Re: [PATCH] be more verbose in gen-devlist

2005-03-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, Mar 12, Greg KH wrote: Why #if this? Why not just always do this? Because it always triggers with current sf.net snapshot. - 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: nvidia fb licensing issue.

2005-03-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 21:59 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The nvidia framebuffer code added recently is marked as MODULE_LICENSE(GPL), but some things seem a little odd to me.. 1. The boilerplate at the top of drivers/video/nvidia/nv_dma.h,

Re: [PATCH] break_lock forever broken

2005-03-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
\ + if ((lock)-break_lock) \ + (lock)-break_lock = 0; \ }\ if it really worth an

Re: More trouble with i386 EFLAGS and ptrace

2005-03-13 Thread Roland McGrath
This patch further cleans up the appearance of TF in eflags when ptrace is involved. With this, PTRACE_SINGLESTEP will not cause TF to appear in eflags as seen by PTRACE_GETREGS and the like, when the instruction faulted for some reason other than the single-step trap. This moves the check added

Re: [PATCH] be more verbose in gen-devlist

2005-03-13 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:17:09AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, Greg KH wrote: Why #if this? Why not just always do this? Because it always triggers with current sf.net snapshot. Someone said they were going to submit those shorter strings that the kernel has, back to

Re: [PATCH] be more verbose in gen-devlist

2005-03-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sun, Mar 13, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:17:09AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, Greg KH wrote: Why #if this? Why not just always do this? Because it always triggers with current sf.net snapshot. Someone said they were going to submit those shorter

Re: inconsistent kallsyms data [2.6.11-mm2]

2005-03-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:12:22PM +, Paulo Marques wrote: Paulo Marques wrote: [...] A simple and robust way is to do the sampling on a list of symbols sorted by symbol name. This way, even if the symbol positions that are given to scripts/kallsyms change, the symbols sampled will be

Re: [PATCH] Fix scripts/mkuboot.sh to return status

2005-03-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:16:41PM -0500, George G. Davis wrote: Sam, If `mkimage` is either not found in search path or returns non-zero status, `make uImage` succeeds when it should fail. This changes scripts/mkuboot.sh to return status so build succeeds or fails as appropriate. As per

Re: Strange Linking Problem

2005-03-13 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
linux-os wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Hi! I hope I'm right here. I've the following assembler code: SECTION .DATA hello: db 'Hello world!',10 helloLen: equ $-hello SECTION .TEXT GLOBAL main main: ; Write 'Hello world!' to the screen

Re: [PATCH] break_lock forever broken

2005-03-13 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: \ + if ((lock)-break_lock) \ + (lock)-break_lock = 0; \ }

[PATCH] x86-64 kprobes: handle %RIP-relative addressing mode

2005-03-13 Thread Roland McGrath
The existing x86-64 kprobes implementation doesn't cope with the %RIP-relative addressing mode. Kprobes work by single-stepping a copy of an instruction overwritten by a breakpoint. When a probe is inserted on an instruction that uses the %RIP-relative data addressing mode, the copy run in a

Re: ancient portmap segfault

2005-03-13 Thread Andi Kleen
Mark Studebaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I upgraded from 2.6.5 to 2.6.11.2 and my ancient (libc4 a.out) /sbin/portmap from 1994 that's been running without complaint on kernels for 11 years now consistently segfaults. I upgraded to a version 4 RPM (circa 2002) and that fixed it. If some

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-13 Thread Jan Rychter
Andrew == Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I haven't actually gotten any complaints about 2.6.11 (apart from gcc4 still has problems with fairly trivial solutions) Andrew There have been quite a few. Mainly driver stuff again:

ide0=ata66 doesn't seem obsolete

2005-03-13 Thread David Liontooth
On my laptop, idebus=66 or nothing gets me this: hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33) In contrast, ide0=ata66 gets me this (never mind the geometry): ide_setup: ide0=ata66 -- OBSOLETE OPTION, WILL BE REMOVED SOON! hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/1768KiB

Re: script to send changesets per mail

2005-03-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:59:50AM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote: hoi :) I just tested my little script that can send changesets per mail. okok, it still had a bug when I first tested it but that should be fixed now. Greg has a similar script - could you take a look and tell which is the better

