Re: [patch 3/5] sched: multilevel sbe and sbf

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3/5 > The fundamental problem that Suresh has with balance on exec and fork > is that it only tries to balance the top level domain with the flag > set. > > This was worked around by removing degenerate domains, but is still a > problem if people want

Re: [patch 2/5] sched: NULL domains

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2/5 > The previous patch fixed the last 2 places that directly access a > runqueue's sched-domain and assume it cannot be NULL. > > We can now use a NULL domain instead of a dummy domain to signify > no balancing is to happen. No functional changes. >

Re: [patch 2/5] sched: NULL domains

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2/5 > > > The previous patch fixed the last 2 places that directly access a > > runqueue's sched-domain and assume it cannot be NULL. > > > > We can now use a NULL domain instead of a dummy domain to

Re: [patch 1/5] sched: remove degenerate domains

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is Suresh's patch with some modifications. > Remove degenerate scheduler domains during the sched-domain init. actually, i'd suggest to not do this patch. The point of booting with a CONFIG_NUMA kernel on a non-NUMA box is mostly for testing,

chelsio build failure

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Jones
building this sucker as a module caused grief. drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c:113: error: `__mod_pci_device_table' aliased to external symbol `t1_pci_tbl'. This seems to do the trick. (untested beyond compile) Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dave ---

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-05 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 06:13 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can trigger latencies up to ~1.1 ms with a CVS checkout. It looks > > like inside ext3_try_to_allocate_with_rsv, we spend a long time in this > > loop: > > > > ext3_test_allocatable

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 compile error in mmx.c

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew James Wade
On April 5, 2005 09:22 pm, Berck E. Nash wrote: > 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 fails to build for me with the following error: > > arch/i386/lib/mmx.c:374: error: conflicting types for `mmx_clear_page' > include/asm/mmx.h:11: error: previous declaration of `mmx_clear_page' > make[1]: *** [arch/i386/lib/mmx.o]

Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O

2005-04-05 Thread hui
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:20:57PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > ty den 05.04.2005 Klokka 11:46 (-0400) skreiv Benjamin LaHaise: > > > I can see that goal, but I don't think introducing iosems is the right > > way to acheive it. Instead (and I'll start tackling this), how about > > factoring

Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order

2005-04-05 Thread Gerrit Huizenga
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:48:22 PDT, David Mosberger wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:33:59 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> said: > > Christoph> Which benchmark would you recommend for this? > > I don't know about "recommend", but I think SPECweb, SPECjbb, >

Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O

2005-04-05 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:46:41AM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:56:35PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > IOW: the current semaphore implementations really all need to die, and > > be replaced by a single generic version to which it is actually > > practical to add

Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order

2005-04-05 Thread David Mosberger
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:33:59 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: Christoph> Which benchmark would you recommend for this? I don't know about "recommend", but I think SPECweb, SPECjbb, the-UNIX-multi-user-benchmark-whose-name-I-keep-forgetting, and in general

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 5/6]clean cpu state after hotremove CPU

2005-04-05 Thread Nathan Lynch
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:55:06AM +0800, Li Shaohua wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:33, Nathan Lynch wrote: > > No. It should make zero difference to the scheduler whether the "play > > dead" cpu hotplug or "physical" hotplug is being used. > Keeping some fields like 'cpu_load' are meanless

Re: Hyperthreading and Kernel 2.4

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Hancock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I apologize in advance if this is not the right place to ask. Feel free to redirect me there :) I just wanted to know if the 2.4 kernel is aware of hyperthreading the same way the 2.6 kernel ist or if the issues posted earlier I'm not sure if the stock 2.4 kernels

Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Hancock
Alan Cox wrote: On Sad, 2005-04-02 at 05:50, Robert Hancock wrote: I'm wondering if one does a ton of these cache-bypassing stores whether something gets hosed because of that. Not sure what that could be though. I don't imagine the chipset is involved with any of that on the Athlon 64 - either

Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Derek Cheung wrote: Below please find the patch file I "diff" against Linux 2.6.11.6. It contains the I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU. Since most ColdFire CPU shares the same I2C register set, the code can be easily adopted for other ColdFire CPUs for I2C operations. I have tested the code on a

