Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: 1. Wrong mailing list; use linux-ide (@vger) instead. What, and keep all us other interested people in the dark? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

at91sam9260 wakeup on serial port

2008-01-28 Thread michael
Hi, I implement a little patch (ndr just for a try) for the atmel serial driver atmel_serial.c to wakeup the system when it is in suspend-ram state. I reconfigure the RXD pin as a gpio in suspend function and restore it in the resume function. It is the correct way? Regards Michael -- To

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: 1. Wrong mailing list; use linux-ide (@vger) instead. What, and keep all us other interested people in the dark? As a test, I tried rebooting to the latest fedora kernel and found it

[PATCH powerpc] Fake NUMA emulation for PowerPC (Take 3)

2008-01-28 Thread Balbir Singh
* Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-27 22:55:43]: Balbir Singh writes: Here's a better and more complete fix for the problem. Could you please see if it works for you? I tested it on a real NUMA box and it seemed to work fine there. There are a couple of other changes in

Re: High wake up latencies with FAIR_USER_SCHED

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS feature gives credit for sleeping only to tasks and not group-level entities. With the patch attached, I could see that wakeup latencies with FAIR_USER_SCHED are restored to the same level as !FAIR_USER_SCHED. However I am

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Peter Zijlstra writes: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: 1. Wrong mailing list; use linux-ide (@vger) instead. What, and keep all us other interested people in the dark? MAINTAINERS clearly lists linux-ide as the primary mailing list for all things

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] 2.6.25 regression: VIDEO_DEV=y/m, I2C=n compile error

2008-01-28 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Could you please prepare the changeset for the macro, as suggested by Ian? In time: s/as suggested by Ian/considering Jan's arguments/ Cheers, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[PATCH] Add list_for_each_rcu to features-removal list

2008-01-28 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Hello! The list_for_each_entry_rcu() primitive should be used instead of list_for_each_rcu(), as the former is easier to use and provides better type safety. This patch therefore adds list_for_each_rcu() to the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt file (for mid-2008) and marks its comment

Re: [PATCH] remove duplicating priority setting in try_to_free_p

2008-01-28 Thread minchan kim
I agree with you. If you will have a test result, Let me know it. On Jan 28, 2008 6:01 PM, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:43:56 +0900 minchan kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is actually a bugfix. The code you're removing doesn't do the

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: [    0.00] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override This is from the dmesg of my previous post. Can anyone tell me what it actually means? -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury,

Re: [RFC] ext3 freeze feature

2008-01-28 Thread Takashi Sato
Hi, What you *could* do is to start putting processes to sleep if they attempt to write to the frozen filesystem, and then detect the deadlock case where the process holding the file descriptor used to freeze the filesystem gets frozen because it attempted to write to the filesystem --- at

Re: [rfc] exposing MMR's of on-chip peripherals for debugging purposes

2008-01-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Jan 28, 2008 8:04 AM, richard kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 5:40 AM, Bryan Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 05:16 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: the trouble is that this file currently weighs in at ~1.8 megs. this is because it

Re: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mikael Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I tried the 2.6.24 release and noticed that WOL is still broken. I'll be happy to test any patches that can make it into 2.6.24.1. 1. Wrong mailing list; use netdev (@vger) instead. lkml is the right mailing list for reporting Linux

Re: [RFC] ext3 freeze feature

2008-01-28 Thread Takashi Sato
Hi, Thank you for your comments. That's inherently unsafe - you can have multiple unfreezes running in parallel which seriously screws with the bdev semaphore count that is used to lock the device due to doing multiple up()s for every down. Your timeout thingy guarantee that at some point you

Re: [rfc] exposing MMR's of on-chip peripherals for debugging purposes

2008-01-28 Thread richard kennedy
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 5:40 AM, Bryan Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 05:16 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: the trouble is that this file currently weighs in at ~1.8 megs. this is because it contains all the information for all Blackfin processors we support

Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: fix runtime error in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Greg Kroah-Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This problem is due to the kobject rework recently done in this file. The mce_amd_64.c code uses some wierd forward calls to back out of the recursive way the code creates kobjects. Because of this, we need to verify that we have really

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: not set boot cpu in cpu_online_map at smp_prepare_boot_cpu

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [PATCH] x86_64: not set boot cpu in cpu_online_map at smp_prepare_boot_cpu in init/main.c boot_cpu_init() does that before thanks, applied. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: [PATCH] [8/18] BKL-removal: Remove BKL from remote_llseek

2008-01-28 Thread Alan Cox
No specific spec, just general quality of implementation. I completely agree. If one thread writes A and another writes B then the kernel should record either A or B, not ((A 0x) | (B 0x)) Agree entirely: the spec doesn't allow for random scribbling in the wrong

Re: [PATCH] Implement dmode option for isofs

2008-01-28 Thread Jan Kara
On Sat 26-01-08 22:02:10, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:47:52 +0100 Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Implement dmode option for iso9660 filesystem to allow setting of access rights for directories on the filesystem. Please update Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt?

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: not set boot cpu in cpu_present_map again

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [PATCH] x86_64: not set boot cpu in cpu_present_map again in init/main.c boot_cpu_init() already does that before setup_arch thanks, applied. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: [GIT PULL] i2c updates for 2.6.25

2008-01-28 Thread Jon Smirl
On 1/28/08, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jon, On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:36:03 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: On 1/27/08, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus, Please pull the i2c subsystem updates for Linux 2.6.25 from: git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6

Re: [AUDIT]: Increase skb-truesize in audit_expand

2008-01-28 Thread James Morris
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Herbert Xu wrote: Hi: [AUDIT]: Increase skb-truesize in audit_expand The recent UDP patch exposed this bug in the audit code. It was calling pskb_expand_head without increasing skb-truesize. The caller of pskb_expand_head needs to do so because that function is

Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add filename in the summary

2008-01-28 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:20:48PM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 11:23 PM, Paolo Ciarrocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add a filename option (default to 0) in order to get the following summary output: ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --filename --file ./arch/sparc/kernel/apc.c ...

Re: [patch 3/3] x86: deprecate change_page_attr() for drivers

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: x86: deprecate change_page_attr() From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the introduction of the new API, no driver or non-archcore code needs to use c-p-a anymore, so this patch also deprecates the EXPORT_SYMBOL of CPA (it's a

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Gene Heskett writes: On Monday 28 January 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: 1. Wrong mailing list; use linux-ide (@vger) instead. What, and keep all us other interested people in the dark? As a test, I tried rebooting to the

Re: [PATCH] [8/18] BKL-removal: Remove BKL from remote_llseek

2008-01-28 Thread Alan Cox
Also worse really fixing it would be a major change to the VFS because of the way -read/write are defined :/ I don't see a problem there. -read and -write update the passed pointer which is not the real f_pos anyway. Just the copies need fixing. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] xtime_lock vs update_process_times

2008-01-28 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:20:30PM +, Russell King wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:39:55AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: move update_process_times() out from under xtime_lock. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter, Mind if I merge:

Re: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini

2008-01-28 Thread Tino Keitel
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 14:37:38 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: [...] However, it _is_ a fact that there is a proliferation of specialized mailing lists, and it is also a fact that many developers _only_ read those lists. I'm in no way defending this behaviour, on the contrary I probably

Re: LinuxPPS patch

2008-01-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 06:39:23PM +0100, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: here my patch for PPS support against kernel 2.6.24: http://ftp.enneenne.com/pub/misc/linuxpps/patches/ntp-pps-2.6.24.diff The code has been tested by some guys intered in PPS stuff and it seems ok. :) Please report

Re: [patch 1/3] x86: a new API for drivers/etc to control cache and other page attributes

2008-01-28 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:56:21 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right now, if drivers or other code want to change, say, a cache attribute of a page, the only API they have is change_page_attr(). c-p-a is a really bad API for this,

Re: LinuxPPS patch

2008-01-28 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:43:08AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I would test it except I am still on 2.6.18 and probably will be for quite a while. I am still using an older patch of yours which works great for now, although I know the interface has a changed a bit since. Yes, you are

Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format.

