MAINTAINERS file out of date?

2007-04-26 Thread Michael McConnell
Hi folks, I noticed the MAINTAINERS file still lists Riley Williams as the maintainer of the i386 boot code, presumably as no-one else has taken it up in his absence (though, I'm sure it's probably been touched since late 2004). If I knew the first thing about the i386 boot process I would

Re: Back to the future.

2007-04-26 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: This is basically the loop above, made complex by the fact that we do not want to have separate partition for snapshot; we just want to reuse free space in swap partition. with the size of drives today is it really that bad to require a seperate

[sky2] hw csum failure with 2.6.17 and Yukon-EC...

2007-04-26 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On my sky2 platform [1], I'm still seeing lockups after some time [2] with 2.6.21 (including all the -rc kernels). I've found that 'ethtool -K lan0 rx off' seems to workaround the problem - I'm running with 9k jumbo frames, but I find the problem with 1500 byte frames also. Perhaps you need to

Re: [ck] Re: [REPORT] cfs-v6-rc2 vs sd-0.46 vs 2.6.21-rc7

2007-04-26 Thread Con Kolivas
On Thursday 26 April 2007 22:07, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Michael Gerdau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, find below a test comparing 2.6.21-rc7 (mainline) 2.6.21-rc7-sd046 2.6.21-rc7-cfs-v6-rc2(*) (X @ nice 0) 2.6.21-rc7-cfs-v6-rc2(*) (X @ nice -10) running on a

[PATCH] rtc-cmos: make it load on PNPBIOS systems

2007-04-26 Thread Marko Vrh
Replace CONFIG_PNPACPI with CONFIG_PNP, so it loads on ACPI-less PNPBIOS systems. Signed-off-by: Marko Vrh [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urNp linux-2.6.21/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c linux-2.6.21.new/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c --- linux-2.6.21/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c 2007-04-26 05:08:32.0 +0200

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

2007-04-26 Thread Con Kolivas
On Friday 27 April 2007 08:00, Bill Davidsen wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * 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

Re: Back to the future.

2007-04-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This is basically the loop above, made complex by the fact that we do not want to have separate partition for snapshot; we just want to reuse free space in swap partition. with the size of drives today is it really that bad to require a seperate partition for this? Yes. You want

Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date?

2007-04-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Michael McConnell wrote: Hi folks, I noticed the MAINTAINERS file still lists Riley Williams as the maintainer of the i386 boot code, presumably as no-one else has taken it up in his absence (though, I'm sure it's probably been touched since late 2004). If I knew the first thing about

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 USB related boot hang - bisection result

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:39:19 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: 2.6.21-rc6 boots up fine. Both rc6 and rc7 has a different problem - the machine tends to hang after some minutes work in X. That hang is unusual in that moving

Re: Back to the future.

2007-04-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Well, I think that much of what Linus is saying indicates that he hasn't tried to write any such thing himself. ;-) That's definitely true. The only interaction I ever had with hibernation (and yes, we should just call it that) is when I was

Re: [RFC 1/2] Input: ff, add FF_RAW effect

2007-04-26 Thread Jiri Slaby
Dmitry Torokhov napsal(a): On 4/22/07, Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we won't be able to make the transition in independent way due to unspecified meaning of the torques. With phantom it still seems doable - if I understand correctly ther is one point of containct and one

Re: Back to the future.

2007-04-26 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! This is basically the loop above, made complex by the fact that we do not want to have separate partition for snapshot; we just want to reuse free space in swap partition. with the size of drives today is it really that bad to require a seperate

Re: [PATCH] ohci1394: Fix mistake in printk message.

2007-04-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Simon Arlott wrote: Fix the attempting to setting message in ohci1394. Committed to linux1394-2.6.git and queued for merge. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-- ==-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:49:05 -0400 Ulrich Drepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The next revision of POSIX will support fine-grained filesystem timestamps the way we already support. struct stat will report nanosecond values. So far so good. During the development one additional problem

Re: Back to the future.

