RE: Giving developers clue how many testers verifiedcertain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Al Boldi
Lee Revell wrote: { On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 21:15 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > OK, I will, but I first of all need to learn how to tell if benchmarks > are better or worse. Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler related interactivity regressions. }

RE: kernel optimization

2005-07-22 Thread Al Boldi
Adrian Bunk wrote: { On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 07:55:48PM +0100, christos gentsis wrote: > i would like to ask if it possible to change the optimization of the > kernel from -O2 to -O3 :D, how can i do that? if i change it to the > top level Makefile does it change to all the Makefiles? And since

RE: Kernel doesn't free Cached Memory

2005-07-22 Thread Al Boldi
Dick Johnson wrote: { > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 08:27 -0300, Vinicius wrote: > [...] >>I have a server with 2 Pentium 4 HT processors and 32 GB of RAM, >> this server runs lots of applications that consume lots of memory to. >> When I stop this applications, the kernel doesn't free memory

Re: sys_times() return value

2005-07-22 Thread Andrew Morton
Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guys, > > ARM folk have recently pointed out a problem with sys_times(). > When the kernel boots, we set jiffies to -5 minutes. This causes > sys_times() to return a negative number, which increments through > zero. > > However, some negative numbers

[GIT PATCH] ACPI for 2.6

2005-07-22 Thread Brown, Len
Hi Linus, Please pull from: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-2.6.git/ for a single patch that removes some recently added debugging console messages. thanks! -Len ec.c | 17 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) commit

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Re: PROBLEM: Failure to deliver SIGCHLD

2005-07-22 Thread Edgar Toernig
Michael Harris wrote: > > [2.] The problem occurs in a forking server similar in function to > inetd. The server employs a very simple SIGCHLD handler that loops on > wait(2), until all zombie processes have been collected. For no > immediately apparent reason, the parent process behaves as if

Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (ckrm)

2005-07-22 Thread Matthew Helsley
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:23 -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > > > actually, let me also say that CKRM is on a continuum that includes > > > current (global) /proc tuning for various subsystems, ulimits, and > > > at the other end, Xen/VMM's. it's conceivable that CKRM could wind up > > > being useful

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:15:14PM -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > >On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:07 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > > > >>I will get flames for this, but my laptop boots faster and sometimes > >>responds faster in 2.4.27 than in 2.6.12. Sorry, but this is

Re: [patch 2/2] Touchscreen support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-22 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Friday 22 July 2005 19:28, Pavel Machek wrote: > This adds support for touchscreen on Sharp Zaurus sl-5500. Vojtech, > please apply, I have couple more commnets... > +static int ucb1x00_thread(void *_ts) > +{ > + struct ucb1x00_ts *ts = _ts; > + struct task_struct *tsk = current; > +

Re: [PATCH] 1 Wire drivers illegally overload NETLINK_NFLOG

2005-07-22 Thread Harald Welte
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:05:59PM -0400, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:54:27 -0400), Harald > Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > --- a/include/linux/netlink.h > > +++ b/include/linux/netlink.h > > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ > > #define

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler related interactivity regressions. I doubt that _any_ of the regressions that are user-visible are scheduler-related. They all tend to be disk IO

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 21:15 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: OK, I will, but I first of all need to learn how to tell if benchmarks are better or worse. Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler related interactivity regressions. It

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:31 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding > > scheduler related interactivity regressions. > > I doubt that _any_ of the regressions that are user-visible are >

Re: [QN/PATCH] Why do some archs allocate stack via kmalloc, others via get_free_pages?

2005-07-22 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 17:50, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:11:17 +1000 > > > In making some modifications to Suspend, we've discovered that some > > arches use kmalloc and others use get_free_pages to allocate the stack. > >

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 21:15 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > OK, I will, but I first of all need to learn how to tell if benchmarks > are better or worse. Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler related interactivity regressions. It certainly has confirmed

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:07 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: I will get flames for this, but my laptop boots faster and sometimes responds faster in 2.4.27 than in 2.6.12. Sorry, but this is the fact for me. IBM T42. Sorry dude, but there's just no way that any

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:07 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > I will get flames for this, but my laptop boots faster and sometimes > responds faster in 2.4.27 than in 2.6.12. Sorry, but this is the fact > for me. IBM T42. Sorry dude, but there's just no way that any automated process can catch