RE: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-05 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Ingo Molnar wrote on Monday, April 04, 2005 8:05 PM > > latest patch attached. Changes: > > - stabilized calibration even more, by using cache flushing >instructions to generate a predictable working set. The cache >flushing itself is not timed, it is used to create quiescent >cache

Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-05 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:18:15PM -0400, Derek Cheung wrote: > Hi Greg and Andrew, After you fix the diff issues that Randy pointed out, please be sure to CC: the sensors mailing list as found in the MAINTAINERS file. I know they will be able to give you feedback on the code. thanks, greg

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Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11

2005-04-05 Thread Adam Kropelin
I've been meaning to play with inotify for a while now and finally made time for it tonight. I'm not much of a GUI guy, so I'm mostly interested in exploring the command line applications of inotify --i.e., what sort of havoc can I wreak with it in a script. To that end I sat down tonight a threw

Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Derek Cheung wrote: Below please find the patch file I "diff" against Linux 2.6.11.6. It contains the I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU. Since most ColdFire CPU shares the same I2C register set, the code can be easily adopted for other ColdFire CPUs for I2C operations. I have tested the code on a

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Re: Scheduling tasklets from process context...

2005-04-05 Thread Kenneth Aafløy
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 04:50, you wrote: > Since tasklets are typically used for bottom half processing, is it > acceptable/recommended that they be scheduled from a process context > (say an ioctl handler)? > > Should one try to minimize such scheduling and try to do things in process >

Scheduling tasklets from process context...

2005-04-05 Thread arun.prabha
Hi, I have a query. Since tasklets are typically used for bottom half processing, is it acceptable/recommended that they be scheduled from a process context (say an ioctl handler)? Should one try to minimize such scheduling and try to do things in process context if possible, as tasklets run

Re: [2.6.12-rc1][ACPI][suspend] /proc/acpi/sleep vs /sys/power/state issue - 'standby' on a laptop

2005-04-05 Thread Shawn Starr
So nobody minds if I make this into a CONFIG option marked as Deprecated? :) Shawn. > > > Do you know if /proc/acpi/sleep will be deprecated in > > favour of /sys/power/state? If so, this thread will be > > moot ;) > > No idea, deprecating it would be ok with me. > >Pavel

Re: Coding style: mixed-case

2005-04-05 Thread Kenneth Aafløy
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 04:09, Matt Mackall wrote: > While there may be reasons why mixed case is suboptimal, the real > reason is that it's hard to keep track of which style is used where. > It's annoying and error-prone to have to remember the naming format > for everything in addition to its

RE: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-05 Thread Derek Cheung
Thanks Andrew. Enclosed please find the patch file. Regards, Derek -Original Message- From: Andrew Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 5, 2005 10:22 PM To: Derek Cheung Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for

Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Morton
"Derek Cheung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Below please find the patch file I "diff" against Linux 2.6.11.6. It > contains the I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU. Since most ColdFire CPU > shares the same I2C register set, the code can be easily adopted for > other ColdFire CPUs for I2C

[PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-05 Thread Derek Cheung
Hi Greg and Andrew, Below please find the patch file I "diff" against Linux 2.6.11.6. It contains the I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU. Since most ColdFire CPU shares the same I2C register set, the code can be easily adopted for other ColdFire CPUs for I2C operations. I have tested the code on

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday April 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - Nobody said anything about the PM resume and DRI behaviour in > 2.6.12-rc1-mm4. So it's all perfect now? Well, Seeing you asked... PM resume certainly seems to be improving. My main problem in rc1-mm3 is with PCMCIA. If I stop cardmgr before

Re: Coding style: mixed-case

2005-04-05 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:29:21AM +0200, Kenneth Aafl?y wrote: > Hi, > > while reading Documentation/CodingStyle for the nth time, I realized that I > had > read some conflicting coding style in some patch posted to the linux-kernel > mailing-list; in include/linux/page-flags.h, there is a lot

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1: ACPI=y, ACPI_BOOT=n problems

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > arch/i386/kernel/setup.c: In function 'setup_arch': > arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:1571: warning: implicit declaration of function > 'acpi_boot_table_init' > arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:1572: warning: implicit declaration of function > 'acpi_boot_init'

