[PATCH] Fix apparent typo CONFIG_LOCKDEP_DEBUG.

2007-01-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Replace the apparent typo CONFIG_LOCKDEP_DEBUG with the correct CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/kernel/lockdep_proc.c b/kernel/lockdep_proc.c index b554b40..78381a6 100644 --- a/kernel/lockdep_proc.c +++ b/kernel/lockdep_proc.c @@

[PATCH 1/8] readahead: min/max sizes: increase VM_MIN_READAHEAD to 32KB

2007-01-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
Use a minimal readahead size of 32KB instead of 16KB for the adaptive readahead. The potential benefit(disk utilization in worst case doubles) is large, while the potential panelty is small(wastes up to 32MB when thrashed/missed 1000 times). This minimal value is only applied for sequential

[PATCH 2/8] readahead: state based method routines: explicitly embed class_new/class_old inside flags

2007-01-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
The new/old ra class were implicitly stored in low bits of file_ra_state.flags. Now make the data structure obvious, and remove the coding tricks. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/fs.h |9 - mm/readahead.c | 18 -- 2 files changed,

[PATCH 8/8] readahead: laptop mode fix

2007-01-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
1) make LAPTOP_POLL_INTERVAL independent of page size 2) defer readahead to the _last_ minute There's no luck for the kernel to know the right time of waking up the disk in order to hide the spin up latency. So we make the rule simple: - The kernel ensures _longest_ spin down time; - The media

[PATCH 0/8] readahead updates

2007-01-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
Andrew, Here are more updates for adaptive readahead. It's not likely to have more big changes, so the next plan is to convert some accounting items to the statistics infrastructure by Martin Peschke. [Martin: Sorry for the long delay.] I'm also playing with the current readahead code, trying

[PATCH 4/8] readahead: state based method: move readahead_ratio out of compute_thrashing_threshold()

2007-01-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
Make compute_thrashing_threshold() a pure computing routine, by moving the readahead_ratio policy out of it. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mm/readahead.c |3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1.orig/mm/readahead.c +++

[PATCH 3/8] readahead: state based method: prevent tiny size

2007-01-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
- cancel look-ahead if readahead size is small compared to the look-ahead size, to avoid too small I/O size, and not to add more memory/io pressure on the possibly loaded system. - prevent issuing tiny readahead size, by applying a minimal limit Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 5/8] readahead: initial method: user recommended size: rename to read_ahead_initial_kb

2007-01-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
Rename the sysfs parameter initial_ra_kb to read_ahead_initial_kb, which hopefully is a more consistent and user friendly name. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- block/ll_rw_blk.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) ---

[PATCH 7/8] readahead: call scheme: fix thrashed unaligned read

2007-01-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
When doing unaligned/subpages sequential reads, and thrashing happened, it is possible that (offset == prev_page), besides the normal (offset == prev_page + 1). We do not have such problem for the state based method. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mm/readahead.c |2 +- 1

[PATCH 6/8] readahead: thrashing recovery method fix

2007-01-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
- keep lookahead_index if the current chunk is lost, so that when we revisted this stream, the state based method see a consistent state. - correct the thrashing-threshold computation - discount read-ahead size more, to free more memory to the system on pressure - disable look-ahead when

definite OMAP1610_IR-related typo

2007-01-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
not sure what to do with this, it's all yours: == OMAP1610_IR == ./arch/arm/mach-omap1/devices.c:#if defined(CONFIG_OMAP1610_IR) || defined(CONFIG_OMAP161O_IR_MODULE) == OMAP161O_IR == ./arch/arm/mach-omap1/devices.c:#if defined(CONFIG_OMAP1610_IR) ||

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-rt2: kernel oops when ejecting cardbus firewire card

2007-01-27 Thread Pieter Palmers
Stefan Richter wrote: Pieter Palmers wrote: cc'ing linux1394-devel because it seems to be a problem in the ieee1394 stack. Yes, this bug is in stock Linux 2.6 too. Ever has been. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7121 Oops, missed that. Sorry for the noise. Pieter - To unsubscribe

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-27 Thread Grant Coady
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:55:19 +0100, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Santiago, On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:00:30AM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: Hi! I have discovered a problem with the changes applied to smbfs in 2.4.34 and in the security backports like last Debian's

