Re: [git patches] libata updates

2007-04-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stephen Clark wrote: Yeah the kernel will boot but the hd performance is sh*t on my laptop. I am running FC6 with kernel 2.6.21 and without the combined_mode setting my disk performance goes down to a whopping 1.25mb/sec from 44mb/sec when I boot with combined_mode=libata. It make my system

RE: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modulestoo

2007-04-30 Thread David Schwartz
FWIW I think doing this first will be better, exposing _all_ to non GNU modules will weaken whatever case we might have to take it away later. So, NACK from me too. I don't want to hear the whining; but it was allowed in .22, so why should we not be able to do this in .23 or whatever.

Re: [BUG] 2.6.21: Kernel won't boot with either/both of CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS

2007-04-30 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: I have a new notebook (Dell Inspiron 9400) with Core2-Duo T7400 @ 2.1Ghz. When either/both of CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is used, the 2.6.21 kernel hangs on startup just after printing one/both of these: .. That's a hard hang, by the way. No magic

Re: 3d smoothness (was: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6)

2007-04-30 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 22:17 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Kasper Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch makes things much worse, [...] yeah, the small patch i sent to you in private mail was indeed buggy, please disregard it. It also hardlocked my box :) but it was worth a shot.

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 suspend bug. [kernel/kthread.c]

2007-04-30 Thread Dan Kruchinin
On 4/30/07, Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Please don't drop addresses from the CC list] On Sunday, 29 April 2007 22:46, Dan Kruchinin wrote: On 4/30/07, Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:51, Dan Kruchinin wrote: Hi all.

Re: [PATCH 09/12] i386/x86_64: EHCI usb debug port early printk support.

2007-04-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for writing that code. It should be an interesting alternative on boxes where firescope doesn't work. I hope I can eventually merge early firewire support code too. On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:32:02AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: With legacy

Re: [patch] pm: include EIO from errno-base.h

2007-04-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:15:57 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes wrote: For backwards compatibility, call_platform_enable_wakeup() can return 0 instead of -EIO since we aren't guaranteed to have errno defined. Cc: David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David Rientjes [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [git patches] libata updates

2007-04-30 Thread alan
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Alan Cox wrote: Yeah the kernel will boot but the hd performance is sh*t on my laptop. I am running FC6 with kernel 2.6.21 and without the combined_mode setting my disk performance goes down to a whopping 1.25mb/sec from 44mb/sec when I boot with combined_mode=libata.

DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical points about ...)

2007-04-30 Thread Markus Rechberger
Hi, Trent Piepho wrote another patch for it, it just completes Uwe's patch in the end. http://linuxtv.org/hg/~tap/dst-new?cmd=changeset;node=bbdd2b53cd5c;style=gitweb as far as I see from that patch it cleans up a memory leak which would happen when the system tries to load the dst module if

Re: PROBLEM: oops in 2.6.21.1 after bringing up the network

2007-04-30 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Manuel Metz wrote: Brett Ryland wrote: Hi, I am consistently getting a kernel oops from a vanilla 2.6.21.1 kernel. It also occurs in vanilla 2.6.21, but not in 2.6.20.8. The relevant section of the kernel is networking, in particular the sis900 module (I think). The attached file contains

Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.22

2007-04-30 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 30 April 2007 22:05, Matt Mackall wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:03:30PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: These are older and might have been fixed: - Mat Mackall's Thinkpads not waking up on lid open with -rc6-mm1 This seems to be related to suspend to

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 suspend bug. [kernel/kthread.c]

2007-04-30 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 30 April 2007 22:52, Dan Kruchinin wrote: On 4/30/07, Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Please don't drop addresses from the CC list] On Sunday, 29 April 2007 22:46, Dan Kruchinin wrote: On 4/30/07, Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 crash: Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)

2007-04-30 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 30.04.2007 21:46 schrieb Andrew Morton: 2.6.21-final is fine. Sure, but what about 2.6.21-git3 (or, better, current -git)? OIC. Sorry for being dense. Will check. If that's OK then we need to pick through the difference between 2.6.21-rc7-mm2's driver tree and the patches which went

