Re: [PATCH] documentation fixes

2007-07-31 Thread Ph. Marek
On Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007, Cal Peake wrote: > > Whom should I CC for other documentation updates? Is the maintainer > > the correct person, or are such small fixes "send and forget"? > > For spelling and grammar fixes, sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is prolly > the best bet with a CC to l-k. > >

Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI framebuffer driver

2007-07-31 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 11:13 +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: > + > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > + > +#include > + I don't see any

Re: eurotechwdt will cause reboot

2007-07-31 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi Dave, > config eurotechwdt to yes will cause system silent reboot. Is it right > behaviour or a bug? I think this might be a bug. I'll look at the code and will ask you to do some tests for me (if that is ok for you). Greetings, Wim. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH]: sound: ioremap/iounmap function balancing audit

2007-07-31 Thread Scott Thompson
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:52:26 -0400 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED] foundation.org> wrote: >The patch is terribly wordwrapped. > >I suspect a lot of the code which you're fixing is about to be >removed. >But I suppose we should fix it before removing it anwyay. Still, >please >split this patch

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-31 Thread Carlo Florendo
Roman Zippel wrote: When Ingo posted his rewrite http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/13/180, Con had already pretty much lost. I have no doubt that Ingo can quickly transform an idea into working code and I would've been very surprised if he wouldn't be able to turn it into something technically

Re: [PATCH -mm] Introduce strtol_check_range()

2007-07-31 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:04:10PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > Callers (especially "store" functions for sysfs or configfs attributes) > that want to convert an input string to a number may often also want to > check for simple input sanity or allowable range. strtol10_check_range() > of

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?

2007-07-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:07:30PM +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote: >... > I took the time to track down what caused a breakage - in an "illegal > binary driver" (not against the law here, though defamation certainly > is...) no less. And contacted the vendor (separately). Other people > on desktop

Re: [PATCH 52] include/asm-m32r/thread_info.h: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

2007-07-31 Thread Hirokazu Takata
From: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:18:33 +0200 > Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > include/asm-m32r/thread_info.h |5 ++--- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank

SAA7160/2

2007-07-31 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi All, After a bit of talks with NXP, they stated that if shown enough of a user base (future business forecast) for the SAA7160 / SAA7162 PCIe chipset, they would take into consideration, an investment into support, such that the chips can be better supported. ie, i need to provide them

Re: [PATCH FINAL] Merge the Sonics Silicon Backplane subsystem

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:24:54 +0200 Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Sonics Silicon Backplane is a mini-bus used on > various Broadcom chips and embedded devices. A few probs with mips allmodconfig: drivers/ssb/driver_mipscore.c:121: warning: "struct ssb_serial_ports" declared

Re: [PATCH]: sound: ioremap/iounmap function balancing audit

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:05:59 -0400 "Scott Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 You might want to consider losing that stuff when sending patches - it just makes things harder. > This patch, along with previously submitted dmasound_awacs.c patch,

Re: VT_PROCESS, VT_LOCKSWITCH capabilities

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:22:38 +0200 Frank Benkstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder why there are different permissions needed for VT_PROCESS > (access to the current virtual console) and VT_LOCKSWITCH > (CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG). > > The first one lets the calling process decide if console

Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Typo fixes interrrupt -> interrupt

2007-07-31 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:16:27 +0200 Gabriel C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/it_lp_naca.h | 87 > +++-- NAK this part as it just makes a lot of the lines more than 80 characters for no real gain on a platform that is moving on ... --

Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

2007-07-31 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:46:33PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Borislav Petkov wrote: >> Hi, >> i decided to do some cheating :) and skipped the breakpoint where it used >> to >> stop (0x40200). (by the way, hitting 'c' wouldn't continue at all and keep >> executing the same instruction over

[PATCH 2/2][RFC] v8 Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

2007-07-31 Thread Casey Schaufler
diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.22-base/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.22-base/security/smack/smack_lsm.c linux-2.6.22/security/smack/smack_lsm.c --- linux-2.6.22-base/security/smack/smack_lsm.c1969-12-31 16:00:00.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.22/security/smack/smack_lsm.c 2007-07-24

[PATCH 1/2][RFC] v8 Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

2007-07-31 Thread Casey Schaufler
diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.22-base/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.22-base/security/Kconfig linux-2.6.22/security/Kconfig --- linux-2.6.22-base/security/Kconfig 2007-07-08 16:32:17.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.22/security/Kconfig 2007-07-10 01:08:05.0 -0700 @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ config

