Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag 28 Juli 2007 schrieb Linus Torvalds: People are suggesting that you'd have a separate desktop kernel. That's insane. It also shows total ignorance of maintainership, and reality. And I bet most of the people there haven't tested _either_ scheduler, they just like making statements.

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB Pegasus driver - avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference.

2007-07-29 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Sonntag 29 Juli 2007 schrieb Jesper Juhl: On 29/07/07, Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 7/29/07, Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, This patch makes sure we don't dereference a NULL pointer in drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c::write_bulk_callback() in the

Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

2007-07-29 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:31:54PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: [added to cc: Chuck Ebbert] Borislav Petkov wrote: The absolute best would be if we could replicate this in simulation (Bochs or Qemu); this would make it very simple to debug. Would you be willing to try to do that?

Re: TCP SACK issue, hung connection, tcpdump included

2007-07-29 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:26:00AM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:59:26AM +0100, Darryl L. Miles wrote: CLIENT = Linux 2.6.20.1-smp [Customer build] SERVER = Linux 2.6.9-55.ELsmp [Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4

Re: TCP SACK issue, hung connection, tcpdump included

2007-07-29 Thread David Miller
From: Ilpo_Järvinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:26:00 +0300 (EEST) Is this reproducable? Can you somehow verify that the packets CLIENT is sending are indeed received by the SERVER...? One possibility is drops due to checksum errors on the receiver, this tends to pop up from

Re: [PATCH 2/3] core_pattern: allow passing of arguments to user mode helper when core_pattern is a pipe

2007-07-29 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Neil Horman wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 06:17:25PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Hi Neil, Neil Horman [2007-07-28 9:46 -0400]: I just want to mention a potential problem with this: If you first expand the macros (from pattern to corename) and then split corename into an argv, then this

Re: TCP SACK issue, hung connection, tcpdump included

2007-07-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 29 2007 08:45, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:59:26AM +0100, Darryl L. Miles wrote: CLIENT = Linux 2.6.20.1-smp [Customer build] SERVER = Linux 2.6.9-55.ELsmp [Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5)] The problems start around time index

Re: LinuxPPS spinlocks

2007-07-29 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 02:17:24AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: I only glanced through the code, so could be wrong, but I noticed that the only global / shared data you have in there is a global pps_source array of pps_s structs. That's accessed / modified from the various syscalls introduced

Re: TCP SACK issue, hung connection, tcpdump included

2007-07-29 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:26:00AM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:59:26AM +0100, Darryl L. Miles wrote: CLIENT = Linux 2.6.20.1-smp [Customer build] SERVER = Linux

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag 28 Juli 2007 schrieb Linus Torvalds: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: You cannot please everybody in the scheduler question, that is clear, then why not offer dedicated scheduling alternatives (plugsched comes to mind) and let them choose what pleases them most, and

Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

2007-07-29 Thread Xudong Guan
Borislav Petkov wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:31:54PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: If we can't reproduce the problem in simulation, that itself will tell us something very important. If we *can* reproduce it in simulation, it will be vastly easier to debug. [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 2/3] core_pattern: allow passing of arguments to user mode helper when core_pattern is a pipe

2007-07-29 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Neil, Neil Horman [2007-07-28 13:21 -0400]: Jeremy asked that I make a patch next week to address split_argv's requirement that the argc parameter be non-NULL. I'll be fixing that next week, and what I can do is further enhance it such that it ignores spaces in quoted strings, which

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag 28 Juli 2007 schrieb Linus Torvalds: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Diego Calleja wrote: El Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:05:25 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: So modal things are good for fixing behaviour in the short run. But they are a total disaster in the long run,

Re: Hibernation considerations

2007-07-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 29 July 2007 08:53, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 12:38:11AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Or the user unplugs their flash drive after hibernation rather than before. Two things which I think would be nice to consider are: 1) Encryption - I'd

Re: LinuxPPS spinlocks

2007-07-29 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:11:17AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: Take the race between the time_pps_setparams() syscall and a concurrent pps_event() from an interrupt for instance. From sys_time_pps_setparams, the parameters for an existing source are not modified / set atomically, which means

