Re: [PATCH 17/20] SMP: Implement on_cpu()

2007-07-10 Thread Avi Kivity
Satyam Sharma wrote: On 7/9/07, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] on_each_cpu() was imho always a mistake. It would have been better to just fix smp_call_function() directly I'm not sure what you mean by fix here, but if you're proposing that we change smp_call_function()

Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

2007-07-10 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2007 schrieb Satyam Sharma: But, I'm not sure they'd be operating against a known target -- I don't really know what exactly would be hashed, but if it's kernel printk() messages (the format string, obviously), then please remember that new messages would get added all

Re: [PATCH 1/4] try parent numa_node at first before using default

2007-07-10 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 7/9/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 05:52:34PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: It means that the node for the device is the same as the parent device. F.e. if the parent device is a bus that is connected to node 4 then all the devices hooked up to the bus are

Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

2007-07-10 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:58:44AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Christoph Lameter wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: O(n) memory savings? What is that? Allocate n things and your memory waste is proportional to n (well that's O(n) waste, so I guess by savings I mean that SLOB's

Re: maps2-add-proc-pid-pagemap-interface.patch

2007-07-10 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:28:50PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 17:31 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: And how about cpu_to_le16(1) == 1 instead of ntohl(1) != 1? Why? Using a networking macro to detect endianness is old school: we have the nice explicit macros these

Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

2007-07-10 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:28:14PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: Hello, does anybody know a _reliable_ way to determine the version the kernel that produced a vmcore file? This means not scanning for a specific string or something like that which can fail on random memory. Would it make

Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

2007-07-10 Thread Dave Young
Hi, On 7/9/07, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kunai, Takashi wrote: (1) Your kernel development proposal will be greatly supported by Japanese vendor community. At the same time, it needs support from the kernel communities, as well. There is a very strong reason for the kernel

Re: [PATCH 1/16] Round up the API

2007-07-10 Thread Pavel Emelianov
Cedric Le Goater wrote: Pavel Emelianov wrote: The set of functions process_session, task_session, process_group and task_pgrp is confusing, as the names can be mixed with each other when looking at the code for a long time. The proposals are to * equip the functions that return the integer

Re: [PATCH 2/16] Miscelaneous preparations for namespaces

2007-07-10 Thread Pavel Emelianov
Cedric Le Goater wrote: Pavel Emelianov wrote: The most importaint change is moving exit_task_namespaces() inside exit_notify() to makes it possible to notify the exiting task's parent. However this should be done before release_task() to address the issue pointed by Sukadev with NFS kernel

Re: [PATCH 7/16] Helpers to find the task by its numerical ids

2007-07-10 Thread Pavel Emelianov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | When searching the task by numerical id on may need to find | it using global pid (as it is done now in kernel) or by its | virtual id, e.g. when sending a signal to a task from one | namespace the sender will specify the

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] kvm-scheduler integration

2007-07-10 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 08:53 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: Rusty Russell wrote: No; this is a I'm doing something magic and need to know before someone else takes the CPU. Almost by definition, you cannot have two of them at the same time. Let someone else try that if and when... Why can't

Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

2007-07-10 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:58:04PM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:28:14PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: Hello, does anybody know a _reliable_ way to determine the version the kernel that produced a vmcore file? This means not scanning for a specific string or

Re: [PATCH 6/16] Helpers to obtain pid numbers

2007-07-10 Thread Pavel Emelianov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | When showing pid to user or getting the pid numerical id for in-kernel | use the value of this id may differ depending on the namespace. | | This set of helpers is used to get the global pid nr, the virtual (i.e. | seen by

OMAP: Add TI TWL92330/Menelaus Power Management chip driver

2007-07-10 Thread Trilok Soni
Hi Jean/Andrew, Attached patch adds Texas Instruments TWL92330/Menelaus Power Management chip driver. Also includes RTC code in the same driver instead of the separate module. Here is the description of driver/commit message :) = OMAP: Add TI TWL92330/Menelaus Power Management

Re: [PATCH 8/16] Masquerade the siginfo when sending a pid to a foreign namespace

2007-07-10 Thread Pavel Emelianov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | When user send signal from (say) init namespace to any task in a sub | namespace the siginfo struct must not carry the sender's pid value, as | this value may refer to some task in the destination namespace and thus | may