[PATCH 0/2][RFC] v8 Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

2007-07-31 Thread Casey Schaufler
Smack is the Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel. Smack implements mandatory access control (MAC) using labels attached to tasks and data containers, including files, SVIPC, and other tasks. Smack is a kernel based scheme that requires an absolute minimum of application support and a very

[PATCH] libata Kconfig: Allow libata to be selected from within the SCSI submenu

2007-07-31 Thread Al Boldi
Move libata Kconfig sourcing from the drivers Kconfig into the SCSI Kconfig. This allows the user to quickly select additional disk/tape/cdrom support from within the same menu. Signed-off-by: Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- a/drivers/Kconfig 2007-05-02

Re: WARN_ON() which sometimes sucks

2007-07-31 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linus Torvalds writes: > Umm. The WARN_ON() might actually get a "long long" value for all we know. > Ie it's perfectly possible that the WARN_ON might look like > > /* Must not have high bits on */ > WARN_ON(offset & 0x); > > which on a 32-bit pcc would apparently

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-31 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We've had people go with a splash before. Quite frankly, the current > scheduler situation looks very much like the CML2 situation. Anybody > remember that? The developer there also got rejected, the improvement was > made differently (and much

Re: [Fwd: [PlanetCCRMA] atl1 driver; sleeping function]

2007-07-31 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 10:51 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Ingo, I'm forwading this report from a Planet CCRMA user, this is > > happening to him with 2.6.21.6-rt21... > > thanks! Thanks for the patch! Looks like it fixed the problem

[PATCH] - Remove current defines and uses of pr_err, add pr_emerg, pr_alert, pr_crit, pr_err, pr_warn, pr_notice to include/linux/kernel.h

2007-07-31 Thread Joe Perches
Remove current #define and uses of pr_err Add pr_emerg, pr_alert, pr_crit, pr_err, pr_warn, pr_notice to include/linux/kernel.h Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/chips/menelaus.c b/drivers/i2c/chips/menelaus.c index 48a7e2f..3ee323a 100644 ---

Re: WARN_ON() which sometimes sucks

2007-07-31 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > It will mean more code on architectures which have a > conditional-trap-on-nonzero instruction, such as powerpc, since the > compiler will generate instructions to evaluate !!x. But I don't see > any reason why ret_warn_on couldn't be a long. Umm.

[PATCH]: sound: ioremap/iounmap function balancing audit

2007-07-31 Thread Scott Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This patch, along with previously submitted dmasound_awacs.c patch, completes an audit of the 'sound' tree for ioremap/iounmap balancing and return code checking on ioremap calls. ioremap() must be balanced by an iounmap() (else this causes a memory

Re: [Patch 09/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the pci subsystem.

2007-07-31 Thread Paul Mackerras
Greg KH writes: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:20:29PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:46:19PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote: > > >> However, I think using resource_size_t is a bit better than unsigned > > >> long, > > >> so that

Re: [PATCH 34] fs/autofs4/inode.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

2007-07-31 Thread Ian Kent
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:05 +0200, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ACK. > > fs/autofs4/inode.c | 10467 -> 10435 (-32 bytes) > fs/autofs4/inode.o | 98576 -> 98552 (-24 bytes) > > fs/autofs4/inode.c |4 +--- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+),

Re: WARN_ON() which sometimes sucks

2007-07-31 Thread Paul Mackerras
Al Viro writes: > Actually, the real problem is different - WTF do we need that typeof > anyway? > int ret_warn_on = !!(condition); > [same as now] > will work just fine... It will mean more code on architectures which have a conditional-trap-on-nonzero instruction, such as powerpc,

Re: [PATCH] RT: Add priority-queuing and priority-inheritance to workqueue infrastructure

2007-07-31 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:26 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: > The following workqueue related patch is a port of the original VFCIPI PI > patch I submitted earlier. There is still more work to be done to add the > "schedule_on_cpu()" type behavior, and even more if we want to use this as > part of

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-07-31 Thread Eric Sandeen
Satyam Sharma wrote: > On 7/27/07, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Maybe I should resurrect it & send it out... > > Hmm, something that hooks in not only at do_IRQ time (as the present > in-mainline stackoverflow check thing)? No, what I had did only that, so it was still a matter of

