On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:23:48PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
+ /* Make the sysace device 'live' */
+ if (ace-fsm_state != ACE_FSM_STATE_INVALIDATE_MEDIA);
+ add_disk(ace-gd);
checkpatch.pl reports the above if as suspect due to the trailing ;.
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 14:09 +, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
Lennart asked for madvise(WILLNEED) to work on anonymous pages, he plans
to use this to pre-fault pages. He currently uses: mlock/munlock for
this purpose.
I certainly agree with this in
This patch allows the private_data field to be specified in
platform_data for the standard 8250/16550 UART. This field is used by
DW APB type UARTs and without this patch it's only possible to set
this field when registering the port by hand. If private_data is not
set then the
driver will
In the current code, RTC_AIE doesn't work if the RTC relies on
CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC because the code sets the RTC_AIE flag
in hpet_set_rtc_irq_bit(). The interrupt handles does accidentally
check for RTC_PIE and not RTC_AIE when comparing the time
which was set in hpet_set_alarm_time().
This
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 15:47 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 14:09 +, Hugh Dickins wrote:
Interesting divergence: make_pages_present faults in writable pages
in a writable vma, whereas the file case's force_page_cache_readahead
doesn't even insert the pages into the
Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ingo.
commit fbdcf18df73758b2e187ab94678b30cd5f6ff9f9 is not needed. another
patch (by you !! commit 699d934d5f958d7944d195c03c334f28cc0b3669 x86:
fixup cpu_info array conversion) already removed clearing of
c-cpu_index. in
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:
debugfs: allow access to signed values
Add debugfs_create_s{8,16,32,64}. For these to work properly, we need to
remove
a cast in libfs, change the simple_attr_open prototype and thus fix the users
as
well.
Looks like
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 03:56:45PM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 03:10:28PM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
Here is a so-called BUG when trying to insert the following
module into the kernel
On 2007.12.19 09:44:50 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
I'll confirm this tomorrow but it seems that even switching to
data=ordered
(AFAIK default o ext3) is indeed enough to cure this problem.
Ok, do we actually have any ext3
Hi Andres,
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 06:13:04PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:50:50 +0300
Anton Vorontsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:02:41PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
[...]
Hm. It occurs to me that there's nothing keeping us from
* Paul E. McKenney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:18:46PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
RCU style multiple probes support for the Linux Kernel Markers.
Common case (one probe) is still fast and does not require dynamic
allocation
or a supplementary pointer
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 01:32:02AM -0800, Natalie Protasevich wrote:
The problem is that it appears to the casual observer as if they can
then add information to the bug through the web interface. But that
information will never be forwarded to the mailing list. Unless there's
a way of
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 15:56 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 15:47 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 14:09 +, Hugh Dickins wrote:
Interesting divergence: make_pages_present faults in writable pages
in a writable vma, whereas the file case's
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 01:32 -0800, Natalie Protasevich wrote:
On Dec 19, 2007 9:05 AM, Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:50:40AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
So, to get the best of both worlds, file a bugzilla and note the bugid.
Then email a complete
From: Sebastian Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |8 ++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: quilt-2.6/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
This is my set of patches in the queue for the next upstream merge
window. Most of them are bug fixes and small changes. The last three
patches are big and introduce an interesting new feature: hyper PAV.
Similar to the existing PAV support in the dasd driver the new
hyper PAV support allows to
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Introduce to_cssdriver.
- Use to_xxx instead of container_of where possible.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/s390/cio/ccwgroup.c |4 ++--
drivers/s390/cio/css.c |
From: Sebastian Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Information about a ccw device will be dumped in
case of a ccw timeout. This can be enabled with
the kernel parameter ccw_timeout_log.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make all callbacks in css_driver take a struct subchannel (and not
a struct device).
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c | 16
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add wrapper functions for driver_register and driver_unregister so
that css drivers don't need to muck with struct device_driver
directly.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cleanup cio_debug.h.
Also make CIO_DEBUG add the cio: prefix to the printk string
so that it isn't needed for the debug feature.
