[PATCH] Add PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro

2008-02-18 Thread Jonas Bonn
The definitions of struct pci_device_id arrays should generally follow the same pattern across the entire kernel. This macro defines this array as const and puts it into the __devinitconst section. Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/pci.h |9 + 1 files

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24 1/1] sch_htb: fix too many events situation

2008-02-18 Thread Martin Devera
up to single jiffy interval and then delay remainder to other jiffy. Signed-off-by: Martin Devera [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think we would be wise to use something other than loops_per_jiffy. Depending upon the loop calibration method used by a particular architecture it can me one of many

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-18 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
Hi, Stephen Rothwell wrote: Also, more trees please ... :-) The UBI tree which is here: git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6.git master -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

linux-next: Tree for Feb 18

2008-02-18 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi all, I have created today's linux-next tree at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git. You can see which trees have been included by looking in the Next/Trees file in the source. There are also quilt-import.log and merge.log files in the Next directory. Between

Re: 2.6.24-git4+ regression

2008-02-18 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:38:24AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: Here, it does not. It seems fine without CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED. My hunch is its because of the vruntime driven preemption which shoots up latencies (and the fact perhaps that Peter hasnt't focused more on SMP case yet!).

Re: tbench regression in 2.6.25-rc1

2008-02-18 Thread Zhang, Yanmin
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 15:22 -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:21:48 +0100 On linux-2.6.25-rc1 x86_64 : offsetof(struct dst_entry, lastuse)=0xb0 offsetof(struct dst_entry, __refcnt)=0xb8 offsetof(struct dst_entry, __use)=0xbc

Re: linux-next: Tree for Feb 18

2008-02-18 Thread Avi Kivity
Stephen Rothwell wrote: We are up to 24 trees, more are welcome. Kernel-based virtual machine: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git master -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH] memcgroup: remove a useless VM_BUG_ON()

2008-02-18 Thread Balbir Singh
Li Zefan wrote: Remove this VM_BUG_ON(), as Balbir stated: We used to have a for loop with !list_empty() as a termination condition and VM_BUG_ON(!pc) is a spill over. With the new loop, VM_BUG_ON(!pc) does not make sense. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mm/memcontrol.c |

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24 1/1] sch_htb: fix too many events situation

2008-02-18 Thread David Miller
From: Martin Devera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:03:52 +0100 aha, ok, I'm not so informed about crossplatform issues. I was also thining about looking at jiffies value and stop once it is startjiffy+2, but with NO_HZ introduction, are jiffies still incremented ? There should

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] reworking load_balance_monitor

2008-02-18 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:57:24PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Hi, Here the current patches that rework load_balance_monitor. The main reason for doing this is to eliminate the wakeups the thing generates, esp. on an idle system. The bonus is that it removes a kernel thread. Hi

Re: [PATCH 1/7] cgroup: fix and update documentation

2008-02-18 Thread Li Zefan
Paul Jackson wrote: Li Zefan wrote: *** notify_on_release is disabled in the current patch set. It will be -*** reactivated in a future patch in a less-intrusive manner +*** reactivated in a future patch in a less-intrusive manner. Someone should verify this, but I'm pretty sure that

Re: mips/bcm47xx/setup.c compile error

2008-02-18 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:09:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: 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

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-18 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Artem, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:04:17 +0200 Artem Bityutskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The UBI tree which is here: git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6.git master Added, thanks. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpeNJ4XqKixk.pgp Description: PGP

Re: 2.6.24-git4+ regression

2008-02-18 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 13:50 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:38:24AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: Here, it does not. It seems fine without CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED. My hunch is its because of the vruntime driven preemption which shoots up latencies (and the fact

Re: cris/arch-v10/lib/string.c compile error

2008-02-18 Thread Jesper Nilsson
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:57:39AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: Next file, same problem: -- snip -- ... CC arch/cris/arch-v10/lib/string.o /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/cris/arch-v10/lib/string.c:138: error: lvalue required as increment operand

Re: [PATCH 1/7] cgroup: fix and update documentation

2008-02-18 Thread Li Zefan
Misc fixes and updates, make the doc consistent with current cgroup implementation. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/cgroups.txt | 66 ++-- 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) diff --git

[patch 2/2] x86, ptrace, man: corresponding man pages

2008-02-18 Thread Markus Metzger
Man pages describing the user API of the ptrace BTS extensions. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index: man/man2/ptrace.2 === --- man.orig/man2/ptrace.2 2008-02-13 09:35:47.%N +0100 +++ man/man2/ptrace.2

Re: [PATCH] memcgroup: remove a useless VM_BUG_ON()

2008-02-18 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:34:48 +0800 Li Zefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remove this VM_BUG_ON(), as Balbir stated: We used to have a for loop with !list_empty() as a termination condition and VM_BUG_ON(!pc) is a spill over. With the new loop, VM_BUG_ON(!pc) does not make sense.

