[PATCH][RFC] Remove final vestiges of interrupt-related SA_ flags.

2007-05-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove the few remaining traces of the interrupt-related SA_ flags, which were scheduled for official deletion in September of 2007, anyway. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- there's little point in leaving this cruft in the tree since there were only two instances of the

Re: why does x86 make defconfig build a single, lonely module?

2007-05-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 14 May 2007 19:29:12 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 13 2007 12:48, James Bottomley wrote: Why does ATA select SCSI anyway? Surely PATA doesn't require it? That's a bit offtopic and to the wrong list. libata-pata does require SCSI ... And in the

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: Sure, we don't allow that. Except for xfsprogs in 2.6.1, procps in 2.6.4, oprofile in 2.6.13 and udev in 2.6.19, of course. And we really complained about it! The oprofile thing should be fixed, btw, and yeah,if udev breaks any more, I'll have to

tracking down disk spinups.

2007-05-14 Thread Dave Jones
I was curious why my firewall box never spins down its disk. Given it rarely writes stuff to logs, it's odd that it always seems to have something to write out. killing syslogd, and enabling /proc/sys/vm/block_dump gets me a periodic spew in /proc/kmsg like.. 7[2695397.99] kjournald(366):

Re: [PATCH] timekeeping fix mismerge

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:10:02 +0200 Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The time keeping code move to kernel/time/timekeeping.c broke the clocksource resume logic patch. Fix it up and move the clocksource_resume() call to the appropriate place. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove final vestiges of interrupt-related SA_ flags.

2007-05-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 14:38 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 498ff31..c5d7775 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@

Re: tracking down disk spinups.

2007-05-14 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 14:57 -0400, Dave Jones a écrit : (14:49:52:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) (14:49:56:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / -t ext2 -o remount,rw (14:50:37:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)# mount

Re: [VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
James Bottomley wrote: No, I'm proposing this for 2.6.22-rc1 ... Andi has already said he won't push the smp consolidation patch for 2.6.22. Without this patch, voyager won't even build, since the smp_ops broke it, so it needs to be fixed *now*. Sure, I suppose. But given that the patch

pci probe

2007-05-14 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi, I do have a device that's a multifunction device. Eventhough a MFD, it just has one Interrupt which is shared by by a Configuration space for each function. ie, INTA is shared between them functions. In such a case, i am wondering, (since pci_probe returns a pointer to one PCI function alone

Re: [PATCH] Add driver for Dallas DS1682 elapsed time recorder

2007-05-14 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:29:04 -0600, Grant Likely wrote: BTW, I've just left the driver in drivers/i2c/chips. It seems sufficiently different from an rtc (and the interface is totally difference) that putting it in drivers/rtc seems wrong. If you disagree, I can change this. That's fine with

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove final vestiges of interrupt-related SA_ flags.

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 14:38 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 498ff31..c5d7775 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++

Re: [PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' --- resend

2007-05-14 Thread Yinghai Lu
Russell King wrote: There may be some sense, however, in allowing DTR to be permanently raised for serial consoles. However, I would err on caution since DTR is used to reliably instruct modems to drop the line, so making such a change would be undesirable for those folk. please check

RE: [PATCH] cciss: Fix pci_driver.shutdown while device is still active

2007-05-14 Thread Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
-Original Message- From: Gerald Britton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Miller, Mike (OS Dev); ISS StorageDev; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] cciss: Fix

Re: Opss: 2.6.21-1.3116.ONELAN Kernel last sysfs file: /class/vc/vcsa7/dev

2007-05-14 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:40:48PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi Barry, On 14/05/07, Barry Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm testing the robustness of Xorg 1.3 server with intel 2.0 driver by restarting the X and a set of apps every 30 seconds. After about an hour this

Re: [patch] Let smp_call_function_single return -EBUSY.

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:23:17 +0200 Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] All architectures that have an implementation of smp_call_function_single let it return -EBUSY if it is asked to execute func on the current cpu. Therefore the UP version must

Re: [PATCH] timekeeping fix mismerge

2007-05-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Urgh, that was probably me trying to manage the maelstrom from a million monkeys mucking in the same code for multiple months, sigh. So what do broke and fix mean in this context? What are the consequences of this bug, and of its fix?

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove final vestiges of interrupt-related SA_ flags.

