Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-20 Thread Jim Nance
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:23:52PM +0200, Antonio Vargas wrote: > Most probably the cost of programming and debugging the hand-made > paging on 32bit machines will cost more than the difference for a > 64bit machine. I'll second that. There may not even be a price difference. I've had quotes for

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Corrected Workqueue freezer support.

2005-07-20 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Thursday 21 July 2005 00:32, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > (Fixed to remove the latent mention of syncthreads). > > This patch implements freezer support for workqueues. The current > refrigerator implementation makes all workqueues NOFREEZE, regardless of > whether they need to be or not. > I

Re: [patch,rfc] Support for touchscreen on sharp zaurus sl-5500

2005-07-20 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi, On Thursday 21 July 2005 00:24, Pavel Machek wrote: > > +config TOUCHSCREEN_COLLIE > + tristate "Collie touchscreen (for Sharp SL-5500)" > + depends on MCP_UCB1200 && INPUT I don't think you need && INPUT here. > > obj-$(CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_BITSY) += h3600_ts_input.o >

[PATCH] Corrected Workqueue freezer support.

2005-07-20 Thread Nigel Cunningham
(Fixed to remove the latent mention of syncthreads). This patch implements freezer support for workqueues. The current refrigerator implementation makes all workqueues NOFREEZE, regardless of whether they need to be or not. While this doesn't appear to have caused any problems with swsusp (ie

Re: amd64-agp vs. swsusp

2005-07-20 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >>I have rebuilt agpgart and amd64-agp into the kernel and now it has > >>resumed successfully for the first time. Thank you for the hint! > >> > >>But I still wonder, why that makes a difference. > > > > > >Before resume the module is not present. When it gets loaded from the > >image it

Re: [PATCH] generic_file_sendpage

2005-07-20 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:22:55PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Fri, 15 July 2005 04:06:11 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > + > > > + /* There is no sane reason to use O_DIRECT */ > > > + BUG_ON(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT); > > > > err, this seems like an easy way for people to make the kernel go

RE: Linux v2.6.13-rc3

2005-07-20 Thread Brown, Len
>Len, ACPI people - can we fix this regression, please? > >Rafael even pinpoints exactly which patches are causing the >problem, so why didn't they get reverted before sending them off to me? Linus, I'm sorry it was in '-rc3' -- that is as soon as I could muster the bk->git transition. Now that

Re: LZF Cryptoapi support.

2005-07-20 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > New revision. Anything left to fix up? It certainly looks better now. > +static int lzf_compress_init(void *context) > +{ > + struct lzf_ctx *ctx = (struct lzf_ctx *)context; > + > + /* Get LZF ready to go */ > + ctx->hbuf = vmalloc_32((1 << hlog) * sizeof(char *)); > + if

[patch] Add suspend/resume support to locomo.c

2005-07-20 Thread Pavel Machek
From: John Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This adds low-level suspend/resume support to locomo.c. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/arch/arm/common/locomo.c b/arch/arm/common/locomo.c --- a/arch/arm/common/locomo.c +++ b/arch/arm/common/locomo.c @@ -541,6 +541,103 @@

[patch,rfc] Support for touchscreen on sharp zaurus sl-5500

2005-07-20 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This adds support for touchscreen of sharp zaurus sl-5500. I got the patches from John Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, but lots of copyrights are Russell King. To do so, it needs to add quite a bit of infrastructure. If there's better place for some code, please let me know (I already moved

[PATCH] Syncthreads support.

2005-07-20 Thread Nigel Cunningham
This patch implements a new PF_SYNCTHREAD flag, which allows upcoming the refrigerator implementation to know that a thread is syncing data to disk. This allows the refrigerator to be more reliable, even under heavy load, because it can separate userspace processes that are submitting I/O from

[patch] fix compilation in collie.c

2005-07-20 Thread Pavel Machek
This fixes wrong number of arguments in call to write_scoop_reg, fixes map_name and John's email. Please apply, Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/collie.c b/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/collie.c --- a/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/collie.c +++

Re: [RFD] FAT robustness

2005-07-20 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >[...] > > Q3 : I'm not sure JBD can be used for FAT improvements. Do you > >have any comments ? > > I might not be the best person to answer this, but this just seems so > obvious: > > If you plan to let a recently hot-unplugged device to be used in another > OS that doesn't

Where can I find the RPC FSM document?

