Re: [RFC 6/8] Account for pages in the page cache in terms of base pages

2007-04-19 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 4/19/07, Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Variable Order Page Cache: Account for higher order pages NR_FILE_PAGES now counts pages of different order. Maybe we need to account in base page sized pages? If so then we need to change the way we update the counters. Note that the same

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpufreq: allow full selection of default governors

2007-04-24 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 4/24/07, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 09:03:23PM +, William Heimbigner wrote: The following patches should allow selection of conservative, powersave, and ondemand in the kernel configuration. This has been rejected several times already. Ondemand and

Re: Stracing Amanda (was: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29)

2007-03-12 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 3/12/07, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007, Douglas McNaught wrote: Patrick Mau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why not temporarly replace /bin/tar with a shell script that does: #!/bin/sh exec strace -f -o output /bin/real.tar $@ You beat me to it. :) I've done

Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

2007-03-13 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 3/12/07, Anton Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nick, Anyway, I'll keep experimenting. If anyone from MySQL wants to help look at this, send me a mail (eg. especially with the sched_setscheduler issue, you might be able to do something better). I took a look at this today and

Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

2007-03-13 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 3/13/07, Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nish Aravamudan a écrit : On 3/12/07, Anton Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nick, Anyway, I'll keep experimenting. If anyone from MySQL wants to help look at this, send me a mail (eg. especially with the sched_setscheduler issue

Re: Linux 2.6.20.3

2007-03-13 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 3/13/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.20.3 kernel. It contains a number of bugfixes and all 2.6.20 users are recommended to upgrade. The diffstat and short summary of the fixes are below. I'll also be replying to this message

Re: Linux 2.6.20.3

2007-03-13 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 3/13/07, Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/13/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.20.3 kernel. It contains a number of bugfixes and all 2.6.20 users are recommended to upgrade. The diffstat and short summary

Re: Linux 2.6.20.3

2007-03-13 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 3/13/07, David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:24 -0700 On 3/13/07, Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/13/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We (the -stable team) are announcing the release

Re: Linux 2.6.20.3

2007-03-13 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 3/13/07, Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/13/07, David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:24 -0700 On 3/13/07, Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/13/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We

Re: [patch 1/2] hugetlb: add resv argument to hugetlb_file_setup

2007-03-23 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 3/23/07, Ken Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rename hugetlb_zero_setup() to hugetlb_file_setup() to better match function name convention like shmem implementation. Also add an argument to the function to indicate whether file setup should reserve hugetlb page upfront or not. Signed-off-by:

Re: [patch] rfc: introduce /dev/hugetlb

2007-03-23 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 3/23/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:44:38 -0700 Ken Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/21/07, Adam Litke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main reason I am advocating a set of pagetable_operations is to enable the development of a new hugetlb interface.

Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

2007-02-27 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 2/27/07, Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rik van Riel wrote: J.A. Magallón wrote: [...] Its the same to answer 4+4 queries than 8 at half the speed, isn't it ? That still doesn't fix the potential Linux problem that this benchmark identified. To clarify: I don't care as much

Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

2007-02-27 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 2/26/07, Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rik van Riel wrote: Lorenzo Allegrucci wrote: Hi lkml, according to the test below (sysbench) Linux seems to have scalability problems beyond 8 client threads: http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/6268.html#cutid1

Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

2007-02-27 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 2/27/07, Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 2/26/07, Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rik van Riel wrote: Lorenzo Allegrucci wrote: Hi lkml, according to the test below (sysbench) Linux seems to have scalability problems beyond 8 client threads

Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

2007-02-27 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 2/27/07, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paulo Marques wrote: Rik van Riel wrote: J.A. Magallón wrote: [...] Its the same to answer 4+4 queries than 8 at half the speed, isn't it ? That still doesn't fix the potential Linux problem that this benchmark identified. To clarify: I

Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

2007-02-28 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 2/27/07, Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/27/07, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paulo Marques wrote: Rik van Riel wrote: J.A. Magallón wrote: [...] Its the same to answer 4+4 queries than 8 at half the speed, isn't it ? That still doesn't fix the potential

Re: kernel BUG at arch/x86_64/mm/../../i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c:140!

