On Friday 06 April 2007 18:57, David Brownell wrote:
On Friday 06 April 2007 3:17 pm, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
David,
http://tglx.de/private/tglx/usbnet.png
/me recommends emacs-develock.el for colorful white space wreckage
display !
Then I'd have to switch to EMACS ... no thanks!
[PATCH] Scheduler: Improving the scheduler performance.
As we know that, linux scheduler use separate runqueue for every CPU of
a multiprocessor system, which having an active and an expired array.If
we use only one expired array, then the CPUs of a multiprocessor system
will be able to share
Replace all the open-coded macros for generating calls with a pair of
more general macros (__PVOP_CALL/VCALL), and redefine all the
PVOP_V?CALL[0-4] in terms of them.
[ Andrew, Andi: this should slot in immediately after Document
asm-i386/paravirt.h
From: Bartek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 20:11:13 +0200
I have problem with a Linux kernel oops. It mostly appears when I
download files using bittorrent or other large file. I have a phone
modem based Internet access using Home Internet Solution
S. Vishnu Priya napsal(a):
Dear All,
I am new to this group. I was asked to write a device driver for a
new pci card. My doubt is, Kernel will detect a new pci card which is
attached to the system? Or how we can make the kernel to detect the new
card which is newly attached? I am
Hi,
As part of my PhD research, I'm trying to migrate a task from one CPU to
another, but without success. Any help here would be much
appreciated!
The decision whether to migrate a task is taken at scheduler_tick(). I have
tried the following approaches:
1. add a request to the migration
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 19:17 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
I lowered the time to 500us, and ran at nice -10.. it starves tenpercent
here every time. (ran as taskset -c 1 nice -n -10 ./fairtest) The
starving 10% duty cycle task has trouble getting 1% CPU.
Hmm. Playing with it some more today,
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 14:30 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 22:50 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 10:43 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
Looks like this path ,
arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c: time_cpufreq_notifier(); -- takes xtime_lock
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:38:46PM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
+/*
+ * fs/partitions/check.h
+ */
this one is utterly useless and actually harmful because it can easily
get out of sync.
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
+/*
+ * fs/partitions/ibm.h
+ */
ditto
-
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On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:40:50PM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
+#ifdef CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_ICS
+ int adfspart_check_ICS(struct parsed_partitions *state, struct
block_device *bdev);
+#else
+ static inline int adfspart_check_ICS(struct parsed_partitions *state,
struct
Below is an initial attempt at converting the ICS IDE driver to fit
into the PATA infrastructure.
There's a number of FIXMEs in there: due to the hardware missing
resistors on the interrupt signals from the drives, a port
without any drives attached results in spurious interrupts being
generated.
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:07:52AM -0700, Stephen Cameron wrote:
How about something like this:
(Since my mailer is sure to wreck the patch, it can be found intact here:
http://cciss.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/cciss/patches/kernel.org-2.6/cciss_sg_io_block_pc.patch?revision=1.1
Looks good
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:43:49PM +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
This patch provides a debugfs knob to turn kprobes on/off
o A new file /debug/kprobes/enabled indicates if kprobes is enabled or
not (default enabled)
o Echoing 0 to this file will disarm all installed probes
o
* Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That said, I am booted to the patch you sent me now, and this also is
a very obvious improvement, one I could easily live with on a long
term basis. I haven't tried a kernel build in the background yet, but
I have sat here and played patience for
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:33:06PM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
In addition to the Kconfig help text patch I submitted earlier, this is a
set of patches to touch up the partition handling files and also to change
the array of function pointers algorithm of the main checking function
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My question then, is why did it take a very public cat-fight to get
this looked at and the code adjusted? Its been what, nearly 2 years
since Linus himself made a comment that this thing needed fixed.
