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

ciol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

RE: 2.6.24-rc1 and 2.6.24.rc2 hangs while running udev on my lapt op

On Saturday, November 10, 2007 1:53 AM, Venki Pallipadi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dino, > > Can you try the patch below over rc2 and see whether it fixes > the problem. > Looking at the code, it should fix the problem. If it does > not, can you send me the output of acpidump from

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 5/8] KVM: PVDMA: Update dma_alloc_coherent to make it paravirt-aware

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:06PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote: > Of all the DMA calls, only dma_alloc_coherent might not actually > call dma_ops->alloc_coherent. We make sure that gets called if the > device that's being worked on is a PV device I always thougt that's a mess... the reason it's done

Re: [PATCH] Include header required for INT_MAX

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No, because I be damn sure that some developers try compiling programs > > in non-linux environments (cygwin, solaris, andyourpersonaldistro, you > > name it) which do not have to adhere to . It might

Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu access overhead

David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Each IP compression tunnel instance does an alloc_percpu(). Actually all IPComp tunnels share one set of objects which are allocated per-cpu. So only the first tunnel would do that. In fact that was precisely the reason why per-cpu is used in IPComp

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 4/8] KVM: PVDMA: Introduce is_pv_device() dma operation

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:05PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote: > A guest can call dma_ops->is_pv_device() to find out if a device is > a passthrough'ed device (device passed on to a guest by the > host). If this is true, a hypercall will be made to translate DMA > mapping operations. Doesn't really

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/8] KVM: PVDMA Guest: Guest-side routines for paravirtualized DMA

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:04PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote: > We make the dma_mapping_ops structure to point to our structure so > that every DMA access goes through us. (This is the reason this only > works for 64-bit guest. 32-bit guest doesn't yet have a dma_ops > struct.) I need the same

Re: [PATCH] Include header required for INT_MAX

Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, because I be damn sure that some developers try compiling programs > in non-linux environments (cygwin, solaris, andyourpersonaldistro, you > name it) which do not have to adhere to . It might use > instead, or whatever. Every C compiler has .

Re: [PATCH] x86: unification of cfufreq/Kconfig

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:36:02PM +0100, Andreas Herrmann wrote: >... > Mostly I have seen the ususal suspects (e.g. missing firmware and >... Not related to this patch, but you can set CONFIG_STANDALONE=y with KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG for your randconfig compiles. > Regards, > > Andreas cu Adrian

Re: Problems using quickcam_messenger on ARM (FYI)

Em Ter, 2007-11-06 às 18:25 +0100, Markus Hirschmann escreveu: > Hello Kernel-Developer, > > Module quickcam_messenger seems to be broken (tried 2.6.18 and 2.6.22) > on 2 different NSLU2 (ARM). Picture is attached. Same kernel and module > can be used without any problems on x86 here. I don't

Re: [2.6 patch] usb/serial/oti6858.c: cleanups

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:40:43PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Montag 05 November 2007 schrieb Adrian Bunk: > > This patch containsthe following cleanups: > > - make the needlessly global send_data() static > > - an author without anemail address is OK, not a FIXME > > That should be up to

Re: KPROBES: Instrumenting a function's call site

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:42:33PM -0500, Avishay Traeger wrote: > Sorry for reviving a thread from two months ago... :) > > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 10:09 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:38PM -0400, Avishay Traeger wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I am trying to

Re: [PATCH] Include header required for INT_MAX

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 23:52 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> Nack, we shoiuld never include userspace headers in kernel headers, > >> an even more never add !__KERNEL__ ifdefs. Just make sure your > >> programs include limit.h before including linux/cdrom.h. > > > >I think header files should

KVM fixes for 2.6.24-rc2

Linus, Please pull the tree at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git for-linus Containing some fairly critical fixes for 2.6.24's KVM, including hard host hangs on AMD. Avi Kivity (5): KVM: x86 emulator: fix 'push imm8' emulation KVM: SVM: Fix SMP with kernel

Re: [PATCH] x86: fix cpu-hotplug regression

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:16:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 23:15:38 +0900 > "Akinobu Mita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [PATCH] x86: fix cpu hotplug regression (don't call mce_create_device on > > > CPU_UP_PREPARE) > > > > > > Fix regression introduced with

[PATCH] USB: power-management.txt - disconnect clarification

From: Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add a paragraph to Documentation/usb/power-management.txt about the interaction between suspend and disconnect. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- linux-2.6/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt2007-10-14 00:41:08.0

Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:45 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:14 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: > > > > Subject: mm: speed up writeback ramp-up on clean systems > > > > I tested kernel 2.6.23, 2,6,24-rc2, 2.6.24-rc2_peter(2.6.24-rc2+this patch). > > > > 1) Compare among

Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:14 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: > > Subject: mm: speed up writeback ramp-up on clean systems > > I tested kernel 2.6.23, 2,6,24-rc2, 2.6.24-rc2_peter(2.6.24-rc2+this patch). > > 1) Compare among first/second/following running > 2.6.23: second run of iozone will get about

Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Check length at deprecated_sysctl_warning.

