 18:28 schrieb Oliver Neukum: > Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 18:20 schrieb Prakash Punnoor: > > Hi, > > > > I can't scan anymore. :-( I don't know which rc kernel introduced it, but > > this are the messages I get (w/o touching the device/usb cable except > > pluggin i

2.6.20-rc4-mm1: different values for OHCI_QUIRK_ZFMICRO

2007-01-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
<-- snip --> ... CC drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.o /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c:2307:1: warning: "OHCI_QUIRK_ZFMICRO" redefined In file included from /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c:76: /home/bu

Re: 2.6.20-rc4: usb somehow broken

2007-01-14 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 10:08 schrieb Prakash Punnoor: > Am Donnerstag 11 Januar 2007 18:28 schrieb Oliver Neukum: > > Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 18:20 schrieb Prakash Punnoor: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I can't scan anymore. :-( I don't know which rc kernel introduced it, but > > > this are the

Re: 2.6.20-rc4: usb somehow broken

2007-01-14 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Am Sonntag 14 Januar 2007 10:28 schrieb Oliver Neukum: > Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 10:08 schrieb Prakash Punnoor: > > Am Donnerstag 11 Januar 2007 18:28 schrieb Oliver Neukum: > > > Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 18:20 schrieb Prakash Punnoor: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I can't scan anymore. :-(

Re: 2.6.20-rc4: usb somehow broken

2007-01-14 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Am Sonntag 14 Januar 2007 10:28 schrieb Oliver Neukum: > > Have you confirmed that by using a kernel without CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND ? BTW, these are my USB config options, which don't seem to make problems anymore as long as USB_SUSPEND isn't activated: CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 22:26 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > - Merged the "filesystem AIO patches". Hotfixes alreday applied. BUG: at /home/tglx/work/kernel/vanilla/linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/i386/mm/highmem.c:60 kmap_atomic() [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [] dump_stack

Re: kvm & dyntick

2007-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >( for this to work on my system i have added a 'hyper' clocksource > > hypercall API for KVM guests to use - this is needed instead of the > > running-to-slowly TSC. ) > > > > What's the problem with the TSC? The only issue I'm aware of is that >

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm & dyntick

2007-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Afterwards we'll need to compensate the lost alarm signals to the > guests by using one of > - hrtimers to inject the lost interrupts for specific guests. The > problem this will increase the overall load. > - Injecting several virtual irq to the guests

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 10:48 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > ata_scsi_rbuf_get requests KM_IRQ0 type memory and calls kmap_atomic > with interrupts enabled. > > Boot proceeds, but gets stuck hard at: > "Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:" > > No SysRq-T, nothing. > > The above BUG see

Re: Linux v2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread Jeff Chua
On 1/14/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 03:38:24PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: > > setting CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y will return in ... > > vmmon.ko module unknown symbol paravirt_ops > Please send the 2.6.20-rc5 .config you saw this with. Adrian, Only difference

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] How to mmap a shadow framebuffer in virtual memory

2007-01-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > This is driving me crazy. I wrote this custom fb driver for an > organic LED display for an embedded ARM system. > > The display is connected trough an I2C bus, therefore the display > buffer is not memory mapped. > > Anyway, I want to support mma

collie 2.6 source tarbal

2007-01-14 Thread Cyril Hrubiš
Hi, I've put source tarball of collie bootable 2.6 kernel on web. It tries to be up to date with pavel's git tree on kernel.org; this one is few weeks old. Happy testing. http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~metan/zaurus/zaurus.tar.bz2 -- watashi |v|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyril Hrubis [EMAIL PROTECTED] +

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: known unfixed regressions

2007-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Damien Wyart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Subject: BUG: scheduling while atomic: hald-addon-stor/... > > cdrom_{open,release,ioctl} in trace > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/26/105 > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/29/22 > > http://lkml.o

licence for LGPLed files

2007-01-14 Thread Dave Love
There are various files (in my copy of the Ubuntu 2.6.15 source) which have an LGPL licence, but there isn't a copy of the licence in the distribution as there should be. Changing them to GPL seems the best thing to do. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

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