Re: [ipw3945-devel] [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

2007-02-10 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Very cool! Is it likely that d80211 and iwlwifi will be pushed into mainline in time for 2.6.21? Hmmm...I think we need to spend a cycle or so in -mm. 2.6.22 seems more likely for mainline. I think we should take this as a goal. Last time I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

2007-02-10 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 10 February 2007 17:22, Theodore Tso wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:12:42PM -0800, James Ketrenos wrote: Please hold all questions until I am done with this email. Thank you. We are pleased to announce the availability of a new driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks

2007-02-10 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: For the queue approach, I meant the async_submit() to simply add the request (cookie, syscall number and params) inside queue, and not trying to execute the syscall. Once you're inside schedule,

Re: + kvm-fix-asm-constraint-for-lldt-instruction.patch added to -mm tree

2007-02-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:32:30 +0200 S.Çağlar Onur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; 31 Oca 2007 Çar tarihinde, [EMAIL PROTECTED] şunları yazmıştı: The patch titled kvm: Fix asm constraint for lldt instruction has been added to the -mmtree. Its filename is

[PATCH] Fix USB vendor and product IDs endianness for USB HID devices

2007-02-10 Thread Julien BLACHE
Hi, The generic HID layer changes introduced an endianness bug for USB HID devices. The USB vendor and product IDs are not byteswapped appropriately, and thus come out in the wrong endianness when fetched through the evdev using ioctl() on big endian platforms. This byteswapping used to be done

[PATCH 0/3] delayed_work tweaks

2007-02-10 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Andrew, unless you stop me right now, I am going to send the following patches in addition: [PATCH] kill cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue() cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue(wq, dwork) does not need the first parameter, it could be figured out from

[PATCH 2/3] unify queue_delayed_work() and queue_delayed_work_on()

2007-02-10 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Change queue_delayed_work() to use queue_delayed_work_on() to avoid the code duplication (saves 133 bytes). Q: queue_delayed_work() enqueues dwork-work directly when delay == 0, why? Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 6.20-rc6-mm3/kernel/workqueue.c~2_factor2007-02-10

[PATCH 1/3] make queue_delayed_work() friendly to flush_fork()

2007-02-10 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Currently typeof(delayed_work-work.data) is struct workqueue_struct when the timer is pending struct cpu_workqueue_struct whe the work is queued This makes impossible to use flush_fork(delayed_work-work) in addition to cancel_delayed_work/cancel_rearming_delayed_work, not good.

[PATCH 3/3] ipvs: flush defense_work before module unload

2007-02-10 Thread Oleg Nesterov
net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c module_exit ip_vs_cleanup ip_vs_control_cleanup cancel_rearming_delayed_work // done This is unsafe. The module may be unloaded and the memory may be freed while defense_work's handler is still

RE: [PATCH] aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy

2007-02-10 Thread Ananiev, Leonid I
Ken Chen writes: So any error value returned from invalidate_inode_pages2_range() has to be taken seriously in the direct IO submit path instead of dropping it to the floor. If invalidate_inode_pages2_range() will return EIOCBRETRY as the patch aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I don't think this is already done (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).. Can we start to NAK new drivers that don't have proper power management implemented? There really is no excuse for writing a new driver and not putting .suspend and .resume methods in anymore, is there?

RE: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-10 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, This looks like the problems that hopefully the patches from Tejun and from Mark Lord cured (the delay after reset and the task file clear) Any chance I can find this patch(es) and try them ? Also, I've seen a : ata1: Spurious SDB FIS during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x7ff8001f

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Patrick Ale
And again, for something completely different. I am hammering my second machine now, a cool Siemens/Fujitsu laptop (named elisabeth) with ICH7 ATA chipset and controller. Currently the ATA controller is in SATA mode (ICH7 chipsets allow you to run in native SATA mode or compatible mode, for the

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Heiko Carstens wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:43:16PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: \ Heiko, how about this? Does it fix s390? Unfortunately not. Now I get CC lib/iomap.o lib/iomap.c: In function 'devm_ioport_map_release': lib/iomap.c:270: warning: implicit declaration of function

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Saturday, 10 February 2007 20:38, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I don't think this is already done (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).. Can we start to NAK new drivers that don't have proper power management implemented? There really is no excuse for writing a new driver

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, On 10/02/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And again, for something completely different. I am hammering my second machine now You may want to use autotest http://test.kernel.org/autotest Patrick Regards, Michal -- Michal K. K. Piotrowski LTG - Linux Testers Group (PL)

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: I think an arch needs to support ioport_map/unmap and noncoherent dma (just alias to coherent interface on x86/amd64) interface whether PCI is implemented or not. No? We haven't required ioport implementations in the past, afaik.

