Re: [PATCH] net/sched/Kconfig typo fixes

2007-07-16 Thread David Miller
From: Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:53:21 +0200 Some typo fixes in net/sched/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] GMAIL has corrupted the patch, changing tabs into spaces among other things. So the patch will not apply. Please fix this

RE: panics with 16port Promise Supertrack EX Controller

2007-07-16 Thread Ed Lin
-Original Message- From: Jens Axboe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 4:18 AM To: Flavio Curti Cc: Nick Piggin; Michal Piotrowski; Flavio Curti; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Promise_Linux Subject: Re: panics with 16port Promise Supertrack EX Controller

Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

2007-07-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Tim Bird wrote: Oooh! That's nice! I didn't notice the nicely split up part earlier. Any chance we can get the original docbook inputs that OLS uses for paper submissions? Have you asked Andrew or Craig about this? OLS uses LaTeX, not DocBook, for submissions AFAIK. -hpa - To

[GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB updates

2007-07-16 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Linus, Please pull from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git master For the following: - Add experimental support for tea5761 tuner and AF9005 demodulator - Add instructions to retrieve opera firmware - Some improvements at dvb-pll and at tuner

Re: [PATCH] zisofs use mutex instead of semaphore

2007-07-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Dave Young wrote: Hi, Use mutex instead of semaphore in fs/isofs/compress.c, and remove a unnecessary variable. Signed-off-by: Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: Someone ( bsg merge ? ) broke {sd,hd}parm on current git

2007-07-16 Thread Gabriel C
FUJITA Tomonori wrote: From: Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Someone ( bsg merge ? ) broke {sd,hd}parm on current git Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:44:38 +0200 Gabriel C wrote: Hello, sdparm and hdparm are broken for me on git ( abce891a10559343d8ac9f79b46d78afdba63a40 )

Re: [BUG] AS io-scheduler.

2007-07-16 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/16/2007 06:31 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ea86ac54 printing eip: c022dfec *pde = Oops: [#1] Modules linked in: eeprom i2c_viapro vt8231 i2c_isa skge CPU:0 EIP:0060:[c022dfec]Not tainted VLI EFLAGS:

Re: block/bsg.c

2007-07-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
hrm. uninitialized_var(x) does not silence the warning, on my compiler: [EMAIL PROTECTED] misc-2.6]$ rpm -q gcc gcc-4.1.2-13.fc6 @@ -1358,6 +1358,8 @@ udf_load_partition(struct super_block *sb, kernel_lb_addr { kernel_lb_addr ino; +

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-16 Thread Shaohua Li
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 02:00 +0800, Aaron Durbin wrote: Add the ability to reset the machine using the RESET_REG in ACPI's FADT table. We could have another command for 'reboot' kernel command line. Thanks, Shaohua - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-16 Thread Aaron Durbin
On 7/16/07, Shaohua Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 02:00 +0800, Aaron Durbin wrote: Add the ability to reset the machine using the RESET_REG in ACPI's FADT table. We could have another command for 'reboot' kernel command line. I did this in a separate patch for x86_64.

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] Convert the RCU tasklet into a softirq

2007-07-16 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:53:23PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But to answer your question. No, I didn't take any actual measurements. The changes just seemed obvious to me (and others). btw., does anyone know about some reliable way to stress

[RFC/PATCH] allow memory to be tagged coherent via dma_map_sg()

2007-07-16 Thread akepner
Altix supports posted DMA, and DMA can complete out of order due to reordering within the NUMA-interconnect. One of the synchronization mechanisms to flush in-flight DMA is to write to an address which has a special barrier bit set. (The other mechanism is to generate an interrupt.) For now,

Re: Containers: css_put() dilemma

2007-07-16 Thread Balbir Singh
Paul (??) Menage wrote: On 7/16/07, Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Paul, I've run into a strange problem with css_put(). After the changes for notify_on_release(), the css_put() routine can now block and it blocks on the container_mutex. This implies that css_put() cannot be

Re: Containers: css_put() dilemma

2007-07-16 Thread Paul (宝瑠) Menage
On 7/16/07, Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - if (notify_on_release(cont)) { + if (atomic_dec_and_test(css-refcnt) notify_on_release(cont)) { This seems like a good idea, as long as atomic_dec_and_test() isn't noticeably more expensive than atomic_dec(). I assume it