Re: [PATCH 10/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - ia64

2007-01-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:14:06 +0200 Alon Bar-Lev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff -urNp linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1.org/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c

Re: [PATCH 10/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - ia64

2007-01-27 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/27/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no no no no no no no. Just because some whacked-out weenie went and put extern declarations in .c files doesn't mean that we should copy them. It doesn't even compile. Sorry... I don't have all environments. Please. Go through the entire

Re: [PATCH 10/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - ia64

2007-01-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:34:27 +0200 Alon Bar-Lev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please. Go through the entire patchset, yank all those wrong private declarations of boot_command_line[] and put a *single, kernel-wide* declaration into a single, shared header file. I thought of this, while I was

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-rt2: kernel oops when ejecting cardbus firewire card

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
Pieter Palmers wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7121 Oops, missed that. Sorry for the noise. No, it's OK. We have a pile of old open bugs, and those that are rubbed in our face more often might even get a chance to be fixed some day... :-/ -- Stefan

Re: [PATCH] Don't allow the stack to grow into hugetlb reserved regions

2007-01-27 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Ken Chen wrote: On 1/26/07, Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Less trivial (and I wonder whether you've come to this from an ia64 or a powerpc direction): I notice that ia64 has more stringent REGION checks in its ia64_do_page_fault, before calling expand_stack or

Support for i386 PATs

2007-01-27 Thread Thomas Hellström
Hi! Does anybody have a strong opinion against adding support for i386 Page Attribute Tables? The main benefit would be that one can have write-combining memory regions without setting up MTRRs. This will come in handy for a device we're working with where the device driver needs to allocate

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-rt2: kernel oops when ejecting cardbus firewire card

2007-01-27 Thread Pieter Palmers
Stefan Richter wrote: Pieter Palmers wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7121 Oops, missed that. Sorry for the noise. No, it's OK. We have a pile of old open bugs, and those that are rubbed in our face more often might even get a chance to be fixed some

Re: Possible regression: MSI vector leakage since 2.6.18-rc5ish (Unable to repeatedly allocate/free MSI interrupt)

2007-01-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've established a regression in the MSI vector/irq allocation routine for both i386 and x86_64. Our test labs repeatedly modprobe/rmmod the e1000 driver for serveral minutes which allocates msi vectors and frees them. These tests have been running

Re: Support for i386 PATs

2007-01-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Thomas Hellström wrote: Hi! Does anybody have a strong opinion against adding support for i386 Page Attribute Tables? The main benefit would be that one can have write-combining memory regions without setting up MTRRs. This will come in handy for a device we're working with where the device

Re: In-tree version of new FireWire drivers available

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
On 26 Jan, Andrew Morton wrote: arm: drivers/firewire/fw-device.c: In function `fw_device_init': drivers/firewire/fw-device.c:495: warning: implicit declaration of function `cmpxchg' We can't use cmpxchg in

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-rt2: kernel oops when ejecting cardbus firewire card

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
Pieter Palmers wrote: OTOH, dv1394 is scheduled for removal. Not that we should tolerate bugs in the Linux kernel ;), but it lowers priority I guess. It does. (Plus I didn't have a Linux box with CardBus slot in operation for a while, but now I have.) For me the solution is simple: I don't

Re: git.kernel.org move (finally)... estimated week of Feb 5

2007-01-27 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:17:31PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Just for everyone's information... The git performance issues (especially) on kernel.org has been very frustrating, obviously. We're putting a dedicated git server in place hopefully the week of February 5. That's a very

Re: [PATCH 00/09] atomic.h : standardizing atomic primitives

2007-01-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:15:45 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It mainly adds support for missing 64 bits cmpxchg and 64 bits atomic add unless. Therefore, principally 64 bits architectures are targeted by these patches. It also adds the complete list of atomic operations on the

Re: [PATCH 1/2] take 2: (was-kind-of: 3/5 SPI tx_default) 2.6.20-rc6

2007-01-27 Thread Hans-Peter Nilsson
From: David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:21:15 -0800 That flag could work in conjunction with a byte Or why not a 32-bit word! If a driver wants a repeating 32-bit pattern, they should just provide a properly initialized tx buffer. I'm suggesting the

