Re: [PATCH v5] x86: make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/16/2013 03:13 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: ok, then should change +/* No need to be aligned, but done to keep all IDTs defined the same way. */ +gate_desc trace_idt_table[NR_VECTORS] __page_aligned_bss; == +/* Only need to be cacheline aligned, but keep all IDTs defined the same way

Re: [PATCH] power: new trace event to print device suspend and resume time

2013-07-16 Thread Joe Perches
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 22:04 +, Shuah Khan wrote: On 07/16/2013 03:39 PM, Joe Perches wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 15:23 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: A new trace event is added to pm events to print time it takes to suspend and resume a device. It generates trace message that includes

Re: next-20130709 DMAR issues

2013-07-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:32:17 +0800, Li, Zhen-Hua said: I have met a bug with the same error message, its cause was that the bios did not allocate RMRR/DRHD(can't remember which one) for the device. I think I posted a link to that same bug report. The problem is that if the BIOS wasn't

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] scsi-mq prototype discussion

2013-07-16 Thread scameron
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 02:07:29PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 06:53 +, James Bottomley wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:52 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: On 07/12/2013 03:33 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 18:02 -0700, Greg KH

Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-16 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 02:12:35PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: I *hate* both direct personal insults and indirect personal insults. Neither should be acceptable in our community. As I stated in an email to Rusty, what I'm objecting to here is not kernel developers criticizing code. I'm

Re: [PATCH RFC] allow some kernel filesystems to be mounted in a user namespace

2013-07-16 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Andy Lutomirski (l...@amacapital.net): On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Serge E. Hallyn se...@hallyn.com wrote: Quoting Andy Lutomirski (l...@amacapital.net): On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Serge E. Hallyn se...@hallyn.com wrote: Quoting Andy Lutomirski (l...@amacapital.net):

Re: [PATCH] power: new trace event to print device suspend and resume time

2013-07-16 Thread Shuah Khan
On 07/16/2013 04:17 PM, Joe Perches wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 22:04 +, Shuah Khan wrote: On 07/16/2013 03:39 PM, Joe Perches wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 15:23 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: A new trace event is added to pm events to print time it takes to suspend and resume a device. It

[tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-16 Thread tip-bot for Kees Cook
Commit-ID: 4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7 Author: Kees Cook keesc...@chromium.org AuthorDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:34:41 -0700 Committer: H. Peter Anvin h...@linux.intel.com CommitDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013

[kconfig] results of some syntactical checks

2013-07-16 Thread Martin Walch
As I am working on yet another project for analyzing LKC's input files, I have some intermediate results from simple syntactical checks. The results below are an excerpt from a run against tche current master. If anyone is interested in the code (it's written in Java), please contact me. I

Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-16 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:18:21AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 02:12:35PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: I *hate* both direct personal insults and indirect personal insults. Neither should be acceptable in our community. As I stated in an email to Rusty, what I'm

Re: [PATCH] module: ppc64 module CRC relocation fix causes perf issues

2013-07-16 Thread Scott Wood
On 07/15/2013 03:47:06 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 14:04 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: Module CRCs are implemented as absolute symbols that get resolved by a linker script. We build an intermediate .o that contains an unresolved symbol for each CRC. genksysms

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-16 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 05:27:04PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 02:12:35PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: Your code is crap is considered unprofessional, while Let's leverage my fifth grade nephew's capabilities to assist you in fixing the code is perfectly professional,

Re: [RFC] sched: Limit idle_balance() when it is being used too frequently

2013-07-16 Thread Jason Low
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 22:20 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:21:03PM -0700, Jason Low wrote: When running benchmarks on an 8 socket 80 core machine with a 3.10 kernel, there can be a lot of contention in idle_balance() and related functions. On many AIM7 workloads in

Re: [PATCH 03/11] ipc: drop ipcctl_pre_down

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:18:28 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso davidlohr.bu...@hp.com wrote: Now that sem, msgque and shm, through *_down(), all use the lockless variant of ipcctl_pre_down(), go ahead and delete it. Fixlets: From: Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org Subject:

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-16 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 15:43 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: Yes, that's true. Some kernel developers are better at moderating their comments and tone towards individuals who are sensitive. Others simply don't give a shit. So we need to figure out how to meet somewhere in the middle, in order to

Re: [PATCH] BGRT: Don't ioremap if image address is in System RAM (was: Re: BGRT Pointer in System RAM)

2013-07-16 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Parag Warudkar parag.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Parag Warudkar parag.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Parag Warudkar parag.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Josh Triplett

Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-16 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Stefano Stabellini wrote: I think that it's hurting Linux and in particular it's hurting attracting new talents. Then why do we have the largest # of developers than any other Open Source project? Because Linux is the most widely used kernel, it's everywhere

[PATCH 1/4] [media] em28xx: fix assignment of the eeprom data.