Re: block/bsg.c

2007-07-16 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Jeff Garzik wrote: + uninitialized_var(ino.partitionReferenceNum); + if (!UDF_SB_LASTBLOCK(sb)) still yields fs/udf/super.c: In function ‘udf_fill_super’: fs/udf/super.c:1359: warning: ‘ino.partitionReferenceNum’ may be used uninitialized in this function

Re: block/bsg.c

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:47:21 -0400 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hrm. uninitialized_var(x) does not silence the warning, on my compiler: [EMAIL PROTECTED] misc-2.6]$ rpm -q gcc gcc-4.1.2-13.fc6 @@ -1358,6 +1358,8 @@ udf_load_partition(struct super_block *sb, kernel_lb_addr

Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH] net/sched/Kconfig typo fixes]

2007-07-16 Thread Gabriel C
From: Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:53:21 +0200 Some typo fixes in net/sched/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] GMAIL has corrupted the patch, changing tabs into spaces among other things. So the patch will not apply. Please fix

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Define and use task_active_pid_ns() wrapper

2007-07-16 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Serge E. Hallyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | | Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Define and use task_active_pid_ns() wrapper | | From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | With multiple pid

Re: [PATCH] CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult table

2007-07-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, I wrote: Playing around with some other nice levels, confirms the theory that something is a little off, so I'm quite correct at saying that the ratio _should_ be 1:10. Rechecking everything there was actually a small error in my test program, so the ratio should

Re: [PATCH 01/10] IB/ehca: Support for multiple event queues

2007-07-16 Thread Roland Dreier
No, I've no figures to provide here. The background of this dist_eqs option is actually to allow us testing across all event queues without to change the testcases resp consumers to use certain event queue number. Thus, I should comment it as EXPERIMENTAL? Seems like it's just

Re: [PATCH 10/10] IB/ehca: Support large page MRs

2007-07-16 Thread Roland Dreier
Why the module parameter? Is there any reason a user would want to turn this off? Or conversely, why is it off by default? We're pretty confident this new feature works, but as with all new and possibly experimental features, there are chances it might explode your machine when

Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

2007-07-16 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 01:57:07PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Vivek Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-16 06:19]: On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 03:15:50PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Ken'ichi Ohmichi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-13 13:05]: BTW, I'd like to remove PAGESIZE from a

Re: block/bsg.c

2007-07-16 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: block/bsg.c Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:22:25 +0530 On 7/17/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG=y CONFIG_SCSI=m block/built-in.o: In function `bsg_init': block/bsg.c:1097: undefined reference to

Re: sysfs root link count broken in 2.6.22-git5

2007-07-16 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:42:32PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Tejun, hi Greg, I'm running 2.6.22-git5 and noticed that the link count of the sysfs root is broken: $ ls -ld /sys drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 15 12:27 /sys sysfs is mounted, the link count should be 11, and is with

Re: [git pull] more drm patches for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Dave Airlie wrote: Please pull the 'drm-patches' branch from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git drm-patches I really think this or the previous tree is buggy. Trying to start any 3D client just hangs my Evo laptop hard. It's a Radeon

Re: [git pull] more drm patches for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-16 Thread Dave Airlie
I really think this or the previous tree is buggy. I've got this to reproduce on my machine, this code came from DRM git and has been okay in there for a few weeks, I'll do some digging it may be something to do with the idr + context/drawable code.. Dave. Trying to start any 3D client

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/13/2007 05:19 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I should really go back to 2.6.21.6, 2.6.22 has many bizarre behaviors with FC6. Automount starts taking 30% of CPU (unused at the moment) Can you confirm whether CFS is

[PATCH] PCI: Move prototypes for pci_bus_find_capability to include/linux/pci.h

2007-07-16 Thread Kumar Gala
We need pci_bus_find_capability() in some arch/powerpc code so move the prototype into a header accessible to it. Also kill the duplicate prototype for pci_bus_alloc_resource(). Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Here's a version that just moves the prototype I need for

Re: [git pull] more drm patches for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-16 Thread Dave Airlie
Please pull the 'drm-patches' branch from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git drm-patches Could you re-pull? There are two patches, one fixes a missed typedef for Sis and one adds the idr_init that fell out of the drawable changeset.. which should fix any

