Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB

2007-12-09 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.12.08 17:16:24 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > Can you do one run with oprofile, and see exactly where the cost is? It > > > should hopefully be pretty darn obvious, considering your timing. > > The results are here:

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Fix use of skb after netif_rx

2007-12-09 Thread Wang Chen
Julia Lawall said the following on 2007-12-10 15:18: >> Julia, seems that your semantic patch misses following place. >> >> drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c:2733 >> ... >> #endif >> rxrc = netif_rx(skb); >> card->dev->last_rx = jiffies; >>

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Fix use of skb after netif_rx

2007-12-09 Thread Julia Lawall
> > // > > > > diff a/drivers/s390/net/ctcmain.c b/drivers/s390/net/ctcmain.c > > diff a/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c b/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c > > Julia, seems that your semantic patch misses following place. > > drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c:2733 > ... > #endif > rxrc =

Re: [PATCH] vivi driver works only as first device

2007-12-09 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Hi Gregor, Em Qui, 2007-12-06 às 23:06 +0100, Gregor Jasny escreveu: > From: Gregor Jasny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > When the vivi driver allocates a video device, video_register_device() stores > the > allocated device minor inside the vivi structure. But when the device node is > opened, > the

[PATCH 2/2] pci: Fix warning in setup-res.c on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit resources

2007-12-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
This adds appropriate casts to avoid a warning and print the correct values in pr_debug. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/pci/setup-res.c |6 -- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-work/drivers/pci/setup-res.c

[PATCH 1/2] pci: Fix bus resource assignment on 32 bits with 64b resources

2007-12-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
The current pci_assign_unassigned_resources() code doesn't work properly on 32 bits platforms with 64 bits resources. The main reason is the use of unsigned long in various places instead of resource_size_t. This fixes it, along with some tricks to avoid casting to 64 bits on platforms that don't

[GIT PULL] XFS update for 2.6.24-rc5

2007-12-09 Thread Lachlan McIlroy
Please pull from the for-linus branch: git pull git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6.git for-linus This will update the following files: fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c | 37 +--- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c| 124

Re: [PATCH] pci: Fix bus resource assignment on 32 bits with 64b resources

2007-12-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 17:15 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > The current pci_assign_unassigned_resources() code doesn't work properly > on 32 bits platforms with 64 bits resources. The main reason is the use > of unsigned long in various places instead of resource_size_t. > > This fixes

[PATCH] pci: Fix bus resource assignment on 32 bits with 64b resources

2007-12-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
The current pci_assign_unassigned_resources() code doesn't work properly on 32 bits platforms with 64 bits resources. The main reason is the use of unsigned long in various places instead of resource_size_t. This fixes it, along with some tricks to avoid casting to 64 bits on platforms that don't

[PATCH][SCSI] hptiop: add more adapter models and other fixes

2007-12-09 Thread HighPoint Linux Team
Most code changes were made to support adapters based on Marvell IOP, plus some other fixes. - add more PCI device IDs - support for adapters based on Marvell IOP - fix a result code translation error on big-endian systems - fix resource releasing bug when scsi_host_alloc() fail in hptiop_probe()

Re: [PATCH] ITIMER_REAL: convert to use struct pid

2007-12-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > signal_struct->tsk points to the ->group_leader and thus we have the nasty > code > in de_thread() which has to change it and restart ->real_timer if the leader > is > changed. > > Use "struct pid *leader_pid" instead. This also allows us to kill

Re: sparsemem: Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP selectable

2007-12-09 Thread Yasunori Goto
Looks good to me. Thanks. Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: Geoff Levand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP needs to be a selectable config option to > support building the kernel both with and without sparsemem > vmemmap support. This selection is desirable for

Re: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 15s! [swapper:0]

2007-12-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Parag Warudkar wrote: > On Dec 8, 2007 6:12 PM, Parag Warudkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No problems after disabling CONFIG_HIGHRES_TIMERS , CONFIG_CPU_IDLE > > and CONFIG_NO_HZ. > > > > I will try enabling them one by one - HRT, NOHZ and CPU_IDLE last - > > that way we

[e2fsprogs PATCH] Userspace solution to time-based UUID without duplicates

2007-12-09 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:00:12PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > Basically, the only way to solve this problem 100% in userspace would > be with a userspace daemon running as a privileged user, and some kind > of Unix domain socket. > > Patches to implement this in the e2fsprogs UUID library would

[PATCH] knfsd: Change mailing list for nfsd in MAINTAINERS

2007-12-09 Thread NeilBrown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is being decommissioned. I wonder if the website should be changed to linux-nfs.org ... Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ### Diffstat output ./MAINTAINERS |2 +- 1 file

[patch] x64/page.h: convert some macros to inlines

2007-12-09 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:31:42 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > Could someone *please* start a little project of extirpating this utter > brain damage? Convert those macros to typechecked static inlines on x86 > (at least) so this sort of thing (which happens again and again and again) > is lessened?

