Re: Possible problem in linux file posix capabilities

2008-02-17 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Andrew G. Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > | Andrew, this pretty much was bound to happen... we need to figure out > | what our approach here should be. My preference is still to allow > | signals when

Re: [build bug] lguest build failure: drivers/lguest/x86/switcher_32.S:(.text+0x3815f8): undefined reference to `LGUEST_PAGES_regs_trapnum'

2008-02-17 Thread Sergio Luis
Sergio Luis wrote: > Christian Kujau wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Sergio Luis wrote: >>> It doesn't fix the problem totally. If we select >>> Virtualization->Linux hypervisor example code (CONFIG_LGUEST) >>> as a module, we will get the same build errors, >> Confirmed, the build errors persist

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2 regression: LVM cannot find volume group

2008-02-17 Thread Jeff Chua
On Feb 18, 2008 8:57 AM, Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 16.02.2008 23:37 schrieb Jiri Slaby: > > On 02/16/2008 09:12 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > Try to upgrade to at least lvm 2.02.29 (I guess this is the first version > > which > > understands the new sysfs layout). > I'll have to

IO_DELAY documentation

2008-02-17 Thread George Spelvin
"make oldconfig" doesn't know how to display the per-item help, so something like this is needed. It was a squeeze to make all the help text, plus option prompt, fit into 24 lines. If you think that's not a concern, some of the wording could be improved. (Added text placed into the public

finding per-process hw interrupt counts

2008-02-17 Thread Vince Weaver
Hello is there a way to find out how many times a userspace program is forced to context switch due to a hardware interrupt? The reason for this: I am measuring the retired instruction count of programs using performance counters (perfmon2 patchset), and trying to find out where the

Re: Possible problem in linux file posix capabilities

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew G. Morgan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Serge E. Hallyn wrote: | Andrew, this pretty much was bound to happen... we need to figure out | what our approach here should be. My preference is still to allow | signals when p->uid==current->uid so long as !SECURE_NOROOT. Then as | people

Re: arch/x86/mm/ioremap unification grew by 10x

2008-02-17 Thread Huang, Ying
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 19:09 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 17:17 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 15:21 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 21:32 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:25:54PM -0600, Matt Mackall

Re: What is "ERROR: "LGUEST_PAGES_guest_gdt_desc" [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] undefined!"

2008-02-17 Thread Sergio Luis
Peter Teoh wrote: > On 2/17/08, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:58:39 +0800 Peter Teoh wrote: >> >>> Can some explain the cause of this error (it has been like this for the >>> last two git pull from linus tree): >>> >>> Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready

Re: [build bug] lguest build failure: drivers/lguest/x86/switcher_32.S:(.text+0x3815f8): undefined reference to `LGUEST_PAGES_regs_trapnum'

2008-02-17 Thread Sergio Luis
Christian Kujau wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Sergio Luis wrote: >> It doesn't fix the problem totally. If we select >> Virtualization->Linux hypervisor example code (CONFIG_LGUEST) >> as a module, we will get the same build errors, > > Confirmed, the build errors persist with CONFIG_LGUEST=m and

Re: 2.6.24-git16 Oops @ sysfs_move_dir w/ btdelconn

2008-02-17 Thread Dave Young
On Feb 18, 2008 8:52 AM, Barnaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2008 4:59 AM, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Feb 16, 2008 1:16 PM, Barnaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2 regression: LVM cannot find volume group

2008-02-17 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 16.02.2008 23:37 schrieb Jiri Slaby: On 02/16/2008 09:12 PM, Alan Cox wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:14:30 +0100 Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2.6.25-rc2 fails to bring up my openSUSE 10.3 PC because LVM cannot find the volume group containing the root file system. 2.6.25-rc1

Re: [2.6.25 patch] CRYPTO_NULL must select CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER

2008-02-17 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:09:45PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch fixes the following build error caused by commit > 3631c650c495d61b1dabf32eb26b46873636e918: Patch applied. Thanks Adrian! -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: 2.6.24-git16 Oops @ sysfs_move_dir w/ btdelconn

2008-02-17 Thread Barnaby
On Feb 17, 2008 4:59 AM, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2008 1:16 PM, Barnaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Barnaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

mips yosemite_defconfig compile error

2008-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
Commit 9e2779fa281cfda13ac060753d674bbcaa23367e also broke the mips yosemite_defconfig: <-- snip --> ... CC arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.s In file included from /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14:

Re: What is "ERROR: "LGUEST_PAGES_guest_gdt_desc" [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] undefined!"