Re: [PATCH] exporting capability code/name pairs (try #5.1)

2008-02-18 Thread Kohei KaiGai
Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:12:53PM +0900, Kohei KaiGai wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:38:02PM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: This patch enables to export code/name of capabilities supported on the running kernel. A newer kernel sometimes adds new

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

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
Joerg Schilling wrote: This fragment is much too short to allow to judge on possible reasons. There is a high probability that your problem is caused by the cdrecord fork called wodim. There is also the 100% certainty that this reply was from a known troll and should just be ignored. -- To

Re: linux-next: Tree for Feb 18

2008-02-18 Thread David Miller
From: Stephen Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:08:41 +1100 I have created today's linux-next tree at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git. The patch below fixes the allmodconfig build on sparc64 for me. I notice on the build status page that

Re: [PATCH] x86: Coding style fixes for arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c

2008-02-18 Thread Paolo Ciarrocchi
On Feb 18, 2008 3:56 AM, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Paolo Ciarrocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [PATCH] x86: Coding style fixes for arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c Kills more than 150 errors/warnings thanks Paolo, applied. This file was _really_ unclean. You are welcome. Kudos

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-18 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 02/17/2008 11:03 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10021 Subject : Linux 2.6.25-rc2 regression: LVM cannot find volume group Submitter : Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008-02-16 20:14 References :

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

2008-02-18 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:46 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: This fragment is much too short to allow to judge on possible reasons. There is a high probability that your problem is caused by the cdrecord fork called wodim. There is also the 100% certainty that this reply

Re: linux-next: Tree for Feb 18

2008-02-18 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Avi, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:14:33 +0200 Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kernel-based virtual machine: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git master Added, thanks. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Scaling msgmni to the amount of lowmem

2008-02-18 Thread Nadia Derbey
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:16:47 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [PATCH 01/08] This patch computes msg_ctlmni to make it scale with the amount of lowmem. msg_ctlmni is now set to make the message queues occupy 1/32 of the available lowmem. Some cleaning has also been done

Re: Current git very broken on the Dreamcast

2008-02-18 Thread Magnus Damm
. With these patches io ports count from 0 - 8k-1 instead of being a pointer. We currently rely on generic_io_base logic but that will be changed in the future. Please let me know the results. Thank you. / magnus linux-2.6.25-rc2-sh-dreamcast-irq-20080218.patch Description: Binary data linux-2.6.25-rc2

Re: [linux-pm] sleepy linux self-test

2008-02-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! +config PM_WAKEALARM_TEST + bool Test suspend/resume and wakealarm during bootup + depends on SUSPEND PM_DEBUG RTC_LIB I guess it also should depend on CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS (not being a module) and !CONFIG_RTC. No -- we need a *generic* test, not one that's

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1

2008-02-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:16:19 -0800 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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:

Re: [PATCH] x86: Coding style fixes for arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c

2008-02-18 Thread Paolo Ciarrocchi
On 2/18/08, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Paolo Ciarrocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /* - * Set up an actual MCR + * Set up an actual MCR */ This was not highlighted by checkpatch.pl, right? The same applies for a few other fix you did on some comments.

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

2008-02-18 Thread Török Edwin
David Chinner wrote: 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

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] CGroup API: Add cgroup.api control file

2008-02-18 Thread Li Zefan
Paul Menage wrote: On Feb 16, 2008 2:07 AM, Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Menage wrote: Hi, Paul, Do we need to use a cgroup.api file? Why not keep up to date documentation and get users to use that. I fear that, cgroup.api will not be kept up-to-date, leading to confusion.

