Re: [PATCH 10/28] FS-Cache: Recruit a couple of page flags for cache management [try #2]

2008-01-07 Thread David Howells
Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. I mean call the bit PG_private2. That way non-pagecache and filesystems that don't use fscache can use it. The bit is called PG_owner_priv_2, and then 'subclassed' to PG_fscache, much like PG_owner_priv_1 is 'subclassed' to PG_checked as was

Re: [PATCH] kthread: always create the kernel threads with normal priority

2008-01-07 Thread Michal Schmidt
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:22:51 +0100 Remy Bohmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Michal and Andrew, Let's not make the decision for the user. Just allow the administrator to change kthreadd's priority safely if he chooses to do it. Ensure that the kernel threads are created with the usual

Re: New linux arch

2008-01-07 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Michal, On Jan 7, 2008 3:00 PM, Michal Simek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can have as many maintainers as you want but you probably don't want to make it too many. There aren't any official responsibilities as a maintainer, it really depends on how much time and effort you're willing

Re: [PATCH] kthread: always create the kernel threads with normal priority

2008-01-07 Thread Michal Schmidt
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 02:25:13 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:06:03 +0100 Michal Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:30:21 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:43:14 +0100 Michal Schmidt [EMAIL

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-07 Thread Joerg Platte
Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 schrieb Ingo Molnar: do: echo t /proc/sysrq-trigger and send us the dmesg output. If the dmesg output does not include the bootup bits then increase CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT to 20 or so: CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=20 to have a large enough kernel messages buffer.

Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class

2008-01-07 Thread Stefan Richter
David Brownell wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008, Greg KH wrote: Most of the non-driver core code should be converted to not use the lock in the class at all. They should use a local lock instead. Or better yet, that yet-to-be-written class_for_each_instance() iterator ... :) By far most

Re: [PATCH 2/2] scsi: Use new __dma_buffer to align sense buffer in scsi_cmnd

2008-01-07 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Mon, Jan 07 2008 at 8:53 +0200, FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:09:05 +0200 Boaz Harrosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 21 2007 at 4:30 +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The sense buffer ins scsi_cmnd can nowadays be DMA'ed into

Re: [PATCH] udf: fix coding style of super.c

2008-01-07 Thread Jan Kara
On Sun 06-01-08 01:44:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fix coding style errors found by checkpatch: - assignments in if conditions - braces {} around single statement blocks - no spaces after commas - printks without KERN_* - lines longer than 80 characters before: total: 50 errors, 207

Re: New linux arch

2008-01-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 7 2008 14:47, Pekka Enberg wrote: Hi Michael, On Jan 7, 2008 1:29 PM, Michal Simek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create git repository in git.kernel.org for Microblaze cpu? You need to ask the kernel.org administrators for that: http://www.kernel.org/faq/#account

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-07 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 14:24 +0100, Joerg Platte wrote: This is from: 2.6.24-rc7 kernel: pdflush D f41c2f14 0 18822 2 kernel:f673f000 0046 0286 f41c2f14 f5194ce0 0286 0286 f41c2f14 kernel:00175279 f41c2f6c c0271f6c f5ff363c f5ff3644

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-07 Thread Joerg Platte
Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 schrieb Peter Zijlstra: On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 14:24 +0100, Joerg Platte wrote: This is from: 2.6.24-rc7 kernel: pdflush D f41c2f14 0 18822 2 kernel:f673f000 0046 0286 f41c2f14 f5194ce0 0286 0286 f41c2f14 kernel:

[PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (Was Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1)

2008-01-07 Thread Dhaval Giani
Hi Andrew, Ingo, Thomas, Peter, x86: revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem The patch caused a failure while booting a kexec kernel. (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/7/42 has the bisect details.) The following patch reverts it. Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL

Rename suspend/hibernation stuff for clarity

2008-01-07 Thread Pavel Machek
kernel/suspend_64.c and power/cpu.c were equivalent. Move them into power/cpu_*.c for consistency. power/swsusp.S and kernel/suspend_asm_64.S were both misnamed and equivalent. Merge then minto power/hibernation_*.S. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit

Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class

2008-01-07 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:23:33PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: David Brownell wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008, Greg KH wrote: Most of the non-driver core code should be converted to not use the lock in the class at all. They should use a local lock instead. Or better yet, that