2007-04-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! That's a feature. If you are booting from live CD, you _want_ to erase any hibernation image. why? it's been stated that doing a std and booting another OS (including windows) is a valid and common useage. saying that if you boot another OS you trash your suspended image doesn't

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

2007-04-26 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 04:58:40AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: Adjustments to the lag computation for for arrivals and departures during execution are among the missing pieces. Some algorithmic devices are also needed to account for the varying growth rates of lags of tasks waiting to

[PATCH 1/1] IBM PPC EMAC driver:improved support for PHY configuration

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Haran
From: Jeff Haran [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch fixes some problems I found while debugging the IBM EMAC driver for PPC32 systems. The first problem was in the function that configures the PHY for autonegotiation, genmii_setup_aneg(). The original code does a read/modify/write of the

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Adrian, On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 14:58 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: I am aware that my work had some effect, and I am aware that my work gets appreciated - there's no need for everyone to repeat this. Nevertheless, thanks for your efforts and time spent. You did a great job and I hope you can

Re: Back to the future.

2007-04-26 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! That's a feature. If you are booting from live CD, you _want_ to erase any hibernation image. why? it's been stated that doing a std and booting another OS (including windows) is a valid and common useage. saying that if you boot another OS you

[ANNOUNCE] battery2 git repository

2007-04-26 Thread Anton Vorontsov
Hi all, David Woodhouse has been *very* kind enough to provide git repository for the battery stuff I've posted recently. Much thanks, David! To not confuse with David own battery-2.6 repository, it's called battery2-2.6, and can be found here:

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-26 Thread William Lee Irwin III
It's possible to divorce PAGE_SIZE from the binary formats, though I found it difficult to keep up with the update treadmill. On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:09:24PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: On x86_64 the sizes is actually 64K for executable binaries if I recall correctly. It certainly is

2.6.21 reiserfs -- cicular locking?

2007-04-26 Thread David Brownell
This might be a Heisenberg, but I figure it's worth posting in case anyone else sees similar oddness. Never seen it before or since. It's as if a gremlin got annoyed with me for switching a filesystem from reiser to ext3. :) - Dave === [

Re: compat_ioctl question

2007-04-26 Thread Andi Kleen
Paul Fulghum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. define compat_ioctl() file operation for device and implement translation code in individual driver 2. add COMPATIBLE_IOCTL entry to include/linux/compat_ioctl.h to mark an ioctl code as the same in any environment 3. add HANDLE_IOCTL entry

Re: Non continuous VM address space

2007-04-26 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Phy Prabab wrote: Sometimes the next memory allocation is several megs above where the previous mapping came from. Is this possible? The kernel is free to place mmaped memory whereever it likes unless you use MAP_FIXED and specify an address. J - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

[-mm patch] make drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c:backlight_work static

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global backlight_work static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c.old 2007-04-27 00:34:45.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c 2007-04-27 00:34:57.0 +0200

[-mm patch] unexport highlevel_host_reset

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:57:16PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.21-rc7-mm1: ... git-ieee1394.patch ... git trees ... highlevel_host_reset no longer has any modular users. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ---

[2.6 patch] include/linux/kprobes.h: always offer show_registers() prototype

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
Allow gcc to perform show_registers() type checking also with CONFIG_KPROBES=n. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 27 Mar 2007 include/linux/kprobes.h |4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) ---

[2.6 patch] drivers/scsi/pcmcia/nsp_cs.c: remove kernel 2.4 code

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes kernel 2.4 code and some ancient CVS tags. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 26 Mar 2007 drivers/scsi/pcmcia/nsp_cs.c | 159 +-- drivers/scsi/pcmcia/nsp_cs.h |8 - 2 files changed, 5

[RFC: 2.6 patch] drivers/scsi/ips.c: remove kernel 2.4 code

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes some kernel 2.4 code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 26 Mar 2007 drivers/scsi/ips.c | 145 + drivers/scsi/ips.h | 44 - 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 169

[2.6 patch] drivers/mtd/maps/ck804xrom.c: convert pci_module_init()

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch converts the pci_module_init() usage to pci_register_driver(). It's currently #if 0'ed, but still not a bad idea to change it. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 6 Apr 2007 --- linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm4/drivers/mtd/maps/ck804xrom.c.old

[2.6 patch] make arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:remapped_pgdat_init() static

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global remapped_pgdat_init() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 27 Mar 2007 --- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c.old 2007-03-26 15:53:44.0 +0200 +++

[2.6 patch] drivers/scsi/nsp32.c: remove kernel 2.4 code

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes kernel 2.4 code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 26 Mar 2007 drivers/scsi/nsp32.c | 109 +-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-) ---

[2.6 patch] make arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c:timer_irq_works() static again

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
timer_irq_works() needlessly became global. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 28 Mar 2007 --- linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c.old 2007-03-28 00:04:18.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c

