Re: hugepage: Fix broken check for offset alignment in hugepage mappings

2007-08-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 14:36 +1000, David Gibson wrote: This patch restores the check, removing it from prepare_hugepage_range() and putting it back into hugetlbfs_file_mmap(). I'm putting it there, rather than in the get_unmapped_area() path so it only needs to go in one place, than

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation

2007-08-27 Thread Huang, Ying
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 10:30 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 09:14:05AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: Kexec base hibernation has some potential advantages over uswsusp and TuxOnIce (suspend2). Some most obvious advantages are: 1. The hibernation image size can exceed half of

Re: net/ipv4/fib_trie.c - compile error (Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1)

2007-08-27 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On 22-08-2007 19:03, Paul E. McKenney wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 05:41:11PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 05:30:13PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote: Got it with a randconfig ( http://194.231.229.228/kernel/mm/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/r/randconfig-8 ) ... net/ipv4/fib_trie.c: In

Re: Problems with disc-performance and libata

2007-08-27 Thread Oliver Janscheidt
Hi Michal, thanks for your reply! Am Montag, den 27.08.2007, 01:59 +0200 schrieb Michal Piotrowski: Hi Oliver, [Adding linux-ide to CC] On 26/08/07, Oliver Janscheidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad with TOSHIBA MK1234GS HD and MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-850 on

Re: [PATCH] SLUB use cmpxchg_local

2007-08-27 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 16:14 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: - Changed smp_rmb() for barrier(). We are not interested in read order across cpus, what we want is to be ordered wrt local interrupts only. barrier() is much cheaper than a

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation

2007-08-27 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:18:49PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: [..] If one compiles the kernel C to boot from reserved memory area (subset of memory area used by kernel B), then I can skip the step of kexecing from C to D? (COFIG_PHYSICAL_START) Yes. I think so. Alternatively, can

Re: Sleep problems with kernels = 2.6.21 on powerpc

2007-08-27 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Thanks, Michal. I didn't know who to include as the wizards of the matter. On Aug 27 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: [Adding STR wizards to CC] On 26/08/07, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I, on the other hand, use Debian's kernel 2.6.22 or compile my own kernel with just

Re: Sleep problems with kernels = 2.6.21 on powerpc

2007-08-27 Thread Tim Teulings
Hallo! I also have 800MHz iBook (2.2, 2 USB) and had the same problem with the 21.6.22 kernel a while ago and reverted back to 2.6.21. I'm not a kernel guy but I think I remember from kernel traces that it looked like (wise chosen words ;-)) that the problems had something to do with

Re: [PATCH][resend] fix IDE legacy mode resources

2007-08-27 Thread Jan Beulich
Please discuss. I don't think there's much to discuss - Yoichi Yuasa's changes can be simply brought through to the other patch (of which I continue to only state that X has a problem, the patch fixes it for me [and perhaps *only* me], and afaik X itself still hasn't been fixed in this respect).

[PATCH] Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks (arch code)

2007-08-27 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
From: Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] One of the easiest things to isolate is the pid printed in kernel log. There was a patch, that made this for arch-independent code, this one makes so for arch/xxx files. It took some time to cross-compile it, but hopefully these are all the printks in

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Walker pisze: [snip] Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla? Yes, I have considered it. Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There is a regression field, but there are no

Re: [patch v2 1/1] md: Software Raid autodetect dev list not array

2007-08-27 Thread Michael Evans
On 8/26/07, Kyle Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 26, 2007, at 08:20:45, Michael Evans wrote: Also, I forgot to mention, the reason I added the counters was mostly for debugging. However they're also as useful in the same way that listing the partitions when a new disk is added can

Re: PROBLEM : On a laptop Aopen 1556 or 1557 my integrated card-reader doesn't work.

2007-08-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:21:47 +0200 giggz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mail is a little big. In order not to be blocked I try to attach it. Regards, Guillaume [bug_kernel.txt text/plain (29.5KB)] [1.] One line summary of the problem: On a laptop Aopen 1556 or 1557 my integrated

Re: [-mm PATCH 5/10] Memory controller task migration (v7)

2007-08-27 Thread YAMAMOTO Takashi
Allow tasks to migrate from one container to the other. We migrate mm_struct's mem_container only when the thread group id migrates. + /* + * Only thread group leaders are allowed to migrate, the mm_struct is + * in effect owned by the leader + */ + if (p-tgid !=

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread David Rees
On 8/26/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There is a regression field, but there are no difference between 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 regression. Here's how to use Bugzilla to track regressions between different kernel versions: Create a

resume failing on ATA controller

2007-08-27 Thread Dave Airlie
Hi, I've got an HP 2510p with a 965 mobile chipset and ICH8, lspci is at http://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/hp2510p/hp-lspci-vv.txt Resume is failing on the hard disk resume by the looks of it (no video to prove it..) but I've rmmod nearly everything and my network interface comes back and