Re: [2.6 patch] dvb_frontend_ioctl(): fix check-after-use

2007-07-31 Thread Manu Abraham
On 7/31/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Coverity checker spotted that we have already oops'ed if "fe" was NULL. > > Since "fe" being NULL seems impossible at this point this patch removes > the NULL check. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > ---

Re: IRQ Delivery Problem for MCP65

2007-07-31 Thread Tejun Heo
[cc'ing linux-pci and quoting whole body.] Any ideas? Craig Block wrote: > --- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> --- Craig Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I'm having trouble getting Linux to see any hard drives on an ASUS M2N-X >>> motherboard with an MCP65

CFS review

2007-07-31 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > The new scheduler does _a_lot_ of heavy 64 bit calculations without any > > > > attempt to scale that down a little... > > > > > > See prio_to_weight[], prio_to_wmult[] and

Re: [PATCH FINAL] Merge the Sonics Silicon Backplane subsystem

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:24:54 +0200 Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Sonics Silicon Backplane is a mini-bus used on > various Broadcom chips and embedded devices. Sigh. s390: drivers/ssb/main.c: In function 'ssb_ssb_read16': drivers/ssb/main.c:489: error: implicit declaration of

[PATCH] ACPI: delete CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_SLEEP (again)

2007-07-31 Thread Len Brown
From: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_SLEEP is a NO-OP -- delete it (again). Apparently 296699de6bdc717189a331ab6bbe90e05c94db06 creating CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_PM_SLEEP was based on an out-dated version of drivers/acpi/Kconfig, as it erroneously restored this recently

[PATCH RT] Move RECURSION_LIMIT define up for more global use (take 2)

2007-07-31 Thread Steven Rostedt
OK, I sent this out once before but it must have slipped under the radar. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/28/325 My config fails miserably with lockdep: kernel/lockdep.c: In function 'find_usage_forwards': kernel/lockdep.c:814: error: 'RECURSION_LIMIT' undeclared (first use in this function)

Re: [patch 2/4] Expose Power Management Policy option to users

2007-07-31 Thread Tejun Heo
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: >> I don't think the interface you're suggesting is a good one. Do you? > > I think if it's applicable to SCSI at all it is fine. If it is not, then > I think we need to make do with the interface we are given. I do not think > we should hold up a feature for

Re: [patch 2/4] Expose Power Management Policy option to users

2007-07-31 Thread Tejun Heo
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > So at current rate of development and kernel release schedule, the best > possible scenario is still 6 months away - whereas this patchset is already > tested and ready for merging now. The best possible scenario is .24-rc1 merge window with or without waiting.

[PATCH] [POWERPC] Typo fixes interrrupt -> interrupt

2007-07-31 Thread Gabriel C
Hi, This patch fixes some interrrupt -> interrupt typos and the comments in it_lp_naca.h Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/holly.c|2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/linkstation.c |2 +-

eurotechwdt will cause reboot

2007-07-31 Thread Dave Young
Hi, config eurotechwdt to yes will cause system silent reboot. Is it right behaviour or a bug? Regards dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: VT_PROCESS, VT_LOCKSWITCH capabilities

2007-07-31 Thread Frank Benkstein
Frank Benkstein wrote: > I wonder why there are different permissions needed for VT_PROCESS > (access to the current virtual console) and VT_LOCKSWITCH > (CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG). To be more direct: require CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG for VT_SETMODE as its essentially the same as VT_LOCKSWITCH and said

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-31 Thread Carlo Florendo
Bill Huey (hui) wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:15:17AM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote: And I think you are digressing from the main issue, which is the empirical comparison of SD vs. CFS and to determine which is best. The root of all the scheduler fuss was the emotional reaction of SD's

Re: "Add support for vector domain" breaks boot on x355

2007-07-31 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 01.08.2007 [10:43:43 +0900], Kenji Kaneshige wrote: > 2007-07-31 (?$B2P) ?$B$N 15:13 -0700 ?$B$K Nishanth Aravamudan > ?$B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?: > > The following commit (4994be1b3fe9120c88022ff5c0c33f6312b17adb) broke > > Linus' Tree between 2.6.22-git15 and 2.6.22-git16 on a 2-node 8-way x455 > >

Re: [PATCH 1/3] coredump: cleanup documentation for suid_dumpable

2007-07-31 Thread Eugene Teo
Hi Alan, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:03:40 +0800 > Eugene Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This patch removes documentation that is related to suidsafe core dump >> mode. >> >> Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > NAK - this feature is actively used and can be set