The fixes then done were of very little
On Sunday 08 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That said, I am booted to the patch you sent me now, and this also is
a very obvious improvement, one I could easily live with on a long
term basis. I haven't tried a kernel build in the background yet, but
I
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 07:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
That seems to be the killer loading here, building a kernel (make -j3)
doesn't seem to lag it all that bad. One session of gzip -best makes it
fall plumb over though, which was a disappointment.
Can you make a testcase that doesn't
Hi!
From: David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
H4 has two peripheral ports, one for download and one for OTG.
The one to use is selected through Kconfig.
NOTE: not yet working; I suspect there's a clock still turned off
or something like that, since neither port responds.
Hmm, it would be
On Wed 2007-04-04 14:05:08, Tony Lindgren wrote:
From: =?utf-8?q?Marek_Va=C5=A1ut?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EEk.
Signed-off-by: Marek Vašut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eek2.
Marek, I guess it would be easier to use your name without
diacritics... Otherwise it probably needs to be utf-8, but not
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:40 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 07:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
That seems to be the killer loading here, building a kernel (make -j3)
doesn't seem to lag it all that bad. One session of gzip -best makes it
fall plumb over though, which
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:09:23PM +, Pavel Machek wrote:
On Wed 2007-04-04 14:05:08, Tony Lindgren wrote:
From: =?utf-8?q?Marek_Va=C5=A1ut?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EEk.
Signed-off-by: Marek Vašut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eek2.
As I see it, that eek2 is correct UTF-8, and since the body
Hi!
From: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make handle_initrd() call try_to_freeze() in a suitable place instead of
setting
PF_NOFREEZE for the current task.
ACK and thanks.
Pavel
--
(english)
Hi!
From: =?utf-8?q?Marek_Va=C5=A1ut?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EEk.
Signed-off-by: Marek Vašut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eek2.
As I see it, that eek2 is correct UTF-8, and since the body charset was
utf-8 I don't see this as a problem.
I do not think eek2 is correct utf-8. It seems to
Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
From: =?utf-8?q?Marek_Va=C5=A1ut?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EEk.
Signed-off-by: Marek Vašut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eek2.
As I see it, that eek2 is correct UTF-8, and since the body charset was
utf-8 I don't see this as a problem.
I do not
Hi!
The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-04-07-03-27.tar.gz has been uploaded to
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-04-07-03-27.tar.gz
It contains the following patches against 2.6.21-rc6:
suspend-to-disk doesn't work when pktgen module is
Words by [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:13:32PM -0700]:
Teddy,
It is a pity you don't address the full set of results, when you make
your snide comments.
Now since you have them,... why don't you make reasoned comment about
them.
You can read more here:
John,
it is not
Hi!
Some time ago we discussed the possibility of simplifying the swsusp's
approach
towards tracking the swap pages allocated by it for saving the image (so that
they can be freed if there's an error).
I think we can get back to it now, as it is a nice optimization that should
allow us
Hi,
I am one of those who have been happily testing Con's patches.
They work better than mainline here.
There seems to be a disconnect on what Con is trying to achieve with SD.
They do not improve interactivity per say. Instead they make the scheduler
predictable by removing the alchemy
Jose,
since you clearly have nothing useful to say. Why don't you let Teddy
talk for himself.
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:48:11 +0100, Jose Celestino [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Words by [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:13:32PM
-0700]:
Teddy,
It is a pity you don't address the full
On 4/6/07, Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Brownell wrote:
[...]
1 if (To control chain reactions, your odds
2 Improve if you've got cadmium rods) {
3 In your fission reactor
4 Their lack is a factor
5 }
6 In screams of A meltdown!
On 07/04/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-04-07-03-27.tar.gz has been uploaded to
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-04-07-03-27.tar.gz
Thomas,
I get a lot of NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 0a messages, when I
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:12:39PM +, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
From: =?utf-8?q?Marek_Va=C5=A1ut?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EEk.
Signed-off-by: Marek Vašut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eek2.
