From: Michael Neuling mi...@neuling.org
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:52:25 +1100
The following patch:
acb600d net: remove skb recycling
added dev_free_skb() to drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c
This is a typo and should be dev_kfree_skb(). This fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Michael
From: David Howells dhowe...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:16:00 +0100
Can you merge the following branch into the sparc tree please.
This is to complete part of the UAPI disintegration for which the preparatory
patches were pulled recently.
Now that the fixups and the asm-generic
From: David Howells dhowe...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:30:33 +0100
Can you merge the following branch into the net tree please.
This is to complete part of the Userspace API (UAPI) disintegration for which
the preparatory patches were pulled recently. After these patches,
From: Haicheng Li haicheng@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 17:43:12 +0800
Fengguang reported a kernel build failure as following:
drivers/built-in.o: In function `pch_gbe_ioctl':
pch_gbe_main.c:(.text+0x510370): undefined reference to `pch_ch_control_write'
This is just the UAPI commits for sparc via David Howells.
Please pull, thanks a lot!
The following changes since commit 547b1e81afe3119f7daf702cc03b158495535a25:
Fix staging driver use of VM_RESERVED (2012-10-09 21:06:41 +0900)
are available in the git repository at:
1) UAPI changes for networking from David Howells
2) A netlink dump is an operation we can sleep within, and
therefore we need to make sure the dump provider module
doesn't disappear on us meanwhile. Fix from Gao Feng.
3) Now that tunnels support GRO, we have to be more careful
in
From: John W. Linville linvi...@tuxdriver.com
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 14:38:44 -0400
Here is a batch of fixes intended for 3.7...
Amitkumar Karwar provides a couple of mwifiex fixes to correctly
report some reason codes for certain connection failures. He also
provides a fix to cleanup after
window, so that
compilation breaks. After the merge window closes David Miller merges
back the latest changes to net-next. I'll postpone your patch until
then, this means the code will go into v3.8. I'm not familiar with the
UAPI conversion, should your patch go via linux-can and David's net
From: Al Viro v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:11:10 +0100
sparc64: fix ptrace interaction with force_successful_syscall_return()
we want syscall_trace_leave() called on exit from any syscall;
skipping its call in case we'd done force_successful_syscall_return()
is
From: Catalin Marinas catalin.mari...@arm.com
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:18:05 +0100
This patch removes several trivial UAPI headers that were simply including
the asm-generic files as they can be automatically generated.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas catalin.mari...@arm.com
Acked-by: David
From: David Howells dhowe...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:07:52 +0100
Can you pull wimax as well?
Sorry about this, but it seems like the majority of the non-arch trees need to
go through the networking tree.
Done.
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From: Ondrej Zary li...@rainbow-software.org
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:33:28 +0200
The device had an undocumented feature: it can provide a sequence of
spurious link-down status data even if the link is up all the time.
A sequence of 10 was seen so update the link state only after the device
From: Joe Perches j...@perches.com
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:23:25 -0700
Reduces object size and should be slightly faster.
allyesconfig:
$ size net/core/pktgen.o*
text data bss dec hex filename
52284 4321 11840 68445 10b5d net/core/pktgen.o.new
From: Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:09:45 -0400
Can you add this to the 3.2 stable tree.
commit 3a3847e007aae732d64d8fd1374126393e9879a3
Author: Jesse Brandeburg jesse.brandeb...@intel.com
Date: Wed Jan 4 20:23:33 2012 +
e1000: fix lockdep splat
From: Ondrej Zary li...@rainbow-software.org
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:51:41 +0200
The device had an undocumented feature: it can provide a sequence of
spurious link-down status data even if the link is up all the time.
A sequence of 10 was seen so update the link state only after the device
1) Alexey Kuznetsov noticed we routed TCP resets improperly in the
assymetric routing case, fix this by reverting a change that
made us use the incoming interface in the outgoing route key
when we didn't have a socket context to work with.
2) TCP sysctl kernel memory leakage to
1) Updated syscall tracing fix from Al Viro.
2) SUN4V error reporting was deficient in several areas.
Please pull, thanks a lot!
The following changes since commit 2474542f64432398f503373f53bdf620491bcfa8:
Merge tag 'for-3.7-rc1' of git://gitorious.org/linux-pwm/linux-pwm
(2012-10-10
From: Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:26:52 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt srost...@redhat.com
Use Kbuild infrastructure to handle the asm-generic headers
and remove the wrapper headers that call them.
This only affects headers that do nothing but include the
From: David Howells dhowe...@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:08:10 +0100
Unexport part of linux/ppp-comp.h as userspace can't make use of that bit.