Re: [PATCH 0/16] Pid namespaces

2007-07-10 Thread Pavel Emelianov
Cedric Le Goater wrote: 3. Suka assumes that pid namespace can live without proc mount and tries to make the code work with pid_ns-proc_mnt change from NULL to not-NULL from times to times. My code calls the kern_mount() at the namespace creation and thus the pid_namespace always

Re: maps2-add-proc-pid-pagemap-interface.patch

2007-07-10 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 01:27 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:28:50PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: I don't think normal ptraces get cut on exec, so I'm not sure why this should be different. They absolutely do, if UID changes. Consider ptracing a shell launching a

Re: [PATCH 0/16] Pid namespaces

2007-07-10 Thread Pavel Emelianov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not able to find a specific patch that this might be in, but what happens when the child-reaper of a container exits ? The init namespace's init becomes this init's namespace's init :) In other words: if (unlikely(tsk == child_reaper(tsk))) {

Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

2007-07-10 Thread Nick Piggin
Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:58:44AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Just a fancy way of saying roughly that memory waste will increase as the size of the system increases. But that aspect of it I think is not really a problem for non-tiny systems anyway because the waste tends

Re: [PATCH 4/16] Change data structures for pid namespaces

2007-07-10 Thread Pavel Emelianov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cedric Le Goater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Pavel Emelianov wrote: | struct pid_namespace will have the kmem_cache to allocate | the pids from, the parent, as they are hierarchical, and | the level of nesting value. | | struct pid will have a variable length

Re: [PATCH 0/16] Pid namespaces

2007-07-10 Thread Pavel Emelianov
Badari Pulavarty wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 22:06 +0200, Cedric Le Goater wrote: Badari Pulavarty wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 12:01 +0400, Pavel Emelianov wrote: This is submition for inclusion of hierarchical, not kconfig configurable, zero overheaded ;) pid namespaces. Not able to boot

Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

2007-07-10 Thread Nick Piggin
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: It is reasonable to expect some help from maintainers, but I notice you didn't even CC the SLOB maintainer in the patch to remove SLOB! So maybe if you tried working a bit closer with him you could get better results? The

Re: OMAP: Add TI TWL92330/Menelaus Power Management chip driver

2007-07-10 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:23:06 +0530 Trilok Soni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RTC part was reviewed and acked-by RTC maintainer. CCing to lkml and MMC maintainer this time. There's nothing that really touches any mmc code in there. So I have no comments about it. Rgds -- -- Pierre Ossman

Re: Specialix SX cards not detected in kernels =2.6.20

2007-07-10 Thread Jiri Slaby
Graham Murray wrote: There were multiple changes to the char/sx.c driver in kernel 2.6.20. In kernels 2.6.19 and earlier, the SX multiport serial card works OK, but in 2.6.20 and later the driver does not seemt to detect the presence of the card. I have enabled sx_debug=-1 and added some

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] kvm-scheduler integration

2007-07-10 Thread Avi Kivity
Rusty Russell wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 08:53 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: Rusty Russell wrote: No; this is a I'm doing something magic and need to know before someone else takes the CPU. Almost by definition, you cannot have two of them at the same time. Let someone else try that if

Re: [-mm PATCH 4/8] Memory controller memory accounting (v2)

2007-07-10 Thread YAMAMOTO Takashi
hi, diff -puN mm/memory.c~mem-control-accounting mm/memory.c --- linux-2.6.22-rc6/mm/memory.c~mem-control-accounting 2007-07-05 13:45:18.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.22-rc6-balbir/mm/memory.c 2007-07-05 13:45:18.0 -0700 @@ -1731,6 +1736,9 @@ gotten:

Re: Specialix SX cards not detected in kernels =2.6.20

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:00:17 +0100 Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were multiple changes to the char/sx.c driver in kernel 2.6.20. Let's cc Jiri. In kernels 2.6.19 and earlier, the SX multiport serial card works OK, but in 2.6.20 and later the driver does not seemt to detect

Re: clocksource change of behavior in 2.6.22 compared to 2.6.20 causes massive system clock slowdown

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:27:59 +0200 Alessandro Suardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My oldish AMD K7-800's clock began falling behind after rebooting from 2.6.20 (and 109 days uptime with a spotless clock) into 2.6.22; time lost is about four minutes each hour. Turns out that 2.6.22 marks my TSC