2013-07-16 Thread Alban Browaeys
Set the config structure pointer to the eeprom data pointer (data, here eedata dereferenced) not the pointer to the pointer to the eeprom data (eedata itself). Signed-off-by: Alban Browaeys pra...@yahoo.com --- drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-i2c.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-16 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 07/16/13 15:43, Sarah Sharp wrote: Yes, that's true. Some kernel developers are better at moderating their comments and tone towards individuals who are sensitive. Others simply don't give a shit. So we need to figure out how to meet somewhere in the middle, in order to establish a

Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-16 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 07/16/13 15:54, Jiri Kosina wrote: Plus there is a *LOT* of humor and sarcasm in all that. Which just contributes to working on linux kernel being fun. I'd absolutely like to keep that spirit. If you guys now start telling others what is allowed and what is forbidden to say, you are

[PATCH 2/4] [media] em28xx: i2s 5 sample rates is a subset of 3 one.

2013-07-16 Thread Alban Browaeys
As: EM28XX_CHIPCFG_I2S_3_SAMPRATES 0x20 EM28XX_CHIPCFG_I2S_5_SAMPRATES 0x30 the board chipcfg is 0xf0 thus if 3_SAMPRATES is tested first and matches while it is a 5_SAMPRATES. Signed-off-by: Alban Browaeys pra...@yahoo.com --- drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c | 8 1 file

Re: [ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch memcg, kmem: fix reference count handling on the error path has been added to staging queue

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:54:02 -0700 Kamal Mostafa ka...@canonical.com wrote: This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled memcg, kmem: fix reference count handling on the error path to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree which can

[PATCH 3/4] [media] em28xx: usb power config is in the low byte.

2013-07-16 Thread Alban Browaeys
According to the em2860 datasheet, eeprom byte 08H is Chip Configuration Low Byte and 09H is High Byte. Usb power configuration is in the Low byte (same as the usb audio class config). Signed-off-by: Alban Browaeys pra...@yahoo.com --- drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-i2c.c | 6 +++--- 1 file

[PATCH 4/4] [media] em28xx: Fix vidioc fmt vid cap v4l2 compliance

2013-07-16 Thread Alban Browaeys
Set fmt.pix.priv to zero in vidioc_g_fmt_vid_cap and vidioc_try_fmt_vid_cap. Catched by v4l2-compliance. Signed-off-by: Alban Browaeys pra...@yahoo.com --- drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c

Re: [PATCH 1/8] mm: drop actor argument of do_generic_file_read()

2013-07-16 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:47:47PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: From: Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com There's only one caller of do_generic_file_read() and the only actor is file_read_actor(). No reason to have a callback parameter.

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-16 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 06:54:59PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 15:43 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: Yes, that's true. Some kernel developers are better at moderating their comments and tone towards individuals who are sensitive. Others simply don't give a shit. So we

Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-16 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 00:54 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: I am not cursing in my e-mails, you are probably neither. Linus is. Others are. I've been told several times that I'm one of the nicest on LKML. I like to stick strictly to technical arguments, and will try to help people out when I can.

Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-16 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 19:11 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: The major difference between myself and Linus, is that I only have to worry about code submissions, and to a much lesser degree than Linus. But not only does Linus have to manage code, he also dictates policy. And I'm not sure you can

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

2013-07-16 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Greg KH wrote: But I need, from the distros, specific examples of what they object to. So far all I've gotten is one security patch (that was needed), and one patch for sysfs that I backported too far in the version numbers (my fault.) Given the huge

Re: [kconfig] results of some syntactical checks

2013-07-16 Thread Paul Bolle
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 00:34 +0200, Martin Walch wrote: As I am working on yet another project for analyzing LKC's input files, I have some intermediate results from simple syntactical checks. Naive question: LKC? The results below are an excerpt from a run against tche current master. One

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-16 Thread Joe Perches
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 16:12 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: In order to make our community better, we need to figure out where the baseline of good behavior is. We need to define what behavior we want from both maintainers and patch submitters. E.g. No regressions and don't break userspace and no

Re: aio-next

2013-07-16 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Ben, On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:40:28 -0400 Benjamin LaHaise b...@kvack.org wrote: Hell Stephen, Its not that bad :-) There are shaping up to be a bunch of aio changes for the 3.12 tree, so I think it's time to start staging them in a git tree. Would you be willing to add my aio-next

Re: [PATCH 001/001] [Input:] Propagate hardware generated event timestamp to evdev.

