Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-03 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > User has triggered resume > > > run wakeup.S > > wakeup.S runs in real mode. Why can't it just call the VBIOS at > C000:0003 to reset the hardware before setting the mode? We already try to do that, but it hangs on 70% of machines. See Documentation/power/video.txt.

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-03 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Reseting a video card from suspend is essentially the same problem as > reseting secondary video cards on boot. The same code can address both > problems. Well, it is made more tricky by the fact that you are running during resume -- hard to debug. Ideally you want to have video so you can

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-03 Thread Peter Osterlund
Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:40:43AM +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:54:51PM +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > > > > > > * Removes the xres/yres scaling so that you get

[PATCH] PPC/PPC64: Introduce CPU_HAS_FEATURE() macro

2005-02-03 Thread Olof Johansson
Hi, It's getting pretty old to have see and type cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features & CPU_FTR_, when a shorter and less TLA-ridden macro is more readable. This also takes care of the differences between PPC and PPC64 cpu features for the common code; most places in PPC could be replaced with the macro

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 12/14] ide_pci: Merges piix.h into piix.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
12_ide_pci_piix_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/piix.h into piix.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/piix.c === --- linux-idepci-export.orig/drivers/ide/pci/piix.c

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-03 Thread Jon Smirl
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:51:55 +1100, Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > User has triggered resume > > run wakeup.S wakeup.S runs in real mode. Why can't it just call the VBIOS at C000:0003 to reset the hardware before setting the mode? -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 09/14] ide_pci: Merges pdc202xx_new.h into pdc202xx_new.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
09_ide_pci_pdc202xx_new_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/pdc202xx_new.h into pdc202xx_new.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/pdc202xx_new.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 14/14] ide_pci: Merges serverworks.h into serverworks.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
14_ide_pci_serverworks_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/serverworks.h into serverworks.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/serverworks.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 06/14] ide_pci: Merges hpt366.h into hpt366.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
06_ide_pci_hpt366_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/hpt366.h into hpt366.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 11/14] ide_pci: Merges pdc202xx_old.h into pdc202xx_old.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
11_ide_pci_pdc202xx_old_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/pdc202xx_old.h into pdc202xx_old.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/pdc202xx_old.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 03/14] ide_pci: Merges cmd64x.h into cmd64x.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
03_ide_pci_cmd64x_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/cmd64x.h into cmd64x.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 05/14] ide_pci: Merges generic.h into generic.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
05_ide_pci_generic_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/generic.h into generic.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/generic.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 02/14] ide_pci: Merges aec62xx.h into aec62xx.c

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
02_ide_pci_aec62xx_merge.patch Merges ide/pci/aec62xx.h into aec62xx.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-idepci-export/drivers/ide/pci/aec62xx.c === ---

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] ide_pci: cleanup ide pci drivers and merges .h files into .c files

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Bartlomiej. These patches are the split versions of 05_ide_merge_pci_driver_hc. I removed crappy/unused macros from aec62xx, pdc202xx_old and serverworks drivers in respective *_cleanup patches and merged .h into .c files in *_merge patches. [ Start of patch descriptions ]

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-03 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Friday 04 February 2005 01:35, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:34:16PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Thursday 03 February 2005 17:43, Stephen Evanchik wrote: > > > Vojtech, > > > > > > Here is a patch that exposes the IBM TrackPoint's extended properties > > > as well

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-03 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:40:43AM +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:54:51PM +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > > > > * Removes the xres/yres scaling so that you get the same speed in the > > > X and Y directions even if

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-03 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:52:39AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Friday 04 February 2005 01:35, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:34:16PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > On Thursday 03 February 2005 17:43, Stephen Evanchik wrote: > > > > Vojtech, > > > > > > > > Here

Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

2005-02-03 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > If you have got to the stage of doing "real world" tests, I'd be > interested to see results of tests that best highlight the improvements. I am trying to figure out which tests to use right now. > I imagine many general purpose server things wouldn't be

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-03 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vojtech Pavlik wrote: | On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:34:16PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: | |>On Thursday 03 February 2005 17:43, Stephen Evanchik wrote: |> |>>Vojtech, |>> |>>Here is a patch that exposes the IBM TrackPoint's extended properties |>>as

Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 22:26 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > As has my scepticism about pre-zeroing actually providing any benefit > > on ppc64. Nevertheless, the only definitive answer is to actually > > measure the performance both ways. > > Of

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-03 Thread Peter Osterlund
Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:54:51PM +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > > * Removes the xres/yres scaling so that you get the same speed in the > > X and Y directions even if your screen is not square. > > The old code assumed that both the pad and

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-03 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:34:16PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Thursday 03 February 2005 17:43, Stephen Evanchik wrote: > > Vojtech, > > > > Here is a patch that exposes the IBM TrackPoint's extended properties > > as well as scroll wheel emulation. > > > > > > Hi, > > Very nice

Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick, version 050127-1

2005-02-03 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > > It could also be that the reprogamming of PIT timer does not work on > > > > your machine. I chopped off the udelays there... Can you try > > > > something like this: > > > > > > I added the udelays, but behaviour did not change. > > > > Yeah,

Re: page fault scalability patch V16 [3/4]: Drop page_table_lock in handle_mm_fault

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 14:09 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 18:49 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > > I mean we could just speculatively copy, risk copying crap and > > discard that later when we find that the pte has changed. This

Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

2005-02-03 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote: > The dcbz instruction on the G5 (PPC970) establishes the new cache line > in the L2 cache and doesn't disturb the L1 cache (except to invalidate > the line in the L1 data cache if it is present there). The L2 cache > is 512kB and 8-way set associative

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-03 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:54:51PM +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:58:05PM +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > > > > In practice I don't think it will make any significant difference. What > > > the code should do depends

Re: [Fastboot] Re: kdump on non-boot cpu

2005-02-03 Thread Itsuro Oda
Hi, > The reason I was asking and assuming you had a 32bit kernel is that > you were quoting pieces of arch/i386/kernel/crash.c instead of > arch/x86_64/kernel/crash.c Using "arch/i386/kernel/crash.c" is just for explanation how we avoid the hang. (I found x86_64 kdump is not supported in

Re: e1000, sshd, and the infamous "Corrupted MAC on input"

2005-02-03 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi, On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:16:37PM -0500, Ethan Weinstein wrote: (...) > Excellent tip, thanks. I was able to reprodce the problem several times > using this technique with nc, however the problem was intermittent (as > nasty problems like this often are). I used a 1.3G gzipped tarball

Re: 2.6.10 dies when X uses G550

2005-02-03 Thread Dave Airlie
> The logs with secondary radeon used to end like this: > (II) LoadModule: "int10" > (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a > (II) RADEON(0): initializing int10 > (**) RADEON(0): Option "InitPrimary" "on" > (II) Truncating PCI BIOS Length to 53248 > > The logs for secondary G550

Re: Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?

2005-02-03 Thread Anthony DiSante
Kevin Fries wrote: > Any ETA on when udev is going to be ready for prime time? And, any > clue why Fedora insists on relying on a program that does not f*(&%ing > work > > I am trying to get a Microtek X12 USL scanner attached, and udev fails > to mount it, every time. Has anyone tried

Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

2005-02-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
Christoph Lameter writes: > You need to think about this in a different way. Prezeroing only makes > sense if it can avoid using cache lines that the zeroing in the > hot paths would have to use since it touches all cachelines on > the page (the ppc instruction is certainly nice and avoids a

Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick, version 050127-1

2005-02-03 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050203 15:07]: > * Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050203 02:57]: > > Hi! > > > > > > > > > > I used your config advices from second mail, still it does not > > > > > > > > work as > > > > > > > > expected: system gets "too sleepy". Like it takes a nap

Re: e1000, sshd, and the infamous "Corrupted MAC on input"

2005-02-03 Thread Matt Mackall
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:16:37PM -0500, Ethan Weinstein wrote: > Matt Mackall wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:44:14PM -0500, Ethan Weinstein wrote: > ... > >>Finally, I used a crossover cable between the two boxes, which resulted > >>in the same error from sshd again. > > > > > >Well ssh