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 -- md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch

2007-02-10 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:58:58AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: Alasdair, is dm already fixed or is there any chance that it will ever get fixed? I still expect us to get this changed within the next few months. We've dealt with the changes necessary to the crypt target for this. The final

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 23:20 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, On Saturday, 10 February 2007 20:38, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I don't think this is already done (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).. Can we start to NAK new drivers that don't have proper power

Re: Sata_via problems in a Vintage2-AE1

2007-02-10 Thread Leopold Palomo Avellaneda
A Dissabte 10 Febrer 2007 15:45, Tejun Heo va escriure: [cc'ing Alan and Jean, Hi!] Hi people!!! Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: A Divendres 09 Febrer 2007 18:13, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda va escriure: A Divendres 09 Febrer 2007 10:46, Tejun Heo va escriure: Leopold Palomo Avellaneda

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old: Convert to generic boolean-values

2007-02-10 Thread Richard Knutsson
James Bottomley wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 18:46 +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote: Convert: FALSE - false TRUE - true Actually, downcasing true and false in this driver is pretty much a retrograde step. The reason for their being uppercased is that they represent constants (and

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old: Convert to generic boolean-values

2007-02-10 Thread Richard Knutsson
James Bottomley wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 18:46 +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote: Convert: FALSE - false TRUE - true Actually, downcasing true and false in this driver is pretty much a retrograde step. The reason for their being uppercased is that they represent constants (and

KVM oops: killing interrupt handler

2007-02-10 Thread Jiri Slaby
Hi! My schoolmate got this while using kvm-12 on 2.6.20-rc6: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/sklad/kvm-intel-panic/a/ Unfortunately it's only shots taken by camera. If we are able to reproduce it in 2.6.20, we'll grab netconsole output. regards, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/

Re: [patch 0/3] 2.6.20 fix for PageUptodate memorder problem (try 3)

2007-02-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 03:31 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: SetNewPageUptodate does not do the S390 page_test_and_clear_dirty, so I'd like to make sure that's OK. An I/O operation on s390 will set the dirty bit for a page. That is the reason to have SetPageUptodate clear the per page dirty bit when

[PATCH 2/3] PCI/sysfs/kobject kernel-doc fixes

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fix kernel-doc warnings in PCI, sysfs, and kobject files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/pci/pci-driver.c |1 + drivers/pci/pci.c|2 +- fs/sysfs/file.c |2 +- lib/kobject.c|1 + 4 files

[PATCH 3/3] IRQ kernel-doc fixes

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fix kernel-doc warnings in IRQ management. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/irq.h |1 + kernel/irq/chip.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.20-git6.orig/include/linux/irq.h +++

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:25:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: I think an arch needs to support ioport_map/unmap and noncoherent dma (just alias to coherent interface on x86/amd64) interface whether PCI is implemented or not. No? We

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Robert Hancock
Nigel Cunningham wrote: If your device requires power management, and you know it requires power management, why not just implement power management? Doing -ENOSYS instead is like saying -ESPAMMEBECAUSEIMLAZY. Let me put it another way: People keep talking about Linux being ready for the

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 10.02.2007 23:37 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: If your device requires power management, and you know it requires power management, why not just implement power management? Doing -ENOSYS instead is like saying -ESPAMMEBECAUSEIMLAZY. Like it or not, power management is far from trivial, and

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 10.02.2007 07:43 schrieb Willy Tarreau: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:25:34PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 08:57 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: Can we start to NAK new drivers that don't have proper power management implemented? [...] Certainly we should ask for it, but it

What are the real ioapic rte programming constraints?