Re: [PATCH 00/09] atomic.h : standardizing atomic primitives

2007-01-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:15:45 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It mainly adds support for missing 64 bits cmpxchg and 64 bits atomic add unless. Therefore, principally 64 bits architectures are targeted by these patches. It also adds the complete list of atomic operations on the

Re: status of: tasklet_unlock_wait() causes soft lockup with -rt and ieee1394 audio

2007-01-27 Thread Pieter Palmers
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Pieter Palmers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, What is the status with respect to this problem? I see that in the current -rt patch the problematic code piece is different. I personally haven't tried to reproduce this myself on a more recent kernel, but I just got a

Re: [RFC] cycle timer read extension for raw1394/libraw1394

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
(Cc lkml) Pieter Palmers wrote to linux1394-devel: Attached are two patches containing an extension to libraw1394 and the kernel stack, implementing the simultaneous read of the isochronous cycle timer and the system clock (in usecs). This implements what has been requested before on the

Re: [PATCH] KVM: 'asm' operand has impossible constraints

2007-01-27 Thread Avi Kivity
S.Çağlar Onur wrote: Hi; -rc6 fails with latest gcc 4.2 snapshot as following; CC [M] drivers/kvm/svm.o drivers/kvm/svm.c:206: warning: 'inject_db' defined but not used drivers/kvm/svm.c: In function 'svm_vcpu_run': drivers/kvm/kvm.h:560: error: 'asm' operand has impossible constraints

Re: [RFC] cycle timer read extension for raw1394/libraw1394

2007-01-27 Thread Pieter Palmers
Stefan Richter wrote: (Cc lkml) Pieter Palmers wrote to linux1394-devel: Attached are two patches containing an extension to libraw1394 and the kernel stack, implementing the simultaneous read of the isochronous cycle timer and the system clock (in usecs). This implements what has been

Re: Support for i386 PATs

2007-01-27 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:20:18 +0100, Thomas Hellström wrote: Does anybody have a strong opinion against adding support for i386 Page Attribute Tables? ... Issues: 1) The _PAGE_BIT_PAT will be the same as _PAGE_PSE, and _PAGE_PROTNONE. As I understand it, _PAGE_PROTNONE is not used when the

Re: + dynamic-kernel-command-line-sparc64-fix.patch added to -mm tree

2007-01-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:14:57 +0200 Alon Bar-Lev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why saved_command_line cannot be resolved and boot_command_line can be. They are both located in linux/init.h extern char __initdata boot_command_line[]; extern char *saved_command_line; And the

Re: [PATCH 49/59] sysctl: Move init_irq_proc into init/main where it belongs

2007-01-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:39:54 -0700 Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- init/main.c |3 +++ kernel/sysctl.c |3 --- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3

Re: + dynamic-kernel-command-line-sparc64-fix.patch added to -mm tree

2007-01-27 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: diff -puN drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c~dynamic-kernel-command-line-sparc64-fix drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c --- a/drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c~dynamic-kernel-command-line-sparc64-fix +++ a/drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@

Re: git.kernel.org move (finally)... estimated week of Feb 5

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 26 2007 17:17, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Just for everyone's information... The git performance issues (especially) on kernel.org has been very frustrating, obviously. We're putting a dedicated git server in place hopefully the week of February 5. And the filesystem will be .. which?

Re: Hidden SSID's

2007-01-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 21:48 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: Is there a convention regarding the information that a wireless MAC layer should provide when reporting scan data from an AP with a hidden SSID? In ieee80211, the software inserts the string hidden for such an AP, which seems to give

Re: [PATCH 2/8] readahead: state based method routines: explicitly embed class_new/class_old inside flags

2007-01-27 Thread Bodo Eggert
Fengguang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new/old ra class were implicitly stored in low bits of file_ra_state.flags. Now make the data structure obvious, and remove the coding tricks. +++ linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/include/linux/fs.h - unsigned long flags;/* RA_FLAG_xxx | ra_class_old |

Re: what kernel version embeds r1000 (RTL8168 Eth NICs)

2007-01-27 Thread David Johnson
On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:36, Bernhard Walle wrote: The r8169 driver which is in the kernel should have the same functionality. It does indeed, but I think this support was only added recently; I believe the first kernel version to support it was 2.6.19. Support is certainly in the

Nozmi status ?