2005-07-20 Thread Xin Zhao
I'd like to learn some details of how RPC's FSM works (e.g. the changing graph of all states). I know one possibility is to read the source code, but it is a little time consuming. Can someone kindly direct me to some documents about the rpc implementatino? Thanks in advance! -x - To

[PATCH] Workqueue freezer support.

2005-07-20 Thread Nigel Cunningham
This patch implements freezer support for workqueues. The current refrigerator implementation makes all workqueues NOFREEZE, regardless of whether they need to be or not. While this doesn't appear to have caused any problems with swsusp (ie Pavel's version) to date, this is no guarantee for the

[PATCH] v850: Add defconfigs

2005-07-20 Thread Miles Bader
Signed-off-by: Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> arch/v850/Makefile |7 arch/v850/README | 62 ++- arch/v850/configs/rte-ma1-cb_defconfig | 605 + arch/v850/configs/rte-me2-cb_defconfig | 453

Re: Obsolete files in 2.6 tree

2005-07-20 Thread Greg Ungerer
Jiri Slaby wrote: Are these files obsolete and could be deleted from tree. Does anybody use them? Could anybody compile them? [snip] fs/binfmt_flat.c This is not obsolate, it is used by most MMUless architectures as the primary executable file loader. It compiles (and works). Regards Greg

Re: LZF Cryptoapi support.

2005-07-20 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Howdy. New revision. Anything left to fix up? Regards, Nigel Kconfig |7 + Makefile |1 lzf.c| 377 +++ 3 files changed, 385 insertions(+) diff -ruNp 260-crypto-api-lzf-support.patch-old/crypto/Kconfig

2.6.12 PREEMPT_RT && PPC

2005-07-20 Thread john cooper
Ingo, Attached is a patch for 51-28 which brings PPC up to date for 2.6.12 PREEMPT_RT. My goal was to get a more recent vintage of this work building and minimally booting for PPC. Yet this has been stable even under our internal stress tests. We now have this running on 8560 and 8260 PPC

Re: [PATCH] Convert refrigerator() to try_to_freeze()

2005-07-20 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On the testing twice, fair enough. I'll send a new version with the refrigerator changes, as jbd won't need that dirty big if..else then since there's no danger of a deadlock. Regards, Nigel -- Evolution. Enumerate the requirements. Consider the interdependencies. Calculate the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12] printk: add sysctl to control printk_time

2005-07-20 Thread randy_dunlap
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:08:35 -0400 (EDT) Mark Whittington wrote: > Added a sysctl (KERN_PRINTK_TIME) and by proxy an entry in > /proc/sys/kernel to enable and disable printk interval information when > CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME is compiled in. 1/ That explains "what." How about "why?" 2/ The

RE: IDE PIIX vs libata piix with software raid

2005-07-20 Thread David Lewis
>> My question is, what is the recommended driver to use for the PATA >>channel? > >If you're just using hard drives, there should be no problem using >libata for both PATA and SATA. > >However, in general, the IDE driver (CONFIG_IDE) is recommended for PATA. > > Jeff I took Jeff's

[2.6.13 PATCH 3/4] 03-lgdt3302-suppress-compile-warning.patch

2005-07-20 Thread Michael Krufky
Michael Krufky wrote: This patch series spans both video4linux and linux-dvb trees. Remove the dvb_pll_desc from the lgdt3302 frontend and replace with a pll_set-callback to isolate the tuner programming from the frontend. Select the RF input connector based upon the type of demodulation

[2.6.13 PATCH 4/4] 04-cx88-dvb-cleanup.patch

2005-07-20 Thread Michael Krufky
Michael Krufky wrote: This patch series spans both video4linux and linux-dvb trees. Remove the dvb_pll_desc from the lgdt3302 frontend and replace with a pll_set-callback to isolate the tuner programming from the frontend. Select the RF input connector based upon the type of demodulation