Re: [PATCH] net/sched: mark "NET_CLS_RSVP6 depends on IPV6"

2007-07-31 Thread rae l
On 8/1/07, Gabriel C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought the same but ... see > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel=118440958516205=2 > http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev=118442747709230=2 That sounds good. Thanks. -- Denis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [Patch 14/16] Remove needless kmalloc casts in the zd1211rw drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Stefan Richter wrote: NAK: this patch adds a sparse warning zd_chip.c:116:15: warning: implicit cast to nocast type What does this warning mean? a16 is defined as zd_addr_t *. zd_addr_t is defined as typedef u16 __nocast zd_addr_t; The __nocast annotation forces us to use explicit casts

Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode

2007-07-31 Thread Gabriel C
Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 21:17 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: >> Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: >>> Sorry if this has been hashed out before, but could you point me towards >>> the gentoo bugzilla entry? I'm trying to understand how your setup broke. >>> Which version VBE does your

Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode

2007-07-31 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Daniel Drake wrote: Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: Sorry if this has been hashed out before, but could you point me towards the gentoo bugzilla entry? I'm trying to understand how your setup broke. Which version VBE does your system have? Here's the bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181067

Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode

2007-07-31 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 21:17 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > Sorry if this has been hashed out before, but could you point me towards > > the gentoo bugzilla entry? I'm trying to understand how your setup broke. > > Which version VBE does your system have? > > Here's the

Re: [PATCH] net/sched: mark "NET_CLS_RSVP6 depends on IPV6"

2007-07-31 Thread Gabriel C
Denis Cheng wrote: > Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > net/sched/Kconfig |1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/net/sched/Kconfig b/net/sched/Kconfig > index 8a74cac..5d3749c 100644 > --- a/net/sched/Kconfig > +++ b/net/sched/Kconfig >

Re: "Add support for vector domain" breaks boot on x355

2007-07-31 Thread Kenji Kaneshige
2007-07-31 (火) の 15:13 -0700 に Nishanth Aravamudan さんは書きました: > The following commit (4994be1b3fe9120c88022ff5c0c33f6312b17adb) broke > Linus' Tree between 2.6.22-git15 and 2.6.22-git16 on a 2-node 8-way x455 > (Madison procs). Thanks to Ryan Hodges for bisecting down to this > commit. Thank you

Re: [RESEND] [BUG] futex_unlock_pi() hurts my brain and may cause application deadlock

2007-07-31 Thread David Miller
From: john stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:53:39 -0700 > I sent this fix for this back in the 2.6.21-rt9 era, and I thought to > picked it up, but I think it arrived amid some futex churn and > apparently has been dropped or was just lost. > > Some of our testers have

[PATCH] net/sched: mark "NET_CLS_RSVP6 depends on IPV6"

2007-07-31 Thread Denis Cheng
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/sched/Kconfig |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sched/Kconfig b/net/sched/Kconfig index 8a74cac..5d3749c 100644 --- a/net/sched/Kconfig +++ b/net/sched/Kconfig @@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ config NET_CLS_RSVP

Re: [PATCH] add check do_direct_IO() return val

2007-07-31 Thread Joe Jin
> Does a patch like this work? I don't have any test-cases, but it would be > good to have something like this tested and passed back with proper > explanations and sign-offs. Yes it work find after apply the patch, thanks. Joe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-31 Thread Yasha Okshtein
On 7/28/07, Jan Dittmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Jan Dittmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Len Brown wrote: > >> FATAL: drivers/acpi/button: sizeof(struct acpi_device_id)=20 is not a > >> modulo of the size of section __mod_acpi_device_table=144. > > Are you

Re: [PATH 0/1] Kexec jump - v2 - the first step to kexec based hibernation

2007-07-31 Thread Huang, Ying
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:04 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > 3. Boot kernel compiled for normal usage, the reserved crash kernel > >memory region must be added to kernel command line as following: > > > >crashkernel=M@M > > > >Where, should be replaced by the real memory size

Re: inotify and /proc/

2007-07-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:56:27 CDT, Joseph Pingenot said: > From Al Viro on Tuesday, 31 July, 2007: > >On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:40:59PM -0500, Joseph Pingenot wrote: > >> I'm trying to implement pwait. It blocks until a specified PID exits, > >> and then it exits. > >er... ptrace(2)? > >