2007-01-27 Thread Gianluca Alberici
Hello, What is the status of the HSDPA driver after 2.6.19.1 ? Is it part of the kernel tree or not yet ? If not is there any version of ther nozomi pack which is gonna compile under ker 2.6.18 (the original one is not compiling anymore after 2.6.18). Thanks, Gianluca - To unsubscribe from

Re: [RFC] cycle timer read extension for raw1394/libraw1394

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
Pieter Palmers wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: Thus? preempt_disable(); local_irq_save(flags); read_cycle_timer; read_time_of_day; local_irq_restore(flags); preempt_enable(); in hpsb_read_cycle_timer. My main issue was that I still had to figure out how to do

[PATCH 2/2] ieee1394: dv1394: tidy up card removal

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
small coding style touch-up and terser coding Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c | 36 +--- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc6/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c

[PATCH 1/2] ieee1394: dv1394: fix CardBus card ejection

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
Fix NULL pointer dereference on hot ejection of a FireWire card while dv1394 was loaded. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7121 I did not test card ejection with open /dev/dv1394 files yet. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c | 12

Re: [PATCH] mmc: au1xmmc: return errors for unknown response types

2007-01-27 Thread Pierre Ossman
Manuel Lauss wrote: au1xmmc: return error when encountering unhandled/unknown response type. Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, applied. -- -- Pierre Ossman Linux kernel, MMC maintainerhttp://www.kernel.org PulseAudio, core developer

Re: [PATCH] mmc: au1xmmc: implement proper ro switch detection

2007-01-27 Thread Pierre Ossman
Manuel Lauss wrote: au1xmmc: implement proper R/O switch detection. Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also applied. -- -- Pierre Ossman Linux kernel, MMC maintainerhttp://www.kernel.org PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org rdesktop,

Linux 2.6.16.39-rc1

2007-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
Patch location: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bunk/linux-2.6.16.y/testing/ git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git Changes since 2.6.16.38: Adrian Bunk (3): [Bluetooth] Let BT_HIDP depend on INPUT kbuild: explicitly turn off

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc2] Add a quirk to allow ENE PCI SD card readers to work again

2007-01-27 Thread Pierre Ossman
Darren Salt wrote: Add a quirk to allow ENE PCI SD card readers to work again Ok, I think we can consider testing over. I will apply this upstream with the original host mask (as we didn't get any reports of it helping on other ene controllers). Thanks again for doing the legwork on this.

[git patches] IDE fixes for 2.6.20-rc6

2007-01-27 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, The resend of the 2.6.20-rc6 fixes that I've sent you as patches. This time in the git form for easier merging and with proper cc:. Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6.git/ to receive the following updates: MAINTAINERS|7

2.6.20-rc6 libata PATA ATAPI CDROM is not working

2007-01-27 Thread Joel Soete
Hello all, I just tested libata with this newest 2.6.20-rc6 but no changes ;-( Any news? Thanks, Joel Joel Soete wrote: Hello Tejun, Tejun Heo wrote: Joel Soete wrote: Hello Alan, Jeff, Reading a paper on this new libata, I just want to try but failled yet for what said this

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-27 Thread Bodo Eggert
Denis Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 January 2007 19:23, Bill Davidsen wrote: Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 21:45, Michael Tokarev wrote: But even single-threaded I/O but in large quantities benefits from O_DIRECT significantly, and I pointed this out

Re: 2.6.20-rc6 libata PATA ATAPI CDROM is not working

2007-01-27 Thread Luming Yu
Does acpi=off make cdrom work? On 1/27/07, Joel Soete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I just tested libata with this newest 2.6.20-rc6 but no changes ;-( Any news? Thanks, Joel Joel Soete wrote: Hello Tejun, Tejun Heo wrote: Joel Soete wrote: Hello Alan, Jeff, Reading a

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-27 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Saturday 27 January 2007 15:01, Bodo Eggert wrote: Denis Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 January 2007 19:23, Bill Davidsen wrote: Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 21:45, Michael Tokarev wrote: But even single-threaded I/O but in large quantities

Re: 2.6.20-rc6 libata PATA ATAPI CDROM is not working

2007-01-27 Thread Joel Soete
Luming Yu wrote: Does acpi=off make cdrom work? Unfortunately not :_( (for more details I attached a compressed dmesg trace?) Thanks, Joel On 1/27/07, Joel Soete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I just tested libata with this newest 2.6.20-rc6 but no changes ;-( Any news?

