Kernel traces coming back with trash/clutter

2007-04-24 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
I am experimenting with the kernel (CentOSv4.4 x86_64, 2.6.9-42.0.10) and I have added a number of traces in some relatively sensitive code in the page cache and some i/o functions. I am getting this odd content in the trace log (dmesg), and I cannot figure out what it is or why it is there.

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: If the code just moved somewhere else, it's not less code. It is not just moved. It is in userspace, where we can use liblzf / gcrypt / ( and vbetool for s2ram/s2both) as libraries. We have about 7000 LoC of userland code (that is not

Re: old ISA DMA bug in 2.6.12?

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Hancock
Bob Tracy wrote: I was enjoying yet another session of beating my head against the wall trying to do useful things with old hardware :-), and managed to cause a kernel panic by simply trying to mount a cdrom in the context of a DSL-N installation. The SCSI host adapter is an Adaptec AHA-1542B,

Re: Kernel traces coming back with trash/clutter

2007-04-24 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
I am experimenting with the kernel (CentOSv4.4 x86_64, 2.6.9-42.0.10) and I have added a number of traces in some relatively sensitive code in the page cache and some i/o functions. I am getting this odd content in the trace log (dmesg), and I cannot figure out what it is or why it is

Re: [PATCH] use mutex instead of semaphore in RocketPort driver

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Hancock
Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: El Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:53:04PM +0200 Oliver Neukum ha dit: Am Dienstag, 24. April 2007 19:49 schrieb Matthias Kaehlcke: @@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@ static int rp_write(struct tty_struct *tty, if (count = 0 || rocket_paranoia_check(info, rp_write))

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Williams
Rogan Dawes wrote: Chris Friesen wrote: Rogan Dawes wrote: I guess my point was if we somehow get to an odd number of nanoseconds, we'd end up with rounding errors. I'm not sure if your algorithm will ever allow that. And Ingo's point was that when it takes thousands of nanoseconds for a

Re: Kernel traces coming back with trash/clutter

2007-04-24 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On 4/24/07, John Anthony Kazos Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting this odd content in the trace log (dmesg), and I cannot figure out what it is or why it is there. 7 7 7 7 7__bio_add_page: 2x ph

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpufreq: allow full selection of default governors

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:05:36PM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 4/24/07, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 09:03:23PM +, William Heimbigner wrote: The following patches should allow selection of conservative, powersave, and ondemand in the

Re: [patch 0/8] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v4)

2007-04-24 Thread Karel Zak
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:25:32PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: The following extra security measures are taken for unprivileged mounts: - usermounts are limited by a sysctl tunable - force nosuid,nodev mount options on the created mount The original userspace user= solution also implies

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-24 Thread lkml777
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:00:46 -0700, Eric Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I did. That whole thread is some guy spouting off a ludicrous Bonnie++ benchmark showing that compressing long strings of 0s results in things taking up very little space and being very fast. I think you are

Re: regression with gammu on 2.6.21-rc7

2007-04-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:10:22AM +0200, Wolfgang Erig wrote: Hello Greg, Please don't take me out of the cc:, otherwise I might mist this (as I did...) On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:47:17PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:58:53AM +0200, Wolfgang Erig wrote: Hello, I

Re: [1/3] 2.6.21-rc7: known regressions (v2)

2007-04-24 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:32:53AM +0200, Wolfgang Erig wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:18:19PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:48:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to 2.6.20. If you find your name in the

ChunkFS - measuring cross-chunk references

2007-04-24 Thread Karuna sagar K
On 4/24/07, Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:53:33PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: . It would also be good to distinguish between directories referencing files in another chunk, and directories referencing subdirectories in another chunk (which would be

Re: [1/3] 2.6.21-rc7: known regressions (v2)

2007-04-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 05:14:28PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:32:53AM +0200, Wolfgang Erig wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:18:19PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:48:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This email lists some known regressions in Linus'

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:38:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Btw., to protect against such mishaps in the future i have changed the SysRq-N [SysRq-Nice]

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:38:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Btw., to protect against such mishaps in the future i have changed the SysRq-N [SysRq-Nice]

