Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
Gabriel C wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/ Compile error here : .. LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_init': bus.c:(.init.text+0x249a): undefined reference to `pci_mmcfg_late_init'

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: 4Gb ram not showing up

2007-06-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:12:22PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: Change the description of CONFIG_*HIGHMEM* to reflect lost memory due to PCI space and the existence of the NX flag. Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I made this quick patch using the information from LKML as I

Re: Kernel inclusion policy, meta desicion making structure?

2007-06-06 Thread Stefan Richter
Tim Post wrote on 2007-06-04: I was wondering if a meta version of the decision making process that would be employed to determine if a new contribution does or does not go into the main stream Linux kernel. [...] Does some document exist that shows the decision making process so that I can

Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: variable length argument support

2007-06-06 Thread Grant Grundler
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:12:09AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: ... I think the same problem will happen on NOMMU STACK_GROWS_UP. There are several new references to bprm-vma in there, not all inside CONFIG_MMU. Right, which archs have that combo? I'll go gather cross compilers. parisc

Re: checkpointing and restoring processes

2007-06-06 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Cedric Le Goater ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Mark Pflueger wrote: hi everyone! i'm not subscribed to the list, so if you care to flame because of my noob question, just do it to the list, otherwise please cc me. you should subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and send your ideas on that

Re: [SERIAL] Don't optimise away baud rate changes when BOTHER is used

2007-06-06 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:30:10 +0100 David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The uart_set_termios() function will bail out early without bothering to touch the hardware, if it decides that nothing relevant has changed. Unfortunately, its idea of relevant doesn't include c_[io]speed. So if the

Re: Documentation - How to debug ACPI Problems

2007-06-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 06/06/07, Thomas Renninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I made up a little How-To for what I find out is nice to debug ACPI problems. Nice :-) Any enhancements, corrections, etc. are very much appreciated. See below. I'd like to have a final version in the Documentation section.

Re: remove references to dead urls from mtd nand code.

2007-06-06 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:59:48AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: - *Additional technical information is available on - *http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/tech/nand.html And that one should be changed to match the working one (and possibly be enclosed in ... too for

Re: [PATCH] add a trivial patch style checker v2

2007-06-06 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:40:24PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Will http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/checkpatch/checkpatch.git/ (hey, a project with the same name started by the same person???) be merged in? Andy and I were working on this in parallel with the same goal. When his

Re: Kernel inclusion policy, meta desicion making structure?

2007-06-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 06/06/07, Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Post wrote on 2007-06-04: I was wondering if a meta version of the decision making process that would be employed to determine if a new contribution does or does not go into the main stream Linux kernel. [...] Does some document exist

2.6.16.52 can't boot on Intel DG965SS

2007-06-06 Thread Thomas Voegtle
Hi, I want to use 2.6.16.y on the Intel DG965SS mainboard, but the kernel stops booting: ... ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: Using MMCONFIG ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (:00) ACPI:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

2007-06-06 Thread Richard Griffiths
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:33 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: I might be a little late in the discussion, but I somehow missed this before. Please don't add this xip support to cramfs, because the whole point of cramfs is to be a simple _compressed_ filesystem, and we really don't want to add

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Cedric Le Goater pisze: Hi Andrew, When CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y, boot on i386 and s390 (the only one tested) ends with the following. C. [ cut here ] kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:557! invalid opcode: [#1] CPU:0 EIP:0060:[c013cbbd]Not tainted VLI EFLAGS:

Re: [PATCH 2/2] UML - Fix kernel stack size on x86_64

2007-06-06 Thread Jeff Dike
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:20:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: If you do - int Kernel stack size order + int then this rule will no longer be offered to the user and `make oldconfig' (actually anythingconfig) will override whatever happens to be in .config for KERNEL_STACK_ORDER.