[PATCH] Fix section mismatch warnings in sound/pci/hda/

2007-07-31 Thread Gabriel C
This patch fixes the following section mismatch warnings in sound/pci/hda/* ... WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x2d6a77): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:snd_hda_add_new_ctls (between 'alc_build_controls' and 'alc662_auto_set_output_and_unmute') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x2d6aa1):

Re: [PATCH 1/7] Simple Performance Counters: Core Piece

2007-07-31 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simple performance counters are a way to measure the performance on > code paths in the Linux kernel. Code must be instrumented with calls > that signal the start and the stop of a measurement. [...] For what it's worth, this kind of measurement

Re: [rfc] direct IO submission and completion scalability issues

2007-07-31 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:55:13PM -0700, Suresh B wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:41:18AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:14:03AM -0700, Suresh B wrote: > > > task by taking away some of its cpu time. With CFS micro accounting, > > > perhaps > > > we can track irq,

Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode

2007-07-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: Sorry if this has been hashed out before, but could you point me towards the gentoo bugzilla entry? I'm trying to understand how your setup broke. Which version VBE does your system have? Here's the bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181067 How can we identify

Re: [PATH 0/1] Kexec jump - v2 - the first step to kexec based hibernation

2007-07-31 Thread Huang, Ying
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 04:52 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Huang, Ying" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 11:10 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > >> > Index: kexec-tools-1.101/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c > >> >

Re: [PATCH 60] drivers/net/wireless/prism54/oid_mgt.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

2007-07-31 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On 7/31/07, Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > drivers/net/wireless/prism54/oid_mgt.c | 25377 -> 25297 (-80 bytes) > drivers/net/wireless/prism54/oid_mgt.o | 128460 -> 128284

[GIT PATCH] hwmon updates against ~v2.6.23-rc1-git8

2007-07-31 Thread Mark M. Hoffman
Hi Linus: Please pull from: git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6.git release You'll get a handful of cleanups and bugfixes (including a couple that fix regressions since 2.6.22). The Macbook gets some additional sensors, and there's also one brand new driver, which has spent

Re: [PATCH] add check do_direct_IO() return val

2007-07-31 Thread Joe Jin
> Okay. Here is the fix for the problem. It work fine, thanks. > Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Joe Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [Patch 14/16] Remove needless kmalloc casts in the zd1211rw drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread Stefan Richter
Daniel Drake wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> CC: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > NAK: this patch adds a sparse warning > zd_chip.c:116:15: warning: implicit cast to nocast type What does this warning mean? a16 is defined as zd_addr_t

Re: [Patch 01/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the cris arch.

2007-07-31 Thread Stefan Richter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- a/arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/intmem.c > +++ b/arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/intmem.c > @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static void crisv32_intmem_init(void) > static int initiated = 0; > if (!initiated) { > struct intmem_allocation* alloc = > - (struct

Re: IRQ Delivery Problem for MCP65

2007-07-31 Thread Craig Block
--- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Craig Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting Linux to see any hard drives on an ASUS M2N-X > > motherboard with an MCP65 (nForce 520) chipset. When the kernel probes the > > AHCI controllers, it hangs for

Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode

2007-07-31 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 19:58 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> So, 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 should work fine with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y, or are > >> further patches needed? > >> > > > > It should, yes. > > It didn't work, and the bug still exists in 2.6.23-rc1: the

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1 Seems to be network related

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 02:57:48 +0200 Bongani Hlope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if the first email went through, resending without .config > attachment. It did come through, and I replied ;) The below post-2.6.23-rc1 patch should fix it. commit

Re: [rfc] direct IO submission and completion scalability issues

2007-07-31 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:41:18AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:14:03AM -0700, Suresh B wrote: > > Yes, softirq context is one way. But just didn't want to penalize the > > running > > task by taking away some of its cpu time. With CFS micro accounting, perhaps > > we

[OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1 Seems to be network related

2007-07-31 Thread Bongani Hlope
Hi I'm not sure if the first email went through, resending without .config attachment. I got this partial Oops on my work laptop (DELL D800), while using the linux 2.6.23-rc1 kernel. I've been using this kernel ever since it was released and this is the first and only time it did not boot. It

Re: [Patch 05/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the drivers subdirectory.