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-24 Thread H. Peter Anvin
FWIW, this would also let zisofs remove the ugly hacks we currently employ to deal with compression blocks. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [patch 1/7] libata: check for AN support

2007-04-24 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:53:27PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: Check to see if an ATAPI device supports Asynchronous Notification. If so, enable it. changes from last version: * fix typo in ata_id_has_AN and make word 76 test more clear * If we fail to set the AN feature, just

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-24 Thread Jörn Engel
On Tue, 24 April 2007 15:21:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patchset modifies the Linux kernel so that larger block sizes than page size can be supported. Larger block sizes are handled by using compound pages of an arbitrary order for the page cache instead of single pages with

Re: [1/3] 2.6.21-rc7: known regressions (v2)

2007-04-24 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:29:58AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 05:14:28PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:32:53AM +0200, Wolfgang Erig wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:18:19PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:48:47PM +0200, Adrian

Re: AppArmor FAQ

2007-04-24 Thread Joshua Brindle
Crispin Cowan wrote: David Wagner wrote: James Morris wrote: [...] you can change the behavior of the application and then bypass policy entirely by utilizing any mechanism other than direct filesystem access: IPC, shared memory, Unix domain sockets, local IP networking, remote

Re: [patch 0/8] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v4)

2007-04-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Karel Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:25:32PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: The following extra security measures are taken for unprivileged mounts: - usermounts are limited by a sysctl tunable - force nosuid,nodev mount options on the created mount The

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-24 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:41:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: How many different magic ioctl's does the thing introduce? Is it really just *two* entry-points (and how simple are they, interface-wise), and nothing else? Aren't you a little late to the party here? The userland version is

Re: regression with gammu on 2.6.21-rc7

2007-04-24 Thread Ray Lee
On 4/24/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, if you know how to use git, doing a 'git bisect' to try to track down the problem commit would be very helpful. Has to do with SIGIO, see this blog post: http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2007/04/24/kernel_2_6_21_hits_gammu/ Ray - To

Re: [Intel IOMMU][patch 8/8] Preserve some Virtual Address when devices cannot address entire range.

2007-04-24 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Andi Kleen wrote: On Tuesday 24 April 2007 23:50:26 David Miller wrote: From: Ashok Raj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:38:35 -0700 Its not clear if we have a very generic device breakage.. most devices on these platforms are going to be more recent, (except maybe some legacy

Re: [Intel IOMMU][patch 3/8] Generic hardware support for Intel IOMMU.

2007-04-24 Thread Shaohua Li
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 21:27 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Tuesday 24 April 2007 08:03:02 Ashok Raj wrote: +#ifdef CONFIG_DMAR +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP +static void dmar_msi_set_affinity(unsigned int irq, cpumask_t mask) Why does it need an own interrupt type? + +config IOVA_GUARD_PAGE

Re: [1/3] 2.6.21-rc7: known regressions (v2)

2007-04-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 05:51:11PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:29:58AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 05:14:28PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:32:53AM +0200, Wolfgang Erig wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:18:19PM -0700, Greg KH

[PATCH 0/2] Multiqueue network device support

2007-04-24 Thread Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
This is a redesign and repost of the multiqueue network device support patches. The new API for base drivers allows multiqueue-capable devices to manage their individual queues in the network stack. The stack now handles both non-multiqueue and multiqueue devices on the same codepath. Also,

[PATCH 1/2] Adding documentation for the new multiqueue API.

2007-04-24 Thread Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Peter P. Waskiewicz Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/networking/multiqueue.txt | 97 +++ 1 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH] IPROUTE: Modify tc for new PRIO multiqueue behavior

2007-04-24 Thread Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modified tc so PRIO can now have a multiqueue parameter passed to it. This will turn on multiqueue behavior if a device has more than 1 queue. Also, running tc qdisc ls dev dev will display if multiqueue is on or off. Signed-off-by: Peter P.

RE: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Li, Tong N
Could you explain for the audience the technical definition of fairness and what sorts of error metrics are commonly used? There seems to be some disagreement, and you're neutral enough of an observer that your statement would help. The definition for proportional fairness assumes that each

[PATCH 2/2] NET: [UPDATED] Multiqueue network device support implementation.

