On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 03/20, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > On 03/19, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd need a get_task_struct in any case in order to safely call
> > > unlock_task_sighand(). At that point I'd prefer to just pass through the
> > > struct pid*. I'll be
Quicklists for page table pages V3
V2->V3
- Fix Kconfig issues by setting CONFIG_QUICKLIST explicitly
and default to one quicklist if NR_QUICK is not set.
- Fix i386 support. (Cannot mix PMD and PTE allocs.)
- Discussion of V2.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel=117391339914767=2
V1->V2
- Add
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 17:33 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> Iterating code of /proc/kallsyms calls module_get_kallsym() which grabs
> and drops module_mutex internally and returns "struct module *",
> module is removed, aforementioned "struct module *" is used in non-trivial
> way.
Hi Alexey,
Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This changes kmem_cache_free() to deal with NULL objects passed to it. The
> current behavior is inconsistent with kfree() so there are callers
> passing NULL to kmem_cache_free().
>
> Andreas, can you please confirm this fixes
On 03/20, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 03/19, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> >
> > I'd need a get_task_struct in any case in order to safely call
> > unlock_task_sighand(). At that point I'd prefer to just pass through the
> > struct pid*. I'll be posting the new version for review as soon as I
> >
Got this from a nfs booted 2.6.20.3 x86 system (complete diskless boot):
BUG: at fs/nfs/pagelist.c:339 nfs_scan_dirty()
[] nfs_scan_dirty+0x17e/0x18a
[] generic_writepages+0x224/0x2b6
[] nfs_wait_on_requests_locked+0x80/0x8e
[] nfs_sync_mapping_wait+0x9d/0x14b
[] __link_path_walk+0x854/0x943
On Monday 19 March 2007, James Bottomley wrote:
>On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 17:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> James, could this also be the cause of a tar based backup going crazy
>> and thinking all data is new under any 2.6.21-rc* kernel I've tested
>> so far with amanda, which in my case uses tar?
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:35:48 +0100
Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> WARNING: could not find versions for .tmp_versions/built-in.mod
> WARNING: could not find versions for .tmp_versions/built-in.mod
> WARNING: could not find versions for .tmp_versions/built-in.mod
> WARNING: could
Mike Christie wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:49 -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
I can't even say if the tapes are written correctly as I can't read them
(one does not reboot production machines back to 2.4.x just to try to
read a backup tape - I don't have
Mike Christie wrote:
> Mike Christie wrote:
>> James Bottomley wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:49 -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> I can't even say if the tapes are written correctly as I can't read them
> (one does not reboot production machines back to 2.4.x just to try to
> read a
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:21 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> I very much agree with proto-patch which _copies_ all relevant
> information into caller-supplied structure, keeping module_mutex private.
> Time to split it sanely.
Indeed. The current interface needs to be ripped apart and put
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:55 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:17:24 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:19:15 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
Hello!
> This might work. Could you post a patch to better show what you mean to do?
Here it is.
->neigh_destructor() is killed (not used), replaced with ->neigh_cleanup(),
which is called when neighbor entry goes to dead state. At this point
everything is still valid: neigh->dev, neigh->parms
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:22:15PM +0200, Tasos Parisinos wrote:
> +static inline _i32 rsa_max(_i32 x, _i32 y)
> +{
> +return (x > y)? x: y;
> +}
We've got a max() already. Use tabs.
> +
> +/*
> + * Module loading callback function
> + *
> + * Returns 0 on success or a negative value
Thank you James.
I will submit new patch that will throttle (if required) from
eh_timed_out call back.
Regards,
Sumant
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From: James Bottomley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 3:23 PM
To: Patro, Sumant
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
From: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:01:25 -0700
> * Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > From: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > [IPV6] fix ipv6_getsockopt_sticky copy_to_user leak
> >
> > User supplied len < 0 can cause leak of kernel memory.
> > Use
On 03/19, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > On 03/19, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > >
> > > > > +struct signalfd_ctx {
> > > > > + struct list_head lnk;
> > > > > + wait_queue_head_t wqh;
> > >
I got it the first time, it's just very low priority and very
deep in my backlog and I'm also about to be away for 3 days.
