Re: PANIC: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2, Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11

2007-04-28 Thread William Heimbigner
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, William Heimbigner wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:40:19 + (GMT) William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This bug occurs in linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2, and does not occur in > 2.6.21-rc7 > ARCH is powe

Re: High Resolution Timer DOS

2007-04-28 Thread William Heimbigner
t what /etc/security/limits.conf is for? Just limit the CPU usage. Root and SCHED_FIFO tasks could be exempt from rate limiting, to avoid the need to introduce a new rlimit which would take years for userspace to catch up to. Lee William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: PANIC: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2, Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11

2007-04-28 Thread William Heimbigner
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:40:19 + (GMT) William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This bug occurs in linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2, and does not occur in 2.6.21-rc7 ARCH is powerpc dmesg output, captured via netconsole: [0.00] Using Po

PANIC: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2, Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11

2007-04-28 Thread William Heimbigner
[c0583f60] [c000a24c] cpu_idle+0x164/0x1dc (unreliable) [c0583f80] [c0003cc4] rest_init+0x74/0x88 [c0583fa0] [c050fb68] start_kernel+0x310/0x394 [c0583ff0] [37b4] 0x37b4 This occurs after pressing the programmer switch to generate an NMI. William Heimbign

PANIC: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2, Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11

2007-04-28 Thread William Heimbigner
+0x164/0x1dc (unreliable) [c0583f80] [c0003cc4] rest_init+0x74/0x88 [c0583fa0] [c050fb68] start_kernel+0x310/0x394 [c0583ff0] [37b4] 0x37b4 This occurs after pressing the programmer switch to generate an NMI. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PANIC: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2, Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11

2007-04-28 Thread William Heimbigner
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:40:19 + (GMT) William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This bug occurs in linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2, and does not occur in 2.6.21-rc7 ARCH is powerpc dmesg output, captured via netconsole: [0.00] Using PowerMac

Re: High Resolution Timer DOS

2007-04-28 Thread William Heimbigner
/etc/security/limits.conf is for? Just limit the CPU usage. Root and SCHED_FIFO tasks could be exempt from rate limiting, to avoid the need to introduce a new rlimit which would take years for userspace to catch up to. Lee William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: PANIC: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2, Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11

2007-04-28 Thread William Heimbigner
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, William Heimbigner wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:40:19 + (GMT) William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This bug occurs in linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2, and does not occur in 2.6.21-rc7 ARCH is powerpc dmesg output

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

2007-04-27 Thread William Heimbigner
ave Jones wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:05:36PM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > > > > On 4/24/07, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 09:03:23PM +, William Heimbigner > > > > > wrote: &

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

2007-04-27 Thread William Heimbigner
ravamudan wrote: >> > 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 >> >> &g

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

2007-04-27 Thread William Heimbigner
wrote: 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

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

2007-04-27 Thread William Heimbigner
: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:05:36PM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: 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

linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2 fails to compile

2007-04-26 Thread William Heimbigner
This is on an iMac G3 powerpc. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Question re config_cmdline

2007-04-26 Thread William Heimbigner
I noticed that many of the architectures have support for CONFIG_CMDLINE (which allows for the configuration of a default kernel command lines), however, x86 doesn't. Is this intentional, and if so, why? It seems to me that a built in command line would be architecture-independent. William

Question re config_cmdline

2007-04-26 Thread William Heimbigner
I noticed that many of the architectures have support for CONFIG_CMDLINE (which allows for the configuration of a default kernel command lines), however, x86 doesn't. Is this intentional, and if so, why? It seems to me that a built in command line would be architecture-independent. William

linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2 fails to compile

2007-04-26 Thread William Heimbigner
This is on an iMac G3 powerpc. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

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

2007-04-25 Thread William Heimbigner
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:53:00 + (GMT) William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: OK. I am able to use the pktcdvd driver OK in mainline with a piix/sata drive. It could be that something is

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-04-25-02-49.tar.gz uploaded