Re: [CHECKER] crash + fsck cause file systems to contain loops (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-13 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Junfeng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using dosfsck 2.10, 22 Sep 2003, FAT32, LFN, and yes, I do see root directory after I run dosfsck on the crashed disk image. You can download fixed version of dosfsck at http://user.parknet.co.jp/hirofumi/tmp/fatfsprogs.tar.bz2 (vanilla

Re: [PATCH][2.6.11-mm3] perfctr ia32 syscalls on x86-64 fix

2005-03-13 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:55:49 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: It would be nice to start folding these patches together a bit to reduce such problems, but that's rather non-trivial because there is no way to simply join these patches together which maintains a sensible sequencing. If we're going to do

Re: indirect lcall without `*'

2005-03-13 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:46:24 -0500, Hacksaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In compiling 2.4.29 I get this during the compilation of pci-pc.c: Warning: indirect lcall without `*' I note from looking around the net that this is an old problem, dating back at least to 2.4.18, if not earlier. What does

2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Sean Neakums
Machine check in kernel mode. Caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal Oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1] TASK = etc. 'pmud' etc. (for registers and such, see: http://flynn.zork.net/~sneakums/pmac-machine-check-on-sleep-2611mm3.jpeg ) Call trace: pmac_ide_pci_suspend

Re: [patch] del_timer_sync scalability patch

2005-03-13 Thread Oleg Nesterov
I suspect that del_timer_sync() in its current form is racy. CPU 0 CPU 1 __run_timers() sets timer-base = NULL del_timer_sync() starts, calls del_timer(), it returns

Re: [CHECKER] sync doesn't flush everything out (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-13 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Junfeng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /å004 and /0005 share clusters. Truncating second to 0 bytes. /0005 File size is 4 bytes, cluster chain length is 0 bytes. Truncating file to 0 bytes. Performing changes. /dev/sbd0: 5 files, 4/8167 clusters This causes file /0005 to be

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:01 +, Sean Neakums wrote: Machine check in kernel mode. Caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal Oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1] TASK = etc. 'pmud' etc. (for registers and such, see:

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:01 +, Sean Neakums wrote: Machine check in kernel mode. Caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal Oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1] TASK = etc. 'pmud' etc. (for registers and such, see:

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 23:30 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:01 +, Sean Neakums wrote: Machine check in kernel mode. Caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal Oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1] TASK = etc. 'pmud' etc. (for registers and such,

Re: IA32 (2.6.11 - 2005-03-12.16.00) - 56 New warnings

2005-03-13 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:08:45PM -0800, John Cherry wrote: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c:104: warning: (near initialization for `dvb_pll_unknown_1.entries') drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c:104: warning: excess elements in array initializer

Re: DRI breakage, 2.6.11-mm[123]

2005-03-13 Thread Sean Neakums
Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:13:49AM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:29:20 +, Sean Neakums [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sean Neakums [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The following happens with 2.6.11-mm[123]. (I didn't have time to

[2.6.11.3] gcc4 / psmouse.h - compilation fix.

2005-03-13 Thread Pawe Sikora
Hi, Attched patch fixes gcc error: `drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h:40: error: field `ps2dev' has incomplete type` Please apply. -- /* Copyright (C) 2003, SCO, Inc. This is valuable Intellectual Property. */ #define say(x) lie(x) drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h:40:

Re: Fw: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1: reiser4 eating cpu time

2005-03-13 Thread Alexander Gran
Hi, Well, of course it cannot handle that large files (I wouldn't expect that, either). My Problem is that when I open the file, it's not just kwrite but other processes that need so much cpu time. That kwrite is eating cpu is ok. I cannot reproduce the behaviour for some reason however. So

[PATCH][2.6.11-mm3] Warning fix and be extra careful about array in kernel/module.c

2005-03-13 Thread Jesper Juhl
Fix warning in kernel/module.c::who_is_doing_it() kernel/module.c:1405: warning: ignoring return value of `copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result by subtracting copy_from_user return value from 'len' - if we copy less data than we intend there's no point in looping over

Re: DRI breakage, 2.6.11-mm[123]

2005-03-13 Thread Dave Airlie
Same symptoms with 2.6.11-bk8. damn.. am travelling at the moment, won't get a chance to take a detailed look for a while.. I'll see can I figure it out just from code inspection... Dave. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: Fw: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1: reiser4 eating cpu time

2005-03-13 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 14:24 +0100, Alexander Gran wrote: Hi, Well, of course it cannot handle that large files (I wouldn't expect that, either). My Problem is that when I open the file, it's not just kwrite but other processes that need so much cpu time. That kwrite is eating cpu is ok.