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

2007-07-16 Thread david
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Monday, 16 July 2007 16:42, Huang, Ying wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 14:17 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: is this a matter of running some test to find out, or is this a question for the kexec implemantors? Actually, I'd like someone to

Re: [PATCH 01/10] IB/ehca: Support for multiple event queues

2007-07-16 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
I still haven't seen much code using the feature or even any anecdotal information about the performance impact. Here's some anecdotal evidence :) http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/general/2007-May/035758.html -- MST - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Hibernation considerations

2007-07-16 Thread david
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: suspend-to-RAM should not involve kexec, the only reason for doing the kexec to to get a seperate userspace to use for suspend-to-disk operations instead of trying to

Re: Hibernation considerations

2007-07-16 Thread david
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Monday, 16 July 2007 14:38, Jim Crilly wrote: On 07/16/07 02:06:27PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Monday, 16 July 2007 01:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Monday, 16 July 2007 00:42, [EMAIL

Re: Hibernation considerations

2007-07-16 Thread david
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Alan Stern wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: From a kexec'd hibernation kernel pov, both S3 and S4 look conceptually exactly the same. The only difference is, in S3 the memory is in memory and in S4 the memory is on storage. All device handling

Re: Hibernation considerations

2007-07-16 Thread david
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Alan Stern wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then we need a third mode of operation. mode 1: Suspend-to-ram the system is paused and put into a low-power mode but data remains in memory and the system stays awake enough to keep the memory refreshed.

Re: block/bsg.c

2007-07-16 Thread Joseph Fannin
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:57:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: What does the code in bsg.c _do_, anyway?? Ho hum. It reformats the hard drive on Battlestar Galactica before the Cylon virus that has penetrated the firewalls keeps the power off long enough for the Centurions to vent the crew

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-16 Thread Ian Kent
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 23:55 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/13/2007 05:19 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I should really go back to 2.6.21.6, 2.6.22 has many bizarre behaviors with FC6. Automount starts taking 30% of CPU (unused at the moment)

Re: Linux 2.4.35 tree abandoned/delayed?

2007-07-16 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Tony, On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:30:47PM -0800, Tony Borras wrote: I did get the current 'pre' set of 2.4.35 (circa early June) patches and applied to 2.4.34.5. After fixing a goto mislable in one of the patches (dont remember if it was one of the patch-2.4.34.? or patch-2.4.35.pre5),

Re: [patch 1/8] Kprobes - do not use kprobes mutex in arch code

2007-07-16 Thread Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:21:34PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: Remove the kprobes mutex from kprobes.h, since it does not belong there. Also remove all use of this mutex in the architecture specific code, replacing it by a proper mutex lock/unlock in the architecture agnostic code.

Re: [PATCH] Kprobes - use a mutex to protect the instruction pages list.

2007-07-16 Thread Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 03:51:39PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: Kprobes - use a mutex to protect the instruction pages list. Protect the instruction pages list by a specific insn pages mutex, called in get_insn_slot() and free_insn_slot(). It makes sure that architectures that does not

Re: [PATCH] Kprobes - Declare kprobe_mutex static

2007-07-16 Thread Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 03:52:41PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: Kprobes - Declare kprobe_mutex static Since it will not be used by other kernel objects, it makes sense to declare it static. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [EMAIL

Re: [patch] revert: [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll

2007-07-16 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On 16-07-2007 11:12, Ingo Molnar wrote: current -git broke my main testbox. No TCP/IP networking to/from the box and e1000 would time out in xmit: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang ... Olaf, I think this error can trigger in

Re: Hibernating To Swap Considered Harmful

2007-07-16 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Dienstag 17 Juli 2007 schrieb Joseph Fannin: Why are all these workarounds preferred, instead of proper suspend support for swap files? IOW, what reasons are there to *not* support swap files, other than the hit-and-miss Linux suspend support? If yoi want to go the kexec route to

please pull ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git xen-upstream

2007-07-16 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Hi Linus, The following changes since commit a5fcaa210626a79465321e344c91a6a7dc3881fa: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'drm-patches' of ssh://master.kernel.org/.../airlied/drm-2.6 are available in the git repository at:

Re: [PATCH] slob: reduce list scanning

2007-07-16 Thread Nick Piggin
Matt Mackall wrote: The version of SLOB in -mm always scans its free list from the beginning, which results in small allocations and free segments clustering at the beginning of the list over time. This causes the average search to scan over a large stretch at the beginning on each allocation.