2008-01-28 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 28 of January 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of cleanups, the following one is applicable IMO. --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c @@ -444,23 +444,23 @@ static void __init

Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 Kernel BUG while bootup

2008-01-28 Thread Sudhir Kumar
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 04:53:30PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: Hi Ingo, I applied all the hot fixes patches but still the bug is there. (crash at early boot). As I replied your earlier mail in which the patch sent by you does not apply (reverse). can you please look into the problem ? Thanks

[PATCH 3/4] Clean up the kill_someting_info

2008-01-28 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
This is the first stop (of two) in removing the kill_pgrp_info. All the users of this function are in kernel/signal.c, but all they need is to call __kill_pgrp_info() with the tasklist_lock read-locked. Fortunately, one of its users is the kill_something_info(), which already needs this lock in

Re: [PATCH] [8/18] BKL-removal: Remove BKL from remote_llseek

2008-01-28 Thread Diego Calleja
El Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:10:34 +0100, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: So you get overlapping reads. Probably not good. This was discussed in the past i think - http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/124 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/130 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 00/17] [MIPS] Malta: massive code cleanup

2008-01-28 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 07:52:40PM +0300, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: Whole series queued for 2.6.25. Thanks, Ralf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH] scripts/checkpatch.pl: warn about using __FUNCTION__

2008-01-28 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:19:48PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: __FUNCTION__ is gcc specific, __func__ is C99 Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research seems to indicate this is indeed sensible as __FUNCTION__ can cause -Werror to trip. Have applied

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches

2008-01-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:52:45 -0600 Paul Jackson wrote: Randy -- any idea why the Documentation/email-clients.txt file states: Sylpheed (GUI) ... - Not good for IMAP.

Re: [agp-mm][PATCH 1/4][intel_iommu] explicit export current graphics dmar status

2008-01-28 Thread Zhenyu Wang
On 2008.01.25 10:08:20 -0800, mark gross wrote: This is used for our graphics driver module to know if we have to do dma remapping in iommu case, both in kernel config and kernel boot time param config. ok. How soon do you need this export? As graphics part of these patches depend on

Re: ACPI CPU hot removal: Problem with automatic scripting in response to hotplug events

2008-01-28 Thread Pavel Machek
On Fri 2008-01-18 10:13:01, Daniel Arai wrote: I have an x86_64 system that's capable of doing ACPI CPU hot removal. One issue that's worrying me right now is that there isn't enough information to automatically script CPU removal when it's requested by the hardware platform. I'm

Re: [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and after a session of bisection, the winner patch is: Subject: x86: unify PAE/non-PAE pgd_ctor which is a tad unexpected, given the relatively harmless nature of the patch. (but then again, nothing is really harmless in PAE land.) ok, i merged

Re: [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hm, i tried this, and got an early crash: [ 29.389844] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. [ 29.389872] debug: unmapping init memory c0b03000..c0b6f000 [ 29.440139] PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs1 [ 29.463676] khelper used greatest

Re: [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This series addresses various cleanups in pagetable allocation in the direction of unifying 32/64 bits (that's still a while off yet). hm, i tried this, and got an early crash: [ 29.389844] VFS: Mounted root (ext3

Re: telnet hanging issues in kernel 2.6.16

2008-01-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 28 2008 10:02, Roy Zacharias wrote: Hello, This is my first time posting on this list. Currently, I am working on a powerpc board and I encounter some problems. When I do the following: 1. Login to my card from pc as root 2. Run command (i.e. ls, ps, etc.) 3. Wait 30 min-1hr 4. Run

Re: [2.6.24 REGRESSION] BUG: Soft lockup - with VFS

2008-01-28 Thread Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
and so then dmesg .. -- Thanks, Oliver Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Linux version 2.6.24-szami2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #2 SMP Sun Jan 27 01:47:58 CET 2008 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: -