Re: LinuxPPS spinlocks

2007-07-29 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:11:17AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: Ok, I've looked through (most of) the RFC and code now, and am only commenting on a design-level for now. Anyway, I didn't like the way you've significantly drifted from the RFC in several ways: Please, read documentation file

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Linus Torvalds wrote: The fact is, I've _always_ considered the desktop to be the most important part. And I suspect that that actually is true for most kernel developers, because quite frankly, that's what 99% of them ends up using. If a kernel developer uses Windows for his day-to-day work,

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Sam Ravnborg
I actually also think that the communication between Ingo and Con could have been better especially when Ingo decided to write CFS while Con was still working hard on SD. You realize that Ingo posted his code for anyone to look at/comment at about 48 hours after he started to work on CFS?

Re: LinuxPPS spinlocks

2007-07-29 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:11:17AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: Take the race between the time_pps_setparams() syscall and a concurrent pps_event() from an interrupt for instance. From sys_time_pps_setparams, the parameters for an existing source are not modified / set atomically, which means

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-29 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/28/2007 11:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: many -mm users use it anyway? He himself said he's not convinced of usefulness having not seen it help for him (and notice that most developers are also users), turned it off due to it annoying him at some point and hasn't seen a serious

Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

2007-07-29 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:24:02AM +0100, Xudong Guan wrote: Borislav Petkov wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:31:54PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: If we can't reproduce the problem in simulation, that itself will tell us something very important. If we *can* reproduce it in simulation,

Re: [PATCH 0/3] core_pattern: cleaned up repost/continuing post of core_pattern enhancements

2007-07-29 Thread Eugene Teo
Neil Horman wrote: Ok, here we go As promised, I'm reposting the core_pattern enhancements I've done over the past few days. These three patches replace and conintue the work contained in the following patches, and can replace them:

Re: [PATCH] bsg: Fix warning with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG=n

2007-07-29 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Jul 28 2007, Roland Dreier wrote: The current stub definitions of bsg_register_queue() and bsg_unregister_queue() as macros leads to drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c: In function 'scsi_sysfs_add_sdev': drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c:718: warning: unused variable 'rq' because the first

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag 29 Juli 2007 schrieb Sam Ravnborg: I actually also think that the communication between Ingo and Con could have been better especially when Ingo decided to write CFS while Con was still working hard on SD. You realize that Ingo posted his code for anyone to look at/comment at

[PATCH] sysrq: add a show-stacktrace-on-all-cpus command

2007-07-29 Thread Avi Kivity
If a cpu is spinning in the kernel but still responding to interrupts, pressing sysrq-y will show you where it's spinning. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/drivers/char/sysrq.c b/drivers/char/sysrq.c index 39cc318..1dda709 100644 --- a/drivers/char/sysrq.c +++

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-29 Thread Manuel Reimer
Robert Hancock wrote: It's not entirely clear to me whether the kernel is doing any retries or not. It likely should be, but somebody more familiar with the block layer would likely have to answer whether it will be or not.. Would be pretty great to get answer of someone, who knows if the

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-29 Thread david
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: On 07/28/2007 11:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: many -mm users use it anyway? He himself said he's not convinced of usefulness having not seen it help for him (and notice that most developers are also users), turned it off due to it annoying him

RFC: Remove the arm26 port

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
Considering the state of the arm26 port, I do hereby suggest to remove it from the Linx kernel since it's far from a usable state and doesn't seem to come back into a usable state. If anyone wants to work on getting this port back into a usable state in the forseeable future he should speak up

Re: 2.6.23-rc1, KVM-AMD problem

2007-07-29 Thread Avi Kivity
Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2007 09:16:43 Avi Kivity wrote: Alistair John Strachan wrote: Hi, I'm getting periodic oopses running KVM-33 on 2.6.23-rc1. Here is a digital photo of the oops. Alarmingly, a lot of the time it triple faults the machine and I don't get a