Drop patch update-isdn-tree-to-use-pci_get_device.patch from -mm tree

2007-07-16 Thread Surya Prabhakar N
Hi Andrew, I would request you to drop the patch update-isdn-tree-to-use-pci_get_device.patch from the -mm tree since a new bug is been identified in that by jeff. thanks. surya. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Hibernation Redesign

2007-07-16 Thread Nick Piggin
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: The only direct relationship between the freezer and drivers is that some of them use kernel threads that call try_to_freeze() (and other freezer-related functions). If removing thoset was the only benefit of getting rid of the freezer with kexec, it would almost be

Re: [PATCH] CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult table

2007-07-16 Thread James Bruce
Thomas Gleixner wrote: Roman Zippel noticed inconsistency of the wmult table. wmult[16] has a missing digit. [snip] While we're at it, isn't the comment above the wmult table incorrect? The multiplier is 1.25, meaning a 25% change per nice level, not 10%. - Jim - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [patch 1/5] avoid tlb gather restarts.

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:18:23 +0200 Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If need_resched() is false in the inner loop of unmap_vmas it is > unnecessary to do a full blown tlb_finish_mmu / tlb_gather_mmu for > each ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE ptes. Do

Re: [PATCH] splice: fix wrong __splice_from_pipe() usage

2007-07-16 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 16 2007, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed the nfsd read corruption by recent change. And this patch > fixes the problem for me, is this right fix? > -- > OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > __splice_from_pipe() is updating the sd->pos for the actor, but those >

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal

2007-07-16 Thread Stefan Seyfried
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:18:17AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 09:32 +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > > >> [*] Does someone have an alternative for > > >> /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/{state,info}? > > I'm working on it. Should have proto by the end of week. > > If you are

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-16 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 23:11 +0200, Markus wrote: > > > [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/07/14/60 > > > > Hm. Tasks disappearing isn't you're typical process scheduler problem > > by any means, nor is an idle box exhibiting mouse "lurchiness". Is > > there anything unusual in your logs? > > I know

[PATCH 1/1] Driver for the Atmel on-chip SSC on AT32AP and AT91.

2007-07-16 Thread Hans-Christian Egtvedt
The Synchronous Serial Controller (SSC) on Atmel microprocessors are capable of tranceiving many frame based protocols, like I2S. Tested on the AT32AP7000/ATSTK1000. This driver is used in the ALSA sound driver for the AT73C213 external DAC on the ATSTK1000 development board for AVR32. This sound

Re: irq 9: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)

2007-07-16 Thread Stefan Richter
(Full quote for LKML) Akkana Peck wrote: > I've been participating in a thread on the linux-usb list about an > IRQ conflict problem several of us have seen with 2.6.21 and 2.6.22 > (which didn't happen with earlier kernels). > > The full thread starts at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL

Re: Hibernation considerations

2007-07-16 Thread david
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: suspend-to-RAM should not involve kexec, the only reason for doing the kexec to to get a seperate userspace to use for suspend-to-disk operations instead of trying to partially freeze the sustem and keep useing it. Or you could

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

2007-07-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:03:02PM -0700, Li, Tong N wrote: > > There are various metrics a scheduler may want to optimize for, such as > throughput, response time, power consumption, fairness, and so on. Each > of these may also be defined differently in different environments. Take > fairness

Re: [PATCH] CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult table

2007-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* James Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While we're at it, isn't the comment above the wmult table incorrect? > The multiplier is 1.25, meaning a 25% change per nice level, not 10%. yes, the weight multiplier 1.25, but the actual difference in CPU utilization, when running two CPU intense

Re: [i2c] OMAP: Add TI TWL92330/Menelaus Power Management chip driver

2007-07-16 Thread Trilok Soni
Hi Guennadi, On 7/15/07, Guennadi Liakhovetski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Trilok Soni wrote: > 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