Re: Mounting NFS root FS

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 5 2006 15:12, Trond Myklebust wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:59 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: JE Since we're on the topic locking, is it because I am not running JE statd on the client that my NFS client hangs during boot phase? TM TMIf you have applications that try to set locks before

Re: [PATCH] ahci: Marvell 6145 SATA support (preliminary)

2007-01-27 Thread Alan
Were it not for the PATA and interrupt storm bits, I would say that Marvell 6145 works with a simple PCI ID addition. The 6101 driver should drive the 6145 pata port via the legacy registers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: ncpfs and TCP vs UDP

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 26 2007 22:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Pierre Ossman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: TCP is definitely preferred. There are couple of reasons why you should prefer TCP: (1) There is server configuration option to disable NCP/UDP. You cannot disable NCP/TCP that easily. (2) TCP (NCP over

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 27 2007 02:22, Florian Schmidt wrote: i was wondering whether there exists any mechanism to blacklist modules from being loaded besides the typical etc/modprobe.d/blacklist type mechanisms. Sometimes you have a module oopsing because of faulty hw which cannot be removed rendering the

Re: ncpfs and TCP vs UDP

2007-01-27 Thread Pierre Ossman
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Well, probably the same reason as NFS over UDP is discouraged. See nfs(5) section WARNINGS (in short: IP fragment ID can wrap quite fast on Gigabit) I have no such warning in my nfs(5), but I am aware of this yes. Somewhat amusing that both nfs and ncpfs tend to

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz uploaded

2007-01-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c: In function ‘ecryptfs_init_crypt_ctx’: fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c:831: error:

Re: PROBLEM: KB-KiB, MB - MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-27 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:08:47AM +0100, Michał Kudła wrote: Hello, after ... hdb: max request size: 512KiB hdb: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, Should be everywere KiB, MiB, GiB, ... according to IEC 60027-2 You are mistaken. The MB here are actual

git/cogito/stgit interaction problem

2007-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
I often run into the following annoying problem when working on the 2.6.16 and trivial trees: I want to change or delete the x-th commit from the top under the following prerequisites: - the last x commits don't contain merges - the last x commits aren't pushed anywhere else The only tool I

Re: ncpfs and TCP vs UDP

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Well, probably the same reason as NFS over UDP is discouraged. See nfs(5) section WARNINGS (in short: IP fragment ID can wrap quite fast on Gigabit) I have no such warning in my nfs(5), but I am aware of this yes. Somewhat amusing that both nfs and ncpfs tend to default to using udp with this

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz uploaded

2007-01-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi Claas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz $ quilt patches drivers/char/drm/via_3d_reg.h patches/updates-to-via-dri.patch

Re: [RFC] pci_bus conversion to struct device

2007-01-27 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:58:05PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: Other per bus attributes might be address routing, VGA routing enabled, Fast-back-to-back enabled. PCI-X bridges and PCI-e bridges might also advertise data related to MMRBC and similar onboard buffer mgt behaviors. ISTR, IBM

Re: [RFC] pci_bus conversion to struct device

2007-01-27 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:00:44AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 09:14:06AM +0100, Martin Mares wrote: Hello! I recommend we just delete the pci_bus class. I don't think it serves any useful purpose. The bridge can be inferred frmo the sysfs hierarchy (not to

[PATCH] Convert pci_module_init() to pci_register_driver()

2007-01-27 Thread Richard Knutsson
Convert pci_module_init() to pci_register_driver(). Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Compile-tested with allyes, allmod allno on i386 Diff'ed against the unpatched object-files, no difference Has previously been sent to the maintainers, without respons crypto/geode-aes.c |

Re: Hidden SSID's

2007-01-27 Thread Larry Finger
Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 21:48 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: Is there a convention regarding the information that a wireless MAC layer should provide when reporting scan data from an AP with a hidden SSID? In ieee80211, the software inserts the string hidden for such an AP,

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz uploaded

2007-01-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz drivers/ata/sata_inic162x.c: In function ‘inic_pci_device_resume’:

Re: [PATCH] KVM: 'asm' operand has impossible constraints

2007-01-27 Thread Paweł Sikora
On Saturday 27 of January 2007 10:05:53 Avi Kivity wrote: g appears to be equivalent to rmi, if i is impossible, gcc is free to use r or m, no? `r' A register operand is allowed provided that it is in a general register. `g' Any register, memory or immediate integer operand is

Re: git.kernel.org move (finally)... estimated week of Feb 5

2007-01-27 Thread Josh Boyer
On 1/26/07, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for everyone's information... The git performance issues (especially) on kernel.org has been very frustrating, obviously. We're putting a dedicated git server in place hopefully the week of February 5. For the hardware geeks out there,

Re: [PATCH] ahci: Marvell 6145 SATA support (preliminary)

2007-01-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan wrote: Were it not for the PATA and interrupt storm bits, I would say that Marvell 6145 works with a simple PCI ID addition. The 6101 driver should drive the 6145 pata port via the legacy registers They cannot co-exist, unfortunately. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression

2007-01-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! In 2.6.19, support for splitting driver suspend and resume callbacks into interrupt and non-interrupt contexts was added. Unfortunately, this broke /sys/device/.../power/state support for all devices. In the long run, this should be obsoleted by power management support in the

Re: what kernel version embeds r1000 (RTL8168 Eth NICs)

2007-01-27 Thread Bernhard Walle
* David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-25 15:45]: On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:36, Bernhard Walle wrote: The r8169 driver which is in the kernel should have the same functionality. It does indeed, but I think this support was only added recently; I believe the first kernel

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-27 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-27 15:53]: On Jan 27 2007 02:22, Florian Schmidt wrote: i was wondering whether there exists any mechanism to blacklist modules from being loaded besides the typical etc/modprobe.d/blacklist type mechanisms. Sometimes you have a module oopsing

Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression

2007-01-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This patch allows the bus driver to check whether a specific driver requires the split. If not, the 2.6.18 functionality is restored. It also alters feature-removals.txt to note that the deprecated functionality should not be removed until a replacement actually exists. That

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz uploaded

2007-01-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz git-scsi-misc.patch typo fix. drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.c: In function ‘NCR_D700_probe_one’:

Re: 2.6.20-rc6: known unfixed regressions (part 2)

2007-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 07:16:25PM +0100, Malte Schröder wrote: On Friday 26 January 2007 19:11, Adrian Bunk wrote: Subject: BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page() (reiserfs) References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/7/117 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/10/202

Re: [PATCH 00/09] atomic.h : standardizing atomic primitives

2007-01-27 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:15:45 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It mainly adds support for missing 64 bits cmpxchg and 64 bits atomic add unless. Therefore, principally 64 bits architectures are targeted by these patches. It also

Re: 2.6.20-rc6: known unfixed regressions (part 2)

2007-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 06:28:01PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 07:16:25PM +0100, Malte Schröder wrote: On Friday 26 January 2007 19:11, Adrian Bunk wrote: Subject: BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page() (reiserfs) References :

Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression

2007-01-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I thought the resolution was that fixing a few of those drivers should solve the problem Matthew needed resolved, and that in the meanwhile rmmod drivername should suffice. There also seemed to be agreement that power management for wireless devices needed more work;

2.6.20-rc6: known regressions with patches (v2)

2007-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc6 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

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Well, I do not think your kernel code is mergeable. But bits to enable similar functionality in userspace probably would be mergeable. You said it :-) This patch exports to the user space the inactivity time (in msecs) of a given input device. Example follows: Looks okay to

Re: 2.6.20-rc6: known unfixed regressions (part 2)

2007-01-27 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: Unless I misunderstand this issue, we want this fixed before 2.6.20 because otherwise many people might see this BUG message. The warnign was removed for other reasons, I'll re-instate it after 2.6.20 has been released so that we can resolve all

Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-27 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm a little stumped trying to set up raid 10. I set it up and it worked but after a reboot it forgets my raid setup. Created 2 raid 1 arrays in md0 and md1 and that works and survives a reboot. However - I created a raid 0 on /dev/md2 made up of /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 and it worked but it

Re: Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
I'm a little stumped trying to set up raid 10. I set it up and it worked but after a reboot it forgets my raid setup. Now, let's hear the name of the distribution you use. BTW, is md1 also disappearing? -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [Ltt-dev] [PATCH 00/09] atomic.h : standardizing atomic primitives

