Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-07 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 11/05/2007 03:36 AM, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Neil Brown wrote: On Sunday November 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ps auxww | grep D USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 273 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?DOct21 14:40 [pdflush] root

Re: SC1200 failure in 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc1-git10

2007-11-07 Thread James Andrewartha
Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:15:21 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:30:13 +0200 Denys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally i got full DMESG with 1GB card till end. Seems not readable too. scsi0 : sc1200 scsi1 : sc1200 ata1: PATA max UDMA/33 cmd 0x1f0 ctl

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 3/3] Recursive mtime for ext3

2007-11-07 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 06-11-07 14:40:12, Theodore Tso wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:19:45PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: Intended use case is that application which wants to watch any modification in a subtree scans the subtree and sets flags for all inodes there. Next time, it just needs to recurse in

Re: [Unionfs] Re: [PATCH] IGET: Stop UnionFS from using iget() and read_inode()

2007-11-07 Thread Paul Albrecht
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 01:44 -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Howells writes: From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop the UnionFS filesystem from using iget() and read_inode(). Replace unionfs_read_inode() with unionfs_iget(), and call that instead of

libata: cdrw/dvdrom disabed after s2ram (2.6.24-rc2)

2007-11-07 Thread Roberto Oppedisano
Hello. I noticed that after suspending to ram the DVD-ROM/CDRW drive in no more recognized on my laptop. Looking at dmesg after suspend i found: [5.313446] ata2.00: _GTF unexpected object type 0x1 [5.313453] ata2.00: ACPI on devcfg failed the second time, disabling (errno=-22) [

[PATCH 7/8] PVDMA: Guest: Add Kconfig options to select PVDMA

2007-11-07 Thread Amit Shah
This is to be enabled on a guest. Currently, only 'module' works; compiling it in freezes at HD bringup Signed-off-by: Amit Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/kvm/Kconfig |8 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/kvm/Kconfig b/drivers/kvm/Kconfig

[PATCH 8/8] KVM: Update drivers/Makefile to check for CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION

2007-11-07 Thread Amit Shah
Check for CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION instead of CONFIG_KVM, since the PV drivers won't depend on CONFIG_KVM and we still want to be selectable Signed-off-by: Amit Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/Makefile |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/Makefile

Re: kvmclock - the host part.

2007-11-07 Thread Avi Kivity
Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: void kvm_inject_pending_timer_irqs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) { + vcpu-time_needs_update = 1; Why here and not in __vcpu_run()? It isn't timer irq related. Because my plan was exactly, updating it at each timer interrupt. I think

unionfs and sys_readahead

2007-11-07 Thread Paul Albrecht
Hi, Whenever I use readahead-list on a union mounted file system I get a segfault and kernel oops so I'm wondering whether or not the linux unionfs supports sys_readahead. Anyone know? I'm not usually subscribed to the lkml so please cc me in your response. Thanks. Paul Albrecht - To

Re: Use of virtio device IDs

2007-11-07 Thread Gregory Haskins
Avi Kivity wrote: I dislike strings. They make it look as if you have a nice extensible interface, where in reality you have a poorly documented interface which leads to poor interoperability. Its not really a full fledged interface, but rather just a simple id mechanism. A decentralized

Re: [PATCH] fix up perfmon to build on -mm

2007-11-07 Thread Stephane Eranian
Greg, On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:53:20AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: Do you want me to send you patches based on this tree to help clean up the sysfs usage now that it's documented? Yes, send me the patches. But from what you were saying earlier it seems I would need an extra sysfs

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32 build failure init/do_mount

2007-11-07 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:07:06AM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Hi Andrew, The kernel build fails with randconfig, with folllowing error init/do_mounts.c: In function ‘name_to_dev_t’: init/do_mounts.c:110: error: implicit declaration of function ‘blk_lookup_devt’ make[1]: ***

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32 build failure - !CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES

2007-11-07 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Hi Andrew, The kernel build fails with randconfig, with following error CC arch/powerpc/platforms/celleb/setup.o arch/powerpc/platforms/celleb/setup.c:151: error: ‘generic_calibrate_decr’ undeclared here (not in a function) make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/celleb/setup.o] Error 1

Re: unionfs and sys_readahead

2007-11-07 Thread Paul Albrecht
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 19:53 +, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2007 22:01, Paul Albrecht wrote: Hi, Whenever I use readahead-list on a union mounted file system I get a segfault and kernel oops so I'm wondering whether or not the linux unionfs supports sys_readahead.