Re: 2.6.23-rc1, KVM-AMD problem

2007-07-29 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 29 July 2007 09:16:43 Avi Kivity wrote: Alistair John Strachan wrote: Hi, I'm getting periodic oopses running KVM-33 on 2.6.23-rc1. Here is a digital photo of the oops. Alarmingly, a lot of the time it triple faults the machine and I don't get a chance to grab it. This time I

Re: [PATCH 0/3] core_pattern: cleaned up repost/continuing post of core_pattern enhancements

2007-07-29 Thread Neil Horman
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:40:43PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: Neil Horman wrote: Ok, here we go As promised, I'm reposting the core_pattern enhancements I've done over the past few days. These three patches replace and conintue the work contained in the following patches, and can

Re: [RFC/RFT 0/5] Input locking patches

2007-07-29 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Sun, July 29, 2007 05:38, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi Indan, On Friday 27 July 2007 18:25, Indan Zupancic wrote: Sorry for the babbling, just wanted to say that I've tested these patches and that they seem to fix real problems. Thank you for testing the patches. Unfortunately I spoke too

Re: [PATCH 2/3] core_pattern: allow passing of arguments to user mode helper when core_pattern is a pipe

2007-07-29 Thread Neil Horman
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:23:10PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: Neil Horman wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 06:17:25PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Hi Neil, Neil Horman [2007-07-28 9:46 -0400]: I just want to mention a potential problem with this: If you first expand the macros (from

Re: [PATCH 2/3] core_pattern: allow passing of arguments to user mode helper when core_pattern is a pipe

2007-07-29 Thread Neil Horman
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:34:18AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Hi Neil, Neil Horman [2007-07-28 13:21 -0400]: Jeremy asked that I make a patch next week to address split_argv's requirement that the argc parameter be non-NULL. I'll be fixing that next week, and what I can do is

[PATCH 1/2] Replace CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND with CONFIG_HIBERNATION

2007-07-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Replace CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND with CONFIG_HIBERNATION to avoid confusion (among other things, with CONFIG_SUSPEND introduced in the next patch). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/i386/Kconfig.debug |4 ++--

Re: + numa-generic-management-of-nodemasks-for-various-purposes.patch added to -mm tree

2007-07-29 Thread Paul Jackson
Lee Schermerhorn (via Andrew) wrote: +static inline void node_set_state(int node, enum node_states state) +{ + __node_set(node, node_states[state]); +} + +static inline void node_clear_state(int node, enum node_states state) +{ + __node_clear(node, node_states[state]); +} Lee -

Re: RFC: Remove the arm26 port

2007-07-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 01:50:40PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: Considering the state of the arm26 port, I do hereby suggest to remove it from the Linx kernel since it's far from a usable state and doesn't seem to come back into a usable state. If anyone wants to work on getting this port

[PATCH 0/2] Introduce CONFIG_HIBERNATION and CONFIG_SUSPEND (was: CONFIG_SUSPEND?)

2007-07-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 28 July 2007 20:31, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: OK, I'll prepare a patch to introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND, but that will require quite a bit of (compilation) testing on different architectures. Sure. I'm not too worried, the fallout

Re: [RFC/RFT 1/5] Input: implement proper locking in input core

2007-07-29 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Sun, July 29, 2007 05:50, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi Indan, On Friday 27 July 2007 19:28, Indan Zupancic wrote: Hi, Not real feedback, just some nitpicks. On Tue, July 24, 2007 06:45, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: +static int input_defuzz_abs_event(int value, int old_val, int fuzz) +{ +

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-29 Thread Paul Jackson
Andi wrote: GNU sort uses a merge sort with temporary files on disk. Not sure how much it keeps in memory during that, but it's probably less than 150MB. If I'm reading the source code for GNU sort correctly, then the following snippet of shell code displays how much memory it uses for its

[PATCH 2/2] Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND

2007-07-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND representing the ability to enter system sleep states, such as the ACPI S3 state, and allow the user to choose SUSPEND and HIBERNATION independently of each other. Make HOTPLUG_CPU be selected automatically if SUSPEND or