Re: [PATCH] firewire: fw-sbp2: don't retry login or reconnect after unplug

2008-01-28 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Sunday 27 January 2008 01:14:44 pm Stefan Richter wrote: If a device is being unplugged while fw-sbp2 had a login or reconnect on schedule, it would take about half a minute to shut the fw_unit down: Jan 27 18:34:54 stein firewire_sbp2: logged in to fw2.0 LUN (0 retries) unplug Jan

Re: [PATCH 07/19] dlm: swap bytes for rcom lock reply

2008-01-28 Thread David Teigland
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:00:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:50:30 -0600 David Teigland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: void dlm_rcom_in(struct dlm_rcom *rc) { struct dlm_header *hd = (struct dlm_header *) rc; aww, c'mon guys, this is nonsense. struct

Re: [PATCH] Allocate pnp resources dynamically via krealloc - working version

2008-01-28 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 20:19 +0100, Rene Herman wrote: On 23-01-08 18:38, Thomas Renninger wrote: isapnp is totally untested. Also the sysfs is rather untested. If nobody beats me to it I'll debug this myself later on, but as a quick heads up: I think I know what is going on. While

Re: [PATCH] [8/18] BKL-removal: Remove BKL from remote_llseek

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 28 January 2008 14:38:57 Alan Cox wrote: Also worse really fixing it would be a major change to the VFS because of the way -read/write are defined :/ I don't see a problem there. -read and -write update the passed pointer which is not the real f_pos anyway. Just the copies need

Re: Q: x86 suspend/hibernation code consolidation

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to move the 64-bit suspend/hibernation files from arch/x86/kernel to arch/x86/power, modify the names of the 32-bit files already in arch/x86/power and update the Makefiles accordingly, but there are some changes queued for merging

Re: [PATCH] Change a WARN message in checkpatch

2008-01-28 Thread Paolo Ciarrocchi
On Jan 28, 2008 3:56 PM, Andy Whitcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:29:13PM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: Hi Andy, When I started using checkpatch I was confused by the following WARN message: no space between function name and open parenthesis I

[PATCH 2/4] Pidns: fix badly converted mqueues pid handling

2008-01-28 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
When sending the pid namespaces patches I wrongly converted the tsk-tgid into task_pid_vnr(tsk) in mqueue-s (the git id of this patch is b488893a390edfe027bae7a46e9af8083e740668). The proper behavior is to get the task_tgid_vnr(tsk). This seem to be the only mistake of that kind.

Re: (ondemand) CPU governor regression between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
Toralf, for me the group scheduler offers superior interactivity on my laptop for a number of reasons. The biggest practical effect is because it splits the CPU time between Xorg (root UID) and desktop apps. This helps particularly well when there's compile jobs going on, etc. - Xorg still

Re: at91sam9260 wakeup on serial port

2008-01-28 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:15:00 +0100 michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I implement a little patch (ndr just for a try) for the atmel serial driver atmel_serial.c to wakeup the system when it is in suspend-ram state. I reconfigure the RXD pin as a gpio in suspend function and restore it in

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] xtime_lock vs update_process_times

2008-01-28 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 12:20 +, Russell King wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:39:55AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: move update_process_times() out from under xtime_lock. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter, Mind if I merge: arch/arm/common/time-acorn.c

[PATCH 1/4] Pidns: make full use of xxx_vnr() calls

2008-01-28 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
Some time ago the xxx_vnr() calls (e.g. pid_vnr or find_task_by_vpid) were _all_ converted to operate on the current pid namespace. After this each call like xxx_nr_ns(foo, current-nsproxy-pid_ns) is nothing but a xxx_vnr(foo) one. Switch all the xxx_nr_ns() callers to use the xxx_vnr() calls

Re: Q: x86 suspend/hibernation code consolidation

2008-01-28 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 28 of January 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to move the 64-bit suspend/hibernation files from arch/x86/kernel to arch/x86/power, modify the names of the 32-bit files already in arch/x86/power and update the Makefiles