Tetsuo Handa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. > > Thanks for reformatting my patch > and sorry for surprising you with directory name > (I meant to type linux-2.6.24-rc2, not linux-2.6.22-rc2). > > According to linux-2.6.23, > it seems that I should return -ENOTDIR > for invalid args->nlen

Re: [RFC 13/13] Char: nozomi, cleanup read and write

On Montag 12 November 2007 08:54:52, you (Adrian Bunk) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:04:41PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > Why? Anyway I think this is the case. The body of the then branch is > > executed at > > most once, while the else branch each time but last. If you write/read 1002 > >

Re: dio_get_page() lockdep complaints

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 09:45 +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 20:49 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Right, which gets us into all kinds of trouble because some sites need > > mmap_sem to resolve some races, notably s390 31-bit and shm. > > You are refering to the mmap_sem

Re: Kernel panic at boot with ondemand governor as default (2.6.24-rc2)

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 20:10 +0100, Eric Piel wrote: > Hello, > > I've tried kernel 2.6.24-rc2 and I have a problem with the new option > for setting up the cpufreq ondemand governor as default: a kernel panic > happens early at boot time. If I boot first with performance governor > and later

Re: Warning: commit message does not conform to UTF-8. (mmotm "10-Nov-2007 22:46")

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 07:30:57PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > Andrew, > > I'm getting minor warnings when applying two patches from > > > It's probably not serious but I wonder if checkpatch catches this. > > Applying patch..git-net.patch > Warning:

Re: dio_get_page() lockdep complaints

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 20:49 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Right, which gets us into all kinds of trouble because some sites need > mmap_sem to resolve some races, notably s390 31-bit and shm. You are refering to the mmap_sem use in compat_linux.c:do_mmap2, aren't you? That check for adresses >

Re: linux-nfs created at vger

From: Benny Halevy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:44:10 +0200 > Dave, this sounds like a good idea. > How about cross posting this message also to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feel free to forward it for me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: linux-nfs created at vger

Dave, this sounds like a good idea. How about cross posting this message also to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Benny On Nov. 12, 2007, 10:16 +0200, David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because the sourceforge lists are a huge collection of spam and > subscriber-posting only, and someone reminded me of

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/24] paravirt_ops for unified x86 - that's me again!

On Saturday 10 November 2007 00:12:41 Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > Hey folks, > > Here's a new spin of the pvops64 patch series. > We didn't get that many comments from the last time, > so it should be probably almost ready to get in. Heya! > > >From the last version, the most notable

Re: [rfc][patch] remove nopage

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 03:17 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 02:56 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > This is a patch to remove 'nopage' from the tree. > > Interesting, but why now? What precipitated this? Actually reading said patch and thinking helps. I'll go hide back under my

Re: Coding Style: indenting with tabs vs. spaces

On Nov. 08, 2007, 17:58 +0200, Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benny Halevy wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I would like to hear peoples opinion about the indentation convention >> described below that I personally found the most practical with >> several different editors. >> >> The gist of

Re: [rfc][patch] remove nopage

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 02:56 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > This is a patch to remove 'nopage' from the tree. Interesting, but why now? What precipitated this? Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

linux-nfs created at vger

Because the sourceforge lists are a huge collection of spam and subscriber-posting only, and someone reminded me of this recently, I've decided to sort-of force the issue wrt. the NFS mailing lists by putting up a [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll let the masses decide whether to use it or not :-) - To

Re: Coding Style: indenting with tabs vs. spaces

On Nov. 11, 2007, 11:23 +0200, James Courtier-Dutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DervishD wrote: >> Bonjour Xavier :) >> >> * Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: >> >>> Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 13:04 +0100, DervishD a écrit : >>> * Benny Halevy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [2.6 patch] net/ipv4/ipvs/: remove unused exports

From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:58:36 +0100 > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:09:40PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 07:48:40AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This patch removes the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's: > > > - ip_vs_try_bind_dest >