Re: [patch 1/6] x86: apicdef unification: some constants made unsigned

2007-11-07 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Robert Richter wrote: -#define GET_APIC_VERSION(x) ((x)0xFF) -#define GET_APIC_MAXLVT(x) (((x)16)0xFF) -#define APIC_INTEGRATED(x) ((x)0xF0) +#define GET_APIC_VERSION(x) ((x)0xFFu) +#define

Re: r8169: NFG in 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-07 Thread cecco
Mark Lord lkml at rtr.ca writes: My ASUS board has one of these: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit With CONFIG_PCI_MSI=y, it also fails, and then isn't even detected lspci) on subsequent reboots. A power cycle is required to get it to show up again. Help?

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32 make header check fails

2007-11-07 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Hi Andrew, The build fails with error CHECK include/asm-generic/siginfo.h CHECK include/asm-generic/resource.h CHECK include/asm-generic/statfs.h CHECK include/asm-generic/signal.h CHECK include/asm-generic/poll.h CHECK include/asm-generic/mman.h CHECK

Re: [PATCH] x86 - 32-bit ptrace emulation mishandles 6th arg

2007-11-07 Thread Roland McGrath
Sure has my ACK. I never really understood why my old patch was not taken 2.5 years ago. Thanks, Roland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[PATCH] chipsfb: uses/depends on PCI

2007-11-07 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] chipsfb uses PCI interfaces and should depend on PCI. CC drivers/video/chipsfb.o drivers/video/chipsfb.c: In function 'chipsfb_pci_init': drivers/video/chipsfb.c:378: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_request_region'

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32 powerpc - axon_msi build faliure

2007-11-07 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 01:22 +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Hi Andrew, The kernel build fails with randconfig, with folllowing error Why cares about randconfig crap ? I don't much. Especially not if you don't provide the actual config that triggered the error.

Re: SC1200 failure in 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc1-git10

2007-11-07 Thread Denys Fedoryshchenko
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:12:55 -0500, Mark Lord wrote WRAP ~ #./hdparm -I /dev/hda /dev/hda: ATAPI Write-once device, with non-removable media Model Number: SanDisk SDP3B-16 Serial Number: 24313671615 Firmware Revision: vdd 1.00 Standards:

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.23: Filesystem capabilities 0.17

2007-11-07 Thread Olaf Dietsche
Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu 01-11-07 23:22:51, Olaf Dietsche wrote: The bits are stored in a sparse file named /.capabilities in the directory of the mount point, where the corresponding executable lives. The inode number of the file is the index into this file. Thanks for

Re: 2.6.23.1-rt9 (and others)

2007-11-07 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote: This is a special announcement for the latest -rt patches. This is actually announcing more than one tree (pay close attention to the differences between -rt7, -rt8 and -rt9). [...] 2.6.23.1-rt9 - RT balancing by CPU priorities (Gregory

r8169: NFG in 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-07 Thread Mark Lord
My ASUS board has one of these: 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81aa Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-

2.6.23.1-smp kernel panic (network-related)

2007-11-07 Thread Marek Kierdelewicz
Hi there, My company's (ISP) bussines model requires dynamic resizing of the client queues. It's achieved by regenerating shaping rules and loading then using batch mode of a tc binary. On production systems it's done once every 1 or 2 minutes. Unfortunately this causes smp kernels to panic.