Re: [EXT4 set 9][PATCH 4/5]Morecleanups:ext4_extent_compilation_fixes

2007-07-16 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 23:18 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:38:51 -0400 Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Subject: [EXT4 set 9][PATCH 4/5]Morecleanups:ext4_extent_compilation_fixes > > Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:38:51 -0400 > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: [PATCH] slob: reduce list scanning

2007-07-16 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 7/16/07, Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually SLOB potentially has some fundamental CPU cache hotness advantages over the other allocators, for the same reasons as its space advantages. Because consecutive allocations hit the same cache-hot page regardless of requested size where

Re: [PATCH][BUTTON] remove procfs-interface

2007-07-16 Thread Stefan Seyfried
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:37:07AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > On 7/12/07, Zhang, Rui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well, the ACPI sysfs conversion is not finished yet > >[...] > >I'm not sure if the button sysfs I/F is already finished. > >We'd better make a double check. :) > > Ok, this

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: update ACPI_PROCFS removal schedule

2007-07-16 Thread Stefan Seyfried
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 06:20:34PM +0800, rzhang1 wrote: > From: Zhang Rui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ACPI sysfs conversion is not finished yet and > some user space tools still depend on the ACPI procfs I/F. > > The ACPI_PROCFS removal schedule is changed to Jan 08. I think that's too early. The

Re: [PATCH] CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult table

2007-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * James Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > While we're at it, isn't the comment above the wmult table incorrect? > > The multiplier is 1.25, meaning a 25% change per nice level, not 10%. > > yes, the weight multiplier 1.25, but the actual

Re: [PATCH][BUTTON] remove procfs-interface

2007-07-16 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 7/16/07, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Holy sh*t. There is not even a functional replacement ready, but still everybody wants to remove /proc/acpi. (Maybe the replacement started to work recently, i have not looked into this area for the last months. This does not change my

Re: Ask for help, about the trivial patches.

2007-07-16 Thread Stefan Richter
jimmy bahuleyan wrote: > TripleX Chung wrote: >> But I still have problems. >> Trivial means "of little worth or importance". But some of the examples >> in the rules are important, like "runtime fixes". Spell fixes must be >> unimportant, but most of the runtime fixes like memory leaks or NULL >>

[PATCH] HiSax telespci: convert to PCI hotplug API

2007-07-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
commit 6a95b63013e6bdd316dca39053174cb1add4b555 Author: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon Jul 16 03:49:25 2007 -0400 [ISDN] HiSax: convert telespci to PCI hotplug API Also, some exports needed now that arocfi and hscx are being picked up via libhisax. [like other

[git pull request] scheduler updates

2007-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
Linus, please pull the latest scheduler git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched.git this includes low-risk changes that improve comments, remove dead code and fix whitespace/style problems. Thanks! Ingo ---> Ingo Molnar (5):

Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?

2007-07-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 15 2007 23:23, Al Viro wrote: >On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 02:13:21PM -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: >> >> I suspect he was asking for >> >> int getxattrat(int fd, const char *path, const char *name, void *value, >> size_t size, int flags) >> int setxattrat(int fd, const char

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sending a few seconds of logged /proc/sched_debug will also help get a > picture of what's happening, and lovely would be a method to reproduce > the problem locally. also, by running this script:

Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?

2007-07-16 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:56:10AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >Just one question: what the bleeding hell for? Not that the rest of > >..at() family made any damn sense as an interface... > > fd1 = open("dir1", O_DIRECTORY): > fd2 = open("dir2", O_DIRECTORY); > system("mount -t tmpfs none

[PATCH 1/1] ext4: JBD->JBD2 naming cleanups

2007-07-16 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 16:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4/include/linux/jbd2.h > > === > > --- linux-2.6.22-rc4.orig/include/linux/jbd2.h 2007-06-11 > > 16:16:18.0 -0700 > > +++

Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

2007-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably the last one now that CFS is in the main line :-(. hm, why is CFS in mainline a problem? The CFS merge should make the life of development/test patches like plugsched conceptually easier. (it will certainly cause a lot of churn, but

Re: [EXT4 set 2][PATCH 2/5] cleanups: Add extent sanity checks

2007-07-16 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 16:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:36:22 -0400 > Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > with the patch all headers are checked. the code should become > > more resistant to on-disk corruptions. needless BUG_ON() have > > been removed. please,