2007-05-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 12:06 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: NAK, the removal date is September 2007 so out of tree folks have some time to fix their crap. This might be a good example of targeting a specific kernel version rather than a date, since anyone who can't fix this immediately

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove final vestiges of interrupt-related SA_ flags.

2007-05-14 Thread Russell King
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:06:12PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 14:38 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 498ff31..c5d7775 100644

Re: [patch] Let smp_call_function_single return -EBUSY.

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 14 May 2007 12:11:37 -0700 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This of course raises another question: it is not clear in which context the smp_call_function* functions are supposed to be called. Should it be with preemption disabled or is preemption enabled allowed as well? If

Re: [PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' --- resend

2007-05-14 Thread Russell King
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:04:44PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: Russell King wrote: There may be some sense, however, in allowing DTR to be permanently raised for serial consoles. However, I would err on caution since DTR is used to reliably instruct modems to drop the line, so making such a

Re: [RFC][PATCH 14/14] tmpfs whiteout support

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Blunck
On 5/14/07, Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Bharata B Rao wrote: From: Jan Blunck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tmpfs whiteout support Introduce whiteout support to tmpfs. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] cciss: Fix pci_driver.shutdown while device is still active

2007-05-14 Thread Gerald Britton
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 07:06:45PM -, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: Please send the Oops output. Sure, here it is, this was built from a clean 2.6.21.1 tree (despite the -dirty in the kernel version). -- Gerald Unmounting local filesystems...umount: /: device

[PATCH] Remove the final usages of the SA_ flags from the tree.

2007-05-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove the last two instances of the interrupt-related SA_ flags from the tree, but leave the support for out-of-tree modules until the scheduled removal date of September 2007. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/misc/tifm_7xx1.c |2 +-

Re: tracking down disk spinups.

2007-05-14 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:03:05PM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 14:57 -0400, Dave Jones a écrit : (14:49:52:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) (14:49:56:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / -t

Re: tracking down disk spinups.

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Dave Jones wrote: (14:49:52:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) (14:49:56:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / -t ext2 -o remount,rw (14:50:37:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)

Re: [PATCH] timekeeping fix mismerge

2007-05-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: The time keeping code move to kernel/time/timekeeping.c broke the clocksource resume logic patch. Fix it up and move the clocksource_resume() call to the appropriate place. Yeah, looks obvious enough. It had just enough context in the *wrong*

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:43:45 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: Sure, we don't allow that. Except for xfsprogs in 2.6.1, procps in 2.6.4, oprofile in 2.6.13 and udev in 2.6.19, of course. And we really complained about it! The oprofile thing

Re: tracking down disk spinups.

2007-05-14 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 12:24 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge a écrit : I don't think you can change filesystem types with remount. Doesn't that just change flags on an existing mount? +1 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 10:57 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:29 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote: privileged thread unprivileged greedy process

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Add Section mismatch warning whitelist for powerpc

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 14 May 2007 08:56:52 -0500 Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 14, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 06:53:32PM +0800, Li Yang wrote: This patch fixes the following Section mismatch warnings when build powerpc platforms. -

Re: [RFC][PATCH 14/14] tmpfs whiteout support

2007-05-14 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jan Blunck wrote: On 5/14/07, Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /* Pretend that each entry is of this size in directory's i_size */ -#define BOGO_DIRENT_SIZE 20 +#define BOGO_DIRENT_SIZE 1 Why would that change be needed for whiteout support? Good

[RFC] Orphaning MMC host drivers

2007-05-14 Thread Pierre Ossman
I've reached the point where I've grown tired of trying to figure out who has hardware for what. I intend to commit the following in a few days so if you care about the quality of the drivers it's time to step up to the plate. There's a rather long list of cc here, but I've included everyone that

Re: [RFC] - LXR on kernel.org ? was: Re: What tools to use?