2007-04-24 Thread Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Update: Fixed band2queue mapping logic - it was reveresed with prio2band. Added support in the PRIO qdisc to allow tc to turn on multiqueue behavior, while keeping original PRIO behavior by default. Fixed where skb-queue_mapping is being reset (prior

Re: Kernel traces coming back with trash/clutter

2007-04-24 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
I am getting this odd content in the trace log (dmesg), and I cannot figure out what it is or why it is there. 7 7 7 7 7__bio_add_page: 2x ph 88=128 || hw 88=88 || 360448max

Reasons to merge suspend2.

2007-04-24 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi all. I've been working on this email on and off for a while, but since Pavel raised the issue again, I thought I should make a concerted effort to finish it... In this email, I'm going to outline the problems with the current design (uswsusp and swsusp) and the ways in which Suspend2

RE: [PATCH] x86_64/acpi: make kernel to be compiled when CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA is set and power management with acpi is not enabled

2007-04-24 Thread Yinghai Lu
-Original Message- From: Len Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:33 AM Let me know if you have one that doesn't. Please check this one. it will not compiled. grep ACPI .config CONFIG_X86_64_ACPI_NUMA=y CONFIG_ACPI=y

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Align ZONE_MOVABLE to a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary

2007-04-24 Thread Yasunori Goto
Looks good. :-) Thanks. Acked-by: Yasunori Goto [EMAIL PROTECTED] The boot memory allocator makes assumptions on the alignment of zone boundaries even though the buddy allocator has no requirements on the alignment of zones. This may cause boot problems in situations where ZONE_MOVABLE is

Re: [PATCH 06/25] xen: Core Xen implementation

2007-04-24 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Andi Kleen wrote: On Monday 23 April 2007 23:56:44 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Core Xen Implementation This patch is a rollup of all the core pieces of the Xen implementation, including booting, memory management, interrupts, time and so on. The patch is definitely too big.

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-24 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:21:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: V2-V3 - More restructuring - It actually works! - Add XFS support - Fix up UP support - Work out the direct I/O issues - Add CONFIG_LARGE_BLOCKSIZE. Off by default which makes the inlines revert back to constants.

[PATCH] drivers/ata: remove the wildcard from sata_nv driver

2007-04-24 Thread Peer Chen
Because nvidia SATA controllers onward base on AHCI, so wildcard in sata_nv driver is unnecessary. Also the wildcard sometimes cause sata_nv driver to be loaded for AHCI controllers,which is not as expected. Signed-off-by: Peer Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] = ---

[RFC][PATCH] syctl for selecting global zonelist[] order

2007-04-24 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Make zonelist policy selectable from sysctl. Assume 2 node NUMA, only node(0) has ZONE_DMA (ZONE_DMA32). In this case, default (node0's) zonelist order is Node(0)'s NORMAL - Node(0)'s DMA - Node(1)s NORMAL. This means Node(0)'s DMA is used before Node(1)'s NORMAL. In some server, some

Re: regression with gammu on 2.6.21-rc7

2007-04-24 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:12:33PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote: On 4/24/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, if you know how to use git, doing a 'git bisect' to try to track down the problem commit would be very helpful. Has to do with SIGIO, see this blog post:

Ramdisk Vs NFS

2007-04-24 Thread Siva Prasad
Hi, What is the primary difference between Ramdisk and NFS with respect to the wait_queue's? If I use ramdisk, every thing works fine, but with NFS (or you may read as 'no ramdisk') kernel/sched.c:__wake_up_common() routines has a problem. Basically the value of q-task_list-next is out of our

Re: [PATCH] IPROUTE: Modify tc for new PRIO multiqueue behavior

2007-04-24 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr wrote: From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modified tc so PRIO can now have a multiqueue parameter passed to it. This will turn on multiqueue behavior if a device has more than 1 queue. Also, running tc qdisc ls dev dev will display if multiqueue is on or off.