2008-02-17 Thread Peter Teoh
On 2/17/08, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:58:39 +0800 Peter Teoh wrote: > > > Can some explain the cause of this error (it has been like this for the > > last two git pull from linus tree): > > > > Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#1) > > Building

2.6.25-rc2 hangs after "Suspending console(s)"

2008-02-17 Thread Tino Keitel
Hi folks, with 2.6.25-rc2, my Mac mini Core Duo hangs at suspend. The last message on the console is "Suspending console(s)". I also tried some other versions after 2.6.24, all of them fail with this hang. I attached the lspci output for the case that it matters. Regards, Tino 00:00.0 Host

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1

2008-02-17 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:25:22 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc2/2.6.25-rc2-mm1/ Building i386 kernel on x86_64, I see a build error in linking: kernel/built-in.o: In function `jiffies_64_to_usecs': (.text+0xeaed): undefined

Re: Kernel oops with bluetooth usb dongle

2008-02-17 Thread Quel Qun
-- Original message -- From: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Quel Qun wrote: > Unfortunately we only see that the list is corrupted but not which > code caused it. This looks like something forgot to delete the timer > before freeing the

Re: [patch] move wakeup code to .c

2008-02-17 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 16 of February 2008, Len Brown wrote: > On Friday 15 February 2008 17:22, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Ok, below is the version that survives checkpatch.pl, compiles on x86-32 > > and has been successfully tested on 32-bit and 64-bit systems. > > works on my t61 in 64-bit mode

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 CD/DVD burning broken

2008-02-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 18 2008 00:21, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >> changing ide-cd (take 4)] I cannot burn any CD/DVD any more, getting the >> following error from wodim: > >> Errno: 0 (Success), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error >> CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00 >> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) >> Sense

Re: [PATCH 1/2] workqueues: shrink cpu_populated_map when CPU dies

2008-02-17 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 02/17, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > This patch looks OK to me. Thanks for looking at this! > But while reading this I got some doubts > in nearby places, so BTW 2 small questions: > > 1) ... workqueue_cpu_callback(...) > { > ... > list_for_each_entry(wq, , list) { >

Re: Subject: [PATCH] Revert "[RTNETLINK]: Send a single notification on device state changes."

2008-02-17 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 18 of February 2008, Jiri Kosina wrote: > This reverts commit 45b503548210fe6f23e92b856421c2a3f05fd034. > > It contains deadlock, and breaks userspace applications (wpa_supplicant, > networkmanager). References: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10002 >

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 CD/DVD burning broken

2008-02-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
> changing ide-cd (take 4)] I cannot burn any CD/DVD any more, getting the > following error from wodim: > Errno: 0 (Success), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error > CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00 > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00

Subject: [PATCH] Revert "[RTNETLINK]: Send a single notification on device state changes."

2008-02-17 Thread Jiri Kosina
This reverts commit 45b503548210fe6f23e92b856421c2a3f05fd034. It contains deadlock, and breaks userspace applications (wpa_supplicant, networkmanager). References: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10002 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10002 --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 36

Re: [PATCH] Implement barrier support for single device DM devices

2008-02-17 Thread David Chinner
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:07:54PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:08:21PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> Implement barrier support for single device DM devices > > > > Thanks. We've got some (more-invasive) dm patches in the works that > >

Re: [PATCH] leds: disable triggers on brightness set

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 12:52 +0100, Németh Márton wrote: > Disable any active triggers when the brightness attribute is > set to zero. I agree with this approach and will merge this as a clarification of the interface, thanks. I'll also merge your other two patches into the LED queue. Cheers,

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-17 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Mark, On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:09:57 -0500 "Mark M. Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can add the hwmon testing tree (from MAINTAINERS): > > > git lm-sensors.org:/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6.git testing > > This tree gets rebased pretty much whenever Linus adds a new tag. As a > rule

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:06:41AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, 17 of February 2008, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9842 > > > Subject : key 49 and 94 send both 49 and

Re: [PATCH] do_signal_stop: use signal_group_exit()

2008-02-17 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 02/16, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > On 02/15, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ug. On about the fourth boot with the current -mm lineup I hit: > > > > : BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00200200 > > ==