2007-05-14 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Fri, 2007-05-11 10:06:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesper Juhl jesper.juhl () gmail ! com wrote: On 10/05/07, Shahbaz Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the experts on this list plz let me know of any good cross referencing tool for source code navigation. I have

Re: [PATCH] make cancel_rearming_delayed_work() reliable

2007-05-14 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 05/13, Tejun Heo wrote: Oleg Nesterov wrote: Heh. I thought about another bit-in-pointer too. I can't explain this, but I personally hate these bits even more than barriers. I'm the other way around but it's like saying I like donkey poo better than horse poo. Let's accept that we

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:12:24 -0500 Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understand this correctly: privileged thread unprivileged greedy process kmem_cache_alloc(...) adds new slab page from lowmem pool do_io()

Re: patch for cisco client for Linux-2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:13:12AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: Attached is my patch for vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.00.0490-k9 to make it run on Linux-2.6.22-rc1. Can you please stop it now? This is not [EMAIL PROTECTED] after all. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' --- resend

2007-05-14 Thread Yinghai Lu
Russell King wrote: Still wrong, and unfortunately you haven't understood what I was saying at all because this is worse. ;( Do not put the code in serial8250_set_termios. It is the wrong place. I don't want to put that there. the problem is serial8250_set_mctrl called by will clear DTR

Re: [PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' --- resend

2007-05-14 Thread Russell King
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:46:27PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: Russell King wrote: Still wrong, and unfortunately you haven't understood what I was saying at all because this is worse. ;( Do not put the code in serial8250_set_termios. It is the wrong place. I don't want to put that

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jean Delvare wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:43:45 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: Sure, we don't allow that. Except for xfsprogs in 2.6.1, procps in 2.6.4, oprofile in 2.6.13 and udev in 2.6.19, of course. And we really complained about it! The

Re: dm(-crypt) and /dev/disk/by-label/

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 19:06, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, I have ext3 filesystems with labels on devicemapper crypted devices. These do not show up in /dev/disk/by-label/, in contrast to filesystems of my real partitions. Is this the expected behaviour or

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: You can pull the big switch (only on a SLUB slab I fear) to switch off the fast path. Do SetSlabDebug() when allocating a precious allocation that should not be gobbled up by lower level processes. Then you can do whatever you want in the

Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds:arch/sh/boards/landisk LEDs supports

2007-05-14 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:16:22AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:03 +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote: Following patch sitting for a long time in our handhelds.org tree. kogiidena, I'm almost sure you'll find it useful, just apply patch, and implement .is_led_supported

Re: [VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 14 May 2007 10:10:48 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Bottomley wrote: From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops This adds an smp_ops for voyager, and hooks things up appropriately. This is the

Re: How to access correctly serial port inside module?

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 19:40, Lars K.W. Gohlke wrote: hallo, after searching the mailing list and searching the web, I still don't know how to access correctly the serial port (in user space known as /dev/ttyS01) http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/WhyWritingFilesFromKernelIsBad This thread ends

Re: [PATCH 0/2] file capabilities: Introduction

2007-05-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Serge E. Hallyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following are two patches which have been sitting for some time in -mm. Where some time == nearly six months. We need help considering, reviewing and testing this code, please. I did quick scan, and it looks ok. Plus, it means we can

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:44:51PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:12:24 -0500 Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understand this correctly: privileged thread unprivileged greedy process kmem_cache_alloc(...) adds new slab page from

Re: [VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Andrew Morton wrote: Does that have name? I can find no patch in -mm which appears to have anything to do with SMP consolidation, and this patch applies cleanly to the current -mm lineup. Sorry, I thought you'd picked this up: Subject: i386: move common parts of smp into their own file

Re: [PATCH] resolve duplicate flag no for PG_lazyfree

2007-05-14 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:46:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: otoh, the intersection between pages which are PageBooked() and pages which are PageLazyFree() should be zreo, so it'd be good to actually formalise this reuse within the ext4 patches. otoh2, PageLazyFree() could have reused

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 12:56 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: You can pull the big switch (only on a SLUB slab I fear) to switch off the fast path. Do SetSlabDebug() when allocating a precious allocation that should not be gobbled up by lower

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 12:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:12:24 -0500 Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understand this correctly: privileged thread unprivileged greedy process kmem_cache_alloc(...) adds new slab page from lowmem

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Hmmm.. Maybe we could do that But what I had in mind was simply to set a page flag (DebugSlab()) if you know in alloc_slab that the slab should be only used for emergency allocation. If DebugSlab is set then the fastpath will not be called.