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Containers (V8): Cpusets hooked into containers

2007-04-24 Thread Paul Menage
On 4/23/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: config CONTAINERS - bool Container support - help - This option will let you create and manage process containers, - which can be used to aggregate multiple processes, e.g. for - the purposes of

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/7] Containers (V8): Generic Process Containers

2007-04-24 Thread Paul Menage
On 4/23/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul, In [patch 3/7] Containers (V8): Add generic multi-subsystem API to containers, you have forcefully enabled interrupt in container_init_subsys() with spin_unlock_irq() which breaks on PPC64. +static void

SOME STUFF ABOUT REISER4 To Mr Hopper

2007-04-24 Thread lkml777
Seems I did not answer the correct thread. On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:00:46 -0700, Eric Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I did. That whole thread is some guy spouting off a ludicrous Bonnie++ benchmark showing that compressing long strings of 0s results in things taking up very little space and

Re: [PATCH] use mutex instead of semaphore in RocketPort driver

2007-04-24 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi Matthias, On 4/25/07, Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: El Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:53:04PM +0200 Oliver Neukum ha dit: Am Dienstag, 24. April 2007 19:49 schrieb Matthias Kaehlcke: @@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@ static int rp_write(struct tty_struct *tty, if

2.6.21-rc7-mm1 + sysfs-oops-workaround.patch -- INFO: possible recursive locking detected

2007-04-24 Thread Miles Lane
[ 59.677312] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory [ 59.688633] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period [ 60.221454] [ 60.221456] = [ 60.221461] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] [ 60.221464]

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 + sysfs-oops-workaround.patch -- INFO: possible recursive locking detected

2007-04-24 Thread Tejun Heo
Miles Lane wrote: [ 59.677312] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory [ 59.688633] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period [ 60.221454] [ 60.221456] = [ 60.221461] [ INFO: possible recursive locking

2.6.21-rc7-mm1 + sysfs-oops-workaround.patch -- software suspend failed (1 tasks refusing to freeze)

2007-04-24 Thread Miles Lane
[ 1251.506964] PM: Preparing system for mem sleep [ 1251.514790] Stopping tasks ... [ 1271.456065] Stopping user space processes timed out after 20 seconds (1 tasks refusing to freeze): [ 1271.456243] multiload-apple [ 1271.456291] Restarting tasks ... done. This isn't happening under earlier

[PATCH] drivers/net: move the nvidia forcedeth driver from 100M group to 1000M group

2007-04-24 Thread Peer Chen
nForce ehternet is a Gigabit NIC not 100M, move it to 1000M group to avoid the confusion. Signed-off-by: Peer Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.21-rc7/drivers/net/Kconfig.orig +++ linux-2.6.21-rc7/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -1399,35 +1399,6 @@ config B44

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 + sysfs-oops-workaround.patch -- software suspend failed (1 tasks refusing to freeze)

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:27:44 -0700 Miles Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ 1251.506964] PM: Preparing system for mem sleep [ 1251.514790] Stopping tasks ... [ 1271.456065] Stopping user space processes timed out after 20 seconds (1 tasks refusing to freeze): [ 1271.456243] multiload-apple [

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 + sysfs-oops-workaround.patch -- software suspend failed (1 tasks refusing to freeze)

2007-04-24 Thread Miles Lane
On 4/24/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:27:44 -0700 Miles Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ 1251.506964] PM: Preparing system for mem sleep [ 1251.514790] Stopping tasks ... [ 1271.456065] Stopping user space processes timed out after 20 seconds (1 tasks

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 + sysfs-oops-workaround.patch -- software suspend failed (1 tasks refusing to freeze)

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:49:48 -0700 Miles Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/24/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:27:44 -0700 Miles Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ 1251.506964] PM: Preparing system for mem sleep [ 1251.514790] Stopping tasks ... [

Re: [PATCH] powerpc pseries eeh: Convert to kthread API

2007-04-24 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Since we need to have some way to track them having an explicit data > structure that the callers manage seems to make sense. Oh sure, I wasn't arguing against that at all... It might be handy to have a release() callback (optional) that gets called after the kthread stops/exits, once we know