[2.6 patch] drivers/video/sis/: remove more kernel 2.4 code

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes the remaining kernel 2.4 code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 26 Mar 2007 drivers/video/sis/osdef.h|5 - drivers/video/sis/sis.h | 50 drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c | 105

[2.6 patch] arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c should #include asm/timer.h

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for it's global functions. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 27 Mar 2007 --- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c.old 2007-03-26 15:58:48.0 +0200 +++

[RFC: 2.6 patch] drivers/mtd/maps/nettel.c: possible cleanups

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make 2 needlessly global functions static - #if 0 the unused nettel_eraseconfig() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 27 Mar 2007 drivers/mtd/maps/nettel.c | 10 -- 1 file changed, 8

linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2 fails to compile

2007-04-26 Thread William Heimbigner
Output leading up to the error: CC drivers/macintosh/macio-adb.o LD drivers/macintosh/built-in.o CC [M] drivers/macintosh/apm_emu.o CC [M] drivers/macintosh/therm_windtunnel.o drivers/macintosh/therm_windtunnel.c: In function 'therm_of_remove':

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/scsi/nsp32.c: remove kernel 2.4 code

2007-04-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch removes kernel 2.4 code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 26 Mar 2007 drivers/scsi/nsp32.c | 109 +-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 96

Request for clarification on disk i/o limitations

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
I'm studying the behavior of the page cache vs. direct i/o in the kernel (so far up to 2.6.9-42.0.10 for CentOS 4.4, moving to 2.6.18 for CentOS 5 soon). I have found that large I/O requests get broken up differently between direct i/o and cached i/o (not surprising, but it's the way they're

Re: Back to the future.

2007-04-26 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 06:50:56AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: I'm perfectly willing to think through some alternate approach if you suggest something or prod my thinking in a new direction, but I'm afraid I just can't see right now how we can achieve what you're after. Ok, what about this

Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation

2007-04-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:49:05 -0400 Ulrich Drepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the tv_nsec value of either of the elements of the utimes parameter to utimensat() is UTIME_OMIT no update of that respective value is performed. ITYM If the value of either of the

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/scsi/nsp32.c: remove kernel 2.4 code

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:59:57PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch removes kernel 2.4 code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 26 Mar 2007 drivers/scsi/nsp32.c | 109

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-04-25-02-49.tar.gz uploaded

2007-04-26 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:21:35PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi Greg, Michal Piotrowski napisa?(a): Hi all, [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa?(a): The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-04-25-02-49.tar.gz has been uploaded to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] battery2 git repository

2007-04-26 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 03:29:02AM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote: To not confuse with David own battery-2.6 repository, it's called battery2-2.6, and can be found here: So, I'm still not quite understanding this, is David giving up on his code now that you have pulled his changes into your

Re: [-mm patch] unexport highlevel_host_reset

2007-04-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: highlevel_host_reset no longer has any modular users. Thanks, I missed this when I removed the last usage outside the 1394 core. Committed to linux1394-2.6.git. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-- ==-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-26 Thread Jeremy Higdon
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:50:33PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 04:10:32AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: And then there's the problem that most hardware is limited to 128 s/g entries and that means 128 non-contiguous pages in memory is the maximum I/O size we can

Re: [PATCH 1/1] IBM PPC EMAC driver:improved support for PHY configuration

2007-04-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 16:18 -0700, Jeff Haran wrote: From: Jeff Haran [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch fixes some problems I found while debugging the IBM EMAC driver for PPC32 systems. The first problem was in the function that configures the PHY for autonegotiation, genmii_setup_aneg(). The

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-26 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On (26/04/07 20:39), Jens Axboe didst pronounce: But don't push large pages as the only solution to larger ios, because that is trivially not true. On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:22:02PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: Would it be fair to say that your approach and using large pages are not mutually

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Maybe we need to coordinate changes better. 2.6.21 got three big updates which affected suspend/resume - one of them is my fault. But fiddling out which one of those - we had nested problems as well - makes it quite hard to grok them in time,

Re: Back to the future.

