From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit e1f52208bb968291f7d9142eff60b62984b4a511 in mainline.
[IPv6]: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ip6_flush_pending_frames
Some of skbs in sk->write_queue do not have skb->dst because
we do not fill skb->dst when we allocate new skb in
From: Nick Bowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 8ee4f391831cb96916a8e8a05f04b1c1d7dd30d8 in mainline.
In testing our ESP/AH offload hardware, I discovered an issue with how
AH handles mutable fields in IPv4. RFC 4302 (AH) states the following
on the subject:
For IPv4, the entire option is
From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 0a9c73014415d2a84dac346c1e12169142a6ad37 in mainline
[INET_DIAG]: Fix oops in netlink_rcv_skb
netlink_run_queue() doesn't handle multiple processes processing the
queue concurrently. Serialize queue processing in inet_diag to fix
a oops in
- Fix a minor bug in yield (seen for CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED)
- Print nr_running and load information for cfs_rq in /proc/sched_debug
- Print >cfs statistics as well (usefull for group scheduling)
Signed-off-by : Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by : Dhaval Giani <[EMAIL
From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit a2221f308dabb95abb914ad858d36c2462705558 in mainline.
Not all are listed, same as the IPV4 devinet bug.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 596e41509550447b030f7b16adaeb0138ab585a8 in mainline
Bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8876
Not all ips are shown by "ip addr show" command when IPs number assigned to an
interface is more than 60-80 (in fact it depends on
From: Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit ba685fb2abd71162bea6895a99449c1071b01402 in mainline.
As noticed by Chuck Ebbert, commit c5e3ae8823693b260ce1f217adca8add1bc0b3de
introduced a copy-paste typo, as realtek phy is 0x732 and not 0x1c1. Obvious
fix below suggested by Ayaz Abdulla.
From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This corresponds to upstream changesets
e4630f9fd8cdc14eb1caa08dafe649eb5ae09985 and
32528d0fbda1093eeeaa7d0a2c498bbb5154099d.
[CRYPTO] blkcipher: Fix handling of kmalloc page straddling
The function blkcipher_get_spot tries to return a buffer of
the
forgot to CC greg ...
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:18:22AM -0700, Mark Gross wrote:
> This weekend I was hacking around with a trivial USB driver for talking
> to the boot load firmware of a USB Bit Whacker. It's running the
> MicroChip Pic18 boot loader firmware and I'm putting together a flash
From: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 7a1fa065a0264f6b3d3003ba5635289f6583c478 in mainline.
Commit aaf68cfbf2241d24d46583423f6bff5c47e088b3 added a bias
to sk_inuse, so this test for an unused socket now fails. So no
sockets get closed because they are old (they might get closed
if the
From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The commit in Linus upstream git tree is
f3da54ba140c6427fa4a32913e1bf406f41b5dda.
Fix race with shared tag queue maps
There's a race condition in blk_queue_end_tag() for shared tag maps,
users include stex (promise supertrak thingy) and qla2xxx. The former
From: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 3d82abae9523c33d4a16fdfdfd2bdde316d7b56a in mainline.
Convert asserts (BUGs) in dx_probe from bad on-disk data to recoverable
errors with helpful warnings. With help catching other asserts from Duane
Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Eric
From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Initialization of ohci1394 was broken according to one reporter if the
driver was statically linked, i.e. not built as loadable module. Dmesg:
PCI: Device :02:07.0 not available because of resource collisions
ohci1394: Failed to enable OHCI
From: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 49af7ee181f4f516ac99eba85d3f70ed42cabe76 in mainline.
NFS unregisters sysctls only if V4 support is compiled in. However, sysctl
table is not V4 specific, so unregister it always.
Steps to reproduce:
[build nfs.ko with CONFIG_NFS_V4=n]
From: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 0e2f6db88a6900bc9db576d6b478b12ee60d61f7 in mainline.
The inode->i_flock list contains the leases, flocks and posix
locks in the specified order. However, the flocks are added in
the head of this list thus hiding the leases from F_GETLEASE
From: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit ef2b02d3e617cb0400eedf2668f86215e1b0e6af in mainline.