[2.6.13 PATCH 2/4] 02-lgdt3302-rf-input.patch

2005-07-20 Thread Michael Krufky
Michael Krufky wrote: This patch series spans both video4linux and linux-dvb trees. Remove the dvb_pll_desc from the lgdt3302 frontend and replace with a pll_set-callback to isolate the tuner programming from the frontend. Select the RF input connector based upon the type of demodulation

[2.6.13 PATCH 1/4] 01-lgdt3302-isolate-tuner.patch

2005-07-20 Thread Michael Krufky
Michael Krufky wrote: This patch series spans both video4linux and linux-dvb trees. Remove the dvb_pll_desc from the lgdt3302 frontend and replace with a pll_set-callback to isolate the tuner programming from the frontend. Select the RF input connector based upon the type of demodulation

[2.6.13 PATCH 0/4]

2005-07-20 Thread Michael Krufky
This patch series spans both video4linux and linux-dvb trees. Remove the dvb_pll_desc from the lgdt3302 frontend and replace with a pll_set-callback to isolate the tuner programming from the frontend. Select the RF input connector based upon the type of demodulation selected. ANT RF

[2.6.13 PATCH] v4l: fix regression modprobe bttv freezes the computer

2005-07-20 Thread Michael Krufky
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Graeme Christie wrote: It seems to me as if this bug has resurfaced again. It probably got lost because it was applied to the kernel which v4l was maintainer- and CVS-less. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/6a27dd3dc46a5b5b?dmode=source=en It

[PATCH] kill bio->bi_set

2005-07-20 Thread Jens Axboe
Hi, Dunno why I didn't notice before, but ->bi_set is totally unnecessary bloat of struct bio. Just define a proper destructor for the bio and it already knows what bio_set it belongs too. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-io.c b/drivers/md/dm-io.c ---

Re: Obsolete files in 2.6 tree

2005-07-20 Thread Bob Tracy
Jiri Slaby wrote: > Are these files obsolete and could be deleted from tree. > Does anybody use them? Could anybody compile them? > > (...) > drivers/scsi/NCR5380.c > drivers/scsi/NCR5380.h > (...) The above are used by (at least) the PAS16 SCSI driver. The PAS16 is a 16-bit ISA soundcard that,

Re: Sharp Zaurus sl-5500 broken in 2.6.12

2005-07-20 Thread John Lenz
On Wed, July 20, 2005 12:57 pm, Pavel Machek said: > BTW is there some place where I can find modifications Sharp did to > mainline 2.4 kernel? First, sharp's modifications were not to the base 2.4 kernels, but you first applied the rmk patch and then the pxa patch. I have tried to split up the

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-20 Thread Horst von Brand
Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/11/05, Michael S. Tsirkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > 3e. sizeof > > space after the operator > > sizeof a > I don't think that's a hard rule, there's plenty of code that does > "sizeof(type)" and not "sizeof (type)",

Re: [PATCH] Preserve hibenate-system-image on startup

2005-07-20 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 20:54, Hiroyuki Machida wrote: > Hi, > > > With this function, system needs to mount read-write file systems on > every boot cycle, due to avoid inconsistency between FS and memory. > How did you address this problem? Did kernel check RW FS remained as > mounted on

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (ckrm)

2005-07-20 Thread Paul Jackson
Well said, Mark. Thanks. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

kdb v4.4 supports OHCI keyboard in 2.6

2005-07-20 Thread Keith Owens
The 2.6.13-rc3 version of KDB (Linux Kernel Debugger) supports a USB keyboard (CONFIG_KDB_USB). At the moment it only supports the OHCI interface, this is what SGI hardware uses. If anybody has hardware that uses the UHCI interface for the keyboard and can create a kdb patch, that patch will be

Re: amd64-agp vs. swsusp

2005-07-20 Thread Michal Schmidt
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Thursday, 21 of July 2005 00:07, Michal Schmidt wrote: I also tried putting a printk before restore_processor_state(), but I'm not sure if it is safe to use printk there. Yes, it is, but you may be unable to see the message if the box reboots before it can be

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-20 Thread Paul Jackson
Jan wrote: > (Find source files, expand tab chars to their on-screen length, print if > >= 80, count lines) The bulk of the longest lines are in the sound and drivers subtrees. One example on the "high end", with 546 chars in one line: == drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c: %2d%5d %5d %5d%5d

Re: [PATCH] Re: relayfs documentation sucks?

