On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:45:39AM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
Hi Martin,
Martin Pitt wrote:
Eugene Teo [2007-07-29 21:03 +0800]:
Also, it is probably good to think how we can drop privileges while
piping
the core dump output to an external program. A malicious user can
potentially
Is there a reason why the online file in the subdirectories for the CPUs
in /sys/devices/system isn't world-readable? I cannot imagine it to be
security relevant especially now that a getcpu() syscall can be used to
determine what CPUa thread runs on.
The file is useful to correctly implement
James Bottomley wrote:
msleep_interruptible - ssleep is a
change with zero practical impact for this driver,
eh, how do you figure?
A signal can clearly cause the abort-related functions to delay far
shorter than the driver wishes.
The msleep_interruptible() in arcmsr_wait_msgint_ready()
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 06:18 +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
On 7/30/07, Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+config LGUEST_NET
+ tristate
+ depends on LGUEST_GUEST NET
default y ?
Thanks, that does work better. Clean configs get an N otherwise 8(
I /think/ the default y
On 7/30/07, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand that, I was just wondering if the FPS scales the same natively
vs. Wine as I typically only run native games. I have been hesitant to move
over to CFS due to reports of 3D issues and wanted to see if you had numbers
in regards to CFS vs.
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix typos and update function parameters.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 79 ++
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
---
Rusty Russell wrote:
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 17:18 +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
Hi Rusty,
Lguest should depend on BLOCK too , without BLOCK set I get this error:
Hi Gabriel,
Thanks for the report! It's probably better to fix this properly
rather than hack it as I did for NET.
You are
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:00:07PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yes it is, and each type of device is growing it's own, incompatible,
interfaces for controlling things like this. I was aiming to do two
things.
Anything playing with power management needs to be aware of the
limitations
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 21:04 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
James Bottomley wrote:
msleep_interruptible - ssleep is a
change with zero practical impact for this driver,
eh, how do you figure?
A signal can clearly cause the abort-related functions to delay far
shorter than the driver wishes.
James Bottomley wrote:
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 21:04 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
James Bottomley wrote:
msleep_interruptible - ssleep is a
change with zero practical impact for this driver,
eh, how do you figure?
A signal can clearly cause the abort-related functions to delay far
shorter than
Unless I'm missing something quite tricky here's another tiny cleanup. The
generated code is not affected (gcc is smart enough) but for people looking
over the code it is just irritating to have the extra conditional.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- kernel/sched.c
Hi All,
Unfortunatly Sparc32 sun4c low level memory management apears to be
incompatible with commit b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba
mm: variable length argument support.
For some reason, this commit corrupts the memory used by the low level
context/pte handling ring buffers in
After kernel 2.6.21, the qemu of mips with nfsroot is not working.
There are too much WATCHDOG timeout.
I try to find what makes it not working and I found it.
After Ingo Monlar's patch [PATCH] genirq: do not mask interrupts by default
[1], it's not working.
To solve this, we also have to
[0/9] netconsole: Multiple targets and dynamic reconfigurability
This is v3 of the patchset, the previous versions are available at:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/4/107
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/10/78
Diffed against 2.6.23-rc1-git6 (6c8dca5d as of writing), but applies
successfully to
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]
Signed-off-by: Keiichi
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 init_netconsole()
before register_console(), so write_msg() cannot be triggered unless
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[3/9] netconsole: Simplify boot/module option setup logic
Presently, boot/module parameters are set up quite differently for the
case of built-in netconsole (__setup() - obsolete_checksetup() -
netpoll_parse_options() - strlen(config) == 0 in
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[4/9] 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]
Acked-by: Keiichi Kii [EMAIL
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[5/9] netconsole: Add some useful tips to documentation
Add some useful general-purpose tips. Also suggest solution for the frequent
problem of console loglevel set too low numerically (i.e. for high priority
messages only) on the sender.
Signed-off-by:
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[6/9] 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.