The do_split() function for htree dir blocks is intended to split a leaf
block to make room for a new entry. It sorts the entries in the original
block by hash value, then moves the last half of
From: Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 179c85ea53bef807621f335767e41e23f86f01df in mainline.
The futex list traversal on the compat side appears to have
a bug.
It's loop termination condition compares:
while (compat_ptr(uentry) != >list)
But that can't be right because
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:36:30PM +0200, dimm wrote:
> here is a few cleanup/simplification/optimization(s)
> based on the recent modifications in the sched-dev tree.
[refer http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel=119014449807290]
[snip]
> (3) rework enqueue/dequeue_entity() to get rid of
>
From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 3558c9b3232b5f0fd9f32043a191eca20fca64c6 in mainline.
sparc32:
drivers/block/DAC960.c: In function 'DAC960_V1_EnableMemoryMailboxInterface':
drivers/block/DAC960.c:1168: error: 'DMA_32BIT_MASK' undeclared (first use in
this function)
From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Minor regression since 2.6.22-rc1: If the experimental firewire-ohci
driver instead of ohci1394 was loaded, iBook G3 and older PowerBooks
refused to suspend.
Same as commit 5511142870046a7bed947d51ec9b320856ee120a plus format
string touch-ups from
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 1a1a1a758bf0107d1f78ff1d622f45987803d894 in mainline.
dput must be called before mntput here.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-By: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 868047fcbb85dbb44ddd98c336fef83236a2c06a in mainline.
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8942
Use PCI_DMA_* constants instead of own private definitions Fall back to
32-bit DMA mask if a 64-bit one fails
Signed-off-by: Matthew
From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is a splice patch for 2.6.22 and 2.6.21 (and earlier, I did not
check. Let me know if you still maintain older stable trees!). It fixes
an infinite loop in do_splice_direct(), when there's either nothing to
read or nothing to write and blocking doesn't
From: Wolfgang Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 9db619e66503494e41159de3c76fafabe80d016b in mainline.
we upgraded the kernel of a nfs-server from 2.6.17.11 to 2.6.22.6. Since
then we get the message
lockd: too many open TCP sockets, consider increasing the number of nfsd threads
lockd: last
From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit e42601973b1bce1d2987f82159c1ebeaccc6b310 in mainline.
There is still some confusion and disagreement over what this interface should
actually do. So it is best that we disable it in 2.6.23 until we get that
fully sorted out.
(sys_timerfd() was
From: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fix an off-by-one error in the I/O region declaration of two
hardware monitoring drivers (lm78 and w83781d.) We were requesting
one extra port at the end of the region.
This is a regression in 2.6.22 and could prevent other drivers from
loading properly.
From: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Commit 85237f202d46d55c1bffe0c5b1aa3ddc0f1dce4d introduced the
following warning:
drivers/media/video/pwc/pwc-if.c: In function "pwc_video_close":
drivers/media/video/pwc/pwc-if.c:1211: warning: "i" may be used uninitialized
in this function
This is true,
From: Jason Lunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changeset fc0e01974c7530b7634a63ee3fcc57b845ea from mainline.
I've bisected the deadlock when many small appends are done on jffs2 down to
this commit:
commit 6fe6900e1e5b6fa9e5c59aa5061f244fe3f467e2
Author: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun
From: Steven Toth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(cherry picked from commit 48200baeab95fd39a7f4c4f3536c7142a64ac335)
[PATCH] V4L: cx88: Avoid a NULL pointer dereference during mpeg_open()
Bug: With a hardware encoder board installed as cx88[1] and a
non-encoder boards installed as cx88[0], an OOPS is
From: Adam Radford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[SCSI] 3w-9xxx: Fix dma mask setting
Extracted from commit 0e78d158b67fba3977f577f293c323359d80dd0e
The attached patch updates the 3ware 9000 driver:
- Fix dma mask setting to fallback to 32-bit if 64-bit fails.
Signed-off-by: Adam Radford <[EMAIL
From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
changeset 48440e893d700fb8f0de95fa7d748b711d290365 from mainline.
Initialise s_flags in get_sb_mtd_aux() from the flags parameter.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Jason Lunz <[EMAIL
From: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 0ee6c15e7ba7b36a217cdadb292eeaf32a057a59 in mainline.