2007-04-26 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:49:51PM -0700, David Lang wrote: swap partitions are limited to 2G (or at least they were a couple of months ago when I last checked). I also don't want to run the risk of having a box try to _use_ 16G worth of swap. I'd rather have the box hit OOM first. They

Re: [PATCH] change global zonelist order on NUMA v2

2007-04-26 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:48:19 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: (1)Use new zonelist ordering always and move init_task's tied cpu to a cpu on the best node. Child processes will start in good nodes even if Node 0 has

RE: [PATCH 1/1] IBM PPC EMAC driver:improved support for PHYconfiguration

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Haran
-Original Message- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:19 PM To: Jeff Haran Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] IBM PPC EMAC driver:improved support for PHYconfiguration On Thu,

Re: linux-2.6.21 and __udivid3

2007-04-26 Thread l l
Hi, Sorry for the late, i was in my bed. I assume this is a plain 2.6.21 from ftp.kernel.org? Yes. Can you reproduce this with gcc 4.1? If yes, please send your .config . I don't, i think i have to go back to gcc-4.2.0 which was fine with linux-2.6.21-rc7. It will be same to 2.6.21. TIA

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-26 Thread William Lee Irwin III
William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In memory as on disk, contiguity matters a lot for performance. On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:21:24PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Not nearly so much though. In memory you don't have seeks to avoid. On disks avoiding seeks is everything. I

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/scsi/nsp32.c: remove kernel 2.4 code

2007-04-26 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 02:13 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:59:57PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch removes kernel 2.4 code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 April 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Friday 27 April 2007 00:41, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 26 April 2007, Redeeman wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 23:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: snip As usual, any sort of feedback, bugreport, fix and suggestion is more than welcome,

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 -- x86_64 VDSO compile error II

2007-04-26 Thread Andi Kleen
That's vdso.lds.S, not vdso.lds. The VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET is still 0x400. This is what I should have posted the last time --- build/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h.orig 2007-04-26 08:43:31.523739878 -0700 +++ build/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h 2007-04-26 08:43:38.839579356 -0700 @@ -1 +1 @@

Re: [PATCH] change global zonelist order on NUMA v2

2007-04-26 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:57:40 -0400 Lee Schermerhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 18:34 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: Changelog from V1 - V2 - sysctl name is changed to be relaxed_zone_order - NORMAL-NORMAL--DMA-DMA-DMA order (new ordering) is now default.

Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation

2007-04-26 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Andrew Morton wrote: Does the spec say what the OS should do if (ts_nsec = 1e9)? Yes, return EINVAL. We already do this. It's just that now we have to recognize two special values. OK, so there's no collision on ts_nsec if unnormalised timespecs are disallowed. Indeed, that's the basis of

Re: linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2 fails to compile

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:00:15 + (GMT) William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Output leading up to the error: CC drivers/macintosh/macio-adb.o LD drivers/macintosh/built-in.o CC [M] drivers/macintosh/apm_emu.o CC [M] drivers/macintosh/therm_windtunnel.o

RE: W1 printk format warning

2007-04-26 Thread Williams, Dan J
From: Andrew Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:17:44 +0400 Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 04:45:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED] foundation.org) wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:21:04 -0700 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation

2007-04-26 Thread Ulrich Drepper
H. Peter Anvin wrote: I'm a bit leery of abusing the timespec value like this, though. A flags field seem like it would be cleaner. It's ugly. Then you have the parameter, which might have nice valid values, and they get ignored. I thought about it when this was discussed in the working

Re: linux-2.6.21 and __udivid3

2007-04-26 Thread l l
It attachs, Here is another compilation failure. make CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CHK include/linux/compile.h CC [M] drivers/w1/w1.o drivers/w1/w1.c: In function 'w1_slave_read_id': drivers/w1/w1.c:118: error: cannot take address of bit-field

Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation

2007-04-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Ulrich Drepper wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: I'm a bit leery of abusing the timespec value like this, though. A flags field seem like it would be cleaner. It's ugly. Then you have the parameter, which might have nice valid values, and they get ignored. I thought about it when this was

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-26 Thread Con Kolivas
On Friday 27 April 2007 10:39, Gene Heskett wrote: Not necessarily Con. Do you have a fresh one for 2.6.21? Since people get nervous about any rejects here is an (otherwise identical) patch for 2.6.21 http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-sd-0.46.patch -- -ck - To

[PATCH] v2: utimensat implementation

2007-04-26 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Oops, little bug, I hooked-up the wrong syscall for the IA32 compat code. Fixed in this revision. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S index 796df69..12611c8 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S +++

[PATCH] x86_64: dynamic MCE poll interval

2007-04-26 Thread Tim Hockin
From: Tim Hockin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Background: We've found that MCEs (specifically DRAM SBEs) tend to come in bunches, especially when we are trying really hard to stress the system out. The current MCE poller uses a static interval which does not care whether it has or has not found MCEs

Re: [PATCH 1/3] ia64: convert to use clocksource code

2007-04-26 Thread Chris Wright
* Peter Keilty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c index 6077300..35ad71f 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c @@ -480,10 +480,12 @@ #endif /* Get end time (ticks) */

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 April 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: On Friday 27 April 2007 10:39, Gene Heskett wrote: Not necessarily Con. Do you have a fresh one for 2.6.21? Since people get nervous about any rejects here is an (otherwise identical) patch for 2.6.21

Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date?

