Re: [xfs-masters] swsusp vs. xfs [was Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-12 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > I should take some sleep now, so I can't test the patch, but I don't > > think it will help. If someone has PF_FREEZE set, he should be in > > refrigerator. > > OK, so if that doesn't help, here's an alternate approach - this > lets xfsbufd track when its entering the refrigerator(), so t

Re: [xfs-masters] swsusp vs. xfs [was Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-12 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Tuesday, 12 of April 2005 01:51, Pavel Machek wrote: ]--snip--[ > > Since the refrigerator() call is in place in the main xfsbufd loop, > > I suspect we're hitting that second case here, where a low memory > > situation is resulting in someone attempting to wakeup xfsbufd -- > > I'm not su

Re: [xfs-masters] swsusp vs. xfs [was Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Thanks, this patch helped. I can confirm, the 2nd patch worked and the 1st one didn't. (This is against 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 with sched-x86-patch-name-is-way-too-long.patch backed out. ;) ) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: [xfs-masters] swsusp vs. xfs [was Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-11 Thread Nathan Scott
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:51:10AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > I should take some sleep now, so I can't test the patch, but I don't > think it will help. If someone has PF_FREEZE set, he should be in > refrigerator. OK, so if that doesn't help, here's an alternate approach - this lets xfsbufd tra

Re: [xfs-masters] swsusp vs. xfs [was Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > > No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would > > > > > modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) > > > > > > > > Yes, loading xfs from initrd should help. [At least it did during > > > > suse9.3 testing.] > > > > > > Once I modularized xfs and switched to

Re: [xfs-masters] swsusp vs. xfs [was Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-11 Thread Nathan Scott
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 12:57:59PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would > > > > modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) > > > > > > Yes, loading xfs from initrd should help. [At least it did during > > > suse9.3 testin

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-11 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 12:45 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > * Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-04-11 09:22 > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:27:27PM +0200, Thomas Graf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > + size = NLMSG_SPACE(sizeof(*msg) + msg->len); > > > + > > > + skb = alloc_skb(

swsusp vs. xfs [was Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would > > > modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) > > > > Yes, loading xfs from initrd should help. [At least it did during > > suse9.3 testing.] > > Once I modularized xfs and switched to using an initrd, the problem

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-11 Thread Thomas Graf
* Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-04-11 09:22 > On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:27:27PM +0200, Thomas Graf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > + size = NLMSG_SPACE(sizeof(*msg) + msg->len); > > + > > + skb = alloc_skb(size, GFP_ATOMIC); > > + if (!skb) { > > + pri

Unable to boot 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 with command line maxcpus=1

2005-04-11 Thread Vivek Goyal
Hi, I am having problems while booting 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 on i386 with command line maxcpus=1. Without this commandline, system boots fine otherwise it hangs. Serial output is pasted below. If maxcpus=1 is given along with acpi=off then system boots fine. I am not sure where the problem is

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-11 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Barry K. Nathan wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:27:47PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: >> Can you try without XFS? > > No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would > modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) Yes, although it is not totally trivial. > I'll see if I can r

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:27:27PM +0200, Thomas Graf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-04-10 10:39 > > Please crosspost on netdev - you should know that by now;-> > > > > I actually disagreee with Herbert on this. Theres definetely good > > need to have a more usable m

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 01:00:53AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would > > modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) > > Yes, loading xfs from initrd should help. [At least it did during > suse9.3 testing.] Once I modularized xfs a

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Can you try without XFS? > > No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would > modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) Yes, loading xfs from initrd should help. [At least it did during suse9.3 testing.] > I'll see if I can reproduce this on one of my test boxes.

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:27:47PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Can you try without XFS? No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) I'll see if I can reproduce this on one of my test boxes. I'll *try* to get to it later today,

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > (Sorry I took so long to respond. I was busy with tons of stuff > offline...) > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:33:27PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Do you have XFS compiled in, by chance? > > Yes. Can you try without XFS? I do not why it interferes, but I've seen that before on suse kern

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
(Sorry I took so long to respond. I was busy with tons of stuff offline...) On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:33:27PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Do you have XFS compiled in, by chance? Yes. > You are not actually resuming from initrd, right? That is correct. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - T

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread Thomas Graf
* jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-04-10 10:39 > Please crosspost on netdev - you should know that by now;-> > > I actually disagreee with Herbert on this. Theres definetely good > need to have a more usable messaging system that rides on top of > netlink. It is not that netlink cant be extended (I

