Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-25 Thread Nick Piggin
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: The page cache has no problems supporting things with a block size larger then page size. Now the block device layer may not have the code to do the scatter gather into small pages and it may not handle buffer heads whose data i

[RFC] [PATCH] DRM TTM Memory Manager patch

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Airlie
Hi, The patch is too big to fit on the list and I've no idea how we could break it down further, it just happens to be a lot of new code.. http://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/ttm/0001-drm-Implement-TTM-Memory-manager-core-functionality.txt The patch header and diffstat are below, This isn't

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-25 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Number of different known regressions compared to 2.6.20 at the time > of the 2.6.21 release: > 14 I count 13. (v2) had 15 items, of which 2 were subsequently fixed or found to be inapplicable. > Number of different known regressions compared to 2.6.20

Winbond SD/MMC controller

2007-04-25 Thread nucleodyne
Is there a linux driver for Winbond W86L388D SD/MMC controller? The data sheet is available at: http://www.winbond-usa.com/products/winbond_products/pdfs/PCIC/W86L388D_20051117.pdf -- Kallol Biswas NucleoDyne Systems, Inc. 19925 Stevens Creek Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/10] apic_wait_icr_idle issues and possible solutions

2007-04-25 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:03:04PM +0900, Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote: > > static __inline__ void apic_wait_icr_idle(void) > { > while (apic_read(APIC_ICR) & APIC_ICR_BUSY) > cpu_relax(); > } > > The busy loop in this function would not be problematic if the > corresponding status bit i

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-25 Thread Nick Piggin
David Chinner wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:37:28PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: I think starting with the assumption that we _want_ to use higher order allocations, and then creating all this complexity around that is not a good one, and if we start introducing things that _require_ significa

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What plugins etc are you looking at? None. Just want vanilla reiser4 as I've many small files to deal with. Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mo

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:49:11 +0800, "Jeff Chua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Reiser4 has great potential and I'll be more than happy to test it. > Yeah,... let us know the details of your testing. Ok, got reiser4 running on 1 full 250GB

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-25 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 01:45 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > What's your argument? Your argument seems to be that it's not stupid, > > because it can work. Can't you see that that simply isn't an > > argument at > > I tried keeping module_init/thaw/resume similar code, so that driver > author

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-25 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > Yeah. IMO anti-fragmentation and defragmentation is the hack, and we > should stay away from higher order allocations whenever possible. Right and we need to create series of other approaches that we then label "non-hack" to replace it. > Hardware is b

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-25 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 15:18 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Not the same... but they are still related. "freeze" (for atomic > > snapshot) is actually subset of "suspend"... freeze needs DMAs off and > > saved state, and you need DMAs off and

[PATCH 0/2] Clean up Intel RNG driver for 2.6.21-rc7-mm1

2007-04-25 Thread Tomita, Haruo
Hi Prarit and Jan, Clean up Intel RNG driver for 2.6.21-rc7-mm1. Patch 1/2 fixed the memory leak. Patch 2/2 fixed typo. Please give me a comment. -- Haruo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info a

Re: BUG: Null pointer dereference in fs/open.c

2007-04-25 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Apr 26 2007, William Heimbigner wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > >On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:53:00 + (GMT) William Heimbigner > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> > >>>OK. I am able to use the pktcdvd driver OK in mainlin

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-25 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > The page cache has no problems supporting things with a block > > size larger then page size. Now the block device layer may not > > have the code to do the scatter gather into small pages and it > > may not handle buffer heads whose data is split betwe

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-25 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > You are trying to couple something that has no business being coupled > as it reduces the system usability when you couple them. What I am coupling? The approach solves a series of issues as far as I can tell. > > But that is due to the VM (at lea

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-25 Thread David Chinner
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:37:28PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > I think starting with the assumption that we _want_ to use higher order > allocations, and then creating all this complexity around that is not a > good one, and if we start introducing things that _require_ significant > higher order a