Re: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modules too

2007-04-30 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Alan Cox wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:50:09 +0100 Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:28:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Otherwise non GPL modules cannot even do basic operations like disabling interrupts anymore, which would be excessive. Longer

RE: condingstyle, was Re: utrace comments

2007-04-30 Thread Luck, Tony
I'm a bit lost here. Are we referring to if (expr) { ... } else { ... } versus if (expr) { ... } else { ... } This one is already covered by Documentation/CodingStyle (with the

Re: 2.6.21 known regressions (v2) (for -stable team)

2007-04-30 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Subject: 2.6.21: sky2 hw csum failure problem References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/28/105 Submitter : Håkan Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status : unknown This is not a regression it is a bug, that has shown up for some users for quite a while, see:

Re: Linux 2.6.21: pmtmr losing time

2007-04-30 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 18:39 +0200, Joerg Sommrey wrote: Here it is. Maybe this problem is related to the usage of the experimental amd76x_pm module? Can you please verify what happens w/o that module ? Thanks, tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

[PATCH] add taskstats.h to headers package

2007-04-30 Thread Don Zickus
taskstats.h is missing from the kernel headers package. It was designed to be used from userland, so it should be safe. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/include/linux/Kbuild b/include/linux/Kbuild index 4ff0f57..b5f9a62 100644 --- a/include/linux/Kbuild +++

Re: X display shift with disabled console blanking

2007-04-30 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 13:58 +0100, James Pearson wrote: Antonino A. Daplas wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 18:08 +0100, James Pearson wrote: I have a problem whereby the X display 'shifts' to left when anything writes to /dev/console - where console screen blanking has been disabled i.e.

Re: [git patches] libata updates

2007-04-30 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Jeff Garzik wrote: Chuck Ebbert wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Jeff Garzik (8): libata/IDE: remove combined mode quirk You can't just remove the combined_mode= kernel parameter or every Linux user who uses that will get an unbootable kernel with no good way of diagnosing the problem. It

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2007-04-30 Thread Corey Minyard
I think I've spotted a bug in the 8250 code, but I'm not really sure. I'm having a hard time understanding why the lsr_break_flag is necessary. Subject: Serial 8250: clear the lsr_break_flag at open The lsr_break_flag in the 8250 driver is not cleared when the port is opened. This means that

Re: [2/6] add config option to vmalloc stacks (was: Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default)

2007-04-30 Thread Bill Irwin
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:15:11PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: So if you want to invest some time into getting this into mergeable shape I'd suggest you redo the patch series in the following way: patch 1: dynamic allocated irq stacks patch 2: make irqstacks unconditional, but allow

Serial 8250: clear the lsr_break_flag at open

2007-04-30 Thread Corey Minyard
Sorry for the double send, but I messed up on the subject. I'll get used to mutt one of these days. I think I've spotted a bug in the 8250 code, but I'm not really sure. I'm having a hard time understanding why the lsr_break_flag is necessary. Subject: Serial 8250: clear the lsr_break_flag at

Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.22

2007-04-30 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:31:42PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Can you please do 'echo shutdown /sys/power/disk' before the hibernation and see what happens? Do I need to reboot for this test? Same behavior without a reboot. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To

Re: [PATCH] fix dynticks for voyager

2007-04-30 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 11:38 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: As usual voyager tripped over an explicit boot CPU is zero assumption in the dynticks code. This is the fix I have queued in the voyager tree. I expected some kind of voyager breakage. I desperately tried to find one for testing in my

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

2007-04-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric W. Biederman wrote: I have several ideas on how we can make this work but first I have to ask what is it that you are trying to accomplish? The requirements are: 1. the domain builder needs to get various information about the