2007-03-02 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 3/2/07, Alexander Y. Fomichev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day I'm hit a bug on 2.6.21-rc1 at startup of mysql with 'large-pages' flag set. (at this point mysql trying to allocate pages from hugetlb pool by sysv shm syscalls). Seems like it could be triggered by previous badness and probably

Re: timeout = 1 millisecond for wait_event_timeout

2007-03-05 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 3/5/07, Mockern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a question. How can I make timeout = 1 millisecond for wait_event_timeout function? Something like (HZ/1000)*x? You mean in a HZ-independent way? Use msecs_to_jiffies(). Note, that if HZ==1000, you can do wait_event-( , ,0); and you

Re: [2.6 patch] hwmon/ibmpex.c: fix NULL dereference

2007-10-17 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 10/17/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't dereference data when we know for sure it's NULL. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 66bec2ef5c6d55fc30ef6ac5bb97fdfcfaf394f2 diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/ibmpex.c b/drivers/hwmon/ibmpex.c

Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot

2008-02-10 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 2/7/08, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: On Wed 2008-02-06 11:53:34, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Trying to boot

Re: x86 patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-10-02 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 10/2/07, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:18:09 -0700 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How come? Memoryless node can and do occur in real-world machines. Kernel should support that? But a node is just defined by its memory?

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 -- powerpc rtas panic

2007-10-04 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 10/2/07, Tony Breeds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:30:16AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: I realise it'll make the patch bigger, but this doesn't seem like a particularly good name for the variable anymore. Sure, what about? Clarify when RTAS logging is enabled.

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 -- powerpc rtas panic

2007-10-07 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 10/5/07, Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 05:01:47PM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 10/2/07, Tony Breeds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:30:16AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: I realise it'll make the patch bigger

Re: [PATCH] Add missing newlines to some uses of dev_level messages

2007-08-07 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/7/07, Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found these while looking at printk uses. Add missing newlines to dev_level uses Add missing KERN_level prefixes to multiline dev_levels Fixed a wierd-weird spelling typo Added a newline to a printk I think these should have been split

Re: Make checkpatch warn about pointless casting of kalloc returns.

2007-08-08 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/8/07, jschopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +WARN(No need to cast return value.\n); Could the warning be more descriptive? This describes what, but it should also describe why; after all if somebody made this error they may not know they why. I'm

Re: atm: panic when loading clip 2nd time

2007-10-16 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 10/16/07, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.23-git7, using SLAB (not SLUB) [config attached]: # modprobe clip # rmmod clip # modprobe clip results in panic: kmem_cache_create: duplicate cache clip_arp_cache Call Trace: [8028c682] kmem_cache_create+0x3bf/0x3fd

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-08-01 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/31/07, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: I was playing with huge pages and libhugetlbfs. Small programs like ls work fine. I tried running Evolution through libhugetlbfs and the system slowly stops running. One interesting

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-08-01 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/1/07, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 7/31/07, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: I was playing with huge pages and libhugetlbfs. Small programs like ls work fine. I tried running Evolution

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-08-01 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/31/07, Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:02 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: I was playing with huge pages and libhugetlbfs. Small programs like ls work fine. I tried running Evolution through libhugetlbfs and

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-08-01 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/31/07, Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:02 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: I was playing with huge pages and libhugetlbfs. Small programs like ls work fine. I tried running Evolution through libhugetlbfs and

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-08-01 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/31/07, Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:02 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: I was playing with huge pages and libhugetlbfs. Small programs like ls work fine. I tried running Evolution through libhugetlbfs and

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-08-02 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/1/07, Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:52 -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 7/31/07, Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:02 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: I was playing with huge

Re: [PATCH] remove hugetlb_instantiation_mutex

2007-08-03 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/3/07, Adam Litke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 15:15 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 11:37 -0500, Adam Litke wrote: Hey... I am amazed at how quickly you came back with a patch for this :) Thanks for looking at it. Unfortunately there is one

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-07 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Apr 7, 2005 10:50 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: 1. When resuming from S3 suspend and having switched off the backlight with radeontool the backlight isn't switched back on any more. I'm not sure what's up here, it's a nasty issue with

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-07 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Apr 7, 2005 3:45 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:54 -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: On Apr 7, 2005 10:50 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: 1. When resuming from S3 suspend and having switched off

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-08 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Apr 7, 2005 11:28 PM, AsterixTheGaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I have the same problem on a T41p with 2.6.11 and 2.6.12-rc2, except that neither returns from suspend-to-ram with video restored on the LCD. I believe I was able to get video restored on an external CRT in either

Re: [PATCH] char/tpm: use msleep(), clean-up timers, fix typo

2005-04-15 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 4/15/05, Kylene Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tested this patch and agree that using msleep is the right. Please apply this patch to the tpm driver. One hunk might fail b/c the typo has been fixed already. Would you like me to respin the patch, Greg? Or is the failed hunk ok?