Signed-off-by: David Howells dhowe...@redhat.com
Acked-by: David S. Miller da...@davemloft.net
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From: Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:54:00 -0400
On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 23:19 -0400, David Miller wrote:
From: Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:26:52 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt srost...@redhat.com
Use Kbuild infrastructure
From: Claudio Fontana claudio.font...@huawei.com
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:13:49 +0200
- pr_info( device=%s, addr=%pI4, mask=%pI4, gw=%pI4\n,
- ic_dev-name, ic_myaddr, ic_netmask, ic_gateway);
+
+ pr_info( device=%s, hwaddr=%*phC, ipaddr=%pI4, mask=%pI4,
gw=%pI4\n,
+
From: Francois Romieu rom...@fr.zoreil.com
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:20:03 +0200
Hayes Wang hayesw...@realtek.com :
Enable ALDPS function to save power when link down. Note that the
feature should be set after the other PHY settings. And the firmware
is necessary. Don't enable it without
From: Tilman Schmidt til...@imap.cc
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:44:32 +0200
The delayed work function int_in_work() may call usb_reset_device()
and thus, indirectly, the driver's pre_reset method. Trying to
cancel the work synchronously in that situation would deadlock.
Fix by avoiding
From: Oliver Neukum oneu...@suse.de
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:39:16 +0200
On Thursday 25 October 2012 21:17:54 Hemant Kumar wrote:
Driver anchors the tx urbs and defers the urb submission if
a transmit request comes when the interface is suspended.
Anchoring urb increments the urb reference
From: Nicolas Ferre nicolas.fe...@atmel.com
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:25:08 +0200
David,
On 09/19/2012 01:55 PM, Nicolas Ferre :
This is an enhancement work that began several years ago. I try to catchup
with
some performance improvement that has been implemented then by Havard.
The ring
From: Shuah Khan shuah.k...@hp.com
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:13:09 -0600
Add support for debug_dma_mapping_error() call to avoid warning from
debug_dma_unmap() interface when it checks for mapping error checked
status. Without this patch, device driver failed to check map error
warning is
From: John W. Linville linvi...@tuxdriver.com
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:21:13 -0400
This is a batch of fixes intended for the 3.7 stream.
Bing Zhao brings two mwifiex fixes, both continuing to fix some scanning
failure cases.
Christian Lamparter provides an rtlwifi fix to properly
From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:01:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Shuah Khan shuah.k...@hp.com
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:13:09 -0600
Add support for debug_dma_mapping_error() call to avoid warning from
debug_dma_unmap() interface when it checks for mapping error
This is what we usually expect at this stage of the game, lots of
little things, mostly in drivers. With the occaisional oops didn't
mean to do that kind of regressions in the core code.
1) Uninitialized data in __ip_vs_get_timeouts(), from Arnd Bergmann
2) Reject invalid ACK sequences in Fast
From: Stephen Rothwell s...@canb.auug.org.au
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:00:32 +1100
Today's linux-next merge of the signal tree got a conflict in
arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c between commit 517ffce4e1a0 (sparc64:
Make montmul/montsqr/mpmul usable in 32-bit threads) from the sparc tree
and
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From: zheng.li zheng.x...@oracle.com
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:11:28 +0800
@@ -700,7 +700,18 @@ static struct slave *rlb_arp_xmit(struct sk_buff
*skb, struct bonding *bond)
You commit message is poorly formatted and your email client corrupted
the patch, making it completely unusable.
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From: Rob Herring rob.herr...@calxeda.com
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:52:39 -0500
David,
On 10/12/2012 10:15 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
From: Rob Herring rob.herr...@calxeda.com
This is a series of performance improvements to the xgmac driver. The most
significant changes are the alignment
From: Zheng Li zheng.x...@oracle.com
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 11:23:00 +0800
ARP traffic passing through a bridge and out via the bond (when the bond is a
port of the bridge) should not have its source MAC address adjusted by the
receive load balance code in rlb_arp_xmit.
Signed-off-by:
From: David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:52:14 +
Now that we can return zero from pppoatm_send() for reasons *other* than
the queue being full, that means we can't depend on a subsequent call to
pppoatm_pop() waking the queue, and we might leave it stalled
From: Shreyas Bhatewara sbhatew...@vmware.com
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 22:02:16 -0800 (PST)
- Original Message -
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sasha.le...@oracle.com
---
drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Signed-off-by: Shreyas
From: Masanari Iida standby2...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:02:49 +0900
Correct spelling typo in printk within drivers/isdn
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida standby2...@gmail.com
Applied, thanks.