Re: [CHECKER] crash + fsck cause file systems to contain loops (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-13 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Junfeng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you be a little bit more specific? Please try kernel: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.11.tar.gz + http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.11-bk7.bz2 or later dosfstools:

Re: [MC] [CHECKER] Need help on mmap on FUSE (linux user-land file system)

2005-03-13 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mar 13, 2005, at 02:28, Junfeng Yang wrote: Forget to mention, we are checking linux 2.6. It appears to us that mmap doesnt' work for FUSE in linux 2.6. IIRC, the reason mmap doesn't work on FUSE is because when it dirties pages they cannot be flushed reliably, because writing them out

Re: [PATCH] break_lock forever broken

2005-03-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 09:35 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: \ + if ((lock)-break_lock) \ + (lock)-break_lock = 0; \

Re: Fw: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1: reiser4 eating cpu time

2005-03-13 Thread Alexander Gran
Am Sonntag, 13. Mrz 2005 14:44 schrieben Sie: That seems very much like expected behavior to me. I would expect kwrite to start loading the file, and then having pdflush kick in to page out parts of kwrite, so that it can allocate more memory. Then kwrite will continue to load until more of it

Re: XFS dm_crypt BUG?

2005-03-13 Thread Torben Viets
Hello, it works with Kernel 2.6.11, probably the problem was that I had used 4 kb stacks and now I use the 8kb, but I'm not sure whether this was the problem. greetings Torben Viets Nathan Scott schrieb: On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 09:31:01PM +0100, Torben Viets wrote: hello, I tried to

Re: indirect lcall without `*'

2005-03-13 Thread Hacksaw
Ahh, okay. I'm just jumpy because this is a production server. Thanks for the answer. :-) -- Nothing can plugh you now http://www.hacksaw.org -- http://www.privatecircus.com -- KB1FVD - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [ACPI] Re: Fw: Anybody? 2.6.11 (stable and -rc) ACPI breaks USB

2005-03-13 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: Can you do an lspci -vvn? I'm looking at quirk_via_irqpic() in 2.6.9, which is what printed this: PCI: Via IRQ fixup for :00:07.2, from 9 to 10 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for :00:07.3, from 9 to 10 but it looks like it should only run for

Re: Linux 2.6.11.3

2005-03-13 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: A bitkeeper tree for the 2.6.11.y releases can be found at: bk://linux-release.bkbits.net/linux-2.6.11 Do we then start switching trees with every new minor release? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Sean Neakums
Both patches give me a successful sleep, although I had to alter the second to not #if 0 core99_ata100_enable -- there's another call to that function in pmac_feature.c's set_initial_features(). I will try to gather some power numbers. -- Dag vijandelijk luchtschip de huismeester is dood - To

Re: linux dvb alps_tdlb7 removed

2005-03-13 Thread Peter Waechtler
Am 11.03.2005 um 21:10 schrieb Kenneth Aafløy: On Friday 11 March 2005 13:58, Juri Haberland wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: With version 2.6.10 the driver for the tuner frontend from ALPS TDLB7 was removed. Why do you think that this is a dead file? While I'm happy with the work

Re: 2.6.11-mm3

2005-03-13 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:42:22AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: - A new version of the acpi poweroff fix. People who were having trouble with ACPI poweroff, please test and report. I've tested this set of ACPI poweroff patches with both clean, proper shutdowns and Alt-SysRq-O, on hardware

Re: Linux 2.6.11.3

2005-03-13 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 04:38:24PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: A bitkeeper tree for the 2.6.11.y releases can be found at: bk://linux-release.bkbits.net/linux-2.6.11 Do we then start switching trees with every new minor release? Yes. thanks,