Re: Problem with accessing namespace_sem from LSM.

2007-11-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:52:40PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: Hello. Christoph Hellwig wrote: Any code except VFS internals has no business using it at all and doesn't do that in mainline either. I'd start looking for design bugs in whatever code you have using it first. Isn't

Re: [RFC/PATCH] AVR32: Oprofile support

2007-11-07 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:55:43 +0100 Philippe Elie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 at 15:05 +, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: This adds the necessary architecture code to run oprofile on AVR32 using the performance counters documented by the AVR32 Architecture Manual. Did you

Re: [RFC PATCH 3/10] define page_file_cache

2007-11-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:06:10 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: How exactly can an anonymous page ever become file backed? When they get assigned a swap entry. That does not

Re: [Unionfs] Re: [PATCH] IGET: Stop UnionFS from using iget() and read_inode()

2007-11-07 Thread Erez Zadok
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Albrecht writes: On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 15:04 +, David Howells wrote: Paul Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does your test set include readahead-list? I can't get it to work with a union mounted filesystem without segfault'ing and kernel oops'ing.

Re: [PATCH] fix incorrect test in trident_ac97_set(); sound/oss/trident.c

2007-11-07 Thread Roel Kluin
Ray Lee wrote: On Nov 7, 2007 10:34 AM, Roel Kluin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If count reaches zero, the loop ends, but the postfix decrement subtracts it. so, testing for 'count == 0' will not work. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/sound/oss/trident.c

net: skge breakage on 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
After some bisecting, I found that net skge driver broke on commit 7fb7ac241162dc51ec0f7644d4a97b2855213c32 My network card is: :00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev 12) Linux cheradenine 2.6.24-rc1-dirty #15 Wed Nov 7 23:39:28 EET 2007

[PATCH] Fix used_idx wrap-around in virtio

2007-11-07 Thread Anthony Liguori
The more_used() function compares the vq-vring.used-idx with last_used_idx. Since vq-vring.used-idx is a 16-bit integer, and last_used_idx is an unsigned int, this results in unpredictable behavior when vq-vring.used-idx wraps around. This patch corrects this by changing last_used_idx to the

Re: 2.6.34-rc1 eat my photo SD card :-(

2007-11-07 Thread Romano Giannetti
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 23:17 +0100, Romano Giannetti wrote: Well, I started bisecting it. It will be a long shot, I suspect... Well, I spent the last 36 hours (more or less) trying to bisect the SD problem. The method I used was to insert the card, umount it, and make 8 dd in a row; the kernel

Re: net: skge breakage on 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:46:21PM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote: After some bisecting, I found that net skge driver broke on commit 7fb7ac241162dc51ec0f7644d4a97b2855213c32 My network card is: :00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev 12)

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32 make header check fails

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:12:40 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, The build fails with error CHECK include/asm-generic/siginfo.h CHECK include/asm-generic/resource.h CHECK include/asm-generic/statfs.h CHECK include/asm-generic/signal.h CHECK

Re: Massive slowdown when re-querying large nfs dir

2007-11-07 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday November 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Brown wrote: I would suggest getting a 'tcpdump -s0' trace and seeing (with wireshark) what is different between the various cases. Thanks Neil for looking into this. Your suggestion has already been answered in a previous post,

Re: Massive slowdown when re-querying large nfs dir - CORRECTION

2007-11-07 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday November 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really a credible difference as the reported difference is between two *clients* and the speed of getattr vs lookup would depend on the *server*. Sorry, my bad. I misread your original problem description. It would appear to be a server

Serial console and the Sun X4100M2 ILOM

2007-11-07 Thread Sam Vilain
Hi all, We're using a PXE / network install system for the SunFire x4100M2. We had a kernel that worked fine for the x4100 and x2100/x2100M2, but this new platform does something funny: after selecting the kernel at the PXElinux prompt, I don't see any kernel messages on the serial console,