2005-07-20 Thread Paul Jackson
Bert wrote: > the diskstat tools require relayfs That way might lay the real value of relayfs, as a common technology basis for specific tools that are developed and maintained on top of relayfs. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux

Re: [PATCH] Remove Comtrol mail address from MAINTAINERS [next 1 address]

2005-07-20 Thread Jiri Slaby
Rolf Eike Beer wrotes: Send a patch, you know the addresses. kernel 2.6.13-rc3-git4 Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- a/MAINTAINERS 2005-07-21 01:13:32.0 +0200 +++ b/MAINTAINERS 2005-07-21 01:17:41.0 +0200 @@ -204,8 +204,6 @@ ADVANSYS SCSI

Re: amd64-agp vs. swsusp

2005-07-20 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 21 of July 2005 00:07, Michal Schmidt wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Tuesday, 19 of July 2005 23:26, Michal Schmidt wrote: > >>I have rebuilt agpgart and amd64-agp into the kernel and now it has > >>resumed successfully for the first time. Thank you for the hint! > >> >

kernel oops with x64_86 crossing 4Gb boundary

2005-07-20 Thread Francois Pepin
Hi, I am getting pseudo-random kernel oops on my Opteron box (Tyan Thunder K8W) with 4Gb RAM. I am running RedHad FC3 with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC3smp. It runs well with default BIOS settings, but only 3.5Gb RAM are visible. Using the "Software Memory Hole" option in the BIOS (version 3.02) remaps

HELP: NFS mount hangs when attempting to copy file

2005-07-20 Thread Timothy Miller
My research suggests that NFS client mounting is kernel-based, so that's why I'm posting here. If there's a more appropriate list to post to, I apologise, but I am not a list member. I'm having a bit of a problem doing simple copies over an NFS mount. The client is running Linux (2.6.11), and

Re: amd64 Interbench Results

2005-07-20 Thread Gabriel Devenyi
If these are reasonable numbers, is there any methods available to improve the responsiveness of X? I find I can't get smooth drawing, both scrolling text (in konsole) and dragging windows around, yields "skips" where the drawing isn't fluid. Secondly, what are the suggested settings for

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-20 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think that's a hard rule, there's plenty of code that does > "sizeof(type)" and not "sizeof (type)", and whitespace cleanup > patches I've done that change "sizeof (type)" into "sizeof(type)" have > generally been accepted. Sure, the common

USB Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0 ON LINUX

2005-07-20 Thread GlupFire
Hi list, I have the Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer USB In my linux , and when I try to configure (mouseconf , USB mouse) the mouse on the X dont work properly, when I move the mouse , the cursor only go to up and down. Anyone can help me to make my mouse work good ? My distro is Slack 10.1

Re: amd64-agp vs. swsusp

2005-07-20 Thread Michal Schmidt
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Tuesday, 19 of July 2005 23:26, Michal Schmidt wrote: I have rebuilt agpgart and amd64-agp into the kernel and now it has resumed successfully for the first time. Thank you for the hint! But I still wonder, why that makes a difference. Before resume the module

Re: [PATCH 2.6] I2C: Separate non-i2c hwmon drivers from i2c-core (2/9)

2005-07-20 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Greg, > > Convert i2c-isa from a dumb i2c_adapter into a pseudo i2c-core for > > ISA hardware monitoring drivers. The isa i2c_adapter is no more > > registered with i2c-core, drivers have to explicitely connect to it > > using the new i2c_isa_{add,del}_driver interface. > > Ick, when I did

Re: [PATCH] Re: relayfs documentation sucks?

2005-07-20 Thread bert hubert
> > When I'm debugging something requiring detailed tracing, I don't want > to have to think about whether the tracing tool has the particular > behaviour, performance, data loss, and other such characteristics > needed for my immediate needs. It is easier to code up some little > ad hoc

Re: [PATCH] Re: relayfs documentation sucks?