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-25 Thread Nick Piggin
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Right now I don't even want to think about trying to use a swap device with a large block size when we are low on memory. But that is due to the VM (at least Linus tree) having no defrag methods. mm has Mel's antifrag met

Re: BUG: Null pointer dereference in fs/open.c

2007-04-25 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Apr 25 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > # pktsetup 2 /dev/sr0 > > [19982.934793] drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:838: setting error to 134217730 > > [19982.941070] [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 > > [19982.946256] [] show_trace+0x12/0x20 > > [19982.950744] [] dump_stack+0x16/0x20 > > [19982.95523

Re: [mmc] alternative TI FM MMC/SD driver for 2.6.21-rc7

2007-04-25 Thread Pierre Ossman
Sergey Yanovich wrote: > > I have found it easier to rewrite the driver, than to fix. Before you get your hopes up, this development model is not one that will get your code merged upstream. You should really try to work with Alex, not side step him. Drivers are rarely complex enough to warrant,

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fixed typo Intel RNG driver for 2.6.21-rc7-mm1

2007-04-25 Thread Jan Beulich
But why do you remove the printk()? >>> "Tomita, Haruo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 26.04.07 08:27 >>> This patch fixes a typo in mod_init(). fwh_done is performed when Intel fwh is found. intel-rng.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm1/drivers/char/hw_

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-25 Thread Jan De Luyck
On Thursday 26 April 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > If the goal for 2.6.20 was to be a stable release (and it was), the goal > for 2.6.21 is to have just survived the big timer-related changes and some > of the other surprises (just as an example: we were apparently unlucky > enough to hit what look

Re: [PATCH -mm] x86_64: kill 19000+ sparse warnings

2007-04-25 Thread Randy Dunlap
Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:21:55 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:07:56 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: oh. there is already an include/asm-x86_64/const.h that will help with that. I'll try it out. No

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-25 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 15:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > > > > And name *one* thing that have in common. > > > > Set/reset the scsi transaction id thingy? Hibernation didn't work with > > SCSI for a long time precisely because that supp

Re: [PATCH -mm] x86_64: kill 19000+ sparse warnings

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:21:55 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:07:56 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> oh. there is already an include/asm-x86_64/const.h that will help > >> with that. I'll try it out. > > > > N

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/26/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:29:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >... What I will NOT do: Waste my time with tracking 2.6.22-rc regressions. We have an astonishing amount of -rc testers, but obviously not the developer manpower for handling t

[PATCH 12/12] selinux: preserve boolean values across policy reloads

2007-04-25 Thread James Morris
From: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At present, the userland policy loading code has to go through contortions to preserve boolean values across policy reloads, and cannot do so atomically. As this is what we always want to do for reloads, let the kernel preserve them instead. Signed-off

Re: [PATCH -mm] x86_64: kill 19000+ sparse warnings

2007-04-25 Thread Randy Dunlap
Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:07:56 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: oh. there is already an include/asm-x86_64/const.h that will help with that. I'll try it out. No there isn't ;) There's a sparc64 one which looks good. Worth promoting to include/linux? Did y

Re: [PATCH -mm] x86_64: kill 19000+ sparse warnings

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:07:56 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > oh. there is already an include/asm-x86_64/const.h that will help > with that. I'll try it out. No there isn't ;) There's a sparc64 one which looks good. Worth promoting to include/linux? - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: pgprot_writecombine() and PATs on x86

2007-04-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So in general the pci prefetchable attribute means write-combining as >> well as prefetching is safe. A sane BIOS will allocate prefetchable >> BARS contiguously in the address space. So on a good day you >> can just use one MTRR to map all of

[PATCH 10/12] selinux: remove unused enumeration constant from selinuxfs

2007-04-25 Thread James Morris
From: James Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Remove the unused enumeration constant, SEL_AVC, from the sel_inos enumeration in selinuxfs. Signed-off-by: James Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Eric Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: James Morris <