Re: SC1200 failure in 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc1-git10

2007-11-07 Thread Denys Fedoryshchenko
This is another flash (1GB probably original Sandisk), 16MB one is called SHARP, and it is 2-4 years old. Maybe it is some noname with incorrect identification data. But it works well in USB card reader. [ 12.434864] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

Re: [PATCH (2.6.25) 0/2] suspend/hibernate Kconfig cleanups

2007-11-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 7 of November 2007, Johannes Berg wrote: These two patches, intended for 2.6.25, clean up the suspend/hibernate Kconfig. Both patches look good. Since they touch a couple of architectures, I think it's better to merge them through -mm. Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH (2.6.25) 1/2] hibernation: clean up Kconfig

2007-11-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 7 of November 2007, Johannes Berg wrote: This cleans up the hibernation Kconfig and removes the need to declare centrally which architectures support hibernation. All architectures that currently support hibernation are modified accordingly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH (2.6.25) 2/2] suspend: clean up Kconfig

2007-11-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 7 of November 2007, Johannes Berg wrote: This cleans up the suspend Kconfig and removes the need to declare centrally which architectures support suspend. All architectures that currently support suspend are modified accordingly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with accessing namespace_sem from LSM.

2007-11-07 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Hello. Christoph Hellwig wrote: Isn't security_inode_create() a part of VFS internals? It's not. security_inode_create is part of the LSM infrastructure, and the actual methods are part of security modules and definitively not VFS internals. The reason why I want to access namespace_sem

Re: [PATCH] r8169 fix regression on ASUS motherboards

2007-11-07 Thread Francois Romieu
Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Fix r8169 regression on ASUS motherboards. The r8169 ethernet driver worked fine in 2.6.23, but fails in 2.6.24-rc* for the onboard ethernet of ASUS P5B series motherboards. This patch fixes it again. [...] --- broken/drivers/net/r8169.c2007-11-07

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9319] New: National characters are not displayed under console.

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:19:16 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9319 Summary: National characters are not displayed under console. Product: Drivers Version: 2.5 KernelVersion: 2.6.24-rcX Platform:

Re: pktcdvd oops

2007-11-07 Thread Peter Osterlund
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: Peter Osterlund wrote: If the __module_get() is not safe because the module code could have already been unloaded, how can it possibly be made safe by adding more code to the pktcdvd module? If the module is unloaded, trying to execute its code can't be a

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Suppress A.OUT library support in ELF binfmt if !CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT [try #3]

2007-11-07 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 17:43 +, David Howells wrote: --- a/include/linux/a.out.h +++ b/include/linux/a.out.h @@ -1,6 +1,11 @@ #ifndef __A_OUT_GNU_H__ #define __A_OUT_GNU_H__ +#if defined(CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT) || \ + defined(CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT_MODULE) || \ +

Re: [PATCH] create /sys/.../power when CONFIG_PM is set

2007-11-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 7 of November 2007, Daniel Drake wrote: The CONFIG_SUSPEND changes in 2.6.23 caused a regression under certain configuration conditions (SUSPEND=n, USB_AUTOSUSPEND=y) where all USB device attributes in sysfs (idVendor, idProduct, ...) silently disappeared, causing udev breakage

Re: r8169: NFG in 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-07 Thread Francois Romieu
cecco [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] I have a asus a6t with RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit and I have had a similar problem. PCI-MSI-edge seems to break this ethernet card. My card has stopped to work, I have powered off my notebook for hours, but I am not been lucky, because it has showed

Re: [PATCH] sched: avoid large irq-latencies in smp-balancing

2007-11-07 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:27:25AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:17:00 +0100 Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = sched_nr_migrate, + .data =

Re: [patch 11/23] SLUB: Slab defrag core

2007-11-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
This was so far only in the slab defrag git tree. From 8cc487b646e45da0644f432d7489ad8791164b5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 23:19:40 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Fix two issues 1. Check inverted in kmem_cache_create 2. partial counter not

RE: BUG: usb Mouse continual disconnect (2.6.22.10) leading to eventual crash?