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From: Shuah Khan shuah.k...@hp.com
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:13:09 -0600
Add support for debug_dma_mapping_error() call to avoid warning from
debug_dma_unmap() interface when it checks for mapping error checked
status. Without this patch, device driver failed to check map error
warning is
From: Shuah Khan shuah.k...@hp.com
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:52:23 -0700
On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 19:38 -0500, David Miller wrote:
From: Shuah Khan shuah.k...@hp.com
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:13:09 -0600
Add support for debug_dma_mapping_error() call to avoid warning from
debug_dma_unmap
From: Andreas Larsson andr...@gaisler.com
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 11:53:18 +0100
This bug-fix makes sure that of_address_to_resource is defined extern for
sparc
so that the sparc-specific implementation of of_address_to_resource() is once
again used when including include/linux/of_address.h
From: David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 07:36:13 +
I was hoping for an ack from Chas and/or Krzysztof, especially as I
hadn't tested my patch. So hopefully there'll be a v4 series of 8
patches, including this one... and all from the same person, which
makes it
This is a suggested patch to fix the bug I reported at:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=135033028924652w=2
Essentially, there is a hard requirement that when perf analyzes a
trace, it must have the entire thing mmap()'d.
Therefore the scheme used on 32-bit where we have a fixed (8)
Several build/bug fixes for sparc, including:
1) Configuring a mix of static vs. modular sparc64 crypto modules
didn't work, remove an ill-conceived attempt to only have to build
the device match table for these drivers once to fix the problem.
Reported by Meelis Roos.
2) Make the
Bug fixes galore, mostly in drivers as is often the case:
1) USB gadget and cdc_eem drivers need adjustments to their frame
size lengths in order to handle VLANs correctly. From Ian
Coolidge.
2) TIPC and several network drivers erroneously call tasklet_disable
before tasklet_kill, fix
From: Stephen Rothwell s...@canb.auug.org.au
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 10:53:18 +1100
Today's linux-next merge of the net-next tree got a conflict in
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c between commit
477864ddd365 (bnx2x: Disable FCoE for 57840 since not yet supported by
FW) from
Please post the entire series again when making updates to any of
the patches, thank you.
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From: Stephen Rothwell s...@canb.auug.org.au
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:26:15 +1100
Make if easier for more architectures to select it and thus disable
drivers that use virt_to_bus().
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell s...@canb.auug.org.au
Acked-by: David S. Miller da...@davemloft.net
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From: Francois Romieu rom...@fr.zoreil.com
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:03:39 +0100
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com :
[...]
This has been applied as commit b00e69dee4cc in mainline; thanks!
Fran??ois and David, would this be a candidate for inclusion in
3.0- and newer stable kernels?
-
From: Joe Perches j...@perches.com
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:20:55 -0800
Remove wanrouter as it's obsolete and has not been updated
by sangoma since 2.4.3 or so and it's not used anymore.
Remove obsolete cyclomx drivers.
Update defconfig files that enable wanrouter.
Update files that
From: Joe Perches j...@perches.com
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:17:25 -0800
That seems an odd workflow as it leaves dangling CONFIG_foo
options set, but I guess it doesn't hurt so here it is.
As you said it's harmless, and more importantly it avoids
unnecessary conflicts.
I just removed the
From: Ingo Molnar mi...@kernel.org
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:56:17 +0200
Find below a stab at that, lightly tested.
Thanks for doing this.
diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.h b/tools/perf/perf.h
index a89cbbb..2762877 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf.h
+++ b/tools/perf/perf.h
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
When the perf tool is built 32-bit, it uses a sliding window mechanism
to mmap the events from the perf.data file.
However things stop working once we get past 8 times the 32-bit window
size (which is 32MB).
That's because the session code that reads in the events maintains an
array of 8 mmap'd
From: Ben Hutchings bhutchi...@solarflare.com
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:09:27 +0100
I think the various kconfig options should be changed as follows:
1. Only PTP_1588_CLOCK selects PPS.
2. Nothing depends on EXPERIMENTAL. (This stuff has been in for 18
months and it's even being
Two sparc64 perf bug fixes and add a sysrq facility so I can diagnose
these kinds of problems more quickly in the future.
Please pull, thanks a lot.
The following changes since commit ddffeb8c4d0331609ef2581d84de4d763607bd37:
Linux 3.7-rc1 (2012-10-14 14:41:04 -0700)
are available in the
1) Fix regression in /proc/net/if_inet6, sometimes devices do not
get listed. From Eric Dumazet.
2) Add IPSEC networking sub-section to MAINTAINERS.