Re: [PATCH] 1 Wire drivers illegally overload NETLINK_NFLOG

2005-07-22 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:54:27 -0400), Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > --- a/include/linux/netlink.h > +++ b/include/linux/netlink.h > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ > #define NETLINK_IP6_FW 13 > #define NETLINK_DNRTMSG 14 /* DECnet

[PATCH] 1 Wire drivers illegally overload NETLINK_NFLOG

2005-07-22 Thread Harald Welte
Hi Dave, Hi Evgeniy, the following patch fixes the illegal use of NETLINK_NFLOG by the 1wire drivers. It assumes that the netlink tap families can now safely be reclaimed, which is the case according to Dave at netconf'05. I'm not sure who would be the right person to fix this, but this patch

Re: HPT370 errors under 2.6.13-rc3-mm1

2005-07-22 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, Does vanilla kernel 2.6.12 work for you? It doesn't contain hpt366 driver update. Bartlomiej On 7/22/05, mdew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm unable to mount an ext2 drive using the hpt370A raid card. > > upon mounting the drive, dmesg will spew these errors..I've tried > different cables

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-22 Thread Tom Zanussi
Karim Yaghmour writes: > > Tom Zanussi wrote: > > - removed the deliver() callback > > - removed the relay_commit() function > > This breaks LTT. Any reason why this needed to be removed? In the end, > the code will just end up being duplicated in ltt and all other users. > IOW, this is

Re: [UPDATE PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}_msecs() interfaces

2005-07-22 Thread Andrew Morton
Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > +/* > + * schedule_timeout_msecs - sleep until timeout > + * @timeout_msecs: timeout value in milliseconds > + * > + * A human-time (but otherwise identical) alternative to > + * schedule_timeout() The state, therefore, *does* need to be set

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Blaisorblade wrote: Adrian Bunk stusta.de> writes: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:40:43PM -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: How do we know that something is OK or wrong? just by the fact that it works or not, it doesn't mean like is OK. There has to be a process for any user to be able

Re: Is this a bug in linux-2.6.12 ipsec code function xfrm4_rcv_encap ??

2005-07-22 Thread Patrick McHardy
k8 s wrote: I AM SORRY FOR THE PREVIOUS MAIL. I am correcting my previous mail. Infact I see only One race(not three as was wrongly pointed out). I commented out the section once again where the race might be. / Race Here . The

[PATCH] Re: itimer oddness in 2.6.12

2005-07-22 Thread George Anzinger
Tom Marshall wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 08:21:25PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: Tom Marshall wrote: The patch to fix "setitimer timer expires too early" is causing issues for the Helix server. We have a timer processs that updates the server's timestamp on an itimer and it expects the

Re: PROBLEM: IDE Zip drive doesn't work under 2.6.12

2005-07-22 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:21:05 -0400 (EDT), Jim Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Recently I upgraded from 2.6.11.11 to 2.6.12.3. This morning I tried >using my Zip drive... unfortunately it doesn't work under 2.6.12.3. To >verify that this was a kernel problem, I rebooted to 2.6.11.11.

Re: Is this a bug in linux-2.6.12 ipsec code function xfrm4_rcv_encap ??

2005-07-22 Thread k8 s
I AM SORRY FOR THE PREVIOUS MAIL. I am correcting my previous mail. Infact I see only One race(not three as was wrongly pointed out). I commented out the section once again where the race might be. On 7/23/05, k8 s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I see a possible race in linux-2.6.12

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-22 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 7/22/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/21/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/21/05, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > > > > On 7/21/05, Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>

[UPDATE PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}_msecs() interfaces

2005-07-22 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 22.07.2005 [20:31:55 -0400], Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > How does something like this look? If this looks ok, I'll send out > > bunches of patches to add users of the new interfaces. > > I'd drop the FASTCALL stuff... nowadays with regparm that's automatic > and the cost of

Is this a bug in linux-2.6.12 ipsec code function xfrm4_rcv_encap ??