Re: RFC: Remove the arm26 port

2007-07-29 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 01:10:12PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 01:50:40PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: Considering the state of the arm26 port, I do hereby suggest to remove it from the Linx kernel since it's far from a usable state and doesn't seem to come back

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Edgeport UPS Monitoring Problems

2007-07-29 Thread Nick Pasich
Adam, Here's the dmesg output .. ---( Nick )--- *** *** Jul 29 05:19:28 NICK2 kernel: drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c: get_string -

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
Contrived thing and all, but what it does do is show exactly how bad seeking all over swap-space is. If you push it out before hitting enter, the time it takes easily grows past 10 minutes (with my 768M) versus sub-second (!) when it's all in to start with. Think in operations/second and

Re: RFC: Remove the arm26 port

2007-07-29 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Considering the state of the arm26 port, I do hereby suggest to remove it from the Linx kernel since it's far from a usable state and doesn't seem to come back into a usable state. If anyone wants to work on getting this port back into a usable

Re: [PATCH 3/3] core_pattern: fix up a few miscelaneous bugs

2007-07-29 Thread Eugene Teo
Neil Horman wrote: [...] + delimit = strrchr(helper_argv[0], '/'); + if (delimit) Trailing space. + delimit++; + else + delimit = helper_argv[0]; + if (!strcmp(delimit, current-comm)) + {

Re: [PATCH 2/3] core_pattern: allow passing of arguments to user mode helper when core_pattern is a pipe

2007-07-29 Thread Eugene Teo
Neil Horman wrote: [...] + /* core limit size */ + case 'c': + rc = snprintf(out_ptr, out_end - out_ptr, + %lu, current-signal-rlim[RLIMIT_CORE].rlim_cur); Trailing space. [...]

Re: [PATCH 1/3] core_pattern: ignore RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe

2007-07-29 Thread Eugene Teo
Neil Horman wrote: [...] + * Don't bother to check the RLIMIT_CORE value if core_pattern points + * to a pipe. Since we're not writing directly to the filesystem + * RLIMIT_CORE doesn't really apply, as no actual core file will be + * created unless the pipe reader choses

Re: How can we make page replacement smarter

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
Files are different. File content tends to be grouped in large related chunks, both logically in the file and on disk. Generally there is a lot more file data on a system than what fits in memory. Binary paging patterns don't always look like that unfortunately although I suspect we might

Re: [PATCH 0/3] core_pattern: cleaned up repost/continuing post of core_pattern enhancements

2007-07-29 Thread Eugene Teo
Neil Horman wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:40:43PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: Neil Horman wrote: [...] You may want to improve your patches with style-related changes, including removing trailing spaces, using tabs instead of spaces, and defining pointers like char *ptr instead of char *

Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

2007-07-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Borislav Petkov wrote: Right, this was too easy to be true. I now did: qemu -hda /dev/hda -snapshot and booted from the hd using the installed grub and the same kernel and it _didn't_ boot showing again no setup signature found... Okay, so it's an algorithmic problem. This is quite

Re: [PATCH] bsg: Fix warning with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG=n

2007-07-29 Thread Roland Dreier
James should already have that patch queued for inclusion since last week. OK thanks, I missed seeing it go by. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: 2.6.23-rc1, KVM-AMD problem

2007-07-29 Thread Avi Kivity
Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2007 12:34:28 you wrote: [snip] Doesn't help, I still get the same crashes. I tried 2.6.22 again and it's rock solid by comparison. Do you mean, kvm-33 on top of 2.6.22, or the kvm modules from 2.6.22? Please describe your configuration

Re: [PATCH] TSDEV - Don't flood dmesg with removal warnings

2007-07-29 Thread Parag Warudkar
Hi On 7/29/07, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Parag, On Friday 27 July 2007 10:43, Parag Warudkar wrote: Ignore my previous whitespace damaged patch. This one should be good. tsdev.c warns about scheduled removal each time tsdev_open is called - So even for a default boot