[patch] suspend/resume self-test

2008-02-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since this is increasingly unrelated to the sleepy linux concept (a version of what systems like OLPC, N700, and N800 are doing), I got rid of the sleepy.c file. What was the decision here? Ingo, did you merge this for 2.6.26, or just for your

Re: [PATCH] x86: Coding style fixes for arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c

2008-02-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paolo Ciarrocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /* - * Set up an actual MCR + * Set up an actual MCR */ This was not highlighted by checkpatch.pl, right? The same applies for a few other fix you did on some comments. correct - it's not fixes, just bringing it in line with the

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-18 Thread Erez Zilber
Bart Van Assche wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 6:01 PM, Erez Zilber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using such large values for FirstBurstLength will give you poor performance numbers for WRITE commands (with iSER). FirstBurstLength means how much data should you send as unsolicited data (i.e. without

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-18 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On 2/18/08, Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/17/2008 11:03 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10021 Subject : Linux 2.6.25-rc2 regression: LVM cannot find volume group Submitter : Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why on earth do we have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED at all if the only sane choice for someone who tests new kernels is to always turn it on? seconded ... it's insane how inconvenient certain storage systems are to use, and people get turned away with

Re: [PATCH] linux/hdsmart.h: fix goofups

2008-02-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:17:20 EST, Robert P. J. Day said: if that header file isn't used by any kernel code, why bother having a check for __KERNEL__ in the first place? it's being exported to userspace unchecked:

Re: [patch] suspend/resume self-test

2008-02-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Since this is increasingly unrelated to the sleepy linux concept (a version of what systems like OLPC, N700, and N800 are doing), I got rid of the sleepy.c file. What was the decision here? Ingo, did you merge this for 2.6.26, or just for your test farm? it's working

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] CGroup API: Update cpusets to use cgroup structured file API

2008-02-18 Thread Li Zefan
Paul Jackson wrote: Ok ... this would (I suspect, just from code reading, no bytes were harmed in actual testing of this) have a minor change to how white space is handled writing integer flags to cpuset files, and a minor inconstency. 1) Existing cpuset code lets you set a flag (e.g.

[PATCH 6/7] sched: fair: optimize sched_slice()

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Cache the divide in the hope we can avoid doing it in steady state optertion. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/sched.c |2 ++ kernel/sched_debug.c |1 + kernel/sched_fair.c |6 ++ 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index:

[PATCH 2/7] sched: fair-group scheduling vs latency

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Currently FAIR_GROUP sched grows the scheduler latency outside of sysctl_sched_latency, invert this so it stays within. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/sched_fair.c | 233 ++-- 1 file changed, 120 insertions(+), 113

[PATCH 5/7] sched: remove sysctl_sched_batch_wakeup_granularity

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Its unused,.. toss it! Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/sched.h |1 - kernel/sched.c|1 - kernel/sched_debug.c |1 - kernel/sched_fair.c | 10 -- kernel/sysctl.c | 11 --- 5 files changed, 24 deletions(-) Index:

[PATCH 3/7] sched: fair-group: de-couple load-balancing from the rb-trees

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
De-couple load-balancing from the rb-trees, so that I can change their organization. Afterwards we'll probably want to redo load balancing to not need the grouping info. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/init_task.h |3 +++ include/linux/sched.h |1 +

[PATCH 0/7] Single RQ group scheduling

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
This is my current queue for single RQ group scheduling. Next on the list is the SMP load balancing, for that I'm looking at Tong's DWRR algorithm. -- 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 1/7] sched: cleanup old and rarely used debug features.

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
TREE_AVG and APPROX_AVG are initial task placement policies that have been disabled for a long while.. time to remove them. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/sched.c |8 ++-- kernel/sched_fair.c | 14 -- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 20

Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: export gpl (un)register_memory_notifier

2008-02-18 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
switching to proper mail client... Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 15.02.2008 17:55:38: I've been thinking about that, and I don't think you really *need* to keep a comprehensive map like that. When the memory is in a particular configuration (range of memory present along with

Re: mips/bcm47xx/setup.c compile error

2008-02-18 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:49:44AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:09:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: Commit d3c319f9c8d9ee2c042c60b8a1bbd909dcc42782 causes the following compile error: -- snip -- ... CC arch/mips/bcm47xx/setup.o

[PATCH] [SSB] PCI core driver: use new SPROM data structure

2008-02-18 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Switch the SSB PCI core driver to the new SPROM data structure now that the old one has been removed. Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ssb/driver_pcicore.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ssb/driver_pcicore.c

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24 1/1] sch_htb: fix too many events situation

2008-02-18 Thread Martin Devera
David Miller wrote: From: Martin Devera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:03:52 +0100 aha, ok, I'm not so informed about crossplatform issues. I was also thining about looking at jiffies value and stop once it is startjiffy+2, but with NO_HZ introduction, are jiffies still

Re: tbench regression in 2.6.25-rc1

2008-02-18 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:12:38 +0800 Zhang, Yanmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 15:22 -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:21:48 +0100 On linux-2.6.25-rc1 x86_64 : offsetof(struct dst_entry, lastuse)=0xb0