Re: 2.6.24-rc3-git4 NFS crossmnt regression

2007-12-09 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday December 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Saturday 08 December 2007 01:43:28 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Saturday, 8 of December 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:51:58 -0500 > > > Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri,

Re: [RFC] swap image signature check upon resume

2007-12-09 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 10:46:35PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, 9 of December 2007, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 03:27:57PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > ... > > > > > > Instead, I'd rather issue a warning that the swsusp header mismatches, > > > > say

[patch 2.6.24-rc4-mm 6/6] gpiolib: replacement mcp23s08 driver

2007-12-09 Thread David Brownell
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basic driver for 8-bit SPI based MCP23S08 GPIO expander, without support for IRQs or the shared chipselect mechanism. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Other than the new directory and Kconfig symbol, this is identical to the code

[patch 2.6.24-rc4-mm 4/6] gpiolib: create empty drivers/gpio

2007-12-09 Thread David Brownell
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add an empty drivers/gpio directory for gpiolib based GPIO expanders. We already have three of them (two I2C, one SPI), and there are dozens of similar chips that only exist for GPIO expansion. This won't be the only place to hold such gpio_chip code.

[patch 2.6.24-rc4-mm 5/6] gpiolib: pcf857x i2c expander driver

2007-12-09 Thread David Brownell
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a new-style I2C driver for most common 8 and 16 bit I2C based "quasi-bidirectional" GPIO expanders: pcf8574 or pcf8575, and several compatible models (mostly faster, supporting I2C at up to 1 MHz). The driver exposes the GPIO signals using the

[patch 2.6.24-rc4-mm 2/6] gpiolib: more CONFIG_DEBUG_GPIO diagnostics

2007-12-09 Thread David Brownell
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Update gpiolib behavior with CONFIG_DEBUG_GPIO to include messages on some fault paths that are common during bringup: gpiochip_add, gpio_request, and the two gpio_direction_* calls. Also morph that CONFIG symbol into compile-time -DDEBUG.

[patch 2.6.24-rc4-mm 3/6] gpiolib: implementor-oriented documentation

2007-12-09 Thread David Brownell
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add some documentation highlighting implementors' views of the new gpiolib stuff. Such developers may be supporting new gpio controllers, platforms, or boards. Obviously there's often some overlap there, but the concerns for each task aren't identical.

[patch 2.6.24-rc4-mm 0/6] gpiolib updates

2007-12-09 Thread David Brownell
Following this are several patches updating the current gpio implemenentation framework. Because one of those changes involves creating a new drivers/gpio directory, the patches are a bit simpler if two existing patches are first removed from the MM tree: mcp23s08-spi-gpio-expander.patch

[patch 2.6.24-rc4-mm 1/6] gpiolib: add gpio_desc[]

2007-12-09 Thread David Brownell
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Update gpiolib to use a table of per-GPIO "struct gpio_desc" instead of a table of "struct gpio_chip". - Change "is_out" and "requested" from arrays in "struct gpio_chip" to bit fields in "struct gpio_desc", eliminating ARCH_GPIOS_PER_CHIP. - Stop

Re: Please revert: PCI: fix IDE legacy mode resources

2007-12-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
powerpc: Fix IDE legacy vs. native fixups PowerMac and CHRP/BriQ platforms have quirks to switch some IDE controllers from legacy mode to fully native mode. Those quirks however will not work properly anymore due to a change to the generic code to better handle legacy IDE resources. This fixes

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-09 Thread Rene Herman
On 09-12-07 22:25, Pavel Machek wrote: On Sun 2007-12-09 17:59:08, Andi Kleen wrote: Yes, i guess switching to udelay at least on newer systems would be a good idea. I'm not quite sure about systems without TSC though. Something like this? (Warning, will not probably even compile on