[patch 0/3] cdrom/cdu31a update

2005-03-13 Thread Domen Puncer
Hi. These cdu31a patches are based on http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/18/107 from Ondrej Zary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Split into three files (see replies): 1 - printk and other trivial cleanups 2 - semaphorifization (hey, i invented a new word) 3 - use wait_event instead of sleep_on in irq handling

Re: [patch 3/3] cdrom/cdu31a update

2005-03-13 Thread Domen Puncer
Use wait_event instead of sleep_on. Also, remove two unused variables. Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Ondrej Zary [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ./drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c.orig3 2005-03-06 22:04:42.0 +0100 +++ ./drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c2005-03-12 14:40:14.0

Re: [patch 1/3] cdrom/cdu31a update

2005-03-13 Thread Domen Puncer
Pretty trivial cleanups: - reordered #includes - improved some printk's (note: this actually enabled some debug printk's) - removed ()'s from returns - removed SONY_POLL_EACH_BYTE, as grep doesn't find it anywhere else - removed panic() as it can't happen. Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] x86-64 kprobes: handle %RIP-relative addressing mode

2005-03-13 Thread Andi Kleen
Roland McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The existing x86-64 kprobes implementation doesn't cope with the %RIP-relative addressing mode. Kprobes work by single-stepping a copy of Thanks for fixing that long standing bug. + static const unsigned char onebyte_has_modrm[256] = { Can you

Re: [patch 2/3] cdrom/cdu31a update

2005-03-13 Thread Domen Puncer
Use semaphores instead of sleep_on*. Stolen from patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/18/107 from Ondrej Zary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Ondrej Zary [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ./drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c.orig2 2005-03-13 14:12:23.0 +0100 +++

Re: [2.6.11.3] gcc4 / psmouse.h - compilation fix.

2005-03-13 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Sunday 13 March 2005 08:20, Pawe Sikora wrote: Hi, Attched patch fixes gcc error: `drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h:40: error: field `ps2dev' has incomplete type` What file fails compilation? As far as I can see all users of psmouse.h do #include linux/libps2.h first. -- Dmitry - To

Re: [2.6.11.3] gcc4 / psmouse.h - compilation fix.

2005-03-13 Thread Pawe Sikora
On Sunday 13 of March 2005 17:48, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 08:20, Pawe Sikora wrote: Hi, Attched patch fixes gcc error: `drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h:40: error: field `ps2dev' has incomplete type` What file fails compilation? custom patch for trackpoint device.

Re: [2.6.11.3] gcc4 / psmouse.h - compilation fix.

2005-03-13 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:54, Pawe Sikora wrote: On Sunday 13 of March 2005 17:48, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 08:20, Pawe Sikora wrote: Hi, Attched patch fixes gcc error: `drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h:40: error: field `ps2dev' has incomplete type` What

Petition against software patents in Europe

2005-03-13 Thread Mikael Voss
http://petition.eurolinux.org/ Is there anyone who has not signed this petition yet? - 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

Re: [PATCH] x86-64 kprobes: handle %RIP-relative addressing mode

2005-03-13 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Roland McGrath wrote: + * This basically replicates __vmalloc, except that it uses a + * range of addresses starting at MODULE_END. This also Could you look at these patches: [PATCH 1/5] vmalloc: introduce __vmalloc_area() function

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

2005-03-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Thats why moving the eye candy console into user space is such a good idea. You don't have to run it 8) It also means that the console development is accessible to all the crazy rasterman types. Yep. The basic console we already have. Everyone who wants eye candy can

[patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi Alan. Attached patch works around the corruption of the high word of the ESP register, which is the official bug of x86 CPUs. The bug triggers only when the one is using the 16bit stack segment, and is described here: http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/specupdt/27287402.PDF Patch helps running

Re: Capabilities across execve

2005-03-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This makes it possible for a root-task to pass capabilities to nonroot-task across execve. The root-task needs to change it's cap_inheritable mask and set prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, 1) to pass on capabilities. At execve time the capabilities will be passed on to the new nonroot-task and