2005-07-22 Thread k8 s
Hello, I see a possible race in linux-2.6.12 ipsec code function xfrm4_rcv_encap. I want to double check with the group. The issue is with SMP(mostly) or Preemptible Kernels. The race comes when someone flushes the SA's (setkey -Fexecuting on another processor ) while xfrm_rcv_encap is executing

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread H. Peter Anvin
David Lang wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Blaisorblade wrote: IMHO, I think that publishing statistics about kernel patches downloads would be a very Good Thing(tm) to do. Peter, what's your opinion? I think that was even talked about at Kernel Summit (or at least I thought of it there), but

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Blaisorblade wrote: IMHO, I think that publishing statistics about kernel patches downloads would be a very Good Thing(tm) to do. Peter, what's your opinion? I think that was even talked about at Kernel Summit (or at least I thought of it there), but I've not understood if

Re: [PATCH] reset VGA adapters via BIOS on resume... (non-fbdev/con)

2005-07-22 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Unfortunately, if you only get printk() working after you ran > > userspace app... well it makes debugging things like SATA > > "interesting". So I quite like this patch. > > Most interesting laptop vendors have at least one model in each range > with a serial port, which makes this sort

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Blaisorblade
Adrian Bunk stusta.de> writes: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:40:43PM -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > > > >How do we know that something is OK or wrong? just by the fact that > > it works or not, it doesn't mean like is OK. > > > > There has to be a process for any user to be able to

Re: [PATCH] reset VGA adapters via BIOS on resume... (non-fbdev/con)

2005-07-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, if you only get printk() working after you ran > userspace app... well it makes debugging things like SATA > "interesting". So I quite like this patch. Most interesting laptop vendors have at least one model in each range with a serial

Re: 2.6.13-rc3: swsusp works (TP 600X)

2005-07-22 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > swsusp now mostly works on my TP 600X. If I don't eject the pcmcia card > (usually a prism54 wireless card), swsusp begins the process of > hibernation, but never gets to the writing pages part. The eth0 somehow > tries to reload the firmware (as if it's been woken up), and then >

Re: [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces

2005-07-22 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> How does something like this look? If this looks ok, I'll send out > bunches of patches to add users of the new interfaces. I'd drop the FASTCALL stuff... nowadays with regparm that's automatic and the cost of register-vs-stack isn't too big anyway Also I'd rather not add the non-msec

Re: fix suspend/resume irq request free for yenta..

2005-07-22 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Without this patch my laptop fails to resume from suspend to RAM... > > > > It applies against a pretty recent 2.6.13-rc3 from git.. > > > > Hi, > > Is it necessary to do free_irq for suspend? Shouldn't disable_irq > be enough? Due to recent changes in ACPI, yes, it is neccessary.

Re: [PATCH] reset VGA adapters via BIOS on resume... (non-fbdev/con)

2005-07-22 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > At OLS at lot of people were giving out about cards not resuming, > > so using a patch from Michael Marineau and help from lots of people > > sitting around in a circle at OLS I've gotten a patch that restores video > > on my laptop by going into real mode and re-posting the BIOS

[patch 2/2] Touchscreen support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-22 Thread Pavel Machek
This adds support for touchscreen on Sharp Zaurus sl-5500. Vojtech, please apply, Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/input/touchscreen/Kconfig b/drivers/input/touchscreen/Kconfig --- a/drivers/input/touchscreen/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/input/touchscreen/Kconfig @@

[PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces

2005-07-22 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 08.07.2005 [16:08:24 -0700], Andrew Morton wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ i2QueueCommands(int type, i2ChanStrPtr p > > timeout--; // So negative values == forever > > > > if (!in_interrupt()) { > > I worry about what

Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (ckrm)

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Hahn
> > actually, let me also say that CKRM is on a continuum that includes > > current (global) /proc tuning for various subsystems, ulimits, and > > at the other end, Xen/VMM's. it's conceivable that CKRM could wind up > > being useful and fast enough to subsume the current global and per-proc >

2.6.13-rc3: swsusp works (TP 600X)

2005-07-22 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
swsusp now mostly works on my TP 600X. If I don't eject the pcmcia card (usually a prism54 wireless card), swsusp begins the process of hibernation, but never gets to the writing pages part. The eth0 somehow tries to reload the firmware (as if it's been woken up), and then everything hangs. If

Re: Whats in this vaddr segment 0xffffe000-0xfffff000 ---p ?