2007-01-27 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm giving up. Someone should publish a suite of cross-compilers for us so stuff like this doesn't need to happen. Hi Andrew, I am currently trying crosstool by Dan Kegel, it looks promising. http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/ I will let you know more

External module Makefile with generated C file

2007-01-27 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Sam, I'm trying to create a external module that involves generating one of the source files needed for the module, I'm using this Makefile: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ctracer_example]$ cat Makefile obj-m := ctracer.o ctracer-y := ctracer_methods.o ctracer_jprobe.o CLASS=sock KDIR :=

Re: Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-27 Thread Marc Perkel
--- Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a little stumped trying to set up raid 10. I set it up and it worked but after a reboot it forgets my raid setup. Now, let's hear the name of the distribution you use. BTW, is md1 also disappearing? Sorry about that. I'm using

Re: External module Makefile with generated C file

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
ctracer_methods.o: ctracer_methods.c $(obj)/ctracer_methods.o: $(src)/ctracer_methods.c $(src)/ctracer_methods.c: ... I don't know if $(obj) or $(src) is the right thing, but something along these lines is required for OOT. -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 27 2007 10:31, Marc Perkel wrote: --- Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a little stumped trying to set up raid 10. I set it up and it worked but after a reboot it forgets my raid setup. Now, let's hear the name of the distribution you use. BTW, is md1 also

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-rt2 compile error on x86 -- undefined reference to `send_IPI_mask_bitmask'

2007-01-27 Thread Karsten Wiese
Am Samstag, 27. Januar 2007 12:28 schrieb Frieder Bürzele: Hi, I got the follow while trying to compile 2.6.20-rc6-rt2 .config attached Greetz Frieder please CC me CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CHK include/linux/compile.h UPD

Re: External module Makefile with generated C file

2007-01-27 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Jan Engelhardt wrote: ctracer_methods.o: ctracer_methods.c $(obj)/ctracer_methods.o: $(src)/ctracer_methods.c $(src)/ctracer_methods.c: ... I don't know if $(obj) or $(src) is the right thing, but something along these lines is required for OOT. Thanks, that did the trick,

Re: Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-27 Thread Marc Perkel
--- Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 27 2007 10:31, Marc Perkel wrote: --- Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a little stumped trying to set up raid 10. I set it up and it worked but after a reboot it forgets my raid setup. Now, let's hear the name

Re: Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Also - when running software raid 10 - what's a good chunck size these days? Running raid 10 with 4 500 GB SATA2 drives with 16mb buffers? Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000

Re: Possible regression: MSI vector leakage since 2.6.18-rc5ish (Unable to repeatedly allocate/free MSI interrupt)

2007-01-27 Thread Auke Kok
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've established a regression in the MSI vector/irq allocation routine for both i386 and x86_64. Our test labs repeatedly modprobe/rmmod the e1000 driver for serveral minutes which allocates msi vectors and frees them. These

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-27 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 05:45:25PM +, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Well, I do not think your kernel code is mergeable. But bits to enable similar functionality in userspace probably would be mergeable. You said it :-) This patch exports to the user space the inactivity time

Re: [PATCH 1/2] take 2: (was-kind-of: 3/5 SPI tx_default) 2.6.20-rc6

2007-01-27 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 26 January 2007 3:21 pm, David Brownell wrote: FWIW, I defined it as a single bit in that patch, because that's what my HW can do when the transmitter is disabled - and because MOSI *is* a single-valued signal. ;-) I wouldn't mind a single bit flag either, saying whether to

Re: [PATCH 1/2] take 2: (was-kind-of: 3/5 SPI tx_default) 2.6.20-rc6

2007-01-27 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 27 January 2007 2:11 am, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: From: David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:21:15 -0800 That flag could work in conjunction with a byte Or why not a 32-bit word! If a driver wants a repeating 32-bit pattern, they should

Re: Possible regression: MSI vector leakage since 2.6.18-rc5ish (Unable to repeatedly allocate/free MSI interrupt)

2007-01-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I highly doubt it - I've seen the problem even on this weeks git on x86_64. Moreover, I'm at home for the weekend and testing resources are limited :). I'll see what I can do Thanks. There may be more to it than what I suspect, but I could not reproduce

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