Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/ata/pata_acpi.c |4 +-
drivers/ata/pata_optidma.c |2 +-
drivers/ata/pata_pdc2027x.c |2 +-
drivers/ata/pata_pdc202xx_old.c |4 +-
drivers/ata/pata_via.c |2 +-
drivers/ata/pata_winbond.c |
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:16:54PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 16:23 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:32:48PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:37:30 -0700
Kay, are we doing something wrong in
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:43:48PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:16:54PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 16:23 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:32:48PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007
On Oct 24, 2007, at 17:21:10, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:59:48PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
This seems unlikely to work reliably as the various v*printf
functions modify the va_list argument they are passed. It may
happen to work on your particular architecture
* Casey Schaufler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
And don't give me the old LKML is a tough crowd feldercarb.
Security modules have been much worse. Innovation, even in
security, is a good thing and treating people harshly, even
for their own good, is an impediment to innovation.
I agree that
Hiroshi Shimamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do we really have to introduce this function for 64bit? I remember some
issues were faced on i386 w.r.t kernel enabling the LAPIC against the
wishes of BIOS hence kernel was disabling it while shutting down. No
such problems were reported for x86_64
On 10/24/07, Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Casey Schaufler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
And don't give me the old LKML is a tough crowd feldercarb.
Security modules have been much worse. Innovation, even in
security, is a good thing and treating people harshly, even
for their own
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:52:56 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make the following needlessly globalcode static:
- register_node()
- node_state_attr[]
- #if 0 the following
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:46:54PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
Prebuilt for Ubuntu 7.04:
http://landley.net/code/firmware/downloads/cross-compiler/host-i686/cross-compiler-sparc.tar.bz2
Source code:
Or http://landley.net/code/firmware/downloads/firmware-0.2.2.tar.bz2
Thanks - I already got
--- Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
What I'm giving you is Linus has decreed there can be LSMs other than
SELinux.
Getting LSMs included should no longer be harder than for other
parts of the kernel.
Well, despite my
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:13:06 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
kernel/wait.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/wait.c
===
---
Add a new resource_len() function, so drivers can start using this
instead of driver-private code for a common idiom. The call can be
useful with at least:
- request_region(), release_region()
- request_mem_region(), release_mem_region()
- ioremap()
Candidate drivers include those using
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:40:00 +0100
Sid Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
x86_64 dual, gcc version 4.2.2 (SUSE Linux).
[ cut here ]
kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:50!
invalid opcode: [1] SMP
CPU 1
Modules linked in: ub crc_itu_t hwmon cdrom soundcore
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:25:17PM -0400, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote:
- For some device-mapper targets (multipath and mirror),
the mapping table sometimes has to be replaced to cope with device
failure.
OTOH, device-mapper flushes all pending I/Os upon table replacement
and may
I have different deal breakers.
If a LSM is something simple/commonly required it should be made like
posix file capability's provided to all to use. Sorry to say I see
the file protection in apparmor as something everyone should be able
to use at will like posix file capability's. All
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:20:52 -0700
David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Add a new resource_len() function, so drivers can start using this
instead of driver-private code for a common idiom. The call can be
useful with at least:
- request_region(), release_region()
-
--- Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Casey Schaufler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
And don't give me the old LKML is a tough crowd feldercarb.
Security modules have been much worse. Innovation, even in
security, is a good thing and treating people harshly, even
for their own good,
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Do other people want to stand up and be LSM maintainers in the sense
that they also end up being informed members who can also stand up for new
modules and help merge them, rather than just push the existing one(s)?
Chris? Casey? Crispin?
Stephen
x86_32 CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G with 5GB RAM hung when booting, after issuing
some request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt- messages in
trying to exec /sbin/init.
The binprm buf doesn't see the right .ELF header because sg_phys()
is providing the wrong physical addresses for high pages: a
The idea that poor security is worse than no security is fallacious,
and not backed up by common experience.
There is a ton of evidence both in computing and outside of it which
shows that poor security can be very much worse than no security at all.
In particular stuff which makes users think
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
The scariest thing to consider is programs which don't appropriately
handle failure. So I don't know, maybe the system runs a remote logger
to which the multiadm policy gives some extra privs, but now the portac
module prevents it from sending its
Hello
I want to use SPI on a at91rm9200ek. The SPI starts and the dataflash is
probed but fails with error 255. I tried on another board very similar
to at91rm9200ek but with 4 dataflashs (chip select 0 to 3). The flashs
1 2 3 are well detected but the 0 fails also with the same error code.