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Wright
Apologies, forgot to make sure it was plain text. On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Michael Wright michae...@android.com wrote: Hi Dmitry, On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torok...@gmail.com wrote: We already have MSC_TIMESTAMP (which is in usec), do you really need

Fwd: [PATCH] BGRT: Don't ioremap if image address is in System RAM (was: Re: BGRT Pointer in System RAM)

2013-07-16 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Jul 16, 2013 6:55 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@amacapital.net wrote: Ok, so I played around with it a bit and the following patch works fine on my system. (I.E. image size is reasonable, cat /sys/firmware/acpi/bgrt/image img.bmp generates a valid, non-distorted bitmap, which it did before

Re: [PATCH] BGRT: Don't ioremap if image address is in System RAM (was: Re: BGRT Pointer in System RAM)

2013-07-16 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Parag Warudkar parag.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 16, 2013 6:55 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@amacapital.net wrote: Ok, so I played around with it a bit and the following patch works fine on my system. (I.E. image size is reasonable, cat

Re: [RFC PATCH v5 1/1] drivers: mfd: vexpress: add Serial Power Controller (SPC) support

2013-07-16 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Rob Herring wrote: On 07/16/2013 11:05 AM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: The TC2 versatile express core tile integrates a logic block that provides the interface between the dual cluster test-chip and the M3 microcontroller that carries out power management. The logic

Re: [PATCH 0/7] Minor Alpha updates for 3.11

2013-07-16 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/16/2013 12:04:33 PM, Richard Henderson wrote: Here's a set of minor updates for arch/alpha that should not be controversial. I also note that I had to do this to get busybox to build against uClibc: diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-16 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 07/16/2013 07:12 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 06:54:59PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 15:43 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: Yes, that's true. Some kernel developers are better at moderating their comments and tone towards individuals who are sensitive.

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-16 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 16:12 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: What problem exactly are we trying to solve here? Personal attacks are not cool Steve. I never said it was. But no matter what we do, people *will* be offended. Can't help that. Some people simply don't care if a verbal tirade is

Re: [PATCH v5] x86: make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-16 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:16 PM, H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote: On 07/16/2013 03:13 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: ok, then should change +/* No need to be aligned, but done to keep all IDTs defined the same way. */ +gate_desc trace_idt_table[NR_VECTORS] __page_aligned_bss; == +/* Only

Re: [ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch memcg, kmem: fix reference count handling on the error path has been added to staging queue

2013-07-16 Thread Kamal Mostafa
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 16:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:54:02 -0700 Kamal Mostafa ka...@canonical.com wrote: This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled memcg, kmem: fix reference count handling on the error path to the

Re: [RESEND] The initmpfs patches.

2013-07-16 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/16/2013 02:12:19 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: Rob Landley wrote: (Balsa is such an incompetent email client I wrote a python script to do this via raw smtp, and I'm always convinced it's going to screw up the send. But I think I've got it debugged now...) Use the

Re: [PATCH v5] x86: make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/16/2013 04:39 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: ok. so the old code is just for optimization to keep it cacheline aligned? To the best of my knowledge. I guess I should look through the git log to make sure it isn't some old erratum fix. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [PATCH] mm: vmstats: tlb flush counters

2013-07-16 Thread Dave Hansen
On 07/16/2013 04:36 PM, Wanpeng Li wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:53:04AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: I was investigating some TLB flush scaling issues and realized that we do not have any good methods for figuring out how many TLB flushes we are doing. It would be nice to be able to do

[RESEND][PATCH] mm: vmstats: tlb flush counters

2013-07-16 Thread Dave Hansen
I was investigating some TLB flush scaling issues and realized that we do not have any good methods for figuring out how many TLB flushes we are doing. It would be nice to be able to do these in generic code, but the arch-independent calls don't explicitly specify whether we actually need to do

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-16 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 19:38 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: I'll admit that when I first started sending patches to LKML, I was terrified. Not because I was afraid of being scolded, but because I was afraid that what I sent wasn't good. It was a true judgment of my work. I was prettified. Sure,

[PATCH 4/5] initmpfs v2: Make rootfs use tmpfs when CONFIG_TMPFS enabled.

