Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] atyfb - system hangs at bootup prior to enabling framebuffer console -- linux 2.6.18 (fwd)

2007-02-21 Thread James Simmons
Andrew please apply. Acked-By: James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:19:12 +0200 From: Ville Syrjälä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] atyfb - system hangs at

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan

2007-02-21 Thread Randy Dunlap
James Simmons wrote: ... If you start doing this, there are a lot more entries that need to be changed... Which of Supported/Maintained/"Odd Fixes" is written doesn't matter in practice. What matters is that James' email address gets into the entry so that patches and bug reports reach

[PATCH 2/2] usbatm: Detect usb device shutdown and ignore failed urbs.

2007-02-21 Thread Simon Arlott
Detect usb device shutdown and ignore failed urbs. This happens when the driver is unloaded or the device is unplugged. Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c |4 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan

2007-02-21 Thread James Simmons
Your alive!!! I thought something happened to you. On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 13:24 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:05:26PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:26:10 + (GMT) James Simmons wrote: > > >

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan

2007-02-21 Thread James Simmons
> > > Alot of patches have been flowing into the layer. > > > > So would you like to leave it as Maintained or change it to > > "Odd Fixes"? (Maintained => a maintainer) From the MAINTAINTERS file: > > > > Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. > > Maintained:

[PATCH 1/2] usbatm: Increment module refcount when atm device is opened.

2007-02-21 Thread Simon Arlott
Increment usbatm driver module refcount when atm device is opened, this prevents the driver for the device being removed if it's in use. (I continue to allow removing the driver without unplugging the device if it's not being used). No problems occur if the atm device is open while the device

Re: dirty balancing deadlock

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:11:55 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about this? I still don't understand this bug. > Solves the FUSE deadlock, but not the throttle_vm_writeout() one. > I'll try to tackle that one as well. > > If the per-bdi dirty counter goes below 16,

[Patch 2/2] cciss: add reboot notifier support to driver

2007-02-21 Thread Mike Miller (OS Dev)
Patch 2/2 This patch adds reboot_notifier support to cciss. Changes in firmware make this patch essential. Without this patch there may be valid data left in the controller's battery backed write cache (BBWC) on shutdown. We found out the hard way that the kernel does not call our cleanup

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.20 kernel hang with USB drive and vfat doing ftruncate

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:22:17 -0500 (EST) Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > It seems like usb-storage and aio are completely off in the weeds. > > > > Ideas? > > > > > > It seems usb-storage should remove some kmalloc and use mempool()

Re: [PATCH]: change rivafb_remove to __devexit

2007-02-21 Thread James Simmons
Acked-By: James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > Resubmitting with wider audience (akpm & lkml). > > Change rivafb_remove to __deviexit to fix MODPOST warnings: > > WARNING: drivers/video/riva/rivafb.o - Section mismatch: reference to >

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:06 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > Here's the final commit from the bisect which caused it . It says "No > > changes to existing functionality" ? > > Ok, it wouldn't be the first time some change that is supposed to

[PATCH]

2007-02-21 Thread James Simmons
This is the new display intreface. Its goal is to provide a standard interface to various types of displays. Currently we have auxdisplay, output acpi device and the now defunct lcd class in the backlight directory. Please apply. Signed-Off: James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urN -X

[patch 11/13] syslets: x86, wire up the syslet system calls

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wire up the new syslet / async system call syscalls and make it thus available to user-space. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S |6 ++

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:47:37AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:31:41 -0500 > Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greg KH wrote: > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.5 release. > > > > > > This will probably be the last release of

[patch 08/13] syslets: x86, add move_user_context() method

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> add the move_user_context() method to move the user-space context of one kernel thread to another kernel thread. User-space might notice the changed TID, but execution, stack and register contents (general purpose and FPU) are still the same. An architecture

[Patch 1/2] cciss: fix for 2TB support

2007-02-21 Thread Mike Miller (OS Dev)
Patch 1/2 This patch changes the way we determine if a logical volume is larger than 2TB. The original test looked for a total_size of 0. Originally we added 1 to the total_size. That would make our read_capacity return size 0 for >2TB lv's. We assumed that we could not have a lv size of 0 so