2005-07-22 Thread Jirka Kosina
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > Seems to be readable and starts with 'ELF'. It's something the the 'C' > runtime may library use to make syscalls to the kernel. Older libraries > used interrupt 0x80, newer ones may use this. Roland McGrath has made > patches to this segment

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-22 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Roger Heflin wrote: I have seen RH3.0 crash on 32GB systems because it has too much memory tied up in write cache. It required update 2 (this was a while ago) and a change of a parameter in /proc to prevent the crash, it was because of a overagressive write caching change RH implemented in

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-22 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Tom Zanussi wrote: > - removed the deliver() callback > - removed the relay_commit() function This breaks LTT. Any reason why this needed to be removed? In the end, the code will just end up being duplicated in ltt and all other users. IOW, this is not some potential future use, but something

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:40:43PM -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: >... >How does one check if hotplug is working better than before? How do > I test the fact that a performance issue seen in the driver is now fixed > for me or most of users? How do I get back to a bugzilla and tell that >

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc3a] i386: inline restore_fpu

2005-07-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > This patch makes restore_fpu() an inline. When L1/L2 cache are saturated > it makes a measurable difference. I've now pushed out an alternative fix for this, which imho is much cleaner. We've long had infrastructure for "alternative asm

Re: [PATCH] serverworks should not take ahold of megaraid'd controllers

2005-07-22 Thread Darrick J. Wong
Arjan, Alan: I didn't know that dmraid supports MegaIDE nowadays. Thanks for the tipoff, and I apologize for the unnecessary traffic. I'll look into dmraid. --D Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2005-07-21 at 15:37 -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > >>I've noticed what might be a small bug with the

Re: [PATCH] reset VGA adapters via BIOS on resume... (non-fbdev/con)

2005-07-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At OLS at lot of people were giving out about cards not resuming, > so using a patch from Michael Marineau and help from lots of people > sitting around in a circle at OLS I've gotten a patch that restores video > on my laptop by going into real mode

Re: fix suspend/resume irq request free for yenta..

2005-07-22 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Friday 22 July 2005 17:33, Dave Airlie wrote: > > Without this patch my laptop fails to resume from suspend to RAM... > > It applies against a pretty recent 2.6.13-rc3 from git.. > Hi, Is it necessary to do free_irq for suspend? Shouldn't disable_irq be enough? -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 03:34:09AM +0200, Martin MOKREJ? wrote: > Hi, Hi Martin, > I think the discussion going on here in another thread about lack > of positive information on how many testers successfully tested certain > kernel version can be easily solved with real solution. > > How

Re: Why build empty object files in drivers/media?

2005-07-22 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:18:13PM +0200, Olaf Dietsche wrote: > Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > +obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV) := video/ > > +obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV) := radio/ > > s/VIDEO/RADIO/ If you look at drivers/media/radio/Kconfig you will see that the above is coorect. Thre

fix suspend/resume irq request free for yenta..

2005-07-22 Thread Dave Airlie
Without this patch my laptop fails to resume from suspend to RAM... It applies against a pretty recent 2.6.13-rc3 from git.. Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie Linux kernel - DRI, VAX / pam_smb / ILUG diff --git

[2.6 patch] drivers/block/sx8.c: fix warnings with -Wundef

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following warnings with -Wundef: <-- snip --> ... CC drivers/block/sx8.o drivers/block/sx8.c:1585:5: warning: "IF_64BIT_DMA_IS_POSSIBLE" is not defined drivers/block/sx8.c:1604:5: warning: "IF_64BIT_DMA_IS_POSSIBLE" is not defined ... <-- snip -->

RE: Kernel cached memory

2005-07-22 Thread John Pearson
Wouldn't having (practically) all your memory used for cache slow down starting a new program? First it would have to free up that space, and then put stuff in that space, taking potentially twice as long. I think there should be a system call for freeing cached memory, for those that do want to

[2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c: fix warnings with -Wundef

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following warnings with -Wundef: <-- snip --> ... CC drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c:202:5: warning: "CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2_DEBUG" is not defined drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c:207:7: warning: "CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2_DEBUG" is not defined

[2.6 patch] drivers/char/rio/: fix warnings with -Wundef

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following warnings with -Wundef: <-- snip --> ... CC drivers/char/rio/rioboot.o drivers/char/rio/rioboot.c:905:5: warning: "NEED_TO_FIX" is not defined drivers/char/rio/rioboot.c:921:5: warning: "NEED_TO_FIX" is not defined drivers/char/rio/rioboot.c:1146:5:

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/ne.c: fix warning with -Wundef

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following warning with -Wundef: <-- snip --> ... CC drivers/net/ne.o drivers/net/ne.c:134:7: warning: "CONFIG_PLAT_OAKS32R" is not defined ... <-- snip --> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm1-full/drivers/net/ne.c.old

[2.6 patch] drivers/cdrom/mcdx.c: fix -Wundef warnings

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following warnings with -Wundef: <-- snip --> ... CC drivers/cdrom/mcdx.o drivers/cdrom/mcdx.c:54:5: warning: "RCS" is not defined ... drivers/cdrom/mcdx.c:709:5: warning: "FALLBACK" is not defined drivers/cdrom/mcdx.c:1219:5: warning: "WE_KNOW_WHY" is not defined

Re: Kernel doesn't free Cached Memory

2005-07-22 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-07-22 at 13:00 -0300, Vinicius wrote: >I also read on the Linux-Kernel that the problem may be related to an > exhaustion of your kernels address space, I read that the hugemem-kernel > might be the solution to this case since it has 4GB for the kernel memory > plus 4GB for

[-mm patch] include/net/ieee80211.h must #include

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
-Wundef found an (although perhaps harmless) bug: <-- snip --> ... CC net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.o In file included from net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.c:21: include/net/ieee80211.h:26:5: warning: "WIRELESS_EXT" is not defined CC net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.o In file

[2.6 patch] drivers/isdn/hisax/l3dss1.c: fix warning with -Wundef

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following warning with -Wundef: <-- snip --> ... CC drivers/isdn/hisax/l3dss1.o drivers/isdn/hisax/l3dss1.c:356:5: warning: "HISAX_DE_AOC" is not defined ... <-- snip --> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[2.6 patch] ftape: fix warnings with -Wundef

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm1-full/include/linux/ftape.h.old 2005-07-22 18:17:18.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm1-full/include/linux/ftape.h 2005-07-22 18:17:41.0 +0200 @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ # undef CONFIG_FT_FDC_DMA # define

[2.6 patch] drivers/char/drm/drm_pci.c: fix -Wundef warnings

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following warnings with -Wundef: <-- snip --> ... CC drivers/char/drm/drm_pci.o drivers/char/drm/drm_pci.c:53:5: warning: "DRM_DEBUG_MEMORY" is not defined drivers/char/drm/drm_pci.c:84:5: warning: "DRM_DEBUG_MEMORY" is not defined drivers/char/drm/drm_pci.c:119:5:

Re: select() efficiency

2005-07-22 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 04:18:46PM -0500, Davy Durham wrote: > Please forgive and redirect me if this is not the right place to ask > this question: > > I'm looking to write a sort of messaging system that would take input > from any number of entities that "register" with it.. it would then >

Re: Why build empty object files in drivers/media?

2005-07-22 Thread Olaf Dietsche
Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > +obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV) := video/ > +obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV) := radio/ s/VIDEO/RADIO/ Regards, Olaf. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

select() efficiency

2005-07-22 Thread Davy Durham
Please forgive and redirect me if this is not the right place to ask this question: I'm looking to write a sort of messaging system that would take input from any number of entities that "register" with it.. it would then route the messages to outputs and so forth.. I'm guessing that the

[-mm patch] kernel/ckrm/rbce/rbce_core.c: fix -Wundef warning

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:36:53AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.13-rc2-mm2: >... > +ckrm-rule-based-classification-engine-full-ce.patch >... > Class-based kernel resource management >... This patch fixes the following warning with -Wundef: <-- snip --> ... CC

Re: kernel optimization

2005-07-22 Thread christos gentsis
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 07:55:48PM +0100, christos gentsis wrote: hello Hi Chris, i would like to ask if it possible to change the optimization of the kernel from -O2 to -O3 :D, how can i do that? if i change it to the top level Makefile does it change to

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/8139too.c: rework the debug levels

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
I started looking at this driver after seeing the following warnings with -Wundef: <-- snip --> ... CC drivers/net/8139too.o drivers/net/8139too.c:1961:5: warning: "RTL8139_DEBUG" is not defined drivers/net/8139too.c:2047:5: warning: "RTL8139_DEBUG" is not defined ... <-- snip -->

[2.6 patch] remove the obsolete SCSI qlogicisp driver

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
The SCSI qlogicisp driver is both marked BROKEN and superseded by the qla1280 driver. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Due to it's size, the patch is attached compressed. Documentation/scsi/00-INDEX |2 Documentation/scsi/qlogicfas.txt |3

Re: Whats in this vaddr segment 0xffffe000-0xfffff000 ---p ?