fix typo in prefetch.h

2007-06-06 Thread Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/include/linux/prefetch.h b/include/linux/prefetch.h index fc86f27..1adfe66 100644 --- a/include/linux/prefetch.h +++ b/include/linux/prefetch.h @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ prefetch(x) - prefetches the cacheline at x for read

Re: CPU hotplug: system hang on CPU hot remove during `pfmon --system-wide'

2007-06-06 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:56:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 28 May 2007, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: So is it settled now on what approach we are going to follow (freezer vs lock based) for cpu hotplug? I thought that Linus was not favouring freezer based approach

Re: checkpointing and restoring processes

2007-06-06 Thread Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 13:37 +0200, Mark Pflueger wrote: hi everyone! i'm not subscribed to the list, so if you care to flame because of my noob question, just do it to the list, otherwise please cc me. i'm trying to write a checkpoint/restore module for processes and so have a basic

Re: [PATCH][Trivial] SubmitChecklist update, fix spelling error

2007-06-06 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:55:48 +0200 Jesper Juhl wrote: This trivial patch makes the following changes to Documentation/SubmitChecklist : - sumbittal is not a word, replace with submission. - Remove a blank line, two should be enough. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Jiri Slaby
Mikael Pettersson napsal(a): On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:04:00 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: Andrew Morton napsal(a): ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/ It freezes during bootup while searching for sata drives on sata_promise. There were 2 issues

[PATCH] UML - Get declaration of simple_strtoul

2007-06-06 Thread Jeff Dike
Include linux/kernel.h wherever simple_strtoul is used. This kills a compile warning in stderr_console.c and potential ones in the other files. This also fixes a bunch of style violations in exitcode.c. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- arch/um/drivers/line.c |1 +

Re: [BUG] ptraced process waiting on syscall may return kernel internal errnos

2007-06-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Roland McGrath wrote: [PATCH] Restrict clearing TIF_SIGPENDING This patch should get a few birds. It prevents sigaction calls from clearing TIF_SIGPENDING in other threads, which could leak -ERESTART*. It fixes ptrace_stop not to clear it, which done at the syscall

Re: [REPOST PATCH] sata_promise: use TF interface for polling NODATA commands

2007-06-06 Thread walt
Tejun Heo wrote: ... Fix pdc_qc_issue_prot() such that ATA/ATAPI NODATA commands are issued using TF interface if ATA_TFLAG_POLLING is set. This patch fixes detection failure introduced by polling SETXFERMODE. Your patch works for me, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Bad behaviour after hdparm -M 128

2007-06-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: I used kernel 2.6.21 with the libata PIIX SATA driver and a Seagate ST98823AS drive. Yes, that's expected if the drive rejects the command. Are *all* SATA drives rejecting the command? Mine doesn't accept it, either. And it should, AFAIK, unless

Size of kernel modules

2007-06-06 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I have a machine here which I installed with Ubuntu 7.04. Immediately after the installation had been finished, I installed the Ubuntu package which contains the Ubuntu-modified sources of the linux kernel. I extracted the resulting tar.bz2-file, copied the configuration of the currently

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

2007-06-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:17:43AM -0700, Richard Griffiths wrote: Too late :) The XIP cramfs patch is widely used in the embedded Linux community and has been used for years. It fulfills a need for a small XIP Flash file system. Hence our interest in getting it or some variation into the

Re: Size of kernel modules

2007-06-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 06/06/07, Christoph Pleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a machine here which I installed with Ubuntu 7.04. Immediately after the installation had been finished, I installed the Ubuntu package which contains the Ubuntu-modified sources of the linux kernel. I extracted the resulting

Re: Documentation - How to debug ACPI Problems

2007-06-06 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Thomas Renninger wrote: Please refer to the latest ACPI spec for general ACPI information: http://www.acpi.info/spec.htm It is worth noting that not all systems are required to implement the latest and greatest version of spec, or all the objects of the chosen version. - To unsubscribe from