Re: [PATCH 1/16] Round up the API

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:40:13 +0400 Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we are all ok with it. right ? Right. That's already the 3rd time I send it to Andrew... I'm basically ignoring all the containers/resource-control stuff, waiting for it to appear to have settled down. It's

Re: [x86 setup 22/33] CPU features verification for the new x86 setup code

2007-07-10 Thread Sébastien Dugué
Hi Peter, Only two sub-minor nits: On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:52:01 -0700 H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verify that the CPU has enough features to run the kernel. This may entail enabling features on some CPUs. By doing this in the setup

Re: [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 4

2007-07-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: This is the fourth submission of the new PS3 storage drivers: [1] ps3: Preallocate bootmem memory for the PS3 FLASH ROM storage driver [2] ps3: Storage Driver Core [3] ps3: Storage device registration routines. [4] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

Re: [PATCH 09/11] security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap

2007-07-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 8 2007 22:59, James Morris wrote: @@ -420,8 +420,12 @@ static int dummy_file_ioctl (struct file *file, unsigned int command, static int dummy_file_mmap (struct file *file, unsigned long reqprot, unsigned long prot, - unsigned long

Re: schedule_timeout() called with state TASK_RUNNING from fs/select.c

2007-07-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: as i understand it, schedule_timeout() should always be called with a current-state of TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE or TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, no? No. Yes, it is pointless to call schedule() if it is known that -state ==

Re: understanding firmware loader for speedtouch (kernel 2.6.21.5)

2007-07-10 Thread mikie
2007/7/9, Duncan Sands [EMAIL PROTECTED]: One more thing - when the modem finally runs in isochronous mode, yet I cannot get high transfer rates. I can't get nothing more than 3Mbits/s. When I used kernel 2.4 with bulk mode I had only 2.5 Mbit/s. So there is a little progress, but still not

Re: [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 4

2007-07-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Jul 10 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: This is the fourth submission of the new PS3 storage drivers: [1] ps3: Preallocate bootmem memory for the PS3 FLASH ROM storage driver [2] ps3: Storage Driver Core [3] ps3: Storage device

Re: [x86 setup 31/33] Use the new x86 setup code for i386

2007-07-10 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Minor nitpick: diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c b/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c index 0579841..886f47d 100644 --- a/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c +++ b/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c @@ -1,13 +1,12 @@ /* * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds * Copyright (C) 1997 Martin

RE: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

2007-07-10 Thread Li Yang-r58472
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Landley Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:48 AM To: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Kunai, Takashi; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Andrew Morton; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

[GFS2/DLM] Pull request

2007-07-10 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, Please consider pulling the following changes from the GFS2/DLM -nmw git tree, Steve. The following changes since commit 7dcca30a32aadb0520417521b0c44f42d09fe05c: Linus Torvalds (1): Linux 2.6.22 are found in

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] kvm-scheduler integration

2007-07-10 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 10:19 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: Rusty Russell wrote: Exactly, if we have two at the same time, they need to know about each other. Providing infrastructure which lets them avoid thinking about it is the wrong direction. With a kvm-specific hook, they can't stop

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-10 Thread Mike Galbraith
Greetings, On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 19:33 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: i'm pleased to announce release -v19 of the CFS scheduler patchset. I've taken mainline git tree (freshly integrated CFS!) out for a multimedia spin. I tested watching movies and listenign to music in the presence of various

Re: [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 4

2007-07-10 Thread Paul Mackerras
Jens Axboe writes: I have no objections to the block bits, however I feel uneasy merging the full patchset unless patch #1 has been acked by the platform person. I have the first 3 patches in my queue, so yes I've acked it. It's probably easiest if the remaining 3 go through my queue once

Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

2007-07-10 Thread Dan Aloni
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:18:17PM +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:58:04PM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote: [..] It contains enough information in order to make a compact kernel dump (makedumpinfo needs to go over the struct page arrays). As you see, it also contains the

Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

2007-07-10 Thread Pekka J Enberg
Hi Christoph, On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote: I assume with slab external fragmentation you mean allocating a whole page for a slab when there are not enough objects to fill the whole thing thus wasting memory? We could try to combat that by packing multiple variable-sized slabs

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] kvm-scheduler integration

2007-07-10 Thread Avi Kivity
Rusty Russell wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 10:19 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: Rusty Russell wrote: Exactly, if we have two at the same time, they need to know about each other. Providing infrastructure which lets them avoid thinking about it is the wrong direction. With a

