Filesystems like ext2 put their superblock 1 block into the partition
in order to avoid overwriting disk labels and other uglies. UFS does
this too, as do several others. One of the few exceptions I've been
able to find is XFS.
This is a real issue on sparc where the default sun disk labels
Holger Macht wrote:
On a related note, shouldn't ata_acpi_handle_hotplug delete the device
like what is done when doing
echo 1 /sys/devices/.../block/sr0/device/delete
Yeap, when the ata_acpi_handle_hotplug() was added, the focus was
supporting hotplug when the controller itself doesn't
Sam might want to experiment with something like:
stdout_target = $(1) $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) mv -f $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) $@
cmd_foo = $(call stdout_target,blah | sed s/foo/bar/)
to clean up all the places that would benefit from robust treatment for
output files vs interrupted/erring
On Monday 11 February 2008 14:08:43 Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When end_pfn is not aligned to 2MB (or 1GB) then the kernel might map
more memory than end_pfn. Account this in end_pfn_mapped.
can you see any practical relevance?
Yes EFI needs to know
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 04:47:43PM -0900, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
Hello All , grabbed using git just moments ago .
make V=1 KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 INSTALL_PATH=/boot clean all install
modules_install
...snip...
make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=sound/usb/usx2y
make -f
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:26:02PM +0100, Joerg Platte wrote:
Hi,
when booting linux 2.6.25-rc1 I get the following error:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0138
IP: [c01aa59e] smack_netlabel+0x13/0xc8
*pde =
Oops: [#1] PREEMPT
Modules linked in:
if that file is empty, it might be the effect of a Ctrl-C. I sometimes
get that on .o files, if i Ctrl-C a highly parallel make -j at the wrong
moment. (is this expected behavior? It's been like this for a long
time.)
It is the known situation with the compiler since the dawn of time, yes.
The AMD64 pci-gart code sets pages not present to prevent
cache coherency problems. When doing this it is safer to flush the
caches too so that there are no cache lines left over from when
the pages were still mapped.
So consider clearing of the present bit as a cache flush indicator.
Note
Holger Macht wrote:
It should be called via ata_acpi_{ap|dev}_notify() callbacks installed
via acpi_install_notify_handler(). Can you add dump_stack() in the
function and verify that it actually is being called? It could be that
the method is called too late or libata takes too long to
* Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When end_pfn is not aligned to 2MB (or 1GB) then the kernel might map
more memory than end_pfn. Account this in end_pfn_mapped.
can you see any practical relevance? Your patch description only deals
with the mechanical details of the change instead of
On Monday 11 February 2008 13:46:25 Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The memory hotadd code assumes that the pud always exists already, but
that might be not true. Allocate it if it isn't there.
ok, this seems an like an ancient memory-hotplug bug.
Yes.
Does
S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
But you still not merged this one :), is there any problem exists or
would you prefer this comes from with a subsystem tree
I don't know exactly what Linus prefers, but I think the guidelines in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches, sections Select e-mail destination
and Select
* Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The memory hotadd code assumes that the pud always exists already, but
that might be not true. Allocate it if it isn't there.
ok, this seems an like an ancient memory-hotplug bug. Does anyone even
use memory hotplug currently? Did you find this bug via
Wrong. We do call __pa() on vmalloc ranges (which is a known
uncleanliness that we intend to fix),
AFAIK nobody does actually currently. Although I expect sooner
or later someone will try since __ioremap() lost its pgprot argument
that made it so powerful. Best would be probably to stick
in
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tested-by: Duncan Sands [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Duncan Sands [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks again for doing this!
Best wishes,
Duncan.
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On Thu 07-02-08 22:27:27, Michael Tokarev wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:37:21 +0100 Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Turn off quotas before filesystem is remounted read only. Otherwise quota
will
try to write to read-only filesystem which does no good... We could
* Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
EFI currently calls set_memory_x() on potentially ioremapped
addresses.
This is problematic for several reasons:
- The cpa code internally calls __pa on it which does not work for
remapped addresses and will give some random result.
Wrong. We do
Please CC me on any/all replies
After trying to upgrade to deal with the most recent security issue, I
have encountered what has to either be me being very tired, or a kernel
bug. After assuming that it was the former for 3 hours, I now conclude
I'm more tired, and it has to be the latter.
Hello, Ingo!