Re: [git patches] libata updates

2007-04-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Chuck Ebbert wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Jeff Garzik (8): libata/IDE: remove combined mode quirk You can't just remove the combined_mode= kernel parameter or every Linux user who uses that will get an unbootable kernel with no good way of diagnosing

Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and 1GB RAM

2007-04-30 Thread Matt Keenan
William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:26:42 +0100 Bradley Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, all I want to know is whether or not enabling CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G for a laptop that has exactly 1GB of RAM will result in any performance degradation. On Mon, Apr 30,

Re: condingstyle, was Re: utrace comments

2007-04-30 Thread Stefan Richter
Satyam Sharma wrote: [...] The rationale is to make the operator prominent and thus make the structure of a complex multi-line compound conditional expression more readable and obvious at first glance itself. For example, consider: if (veryverylengthycondition1 smallcond2

Re: 2.6.21 known regressions (v2) (for -stable team)

2007-04-30 Thread Håkan Lindqvist
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 14:30 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: Subject: 2.6.21: sky2 hw csum failure problem References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/28/105 Submitter : Håkan Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status : unknown This is not a regression it is a bug, that has shown up

Re: [patch 09/32] xen: xen configuration

2007-04-30 Thread Zachary Amsden
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: +config XEN + bool Enable support for Xen hypervisor + depends on PARAVIRT !PREEMPT !SMP + default y + help + This is the Linux Xen port. Enabling this will allow the + kernel to boot in a paravirtualized environment under the

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Trent Piepho
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: Anyway, I'll get out of the discussion. There's clearly some personality issues in the DVB area, and I don't know quite _why_ that is, but Uwe, you're definitely not helping. There isn't a problem here, just a lot of noise coming from one source. I

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

2007-04-30 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Eric W. Biederman wrote: I think I'd prefer to have the domain builder decompress/relocate the kernel from the bzImage and start it directly, rather than have it decompress/relocate itself, but I'm not really set on that. We can change a lot more implementation details arbitrarily if

Re: can a kmalloc be both GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_KERNEL at the same time?

2007-04-30 Thread Stefan Richter
Satyam Sharma wrote: On 4/30/07, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i2o/device.c should be GFP_KERNEL as far as I can tell. It was meant to be that way and the callers appear to all be calling it in sleep capable contexts. aic7xxx_old.c should probably be GFP_KERNEL as -slave_alloc methods

Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and 1GB RAM

2007-04-30 Thread William Lee Irwin III
William Lee Irwin III wrote: The CONFIG_VMSPLIT config options were merged for such cases. It should be able to split on any 4MB-aligned boundary in CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G. CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT appears to do something of this sort to use an entire 1GB RAM with minimal user address space reduction.

old buffer overflow in moxa driver

2007-04-30 Thread dann frazier
hey, I noticed that the moxa input checking security bug described by CVE-2005-0504 appears to remain unfixed upstream. The issue is described here: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0504 Debian has been shipping the following patch from Andres Salomon. I tried

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

2007-04-30 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: I haven't checked if it already has this, but it would be nice if the bzImage had a memory range/list of memory ranges it needs mapped to get the kernel on its feet, so that the domain builder can just go and map those areas for it (either P==V mappings, or with a

SMB2 file system - should it be a distinct module

2007-04-30 Thread Steve French
During SambaXP conference last week, one of the Samba 4 developers talked about the work doing a prototype server for SMB2 protocol which got me thinking about the client side of this again. As some background Windows Vista includes support for a new network file system protocol, SMB2 (which is

Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.22

2007-04-30 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:07, Matt Mackall wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:31:42PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Can you please do 'echo shutdown /sys/power/disk' before the hibernation and see what happens? Do I need to reboot for this test? Same behavior without a reboot. You may

Re: [REPORT] 2.6.21 vs. 2.6.21-sd046 vs. 2.6.21-CFSv7

2007-04-30 Thread Con Kolivas
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 05:29, Bill Davidsen wrote: System: Intel 6600 Core2duo, 2GB RAM, X nice 0 for all tests, display using i945G framebuffer Bill thanks for testing. Test: playing a 'toon with mplayer while kernel build -j20 running. Umm I don't think make -j20 is a realistic load on 2