Re: [PATCH 0/2] libata: implement 32-bit transfers for PIO mode

2008-02-17 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:31:34PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > Thus, I have implemented the 32-bit mode to bring the performance back > > to the level of the old IDE driver. I jumped from 1.5 MB/s to 2.5 MB/s, > > which is an important difference at this level of performance, especially > > when

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-17 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 17 of February 2008, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9842 > > Subject : key 49 and 94 send both 49 and 94 events on macbooks > > REGRESSION > > Submitter : Emil Karlson

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-17 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9984 > > Subject : problem with starting 2.5.25-rc1 and latest git > > The kernel version seems to be a little bit bogus here :) That's a typo :/ Should read 2.6.25-rc1 instead. Mariusz -- To unsubscribe

[PATCH x86] i8259A_32: Remove redundant irq_desc[NR_IRQ] initialization

2008-02-17 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
Hi all, Remove redundant irq_desc[NR_IRQS] element initialization in init_ISA_irqs(). irq_desc[NR_IRQS] is already statically initialized with the same values in kernel/irq/handle.c . Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- i8259_32.c | 26 ++ 1 file

Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized?

2008-02-17 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:09:39 -0500 schrieb Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mark Lord wrote: > > Hans J. Koch wrote: > .. > >> Really? Unbelievable what these guys do to make my live harder... > >> So, they might use some undocumented GPIO to turn the power on, and > ... > > GPIO lines are not

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-17 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9842 > Subject : key 49 and 94 send both 49 and 94 events on macbooks > REGRESSION > Submitter : Emil Karlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date : 2008-01-29 08:15 I

Re: 2.6.25-rc1 on Sun Ultra 40

2008-02-17 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Feb 13, 2008 11:04 AM, Jasper Bryant-Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can confirm neither the boot hang with HPET enabled nor the other > unexplained boot hang after "NET: Registered protocol family 2" occur on > 2.6.24.2 on the same hardware. I still don't have an appropriate way to >

Re: Possible problem in linux file posix capabilities

2008-02-17 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > I'm not sure it is you the right person to contact. > I tried to run latest normal user wireshark with SUID dumpcap without success > under linux-2.6.24.2. After looking around it seems to be related to the file > in the kernel

Re: xfsaild causing 30+ wakeups/s on an idle system since 2.6.25-rcX

2008-02-17 Thread David Chinner
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 05:51:08PM +0100, Oliver Pinter wrote: > On 2/17/08, Török Edwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > xfsaild is causing many wakeups, a quick investigation shows > > xfsaild_push is always > > returning 30 msecs timeout value. That's a bug, and has nothing to do

Re: [PATCH 2/2] libata: implement support for 32-bit PIO transfers

2008-02-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:20:04 +0100 Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >From 4ea313fe6a3c46a90226cf40d0e3ece4b36b48f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:28:25 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] libata: implement support for 32-bit

Re: [PATCH 0/2] libata: implement 32-bit transfers for PIO mode

2008-02-17 Thread Alan Cox
> Thus, I have implemented the 32-bit mode to bring the performance back > to the level of the old IDE driver. I jumped from 1.5 MB/s to 2.5 MB/s, > which is an important difference at this level of performance, especially > when large files are read. The 32-bit mode is enabled using the ioctl >

Re: [PATCH] mm: setup_usemap() must be __meminit

2008-02-17 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > > I would need a config where the mismatch triggers for one > > of the more popular architectures (as in where I have a toolchain). > > That was with plain m68k defconfig. > > > I could not reproduce it with x86 64bit - not even with > > -fno-inline-functions > > If it helps, my

Re: parisc compile error

2008-02-17 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:42:10PM +0100, rubisher wrote: > Can I get your Signed-off-by for this, Joel? (I assume you are Joel :) cheers, Kyle > - some lake of changes of kset to kobj: > --- ./drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c.Orig2008-01-28 07:09:26.0 > + > +++

Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: fix init_8259A() to not use outb_pic

2008-02-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:56:28 -0500 (EST) "David P. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fix init_8259A() which initializes the 8259 PIC to not use outb_pic, > which is a renamed version of outb_p, and delete outb_pic define. NAK The entire point of inb_pic/outb_pic is to isolate the various

Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: fix cmos read and write to not use inb_p and outb_p

2008-02-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:56:39 -0500 (EST) "David P. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fix code to access CMOS rtc registers so that it does not use inb_p and > outb_p routines, which are deprecated. > Signed-off-by: David P. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is

Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: fix pcspkr to not use inb_p/outb_p calls.