Re: [PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (Was Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1)

2008-01-07 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote: Hi Andrew, Ingo, Thomas, Peter, x86: revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem The patch caused a failure while booting a kexec kernel. (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/7/42 has the bisect details.) The following patch reverts it. Signed-off-by:

[PATCH][LRO] Fix lro_mgr-features checks

2008-01-07 Thread Brice Goglin
Hi Dave, The LRO_F_* checks in inet_lro.c are buggy, the following patch is needed to check lro_mgr-features correctly. I decided to follow the NETIF_F_* convention and thus removed test_bit. Some people might like it better if we keep using test_bit and just set lro_mgr-features to 1LRO_F_NAPI

Multipath failover handling (Was: Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1)

2008-01-07 Thread Hannes Reinecke
James Bottomley wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 10:00 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 22:15 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: OK, thanks. I'll assume that James and Hannes have this in hand (or will have, by mid-week) and I won't do anything here. Just to

Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree

2008-01-07 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 23:18:48 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:34:16 -0500 Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Venki Pallipadi wrote: Reintroduce run time configurable max_cstate for !CPU_IDLE case. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi [EMAIL

Re: pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of IO resources: 24

2008-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
(Mail below was sent to me privately, forwarding to the lists.) On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 00:48 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: (Adding the kernel list back. Any reason you did not send the reply there?) Sorry for the late reply: Christmas, New Year, the flue, etc. Thank you for caring this problem.

Re: acpi/apm events as inputs: how to handle?

2008-01-07 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi, On Jan 7, 2008 8:03 AM, Andrey Borzenkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Tokarev wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi Michael, Hello! [] There are keyboards (USB, PS2) with Sleep and Suspend buttons that are not related to ACPI nor APM. We had 2 options - add an input handler

Re: [patch 1/2] show being-loaded/being-unloaded indicator for modules

2008-01-07 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:09:23 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this looks very useful! Unfortunatly, it's not always easy to see directly which module is being loaded/unloaded from the oops itself. no wonder, as most modules seem to be very quiet on on load/unload. but i wonder if

Re: [PATCH 4/7] udf: replace loops coded with goto to real loops

2008-01-07 Thread Jan Kara
On Sun 06-01-08 02:21:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure if this improves readability in general. If the code is really a loop in nature, then we should code it using do {} while but in case we loop back just in case of some error (as seems

Re: acpi/apm events as inputs: how to handle?

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Tokarev
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: [] Well, you use event device in any case; as for finding right one - I guess you look at device capabilities and filter what you need ... {pts/0}% cat /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input1/capabilities/key 10 0 0 0 Exactly. Any driver working

Re: [PATCH 5/7] udf: convert byte order of constant instead of variable

2008-01-07 Thread Jan Kara
On Sun 06-01-08 02:21:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: convert byte order of constant instead of variable, which can be done at compile time (vs run time) Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, makes sence. Acked-by: Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (Was Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1)

2008-01-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote: Hi Andrew, Ingo, Thomas, Peter, x86: revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem The patch caused a failure while booting a kexec kernel. (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/7/42 has the bisect details.)

Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Lord
Andrew Morton wrote: .. umm, OK, I queued it for 2.6.24. I'll give people a day or so to comment on this. I had to invent some silly changlelog for it. Please review it for accuracy and completeness? .. From: Venki Pallipadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] This was writeable in 2.6.23 but the cpuidle

Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Lord
Arjan van de Ven wrote: .. if we take a step back; Mark afaics only wants to put 1 in there... And that makes sense; either you want the no latency C1, or you want the lot (esp given that C2 and deeper are at the whim of the bios, what they mean varies over time. Actually even C1 does that on

Re: [patch 00/19] VM pageout scalability improvements

2008-01-07 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:06:10 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is no swap space, my VM code will not bother scanning any anon pages. This has the same effect as moving the pages to the

Re: [PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (Was Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1)

2008-01-07 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:56:09PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote: Hi Andrew, Ingo, Thomas, Peter, x86: revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem The patch caused a failure while booting a kexec

Re: [patch 07/19] split anon file LRUs for memcontrol code

2008-01-07 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:04:55 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:41:51 -0500 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org wrote: Index: linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/mm/vmscan.c === ---