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Manu Abraham
Trent Piepho wrote: The issue with dst is just a minor missing feature to fully support the dvb helper module customization system. So nobody needs to worry about this anymore, the last two patches in this repository will fix it correctly. With regards to the dst, i have explained earlier to

Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-04-30 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:14:37PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: -Validate that the area is reserved even if we read it from the chipset directly and not from the MCFG table. This catches the case where the BIOS didn't set the location properly in the chipset and has mapped it over other things

Re: old buffer overflow in moxa driver

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
I noticed that the moxa input checking security bug described by CVE-2005-0504 appears to remain unfixed upstream. The issue is described here: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0504 Debian has been shipping the following patch from Andres Salomon. I tried

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-30 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 30 April 2007 08:30, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:09:06 +0200 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, 29 April 2007 22:52, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:18:10PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: [For example, you can create a

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Uwe Bugla
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Von: Trent Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Linux Kernel Mailing list linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michael Krufky [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linux DVB [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 5/1/07, Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trent Piepho wrote: The issue with dst is just a minor missing feature to fully support the dvb helper module customization system. So nobody needs to worry about this anymore, the last two patches in this repository will fix it correctly.

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] DRM TTM Memory Manager patch

2007-04-30 Thread Dave Airlie
A few easy and simple comments based on looking at this for 5 minutes: - drop the typedefs. Yeah, they might be a drm thing, but we don't need them here. Okay I think in-kernel typedefs have to go, but we have a defined DRM interface like it or not and I'd like to be consistent on the

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

2007-04-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric W. Biederman wrote: I think I'd prefer to have the domain builder decompress/relocate the kernel from the bzImage and start it directly, rather than have it decompress/relocate itself, but I'm not really set on that. We can change a

Re: SMB2 file system - should it be a distinct module

2007-04-30 Thread Chris Friesen
Steve French wrote: ...we need to decide whether the kernel implementation of SMB2 client should be a distinct module or just part of the cifs.ko module. snip My guess is that less than 1/3 of the cifs module would overlap - but that overlap is enough that it would be easier to do smb2 as

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

2007-04-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Eric W. Biederman wrote: I'm tempted to just reload the segments in setup.S, but that might break loadlin support or one of the other bootloaders that starts the kernel in 32bit mode so we need to be careful. We already load all the segments in setup.S. I'm retaining this in my rewrite.

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread hermann pitton
Am Dienstag, den 01.05.2007, 01:05 +0200 schrieb Uwe Bugla: Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Von: Trent Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Linux Kernel Mailing list linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michael Krufky

Re: [PATCH] support PCI MCFG space on Intel i915 bridges

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Hancock
Jesse Barnes wrote: On Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:10 pm Robert Hancock wrote: Jesse Barnes wrote: Add support for Intel 915 bridge chips to the new PCI MMConfig detection code. Tested and works on my sole 915 based platform (a Toshiba laptop). I added register masking per Oliver's suggestion,

2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew Morton
- If replying, please be sure to cc the appropriate individuals. Please also consider rewriting the Subject: to something appropriate. - I'll cc linux-mm on this - the memory-management situation is complicated. - The overall stability in recent -mm's was not sufficiently high and we ran

Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default

2007-04-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday April 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:55:52PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: On Saturday April 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 21:19 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: 4k stacks have become a

Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Hancock
Olivier Galibert wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:14:37PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: -Validate that the area is reserved even if we read it from the chipset directly and not from the MCFG table. This catches the case where the BIOS didn't set the location properly in the chipset and has

[0/3] i386 stack handling updates

2007-04-30 Thread Bill Irwin
This is a series of patches to improve i386 stack handling in several manners. The net result is to improve system stability via IRQ stacks while remaining memory efficient and to improve stack debugging. [1/3] dynamically allocate irq stacks This conserves memory while using IRQ stacks.