Re: [2.6 patch] net/ipv4/ipvs/: remove unused exports

From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:58:36 +0100 On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:09:40PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 07:48:40AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch removes the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's: - ip_vs_try_bind_dest -

Re: Coding Style: indenting with tabs vs. spaces

On Nov. 11, 2007, 11:23 +0200, James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DervishD wrote: Bonjour Xavier :) * Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 13:04 +0100, DervishD a écrit : * Benny Halevy [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: I would like

linux-nfs created at vger

Because the sourceforge lists are a huge collection of spam and subscriber-posting only, and someone reminded me of this recently, I've decided to sort-of force the issue wrt. the NFS mailing lists by putting up a [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll let the masses decide whether to use it or not :-) - To

Re: [rfc][patch] remove nopage

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 02:56 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: This is a patch to remove 'nopage' from the tree. Interesting, but why now? What precipitated this? Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: Coding Style: indenting with tabs vs. spaces

On Nov. 08, 2007, 17:58 +0200, Chris Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benny Halevy wrote: Greetings, I would like to hear peoples opinion about the indentation convention described below that I personally found the most practical with several different editors. The gist of it is that tabs

Re: [rfc][patch] remove nopage

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 03:17 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 02:56 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: This is a patch to remove 'nopage' from the tree. Interesting, but why now? What precipitated this? Actually reading said patch and thinking helps. I'll go hide back under my rock

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/24] paravirt_ops for unified x86 - that's me again!

On Saturday 10 November 2007 00:12:41 Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: Hey folks, Here's a new spin of the pvops64 patch series. We didn't get that many comments from the last time, so it should be probably almost ready to get in. Heya! From the last version, the most notable changes are:

Re: linux-nfs created at vger

Dave, this sounds like a good idea. How about cross posting this message also to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Benny On Nov. 12, 2007, 10:16 +0200, David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because the sourceforge lists are a huge collection of spam and subscriber-posting only, and someone reminded me of this

Re: linux-nfs created at vger

From: Benny Halevy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:44:10 +0200 Dave, this sounds like a good idea. How about cross posting this message also to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feel free to forward it for me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: dio_get_page() lockdep complaints

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 20:49 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Right, which gets us into all kinds of trouble because some sites need mmap_sem to resolve some races, notably s390 31-bit and shm. You are refering to the mmap_sem use in compat_linux.c:do_mmap2, aren't you? That check for adresses 2GB

Re: Warning: commit message does not conform to UTF-8. (mmotm 10-Nov-2007 22:46)

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 07:30:57PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: Andrew, I'm getting minor warnings when applying two patches from http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ It's probably not serious but I wonder if checkpatch catches this. Applying patch..git-net.patch Warning: commit message

Re: Kernel panic at boot with ondemand governor as default (2.6.24-rc2)

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 20:10 +0100, Eric Piel wrote: Hello, I've tried kernel 2.6.24-rc2 and I have a problem with the new option for setting up the cpufreq ondemand governor as default: a kernel panic happens early at boot time. If I boot first with performance governor and later change

Re: dio_get_page() lockdep complaints

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 09:45 +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 20:49 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Right, which gets us into all kinds of trouble because some sites need mmap_sem to resolve some races, notably s390 31-bit and shm. You are refering to the mmap_sem use in

Re: [RFC 13/13] Char: nozomi, cleanup read and write

On Montag 12 November 2007 08:54:52, you (Adrian Bunk) wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:04:41PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: Why? Anyway I think this is the case. The body of the then branch is executed at most once, while the else branch each time but last. If you write/read 1002 bytes, it

Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Check length at deprecated_sysctl_warning.

Tetsuo Handa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. Thanks for reformatting my patch and sorry for surprising you with directory name (I meant to type linux-2.6.24-rc2, not linux-2.6.22-rc2). According to linux-2.6.23, it seems that I should return -ENOTDIR for invalid args-nlen value. I got

Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:14 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: Subject: mm: speed up writeback ramp-up on clean systems I tested kernel 2.6.23, 2,6,24-rc2, 2.6.24-rc2_peter(2.6.24-rc2+this patch). 1) Compare among first/second/following running 2.6.23: second run of iozone will get about 28%

Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:45 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:14 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: Subject: mm: speed up writeback ramp-up on clean systems I tested kernel 2.6.23, 2,6,24-rc2, 2.6.24-rc2_peter(2.6.24-rc2+this patch). 1) Compare among