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread jamal
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 10:56, James Morris wrote: > On 10 Apr 2005, jamal wrote: > > > Thats what the original motivation for konnector was. To make it easy > > for joe dumbass. > > Who you really want writing kernel code :-) Ok, let me take that back then ;-> The value is in allowing people who

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread James Morris
On 10 Apr 2005, jamal wrote: > Thats what the original motivation for konnector was. To make it easy > for joe dumbass. Who you really want writing kernel code :-) - James -- James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread jamal
Evgeniy, Please crosspost on netdev - you should know that by now;-> I actually disagreee with Herbert on this. Theres definetely good need to have a more usable messaging system that rides on top of netlink. It is not that netlink cant be extended (I actually think thats a separate topic) - its

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:10:05 +0200 Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-04-10 15:37 > > --- ./net/netlink/af_netlink.c.orig 2005-04-10 15:46:48.0 +0400 > > +++ ./net/netlink/af_netlink.c 2005-04-10 15:47:04.0 +0400 > > @@ -747,7

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread Thomas Graf
* Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-04-10 15:37 > --- ./net/netlink/af_netlink.c.orig 2005-04-10 15:46:48.0 +0400 > +++ ./net/netlink/af_netlink.c 2005-04-10 15:47:04.0 +0400 > @@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ > if (p->exclude_sk == sk) > goto out; > > -

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:37:57 +0400 Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The second one is a huge monster that can not be used in embedded > systems, calling userspace process from inside the kernel is > now very flexible way. is NOT very flexible way... Evgeniy Polyakov Only

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:08:44 +0200 Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 14:32 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:52:54 +1000 > > Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > User should not

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread Kay Sievers
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 14:32 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:52:54 +1000 > Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > User should not know about low-level transport - > > > it is like socket layer - write only data and

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:52:54 +1000 Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please add netdev to the CC list since this discussion pertains to > the networking subsystem. > > Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > User should not know about low-level transport - > > it is like socke

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread Herbert Xu
Please add netdev to the CC list since this discussion pertains to the networking subsystem. Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > User should not know about low-level transport - > it is like socket layer - write only data and do not care about > how it will be delivered. The deline

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:02:22PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:19:39 +0400 > Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I know, the same thing holds for most architectures, including i386. > > > However, this is not an issue for uni-processor kernels anywhere el

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > Ok, I've narrowed the problem down to one patch. In 2.6.11-mm3, the > > > problem goes away if I remove this patch: > > > swsusp-enable-resume-from-initrd.patch > > > > That really helps, thanks. > > You're welcome. > > > The patch looks fairly innocent. I'll give up on this and cc t

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 01:55 -0400, James Morris wrote: > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > > Sure, but seems I need to ask again: What is the exact reason not to > > > > implement > > > > the muticast message multiplexing/subscription part of the connector as > > > > a > > > >

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:19 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:08 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:11:56AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > > > > Yes but what will go wrong on uni-processor MIPS when you don't do the > > > > sync in atomic_sub_ret

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:19:39 +0400 Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know, the same thing holds for most architectures, including i386. > > However, this is not an issue for uni-processor kernels anywhere else, > > so what's so special about MIPS? > > Does i386 or ppc has cached a

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread James Morris
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > Sure, but seems I need to ask again: What is the exact reason not to > > > implement > > > the muticast message multiplexing/subscription part of the connector as a > > > generic part of netlink? That would be nice to have and useful for other > >

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:08 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:11:56AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > > Yes but what will go wrong on uni-processor MIPS when you don't do the > > > sync in atomic_sub_return? > > > > Sync synchornizes cached mamory access, > > without it

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:11:56AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > Yes but what will go wrong on uni-processor MIPS when you don't do the > > sync in atomic_sub_return? > > Sync synchornizes cached mamory access, > without it new value may be stored only into cache, > but not into memory. I

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:53 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:55:27AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > > > Unfortunately not, that sync is required exactly for return value store. > > > > > > On UP? > > > > Yes, some quotes: > > Yes but what will go wrong on uni-process

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:53:02 +1000 Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes but what will go wrong on uni-processor MIPS when you don't do the > sync in atomic_sub_return? Indeed. I see nothing in those quotes which indicate that the SYNC is needed on uniprocessor. It's only saying things suc

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:55:27AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > Unfortunately not, that sync is required exactly for return value store. > > > > On UP? > > Yes, some quotes: Yes but what will go wrong on uni-processor MIPS when you don't do the sync in atomic_sub_return? Cheers, -- V

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:17 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:21:28AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > > > On UP do not. > > > > > > Shouldn't we should be fixing the MIPS implementation of > > > atomic_sub_return to not do the sync on UP then? > > > > Unfortunately not,

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 07:52:34 +0400 Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sparc64 has 32->64 conversation on exit. It's extremely cheap, the conversion instruction pairs with the retl instruction so it's essentially free. Talking about an arithmetic instruction over is complete nonsense w

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:17:24 +1000 Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On UP? I think the barrier can be eliminated on MIPS on UP. - 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.