I have it so you don't need to keep resending it.
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Thanks, that Kconfig change seems like the simplest solution for this.
Thanks,
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:05:29PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:54 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > (UBI also has static volumes which LVM doesn't but that is an aside.)
> >
> > If a static volume is simply a non-dynamic volume, then device mapper
> > can do that too.
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 03/19, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> > > > +struct signalfd_ctx {
> > > > + struct list_head lnk;
> > > > + wait_queue_head_t wqh;
> > > > + sigset_t sigmask;
> > > > +
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CONFIG_PTRACE needs PROC_FS; with CONFIG_PROC_FS=n (x86_64):
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
kernel/built-in.o: In function `ptrace_start':
ptrace.c:(.text+0x300f9): undefined reference to `ptrace_may_attach'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Randy
On 19/03/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:18:38PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>...
> The second reason is that indenting two tabs seems to make the most sense for
> a few reasons;
> a) not indenting at all is ugly, plain and simple.
> void
On Mon, 19 March 2007 14:10:38 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Would prefer to do:
>
> static inline void kmem_cache_free_if_not_null(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
> void *objp)
> {
> if (objp)
> kmem_cache_free(cachep, objp);
> }
>
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:33 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
> What you say sounds good, assuming that the cost of a sleep is less than
> the cost of the busy wait. But this may be hardware, the waits may be
> very small and frequent, and if it's hitting a small hardware window
> like retrace,
* Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> From: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> [IPV6] fix ipv6_getsockopt_sticky copy_to_user leak
>
> User supplied len < 0 can cause leak of kernel memory.
> Use unsigned compare instead.
You can drop this one. It's dependent on a patch
that is not in
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 17:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> James, could this also be the cause of a tar based backup going crazy and
> thinking all data is new under any 2.6.21-rc* kernel I've tested so far
> with amanda, which in my case uses tar? I've tried the fedora patched
> tar-1.15-1, and
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:41:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:25:36 +0200 (EET)
> "Pekka Enberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > On 3/19/2007, "Andrew Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Would prefer to do:
> > >
> > > static inline void
"Serge E. Hallyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> True, current->pid can probably always be legitimately taken as the pid
> number in the current task's cloning namespace. But task->pid is
> wrong.
Agreed.
> So if as you say it's worth caching (not saying I doubt you, just that I
> haven't
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:16:01PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> > I think this sort of thing should work:
> >
> > a = kmalloc(...)
> > b = kmem_cache_alloc(..)
> > c = allocate_some_id(...)
> > if (!a || !b || !c) {
> >free_some_id(c)
> >
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 3/19/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
>>
>> --
>>
>> From: Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> Input: i8042 - fix AUX IRQ delivery check
>>
>> On boxes that do not
Hi,
On Monday, 19 March 2007 13:50, Tobias Doerffel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Suspend to RAM used to work fine on my computer (Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM,
> Intel 82801G (ICH7-chipset) mainboard, NVIDIA-gfx-card, tg3-ethernet) up to
> 2.6.20.3. But no matter which rc of 2.6.21 I use, suspend to RAM
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From: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
adjust legacy IDE resource setting (v2)
The change to force legacy mode IDE channels' resources to fixed non-zero
values confuses (at least some versions of) X,
Hi Andi
I was considering re-submiting patch to group together
xtime_lock/xtime/jiffies in the same cache line. Before doing so, I believe
the following cleanup patch could prepare the x86_64 port to be similar with
other arches.
Thank you
[PATCH] x86_64 : Suppress __jiffies
x86_64 arch
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From: Zilvinas Valinskas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fixes a bogus lockdep warning which causes lockdep to disable itself.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL
On 3/19/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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From: Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Input: i8042 - fix AUX IRQ delivery check
On boxes that do not implement AUX LOOP command we can not
verify AUX
2007/3/19, Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 21:35 +0100, Stefan Prechtel wrote:
>CPU0 CPU1
> 0: 28289 0 local-APIC-edge-fasteio timer
> ...