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] 2.6.25 regression: VIDEO_DEV=y/m, I2C=n compile error

2008-01-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:17:10PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 28 2008 01:05, Trent Piepho wrote: Maybe the kernel headers should provide a couple macros for testing configs, since people get it wrong over and over again? #define CONFIG_ON(x) (defined(CONFIG_##x) ||

Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: WARN_ON breakpoints from .kprobes.text section

2008-01-28 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Hi, Abhishek Sagar wrote: On 1/28/08, Masami Hiramatsu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for explanation, I hope I can understand it. Even if it causes a trap recursively, it could be checked (and ignored) by longjump_break_handler(), and passed to the debugger correctly. Yes, all

Re: [patch 0/4] [RFC] MMU Notifiers V1

2008-01-28 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:10:39PM +0200, Izik Eidus wrote: i dont understand how is that better than notification on tlb flush? I certainly agree. The quoted call wasn't actually the one that could be moved in a single place in the .h file though. But the 4/4 patch could be reduced to a few

Re: [PATCHv3 2.6.25] i2c: adds support for i2c bus on Freescale CPM1/CPM2 controllers

2008-01-28 Thread Bryan Wu
On Jan 26, 2008 1:11 AM, Jochen Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using the port of 2.4 code from Vitaly Bordug [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the actual algorithm used by the i2c driver of the DBox code on cvs.tuxboc.org from Tmbinc, Gillem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Renamed i2c-rpx.c and i2c-algo-8xx.c to

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Zan Lynx
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:50 -0500, Calvin Walton wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Unfortunately we also see: [ 48.285456] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. [ 48.549725] ACPI: PCI

Re: [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Ingo Molnar wrote: and after a session of bisection, the winner patch is: Subject: x86: unify PAE/non-PAE pgd_ctor which is a tad unexpected, given the relatively harmless nature of the patch. (but then again, nothing is really harmless in PAE land.) Oh, well, good. At least

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:58:55AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:13:16AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Greg KH wrote: Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:44:19PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: On Fri, Jan 25 2008 at 20:02 +0200, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, this is a patch that will be sent out in the next round to Linus for inclusion in 2.6.25. If anyone has any objections about it, please let me know.

[GIT PATCH] HID updates for 2.6.25 merge window

2008-01-28 Thread Jiri Kosina
Linus, could you please pull from 'for-linus' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git for-linus or master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git for-linus to receive the following patches for HID code. All of them have been in -mm for

Re: [PATCH] Rationalise ACPI backlight implementation

2008-01-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: 0 sh -c echo $1 /sys/class/backlight/thinkpad_screen/brightness ) 2/dev/null And yes, I had an rc.local command which assumed that 7 (later 8) is max brightness. You have to use 15 (or 16? I forget) on T61, X61, R61, X60(I think)... for maximum

Re: [PATCH 0/32] ide-tape redux v1

2008-01-28 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Sunday 27 January 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: BTW what happend to patch #23? my bad, the patch got eaten by gmail's spam filter... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mikael Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I can see how my overly terse statement could be interpreted in this way, and I apologize for that. However, it _is_ a fact that there is a proliferation of specialized mailing lists, and it is also a fact that many developers _only_ read

Re: 2.6.24-rc8-rt1: Strange latencies on mpc5200 powerpc

2008-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Grandegger
Hi Fu, Luotao Fu wrote: Hi, I took some time today and went through Wolfgangs scenarios partly. Now some results from my side. I ran my tests on a 2.6.24-rt1 Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: I also did some more measurements and made, by chance, interesting observations. I will summarize in

Re: [Regression] 2.6.24-git3: Major annoyance during suspend/hibernation on x86-64 (bisected)

2008-01-28 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 28 of January 2008, Dmitry Adamushko wrote: On 28/01/2008, Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, 27 of January 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 2.6.24-git3 adds a 5 - 10 sec delay to the suspend and