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:21:28AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > On UP do not. > > > > Shouldn't we should be fixing the MIPS implementation of > > atomic_sub_return to not do the sync on UP then? > > Unfortunately not, that sync is required exactly for return value store. On UP? -- Vi

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:02 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:02:49AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > > > mips has additional sync. > > > > > > But atomic_dec + 2 barries is going to do the sync as well, no? > > > > On UP do not. > > Shouldn't we should be fixing the M

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:02:49AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > mips has additional sync. > > > > But atomic_dec + 2 barries is going to do the sync as well, no? > > On UP do not. Shouldn't we should be fixing the MIPS implementation of atomic_sub_return to not do the sync on UP then?

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:50 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:52:34AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:32 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:33:58AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:59 +1000, Herber

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:52:34AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:32 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:33:58AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:59 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:32 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:33:58AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:59 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > atomic_dec_and_test() is more expensive than 2 barriers

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:47 -0400, James Morris wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > Sure, but seems I need to ask again: What is the exact reason not to > > implement > > the muticast message multiplexing/subscription part of the connector as a > > generic part of netlink? That

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:33:58AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:59 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > atomic_dec_and_test() is more expensive than 2 barriers + atomic_dec(), > > > but in case of connector I think the pri

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:59 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > atomic_dec_and_test() is more expensive than 2 barriers + atomic_dec(), > > but in case of connector I think the price is not so high. > > Can you list the platforms on which this is true? s

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Herbert Xu
Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > atomic_dec_and_test() is more expensive than 2 barriers + atomic_dec(), > but in case of connector I think the price is not so high. Can you list the platforms on which this is true? Thanks, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herb

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-07 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:08 -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 03:11:12AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Using the attached patch, a puny dual PIII-650 with ~400MB RAM swapped > > itself to death after 2 infinite loop tasks had been pinned to one > > of the CPUs. See how yo

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-07 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 03:11:12AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Using the attached patch, a puny dual PIII-650 with ~400MB RAM swapped > itself to death after 2 infinite loop tasks had been pinned to one > of the CPUs. See how you go. Its goes well beyond the initial 7000 number I mentioned. Th

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1: ieee1394 process hang

2005-04-07 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:58:45AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I'm having problems with 1394 in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1. When I connect my > > Apple iSight camera, it is not detected; repeated > > connections/disconnections don't help. When I tried to rmmod all the >

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 - printk timing broken

2005-04-07 Thread Damir Perisa
Hi Andrew, Le Tuesday 05 April 2005 09:45, Andrew Morton a écrit : > Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton a écrit : > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6. > > >12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm1/ > > > > H

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Kay Sievers wrote: > Sure, but seems I need to ask again: What is the exact reason not to implement > the muticast message multiplexing/subscription part of the connector as a > generic part of netlink? That would be nice to have and useful for other > subsystems too as an opti

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:23 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > Sure, but seems I need to ask again: What is the exact reason not to implement > the muticast message multiplexing/subscription part of the connector as a > generic part of netlink? That would be nice to have and useful for other > subsystems

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Kay Sievers
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 03:24:34PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:41 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 13:52 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:12 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:13 +0400, Evgeniy Po

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:41 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 13:52 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:12 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:13 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > The main idea was to simplify userspace control and

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Kay Sievers
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 13:52 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:12 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:13 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > The main idea was to simplify userspace control and notification > > > system - so people did not waste it's time

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:32 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Plus, I'm still quite unsettled about the whole object lifecycle > > > management, refcounting and locking in there. The fact that the code is > > > littered with peculiar barrier

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:12 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:13 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > The main idea was to simplify userspace control and notification > > system - so people did not waste it's time learning how skb's are > > allocated > > and processed, how socket

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:13 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > The main idea was to simplify userspace control and notification > system - so people did not waste it's time learning how skb's are > allocated > and processed, how socket layer is designed and what all those > netlink_* and NLMSG* mean

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1: ieee1394 process hang

2005-04-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having problems with 1394 in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1. When I connect my > Apple iSight camera, it is not detected; repeated > connections/disconnections don't help. When I tried to rmmod all the > appropriate m

2.6.12-rc2-mm1: ieee1394 process hang

2005-04-07 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
I'm having problems with 1394 in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1. When I connect my Apple iSight camera, it is not detected; repeated connections/disconnections don't help. When I tried to rmmod all the appropriate modules (rmmod video1394 raw1394 ohci1394 ieee1394), the rmmod command hung. Alt-Sysr