2008-02-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:56:42 -0500 (EST) "David P. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fix pcspkr driver to use explicit timing delay for access to PIT, > rather than inb_p/outb_p calls, which use insufficiently explicit NAK. We now have inb_pit and outb_pit to make the transition easier - can

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:631!

2008-02-17 Thread Ignacy Gawedzki
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:16:36PM +0100, thus spake Rafael J. Wysocki: > On Sunday, 17 of February 2008, Ignacy Gawedzki wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi, > > > I was printing on the parallel port and suddenly the "parallel" CUPS backend > > went 50% CPU (obviously endless-looping), while the other 50%

Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized?

2008-02-17 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Hans J. Koch wrote: .. Really? Unbelievable what these guys do to make my live harder... So, they might use some undocumented GPIO to turn the power on, and ... GPIO lines are not usually very difficult to trace, and programming them is pretty easy, too ... If I had an

Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized?

2008-02-17 Thread Mark Lord
Hans J. Koch wrote: Am Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:29:27 -0800 schrieb Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:37:53 +0100 "Hans J. Koch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course there's no driver for the wlan, but that's a different story ;) I replaced that unsupported Atheros 5007

2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-17 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
[This is a bit late, for which I'm sorry, but I waited for things to calm down a bit, to have something less of a moving target. Now, following an Ingo's advice, the list has been generated directly out of the Bugzilla entries used for tracking the bugs. I'm going to release the script used for

[2.6.25 patch] mips: fix SNI_RM EISA=n compilation

2008-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following build error with CONFIG_EISA=n caused by commit 231a35d37293ab88d325a9cb94e5474c156282c0: <-- snip --> ... LD .tmp_vmlinux1 arch/mips/sni/built-in.o: In function `snirm_a20r_setup_devinit': a20r.c:(.init.text+0x42c): undefined reference to

[PATCH 3/3] x86: fix pcspkr to not use inb_p/outb_p calls.

2008-02-17 Thread David P. Reed
Fix pcspkr driver to use explicit timing delay for access to PIT, rather than inb_p/outb_p calls, which use insufficiently explicit delays (defaulting to port 80 writes) that can cause freeze problems on some machines, such as Quanta moterboard machines using ENE EC's. The explicit timing delay

[PATCH 1/3] x86: fix init_8259A() to not use outb_pic

2008-02-17 Thread David P. Reed
fix init_8259A() which initializes the 8259 PIC to not use outb_pic, which is a renamed version of outb_p, and delete outb_pic define. There is already code in the .c files that does accesses to CMD & IMR registers in successive outb() calls without _p. Thus the outb_p is obviously not needed, if

[PATCH 2/3] x86: fix cmos read and write to not use inb_p and outb_p

2008-02-17 Thread David P. Reed
fix code to access CMOS rtc registers so that it does not use inb_p and outb_p routines, which are deprecated. Extensive research on all known CMOS RTC chipset timing shows that there is no need for a delay in accessing the registers of these chips even on old machines. These chipa are never on

[PATCH 0/3] x86: cleanup primary motherboard chip port access delays

2008-02-17 Thread David P. Reed
cleanup motherboard chip io port delays. inb_p and outb_p have traditionally used a write to port 80 (a non-existent port) as a delay. Though there is an argument that that is a good delay for devices on the ISA or PCI expansion buses it is not a good mechanism for devices in the processor

Re: [PATCH v2] Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (wakeup)

2008-02-17 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:31:37PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > >But I assume in less obvious way. > >It is a bit more intuitive to error out on missing > >-m32 support than gcc failing to support .code16 > >or some other inline assembler magic. > > > > No, you will

Re: [PATCH] x86: include prototype for no_broadcast in mach-default/setup.c

2008-02-17 Thread Harvey Harrison
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 21:09 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > config attached. The include file dependencies in this area are a > > > bit of a mess - perhaps they need some cleanups? > > > > OK, I'm building all(yes|mod)configs and didn't see this.

Re: [PATCH v2] Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (wakeup)

2008-02-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Sam Ravnborg wrote: But I assume in less obvious way. It is a bit more intuitive to error out on missing -m32 support than gcc failing to support .code16 or some other inline assembler magic. No, you will get the message "the selected CPU doesn't support the x86-64 architecture".