Re: [PATCH] char/tpm: use msleep(), clean-up timers, fix typo

2005-04-15 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 4/15/05, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:44:55PM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 4/15/05, Kylene Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tested this patch and agree that using msleep is the right. Please apply this patch to the tpm driver. One hunk might

Re: [PATCH] char/tpm: use msleep(), clean-up timers, fix typo

2005-04-15 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 4/15/05, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:44:55PM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 4/15/05, Kylene Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tested this patch and agree that using msleep is the right. Please apply this patch to the tpm driver. One hunk might

Re: VST and Sched Load Balance

2005-04-19 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 4/7/05, Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, VST patch (http://lwn.net/Articles/118693/) attempts to avoid useless regular (local) timer ticks when a CPU is idle. snip linux-2.6.11-vatsa/kernel/sched.c | 52 ++ 1 files changed,

Re: [RFC UPDATE PATCH] add wait_event_*_lock() functions and comments

2005-02-12 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 03:41:01 +0100, Arnd Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sünnavend 12 Februar 2005 14:28, Sergey Vlasov wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:38:26 +0100 Arnd Bergmann wrote: #define __wait_event_lock(wq, condition, lock, flags) \ do {

Re: [RFC UPDATE PATCH] add wait_event_*_lock() functions and comments

2005-02-15 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:50:45 +0100, Arnd Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dinsdag 15 Februar 2005 02:04, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: Here's at least one example: drivers/ieee1394/video1394.c:__video1394_ioctl() AFAICS, that one should work just fine using after converting snip The

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-16 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/16/05, Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/15/05, Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/15/05, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: It's buggy, that I know. setting kernel_hz (the new boot parameter) to 250 causes my

Re: [PATCH 22/82] remove linux/version.h from drivers/message/fus ion

2005-07-20 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/19/05, Moore, Eric Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:17 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: In general, this construct: -#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,6)) -static int inline scsi_device_online(struct scsi_device *sdev) -{ - return sdev-online;

Re: [patch,rfc] Support for touchscreen on sharp zaurus sl-5500

2005-07-21 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/20/05, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! This adds support for touchscreen of sharp zaurus sl-5500. I got the patches from John Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED], but lots of copyrights are Russell King. To do so, it needs to add quite a bit of infrastructure. If there's better place for

Re: [patch,rfc] Support for touchscreen on sharp zaurus sl-5500

2005-07-21 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/21/05, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! + set_task_state(tsk, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + schedule_timeout(HZ / 100); + if (signal_pending(tsk)) + break; You specifically allow SIGKILL, but then sleep

Re: [patch 1/4] drivers/char/ip2/i2lib.c: replace direct assignment with set_current_state()

2005-07-08 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/8/05, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ i2QueueCommands(int type, i2ChanStrPtr p timeout--; // So negative values == forever if (!in_interrupt()) { I worry about what this driver is trying to

Re: [PATCH 0/82] changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no good reason.

2005-07-10 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/10/05, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David S. Miller wrote: Kernel janitor-like patches split up their work _FAR_ too much. They post one patch per driver, or even per-file, for something as simple as removing the use of a redundant header file. That's totally rediculious,

Re: [PATCH 0/82] changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no good reason.

2005-07-10 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/10/05, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:18:15 -0700 A quick question here regarding the possibility of one logical change for all of drivers/. Does that hold true for *any* logical change? Intuitively, I

Re: [PATCH] Prezeroing V8

2005-03-17 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:43:47 -0800 (PST), Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Changelog: - Drop clear_pages and the approach to zero pages of higher order first - Zero a percentage of pages from all orders to avoid fragmentation Adds management of ZEROED and NOT_ZEROED pages and a

Re: [PATCH] Prezeroing V8 + free_hot_zeroed_page + free_cold_zeroed page

2005-03-17 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:09:11 -0800 (PST), Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Jason Uhlenkott wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 05:36:50PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: +while (avenrun[0] = ((unsigned long)sysctl_scrub_load FSHIFT)) { +

Re: 2.6.11 vs DVB cx88 stuffs

2005-03-03 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:19:04 -0500, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; I've a new pcHDTV-3000 card, and I thought maybe it would be a good idea to build the cx88 stuff in the DVB section of a make xconfig. It doesn't build, spitting out this bailout: CC [M]