[patch 06/13] x86: split FPU state from task state

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Split the FPU save area from the task struct. This allows easy migration of FPU context, and it's generally cleaner. It also allows the following two (future) optimizations: 1) allocate the right size for the actual cpu rather than 512 bytes always 2)

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.20 kernel hang with USB drive and vfat doing ftruncate

2007-02-21 Thread Alan Stern
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It seems like usb-storage and aio are completely off in the weeds. > > > Ideas? > > > > It seems usb-storage should remove some kmalloc and use mempool() for > > urb... Is someone working on this? And idea? > > I think Pete said that we're

[patch 13/13] syslets: x86: optimized sys_umem_add()

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> provide an optimized assembly version of sys_umem_add(). It is about 2 times faster than the C version. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/lib/getuser.S | 27

[patch 12/13] syslets: x86: optimized copy_uatom()

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> provide an optimized assembly version of the copy_uatom() method. This is about 3 times faster than the C version. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/lib/getuser.S | 115

[patch 05/13] syslets: core, documentation

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add Documentation/syslet-design.txt with a high-level description of the syslet concepts. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/syslet-design.txt | 137

[patch 09/13] syslets: x86, mark async unsafe syscalls

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mark clone() and fork() as not available for async execution. Both need an intact user context beneath them to work. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/kernel/ioport.c |6

[patch 04/13] syslets: core code

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> the core syslet / async system calls infrastructure code. Is built only if CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT is enabled. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/Makefile |1 kernel/async.c |

[patch 10/13] syslets: x86: enable ASYNC_SUPPORT

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> enable CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT on x86. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/Kconfig |4 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) Index: linux/arch/i386/Kconfig

[patch 07/13] syslets: x86, add create_async_thread() method

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> add the create_async_thread() way of creating kernel threads: these threads first execute a kernel function and when they return from it they execute user-space. An architecture must implement this interface before it can turn CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT on.

Re: [RFT] bridge: eliminate port_check workqueue

2007-02-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:09:16 +0300 Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/21, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > This is what I was suggesting by getting rid of the work queue completely. > > Can't comment this patch, but if we can get rid of the work_struct - good! > > > -static void

[patch 03/13] syslets: generic kernel bits

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> add the kernel generic bits - these are present even if !CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/exec.c |4 include/linux/sched.h | 23

[patch 01/13] syslets: add async.h include file, kernel-side API definitions

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> add include/linux/async.h which contains the kernel-side API declarations. it also provides NOP stubs for the !CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT case. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[patch 02/13] syslets: add syslet.h include file, user API/ABI definitions

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> add include/linux/syslet.h which contains the user-space API/ABI declarations. Add the new header to include/linux/Kbuild as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/Kbuild

[patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
this is the v3 release of the syslet/threadlet subsystem: http://redhat.com/~mingo/syslet-patches/ This release came a few days later than i originally wanted, because i've implemented many fundamental changes to the code. The biggest highlights of v3 are: - "Threadlets": the introduction

Re: request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1 (is Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1)

2007-02-21 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:12:04AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: >> YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:53:45 -0800 (PST)), >> > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:06 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That said, considering that you did get a commit that doesn't look > entirely unlikely (and that clearly changes things that are relevant), I > suspect you did actually find the right one. Yup, thats the one which switches off PIT after

[SKY2] Does anyone have this driver working?

2007-02-21 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, And now, for something completely different, no libata ;-) I was wondering if any of you ever got the sky2 driver working (gigabit network card found in most Siemens E laptops). Which kernel I am trying, 2.6.17-gentoo (the kernel on the install CD), 2.6.20, the latest gits, nothing works.

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Daniel Walker wrote: > > Here's the final commit from the bisect which caused it . It says "No > changes to existing functionality" ? Ok, it wouldn't be the first time some change that is supposed to change nothing does actually change something. That said, one thing to

Re: freezer problems

2007-02-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:03:14PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 02/21, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:14, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:29:01PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 20 February 2007 01:32, Rafael J.