[PATCH] Allow arch to initialize arch field of the module structure

2007-04-30 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, This will later allow an arch to add module specific information via linker generated tables instead of poking directly in the module object structure. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/module.h |3 +++

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

2007-04-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric W. Biederman wrote: I'm tempted to just reload the segments in setup.S, but that might break loadlin support or one of the other bootloaders that starts the kernel in 32bit mode so we need to be careful. We already load all the segments in

Re: [BUG] 2.6.21: Kernel won't boot with either/both of CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS

2007-04-30 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: I have a new notebook (Dell Inspiron 9400) with Core2-Duo T7400 @ 2.1Ghz. When either/both of CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is used, the 2.6.21 kernel hangs on startup just after printing one/both of these: .. That's a hard hang, by

[1/3] dynamically allocate IRQ stacks

2007-04-30 Thread Bill Irwin
Dynamically allocate IRQ stacks in order to conserve memory when using IRQ stacks. cpu_possible_map is not now initialized in such a manner as to provide a meaningful indication of how many CPU's might be in the system, and features to appear in the sequel also require indirection, so they

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Uwe Bugla
Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 01 May 2007 02:58:49 +0400 Von: Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Trent Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Michael Krufky [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linux Kernel Mailing list linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,

[2/3] unconditional i386 IRQ stacks

2007-04-30 Thread Bill Irwin
IRQ stacks are a valuable stability feature. This patch makes them unconditional, as there is no circumstance under which they do not improve stability and they have no meaningful performance impact. Signed-off-by: William Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: stack-paranoia/include/asm-i386/irq.h

Re: [BUG] 2.6.21: Kernel won't boot with either/both of CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS

2007-04-30 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 19:36 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: Well, in case this helps. If I take the exact same .config that fails, and add *only* this to it, it then boots just fine. CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y That's definitely helpful. Thanks for tracking it down. I look at it tomorrow

[3/3] use vmalloc() to arrange guard pages for stacks

2007-04-30 Thread Bill Irwin
This patch introduces CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK, which vmalloc()'s task and IRQ stacks in order to establish guard pages. In such a manner any stack overflow that references pages immediately adjacent to the stack is immediately trapped with a fault, which precludes silent memory corruption or

Re: [BUG] 2.6.21: Kernel won't boot with either/both of CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS

2007-04-30 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 19:36 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: I have a new notebook (Dell Inspiron 9400) with Core2-Duo T7400 @ 2.1Ghz. When either/both of CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is used, the 2.6.21 kernel hangs on startup just

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 hangs in boot (netconsole)

2007-04-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:16:53 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:23:54 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:01:32 -0700 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:57:16 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:

to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans)

2007-04-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: ahci-crash-fix.patch libata-acpi-add-infrastructure-for-drivers-to-use.patch pata_acpi-restore-driver.patch optional-led-trigger-for-libata.patch ata_timing-ensure-t-cycle-is-always-correct.patch pata_pcmcia-recognize-2gb-compactflash-from-transcend.patch

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] DRM TTM Memory Manager patch

2007-04-30 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:10:00AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: Okay this needs fixing, we do check most ioctls args, the main thing passed in are handles and these are all looked up in the hash table, it may not be so obvious, also most of the ioctls are probably going to end up root or

Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.

2007-04-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:08:05 -0400 Dave Jones wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:02:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Yep, I was going to mention your scripts but you beat me to it. I'll be glad to help maintain such animals if wanted. wanted ;) At least, it would be

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

2007-04-30 Thread Roland Dreier
Thanks, I applied all 5, with the FW version change rolled up into #4/5. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-04-30 Thread Bill Irwin
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:20:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: proper-prototype-for-hugetlb_get_unmapped_area.patch ... convert-hugetlbfs-to-use-vm_ops-fault.patch ... get_unmapped_area-handles-map_fixed-in-hugetlbfs.patch ... get_unmapped_area-doesnt-need-hugetlbfs-hacks-anymore.patch ...