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Plus, I'm still quite unsettled about the whole object lifecycle > > management, refcounting and locking in there. The fact that the code is > > littered with peculiar barriers says "something weird is happening here", > > and it remains unobv

Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-07 Thread Greg KH
t; > Hello, > > > > > > > > I don't see the connector directory in the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 tree. So it > > > > seems that you removed the connector? > > > > > > Greg dropped it for some reason. I think that's best because it needed a &g

Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:17 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:42:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I don't see the connector directory in the

Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-07 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:42:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I don't see the connector directory in the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 tree. So it > > seems that you removed the connector? &g

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 00:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I don't see the connector directory in the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 tree. So it > > > > > seems that you removed the connector? > >

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:53 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I don't see the connector directory in the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 tree. So it > &

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I don't see the connector directory in the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 tree. So it > > > > seems that you removed the connector? > > > > > > Greg dropped it for some reason. I think that's best

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Forwarded message - Re: connector is > missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1" > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 09:36 +0200, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote: > > Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I don't see

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-07 Thread Mickael Marchand
Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm1/ > > - x86 NMI handling seems to be bust in 2.6.12-rc2. Try using > `nmi_watchdog=0' if you experience weird crashes. > > - The possible kernel-timer related

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
mentioned patch). 2.6.11-rc2 does not > > > have that problem. > > > > Does reverting swsusp-enable-resume-from-initrd.patch fix this also? > > No. Reverting it from 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 (oops, I got the version number > wrong in my previous mail -- and that should also be

Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I don't see the connector directory in the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 tree. So it > seems that you removed the connector? Greg dropped it for some reason. I think that's best because it needed a significant amount

connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
Hello, I don't see the connector directory in the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 tree. So it seems that you removed the connector? Will you include it again in futur release? At the same time, will you include the fork connector? Thanks for your help, Best regards, Guillaume - To unsubscribe from this

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
that's introduced by 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: > > With that kernel, suspend is also ridiculously slow (speed is comparable > > to the slow resume with the aforementioned patch). 2.6.11-rc2 does not > > have that problem. > > Does reverting swsusp-enable-resume-from-initrd.patch fix

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 03:05, Andrew Morton wrote: > - x86 NMI handling seems to be bust in 2.6.12-rc2.  Try using >   `nmi_watchdog=0' if you experience weird crashes. > > - The possible kernel-timer related hangs might possibly be fixed.  We >   haven't heard yet. > > - Nobody said anything a

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
#x27;t). I don't know whether the PCMCIA problem is due to PCMCIA changes or not. The only thing I see having changed between 2.6.12-rc1-mm3 and 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 is the addition of pcmcia-resource-handling-fixes.patch. Would you have time to revert that, retest? There have been a few pr

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Jindrich Makovicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > oes not compile on AthlonXP. For mmx_clear_page, only the prototype was > changed, but the implementation is still the same. I guess that part of > the patch slipped out somehow. > > -extern void mmx_clear_page(void *page); > > +extern void mmx_cl

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
troduced by 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: > With that kernel, suspend is also ridiculously slow (speed is comparable > to the slow resume with the aforementioned patch). 2.6.11-rc2 does not > have that problem. Does reverting swsusp-enable-resume-from-initrd.patch fix this also? > Also, with 2.6.12-rc2-

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1: ACPI=y, ACPI_BOOT=n problems

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>arch/i386/kernel/setup.c: In function 'setup_arch': > >> arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:1571: warning: implicit declaration of function > >> 'acpi_boot_table_init' > >> arch/i386/kernel/se

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1: inotify and directory removal

2005-04-06 Thread Robert Love
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 14:21 +0100, Sean Neakums wrote: > Using your glib sample thingy from > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/glib/ Thanks. It was a bug in the glib utility, not inotify itself. I fixed it in inotify-glib-0.0.2, which should appear at the above URL as s

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Piggin
Siddha, Suresh B wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:33:49PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Lastly, I'd like to be a bit less intrusive with pinned task handling improvements. I think we can do this while still being effective in preventing livelocks. We want to see this fixed. Please post your patch an

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1: ACPI=y, ACPI_BOOT=n problems

2005-04-06 Thread Steven Cole
Andrew Morton wrote: Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: arch/i386/kernel/setup.c: In function 'setup_arch': arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:1571: warning: implicit declaration of function 'acpi_boot_table_init' arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:1572: warning: implicit declaration of function 'acpi_boot_init'