Re: [patch 1/1] MM: detach_vmas_to_be_unmapped fix

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi, On Wednesday, 21. February 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > --- > > mm/mmap.c |4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff -puN mm/mmap.c~Avoiding-mmap-fragmentation_fixup mm/mmap.c > --- linux-2.6_clean/mm/mmap.c~Avoiding-mmap-fragmentation_fixup >

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] Re: [stable] [patch 00/50] -stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Michael Krufky
Michael Krufky wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> Ok, I've now gotten all of these for .19 and .18. >> >> If I've missed anything, please let me know. >> >> thanks for your patience. > > Looks good... Thank you, Greg. > > Greg KH wrote: >> This will probably be the last release of the 2.6.19-stable

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-21 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/21/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/21/07, Vincent Legoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the latter case it might explain why you see one master connected to one bus and a slave to the other. If you use legacy SATA mode you should just see drive 0 and drive 1. Oh and! In

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-21 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/21/07, Vincent Legoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Argh I think I screwed the mail threading, I was refering to: http://ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0702.1/1060.html From: Patrick Ale Date: Sun Feb 11 2007 - 05:28:21 EST Sorry Yea, I know.. I mail too much.. too much time at hands

Re: 2.6.20 kernel hang with USB drive and vfat doing ftruncate

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:18:45 +0900 OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>> I usually run the following twice to get the hang state: > >>> > >>> time ./trunc_test bar 1 & > >>> time ./trunc_test baz 1 & > >>> > >>> I was wondering

[UPDATE] bigphysarea patch update for i386 and x86_64

2007-02-21 Thread Remy Bohmer
Hello All, Attached you will find a new bigphysarea patch for i386 and x86_64. I have fixed the following compared to the previous version posted by me at October 30th, 2006: * The stock 2.6.18 kernel gave a compile warning at line 66, this was introduced by a reordering of the 'struct

Re: freezer problems

2007-02-21 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:03, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 02/21, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:14, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:29:01PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 20 February 2007 01:32, Rafael J.

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 21:43 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 12:00 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > > There's a compile failure during my bisect. > > > > distcc[3863] ERROR: compile /tmp//hrtimer.tmp.dwalker1.3795.i on > > dwalker3/120 failed > > kernel/hrtimer.c: In function

Re: [PATCH 05/05] Linux Kernel Markers, non optimized architectures

2007-02-21 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Karim Yaghmour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - KRYPTIVA PACKAGED MESSAGE - > PACKAGING TYPE: SIGNED > > Hello Mathieu, > > Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > Yes, that was indeed the first way I implemented it, as a "disable" > option. One of the main thing we have to figure out before I

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-21 Thread Vincent Legoll
Argh I think I screwed the mail threading, I was refering to: http://ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0702.1/1060.html From: Patrick Ale Date: Sun Feb 11 2007 - 05:28:21 EST Sorry -- Vincent Legoll - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Greg KH wrote: >> What is the status of: >> >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-simplfy-__assign_irq_vector.patch >>

[PATCH 2.6.21] iw_cxgb3: Stop the EP Timer on BAD CLOSE.

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Wise
Stop the ep timer in ec_status() if the status indicates a bad close. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_cm.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_cm.c

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-21 Thread Vincent Legoll
I logged: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8051 That is looking very similar to what this thread is about. But the fact that this bites on a laptop, where you cannot modify cabling/jumpering of the drives is annoying. The drive is even properly recognized when booting from a cd

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 02:31:41PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.5 release. > > > > This will probably be the last release of the 2.6.19-stable series, so > > if there are patches that you feel should be applied to that

Re: request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1 (is Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1)

2007-02-21 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:12:04AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:53:45 -0800 (PST)), > > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > >> But there's a ton of architecture

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 12:00 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > There's a compile failure during my bisect. > > distcc[3863] ERROR: compile /tmp//hrtimer.tmp.dwalker1.3795.i on dwalker3/120 > failed > kernel/hrtimer.c: In function 'hrtimer_cpu_notify': > kernel/hrtimer.c:884: warning: implicit

Re: [PATCH] Kwatch: kernel watchpoints using CPU debug registers

2007-02-21 Thread Alan Stern
Going back to something you mentioned earlier... On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Roland McGrath wrote: > I don't think I really object to the ABI change of clearing %dr6 after an > exception so that it does not accumulate multiple results. But first I'll > have to convince myself that we never actually do

[PATCH 1/4] UML - delete unused code

2007-02-21 Thread Jeff Dike
Get rid of a bunch of unused stuff - cpu_feature had no users linux_prog is little-used, so its declaration is moved to the user for easy deletion when the whole file goes away a long-unused debugging aid in helper.c is gone Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