Debug
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
The idea that poor security is worse than no security is fallacious,
and not backed up by common experience.
There is a ton of evidence both in computing and outside of it which
shows that poor security can be very much worse than no security at all.
In
Alan Cox wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:20:52 -0700
David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Add a new resource_len() function, so drivers can start using this
instead of driver-private code for a common idiom. The call can be
useful with at least:
- request_region(), release_region()
-
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
[12728.701398] DMA free:8032kB min:32kB low:40kB high:48kB active:2716kB
inactive:2208kB present:12744kB pages_scanned:9299 all_unreclaimable?
yes [12728.701567] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2003 2003 2003 [12728.701654]
Ummm... all unreclaimable is set!
Adrian Bunk wrote:
jffs2_get_acl() can now become static again.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: KaiGai Kohei [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/jffs2/acl.c |2 +-
fs/jffs2/acl.h |2 --
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
Hi:
* Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-24 14:59:09 +0200]:
Hardware Monitor LM70: Convert the semaphore lm70-sem to the mutex
API
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applied to hwmon-2.6.git/testing, thanks.
--
Mark M. Hoffman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
To unsubscribe
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:41:28 -0700
Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Do other people want to stand up and be LSM maintainers in the
sense that they also end up being informed members who can also
stand up for new modules and help merge them,
On Thursday 25 October 2007 11:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:13:06 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
kernel/wait.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/wait.c
Hi Riku:
* Riku Voipio [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-24 14:50:34 +0300]:
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:37:54PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
Riku, can you please submit a patch fixing this? The attribute should
be declared read-only, and then you can use sysfs_chmod_file() to
change it to
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Whether this is a complete patch, suitable for all architectures,
I'm not sure: it builds, boots and runs correctly on the x86_32 box
in question, but you'll be a lot wiser than me about using dma_addr_t
for everyone. (Seems a bit of a
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:07:37PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The patch titled
reiserfs: don't drop PG_dirty when releasing sub-page-sized dirty file
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
reiserfs-dont-drop-pg_dirty-when-releasing-sub-page-sized-dirty-file.patch
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 21:12, Kay Sievers wrote:
On 10/24/07, Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:55, Takenori Nagano wrote:
Nick Piggin wrote:
One thing I'd suggest is not to use debugfs, if it is going to
be a useful end-user feature.
Is
On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:20:52 -0700
David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Add a new resource_len() function, so drivers can start using this
instead of driver-private code for a common idiom. The call can be
useful with at least:
-
On Thursday 25 October 2007 12:15, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
[12728.701398] DMA free:8032kB min:32kB low:40kB high:48kB active:2716kB
inactive:2208kB present:12744kB pages_scanned:9299 all_unreclaimable?
yes [12728.701567] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2003
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
Ummm... all unreclaimable is set! Are you mlocking the pages in memory? Or
what causes this? All pages under writeback? What is the dirty ratio set
to?
Why is SLUB behaving differently, though.
Nore sure. Are we really sure that this does not
On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
With regards to resource reservation... IMO we should mimic struct
pci_dev and add struct resource[] to struct device.
One minor difficulty: PCI has a limit on the number of BARs,
but other busses don't. It'd be better as a struct resource *.
On 10/25/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
extern inline will have different semantics with gcc 4.3.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- a/include/asm-blackfin/string.h
+++ b/include/asm-blackfin/string.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
#ifdef __KERNEL__ /* only set these
On 10/24/07, Jie Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/25/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
extern inline will have different semantics with gcc 4.3.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- a/include/asm-blackfin/string.h
+++ b/include/asm-blackfin/string.h
@@ -4,7
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:32:14 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9217
Summary: CONFIG_CMDLINE doesn't pass to kernel
Product: Other
Version: 2.5
KernelVersion: 2.6.23
Platform: All
Hi guys,
I have a tyan s3992 h2000 with single barcelona amd quad core cpu (the
other cpu socket is empty). cat /proc/cpuinfo shows amd quad core
processor
but core : 1ive compiled the kernel from scratch with smp and
amd64 + the numa stuff. i also tried debian etchs amd64 smp kernel and
same
Mike Frysinger wrote:
On 10/24/07, Jie Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/25/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
extern inline will have different semantics with gcc 4.3.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- a/include/asm-blackfin/string.h
+++
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:02:14 -0400
Zurk Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi guys,
I have a tyan s3992 h2000 with single barcelona amd quad core cpu (the
other cpu socket is empty). cat /proc/cpuinfo shows amd quad core
processor
but core : 1ive compiled the kernel from scratch with smp and
On Thursday 25 October 2007 12:43, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
Ummm... all unreclaimable is set! Are you mlocking the pages in memory?