No sound from Lenovo 3000 N100

2007-06-06 Thread Silla Rizzoli
I've just tried 2.6.22-rc4 and sound doesn't work. It has never worked before, unless I disable ACPI. dmesg (ALSA debug messages are enabled): ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :00:1b.0 disabled ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:1b.0[A] - GSI 22 (level, low) - IRQ 21 PCI: Setting latency timer of

Re: Size of kernel modules

2007-06-06 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Christoph Pleger wrote: Hello, [snip] After the new kernel package had been created, I installed it. After that, I looked into the directory /boot and was very surprised: The initial ramdisk of the new kernel was much larger than the initrd of the old kernel. To find out the cause for this,

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Cedric Le Goater
Same problem here http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tbf/bitis-gabonica/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/console.log http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tbf/bitis-gabonica/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/mm-config2 l *__page_check_anon_rmap+0x49 0xc1075ee5 is in __page_check_anon_rmap (mm/rmap.c:557). 552

Re: 2.6.16.52 can't boot on Intel DG965SS

2007-06-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:16:00PM +0200, Thomas Voegtle wrote: Hi, I want to use 2.6.16.y on the Intel DG965SS mainboard, but the kernel stops booting: ... ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: Using MMCONFIG ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using

Re: [REPOST PATCH] sata_promise: use TF interface for polling NODATA commands

2007-06-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
FYI to all -- As a reminder. the Promise hardware programs registers when it receives a SET FEATURES - XFER MODE. If data transfer is occurring on OTHER ports at the time this is issued, then data corruption is guaranteed to occur. Polling will not fix this problem -- all ports need to be

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

2007-06-06 Thread Jared Hulbert
On 6/6/07, Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might be a little late in the discussion, but I somehow missed this before. Please don't add this xip support to cramfs, because the whole point of cramfs is to be a simple _compressed_ filesystem, and we really don't want to add more

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 - 'lvm vgscan' busticated again...

2007-06-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:07:37 PDT, Andrew Morton said: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/ This one died a horrid death at boot time - console log indicates it found the hard drive OK, found the 2 partitions on it. But when the initrd ran a

Re: No sound from Lenovo 3000 N100

2007-06-06 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 06/06/2007 11:47 AM, Silla Rizzoli wrote: I've just tried 2.6.22-rc4 and sound doesn't work. It has never worked before, unless I disable ACPI. Contents of /proc/interrupts might help. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

2007-06-06 Thread Jared Hulbert
On 6/6/07, Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:17:43AM -0700, Richard Griffiths wrote: Too late :) The XIP cramfs patch is widely used in the embedded Linux community and has been used for years. It fulfills a need for a small XIP Flash file system. Hence our

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

2007-06-06 Thread Carsten Otte
Christoph Hellwig wrote: I might be a little late in the discussion, but I somehow missed this before. Please don't add this xip support to cramfs, because the whole point of cramfs is to be a simple _compressed_ filesystem, and we really don't want to add more complexity to it. Please use

Re: [RFC] tablet buttons driver for fujitsu siemens laptops

2007-06-06 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:45:42 +0200 Robert Gerlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 02 June 2007 03:30:54 Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 02:59:33 +0200 #ifdef DEBUG # define debug(m, a...) printk( KERN_DEBUG MODULENAME : m \n, ##a) #else # define debug(m, a...)

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

2007-06-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:07:16AM -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote: I estimate something on the order 5-10 million Linux phones use something similar to these patches. I wonder if there are that many provable users of of the simple cramfs. This is where the community has taken cramfs. This is

[RFC][PATCH] /proc/pid/maps doesn't match ipcs -m shmid

2007-06-06 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Hi Eric, Your recent cleanup to shm code, namely [PATCH] shm: make sysv ipc shared memory use stacked files took away one of the debugging feature for shm segments. Originally, shmid were forced to be the inode numbers and they show up in /proc/pid/maps for the process which mapped this shared

