Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do not think this should be reverted, as the odds that some one will > rename their network device to be "irq" or something else that is in the > pci device's directory is pretty slim. It also only shows up if > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is disabled, not the

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Greg KH wrote: > > > - pci_save_state, pci_restore_state are broken and have been for a > > while if used on anything besides plain pci (pci-x, pci-e and msi) > > and are not used in pairs. (gregkh and Andrew have the patches to > > correct this). > > I think these

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-13 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:26:48PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > - We have a network ABI regression caused by the latest sysfs > changes to net-sysfs.c In particular we now cannot rename network > devices if our destination name happens to be the name of a sysfs file that > the network

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Here is a quick summary of the regressions I am looking at. - Currently we appear to have a pid leak in tty_io.c http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/8/222 - There is a missing init_WORK in vt.c that cases oops when we attempt to use SAK. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/11/148 - We have a network ABI

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Here is a quick summary of the regressions I am looking at. - Currently we appear to have a pid leak in tty_io.c http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/8/222 - There is a missing init_WORK in vt.c that cases oops when we attempt to use SAK. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/11/148 - We have a network ABI

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-13 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:26:48PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: - We have a network ABI regression caused by the latest sysfs changes to net-sysfs.c In particular we now cannot rename network devices if our destination name happens to be the name of a sysfs file that the network

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Greg KH wrote: - pci_save_state, pci_restore_state are broken and have been for a while if used on anything besides plain pci (pci-x, pci-e and msi) and are not used in pairs. (gregkh and Andrew have the patches to correct this). I think these are already

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do not think this should be reverted, as the odds that some one will rename their network device to be irq or something else that is in the pci device's directory is pretty slim. It also only shows up if CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is disabled, not the common

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-08 Thread Alistair John Strachan
(Dropped LKML, whoops.) On Wednesday 07 March 2007 04:59, you wrote: > We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, > especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. > > So 2.6.21-rc3 is out there now, and there's some hope that it will work > more widely than

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 21:52 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:39:00 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So did you hunt it down to a particular cases where it triggers? > > IIRC, it crashed on boot in the powerpc iommu code when slab > debugging is enabled. Not sure if it was on

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 07:39 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > Linus Torvalds (2): > > > Revert "[PATCH] LOG2: Alter get_order() so that it can make use of > > >

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-08 Thread Alistair John Strachan
(Dropped LKML, whoops.) On Wednesday 07 March 2007 04:59, you wrote: We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. So 2.6.21-rc3 is out there now, and there's some hope that it will work more widely than -rc1

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 07:39 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Linus Torvalds (2): Revert [PATCH] LOG2: Alter get_order() so that it can make use of ilog2() on a constant

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 21:52 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:39:00 Linus Torvalds wrote: So did you hunt it down to a particular cases where it triggers? IIRC, it crashed on boot in the powerpc iommu code when slab debugging is enabled. Not sure if it was on Cell or

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:39:00 Linus Torvalds wrote: > So did you hunt it down to a particular cases where it triggers? IIRC, it crashed on boot in the powerpc iommu code when slab debugging is enabled. Not sure if it was on Cell or on benh's powerbook though. Arnd <>< - To

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 15:22 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, > > especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. > > Still having SATA breakage on resume:

Re: [Linux-parport] Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:14:21PM +, Stephen Mollett wrote: > On Wednesday 07 Mar 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > BTW. Does anyone care about parport console? > > console=lp0 hangs since at least 2.6.18 > > For the record, I used console=lp0 quite recently (stock 2.6.19 according to >

Re: [Linux-parport] Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Stephen Mollett
On Wednesday 07 Mar 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > BTW. Does anyone care about parport console? > console=lp0 hangs since at least 2.6.18 For the record, I used console=lp0 quite recently (stock 2.6.19 according to the printout, running on i386) [to find out what was causing a panic that

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 15:22 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, > > especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. > > Still having SATA breakage on resume:

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
[ Ingo and Thomas added to Cc, because I think this is them.. ] Ingo, I think this came in during commit 95492e4646, "x86: rewrite SMP TSC sync code". (Leaving the original message quoted in full for Ingo and Thomas, sorry for the waste of bandwidth) Linus --- On Wed, 7 Mar

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > BTW. Does anyone care about parport console? I do think we care, but I don't think anybody in particular feels singled out as a maintainer... > console=lp0 hangs since at least 2.6.18 Ok, that's not exactly new then, which implies that not a

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Linus Torvalds (2): > > Revert "[PATCH] LOG2: Alter get_order() so that it can make use of > > ilog2() on a constant" > > Linux 2.6.21-rc3 > > Greg, I think we