As I see it, that eek2 is correct UTF-8, and since the body charset was
utf-8 I don't
Now that there is no arch-specific compat ioctl handling left there
is not point in having a separate copat_ioctl.h, so merge it into
compat_ioctl.c
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: linux-2.6/fs/compat_ioctl.c
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 06:21:29AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jose,
since you clearly have nothing useful to say. Why don't you let Teddy
talk for himself.
John,
You should first apply your own advice to yourself. Annoying everyone
with the exact same mail 10 times a day is really
Hi every one,
I have one question regarding security libraries, already shipped with Linux
Kernel. That is, all PKI, RSA libraries, as provided by OpenSSL are already
integrated within the linux kernel source code? OR, one have to use OpenSSL
seperately in this regard.
I can see,
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:12:39PM +, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
From: =?utf-8?q?Marek_Va=C5=A1ut?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EEk.
Signed-off-by: Marek Vašut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eek2.
As I see it, that eek2 is correct UTF-8, and since the body charset was
utf-8 I don't
On Sunday 08 April 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Now that there is no arch-specific compat ioctl handling left there
is not point in having a separate copat_ioctl.h, so merge it into
compat_ioctl.c
Yes, definitely a good idea.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by:
On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:42:20 +0600, root said:
As we know that, linux scheduler use separate runqueue for every CPU of
a multiprocessor system, which having an active and an expired array.If
we use only one expired array, then the CPUs of a multiprocessor system
will be able to share their
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 04:51:20PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Sunday 08 April 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Now that there is no arch-specific compat ioctl handling left there
is not point in having a separate copat_ioctl.h, so merge it into
compat_ioctl.c
Yes, definitely a good
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:27:09PM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
From: John Anthony Kazos Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
improves help text for MSDOS_PARTITION in fs/partitions/Kconfig.
@@ -108,7 +112,11 @@ config MSDOS_PARTITION
bool PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support if
On 04/07, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 04/06, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
@@ -275,10 +275,7 @@ static void reparent_to_init(void)
remove_parent(current);
current-parent = child_reaper(current);
current-real_parent = child_reaper(current);
-
For review only.
To implement for-in-kerenl-use-only CLONE_ flags, we need to filter out them
in sys_clone().
These below
arch/sparc/
arch/sparc64/
arch/ia64/
arch/v850/
arch/xtensa/
are not changed, they use assembly to implement sys_clone().
For review only.
We have some problems with the kernel threads parented to /sbin/init, see
http://marc.info/?t=11758028223r=1
http://marc.info/?t=9529928483r=1
A task created with CLONE_KERNEL_THREAD will have swapper as its parent.
Note that this is only the first step,
For review only.
Add CLONE_KERNEL_THREAD to kthread_create() and change reparent_to_init()
to match CLONE_KERNEL_THREAD.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kthread.c |2 +-
exit.c| 20 +---
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
---
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 16:04 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
[HPET issues resolved]
3) Subject: SATA breakage on resume
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/7/233
Submitter : Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Soeren Sonnenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status : unknown
Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For review only.
To implement for-in-kerenl-use-only CLONE_ flags, we need to filter out them
in sys_clone().
Nack
The current clone_flags field is for user space consumption and we
have proposed users for all or almost all of the remaining bits.
If
--- Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also is there a reason you don't want to pass down the various
other ioctls scsi_cmd_ioctl can handle to it?
Didn't think about it, SG_IO is the one people were
clamoring for.
SG_GET_VERSION_NUM:
easily doable.
SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN:
Hmm, cciss
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:10:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:11:46 +0200, Krzysztof Halasa said:
Think about it,... read speeds that are some FOUR times the physical
disk read rate,... impossible without the use of compression (or
something similar).
On Sunday, 8 April 2007 01:42, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
Hi.
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 01:13 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Sunday, 8 April 2007 00:31, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
Hi.
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 15:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 23:20:39 +0200 Rafael J.
On 04/08, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For review only.
To implement for-in-kerenl-use-only CLONE_ flags, we need to filter out them
in sys_clone().