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-03 Thread Jon Smirl
Reseting a video card from suspend is essentially the same problem as reseting secondary video cards on boot. The same code can address both problems. Some things to consider 1) With multiple video cards you have to ensure only a single VGA gets enabled. Running video reset on a card is

Re: DVD-RW writes but doesn't read

2005-02-03 Thread Samuel Torres
Just a few days ago I installed a brand new OEM AOpen DUW1608/ARR. At times while mounting DVDs the drive would lose files between ls's, or get I/O errors while ls'ing. I also noticed the same errors you posted below. I might have stumbled across a solution to this problem. In my BIOS I

Re: 2.6.10 dies when X uses G550

2005-02-03 Thread Jon Smirl
This appears to me to be a problem with the drivers in the X server. DRM isn't active yet so I don't think the problem is there. There may have been a kernel change that caused BIOS reset to stop working. X does nasty things to the PCI bus from user space and there are many ways that X and the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 26/29] ide: map ide_cmd_ioctl() to ide_taskfile_ioctl()

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:10:37 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 26_ide_taskfile_cmd_ioctl.patch > > > > ide_cmd_ioctl() converted to use ide_taskfile_ioctl(). This > > is the last user of REQ_DRIVE_CMD. ide_cmd_ioctl() needs to map to taskfile transport not

slowdown with 2.6.10 when using NFS client

2005-02-03 Thread Norman Gaywood
This is with the fedora kernel 2.6.10-1.760_FC3smp I've reproduced this on 2 SMP systems with different NFS servers and several Fedora 2.6.10 kernels. I could not reproduce the problem with a non-SMP kernel or a 2.4 kernel. I have not tried with a pre 2.6.10 kernel. I think some others have seen

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-03 Thread Stephen Evanchik
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:52:44 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I have read the code once again, and saw that you have special > handling within PS/2 protocol based on model constant. Please set > psmouse type to PSMOUSE_TRACKPOINT instead of model and provide full > protocol

Re: e1000, sshd, and the infamous "Corrupted MAC on input"

2005-02-03 Thread Ethan Weinstein
Matt Mackall wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:44:14PM -0500, Ethan Weinstein wrote: ... Finally, I used a crossover cable between the two boxes, which resulted in the same error from sshd again. Well ssh isn't an especially good test as it's hard to debug. Try transferring large compressed

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-03 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Thursday 03 February 2005 19:34, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Thursday 03 February 2005 17:43, Stephen Evanchik wrote: > > Vojtech, > > > > Here is a patch that exposes the IBM TrackPoint's extended properties > > as well as scroll wheel emulation. > > > > > > Hi, > > Very nice although I

Re: 2.6.10 dies when X uses G550

2005-02-03 Thread Helge Hafting
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:05:27PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:32:41 +0100, Helge Hafting > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, it is a PCI radeon. And the machine has an AGP slot > > too, which is used by a matrox G550. This AGP card was not > > used in the test, (other

[patch 2/9] drive->nice1 fix

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
It is drive's property independent of the driver being used so move drive->nice1 setup from ide_register_subdriver() to probe_hwif() in ide-probe.c. As a result changing a driver which controls the drive no longer affects this flag. diff -Nru a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c

[PATCH] PCI: fix pci_remove_legacy_files() crash

2005-02-03 Thread MUNEDA Takahiro
Hi, The legacy_io which is the member of pci_bus struct might be NULL. It should be checked. This patch checks 'b->legacy_io', NULL or not. Signed-off-by: MUNEDA Takahiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- probe.c |8 +--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -Npur

[patch 8/9] kill ide-default

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* add ide_drives list to list devices without a driver * add __ide_add_setting() and use it for adding no auto remove entries * kill ide-default pseudo-driver diff -Nru a/drivers/ide/Makefile b/drivers/ide/Makefile --- a/drivers/ide/Makefile 2005-02-04 03:32:17 +01:00 +++

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-03 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 13:35, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Can we use call_usermodehelper at this early resume stage (before any > video access)? Calling vm86 directly is probably not going to fly > because we want to be shielded from any misbehaviour in the bios code > and it may be