Re: [Bluez-devel] Oops involving RFCOMM and sysfs

2008-01-07 Thread Tejun Heo
Gabor Gombas wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 07:50:39AM +, Al Viro wrote: Could you stick if (!parent-d_inode) printk(KERN_WARNING sysfs locking blows: %s, parent-d_name.name); right before

Re: [patch] scsi: revert [SCSI] Get rid of scsi_cmnd-done

2008-01-07 Thread John Stoffel
I'll agree with what Willy wrote here, Bugzilla is a pain to use, you can't just dump an email into it and have it captured. I think we should be looking at something more like 'WebRT' which is an *issue* tracker software. But that too might be too heavy weight and too noisy as well. And

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [FEATURE REQUEST] Transparent hot plugging of root file system on portable storage devices.

2008-01-07 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: On Sun 2008-01-06 17:26:17, Alan Stern wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote: Am Sonntag 06 Januar 2008 schrieb Alan Stern: What about people who want to suspend to RAM instead of hibernating and _do_ want to unplug the USB device

Re: [PATCH] DS1WM: decouple host IRQ and INTR active state settings.

2008-01-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hi. On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:46:14PM +0100, Philipp Zabel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The DS1WM driver incorrectly infers the IAS bit (1-wire interrupt active high) from IRQ settings. There are devices that have IAS=0 but still need the IRQ to trigger on a rising edge. With this patch,

Re: [noob q. on block layer] block IO read-ahead during sequential *write*?

2008-01-07 Thread Frantisek Rysanek
On 7 Jan 2008 at 13:49, Jörn Engel wrote: If you retry the dd with bs=4096 (or whatever your architecture's page size happens to be), does this still occur? JĂśrn wow, thanks, it works, this is so obvious. I tend to use values like bs=512000 or suchlike, but probably never stroke this

Re: acpi/apm events as inputs: how to handle?

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Tokarev
Michael Tokarev wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: [] Well, you use event device in any case; as for finding right one - I guess you look at device capabilities and filter what you need ... {pts/0}% cat /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input1/capabilities/key 10 0 0 0 Exactly.

Re: [PATCH 0/7] sg_ring: a ring of scatterlist arrays

2008-01-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 15:38 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: On Sunday 06 January 2008 02:31:12 James Bottomley wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 17:31 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: This patch series is the start of my attempt to simplify and make explicit the chained scatterlist logic. It's

Re: acpi/apm events as inputs: how to handle?

2008-01-07 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Jan 7, 2008 10:47 AM, Michael Tokarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Tokarev wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: [] Well, you use event device in any case; as for finding right one - I guess you look at device capabilities and filter what you need ... {pts/0}% cat

Re: [PATCH] kthread: always create the kernel threads with normal priority

2008-01-07 Thread Remy Bohmer
Hello Michal, Maybe we can find a way to use a similar mechanism as I used in my patchset for the priorities of the remaining kthreads. I do not like the way of forcing userland to change the priorities, because that would require a userland with the chrt tool installed, and that is not

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-07 Thread Alejandro Riveira Fernández
El Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:19:16 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: It's been two weeks since rc6, but let's face it, with xmas and new years (and birthdays) in between, there hasn't actually been a lot of working days, and the incremental patch from -rc6 is about half the

Re: [PATCH] fs/jffs2: Add missing call to posix_acl_release

2008-01-07 Thread KaiGai Kohei
Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] posix_acl_clone does a memory allocation and sets a reference count, so posix_acl_release is needed afterwards to free it. The problem was fixed using the following semantic patch. (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @@ type

Re: rtl8187 rate control doesn't work

2008-01-07 Thread Hauke Mehrtens
There is an other Problem. iwconfig shows me Bit Rate=1 Mb/s the hole time, but I'm able to download with an average of 440K/s as wget says. It's with PID rate control algorithm. -- Hauke Mehrtens Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Jan 5, 2008 9:47 AM, Hauke Mehrtens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: forcedeth: MAC-address reversed on resume from suspend