Or what causes this? All pages under writeback? What is the dirty ratio
set to?
Why is SLUB behaving
Guys,
is there any particular reason we're using -traditional in
EXTRA_AFLAGS in Makefiles?
According to
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Traditional-macros.html#Traditional-macros,
(and to my painful recent experience), it disallows the use of token
pasting in pre-processor macros, which is a
On 10/24/07, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Frysinger wrote:
On 10/24/07, Jie Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/25/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
extern inline will have different semantics with gcc 4.3.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:09:47 +0300, Vitaliy Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
static void adu_abort_transfers(struct adu_device *dev)
{
...
+ mutex_lock(dev-mtx);
...
+ mutex_unlock(dev-mtx);
}
Don't you think it's needed? You call adu_abort_transfers from adu_release
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:07:23PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
No, the problem is what happens when you don't have enough space
allocated: you call vsnprintf(s, len, format, args); and then
later call vsprintf(s, format, args); with the *SAME* args.
That's what's broken.
Ah, gotcha. I
BTW, the patch in my previous message had one buglet - an extra
remove_wait_queue. It was in an error case though, so it should be
ok to test. But just in case, here's a fixed one.
-- Pete
diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c b/drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c
index c567aa7..6914c0b 100644
---
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:24:55 -0400 Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Abstracting away direct uses of TASK_ flags allows us to change the
definitions of the task flags more easily.
Also restructure do_wait() a little
umm, spose so.
There's an excellent chance that a millionth of our
Hi,
Andi spotted this exchange on the gcc list. I don't think he's
brought it up here yet, but it worries me enough that I'd like
to discuss it.
Starts here
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-10/msg00266.html
Concrete example here
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-10/msg00275.html
Basically, what the
Zurk Tech wrote:
Hi guys,
I have a tyan s3992 h2000 with single barcelona amd quad core cpu (the
other cpu socket is empty). cat /proc/cpuinfo shows amd quad core
processor
but core : 1ive compiled the kernel from scratch with smp and
amd64 + the numa stuff. i also tried debian etchs amd64
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:24:58 -0400 Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use TASK_KILLABLE to allow wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb to return -EINTR.
All callers then check the return value and break out of their loops.
Let's cc the AIO list on AIO patches, please.
---
fs/read_write.c | 17
The Smack patch and Paul Moore's netlabel API patch,
together for 2.6.24-rc1. Paul's changes are identical
to the previous posting, but it's been a while so they're
here again.
The sole intent of change has been to address locking
and/or list processing issues. Please don't hesitate to
point out
From: Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add a new set of configuration functions to the NetLabel/LSM API so that
LSMs can perform their own configuration of the NetLabel subsystem without
relying on assistance from userspace.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/net/netlabel.h
David Brownell wrote:
On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
With regards to resource reservation... IMO we should mimic struct
pci_dev and add struct resource[] to struct device.
One minor difficulty: PCI has a limit on the number of BARs,
but other busses don't. It'd be better
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:24:49 +1000
Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Andi spotted this exchange on the gcc list. I don't think he's
brought it up here yet, but it worries me enough that I'd like
to discuss it.
Starts here
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-10/msg00266.html
On Oct 24, 2007, at 17:37:04, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
The scariest thing to consider is programs which don't
appropriately handle failure. So I don't know, maybe the system
runs a remote logger to which the multiadm policy gives some extra
privs, but now the portac module prevents it from
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:33:07 +0200 Thomas Renninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Thomas Renninger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: linux-acpi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: linux-kernel linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown [EMAIL
PROTECTED], Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jean Delvare [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
On Friday 19 October 2007 08:25, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
Abstracting away direct uses of TASK_ flags allows us to change the
definitions of the task flags more easily.