2007-04-26 Thread WANG Cong
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 04:13:01PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Michael McConnell wrote: Hi folks, I noticed the MAINTAINERS file still lists Riley Williams as the maintainer of the i386 boot code, presumably as no-one else has taken it up in his absence (though, I'm sure it's probably been

Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation

2007-04-26 Thread Ulrich Drepper
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Primarily to let a backup program restore the full state of the filesystem. Is this wanted? Or needed? I would think there are good reasons why this hasn't been done so far. Intrusion detection is one reason I can think of. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444

Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date?

2007-04-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
WANG Cong wrote: I have considered myself as a rather unofficial maintainer of this code, and wouldn't mind make it official now when I actually have a job which both cares about and actually can support my upstream Linux activities, which was a major pain for a while. Overall, there is a

Pin an IRQ to a particular CPU

2007-04-26 Thread Phy Prabab
Hello, In an effort to increase over all throughput of my Linux NFS file server, I thought about trying to force an IRQ, for the NIC, to be serviced by a particular CPU. Is this possible? TIA, Phy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2 fails to compile

2007-04-26 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:54:20 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:00:15 + (GMT) William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Output leading up to the error: CC drivers/macintosh/macio-adb.o LD drivers/macintosh/built-in.o CC [M]

[PATCH 1/1] IBM PPC EMAC driver:improved support for PHY, resending

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Haran
From: Jeff Haran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resending with Outlook patch mangling hopefully corrected (Maybe I should write a HOWTO, this was harder than fixing the driver). This patch fixes some problems I found while debugging the IBM EMAC driver for PPC32 systems. The first problem was in the function

[PATCH 1/2] msi: fix ARM compile

2007-04-26 Thread Dan Williams
In file included from drivers/pci/msi.c:22: include/asm/smp.h:17:26: asm/arch/smp.h: No such file or directory include/asm/smp.h:20:3: #error asm-arm/smp.h included in non-SMP build include/asm/smp.h:23:1: warning: raw_smp_processor_id redefined In file included from include/linux/sched.h:65,

[PATCH 2/2] iop13xx: msi support (rev6)

2007-04-26 Thread Dan Williams
From: Daniel Wolstenholme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enable devices to signal interrupts via PCI memory cycles. rev6: * fix enable/disable typo, Michael Ellerman rev5: * fix up ack, enable, and disable for iop13xx_msi_chip rev4: * move smp compile fix to separate patch * use dynamic_irq_init in

Re: [PATCH] change global zonelist order on NUMA v2

2007-04-26 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: DMA memory. It seems a bit complicated. If we do so, following can occur, Node1: cpu0,1,2,3 Node0: cpu4,5,6,7 We were discussing a two node NUMA system. If you have more put it onto the last. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

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

2007-04-26 Thread Peer Chen
You are right,both ways would cause confusion,but sooner or later we need to move it because our NICs onward are all Gigabit and 100M NICs will disappear gradually in the future. Probably H.Peter's suggestion that have a single list for 100M and 1000M is a better choice. -Original

[PATCH -rt] Stop interrupt storm for fasteoi.

2007-04-26 Thread Steven Rostedt
Ingo, I've spent several days banging my head on this bug, and I finally found it. I originally thought we had a bug with the latency tracer, since it seemed to only occur when I turned on latency tracing. But I guess it just changed the timings to cause the bug to happen. Now that I found where

PROBLEM

2007-04-26 Thread Thomas Kayser
PCI transparent bridge This report is FYI, filed because of the kernel message. Using the kernel parameter seems to work fine. On boot there is a message that says this: Kernel:PCI: Transparent bridge - :00:1e.0 Kernel:PCI: Bus #04 (-#07) is hidden behind transparent bridge #03 (-#04)