2007-11-07 Thread Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]
-Message d'origine- De : Andrew Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : 7 novembre 2007 15:33 (+linux-usb-devel) On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:19:47 -0500 Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a preblem with a few workstations that are hard freezing

Re: build #337 failed for 2.6.24-rc1-gb1d08ac In function `usbnet_set_settings':

2007-11-07 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 07 November 2007, David Miller wrote: David, I hate to say this and point you out like this, but you are a real cancer for bug fixes to USB things in the kernel, You didn't hate it enough to find a way to deal with your issue that doesn't involve namecalling or other flamage, I'll

Re: [PATCH] r8169 fix regression on ASUS motherboards

2007-11-07 Thread Mark Lord
Francois Romieu wrote: Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Fix r8169 regression on ASUS motherboards. The r8169 ethernet driver worked fine in 2.6.23, but fails in 2.6.24-rc* for the onboard ethernet of ASUS P5B series motherboards. This patch fixes it again. [...] --- broken/drivers/net/r8169.c

Re: 2.6.34-rc1 eat my photo SD card :-(

2007-11-07 Thread Joshua Doll
Romano Giannetti wrote: Hi, I have a very possible regression to signal. This morning 2.6.24-rc1 eat and destroyed my SD card. I have a toshiba laptop with a card slot and I have used it with 2.6.23-rcX and 2.6.23 without problems so far. This morning I put the card in, nothing

[PATCH] r8169 fix regression on ASUS motherboards (updated)

2007-11-07 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Francois Romieu wrote: .. I am not convinced, the broken ones include some RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_12 too, namely XID = 0x3800. .. Here is the updated patch for both VER_11 and VER_12. Let's get this in, as the driver has been broken for weeks now. * * * * Fix r8169 regression

Re: net: skge breakage on 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 7 of November 2007, Heikki Orsila wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:46:21PM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote: After some bisecting, I found that net skge driver broke on commit 7fb7ac241162dc51ec0f7644d4a97b2855213c32 My network card is: :00:0e.0 Ethernet controller:

Re: build #337 failed for 2.6.24-rc1-gb1d08ac In function `usbnet_set_settings':

2007-11-07 Thread David Brownell
But on the other hand, it seems that only the ASIX code will work right; the DM9601 and MCS7830 Kconfig is different/wrong. I'm not seeing the problem. Which configuration will be handled wrongly? Notice how only the ASIX kconfig depended on NET_ETHERNET... since MII depends on

Re: [2.6 patch] usbnet.c: check for the right MII variable

2007-11-07 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 02 November 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: -- snip -- This patch fixes the following compile error with CONFIG_MII=m, CONFIG_USB_USBNET=y, CONFIG_USB_USBNET_MII=n: This is the patch I liked better, if there was going to be one going upstream without additional test from me ...

Re: SC1200 failure in 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc1-git10

2007-11-07 Thread Mark Lord
Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:12:55 -0500, Mark Lord wrote WRAP ~ #./hdparm -I /dev/hda /dev/hda: ATAPI Write-once device, with non-removable media Model Number: SanDisk SDP3B-16 Serial Number: 24313671615 Firmware Revision: vdd 1.00

Re: [PATCH] r8169 fix regression on ASUS motherboards (updated)

2007-11-07 Thread Francois Romieu
Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Mark Lord wrote: Francois Romieu wrote: .. I am not convinced, the broken ones include some RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_12 too, namely XID = 0x3800. .. Here is the updated patch for both VER_11 and VER_12. Let's get this in, as the driver has been broken for weeks

[poll] Is the megafreeze development model broken?

2007-11-07 Thread ciol
Hi, I'd like to ask you a few questions: * Do you like the way linux distributions integrate the kernel? * Wouldn't you prefer they ship with the stable and still maintained 2.6.16.X, while providing optionally the latest kernel for those who want or just have a new hardware? * Do you think

Re: [poll] Is the megafreeze development model broken?