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread WANG Cong
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:07:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/ - Somebody broke it on my powerpc G5, but I didn't have time to do yet another bisection yet. It seems strange that a new C source file

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

2007-06-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:15:04PM +0200, Carsten Otte wrote: The clear advantage of using cramfs on embedded platforms over using the ext2 stuff is, that one can choose per-file whether it should be compressed or xip. The real key is, to put both our ext2 stuff and the cramfs xip on a

Re: Bad behaviour after hdparm -M 128

2007-06-06 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.06.06 12:44:42 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: I used kernel 2.6.21 with the libata PIIX SATA driver and a Seagate ST98823AS drive. Yes, that's expected if the drive rejects the command. Are *all* SATA drives rejecting the

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Mel Gorman
On (06/06/07 18:01), Cedric Le Goater didst pronounce: Same problem here http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tbf/bitis-gabonica/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/console.log http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tbf/bitis-gabonica/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/mm-config2 l *__page_check_anon_rmap+0x49

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:07:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/ - Somebody broke it on my powerpc G5, but I didn't have time to do yet another bisection yet. - There's a lengthy patch series here from

Re: [REPOST PATCH] sata_promise: use TF interface for polling NODATA commands

2007-06-06 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:05:11 -0400 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI to all -- As a reminder. the Promise hardware programs registers when it receives a SET FEATURES - XFER MODE. If data transfer is occurring on OTHER ports at the time this is issued, then data corruption is

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:26:49PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: I do not believe this is Nick's problem. I encountered the same issue and the bisect ended up here; # BISECT HERE mm-variable-length-argument-support.patch mm-variable-length-argument-support-fix.patch # BISECT BAD Reverting those

X86 SMP cpu enumeration changes

2007-06-06 Thread Mark Rustad
There seems to have been a change in SMP cpu enumeration sometime before 2.6.16. I have also tried 2.6.19 and it also exhibits the new behavior. It used to be that setting maxcpus to the number of physical cpus would effectively prevent the use of hyperthreading. In fact in

Re: [PATCH] Add missing files and dirs to 00-INDEX in Documentation/

2007-06-06 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:20:32 +0200 Jesper Juhl wrote: This patch adds descriptions for a number of missing files and directories to the Documentation/00-INDEX file. People really should learn to keep this file up-to-date when adding or moving documentation... /me raises hand. Thanks.

Re: Kernel Timers

2007-06-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 06/06/07, Simon Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I see two kernel timer interfaces: The standard and the high-resolution timers. Correct. Are there any more? Not as far as I know. Is the whole kernel using these two interfaces? As far as I know, yes. -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL

Question about spinlock in linux kernel

2007-06-06 Thread jidong xiao
I found there is such a kernel symbol .text.lock.spinlock, for example, # cat /proc/kallsyms | grep spinlock 8011e440 T bust_spinlocks 802d00fc t .text.lock.spinlock 8832ae20 d state_spinlock [nfs] but I can not find that who exported such a symbol?I am wondering

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Cedric Le Goater
Here's a tentative fix for mm-merge-nopfn-into-fault.patch. ./arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c: In function 'spufs_mem_mmap_fault': ./arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:122: error: 'address' undeclared (first use in this function) ./arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:122:

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Mel Gorman
On (06/06/07 09:35), William Lee Irwin III didst pronounce: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:26:49PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: I do not believe this is Nick's problem. I encountered the same issue and the bisect ended up here; # BISECT HERE mm-variable-length-argument-support.patch

Re: Bad behaviour after hdparm -M 128

2007-06-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007, Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.06.06 12:44:42 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: I used kernel 2.6.21 with the libata PIIX SATA driver and a Seagate ST98823AS drive. Yes, that's expected if the drive rejects

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:39:18 +0200 Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/ Compile error here : ... LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_init':

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Cedric Le Goater
Mel Gorman wrote: On (06/06/07 09:35), William Lee Irwin III didst pronounce: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:26:49PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: I do not believe this is Nick's problem. I encountered the same issue and the bisect ended up here; # BISECT HERE