[patch 9/9] convert device drivers to driver-model

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* add ide_bus_match() and export ide_bus_type * split ide_remove_driver_from_hwgroup() out of ide_unregister() * move device cleanup from ide_unregister() to drive_release_dev() * convert ide_driver_t->name to driver->name * convert ide_driver_t->{attach,cleanup} to driver->{probe,remove} *

Re: [PATCH] s390: qeth network driver

2005-02-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: ChangeSet 1.2072, 2005/02/03 17:04:37-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] s390: qeth network driver From: Steffen Thoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Frank Pavlic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qeth network driver changes: -

[patch 7/9] get driver from rq->rq_disk->private_data

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* add ide_driver_t * to device drivers objects * set it to point at driver's ide_driver_t * store address of this entry in disk->private_data * fix ide_{cd,disk,floppy,tape,scsi}_g accordingly * use rq->rq_disk->private_data instead of drive->driver to obtain driver (this allows us to kill

[patch 6/9] kill ide_drive_t->disk

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* move ->disk from ide_drive_t to driver specific objects * make drivers allocate struct gendisk and setup rq->rq_disk (there is no need to do this for REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE requests) * add ide_init_disk() helper and kill alloc_disks() in ide-probe.c * kill no longer needed ide_open() and

[patch 4/9] destroy_proc_ide_device() cleanup

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
When this function is called device is already unbinded from a driver so there are no driver /proc entries to remove. diff -Nru a/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c b/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c --- a/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c2005-02-04 03:31:24 +01:00 +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c2005-02-04 03:31:24 +01:00

[patch 5/9] add ide_{un}register_region()

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Add ide_{un}register_region() and fix ide-{tape,scsi}.c to register block device number ranges. In ata_probe() only probe for modules. Behavior is unchanged because: * if driver is already loaded and attached to drive ata_probe() is not called et all * if driver is loaded by ata_probe() it

[patch 3/9] drive->dsc_overlap fix

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
drive->dsc_overlap is supported only by ide-{cd,tape} drivers. Add missing clearing of ->dsc_overlap to ide_{cd,tape}_release() and move ->dsc_overlap setup from ide_register_subdriver() to ide_cdrom_setup() (ide-tape enables it unconditionally). diff -Nru a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c

[patch 1/9] ide-tape: fix character device ->open() vs ->cleanup() race

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Similar to the same race but for the block device. * store pointer to struct ide_tape_obj in idetape_chrdevs[] * rename idetape_chrdevs[] to idetape_devs[] and kill idetape_chrdev_t * add ide_tape_chrdev_get() for getting reference to the tape * store tape pointer in file->private_data and fix

Re: [Fastboot] Re: kdump on non-boot cpu

2005-02-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Itsuro Oda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On 03 Feb 2005 02:58:02 -0700 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > > > Itsuro Oda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > This is not for kdump but an experience of our project(mkdump). > > > The dump kernel(not SMP

Re: [PATCH] arp_queue: serializing unlink + kfree_skb

2005-02-03 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:50:44 +1100 Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So the problem isn't as big as I thought which is good. sk_buff > is only in trouble because of the atomic_read optimisation which > really needs a memory barrier. > > However, instead of adding a memory barrier which

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc2-V0.7.37-02

2005-02-03 Thread Steven Rostedt
> OK that was the note I was about to send, but like I stated, it isn't a > problem now that the timer interrupt is back to a hard interrupt. I just > showing this to you so you can see the real problem. Maybe I'm missing > something, and maybe I'm not. I'll try to write up something that shows

[patch 0/9] convert IDE device drivers to driver model

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, Patches are against ide-dev-2.6 tree. #1-8 are IDE fixes/changes needed #9 is the actual conversion Bartlomiej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-03 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi! Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 09:54, Pavel Machek wrote: > >>Hi! >> >> >Are you able to use framebuffer(radeonfb,1024x768) with this >configuration or do you need to use plain vga-console for it to work? No. For a working framebuffer console

Re: [Patch] invalidate range of pages after direct IO write

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Zach Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'll make that change and plop the patch into -mm, but we need to think > > about the infinite-loop problem.. > > I can try hacking together that macro and auditing pagevec_lookup() > callers.. I'd be inclined to hold off on the macro until we

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 26/29] ide: map ide_cmd_ioctl() to ide_taskfile_ioctl()

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:11:57 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:10:37 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>26_ide_taskfile_cmd_ioctl.patch > >>> > >>> ide_cmd_ioctl() converted to use ide_taskfile_ioctl().

Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

2005-02-03 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On my G5 it takes ~200 cycles to zero a whole page. In other words it > takes about the same time to zero a page as to bring in a single cache > line from memory. (PPC has an instruction to establish a whole cache > line of zeroes in modified state

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserving backup region for kexec based crashdumps.

2005-02-03 Thread Itsuro Oda
Hi, On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:18:56 +0900 Itsuro Oda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 5) dump kernel: export all valid physical memory (and saved register > > >information) to the user. (as /dev/oldmem /proc/vmcore ?) > > > > Or in user space, by just mmaping /dev/mem. That is part of the >

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 25/29] ide: convert REQ_DRIVE_CMD to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:15:59 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 25_ide_taskfile_cmd.patch All in-kernel REQ_DRIVE_CMD users except for ide_cmd_ioctl() converted to use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 26/29] ide: map ide_cmd_ioctl() to ide_taskfile_ioctl()

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:10:37 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 26_ide_taskfile_cmd_ioctl.patch ide_cmd_ioctl() converted to use ide_taskfile_ioctl(). This is the last user of REQ_DRIVE_CMD. ide_cmd_ioctl() needs to map to taskfile transport not

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserving backup region for kexec based crashdumps.

2005-02-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Itsuro Oda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On 02 Feb 2005 07:45:11 -0700 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > > > > > And the feedback begins :) > > > > Itsuro Oda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I don't like calling crash_kexec() directly in (ex.)

Re: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: RLIMIT_RT_CPU_RATIO feature

2005-02-03 Thread Tristan Wibberley
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:47:11 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >* real inter-process handoff. i am thinking of something like >> >sched_yield(), but it would take a TID as the target >> >of the yield. this would avoid all the crap we

Re: Strange problem with sensors: 0 RPMs ?

2005-02-03 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 2005.02.04, J.A. Magallon wrote: > Hi all... > > I have a dual Xeon box. I got tired of the noise of the Intel boxed > fans and bought a couple of Swiftech 'hedegehogs' and two ThemalTake > fans. > Board is an Asus PCDL and sensors chip is a w83627hf (heavily modified by > Asus, I suppose,

Re: [PATCH] arp_queue: serializing unlink + kfree_skb

2005-02-03 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:23:57PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > You're absolutely right. Ok, so we do need to change kfree_skb(). > I believe even with the memory barrier, the atomic_read() optimization > is still worth it. atomic ops on sparc64 take a minimum of 40 some odd > cycles on

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc2-V0.7.37-02

2005-02-03 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 21:14 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i have released the -V0.7.37-02 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be > downloaded from the usual place: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ > > the big change in the patch is increased architecture support: most > notable

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 05/29] ide: merge pci driver .h's into .c's

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:47:12 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 05_ide_merge_pci_driver_hc.patch > > > > Merges drivers/ide/pci/*.h files into their corresponding *.c > > files. Rationales are > > 1. There's no reason to separate pci drivers into header and > >

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 22/29] ide: convert REQ_DRIVE_TASK to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:54:23 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello again, Bartlomiej. > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:07:27 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>22_ide_taskfile_flush.patch > >>> > >>> All REQ_DRIVE_TASK users

Re: [Patch] invalidate range of pages after direct IO write

2005-02-03 Thread Zach Brown
Andrew Morton wrote: > Note that the same optimisation should be made in the call to > unmap_mapping_range() in generic_file_direct_IO(). Currently we try and > unmap the whole file, even if we're only writing a single byte. Given that > you're now calculating iov_length() in there we might as

[PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17

2005-02-03 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
Hi Marcelo, This patch adds Wireless Extensions v17 to kernel 2.4.X. This patch is the same as what went into 2.6.10-rc1, except for the minor differences between 2.4.X and 2.6.X. This was tested on 2.4.29. The main reason of this patch is wireless driver outside the