2007-07-31 Thread Stefan Richter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c > +++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c > @@ -2034,7 +2034,7 @@ static int init_dev(struct tty_driver *d > } > > if (!*tp_loc) { > - tp = (struct ktermios *) kmalloc(sizeof(struct ktermios), > + tp =

Re: garmin_gps not working with etrex vista cx

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:44:39 -0400 Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't seem to transfer routes to my garmin etrex vista cx. I get > (repeatably) truncated routes, and: > Jul 31 07:19:07 nbecker4 kernel: usb 2-2: reset full speed USB device using > ohci_hcd and address 3 > Jul 31

Re: Question: Scheduler 'Exit' or modularization of scheduler?

2007-07-31 Thread Mitchell Erblich
Paul Robinson, Solaris's SunOS SVR4.x has a modular schedular / dispatcher, however, I believe that the time share dispatcher is actually a frozen-base and is not replaceable. I do believe that some of its scheduling characteristics are modifyable.

Re: [REGRESSION] tg3 dead after s2ram

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:28:32 +0200 "Joachim Deguara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my Acer Ferrari 1000 the tg3 ethernet no longer is available after a > suspend to ram with the latet 2.6.23-rc1-git9. Thanks. cc's added, body retained.. > The tg3 works fine with s2ram > in 2.6.22.1. The

Re: Update: ide problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not:

2007-07-31 Thread Danny ter Haar
Quoting Len Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Also, please test with CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=n > to remove the acpi-cpufreq driver (and thus this patch) > from your kernel. If it still fails, then we know > that this driver (and this patch) are not related > to the failure. It wasn't enabled in any

Re: inotify and /proc/

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:31:49 +0200 Diego Calleja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:25:21 -0500, Joseph Pingenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > > > More background, please? > > > > What's the way to check for a process exiting without spinning? > > > I don't know if it's

Re: [rfc] direct IO submission and completion scalability issues

2007-07-31 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:14:03AM -0700, Suresh B wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:19:17AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:35:19PM -0700, Suresh B wrote: > > > So any suggestions for making this clean and acceptable to everyone? > > > > It is obviously a good idea to

[PATCH] RT: Add priority-queuing and priority-inheritance to workqueue infrastructure

2007-07-31 Thread Gregory Haskins
The following workqueue related patch is a port of the original VFCIPI PI patch I submitted earlier. There is still more work to be done to add the "schedule_on_cpu()" type behavior, and even more if we want to use this as part of KVM. But for now, this patch can stand alone so I thought I would

Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

2007-07-31 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:14:08AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tuesday 31 July 2007 07:41, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > I haven't given this idea testing yet, but I just wanted to get some > > opinions on it first. NUMA placement still isn't ideal (eg. tasks with > > a memory policy will not do any

Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

2007-07-31 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:01:14AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch uses memory policies to attempt to improve this. It > > requires that we ask the scheduler to suggest the child's new CPU > > earlier in the fork, but that is not a

Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode

2007-07-31 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
Hi Daniel, On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > So, 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 should work fine with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y, or are > > > further patches needed? > > > > > > > It should, yes. > > It didn't work, and the bug still exists in 2.6.23-rc1: the

Re: [PATCH RT] Fix RT balancing tasks pulling

2007-07-31 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:48 +0200, Sébastien Dugué wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:50:34 -0700 Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 15:42 +0200, Sébastien Dugué wrote: > > > this one-liner fixes a bug in balance_rt_tasks() which sometimes > > > manifests by > > >

Re: [PATCH] flush icache before set_pte take6. [3/4] add montecito brand name

2007-07-31 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:39:58 -0700 "Luck, Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + } else if (family == 0x20) > + memcpy(brand, "Montecito", 10); > > NAK. > > We don't really have names for the different cpu families. "Montecito" > is definitely not the right string

Re: /proc/$pid/pagemap troubles

2007-07-31 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 03:43:10PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 16:37 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > > So, a couple of questions. Don't we need to support > > non-sizeof(unsigned > > > long)-aligned reads? > > > > Why? We should obviously never return more data than we

Re: [PATCH 09] drivers/char/consolemap.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

2007-07-31 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:08:28 +0200 Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH 55] drivers/char/n_hdlc.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

2007-07-31 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:27:30 +0200 Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NAK > - struct n_hdlc *n_hdlc = kmalloc(sizeof(*n_hdlc), GFP_KERNEL); > - > + struct n_hdlc *n_hdlc; > + > + n_hdlc = kzalloc(sizeof(*n_hdlc),