Re: [EXT4 set 6][PATCH 1/1]Export jbd stats through procfs

2007-07-16 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 19:31 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:38:10 -0400 Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [PATCH] jbd2 stats through procfs > > > > The patch below updates the jbd stats patch to 2.6.20/jbd2. > > The initial patch was posted by Alex Tomas in

Re: [EXT4 set 6][PATCH 1/1]Export jbd stats through procfs

2007-07-16 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 21:42 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:21:49 -0400 "Cédric Augonnet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > 2007/7/10, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > + size = sizeof(struct transaction_stats_s); > > > > + s->stats =

performance -cfs19 vs. -ck1 for 2.6.22

2007-07-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I haven't made special tests to compare 2.6.22-cfs19 and 2.6.22-ck1, but I see performance superiority of 2.6.22-ck1 using my own eyes. Especially in mozilla-firefox ... Using 2.6.22 or 2.6.22-cfs19 my firefox hangs for some time(~4-5 seconds) when I'm trying to open any url, but with

Re: performance -cfs19 vs. -ck1 for 2.6.22

2007-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using 2.6.22 or 2.6.22-cfs19 my firefox hangs for some time(~4-5 > seconds) when I'm trying to open any url, but with 2.6.22-ck1 firefox > doesn't hang at all or at least for a second when I have lots of open > tabs. hm, is there no other

Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?

2007-07-16 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Jan Engelhardt wrote: fd1 = open("dir1", O_DIRECTORY): fd2 = open("dir2", O_DIRECTORY); system("mount -t tmpfs none dir1"); system("mount -t tmpfs none dir2"); openat(fd1, "file1", O_RDWR | O_CREAT); openat(fd2, "file2", O_RDWR | O_CREAT); If you have a better way to accomplish this, let me

Re: [PATCH] slob: reduce list scanning

2007-07-16 Thread Nick Piggin
Pekka Enberg wrote: On 7/16/07, Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually SLOB potentially has some fundamental CPU cache hotness advantages over the other allocators, for the same reasons as its space advantages. Because consecutive allocations hit the same cache-hot page regardless

Re: performance -cfs19 vs. -ck1 for 2.6.22

2007-07-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Ingo! Could you run the following script: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/cfs-debug-info.sh I'll do that! But a little bit later - I have tested that on my home computer. hm, is there no other workload on the system? Workload: firefox, transmission(torrent client),

[GIT PULL] Backlight updates

2007-07-16 Thread Richard Purdie
Hi Linus, Could you please pull from: git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-backlight for-linus This converts the backlight/lcd class away from struct class_device and includes a Kconfig bugfix. Thanks, Richard drivers/acpi/video.c |4 - drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c

[GIT PULL] LED updates

2007-07-16 Thread Richard Purdie
Hi Linus, Could you please pull from: git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds for-linus This adds a couple of new LED drivers and converts the LED class away from struct class_device as well as some bug fixes. Most of this has been in -mm for a while. Thanks, Richard

Re: panics with 16port Promise Supertrack EX Controller

2007-07-16 Thread Flavio Curti
Hello On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:35:15PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:51:55 +0200 Flavio Curti wrote: > > Ok, I now switched to cfg, and the machine panicd again. Panic attached. > > Any help is appreciated. > Make sure that you switched to "cfq" and not "cfg". Oh, it is.

Re: performance -cfs19 vs. -ck1 for 2.6.22

2007-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Ingo! > > >>Could you run the > >>following script: > >> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/cfs-debug-info.sh > I'll do that! But a little bit later - I have tested that on my home > computer. > > >>hm, is there no other

Fwd: performance -cfs19 vs. -ck1 for 2.6.22

2007-07-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to help us figure out the nature of the delay, could you do another thing as well: strace -ttt -TTT -f -o firefox.trace.txt -p `pidof firefox-bin` I'll do that!! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

RE : Re: RE : Re: x86 setup code rewrite in C - revised

2007-07-16 Thread Etienne Lorrain
--- "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Does not save and restore %ds when printing a char on the screen (%ds > is > destroyed only when the content of the screen scroll - only for some > video cards) > >> %ds? Aren't you confusing it with the old bug which

Including STRTOK_R in a LSM

2007-07-16 Thread Z. Cliffe Schreuders
I am aware strtok was removed from the kernel in 2002. However strtok_r is more desirable than strsep as I do not want to know about 'blank fields' (2 consecutive delimiters). Is it acceptable to simply include the strtok_r code in my security module? or should I create a wrapper for strsep to

Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?