2007-11-07 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:56:57 +0100 ciol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Wouldn't you prefer they ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll -- Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not

Re: 2.6.23.1-rt9 (and others)

2007-11-07 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Wed, Nov 7, 2007 at 10:41 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So please compare -rt7, -rt8 and -rt10. Here are my results from running: sudo chrt -f 80 ./cyclictest -n -p 90 -t 8 -d 100 -i 100 with while true; do make mrproper; make allmodconfig;

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: pata_amd fails to detect 80-pin wire

2007-11-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 7 of November 2007, Thomas Lindroth wrote: After upgrading to 2.6.24-rc1 I get the message ata6.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable. The 2.6.23 kernel does not complain and activates DMA for the channel. Please add your system information to the Bugzilla entry at:

Re: Problem with accessing namespace_sem from LSM.

2007-11-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:04:23AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: The reason why I want to access namespace_sem inside security_inode_create() is that it doesn't receive struct vfsmount parameter. If struct vfsmount *were* passed to security_inode_create(), I have no need to access

Re: net: skge breakage on 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 23:50:30 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, 7 of November 2007, Heikki Orsila wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:46:21PM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote: After some bisecting, I found that net skge driver broke on commit

2.6.24-rc2 breaks nVidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

2007-11-07 Thread Gerhard Mack
hello, This worked fine in 2.6.23 but now the kernel no longer sees my audio controller. 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 00:10.1 0403: 10de:026c (rev a2) Let me know if I can provide more info or test patches. Gerhard -- Gerhard Mack

Re: [poll] Is the megafreeze development model broken?

2007-11-07 Thread ciol
Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:56:57 +0100 ciol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Wouldn't you prefer they ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: net: skge breakage on 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 03:06:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 23:50:30 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, 7 of November 2007, Heikki Orsila wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:46:21PM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote: After some bisecting, I

Re: SC1200 failure in 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc1-git10

2007-11-07 Thread Alan Cox
CFA spec requires 848a in word[0], not 844a, which explains why hdparm thought it might be ATAPI. I've updated my hdparm source to detect this for hdparm-7.8 (unreleased). That card (16MB) is definitely buggy. But your other (1GB) card looks fine. Thanks. Somebody else may help with the

compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies = 0.

2007-11-07 Thread David Brown
compat_sys_times() has bogus return until jiffies is = 0. I discovered this running LTP within 5 minutes of booting. The return result return compat_jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies); will return '-1' to user space and set the negated clock_t value to errno. I'm not sure what the correct

Re: is minimum udelay() not respected in preemptible SMP kernel-2.6.23?

2007-11-07 Thread Andi Kleen
Ow. Yes, from my reading delay_tsc() can return early (or after heat-death-of-the-universe) if the TSCs are offset and if preemption migrates the calling task between CPUs. I suppose a lameo fix would be to disable preemption in delay_tsc(). Yes. Can't think of any better reasonable fix.

Re: [PATCH] r8169 fix regression on ASUS motherboards (updated)

2007-11-07 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Francois Romieu wrote: .. I am not convinced, the broken ones include some RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_12 too, namely XID = 0x3800. .. Here is the updated patch for both VER_11 and VER_12. Let's get this in, as the driver has been broken for weeks now. * * * *

Re: SC1200 failure in 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc1-git10

2007-11-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:12:55PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: That cannot be correct (??). Is this with hdparm-7.7 (latest sourceforge) ?? Can you show us the hdparm --Istdout output as well, please. If this is applicable... FWIW hdparm was only recently (in past 72 hours) updated from 6.9 to

Re: 2.6.24-rc2 breaks nVidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:39:41 -0500 (EST) Gerhard Mack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, This worked fine in 2.6.23 but now the kernel no longer sees my audio controller. 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 00:10.1 0403: 10de:026c (rev a2)