2007-02-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
I have recently been investigating why we reprogram ioapic irqs in the interrupt handler, because it significantly complicates the code, and makes things more fragile. Eventually I found the commit with the justification, see below. There are not enough details in the justification to really

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:50:33PM +, Al Viro wrote: We don't even require ioremap(). What the hell could it possibly mean on e.g. UML? The same goes for DMA. And yes, of course it means that a lot of drivers are not buildable on it - hardly a surprise, that... FWIW, the current picture

Re: - rdmsr_on_cpu-wrmsr_on_cpu.patch removed from -mm tree

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:32:43PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patch titled rdmsr_on_cpu, wrmsr_on_cpu has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was rdmsr_on_cpu-wrmsr_on_cpu.patch This patch was dropped because I've lost the plot on this thing Alexey,

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:14:13PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: Heiko Carstens wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:43:16PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: \ Heiko, how about this? Does it fix s390? Unfortunately not. Now I get CC lib/iomap.o lib/iomap.c: In function 'devm_ioport_map_release':

Re: Size of 2.6.20 task_struct on x86_64 machines

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:14:13AM -0500, William Cohen wrote: This past week I was playing around with that pahole tool (http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/acme/dwarves/) and looking at the size of various struct in the kernel. I was surprised by the size of the task_struct on x86_64,

[PATCH 1/3] USB kernel-doc fixes

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fix kernel-doc warnings and errors in USB. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/DocBook/gadget.tmpl |4 ++-- Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl|6 +++--- drivers/usb/core/driver.c |1 + 3 files changed, 6

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 11 February 2007 00:45, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 10.02.2007 23:37 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: If your device requires power management, and you know it requires power management, why not just implement power management? Doing -ENOSYS instead is like saying -ESPAMMEBECAUSEIMLAZY.

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:07:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: I'm getting fed up of holding onto hundreds of patches against subsystem trees, sending them over and over again seeing and nothing happen. I sent 242 patches out to subsystem maintainers on Monday and look at what's still

git backlight tree

2007-02-10 Thread Richard Purdie
As mentioned previously, I've setup a backlight git tree at: http://git.o-hand.com/?p=linux-rpurdie-backlight;a=shortlog;h=for-mm (git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-backlight) A patch of the combined changes to mainline is: http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/patches/git_backlight-r1.patch.gz

[PATCH RFC] backlight/fbcon: Add FB_EVENT_CONBLANK

2007-02-10 Thread Richard Purdie
I've added this patch to the backlight git tree since it allows the removal of a powermac specific hack to chipsfb_blank and fixes the backlight class to work with drivers with no hardware blanking. Can anyone see any problems with this? The backlight class wants notification whenever the

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 11 February 2007 00:20, Robert Hancock wrote: Nigel Cunningham wrote: If your device requires power management, and you know it requires power management, why not just implement power management? Doing -ENOSYS instead is like saying -ESPAMMEBECAUSEIMLAZY. Let me put it

Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:56:07AM -0800, Michael Kerrisk wrote: Val, I'm just updating the mount(2) man page for MS_RELATIME, and this is the text I've come up with: MS_RELATIME(Since Linux 2.6.20) When a file on this file system is accessed, only

Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks

2007-02-10 Thread David Miller
From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:33:01 -0800 (PST) So I actually like this, because it means that while we slow down real IO, we don't slow down the cached cases at all. Even if you have everything, every page, every log file, in the page cache, everything

Re: 20-rc6-mm3 - BUG: at arch/i386/mm/highmem.c:52 kmap_atomic()

2007-02-10 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 08:45:26PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote: When I was testing some stuff at 2.6.20-rc6-mm3 I found this at dmesg multiple times. Could you try this hotfix

Re: [BUG] PATA_PCMCIA does not work

2007-02-10 Thread Alan
The PATA_PCMCIA driver does not work. The kernel version is 2.6.20. Does anyone test this driver? Yes it gets regularly tested and works reliably on my test harware. I am however using standards compliant hardware. [pata_pcmcia dmesg] ata1.00: CFA, max PIO0, 20480 sectors: LBA ata1.00:

Re: [ipw3945-devel] [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

2007-02-10 Thread John W. Linville
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:53:51PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: Quoting John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Very cool! Is it likely that d80211 and iwlwifi will be pushed into mainline in time for 2.6.21? Hmmm...I think we need to spend a cycle or so in -mm. 2.6.22 seems more likely

Re: [BUG] PATA_PCMCIA does not work

2007-02-10 Thread Komuro
[pata_pcmcia dmesg] ata1.00: CFA, max PIO0, 20480 sectors: LBA ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 0 ata1.01: CFA, max PIO0, 20480 sectors: LBA ata1.01: ata1: dev 1 multi count 0 Do you have two cards here ? No. one card. I am not sure why two devices are detected. Actually, this card

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:43:16 -0500 Tejun Heo wrote: devres iomap made lib/iomap.c always built and added several arch-indep PCI routines to include/linux/io.h and lib/iomap.c without wrapping them inside CONFIG_PCI. This breaks configurations where PCI is not configured. Wrap pci_iomap() in

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

2007-02-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:22:05AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: Which remembers me that I think that MIPS is using the non-compat version of sys_epoll_pwait for compat syscalls. But maybe MIPS doesn't need a compat syscall for some reason. Dunno. Which reminds me that x86_64 i386 compat

Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks

2007-02-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, David Miller wrote: Even if you have everything, every page, every log file, in the page cache, everything talking over the network wants to block. Will you create a thread every time tcp_sendmsg() hits the send queue limits? No. You use epoll() for those. The

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

2007-02-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:32:07AM +, David Woodhouse wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 11:22 +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: Which remembers me that I think that MIPS is using the non-compat version of sys_epoll_pwait for compat syscalls. But maybe MIPS doesn't need a compat syscall for some

Re: Size of 2.6.20 task_struct on x86_64 machines

2007-02-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Dave Jones wrote: Shrink the held_lock struct by using bitfields. This shrinks task_struct on lockdep enabled kernels by 480 bytes. Are we sure that there are no users that depend on accessing the different fields under different locks? Having them as separate int

Re: current git breaks resume

2007-02-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Feb 10 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Saturday, 10 February 2007 12:50, Jens Axboe wrote: On Sat, Feb 10 2007, Jens Axboe wrote: On Sat, Feb 10 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, On Friday, 9 February 2007 20:03, Jens Axboe wrote: Hi, Unfortunately I'm

reporting lost ticks

2007-02-10 Thread Antoine Martin
Andi Kleen wrote: [Snip] You run with report_lost_ticks and report the results to linux-kernel Doing as I am told, here we go: This is 100% reproducible, ie: just doing a big rsync between 2 disks and burning a DVD at the same time. Note: the system isn't very responsive when this happens,

Re: [patch] linux/io.h: forward declare struct pci_dev

2007-02-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:45:50PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9ac7849e35f705830f7b016ff272b0ff1f7ff759 causes this: CC arch/s390/mm/ioremap.o In file included from arch/s390/mm/ioremap.c:18: include/linux/io.h:46: warning: struct

[GIT PATCH] SCSI updates for 2.6.20

2007-02-10 Thread James Bottomley
This is the accumulated SCSI tree for 2.6.20. It is available at master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git The short changelog is: Adrian Bunk (1): aic79xx: make ahd_match_scb() static Ahmed S. Darwish (1): DAC960: kmalloc-kzalloc/Casting cleanups

Re: libata_uli puts second channel to PIO4 on 2.6.18

2007-02-10 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: It worked very well for half a year but with one disk (IIRC it was even plugged into second channel but I wont bet on it). Now I have second disk (very similar) and it is always put into PIO4 mode: [ 17.404451] libata version

Re: Recent and not-so problems with tifm_sd driver

2007-02-10 Thread Alex Dubov
This looks like the problem with races in mmc_block again. Add some printk:s in the remove function so that you can see if this oops is after the remove function (shouldn't be possible, but will cause crash if it is). It just occurred to me that my synopsis of the problem was utterly lame.