2007-07-16 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > fd1 = open("dir1", O_DIRECTORY): > > fd2 = open("dir2", O_DIRECTORY); > > system("mount -t tmpfs none dir1"); > > system("mount -t tmpfs none dir2"); > > openat(fd1, "file1", O_RDWR | O_CREAT); > > openat(fd2, "file2", O_RDWR | O_CREAT); > > If you have a better way to accomplish this, let me

Re: [rfc][patch 2/2] x86_64: FIFO ticket spinlocks

2007-07-16 Thread Alan Cox
> however the difference is quite small on Core2 and Opteron when working out of > cache, and becomes almost insignificant even on P4 when the lock misses cache. > trylock is more significantly slower, but they are relatively rare. This has a 255 processor limit (worst case). That should probably

[PATCH try#4] Blackfin ethernet driver: on chip ethernet MAC controller driver

2007-07-16 Thread Bryan Wu
This patch implements the driver necessary use the Analog Devices Blackfin processor's on-chip ethernet MAC controller. [try#2] - add timeout control - kill dma_config_reg bitfields - some trivial cleanup [try#3] - add endianess check - add DRV_NAME, DRV_VERSION... driver information string

[patch] revert: [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll

2007-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
current -git broke my main testbox. No TCP/IP networking to/from the box and e1000 would time out in xmit: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang Tx Queue <0> TDH <95> TDT <95>

Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?

2007-07-16 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This should work: > >fchdir(fd1); >open("file1", O_RDWR | O_CREAT); >fchdir(fd2); >open("file2", O_RDWR | O_CREAT); This is not thread-safe. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH,

Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: x86 setup code rewrite in C - revised

2007-07-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Etienne Lorrain wrote: > BUGS: some implementations (including the original IBM PC) have a bug which > destroys BP > the Trident TVGA8900CL (BIOS dated 1992/9/8) clears DS to h when > scrolling in an SVGA mode (800x600 or higher) "When scrolling in an SVGA mode", sounds

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run a java application at nice 15. Its been a background > application here for as long as SD and CFS have been around. If I > have a compile running at nice 0, with v19 java gets so little cpu > that the the wrapper that runs to monitor it is

Re: [patch] use __attribute__ in asm-powerpc

2007-07-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: > Pretty much everyone uses "__attribute__" or "attribute", no one > uses "__attribute". This patch tweaks the three places in asm-powerpc where > this comes up. While only asm-powerpc/types.h is interesting (for userspace), > I did

Re: [patch] use __attribute__ in asm-powerpc

2007-07-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > Pretty much everyone uses "__attribute__" or "attribute", no one > > uses "__attribute". This patch tweaks the three places in asm-powerpc where > > this comes up. While only asm-powerpc/types.h is

Re: [rfc][patch 2/2] x86_64: FIFO ticket spinlocks

2007-07-16 Thread Nick Piggin
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:16:54AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > however the difference is quite small on Core2 and Opteron when working out > > of > > cache, and becomes almost insignificant even on P4 when the lock misses > > cache. > > trylock is more significantly slower, but they are

Re: [PATCH] Chinese Language Maintainer

2007-07-16 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
> Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That aside, please remember that Europe as a whole is a small place on the > bigger world stage. The total volume of potential developers in the huge > and rapidly modernising nations like India and China is vast, and there > are large highly skilled

Re: [rfc][patch 2/2] x86_64: FIFO ticket spinlocks

2007-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] trylock is more significantly slower, but they are relatively > rare. trylock is the main thing that the spinlock debugging code uses, and SPINLOCK_DEBUG is frequently enabled by distro kernels. OTOH, the cost looks like to be +5 instructions,

Re: [GIT PULL][RESEND] KVM Updates for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-16 Thread Avi Kivity
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: Linus, please do your usual thing from the repository and branch at It has code like + /* Can deadlock when called with interrupts disabled */ + WARN_ON(irqs_disabled()); +

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