Re: [patch 00/10] [RFC] SLUB patches for more functionality, performance and maintenance

2007-07-10 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Christoph Lameter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ok here is a replacement patch for the cmpxchg patch. Problems 1. cmpxchg_local is not available on all arches. If we wanted to do this then it needs to be universally available. cmpxchg_local is not available on all archs, but

Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

2007-07-10 Thread Nick Piggin
Pekka J Enberg wrote: Curious, /proc/meminfo immediately after boot shows: SLUB (debugging enabled): (none):~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal:30260 kB MemFree: 22096 kB SLUB (debugging disabled): (none):~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal:30276 kB MemFree: 22244 kB

Re: Sysfs and suicidal attributes

2007-07-10 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:09:41 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't paid much attention to your sysfs updates. Is it still true that calls to show/store methods are mutually exclusive with attribute unregistration? Assuming the answer is Yes, would it be possible to bypass

Re: [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 4

2007-07-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Jul 10 2007, Paul Mackerras wrote: Jens Axboe writes: I have no objections to the block bits, however I feel uneasy merging the full patchset unless patch #1 has been acked by the platform person. I have the first 3 patches in my queue, so yes I've acked it. It's probably

Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

2007-07-10 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 07:11:03PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: It is reasonable to expect some help from maintainers, but I notice you didn't even CC the SLOB maintainer in the patch to remove SLOB! So maybe if you tried working a bit closer

Re: 2.6.22: section mismatch warnings

2007-07-10 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:14:14AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 08:42:01PM +0200, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: ... WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x1add5): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'kthreadd' and 'init_waitqueue_head') Below is the fix in

Re: [-mm PATCH 4/8] Memory controller memory accounting (v2)

2007-07-10 Thread Balbir Singh
On 7/10/07, YAMAMOTO Takashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, diff -puN mm/memory.c~mem-control-accounting mm/memory.c --- linux-2.6.22-rc6/mm/memory.c~mem-control-accounting 2007-07-05 13:45:18.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.22-rc6-balbir/mm/memory.c 2007-07-05 13:45:18.0

Re: [-mm PATCH 6/8] Memory controller add per container LRU and reclaim (v2)

2007-07-10 Thread YAMAMOTO Takashi
Add the meta_page to the per container LRU. The reclaim algorithm has been modified to make the isolate_lru_pages() as a pluggable component. The scan_control data structure now accepts the container on behalf of which reclaims are carried out. try_to_free_pages() has been extended to become

Re: [-mm PATCH 4/8] Memory controller memory accounting (v2)

2007-07-10 Thread YAMAMOTO Takashi
On 7/10/07, YAMAMOTO Takashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, diff -puN mm/memory.c~mem-control-accounting mm/memory.c --- linux-2.6.22-rc6/mm/memory.c~mem-control-accounting 2007-07-05 13:45:18.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.22-rc6-balbir/mm/memory.c 2007-07-05

Re: Sysfs and suicidal attributes

2007-07-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Cornelia Huck wrote: I like it because it shifts complexity from the drivers into driver core. IOW, the driver model is kinder to drivers that way - the driver writer doesn't have to care whether something is suicidal or not - and I think that's the way we should be headed although we're not

Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:17:18 +0200 Stefano Rivoir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: It's out there now (or at least in the process of mirroring out - if you don't see everything, give it a bit of time). Hi all. 2.6.22 hangs at boot on my box. Here attached a original

[RFC][PATCH v2 -mm 0/9] netconsole: Multiple targets and dynamic reconfigurability

2007-07-10 Thread Satyam Sharma
[0/9] netconsole: Multiple targets and dynamic reconfigurability This patchset is a rework of the original idea and patches posted by Keiichi Kii and Takayoshi Kochi at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/13/72 This is v2 of the patchset, the previous version is available at:

[PATCH v2 -mm 1/9] netconsole: Cleanups, codingstyle, prettyfication

2007-07-10 Thread Satyam Sharma
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1/9] netconsole: Cleanups, codingstyle, prettyfication (1) Remove unwanted headers. (2) Mark __init and __exit as appropriate. (3) Various trivial codingstyle and prettification stuff. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Keiichi Kii [EMAIL