Also restructure do_wait() a little
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c |4
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:31:59 +0200 Thomas Renninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it seems Len's test tree and Linus tree diverged a bit, at least with
this patch set things do not apply cleanly.
Therefore I post these for discussion whether and in which kernel tree
they should end up before
The current napi_disable() uses msleep_interruptible() but doesn't
(and can't) exit in case there's a signal, thus ending up doing a
hot spin without a cpu_relax. Use uninterruptible sleep instead.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/netdevice.h |2 +-
On Friday 19 October 2007 08:26, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
Use TASK_KILLABLE to allow wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb to return -EINTR.
All callers then check the return value and break out of their loops.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/read_write.c | 17 -
1
On Friday 19 October 2007 08:25, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
This series of patches introduces the facility to deliver only fatal
signals to tasks which are otherwise waiting uninterruptibly.
This is pretty nice I think. It also is a significant piece of
infrastructure required to fix some of the
On Thursday 25 October 2007 13:46, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:24:49 +1000
Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Andi spotted this exchange on the gcc list. I don't think he's
brought it up here yet, but it worries me enough that I'd like
to discuss it.
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:37:35 +0200 Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch uses the BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE, introduced in the previous patch,
to avoid conflicts while reserving the memory for the kdump carpture kernel
(crashkernel=).
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 11:17:40AM +0200, John Sigler wrote:
...
I've tested with a vanilla 2.6.22.10 kernel (no PREEMPT_RT patch).
That system also locks up and remains completely unresponsive (I can't open
new ssh sessions, the system won't answer ICMP echo requests).
How do driver writers
Andrew Morton wrote:
Something broke CONFIG_CMDLINE of ARM (at least) between 2.6.22 and 2.6.23.
I don't know whether it was an ARM patch one of those kernel-wide changes.
We have futzed with the command-line parsing a bit recently, but the 2.6.23
changelog doesn't suggest anything obvious.
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:24:57 -0400 Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and associated infrastructure such as sync_page_killable and
fatal_signal_pending. Use lock_page_killable in do_generic_mapping_read()
to allow us to kill `cat' of a file on an NFS-mounted filesystem.
whoa, big
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:08:58 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MBCS: Convert the semaphores algolock, dmareadlock and dmawritelock to the
mutex API
Thanks. Has this actually been runtime-tested?
btw, your patches are in `patch -p2' form:
--- kernel.orig/linux-2.6/drivers/char/mbcs.c
+++
Hi,
Recently, trying to fix saa7134 suspend/resume problems I found that there
is a race between IRQ handler and .suspend , and that I cant let driver access
the device
while its in D3 since it can lock up some systems.
Now I am looking to fix those issues in two drivers that have my
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:05:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:37:35 +0200 Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch uses the BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE, introduced in the previous patch,
to avoid conflicts while reserving the memory for the kdump carpture kernel
On Thursday 25 October 2007 14:11, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:24:57 -0400 Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and associated infrastructure such as sync_page_killable and
fatal_signal_pending. Use lock_page_killable in
do_generic_mapping_read() to allow us to kill
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:48:26 -0400 (EDT) Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
drivers/scsi/ips.c | 178
this driver seems a bit of a basket case :(
What's going on here?
scb-dcdb.cmd_attribute =
Well that's exactly right. For threaded programs (and maybe even
real-world non-threaded ones in general), you don't want to be
even _reading_ global variables if you don't need to. Cache misses
and cacheline bouncing could easily cause performance to completely
tank in some cases while only
On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Then a dev_iomap() analogue to pci_iomap() should be pretty
straightforward to create.
Another minor nit: addressing the various resource types.
The platform bus code has multiple lookup schemes.
Calls like resource_iomap() might
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:29:56 -0700
David Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well that's exactly right. For threaded programs (and maybe even
real-world non-threaded ones in general), you don't want to be
even _reading_ global variables if you don't need to. Cache misses
and cacheline
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:06:37 +0100
Tom Spink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24/10/2007, Tom Spink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
A couple of kernels ago, I ran into an issue with the sky2 driver.
Basically, I began getting repeated errors on my console of the
following:
Oct 21 16:33:39
Hi David,
[BTW. can you retain cc lists, please?]
On Thursday 25 October 2007 14:29, David Schwartz wrote:
Well that's exactly right. For threaded programs (and maybe even
real-world non-threaded ones in general), you don't want to be
even _reading_ global variables if you don't need to.