Fix outdated comments for cio_debug_init() and clean it up.
Enlarge cio_crw to the same size as cio_msg so we may actually
find
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sch-driver needs to be reset to NULL on failed probe and after
remove. We also need to check for sch-driver on shutdown.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/s390/cio/css.c | 22
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Set the owner field in the embedded struct device_driver to the
value provided in the {css,ccw,ccwgroup}_driver.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/s390/cio/ccwgroup.c |1 +
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Also define helpers sch_{g,s}et_cdev() to make the intention more
clear.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/s390/cio/ccwgroup.c | 14 +++---
drivers/s390/cio/device.c
From: Peter Oberparleiter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Minimize calls to cpu intensive function get_subchannel_by_schid()
by introducing function for_each_subchannel_staged() which
temporarily caches the information about registered subchannels
in a bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter [EMAIL
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some fields may be !0 only for I/O subchannels. Add some checks
where required. Also adapt cio_enable_subchannel() to make the
caller specify the intparm, which makes it more generic.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Used to contain the address of the holder of the lock. But since the
spinlock code is not inlined anymore all locks contain the same address
anyway. And since in addtition nobody complained about that for ages
its obviously unused. So remove it.
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/s390/Kconfig.debug |8
arch/s390/defconfig |1 +
arch/s390/kernel/traps.c |5 -
arch/s390/mm/init.c
From: Michael Holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c |8 ++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: quilt-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c
From: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/asm-s390/cio.h|4 ++--
include/asm-s390/dasd.h |2 +-
include/asm-s390/qdio.h |2 +-
include/asm-s390/zcrypt.h |2 +-
4 files
From: Roland McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c | 15 ++-
arch/s390/kernel/signal.c | 20 +---
include/asm-s390/ptrace.h |8
3
From: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/s390/block/dasd_3990_erp.c |2 +-
drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c |2 +-
drivers/s390/char/sclp_rw.c|2 +-
From: Michael Holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch fixes a problem with the following scenario:
1. Linux booted from DASD A
2. Reboot from DASD B using /sys/firmware/reipl/ccw/device
3. Reboot DASD B
Without this patch in step 3 on newer s390 systems under LPAR instead of
DASD B, DASD A will
From: Denis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
single list_head variable initialized with LIST_HEAD_INIT could almost
always can be replaced with LIST_HEAD declaration, this shrinks the code
and looks better.
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Move the NOTES and BUG_TABLE section in the linker script to the
read-only sections right after the text section.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 12 +---
1 file changed, 9
From: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/s390/crypto/prng.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: quilt-2.6/arch/s390/crypto/prng.c
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/asm-s390/rwsem.h |4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: quilt-2.6/include/asm-s390/rwsem.h
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No need to preallocate the per cpu lowcores and stacks.
Savings are 28-32k per offline cpu.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/s390/kernel/smp.c | 106
From: Christian Borntraeger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have seen an oops in an OOM situation, where show_mem tried to
access the struct page of a dcss segment. The vmemmap code has
already created the 1:1 mapping but failed allocating the struct
pages. In the OOM case, show_mem now walks the memory.
From: Michael Holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In case of a kernel panic it is currently possible to specify that a dump
should be created, the system should be rebooted or stopped. Virtual sysfs
files under the directory /sys/firmware/ are used for that configuration.
In addition to that, there are
From: Michael Holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The sclp ipl information has not been initialized. Therefore the ipl loadparm
and the has_dump flag have not been set correctly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
From: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/s390/char/monwriter.c |2 +-
drivers/s390/char/vmlogrdr.c |2 +-
drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c |2 +-
drivers/s390/net/claw.c |
From: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/s390/crypto/aes_s390.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: quilt-2.6/arch/s390/crypto/aes_s390.c
From: Stefan Haberland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using the return value of ccw_device_set_online as return value for
dasd_generic_probe() causes the DASD to fail setting online
Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
From: Jan Glauber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Move s390 crypto Kconfig options to drivers/crypto/Kconfig to have all
hardware crypto devices in one place.