Re: [ACPI] Re: It's getting worse: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 and suspend2ram

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Die, 05 Apr 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Well, I do not have working suspend-to-RAM setup close to me... Could > > you try 2.6.12-rc1 to see if reboot problem is -mm specific or not? > > 2.6.12-rc2 suspends and resumes with the very same config

Coding style: mixed-case

2005-04-05 Thread Kenneth Aafløy
Hi, while reading Documentation/CodingStyle for the nth time, I realized that I had read some conflicting coding style in some patch posted to the linux-kernel mailing-list; in include/linux/page-flags.h, there is a lot of defines that are apparently frowned upon: HOWEVER, while mixed-case names

2.6.12-rc2-mm1 -- arch/i386/lib/mmx.c:374: error: conflicting types for `mmx_clear_page' include/asm/mmx.h:11: error: previous declaration of `mmx_clear_page' make[1]: *** [arch/i386/lib/mmx.o] Error 1

2005-04-05 Thread Miles Lane
arch/i386/lib/mmx.c:374: error: conflicting types for `mmx_clear_page' include/asm/mmx.h:11: error: previous declaration of `mmx_clear_page' make[1]: *** [arch/i386/lib/mmx.o] Error 1 CONFIG_X86_PC=y CONFIG_MK7=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I run the test(20 instances of fsx) with your patch on 2.6.12-rc1 with > 512MB RAM (where I were able to constantly re-create the mem leak and > lead to OOM before). The result is the kernel did not get into OOM after > about 19 hours(before it took

2.6.12-rc2-mm1 compile error in mmx.c

2005-04-05 Thread Berck E. Nash
2.6.12-rc2-mm1 fails to build for me with the following error: arch/i386/lib/mmx.c:374: error: conflicting types for `mmx_clear_page' include/asm/mmx.h:11: error: previous declaration of `mmx_clear_page' make[1]: *** [arch/i386/lib/mmx.o] Error 1 make: *** [arch/i386/lib] Error 2 I hope this is

Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Love
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 17:53 -0700, Rusty Lynch wrote: > From just a casual look, it seems like this could be used to monitor the > comings and goings of processes by monitoring /proc. Unfortunately > inotify doesn't seem to be getting all the events on the proc filesystem > like it does on a

Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O

2005-04-05 Thread Trond Myklebust
ty den 05.04.2005 Klokka 11:46 (-0400) skreiv Benjamin LaHaise: > I can see that goal, but I don't think introducing iosems is the right > way to acheive it. Instead (and I'll start tackling this), how about > factoring out the existing semaphore implementations to use a common >

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Morton
"Barry K. Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 06:44:08AM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > > swsusp: reading slkf;jalksfsadflkjas;dlfasdfkl (12345 pages): 34% > > [sorry, I just got up so my short-term memory isn't working that well > > yet] > > > > takes 10-30 minutes

Re: [03/08] fix ia64 syscall auditing

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:05:04PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:46 -0400, Ryan Anderson wrote: > > highlight WhitespaceEOL ctermbg=red guibg=red > > match WhitespaceEOL /\s\+$/ > > Very nice, thanks a lot for that. let c_space_errors=1 also works great.

Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, David Mosberger wrote: > What LMbench test other than fork/exec would you have expected to be > affected by this? LMbench is not a good benchmark for this (remember: > it's a _micro_ benchmark). LMbench does a variety of things and I expected to see at least something on the

Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order

2005-04-05 Thread David Mosberger
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:15:53 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: Christoph> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, David Mosberger wrote: >> That's definitely the case. See my earlier post on this topic: >> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/linux-ia64/0409/11012.html >>

Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, David Mosberger wrote: > That's definitely the case. See my earlier post on this topic: > > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/linux-ia64/0409/11012.html > > Unfortunately, nobody reported any results for larger machines and/or > more interesting workloads, so the patch is in

Re: 2.6.12-rc2 compile error in drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c

2005-04-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Ben Castricum wrote: > > 2.6.12-rc1 compiles and runs perfectly. > > gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release) > > CC [M] drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.o > In file included from drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c:63: > include/linux/usb_cdc.h:117: field