This is done independent of the (to-be-introduced)
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[7/9] 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 SIOCSIFNAME) could be used to change the
From: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[8/9] netconsole: Support multiple logging targets
This patch introduces support for multiple targets, independent of
CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC -- this is useful even in the default case and
(including the infrastructure introduced in previous patches)
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.
Simple WARN_ON to catch any underflow in rcu_read_lock_nesting.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
kernel/rcupreempt.c |6 ++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
Index: linux-2.6.22/kernel/rcupreempt.c
===
---
This mismerge caused my networking to malfunction. The interface would
come up, but no traffic would make it in/out ..
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
net/sched/sch_generic.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6.22/net/sched/sch_generic.c
In prior -rt verisons the last_tick value was called wall_jiffies
and was initialized in this same way as below. If this value isn't
initialized the calc_load function gets skewed for several minutes
right after boot up. Skewed meaning always zero.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/rt_lock.h |6 --
include/linux/spinlock.h |5 +++--
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.22/include/linux/rt_lock.h
===
---
raise_softirq is called every timer interrupt in run_local_timers(),
which causes a thread wakeup to happen every timer interrupt. This
happens in !CONFIG_PREEMPT_SOFTIRQS, which means the wakeup is most
likely not needed. In addition it also fouls calc_load() since it's,
agian, observing at least
PICK_FUNCTION() is similar to the other PICK_OP style macros, and was
created to replace them all. I used variable argument macros to handle
PICK_FUNC_2ARG/PICK_FUNC_1ARG. Otherwise the marcos are similar to the
original macros used for semaphores. The entire system is used to do a
compile time
Reaplace old PICK_OP style macros with the new PICK_FUNCTION macro.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/sched.h| 13 -
include/linux/spinlock.h | 345 ++-
kernel/rtmutex.c |2
lib/dec_and_lock.c |
Replace the old PICK_OP style macros with PICK_FUNCTION. Although,
seqlocks has some alien code, which I also replaced as can be seen
from the line count below.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/seqlock.h | 234 +++-
1
From: Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ingo,
I think this was sent before, and it did cause problems before. Would
there be *any* reason to have non-threaded softirqs but threaded hardirqs.
I can see lots of issues with that.
This patch has selecting hardirqs also select softirqs as threads.
On Jul 29, 2007, at 17:30:40, Richard Hughes wrote:
So are you guys using:
standby = idle state, ~0.5 seconds
suspend = sleep to ram, ~10 seconds
hibernate = sleep to disk, ~30 seconds
If so - you rock. This is the common nomenclature I've been pushing
for
a few months now in GNOME, KDE and
Quoting Gabriel C ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Now while we think is ACPI this should be easy for you to bisect.
This commit
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=39804b20f62532fa05c2a8c3e2d1ae551fd0327b
merged ACPI so this one should be your first bad one.
[PATCH] Fix a typo in Documentation/keys.txt
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
[ Previously sent on: June 9, 2007 ]
Documentation/keys.txt |5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -ruNp
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Alan Stern wrote:
I don't think it's a refcounting problem. My guess is that the
underlying cause is the bug in your urb-status removal patch for
usb_start_wait_urb() -- the one I fixed here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb-develm=118531582013355w=2
Of course, my
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Sunday 29 July 2007 23:34, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
The Host AP driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API
instead of the (binary) semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ Something seems to have gone wrong
Hi,
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
The OnStream SCSI Tape driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex
API instead of the (binary) semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
@@ -3298,7 +3298,7 @@ static ssize_t osst_write(struct file * filp,
I've investigated why my testnode freezes. When I found that node is freezed
again I've started to press Sysrq keys and noticed the following negative time
jump.
Could anybody please help me to understand the reasons of this issue?
--- VvS comment: some pre-history: node boot
Jul 27 13:58:10
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:30:47AM -0400, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 10:42 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
Hi,
Just got a bit of time to take another look at the replicated pagecache
patch. The nopage vs invalidate race and clear_page_dirty_for_io fixes
gives me more
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
The SCSI Tape driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API
instead of the (binary) semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reviewed-by: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:57:01PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:16:36AM -0400, Kyle Rose wrote:
From http://www.krose.org/~krose/computing.html:
Since the sky2 driver continues to suck ass (which is a technical
description for it hangs all the time under load, at
I've released another version of the real-time tree. It's just a
slightly more bisectable tree, and it includes the fixes I've just
released.