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Dave Neuer
On Jan 28, 2008 11:35 AM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote: We have no way of debugging that module, so please try 2.6.24 without it. Sorry, I can't do this and have a working machine. The nv driver has suffered bit rot or something

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Richard Heck
I've recently seen this kind of error myself, under Fedora 8, using the Fedora 2.6.23 kernels: I'd see a train of the same sort of error: Jan 28 04:46:25 coyote kernel: [26550.290016] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Jan 28 04:46:25 coyote kernel:

Re: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini

2008-01-28 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 28 of January 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 02:43:05PM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 14:37:38 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: [...] However, it _is_ a fact that there is a proliferation of specialized mailing lists, and it is also

Re: [PATCH] [8/18] BKL-removal: Remove BKL from remote_llseek

2008-01-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:10:34 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008 14:38:57 Alan Cox wrote: Also worse really fixing it would be a major change to the VFS because of the way -read/write are defined :/ I don't see a problem there. -read and -write update

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: While reading this msg as it came back, I locked up again and rebooted to 2.6.24, and got lucky (maybe) as the attached dmesg will show quite a few instances of this LNNNGG before the nvidia driver is loaded to taint the kernel. Have fun guys!

Re: High wake up latencies with FAIR_USER_SCHED

2008-01-28 Thread Guillaume Chazarain
Hi Srivatsa, On Jan 28, 2008 3:31 AM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity is set to 10ms by default, this doesn't sound abnormal. Indeed, by lowering sched_wakeup_granularity I get much better latencies, but lowering sched_latency seems to be

Re: git-x86 oopses in acpi_ps_peek_opcode

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:34:49PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: git-x86 tip 5b838c0d9d7269eb4d21532da126b3c90db46c67 with x86-64 defconfig oopses on boot with BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at c20001815000 IP: [803773e8]

Re: at91sam9260 wakeup on serial port

2008-01-28 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:21:57 -0800 David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What will AVR32 (AP7) need to do, when it supports system sleep states? Not sure. The PIOs seem to require a clock in order to detect a pin change, so I don't think we can enter very deep sleep states if we want to be

Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: fix runtime error in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:57:36PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have added a lot more robustness checks to the kobject core now, see the lkml messages about the maple bus for examples of where it is catching real problems already. And the kobject

Re: 2.6.24-rt1: timing problems (was [git pull] x86/hrtimer/acpi fixes)

2008-01-28 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 05:46 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 17:59 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: Hi Ingo... back to testing. History: 2.6.23.x + rt has not been very usable for audio applications. 2.6.24-rt1: same so far. Why: Jack keeps printing

Re: [2.6.24-rc6-mm1]Build failure in drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:10:48PM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote: Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: Hi, sorry for answering so late, I'm only tracking netdev and ppc mailing list. On Thursday 10 January 2008 18:34, Greg KH wrote: The structure device_driver(in device.h) has a member struct

Re: at91sam9260 wakeup on serial port

2008-01-28 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 28 January 2008, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:15:00 +0100 michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I implement a little patch (ndr just for a try) for the atmel serial driver atmel_serial.c to wakeup the system when it is in suspend-ram state. I reconfigure

Re: [CPUISOL] CPU isolation extensions

2008-01-28 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Max Krasnyanskiy wrote: [PATCH] [CPUISOL] Support for workqueue isolation The thing about workqueues is that they should only be woken on a CPU if something on that CPU accessed them. IOW, the workqueue on a CPU handles work that was called by something on that

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Lord
Gene Heskett wrote: Greeting; I had to reboot early this morning due to a freezeup, and I had a bunch of these in the messages log: == Jan 27 19:42:11 coyote kernel: [42461.915961] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Jan 27 19:42:11 coyote kernel:

Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: fix runtime error in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are kobjects protected against accidental copying? If not add kobj to the 'magic value' too, and check that - it becomes copying-resistent that way and has the same cost to check. (which is negligible anyway) Oh, that's a very cool idea, I like it

Re: 2.6.24 regression: pan hanging unkilleable and un-straceable

2008-01-28 Thread Frederik Himpe
On ma, 2008-01-28 at 12:46 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2008 00:29, Frederik Himpe wrote: On di, 2008-01-22 at 16:25 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:58, Frederik Himpe wrote: With Linux 2.6.24-rc8 I often have the problem that the pan usenet

Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format.