Re: binutils trouble was Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

2007-08-27 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 12:42:05AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:29:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: Debian 4.0 has older ones, and all distributions released more than a year ago for sure also have older ones (the required patch went into binutils CVS on 2006-05-30

Re: [PATCH][RFC] dynamic pipe resizing

2007-08-27 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Aug 24 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Aug 24 2007 10:52, Jens Axboe wrote: Hi, Dabbling around with splice a bit, I added some code to change the size of a pipe. Currently it's hardcoded as 16 pages, with this patch you can shrink (if you wanted) or grow (the likely scenario) if

Re: PROBLEM : On a laptop Aopen 1556 or 1557 my integrated card-reader doesn't work.

2007-08-27 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:57:10 -0700 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't even know which subsystem is supposed to handle that device. Perhaps someone can tell us. It's a Secure Digital card slot? I think the MMC subsystem can handle some types SD cards, but not all? Perhaps

Re: Sleep problems with kernels = 2.6.21 on powerpc

2007-08-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 03:52 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: I did 13 compiles with git bisect and some of them were unsucessfuly compiled, which I am afraid that may miss the real cause if I tag them as being bad (which I did). Yes, don't mark such cases as bad or good but look for a nearby

Re: PROBLEM : On a laptop Aopen 1556 or 1557 my integrated card-reader doesn't work.

2007-08-27 Thread Giggz
Pierre Ossman a écrit : On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:57:10 -0700 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't even know which subsystem is supposed to handle that device. Perhaps someone can tell us. It's a Secure Digital card slot? I think the MMC subsystem can handle some types SD cards,

RE: exception Emask: 0x42 errors with 2.6.22.x and SATA drives

2007-08-27 Thread Dermot Bradley
FWIW, I've got the HDMI version of this board and I have exactly the same problem (even with the newest BIOS) if nmi_watchdog is not set to zero. Try booting with nmi_watchdog=0 (default on x86-64, I think) and see if these go away. I guess the APIC has some difficulties handling NMIs. On

Re: PROBLEM : On a laptop Aopen 1556 or 1557 my integrated card-reader doesn't work.

2007-08-27 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:00:04 +0200 Giggz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thx for your interest for my problem. I have try the MMC layer and it doesn't work. But lot's of people on the web tell me, that their SD or MMC card are handled like USB (like storage). And in my case, nothing

Re: PROBLEM : On a laptop Aopen 1556 or 1557 my integrated card-reader doesn't work.

2007-08-27 Thread Giggz
Pierre Ossman a écrit : On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:00:04 +0200 Giggz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thx for your interest for my problem. I have try the MMC layer and it doesn't work. But lot's of people on the web tell me, that their SD or MMC card are handled like USB (like storage). And in

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: What I'm concerned about is that regressions which we didn't fix are just getting lost. Is anyone taking care to ensure that they are getting transitioned into bugzilla for tracking? Maybe this was a dumb assumption on my part, but I thought regressions were getting

Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface

2007-08-27 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
On Monday 27 August 2007 03:58, David Miller wrote: From: James Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:36:20 +0100 David Miller wrote: From: James Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:16:45 +0100 Does hardware interrupt mitigation really interact well

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-27 Thread Jes Sorensen
Alan Cox wrote: although I would worry about their members only being the ones voting on the TAB for no other reason than the bias toward one distro only at this point in time. Given the complaint was about the question of correct selection of voters replacing the somewhat flawed kernel summit

Re: oracleasm driver into mainline?

2007-08-27 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:21:59PM +0200, Bjoern Boschman wrote: Hi, I just wanted to ask if there might be a possibility that the oracleasm kernel driver could find its way into the mainline kernel? Your mail is sent To: linux-kernel but the right thing is to ask Oracle. If Oracle want's to

[RFC] block_device_operations prototype changes

2007-08-27 Thread Al Viro
It's time to sanitize prototypes of bdev -open(), -release() and -ioctl(). This stuff had sat in need to fix for a long time and there is a bunch of bugs hard to fix without dealing with it. 1) -open() gets inode * and file *. Almost all instances use only inode-i_bdev

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] Hibernation: Arbitrary boot kernel support on x86_64

2007-08-27 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 16:23 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: The preferred way of doing this is via Kconfig, please. ie: add a CONFIG_HIBERNATION_HEADER to arch/x86_64/Kconfig. It would be better to do something like this in (say) suspend.h: #ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATION_HEADER extern int