[PATCH] USB: power-management.txt - disconnect clarification

From: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add a paragraph to Documentation/usb/power-management.txt about the interaction between suspend and disconnect. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt2007-10-14 00:41:08.0 +0200

Re: [PATCH] x86: fix cpu-hotplug regression

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:16:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 23:15:38 +0900 Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [PATCH] x86: fix cpu hotplug regression (don't call mce_create_device on CPU_UP_PREPARE) Fix regression introduced with

Re: [PATCH] Include header required for INT_MAX

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 23:52 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Nack, we shoiuld never include userspace headers in kernel headers, an even more never add !__KERNEL__ ifdefs. Just make sure your programs include limit.h before including linux/cdrom.h. I think header files should be complete,

Re: KPROBES: Instrumenting a function's call site

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:42:33PM -0500, Avishay Traeger wrote: Sorry for reviving a thread from two months ago... :) On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 10:09 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:38PM -0400, Avishay Traeger wrote: Hello, I am trying to use kprobes

Re: [2.6 patch] usb/serial/oti6858.c: cleanups

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:40:43PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: Am Montag 05 November 2007 schrieb Adrian Bunk: This patch containsthe following cleanups: - make the needlessly global send_data() static - an author without anemail address is OK, not a FIXME That should be up to the

Re: Problems using quickcam_messenger on ARM (FYI)

Em Ter, 2007-11-06 às 18:25 +0100, Markus Hirschmann escreveu: Hello Kernel-Developer, Module quickcam_messenger seems to be broken (tried 2.6.18 and 2.6.22) on 2 different NSLU2 (ARM). Picture is attached. Same kernel and module can be used without any problems on x86 here. I don't have

Re: [PATCH] x86: unification of cfufreq/Kconfig

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:36:02PM +0100, Andreas Herrmann wrote: ... Mostly I have seen the ususal suspects (e.g. missing firmware and ... Not related to this patch, but you can set CONFIG_STANDALONE=y with KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG for your randconfig compiles. Regards, Andreas cu Adrian --

KVM fixes for 2.6.24-rc2

Linus, Please pull the tree at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git for-linus Containing some fairly critical fixes for 2.6.24's KVM, including hard host hangs on AMD. Avi Kivity (5): KVM: x86 emulator: fix 'push imm8' emulation KVM: SVM: Fix SMP with kernel

Re: [PATCH] Include header required for INT_MAX

Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, because I be damn sure that some developers try compiling programs in non-linux environments (cygwin, solaris, andyourpersonaldistro, you name it) which do not have to adhere to limits.h. It might use cosmiclimits.h instead, or whatever. Every

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/8] KVM: PVDMA Guest: Guest-side routines for paravirtualized DMA

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:04PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote: We make the dma_mapping_ops structure to point to our structure so that every DMA access goes through us. (This is the reason this only works for 64-bit guest. 32-bit guest doesn't yet have a dma_ops struct.) I need the same facility

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 4/8] KVM: PVDMA: Introduce is_pv_device() dma operation

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:05PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote: A guest can call dma_ops-is_pv_device() to find out if a device is a passthrough'ed device (device passed on to a guest by the host). If this is true, a hypercall will be made to translate DMA mapping operations. Doesn't really

Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu access overhead

David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each IP compression tunnel instance does an alloc_percpu(). Actually all IPComp tunnels share one set of objects which are allocated per-cpu. So only the first tunnel would do that. In fact that was precisely the reason why per-cpu is used in IPComp as

Re: [PATCH] Include header required for INT_MAX

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, because I be damn sure that some developers try compiling programs in non-linux environments (cygwin, solaris, andyourpersonaldistro, you name it) which do not have to adhere to limits.h. It might use

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 5/8] KVM: PVDMA: Update dma_alloc_coherent to make it paravirt-aware

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:06PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote: Of all the DMA calls, only dma_alloc_coherent might not actually call dma_ops-alloc_coherent. We make sure that gets called if the device that's being worked on is a PV device I always thougt that's a mess... the reason it's done this

RE: 2.6.24-rc1 and 2.6.24.rc2 hangs while running udev on my lapt op

On Saturday, November 10, 2007 1:53 AM, Venki Pallipadi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dino, Can you try the patch below over rc2 and see whether it fixes the problem. Looking at the code, it should fix the problem. If it does not, can you send me the output of acpidump from your

Re: snd_hda_intel 2.6.24-rc2 bug: interrupts don't always work on Lenovo X60s

At Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:48:32 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: With 2.6.24-rc2 on my Lenovo X60s, I sometimes get: hda_intel: No response from codec, disabling MSI: last cmd=0x002f0d00 hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x002f0d00 when loading

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

ciol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Check length at deprecated_sysctl_warning.