Re: 2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh, attached should be a minimal fix if you would like to try it out. > > > ... > --- linux-2.6/mm/vmscan.c~vmscan-minfix 2005-02-04 11:52:37.0 > +1100 > +++ linux-2.6-npiggin/mm/vmscan.c 2005-02-04 11:53:32.0 +1100 > @@

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 25/29] ide: convert REQ_DRIVE_CMD to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:06:29 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:15:59 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>25_ide_taskfile_cmd.patch > >>> > >>> All in-kernel REQ_DRIVE_CMD users except for

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 29/29] ide: make data_phase explicit in NO_DATA cases

2005-02-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:59:22 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:12:38 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>29_ide_explicit_TASKFILE_NO_DATA.patch > >>> > >>> Make data_phase explicit in NO_DATA cases. > >> >

[UPDATE PATCH]: include/jiffies: fix usecs_to_jiffies()/jiffies_to_usecs() math

2005-02-03 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:48:05AM -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:07:15AM -0600, Makhlis, Lev wrote: > > Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > +static inline unsigned long usecs_to_jiffies(const unsigned int u) > > > +{ > > > + if (u >

Re: [PATCH] arp_queue: serializing unlink + kfree_skb

2005-02-03 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:20:53 +1100 Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is true if CPU 0 reads the count before reading skb->list. > Without a memory barrier, atomic_read and reading skb->list can > be reordered. Put it another way, reading skb->list could return > a cached value that was

Strange problem with sensors: 0 RPMs ?

2005-02-03 Thread J.A. Magallon
Hi all... I have a dual Xeon box. I got tired of the noise of the Intel boxed fans and bought a couple of Swiftech 'hedegehogs' and two ThemalTake fans. Board is an Asus PCDL and sensors chip is a w83627hf (heavily modified by Asus, I suppose, because it has 5! fan sensors). With the Intel fans,

Re: 2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh, attached should be a minimal fix if you would like to try it out. ... --- linux-2.6/mm/vmscan.c~vmscan-minfix 2005-02-04 11:52:37.0 +1100 +++ linux-2.6-npiggin/mm/vmscan.c 2005-02-04 11:53:32.0 +1100 @@ -575,6

Re: [PATCH] arp_queue: serializing unlink + kfree_skb

2005-02-03 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:49:22PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > If we see the count dropped to "1", whoever set it to "1" made > sure that all outstanding memory operations (including things > like __skb_unlink()) are globally visible before the > atomic_dec_and_test() which put the thing to

2.6.11-rc3 x86-64 compile err on suse 9.1

2005-02-03 Thread YhLu
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/asm-offsets.s arch/x86_64/kernel/asm-offsets.c: In function `main': arch/x86_64/kernel/asm-offsets.c:65: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type arch/x86_64/kernel/asm-offsets.c:66: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

Re: 2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Piggin
Nick Piggin wrote: Hmm, your DMA zone has no active pages, and pages_scanned (which triggers all_unreclaimable) is only incremented when scanning the active list. But I wonder, if the pages can't be freed, why aren't they being put on the active list? Oh, attached should be a minimal fix if you

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 22/29] ide: convert REQ_DRIVE_TASK to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello again, Bartlomiej. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:07:27 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 22_ide_taskfile_flush.patch All REQ_DRIVE_TASK users except ide_task_ioctl() converted to use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE. 1. idedisk_issue_flush() converted to

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 29/29] ide: make data_phase explicit in NO_DATA cases

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:12:38 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 29_ide_explicit_TASKFILE_NO_DATA.patch Make data_phase explicit in NO_DATA cases. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-ide-export/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c

[PATCH 2.4] SIOCSIFNAME wildcard support

2005-02-03 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
Hi Marcelo, This patch adds wildcard support for the SIOCSIFNAME ioctl, like what was done in 2.6.1. SIOCSIFNAME allow a user space tool to change network interface names (such as nameif, ifrename, or ip link), this patch allow those tools to specify a pattern, such as "eth%d" or

Re: [PATCH] arp_queue: serializing unlink + kfree_skb

2005-02-03 Thread David S. Miller
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:12:24 +1100 Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This paradigm is repeated throughout the kernel. I bet the > same race can be found in a lot of those places. So we really > need to sit down and audit them one by one or else come up with > a magical solution apart from

Re: move-accounting-function-calls-out-of-critical-vm-code-paths.patch

2005-02-03 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well your patch certainly cleans things up in there and would be a good > thing to have as long as we can be sure that it doesn't break the > accounting in some subtle way. I think it also fits well with the other accounting data which is only

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserving backup region for kexec based crashdumps.