Re: [PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' --- resend

2007-05-14 Thread Yinghai Lu
Russell King wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:46:27PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: I don't want to put that there. the problem is serial8250_set_mctrl called by will clear DTR bit. We're at a stalemate then. How about put that line into serial8250_console_setup or

Re: [VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops

2007-05-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 14 May 2007 21:03, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: James Bottomley wrote: No, I'm proposing this for 2.6.22-rc1 ... Andi has already said he won't push the smp consolidation patch for 2.6.22. Without this patch, voyager won't even build, since the smp_ops broke it, so it needs to

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Add Section mismatch warning whitelist for powerpc

2007-05-14 Thread Kumar Gala
On May 14, 2007, at 2:30 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007 08:56:52 -0500 Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 14, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 06:53:32PM +0800, Li Yang wrote: This patch fixes the following Section mismatch warnings when

Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 20:06, Stefan Richter wrote: On 14 May, Jan Engelhardt wrote: I've had a quick look at it... * Copyright (C) 2004 Nokia Corporation * Written by Tony Lindgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] - * Major cleanups by Juha YrjXlX [EMAIL PROTECTED] + * Major cleanups by Juha Yrjölä [EMAIL

Re: why does x86 make defconfig build a single, lonely module?

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 19:46, Alan Cox wrote: On May 13 2007 12:48, James Bottomley wrote: Why does ATA select SCSI anyway? Surely PATA doesn't require it? That's a bit offtopic and to the wrong list. libata-pata does require SCSI ... And in the long run, that SCSI parts which are actually used

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 13:06 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Hmmm.. Maybe we could do that But what I had in mind was simply to set a page flag (DebugSlab()) if you know in alloc_slab that the slab should be only used for emergency

Re: [PATCH] x86-64 highres/dyntick support 2.6.22-rc1-v1

2007-05-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 14 May 2007 12:26:08 +0200, Thomas Gleixner said: Broken out version is available here: http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc1/linux-2.6.22-rc1-x86_64-highres-v1.patches.tar.bz2 How unhappy am I likely to be if I try to apply this to a 21-mm2 kernel? It doesn't *look* like any

Re: pci hotplug patches

2007-05-14 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:59:24PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:57:45PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Hm, I'm no longer the PCI Hotplug maintainer, so that's why I haven't added them to my tree. It would probably be best for everyone involved to send them to her

Re: tracking down disk spinups.

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 14:57, Dave Jones wrote: I was curious why my firewall box never spins down its disk. Given it rarely writes stuff to logs, it's odd that it always seems to have something to write out. killing syslogd, and enabling /proc/sys/vm/block_dump gets me a periodic spew in /proc/kmsg

Re: tracking down disk spinups.

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 21:28, Xavier Bestel wrote: Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 12:24 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge a écrit : I don't think you can change filesystem types with remount. Doesn't that just change flags on an existing mount? +1 +2. Hell, it'd be fun to switch from reiser to xfs by just

Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds:arch/sh/boards/landisk LEDs supports

2007-05-14 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:16:22AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:03 +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote: + led_cdev-trigger = trigger; if (trigger) { write_lock_irqsave(trigger-leddev_list_lock, flags); list_add_tail(led_cdev-trig_list,

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:43:45AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: Sure, we don't allow that. Except for xfsprogs in 2.6.1, procps in 2.6.4, oprofile in 2.6.13 and udev in 2.6.19, of course. And we really complained about it! The oprofile thing

Re: [RFC][PATCH 13/14] ext3 whiteout support

2007-05-14 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:14 +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: From: Bharata B Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ext3 whiteout support Introduce whiteout support for ext3. Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/ext3/dir.c |

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:28:07PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: And we really complained about it! The oprofile thing should be fixed, btw, and yeah,if udev breaks any more, I'll have to stop taking patches from Greg. That thing has been a disaster, and everybody involved should be

Re: [RFC][PATCH 13/14] ext3 whiteout support

2007-05-14 Thread Andreas Dilger
On May 14, 2007 15:14 +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: #define EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_JOURNAL_DEV0x0008 /* Journal device */ #define EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_META_BG0x0010 +#define EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_WHITEOUT 0x0020 Is this flag reserved with Ted? It isn't

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:53:21PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Jean Delvare wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:43:45 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: Sure, we don't allow that. Except for xfsprogs in 2.6.1, procps in 2.6.4, oprofile in 2.6.13 and udev in

Re: [PATCH] x86-64 highres/dyntick support 2.6.22-rc1-v1

2007-05-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 16:10 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007 12:26:08 +0200, Thomas Gleixner said: Broken out version is available here: http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc1/linux-2.6.22-rc1-x86_64-highres-v1.patches.tar.bz2 How unhappy am I likely to be if

Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem?