2005-07-22 Thread vamsi krishna
Really appreciate that, is roland mcgrath listening? what's his email ID? On 7/23/05, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, vamsi krishna wrote: > > > Hi, > > > >> It doesn't. The 32-bit machines never show 64 bit words in > >> /proc/NN/maps. They don't

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-22 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:00:18PM +0200, Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > >>>You cant have 16GB of Memory with 32bit CPUs. >> >>PAE >>CONFIG_HIGMEM64G >>Supports a 36bit address space, which Xeons do support. > > > Yes right,

Re: itimer oddness in 2.6.12

2005-07-22 Thread Tom Marshall
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 08:21:25PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > Tom Marshall wrote: > >The patch to fix "setitimer timer expires too early" is causing issues for > >the Helix server. We have a timer processs that updates the server's > >timestamp on an itimer and it expects the signal to be

RE: Memory Management

2005-07-22 Thread Roger Heflin
I have seen RH3.0 crash on 32GB systems because it has too much memory tied up in write cache. It required update 2 (this was a while ago) and a change of a parameter in /proc to prevent the crash, it was because of a overagressive write caching change RH implemented in the kernel resulted in

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-22 Thread Tom Zanussi
Tom Zanussi writes: > > OK, if we got rid of the padding counts and commit counts and let the > client manage those, we can simplify the buffer switch slow path and > make the API simpler in the process. Here's a first proposal for > doing that - I won't know until I actually do it what

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-22 Thread Tom Zanussi
Tom Zanussi writes: > > OK, if we got rid of the padding counts and commit counts and let the > client manage those, we can simplify the buffer switch slow path and > make the API simpler in the process. Here's a first proposal for > doing that - I won't know until I actually do it what

relayfs as infrastructure, ltt, systemtap, diskstat

2005-07-22 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:01:32PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > Another vote in favor of relayfs here ... At OLS the 'SystemTAP' idea was presented, which has been partially implemented already, and it builds on relayfs as well. It dovetails nicely with kprobes. So it appears there is a sizeable

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-22 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 7/22/05, Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:12:12PM -0500, Patrick Draper wrote: > > Why isn't a code formatting program used? People could write the code > > as they like to write it, then format it automatically in a standard > > way before it gets put into

Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (ckrm)

2005-07-22 Thread Matthew Helsley
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 12:35 -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > actually, let me also say that CKRM is on a continuum that includes > current (global) /proc tuning for various subsystems, ulimits, and > at the other end, Xen/VMM's. it's conceivable that CKRM could wind up > being useful and fast enough

Re: 2.6.13-rc3 dma_timer_expiry

2005-07-22 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
>From my previous message on this subject: > With 2.6.13-rc3 I now get these errors (2.6.11.4 was fine) on my TP > 600X (Debian 'etch' system): > > localhost kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 > localhost kernel: hda: DMA timeout error > localhost kernel: hda: dma timeout error:

Re: kernel optimization

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:52:22PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > This is a airly frequent question > > the short answer is 'don't try' > > the longer answer is that all the additional optimization options that are > part of O3+ are considered individually and if they make sense for the > kernel

Re: kernel optimization

2005-07-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 07:55:48PM +0100, christos gentsis wrote: > hello Hi Chris, > i would like to ask if it possible to change the optimization of the > kernel from -O2 to -O3 :D, how can i do that? if i change it to the top > level Makefile does it change to all the Makefiles? search

Re: slow tcp acks on loopback device

2005-07-22 Thread David S. Miller
From: Steve French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 22 Jul 2005 14:56:59 -0500 > Noticing that the loopback device (at least on RHEL4) has an unfortunate > mtu size 16384 (which is about 50 bytes too small for SMB read > responses), I did try increasing the MTU slightly. Changing that to > 18000 did

Re: slow tcp acks on loopback device

2005-07-22 Thread Steve French
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 14:56, Steve French wrote: > I am seeing odd tcp characteristics on the loopback device. Although probably not related ... I thought it worth mentioning that ethereal claims bad tcp checksum on the 2nd of each pair of tcp response frames (the smaller one) when run on the

Re: [PATCH] Re: relayfs documentation sucks?

