Linux 2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ok, I don't think there really is anything very interesting here, but we're hopefully whittling down the list of regressions, and fixing various random other small issues while at it. Some smallish MIPS updates, networking (and network driver) fixes, removal of a long obsolete framebuffer

Re: [-mm3 PATCH] (Retry) Check the return value of kobject_add and etc.

2007-04-05 Thread WANG Cong
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:00:16PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: >On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 23:27:32 +0800, >WANG Cong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thank you very much! I know. So I should replace all kfree with kobject_put, >> like this one: >> >> -sysfs_create_link(>kobj, _subsys.kset.kobj,

Re: missing madvise functionality

2007-04-05 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Nick Piggin wrote: > Cool. According to my thinking, madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) even in today's > kernels using down_write(mmap_sem) for MADV_DONTNEED is better than > mmap/mprotect, which have more fundamental locking requirements, more > overhead and no benefits (except debugging, I suppose). It's

Re: missing madvise functionality

2007-04-05 Thread Nick Piggin
Ulrich Drepper wrote: Nick Piggin wrote: Cool. According to my thinking, madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) even in today's kernels using down_write(mmap_sem) for MADV_DONTNEED is better than mmap/mprotect, which have more fundamental locking requirements, more overhead and no benefits (except debugging,

Re: set up new kernel with grub

2007-04-05 Thread WANG Cong
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:28:03PM -0500, Michael wrote: >Hi, Dick, > >Your steps work beautifully. Thanks. > >If you could explain a little about what happens in each step, that >would be even better. > >> # cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.20.3 >> If your current kernel is 2.6.20.3, edit the Makefile to

Re: [PATCH] Lguest launcher, child starving parent

2007-04-05 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:40 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Glauber noticed long delays between hitting a key, and seeing data come > up on the virtual console. Looking into this, I found that the > wake_parent routine that reads from all devices was actually starving > out the parent after

[PATCH] USB gadget rndis: fix struct rndis_packet_msg_type unaligned bug

2007-04-05 Thread Wu, Bryan
[PATCH] usb gadget rndis: skb_push function may return a pointer which is not aligned as required by struct rndis_packet_msg_type. Using attribute trick to fix this bug. Signed-off-by: Roy Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL

Re: Reiser4. BEST FILESYSTEM EVER.

2007-04-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, You say that the results may be accurate, but not relevant. NO, I said that whether they're accurate is another matter. If they are accurate, THEN they are obviously very relevant. Crap-o-la. Whether or not they're relevant depends on how well they

Re: Reiser4. BEST FILESYSTEM EVER.

2007-04-05 Thread johnrobertbanks
Hi Peter, You say that the results may be accurate, but "Whether or not they're *relevant* is a totally different ball of wax." and "Whether or not they're relevant depends on how well they happen to reflect your particular usage pattern." Well, surprise, surprise,.. everyone knows that. Have

Re: Reiser4. BEST FILESYSTEM EVER.

2007-04-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:34:48 PDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > If they are accurate, THEN they are obviously very relevant. Erm. No. They're not "obviously" very relevant. I could hypothetically create a benchmark, that's accurate and repeatable, that shows that reiser4 is able to wash a herd

Re: RAID1 "out of memory" error, was Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm4

2007-04-05 Thread Dan Williams
On 4/5/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:33:03 +1000 Reuben Farrelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 3/04/2007 3:47 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm4/ > > > > - The oops

[PATCH 2.6.21-rc6] mm/page_alloc.c: removal of an unused definition of 'setup_n_node_ids'

2007-04-05 Thread Patrick Ringl
Remove an empty and thus unused definition of 'setup_nr_node_ids' (in case of MAX_NUMNODES < 1) in order to resolve a compiler warning. Signed-off-by: Patrick Ringl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- linux-2.6.20-o/mm/page_alloc.c 2007-03-22 23:11:25.0 +0100 +++

Re: [PATCH] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes

2007-04-05 Thread Eric Dumazet
Nick Piggin a écrit : Hi Eric, Thanks for doing this... It's looking good, I just have some minor comments: Hi Nick, thanks for reviewing. Eric Dumazet wrote: */ -int get_futex_key(void __user *uaddr, union futex_key *key) +int get_futex_key(void __user *uaddr, union futex_key *key, +

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