> LOC: 28237 28236
>
> after a read: (I hope that is this what you want :-)
>
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From: Joy Latten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[XFRM]: Fix missing protocol comparison of larval SAs.
I noticed that in xfrm_state_add we look for the larval SA in a few
places without checking for protocol
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[SPARC64]: Add missing HPAGE_MASK masks on address parameters.
These pte loops all assume the passed in address is HPAGE
aligned, make sure that is actually true.
The first user of ata_ac_issue_prot_with_ledtrigger, the ServerWorks Frodo/
Apple K2 driver. Used by the IDE LED trigger on G5 towers.
Respin of an earlier patch, based on comments by Tejun Heo & Alan Cox.
Signed-off-by: Tony Vroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- linux-2.6/drivers/ata/sata_svw.c.orig
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From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[IA64] fix NULL pointer in ia64/irq_chip-mask/unmask function
This patch fixes boot failure because irq_desc->mask() is NULL.
- Added mask/unmask functions
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
hrtimer_forward() does not check for the possible overflow of
timer->expires. This can happen on 64 bit machines with large interval
values and results
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From: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Looks like we need a check in nfs_getattr() for a regular file. It makes
no sense to call nfs_sync_mapping_range() on anything else. I think that
should fix
This hooks up ata_ac_issue_prot_with_ledtrigger.
Respin of an earlier patch, based on comments by Tejun Heo & Alan Cox.
Signed-off-by: Tony Vroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- linux-2.6/include/linux/libata.h.orig 2007-03-19 21:15:04.0
+
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/libata.h
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:06:33PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:54 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > The issue is 14000 lines of patch to make a parallel subsystem.
>
> Parallel system exists since very long. One is
> flash->SW_or_HW_FTL->all_blkdev_stuff. The other is
Just taking out the MSB isn't enough to counter the clipping on 0 done by
the stats counter accessors. Create some accessors that don't do that.
Also, increase the period to about the side of memory (TODO, determine some
upper bound here). This should give much more stable results. (Best would
On Monday 19 March 2007, James Bottomley wrote:
>On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:49 -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
>> > I can't even say if the tapes are written correctly as I can't read
>> > them (one does not reboot production machines back to 2.4.x just to
>> > try to read a backup tape - I don't have
This adds an optional wrapper around ata_ac_issue_prot that triggers the LED
layer.
I plan to use this by allowing PMU LED control on G5 towers. My test platform
is a PowerMac 7,3 (Dual G5 2.0GHz, June 2004) with a K2 (sata_svw) controller.
Respin of an earlier patch, based on comments by Tejun
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:36:47PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.20.4 release.
A 2.6.20.4-rc1 patch is also availble at:
kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.20.4-rc1.gz
thanks,
greg k-h
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Input: i8042 - really suppress ACK/NAK during panic blink
On some boxes panic blink procedure manages to send both bytes
to keyboard contoller before getting
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From: Samuel Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Without this initialization one gets
kernel BUG at kernel/rtmutex_common.h:80!
This patch should also be included in the -stable kernel.
Signed-off-by: G.
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From: Masayuki Nakagawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[IPV6]: ipv6_fl_socklist is inadvertently shared.
The ipv6_fl_socklist from listening socket is inadvertently shared
with new socket created for connection.
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[NET]: Copy mac_len in skb_clone() as well
ANK says: "It is rarely used, that's wy it was not noticed.
But in the places, where it is used, it should be
On 3/14/07, Nicolas Boichat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I developed, a while ago, a driver the Apple System Management
Controller, which provides an accelerometer (Apple Sudden Motion
Sensor), light sensors, temperature sensors, keyboard backlight control
and fan control on Intel-based
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From: Zach Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[PATCH] dio: invalidate clean pages before dio write
This patch fixes a user-triggerable oops that was reported by Leonid
Ananiev as archived at
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From: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
x86_64 needs some TLS fixes. What was missing was remembering the child
thread id during clone and stuffing it into the child during each context
switch.
The %fs
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From: Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[PATCH] fix deadlock in audit_log_task_context()
GFP_KERNEL allocations in non-blocking context; fixed by killing
an idiotic use of security_getprocattr().