2005-07-22 Thread Paul Jackson
Another vote in favor of relayfs here ... I am reminded by my good colleagues at SGI that relayfs is a key to the Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT), which is in turn an important technology for some product(s) on which SGI is working. It is uses such as this which speak to the value of including relayfs

slow tcp acks on loopback device

2005-07-22 Thread Steve French
I am seeing odd tcp characteristics on the loopback device. In analyzing cifs read performance to samba, I see a fairly consistent pattern. TCP frame containing SMBRead request (asking for size 16K) 1st 16K of SMB Read Response (1 ms later or less) sent from samba Samba's response is

Re: CheckFS: Checkpoints and Block Level Incremental Backup (BLIB)

2005-07-22 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 07:34:38PM +0530, Milind Dumbare wrote: > Hi, > > LinSysSoft Technologies has taken up the challenge to incorporate > Checkpoint and Block Level Incremental Backup (BLIB) support in the open > source's Ext3 File System, which is very well known for its stability, >

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (ckrm)

2005-07-22 Thread Paul Jackson
Shailabh wrote: > So if the current CPU controller > implementation is considered too intrusive/unacceptable, it can be > reworked or (and we certainly hope not) even rejected in perpetuity. It is certainly reasonable that you would hope such. But this hypothetical possibility concerns me a

Re: kernel optimization

2005-07-22 Thread David Lang
This is a airly frequent question the short answer is 'don't try' the longer answer is that all the additional optimization options that are part of O3+ are considered individually and if they make sense for the kernel they are explicitly enabled (in some cases the optimizations need to be

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-22 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Neil Horman wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:32:52AM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: Neil Horman wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:40:54AM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel3_vm.pdf I wrote this with norm awhile back. It may help you

Re: NAPI (aka RX Polling) for natsemi?

2005-07-22 Thread Patrick McHardy
Francois Romieu wrote: Daniel Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [napi for natsemi] Can you please fill a bugzilla entry for it at bugzilla.kernel.org ? It is bugzilla, not featurewishzilla. If some external patches cause problem I suggest to contact their authors. - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Supermount

2005-07-22 Thread Lasse Kärkkäinen / Tronic
> Supermount is obsolete there are other tools in userspace that do the > job perfectly. > e.g ivman which uses hal and dbus. They cannot mount on demand, thus cannot do the same job. The boot partition, for example, is something that should only be mounted when required. The same obviously also

Re: Whats in this vaddr segment 0xffffe000-0xfffff000 ---p ?

2005-07-22 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, vamsi krishna wrote: > Hi, > >> It doesn't. The 32-bit machines never show 64 bit words in >> /proc/NN/maps. They don't "know" how. >> >> b7fd6000-b7fd7000 rw-p b7fd6000 00:00 0 >> b7ff5000-b7ff6000 rw-p b7ff5000 00:00 0 >> bffe1000-bfff6000 rw-p bffe1000 00:00 0

Re: NAPI (aka RX Polling) for natsemi?

2005-07-22 Thread Francois Romieu
Daniel Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [napi for natsemi] Can you please fill a bugzilla entry for it at bugzilla.kernel.org ? -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: itimer oddness in 2.6.12

2005-07-22 Thread Paulo Marques
Tom Marshall wrote: The patch to fix "setitimer timer expires too early" is causing issues for the Helix server. We have a timer processs that updates the server's timestamp on an itimer and it expects the signal to be delivered at roughly the interval retrieved from getitimer. This is very

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-22 Thread Neil Horman
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:32:52AM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: > Neil Horman wrote: > > >On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:40:54AM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: > > > > > >>>http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel3_vm.pdf > >>>I wrote this with norm awhile back. It may help you out. >

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (ckrm)

2005-07-22 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-07-22 at 12:35 -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > I imagine you, like me, are currently sitting in the Xen talk, Out by a few thousand miles ;) > and I don't believe they are or will do anything so dumb as to throw away > or lose information. yes, in principle, the logic will need to be

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