I am seeing the following calltrace every day I am connecting to my test
host by the gnome-panel:
ssh -Y test.host gnome-terminal
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
at /home/den/src/linux-netns26/kernel/mutex.c:209
in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
no locks held by
In the above example, even the reset sequence itself can cause hang if
the hardware is implemented slightly differently. The reason why
set_piomode() locks up but reset sequence doesn't is simple dumb luck.
I think the proper fix is to tell libata to detach the cdrom before
undocking.
Just
On Feb 8, 2008 9:24 PM, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 9 2008 00:14, Joonwoo Park wrote:
2008/2/8, rohit h [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
I am a kernel newbie.
I tried to insmod a C++ module containing classes, inheritance.
I am getting 'unresolved symbol' error when I use
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:04:46AM +0100, Holger Macht wrote:
Wouldn't the proper fix be to call ata_acpi_handle_hotplug _somewhere_?
(which is currently called nowhere AFAICS)
I think so. The T61 at least generated ACPI dock and undock messages for
IDE master/slaves and we can use those.
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Hi,
in building 2.6.25-rc1:
CC arch/parisc/kernel/asm-offsets.s
In file included from include/asm/pgtable.h:13,
from arch/parisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:36:
include/linux/mm.h: In function 'is_vmalloc_addr':
include/linux/mm.h:243: error: 'VMALLOC_START' undeclared (first
Hi,
On Sun 10-02-08 11:48:17, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
Current mainline has a problem with reading file list.
Simple ls prints only 2 out of 8 files on my testing DVD.
Reverting your patch udf: cleanup directory offset handling
(af793295bf9ee92660f5e77d337b0493cea3f9b9) fixes the problem.
Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
btw., v2.6.25-rc1 is not affected by this. Gbpages support is a still
cooking feature only available in x86.git#mm, destined for .26, and
even there it's default disabled and only available on Barcelona class
hardware. (Some of these bits are upstream
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, David Howells wrote:
Remove the temporarily embedded task security record from task_struct.
Instead
it is made to dangle from the task_struct::sec and task_struct::act_as
pointers
with references counted for each.
...
These patches are kind of huge.
+static int
From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Move backtrace selftests to tests/
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
kernel/backtracetest.c | 48
kernel/Makefile|1 -
lib/Kconfig.debug | 12
From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Move the lkdtm infrastructure to tests/
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Ankita Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/misc/lkdtm.c | 345 --
From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Move the rtmutex-tester infrastructure to tests/
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
kernel/rtmutex-tester.c | 442
kernel/Makefile |1
lib/Kconfig.debug
From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Create a toplevel tests/ directory to house in-kernel subsystem specific
tests.
Thanks to Sam Ravnborg for the Makefile corrections.
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, David Howells wrote:
Separate the task security context from task_struct. At this point, the
security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
pointing to it.
Alpha needs further alteration as it refers to UID GID in entry.S via asm
offsets.
Jeff Dike wrote:
UML defined its own external __kmalloc and things. Isnt there some other
way to fix it? I guess including slab.h is not possible here?
It would be an annoyance to reintroduce um_kmalloc, but that might be
the best thing to do here.
I'm ok with that as long as we get this
Sorry for delay,
On 02/06, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
Off-topic question to all. sys_remap_file_pages() doesn't work with
shared readonly mappings, why?
Slight correction: it works with shared readonly mappings, doesn't
it, so long as the mmap'ed file
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
no, they were not lost, they just didnt pass QA here (they crashed on
a particularly hard to debug 8-way box i have) and Peter worked on
that queue of fixes up until today to get it really correct. Could you
check:
Hi,
I have a problem with udev rule, and I try to debug udev variables
this is the question:
how can I view udev variables value ?
for examples:
what is value of:
BUS
SYSFS{idProduct}
SYSFS{idVendor}
when I insert my stick-usb wireless ?
thank you
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* Eugene Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote sender=Eugene Teo
tracing_sched_switch_enabled isn't used anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, I forgot to remove the variable declaration. Here's a resend:
tracing_sched_switch_enabled isn't used anywhere.
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:49 +0100, Jan-Bernd Themann wrote:
are you the right person to address this patch to?
You might want to check the top of the file. ;)
--- a/drivers/base/memory.c
+++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
@@ -52,11 +52,13 @@ int register_memory_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:17:51 -0800
this is why you need specific trees for just the API change
API trees don't work, just like other changes they will have
interdependencies on things like fixups, cleanups, etc.
This is why, with the networking,
Luben Tuikov wrote:
Is there an open iSCSI Target implementation which
does NOT
issue commands to sub-target devices via the SCSI
mid-layer, but
bypasses it completely?