When we flush register state for FP, Altivec, or SPE in flush_*_to_thread
we need to respect the task_struct that the caller has passed to us.
Most cases we are called with current, however
From: Zhao Yakui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 9f3119b70cf189530f1b46a006a052e171a1622f in mainline.
ACPI 1.0 used an RSDT with 32-bit physical addresses.
ACPI 2.0 adds an XSDT with 32-bit physical addresses.
An ACPI 2.0 aware OS is supposed to use the XSDT
(when present) instead of the RSDT.
From: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit bec494775600b1cd7c144d31a09e1f46df9c6324 in mainline.
We want drivers/mtd/{mtdcore, mtdsuper, mtdpart}.c to be built and linked
into the same mtd.ko module. Fix the Makefile to ensure this, and remove
duplicate MODULE_ declarations in mtdpart.c, as
From: Nathael Pajani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit e5dd01154c1e9ca2400f4682602d1a4fa54c25dd in mainline.
This patch fixes the order of list_add_tail() arguments in
usb_store_new_id() so the list can have more than one single element.
Signed-off-by: Nathael Pajani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit 60187d2708caa870f0825d753df1612ea688eb9e in mainline.
Spotted by taoyue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Jeremy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
collect_signal: sigqueue_free:
list_del_init(>list);
From: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit f82f3f9422d4da1eeec6f6cf3e64c6c34c4fe19b in mainline.
Avoid setting the value if the symbol doesn't need to be changed or can't
be changed. Later choices may change the dependencies and thus the
possible input range.
make oldconfig from a 2.6.22
From: Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
commit b07e35f94a7b6a059f889b904529ee907dc0634d in mainline tree
Spotted by Marcin Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
sys_setpgid(child) fails if the child was forked by sub-thread.
Fix the "is it our child" check. The previous commit
From: Andreas Arens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cherry picked from commit c545d6adbcacd296f7457bd992556feb055379de
Update get_dvb_firmware script for the new location of the
tda10046 firmware.
The old location doesn't work anymore.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Arens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by:
From: Trent Piepho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cherry picked from commit 6175e487e314385e37f06448847e4c46c20edb44
b2c2-flexcop: fix Airstar HD5000 tuning regression
Git changeset 6bdcc6e6dbab8daffd05e5026486f34ba41a6c72 dropped the
stand-alone lgh06xf module, whose functionality was absorbed into the
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.22.8 release.
There are 50 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to
this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let
us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants
to add a
From: Michael Krufky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cherry picked from commit 302170a4b47e869372974abd885dd11d5536b64a
get_dvb_firmware: update script for new location of sp8870 firmware
This url is no longer valid:
http://www.technotrend.de/new/217g/tt_Premium_217g.zip
Replace with:
From: Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cherry picked from commit c3624f99a8c06cfe75e0b06f23a7f7cea9d2d5ff
ivtv: fix VIDIOC_S_FBUF support: new OSD values were never actually set.
The values set with VIDIOC_S_FBUF were not actually used until the next
VIDIOC_S_FMT. Fixed.
Signed-off-by: Hans
Hello Ingo and Andrew,
Here are various patches to fair group scheduler code present in
sched-devel and in 2.6.23-rc7-mm1. These patches should apply against
both sched-devel git tree and 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 (as they are both in sync
now).
Pls consider for inclusion after review.
[there is
This weekend I was hacking around with a trivial USB driver for talking
to the boot load firmware of a USB Bit Whacker. It's running the
MicroChip Pic18 boot loader firmware and I'm putting together a flash
program for writing new FW to the thing.
Anyway in my use of the usb-skeleton.c as my
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:41:14 +0100 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:38:34AM -0700, David Wilder wrote:
> > >NACK, don't put code into Documentation/. Put it into kernel as it's
> > >actually useful kernel code.
> >
> > Are you suggesting moving the example code into
Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Balbir Singh wrote:
>> Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>>> Please, try with this patch too:
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
>>> index c0fe71a..f599508 100644
>>> --- a/fs/locks.c
>>> +++ b/fs/locks.c
>>> @@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ int generic_setlease(struct file *filp,
Bugzilla really shouldn't be accepting any mail with empty reverse-path
(MAIL FROM:<>)
Updated to handle this case.