Nack
The current clone_flags field is for user space consumption and we
have proposed users for
On Sunday, 8 April 2007 14:56, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
Some time ago we discussed the possibility of simplifying the swsusp's
approach
towards tracking the swap pages allocated by it for saving the image (so
that
they can be freed if there's an error).
I think we can get back
The reason why I ignore the tar+gzip tests is that in the past Hans
has rigged the test by using a tar ball which was generated by
unpacking a set of kernel sources on a reiser4 filesystem, and then
repacking them using tar+gzip. The result was a tar file whose files
were optimally laid out so
On Sunday 08 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My question then, is why did it take a very public cat-fight to get
this looked at and the code adjusted? Its been what, nearly 2 years
since Linus himself made a comment that this thing needed fixed.
The
Hi everyone,
After reading CPU offline but power consumption increased? lkml thread I
wanted to test CPU on-off on my Turion 64 X2.
I found out something strange, related to the way CPU is turned off and back
on. I don't know if this is a kernel bug, but looks pretty suspicious.
The
On Sunday 08 April 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 07:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
That seems to be the killer loading here, building a kernel (make -j3)
doesn't seem to lag it all that bad. One session of gzip -best makes
it fall plumb over though, which was a
On Sunday 08 April 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:40 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 07:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
That seems to be the killer loading here, building a kernel (make
-j3) doesn't seem to lag it all that bad. One session of gzip -best
vjn wrote:
in my project i want to code the kernel such that when i plugged my usb it
should ask for password and check it in the kernel space . can anyone help
me
I think the correct solution is to use an excrypted mount, and issue the
mount command manually with the question in user space.
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:36:33PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
this functionality, and it is highly questionable how useful it is,
anyway. If you use telldir/seekdir and keep the cookie for a long
time, even the POSIX-provided guarantees about files that are created
and
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Theodore Tso wrote:
The reason why I ignore the tar+gzip tests is that in the past Hans
has rigged the test by using a tar ball which was generated by
unpacking a set of kernel sources on a reiser4 filesystem, and then
repacking them using
We already depend on fact that all sub-threads have -exit_signal == -1,
no need to set it in zap_other_threads().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- 2.6.21-rc5-mm4/kernel/signal.c~zat 2007-04-07 20:11:14.0 +0400
+++ 2.6.21-rc5-mm4/kernel/signal.c 2007-04-08
worker_thread() can miss freeze_process()-signal_wake_up() if it happens
between try_to_freeze() and prepare_to_wait(). We should check freezing()
before entering schedule().
This race was introduced by me in
[PATCH 1/1] workqueue: don't migrate pending works from the dead CPU
Looks
Mike Galbraith wrote:
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 19:17 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
I lowered the time to 500us, and ran at nice -10.. it starves tenpercent
here every time. (ran as taskset -c 1 nice -n -10 ./fairtest) The
starving 10% duty cycle task has trouble getting 1% CPU.
Hmm.
[Adding linux-kernel to the cc list, hoping for wider exposure.]
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:08:17 -0500
Jay Cliburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We're trying to track down the source of a problem that occurs
whenever the atl1 network driver is activated on a 32-bit 2.6.21-rc4
and -rc5, -rc6,
Gidday,
After a long hiatus, a new man-pages release...
And a happy announcement! My work on man-pages is now partially supported
by my employer, Google. Henceforth, something up to 20% [*] of my working
week (depending on other time pressures...) will be spent on man-pages
maintenance.
On Sun, 8 April 2007 11:11:20 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Well, the question is if you can keep the seekdir/telldir cookie around
as a pointer -- preferrably in userspace, of course. You would
presumably garbage-collect them on closedir() -- there is no other point
at which you could.
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 11:11:20AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:36:33PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
this functionality, and it is highly questionable how useful it is,
anyway. If you use telldir/seekdir and keep the cookie for a long
time,
On 4/7/07, Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's not going to solve anything at all. We can't stop supporting
functionality that has been there forever.
Not necessarily.