Re: old buffer overflow in moxa driver

2007-04-30 Thread Ismail Dönmez
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 02:04:55 Alan Cox wrote: I noticed that the moxa input checking security bug described by CVE-2005-0504 appears to remain unfixed upstream. The issue is described here: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0504 Debian has been shipping the

Re: [BUG] 2.6.21: Kernel won't boot with either/both of CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS

2007-04-30 Thread Mark Lord
Daniel Walker wrote: Hmm, Do you have a boot log ? I didn't see one in any of the last emails. When it doesn't boot, there's no log. When it does boot with the modified .config file, the log looks like the one attached to this email. Cheers success.log.gz Description: application/gzip

Re: to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans)

2007-04-30 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:48:50PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: add-new_id-to-pcmcia-drivers.patch Dominik is busy. Will probably re-review and send these direct to Linus. I really wish add ID patches would not get buried in this tree. I don't think this is what you think it is (hint:

Re: [BUG] 2.6.21: Kernel won't boot with either/both of CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS

2007-04-30 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi Mark, On 01/05/07, Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Walker wrote: Hmm, Do you have a boot log ? I didn't see one in any of the last emails. When it doesn't boot, there's no log. When it does boot with the modified .config file, the log looks like the one attached to this email.

Re: [PATCH 33/36] Use menuconfig objects II - video/logo

2007-04-30 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 13:56 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Change Kconfig objects from menu, config into menuconfig so that the user can disable the whole feature without having to enter the menu first. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Antonino Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans)

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Subject: to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans) smartypants. On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:48:50 -0400 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: ahci-crash-fix.patch libata-acpi-add-infrastructure-for-drivers-to-use.patch pata_acpi-restore-driver.patch

nfsd/md patches Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-04-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday April 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: remove-nfs4_acl_add_ace.patch the-nfsv2-nfsv3-server-does-not-handle-zero-length-write.patch knfsd-rename-sk_defer_lock-to-sk_lock.patch nfsd-nfs4state-remove-unnecessary-daemonize-call.patch

[PATCH 1/2] wrap access to thread_info

2007-04-30 Thread Roman Zippel
Recently a few direct accesses to the thread_info in the task structure snuck back, so this wraps them with the appropriate wrapper. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This only leaves blackfin in -mm which I'll fix separately (depending on how quickly Andrew is with merging

[PATCH 2/2] rename thread_info to stack

2007-04-30 Thread Roman Zippel
This finally renames the thread_info field in task structure to stack, so that the assumptions about this field are gone and archs have more freedom about placing the thread_info structure. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/h8300/kernel/asm-offsets.c |2 +-

Re: [BUG] 2.6.21: Kernel won't boot with either/both of CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS

2007-04-30 Thread Mark Lord
Michal Piotrowski wrote: Please read chapter 3 {serial,net}console http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-en.pdf No thanks. No serial, and netconsole doesn't work during early boot when it locks up. Besides, we already know as much as the existing messages show. -ml - To

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 hangs in boot (netconsole)

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:51:01 -0700 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:16:53 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:23:54 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:01:32 -0700 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007

Re: [BUG] 2.6.21: Kernel won't boot with either/both of CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS

2007-04-30 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 20:11 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: Michal Piotrowski wrote: Please read chapter 3 {serial,net}console http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-en.pdf No thanks. No serial, and netconsole doesn't work during early boot when it locks up. Besides, we

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Manu Abraham
Uwe Bugla wrote: 1. You utmost personally are responsible for 4 ununsable kernels, as far as bt8xx cards are concerned: 2.6.13, 2.6.14, 2.6.15, 2.6.16! 2. You did not even want to imply to resolve that issue by incarnating that community and synergy principle that linux community needs to

Re: to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans)

2007-04-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: Yeah, a new-id patch is a pretty critical bugfix if you happen to have that hardware. I'll get all these into 2.6.22 by whatever means and will adopt your advice in future. Probably these should go into -stable too, but I don't know what GregChris's position is on new