[PATCH 11/12] selinux: change numbering of boolean directory inodes in selinuxfs

2007-04-25 Thread James Morris
From: James Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Change the numbering of the booleans directory inodes in selinuxfs to provide more room for new inodes without a conflict in inode numbers and to be consistent with how inode numbering is done in the initial_contexts directory. Signed-off-by: James Carter <[

[PATCH 09/12] selinux: explicitly number all selinuxfs inodes

2007-04-25 Thread James Morris
From: James Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Explicitly number all selinuxfs inodes to prevent a conflict between inodes numbered using last_ino when created with new_inode() and those labeled explicitly. Signed-off-by: James Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Eric Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by:

[PATCH 07/12] selinux: remove userland security class and permission definitions

2007-04-25 Thread James Morris
From: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Remove userland security class and permission definitions from the kernel as the kernel only needs to use and validate its own class and permission definitions and userland definitions may change. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed

[PATCH 08/12] selinux: export initial SID contexts via selinuxfs

2007-04-25 Thread James Morris
From: James Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make the initial SID contexts accessible to userspace via selinuxfs. An initial use of this support will be to make the unlabeled context available to libselinux for use for invalidated userspace SIDs. Signed-off-by: James Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by

[PATCH 04/12] SELinux: rename selinux_netlabel.h to netlabel.h

2007-04-25 Thread James Morris
From: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In the beginning I named the file selinux_netlabel.h to avoid potential namespace colisions. However, over time I have realized that there are several other similar cases of multiple header files with the same name so I'm changing the name to something which b

[PATCH 05/12] MAINTAINERS: update selinux entry

2007-04-25 Thread James Morris
From: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add Eric Paris as an SELinux maintainer. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- MAINTAINERS |4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAIN

[PATCH 06/12] SELinux: move security_skb_extlbl_sid() out of the security server

2007-04-25 Thread James Morris
From: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As suggested, move the security_skb_extlbl_sid() function out of the security server and into the SELinux hooks file. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: [PATCH -mm] x86_64: kill 19000+ sparse warnings

2007-04-25 Thread Randy Dunlap
Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:45:09 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eliminate 19439 (!!) sparse warnings like: include/linux/mm.h:321:22: warning: constant 0x8100 is so big it is unsigned long Eliminate 56 sparse

[PATCH 03/12] SELinux: extract the NetLabel SELinux support from the security server

2007-04-25 Thread James Morris
From: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Up until this patch the functions which have provided NetLabel support to SELinux have been integrated into the SELinux security server, which for various reasons is not really ideal. This patch makes an effort to extract as much of the NetLabel support from t

Back to the future.

2007-04-25 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi again. So - trying to get back to the original discussion - what (if anything) do you see as the way ahead? The options I can think of are (starting with things I can do): 1) I stop developing Suspend2, thereby pushing however many current Suspend2 users to move to [u]swsusp and seek to get t

[PATCH 01/12] NetLabel: cleanup and document CIPSO constants

2007-04-25 Thread James Morris
From: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch collects all of the CIPSO constants and puts them in one place; it also documents each value explaining how the value is derived. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.

[PATCH 02/12] NetLabel: convert a BUG_ON in the CIPSO code to a runtime check

2007-04-25 Thread James Morris
From: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch changes a BUG_ON in the CIPSO code to a runtime check. It should also increase the readability of the code as it replaces an unexplained constant with a well defined macro. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: James Morris <

[PATCH 0/12] SELinux patches for 2.6.22

2007-04-25 Thread James Morris
The following changes since commit de46c33745f5e2ad594c72f2cf5f490861b16ce1: Linus Torvalds (1): Linux 2.6.21 are found in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6.git#for-linus James Carter (4): selinux: export initial SID conte

2.6.21-rc7-mm2

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc7/2.6.21-rc7-mm2/ - this has everything which is in 2.6.21. Plus more! - a number of nasty bugs were fixed. This should be (a lot) more stable than 2.6.21-rc7-mm1. Some sysfs-related problems are still expected. Fidd