Re: [patch 05/14] char/hvsi: use wait_event_timeout()

2005-03-06 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:32:36 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please consider applying. This is my first wait-queue related patch, so comments are very welcome. Use wait_event_timeout() in place of custom wait-queue code. The code is not

Re: [patch 12/14] drivers/dmapool: use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE instead of TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE

2005-03-06 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:44:14 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE instead of TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [8/many] acrypto: crypto_dev.c

2005-03-07 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 02:14:31 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:40:52 -0800 Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 23:37:34 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- /tmp/empty/crypto_dev.c 1970-01-01 03:00

Re: [8/many] acrypto: crypto_dev.c

2005-03-07 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 23:37:34 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- /tmp/empty/crypto_dev.c 1970-01-01 03:00:00.0 +0300 +++ ./acrypto/crypto_dev.c 2005-03-07 20:35:36.0 +0300 @@ -0,0 +1,421 @@ +/* + * crypto_dev.c snip + while

Re: [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver

2005-03-10 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:42:01 -0800, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ChangeSet 1.2035, 2005/03/09 10:12:19-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver snip +void tpm_time_expired(unsigned long ptr) +{ + int *exp = (int *) ptr; + *exp = 1; +} +

Re: [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver

2005-03-10 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:35:36 -0800, Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:42:01 -0800, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ChangeSet 1.2035, 2005/03/09 10:12:19-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver snip +void tpm_time_expired

Re: [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache

2005-02-21 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:27:21 -0500, Martin Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've made a bunch of changes that Paul suggested. I've also responded to his concerns further down. Paul correctly pointed out that this patch uses some helper functions that are part of the cpusets patch. I

Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-21 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:44:32 -0500, Anthony DiSante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the thread rooted here: Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 07:51:39 -0500 From: Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-23 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:31:03 +0100, Olaf Titz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: The most recent one was yesterday: I had run lsusb in the morning and had no problems, but at the end of the day I ran it again, and after outputting 3 lines of data, it hung,

Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-23 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:11:05 +0100, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! snip Table of known working systems: Model hack (or how to do it) -- IBM TP R32 / Type 2658-MMG none

Re: intel8x0: no sound in 2.6.11 rc3 4 (fine with 2.6.10)

2005-02-23 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:31:20 -0500, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I have read a post in lkml.org that states that the problem experienced in rc3 has gone (1). That is not the case for me. My audio device is :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02 kernel BUG

2005-02-24 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:06:09 - (WET), Rui Nuno Capela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias-Christian wrote: Hi! The first bug is in the usbb ohci module (report it to http://buzilla.kernel.org and its Maintainers). The second one is caused by the first one. Done. Bugzilla

Re: [ patch 6/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-02-27 Thread Nish Aravamudan
diff -Nuar linux-2.6.9.orig/drivers/serial/jsm/jsm_driver.h linux-2.6.9.new/drivers/serial/jsm/jsm_driver.h --- linux-2.6.9.orig/drivers/serial/jsm/jsm_driver.h1969-12-31 18:00:00.0 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.9.new/drivers/serial/jsm/jsm_driver.h 2005-02-27 17:14:44.747952016

Re: Multichannel audio ?

2005-02-28 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:24:40 -0500, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:13 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! How does one use the extra channels on a six channel card ? I can only hear the 2 front speakers. Off topic. Please switch

Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

2005-03-03 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:51:40 +0100, Pierre Ossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded to Linux 2.6.11 and the soundcard on my machine went silent. All volume controls are correct and there are no errors reported. But no sound coming from the speakers. And here's the kicker, the headphones

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

2005-03-03 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:06:38 -0500 (EST), Mark Canter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct, but if you want to use your headphones you would have to enable headphones on your mixer, which would negate your speaker output through your docking station's output. If you want to use the docking

Re: [1/1] superio: change scx200 module name to scx.