Re: 2.6.23-rc1, KVM-AMD problem

2007-07-29 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 29 July 2007 12:34:28 you wrote: [snip] Doesn't help, I still get the same crashes. I tried 2.6.22 again and it's rock solid by comparison. Do you mean, kvm-33 on top of 2.6.22, or the kvm modules from 2.6.22? Please describe your configuration *exactly*. I'm using the kvm-33

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Edgeport UPS Monitoring Problems

2007-07-29 Thread Adam Kropelin
From: Nick Pasich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's the dmesg output .. [...] Jul 29 05:20:07 NICK2 kernel: drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c: LCR - write to send_cmd_write_uart_register register 0x03 Jul 29 05:20:07 NICK2 kernel: drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c: SendCmdWriteUartReg - Not writing

Re: 2.6.23-rc1, KVM-AMD problem

2007-07-29 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 29 July 2007 14:47:57 you wrote: Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2007 12:34:28 you wrote: [snip] Doesn't help, I still get the same crashes. I tried 2.6.22 again and it's rock solid by comparison. Do you mean, kvm-33 on top of 2.6.22, or the kvm modules

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-29 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/29/2007 01:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And now you do it again :-) There is no conclusion -- just the inescapable observation that swap-prefetch was (or may have been) masking the problem of GNU locate being a program that noone in their right mind should be using. isn't your

[POWERPC] 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 build failure

2007-07-29 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, iMac G3 series. $ make mrproper make allmodconfig make results in this: CC arch/powerpc/kernel/lparmap.s AS arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o lparmap.c: Assembler messages: lparmap.c:84: Error: file number 1 already allocated make[1]: ***

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-29 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/29/2007 03:12 PM, Alan Cox wrote: What are the tradeoffs here? What wants small chunks? Also, as far as I'm aware Linux does not do things like up the granularity when it notices it's swapping in heavily? That sounds sort of promising... Small chunks means you get better efficiency of

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/cxgb3/xgmac.c: remove dead code

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes dead code (tx_xcnt can never be != 0 at this place) spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/cxgb3/xgmac.c |5 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) ---

[GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread James Bottomley
This is basically a set of bug fixes with a few minor cleanups thrown in. There are also a few bsg fixes we're taking through this tree because SCSI is the current sole consumer. The reason for the huge size is the lindent of the advansys driver along with a few cleanups. The patch is available

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:00:39 -0700, Bill Huey (hui) [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: The scheduler could have and still can undertake good solid transformation, but getting folks to listen is another story which is why Con quit. CFS basically locks him and his ideas out, not just from a technical

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Edgeport UPS Monitoring Problems

2007-07-29 Thread Nick Pasich
Adam, Yep. That did it Thank You Very Much for your Super Quick Fix.. ---( Nick )--- On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:04:44AM -0400, Adam Kropelin wrote: From: Nick Pasich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's the dmesg output .. [...] Jul 29 05:20:07 NICK2 kernel:

[PATCH] drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c: fix possible NULL dereferences

2007-07-29 Thread Eugene Teo
Commit 22ad42033b7d2b3d7928fba9f89d1c7f8a3c9581 did not completely fix all the possible NULL dereferences. Besides hci_uart_close(), we also need to make sure that hdev is valid before calling hci_{unregister,free}_dev(). Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: How can we make page replacement smarter

2007-07-29 Thread Al Boldi
Rik van Riel wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Good idea, but unless we understand the problems involved, we are bound to repeat it. So my first question would be: Why is swap-in so slow? As I have posted in other threads, swap-in of consecutive pages suffers a 2x slowdown wrt swap-out, whereas

[2.6 patch] sound/synth/util_mem.c: remove pointless check

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
The Coverity checker spotted that if anyone would call this function with prev == NULL, he would still get an Oops a few lines below. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/sound/synth/util_mem.c.old 2007-07-24 19:37:50.0 +0200 +++