2005-07-20 Thread Paul Jackson
Steve wrote: > The reason I would like to see this merged, so kernel hackers don't need > to constantly write there own logging buffers everytime you need to > debug a complex area of the kernel. But I doubt that relayfs, or anything resembling it, will accomplish this purpose, at least for some

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Manfred Spraul wrote: Autsch. Yes, you are right. Sorry for that, I should have reread the patch once more. No problem :) I've been running v0.38 since my last mail. No problems at all. Thanks for your continued work on the driver. Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-20 Thread Paul Jackson
> > 3c. * in types > > Leave space between name and * in types. > > Multiple * dont need additional space between them. > > > > struct foo **bar; > > > Don't put spaces between `*' and the name when declaring variables, > even if it's not a double pointer. int * foo;

Re: [PATCH 2.6] I2C: Separate non-i2c hwmon drivers from i2c-core (1/9)

2005-07-20 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Greg, > > +/* Next four are needed by i2c-isa */ > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_adapter_dev_release); > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_adapter_driver); > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_adapter_class); > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_bus_type); > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() instead? As these were, core, GPL only symbols > before you

Re: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific)

2005-07-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, sorry, we're talking about two different patches. I sent in a > different patch yesterday, because Andi Kleen didn't seem very > enthusiastic about fixnx2.patch. Here's the patch that I sent > yesterday (attached as file init.c.patch).

Re: [RFC][PATCH - 1/12] NTP cleanup: Move NTP code into ntp.c

2005-07-20 Thread john stultz
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 13:42 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > Any comments or feedback would be greatly appreciated. > > +#ifdef CONFIG_TIME_INTERPOLATION > > +void time_interpolator_update(long delta_nsec); > > +#else > > +#define time_interpolator_update(x) > > do {} while (0) is safer...

Re[2]: kernel oops, fast ethernet bridge, 2.4.31

2005-07-20 Thread Lukasz Spaleniak
On Wednesday, July 20, 2005, 9:44:57 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hello, Hello Willy, > just some basic questions : > - did your configuration change before the oopses started ? (eg: new > matches, etc...) One new machine appears but it generates small traffic rate (by now it's almost

[PATCH 2.6.12] printk: add sysctl to control printk_time

2005-07-20 Thread Mark Whittington
Added a sysctl (KERN_PRINTK_TIME) and by proxy an entry in /proc/sys/kernel to enable and disable printk interval information when CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME is compiled in. Signed-off-by: Mark Whittington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruN linux-2.6.12/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt

Re: kernel oops, fast ethernet bridge, 2.4.31

2005-07-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hello, just some basic questions : - did your configuration change before the oopses started ? (eg: new matches, etc...) - did the traffic change recently (protocols, data rate) ? eg: new applications on the network, etc... - is it possible that it's being targetted by an attack

Re: IDE PIIX vs libata piix with software raid

2005-07-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Lewis wrote: Greetings, I am developing a system using the Intel SE7520BD2 motherboard. It has an ICH5 with two SATA ports and one PATA channel. I am able to drive the PATA channel with either the normal PIIX IDE driver or the libata driver which I am using for the SATA ports. Ultimately

RE: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific)

2005-07-20 Thread Stuart_Hayes
Hayes, Stuart wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: >> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Ingo Molnar wrote: there's one problem with the patch: it breaks things that need the low 1MB executable (e.g. APM bios32 calls). It would at a minimum be needed to exclude the BIOS

2.6.13-rc3 dma_timer_expiry

2005-07-20 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I just changed kernels from 2.6.11.4 to 2.6.13-rc3 and upon boot I now see these errors on the console and in the syslog: localhost kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 localhost kernel: hda: DMA timeout error localhost kernel: hda: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady

Re: [PATCH] generic_file_sendpage

2005-07-20 Thread Jan Blunck
Linus Torvalds wrote: "sendfile()" in general I think has been a mistake. It's too specialized, and the interface has always sucked. Ok, you're right. I will have a look at the pipe buffer stuff. As Andrew pointed out, it actually needs to limit the number of buffers in flight partly

Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes

2005-07-20 Thread Peter Staubach
Jan Blunck wrote: I don't want to tell where these are in general, I need an easy way to seek to the m'th directory + offset position without reading every single dirent. With i_sizes != 0 it is straight forward to use "the sum of the m directory's i_sizes + offset" as the f_pos to seek to.

Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes

2005-07-20 Thread Peter Staubach
Jan Blunck wrote: Also, how is lseek + readdir supposed to work in general? This is how libc is reading directories (at least on arch s390x): getdents() != 0 lseek() to d_off of last dirent getdents() != 0 lseek() to d_off of last dirent getdents() == 0 return Therefore I really need

[patch 2.6.12-rc3]dell_rbu: Resubmitting patch for new Dell BIOS update driver

2005-07-20 Thread Abhay Salunke
Resending dell_rbu driver after making a few more improvements and also using the new request_firmware_nowait kernel API sent in the firmware_class.c patch. This patch has been tested on i386 and x86-64 systems along with the firmware_class.c patch and it works fine. Signed-off-by: Abhay

[patch 2.6.12-rc3] modified firmware_class.c to support no hotplug

2005-07-20 Thread Abhay Salunke
Reseending the patch for firmware_class.c submitted earlier ,the patch upgrades the request_firmware_nowait function to not start the hotplug action on a firmware update. This patch is tested along with dell_rbu driver on i386 and x86-64 systems. Andrew, could you please add this patch to the

Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes

2005-07-20 Thread Jan Blunck
Chris Wedgwood wrote: To my understanding, you can lseek to any "proper" offset inside a directory. Proper means that the offset marks the beginning of a new dirent (or end of file) in the interpretation of the filesystem. But you can never tell where these are in general. I don't want

[PATCH]IOAPIC_CACHE for PREEMPT_RT @ x86_64

2005-07-20 Thread Karsten Wiese
Hi, attached patch implements IOAPIC_CACHE on x86_64, if I haven't forgotten something Note that in the patch, IOAPIC_POSTFLUSH is initially not set. Thats different to plain -51-32. Works fine here on a K8T800 Mobo. Would be fine, if some guys could give this a try ontop of -51-32. Thanks,

Re: [Clusters_sig] RE: [Linux-cluster] Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [RFC] nodemanager, ocfs2, dlm

2005-07-20 Thread Joel Becker
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:09:18PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2005-07-20T09:55:31, "Walker, Bruce J (HP-Labs)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Like Lars, I too was under the wrong impression about this configfs > > "nodemanager" kernel component. Our discussions in the cluster > >

Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes

2005-07-20 Thread Jan Blunck
Chris Wedgwood wrote: Hos does that work if offset >= m? Eerrh, did you actually read my patch? The i_size of a directory is increased by SIMPLE_BOGO_DIRENT_SIZE for every entry in the directory. >>So you can seek to m*+ to access an offset into >>> >something at depth m? >>> > >> >> Yes.

Re: [PATCH 22/82] remove linux/version.h from drivers/message/fus ion

2005-07-20 Thread Matt Domsch
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 12:54:09PM -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote: > Matt Domsch wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 06:07:41PM -0600, Moore, Eric Dean wrote: > > > On Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:17 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > > In general, this construct: > > > > > > > > > > -#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE <

Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes

2005-07-20 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 01:21:27PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote: > To my understanding, you can lseek to any "proper" offset inside a > directory. Proper means that the offset marks the beginning of a > new dirent (or end of file) in the interpretation of the filesystem. But you can never tell where

Re: [Clusters_sig] RE: [Linux-cluster] Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [RFC] nodemanager, ocfs2, dlm

2005-07-20 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2005-07-20T09:55:31, "Walker, Bruce J (HP-Labs)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like Lars, I too was under the wrong impression about this configfs > "nodemanager" kernel component. Our discussions in the cluster > meeting Monday and Tuesday were assuming it was a general service that > other

Re: Sharp Zaurus sl-5500 broken in 2.6.12

2005-07-20 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > ...and that's well known; but now I did some back tracking, and > > > 2.6.12-rc1 works, 2.6.12-rc2 does *not* and 2.6.12-rc2 with arm > > > changes reverted works. I'll play a bit more. > > > > This fixes at least one break-the-boot bug in -rc2... > > > >