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-17 Thread Torsten Kaiser
On Feb 17, 2008 9:25 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's the Bugzilla entry for it at > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9973 Thank you. > Please update it with the current information. Crash for 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 added. That one had a complete stacktrace, but the

Re: [PATCH v2] Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (wakeup)

2008-02-17 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:21:27PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > >For a 64 bit build we should error out if the compiler > >fials to support -m32 (how unlikely that may be). > >So I would prefer it unconditional for 64 bit. > > > > We will err out anyway. But I assume

Re: [PATCH v2] Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (wakeup)

2008-02-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Sam Ravnborg wrote: For a 64 bit build we should error out if the compiler fials to support -m32 (how unlikely that may be). So I would prefer it unconditional for 64 bit. We will err out anyway. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH v2] Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (wakeup)

2008-02-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: OK, so that would be the appended patch. Still, since there are several fixes against the "move the wakeup code to C" patch, I'll probably fold them all into a new version of this patch and resend it. Yes, please. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

[PATCH 2/2] libata: implement support for 32-bit PIO transfers

2008-02-17 Thread Willy Tarreau
>From 4ea313fe6a3c46a90226cf40d0e3ece4b36b48f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:28:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] libata: implement support for 32-bit PIO transfers When ATA_DFLAG_32BIT_PIO is set in ata flags, PIO transfers will be

[PATCH 1/2] libata: implement ATA_IOC_GET_IO32/ATA_IOC_SET_IO32 ioctls

2008-02-17 Thread Willy Tarreau
>From 40a8174d27cb9d93b859bc073c8f075b9ff71578 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:11:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] libata: implement ATA_IOC_GET_IO32/ATA_IOC_SET_IO32 ioctls This patch implements the aforementionned ioctls and get/set the

[PATCH 0/2] libata: implement 32-bit transfers for PIO mode

2008-02-17 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Jeff, For several times I tried libata on small machines equipped with either CompactFlash or IDE DOM (Disk-On-Module). All those machines with small flashes (<= 256 MB) were about 35-40% slower under libata than under the plain old IDE driver. I realized that all the slower ones were running

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2008-02-17 Thread dpreed
>From David P. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat Feb 16 15:05:17 2008 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:05:17 -0500 From: David P. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "H. Peter Anvin"

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2008-02-17 Thread dpreed
>From David P. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat Feb 16 15:05:17 2008 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:05:20 -0500 From: David P. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL

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2008-02-17 Thread dpreed
>From David P. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat Feb 16 15:05:17 2008 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:05:18 -0500 From: David P. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL

Re: Suspend doesn't work when SD card is inserted

2008-02-17 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 17 of February 2008, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > Hello Hi, Thanks for the report. > I've noticed that my system (T61) doesn't want to suspend when SD card > is in the card reader slot with 2.6.25-rc2 (no problem when the card > is outside) > Also the card is not even mounted, it's just

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2008-02-17 Thread dpreed
>From David P. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat Feb 16 15:05:17 2008 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:05:19 -0500 From: David P. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: sbp2: fix rescan-scsi-bus

2008-02-17 Thread Stefan Richter
>> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 14:57 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: >>> rescan-scsi-bus used to add SBP-2 targets which weren't there. PS: It probably wasn't clear: rescan-scsi-bus.sh is *not* necessary for sbp2 (under Linux 2.6, that is). The patch merely prevents weird things from happening if the

Re: git-xtensa doesn't like my cross compiler

2008-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:29:58PM -0800, Chris Zankel wrote: > Hi Adrian, Hi Chris, > Thanks for pointing this out. I'm working on a fix. thanks. > BTW, which branch do you use? release or testing? I tried #testing. > Thanks, > -CHris cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?"

Re: [PATCH v2] Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (wakeup)

2008-02-17 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:40:15PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, 17 of February 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Randy Dunlap wrote: > > >> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:58:06 -0800 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > >> > > >>> Randy Dunlap wrote: > > Yes, adding -m32

Re: [PATCH 4/5] [PATCH] introduce paravirt helpers

2008-02-17 Thread Glauber Costa
On Feb 17, 2008 4:05 PM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Glauber Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > config X86_VSMP > > bool "Support for ScaleMP vSMP" > > depends on X86_64 && PCI > > - help > > + select PARAVIRT > > + help > > hm, what's the idea here?