[PATCH v2 -mm 2/9] netconsole: Remove bogus check

2007-07-10 Thread Satyam Sharma
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2/9] netconsole: Remove bogus check The (!np.dev) check in write_msg() is bogus (always false), because: np.dev is set by netpoll_setup(), which is called by the target init code in init_netconsole() _before_ register_console() = write_msg() cannot be

[PATCH v2 -mm 3/9] netconsole: Simplify boot/module option setup logic

2007-07-10 Thread Satyam Sharma
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [3/9] netconsole: Simplify boot/module option setup logic Presently, for built-in netconsole: __setup(..., option_setup) ensures that the option_setup() function is called at boot-time from obsolete_checksetup() with the string matching netconsole= passed

[PATCH v2 -mm 4/9] netconsole: Add some useful tips to documentation

2007-07-10 Thread Satyam Sharma
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [4/9] netconsole: Add some useful tips to documentation Add some useful general-purpose tips. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Keiichi Kii [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt | 13 + 1 file

[PATCH v2 -mm 6/9] netconsole: Introduce netconsole_netdev_notifier

2007-07-10 Thread Satyam Sharma
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [6/9] netconsole: Introduce netconsole_netdev_notifier To update fields of underlying netpoll structure at runtime on corresponding NETDEV_CHANGEADDR or NETDEV_CHANGENAME notifications. ioctl(SIOCSIFHWADDR) {or ioctl(SIOCSIFNAME)} could be used to change

[PATCH v2 -mm 8/9] netconsole: Support multiple logging targets

2007-07-10 Thread Satyam Sharma
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [8/9] netconsole: Support multiple logging targets This patch introduces support for multiple targets: Let's keep this out of CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC as well -- this is useful even in the default case and (including the infrastructure introduced in

[PATCH v2 -mm 9/9] netconsole: Support dynamic reconfiguration using configfs

2007-07-10 Thread Satyam Sharma
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [9/9] netconsole: Support dynamic reconfiguration using configfs This patch introduces support for dynamic reconfiguration (adding, removing and/or modifying parameters of netconsole targets at runtime) using a userspace interface exported via configfs.

Re: understanding firmware loader for speedtouch (kernel 2.6.21.5)

2007-07-10 Thread Duncan Sands
I also tried a couple of other firmwares available on the net, and also the one from Windows XP install (which works and achieves speeds of up to 720kbyte/sec downlink). Some of the firmwares did not work either, and some worked the same way - it means not more than 3mbit/s (around

[PATCH v2 -mm 7/9] netconsole: Use netif_running() in write_msg()

2007-07-10 Thread Satyam Sharma
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [7/9] netconsole: Use netif_running() in write_msg() Avoid unnecessarily disabling interrupts and calling netpoll_send_udp() if the corresponding local interface is not up. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Keiichi Kii [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 1/1] [2.6.22] USB devices misc: Trivial patch to build the IOWARRIOR when it is selected in Kconfig

2007-07-10 Thread Juergen Beisert
From: Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trivial patch to build the IOWARRIOR when it is selected in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: drivers/usb/Makefile === --- drivers/usb/Makefile +++

[PATCH v2 -mm 5/9] netconsole: Introduce netconsole_target

2007-07-10 Thread Satyam Sharma
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [5/9] netconsole: Introduce netconsole_target Introduce a wrapper structure over netpoll to represent logging targets configured in netconsole. This will get extended with other members in further patches. The original patchset did this along with (and

Re: [RFT][PATCH 2/2] sata_mv: convert to new EH (v5)

2007-07-10 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: This is the latest update of the sata_mv conversion to new EH. I'm looking for testers, of two configurations: 2.6.22 + patch #1 (baseline) 2.6.22 + patch #1 + this patch (sata_mv new EH) This patch contains a small but

Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

2007-07-10 Thread Håvard Skinnemoen
On 7/10/07, Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only remaining known bug is arguably a problem in nommu that SLOB shouldn't be papering over. I've got another one for you: SLOB ignores ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN so using SLOB in combination with DMA and non-coherent architectures causes data

Re: [PATCH v2 -mm 1/9] netconsole: Cleanups, codingstyle, prettyfication

2007-07-10 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:49:25PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1/9] netconsole: Cleanups, codingstyle, prettyfication (1) Remove unwanted headers. (2) Mark __init and __exit as appropriate. (3) Various trivial codingstyle and prettification stuff. I