Acked-by:
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From: Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[ALSA] hda-intel - Fix codec probe with ATI contorllers
ATI controllers may have up to 4 codecs while ICH up to 3.
Thus the earlier fix to change AZX_MAX_CODECS to
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From: Ankita Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[PATCH] oom fix: prevent oom from killing a process with children/sibling
unkillable
Looking at oom_kill.c, found that the intention to not kill the selected
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:25:36 +0200 (EET)
"Pekka Enberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 3/19/2007, "Andrew Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Would prefer to do:
> >
> > static inline void kmem_cache_free_if_not_null(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
> >
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From: Robert Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[IPV4]: Do not disable preemption in trie_leaf_remove().
Hello, Just discussed this Patrick...
We have two users of trie_leaf_remove, fn_trie_flush and
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From: Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Input: i8042 - fix AUX IRQ delivery check
On boxes that do not implement AUX LOOP command we can not
verify AUX IRQ delivery and must assume that it is wired
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From: Andy Isaacson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
When iterating through an array, one must be careful to test one's index
variable rather than another similarly-named variable.
The loop will read off the end of
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From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[SPARC64]: Get DEBUG_PAGEALLOC working again.
We have to make sure to use base-pagesize TLB entries even during the
early transition period where we need TLB miss
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From: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The maximum seconds value we can handle on 32bit is LONG_MAX.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This patch (as870) adds a delay to ehci-hcd's bus_resume routine.
Apparently there are controllers and/or BIOSes out there which need
such a delay to get the ports
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From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Testing of -rt by IBM uncovered a locking bug in wake_futex_pi(): the PI
state needs to be locked before we access it.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL
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Initialize the timer with the rest of the private-struct.
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Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL
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Recent alterations to the gdth_fill_raw_cmd() path no longer set the
sg_ranz field for zero transfer commands. However, this field is used
lower down in the function to initialise ha->cmd_len to the size
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The current CIPSO engine has a problem where it does not verify that the given
sensitivity level has a valid CIPSO mapping when the "std" CIPSO DOI type is
used. The end result is that bad packets are
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From: Michal Miroslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix reference counting
Fix reference counting (memory leak) problem in __nfulnl_send() and callers
related to packet queueing.
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
madvise(MADV_REMOVE) can go into an infinite loop or cause an oops if the
call covers a region from the start of a vma, and extending past that vma.
Signed-off-by:
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[IPV4]: Fix rtm_to_ifaddr() error handling.
Return negative error value (embedded in the pointer) instead of
returning NULL.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov
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From: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[IPV6] fix ipv6_getsockopt_sticky copy_to_user leak
User supplied len < 0 can cause leak of kernel memory.
Use unsigned compare instead.
Signed-off-by: Chris
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.20.4 release.
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From: Olaf Kirch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[IPV6]: Fix for ipv6_setsockopt NULL dereference
I came across this bug in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8155
Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <[EMAIL
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Olaf Kirch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[IPV6]: Fix for ipv6_setsockopt NULL dereference
I came across this bug in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8155
Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <[EMAIL
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:54 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > (UBI also has static volumes which LVM doesn't but that is an aside.)
>
> If a static volume is simply a non-dynamic volume, then device mapper
> can do that too. And countless other things. Which is not an aside.
> UBI growing to do all
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:23 +0300
Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 03/19, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > [...snip...]
> > do {
> > utime = cputime_add(utime, t->utime);
> > @@ -2040,6 +2045,8 @@ static void k_getrusage(struct task_stru
>
On 3/15/07, Éric Piel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
03/14/2007 08:02 PM, Vojtech Pavlik wrote/a écrit:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 02:58:49PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
2. I also have a concern about using KEY_SCREEN to signal toggling
display on and off. I am CCing Vojtech - he must
On 3/19/2007, "Andrew Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would prefer to do:
>
> static inline void kmem_cache_free_if_not_null(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
> void *objp)
> {
> if (objp)
> kmem_cache_free(cachep, objp);
> }
>
>
> The port sharing feature mixed kernel virtual addresses as well as
> physical addresses for the offset used to describe the mmap address to map
> the InfiniPath hardware into user space. This had a conflict on powerpc.