Ah, then should be easy fix then. I don't have access to the system
though, will have to helplessly wait until one of the guys picks up...
:(
Sorry, can't fix this - I don't
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:45:32 PDT, Dave Hansen said:
> Any idea which fs and distro this was? I'd like to add it to my tests.
initscripts-8.56-1, from Fedora Rawhide, /etc/rc.sysinit, line 325:
touch /dev/.in_sysinit >/dev/null 2>&1
Specific enough? :)
pgp3OvCOFx0xa.pgp
Description: PGP
Hi Ingo,
I got the following printk when booting 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 :
BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES too low!
turning off the locking correctness validator.
Is it known/correct situation ?
Regards,
Mathieu
Here is my config.
#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
# Linux kernel
Jochen Friedrich wrote:
In cpm_uart_core, functions cpm_uart_init_bd and cpm_uart_init_scc
an offset into DP RAM is calculated by substracting a physical
memory constant from an virtual address. This patch fixes the
problem by converting the virtual address into a physical
first.
Huh?
Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Natalie Protasevich wrote:
>> On 9/23/07, David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 11:08 -0700, Natalie Protasevich wrote:
On 9/23/07, Diego Calleja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Take a look at
Serge E. Hallyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah, ok, so the daemon would use this to act under the user's
> credentials. I was thinking the user would be using this to act
> under the daemon's or kernel's sid.
Think kernel service rather than daemon. NFSd provides its own daemons to
override
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 08:42 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > > + ticks += (u64)
> > > hrtimer_forward(>tmr,
> > > hrtimer_cb_get_time(>tmr),
> >
> > You need to use ctx->tmr.base->get_time() here, otherwise you
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 16:39 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> I noticed this in a -mm recently and never got around to kicking it
> properly because I suspected it was a compiler issue. What version
> of gcc and binutils are you using?
>
> David Woodhouse added to cc in case this is a known problem.
Hi,
For long time I've been thought the following equation is correct:
The "MemUsage" is about "Active + Inactive + Slab + PageTables +
VmallocUsed" in /proc/meminfo.
(I'm not only the person. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243657.)
However, some VmallocUsed doesn't
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 08:58 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > do_times passes an unitialized vfsmount into mnt_want_write. Here's
> > the quick fix (untested), but the right fix is to restructure the complete
> > mess do_utimes is (never let a libc developer write your kernel code.. :)):
>
>
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > struct timerfd_ctx {
> > struct hrtimer tmr;
> > + int clockid;
> > ktime_t tintv;
> > wait_queue_head_t wqh;
> > int expired;
> > + u64 ticks;
> > };
>
> Can you please restructure the struct in a way which does not result in
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 08:56:39AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> As a user I know it because I didn't put a kernel source into /tmp. A
> programm can't reasonably know that.
Various apps requires you (admin/user) to tune the size of their
caches. Seems like you never tried to setup a
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:38:34AM -0700, David Wilder wrote:
> >NACK, don't put code into Documentation/. Put it into kernel as it's
> >actually useful kernel code.
>
> Are you suggesting moving the example code into kernel? Or complaining
> about example code in /Documentation?
Both.
On (19/09/07 17:57), Chris Holvenstot didst pronounce:
> Still being a little new at this I am not sure if this is an issue at
> all or not but I noted that while building the 2.6.23-rc6-git8 kernel
> this afternoon I received the following error message:
>
> Building modules, stage 2.
>
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Davide,
>
> Is it perhaps not better to group the three syscalls contiguously with
> respect to syscall numbers? The old timerfd slot can be re-used for some
> other syscall later.
There's no problem if they're not contiguous. Holes, unless filled
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:23:28PM -0700, David J. Wilder wrote:
My last posting was mangled by my mailer. I hope this one is better.
Also corrected Randy's concerns.
Please see previous posting for more information:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/19/4 (PATCH 0/2)
Note:
Balbir Singh wrote:
> Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>> Please, try with this patch too:
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
>> index c0fe71a..f599508 100644
>> --- a/fs/locks.c
>> +++ b/fs/locks.c
>> @@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ int generic_setlease(struct file *filp,
>> locks_copy_lock(new_fl,
On (19/09/07 17:43), Branislav Bozgai didst pronounce:
> uname -a
> Linux tweety 2.6.21.3-default #2 Tue Aug 7 17:11:50 EDT 2007 i686 athlon
> i386 GNU/Linux
> Hello, my system is crashing with following info in /var/log/messages,
> thought I send it to you.