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 hangs after Suspending console(s)

2008-02-18 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 18 of February 2008, Tino Keitel wrote: 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

[MIPS] BCM47XX: use new SSB SPROM data structure

2008-02-18 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Switch the BCM47XX code to the new SPROM data structure now that the old one has been removed. Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/mips/bcm47xx/setup.c | 12 ++-- arch/mips/bcm47xx/wgt634u.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH 4/7] sched: fair-group: single RQ approach

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
The current hierarchical RQ group scheduler suffers from a number of problems: - yield - wakeup preemption - sleeper fairness All these problems are due to the isolation caused by the multiple RQ design. They are caused by the fact that vruntime becomes a local property. Solve this by

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-18 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 02/18/2008 10:49 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why on earth do we have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED at all if the only sane choice for someone who tests new kernels is to always turn it on? seconded ... it's insane how inconvenient certain storage systems

[PATCH 7/7] sched: fair: vruntime spread

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
By its very nature we try to converge vruntime between tasks. This makes it very hard to interleave the groups that have varying latency requirements, they end up in a single 'lump'. Avoid this by introducing an artificial vruntime offset: A1 |--| A2 |--| A3

Re: [patch] checkpatch.pl: revert wrong --file message

2008-02-18 Thread Andi Kleen
On Saturday 16 February 2008 11:27:33 Pekka Enberg wrote: Hi, On Feb 16, 2008 12:18 PM, Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, who do cleanups - I'm not talking about running lindent here - read through the code while they fix it up. Actually they find bugs that way or at

Re: [patch] checkpatch.pl: revert wrong --file message

2008-02-18 Thread Andi Kleen
People, who do cleanups - I'm not talking about running lindent here - read through the code while they fix it up. Please feel free to repeat my little experiment: give someone who sends you a lot of checkpatch.pl only patches a simple task that actually requires a little actual code change

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (x64 thermal build failure)

2008-02-18 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Hi, Le Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:44:10 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Bustage in x86-configurable-dmi-scanning-code.patch. Previously, DMI=y was just hardwired. Now, it becomes selectable and stuff breaks. I guess the DMI=n version of dmi_check_system() could become a macro

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-18 Thread Dhaval Giani
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9982 Subject : 2.6.25-rc1 panics on boot Submitter : Dhaval Giani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : 2008-02-13 18:03 References: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/363 Handled-By: Chris Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mips SMBUS_PSC_BASE compile errors

2008-02-18 Thread Manuel Lauss
... 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' undeclared here (not in a function) /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/mips/au1000/common/platform.c:314: warning: no

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

2008-02-18 Thread David Chinner
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:41:39AM +0200, Török Edwin wrote: David Chinner wrote: 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

[PATCH 1/5] signal(x86_32): Improve the signal stack overflow check

2008-02-18 Thread Shi Weihua
We need to check for stack overflow only when the signal is on stack. So we can improve the patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/27/101; as following. Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.25-rc2.orig/arch/x86/kernel/signal_32.c 2008-02-16 04:57:20.0 +0800 +++

[PATCH 2/5] signal(x86_64): add a signal stack overflow check

2008-02-18 Thread Shi Weihua
The similar check has been added to x86_32(i386) in commit id 83bd01024b1fdfc41d9b758e5669e80fca72df66. So we add this check to x86_64 and improve it a liitle bit in that we need to check for stack overflow only when the signal is on stack. Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ---

[PATCH 3/5] signal(x86_ia32): add a signal stack overflow check

2008-02-18 Thread Shi Weihua
The similar check has been added to x86_32(i386) in commit id 83bd01024b1fdfc41d9b758e5669e80fca72df66. So we add this check to x86_ia32 and improve it a liitle bit in that we need to check for stack overflow only when the signal is on stack. Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ---

[PATCH 4/5] signal(ia64): add a signal stack overflow check

2008-02-18 Thread Shi Weihua
The similar check has been added to x86_32(i386) in commit id 83bd01024b1fdfc41d9b758e5669e80fca72df66. So we add this check to ia64 and improve it a liitle bit in that we need to check for stack overflow only when the signal is on stack. Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ---

[PATCH 5/5] signal(ia64_ia32): add a signal stack overflow check

2008-02-18 Thread Shi Weihua
The similar check has been added to x86_32(i386) in commit id 83bd01024b1fdfc41d9b758e5669e80fca72df66. So we add this check to ia64_ia32 and improve it a liitle bit in that we need to check for stack overflow only when the signal is on stack. Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ---

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

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:46 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: This fragment is much too short to allow to judge on possible reasons. There is a high probability that your problem is caused by the cdrecord fork called wodim.