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:48:26 -0400 (EDT) Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
drivers/scsi/ips.c | 178
this driver seems a bit of a basket case :(
What's going on here?
scb-dcdb.cmd_attribute =
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
The current napi_disable() uses msleep_interruptible() but doesn't
(and can't) exit in case there's a signal, thus ending up doing a
hot spin without a cpu_relax. Use uninterruptible sleep instead.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 02:10:21 Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Rusty Russell wrote:
Well, with that out the way, and some scatterlist fixups, please pull
from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest.git
Ok. However, please include a
applied as the attached two patches to jgarzik/libata-dev.git#alpm
open issues:
1) need to check ata_dev_set_feature() return value in
ata_dev_set_dipm() and do something useful with it
2) as the name implies, this probably better belongs in ata_link.
3) however, the feature is tightly
Theodore Tso wrote:
I can't seem to get 2.6.24-rc1 to build:
...
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `smp_send_nmi_allbutself':
/usr/projects/linux/linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c:85: undefined reference
to `genapic'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
This patch removes dead code spotted by the Coverity checker.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ack.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Woithe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jonathan
---
--- linux-2.6/drivers/misc/fujitsu-laptop.c.old 2007-10-23 18:51:10.0
+0200
+++
acpi_fujitsu_{add,remove}() can become static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looks fine. Ack.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Woithe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jonathan
---
drivers/misc/fujitsu-laptop.c |4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
On Thu, Oct 25 2007, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:38:30 +0530
Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:54:36 +0100
Andy Whitcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:44:20PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
This patch will set the correct bits to turn on Aggressive
Link Power Management (ALPM) for the ahci driver. This
will cause the controller and disk to negotiate a lower
power state for the link when there is no activity (see
the AHCI 1.x spec for details). This
Hi Hugh,
On 10/25/07, Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- 2.6.24-rc1/mm/shmem.c 2007-10-24 07:16:04.0 +0100
+++ linux/mm/shmem.c2007-10-24 22:31:09.0 +0100
@@ -915,6 +915,21 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *
struct inode *inode;
David Miller wrote:
The forthcoming patches are also available from:
kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/msiquirk-2.6.git
and clean up the handling of the common quirk wherein setting
INTX_DISABLE will mistakedly disable MSI generation for some
devices.
For devices without that
On Wed, 2007-24-10 at 11:35 -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
We need a way to, at the absolute minimum, unbind the keyboard from the
text console. The current solution sucks for things like rfkill.
I'm not convinced that Ryan's fix is any better, but just saying that X
should open the
El Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:11:49PM -0700 Andrew Morton ha dit:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:08:58 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MBCS: Convert the semaphores algolock, dmareadlock and dmawritelock to the
mutex API
Thanks. Has this actually been runtime-tested?
no, i could only test
Jens, I should have CC'ed to you.
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:22:02 +0900
FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:40:00 +0100
Sid Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
x86_64 dual, gcc version 4.2.2 (SUSE Linux).
[ cut here ]
kernel BUG at
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
Enable enclosure management via LED
As described in the AHCI spec, some AHCI controllers may support
Enclosure management via a variety of protocols. This patch
adds support for the LED message type that is specified in
AHCI 1.1 and higher.
Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c:40: warning: ‘nvidia_hpet_check’ defined but not
used
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c b/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c
index dc34acb..639e632 100644
---
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 06:21:11PM -0700, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
From: Hiroshi Shimamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c | 14 ++
include/asm-x86/apic_64.h |1 +
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:00:20 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Removing the unused variable root.
kernel/cgroup.c: In function ‘proc_cgroupstats_show’:
kernel/cgroup.c:2405: warning: unused variable ‘root’
ERROR: Invalid UTF-8
#3:
kernel/cgroup.c: In function
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 06:23:02PM -0700, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
From: Hiroshi Shimamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/asm-x86/smp_64.h |2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/smp_64.h
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 06:18:27PM -0700, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
Hi,
I made patches to unify crash_32/64.c.
There are three patches;
1. add lapic_shutdown for x86_64
2. add safe_smp_processor_id for x86_64
3. unify crash_32/64.c
I'm not sure that it's good to split to these patches.
On Tue, Oct 23 2007, David Miller wrote:
Jens could you queue up this obvious typo build fix
for me?
Certainly, thanks!
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