[PATCH 4/4] UML - lock host ldt retrieval

2007-02-21 Thread Jeff Dike
Add some locking to host_ldt_entries to prevent racing when reading LDT information from the host. Also fixed some style violations. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- arch/um/sys-i386/ldt.c | 29 +++-- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

[PATCH 2/4] UML - formatting fixes

2007-02-21 Thread Jeff Dike
Formatting fixes - style violations whitespace breakage emacs formatting comment removal Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c | 51 +-- arch/um/os-Linux/main.c | 11 +

[PATCH 3/4] UML - host_info tidying

2007-02-21 Thread Jeff Dike
Move the host_info string from util.c to um_arch.c, where it is actually initialized and used. Also document its lack of locking. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- arch/um/include/os.h|2 +- arch/um/include/user_util.h |2 -- arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c|6

[PATCH 0/4] UML - more cleanups

2007-02-21 Thread Jeff Dike
These are 2.6.21 material, nothing urgent. Jeff - 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/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: cat problem in tiny_tty driver (the source included)

2007-02-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:21:10PM +0300, Mockern wrote: > cat < /dev/my_tty does nothing, just stopped for reading. I tried to send a > data, > but there was no respond, just waiting. Well certainly using the jsm driver (which is what I use for the pci card I play with), doing cat to the port

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:31:41 -0500 >> Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> What is the status of: >>> >>> >>

Re: [patch 2/2] sched: dynticks idle load balancing - v2

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:08:42 -0800 "Siddha, Suresh B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Changes since v1: > > - Move the idle load balancer selection from schedule() > to the first busy scheduler_tick() after restarting the tick. > This will avoid the unnecessay ownership changes when >

Re: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI?

2007-02-21 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:37:40PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:17:37PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:11:42 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:08:26AM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > > > > > i2c_core > > >

Re: cat problem in tiny_tty driver (the source included)

2007-02-21 Thread Mockern
cat < /dev/my_tty does nothing, just stopped for reading. I tried to send a data, but there was no respond, just waiting. >On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:33:52PM +0300, Mockern wrote: >> Thank you very much for you help. >> >> BTW, for cat < /dev/my_tty1 can see here something wrong? >> as I

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Daniel Walker wrote: > > There's a compile failure during my bisect. When that happens, you need to pick another commit to try than the one git selected for you automatically. You can do that by doing git bisect visualize and select another commit somewhere

Re: 2.6.20 kernel hang with USB drive and vfat doing ftruncate

2007-02-21 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I usually run the following twice to get the hang state: >>> >>> time ./trunc_test bar 1 & >>> time ./trunc_test baz 1 & >>> >>> I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on what to poke at next >>> to try and figure out what is going

Re: [patch 1/2] sched: fix idle load balancing in softirqd context

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:03:35 -0800 "Siddha, Suresh B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + int cpu = smp_processor_id(), idle_at_tick = idle_cpu(cpu); argh. Please, do int cpu = smp_processor_id(); int idle_at_tick = idle_cpu(cpu); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:31:41 -0500 > Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What is the status of: >> >> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-simplfy-__assign_irq_vector.patch >> >

[PATCH] eCryptfs: resolve lower page unlocking problem

2007-02-21 Thread Michael Halcrow
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:50:44PM +0300, Dmitriy Monakhov wrote: > eCryptfs lower file handling code has several issues: > - Retval from prepare_write()/commit_writ() was't checked to equality > to AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. > - In some places page was't unmapped and unlocked after error. I

Re: PCI riser cards and PCI irq routing, etc

2007-02-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 07:11:06PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > BTW: > > Is the situation, with default DN setting of 19 as displayed below, > `normal` w.r.t. interrupts? > I mean: Both the DVB card with DN19 and the Unichrome Pro video adapter > have the same irq although they are on

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-simplfy-__assign_irq_vector.patch > >

Re: [RFT] bridge: eliminate port_check workqueue

2007-02-21 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 02/21, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > This is what I was suggesting by getting rid of the work queue completely. Can't comment this patch, but if we can get rid of the work_struct - good! > -static void port_carrier_check(struct work_struct *work) > +void br_port_carrier_check(struct