Re: parisc compile error

2008-02-18 Thread rubisher
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 :) Yes the previous account seems to be a bit old and look more and more like a gc; I so take the opportunity of ml's change to use another pseudo ;-) That said

Re: [PATCH 20/27] [ALSA] caiaq - fix section mismatch warning

2008-02-18 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:22:57 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Fix following warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x11ec01a): Section mismatch in reference from the function setup_card() to the function .devinit.text:snd_usb_caiaq_control_init() setup_card() are only used by init_card().

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

2008-02-18 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 17.02.2008 schrieb Jeff Chua: I faced the same problem, but resolved with ... vgscan vgchange -a y Sorry, I'm not sure what to do with those two commands. Running them once manually doesn't seem to change anything, and my initrd already contains them AFAICS. Also, ensure you set

Re: [PATCH 27/27] [ALSA] hdsp - fix section mismatch warnings

2008-02-18 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:45:08 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:43:32AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:23:04 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Fix following warnings: WARNING: sound/pci/rme9652/snd-hdsp.o(.text+0x34bc): Section mismatch in

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] CGroup API: Add cgroup.api control file

2008-02-18 Thread Balbir Singh
Li Zefan wrote: Paul Menage wrote: On Feb 16, 2008 2:07 AM, Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Menage wrote: Hi, Paul, Do we need to use a cgroup.api file? Why not keep up to date documentation and get users to use that. I fear that, cgroup.api will not be kept up-to-date,

Re: Compiling with 2.6.25-rc2 with binutils 2.17 fails?

2008-02-18 Thread Rob Landley
On Sunday 17 February 2008 21:09:10 Roland McGrath wrote: Still trying to track down why, but it works on a toolchain built from binutils 2.18 and gcc 4.1.3, but not with a toolchain from binutils 2.17 and gcc 4.1.2. And considering where it's failing... I don't think the vdso magic

Re: [patch] suspend/resume self-test

2008-02-18 Thread David Brownell
  - Includes a command line parameter, which needs work yet ... it     currently turns this test off, but it should also let the target     state be specified (and maybe even default to no test). I think no test should be the default; STR working sanely on x86 is unfortunately too much a

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-18 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On 2/18/08, Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/18/2008 10:49 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why on earth do we have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED at all if the only sane choice for someone who tests new kernels is to always turn it on? seconded ...

Re: 2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression

2008-02-18 Thread Joel Becker
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:49:21PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: I've been seeing similar attempts to map 0xf0 but so far I was the only one (although that made no sense to me). Does the patch below help at all? The problem seems to be that the kernel is trying to map pages at 0xf but these

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24 1/1] sch_htb: fix too many events situation

2008-02-18 Thread David Miller
From: Martin Devera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:08:09 +0100 Like max_jiff = jiffies+2; /* not +1 at we could be at +0. now */ while (jiffiesmax_jiff) do_hard_potentionaly_long_work(); if (more_work) schedule_to_next_jiffie(); This will keep event queue work load under

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

2008-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
I left those that were previously not _p alone. I suspect they should proeprly be _pic however. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the

sched-devel latencies

2008-02-18 Thread Dhaval Giani
Hi Ingo, I am running the sched-devel tree (at HEAD 44e770a8750abc7e876076cda718b413bad9e654) and it is not looking good. I am running two make -js for the kernel in two different cgroups and interactivity is going for a toss. I can see noticable lags in keypresses. Will get down to debugging

Re: [PATCH] Fix left over EFI cache mapping problems

2008-02-18 Thread Andi Kleen
After looking up in UEFI specification, I found that it is specified by Thanks. UEFI specification 2.1 (section 6.2, page 124) that the NumberOfPages (num_pages) of EFI_MEMORY_DESCRIPTOR (efi_memory_desc_t) must be Number of 4KB pages in the memory region. So we need not worry about

Re: WARN_ON(): proc_dir_entry 'rtc' already registered

2008-02-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I'm getting this during bootup: PM: Adding info for No Bus:event6 PM: Adding info for No Bus:uinput PM: Adding info for No Bus:rtc0 proc_dir_entry 'rtc' already registered Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.25-rc1 #125 ... deletia === rtc_cmos

Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: validate against acpi motherboard resources