Does this happen after
The find_pid/_vpid/_pid_ns functions are used to find the
struct pid by its id, depending on whic id - global or
virtual - is used.
The find_vpid() is a macro that pushes the
current->nsproxy->pid_ns on the stack to call another
function - find_pid_ns(). It turned out, that this
dereference
James Bottomley wrote:
On the other hand, I think I can find a nice lever to move Marvell with,
so I'll take this on without needing potentially to compromise your
contacts.
FWIW Marvell is moving quite nicely... they are actively providing docs
under NDA, and sometimes sample code (or even
The find_task_by_something is a set of macros are used to find
task by pid depending on what kind of pid is proposed - global
or virtual one. All of them are wrappers above the most generic
one - find_task_by_pid_type_ns() - and just substitute some
args for it.
It turned out, that dereferencing
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 11:22 +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> Together with the idea of not allowing multiple lines in the kprint_xxx
> functions, that would go with our approach having message numbers to
> identify a message.
How does this equate/give message numbers?
> If you do it like that,
There isn't a total_memory identifier within this function's scope. The
patch was compile/link tested.
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6.23-rc7-mm1/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Your mailer wrapper the patch so I can't actually apply it to start
playing with the patch.
-
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:46:06 +0400 Andrey Mirkin wrote:
> From: Andrey Mirkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Right now futexfs and inotifyfs have one magic 0xBAD1DEA, that looks a little
> bit confusing.
> Use 0xBAD1DEA as magic for futexfs and 0x2BAD1DEA as magic for inotifyfs.
>
> Signed-off-by:
Hi Andres,
Still missing on your patch is your SOB ;) From what I got from Jon, he
is ok with your patch.
Cheers,
Mauro.
Em Qua, 2007-09-19 às 01:44 -0400, Andres Salomon escreveu:
> By default, we allocate DMA buffers when actually reading from the video
> capture device. On a system with
On Monday, 24 September 2007 16:23, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 15:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > So I really wonder, why noacpitimer on the kernel command line makes
> > > > > any
> > > > > difference. I'm confused.
> > > >
> > > > \metoo
> > > >
> > > > Well,
On 24/09/2007 7:17 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc7/2.6.23-rc7-mm1/
- New git tree git-powerpc-galak.patch added to the -mm lineup: ppc32
things, mainly (Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
I'm observing a problem with this
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 07:27:59AM +0200, Mihai Donțu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today, out of curiosity, I pulled 2.6.23-rc7 (leave on the edge in a quiet
> weekend).
> Anyway, it seems that radeonfb and my:
> "01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS
> 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 09/24/2007 11:17 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc7/2.6.23-rc7-mm1/
>
> Fine, but on some boots (I noticed this on rc6-mm1 too, but not before):
> :00:1a.7 EHCI: BIOS handoff failed
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > A driver model and phylib update.
>
> akpm:/usr/src/25> diffstat patches/git-net.patch | tail -n 1
> 1013 files changed, 187667 insertions(+), 23587 deletions(-)
>
> Sorry, but raising networking patches against Linus's crufty
> old mainline tree
> It look like a false positive to me, but really, for a patchset of
> this complexity and maturity I cannot fathom how it could have
> escaped any lockdep testing.
the code tries to implement per cpu spinlocks, or rather it tries
to bring back the brlocks from way past cute.
we can educate
(Adrian should be CCed on things regarding 2.6.16.y kernel)
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Miloslav Semler wrote:
> This patch solves CVE-2007-3104 - sysfs_readdir oops.
> More can be found here:
>
Paul Rolland "(???) wrote:
Hell, IRQ 23 is shared between libata and my modem !!!
Tried using the modem?
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On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 15:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > So I really wonder, why noacpitimer on the kernel command line makes any
> > > > difference. I'm confused.