Re: cat problem in tiny_tty driver (the source included)

2007-02-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:33:52PM +0300, Mockern wrote: > Thank you very much for you help. > > BTW, for cat < /dev/my_tty1 can see here something wrong? > as I understand tiny_timer function sends data to tty level > by calling tty_flip_buffer_push(tty). > > Is this enough to support cat <

Re: freezer problems

2007-02-21 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 02/21, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:14, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:29:01PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 20 February 2007 01:32, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 20 February 2007 01:12, Oleg Nesterov

Re: [patch 00/21] Xen-paravirt: Xen guest implementation for paravirt_ops interface

2007-02-21 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Christoph Lameter wrote: > And it seems that the hooks are not generic but bound to a particular > hypervisor. Should the Xen specific stuff not be in the binary blob? Xen has no "binary blob". It needs guests to cooperate with it by making hypercalls; all that code is in the Xen implementation

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 20:23 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 10:23 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > > Right, but eventually there isn't a regular timer interrupt through the > > io-apic. I don't think in the past IRQ0 stops without the system > > crashing, so check_timer() could

Re: PCI riser cards and PCI irq routing, etc

2007-02-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:11:12AM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > > > Via has a dual pci-ext card. See EXT-PCI at > > http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/accessories.jsp > > Right, and they say it's compatible with "EPIA mini-ITX

Re: PCI riser cards and PCI irq routing, etc

2007-02-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:24:28AM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > > Any ideas about how to proceed? > > What to test? > > I found some info on the VIA dual PCI extender card at > http://www.itx-warehouse.co.uk/Product.aspx?ProductID=410. > The text says: > > The

Re: 2.6.20-git15 BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! - timers?

2007-02-21 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Michal, On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 16:38 +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > But you still have those softirq pending messages, right ? > > Yes > > (+ new NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 02) Yike, that's the timer softirq. Can you add the patch below, maybe it gives us some useful info. Please enable

Re: PCI riser cards and PCI irq routing, etc

2007-02-21 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Udo van den Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is the situation, with default DN setting of 19 as displayed below, > `normal` w.r.t. interrupts? > I mean: Both the DVB card with DN19 and the Unichrome Pro video adapter > have the same irq although they are on different busses. It's normal (and

Re: [PATCH 05/05] Linux Kernel Markers, non optimized architectures

2007-02-21 Thread Karim Yaghmour
- KRYPTIVA PACKAGED MESSAGE - PACKAGING TYPE: SIGNED Hello Mathieu, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Yes, that was indeed the first way I implemented it, as a "disable" option. One of the main thing we have to figure out before I modify this is if we want to have the generic version of

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:31:41 -0500 Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.5 release. > > > > This will probably be the last release of the 2.6.19-stable series, so > > if there are patches that you feel should be

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:24:33 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Kok, Auke wrote: > > > > I think we need to drop this now. The report that says that this *fixes* > > something might have been on regular interrupts only. I currently suspect > >

Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug

2007-02-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Rafael, > On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:24:45PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Pavel, do you think we can remove the PF_NOFREEZE from bluetooth, BTW? > > The create_workqueue by default marks the worker_threads to be > non_freezable. For cpu hotplug, all workqueues can be frozen >

Re: iwlwifi warnings

2007-02-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > BUilding with sparse shows lots of warnings. You seem to be the lucky one, able to actually compile the beast. Could you run diff against vanilla and post it somewhere? "Normal" installation procedure has too many steps in my eyes, and combined git tree is not available, so I was waiting

Re: PCI riser cards and PCI irq routing, etc

2007-02-21 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Udo van den Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But the IRQ for the DVB-T card doesn't work. That's because the card drives incorrect INT line. The system (BIOS, Linux) thinks the card would drive INT_D (as seen at the MB PCI slot) and and card drives (its INT_A) INT_B. > I would need to test

Re: cat problem in tiny_tty driver (the source included)

2007-02-21 Thread Mockern
Thank you very much for you help. BTW, for cat < /dev/my_tty1 can see here something wrong? as I understand tiny_timer function sends data to tty level by calling tty_flip_buffer_push(tty). Is this enough to support cat < /dev/my_tty1? >On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:03:16PM +0300, Mockern wrote:

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Greg KH wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.5 release. > > This will probably be the last release of the 2.6.19-stable series, so > if there are patches that you feel should be applied to that tree, > please let me know. > > There are 21 patches in this series,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DualFS: File System with Meta-data and Data Separation

2007-02-21 Thread Jörn Engel
On Wed, 21 February 2007 19:31:40 +0100, Juan Piernas Canovas wrote: > > I do not understand. Do you mean that if I have 10 segments, 5 busy and 5 > free, after cleaning I could need 6 segments? How? Where the extra blocks > come from? This is a fairly complicated subject and I have trouble

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 20:23 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 10:23 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > > Right, but eventually there isn't a regular timer interrupt through the > > io-apic. I don't think in the past IRQ0 stops without the system > > crashing, so check_timer() could

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Kok, Auke wrote: > > I think we need to drop this now. The report that says that this *fixes* > something might have been on regular interrupts only. I currently suspect that > it breaks all MSI interrupts, which would make sense if I look a the code. > Very bad indeed. >

Re: [PATCH 1/3] slab: introduce krealloc

2007-02-21 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Well, as a reference, the user-space equivalent is defined in SUSv3 as: > > "The realloc() function shall change the size of the memory object > pointed to by ptr to the size specified by size." The realloc functions intent is to leave the object in

Re: PCI riser cards and PCI irq routing, etc

2007-02-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:59:51PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > But the IRQ for the DVB-T card doesn't work. > I would need to test the DVB-T card alone to be sure it has working IRQ. > If so, what would be the conclusion? Well the BIOS makes an assumption about the irq routing on the

Re: cat problem in tiny_tty driver (the source included)

2007-02-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:03:16PM +0300, Mockern wrote: > I tried to check cat operations for tiny_tty driver from LDD book. > > What is wrong with cat operation here? > > Here is the output from strace cat hello > /dev/my_tty1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home# strace cat hello > /dev/my_tty1 >

Re: [PATCH 1/3] slab: introduce krealloc

2007-02-21 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 2/21/07, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not? Its a realloc call and these are the classic semantics of realloc. Otherwise realloc will always move the memory. Well, as a reference, the user-space equivalent is defined in SUSv3 as: "The realloc() function shall change the

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Faik Uygur wrote: > > CHK include/linux/version.h > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > CHK include/linux/compile.h > CC [M] drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.o > In file included from drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c:285: > drivers/char/ip2/i2lib.c: In function

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 10:23 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > Right, but eventually there isn't a regular timer interrupt through the > io-apic. I don't think in the past IRQ0 stops without the system > crashing, so check_timer() could assume the timer (IRQ0) is _always_ > regular. > > do you know

RE: [PATCH 2/2] aio: propogate post-EIOCBQUEUED errors to completion event

2007-02-21 Thread Ananiev, Leonid I
> kjournald submited buffers for IO and waiting for them to finish. It is means that the patch incorrectly moves internal kernel synchronization problem into user space as EIO instead of fixing a root cause or perform iterative synchronization. After patching users will be surprised a lot of EIO

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/6] KVM userspace interface updates for 2.6.21

2007-02-21 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 20:21 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: > > The following patchset moves the kvm userspace interface from having a > > single fd, to having three types of file descriptors: > > Andrew, while the 2.6.21 merge window has closed, please consider > applying this to

Re: [PATCH] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-02-21 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> >>> Inspired by Peter Staubach's patch and the resulting comments. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> An updated version of the original patch was submitted to LKML > >> yesterday... :-) > >> > > > > Strange coincidence :) > > > > > >>> file = vma->vm_file; > >>> start

Re: 2.6.21-rc1 build error on ARM with modular IPV6

2007-02-21 Thread Michael-Luke Jones
Kernel Bugzilla bug created: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8050 Michael-Luke Jones On 21 Feb 2007, at 14:36, Michael-Luke Jones wrote: Apologies for brain failure, below should read 2.6.21-rc1. Everything else should be correct. Michael-Luke Jones On 21 Feb 2007, at 10:50,

[RFT] bridge: eliminate port_check workqueue

2007-02-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
This is what I was suggesting by getting rid of the work queue completely. --- net/bridge/br_if.c | 34 -- net/bridge/br_notify.c | 25 +++-- net/bridge/br_private.h |5 ++--- 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

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