Re: [PATCH] r8169 fix regression on ASUS motherboards (updated)

2007-11-07 Thread Mark Lord
Francois Romieu wrote: Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Mark Lord wrote: Francois Romieu wrote: .. I am not convinced, the broken ones include some RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_12 too, namely XID = 0x3800. .. Here is the updated patch for both VER_11 and VER_12. Let's get this in, as the driver has

Re: SC1200 failure in 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc1-git10

2007-11-07 Thread Mark Lord
Jeff Garzik wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:12:55PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: That cannot be correct (??). Is this with hdparm-7.7 (latest sourceforge) ?? Can you show us the hdparm --Istdout output as well, please. If this is applicable... FWIW hdparm was only recently (in past 72 hours)

Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies = 0.

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:47:22 -0800 David Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: compat_sys_times() has bogus return until jiffies is = 0. I discovered this running LTP within 5 minutes of booting. The return result return compat_jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies); will return '-1' to user space

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Suppress A.OUT library support in ELF binfmt if !CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT [try #3]

2007-11-07 Thread David Howells
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ew, no. This is horridly broken. You should never use CONFIG_xxx_MODULE in the static kernel at all -- and you should _especially_ not be using it in header files which are exported to userspace. AOUT support can be mostly built into a module, but a

Re: [PATCH] x86 - 32-bit ptrace emulation mishandles 6th arg

2007-11-07 Thread Jeff Dike
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 01:12:22PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: Sure has my ACK. I never really understood why my old patch was not taken 2.5 years ago. Nor I. It's needed. As is your PTRACE_SET_THREAD_INFO patch from yesterday - with these two fixes, I can boot a 32-bit UML on a 64-bit

Re: 2.6.34-rc1 eat my photo SD card :-(

2007-11-07 Thread Roland Dreier
Well, I spent the last 36 hours (more or less) trying to bisect the SD problem. The method I used was to insert the card, umount it, and make 8 dd in a row; the kernel is bad if they differs, good if they are the same. I could not finish the bisect. The last pair good/bad were:

Re: SATA eating my disk, port reset, destroying unrelated data

2007-11-07 Thread Robert Hancock
Norbert Preining wrote: Dear all! (please Cc me for answers) Since about 5 days I am having serious problems with my SATA drive: kernel 2.6.22 (from Debian/sid) hardware nv Sometimes at boot time, often/always at disk io intense stuff: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x40

Re: SC1200 failure in 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc1-git10

2007-11-07 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Thursday 08 November 2007, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: 2.6.24-rc2 not working very well dmesg [ 12.386395] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 [ 12.405579] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [ 12.430441] SC1200: IDE

Re: [PATCH] sched: avoid large irq-latencies in smp-balancing

2007-11-07 Thread Eric St-Laurent
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 17:10 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: It would be nice if sched_nr_migrate didn't exist, really. It's hard to imagine anyone wanting to tweak it, apart from developers. I'm not so sure about that. It is a tunable for RT. That is we can tweak this value to be smaller

Re: [PATCH] create /sys/.../power when CONFIG_PM is set

2007-11-07 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:24:55PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Wednesday, 7 of November 2007, Daniel Drake wrote: The CONFIG_SUSPEND changes in 2.6.23 caused a regression under certain configuration conditions (SUSPEND=n, USB_AUTOSUSPEND=y) where all USB device attributes in sysfs

Fwd: same problem with 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-07 Thread werner
On 7/Nov/2007 20:10 werner wrote .. With 2.6.23-rc2 is the same problem: it crashed at the beginning: EIP 060 c03fdea4 EFLAGS 00010212 EIP is at xor_sse_2+0x34/0x200 Again during the compilation was reclaimed that source-dir/arch/x86/Makefile.o cannot be found and were certain

Re: is minimum udelay() not respected in preemptible SMP kernel-2.6.23?