Re: [patch] oom: kill all threads that share mm with killed task

2007-04-24 Thread David Rientjes
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Obvious fix. It was broken by > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=f2a2a7108aa0039ba7a5fe7a0d2ecef2219a7584 > Dec 7. So its in 2.6.20 and later. Candiate for stable? > I agree it's obvious enough

Re: [PATCH] Transparently handle <.symbol> lookup for kprobes

2007-04-24 Thread Paul Mackerras
Srinivasa Ds writes: > + } else {\ > + char dot_name[KSYM_NAME_LEN+1]; \ > + dot_name[0] = '.'; \ > + dot_name[1] = '\0';

Re: [PATCH] powerpc pseries eeh: Convert to kthread API

2007-04-24 Thread Paul Mackerras
Christoph Hellwig writes: > The first question is obviously, is this really something we want? > spawning kernel thread on demand without reaping them properly seems > quite dangerous. What specifically has to be done to reap a kernel thread? Are you concerned about the number of threads, or

SOME STUFF ABOUT REISER4

2007-04-24 Thread lkml777
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:00:46 -0700, "Eric Hopper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I know that this whole effort has been put in disarray by the > prosecution of Hans Reiser, but I'm curious as to its status. Is > Reiser4 going to be going into the Linus kernel anytime soon? Is there > somewhere I

Re: [PATCH 03/25] xen: Add nosegneg capability to the vsyscall page notes

2007-04-24 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Roland McGrath wrote: >> I have to admit I still don't really understand all this. Is it >> documented somewhere? >> > > I have explained it in public more than once, but I don't know off hand > anywhere that was helpfully recorded. > Thanks very much. I'd been poking about, but the

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Williams
Arjan van de Ven wrote: Within reason, it's not the number of clients that X has that causes its CPU bandwidth use to sky rocket and cause problems. It's more to to with what type of clients they are. Most GUIs (even ones that are constantly updating visual data (e.g. gkrellm -- I can open

NonExecutable Bit in 32Bit

2007-04-24 Thread Cestonaro, Thilo \(external\)
Hey, is it right, that the NX Bit is not used under i386-Arch but under x86_64-Arch? When yes, is there a special argument for it not to be used? Ciao Thilo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Reflect the relocatability of the kernel in the ELF header.

2007-04-24 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:12:13PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Currently because vmlinux does not reflect that the kernel is relocatable > we still have to support CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START. So this patch adds a small > c program to do what we cannot do with a linker script, set the elf

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The cases are fundamentally different in behavior, because in the > > first case, X hardly consumes the time it would get in any scheme, > > while in the second case X really is CPU bound and will happily > > consume any CPU time it can get. >

Re: NonExecutable Bit in 32Bit

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Cestonaro, Thilo (external) wrote: Hey, is it right, that the NX Bit is not used under i386-Arch but under x86_64-Arch? When yes, is there a special argument for it not to be used? Ciao Thilo I don't think so - some i386 cpus definitely have support for the NX bit.

Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot console.

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:46:39 +0100 Gerd Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The console subsystem already has an idea of a boot console, using the > CON_BOOT flag. The implementation has some flaws though. The major > problem is that presence of a boot console makes register_console() >

Re: [PATCH] Transparently handle <.symbol> lookup for kprobes

2007-04-24 Thread Srinivasa Ds
Paul Mackerras wrote: > Srinivasa Ds writes: > >> +} else {\ >> +char dot_name[KSYM_NAME_LEN+1]; \ >> +dot_name[0] = '.'; \ >> +dot_name[1]

Re: [patch 1/4] Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:49:20 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The softlockup watchdog is currently a nuisance in a virtual machine, > since the whole system could have the CPU stolen from it for a long > period of time. While it would be unlikely for a guest domain to be >

Re: [REPORT] First "glitch1" results, 2.6.21-rc7-git6-CFSv5 + SD 0.46

2007-04-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SD 0.46 1-2 FPS > > cfs v5 nice -19 219-233 FPS > > cfs v5 nice 0 1000-1996 >cfs v5 nice -10 60-65 FPS the problem is, the glxgears portion of this test is an _inverse_ testcase. The reason? glxgears on true 3D hardware