Re: [PATCH 22/82] remove linux/version.h from drivers/message/fus ion

2005-07-20 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/19/05, Moore, Eric Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:17 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > In general, this construct: > > > > > > -#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,6)) > > > > -static int inline scsi_device_online(struct scsi_device *sdev) > > > > -{ > > > > -

Re: [PATCH 22/82] remove linux/version.h from drivers/message/fus ion

2005-07-20 Thread Nathan Lynch
Matt Domsch wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 06:07:41PM -0600, Moore, Eric Dean wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:17 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > In general, this construct: > > > > > > > > -#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,6)) > > > > > -static int inline

Re: [new] kernel-desktop 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.desktop_1

2005-07-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:29 +0200, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: > Hi, "You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Please don't

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-20 Thread Bodo Eggert
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 3) If a normal line of code is more than 80 characters, one of the >> following is probably true: you need to break the line up and use temps >> for clarity, or your function is so big that you're tabbing over too >> far. > > (Find source files,

Re: [new] kernel-desktop 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.desktop_1

2005-07-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:29 +0200, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: > Hi, > I just released a new version of kernel-desktop. New features are: > - Realtime LSM module (Useful for jack audio server) 2.6.12 supports RLIMIT_RTPRIO and RLIMIT_NICE so this is no longer needed. The distros need to get with

RE: [Linux-cluster] Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [RFC] nodemanager, ocfs2, dlm

2005-07-20 Thread Walker, Bruce J (HP-Labs)
Like Lars, I too was under the wrong impression about this configfs "nodemanager" kernel component. Our discussions in the cluster meeting Monday and Tuesday were assuming it was a general service that other kernel components could/would utilize and possibly also something that could send

Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [RFC] nodemanager, ocfs2, dlm

2005-07-20 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2005-07-20T11:35:46, David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, eventually we obviously need to have state for the nodes - up/down > > et cetera. I think the node manager also ought to track this. > We don't have a need for that information yet; I'm hoping we won't ever > need it in

Re: [RFC - 0/12] NTP cleanup work (v. B4)

2005-07-20 Thread john stultz
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 20:00 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, john stultz wrote: > > > In my attempts to rework the timeofday subsystem, it was suggested I > > try to avoid mixing cleanups with functional changes. In response to the > > suggestion I've tried to break out the

Re: Sandisk Compact Flash

2005-07-20 Thread David Hinds
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 12:49:00PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi David , > > On my controller CF INPACK pin is connected to 3.3v. so Comapct > flash with DMA capabilty will not be supported , i understood this . > but i did not undesrtand why only PIO mode 1 is supported is it , > why

Re: [2.6 patch] fs/jbd/: cleanups

2005-07-20 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jul 19, 2005 16:15 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch contains the following cleanups: > - make needlessly global functions static > - journal.c: remove the unused global function __journal_internal_check > and move the check to journal_init > - remove the following write-only

BUG triggered in Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-32

2005-07-20 Thread K.R. Foley
I had the following happen last night while running while running Con's Interbench. Looking back through my log, I do see one other case where the same BUG triggered from running updatedb (2.6.12-RT-V0.7.51-31), but it didn't have all of the ext3 errors that followed this one. I really don't

Re: How do you accurately determine a process' RAM usage?

2005-07-20 Thread P
Mauricio Lin wrote: Hi Brady, On 7/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The following shell gets the shared values for the first httpd process: FIRST_HTTPD=`ps -C httpd -o pid= | head -1 | tr -d ' '` HTTPD_STATM_SHARED=$(expr 4 '*' `cut -f3 -d' ' /proc/$FIRST_HTTPD/statm`)

Re: Synaptics and TrackPoint problems in 2.6.12

2005-07-20 Thread Sergey Vlasov
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:05:13AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 7/20/05, Sergey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another option is to change the > > PSMOUSE_TRACKPOINT value so that it is less than PSMOUSE_GENPS, > > No, protocol numbers should not be changed as userspace

[PATCH]: Correctly locate RSDP in EBDA

2005-07-20 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
ACPI spec. states that the location of the RSDP structure is found by searching * The first 1 KB of the Extended BIOS Data Area (EBDA). * The BIOS read-only memory space between 0Eh and 0Fh The EBDA scan looks wrong. The patch below against 2.6.12 should correct this. -Udo. ---

Re: How do you accurately determine a process' RAM usage?