[PATCH acs_ame scsi driver 000 of 1] Introduction

2007-12-09 Thread chang jeff
Dear Sir, Following is patche for scsi driver in 2.6.23.9 what should get into 2.6.23.9-final if possible. First refines a newly created scsi driver (/[kernel-version]/driver/scsi/acs_ame). Thanks, JeffChang. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-09 Thread Mike Houston
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:31:27 +0800 Shaohua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This should exist in previous kernel (before we remove acpi > motherboard driver) too. Basically it's a broken BIOS. Could below > patch work around it? > > Thanks, > Shaohua > > Index: linux/drivers/pnp/system.c >

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-09 Thread Alan Cox
> Have you even *read* the thread? In detail, as it unfolds and while testing variants of Tejun's code on the hardware I have access to - none of which has this bug making it rather trickier to help. > In other words, the stuff you call so critically important (yet we've been > able to live

Re: [UNIONFS] 00/42 Unionfs and related patches review

2007-12-09 Thread hooanon05
Erez Zadok: > (1) Cache coherency: by far, the biggest concern had been around cache ::: > unionfs. The solution we have implemented is to compare the mtime/ctime of > upper/lower objects during revalidation (esp. of dentries); and if the lower > times are newer, we reconstruct the union

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-09 Thread Alan Cox
Its your kernel. Its your call, and your privilege to be wrong. And anyone with ATAPI problems should probably test the -mm tree before reporting anything. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [PATCH RFC] sched: Fixed missed rt-balance points on priority shifts

2007-12-09 Thread Gregory Haskins
>>> On Sun, Dec 9, 2007 at 9:53 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gregory Haskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + * I have no doubt that this is the proper thing to do to make > + * sure RT tasks are properly balanced. What I cannot wrap my > + * head

Re: [2.6.23.9] hostap_plx locks up PC when reading PCI I/O memory

2007-12-09 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the memory you feed to readl() and co isnt the actual PCI resource; > you need to use ioremap() on the PCI resource to get a pointer that you can > then feed to > readl() I gathered that much, and there is indeed a call to ioremap() in the

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: And you're quite right in your comment that we are often too quick to blacklist hardware instead of looking into why it really is failing. ACPI is one of those areas where we often just need to figure out how to be bug-to-bug compatibile with what Windows

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-09 Thread Elvis Pranskevichus
On Sunday December 9 2007 09:31:27 pm Shaohua Li wrote: > On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 23:04 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 04:12:25PM -0500, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote: > > > Jean Delvare wrote: > > > > Hi Mike, > > > > > > > > On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:22:34 -0500, Mike Houston wrote:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc4] proc: Remove/Fix proc generic d_revalidate

2007-12-09 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Ultimately to implement /proc perfectly we need an implementation of d_revalidate because files and directories can be removed behind the back of the VFS, and d_revalidate is the only way we can let the VFS know that this has happened. So until we get a proper test for

[PATCH RFC] sched: Fixed missed rt-balance points on priority shifts

2007-12-09 Thread Gregory Haskins
Hi Ingo, Steven, Dmitry, Here is a proposed fix for the issue that Dmitry brought up today. It should apply cleanly to sched-devel (though I have a few of my other submitted fixes queued ahead of this that are not yet in sched-devel...so if you have a problem let me know and I will

Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi3945/4965 - fix rate control algo reference leak

2007-12-09 Thread Zhu Yi
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 09:56 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > > Any chance of getting LEDs support re-added to this driver, > perhaps in the 2.6.25 timeframe? I'd also like to see it happen. Stay tuned. Thanks, -yi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

[PATCH 40/42] eCryptfs: use simplified fs_stack API for dentry operations

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
CC: Mike Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ecryptfs/dentry.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/dentry.c b/fs/ecryptfs/dentry.c index cb20b96..a8c1686 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/dentry.c +++

Re: PROBLEM: /proc/cpuinfo reports erroneous CPU frequency. (2.6.23 & 2.6.22)

2007-12-09 Thread Frans Pop
Alexander Rajula wrote: > While overclocking an AMD Athlon X2 (2GHz) CPU /proc/cpuinfo reports the > wrong CPU frequency. I am quite puzzled by this. > Is this an error in the kernel, or is there something strange going on? You may want to read some old threads on this list and check if that

[PATCH 20/42] Unionfs: readdir state helpers

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Includes duplicate name elimination and whiteout-handling code. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/rdstate.c | 285 ++ 1 files changed, 285 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/rdstate.c diff

[PATCH 06/42] Unionfs: documentation about renaming operations

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/rename.txt | 31 ++ 1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/rename.txt diff --git

[PATCH 12/42] Unionfs: common file copyup/revalidation operations

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Includes open, ioctl, and flush operations. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/commonfops.c | 827 +++ 1 files changed, 827 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/commonfops.c diff --git