Re: [PATCH -mm] x86_64: kill 19000+ sparse warnings

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:45:09 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Eliminate 19439 (!!) sparse warnings like: > include/linux/mm.h:321:22: warning: constant 0x8100 is so big it > is unsigned long > > Eliminate 56 sparse warnings l

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-25 Thread Nick Piggin
Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:08:06AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: What I will NOT do: Waste my time with tracking 2.6.22-rc regressions. I sure hope you don't do this. Tracking these is tough, and I think you are doing a great job with it. No release will have no regressions, the

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> The page cache has no problems supporting things with a block >> size larger then page size. Now the block device layer may not >> have the code to do the scatter gather into small pages and it >> m

Re: pgprot_writecombine() and PATs on x86

2007-04-25 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
> So in general the pci prefetchable attribute means write-combining as > well as prefetching is safe. A sane BIOS will allocate prefetchable > BARS contiguously in the address space. So on a good day you > can just use one MTRR to map all of the prefetchable BARs as write-combining. Good point,

[PATCH -mm] x86_64: kill 19000+ sparse warnings

2007-04-25 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eliminate 19439 (!!) sparse warnings like: include/linux/mm.h:321:22: warning: constant 0x8100 is so big it is unsigned long Eliminate 56 sparse warnings like: arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c:248:16: warning: constant 0x8000 is so big it

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-25 Thread Nick Piggin
Eric W. Biederman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: V2->V3 - More restructuring - It actually works! - Add XFS support - Fix up UP support - Work out the direct I/O issues - Add CONFIG_LARGE_BLOCKSIZE. Off by default which makes the inlines revert back to constants. Disabled for 32bit and HIGH

[patch 7/7] SLUB: Major slabinfo update

2007-04-25 Thread clameter
Enhancement to slabinfo - Support for slab shrinking (-r option) - Slab summary showing system totals - Sync with new form of alias handling - Sort by size, reverse sorting etc - Alias lookups Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm1/Documentation/vm/slabin

[patch 6/7] SLUB: Free slabs and sort partial slab lists in kmem_cache_shrink

2007-04-25 Thread clameter
At kmem_cache_shrink check if we have any empty slabs on the partial if so then remove them. Also--as an anti-fragmentation measure--sort the partial slabs so that the most fully allocated ones come first and the least allocated last. The next allocations may fill up the nearly full slabs. Having

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-25 Thread lkml777
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:49:11 +0800, "Jeff Chua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Reiser4 has great potential and I'll be more than happy to test it. > Yeah,... let us know the details of your testing. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders

[patch 4/7] SLUB: Conform more to SLABs SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN behavior

2007-04-25 Thread clameter
Currently SLUB is using a strict L1_CACHE_BYTES alignment if SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN is specified. SLAB does not align to a cacheline if the object is smaller than half of a cacheline. Small objects are then aligned by SLAB to a fraction of a cacheline. Make SLUB just forget about the alignment require

[patch 3/7] SLUB: debug printk cleanup

2007-04-25 Thread clameter
Set up a new function slab_err in order to report errors consistently. Consistently report corrective actions taken by SLUB by a printk starting with @@@. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm1/mm/slub.c ==

[patch 2/7] SLAB: Fix sysfs directory handling

2007-04-25 Thread clameter
This fixes the problem that SLUB does not track the names of aliased slabs by changing the way that SLUB manages the files in /sys/slab. If the slab that is being operated on is not mergeable (usually the case if we are debugging) then do not create any aliases. If an alias exists that we conflict

[patch 0/7] SLUB updates

2007-04-25 Thread clameter
A series of updates to slub to make error reporting and recovery more consistent. Rework sysfs behavior, make kmem_cache_shrink perform fragmentation avoidance and update the slabinfo tool. -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EM

[patch 1/7] SLUB: Remove duplicate VM_BUG_ON

2007-04-25 Thread clameter
Somehow this artifact got in during merge with mm. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm1/mm/slub.c === --- linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm1.orig/mm/slub.c 2007-04-25 09:48:40.0 -0700 +++ linux-2