[PATCH] atl1: use spin_trylock_irqsave()

2007-07-31 Thread Jay Cliburn
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> use the simpler spin_trylock_irqsave() API to get the adapter lock. [ this is also a fix for -rt where adapter->lock is a sleeping lock. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [RESEND] [BUG] futex_unlock_pi() hurts my brain and may cause application deadlock

2007-07-31 Thread Steven Rostedt
-- On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, john stultz wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 17:49 -0700, john stultz wrote: > > Hey Ingo, > I sent this fix for this back in the 2.6.21-rt9 era, and I thought to > picked it up, but I think it arrived amid some futex churn and > apparently has been dropped or was

Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode

2007-07-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, H. Peter Anvin wrote: So, 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 should work fine with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y, or are further patches needed? It should, yes. It didn't work, and the bug still exists in 2.6.23-rc1: the resolution is wrong by 6 pixels. The user does have CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID enabled. So far

Re: Load interrupt code dynamically

2007-07-31 Thread Alan Cox
> dealing with the concurrency in the kernel. Interrupt is one of them. Its extremely hard as you've probably noticed by now. > My first question is, what are other interrupts in the kernel that can > allow other interrupts > to be issued? Second question is, how does the kernel switch between

[RESEND] [BUG] futex_unlock_pi() hurts my brain and may cause application deadlock

2007-07-31 Thread john stultz
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 17:49 -0700, john stultz wrote: > All, > So we've been seeing PI mutex deadlocks with a few of our applications > using the -rt kernel. After narrowing things down, we were finding that > the applications were indirectly calling futex_unlock_pi(), which on > occasion

Re: [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver for CF interface

2007-07-31 Thread Alan Cox
> The hardware is called (E)IDE, the protocol is called ATA. > Or that's what I was told -- I think there's some historic > revisionism involved, too. ATA is the interface and standards for the ANSI standards based disk attachment. IDE "Integrated Drive Electronics" is a marketing name used to

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/cxgb3/xgmac.c: remove dead code

2007-07-31 Thread Divy Le Ray
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch removes dead code ("tx_xcnt" can never be != 0 at this place) spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/xgmac.c |5 + 1 file changed, 1

Re: [PATCH 25] drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

2007-07-31 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > @@ -2777,12 +2777,14 @@ static int ftdi_elan_probe(struct usb_in > size_t buffer_size; > int i; > int retval = -ENOMEM; > -struct usb_ftdi *ftdi = kmalloc(sizeof(struct usb_ftdi), GFP_KERNEL); > -if (ftdi

Re: CS5530 Alsa driver fails

2007-07-31 Thread Alan Cox
> After "modprobe snd-cs5530" I have: > CS5530: XpressAudio at 0x220 > CS5530: MPU at 0x330 > CS5530: IRQ: 9 DMA8: 0 DMA16: 5 > sb: can't grab irq 9 > CS5530: Could not create SoundBlaster > CS5530_Audio: probe of :00:12.3 failed with error -16 Might be worth setting the IRQ to sharable. I've

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1 Seems to be network related

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 01:35:23 +0200 Bongani Hlope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got this partial Oops on my work laptop (DELL D800), while using the linux > 2.6.23-rc1 kernel. I've been using this kernel ever since it was released and > this is the first and only time it did not boot. It was

Re: [patch] clean Modules.symvers in external module dirs

2007-07-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
At the moment, running `make clean` in an external module directory does a nice job of cleaning up with one exception: it leaves behind Modules.symvers. Attached patch adds this file to the clean list for external modules. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- err it'd help if i

Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

2007-07-31 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tuesday 31 July 2007 07:41, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > I haven't given this idea testing yet, but I just wanted to get some > > opinions on it first. NUMA placement still isn't ideal (eg. tasks with > > a memory policy will not do any placement, and

CS5530 Alsa driver fails

2007-07-31 Thread Rafał Bilski
Hello, Linux: 2.6.23-rc1-git3 Hardware: CX5530 After "modprobe snd-cs5530" I have: CS5530: XpressAudio at 0x220 CS5530: MPU at 0x330 CS5530: IRQ: 9 DMA8: 0 DMA16: 5 sb: can't grab irq 9 CS5530: Could not create SoundBlaster CS5530_Audio: probe of :00:12.3 failed with error -16 Thank You

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