Re: CFS review

2007-08-27 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you send the exact patch that shows what you did? On 2.6.22.5-v20.3 (not v20.4): 340-curr-delta_exec += delta_exec; 341- 342-if (unlikely(curr-delta_exec sysctl_sched_stat_granularity)) { 343:// __update_curr(cfs_rq, curr);

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] Hibernation: Arbitrary boot kernel support on x86_64

2007-08-27 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 25 August 2007 21:13, Johannes Berg wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 16:23 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: The preferred way of doing this is via Kconfig, please. ie: add a CONFIG_HIBERNATION_HEADER to arch/x86_64/Kconfig. It would be better to do something like this in (say)

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] Hibernation: Arbitrary boot kernel support on x86_64

2007-08-27 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:06 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Well, I don't like the weak symbols stuff, but I have managed to limit the number of additional #ifdefs in snapshot.c to just one. The generic patch is now the following: Fine with me, I was just throwing out ideas anyway :)

Re: exception Emask: 0x42 errors with 2.6.22.x and SATA drives

2007-08-27 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 27 August 2007 10:28:09 Dermot Bradley wrote: [snip] Thanks for the help Alistair! One other point you may be able to help with - this is the first time I've used a dual core processor and I expected that /proc/interrupts would should interrupts distributed between both cores whereas

Pausing kernel boot messages

2007-08-27 Thread Esteban Fernandez
How do you pause the kernel boot messages ? ^S, Pause and Scroll lock do nothing and you can't Shift-Page-Up after a kernel panic. Thanks. - 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: [-mm PATCH 5/10] Memory controller task migration (v7)

2007-08-27 Thread Balbir Singh
YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote: Allow tasks to migrate from one container to the other. We migrate mm_struct's mem_container only when the thread group id migrates. +/* + * Only thread group leaders are allowed to migrate, the mm_struct is + * in effect owned by the leader + */ +

[PATCH 0/3] [RFC][PATCH] clustered writeback

2007-08-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
Chris, This is one possible implementation of the clustered writeback idea. It runs OK on ext3 (compiling, syncing, etc.). The patch is based on 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 and the writeback patches here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/19/10 By default, with many dirty inodes, it works as follows: - store

[PATCH 1/3] writeback: introduce queue_dirty()

2007-08-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
Introduce queue_dirty() to enqueue a newly dirtied inode. It helps remove duplicate code. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 21 + 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc3-mm1.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c +++

[PATCH 2/3] writeback: introduce dirty_volatile_interval

2007-08-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
Introduce dirty_volatile_interval for the minimal dirty time. Inodes dirtied less than dirty_volatile_interval will not be considered for syncing by kupdate-style writeback. This new parameter will be used in clustered writeback. The old dirty_expire_interval is still(but less) respected. Cc:

[PATCH 3/3] writeback: writeback clustering by inode number

2007-08-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
Organize dirty inodes in the order of location instead of dirty time. It helps write extensive workloads to be more seek-friendly. There are 2 candidates for this feature: 1) XFS style piggybacking write all expired(age30s) inodes, plus the ones near them(any ages) 2)

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: What I'm concerned about is that regressions which we didn't fix are just getting lost. Is anyone taking care to ensure that they are getting transitioned into bugzilla for tracking? Maybe this was a dumb assumption

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Walker pisze: [snip] Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla? Yes, I have considered it. Bugzilla sucks when it comes to

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, David Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/26/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There is a regression field, but there are no difference between 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 regression. Here's how to use Bugzilla to track

Re: Pausing kernel boot messages

2007-08-27 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Montag 27 August 2007 13:21 schrieb Esteban Fernandez: How do you pause the kernel boot messages ? ^S, Pause and Scroll lock do nothing and you can't Shift-Page-Up after a kernel panic. These are functions of a shell (like bash), which you haven't got yet during kernel boot. You can read

How to find out how many other processes share VM with $PID?

2007-08-27 Thread Denys Vlasenko
Hi, I was a bit frustrated by bad quality of memory usage info from top and ps, and decided to write my own utility. One problem I don't know how to solve is how to avoid counting twice (or more) memory used by processes which share VM (by use of CLONE_VM flage to sys_clone). I know how to

Re: Pausing kernel boot messages

2007-08-27 Thread Andreas Schwab
Hans-Jürgen Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Montag 27 August 2007 13:21 schrieb Esteban Fernandez: How do you pause the kernel boot messages ? ^S, Pause and Scroll lock do nothing and you can't Shift-Page-Up after a kernel panic. These are functions of a shell (like bash), Definitely

Re: [PATCH 0/3] [RFC][PATCH] clustered writeback

2007-08-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:21:52 +0800 Because it does the work in small batches of 10 inodes, when the system has =10 dirty inodes, its behavior will reduce to: - do a full sweep *at once* on every 25s Which means the disk will flicker once every 25s, not bad :) 25 seconds is quite not good