[patch 5/7] SLUB: Add MIN_PARTIAL

2007-04-25 Thread clameter
We leave a mininum of partial slabs on nodes when we search for partial slabs on other node. Define a constant for that value. Then modify slub to keep MIN_PARTIAL slabs around. This avoids bad situations where a function frees the last object in a slab (which results in the page being returned t

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-25 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:08:06AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:29:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >... > > So it's been over two and a half months, and while it's certainly not the > > longest release cycle ever, it still dragged out a bit longer than I'd > > have h

[PATCH] rename TANBAC TB0219 config

2007-04-25 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
Hi This patch has renamed config of TANBAC TB0219 GPIO support. It changed to an appropriate name. Yoichi Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -pruN -X generic/Documentation/dontdiff generic-orig/drivers/char/Kconfig generic/drivers/char/Kconfig --- generic-orig/drivers/char/K

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-25 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:08:06AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > What I will NOT do: > Waste my time with tracking 2.6.22-rc regressions. I sure hope you don't do this. Tracking these is tough, and I think you are doing a great job with it. No release will have no regressions, there's just too man

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-25 Thread lkml777
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:50:22 +0800, "Jeff Chua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 4/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Laurent Riffard's Reiser4 patch to the default linux-2.6.20 kernel and a > > couple of others. > > Thank you. Got it. Testing it now. > > Jeff. What plugin

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-25 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > The page cache has no problems supporting things with a block > size larger then page size. Now the block device layer may not > have the code to do the scatter gather into small pages and it > may not handle buffer heads whose data is split between

Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

2007-04-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > V2->V3 > - More restructuring > - It actually works! > - Add XFS support > - Fix up UP support > - Work out the direct I/O issues > - Add CONFIG_LARGE_BLOCKSIZE. Off by default which makes the inlines revert > back to constants. Disabled for 32bit and HIGHMEM configur

Re: [PATCH 2.4.35-pre4] fix 'pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xA7)' error on systems with KVM

2007-04-25 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Brian, On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:13:13PM -0400, Brian Maly wrote: > Ive had a few requests for this patch, so Im posting it against > linux-2.4.35-pre4 kernel. OK, does not look too intrusive, and seems fair enough. Will merge it. Thanks ! Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take4 2/6] support multiple logging

2007-04-25 Thread David Miller
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:02:04 +0900 > Stephen Hemminger said "The configuration of netconsole's looks like the > configuration of routes". > I think so too. > So I think ioctl commands for adding/removing port and the following userland > application like

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:08:06AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > What I will NOT do: > Waste my time with tracking 2.6.22-rc regressions. I seriously hope you'll reconsider. If you hadn't have done this, things would have been a *lot* worse imo. But either way, thanks for doing what remains a

Re: [PATCH] sworks-agp: Switch to PCI ref counting APIs

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:23:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:20:19 -0400 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 07:21:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:51:29 +0100 Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: [PATCH 0/9] Kconfig: cleanup s390 v2.

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:02:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:38:23 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In fact, I should probably munge it together with a similar thing > > > I wrote at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/findbugs/ > > > (Warning: sc

Re: [PATCH] sworks-agp: Switch to PCI ref counting APIs

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:20:19 -0400 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 07:21:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:51:29 +0100 Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > { > > > struct agp_bridge_data *bridge = pci_get_drvdata(pde

Re: [PATCH] sworks-agp: Switch to PCI ref counting APIs

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 07:21:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:51:29 +0100 Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > { > >struct agp_bridge_data *bridge = pci_get_drvdata(pdev); > > > > + pci_dev_put(bridge->dev); > >agp_remove_bridge(bridge); > >ag

Re: [PATCH] pcmcia: irq probe can be done without risking an IRQ storm

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:09:36 +0100 Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nowdays you can ask for an IRQ to be allocated but not enabled, when > PCMCIA was written this was not true and this feature is thus not used > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > diff -u --new-file --recursive