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:15:39AM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > Greg / Adrian, > > I didn't see anything in -rc3 to address the USB hub/serial crashes > reported here for -rc2. What's the status for those, or who should > I be pinging to get them fixed? I have a series of USB bugfixes that need to

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, > especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. Still having SATA breakage on resume: Caught that one (from screen) ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Mark Lord
Greg / Adrian, I didn't see anything in -rc3 to address the USB hub/serial crashes reported here for -rc2. What's the status for those, or who should I be pinging to get them fixed? Thanks Mark Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:43:02 -0500 From: Mark Lord <[EMAIL

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:25:32AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Linus Torvalds (2): > > Revert "[PATCH] LOG2: Alter get_order() so that it can make use of > > ilog2() on a constant" > > Linux 2.6.21-rc3 > >

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Linus Torvalds napisał(a): > We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, > especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. > > So 2.6.21-rc3 is out there now, and there's some hope that it will work > more widely than -rc1 and -rc2 did. Please do give it a

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, Linus Torvalds napisał(a): > We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, > especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. I get this while echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Linus Torvalds (2): > Revert "[PATCH] LOG2: Alter get_order() so that it can make use of > ilog2() on a constant" > Linux 2.6.21-rc3 Greg, I think we should revert that patch in 2.6.20.x stable serie too as get_order is

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Linus Torvalds (2): Revert [PATCH] LOG2: Alter get_order() so that it can make use of ilog2() on a constant Linux 2.6.21-rc3 Greg, I think we should revert that patch in 2.6.20.x stable serie too as get_order is broken

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, Linus Torvalds napisał(a): We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. I get this while echo shutdown /sys/power/disk; echo disk /sys/power/state BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Linus Torvalds napisał(a): We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. So 2.6.21-rc3 is out there now, and there's some hope that it will work more widely than -rc1 and -rc2 did. Please do give it a good

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:25:32AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Linus Torvalds (2): Revert [PATCH] LOG2: Alter get_order() so that it can make use of ilog2() on a constant Linux 2.6.21-rc3 Greg, I think we

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Mark Lord
Greg / Adrian, I didn't see anything in -rc3 to address the USB hub/serial crashes reported here for -rc2. What's the status for those, or who should I be pinging to get them fixed? Thanks Mark Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:43:02 -0500 From: Mark Lord [EMAIL

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. Still having SATA breakage on resume: Caught that one (from screen) ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:15:39AM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: Greg / Adrian, I didn't see anything in -rc3 to address the USB hub/serial crashes reported here for -rc2. What's the status for those, or who should I be pinging to get them fixed? I have a series of USB bugfixes that need to get

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Linus Torvalds (2): Revert [PATCH] LOG2: Alter get_order() so that it can make use of ilog2() on a constant Linux 2.6.21-rc3 Greg, I think we should revert that

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: BTW. Does anyone care about parport console? I do think we care, but I don't think anybody in particular feels singled out as a maintainer... console=lp0 hangs since at least 2.6.18 Ok, that's not exactly new then, which implies that not a

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
[ Ingo and Thomas added to Cc, because I think this is them.. ] Ingo, I think this came in during commit 95492e4646, x86: rewrite SMP TSC sync code. (Leaving the original message quoted in full for Ingo and Thomas, sorry for the waste of bandwidth) Linus --- On Wed, 7 Mar

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 15:22 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. Still having SATA breakage on resume:

Re: [Linux-parport] Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Stephen Mollett
On Wednesday 07 Mar 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: BTW. Does anyone care about parport console? console=lp0 hangs since at least 2.6.18 For the record, I used console=lp0 quite recently (stock 2.6.19 according to the printout, running on i386) [to find out what was causing a panic that

Re: [Linux-parport] Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:14:21PM +, Stephen Mollett wrote: On Wednesday 07 Mar 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: BTW. Does anyone care about parport console? console=lp0 hangs since at least 2.6.18 For the record, I used console=lp0 quite recently (stock 2.6.19 according to the

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 15:22 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. Still having SATA breakage on resume:

Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-07 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:39:00 Linus Torvalds wrote: So did you hunt it down to a particular cases where it triggers? IIRC, it crashed on boot in the powerpc iommu code when slab debugging is enabled. Not sure if it was on Cell or on benh's powerbook though. Arnd - To unsubscribe

Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. So 2.6.21-rc3 is out there now, and there's some hope that it will work more widely than -rc1 and -rc2 did. Please do give it a good testing, and update Adrian and

Linux v2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
We've finally hopefully started to put a dent in the regressions, especially the suspend/resume problems introduced since 2.6.20. So 2.6.21-rc3 is out there now, and there's some hope that it will work more widely than -rc1 and -rc2 did. Please do give it a good testing, and update Adrian and