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* driver might have split up a kernel 4MB mapping. */ -char __nosavedata swsusp_pg_dir[PAGE_SIZE] +char swsusp_pg_dir[PAGE_SIZE] hm, random-qa found build breakage with this patch: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `wakeup_start': : undefined reference to `swsusp_pg_dir'

Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86: Add config variables for SMP_MAX

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
The problem in kernel/sched.c:isolated_cpu_setup() is an array of NR_CPUS integers: static int __init isolated_cpu_setup(char *str) { int ints[NR_CPUS], i; str = get_options(str, ARRAY_SIZE(ints), ints); Since isolated_cpu_setup() is an __init routine,

Re: [PATCH] Change a WARN message in checkpatch

2008-01-28 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:29:13PM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: Hi Andy, When I started using checkpatch I was confused by the following WARN message: no space between function name and open parenthesis I thought the problem was that a space was missing while the truth is the

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Zan Lynx wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:50 -0500, Calvin Walton wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Unfortunately we also see: [ 48.285456] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints

Re: [PATCHv3 2.6.25] i2c: adds support for i2c bus on Freescale CPM1/CPM2 controllers

2008-01-28 Thread Scott Wood
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 06:11:57PM +0100, Jochen Friedrich wrote: diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc866ads.dts b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc866ads.dts index daf9433..80c08bf 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc866ads.dts +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc866ads.dts @@ -169,6 +169,16 @@

Re: [PATCH] Allocate pnp resources dynamically via krealloc - working version - Addon patch 2

2008-01-28 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 16:00 +0100, Rene Herman wrote: On 28-01-08 15:21, Thomas Renninger wrote: I think I know what is going on. While pnpbios and pnpacpi theoretically do not have limits, isapnp has spec restrictions (AFAIK, I have not read this up, but taken over from previous

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:44:14PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: Thank you, I do support what you are doing here. Just the ndiswrapper is a special case. But I guess I, as a user, can always use it anyway, right? But not the commercial distros. Don't stop the transition on my account. Yes, as a

Re: [PATCH 00/17] [MIPS] Malta: massive code cleanup

2008-01-28 Thread Dmitri Vorobiev
Ralf Baechle пишет: On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 07:52:40PM +0300, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: Whole series queued for 2.6.25. OK, thanks. Dmitri Thanks, Ralf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

[PATCH 4/4] Get rid of the kill_pgrp_info() function

2008-01-28 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
There's only one caller left - the kill_pgrp one - so merge these two functions and forget the kill_pgrp_info one. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- include/linux/sched.h |1 - kernel/signal.c | 19 +++

Re: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini

2008-01-28 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:48:55 +0100 Tino Keitel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:21:30 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Tino Keitel writes: Hi folks, with 2.6.24-rc8, Wake On LAN doesn't work anymore as it used to with 2.6.23 on my Mac mini Core Duo. I saw

Re: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini

2008-01-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 02:43:05PM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 14:37:38 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: [...] However, it _is_ a fact that there is a proliferation of specialized mailing lists, and it is also a fact that many developers _only_ read those lists.

Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 Kernel BUG while bootup

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Sudhir Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I applied all the hot fixes patches but still the bug is there. (crash at early boot). As I replied your earlier mail in which the patch sent by you does not apply (reverse). can you please look into the problem ? could you test latest x86.git:

Re: [PATCH] [8/18] BKL-removal: Remove BKL from remote_llseek

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 28 January 2008 13:56:05 Alan Cox wrote: No specific spec, just general quality of implementation. I completely agree. If one thread writes A and another writes B then the kernel should record either A or B, not ((A 0x) | (B 0x)) Agree entirely:

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