Re: getting uninterruptible sleep processes after upgrade from 2.6.20.20 to 2.6.24.2

2008-02-17 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:49:10 +0100 allied internet ag- Stefan Priebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> One week ago we upgraded about 300 servers from 2.6.20.20 to > >> 2.6.24.2. > > > > Painfull. > > OK not really - i've tested the new kernel on all models. And it > works fine... the DN state

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-17 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:38:51 -0600 Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adrian wrote: > > So let's fix the problem (kernel lacks functionality) > > That's the problem as understood by Adrian. > > I hear another problem as well ... > > Frans wrote: > > Please allow external users some

Re: getting uninterruptible sleep processes after upgrade from 2.6.20.20 to 2.6.24.2

2008-02-17 Thread allied internet ag- Stefan Priebe
>> One week ago we upgraded about 300 servers from 2.6.20.20 to 2.6.24.2. > > Painfull. OK not really - i've tested the new kernel on all models. And it works fine... the DN state only comes sometimes - absolutely not reproducable. So my tests went OK and then we've done the update. I've now

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-17 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:25:30 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yesterday, after spending quite a few hours over the last days on > bisecting some serious regressions and finding workarounds for them, > I thought I could start using 2.6.25-rc2 as the new kernel for my > desktop.

Re: [PATCH v2] Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (wakeup)

2008-02-17 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 17 of February 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:58:06 -0800 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> > >>> Randy Dunlap wrote: > Yes, adding -m32 to the X86_32 config ccflags (as is done for the > X86_64 case) makes it

Re: git-xtensa doesn't like my cross compiler

2008-02-17 Thread Chris Zankel
Hi Adrian, Thanks for pointing this out. I'm working on a fix. BTW, which branch do you use? release or testing? Thanks, -CHris Adrian Bunk wrote: With git-xtensa I'm getting: <-- snip --> ... /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/xtensa/Makefile:30: *** No Xtensa toolchain

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-17 Thread Paul Jackson
Adrian wrote: > So let's fix the problem (kernel lacks functionality) That's the problem as understood by Adrian. I hear another problem as well ... Frans wrote: > Please allow external users some decent period for transitioning. The > initial plan to "remove the old function in 2.6.27" was

Re: [PATCH] mm: setup_usemap() must be __meminit

2008-02-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:31:14PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On m68k (CONFIG_SPARSEMEM is not set), I get: > > > > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.meminit.text+0x36c): Section mismatch in > > >

Re: getting uninterruptible sleep processes after upgrade from 2.6.20.20 to 2.6.24.2

2008-02-17 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 02/17/2008 09:02 PM, allied internet ag- Stefan Priebe wrote: Hello! One week ago we upgraded about 300 servers from 2.6.20.20 to 2.6.24.2. Painfull. Now we get sometimes dozent of processes in state DN. The system is completely idle - but the load is 20 or 90 or whatever. And it can

Re: getting uninterruptible sleep processes after upgrade from 2.6.20.20 to 2.6.24.2

2008-02-17 Thread Christian Kujau
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, allied internet ag- Stefan Priebe wrote: One week ago we upgraded about 300 servers from 2.6.20.20 to 2.6.24.2. Did you test with *one* server before upgrading all 300? If not, please do and try to upgrade in smaller steps, e.g. 2.6.20->2.6.21 and see when it breaks. Add

Re: [PATCH 2/7] fs/ext{2,3,4}: Use BUG_ON

2008-02-17 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:55:06PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > if (...) BUG(); should be replaced with BUG_ON(...) when the test has no > side-effects to allow a definition of BUG_ON that drops the code completely. Hi, in the future, please separate

Re: 2.6.24-git4+ regression

2008-02-17 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:25:51PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > The patch is against 2.6.25-rc1. I would request you to check for > difference it makes with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED and > CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED turned on. well, I tried the patch against 2.6.25-rc2-git1. It seems to be better

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-17 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 16 of February 2008, Torsten Kaiser wrote: > On Feb 15, 2008 10:23 PM, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ok, > > this kernel is a winner. > > Sadly not for me: > [ 5282.056415] [ cut here ] > [ 5282.059757] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:33! >

Re: [2.6 patch] make vfs_ioctl() static

2008-02-17 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:18:42AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This patch makes the needlessly global vfs_ioctl() static. > > I think the point was toa eventually export it for stackable filesystem > use. But until they start using it