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

2007-02-10 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote: Unfortunately struct epoll_event contains a gap so it bets on identical padding rules between native and compat ABI and anyway, padding is wasted space so the struct members should have been swapped when this structure was created. Oh well, too late.

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:14:13PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: Heiko Carstens wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:43:16PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: \ Heiko, how about this? Does it fix s390? Unfortunately not. Now I get CC lib/iomap.o lib/iomap.c: In function 'devm_ioport_map_release':

Re: [ANNOUNCE] sparse-0.2-cl2 is now available

2007-02-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:17:58PM -0800, Christopher Li wrote: e.g. sparse has not way to know some function only get called with interrupt disabled (or some lock already hold). So it assume interrupt is still enable and generate wrong warnings. Another example is that some helper function

Re: [ANNOUNCE] sparse-0.2-cl2 is now available

2007-02-10 Thread Christopher Li
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 06:33:25PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Interesting. Did you find any kernel bugs with this? In short, not very useful yet. The current run of of sparse-0.2-cl2 on git default i386 config will find about 6 place kernel using allocated memory without NULL check. But Linus

Re: What are the real ioapic rte programming constraints?

2007-02-10 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Eric W. Biederman wrote: There are not enough details in the justification to really understand the issue so I'm asking to see if someone has some more details. The description makes the assertion that reprograming the ioapic when an interrupt is pending is the only

Re: Recent and not-so problems with tifm_sd driver - one more

2007-02-10 Thread Brad Campbell
Pierre Ossman wrote: Alex Dubov wrote: One more problem (you may already know about it) - I was contacted by somebody from the hald project and indeed I can confirm that on 2.6.20 kernel hald fails to take action on card insertion. I can't see anything in my code so this may be a general mmc

Re: + kvm-fix-asm-constraint-for-lldt-instruction.patch added to -mm tree

2007-02-10 Thread Avi Kivity
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:32:30 +0200 S.Çağlar Onur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; 31 Oca 2007 Çar tarihinde, [EMAIL PROTECTED] şunları yazmıştı: The patch titled kvm: Fix asm constraint for lldt instruction has been added to the -mmtree. Its filename is

Re: [patch] linux/io.h: forward declare struct pci_dev

2007-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Christoph Hellwig wrote: I haven't looked at what causes it, but any leakage of pci details into io.h is bogus. I'd suggest that the original submitter fixes up that problem instead. pci_iomap() depends on two things - PCI and iomap. AFAIK, there is no config to test whether the current

Re: arch/arm: typos in KERN_ERR, KERN_INFO

2007-02-10 Thread Ben Dooks
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:14:31AM +0100, Nicolas Kaiser wrote: Typos in KERN_ERR, KERN_INFO. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/arm/mach-imx/dma.c |2 +- arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/pm-simtec.c |2 +- arch/arm/plat-omap/dma.c |2 +- 3

Re: [patch] linux/io.h: forward declare struct pci_dev

2007-02-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 01:26:40AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: I haven't looked at what causes it, but any leakage of pci details into io.h is bogus. I'd suggest that the original submitter fixes up that problem instead. pci_iomap() depends on two things - PCI and

Re: git backlight tree

2007-02-10 Thread Len Brown
On Saturday 10 February 2007 19:33, Richard Purdie wrote: As mentioned previously, I've setup a backlight git tree at: http://git.o-hand.com/?p=linux-rpurdie-backlight;a=shortlog;h=for-mm (git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-backlight) A patch of the combined changes to mainline is:

Re: current git breaks resume

2007-02-10 Thread Len Brown
On Friday 09 February 2007 14:03, Jens Axboe wrote: Hi, Unfortunately I'm a little short on time as I'll be travelling tomorrow, but of course preparing a new kernel for the laptop is something you want to do right before leaving. So I discovered that the current (well as of yesterday, HEAD

Re: [ANNOUNCE] sparse-0.2-cl2 is now available

2007-02-10 Thread Christopher Li
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 05:50:15AM +, Al Viro wrote: I have some stuff in that direction, but it take some resurrecting... OK, we should talk. Here is what I have: Linearize bytecode writer, which produce the binary linearized code. The uncompress size is about 10 times the i386 .o file.