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:56:09PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 05 avril 2005 à 12:50 -0600, Chris Friesen a écrit : > > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > > The fact is also that mixing them with a GPLed software gives > > > an result you can't redistribute - although it seems many

RE: [patch] new fifo I/O elevator that really does nothing at all

2005-04-05 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Jens Axboe wrote on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:54 AM > On Tue, Mar 29 2005, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > > Jens Axboe wrote on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:04 PM > > > No such promise was ever made, noop just means it does 'basically > > > nothing'. It never meant FIFO in anyway, we cannot break the

RE: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-05 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Ingo Molnar wrote on Sunday, April 03, 2005 11:24 PM > great! How long does the benchmark take (hours?), and is there any way > to speed up the benchmarking (without hurting accuracy), so that > multiple migration-cost settings could be tried? Would it be possible to > try a few other values via

Re: [03/08] fix ia64 syscall auditing

2005-04-05 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:46 -0400, Ryan Anderson wrote: > highlight WhitespaceEOL ctermbg=red guibg=red > match WhitespaceEOL /\s\+$/ Very nice, thanks a lot for that. greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/sata_svw.c: fix compiler warnings

2005-04-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nick Wilson wrote: Fixes compiler warnings: warning: passing arg 2 of `writeb' makes pointer from integer without a cast warning: passing arg 1 of `readw' makes pointer from integer without a cast (added to CC list, just to update people on the status of these warnings... I know they're

Re: [PATCH] Fix compat stat handling on sparc64

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Dave, On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 13:57:37 -0700 "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- 1.19/include/asm-sparc64/compat.h 2005-02-17 21:53:03 -08:00 > +++ edited/include/asm-sparc64/compat.h 2005-04-05 12:37:58 -07:00 > @@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ > compat_dev_tst_rdev; >

[patch 5/5] sched: consolidate sbe sbf

2005-04-05 Thread Nick Piggin
5/5 Any ideas about what to do with schedstats? Do we really need balance on exec and fork as seperate statistics? Consolidate balance-on-exec with balance-on-fork. This is made easy by the sched-domains RCU patches. As well as the general goodness of code reduction, this allows the runqueues to

Re: [03/08] fix ia64 syscall auditing

2005-04-05 Thread Ryan Anderson
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:49:18PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:27 -0700, David Mosberger wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:46:48 -0700, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > Greg> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please > > Greg> let us know.

[patch 4/5] sched: RCU sched domains

2005-04-05 Thread Nick Piggin
4/5 One of the problems with the multilevel balance-on-fork/exec is that it needs to jump through hoops to satisfy sched-domain's locking semantics (that is, you may traverse your own domain when not preemptable, and you may traverse others' domains when holding their runqueue lock).

[patch 3/5] sched: multilevel sbe and sbf

2005-04-05 Thread Nick Piggin
3/5 The fundamental problem that Suresh has with balance on exec and fork is that it only tries to balance the top level domain with the flag set. This was worked around by removing degenerate domains, but is still a problem if people want to start using more complex sched-domains, especially

[patch 2/5] sched: NULL domains

2005-04-05 Thread Nick Piggin
2/5 The previous patch fixed the last 2 places that directly access a runqueue's sched-domain and assume it cannot be NULL. We can now use a NULL domain instead of a dummy domain to signify no balancing is to happen. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index:

[patch 1/5] sched: remove degenerate domains

2005-04-05 Thread Nick Piggin
This is Suresh's patch with some modifications. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Remove degenerate scheduler domains during the sched-domain init. For example on x86_64, we always have NUMA configured in. On Intel EM64T systems, top most sched domain will be of NUMA and with only one sched_group in it.

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Nick Piggin
Siddha, Suresh B wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:33:49PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Suresh's underlying problem with the unnecessary sched domains is a failing of sched-balance-exec and sched-balance-fork, which That wasn't the only motivation. For example, on non-HT cpu's we shouldn't be

Re: [PATCH] radeonfb: (#2) Implement proper workarounds for PLL accesses

2005-04-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 23:44 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > After discussion with ATIs, it seems that the workarounds they initially > > gave me were not completely correct. > > > > This patch implements the proper ones, which includes

[PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

2005-04-05 Thread Magnus Damm
Here comes version 2 of the disable built-in patch. This patch makes it possible to disable built-in code from the kernel command line. The patch is rather simple - it extends the compiled-in case of module_init() to include __setup() with a name based on KBUILD_MODNAME. As an example, if you

Re: AOE and large filesystems?