2008-02-18 Thread Andi Kleen
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:52:14PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Andi Kleen wrote: Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: many fixes and cleanups] Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tested-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL

2.6.25-rc1/2 regression: first-time login into gnome fails

2008-02-18 Thread Romano Giannetti
Hi, I have a very strange, but fully reproducible, regression with 2.6.25-rc1 -rc2. I have an ubuntu 7.10 fully updated. The first time after boot, when I login to gnome (through gdm) the login half-fails with a Setting Daemon error: failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-some

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-18 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Feb 18, 2008 10:43 AM, Erez Zilber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use a high value for FirstBurstLength, all (or most) of your data will be sent as unsolicited data-out PDUs. These PDUs don't use the RDMA engine, so you miss the advantage of IB. Hello Erez, Did you notice the e-mail

Re: sched-devel latencies

2008-02-18 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:19:33PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote: Hi Ingo, I am running the sched-devel tree (at HEAD 44e770a8750abc7e876076cda718b413bad9e654) and it is not looking good. I am running two make -js for the kernel in two different cgroups and interactivity is going for a toss.

Re: sched-devel latencies

2008-02-18 Thread Balbir Singh
On Feb 18, 2008 4:31 PM, Dhaval Giani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:19:33PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote: Hi Ingo, I am running the sched-devel tree (at HEAD 44e770a8750abc7e876076cda718b413bad9e654) and it is not looking good. I am running two make -js for the

Re: [patch] suspend/resume self-test

2008-02-18 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 18 of February 2008, David Brownell wrote:   - Includes a command line parameter, which needs work yet ... it     currently turns this test off, but it should also let the target     state be specified (and maybe even default to no test). I think no test should be the

Re: [patch] suspend/resume self-test

2008-02-18 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 18 of February 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since this is increasingly unrelated to the sleepy linux concept (a version of what systems like OLPC, N700, and N800 are doing), I got rid of the sleepy.c file. What was the decision

Re: WARN_ON(): proc_dir_entry 'rtc' already registered

2008-02-18 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 18 February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: How to fix ... how about:  instead of just warning folk off such legacy RTC drivers [1] we just wrap them with an if RTC_LIB != n so this mistake won't be possible. Yes, disabling bad configs in Kconfig seems like way to go. Problem is ...

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-18 Thread Paolo Ciarrocchi
On Feb 14, 2008 2:35 PM, Stephen Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have created the first cut of the linux-next tree at Hi Stephen, I would like to update the The development process section in Documentation/HOWTO including some information about the linux-next tree. I understand

Re: [2.6 patch] gfs2/ops_file.c should #include ops_inode.h

2008-02-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, Now in the GFS2 -nmw git tree. Thanks, Steve. On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 10:17 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for its global functions (in this case for gfs2_set_inode_flags()). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [2.6 patch] proper extern for gfs2/locking/dlm/mount.c:gdlm_ops

2008-02-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, Now in the GFS2 -nmw git tree. Thanks, Steve. On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 10:20 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch adds a proper extern declaration for gdlm_ops in fs/gfs2/locking/dlm/lock_dlm.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/gfs2/locking/dlm/lock_dlm.h |5

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] CGroup API: Update cpusets to use cgroup structured file API

2008-02-18 Thread Balbir Singh
* Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-18 16:42:05]: Li Zefan wrote: Paul Jackson wrote: Ok ... this would (I suspect, just from code reading, no bytes were harmed in actual testing of this) have a minor change to how white space is handled writing integer flags to cpuset files, and a

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-18 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 18 of February 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:03:59 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [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

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

2008-02-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 18 2008 12:28, Joerg Schilling wrote: This fragment is much too short to allow to judge on possible reasons. There is a high probability that your problem is caused by the cdrecord fork called wodim. [...] As a general advise: if you have problems, always first try recent

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-18 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 18 of February 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote: On 02/18/2008 10:49 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why on earth do we have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED at all if the only sane choice for someone who tests new kernels is to always turn it on? seconded

Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

2008-02-18 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 18 of February 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote: Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9982 Subject : 2.6.25-rc1 panics on boot Submitter : Dhaval Giani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008-02-13 18:03 References :

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-18 Thread Tilman Schmidt
David Miller schrieb: From: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:24:56 +0100 No, that's not the real problem. Even if the kernel didn't lack any required functionality and it could all be done today without VirtualBox, pulling the rug from underneath it like that leaves

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

2008-02-18 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 11:31 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:46 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: This fragment is much too short to allow to judge on possible reasons. There is a high probability that

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