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-25 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:47:04PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> - upstream fix: SysRq-T should show runnable tasks On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 05:29:27AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > BTW. can you send this upstream? It is very annoying how it currently works, > and I've had more than one bug that requ

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:29:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >... > So it's been over two and a half months, and while it's certainly not the > longest release cycle ever, it still dragged out a bit longer than I'd > have hoped for and it should have. As usual, I'd like to thank Adrian (and >

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take4 2/6] support multiple logging

2007-04-25 Thread Keiichi KII
Well.. before you can finish this work we need to decide upon what the interface to userspace will be. - The miscdev isn't appropriate Why isn't miscdev appropriate? We just shouldn't use miscdev for networking conventionally? Yes it's rather odd, especially for networking. What does the m

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:29:27 +0200 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - upstream fix: SysRq-T should show runnable tasks > > BTW. can you send this upstream? It is very annoying how it currently works, > and I've had more than one bug that required seeing runnable tasks in order > to dia

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1: Oops and Gnome desktop freezes

2007-04-25 Thread Dan Kruchinin
Hi. On 4/25/07, Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Gnome desktop does not finish launching. And I get this tracing, all coming from Gnome apps. Tony BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c0a74000 printing eip: c014c469 *pde = 005f3027 *pte = O

Re: MMCv4 support (8-bit support missing)

2007-04-25 Thread Madhusudhan c
Hi Pierre/Philip, I've looked through the MMC 4.2 spec and I see nothing in it that even hints that 8-bit support might be optional. So as it stands, the bus testing is still out. Okay. Its possible that my understanding was wrong in the sense that I thought bus testing procedure is mandatory

Re: PROBLEM: Oops: 0002 [1] SMP

2007-04-25 Thread Thiago M.
I have also suspected this. memtest86 from test #1 to #10 showed an error on test #3 once, so i removed the dimm, cleaned it and fixed it again and run the tests two more times without any error. Is there any other tool i could use to test the memory? Thanks. Thiago. On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 18:24

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-25 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:47:04PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i'm pleased to announce release -v6 of the CFS scheduler patchset. The > main goal of CFS is to implement "high quality desktop scheduling" as > well as technically possible. > > The CFS patch against v2.6.21-rc7 or against v2.6.2

Re: [PATCH] i386: For debugging, make the initial page table setup less forgiving.

2007-04-25 Thread Zachary Amsden
Eric W. Biederman wrote: I suspect what we want to do is come up with a function to call to test to see if a page should be read-only and map such pages _PAGE_KERNEL_RO, or _PAGE_KERNEL_RO_EXEC if it's code. Speaking of things what are paravirt_alloc_pd and parafirt_alloc_pd supposed to do?

Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-25 Thread Linus Torvalds
If the goal for 2.6.20 was to be a stable release (and it was), the goal for 2.6.21 is to have just survived the big timer-related changes and some of the other surprises (just as an example: we were apparently unlucky enough to hit what looks like a previously unknown hardware errata in one o

Re: menuconfig issue (checklist) in 2.6.20.7 & 2.6.21-rc7 ?

2007-04-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 22:30 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > There are general funnies in the menuconfig world (my preference) here. > > For instance, I recently had reason to change/test different default IO > > schedulers, and found that no matter what I did, I couldn't select a > > default IO sch

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-25 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Sorry. I wasn't clear. I wasn't saying that suspend to ram has a > snapshot point. I was trying to say it has a point where you're seeking > to save information (PCI state / SCSI transaction number or whatever) > that you'll need to get the hardwa

Re: [PATCH 0/9] Kconfig: cleanup s390 v2.

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:38:23 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:24:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > It would be neat if someone could create and maintain a new > > > scripts/spot-common-mistakes. Feed it a unified diff and

Re: Nonfunctional ethernet (was Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 + sysfs-oops-workaround.patch -- INFO: possible recursive locking detected)

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:26:36 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Antonino, Andrew. > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:02:02 +0800 "Antonino A. Daplas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> I can bring up the network manually using ifconfig. It's opensuse's >

Re: [PATCH 0/9] Kconfig: cleanup s390 v2.