What do you mean? To call directly low level backstorage
SCSI drivers
queuecommand() routine? What are advantages of
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:08:19 -0800
David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kconfig tweaks to help reduce RTC configuration bugs, by avoiding
legacy RTC drivers when the generic RTC framework is enabled:
- If rtc-cmos is selected, disable the legacy rtc driver;
- When using generic RTC
From: Cedric Le Goater [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a preliminary patch changing the clone_flags type to 64bits
for all the routines called by do_fork().
It prepares ground for the next patch which introduces an enhanced
version of clone() supporting 64bits flags.
This is work in progress. All
yet another try to extend the clone flags and probably not the last !
This patchset adds 2 new syscalls :
long sys_clone64(unsigned long flags_high, unsigned long flags_low,
unsigned long newsp);
long sys_unshare64(unsigned long flags_high, unsigned long flags_low);
Add information about the mapping state of the direct mapping to /proc/meminfo.
This way we can see how many large pages are really used for it.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c |2 ++
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c |2 ++
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
[2.6.25 candidate I believe]
The specification of SS in the public manuals is a little unclear,
but I got confirmation from Intel that SS implies that there is no cache
flush needed on caching attribute changes.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c |
Following up the previous ifdef patch this moves the pool allocation/free
code into separate functions.
Minor drawback is that the pgd_lock is now taken more times (this
was needed to separate the with/without DEBUG_PAGEALLOC cases cleanly), but the
additional lock only hits in the
Even with the pool cpa in debug_pagealloc can fail (e.g. consider memory
hotplug)
Also the code does not clear PSE anymore as the comment claims.
Replace wrong comment with correct one.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c |5 +
1 file changed, 1
Not much left from the original code and I don't want my name
on it because there is code in there I disagree with.
I don't think any of the Ben inspired code is left in there
either, but I left his name in for now.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c |
(relative to git-x86#mm 05afd57b4438d4650d93e6f54f465b0cdd2d9ea8)
They should be all safe/useful enough to be considered .25 candidates.
Some minor features for pageattr.c:
- Use less memory in the !DEBUG_PAGEALLOC case
(second patch for that is just a optional cleanup)
- Support CPU self
On Mon, Feb 11 2008 at 0:44 +0200, James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 22:02 +, Russell King wrote:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:20:24AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 13:58 +, Russell King wrote:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:07:09PM +0200,
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
Use correct page sizes and masks for GB pages in try_preserve_large_page()
This prevents a boot hang on a GB capable system with CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES
enabled.
Doh, yes. Applied.
Thanks,
tglx
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Even on 32bit 2MB pages can map more memory than is in the true
max_low_pfn if end_pfn is not highmem and not aligned to 2MB.
Add a end_pfn_map similar to x86-64 that accounts for this
fact. This is important for code that really needs to know about
all mapping aliases. Needed for followup
The memory hotadd code assumes that the pud always exists already, but
that might be not true. Allocate it if it isn't there.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 13 +
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index:
Relative to git-x86#mm 05afd57b4438d4650d93e6f54f465b0cdd2d9ea8)
The first bug fix is the most important one -- it fixes a boot hang
on gbpages systems -- the rest is for random issues I found while looking
at the code. Several are related to EFI (see caveats in the descriptions),
which looks
e.g. the AMD64 pci-gart code sets pages not present to prevent potential
cache coherency problems. When doing this it is probably safer to flush the
caches too. So consider clearing of the present bit as a cache flush indicator.
Note that debug pagealloc marks pages regularly not present
I was looking for documentation on the kstack_depth_to_print under
/proc/sys/kernel, and I found it in Documentation/sysctl.txt (written
by Rik).
How about /proc/sys/net? or all other directories under /sys or /proc fs?
Wouldn't it be useful to have a centralized store located in
This patch intorduces cmdline netconsole configs to register to configfs
with dynamic netconsole. Satyam Sharma who designed shiny dynamic
reconfiguration for netconsole, mentioned about this issue already.
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/29/360)
But I think, without separately managing of two kind
default_groups was allocated with kcalloc, so initialize to NULL
is unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/dlm/config.c |2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/dlm/config.c b/fs/dlm/config.c
index c3ad1df..2b96428 100644
---
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 20:01 +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
This patch extends /proc/pid/fdinfo/fd to report information about open
files, and pathname. This information can be useful to know when debugging an
application.