2005-01-24 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:37:20 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Change scx200 module name to scx. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6/drivers/superio/scx.c 1970-01-01 03:00:00.0 +0300 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/superio/scx.c 2005-01-24

Re: [KJ] Re: [UPDATE PATCH] ieee1394/sbp2: use ssleep() instead of schedule_timeout()

2005-01-18 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:52:55 -0500, Dan Dennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 09:39 -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:01:21AM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: Description: Use ssleep() instead of schedule_timeout() to

Re: [RFT] skge: new syskonnect gigabit ethernet driver

2005-01-19 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:00:31 -0500, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Hemminger wrote: This is the second public release of my new rewrite of the SysKonnect Gigabit Ethernet driver. This 0.3 version fixes bugs with link up/down and ethtool phys_id support. It adds ethtool

Re: waiting process in procfs read

2005-08-26 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/26/05, Richard Stover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I submitted this as a bugzilla kernel bug report but was directed here. Perhaps someone can help me. I have a device driver developed with 2.4 kernels. I've ported it to the 2.6 kernel (FC3) and it all works fine except for one aspect of

Re: waiting process in procfs read

2005-08-26 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/26/05, Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/26/05, Richard Stover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I submitted this as a bugzilla kernel bug report but was directed here. Perhaps someone can help me. I have a device driver developed with 2.4 kernels. I've ported it to the 2.6

Re: [PATCH] New: Omnikey CardMan 4040 PCMCIA Driver

2005-09-03 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/3/05, Chase Venters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below you can find a driver for the Omnikey CardMan 4040 PCMCIA Smartcard Reader. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't these #defines be a problem with the new HZ flexibility: #define CCID_DRIVER_BULK_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT

Re: [DVB patch 51/54] ttpci: av7110: RC5+ remote control support

2005-09-04 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/4/05, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Oliver Endriss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Improved remote control support for av7110-based cards: o extended rc5 protocol, firmware = 0x2620 required o key-up timer slightly adjusted o completely moved remote control code to av7110_ir.c

Re: [DVB patch 54/54] ttusb-budget: use time_after_eq()

2005-09-04 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/4/05, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Marcelo Feitoza Parisi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use of the time_after_eq() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deal with wrapping correctly and are nicer to read. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Feitoza Parisi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DVB patch 14/54] frontend: s5h1420: fixes

2005-09-04 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/4/05, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew de Quincey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Misc. fixes. snip --- linux-2.6.13-git4.orig/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1420.c 2005-09-04 22:24:24.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-git4/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1420.c

Re: [DVB patch 23/54] usb: add TwinhanDTV StarBox support

2005-09-04 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/4/05, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Patrick Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add driver for the TwinhanDTV StarBox and clones. Thanks to Ralph Metzler for his initial work on this box and thanks to Twinhan for their support. snip --- /dev/null 1970-01-01

Re: [DVB patch 51/54] ttpci: av7110: RC5+ remote control support

2005-09-04 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/4/05, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 9/4/05, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- linux-2.6.13-git4.orig/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110_ir.c 2005-09-04 22:03:40.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-git4/drivers

Re: [DVB patch 54/54] ttusb-budget: use time_after_eq()

2005-09-04 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/4/05, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 9/4/05, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -static int numpkt = 0, lastj, numts, numstuff, numsec, numinvalid; +static int numpkt = 0, numts, numstuff, numsec, numinvalid

Re: [DVB patch 51/54] ttpci: av7110: RC5+ remote control support

2005-09-04 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/4/05, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 9/4/05, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 9/4/05, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -#define UP_TIMEOUT

Re: Possible race in sound/oss/forte.c ?

2005-08-11 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/11/05, John M. King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know the OSS drivers are deprecated, but I'm trying to figure this out for my own understanding. Here's code from sound/oss/forte.c, in the write system call handler. A test has already been performed (under the protection of the lock) and

Re: [USB-Storage : i386] Oops with an adaptor for laptop hard disk.

2005-08-15 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/15/05, Stephane Wirtel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Monday 15 August 2005 a 09:08, Greg KH ecrivait: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:21:22PM +0200, Stephane Wirtel wrote: Le Monday 15 August 2005 a 15:08, Alexey Dobriyan ecrivait: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:29:25PM +0200, Stephane Wirtel

Re: [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks

2005-08-16 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/16/05, Stas Sergeev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. john stultz wrote: Interesting. Could you explain why the soft-timer interface doesn't suffice? I'll try to explain why *I think* it doesn't suffice, please correct me if my assumptions are wrong. There are two (bad) things

Re: [PATCH] cpm_uart: Fix dpram allocation and non-console uarts

2005-08-17 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/8/05, Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (A believe Marcelo would like to see this in 2.6.13, but I'll let him fight over that ;) * Makes dpram allocations work * Makes non-console UART work on both 8xx and 82xx * Fixed whitespace in files that were touched Signed-off-by: Vitaly