Hello. Eric W. Biederman wrote: name[CTL_MAXNAME} is not valid. name[0...CTL_MAXNAME-1] is valid. Yes. The check that got lost in the refactoring was specfically: - if (tmp.nlen = 0 || tmp.nlen = CTL_MAXNAME) - return -ENOTDIR; Thus I think tmp.nlen == CTL_MAXNAME

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/8] KVM: PVDMA Guest: Guest-side routines for paravirtualized DMA

On Monday 12 November 2007 16:20:01 Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:04PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote: We make the dma_mapping_ops structure to point to our structure so that every DMA access goes through us. (This is the reason this only works for 64-bit guest. 32-bit guest

Re: [PATCH 0/11 v3] enable make ARCH=x86

Sam Ravnborg wrote: With this patchset the former ARCH=i386 / ARCH=x86_64 are replaced by ARCH=x86. [...] x86: drop backward compatibility symlinks to i386/boot and The fist kill the symlinks to bzImage. Now that we changed everything else to x86 there is no reason to keep the

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 5/8] KVM: PVDMA: Update dma_alloc_coherent to make it paravirt-aware

On Monday 12 November 2007 16:26:37 Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:06PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote: Of all the DMA calls, only dma_alloc_coherent might not actually call dma_ops-alloc_coherent. We make sure that gets called if the device that's being worked on is a PV

Re: [PATCH] Include header required for INT_MAX

Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, because I be damn sure that some developers try compiling programs in non-linux environments (cygwin, solaris, andyourpersonaldistro, you name it) which do

Re: [PATCH 5/6] MN10300: Add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernel [try #5]

Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some are part of the CPU core and affect things like CPU core itself, CPU caches, MMU/TLB and exceptions/interrupts. Others are on-silicon devices such as the serial ports, the bus controller, the SDRAM controller. How are they addressed - as CPU

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

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, 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)

Re: [PATCH] Include header required for INT_MAX

On Nov 12, 2007 1:06 PM, Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, because I be damn sure that some developers try compiling programs in non-linux

Re: [patch] prepare kprobes code for x86 unification

Hi Arjan, Arjan van de Ven wrote: From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: prepare kprobes code for x86 unification This patch is a first step towards unification of the kprobes infrastructure between 32 and 64 bit x86; the patch is mostly about removing spurious whitespace

Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1

- Original Message From: Zhang, Yanmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LKML linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 1:45:57 AM Subject: Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1 On Fri, 2007-11-09 at

Re: Module init call vs symbols exporting race?

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 18:27 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: We fail rather than sleep in the dependency isn't ready case. Partially because it's not happened before, but partially because we risk nasty loops. If we fail since we have to in the dependency isn't ready case then the warning seems

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [2.6 patch] usb/serial/oti6858.c: cleanups

Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb Adrian Bunk: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:40:43PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: Am Montag 05 November 2007 schrieb Adrian Bunk: This patch containsthe following cleanups: - make the needlessly global send_data() static - an author without anemail address

[PATCH] module loader should not complain about unknown symbol

If module A depends on module B and module B has not yet finished its init() the module loader may print a warning about an unknown symbol. This happens if module B is still in state MODULE_STATE_COMING, as module A runs into resolve_symbol() for a symbol from module B. resolve_symbol() return 0

[PATCH] proc: loadavg reading race

The avenrun[] values are supposed to be protected by xtime_lock. loadavg_read_proc does not use it. Theoretically this may result in an occasional glitch when the value read from /proc/loadavg would be as much as 111 times higher than it should be. Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1

Single socket, dual core opteron, 2GB memory Single SATA disk, ext3 x86_64 kernel and userland (dirty_background_ratio, dirty_ratio) tunables (5,10) - default 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 #1 SMP 524288 4 59580 60356 524288 4 59247 61101 524288 4

Re: question about sata-error on boot.