2007-04-25 Thread William Heimbigner
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-04-25-02-49.tar.gz has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-04-25-02-49.tar.gz Was support for UnionFS deliberately removed in this release? William Heimbigner

Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

2007-04-25 Thread William Heimbigner
mechanism in the kernel, and then various other things done in userspace. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

2007-04-25 Thread William Heimbigner
, and then various userspace implementations could take care of this? Or is all of the software suspend code in the kernel absolutely necessary, such that this wouldn't work? William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

2007-04-25 Thread William Heimbigner
, and then various userspace implementations could take care of this? Or is all of the software suspend code in the kernel absolutely necessary, such that this wouldn't work? William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

2007-04-25 Thread William Heimbigner
mechanism in the kernel, and then various other things done in userspace. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-04-25-02-49.tar.gz uploaded

2007-04-25 Thread William Heimbigner
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-04-25-02-49.tar.gz has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-04-25-02-49.tar.gz Was support for UnionFS deliberately removed in this release? William Heimbigner

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

2007-04-25 Thread William Heimbigner
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:53:00 + (GMT) William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: snip OK. I am able to use the pktcdvd driver OK in mainline with a piix/sata drive. It could be that something is going

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

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Dave Jones 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. On

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

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
The following patches should allow selection of conservative, powersave, and ondemand in the kernel configuration. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.21-rc7-git6/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.21-rc7-git6/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig linux-2.6.21-rc7-git6-hwill/drivers

Re: cpufreq default governor

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: &g

Re: cpufreq default governor

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi William, > > On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Question: is there so

Re: cpufreq default governor

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi William, On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Question: is there some reason that kconfig does not allow for default governors of conservative/ondemand/powersave? Performance? I'm not aware of any reason w

cpufreq default governor

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
Question: is there some reason that kconfig does not allow for default governors of conservative/ondemand/powersave? I'm not aware of any reason why one of those governors could not be used as default. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: NonExecutable Bit in 32Bit

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
. Would having this be supported in i386 help debugging (and security) significantly? William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: NonExecutable Bit in 32Bit

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
. Would having this be supported in i386 help debugging (and security) significantly? William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

cpufreq default governor

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
Question: is there some reason that kconfig does not allow for default governors of conservative/ondemand/powersave? I'm not aware of any reason why one of those governors could not be used as default. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: cpufreq default governor

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi William, On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: is there some reason that kconfig does not allow for default governors of conservative/ondemand/powersave? Performance? I'm not aware of any reason why one

Re: cpufreq default governor

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi William, On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: is there some reason that kconfig does not allow

Re: cpufreq default governor

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi William, On 24

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

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
The following patches should allow selection of conservative, powersave, and ondemand in the kernel configuration. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.21-rc7-git6/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.21-rc7-git6/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig linux-2.6.21-rc7-git6-hwill/drivers

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

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Dave Jones 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 conservative

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

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:10:04 + (GMT) William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c~packet-fix-error-handling +++ a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c @@ -777,7 +777,8 @@ static int pkt_generic_packet(stru

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

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:09:18 + (GMT) William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This bug occurs in linux-2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc7-git5, and does not occur in linux-2.6.19-git22. After running "pktsetup 0 /dev/hdd", I get (ti

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

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
ral solution to a very specific circumstance. If there is any more information I can provide, let me know. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: BUG: Null pointer dereference (2.6.21-rc7)

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, William Heimbigner wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: It certainly is. Are you able to identify an earlier kernel in which this didn't happen? 2.6.20? An earlier 2.6.21-rcX? I'll try .18 and .20 and see where that gets me - this is my first time trying

Re: BUG: Null pointer dereference (2.6.21-rc7)

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: It certainly is. Are you able to identify an earlier kernel in which this didn't happen? 2.6.20? An earlier 2.6.21-rcX? I'll try .18 and .20 and see where that gets me - this is my first time trying to set up packet writing. William Heimbigner

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: William Heimbigner wrote: If there was 1) a maintainer and 2) code that didn't break "coding standards", would it be included in the kernel? While I cannot speak for Linus and Andrew, code that fulfills these criteria (and is usef