Re: [patch 1/4] Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog

2007-04-24 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:49:20 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> The softlockup watchdog is currently a nuisance in a virtual machine, >> since the whole system could have the CPU stolen from it for a long >> period of time. While it would be

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: >* Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The cases are fundamentally different in behavior, because in the >> > first case, X hardly consumes the time it would get in any scheme, >> > while in the second case X really is CPU bound and will

RE: NonExecutable Bit in 32Bit

2007-04-24 Thread Cestonaro, Thilo \(external\)
> I don't think so - some i386 cpus definitely have support for the NX bit. Ok, the cpu's do support it, but the kernel doesn't use it if it is active in the bios. > Would having this be supported in i386 help debugging (and security) > significantly? @William: I don't understand this

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Rogan Dawes
Ingo Molnar wrote: static void yield_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *p_to) { struct rb_node *curr, *next, *first; struct task_struct *p_next; /* * yield-to support: if we are on the same runqueue then * give half of

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gene has done some testing under CFS with X reniced to +10 and the > > desktop still worked smoothly for him. > > As a data point here, and probably nothing to do with X, but I did > manage to lock it up, solid, reset button time tonight, by

Re: [PATCH 10/10] mm: per device dirty threshold

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 12:58 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday April 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Scale writeback cache per backing device, proportional to its writeout > > speed. > > So it works like this: > > We account for writeout in full pages. > When a page has the Writeback flag

Re: [patch 1/4] Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:58:20 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:49:20 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > >> The softlockup watchdog is currently a nuisance in a virtual machine, > >> since the

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2007-04-24 Thread lkml777
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Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: >* Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Gene has done some testing under CFS with X reniced to +10 and the >> > desktop still worked smoothly for him. >> >> As a data point here, and probably nothing to do with X, but I did >> manage to lock it

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Btw., to protect against such mishaps in the future i have changed > > the SysRq-N [SysRq-Nice] implementation in my tree to not only > > change real-time tasks to SCHED_OTHER, but to also renice negative > > nice levels back to 0 - this will

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gene has done some testing under CFS with X reniced to +10 and the desktop still worked smoothly for him. As a data point here, and probably nothing to do with X, but I did manage to lock it up, solid, reset

Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Reflect the relocatability of the kernel in the ELF header.

2007-04-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:12:13PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> Currently because vmlinux does not reflect that the kernel is relocatable >> we still have to support CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START. So this patch adds a small >> c program to do what we

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Btw., to protect against such mishaps in the future i have changed > > the SysRq-N [SysRq-Nice] implementation in my tree to not only > > change real-time tasks to SCHED_OTHER, but to also renice negative > > nice levels back to 0 - this will show

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah, i guess this has little to do with X. I think in your scenario > it might have been smarter to either stop, or to renice the workloads > that took away CPU power from others to _positive_ nice levels. > Negative nice levels can indeed be

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rogan Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >if (p_to && p->wait_runtime > 0) { > >p->wait_runtime >>= 1; > >p_to->wait_runtime += p->wait_runtime; > >} > > > >the above is the basic expression of: "charge a positive bank balance". > > > > [..] >

Re: [PATCH]Fix parsing kernelcore boot option for ia64

2007-04-24 Thread Yasunori Goto
Mel-san. I tested your patch (Thanks!). It worked. But.. > In my understanding, why ia64 doesn't use early_param() macro for mem= at el. > is that > it has to use mem= option at efi handling which is called before > parse_early_param(). > > Current ia64's boot path is > setup_arch() >

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] That way you'd only have had to hit SysRq-N to get the system > out of the wedge.) small correction: Alt-SysRq-N. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[PATCH] i802.11: fixed memory leak on multicasts