[PATCH] Input: document the proper usage of EV_KEY and KEY_UNKNOWN (v2)

2007-06-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
We have most of the pieces needed to have sane, generic userland keyboard handling in place for a while now, but it is not sufficiently documented. This patch documents the requirements and best practices for EV_KEY input drivers. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: Size of kernel modules

2007-06-06 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jun 6 2007 17:51, Jesper Juhl wrote: On 06/06/07, Christoph Pleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a machine here which I installed with Ubuntu 7.04. Immediately after the installation had been finished, I installed the Ubuntu package which contains the Ubuntu-modified sources of

kmap_atomic in 2.6.20.x

2007-06-06 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
Hello I am running into some problems with kmap_atomic in my driver. My driver copies some pages coming from user space to kernel space kmalloc'ed memory. I had this code running from 2.6.5 to 2.6.17 without any problems. I have upgraded to 2.6.20.xx and this code fails to kmap_atomic. I am

Re: [RFC][PATCH] /proc/pid/maps doesn't match ipcs -m shmid

2007-06-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Eric, Your recent cleanup to shm code, namely [PATCH] shm: make sysv ipc shared memory use stacked files took away one of the debugging feature for shm segments. Originally, shmid were forced to be the inode numbers and they show up in

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:35 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:26:49PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: I do not believe this is Nick's problem. I encountered the same issue and the bisect ended up here; # BISECT HERE mm-variable-length-argument-support.patch

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:34:04 +0200 Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, these patches broke my P4 HT define-new-percpu-interface-for-shared-data.patch use-the-new-percpu-interface-for-shared-data.patch I dropped them, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[PATCH 0/2] generic LED driver

2007-06-06 Thread Robin Farine
Hello, This generic LED driver implements the code common to all LED drivers while delegating actual LED accesses to platform supplied code. This allows exotic platforms to declare their LEDs in a few line of codes rather than reimplementing a complete LED driver. I send it in two patches

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:53:12 +0200 Cedric Le Goater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mel Gorman wrote: On (06/06/07 09:35), William Lee Irwin III didst pronounce: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:26:49PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: I do not believe this is Nick's problem. I encountered the same issue and

Re: Size of kernel modules

2007-06-06 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:05:34PM +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: Hello, I have a machine here which I installed with Ubuntu 7.04. Immediately after the installation had been finished, I installed the Ubuntu package which contains the Ubuntu-modified sources of the linux kernel. I extracted

[PATCH 1/2] LEDS: make default_trigger a const char *

2007-06-06 Thread Robin Farine
From: Robin Farine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Relax the restriction on what can be assigned to the 'default_trigger' field. Signed-off-by: Robin Farine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/leds.h |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/leds.h

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:48:52 +0100 Andy Whitcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cedric Le Goater wrote: Andrew, here's a minor fix for x86_64, C. when CONFIG_PM=y and CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=n, CC arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.o

[PATCH -mm] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

2007-06-06 Thread Richard Purdie
Add LZO1X compression/decompression support to the kernel. This has been created by taking my originally proposed patch and slowly reworking it to conform to CodingStyle whilst periodically comparing the output bytecode with the original. The result is a version which gives the exactly same

Re: floppy.c soft lockup

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:12:04 -0400 Mark Hounschell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as a 100% CPU bound task being a valid thing to do, it has been done for many years on SMP machines. Any kernel limitation on this surely must be considered a bug? Could someone authoritatively

Re: [PATCH] Performance Stats: Kernel patch

2007-06-06 Thread Jay Lan
Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:43:50 + Maxim Uvarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patch makes available to the user the following task and process performance statistics: * Involuntary Context Switches (task_struct-nivcsw) * Voluntary Context Switches

Re: [SERIAL] Don't optimise away baud rate changes when BOTHER is used

2007-06-06 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 16:03 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Yep - and there are some other changes needed as well once everyone gets their ports properly lined up (notably handing back the actual speed). Yeah, probably. This was was required just to get the speed thing to pass basic testing though.