One problem here is that the interface for using readdir() with and
without telldir()/seekdir() is the same. A
On 04/08/2007 12:41 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
this is pretty hard to get right, and the most objective way to change
it is to do it testcase-driven. FYI, interactivity tweaking has been
gradual, the last bigger round of interactivity changes were done a year
ago:
commit
The second FIXME area is ata_irq_ack - it is unconditionally coded
for SFF-type interfaces. I believe that using this function in
non-BMDMA interfaces is wrong - it attempts to read from the BMDMA
registers irrespective of whether ap-ioaddr.bmdma_addr is set or
not. The question this poses
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:35:40 +0200, Rene Rebe said:
(Sorry for the late reply..)
IIRC a MSI Megabook S270 (I formerly owned) BIOS notifies this
Critical temperature reached (128C) when the battery run empty
when the OS did no action due to battery low indications. I guess
the BIOS people
Theodore Tso wrote:
You could, but then you're succeptible to a memory allocation attack.
If you have an arbitrarily large directory (say, one with multiple
millions of entries), and the attacker program calls seekdir() after
every single readdir() call, you would then force the kernel to
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:41:30PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
Garbage-collecting them on closedir() does not work. It surprised me as
well, but there seem to be applications that keep the telldir() cookie
around after closedir(). Iirc, rm -r was one of them.
Neil, is this correct?
Well,
Chris Wright wrote:
snip snip
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
DCCP: Fix exploitable hole in DCCP socket options
snip snip
Does this fix cure CVE-2007-1730 and CVE-2007-1734, or just one of them?
They both seem to be in the exact same code path the patch touches.
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On 4/8/07, Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ulrich, is it too late to insert a clarification that the telldir()
cookie isn't guaranteed to be valid after closedir() *or* rewinddir()?
It's never too late.
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Theodore Tso wrote:
It doesn't state explicitly that you can use the telldir cookie()
after closing the directory stream using closedir() and then reopening
it using opendir(), but given that it states that results are
undefined after a rewinddir() --- which is much less violent than a
Philip Langdale wrote:
Fix handling of low voltage MMC cards.
Sorry, my fifo filled up and you got stuck at the far end.
I've applied this and will push to andrew in a bit.
Rgds
--
-- Pierre Ossman
Linux kernel, MMC maintainerhttp://www.kernel.org
PulseAudio, core
From: Arnd Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 16:51:20 +0200
On Sunday 08 April 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Now that there is no arch-specific compat ioctl handling left there
is not point in having a separate copat_ioctl.h, so merge it into
compat_ioctl.c
Yes,
Alex Dubov wrote:
Recently, I've obtained a bug report concerning an MMC card. Two problems are
described, both
sporadic.
Problem 1: illegal ocr value is returned. You may notice, in the non-working
case, obviously
incorrect ocr value (0x) is returned. The card won't work after
On 4/8/07, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More fundamentally, the telldir cookie should never be valid when
applied to a different DIR * (even one that refers to the same directory.)
Don't worry about this. This is clearly the semantics which was
always wanted. I've filed a defect
Alex Dubov wrote:
Problem 2: After a data crc error all subsequent commands fail. May it be
caused by stop command
leaving card in some bad state (something clearable by SEND_STATUS)? On the
other hand, is there a
real need to issue a stop command in case main command failed?
It might
+ /*
+ * DMA is based on a 16MHz clock
+ */
+ if (ata_timing_compute(adev, adev-dma_mode, t, 1000, 1))
+ return;
This seems strange for a 16MHz clock.
+
+ /*
+ * Now, properly adjust the timings. If we have a 62.5ns clock
+ * period and we
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 10:33 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
Oh well, this is a leftover from the days where we tried to use TSC
despite of frequency changes. It still modifies the scale factor of the
tsc clocksource.
I agree that it can be removed as we switch off TSC anyway in that case.