Re: [patch] linux/io.h: forward declare struct pci_dev

2007-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Al Viro wrote: My current version: From 97f115834b5ebef4f04e0f18aaa10f78f43733a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:41:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] sort the devres mess out Split the implementation-agnostic stuff in separate files. Make sure that

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Nigel, On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:37:06AM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 23:20 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: (...) What about this: If the device requires that, implement .suspend and .resume or at least define .suspend that will always return -ENOSYS (then

[PATCH] fix fatal kernel-doc error

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Teach kernel-doc to handle functions that look like the new pcim_iomap_table(). Fixes this fatal error in scripts/kernel-doc: DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.xml Error(/tester/linsrc/linux-2.6.20-git6//drivers/pci/pci.c:1351): cannot understand

[PATCH] devres: kernel-doc and DocBook

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make devres.c ready for adding to DocBook. Fix a few comment typos in drivers/pci/pci.c. Add devres.c to DocBook. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl |4 drivers/base/devres.c |

Re: [PATCH] Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 08:50:27PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Saturday, 10 February 2007 18:52, Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Saturday, 10 February 2007 11:02, Nigel Cunningham wrote: Well, the original desire was to stop new

Re: [patch] linux/io.h: forward declare struct pci_dev

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:34:31 + Al Viro wrote: My current version: From 97f115834b5ebef4f04e0f18aaa10f78f43733a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:41:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] sort the devres mess out Split the implementation-agnostic

Re: [patch] linux/io.h: forward declare struct pci_dev

2007-02-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:34:31AM +, Al Viro wrote: +config NO_IOPORT + bool + default n please make this IOPORT. config symbols with an implicit negation are quite horrible for the brain to understand. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

Re: Still cant boot 2.6.20

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:02:47 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y Regards, Vito Caputo BTW, this isnt the appropriate place for asking this type of question... Please explain why not. And please delete large parts of email that are not needed in replies

Re: Still cant boot 2.6.20

2007-02-10 Thread Robert Hancock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have built a number of previous kernels, but am having problems with 2.6.20. I initially tried just changing only the Processor type (so what I had done would be easy to describe). Someone on this list was kind enough to tell me that the SATA/PATA drivers were not

Re: [IA64] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen)

2007-02-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
sorry, this should of course go to the people to blame aswell :) On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:32:54AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:59:18AM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: [IA64] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen) Add abstraction so that the

Re: Still cant boot 2.6.20

2007-02-10 Thread lkml
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:12:34PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:02:47 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y Regards, Vito Caputo BTW, this isnt the appropriate place for asking this type of question... Please explain why not.

md: md6_raid5 crash 2.6.20

2007-02-10 Thread Marc Marais
Greetings, I've been running md on my server for some time now and a few days ago one of the (3) drives in the raid5 array starting giving read errors. The result was usually system hangs and this was with kernel 2.6.17.13. I upgraded to the latest production 2.6.20 kernel and experienced the

Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.21

2007-02-10 Thread Ismail Dönmez
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 21:18:50 Len Brown wrote: Hi Linus, please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release ACPICA Core version 2070126 simplifies the ACPI table manager code by consolidating multiple table definitions into one. It

i386: pit_latch_buggy has no effect.

2007-02-10 Thread takada
Hi. Eliminated the arch/i386/kernel/timers in 2.6.18, use clocksoures instead. pit_latch_buggy was referred in timers/timer_tsc.c, and currently removed. Therefore nobody refer it. Until 2.6.17, MediaGX's TSC works correctly. after 2.6.18, warned TSC appears to be running slowly. Marking it as

Re: [PATCH] Add PM_TRACE x86_64 support.