3) S390 networking fixes from Hendrik Brueckner and
Stefan Raspl.
4) Fix enslavement of devices that can't do VLAN properly, from
Jiri
More UAPI stuff.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller da...@davemloft.net
diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.h b/tools/perf/perf.h
index 2762877..c50985e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf.h
+++ b/tools/perf/perf.h
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ void get_term_dimensions(struct winsize *ws);
#endif
#ifdef __sparc__
From: Will Deacon will.dea...@arm.com
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:01:25 +0100
+ update_mmu_cache(vma, address, pmd);
This won't build, use update_mmu_cache_pmd().
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From: Namhyung Kim namhy...@kernel.org
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:39:49 +0900
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:19:46 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net
More UAPI stuff.
What about other architectures? Don't they have the same problem?
If they took
From: Denys Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:01:24 +0100
Hi Jeff,
BNX2 and TG3 patches goes through Michael Chan and myself,
and I usually merge them in instead of Jeff.
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From: Denys Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:03:55 +0100
Do patches look ok to you?
I'm travelling so I haven't looked closely yet :-)
Michael can take a look and I'll try to do so as well
tonight.
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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:00:02 -0500
David Miller (1):
esp: fix instance numbering.
I'd like to request that this one goes into 2.6.23 as
it is a bug fix and the bug confuses users.
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From: Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:18:07 +0200
Hi Wang,
This patch:
- makes hidp_setup_input() return int to indicate errors;
- checks its return value to handle errors.
And this time it is against -rc7-mm1 tree.
Thanks to roel and Marcel Holtmann
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:33:54 -0700
Subject: git-net: fix pasemi_mac
From: Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c: In function $,1rx(Bpasemi_mac_probe$,1ry(B:
drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c:1153: error: conflicting types for
From: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:01:16 -0400
With one trivial change (taking the lock slightly earlier on wakeup
from schedule), all uses of the waitq are under the pool lock, so we
can use the locked (or __) versions of the wait queue functions, and
avoid the
From: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:01:17 -0400
Check that 'align' is a power of two, like the API specifies.
Align 'size' to 'align' correctly -- the current code has an off-by-one.
The ALIGN macro in kernel.h doesn't.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL
From: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:01:18 -0400
Also add documentation for how dma pools work, move the header above the
includes, add my copyright, add the original author's copyright, add a
GPL v2 licence to the file and fix the includes.
Signed-off-by:
From: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:01:19 -0400
The previous implementation simply refused to allocate more than a
boundary's worth of data from an entire page. Some users didn't know
this, so specified things like SMP_CACHE_BYTES, not realising the
horrible
From: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:33:30 -0700
ipv6 is not a network driver, it is a protocol. You might be able to
remove it if you zap all the routes and applications, ...
It is purposefully set to have a permanent elevated reference
count because it is not
From: Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:54:23 +0200
Wouldn't it be enough to down all the interfaces and close all the sockets?
No need to bring down every app.
And there are routes, and neighbour cache entries, and all sorts
of external references to the stack. For
From: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:55:36 +0200 (CEST)
On Sep 27 2007 07:51, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
You need every socket to close and all routes to go away including the
routes through loopback device, and still there probably are control
sockets buried
From: Peter Lieven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:42:25 +0200 (CEST)
TCP MD5 signatures on sparc64 (big-endian) completely fail on current
kernel releases in interoperability with Cisco/Foundry or other
little-endian linux systems.
The root cause is a cast in the return
From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:20:15 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks for finding this bug.
--- linux.old/include/net/tcp.h 2007-09-28 21:43:26.0 +0200 +++
linux/include/net/tcp.h 2007-09-28 21:45:35.0 +0200 @@ -1055,6
+1055,7 @@ static inline void
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:09:26 -0700
On Altix, DMA may be reordered between a device and host memory.
This reordering can happen in the NUMA interconnect, and it usually
results in correct operation and improved performance. In some
situations it may be necessary
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:10:59 -0700
+#ifndef ARCH_CAN_REORDER_DMA
+static inline int dma_flags_set_dmabarrier(int dir) {
+ return dir;
+}
+#endif /* ARCH_CAN_REORDER_DMA */
Coding style, that initial openning brace should be
on a line by itself.
-
To
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:12:19 -0700
+static inline int dma_flags_set_dmabarrier(int dir) {
+ return (dir | (DMA_BARRIER_ATTR DMA_ATTR_SHIFT));
+}
+
+static inline int dma_flags_get_direction(int dir) {
+ return (dir DMA_DIR_MASK);
+}
+
+static inline
From: Laurent Riffard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:22:06 +0200
Could a router problem prevent ping 127.0.0.1 from working ?