RE: [PATCH 1/1] IBM PPC EMAC driver:improved support for PHYconfiguration

2007-04-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 17:28 -0700, Jeff Haran wrote: -Original Message- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:19 PM To: Jeff Haran Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] IBM PPC EMAC

Re: [PATCH] change global zonelist order on NUMA v2

2007-04-26 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:25:10 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: DMA memory. It seems a bit complicated. If we do so, following can occur, Node1: cpu0,1,2,3 Node0: cpu4,5,6,7 We were discussing a two node NUMA

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

2007-04-26 Thread Dominik Brodowski
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:03:27PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: 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

Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation

2007-04-26 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday April 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The next revision of POSIX will support fine-grained filesystem timestamps the way we already support. struct stat will report nanosecond values. So far so good. Does it also specify how to find out what granularity is used by the filesystem?

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 24 Apr 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 order 0.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] battery2 git repository

2007-04-26 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 05:09:28PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 03:29:02AM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote: To not confuse with David own battery-2.6 repository, it's called battery2-2.6, and can be found here: So, I'm still not quite understanding this, is David giving up

Re: [patch] unprivileged mounts update

2007-04-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Miklos Szeredi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Quoting Miklos Szeredi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): So then as far as you're concerned, the patches which were in -mm will remain unchanged? Basically yes. I've merged the update patch, which was not yet added to -mm, did some cosmetic code

Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation

2007-04-26 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Neil Brown wrote: Does it also specify how to find out what granularity is used by the filesystem? I had a need for this just recently and couldn't see any way to extract it. That's still on the table. We might end up with an fpathconf() solution. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-26 Thread David Chinner
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:04:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 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

Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date?

2007-04-26 Thread WANG Cong
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:12:43PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: WANG Cong wrote: I have considered myself as a rather unofficial maintainer of this code, and wouldn't mind make it official now when I actually have a job which both cares about and actually can support my upstream Linux

2.6.21-rc7-mm2 breaks 'lvm vgscan'.

2007-04-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:57:16 PDT, Andrew Morton said: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc7/2.6.21-rc7-mm2/ This addition in -rc7-mm1 breaks my laptop (Dell Latitude D820, x86_64 kernel) gregkh-driver-sysfs-fix-i_ino-handling-in-sysfs.patch The initrd on my

Re: [mmc] alternative TI FM MMC/SD driver for 2.6.21-rc7

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Dubov
--- Pierre Ossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sergey Yanovich wrote: I have found it easier to rewrite the driver, than to fix. Before you get your hopes up, this development model is not one that will get your code merged upstream. You should really try to work with Alex, not side step

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

2007-04-26 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Thursday 26 April 2007 18:56, Con Kolivas wrote: On Friday 27 April 2007 08:00, Bill Davidsen wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * 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

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:27:31 +1000 David Chinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:04:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:21:05 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patchset modifies the Linux kernel so that larger block sizes than page size can be

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 breaks 'lvm vgscan'.

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:31:15 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:57:16 PDT, Andrew Morton said: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc7/2.6.21-rc7-mm2/ This addition in -rc7-mm1 breaks my laptop (Dell Latitude D820, x86_64 kernel)

[PATCH] (i386) fix wrong comment for syscall stack layout

2007-04-26 Thread Satoru Takeuchi
Fix wrong comment for syscall stack layout. `ret_from_sys_call' label no longer exist and `syscall_exit' label was introduced instead. Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.21/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S

[PATCH] v3: utimensat implementation

2007-04-26 Thread Ulrich Drepper
One comment I got suggested to clean up the overflow tests. There is no reason to not perform the full micro-second overflow test in those two places. The four conditions are reduced by the compiler to just two tests so there's no problems with performance. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22 5/5] iw_cxgb3: Update required firmware revision to 4.0.0.

2007-04-26 Thread Roland Dreier
Update required firmware revision to 4.0.0. Hmm... should we fold this into the earlier patch, which actually needs this new FW? Or at least merge this patch first? Also, is it cool with everyone to require a new FW, even for users who might not be using (or even building) the RDMA driver?

Re: [PATCH] rtc-cmos: make it load on PNPBIOS systems

2007-04-26 Thread David Brownell
On Thursday 26 April 2007, Marko Vrh wrote: Replace CONFIG_PNPACPI with CONFIG_PNP, so it loads on ACPI-less PNPBIOS systems. Signed-off-by: Marko Vrh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urNp linux-2.6.21/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c

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