Re: spin_lock error in arch/i386/kernel/time.c on APM resume

2005-03-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! And more... That this occures implies we are attempting to update the cmos clock on resume seems wrong. One would presume that the time is wrong at this time and we are about to save that wrong time. Possibly the APM code should change time_status to STA_UNSYNC on the way into the

Re: 2.6.11: keyboard stopped working after memory upgrade

2005-03-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I'm just having a weird problem with 2.6.11. Namely, the keyboard stopped working after I'd added more RAM to the box (Asus L5D notebok, x86-64 kernel). It works on 2.6.11-mm1. Custom DSDT? DSDTs are known to depend on ammount of memory...

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Stas Sergeev wrote: Hi Alan. Attached patch works around the corruption of the high word of the ESP register, which is the official bug of x86 CPUs. The bug triggers only when the one is using the 16bit stack segment, and is described here:

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

2005-03-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: Thats why moving the eye candy console into user space is such a good idea. You don't have to run it 8) It also means that the console development is accessible to all the crazy rasterman types. Yep. The basic console we already

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Sean Neakums
Sean Neakums [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Both patches give me a successful sleep, although I had to alter the second to not #if 0 core99_ata100_enable -- there's another call to that function in pmac_feature.c's set_initial_features(). I will try to gather some power numbers. With the first

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: Does the bug also egsist on AMD CPU's? Yes. As well as the ones of a Transmeta etc. I just haven't tested the old Cyrixes, that AFAIK were trying to ignore some Intel bugs. The test-case for the bug is here:

IDE failure on ACPI resume

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
On resume, an HP nc6220 fails during resuming of the IDE devices. In this section of code from ide-iops.c: stat = hwif-INB(hwif-io_ports[IDE_STATUS_OFFSET]); if ((stat BUSY_STAT) == 0) return 0; /* * Assume

Re: 2.6.11: keyboard stopped working after memory upgrade

2005-03-13 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Sunday, 13 of March 2005 19:36, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I'm just having a weird problem with 2.6.11. Namely, the keyboard stopped working after I'd added more RAM to the box (Asus L5D notebok, x86-64 kernel). It works on 2.6.11-mm1. Custom DSDT? DSDTs are known to depend on

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

2005-03-13 Thread Elladan
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:03:20PM +, James Simmons wrote: Thats why moving the eye candy console into user space is such a good idea. You don't have to run it 8) It also means that the console development is accessible to all the crazy rasterman types. Yep. The basic

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Ondrej Zary
Stas Sergeev wrote: Hello. Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: Does the bug also egsist on AMD CPU's? Yes. As well as the ones of a Transmeta etc. I just haven't tested the old Cyrixes, that AFAIK were trying to ignore some Intel bugs. The test-case for the bug is here:

Re: IA32 (2.6.11 - 2005-03-12.16.00) - 56 New warnings

2005-03-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:08:45PM -0800, John Cherry wrote: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c:104: warning: (near initialization for `dvb_pll_unknown_1.entries') drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c:104: warning: excess elements in

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Ondrej Zary wrote: I've just ran that on my Cyrix MII PR300 and the bug is present: UMC U5SX/33 in my router - also present: Thanks, now I know for sure that it exist everywhere. Now you can apply the patch and make sure the bug goes away:) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Attached patch works around the corruption of the high word of the ESP register, which is the official bug of x86 CPUs. The bug triggers only when the one is using the 16bit stack segment, and is described here: http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/specupdt/27287402.PDF Does the bug

Re: [CHECKER] inconsistent NFS stat cache (NFS on ext3, 2.6.11)

2005-03-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 12:04:27AM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: lau den 12.03.2005 Klokka 03:56 (-0800) skreiv Junfeng Yang: Hi, We checked NFS on top of ext3 using FiSC (our file system model checker) and found a case where NFS stat cache can contain inconsistent entries.