2013-07-16 Thread Rob Landley
From: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Conditionally call the appropriate fs_init function and fill_super functions. Add a use once guard to shmem_init() to simply succeed on a second call. (Note that IS_ENABLED() is a compile time constant so dead code elimination removes unused function calls when

[PATCH 3/5] initmpfs v2: Move rootfs code from fs/ramfs/ to init/

2013-07-16 Thread Rob Landley
From: Rob Landley r...@landley.net When the rootfs code was a wrapper around ramfs, having them in the same file made sense. Now that it can wrap another filesystem type, move it in with the init code instead. This also allows a subsequent patch to access rootfstype= command line arg.

[PATCH 5/5] initmpfs v2: Use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified.

2013-07-16 Thread Rob Landley
From: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Command line option rootfstype=ramfs to obtain old initramfs behavior, and use ramfs instead of tmpfs for stub when root= defined (for cosmetic reasons). Signed-off-by: Rob Landley r...@landley.net --- init/do_mounts.c | 15 +++ 1 file changed,

[PATCH 1/5] initmpfs v2: replace MS_NOUSER in initramfs

2013-07-16 Thread Rob Landley
From: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Mounting MS_NOUSER prevents --bind mounts from rootfs. Prevent new rootfs mounts with a different mechanism that doesn't affect bind mounts. Signed-off-by: Rob Landley r...@landley.net --- fs/ramfs/inode.c |7 ++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1

Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-16 Thread Casey Schaufler
On 7/16/2013 3:39 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:18:21AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 02:12:35PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: I *hate* both direct personal insults and indirect personal insults. Neither should be acceptable in our community. As I stated

[PATCH 0/5] initmpfs v2: use tmpfs instead of ramfs for rootfs

2013-07-16 Thread Rob Landley
Use tmpfs for rootfs when CONFIG_TMPFS=y and there's no root=. Specify rootfstype=ramfs to get the old initramfs behavior. The previous initramfs code provided a fairly crappy root filesystem: didn't let you --bind mount directories out of it, reported zero size/usage so it didn't show up in df

[PATCH 2/5] initmpfs v2: Move bdi setup from init_rootfs to init_ramfs

2013-07-16 Thread Rob Landley
From: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Even though ramfs hasn't got a backing device, commit e0bf68ddec4f added one anyway, and put the initialization in init_rootfs() since that's the first user, leaving it out of init_ramfs() to avoid duplication. But initmpfs uses init_tmpfs() instead, so move

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-16 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 03:43:57PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: I don't think we disagree on this, Ted. I've stated that I view personal attacks and insults negatively, and I don't see an issue with pointing out that code is bad. I think you're agreeing with me on this. Perhaps I misundrestood

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-16 Thread Myklebust, Trond
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 19:31 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 07/16/2013 07:12 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 06:54:59PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 15:43 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: Yes, that's true. Some kernel developers are better at moderating their

Re: [PATCH v5] x86: make sure IDT is page aligned

2013-07-16 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:43 PM, H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote: On 07/16/2013 04:39 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: ok. so the old code is just for optimization to keep it cacheline aligned? To the best of my knowledge. I guess I should look through the git log to make sure it isn't some old

Re: [PATCH 0/7] Minor Alpha updates for 3.11

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Cree
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 06:35:07PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: On 07/16/2013 12:04:33 PM, Richard Henderson wrote: Here's a set of minor updates for arch/alpha that should not be controversial. I also note that I had to do this to get busybox to build against uClibc: -#define __NR_umount

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-16 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 19:50 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: Hopefully this helps to clarify the discussion. I'm trying rather purposely not take one side or another, but instead trying to articulate what I think I've been hearing people say (over, and over, and over again, on this very long mail

Re: [PATCH] module: ppc64 module CRC relocation fix causes perf issues

2013-07-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 17:40 -0500, Scott Wood wrote: On 07/15/2013 03:47:06 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 14:04 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: Module CRCs are implemented as absolute symbols that get resolved by a linker script. We build an intermediate .o that