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: William Heimbigner wrote: However, is the code really in such a shape that the community doesn't want to maintain it? Obviously there's a significant number of people interested in reiser4 - if there weren't, questions like this wouldn't keep

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: William Heimbigner wrote: However, is the code really in such a shape that the community doesn't want to maintain it? Obviously there's a significant number of people interested in reiser4 - if there weren't, questions like this wouldn't keep

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: William Heimbigner wrote: If there was 1) a maintainer and 2) code that didn't break coding standards, would it be included in the kernel? While I cannot speak for Linus and Andrew, code that fulfills these criteria (and is useful to have - reiser4

Re: BUG: Null pointer dereference (2.6.21-rc7)

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: It certainly is. Are you able to identify an earlier kernel in which this didn't happen? 2.6.20? An earlier 2.6.21-rcX? I'll try .18 and .20 and see where that gets me - this is my first time trying to set up packet writing. William Heimbigner

Re: BUG: Null pointer dereference (2.6.21-rc7)

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, William Heimbigner wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: It certainly is. Are you able to identify an earlier kernel in which this didn't happen? 2.6.20? An earlier 2.6.21-rcX? I'll try .18 and .20 and see where that gets me - this is my first time trying

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

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
or not, but obviously this is a very temporal solution to a very specific circumstance. If there is any more information I can provide, let me know. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

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

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:09:18 + (GMT) William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This bug occurs in linux-2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc7-git5, and does not occur in linux-2.6.19-git22. After running pktsetup 0 /dev/hdd, I get (timestamps removed

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

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:10:04 + (GMT) William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c~packet-fix-error-handling +++ a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c @@ -777,7 +777,8 @@ static int pkt_generic_packet(struct pkt rq

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-22 Thread William Heimbigner
William Heimbigner wrote: > Eric Hopper wrote: > > I know that this whole effort has been put in disarray by the > > prosecution of Hans Reiser, but I'm curious as to its status. > > It was in disarray well before. Many of the reiser4 features, > like files

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-22 Thread William Heimbigner
, etc. I don't see why something like plugins should matter. If it works enough to be marked as experimental, why shouldn't reiser4 support be included? It's a pain for me personally to have to patch any kernel with reiser4 support so I can use the reiser4 fs. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED

BUG: Null pointer dereference (2.6.21-rc7)

2007-04-22 Thread William Heimbigner
3d 00 f0 ff ff 89 c7 76 0d 8b 45 f0 e8 dc fb ff ff 89 7d f0 eb 56 <8b> 40 0c bb 20 00 00 40 8b 70 30 0f b7 56 66 81 e2 00 f0 00 00 [ 3972.138557] EIP: [] do_sys_open+0x59/0xc2 SS:ESP 0068:de336f88 Is this a bug? If any more information is necessary, I'd be happy to provide it. William He

BUG: Null pointer dereference (2.6.21-rc7)

2007-04-22 Thread William Heimbigner
f0 eb 56 8b 40 0c bb 20 00 00 40 8b 70 30 0f b7 56 66 81 e2 00 f0 00 00 [ 3972.138557] EIP: [c0161aef] do_sys_open+0x59/0xc2 SS:ESP 0068:de336f88 Is this a bug? If any more information is necessary, I'd be happy to provide it. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-22 Thread William Heimbigner
, etc. I don't see why something like plugins should matter. If it works enough to be marked as experimental, why shouldn't reiser4 support be included? It's a pain for me personally to have to patch any kernel with reiser4 support so I can use the reiser4 fs. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-22 Thread William Heimbigner
William Heimbigner wrote: Eric Hopper wrote: I know that this whole effort has been put in disarray by the prosecution of Hans Reiser, but I'm curious as to its status. It was in disarray well before. Many of the reiser4 features, like filesystem plugins, make more technical

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread William Heimbigner
gets fixed to properly handle it. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread William Heimbigner
to properly handle it. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/