Re: More trouble with i386 EFLAGS and ptrace

2005-03-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 12:27:58AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: This patch further cleans up the appearance of TF in eflags when ptrace is involved. With this, PTRACE_SINGLESTEP will not cause TF to appear in eflags as seen by PTRACE_GETREGS and the like, when the instruction faulted for some

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! @@ -257,8 +265,31 @@ movl TI_flags(%ebp), %ecx testw $_TIF_ALLWORK_MASK, %cx # current-work jne syscall_exit_work + restore_all: - RESTORE_ALL + movl EFLAGS(%esp), %eax # mix EFLAGS, SS and CS + movb OLDSS(%esp), %ah + movb CS(%esp), %al

Re: [2.6 patch] unexport hugetlb_total_pages

2005-03-13 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 03:39:08PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: William Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

2005-03-13 Thread Omkhar Arasaratnam
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 11:05 -0600, Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: 2.6.10 seems to have a different kernel panic which I'm investigating (could be a problem with my ramdisk as it happens in my linuxrc). So long story short the 2.6.10 sym driver looks ok. Can you

Serious problems with HFS+

2005-03-13 Thread Matt Mackall
I've noticed a few problems with HFS+ support in recent kernels on another user's machine running Ubuntu (Warty) running 2.6.8.1-3-powerpc. I'm not in a position to extensively test or fix either of these problem because of the fs tools situation so I'm just passing this on. First, it reports

Re: [CHECKER] inconsistent NFS stat cache (NFS on ext3, 2.6.11)

2005-03-13 Thread Trond Myklebust
su den 13.03.2005 Klokka 15:04 (-0500) skreiv Daniel Jacobowitz: I can't find any documentation about this, but it seems like the same problem that has been causing me headaches lately; when I replace glibc from the server side of an nfsroot, the client has a couple of variously wrong reads

Re: [CHECKER] inconsistent NFS stat cache (NFS on ext3, 2.6.11)

2005-03-13 Thread Trond Myklebust
su den 13.03.2005 Klokka 15:42 (-0500) skreiv Trond Myklebust: No, that's a very different issue: you are violating the NFS cache consistency rules if you are changing a file that is being held open by other machines. The correct way to do the above is to use GNU install with the '-b'

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi. Pavel Machek wrote: + andl $(VM_MASK | (4 8) | 3), %eax + cmpl $((4 8) | 3), %eax + je ldt_ss # returning to user-space with LDT SS All common linux apps use same %ss, no? Perhaps it would be more efficient to just check if %ss == 0x7b, and proceed

Re: [PATCH][0/10] verify_area cleanup

2005-03-13 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:47:07AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: Now that 2.6.11 is out the door it's time to try and submit this again. The following patches convert all users of verify_area to access_ok and the final patch then deprecates verify_area acros all archs with the intention of

[OOPS] kHTTPd oops + patch

2005-03-13 Thread Hmamouche, Youssef
hi, khttpd oopses after a browser request is sent to the admin port on 8080. The decoded oops follows with a patch that fixes it: ksymoops 2.4.9 on i686 2.4.28. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.28/ (default)

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

2005-03-13 Thread Jon Smirl
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:53:55 +0100 (CET), Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: Thats why moving the eye candy console into user space is such a good idea. You don't have to run it 8) It also means that the console

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Stas Sergeev wrote: Such an optimization will cost three more instructions, one of which is a taken jump. I think Pavel missed the fact that you have to check the VM86 bit in eflags before you check SS, since otherwise SS doesn't mean anything special at all (ie

Re: [2.6 patch] unexport hugetlb_total_pages

2005-03-13 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 03:39:08PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: William Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: 2.6.11: USB broken on nforce4, ipv6 still broken, centrino speedstep even more broken than in 2.6.10

2005-03-13 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My new nForce 4 mainboard has 10 or so USB 2.0 outlets. In Windows, they all work. In Linux, two of them work. Putting my USB stick or anything else in one of the others produces nothing in Linux. Apparently no IRQ getting through or

Re: 2.6.11: USB broken on nforce4, ipv6 still broken, centrino speedstep even more broken than in 2.6.10

2005-03-13 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Finally Centrino SpeedStep. I have a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz in my notebook. Linux does not support it. This architecture has been out there for months now, and there even was a patch to support it posted here a in October

Re: [2.6.11.3] gcc4 / psmouse.h - compilation fix.