[PATCH] spi_mpc83xx.c underclocking hotfix

2007-06-06 Thread Clifford Wolf
Hi kumar (spi_mpc83xx maintainer), Hi list, the MPC83xx SPI controller clock divider can divide the system clock by not more then 1024. The spi_mpc83xx driver does not check this and silently writes garbage to the SPI controller registers when asked to run at lower frequencies. I've tried to run

Re: [PATCH] Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap

2007-06-06 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 02:30 -0400, Eric Paris wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 17:16 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:00:51PM -0400, James Morris wrote: This should be an unsigned long. I wonder if the default should be for this value to be zero (i.e. preserve

[PATCH 2/2] LEDS: generic driver

2007-06-06 Thread Robin Farine
From: Robin Farine [EMAIL PROTECTED] This generic LED driver implements the platform independent part of a LED driver letting platform specific code focus on the hardware details. The driver binds to platform devices named Generic-LED which provide the platform specific data and code needed to

Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

2007-06-06 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:26:26AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 23:03 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:20, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Pathname matching, transition table loading, profile loading and manipulation. So we get

Re: No sound from Lenovo 3000 N100

2007-06-06 Thread Silla Rizzoli
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 18:09, Chuck Ebbert wrote: On 06/06/2007 11:47 AM, Silla Rizzoli wrote: I've just tried 2.6.22-rc4 and sound doesn't work. It has never worked before, unless I disable ACPI. Contents of /proc/interrupts might help. Oops, it was 2.6.21, I reverted the 2.6.22-rc3

Another version of cleanfile/cleanpatch (Re: [PATCH 08/19] scripts: Make cleanfile/cleanpatch warn about long lines)

2007-06-06 Thread Oleg Verych
While i'm against whitespace damaged files or patches since my very first patch, and don't like brain damaged programmer's tools called text editors, i also want to encourage UNIX-way of using userspace. Of course, i might be wrong and foolish. Anyway, what i'm trying to do is not to become new

Re: [PATCH -rt] Fix TASKLET_STATE_SCHED WARN_ON()

2007-06-06 Thread john stultz
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:45 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * john stultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This fix avoids this race by making sure *after* we've locked the tasklet that the STATE_SCHED bit is set before adding it to the list. Does it look ok to you? ah - nice!! What would be the

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 -- ia64 build failure

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:49:25 +0100 Andy Whitcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seeing this on an ia64: drivers/built-in.o: In function `efi_setup_pcdp_console': (.init.text+0x13be2): undefined reference to `early_serial_console_init' drivers/built-in.o: In function `efi_setup_pcdp_console':

Re: Size of kernel modules

2007-06-06 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:51:24PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: On 06/06/07, Christoph Pleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a machine here which I installed with Ubuntu 7.04. Immediately after the installation had been finished, I installed the Ubuntu package which contains the

Re: [RFC][PATCH] /proc/pid/maps doesn't match ipcs -m shmid

2007-06-06 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:02 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Eric, Your recent cleanup to shm code, namely [PATCH] shm: make sysv ipc shared memory use stacked files took away one of the debugging feature for shm segments. Originally,

Re: Another version of cleanfile/cleanpatch (Re: [PATCH 08/19] scripts: Make cleanfile/cleanpatch warn about long lines)

2007-06-06 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:45:56PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: While i'm against whitespace damaged files or patches since my very first patch, and don't like brain damaged programmer's tools called text editors, i also want to encourage UNIX-way of using userspace. Of course, i might be wrong

Re: Bad behaviour after hdparm -M 128

2007-06-06 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.06.06 13:48:54 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2007, Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.06.06 12:44:42 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: I used kernel 2.6.21 with the libata PIIX SATA driver and a