2.6.12-rc2-mm1: inotify and directory removal

2005-04-06 Thread Sean Neakums
Using your glib sample thingy from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/glib/ $ mkdir snozzberries Event on wd=0: snozzberries, a directory, was created $ rmdir snozzberries Event on wd=0: snozzberries, a directory, was deleted $ mkdir snozzberries Event on wd=0:

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc2-mm1] mips: remove #include two times

2005-04-06 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
This patch removes #include . Because it includes two times. Yoichi Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urN -X dontdiff rc2-mm1-orig/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c rc2-mm1/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c --- rc2-mm1-orig/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c Tue Apr 5 23:19:16 2005 +++ rc2-mm1

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
tly-guilty patch. With the patch, resume takes almost half an hour.) BTW, there's another strange thing that's introduced by 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: With that kernel, suspend is also ridiculously slow (speed is comparable to the slow resume with the aforementioned patch). 2.6.11-rc2 does not hav

Re: [ACPI] Re: It's getting worse: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 and suspend2ram

2005-04-06 Thread Norbert Preining
On Die, 05 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 2.6.12-rc2 suspends and resumes with the very same config file (well, > > after running make oldconfig) without any problem. > > > > So there is a change in -mm1 which triggers this. Should I start with > > backing out bk-acpi? or anything else? > > b

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Brice Goglin
ally print something in tsc_init(), which is always called during the boot process.) Hi Ingo, The result is exactly the same, except the following lines at the begining of dmesg. Note that only these lines have a valid timestamp. All remaining lines show 0.000. [4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:56:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Odd. Yes, it is odd... > > 2.6.11-bk9 works (actually it takes under 2 seconds, not 5-10). > > 2.6.11-bk10 has the weird slowdown. > > Unfortunately that's a pretty bug diff (2 megs). Yeah, I know. *sigh* [snip] > but you'd be ge

RE: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1: ACPI=y, ACPI_BOOT=n problems

2005-04-06 Thread Brown, Len
>@Len: >ACPI=y and ACPI_BOOT=n seems to be a legal configuration (with >X86_HT=y), but it breaks into pieces if you try the compilation. yeah, don't do that:-) I'm sorry I didn't push the patch to delete CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT earlier. For now, just enable them both. thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 compile error in mmx.c

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew James Wade
On April 5, 2005 09:22 pm, Berck E. Nash wrote: > 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 fails to build for me with the following error: > > arch/i386/lib/mmx.c:374: error: conflicting types for `mmx_clear_page' > include/asm/mmx.h:11: error: previous declaration of `mmx_clear_page' > make[1]:

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday April 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - Nobody said anything about the PM resume and DRI behaviour in > 2.6.12-rc1-mm4. So it's all perfect now? Well, Seeing you asked... PM resume certainly seems to be improving. My main problem in rc1-mm3 is with PCMCIA. If I stop cardmgr before

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1: ACPI=y, ACPI_BOOT=n problems

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > arch/i386/kernel/setup.c: In function 'setup_arch': > arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:1571: warning: implicit declaration of function > 'acpi_boot_table_init' > arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:1572: warning: implicit declaration of function > 'acpi_boot_init' diff

Re: [ACPI] Re: It's getting worse: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 and suspend2ram

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Die, 05 Apr 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Well, I do not have working suspend-to-RAM setup close to me... Could > > you try 2.6.12-rc1 to see if reboot problem is -mm specific or not? > > 2.6.12-rc2 suspends and resumes with the very same config f

2.6.12-rc2-mm1 -- arch/i386/lib/mmx.c:374: error: conflicting types for `mmx_clear_page' include/asm/mmx.h:11: error: previous declaration of `mmx_clear_page' make[1]: *** [arch/i386/lib/mmx.o] Error 1

2005-04-05 Thread Miles Lane
arch/i386/lib/mmx.c:374: error: conflicting types for `mmx_clear_page' include/asm/mmx.h:11: error: previous declaration of `mmx_clear_page' make[1]: *** [arch/i386/lib/mmx.o] Error 1 CONFIG_X86_PC=y CONFIG_MK7=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6 CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGA

2.6.12-rc2-mm1 compile error in mmx.c

2005-04-05 Thread Berck E. Nash
2.6.12-rc2-mm1 fails to build for me with the following error: arch/i386/lib/mmx.c:374: error: conflicting types for `mmx_clear_page' include/asm/mmx.h:11: error: previous declaration of `mmx_clear_page' make[1]: *** [arch/i386/lib/mmx.o] Error 1 make: *** [arch/i386/lib] Error 2 I ho

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