2005-04-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Dan Stromberg wrote: Some questions for the list: 1) Is anyone on the list using AOE in production? 2) Is anyone on the list using AOE in combination with md and/or LVM2? 3) Is anyone on the list using AOE on a 64 bit platform? While I think AoE is "neat", IMO you really want to use something

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-05 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Apr 5, 2005 4:10 PM, Richard B. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > > > On Mar 26, 2005 12:59 AM, Julien Wajsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I own an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard with the Nforce4-Sli chipset, and I > >> experiment the following

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc3 md/ext3 problems (ext3 gurus : please check)

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 12:59, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > I'm not certain that this is right, but it seems possible and would > > explain the symptoms. Maybe Stephen or Andrew could comments? > > Andrew, Stephen? Sorry, was offline for a week last week; I'll try to look at this more closely

Re: Logitech MX1000 Horizontal Scrolling

2005-04-05 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On mar, 2005-04-05 at 16:56 +0200, Esben Stien wrote: > Esben Stien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > can't find a single problem with the device. > > I should mention a couple of things after some testing: There are some > inconsistencies with regard to cruise control. > > When I press TOP

Re: [ACPI] Re: It's getting worse: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 and suspend2ram

2005-04-05 Thread Norbert Preining
On Die, 05 Apr 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > Well, I do not have working suspend-to-RAM setup close to me... Could > you try 2.6.12-rc1 to see if reboot problem is -mm specific or not? 2.6.12-rc2 suspends and resumes with the very same config file (well, after running make oldconfig) without any

Re: Use of C99 int types

2005-04-05 Thread Kyle Moffett
Please don't remove Linux-Kernel from the CC, I think this is an important discussion. On Apr 05, 2005, at 15:17, Renate Meijer wrote: Strictly speaking, a definition starting with a double underscore is reserved for use by the compiler and associated libs Well, _strictly_speaking_, it's

Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Love
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:20 +0200, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > BTW, what else could I use to make use of inotify? I know fam, which afaik > only uses dnotify. Here is a little sample glib application that shows the ease-yet-power of inotify.

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:14:45AM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > 2.6.11-bk9 works (actually it takes under 2 seconds, not 5-10). > 2.6.11-bk10 has the weird slowdown. > > I'll see if I can isolate it any further. 2.6.11-mm2 works, but 2.6.11-mm3 has the ridiculously slow resumes. Later today

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Brian Gerst
Jeff Garzik wrote: Josselin Mouette wrote: Finally, you shouldn't forget that, technically speaking, using hotplug for uploading the firmware is much more flexible and elegant than including it in the kernel. Upgrading the firmware and the module should be two independent operations. People who

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:45:58PM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote: > Something has broken make O= : > > HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms > HOSTCC scripts/conmakehash > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `include/asm', needed by > `arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.s'. Stop. > make: *** [_all] Error 2 > >

[PATCH] networking: restructuring of net/ kconfig

2005-04-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Rany et all. I have committed the following patch and it will be present in next -mm. It is present (as the only additional cset) in bk://linux-sam.bkbits.net/kconfig davem - any suggestion for next step. Preferably this goes to Linus via you - or? Sam # This is a BitKeeper

Re: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x in kernel 2.6.12-rc1-bk6

2005-04-05 Thread Bob Gill
Actually I don't use CONFIG_DEVFS_FS as it tends to break things here (and I found wasn't necessary for things to work, in fact it got in the way of some things working, some of the autodetect/hotplug peripherels didn't like it). Thank you for the reply though. Bob On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:14

Re: [PATCH] radeonfb: (#2) Implement proper workarounds for PLL accesses

2005-04-05 Thread Andreas Schwab
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After discussion with ATIs, it seems that the workarounds they initially > gave me were not completely correct. > > This patch implements the proper ones, which includes sleeping in PLL > accesses, and thus requires the previous patch to make

fix stale PCI pm docs

2005-04-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in documentation, and removes references to no-longer-existing (*save_state), too. With exception of USB (I hope David will fix/apply my patch), this should fix last piece of this confusion... famous last words. Please apply,