[2.6 patch] i386: remove -maccumulate-outgoing-args

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
Contrary to the comment newer gccs do it by default, newer gcc versions default to -maccumulate-outgoing-args only with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=n, and then only with some CPU settings. Measured with an i386 defconfig, gcc 4.2.1 and kernel 2.6.23-rc1 (orig is the plain kernel, changed is

[2.6 patch] arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c: make struct apic_probe static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global struct apic_probe static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 6 Jul 2007 --- linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c.old 2007-07-05 15:55:40.0 +0200 +++

[2.6 patch] arch/i386/mach-es7000/es7000plat.c: cleanups

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following cleanups: - make some needlessly global functions static - #if 0 the unused es7000_stop_cpu() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 6 Jul 2007 arch/i386/mach-es7000/es7000plat.c | 12 +++- 1 file changed, 7

[2.6 patch] i386 alternative.c: really stop MCEs during code patching

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
It's CONFIG_X86_MCE, not CONFIG_MCE. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/i386/kernel/alternative.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/alternative.c.old 2007-07-26 01:47:31.0 +0200 +++

[2.6 patch] make drivers/acpi/event.c:acpi_event_seqnum static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global acpi_event_seqnum static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/acpi/event.c.old 2007-07-26 02:32:59.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/acpi/event.c 2007-07-26 02:33:07.0 +0200 @@

[2.6 patch] drivers/base/power/: make 2 functions static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
suspend_device() and resume_device() can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/base/power/power.h |6 -- drivers/base/power/resume.c |2 +- drivers/base/power/suspend.c |2 +- 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) ---

[2.6 patch] radeon_driver_vblank_do_wait() static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
radeon_driver_vblank_do_wait() can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/char/drm/radeon_irq.c.old 2007-07-26 08:49:12.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/char/drm/radeon_irq.c 2007-07-26 08:49:46.0 +0200 @@

Re: [PATCH] .gitignore update

2007-07-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 26 2007 16:15, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: Somehow I ended up with the following in tree: $ git status ... # Untracked files: # (use git add file... to include in what will be committed) # # fs/proc/root.o.FuMxJQ #

[2.6 patch] make abituguru3_read_increment_offset() static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
abituguru3_read_increment_offset() can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/hwmon/abituguru3.c.old 2007-07-26 08:56:33.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/hwmon/abituguru3.c 2007-07-26 08:57:00.0 +0200 @@

[2.6 patch] make struct dvb_pll_fcv1236d static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
struct dvb_pll_fcv1236d can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c.old 2007-07-26 09:04:23.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c 2007-07-26 09:04:32.0

[2.6 patch] drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c: make code static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
After the i2c-isa removal some code can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c |7 +++ include/linux/i2c.h|2 -- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/include/linux/i2c.h.old2007-07-26

[2.6 patch] #if 0 v9fs_fid_lookup_remove()

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch #if 0's the unused v9fs_fid_lookup_remove(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/9p/fid.c |2 ++ fs/9p/fid.h |1 - 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/fs/9p/fid.h.old2007-07-26 13:22:00.0 +0200 +++

[-mm patch] make hugetlbfs_read() static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:03:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.22-rc6-mm1: ... +hugetlbfs-read-support.patch ... More MM things ... hugetlbfs_read() can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c.old

nvidia installer DIW with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I got around to building the 2.6.23-rc1 tree, updated to yesterday with git from the linus tree. The build was fairly clean, but when I rebooted to it, the latest nvidia installer fails, with these messages: nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time:

[-mm patch] fs/ecryptfs/: make code static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:03:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.22-rc6-mm1: ... +ecryptfs-add-key-list-structure-search-keyring.patch ... ecryptfs feature work ... This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[2.6 patch] make kernel/power/main.c:suspend_enter() static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
suspend_enter() can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/power/main.c |2 +- kernel/power/power.h |1 - 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/kernel/power/power.h.old 2007-07-26 14:49:29.0 +0200

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-29 Thread Ray Lee
On 7/29/07, Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/29/2007 03:12 PM, Alan Cox wrote: More radically if anyone wants to do real researchy type work - how about log structured swap with a cleaner ? Right over my head. Why does log-structure help anything? Log structured disk layouts