2008-01-07 Thread Richard Jonsson
Björn Steinbrink skrev: On 2008.01.06 19:49:49 -0200, Adolfo R. Brandes wrote: I have this forcedeth MAC address reversal problem when suspending on 2 distinct boxes. I can confirm Steinbrink's patch fixes the problem on only one of them: 00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-07 Thread Alejandro Riveira Fernández
El Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:19:16 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: It's been two weeks since rc6, but let's face it, with xmas and new years (and birthdays) in between, there hasn't actually been a lot of working days, and the incremental patch from -rc6 is about half the

Re: [PATCH] PM: Acquire device locks on suspend

2008-01-07 Thread Alan Stern
Let's try to summarize the main issues here: 1. We want the PM core to lock all devices during suspend and hibernation. This implies that registration and unregistration at such times can't work, because they need to lock the device sem in order to make probe and

Strange freeze on 2.6.22 (deadlock?)

2008-01-07 Thread Brice Figureau
Hi, I'm seeing a strange complete server freeze/lock-up on an bi-Xeon HT amd64 server running standard debian 2.6.22 (and before that vanilla 2.6.19.x and 2.6.20.x which exhibited the same issue). I'm only reporting it now, since I could get a full sysrq-t only this morning. The symptoms are

Re: [PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (Was Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1)

2008-01-07 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:56:09 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: * Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote: Hi Andrew, Ingo, Thomas, Peter, x86: revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem The patch caused a failure while booting a kexec kernel.

[PATCH][FIX] Bluetooth: always send explicit hci_ll wake-up acks

2008-01-07 Thread Ohad Ben-Cohen
In the (rare) event of simultaneous mutual wake up requests, do send the chip an explicit wake-up ack. This is required for Texas Instruments's BRF6350 chip. Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/bluetooth/hci_ll.c | 23 ++- 1 files changed, 14

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Buesch
On Monday 07 January 2008 17:14:15 Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote: El Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:19:16 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: It's been two weeks since rc6, but let's face it, with xmas and new years (and birthdays) in between, there hasn't actually been a

smpboot_64 section mismatch warning

2008-01-07 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 04:53:44PM +0100, Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote: MODPOST vmlinux.o WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x10508): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:fork_idle (between 'do_fork_idle' and 'lapic_timer_broadcast') Caused by following commit: commit

section mismatch warning in head_64.S

2008-01-07 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 04:53:44PM +0100, Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote: MODPOST vmlinux.o WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.head+0xe4): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data.2:trampoline_level4_pgt (between 'ident_complete' and 'secondary_startup_64') WARNING:

Re: [PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (Was Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1)

2008-01-07 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:22:37AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:56:09 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: * Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote: Hi Andrew, Ingo, Thomas, Peter, x86: revert i386: handle an initrd in

Re: Rename suspend/hibernation stuff for clarity

2008-01-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 7 of January 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: kernel/suspend_64.c and power/cpu.c were equivalent. Move them into power/cpu_*.c for consistency. power/swsusp.S and kernel/suspend_asm_64.S were both misnamed and equivalent. Merge then minto power/hibernation_*.S. Well, all of that are

Hang on bootup when installing cpu idle menu

2008-01-07 Thread Steven Rostedt
Hi, I've notice this hang on bootup every so often. Sometimes it hangs for a second and sometimes it can hang for hours. Always at the same location. This is a soft hang. That is, interrupts are still enabled, and I'm able to perform a sysrq-t. Here's the problem child: Call Trace: [c062cd67]

Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class

2008-01-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:23:33PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: David Brownell wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008, Greg KH wrote: Most of the non-driver core code should be converted to not use the lock in the class at all. They should use a local lock instead. Or better yet, that

Re: [stable] [PATCH] slub: provide /proc/slabinfo

2008-01-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:28:10PM +0200, Pekka J Enberg wrote: From: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Upstream commits: 57ed3eda977a215f054102b460ab0eb5d8d112e6, 6b6adc22a01941165d5af9a3e69e28e948b28f47, and 158a962422e4a54dc256b6a9b9562f3d30d34d9c ] This adds a read-only

Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class

2008-01-07 Thread Stefan Richter
Jarek Poplawski wrote: David Brownell wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008, Greg KH wrote: Most of the non-driver core code should be converted to not use the lock in the class at all. They should use a local lock instead. Or better yet, that yet-to-be-written class_for_each_instance()

Re: Rename suspend/hibernation stuff for clarity

2008-01-07 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:52:36PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: kernel/suspend_64.c and power/cpu.c were equivalent. Move them into power/cpu_*.c for consistency. power/swsusp.S and kernel/suspend_asm_64.S were both misnamed and equivalent. Merge then minto power/hibernation_*.S.