2007-04-24 Thread Markus Pietrek
Hi, socket buffers were not always freed when receiving multicasts Bye, -- Markus Pietrek Lead Software Engineer Phone: +49-7667-908-501, Fax: +49-7667-908-200 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FS Forth-Systeme GmbH "A Digi International Company" Kueferstr. 8, 79206 Breisach, Germany Tax: 07008/12000 /

cfs works fine for me

2007-04-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hello, I have tried the cfs patches with 2.6.20.7 in the last days. I am using KDE 3.5.6, gentoo unstable and have a dual core AMD64 system with 1GB ram and a nvidia card (using the closed source drivers, yes I suck, but I love playing 3d games once in a while). I don't have interactivity

[REPORT] cfs-v5 vs sd-0.46

2007-04-24 Thread Michael Gerdau
Hi list, with cfs-v5 finally booting on my machine I have run my daily numbercrunching jobs on both cfs-v5 and sd-0.46, 2.6.21-v7 on top of a stock openSUSE 10.2 (X86_64). Config for both kernel is the same except for the X boost option in cfs-v5 which on my system didn't work (X still was @ -19;

Re: [PATCH] powerpc pseries eeh: Convert to kthread API

2007-04-24 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:00:42 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like anything else, modules should have separated the entrypoints for > > - Initiating a removal request > - Releasing the module > > The former is use did "rmmod", can unregister things from subsystems, >

Re: NonExecutable Bit in 32Bit

2007-04-24 Thread Tuncer Ayaz
On 4/24/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Cestonaro, Thilo (external) wrote: > Hey, > > is it right, that the NX Bit is not used under i386-Arch but > under x86_64-Arch? > When yes, is there a special argument for it not to be used? > > Ciao Thilo I don't

Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH] eHCA: Add "Modify Port" verb

2007-04-24 Thread Christoph Raisch
Hi Hal, you are correct, with the current firmware version it will fail later. Christoph R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 23.04.2007 18:55:59: > Hi Joachim, > > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 12:23, Joachim Fenkes wrote: > > Add "Modify Port" verb support to eHCA driver. > > ib_cm needs this to initialize

Re: [PATCH 0/9] Kconfig: cleanup s390 v2.

2007-04-24 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 10:45 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Andrew: I plan to add patches 1-5 to the for-andrew branch of the > > git390 repository if that is fine with you. The only thing that will > > be missing in the tree is the patch that disables wireless for s390. > > The code does compile

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v5 vs sd-0.46

2007-04-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael Gerdau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running three single threaded perl scripts that do double > precision floating point math with little i/o after initially loading > the data. thanks for the testing! > What I also don't understand is the difference in load average, sd >

cpufreq default governor

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
Question: is there some reason that kconfig does not allow for default governors of conservative/ondemand/powersave? I'm not aware of any reason why one of those governors could not be used as default. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.6.21-rc7: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/core/sock.c:1523

2007-04-24 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Hmm, *sigh*. I guess the patch below fixes the problem, but it is a > > masterpiece in the field of ugliness. And I am not sure whether it is > > completely correct either. Are there any immediate ideas for better > > solution with respect to how

Re: [patch 1/7] libata: check for AN support

2007-04-24 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > static unsigned int ata_print_id = 1; > @@ -1744,6 +1745,23 @@ int ata_dev_configure(struct ata_device > } > dev->cdb_len = (unsigned int) rc; > > + /* > + * check to see if this ATAPI device supports

Re: [patch 1/7] libata: check for AN support

2007-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
> + /* > + * check to see if this ATAPI device supports > + * Asynchronous Notification > + */ > + if ((ap->flags & ATA_FLAG_AN) && ata_id_has_AN(id)) > + { Bracketing police ^^^ > + /* issue SET

Re: [patch 2/7] genhd: expose AN to user space

2007-04-24 Thread Tejun Heo
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > +static struct disk_attribute disk_attr_capability = { > + .attr = {.name = "capability_flags", .mode = S_IRUGO }, > + .show = disk_capability_read > +}; How about just "capability"? I think that would be more consistent with other attributes. --

Re: [patch 7/7] libata: send event when AN received

2007-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
> + /* check the 'N' bit in word 0 of the FIS */ > + if (f[0] & (1 << 15)) { > + int port_addr = ((f[0] & 0x0f00) >> 8); > + struct ata_device *adev = >device[port_addr]; You can't be sure that the port_addr returned will be in

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