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dlm: use configfs

2005-08-18 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/17/05, David Teigland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use configfs to configure lockspace members and node addresses. This was previously done with sysfs and ioctl. Signed-off-by: David Teigland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you the official maintainer of the DLM subsystem? Could you submit a patch

Re: [PATCH 3/4] ppc64: add RTAS console driver

2005-08-18 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/18/05, Arnd Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The RTAS console driver can be used by all machines that abstract the system console through the {get,put}-term-char interface. It replaces the hvconsole on BPA, because we don't run under a hypervisor. This driver needs to be redone as a

Re: [git patches] ide update

2005-08-18 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/18/05, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: 3 obvious fixes + support for 2 new controllers (just new PCI IDs). Btw, things like this: +#define IDEFLOPPY_TICKS_DELAY HZ/20 /* default delay for ZIP 100

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c: fix the compilation

2005-08-19 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/19/05, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:33:31AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: ... +drivers-cdrom-fix-up-schedule_timeout-usage.patch ... I sell copies of gcc at reasonable prices... -- snip -- ... CC

Re: sleep under spinlock, sequencer.c, 2.6.12.5

2005-08-19 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/19/05, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Gwe, 2005-08-19 at 10:13 +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote: The following sleep under spinlock is still present as of linux 2.6.12.5 in sound/oss/sequencer.c in midi_outc: n = 3 * HZ; /* Timeout */

Re: sleep under spinlock, sequencer.c, 2.6.12.5

2005-08-22 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/22/05, Peter T. Breuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also sprach Nish Aravamudan: On 8/19/05, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Gwe, 2005-08-19 at 10:13 +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote: The following sleep under spinlock is still present as of linux 2.6.12.5 in sound/oss/sequencer.c

Re: [UPDATE PATCH] push rounding up of relative request to schedule_timeout()

2005-08-04 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/4/05, George Anzinger george@mvista.com wrote: Uh... PLEASE tell me you are NOT changing timespec_to_jiffies() (and timeval_to_jiffies() to add 1. This is NOT the right thing to do. For repeating times (see setitimer code) we need the actual time as we KNOW where the jiffies edge is in

Re: [UPDATE PATCH] push rounding up of relative request to schedule_timeout()

2005-08-04 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/4/05, George Anzinger george@mvista.com wrote: Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: ~ Sorry, I forgot that sys_nanosleep() also always adds 1 to the request (to account for this same issue, I believe, as POSIX demands no early return from nanosleep() calls). There are some other locations where

Re: Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-07 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/7/05, Fawad Lateef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I m facing a problem in RHEL3 (2.4.21-5.ELsmp) kernel while using kmap_atomic on the pages reserved at the boot time Unless you can reproduce this in a current kernel.org kernel (2.6.13-rc6), then you probably should contact RedHat

Re: [PATCH] Omnikey Cardman 4000 driver

2005-09-05 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/5/05, Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Following-up to the Cardman 4040 driver, I'm now sumitting a driver for the Cardman 4000 reader. It is, too, a PCMCIA smartcard reader and the predecessor of the 4040. From a technical point of view, the two devices have nothing in

Re: [PATCH 23/24] V4L: Include saa6588 compiler option and files / Fixes comments on tuner.h

2005-09-05 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can this: +static void saa6588_work(void *data) +{ + struct saa6588 *s = (struct saa6588 *)data; + + saa6588_i2c_poll(s); + mod_timer(s-timer, jiffies + HZ / 50);/* 20 msec */ +} + be: mod_timer(s-timer, jiffies +

Re: [-mm patch 5/5] SharpSL: Add new ARM PXA machines Spitz and Borzoi with partial Akita Support

2005-09-06 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/6/05, Richard Purdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add the platform support code for two new Sharp Zaurus Models, Spitz (SL-C3000) and Borzoi (SL-C3100). This patch also adds most of the foundations for Akita (SL-C1000) Support. The missing link for Akita is the driver for its I2C io

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-07 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/7/05, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:48:13PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: Admittedly, I don't think SMP ARM has been around all that long? Maybe the existing code just has not been extended. Yeah, maybe ARM never

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-07 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/7/05, Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:42:24AM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: Hrm, got dropped from the Cc... :) Yes, the dynamic-tick generic infrastructure being proposed, with the idle CPU mask and the set_all_cpus_idle() tick_source hook, would

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-07 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 9/7/05, Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:27:43AM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: enter_all_cpus_idle() and exit_all_cpus_idle() would be better? Looks perfect. No, I was saying what you were, if a little unclearly, so the caller does something

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