Re: [stable] [PATCH] slub: provide /proc/slabinfo

2008-01-07 Thread Pekka J Enberg
Hi Greg, On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Greg KH wrote: This feels to me like a feature addition, and as such, I don't think it is aplicable for the .23-stable tree. It's an ABI regression (slabtop, for example, doesn't work) when CONFIG_SLUB is enabled. Pekka -- To unsubscribe

Re: Unify arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep*.c

2008-01-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 7 of January 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: Unify arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep*.c Pretty trivial unification; when two functions differed, it was usually in error handling, and better of the two was picked up. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks-okay-to: Rafael J.

Re: [PATCH] Handle i_size s_maxbytes correctly

2008-01-07 Thread Jan Kara
On Sat 22-12-07 00:12:06, Andrew Morton wrote: Sorry for a late reply but I was on vacation. On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:51:04 +0100 Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although we don't allow writes over s_maxbytes, it can happen that a file's size is larger than s_maxbytes. For example we can

Re: [linux-pm][PATCH] base: Change power/wakeup output from to unsupported if wakeup feature isn't supported by a device

2008-01-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 7 of January 2008, Yi Yang wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 02:57 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Monday, 7 of January 2008, Yi Yang wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 08:09 -0800, David Brownell wrote: This patch changes empty output to unsupported in order that a user

Re: [PATCH] Handle i_size s_maxbytes correctly

2008-01-07 Thread Jan Kara
On Sat 22-12-07 12:03:10, Mark Fasheh wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 12:12:06AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: This patch takes the total text size of the affected nine files from 74167 bytes up to 75066 on i386. This is core, core kernel. Ouch. Yeah, as you note below - this should be

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-07 Thread Alejandro Riveira Fernández
El Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:24:03 +0100 Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Can you post the lines above this? This might be a WARN_ON_ONCE() triggering, for which fixes are on their way into the

Re: [PATCH] PM: Acquire device locks on suspend

2008-01-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 7 of January 2008, Alan Stern wrote: Let's try to summarize the main issues here: 1. We want the PM core to lock all devices during suspend and hibernation. This implies that registration and unregistration at such times can't work, because they need to lock the

[PATCH 12/11] sched: rt-group: uid-group interface

2008-01-07 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Subject: sched: rt-group: add uid-group interface Extend the /sys/kernel/uids/uid/ interface to allow setting the group's rt_period and rt_runtime. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/sched.h |4 +- kernel/user.c | 93

RE: [PATCH 2/4] async_tx: kill tx_set_src and tx_set_dest methods

2008-01-07 Thread Sosnowski, Maciej
From: Williams, Dan J The tx_set_src and tx_set_dest methods were originally implemented to allow an array of addresses to be passed down from async_xor to the dmaengine driver while minimizing stack overhead. Removing these methods allows drivers to have all transaction parameters available

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Simple tamper-proof device filesystem.

2008-01-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:20:00 +0900, Tetsuo Handa said: --- linux-2.6-mm.orig/fs/ramfs/inode.c +++ linux-2.6-mm/fs/ramfs/inode.c @@ -36,6 +36,20 @@ #include asm/uaccess.h #include internal.h +static struct inode *__ramfs_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, int mode, +

Re: [PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (Was Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1)

2008-01-07 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:56:09 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: i'm also wondering - what would be the easiest way to integrate kexec into an automated test environment. If i have a bzImage kernel, is kexec still supposed to work? Could i for example do a

RE: [PATCH 3/4] async_tx: replace 'int_en' with operation preparationflags

2008-01-07 Thread Sosnowski, Maciej
From: Williams, Dan J Pass a full set of flags to drivers' per-operation 'prep' routines. Currently the only flag passed is DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT. The expectation is that arch-specific async_tx_find_channel() implementations can exploit this capability to find the best channel for an operation.

Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class

2008-01-07 Thread Stefan Richter
Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:23:33PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: David Brownell wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008, Greg KH wrote: Most of the non-driver core code should be converted to not use the lock in the class at all. They should use a local lock instead. Or better

Re: [PATCH 1 of 8] x86: page.h: unify constants

2008-01-07 Thread Andi Kleen
+ +#define LARGE_PAGE_SIZE (_AC(1,UL) PMD_SHIFT) +#define LARGE_PAGE_MASK (~(LARGE_PAGE_SIZE-1)) + +#define HPAGE_SHIFT PMD_SHIFT +#define HPAGE_SIZE (_AC(1,UL) HPAGE_SHIFT) +#define HPAGE_MASK (~(HPAGE_SIZE - 1)) +#define

Re: 2.6.24-rc6: possible recursive locking detected

2008-01-07 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 01/05, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Since EP_MAX_POLLWAKE_NESTS MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES we could perhaps do something like: wake_up_nested(..., wake_nests); I think this would be the most correct change. But I wonder if it is possible to do something more generic (but otoh more stupid/hackish

Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class

2008-01-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:13:37PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: It's already in the driver core to the most part. It remains to be seen what is less complicated in the end: Transparent mutex-protected list accesses provided by driver core (requires the iterator), or all the necessary locking

Re: Strange freeze on 2.6.22 (deadlock?)

2008-01-07 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:48:54 +0100 Brice Figureau wrote: Hi, I'm seeing a strange complete server freeze/lock-up on an bi-Xeon HT amd64 server running standard debian 2.6.22 (and before that vanilla 2.6.19.x and 2.6.20.x which exhibited the same issue). I'm only reporting it now, since I

Re: [PATCH] PM: Acquire device locks on suspend

2008-01-07 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Please see the patch at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/6/298 . It represents my current idea about how to do that. It has some problems. First, note that the list manipulations in dpm_suspend(), device_power_down(), and so on aren't protected by

STT_FUNC for assembler checksum and semaphore ops

2008-01-07 Thread John Reiser
Dear $ARCH Maintainers, This patch adds Elf32_Sym .st_info (STT_FUNC) and .st_size for hand-coded checksum and semaphore subroutines. I needed this info when writing a static analyzer for stack depth [grovel over ./vmlinux] on the um (UserModeLinux) $ARCH for i386. The changes work on i386.

Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class

2008-01-07 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Stefan Richter wrote: Semi off-topic: What about struct device.sem? Is there any chance to rip this out of the driver core and let drivers serialize everything? I suppose not... There isn't. The core uses that lock. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: New linux arch

2008-01-07 Thread Stefan Richter
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 1:29 PM, Michal Simek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create git repository in git.kernel.org for Microblaze cpu? ... Alternatively, providing your own git service is just as effective, and comes with much more freedom :) It is /almost/ as

Re: [PATCH] kthread: always create the kernel threads with normal priority

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:09:04 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This causes a practical problem. When a runaway real-time task is eating 100% CPU and we attempt to put the CPU offline, sometimes we block while waiting for the creation of the highest-priority kstopmachine

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Buesch
On Monday 07 January 2008 17:52:48 Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote: El Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:24:03 +0100 Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Can you post the lines above this? This might be a

Re: [patch 3/5] Add the end-of-trace marker and the module list to WARN_ON()

2008-01-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:04:06 GMT, David Woodhouse said: On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 19:10 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: Another issue is that, unlike oopses, WARN_ON() doesn't currently printk the helpful cut here line, I'd rather see the 'cut here' line disappear altogether. Often, the

Re: New linux arch

2008-01-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 7 2008 18:26, Stefan Richter wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 1:29 PM, Michal Simek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create git repository in git.kernel.org for Microblaze cpu? ... Alternatively, providing your own git service is just as effective, and comes with

Re: rtl8187 rate control doesn't work

2008-01-07 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Jan 7, 2008 11:02 AM, Hauke Mehrtens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an other Problem. iwconfig shows me Bit Rate=1 Mb/s the hole time, but I'm able to download with an average of 440K/s as wget says. It's with PID rate control algorithm. Thanks for reporting this, how'd it go with

Re: Top 10 kernel oopses for the week ending January 5th, 2008

2008-01-07 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:39:35PM +, Al Viro wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:06:17PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: The http://www.kerneloops.org website collects kernel oops and warning reports from various mailing lists and bugzillas as well as with a client users can install to