Two things that are new and could cause these problems:
1) We dynamically allocate the loopback device now.
2) We have the network namespace stuff.
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:55:38 +0200
* Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:11 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
good catch! A quick preliminary review of your patch indicates it's
fine - and it might be v2.6.23
From: Valerie Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:06:26 -0600
ebizzy is designed to generate a workload resembling common web
application server workloads.
I downloaded this only to be basically disappointed.
Any program which claims to generate workloads resembling common web
From: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:47:17 -0700
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:49 -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: Denys Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:03:55 +0100
Do patches look ok to you?
I'm travelling so I haven't looked closely yet
From: Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:59:12 +0200
No problem here on bigger servers, so I CC David Miller and netdev
on this one. AFAIK do_gettimeofday() and ktime_get_real() should
use the same underlying hardware functions on PC and no performance
problem should
From: Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:10:03 +0200
So maybe the following patch is necessary...
I believe IPV6 DCCP are immune to this problem.
Thanks again Denys for spotting this.
Eric
[PATCH] TCP : secure_tcp_sequence_number() should not use a too fast
From: Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 09:39:43 +0200
Hi,
The layout of struct blk_user_trace_setup is a bit unfortunate, it gets
padded differently on 32-bit and 64-bit archs. So right now it's not
possible to trace 64-bit kernels with a 32-bit app. This patch fixes
that
From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:41:50 -0400
Please pull from the 'upstream' branch of
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream
Pulled and pushed back out to net-2.6.24, thanks Jeff!
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Introduce the dma_flags_set_attr() interface and give it a default
no-op implementation.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:46:41 -0700
define dma_flags_set_attr() for sn-ia64 - it borrows bits from
the direction argument (renamed flags) to the dma_map_* routines
to pass an additional attributes. Also define routines to retrieve
the original direction and
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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:47:52 -0700
Document dma_flags_set_attr().
Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:49:06 -0700
Pass a dmabarrier argument to ib_umem_get() and use the new
argument to control setting the DMA_BARRIER_ATTR attribute on
the memory that ib_umem_get() maps for DMA.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:44:53 +0200
Index: linux-2.6/net/core/dev.c
===
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/core/dev.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2095,11 +2095,11 @@ static int
From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 14:39:16 -0400
Normally I wait a day or two between pushes, to queue up patches and
also to avoid annoying my upstream :) But this includes a couple fixes
I felt should be upstreamed sooner rather than later.
Please pull from
From: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:05:19 -0700
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:58:07 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:44:53 +0200
Index: linux-2.6/net/core/dev.c
From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:36:31 -0700
there is still code that does DMA from and to the stack
how would this work with virtual allocated stack?
That's a bug and must be fixed.
There honestly shouldn't be that many examples around.
FWIW, there are
From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:50:46 -0700
Ok every time something says anything not 100% positive about SLUB you
come back with but it's fixed in the next patch set... *every time*.
I think this is partly Christoph subconsciously venting his
frustration that
From: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:12:42 -0700
Sorry for the lack of detail -- I've just switched to running in the
console so if I can provoke the crash again I'll get a little more
info. I just wanted to mention this in case someone has seen
something similar
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Wilcox)
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:28:25 -0700
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:49:52AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Finally: Is there some way that I can reproduce the tests on my machines?
As usual for these kinds of setups ... take a two-CPU machine, 64GB
of
From: Valerie Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:42:01 -0600
Ebizzy is based on a real web application server and does do things
that are fairly common in such applications (multithreaded memory
allocation and memory access), but it ignores networking for two
reasons: the
From: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:58:12 -0600
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:48:34PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
There comes a point where it is the reporter's responsibility to help
the developer come up with a publishable test case the developer can
use to work
From: Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:02:17 -0400
How do you simulate reading 100TB of data spread across 3000 disks,
selecting 10% of it using some criterion, then sorting and
summarizing the result?
You repeatedly read zeros from a smaller disk into the same amount
From: Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:47:48 -0400
On 10/04/2007 05:11 PM, David Miller wrote:
From: Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:02:17 -0400
How do you simulate reading 100TB of data spread across 3000 disks,
selecting 10
From: maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:11:15 +0200
net eth1: device_rename: sysfs_create_symlink failed (-17)
...
no idea if aboves belongs to netdev or sysfs dep.
I think the report belongs to udev.
It tries to rename network devices even if they already
have the
From: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:32:00 +0200
Focus on the slab allocator usage, instrument it, record a trace,
generate a statistical model that matches, and write a small
programm/kernel module that has the same allocation pattern. Then verify
this statistical
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