[2.6 patch] kernel/rtmutex-debug.c: cleanups

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following cleanups: - make the needlessly global variable rt_trace_on static - remove the unused global function deadlock_trace_off() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 1 Jul 2007 - 4 Apr 2007 ---

[2.6 patch] remove mm/filemap.c:file_send_actor()

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes the no longer used file_send_actor(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/fs.h |1 - mm/filemap.c | 20 2 files changed, 21 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/include/linux/fs.h.old 2007-07-26 14:57:09.0

[-mm patch] make struct sdio_dev_attrs[] static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:03:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.22-rc6-mm1: ... git-mmc.patch ... git trees ... sdio_dev_attrs[] can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/mmc/core/sdio_bus.c.old

[2.6 patch] fs/nfsd/export.c: make 3 functions static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static: - exp_get_by_name() - exp_parent() - exp_find() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/nfsd/export.c| 17 - include/linux/nfsd/export.h | 11 --- 2 files changed, 8

[2.6 patch] mm/page_alloc.c: make code static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mm/page_alloc.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/mm/page_alloc.c.old2007-07-26 15:09:24.0 +0200 +++

[2.6 patch] make struct sony_nc_ids[] static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
sony_nc_ids[] can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c.old 2007-07-26 16:05:54.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c 2007-07-26 16:06:05.0 +0200 @@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ };

[-mm patch] MTD onenand_sim.c: make struct info static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:03:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.22-rc6-mm1: ... git-mtd.patch ... git trees ... This patch makes the needlessly global struct info static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ---

[-mm patch] e1000: #if 0 two functions

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
e1000_{read,write}_pci_cfg() are no longer used. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch has been sent on: - 1 Jul 2007 - 5 Jun 2007 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.h |2 -- drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |4 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) ---

Re: nvidia installer DIW with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 29 July 2007 15:57:33 Gene Heskett wrote: Is this a known problem? Do I need to report it to nvidia somehow? It looks to me like it may be their problem, and I have submitted it, but if anyone has a better idea, please advise. System is FC6, uptodate as of yesterday. Gene, this

Re: crash with 2.6.22.1 crash:ll_rw_blk.c blk_remove_plug()

2007-07-29 Thread walter harms
On 7/22/07, walter harms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all, on my asus notebook tm620 there is a crash with 2.6.22 and 2.6.21 Did this happen when you were resuming from a suspend-to-ram/disk? [ I ask because I see swsusp in the trace below, linux-pm added to Cc: ] Using IPI Shortcut

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1

2007-07-29 Thread Grant Wilson
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:03:04 -0700 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc1/2.6.23-rc1-mm1/ Hi, I get an oops when trying to mount an ISO file using the loopback device. If I revert the patch

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] make struct dvb_pll_fcv1236d static

2007-07-29 Thread Michael Krufky
Adrian Bunk wrote: struct dvb_pll_fcv1236d can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c.old 2007-07-26 09:04:23.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_ACORNSCSI_3 driver

2007-07-29 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:59:15PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: The SCSI_ACORNSCSI_3 driver: - has been marked as BROKEN for more than one year and - is still marked as BROKEN. Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be unlikely to be revived in the forseeable

Re: TCP SACK issue, hung connection, tcpdump included

2007-07-29 Thread Phil Oester
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:59:26AM +0100, Darryl L. Miles wrote: The problems start around time index 09:21:39.860302 when the CLIENT issues a TCP packet with SACK option set (seemingly for a data segment which has already been seen) from that point on the connection hangs. I'd say most

[2.6 patch] net/unix/af_unix.c: make code static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
The following code can now become static: - struct unix_socket_table - unix_table_lock Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/net/af_unix.h | 29 - net/unix/af_unix.c| 30 -- 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 31

[-mm patch] make scsi_host_link_pm_policy() static

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:03:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.22-rc6-mm1: ... +ata-ahci-alpm-expose-power-management-policy-option-to-users.patch ... ata things ... scsi_host_link_pm_policy() can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ---

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