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 -- x86_64 ACPI panic

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:00:17 +0100 Andy Whitcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Getting this on a bigger x86_64 (bl6-13): Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at RIP: [8037898b] acpi_processor_throttling_seq_show+0xa7/0xd6 PGD 2d77067 PUD 34c3067 PMD 0

Re: rc4 libata regression - commit 464cf177

2007-06-06 Thread Sean
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:16:58 +0900 Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you describe the problem better? Is it device misdetection on sata_promise or something else? Tejun, The poorly described booting problem I was seeing here was fixed by your patch: sata_promise: use TF interface for

[PATCH] UDF: fix deadlock on inode being dropped

2007-06-06 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
This patch prevents from deadlock on inode being dropped. The deadlock is caused by inderect call of mark_inode_dirty() within udf_drop_inode() but inode lock is already kept by the kernel. So moving code from udf_drop_inode() to udf_delete_inode() we save its functionality and avoid deadlock.

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:34:16 +0200 Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikael Pettersson napsal(a): On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:04:00 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: Andrew Morton napsal(a): ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/ It freezes during

Re: [PATCH] Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap

2007-06-06 Thread James Morris
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Stephen Smalley wrote: With the fix already noted by James, Acked-by: Stephen Smalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Final patch applied to: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6.git#for-akpm Also queued there is the following patch which enables the

Re: [PATCH 2/2] UML - Fix kernel stack size on x86_64

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:11:34 -0400 Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:20:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: If you do - int Kernel stack size order + int then this rule will no longer be offered to the user and `make oldconfig' (actually

Re: mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 1

2007-06-06 Thread Pierre Ossman
Rodolfo Giometti wrote: I suppose the same... but this is the only cards who gives me such problems! What do you think it could be the problem? Maybe some PXA MMC special settings? I'm afraid I have little experience with PXA. Perhaps you can find someone on the linux arm kernel mailing

Re: [PATCH] Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Wright
* Eric Paris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 17:16 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:00:51PM -0400, James Morris wrote: This should be an unsigned long. I wonder if the default should be for this value to be zero (i.e. preserve existing

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:19:36 +0800 WANG Cong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:07:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/ - Somebody broke it on my powerpc G5, but I didn't have time to do

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 -- ia64 build failure

2007-06-06 Thread Yinghai Lu
Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:49:25 +0100 Andy Whitcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seeing this on an ia64: drivers/built-in.o: In function `efi_setup_pcdp_console': (.init.text+0x13be2): undefined reference to `early_serial_console_init' drivers/built-in.o: In function

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:30:53 -0700 William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:07:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/ - Somebody broke it on my powerpc G5, but I didn't have

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Andy Whitcroft
Robert Hancock wrote: Gabriel C wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/ Compile error here : .. LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_init': bus.c:(.init.text+0x249a): undefined

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Andy Whitcroft
William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:07:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/ - Somebody broke it on my powerpc G5, but I didn't have time to do yet another bisection yet. - There's a

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Jiri Slaby
Andrew Morton napsal(a): On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:34:16 +0200 Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikael Pettersson napsal(a): On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:04:00 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: Andrew Morton napsal(a):

Re: [RFC][PATCH] /proc/pid/maps doesn't match ipcs -m shmid

2007-06-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- Shared Memory Segments keyshmid owner perms bytes nattch status 0x 884737 db2inst1 76733554432 13 0x 950275 db2fenc1 70123052288 13 There is no unique way

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

2007-06-06 Thread Jared Hulbert
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:07:16AM -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote: I estimate something on the order 5-10 million Linux phones use something similar to these patches. I wonder if there are that many provable users of of the simple cramfs. This is where the community has taken cramfs. This is

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:18:58 +0100 Andy Whitcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://frugalware.org/~crazy/other/mm/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/config Regards, Gabriel Presumably because: # CONFIG_PCI_GOMMCONFIG is not set I'll cook up a patch later today. This one is affecting

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