[PATCH 21/42] Unionfs: inode operations

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Includes create, lookup, link, symlink, mkdir, mknod, readlink, follow_link, put_link, permission, and setattr. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/inode.c | 1154 1 files changed, 1154 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

[PATCH 36/42] VFS: export drop_pagecache_sb

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Needed to maintain cache coherency after branch management. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/drop_caches.c |4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c index 59375ef..90410ac 100644 --- a/fs/drop_caches.c +++

[PATCH 39/42] Put Unionfs and eCryptfs under one layered filesystems menu

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/Kconfig | 53 + 1 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index 635f3e2..cbcbbee 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -1041,6 +1041,47

[PATCH 13/42] Unionfs: basic file operations

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Includes read, write, mmap, fsync, and fasync. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/file.c | 227 + 1 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/file.c diff --git

[PATCH 30/42] Unionfs: debugging infrastructure

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/debug.c | 532 1 files changed, 532 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/debug.c diff --git a/fs/unionfs/debug.c b/fs/unionfs/debug.c new file mode 100644

[PATCH 34/42] VFS path get/put ops used by Unionfs

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Note: this will become obsolete once similar patches, now in -mm, make it to mainline. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/namei.h | 13 + 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h index

[PATCH 16/42] Unionfs: lower-level lookup routines

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Includes lower nameidata support routines. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/lookup.c | 652 +++ 1 files changed, 652 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/lookup.c diff --git

[PATCH 11/42] Unionfs: main header file

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/union.h | 591 1 files changed, 591 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/union.h diff --git a/fs/unionfs/union.h b/fs/unionfs/union.h new file mode 100644

[PATCH 35/42] Unionfs: common header file for user-land utilities and kernel

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/union_fs.h | 24 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/linux/union_fs.h diff --git a/include/linux/union_fs.h b/include/linux/union_fs.h new file mode 100644 index

[PATCH 10/42] Unionfs: fanout header definitions

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/fanout.h | 355 +++ 1 files changed, 355 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/fanout.h diff --git a/fs/unionfs/fanout.h b/fs/unionfs/fanout.h new file mode 100644

[PATCH 17/42] Unionfs: rename method and helpers

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/rename.c | 533 +++ 1 files changed, 533 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/rename.c diff --git a/fs/unionfs/rename.c b/fs/unionfs/rename.c new file mode 100644

[PATCH 19/42] Unionfs: readdir helper functions

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Includes whiteout handling for directories. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/dirhelper.c | 272 1 files changed, 272 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/dirhelper.c diff --git

[PATCH 42/42] eCryptfs: use simplified fs_stack API for main operations

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
CC: Mike Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ecryptfs/main.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c index b83a512..cebe7dc 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c +++

[PATCH 23/42] Unionfs: address-space operations

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Includes writepage, writepages, readpage, prepare_write, and commit_write. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/mmap.c | 338 + 1 files changed, 338 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/mmap.c

[PATCH 25/42] Unionfs: super_block operations

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Includes read_inode, delete_inode, put_super, statfs, remount_fs (which supports branch-management ops), clear_inode, alloc_inode, destroy_inode, write_inode, umount_begin, and show_options. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/super.c | 1020

[PATCH 37/42] VFS: export release_open_intent symbol

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Needed to release the resources of the lower nameidata structures that we create and pass to lower file systems (e.g., when calling vfs_create). Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namei.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c

[PATCH 32/42] Unionfs file system magic number

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/magic.h |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/magic.h b/include/linux/magic.h index 1fa0c2c..67043ed 100644 --- a/include/linux/magic.h +++ b/include/linux/magic.h @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@

[PATCH 33/42] MM: extern for drop_pagecache_sb

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/mm.h |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 1b7b95c..fc61bd3 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ struct anon_vma;

[PATCH 14/42] Unionfs: lower-level copyup routines

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/copyup.c | 897 +++ 1 files changed, 897 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/copyup.c diff --git a/fs/unionfs/copyup.c b/fs/unionfs/copyup.c new file mode 100644

[PATCH 24/42] Unionfs: mount-time and stacking-interposition functions

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Includes read_super and module-linkage routines. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/main.c | 783 + 1 files changed, 783 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/main.c diff --git

[PATCH 41/42] eCryptfs: use simplified fs_stack API for inode operations

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
CC: Mike Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ecryptfs/inode.c |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c index 0b1ab01..a846557 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c +++