(cc Robert Hancock, maybe we need ATA_LFLAG_HRST_TO_RESUME for these controllers?) Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 19:34:20 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, (cc linux-ide) for some time (and I can't say for how long, but the board is less than a month

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [2.6 patch] usb/serial/oti6858.c: cleanups

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:14:36PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb Adrian Bunk: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:40:43PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: Am Montag 05 November 2007 schrieb Adrian Bunk: This patch containsthe following cleanups: - make the

Re: Temporary lockup on loopback block device

On 2.6.23 it could happen even without loopback Let's focus on this point, because we already know how the lockup happens _with_ loopback and any other kind of bdi stacking. Can you describe the setup? Or better still, can you reproduce it and post the sysrq-t output? Thanks, Miklos - To

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/8] KVM: PVDMA Guest: Guest-side routines for paravirtualized DMA

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:26:24PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: On Monday 12 November 2007 16:20:01 Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:04PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote: We make the dma_mapping_ops structure to point to our structure so that every DMA access goes through us. (This

Re: [PATCH] Include header required for INT_MAX

On Nov 12 2007 13:57, Vegard Nossum wrote: This seems like a good time to ask why the kernel doesn't use stdint.h for its INT_MAX and type definitions like uint32_t., etc. From the manpage: The stdint.h header is a subset of the inttypes.h header more suitable for use in freestanding

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/8] KVM: PVDMA Guest: Guest-side routines for paravirtualized DMA

On Monday 12 November 2007 19:02:07 Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:26:24PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: On Monday 12 November 2007 16:20:01 Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:04PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote: We make the dma_mapping_ops structure to point to

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/8] KVM: PVDMA Guest: Guest-side routines for paravirtualized DMA

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 07:25:27PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: Selectively? What happens in the case when some iommu doesn't want to invoke the prev_op, but the mapping depends on it being called (eg, the hypercalling op is embedded somewhere in the prev_op chain) Bad things :-) There needs to be

Re: [PATCH] sysfs: fix off-by-one error in fill_read_buffer

Miao Xie wrote: Hi,everyone. I found that there is a off-by-one problem in the following code. Version:2.6.24-rc2 File:fs/sysfs/file.c:118-122 Function:fill_read_buffer count = ops-show(kobj,

Re: Kernel panic at boot with ondemand governor as default (2.6.24-rc2)

11/12/2007 10:16 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote/a écrit: On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 20:10 +0100, Eric Piel wrote: Hello, I've tried kernel 2.6.24-rc2 and I have a problem with the new option for setting up the cpufreq ondemand governor as default: a kernel panic happens early at boot time. If I boot

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove saa7134-oss

Hi Adrian, Em Sex, 2007-11-09 às 07:03 +0100, Adrian Bunk escreveu: The saa7134-oss is deprecated for quite some time, it's the only remaining OSS user outside of sound/oss/, and considering how few and what kind of soundcards are left supported by OSS I hardly see any use cases left.

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

On 2007-11-12, Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a megafreeze development model is sane. Finding a collection of software versions that are all known to work together is very interesting, and useful. Making it so you can deliver something that just works to end users is

PAGE_SIZE on 64bit and 32bit machines

According to my knowledge the PAGE_SIZE on 32bit architectures in 4KB. Logically, the PAGE_SIZE on 64bit architectures should be 8KB. That's at least the way I understand it. However, looking at the kernel code of x86_64, I see the PAGE_SIZE is 4KB. Can anyone explain to me what am I missing

[patch 3/3] arch_rebalance_pgtables call

From: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] In order to change the layout of the page tables after an mmap has crossed the adress space limit of the current page table layout a architecture hook in get_unmapped_area is needed. The arguments are the address of the new mapping and the length of it.

[patch 0/3] page table changes

Hi Andrew, more than 2 weeks have passed since I posted my six page table patches to linux-kernel/linux-arch. Nobody complained so far (keeping fingers crossed..) and Ben has a use for the first two patches on powerpc as well. Next logical step would be to add the patches that affect common code

[patch 2/3] CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.

From: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Background: I've implemented 1K/2K page tables for s390. These sub-page page tables are required to properly support the s390 virtualization instruction with KVM. The SIE instruction requires that the page tables have 256 page table entries (pte)

[patch 1/3] add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] The pgd/pud/pmd/pte page table allocation functions get a mm_struct pointer as first argument. The free functions do not get the mm_struct argument. This is 1) asymmetrical and 2) to do mm related page table

Re: [PATCH] mm/memory.c follow_hugetlb_page compiler error (MMOTM)

Argh. Who runs with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE not set anyway ;) Acked-by: Adam Litke [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 19:54 -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: Using http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ timestamped 10-Nov-2007 22:46. CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE not set. $ make CC mm/memory.o

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/8] KVM: PVDMA Guest: Guest-side routines for paravirtualized DMA

Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:04PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote: We make the dma_mapping_ops structure to point to our structure so that every DMA access goes through us. (This is the reason this only works for 64-bit guest. 32-bit guest doesn't yet have a dma_ops struct.)

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