Re: [2.6.25-rc2] System freezes ca. 1 minute after logging into KDE

2008-02-17 Thread Benjamin Thery
On Feb 17, 2008 11:39 AM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (resend a third time because previous attempts never reached the lists > due to a bug in my MUA; my apologies to David for spamming his inbox) > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But hey, you can try to prove me wrong. I dare you. > Me

Re: [PATCH 1/2] workqueues: shrink cpu_populated_map when CPU dies

2008-02-17 Thread Jarek Poplawski
Hi Oleg, This patch looks OK to me. But while reading this I got some doubts in nearby places, so BTW 2 small questions: 1) ... workqueue_cpu_callback(...) { ... list_for_each_entry(wq, , list) { cwq = per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, cpu); switch (action)

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:24:56PM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 17.02.2008 14:16 schrieb Adrian Bunk: >> The real problem is that the kernel seems to lack functionality you >> require for doing some work. >> >> Why does your work on the Debian Installer depend on VirtualBox and >> can't be

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:631!

2008-02-17 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 17 of February 2008, Ignacy Gawedzki wrote: > Hi, Hi, > I was printing on the parallel port and suddenly the "parallel" CUPS backend > went 50% CPU (obviously endless-looping), while the other 50% were eaten by > ghostscript (strace didn't show anything, so this might be an "internal"

Re: [patch 2/2] x86: lds - Use THREAD_SIZE instead of numeric constant

2008-02-17 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[H. Peter Anvin - Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:11:45PM -0800] > Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: >> Thanks Peter for comments. Peter could you clarify for me a bit >> more on the string: >> x86/kernel/head_32.S:339 >> /* Set up the stack pointer */ >> lss stack_start,%esp >> but stack_start is defined

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (build failure)

2008-02-17 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 17 of February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc2/2.6.25-rc2-mm1/ > > > > > > When SMP=n, x86_64 build gets: > > > > > > arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `acpi_save_state_mem': > > >

Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices ADT7473 sensor chip

2008-02-17 Thread Mark M. Hoffman
Hi Darrick: Sorry this took forever for me to review. Just a few little things... * Darrick J. Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-19 15:14:38 -0800]: > This driver also had that funny alarm1/alarm2 thing; here's a revision > of yesterday's patch with that straightened out. > --- > This driver

Re: [build bug] lguest build failure: drivers/lguest/x86/switcher_32.S:(.text+0x3815f8): undefined reference to `LGUEST_PAGES_regs_trapnum'

2008-02-17 Thread Christian Kujau
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Sergio Luis wrote: It doesn't fix the problem totally. If we select Virtualization->Linux hypervisor example code (CONFIG_LGUEST) as a module, we will get the same build errors, Confirmed, the build errors persist with CONFIG_LGUEST=m and Rusty's patch applied. thanks,

Re: [patch 2/2] x86: lds - Use THREAD_SIZE instead of numeric constant

2008-02-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: Thanks Peter for comments. Peter could you clarify for me a bit more on the string: x86/kernel/head_32.S:339 /* Set up the stack pointer */ lss stack_start,%esp but stack_start is defined as head_32.S:647 .data ENTRY(stack_start) .long

mips SMBUS_PSC_BASE compile errors

2008-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
Commit 8b798c4d16b762d15f4055597ff8d87f73b35552 causes compile errors like the following for several system types: <-- snip --> ... CC arch/mips/au1000/common/platform.o /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/mips/au1000/common/platform.c:277: error: 'PSC0_BASE_ADDR'

[2.6 patch] mips: finish the Qemu platform removal

2008-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
The following files can now be removed: - arch/mips/configs/qemu_defconfig - include/asm-mips/qemu.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/mips/configs/qemu_defconfig | 800 --- include/asm-mips/qemu.h | 30 - 2 files changed, 830

mips/bcm47xx/setup.c compile error

2008-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
Commit d3c319f9c8d9ee2c042c60b8a1bbd909dcc42782 causes the following compile error: <-- snip --> ... CC arch/mips/bcm47xx/setup.o /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/mips/bcm47xx/setup.c: In function 'bcm47xx_get_invariants':

[2.6.25 patch] CRYPTO_NULL must select CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER

2008-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following build error caused by commit 3631c650c495d61b1dabf32eb26b46873636e918: <-- snip --> ... LD .tmp_vmlinux1 crypto/built-in.o: In function `skcipher_null_crypt': crypto_null.c:(.text+0x3d14): undefined reference to `blkcipher_walk_virt'

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