2005-03-13 Thread Paul Jackson
Dmitry, responding to Pawe__: IMHO each header (e.g. psmouse.h) should include headers for types it uses. Hmm, I thought it was other way around I tend to agree with Pawe__ here. There are two extremes here that I would avoid. Do not try to include in source files every header that is

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 16:19 +, Sean Neakums wrote: Both patches give me a successful sleep, although I had to alter the second to not #if 0 core99_ata100_enable -- there's another call to that function in pmac_feature.c's set_initial_features(). I will try to gather some power numbers.

Re: [PATCH] x86-64 kprobes: handle %RIP-relative addressing mode

2005-03-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Roland McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + area = __get_vm_area(0, VM_ALLOC, MODULES_END, 0ULL - PAGE_SIZE); The longlong here seems wrong? If this is to mean the top of the address space minus a page then unsigned long is the appropriate type. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 19:07 +, Sean Neakums wrote: Sean Neakums [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Both patches give me a successful sleep, although I had to alter the second to not #if 0 core99_ata100_enable -- there's another call to that function in pmac_feature.c's set_initial_features().

Re: [PATCH][0/10] verify_area cleanup

2005-03-13 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:47:07AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: Now that 2.6.11 is out the door it's time to try and submit this again. The following patches convert all users of verify_area to access_ok and the final patch then deprecates

[patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-03-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Linus Torvalds wrote: I think Pavel missed the fact that you have to check the VM86 bit in Ah, thanks, I must have forgotten the essentials of the own patch :( That said, the ldt_ss case should be moved _after_ the conditional tests, since most CPU's out there will do static prediction

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Sean Neakums
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 19:07 +, Sean Neakums wrote: Sean Neakums [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Both patches give me a successful sleep, although I had to alter the second to not #if 0 core99_ata100_enable -- there's another call to that

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 22:08 +, Sean Neakums wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 19:07 +, Sean Neakums wrote: Sean Neakums [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Both patches give me a successful sleep, although I had to alter the second to not

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Oh, fiddlesticks, that didn't occur to me. I can redo with overnight sleeps on a full charge, if you like. In the meantime, Andrew, please submit this one to Linus, I'll update the stuff if it happens the other one gives better power consumptions: -- This patch fixes a logic error in the

Re: OSS Audio borked between 2.6.6 and 2.6.10

2005-03-13 Thread Greg Stark
Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 12 March 2005 01:31 pm, Greg Stark wrote: OSS Audio doesn't work properly for Quake3 in 2.6.10 but it worked in 2.6.6. In fact I have the same problems in 2.6.9-rc1 so I assume 2.6.9 is affected as well. This is with the Intel i810

[ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.11.0

2005-03-13 Thread Mariusz Mazur
Available at http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers/ Changes: - updated to 2.6.11 (added asm-frv) - some minor fixes The server hosting my page was down for a week or so. I don't provide any official mirrors, but you can get llh from anywhere (gazillions of LinuxFromScrach mirrors

[PATCH]: Fix compiler warning in drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c

2005-03-13 Thread Stefan Roas
Hi there! The attachted patch fixes a compiler warning in drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c. If you reply to this post, please CC me as I'm not suscribed to the list. Best Regards -- Stefan Roas [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -rNu a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c b/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c --- a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c

Re: [PATCH] Add sysfs support to the IPMI driver

2005-03-13 Thread Corey Minyard
Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:57:24PM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote: The IPMI driver has long needed to tie into the device model (and I've long been hoping someone else would do it). I finally gave up and spent the time to learn how to do it. I think this is right, it seems to

[patch] w6692 eliminate bad section references

2005-03-13 Thread maximilian attems
Fix w6692 section references: convert __initdata to __devinitdata. Error: ./drivers/isdn/hisax/w6692.o .text refers to 002f R_386_32 .init.data Signed-off-by: maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -pruN -X dontdiff linux-2.6.11-bk8/drivers/isdn/hisax/w6692.c

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug

2005-03-13 Thread Pavel Machek
On Ne 13-03-05 13:13:16, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Stas Sergeev wrote: Such an optimization will cost three more instructions, one of which is a taken jump. I think Pavel missed the fact that you have to check the VM86 bit in eflags before you check SS, since

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