[PATCH 1/1] [2.6.22] CPU/GEODE: Replace NSC/Cyrix specific chipset access macros by inlined functions

2007-07-10 Thread Juergen Beisert
From: Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2nd try to include it into mainline. Replace NSC/Cyrix specific chipset access macros by inlined functions. With the macros a line like this fails (and does nothing): setCx86(CX86_CCR2, getCx86(CX86_CCR2) | 0x88); With inlined functions this line

intel iommu (Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23)

2007-07-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 10 2007 01:31, Andrew Morton wrote: intel-iommu-dmar-detection-and-parsing-logic.patch intel-iommu-pci-generic-helper-function.patch intel-iommu-clflush_cache_range-now-takes-size-param.patch intel-iommu-iova-allocation-and-management-routines.patch intel-iommu-intel-iommu-driver.patch

Re: Sysfs and suicidal attributes

2007-07-10 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:49:37 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I was trying to say was that suicide and murder could be done the same way from the driver's POV or am I misunderstanding? Do you mean a device unregistering itself from its attribute vs. a device unregistering another

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal

2007-07-10 Thread Zhang Rui
Hi, I really appreciate your help. The ACPI sysfs conversion work is still in progress. We'll update the ACPI_PROCFS removal plan soon. Sorry to make you confused. Thanks, Rui On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 22:57 +0800, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the scheduled removal of the ACPI procfs

Re: [PATCH v2 -mm 2/9] netconsole: Remove bogus check

2007-07-10 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:49:30PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2/9] netconsole: Remove bogus check The (!np.dev) check in write_msg() is bogus (always false), because: np.dev is set by netpoll_setup(), which is called by the target init code in

Re: [PATCH] [GFS2] Remove i_mode passing from NFS File Handle

2007-07-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
-#define GFS2_LARGE_FH_SIZE 10 - -struct gfs2_fh_obj { - struct gfs2_inum_host this; - u32 imode; -}; +#define GFS2_LARGE_FH_SIZE 8 Because gfs2_decode_fh only accepts file handles with GFS2_LARGE_FH_SIZE or GFS2_LARGE_FH_SIZE you don't accept filehandles sent out by and older gfs

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-10 Thread Heiko Carstens
fallocate-implementation-on-i86-x86_64-and-powerpc.patch Still broken: arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S wants compat_sys_fallocate instead of sys_fallocate. Also compat_sys_fallocate probably should be moved to fs/compat.c. fallocate-on-s390.patch We reserved a different syscall number than the

Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

2007-07-10 Thread Nick Piggin
Håvard Skinnemoen wrote: On 7/10/07, Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only remaining known bug is arguably a problem in nommu that SLOB shouldn't be papering over. I've got another one for you: SLOB ignores ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN so using SLOB in combination with DMA and

[PATCH][Doc] Document pci_iomap()

2007-07-10 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
This useful interface is hardly mentioned anywhere in the in-tree documentation. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit bdf4a23b9b1ff4be79a6f9b863f7203dba2dc808 tree a53c4a6c90e13d55fbf2a0b40cd9676bd9a5d0e5 parent 33738cbb6555861de1dce626c913fad06ce658cc author Rolf Eike Beer

Re: understanding firmware loader for speedtouch (kernel 2.6.21.5)

2007-07-10 Thread mikie
2007/7/10, Duncan Sands [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I also tried a couple of other firmwares available on the net, and also the one from Windows XP install (which works and achieves speeds of up to 720kbyte/sec downlink). Some of the firmwares did not work either, and some worked the same way - it

Re: Sysfs and suicidal attributes

2007-07-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Cornelia Huck wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:49:37 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I was trying to say was that suicide and murder could be done the same way from the driver's POV or am I misunderstanding? Do you mean a device unregistering itself from its attribute vs. a

Re: cpuset-remove-sched-domain-hooks-from-cpusets

2007-07-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Andrew wrote: cpuset-remove-sched-domain-hooks-from-cpusets.patch Stuck. Well ... a few hours ago I just finished the 'unrelated task' that kept me from doing much cpuset work the last six months. So, after a little bit of saved up vacation (SGI sabbatical - yippee!), I should be able to

Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

2007-07-10 Thread Håvard Skinnemoen
On 7/10/07, Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Håvard Skinnemoen wrote: On 7/10/07, Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only remaining known bug is arguably a problem in nommu that SLOB shouldn't be papering over. I've got another one for you: SLOB ignores ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN so

Re: [PATCH 17/20] SMP: Implement on_cpu()

2007-07-10 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 7/10/07, Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Satyam Sharma wrote: On 7/9/07, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] on_each_cpu() was imho always a mistake. It would have been better to just fix smp_call_function() directly I'm not sure what you mean by fix here, but if you're

Re: clocksource tsc unstable

2007-07-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 9 2007 22:54, Pawel Dziepak wrote: As far as i know Pentium M processors have dynamically changed clock speed (ofc to save power). That's why kernel notice that TSC is unstable (it is indeed). On my Athlon 64 I have similar situation, because CPU frequency is dynamically changed. I

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:07:37 +0200 Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fallocate-implementation-on-i86-x86_64-and-powerpc.patch Still broken: arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S wants compat_sys_fallocate instead of sys_fallocate. Also compat_sys_fallocate probably should be moved to

Re: [patch] hide cond_syscall behind __KERNEL__ for x86_64

2007-07-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
This brings x86_64 into line with all other architectures by only defining cond_syscall() when __KERNEL__ is defined. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h b/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h index ae1ed05..f5d627c 100644 ---

vmware modules with 2.6.22

2007-07-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi! I have problem building vmware modules with 2.6.22. During code investigation I've notiesd that vmware modules are using old sk_buff structure / skb-h.raw != skb-nh.raw / how can I modify code to be able to compile it and where can I read migration guide for sk_buff? Thanks!

Re: [PATCH v2 -mm 3/9] netconsole: Simplify boot/module option setup logic

2007-07-10 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:49:36PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [3/9] netconsole: Simplify boot/module option setup logic Acked-by: Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

[patch 00/16] First s390 patchset for 2.6.22+

2007-07-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
Small patches for s390 all over the place, nothing exciting. -- blue skies, Martin. Reality continues to ruin my life. - Calvin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[patch 01/16] vmcp cleanup

2007-07-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] No need to use the prefix and, since you're calling nonseekable_open(), there is no need to use no_llseek(). Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c | 13

[patch 03/16] sclp: introduce some new interfaces.

2007-07-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Introduce some new interfaces so that random subsystems don't have to mess around with sclp internal structures. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/s390/kernel/early.c | 44

[patch 02/16] Fixed comment typo.

2007-07-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Ralph Wuerthner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/s390/crypto/crypt_s390.h |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: quilt-2.6/arch/s390/crypto/crypt_s390.h

[patch 04/16] sclp: Test facility list before executing a service call.

2007-07-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check if a command is available before executing. Saves some superfluous service calls that won't succeed anyway. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/s390/kernel/early.c |1

[patch 05/16] fixed cdl-format detection.

2007-07-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Stefan Haberland [EMAIL PROTECTED] CDL formated DASDs are now detected correctly even if no VOL1 label is on the disk. This prevents possible loss of data. Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/partitions/ibm.c | 167

[patch 06/16] zcore: Fix __user annotation.

2007-07-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/s390/char/zcore.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: quilt-2.6/drivers/s390/char/zcore.c

[patch 07/16] smp: Merge smp_count_cpus() and smp_get_save_areas().

2007-07-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Merge smp_count_cpus() and smp_get_save_areas() so we save a loop over all potentially present cpus. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/s390/kernel/smp.c | 63

[patch 08/16] Bogomips calculation for 64 bit.

2007-07-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] The bogomips calculation triggered via reading from /proc/cpuinfo can return incorrect values if the qrnnd assembly is called with a pointer in %r2 with any of the upper 32 bits set. Fix this by using 64 bit division / remainder operation provided by gcc

[patch 09/16] Program check in diag 210 under 31 bit

2007-07-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Michael Holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a virtual address is passed to the diag210 function under 31 bit, we get a programming exception, since diag 210 only works with physical addresses. To fix this, the content of the diag210 data structure is copied to a local structure and the physical

[patch 11/16] dasd: Avoid compile warnings on !CONFIG_DASD_PROFILE

2007-07-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] drivers/s390/block/dasd_proc.c:33: warning: 'dasd_get_user_string' defined but not used drivers/s390/block/dasd_proc.c:172: warning: 'dasd_statistics_array' defined but not used Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Martin

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