For each file descriptor, the information is provided in the following
Hi Andrew,
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:04:25 -0500, Andrew Paprocki wrote:
I'm interested in expanding the current support for the it87 Super I/O
chip to provide access to more of its capabilities. I started by
looking at two existing drivers which talk to different parts of the
chip. Maybe I'm
From: Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:11:36 -0500
__deprecate the old one,
Deprecate is garbage, shit hangs around in the tree forever
and people just turn off the warnings.
Clean sweeps work much better, albeit with some merge pain,
we'll cope.
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Hi Matt,
Thanks for your review.
Le Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:01:18 -0600,
Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
Looks ok. Please preserve original authorship (ie me) in some fashion
in your description.
Andrew seems to already have picked up the patch in -mm (I received an
e-mail +
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
Minor logic fix. The century change was previously always BCD,
even when the CMOS data would report itself not being BCD.
I checked that whole rtc / BCD logic again. We always set RTC_ALWAYS_BCD:
#ifndef RTC_PORT
#define RTC_PORT(x)(0x70 + (x))
An example function prototype and description of options that
modify how arguments are passed had references to fastcall.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Andrew, I don't have the knowledge to deal with the rcupdate.c
wrapper function, hopefully Paul will be able to have a
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 01:00 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 07:15:58AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
I agree that the testcase is highly artificial. Unfortunately, it's
not uncommon to see these kind of weird testcases from customers tring
to evaluate new hardware.
Linus Torvalds wrote:
- Lots of cleanups from the x86 merge (making more and more use of common
files), but also the big page attribute stuff is in and caused a fair
amount of churn, and while most of the issues should have been very
obvious and all got fixed, this is definitely
From: Paul E. McKenney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:27:41 -0800
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:59:54PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Eliminate warnings when rcu_assign_pointer is used with unsigned long.
It is reasonable to use RCU with non-pointer values so allow it for general
commit 29dd59755a849cc6475faa6a75f3b804e23a6fc2 (ide: remove ide_setup_ports)
forgot to take into account the base addresses for the CONTROL registers for
falconide and macide, as pointed out by Michael Schmitz.
Falconide was tested on Aranym.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
[PATCH] 2.6.24 - mempolicy: silently restrict nodemask to allowed nodes
Linus has already merged this patch into his tree, but next time you
pass along a contribution to a maintainer the first line should read:
From: Lee Schermerhorn [EMAIL
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 11:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:23:18 -0800
Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Andrew,
While testing hotplug memory remove against -mm, I noticed
that unregister_memory() is not cleaning up /sysfs entries
correctly. It also
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:26:41PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
This is against current Linus git
(a4ffc0a0b240a29cbe489f6db9dae112a49ef1c1).
This rolls up all the -mm bugfixes that were accumulated, and
addresses some new review comments from Al. Also contains some
reworking from hch and a
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 20:31 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
in my experience, the only chance you have is doing API changes as first in
the set of changes,
and then hoping (making) all other trees use the new APIs. Any other order
just turns into
an impossible mismash.
It would be very
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 10:37 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 10:03 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 17:04 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
I'm going to guess that this is the entry in feature-removal.txt
From: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This adds a proper function for kmalloc page allocator pass-through. While it
simplifies any code that does slab tracing code a lot, I think it's a
worthwhile cleanup in itself.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/slub_def.h |
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:16:54 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[PATCH 08/08]
This patch is the enhancement as asked for by Yasunori: if msgmni is set to
a negative value, register it back into the ipcns notifier chain.
A new interface has been added to the notification mechanism:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:48:18AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:23:18 -0800
Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Andrew,
While testing hotplug memory remove against -mm, I noticed
that unregister_memory() is not cleaning up /sysfs entries
correctly. It
* Roland McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LD init/built-in.o
distcc[12023] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed
make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1
That message sure looks to me like it could only be a distcc bug.
ok - but it never occured before.
Ingo
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On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 22:53 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:29:06PM -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
Option has been removed as of:
185c045c245f46485ad8bbd8cc1100e986ff3f13 x86, core: remove
CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
...
I'm not a fan of patching defconfig's this way -
Excellent. Your patch fixed it for me.
Thanks,
Miles
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, David Rientjes wrote:
The second paragraphs seems to indicate that such an approach does not
work since we also use MPOL_xx constants to set flags in the memory
policies?
Not sure I'm understanding your question, sorry.