> > >
> > > \metoo
> > >
> > > Well, it was probably read as "noacpi". :-)
> >
> > Hmm, ACPI is in the log all over the
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 20:14 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 19:43 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> James Bottomley wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 00:04 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Rather than sitting on this for far too long, I wanted to go ahead
Quoting David Howells ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Move into the cred struct the part of the task security data that defines how
> a
> task acts upon an object. The part that defines how something acts upon a
> task
> remains attached to the task.
>
> For SELinux this requires some of
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:20:47 +0200 Peter Zijlstra
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> /me continues the mmap write on nfs adventure...
My test prog reliably hangs like so:
mm_tester D 0040b305 0 2701 2699
6042cef0 602ca520 617dfa50 617de000 617dfa90 60010b62 617dfa80 6002785d
> > But it's has various dawbacks, like rmdir doesn't work if there are
> > open files within an otherwise empty directory.
> >
> > I'd happily accept suggestions on how to deal with this differenty.
>
> NFS has that problem because it really has to sillyrename into the same
> directory. I don't
On Monday, 24 September 2007 15:05, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2
> > > >
> > > > applied. I also have the 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 dmesg output ready, but
> >
> But it's has various dawbacks, like rmdir doesn't work if there are
> open files within an otherwise empty directory.
>
> I'd happily accept suggestions on how to deal with this differenty.
NFS has that problem because it really has to sillyrename into the same
directory. I don't see that
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:18:10PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > Or not support such a broken protocol at all.
> >
> > Wonder what people would say if we removed support for NFSv[23].
> >
> > Just because a protocol does not support "perfect" UNIX semantics, it
> > doesn't mean it's
David Howells wrote:
David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Peter Staubach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Did I miss the section where the modified semantics about which
mounted file systems can use the cache and which ones can not
was implemented?
Yes.
fs/nfs/super.c:
Cedric Le Goater wrote:
> putting Vlad in Cc:
>
> Cedric Le Goater wrote:
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc7/2.6.23-rc7-mm1/
>> I also get this compile error on s390. 'linux/scatterlist.h' has disappeared
>> from the #include
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:18:10PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > Or not support such a broken protocol at all.
>
> Wonder what people would say if we removed support for NFSv[23].
>
> Just because a protocol does not support "perfect" UNIX semantics, it
> doesn't mean it's broken. By that
Am Montag 24 September 2007 schrieb Hans de Goede:
> Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Freitag 21 September 2007 schrieb Jiri Kosina:
> >> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thats not what I had in mind, autosuspend doesn't work (presumably
> >>> because hal keeps polling for media
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:06:06PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > A file isn't deleted while there are still links or open files
> > refering to it. So getting the attributes for a file with nlink==0 is
> > perfectly valid while the file is still open.
>
> Is it? Why not just pretend that
Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Please, try with this patch too:
>
> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> index c0fe71a..f599508 100644
> --- a/fs/locks.c
> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> @@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ int generic_setlease(struct file *filp,
> locks_copy_lock(new_fl, lease);
>
> > If a network filesystem protocol can't handle operations (be it data
> > or metadata) on an unlinked file, we must do sillirenaming, so that
> > the file is not actually unlinked.
>
> Or not support such a broken protocol at all.
Wonder what people would say if we removed support for
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:59:56 EDT, Kyle Moffett said:
> Proper fix is to give __kmalloc a "void *caller" parameter and have
> all of the various wrapper functions pass in the value of
> __builtin_return_address() appropriately. I believe that even works
> properly for inline functions which
a.k.a. mm-use-pagevec-to-rotate-reclaimable-page-fix-2.patch
rotate_reclaimable_page() is not necessarily called with IRQ disabled:
it must do so when calling the helpfully commented pagevec_move_tail().
Hmm, if pagevec_move_tail() is assuming IRQ disabled, why should it
bother with
Please, try with this patch too:
diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
index c0fe71a..f599508 100644
--- a/fs/locks.c
+++ b/fs/locks.c
@@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ int generic_setlease(struct file *filp,
locks_copy_lock(new_fl, lease);
locks_insert_lock(before, new_fl);
- *flp =
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:06:06PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> A file isn't deleted while there are still links or open files
> refering to it. So getting the attributes for a file with nlink==0 is
> perfectly valid while the file is still open.
Is it? Why not just pretend that the
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