Re: Use of C99 int types

2005-04-05 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Apr 05, 2005, at 08:18, Richard B. Johnson wrote: One cannot just use 'int' or 'long', in particular when interfacing with an operating system. For example, look at the socket interface code. Parameters are put into an array of longs and a pointer to this array is passed to the socket

fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in driver/video

2005-04-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in drivers/video. Should change no code. Please apply, Pavel Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- clean-mm/drivers/video/backlight/corgi_bl.c 2005-03-19

fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in rest of the tree

2005-04-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in remaining places. Fortunately there's few of them. Should change no code. Please apply, Pavel Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- clean-mm/arch/sh/kernel/cpu/bus.c

Re: [ACPI] Re: It's getting worse: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 and suspend2ram

2005-04-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > I do not know why you can't unload them, but what about simply not > > loading them at all? :-). > > hotplug. > > > Whatever, booting with init=/bin/sh I get these processes running > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND > 1 ?R 0:00 /bin/bash > 2 ?SN 0:00

fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in drivers/

2005-04-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! -rc2-mm1 still contains few places where u32 and pm_message_t. This fixes drivers/serial [should change no code]. Please apply, Pavel --- clean-mm/drivers/serial/amba-pl010.c2004-12-25 13:35:01.0 +0100 +++

Re: fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in usb

2005-04-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Actually, please do NOT apply this. It conflicts with other > patches, which have been in the past few MM releases, have > also been circulated on linux-usb-devel, and actually address > some of the bugs which crept in as things have changed around > the USB stack. It seems to me that USB

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Don Armstrong
[MFT set to -legal, as this is becoming legal arcana probably not particularly interesting to any other list.] On Tue, 05 Apr 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > There are two solutions to this issue, either you abide by the GPL > and provide also the source code of those firmware binaries (the > prefered

Re: [ACPI] Re: It's getting worse: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 and suspend2ram

2005-04-05 Thread Norbert Preining
On Die, 05 Apr 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > Well, I do not have working suspend-to-RAM setup close to me... Could > you try 2.6.12-rc1 to see if reboot problem is -mm specific or not? You mean rc2? with rc1-mm4 it is working. > input is known for some funky behaviour, especially with > synaptics.

[PATCH] Fix linux/atalk.h header

2005-04-05 Thread David S. Miller
This recently got changed to include a lot of kernel internal stuff in the non-__KERNEL__ area of the header, which isn't so kosher and breaks libc builds. The fix is pretty simple. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = include/linux/atalk.h 1.12 vs edited = ---

My SWSUSP problems

2005-04-05 Thread Michal Semler
Hi, There are some problems I have on my laptop using SWSUPS. This is it's summary: 1] When hibernate with different hw configuratin (USB devices, pcmcia devices), computer freezes imeditially after reading hibernate file from swap and after reset with hw configuration I had when hibernating,

Re: [patch 0/5] Hotplug firmware loader for Keyspan usb-serial driver

2005-04-05 Thread Jan Harkes
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:45:30PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 15:38 -0400, Jan Harkes wrote: > > Here is another stab at making the keyspan firmware easily loadable with > > hotplug. Differences from the previous version, > > > > - keep the IHEX parser into a separate

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-05 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 5, 2005 4:01 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>btw Dmitri, that patch does not seem to work. But the kernel panic that >>kicks in when X starts up does imply that _something_ changed. No sync >>however, so no stack trace in the logs either. In fact,

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Brian Gerst
Jeff Garzik wrote: Brian Gerst wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Josselin Mouette wrote: Finally, you shouldn't forget that, technically speaking, using hotplug for uploading the firmware is much more flexible and elegant than including it in the kernel. Upgrading the firmware and the module should be

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-05 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Apr 5, 2005 4:01 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > btw Dmitri, that patch does not seem to work. But the kernel panic that > kicks in when X starts up does imply that _something_ changed. No sync > however, so no stack trace in the logs either. In fact, looking at the > dmesg