[PATCH 38/42] VFS: simplified fsstack_copy_attr_all

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/stack.c | 30 +- 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/stack.c b/fs/stack.c index 67716f6..a548aac 100644 --- a/fs/stack.c +++ b/fs/stack.c @@ -1,8 +1,20 @@ +/* + * Copyright (c)

[PATCH 15/42] Unionfs: dentry revalidation

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Includes d_release methods and cache-coherency support for dentries. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/dentry.c | 498 +++ 1 files changed, 498 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/dentry.c diff

[PATCH 29/42] Unionfs: miscellaneous helper routines

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Mostly related to whiteouts. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/subr.c | 242 + 1 files changed, 242 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/subr.c diff --git a/fs/unionfs/subr.c

[PATCH 31/42] VFS: fs_stack header cleanups

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/fs_stack.h | 21 - 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/fs_stack.h b/include/linux/fs_stack.h index bb516ce..6b52faf 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs_stack.h +++

[PATCH 26/42] Unionfs: extended attributes operations

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/xattr.c | 153 1 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/xattr.c diff --git a/fs/unionfs/xattr.c b/fs/unionfs/xattr.c new file mode 100644

[PATCH 09/42] Unionfs: main Makefile

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/Makefile | 13 + 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/Makefile diff --git a/fs/unionfs/Makefile b/fs/unionfs/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 000..17ca4a7 --- /dev/null

[PATCH 28/42] Unionfs: async I/O queue operations

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/sioq.c | 119 + 1 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/sioq.c diff --git a/fs/unionfs/sioq.c b/fs/unionfs/sioq.c new file mode 100644 index

[PATCH 04/42] Unionfs: usage documentation for users

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/usage.txt | 115 +++ 1 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/usage.txt diff --git

[PATCH 22/42] Unionfs: unlink/rmdir operations

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/unlink.c | 236 +++ 1 files changed, 236 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/unlink.c diff --git a/fs/unionfs/unlink.c b/fs/unionfs/unlink.c new file mode 100644

[PATCH 27/42] Unionfs: async I/O queue headers

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/sioq.h | 92 + 1 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/sioq.h diff --git a/fs/unionfs/sioq.h b/fs/unionfs/sioq.h new file mode 100644 index

[PATCH 08/42] Makefile: hook to compile unionfs

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/Makefile |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile index 500cf15..e202288 100644 --- a/fs/Makefile +++ b/fs/Makefile @@ -118,3 +118,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_HPPFS) += hppfs/

[PATCH 03/42] Unionfs: documentation for general concepts

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/concepts.txt | 199 1 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/concepts.txt diff --git

[PATCH 07/42] Unionfs maintainers

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- MAINTAINERS |9 + 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index f3d7256..95f16f0 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -3805,6 +3805,15 @@ L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

[PATCH 05/42] Unionfs: documentation for any known issues

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/issues.txt | 24 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/issues.txt diff --git

[PATCH 02/42] Unionfs: unionfs documentation index

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/00-INDEX | 10 ++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/00-INDEX diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/00-INDEX

[PATCH 18/42] Unionfs: directory reading file operations

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/dirfops.c | 290 ++ 1 files changed, 290 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/unionfs/dirfops.c diff --git a/fs/unionfs/dirfops.c b/fs/unionfs/dirfops.c new file mode

[PATCH 01/42] Unionfs: filesystems documentation index

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX index 1de155e..b168331 100644 ---

[UNIONFS] 00/42 Unionfs and related patches review

2007-12-09 Thread Erez Zadok
Al, Christoph, and Andrew, As per your request, I'm posting for review the unionfs code (and related code) that's in my korg tree against mainline (v2.6.24-rc4-190-g94545ba). This code is nearly identical to what's in -mm (the mm code has a couple of additional things that depend on mm-specific

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-09 Thread Shaohua Li
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 23:04 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 04:12:25PM -0500, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote: > > Jean Delvare wrote: > > > > > Hi Mike, > > > > > > On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:22:34 -0500, Mike Houston wrote: > > >> On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 01:05:54 +0100 > > >> Adrian Bunk

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Fix use of skb after netif_rx

2007-12-09 Thread Wang Chen
Julia Lawall said the following on 2007-12-10 4:05: > From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > // > @@ > expression skb, e,e1; > @@ > > ( > netif_rx(skb); > | > netif_rx_ni(skb); > ) > ... when != skb = e > ( > skb = e1 > | > * skb > ) > // > > diff a/drivers/s390/net/ctcmain.c

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-09 Thread Tejun Heo
Robert Hancock wrote: > And you're quite right in your comment that we are often too quick to > blacklist hardware instead of looking into why it really is failing. > ACPI is one of those areas where we often just need to figure out how to > be bug-to-bug compatibile with what Windows is doing..