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 12 2007 07:46, Matt Mackall wrote: You should not assume alphabetical order. Filesystems may be free to reorder things and return them (1) randomly like in a hash (2) by creation time during readdir(). There is no assumption. Mercurial explicitly visits files in alphabetical order

Re: fair clock use in CFS

2007-05-14 Thread Ting Yang
William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 04:52:59PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: Doesn't EEVDF have the same issue? From the paper: V(t) = 1/(w1 + w2 + ...wn) Who knows what I was smoking, then. I misremembered the scale factor as being on the other side of

Re: [patch] ip_local_port_range sysctl has annoying default

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 11 2007 19:14, H. Peter Anvin wrote: David Miller wrote: All ports above and including 1024 are non-privileged and available to anyone. Applications which have some requirements in this area need to work those things out themselves. However, there are a large number of

Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/14] Introduce union stack

2007-05-14 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:10 +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: From: Jan Blunck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Introduce union stack. Adds union stack infrastructure to the dentry structure and provides locking routines to walk the union stack. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] allow kernel module exclusion on load

2007-05-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 13 May 2007 16:25:17 +0300, Dan Aloni said: Kernel developers might find it useful for quickly getting out from some rough debugging scenarios. Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I (and everybody else who tests kernels with 3rd-party binary or out-of-tree modules)

Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 12 2007 22:12, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007 00:07:18 Arjan van de Ven wrote: What's eating the battery life of my laptop? Why isn't it many more hours? Which software component causes the most power to be burned? These are important questions without a good

Re: undefined reference to `__clear_user' (was: Re: [patch 2/13] signal/timer/event fds v10 - signalfd core ...)

2007-05-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 13 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2007 12:28:23 +0200 (CEST) Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: --- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.0 + +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5.fds/fs/signalfd.c2007-04-02

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: The thing is; I'm not needing any speed, as long as the machine stay alive I'm good. However others are planing to build a full reserve based allocator to properly fix the places that now use __GFP_NOFAIL and situation such as in

Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

2007-05-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:10:20PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On May 14 2007 20:06, Stefan Richter wrote: On 14 May, Jan Engelhardt wrote: I've had a quick look at it... * Copyright (C) 2004 Nokia Corporation * Written by Tony Lindgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] - * Major cleanups by

Re: How to access correctly serial port inside module?

2007-05-14 Thread Lars K.W. Gohlke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Engelhardt schrieb: On May 14 2007 19:40, Lars K.W. Gohlke wrote: hallo, after searching the mailing list and searching the web, I still don't know how to access correctly the serial port (in user space known as /dev/ttyS01)

[PATCH] m68k: implement __clear_user()

2007-05-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
m68k: implement __clear_user(), which is needed by fs/signalfd.c Since we always let the MMU do all checking, clear_user() and __clear_user() are identical. The old clear_user() is renamed to __clear_user() for consistency. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem?

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On May 12 2007 07:46, Matt Mackall wrote: You should not assume alphabetical order. Filesystems may be free to reorder things and return them (1) randomly like in a hash (2) by creation time during readdir(). There is no assumption. Mercurial explicitly

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 19:32, Stefan Richter wrote: As for NETDEV_1000 and _1, I really wonder if we need anymore help text than the option. I do not know what the minimum level of user knowledge is that kconfig help texts need to support, but maybe you can tell? The text Ethernet (1 Mbit)

Re: tracking down disk spinups.

2007-05-14 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 14 May 2007 2:57 pm, Dave Jones wrote: Why did the kernel ignore what I told it to do ? I'm sure it thinks it knows better than me for a reason, but I'd like to know what it is. Remount doesn't switch filesystem drivers, it tells the existing filesystem driver to accept new flags

[PATCH] ALSA sound driver for SEGA Dreamcast AICA (pcm)

2007-05-14 Thread Adrian McMenamin
ALSA support for the SEGA Dreamcast Yamaha AICA sound device (pcm) This patch adds ALSA sound support for pcm playback on two channels on the SEGA Dreamcast built-in sound device (the Yamaha AICA) Add driver for the AICA sound device built into the SEGA Dreamcast Hook it all up with the build

Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds:arch/sh/boards/landisk LEDs supports