[PATCH] ppc64 Kconfig memory models

2005-04-05 Thread Mike Kravetz
This patch changes some of the default behavior in the ppc64 Kconfig file that was recently changed/added to 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 by Dave Hansen in preparation for SPARSEMEM. Patch allows the display of both FLAT and DISCONTIG models on pseries. As before, default is DISCONTIG for SMP and PSERIES and

Re: [SCSI] Driver Broken in 2.6.x (attemp 2)

2005-04-05 Thread |TEcHNO|
Hi, I don't think anyone has the actual hardware, without which it's quite difficult to fix the problem. What was the last 2.6 kernel version that this worked with? I guess I made a jump from 2.4.26 directly to 2.6.9 or maybe even higher, but I can't remember if I used the scanner since then,

Re: [2.6.12-rc1][ACPI][suspend] /proc/acpi/sleep vs /sys/power/state issue - 'standby' on a laptop

2005-04-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I'm working o ??? > > > [4294672.065000] ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] > > C2[C2] C3[C3]) > > > [4294676.827000] ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5) > > > > > > ...aha, but your system does not support S1 aka > > standby. > > > > Right, so nothing should happen if I try to do it, but >

Re: [03/08] fix ia64 syscall auditing

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Greg KH wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:27 -0700, David Mosberger wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:46:48 -0700, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Greg> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please Greg> let us know. Nitpick: the patch introduces trailing whitespace. Sorry about that,

Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Ross Biro wrote: Currently Linux 2.6 assumes the BIOS (or firmware) sets the master abort mode flag on PCI bridge chips in a coherent fashion. This is not always the case and the consequences of getting this flag incorrect can cause hardware to fail or silent data corruption. This patch lets

linux-2.4.29-hf7 (minor update)

2005-04-05 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi All, just for completeness, I've updated the hotfix tree to hf7. The changelog is ridiculously small (2 patches: 1 doc, 1 minor). The 2.4.29-hf tree is now up to date with 2.4.30. I will start the 2.4.30-hf soon (when 2.4.31-pre emerges), and will keep updating 2.4.29-hf as long as possible.

Re: [PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-04-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:42:25AM -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > >Only bit that I am worried about is the statement in SCTP: > > depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n > > > >That looked like a noop to me. It had the sideeffect that SCTP > >menu entries

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > esi: 009b63f9 edi: 0001 ebp: f543a000 esp: f543bfc8 > > i.e. esp & 0xfff was 0xfc8 - while i think it should normally be 0xfc4 > (page boundary minus size of pt_regs == 0 - 0x3c == 0xfc4). So somewhere > we lost 4 bytes of esp? An extra

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So I'd actually prefer to get that mystery explained.. > > IIRC if the interrupt doesn't do the CPL > > switch, the interrupt gate doesn't save > > the stack, and so there may not be the > > full "struct pt_regs" when the kernel > > thread is

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-05 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 5, 2005 1:20 PM, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Jaco Kroon wrote: >>>Dmitry Torokhov wrote: You should be able to control that in xorg.conf. >>> >>>My thoughts exactly. The same goes for gpm. >> >>No. AFAIK multifinger taps are handled by the

Re: [ACPI] Re: It's getting worse: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 and suspend2ram

2005-04-05 Thread Norbert Preining
On Die, 05 Apr 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > I do not know why you can't unload them, but what about simply not > loading them at all? :-). hotplug. Whatever, booting with init=/bin/sh I get these processes running PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ?R 0:00 /bin/bash 2 ?

x86_64 Opteron dual core panics on boot

2005-04-05 Thread Tom Duffy
I am trying to get any kernel to boot on dual core Opteron. I have tried with kernels 2.6.9-2.6.12-rc2 all with virtually the same panic. Here is the output with 2.6.12-rc2: Bootdata ok (command line is ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 console=ttyS0) Linux version 2.6.12-rc2andro ([EMAIL

[PATCH] Fix compat stat handling on sparc64

2005-04-05 Thread David S. Miller
The compat layer on sparc64 was not filling in the nanosecond fields in properly for 32-bit compat tasks. This caused things like the test-utime.c test to fail in the libc sources. A problem still remains for native 64-bit binaries. Like Alpha the normal stat structure doesn't have the

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