Re: 2.6.24-rc6: possible recursive locking detected

2008-01-07 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 01/07, Oleg Nesterov wrote: Consider this just for illustration patch, --- t/kernel/lockdep.c2007-11-09 12:57:31.0 +0300 +++ t/kernel/lockdep.c2008-01-07 19:43:50.0 +0300 @@ -1266,10 +1266,13 @@ check_deadlock(struct task_struct *curr, struct

Re: [PATCH] kthread: always create the kernel threads with normal priority

2008-01-07 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 09:29 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:09:04 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This causes a practical problem. When a runaway real-time task is eating 100% CPU and we attempt to put the CPU offline, sometimes we block while

Re: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm

2008-01-07 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Dhaval Giani wrote: Hi Vivek, I can't seem to get the latest -mm (2.6.24-rc6-mm1) to boot with kexec. It just gets stuck at Starting new kernel. It does boot normally when booted as the first kernel. Any hints debugging? (x86 architecture) Hi Dhaval, Could you give more details of your

Re: [2.6.24-rc6-mm1] Build Failure on ppc64 with CONFIG_USB_GADGET not set.

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:53:58 +0530 sudhir kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew! Kernel build fails on my ppc64 machine. It seems to be a dependency problem with CONFIG_USB_GADGET not set. Config file is attached. CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD

[PATCH][RFC][BUG] updating the ctime and mtime time stamps in msync()

2008-01-07 Thread Anton Salikhmetov
From: Anton Salikhmetov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Due to the lack of reaction in LKML I presume the message was lost in the high traffic of that list. Resending it now with the addressee changed to the memory management mailing list. I would like to propose my solution for the bug #2645 from the kernel

Re: New linux arch

2008-01-07 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 7 2008 18:26, Stefan Richter wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 1:29 PM, Michal Simek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create git repository in git.kernel.org for Microblaze cpu? ... Alternatively, providing your own git service is just as

Re: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm

2008-01-07 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:43:38AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Dhaval Giani wrote: Hi Vivek, I can't seem to get the latest -mm (2.6.24-rc6-mm1) to boot with kexec. It just gets stuck at Starting new kernel. It does boot normally when booted as the first kernel. Any hints debugging? (x86

Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma

2008-01-07 Thread Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
El Jueves, 27 de Diciembre de 2007, Marek Kierdelewicz escribió: Hi Gustavo, By mistake we activate intel I/oat dma support on a laptop with a centrino duo to try to get better performance on IO. I/OAT is for accelerating network operations on newer Xeon processors and E1000 nics. Some

Re: [PATCH] PM: Acquire device locks on suspend

2008-01-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 7 of January 2008, Alan Stern wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Please see the patch at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/6/298 . It represents my current idea about how to do that. It has some problems. First, note that the list manipulations in

Re: [PATCH] procfs: provide slub's /proc/slabinfo

2008-01-07 Thread Pekka J Enberg
Hi Matt, On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Matt Mackall wrote: I don't have any particular terrible workloads for SLUB. But my attempts to simply boot with all three allocators to init=/bin/bash in, say, lguest show a fair margin for SLOB. Sorry, I once again have bad news ;-). I did some testing with

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:20 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/linux/compile.h GEN .version CHK

Re: [RFC] PCIE ASPM support

2008-01-07 Thread Kok, Auke
Shaohua Li wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 11:33 -0800, Kok, Auke wrote: Shaohua Li wrote: PCI Express ASPM defines a protocol for PCI Express components in the D0 state to reduce Link power by placing their Links into a low power state and instructing the other end of the Link to do likewise.

Re: New linux arch

2008-01-07 Thread Stefan Richter
Pekka Enberg wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 1:29 PM, Michal Simek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many maintainers are acceptable? (one or more) You can have as many maintainers as you want but you probably don't want to make it too many. Bug reporters and patch submitters shouldn't be required to CC

Re: Multipath failover handling (Was: Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1)

2008-01-07 Thread Mike Christie
James Bottomley wrote: However, there's still devloss_tmo to consider ... even in multipath, I don't think you want to signal path failure until devloss_tmo has fired otherwise you'll get too many transient up/down events which damage performance if the array has an expensive failover model.

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: : undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much' There is also a kernel.org bugzilla for this at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9669 For some reason my adds to this do not show up. In both cases we have a

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