2007-05-14 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 00:12 +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote: This change needed for two purposes: 1. When somebody sets trigger, and that trigger would setup brightness in its activate() function, and led driver would check if that trigger supported (used by hwtimer trigger and drivers

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 20:01, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Patches welcome ;-) Sure. Just tell me exactly what those options are intended to do and I'll happily write up a patch adding help texts trying to express that in bad English. :-) They are just a menu that can be switched on or off. It is for those

Re: [PATCH] timekeeping fix mismerge

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 14 May 2007 12:25:02 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think re-generating the diff is wrong, and in fact I think you have to do it, but I think Andrew should use --fuzz=0 or at least --fuzz=1 instead of the default 2. Yeah, it obviously causes more patch

Re: [RFC][PATCH 13/14] ext3 whiteout support

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Blunck
On 5/14/07, Andreas Dilger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 14, 2007 15:14 +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: #define EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_JOURNAL_DEV0x0008 /* Journal device */ #define EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_META_BG0x0010 +#define EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_WHITEOUT

Re: [VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 14 May 2007 13:02:42 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Does that have name? I can find no patch in -mm which appears to have anything to do with SMP consolidation, and this patch applies cleanly to the current -mm lineup. Sorry, I

Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 22:25, Adrian Bunk wrote: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=116828781409931 I checked. Now that kinda sucks, everyone does the same job over and over, I did a ton of utf8 fixes and they did not get applied. (Granted, I did not cc Andrew, Linus or trivial). If you had

Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

2007-05-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:36:00PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On May 14 2007 22:25, Adrian Bunk wrote: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=116828781409931 I checked. Now that kinda sucks, everyone does the same job over and over, I did a ton of utf8 fixes and they did not get

Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/14] Add the whiteout file type

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 15:09, Bharata B Rao wrote: A white-out stops the VFS from further lookups of the white-outs name and returns -ENOENT. This is the same behaviour as if the filename isn't found. This can be used in combination with union mounts to virtually delete (white-out) files by creating a

Re: [PATCH 6/6] IB/ehca: disable scaling code by default, bump version number

2007-05-14 Thread Roland Dreier
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Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 14 May 2007 21:22:50 Jan Engelhardt wrote: On May 12 2007 22:12, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007 00:07:18 Arjan van de Ven wrote: What's eating the battery life of my laptop? Why isn't it many more hours? Which software component causes the most power to be

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/14] Add a new mount flag (MNT_UNION) for union mount

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 15:09, Bharata B Rao wrote: Introduce MNT_UNION, MS_UNION and FS_WHT flags. There are the necessary flags for doing mount /dev/hda3 /mnt -o union You need additional patches for util-linux for that to work. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Bharata

Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674)

2007-05-14 Thread Francesco Pretto
2007/5/14, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, the patch made upstream and webpage posted. http://linux-ata.org/shutdown.html -- tejun Ubuntu [1] ang Gentoo [2] bugs opened. Sent a mail to Miquel van Smoorenburg, dev of sysvinit. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/114683 [2]

Re: [PATCH] resolve duplicate flag no for PG_lazyfree

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 14 May 2007 14:06:19 -0400 Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:46:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: otoh, the intersection between pages which are PageBooked() and pages which are PageLazyFree() should be zreo, so it'd be good to actually formalise this

Re: tracking down disk spinups.

2007-05-14 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 04:28:35PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 2:57 pm, Dave Jones wrote: Why did the kernel ignore what I told it to do ? I'm sure it thinks it knows better than me for a reason, but I'd like to know what it is. Remount doesn't switch filesystem

Re: [VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Andrew Morton wrote: Confused. This patch conflicts a lot with James's one (which I named voyager-fix-build-broken-by-shift-to-smp_ops.patch). If your i386: move common parts of smp into their own file also fixes Voyager and is preferred then cool, but a) the changelog should tell us that

Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/14] Introduce union stack

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 15:10, Bharata B Rao wrote: +struct union_info * union_alloc(void) Ultimate nitpick: try s/\* /*/; (also elsewhere) +static inline void union_lock(struct dentry *dentry) +{ + if (unlikely(dentry dentry-d_union)) { + struct union_info *ui = dentry-d_union; + +

Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/14] Introduce union stack

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 13:23, Badari Pulavarty wrote: +static inline void union_lock_fs(struct fs_struct *fs) +{ +int locked; + +while (fs) { +locked = union_trylock(fs-root); +if (!locked) +goto loop1; +locked =

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