2007-11-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 08 November 2007 01:20, Matt Mackall wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:30:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Ow. Yes, from my reading delay_tsc() can return early (or after heat-death-of-the-universe) if the TSCs are offset and if preemption migrates the calling task between

Re: 2.6.34-rc1 eat my photo SD card :-(

2007-11-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 7 of November 2007, Romano Giannetti wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 23:17 +0100, Romano Giannetti wrote: Well, I started bisecting it. It will be a long shot, I suspect... Well, I spent the last 36 hours (more or less) trying to bisect the SD problem. The method I used was to

Re: is minimum udelay() not respected in preemptible SMP kernel-2.6.23?

2007-11-07 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:30:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Ow. Yes, from my reading delay_tsc() can return early (or after heat-death-of-the-universe) if the TSCs are offset and if preemption migrates the calling task between CPUs. I suppose a lameo fix would be to disable preemption in

Re: [PATCH] r8169 fix regression on ASUS motherboards (updated)

2007-11-07 Thread Francois Romieu
Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] I've now received a couple of private emails from people reporting full success with this patch. Ok, I have pushed the patch below for Jeff to pull at korg. From 1dd7681bc2ff171341ea5cae957f8ecb5c0c102e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Lord [EMAIL

Re: Problem with accessing namespace_sem from LSM.

2007-11-07 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Hello. Christoph Hellwig wrote: Same argument as with the AA folks: it does not have any business looking at the vfsmount. If you create a file it can and in many setups will show up in multiple vfsmounts, so making decisions based on the particular one this creat happens through is wrong

Re: sata NCQ blacklist entry

2007-11-07 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: Florian La Roche wrote: Hello all, I've taking email addresses from the last NCQ blacklist changes going into the kernel. This Fujitsu drive also gives me spurious command completions. Detailed output also available at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=366181. Let

Re: SC1200 failure in 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc1-git10

2007-11-07 Thread Denys Fedoryshchenko
2.6.24-rc2 not working very well dmesg [ 12.386395] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 [ 12.405579] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [ 12.430441] SC1200: IDE controller (0x100b:0x0502 rev 0x01) at PCI slot :00:12.2 [

Re: writeout stalls in current -git

2007-11-07 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 08:15:06AM +0100, Torsten Kaiser wrote: On 11/7/07, David Chinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so it's not synchronous writes that we are doing - we're just submitting bio's tagged as WRITE_SYNC to get the I/O issued quickly. The synchronous nature appears to be

Re: [PATCH] virtio config_ops refactoring

2007-11-07 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thursday 08 November 2007 04:30:50 Anthony Liguori wrote: I would prefer that the virtio API not expose a little endian standard. I'm currently converting config-get() ops to ioreadXX depending on the size which already does the endianness conversion for me so this just messes things up. I

Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies = 0.

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:59:12 +1100 Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton writes: the latter is what my protopatch does isn't it? It wraps at 0x7fff. It appears that glibc treats all of 0x8000-0x as an error. Not on powerpc. On powerpc the error

Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies = 0.

2007-11-07 Thread Paul Mackerras
Andrew Morton writes: Yup. But userspace will already have a fit if either the start or end time advanced into the glibc-thought-that-was-an-error range. Not nearly as much of a fit. The effect on x86 is that values between -4095 and -1 are reported as -1, so the end-start difference will be

Re: [PATCH] pktcdvd: fix BUG caused by sysfs module reference semantics change

2007-11-07 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:27:16AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: pkt_setup_dev() expects module reference to be held on invocation. This used to be true for sysfs callbacks but not anymore. Test and grab module reference around pkt_setup_dev() in class_pktcdvd_store_add(). Signed-off-by: Tejun

Re: build #337 failed for 2.6.24-rc1-gb1d08ac In function `usbnet_set_settings':

2007-11-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 06:53:48PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:34:52PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: But on the other hand, it seems that only the ASIX code will work right; the DM9601 and MCS7830 Kconfig is

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