This also makes messing up the kernel source tree easier for some people.
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It caused only a lot of confusion. From now on cpu hotplug of up to
NR_CPUS will work by default. If somebody wants to limit that then
the possible_cpus parameter can be used.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add a new interface so that cpus can be put into standby state and
configured state.
Only offline cpus can be put into standby state or configured state.
For that the new percpu sysfs attribute configure must be used.
To put a cpu in standby state a 0 must
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forgot to remove this when removing the appldata binary sysctls.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
kernel/sysctl_check.c |1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
Index:
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Align everything to MAX_ORDER so we can get rid of the extra checks.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/s390/Kconfig|3 ---
arch/s390/kernel/setup.c | 25
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Also print PREEMPT and/or SMP if the kernel was configured that way.
Makes s390 look a bit more like other architectures.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/s390/kernel/process.c |
From: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The clear-by-asce operation of the idte instruction gets an asce
(address-space-control-element) as argument to specify which TLBs
need to get flushed. The current code passes a plain pointer to
the start of the pgd without the additional bits which
From: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
page_referenced always tests and clears the reference bit in the
storage key, even if the page is not mapped. For a page that is
only accessed with sys_read this has a negative side effect.
A page that is only read once makes two trips over the inactive
From: Michael Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/s390/char/Makefile |2
drivers/s390/char/sclp_cpi.c | 246 +---
drivers/s390/char/sclp_cpi_sys.c | 390
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/s390/char/Makefile |2
drivers/s390/char/sclp_chp.c | 200 ---
drivers/s390/char/sclp_cmd.c |
From: Christian Borntraeger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Currently the vmalloc area starts at a dynamic address depending on
the memory size. There was also an 8MB security hole after the
physical memory to catch out-of-bounds accesses.
We can simplify the code by putting the vmalloc area explicitely at
the
From: Ursula Braun [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Current definition of QDIO_ACTIVATE_TIMEOUT results in value 0.
Thus it may cause endless wait in function qdio_activate().
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/s390/cio/qdio.h |2
From: Sebastian Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/s390/cio/qdio.c |3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: quilt-2.6/drivers/s390/cio/qdio.c
From: Peter Oberparleiter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Change the adapter interrupt interface in order to allow multiple
adapter interrupt handlers to be registered. Indicators are now
allocated by cio instead of the device driver.
The qdio parts have been
Acked-by:
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Introduce a private pointer in struct subchannel to store
per-subchannel type data (cannot use dev-priv since this
is already used for something else).
Create a new header io_sch.h for I/O subchannel specific structures
and instructions.
Signed-off-by:
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 16:18 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
+static int madvise_willneed_anon_pte(pte_t *ptep,
+ unsigned long start, unsigned long end, void *arg)
+{
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = arg;
+ struct page *page;
+
+ page =
That patch adds the RTC emulation of the HPET timer to the new RTC_DRV_CMOS.
The old drivers/char/rtc.ko driver had that functionality and it's important
on new systems.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86/Kconfig |2 -
drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c | 79
* Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-20 16:24]:
...
This was an accident. The patch belongs to a patch series that I'll
post later. Please ignore!
Thanks,
Bernhard
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On Thursday, 20 of December 2007, Miles Lane wrote:
On Dec 19, 2007 8:31 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday, 20 of December 2007, Miles Lane wrote:
On Dec 19, 2007 7:09 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday, 20 of December 2007, Christoph
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
[ 5194.131014] Pid: 22490, comm: sleep Tainted: P2.6.23.11reiser4 #4
The subject line is wrong.
You apparently run Linux, but not Linux 2.6.23.y.
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 14:09 +, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
I certainly agree with this in principle: it just seems an unnecessary
and surprising restriction to refuse on anonymous vmas; I guess the only
Hi,
with the help of kerneloops.org I've spotted a nice little interaction
between the TTY layer and the bluetooth code, however the tty layer is
not something I'm all too familiar with so I rather ask than brute-force
fix the code incorrectly.