> The new scheme converts it to a physical address so it doesn't
For example this seems like it should go in 2.6.21 -- otherwise
userspace verbs are completely broken with ipath, right? It's really
my fault for breaking it, but I don't see why we want to release with
a bug like that.
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This patch format is somewhat inconvenient:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Bryan O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I assume this is the real author of the patch (as opposed to the
sender of the email)? git would prefer to see
From: Bryan O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
in the body of the
Quoting Eric W. Biederman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> "Serge E. Hallyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >>
> >> >> Index: 2.6.20/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
> >> >> ===
> >> >> --- 2.6.20.orig/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
> >> >> +++
Are these really all for 2.6.22? Some of them seem like bugfixes that
you would want in 2.6.21...
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On Monday, 19 March 2007 16:32, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > >> > > > I have the same problem on my IBM X60s on rc1 and rc2. Can't resume
> > >> > > > from RAM, can't suspend to disk. It is possible to revert all the
> > >> > > > changes to ACPI and test it?
> > >> > >
> > >> > > This is with
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
> I think this sort of thing should work:
>
> a = kmalloc(...)
> b = kmem_cache_alloc(..)
> c = allocate_some_id(...)
> if (!a || !b || !c) {
>free_some_id(c)
>kmem_cache_free(c)
this requires the specification of a kmem_cache structure and
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 15:12 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > Should we export block devices with 16/32/64/128 KiB size ?
>
> Sure, why not?
Simply because we want to have the ability to write fine grained in
order to write data safe to FLASH. If we export those large sizes we
lose this ability and
[1.]
Oops when mounting cdrom
[2.]
When trying to `mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom` kernel crashes
[3.] kernel
[4.]
[4.1]
cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.20.3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.6) #1 SMP Tue Mar
20
00:47:28 YEKT 2007
[4.2]
AP_FIRMWARE_NVRAM=y
CONFIG_HOSTAP_PLX=m
Mike Christie wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:49 -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
I can't even say if the tapes are written correctly as I can't read them
(one does not reboot production machines back to 2.4.x just to try to
read a backup tape - I don't have
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:54 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> The issue is 14000 lines of patch to make a parallel subsystem.
Parallel system exists since very long. One is
flash->SW_or_HW_FTL->all_blkdev_stuff. The other is MTD->JFFS2. Think
about _why_ there are 2 of them. Hint - reliability,
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:49:46 -0500
Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:08:03AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> >
> > > This changes kmem_cache_free() to deal with NULL objects passed to it.
> > > The
> > >
Bill Huey (hui) wrote:
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 06:24:40AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
Dunno. I guess a lot of people would like to then manage the classes,
which would be painful as hell.
Sure ! I wouldn't like people to point the finger on Linux saying "hey
look, they can't write a good
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:23:40 +0100
Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a):
> > The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-03-18-02-44.tar.gz has been uploaded to
> >
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-03-18-02-44.tar.gz
> >
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:08:03AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
>
> > This changes kmem_cache_free() to deal with NULL objects passed to it. The
> > current behavior is inconsistent with kfree() so there are callers
> > passing NULL to
> It's inability to handle sequences like the above sounds to me like
> a very good argument to _not_ merge the unwinder back into the tree.
The unwinder can handle it fine, it is just that gcc right now cannot
be taught to generate correct unwind tables for it. If paravirt ops
is widely used i
Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't understand why interrupt latency suffers. Sure, the interrupt that's
> being masked is delayed, but on the other hand the interrupt that's doing the
> masking is not. We're moving the latency from the first interrupt to the
> second, probably
Mark Lord wrote:
> Al Boldi wrote:
> >..
> > Mike, I'm not saying RSDL is perfect, but v0.31 is by far better than
> > mainline. Try this easy test:
> >
> > startx with the vesa driver
> > run reflect from the mesa5.0-demos
> > load 5 cpu-hogs
> > start moving the mouse
> >
> > On my desktop,
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