Mempolicy modes have always been int
Quoting Nick 'Zaf' Clifford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Please CC me on any/all replies
After trying to upgrade to deal with the most recent security issue, I
Judging by the 2.6.24.2 changelog I don't think the 2.6.24.1 kernel you
grabbed has the fix you're looking for...
have encountered what has
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:52:47PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 13:44 -0800, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
Hi Ingo,
I think an interface to access RLIMIT_RTTIME from outside is useful.
It makes administrator able to set RLIMIT_RTTIME watchdog to existing
real-time
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:18:49AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
I put it in the commit message, but it wasn't on page 34 when I checked (I
changed it to 69),
Sorry - page 34 was just the first reference to Extended Configuration
Registers when I originally scrounged up the info for willy.
Page
Hello Sam ,
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 04:47:43PM -0900, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
Hello All , grabbed using git just moments ago .
make V=1 KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 INSTALL_PATH=/boot clean all install
modules_install
...snip...
make -f
This build failure is seen on the powerpc from the 2.6.24-git18 kernel and is
still visible
in the 2.6.25-rc1-git1.
drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c:44: error: __param_proto causes a section
type conflict
drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c:44: error: __param_proto causes a section
type
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:23:33PM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote:
How about just doing something like this:
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c
index 9448d4e..63f9b7f 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:56:10PM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote:
+/*
+ * dma_alloc_noncoherent is a fallback for boxes PA7200 and below which
+ * cannot allocate coherent memory.
+ */
static void *pa11_dma_alloc_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
On Monday 11 February 2008 16:30:32 David Rientjes wrote:
The mempolicy mode constants, MPOL_DEFAULT, MPOL_PREFERRED, MPOL_BIND,
and MPOL_INTERLEAVE, are better declared as part of an enum for type
checking.
What type checking? There is none in standard C for enums.
-Andi
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:31:53PM +0100, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
Do you think is better create these files anyway and in case report a
NULL string?
Is that ok?
/*
* Attribute functions
*/
static ssize_t pps_show_assert(struct device *dev,
struct
FASTCALL() is always expanded to empty, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Andrew, FASTCALL is never defined to anything but empty,
remove it.
include/linux/aio.h| 20 ++--
include/linux/buffer_head.h|6 +++---
From: Casey Schaufler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets
by specifying an ambient label that is applied to incoming
unlabeled packets. Because the other end of the connection
may dislike IP options, and ssh is one know application that
behaves thus, it
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:33:14AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
Without this patch a Opteron test system here oopses at boot with currentg
git.
Calling to_pci_dev() on a NULL pointer gives a negative value so the
following NULL
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:33:23 +0100 Thomas Petazzoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I resend a new one with proper credits, will Andrew pick it up and
replace the old version by the new version ?
yup.
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:23:39AM +, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:33:02PM +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
Hi
Checkpatch in current mainline outputs following errors:
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -q --file ./fs/udf/misc.c
ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*'
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:02:22 -0800 (PST)
David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:11:36 -0500
__deprecate the old one,
Deprecate is garbage, shit hangs around in the tree forever
and people just turn off the warnings.
Clean
opl3 breaks allmodconfig in current git:
sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c: In function `snd_opl3_find_patch':
sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c:308: error: `OPL3_PATCH_HASH_SIZE' undeclared
(first use in this function)
sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c:308: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
On Monday 11 February 2008 18:36:06 Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:27:23PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
That is exactly the situation in pageattr.c. You're saying the manual
is wrong here?
I'm saying that we are not following step 2 (marking the pages not
On Monday, 11 of February 2008, Mirco Tischler wrote:
Can you send me the output of acpidump from your system, please?
I atach the output.
BTW, does the kernel compile for you after reverting this patch?
Rafael
Yes, the kernel still compiles and runs on 2.6.25-rc1 with the commit
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:23:18AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
Hi Andrew,
While testing hotplug memory remove against -mm, I noticed
that unregister_memory() is not cleaning up /sysfs entries
correctly. It also de-references structures after destroying
them (luckily in the code which
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 19:39 +0100, Thomas Meyer wrote:
H. Peter Anvin schrieb:
Thomas Meyer wrote:
H. Peter Anvin schrieb:
Thomas Meyer wrote:
I can not revert the commit
e429795c68d3001ecae74f6465420c9f043b0ece. it gave me errors.
but i'm also not sure what could be wrong with
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:46:12 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On a serious note, it seems that two scatter lists per request leaded
to this bug. Can the scatter list in struct ub_request be removed?
Good question. It's an eyesore to be sure. The duplication exists
for the sake
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