2005-02-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Itsuro Oda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On 03 Feb 2005 02:00:51 -0700 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > > > > 5) dump kernel: export all valid physical memory (and saved register > > >information) to the user. (as /dev/oldmem /proc/vmcore ?) > > > > Or in user

[Patch] fix an error in /proc/slabinfo print

2005-02-03 Thread Zou Nan hai
There is an obvious error in the header of /proc/slabinfo Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-rc3/mm/slab.c 2005-02-03 13:29:33.0 +0800 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-fix/mm/slab.c 2005-02-03 13:32:42.318821400 +0800 @@ -2860,7 +2860,7 @@ static void

Re: [patch 1/1] fix syscallN() macro errno value checking for i386

2005-02-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:jerome lacoste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > what about something along? > > #define EKEYNEXT130 /* key counter */ > > and > > if ((unsigned long)(res) >= (unsigned long)(-EKEYNEXT)) { > What you really need

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-03 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Thursday 03 February 2005 17:43, Stephen Evanchik wrote: > Vojtech, > > Here is a patch that exposes the IBM TrackPoint's extended properties > as well as scroll wheel emulation. > > Hi, Very nice although I have a couple of comments. > /* > + * Try to initialize the IBM TrackPoint > +

Re: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: RLIMIT_RT_CPU_RATIO feature

2005-02-03 Thread Chris Wright
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i believe RT-LSM provides a way to solve this cleanly: you can make your > audio app setguid-audio (note: NOT setuid), and make the audio group > have CAP_SYS_NICE-equivalent privilege via the RT-LSM, and then you > could have a finegrained per-app way of

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 21/29] ide: Merge do_rw_taskfile() and flagged_taskfile().

2005-02-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:06:03 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 21_ide_do_taskfile.patch Merged do_rw_taskfile() and flagged_taskfile() into do_taskfile(). During the merge, the following changes took place. 1. flagged taskfile

Re: Race condition in ptrace

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Piggin
Bodo Stroesser wrote: Working with the new UML skas0 mode on my Xeon HT host, sporadically I saw some processes on UML segfaulting. In all cases, I could track this down to be caused by a gs segment register, that had the wrong contents. This again is caused by a problem in the host linux: A

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserving backup region for kexec based crashdumps.

2005-02-03 Thread Itsuro Oda
Hi, On 02 Feb 2005 07:45:11 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > > And the feedback begins :) > > Itsuro Oda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I don't like calling crash_kexec() directly in (ex.) panic(). > > It should be call_dump_hook() (or something like this).

Re: [Patch] invalidate range of pages after direct IO write

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Zach Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After a direct IO write only invalidate the pages that the write intersected. > invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping, pgoff start, pgoff end) is added and > called from generic_file_direct_IO(). This doesn't break some subtle > agreement > with some

Re: 2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Piggin
Terje FÃberg wrote: Terje FÃberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: The kernel is compiling right now, but I cannot reboot this machine until six or seven o'clock tonight (CET). I will report then. Well, well, I rebooted the same kernel, now with MAGIC-SYSRQ enabled. At first the kswapd-effect

Re: [PATCH][I2C] Marvell mv64xxx i2c driver

2005-02-03 Thread Mark A. Greer
Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2005 21:12, Mark A. Greer wrote: + mv64xxx_i2c_fsm(drv_data, status); It can set drv_data->rc to -ENODEV or -EIO. In both cases ->action goes to MV64XXX_I2C_ACTION_SEND_STOP and mv64xxx_i2c_do_action() will writel() something. Is it

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