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-04-30 Thread Markus Rechberger
Manu, also for you please stop it, we know that Uwe writes abusive stuff but you don't have to go on with it. It's about the patch Trent wrote if you're not able to discuss it wait for others to comment it. I only saw subjective reasons why you are against it, but the actual patch doesn't cross

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] DRM TTM Memory Manager patch

2007-04-30 Thread Thomas Hellström
Dave Airlie wrote: Most likely in doxygen as that is what Mesa uses and the intersection of developers is higher in that area, I'll take it as a task to try and kerneldoc the drm at some stage.. - what's with the /proc interface? Don't add new proc code for non-process related things.

Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-04-30 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reiser4 doesn't appear to work anywhere except with Linux AFAICT, and being able to move storage between operating systems sure looks interesting... Not very, actually, unless you're thinking about portable devices which use things like FAT16 for max

Re: [stable] to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans)

2007-04-30 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Yeah, a new-id patch is a pretty critical bugfix if you happen to have that hardware. I'll get all these into 2.6.22 by whatever means and will adopt your advice in future. Probably these should go into -stable too, but I

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 hangs in boot (netconsole)

2007-04-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:51:01 -0700 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:16:53 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:23:54 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:01:32 -0700 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25

Re: [stable] to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans)

2007-04-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Chris Wright wrote: 2) you can add them runtime in userspace (and for pcmcia too after patch in question is applied), so we've historically avoided that kind of patch for -stable. Due to distro installer environments, and very poor support for making dynamic PCI IDs persistent once added,

Re: [PATCH] md: Remove broken SIGKILL support

2007-04-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday April 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Currently md_thread calls allow_signal so it can receive a SIGKILL but then does nothing with it except flush the sigkill so that it not can use an interruptible sleep. This whole dance is silly so

[PATCH] sysfs: printk format warning

2007-04-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fix sysfs printk format warning: fs/sysfs/bin.c:62: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/sysfs/bin.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) ---

MADV_FREE functionality

2007-04-30 Thread Rik van Riel
Andrew Morton wrote: lazy-freeing-of-memory-through-madv_free.patch lazy-freeing-of-memory-through-madv_free-vs-mm-madvise-avoid-exclusive-mmap_sem.patch restore-madv_dontneed-to-its-original-linux-behaviour.patch I think the MADV_FREE changes need more work: We need crystal-clear

2.6.21-git3 Broke UDP Reception

2007-04-30 Thread Pete Clements
fyi: Looks like 2.6.21-git3 broke UDP inbound. Inbound UDP traffic generates an ICMP port unreachable, dns/ntp. Git2 works fine. -- Pete Clements - 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: Revert [POWERPC] various

2007-04-30 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:56:05 +0100 Simon Arlott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reverts themselves are not the real problem, a git bisect could occur between the commit adding it and the one that reverts it. If that commit introduced a bug then surely it would be better to avoid releasing it

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 hangs in boot (netconsole)

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:45:55 -0700 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:51:01 -0700 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:16:53 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:23:54 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:

Re: 2.6.21-git3 Broke UDP Reception

2007-04-30 Thread David Miller
From: Pete Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:44:41 -0400 (EDT) fyi: Looks like 2.6.21-git3 broke UDP inbound. Inbound UDP traffic generates an ICMP port unreachable, dns/ntp. Git2 works fine. Already fixed in Linus's tree. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: MADV_FREE functionality

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:54:02 -0400 Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: lazy-freeing-of-memory-through-madv_free.patch lazy-freeing-of-memory-through-madv_free-vs-mm-madvise-avoid-exclusive-mmap_sem.patch

Re: MADV_FREE functionality

2007-04-30 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On 4/30/07, Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Because right now, I don't know where we are with respect to these things and I doubt if many of our users know either. How can Michael write a manpage for this is we don't tell him what it all does? I think we've been

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