2007-04-25 Thread Randy Dunlap
Dave Jones wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:24:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > It would be neat if someone could create and maintain a new > scripts/spot-common-mistakes. Feed it a unified diff and it would complain > about newly-added code (and only newly-added code) which has busted >

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-25 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > That was the 1990s. On a brand new server system: > > 00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset DMA > Engine (rev b1) > > For better or worse, slave DMA seems to be making a comeback of sorts. > Not to mention all kinds of

Re: Nonfunctional ethernet (was Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 + sysfs-oops-workaround.patch -- INFO: possible recursive locking detected)

2007-04-25 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Antonino, Andrew. Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:02:02 +0800 "Antonino A. Daplas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I can bring up the network manually using ifconfig. It's opensuse's >> rcnetwork script that fails to bring the network up. Entries >> in /sys/class/net are

Re: [PATCH] sworks-agp: Switch to PCI ref counting APIs

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:51:29 +0100 Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > { > struct agp_bridge_data *bridge = pci_get_drvdata(pdev); > > + pci_dev_put(bridge->dev); > agp_remove_bridge(bridge); > agp_put_bridge(bridge); > + pci_dev_put(serverworks_private.svrwrks_dev)

Re: [PATCH] use mutex instead of semaphore in tty_io.c

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:13:59 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:49:34PM +0200, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: > > drivers/char/tty_io.c uses a semaphore as mutex. use the mutex API > > instead of the (binary) semaphore > > This looks like it should be a spin

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: >i'm pleased to announce release -v6 of the CFS scheduler patchset. The >main goal of CFS is to implement "high quality desktop scheduling" as >well as technically possible. > >The CFS patch against v2.6.21-rc7 or against v2.6.20.7 can be downloaded >f

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: >> Ok, I guess I'll have nightmares of DMA controllers doing DMAs from >> chips that are no longer there tonight. > > Umm. Welcome to the 21st century: we don't do that "separate DMA > controller" thing any more. All devices do t

Re: pcmcia - failed to initialize IDE interface

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:27:26 +0200 "Aeschbacher, Fabrice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > [kernel 2.6.20.7, arch=mips, processor=amd au1550] > > I'm trying to install a 2.6 kernel on an Alchemy au1550, and having > problem with the pcmcia socket, where I plugged a CompactFlash card. The >

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-25 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > That's where I think you're overstretching the argument. Like suspend >(to ram), we're concerned at the snapshot point with getting the hardware >in the same state at a later stage. Really, no. "suspend to ram" doesn't _have_ a "snapshot point"

[BUG REPORT] 2.6.21-rc7 - Yukon-EC Ultra <-> sky2 driver bug(s)

2007-04-25 Thread speedy
Kernel: 2.6.21-rc7 Device: Yukon-EC Ultra (0xb4) rev 2 [integrated on Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6] OS: Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Description: The driver reports rx errors, drops carrier due to HW error, rmmod/modprobe combo returns carrier to sane state.. after that it works with rx errors for a whil

Re: [PATCH 0/9] Kconfig: cleanup s390 v2.

2007-04-25 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 02:32:06AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 26 April 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It would be neat if someone could create and maintain a new > > scripts/spot-common-mistakes.  Feed it a unified diff and it would complain > > about newly-added code (and only newly

Re: Sleep during spinlock in TPM driver

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:14:03 -0400 (EDT) Parag Warudkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- linux-2.6-us/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c 2007-04-21 14:55:03.134975360 > -0400 > +++ linux-2.6-wk/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c 2007-04-22 14:58:51.95763 > -0400 > @@ -942,12 +942,12 @@ > { > str

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-25 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 21:25 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:50:45AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > 3W for the complete system? In CPU state S1? [1] > > > > In STR, 3W is quite realistic. The CPU is off, all (or

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