Re: [PATCH] module: ppc64 module CRC relocation fix causes perf issues

2013-07-16 Thread Scott Wood
On 07/16/2013 07:04:05 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 17:40 -0500, Scott Wood wrote: On 07/15/2013 03:47:06 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 14:04 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: Module CRCs are implemented as absolute symbols that get

Re: [PATCH] BGRT: Don't ioremap if image address is in System RAM (was: Re: BGRT Pointer in System RAM)

2013-07-16 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@amacapital.net wrote: Fair enough. I leave it to the experts to comment on whether there should be some explicit check of whether this is EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA. I am reading the code again and something doesn't sound right. The original

Re: [REGRESSION] UEFI: Don't pass boot services regions to SetVirtualAddressMap() breaks macbook efi boot

2013-07-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/10/2013 04:39 AM, Fleming, Matt wrote: On 10 July 2013 12:34, Maarten Lankhorst maarten.lankho...@canonical.com wrote: Hey, It seems that in the merge window my macbook pro stopped working at some point. I looked for suspicious efi related commits, and found that reverting commit

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-16 Thread Jeff Liu
On 07/17/2013 07:12 AM, Sarah Sharp wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 06:54:59PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 15:43 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: Yes, that's true. Some kernel developers are better at moderating their comments and tone towards individuals who are sensitive.

Re: [PATCH 03/18] mm: numa: Account for THP numa hinting faults on the correct node

2013-07-16 Thread Hillf Danton
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Mel Gorman mgor...@suse.de wrote: THP NUMA hinting fault on pages that are not migrated are being accounted for incorrectly. Currently the fault will be counted as if the task was running on a node local to the page which is not necessarily true. Can you

[PATCH] pch_dma: fix error return code in pch_dma_probe()

2013-07-16 Thread Wei Yongjun
From: Wei Yongjun yongjun_...@trendmicro.com.cn Fix to return -ENODEV when no proper base address found error handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun yongjun_...@trendmicro.com.cn --- drivers/dma/pch_dma.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Re: [ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch memcg, kmem: fix reference count handling on the error path has been added to staging queue

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:40:09 -0700 Kamal Mostafa ka...@canonical.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 16:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:54:02 -0700 Kamal Mostafa ka...@canonical.com wrote: This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-16 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 08:32 +0800, Jeff Liu wrote: Another thing might deviated from the main theme, but I'd like to raise it here because I would like to see what's the proper way for that. For instance, people A posted a patch set to the mailing list at first, people B think that there

Re: [PATCH] kernel: trace: remove __init from race_selftest_startup_function() and trace_selftest_startup_function_graph()

2013-07-16 Thread Chen Gang
Oh, sorry for my original impolite reply (at least it is not quite gentle). :-) On 07/16/2013 08:22 AM, Chen Gang wrote: On 07/16/2013 12:20 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 10:12 +0800, Chen Gang wrote: Hello Frederic and Ingo: Are you trying to go around me? I wrote this

Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-16 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 04:46:33PM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote: On 7/16/2013 3:39 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:18:21AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 02:12:35PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: I *hate* both direct personal insults and indirect personal

Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data

2013-07-16 Thread Rusty Russell
David Miller da...@davemloft.net writes: From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:13:25 +0930 From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com For small packets we can simplify xmit processing by linearizing buffers with the header: most packets seem to have enough head

Re: [alsa-devel] [BUG] 3.10.[01] modprobe snd-... hangs

2013-07-16 Thread Rusty Russell
Lucas De Marchi lucas.de.mar...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Philipp Hahn pmh...@pmhahn.de wrote: Hello, Am Dienstag 16 Juli 2013, 08:43:36 schrieb Takashi Iwai: At Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:11:51 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: Philipp Matthias Hahn pmh...@pmhahn.de writes:

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-16 Thread Rusty Russell
Sarah Sharp sarah.a.sh...@linux.intel.com writes: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 02:22:14PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: Linus is complaining about code here, and the effects of merging bad code on his own tree. I personally have no qualms with this type of harsh email, because it focuses on the

[PATCH] time: silence warning in tick_nohz_init().