The raw details are at:
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:19:00 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
These mlocked pages don't need to be on a non-reclaimable list,
because we can find them again via the ptes when they become
unlocked, and there is no point
That patch adds the RTC emulation of the HPET timer to the new RTC_DRV_CMOS.
The old drivers/char/rtc.ko driver had that functionality and it's important
on new systems.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86/Kconfig |2 -
drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c | 79
That function uses the new registration callback mechanism which was added in
the previous patch in the old RTC driver. It also removes the direct
rtc_interrupt() call from arch/x86/kernel/hpetc.c so that there's finally
no (code) dependency to CONFIG_RTC in arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c.
Because of
The new rtc-cmos driver misses HPET support. If the hardware has HPET enabled,
then interrupts don't work for the rtc-cmos driver which results in RTC_AIE*,
RTC_PIE* and RTC_ALM being unusable. This affects hwclock from util-linux-ng
at least on i386 since that uses RTC_PIE_ON. (For x86-64, a
This patch makes the RTC emulation functions in arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c usable
for kernel modules. It
- exports the functions (EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()),
- adds an interface to register the interrupt callback function
instead of using only a fixed callback function and
- replaces the
On 12/20/07, Andy Whitcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:23:48PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
+ /* Make the sysace device 'live' */
+ if (ace-fsm_state != ACE_FSM_STATE_INVALIDATE_MEDIA);
+ add_disk(ace-gd);
checkpatch.pl
[speculation by network engineer -- not kernel hacker -- follows]
The router could be sooo crappy that it drops all packets from
TCP streams that have SACK enabled and the client has opened
200+ SACK connections previously... something like that?
As far as any third party is concerned the
Andrew, I double-issued warnings in some cases. Mind replacing
with this one?
Thanks,
-Eric
hfs seems prone to bad things when it encounters on disk corruption.
Many values are read from disk, and used as lengths to memcpy, as an
example. This patch fixes up several of these problematic cases.
On 12/20/07, David Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:41:44PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
Convert MPC i2c driver from being a platform_driver to an open
firmware version. Error returns were improved. Routine names were
changed from fsl_ to mpc_ to make them match the
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:19:22 + (GMT)
Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Why is spin_lock_irqsave rather than spin_lock needed on mz-lru_lock?
If it is needed, doesn't mem_cgroup_isolate_pages need to use it too?
When I wrote a patch
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:07:16 +0300
Anton Vorontsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Andres,
[...]
Then, what the power supply subsystem is for? Just place all the
drivers together in driver/power/, and let them create sysfs
attributes by their own. You'll get a medley, not the subsystem.
On 2007.12.19 09:44:50 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
I'll confirm this tomorrow but it seems that even switching to
data=ordered
(AFAIK default o ext3) is indeed enough to cure this problem.
Ok, do we actually have
I still dont understand.
tcpdump -p -n -s 1600 -c 1 doesnt reveal User data at all.
Without any exact data from you, I am afraid nobody can help.
Oh, I didn't see that you specified specific options. I'll still have
to anonymize 2000+ IP addresses, but I think there is an open source
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 03:56:45PM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 03:10:28PM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
Here is a so-called BUG when trying to insert the
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:48:14 -0800
H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think C3 guarantees that the cache contents stay intact, and thus
it might make sense in some technology to preserve the TLB as well
(being a kind of cache.)
that sounds nice. It's fiction
The following patches merge the mkimage tool into the kernel. This
utility is used by several arches to create a uImage file suitable for
booting with U-Boot.
As it stands today, a mkuboot.sh script is called, which searches for
the mkimage utility installed on the host system. This is slightly
Several platforms require the mkimage tool to generate a uImage file
that is used with U-Boot. This brings the mkimage tool in-kernel to
enable building those platforms without having mkimage internally
provided.
This is currently based off of the version found in U-Boot 1.3.1.
Signed-off-by:
Rework the architecture specific Makefiles to use the in-kernel version
of the mkimage tool.