You can download a combined patch from,
ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/dwalker/rt/patch-2.6.23-rc1-rt6-dw1
Or a broken out set from,
Whoops ...
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Sunday 29 July 2007 23:34, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
The Host AP driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API
instead of the (binary) semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Matthias
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
The ISDN subsystem common functions use a semaphore as mutex. Use the
mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reviewed-by: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
The DVB frontend tuning interface uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the
mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reviewed-by: Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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+extern void container_init_smp(void);
+static inline void container_init_smp(void) {}
stale prototypes?
YAMAMOTO Takashi
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Hi Rodolfo,
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
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.
From: Mark Fortescue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:18:42 +0100 (BST)
Unfortunatly Sparc32 sun4c low level memory management apears to be
incompatible with commit b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba
mm: variable length argument support.
For some reason, this commit
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 08:08 +0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
Cross-compile tested without regressions on my two usual configs and
(sigh):
alpha arm-mx1adsmips-bigsur
powerpc-ebony
..
Heh.
Kudos for going
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c: In function '__idetape_kmalloc_stage':
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c:2588: warning: large integer implicitly truncated to
unsigned type
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c:2616: warning: large integer implicitly truncated to
unsigned type
b_size in struct idetape_bh is an unsigned short.
Hi,
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:11:17AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
[ Also, have you considered making pps_source a list and not an array?
It'll help you lose a whole lot of MAX_SOURCES, pps_is_allocated, etc
kind of gymnastics in there,
Hi Rodolfo,
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
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
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 07:45:40PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/rt_lock.h |6 --
include/linux/spinlock.h |5 +++--
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.22/include/linux/rt_lock.h
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:27:22PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix typos and update function parameters.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheers,
Muli
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On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 14:48 -0700, Bill Huey wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:25:42PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
Absolutely.
Con quit for his own reasons. Given that Con himself has said that CFS
was _not_ why he quite, please discard this... bait. Anyone who's name
isn't Con
On 7/30/07, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, how hard is it for people to just admit that CFS actually
does better than SD on a number of things? Including very much on the
desktop.
Actually in benchmarks Ingo has quoted, SD was better on the desktop
(by a small margin).
Hi All,
There are some parts of include/asm-generic/pgtable.h that are
relevant to the non-mmu architectures. To make it easier to include
this from them I would like to ifdef the relevant parts.
Does anyone object to something like the patch below?
Without this there is a handful of functions
+/*
+ * trigger a reschedule on all other CPUs:
+ */
+extern void smp_send_reschedule_allbutself(void);
+
+/*
+ * trigger a reschedule on all other CPUs:
+ */
+extern void smp_send_reschedule_allbutself(void);
+
/*
* Prepare machine for booting other CPUs.
@@ -97,6 +107,7 @@
+/*
+ * trigger a reschedule on all other CPUs:
+ */
+extern void smp_send_reschedule_allbutself(void);
+
+/*
+ * trigger a reschedule on all other CPUs:
+ */
+extern void smp_send_reschedule_allbutself(void);
+
just to make sure the C compiler doesn't forget it ?
or maybe the parser
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 07:45:35PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
Simple WARN_ON to catch any underflow in rcu_read_lock_nesting.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
kernel/rcupreempt.c |6 ++
1 file changed, 6
El Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:17:25AM +0530 Satyam Sharma ha dit:
Whoops ...
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Sunday 29 July 2007 23:34, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
The Host AP driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API
On 7/28/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[c0154ad2] proc_cpuset_show+0x5e/0xb9
[c01976b1] seq_read+0xef/0x266
[c0181398] vfs_read+0x8e/0x117
[c01817c9] sys_read+0x3d/0x61
[c010401e] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99
===
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
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Two cases where ioremap can be called in init function but will
never be cleaned up. patch is against 2.6.23-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Post Fail postfail at hushmail.com
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