2013-07-16 Thread majianpeng
Fix those warning message when compile: kernel/time/tick-sched.c: In function ‘tick_nohz_init’: kernel/time/tick-sched.c:346:6: warning: unused variable ‘cpu’ [-Wunused-variable] Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma majianp...@gmail.com --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

[tip:x86/asm] x86, bitops: Change bitops to be native operand size

2013-07-16 Thread tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
Commit-ID: 9b710506a03b01a9fdd83962912bc9d8237b82e8 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/9b710506a03b01a9fdd83962912bc9d8237b82e8 Author: H. Peter Anvin h...@linux.intel.com AuthorDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:20:14 -0700 Committer: H. Peter Anvin h...@linux.intel.com CommitDate: Tue, 16 Jul

[tip:x86/jumplabel] x86: Make jump_label use int3-based patching

2013-07-16 Thread tip-bot for Jiri Kosina
Commit-ID: 51b2c07b22261f19188d9a9071943d60a067481c Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/51b2c07b22261f19188d9a9071943d60a067481c Author: Jiri Kosina jkos...@suse.cz AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:22:09 +0200 Committer: H. Peter Anvin h...@linux.intel.com CommitDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013

[tip:x86/jumplabel] x86: Introduce int3 (breakpoint) -based instruction patching

2013-07-16 Thread tip-bot for Jiri Kosina
Commit-ID: fd4363fff3d96795d3feb1b3fb48ce590f186bdd Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/fd4363fff3d96795d3feb1b3fb48ce590f186bdd Author: Jiri Kosina jkos...@suse.cz AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:21:48 +0200 Committer: H. Peter Anvin h...@linux.intel.com CommitDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-16 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 07/16/2013 07:53 PM, Myklebust, Trond wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 19:31 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 07/16/2013 07:12 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 06:54:59PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 15:43 -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: Yes, that's true. Some

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

2013-07-16 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:51:36PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 08:32 +0800, Jeff Liu wrote: Another thing might deviated from the main theme, but I'd like to raise it here because I would like to see what's the proper way for that. For instance, people A posted a

Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/2] fs/anon_inode: Introduce a new lib function anon_inode_getfile_private()

2013-07-16 Thread Gu Zheng
Hi Ben, On 07/16/2013 09:16 PM, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 05:56:12PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote: Introduce a new lib function anon_inode_getfile_private(), it creates a new file instance by hooking it up to an anonymous inode, and a dentry that describe the class of the

Re: [PATCH 08/18] sched: Reschedule task on preferred NUMA node once selected

2013-07-16 Thread Hillf Danton
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Mel Gorman mgor...@suse.de wrote: +static int +find_idlest_cpu_node(int this_cpu, int nid) +{ + unsigned long load, min_load = ULONG_MAX; + int i, idlest_cpu = this_cpu; + + BUG_ON(cpu_to_node(this_cpu) == nid); + +

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-16 Thread NeilBrown
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:50:08 -0400 Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: The other question where I think you and Linus differ is the belief whether polite messages of the form, it's really rude to break the kernel ABI, I would rather prefer if you wouldn't do that are as effective at

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote: Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP! This one crosses the line. There's no non-offensive way to tell a geek you are wrong, but this isn't even trying. Bad Linus! You know what? Not my proudest moment. I was really upset. But

Re: [v3.11-rc1 PATCH 0/5] printk: Initial restructuring

2013-07-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Joe Perches j...@perches.com wrote: If this is acceptable, I'll post 5 or so patches at a time after/if each block of patches is applied. I didn't see anything objectionable, but I'm assuming this comes in through Andrew? And hopefully gets comments from others

Re: 3.10: discard/trim support on md-raid1?

2013-07-16 Thread NeilBrown
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:44:15 +0400 CoolCold coolthec...@gmail.com wrote: Neil, I've tryed to look around commit logs but failed to find commit where discard/trim were added. I was looking via

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-16 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 18:37 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Emotions aren't bad. Quite the reverse. Spock and Dr. Sheldon Cooper strongly disagree. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: [v3.11-rc1 PATCH 0/5] printk: Initial restructuring

2013-07-16 Thread Joe Perches
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 18:48 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Joe Perches j...@perches.com wrote: If this is acceptable, I'll post 5 or so patches at a time after/if each block of patches is applied. I didn't see anything objectionable, but I'm assuming this

What endianness is word in i2c_smbus_data?