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/arm/boot/Makefile |4 ++--
arch/avr32/boot/images/Makefile |4 ++--
arch/blackfin/boot/Makefile |4 ++--
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 14:16 +, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 13:14 +, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Dave Hansen wrote:
- page_assign_page_cgroup(page, NULL);
+
Now that the mkimage tool is merged into the kernel, we can remove the
unused mkuboot.sh script.
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
scripts/mkuboot.sh | 19 ---
1 file changed, 19 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.orig/scripts/mkuboot.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote:
OK, so I looked for PG_dirty anyway.
In 46d2277c796f9f4937bfa668c40b2e3f43e93dd0 you made try_to_free_buffers
bail out if the page is dirty.
Then in 3e67c0987d7567ad41164a153dca9a43b11d, Andrew fixed
truncate_complete_page, because it
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:13:19AM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
It never gets to the printk(). You were right about the
compilation. Somebody changed the kernel to compile with
parameter passing in REGISTERS! This means that EVERYTHING
needs to be compiled the same way, 'C' calling
Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ingo.
commit fbdcf18df73758b2e187ab94678b30cd5f6ff9f9 is not needed. another
patch (by you !! commit 699d934d5f958d7944d195c03c334f28cc0b3669 x86:
fixup cpu_info array conversion) already removed clearing of
c-cpu_index. in
Jeff,
Here are a few more for 2.6.24...please let me know if there are any
problems!
Thanks,
John
P.S. The rtl8187 USB ID is already in your upstream branch -- I'm sure
it would seem like a fix if it was the ID for your wireless stick. :-)
---
Individual patches are available here:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:35:28PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:54 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
So it doesn't deserve the effort to eliminate these periods, isn't it?
I hope these will eventually disappear.
Or we can add a check to checkpatch.pl to prevent new ones.
* Mike Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
by revert commit fbdcf18df73758b2e187ab94678b30cd5f6ff9f9, we could
use c-cpu_index in identify_cpu.
but that's 2.6.25 stuff, right? Travis?
Looking at this more closely, yes my change is not needed and should
be removed. I'm not sure
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 21:54 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
I was going to say the same thing, page_get_page_cgroup() does not hold
any references. May be _get_ in the name is confusing.
OK, you three had the entire conversation outing me before I even fot to
respond! :)
Yeah, I thought it was a
On Thu, 20.12.07 14:09, Hugh Dickins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Lennart asked for madvise(WILLNEED) to work on anonymous pages, he plans
to use this to pre-fault pages. He currently uses: mlock/munlock for
this purpose.
I certainly agree with this in principle: it just seems an
But I'd be very surprised if the router is acting as anything more
that a network-layer device. It might perhaps have some soft connection
state being used for generating accounting records. Being Cisco
it's probably a switch-router, so it might carry some per-port hard
state for validating
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Balbir Singh wrote:
Hugh Dickins wrote:
We always call mem_cgroup_isolate_pages() from shrink_(in)active_pages
under spin_lock_irq of the zone's lru lock. That's the reason that we
don't explicitly use it in the routine.
Indeed, thanks.
2. There's mem_cgroup_charge
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 15:26 +, Hugh Dickins wrote:
The asynch code: perhaps not worth doing for MADV_WILLNEED alone,
but might prove useful for more general use when swapping in.
Not really the same as Con's swap prefetch, but worth looking
at that for reference. But I guess this
Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Mike Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
by revert commit fbdcf18df73758b2e187ab94678b30cd5f6ff9f9, we could
use c-cpu_index in identify_cpu.
but that's 2.6.25 stuff, right? Travis?
Looking at this more closely, yes my change is not needed and should
be removed. I'm
Andrew Morton wrote:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc5/2.6.24-rc5-mm1/
- If something goes wrong with a PCI device's probing or initialisation, try
reverting pci-disable-decoding-during-sizing-of-bars.patch.
- git-sched was dropped due to breaking
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
From: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ps3: Use the HV's storage device notification mechanism properly
The hypervisor has a storage device notification mechanism to wait until a
storage device is ready. Unfortunately the storage device
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