2005-07-20 Thread Mauricio Lin
Hi Brady, On 7/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mauricio Lin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 7/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Andrew Morton wrote: > >> > >>>OK, please let us know how it goes. > >> > >>It went very well. I could find no problems at all.

[new] kernel-desktop 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.desktop_1

2005-07-20 Thread Jean-Eric Cuendet
Hi, I just released a new version of kernel-desktop. New features are: - Based on FC4 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 kernel - Include 2.6.12.3pre patch - Include Con Kolivas CK8 patchset (with Staircase11) Kernel-desktop is based on the standard FC3 kernel, with the folowing additions: - NTFS read-only -

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-20 Thread Antonio Vargas
On 7/20/05, Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 01:35:07PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:16:36PM +0200, Bastiaan Naber wrote: > > >AFAIK you can't use a

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>I want to know if this is possible before spending 10,000 euros on a machine >that has 16 GB of memory. I can get a Dual Opteron 242 with 16G for less than 10K euro. :) Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: Synaptics and TrackPoint problems in 2.6.12

2005-07-20 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 7/20/05, Sergey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:40:18 -0400 Stephen Evanchik wrote: > > > I have been receiving a lot of complaints that TrackPoints on > > Synaptics pass-thru ports stopped working with 2.6.12. I retested > > 2.6.9 and 2.6.11-rc3 successfully, I

RE: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific)

2005-07-20 Thread Stuart_Hayes
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> there's one problem with the patch: it breaks things that need the >>> low 1MB executable (e.g. APM bios32 calls). It would at a minimum be >>> needed to exclude the BIOS area in 0xd-0xf. >>>

Re: files_lock deadlock?

2005-07-20 Thread Martin Wilck
Alexander Nyberg wrote: spin_lock_irqsave is only needed when a lock is taken both in normal context and in interrupt context. Clearly this lock is not intended to be taken in interrupt context. According to Rusty's unreliable guide

Re: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific)

2005-07-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > there's one problem with the patch: it breaks things that need the > > low 1MB executable (e.g. APM bios32 calls). It would at a minimum be > > needed to exclude the BIOS area in 0xd-0xf. > > > > Ingo > > I

kernel oops, fast ethernet bridge, 2.4.31

2005-07-20 Thread Lukasz Spaleniak
Hello, I have bridge firewall (linux box) with three fast ethernet cards (one rtl8139 for management and two e100 for bridge). It is running 2.4.31 kernel and iptables v1.2.11. It works ok about one month. Few weeks ago It started ooopsing. First thought was hardware, but it was replaced with a

Re: Weird USB errors on HD

2005-07-20 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 19 Jul 2005 17:47, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > I have a usb-attached HD that I use from time to time. When it's connected > to my desktop through a hub it works flawlessly. When connected to my Dell > D600 Laptop, however, it sometimes randomly exhibits a loud click (as if > the heads went

Re: Automating Kernel Builds

2005-07-20 Thread Jan Dittmer
rbt wrote: > I have a script that automatically builds kernels for testing. Would it > be possible to put the kernel version number (2.6.12.3) into the > 'LATEST-IS-VERSION' file on http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ > or, is there some other file that traditionally has stored this info?

RE: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific)

2005-07-20 Thread Stuart_Hayes
Ingo Molnar wrote: > there's one problem with the patch: it breaks things that need the > low 1MB executable (e.g. APM bios32 calls). It would at a minimum be > needed to exclude the BIOS area in 0xd-0xf. > > Ingo I wrote it to make everything below 1MB executable, if it isn't

Re: Synaptics and TrackPoint problems in 2.6.12

2005-07-20 Thread Sergey Vlasov
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:40:18 -0400 Stephen Evanchik wrote: > I have been receiving a lot of complaints that TrackPoints on > Synaptics pass-thru ports stopped working with 2.6.12. I retested > 2.6.9 and 2.6.11-rc3 successfully, I believe 2.6.11.7 may also work > but that is unconfirmed at this

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