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:00:36 +0200 (CEST) Bernhard Kaindl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- linux-2.6.20.orig/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ linux-2.6.20/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
#include asm/nmi.h
#include asm/pda.h
#include asm/genapic.h
+#include asm/mtrr.h
This
Please reproduce and provide a new crash dump without the nvidia
binary-only module loaded.
Hi again,
Here is a new crash dump (I also removed vmnet and vmmon properitary
modules), this time I also included a lspci output:
Apr 8 21:47:21 localhost pppd[2114]: rcvd [proto=0xfc3b] bc d4 80 eb
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:36:33PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
1) Deprecate telldir/seekdir() altogether. Relatively few progams use
this functionality, and it is highly questionable how useful it is,
anyway. If you use telldir/seekdir and keep the cookie for a long
time, even the
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:55:32 +0200 (CEST) Bernhard Kaindl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
With at least 3 of the following 4 patches, s2ram and s2disk are
fixed on at least the Acer Ferrari 1000 notebooks and at least
s2disk on the Acer Ferrari 5000 notebooks.
These patches cause my Vaio to oops
Hi.
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 18:47 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Sunday, 8 April 2007 01:42, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
Hi.
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 01:13 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Sunday, 8 April 2007 00:31, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
Hi.
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 15:06
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc6/2.6.21-rc6-mm1/
- Lots of x86 updates
- This is a 25MB diff against mainline, which is rather large.
Boilerplate:
- See the `hot-fixes' directory for any important updates to this patchset.
- To fetch an -mm tree
Christer Weinigel: Until YOU, have actually used the REISER4 filesystem
yourself, I think YOU OWE IT to the people on the linux-kernel mailing
list, to, AS YOU SAY, shut the fuck up.
Even reading up on the REISER4 filesystem would help.
Applying a little intelligence would undoubtedly help
Wow, I'm impressed. Think you got the record on how many mails you
referenced to in a reply... But dude, please calm down, the caps-lock is
not the answer. You have got some rude answers and you have called them
back on it + you have repeated the same statement several times, that is
not the
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 19:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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
Hi,
Distribution installers usually try to probe OSes for building a suited
grub menu. Unfortunately, mounting an ext3 partition, even in read-only
mode, does perform some operations on the filesystem (log recovery).
This is not a good idea since it may silently garbage data. XFS has a
On 4/8/07, JanuGerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi every one,
I have one question regarding security libraries, already shipped with Linux
Kernel. That is, all PKI, RSA libraries, as provided by OpenSSL are already
integrated within the linux kernel source code? OR, one have to use OpenSSL
On 08/04/07, Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 19:17 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
I lowered the time to 500us, and ran at nice -10.. it starves tenpercent
here every time. (ran as taskset -c 1 nice -n -10 ./fairtest) The
starving 10% duty cycle task has trouble
[...]
Well, it's a late hour, so maybe I'm missing something... but it does
look to be HZ and will run time interval related issue. Like
described in (*). Or maybe we both observe similar situations but have
different reasons behind them.
I meant that account_user_time() is also called from
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 04:09:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
I'm sitting on five patches which look like 2.6.21 material, but which
would normally go through subsystem maintainers:
driver core:
[AGPGART] intel: Add 965GM chipset support
Update PCI id info for Intel 965GM chipset.
Signed-off-by: Wang Zhenyu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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diff --git a/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c b/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
index e542a62..a9fdbf9 100644
--- a/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
+++
Andrew Morton wrote:
netdev:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc6/2.6.21-rc6-mm1/broken-out/forcedeth-work-around-null-skb-dereference-crash.patch
It sounded this was specific to Ingo. I haven't heard anybody else
complain, and AFAIK Ayaz and Ingo were
Alan Cox wrote:
The second FIXME area is ata_irq_ack - it is unconditionally coded
for SFF-type interfaces. I believe that using this function in
non-BMDMA interfaces is wrong - it attempts to read from the BMDMA
registers irrespective of whether ap-ioaddr.bmdma_addr is set or
not. The
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