2007-02-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Feb 09 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Nigel Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - for (tracedata = __tracedata_start ; tracedata __tracedata_end ; tracedata += 6) { + for (tracedata = __tracedata_start ; tracedata __tracedata_end ; tracedata += 2

Re: 2.6.18.2: sporadic SATA port resets (Broadcom BCM5785 (HT1000))

2007-02-10 Thread Emmeran Seehuber
Am Saturday 10 February 2007 schrieb Tejun Heo: Hmmm... Raptor not supporting SMART.  That's weird.  Please try 'smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda'. The output is attached. cu, Emmy smartctl version 5.36 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is

Re: Recent and not-so problems with tifm_sd driver - one more

2007-02-10 Thread Alex Dubov
One more problem (you may already know about it) - I was contacted by somebody from the hald project and indeed I can confirm that on 2.6.20 kernel hald fails to take action on card insertion. I can't see anything in my code so this may be a general mmc problem. The problem is described here:

Re: sata_nv - ADMA issues with 2.6.20

2007-02-10 Thread David R
Robert Hancock wrote: So it was tag 0 that timed out , and according to the CPBs the controller indeed believes the command is still outstanding, i.e. we didn't lose an interrupt. I'm suspicious of the fact that only one of two identical drives produced this error.. some kind of

Re: [PATCH] fix quadratic behavior of shrink_dcache_parent()

2007-02-10 Thread Miklos Szeredi
The file system mounted on /tmp/z in the example contains 2^50 directories. heh. I do wonder how realistic this problem is in real life. That's a fair concern, although I was trying this as part of evaluating how much someone could hose a system if we let them mount arbitrary FUSE

Re: [PATCH 4 of 7] lguest: Config and headers

2007-02-10 Thread Rusty Russell
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 22:45 -0500, James Morris wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Rusty Russell wrote: Well it was the use of get_order() which triggered Andi's alarm bells, so I went back to deriving it. This code is correct, however. + hype_pages = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO,

Re: [PATCH] Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Saturday, 10 February 2007 04:02, Nigel Cunningham wrote: Hi. On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 19:50 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: It also kind of bothers me that if a driver has no suspend/resume functions, and you suspend and resume the system, we don't complain about it even though

[PATCH] DEV: zero: use correct pgprot for zeromapping

2007-02-10 Thread Imre Deak
Instead of PAGE_COPY use the pgprot bits established already at original mapping time of the VMA. This will also include any architecture specific bits setup through protection_map. zeromap_page_range will take care of COW'ing the passed pgprot. This fixes at least one problem on ARM where

Re: [PATCH] DEV: zero: use correct pgprot for zeromapping

2007-02-10 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:15:21AM +0200, Imre Deak wrote: Instead of PAGE_COPY use the pgprot bits established already at original mapping time of the VMA. This will also include any architecture specific bits setup through protection_map. zeromap_page_range will take care of COW'ing the

Re: current git breaks resume

2007-02-10 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Friday, 9 February 2007 20:03, Jens Axboe wrote: Hi, Unfortunately I'm a little short on time as I'll be travelling tomorrow, but of course preparing a new kernel for the laptop is something you want to do right before leaving. So I discovered that the current (well as of yesterday,

Re: [stable patch 2.6.20 2/3] ieee1394: video1394: DMA fix

2007-02-10 Thread Stefan Richter
PS: 1/3 Missing critical phys_to_virt in lib/swiotlb.c and 2/3 ieee1394: video1394: DMA fix are applicable to older kernels too. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== --=- -=-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH 21/22] honor r/w changes at do_remount() time

2007-02-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 9 2007 15:22, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:53:44 -0800 Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the core of the read-only bind mount patch set. Who wants read-only bind mounts, and for what reason? And another case could be, that some application modifies ~/.xyz, but

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 -- md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch

2007-02-10 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:07:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: drivers-mdc-use-array_size-macro-when-appropriate.patch md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch - neilb (The second one is getting idiotic. When are we going to fix this??) Since it was me who asked to

Re: [PATCH] Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Gidday. On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 10:34 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Saturday, 10 February 2007 04:02, Nigel Cunningham wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 19:50 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: It also kind of bothers me that if a driver has no suspend/resume functions, and you suspend and

Re: [PATCH] DEV: zero: use correct pgprot for zeromapping

2007-02-10 Thread Imre Deak
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:39:54AM +, Russell King wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:15:21AM +0200, Imre Deak wrote: Instead of PAGE_COPY use the pgprot bits established already at original mapping time of the VMA. This will also include any architecture specific bits setup through

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