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-09 Thread Tejun Heo
Andreas Mohr wrote: > As such one can conclude that this BIOS is rather very confused when being > called for _GTM on an entirely > unused controller port. And this is either because the BIOS is dumb or > because ACPI doesn't really > expect anyone to call _GTM on an unused physical port. I'd

kernel logger in lower than audit or klogd

2007-12-09 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Dear all, I wanna test an IDS ,So i need to a kernel logger lower than audit or klogd. I need to a kernel logger that lower than syscalls. Please help me. Cheers, -- - Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh email address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web site : http://pahlevanzadeh.org IRC IM :

PROBLEM: /proc/cpuinfo reports erroneous CPU frequency. (2.6.23 & 2.6.22)

2007-12-09 Thread Alexander Rajula
While using 2.6.23 and 2.6.22 (earlier kernels have not been tested) /proc/cpuinfo reports the wrong CPU frequency: While overclocking an AMD Athlon X2 (2GHz) CPU /proc/cpuinfo reports the wrong CPU frequency. I am quite puzzled by this. Is this an error in the kernel, or is there something

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > The one off regression is probably not one off, but this is IDE so > actually its quite probable its a single broken firmware. > > The alternative is that you cripple just about every user of various > other standards compliant devices and controllers

Re: PS3: trouble with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP and kexec

2007-12-09 Thread Yasunori Goto
> Yasunori Goto wrote: > >> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >> > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Yasunori Goto wrote: > >> > > > I'll try Milton's suggestion to pre-allocate the memory early. It > >> > > > seems > >> > > > that should work as long as nothing else before the hot-plug mem is

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-09 Thread Ed Sweetman
Mike Houston wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:42:15 +0100 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:12:25 -0500, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote: This indeed looks like a broken ACPI BIOS since the aforementioned commit touches only the PNP ACPI driver. I'm not sure

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Hancock
Andreas Mohr wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 01:04:31AM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: IOW, it seems very likely that _GTM on these BIOSes (VIA chipsets) isn't actually wrongly implemented but simply expects IDE controller values to have been set up ""differently"". Or... one could possibly even

[patch 1/1] Convert the semaphore to a mutex in net/tipc/socket.c

2007-12-09 Thread Kevin Winchester
To: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Per Liden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jon Maloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Allan Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Note also that in the release method, down_interruptible()

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

2007-12-09 Thread Dave Young
On Dec 8, 2007 6:22 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 6, 2007 9:12 PM, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 build failed at drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c for some > > inline functions like this: > > drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c:292:

Re: laptop reboots right after hibernation

2007-12-09 Thread Tejun Heo
Kjartan Maraas wrote: >> Hmmm... Ah.. okay. Wrongly splitted patch. Can you please do it one >> more time? >> > Attached. Alright, it works now but it seems both dmesgs are from no-filter patch. I'm pretty sure it works too because one of your previous dmesgs showed it worked. Please double

Re: RT Load balance changes in sched-devel

2007-12-09 Thread Steven Rostedt
Gregory Haskins wrote: btw., both cases would be addressed by placing load-balance points into sched_class_rt->{enqueue,dequeue}_task_rt()... push_rt_tasks() and pull_rt_tasks() respectively. As a side effect (I think, technically, it would be possible), 3 out of 4 *_balance_rt() calls (the

hwclock --systohc locks machine up, RTC conflict problems

2007-12-09 Thread kinesis
Issuing the command hwclock --systohc and sometimes at boot --hctosys causes my machine to freeze. The reason is there is a problem loading rtc-cmos. I will say that my machine also runs Windows, and it detects the device fine as a Real Time Clock/CMOS driver at io range 0070-0071. According to

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-09 Thread Andreas Mohr
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 01:04:31AM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > IOW, it seems very likely that _GTM on these BIOSes (VIA chipsets) isn't > actually wrongly implemented but simply expects IDE controller values > to have been set up ""differently"". > > > Or... one could possibly even infer from

Re: [patch-early-RFC 00/10] LTTng architecture dependent instrumentation

2007-12-09 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Mathieu Desnoyers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > hi Mathieu, > > > > * Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Here is the architecture dependent instrumentation for LTTng. [...] > > > > A fundamental observation

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