2013-07-16 Thread Andy Lutomirski
I'm rather confused here. In SMBUS, the read word operation returns two bytes. Just to be confusing, the SMBUS spec calls the first byte Data Byte Low and the second byte Data Byte High. But they really are the first and second bytes -- Read Word will return whatever Read Byte would have as its

Re: [PATCH 4/9] mm, hugetlb: fix and clean-up node iteration code to alloc or free

2013-07-16 Thread Jianguo Wu
On 2013/7/15 17:52, Joonsoo Kim wrote: Current node iteration code have a minor problem which do one more node rotation if we can't succeed to allocate. For example, if we start to allocate at node 0, we stop to iterate at node 0. Then we start to allocate at node 1 for next allocation. I

[PATCH -next] mtd: orion_nand: convert to use devm_* APIs

2013-07-16 Thread Wei Yongjun
From: Wei Yongjun yongjun_...@trendmicro.com.cn Convert to use devm_* APIs to avoid resources leak on error handling case. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun yongjun_...@trendmicro.com.cn --- drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c | 29 + 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 20

Re: [RFC PATCH V2] tracing: Check f_dentry before accessing event_file/call in inode-i_private

2013-07-16 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
(2013/07/16 3:16), Oleg Nesterov wrote: On 07/09, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: To avoid this, when opening events/*/*/enable, we have to ensure the dentry of the file is not unlinked yet, under event_mutex is locked. Probably this can work, but I am starting to think that this ref count

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

2013-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 19:50 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 03:43:57PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: [...] Keep in mind that there are some cultures where even pointing out a technical flaw in code might considered bringing deep shame on the engineer and their company.

Re: [PATCH 09/18] sched: Add infrastructure for split shared/private accounting of NUMA hinting faults

2013-07-16 Thread Hillf Danton
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Mel Gorman mgor...@suse.de wrote: /* * Got a PROT_NONE fault for a page on @node. */ -void task_numa_fault(int node, int pages, bool migrated) +void task_numa_fault(int last_nid, int node, int pages, bool migrated) For what is the new parameter? {

Linux Plumbers ACPI/PM, PCI Microconference

2013-07-16 Thread Myron Stowe
Linux Plumbers has approved an ACPI/PM, PCI microconference. The overview page is here: http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2013:pci_subsystem We would like to start receiving volunteers for presenting topics of interest. There is a lot of activity in these subsystems so please respond by

[PATCH] xhci: Correct misplaced newlines

2013-07-16 Thread Joe Perches
Logging messages end in newlines, not have them put in the middle of messages. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches j...@perches.com --- drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 10 +- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c index

Re: [PATCH] usb: udc: add gadget state kobject uevent

2013-07-16 Thread Peter Chen
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:31:17PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:49:07AM +0800, Rong Wang wrote: Hi Greg, The USB on our platform can change roles between HOST and GADGET, but it is not capable of OTG. That kind of sounds like the definition of OTG :) When the

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] tracing: fix open/delete fixes

2013-07-16 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
(2013/07/17 3:56), Oleg Nesterov wrote: Hello. Completely untested and _incomplete_. This ignores instance_delete() and ftrace_event_format_fops, at least. But I am not going to even try to finish this series unless you tell me that you agree with this approach. I have no idea what

linked-list: Remove __list_for_each

2013-07-16 Thread Dave Jones
__list_for_each used to be the non prefetch() aware list walking primitive. When we removed the prefetch macros from the list routines, it became redundant. Given it does exactly the same thing as list_for_each now, we might as well remove it and call list_for_each directly. All users of

[PATCH 1/3] arcmsr: Modify maxium outstanding command

2013-07-16 Thread 黃清隆
From: Chingching2...@areca.com.tw Modify maximum outstanding command number, notify command complete with auto request sense, reassign ARC12x4 series to SATA type adapter Signed-off-by: chingching2...@areca.com.tw --- patch1 Description: Binary data

Re: [REGRESSION 3.10.1] System does not wake up from suspend

2013-07-16 Thread Sören Brinkmann
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:20:19PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: On 07/15/2013 10:24 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 09:36:25PM -0700, Sören Brinkmann wrote: Hi Greg, since upgrading to 3.10.1 I find my system not waking up from suspend from time to time.

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 22:10 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 03:43:09PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 12:11 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: People mark stable patches that way already today with a: Cc: stable sta...@vger.kernel.org # delay for

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