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:01:55 +0200 But replacing the flawed KS list with one based on actual contributors, from the git logs as I proposed last week, doesn't seem silly. to some degree the KS list is based on that git logs thing ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc2] hwmon: HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D ACPI driver (resend)

2007-08-27 Thread Pavel Machek
On Sat 2007-08-25 13:36:00, Yan Burman wrote: Pavel Machek wrote: On Sat 2007-08-11 14:26:02, Yan Burman wrote: HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D ACPI driver. Similar to hdaps in functionality. This driver provides 4 kinds of functionality: 1) Creates a misc device /dev/accel that

cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3

2007-08-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Trying to do few onlines/offlines reliably hangs my machine (thinkpad x60, i386 architecture). Plus I guess it would be nice to add CPU HOTPLUG into MAINTAINERS file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/l/linux$ grep CPU MAINTAINERS CPU FREQUENCY DRIVERS CPUID/MSR DRIVER CPUSETS i386 SETUP CODE / CPU

Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] Hibernation: Arbitrary boot kernel support on x86_64 (updated)

2007-08-27 Thread Pavel Machek
On Sat 2007-08-25 22:42:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Saturday, 25 August 2007 20:27, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Friday, 24 August 2007 22:46, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! From: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make it possible to restore a hibernation image on x86_64 with

Re: [Suspend2-devel] Problem with CFS V20 and Suspend2/tuxonice

2007-08-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Same problem here: Core Duo, Kernel 2.6.22.5, Suspend 2.2.10, CFS v20.2. Me too for 2.6.22.5, TuxOnIce 2.2.10 and Centrino based notebook. possible bugfix below. Ingo Index: linux-cfs-2.6.22.5.q/kernel/sched.c

Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3

2007-08-27 Thread Pavel Machek
On Mon 2007-08-27 12:43:50, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Trying to do few onlines/offlines reliably hangs my machine (thinkpad x60, i386 architecture). Plus I guess it would be nice to add CPU HOTPLUG into MAINTAINERS file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/l/linux$ grep CPU MAINTAINERS CPU

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH, RFC] wake up from a serial port

2007-08-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Enable wakeup from serial ports, make it run-time configurable over sysfs, e.g., echo enabled /sys/devices/platform/serial8250.0/tty/ttyS0/power/wakeup Requires # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmm, interesting, looks

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation

2007-08-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Does this make sense? Yes, this is a sensible optimization. But I think it may be better to make bootloader load kernel D directly into a specified memory location. For example, we can add a option to kernel command of grub. And, I think we can do more in bootloader. Such as we can

Re: Sleep problems with kernels = 2.6.21 on powerpc

2007-08-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I didn't know who to include as the wizards of the matter. If I, on the other hand, use Debian's kernel 2.6.22 or compile my own kernel with just the necessary parts for my work (version 2.6.23-rc3 taken from kernel.org), then I can't make the machine sleep: when I press the

Re: Pausing kernel boot messages

2007-08-27 Thread Zilvinas Valinskas
Esteban, Alternatively, read Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt. Might help or might not. It depends when system is crashing. On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:53 +0200, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: Am Montag 27 August 2007 13:21 schrieb Esteban Fernandez: How do you pause the kernel boot messages ?

Re: [TOMOYO 14/15] Conditional permission support.

2007-08-27 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 25, 2007, at 22:13:48, Tetsuo Handa wrote: Pavel Machek wrote: What is that? Language parser in kernel? Yes. This is a policy parser in kernel. TOMOYO Linux' policy is passed from/to the kernel as a plain text (i.e. ASCII printable) file via /proc/tomoyo interface. For example, to

Re: [Suspend2-devel] Problem with CFS V20 and Suspend2/tuxonice

2007-08-27 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me too for 2.6.22.5, TuxOnIce 2.2.10 and Centrino based notebook. + try_to_freeze(); + spin_lock_irq(rq-lock); if (cpu_is_offline(cpu)) { If it is NONFREEZE, you should not be trying to freeze it. that

Re: Pausing kernel boot messages

2007-08-27 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Montag 27 August 2007 13:58 schrieb Andreas Schwab: Hans-Jürgen Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Montag 27 August 2007 13:21 schrieb Esteban Fernandez: How do you pause the kernel boot messages ? ^S, Pause and Scroll lock do nothing and you can't Shift-Page-Up after a kernel

Re: How to find out how many other processes share VM with $PID?

2007-08-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
Hi Denys, On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Hi, I was a bit frustrated by bad quality of memory usage info from top and ps, and decided to write my own utility. One problem I don't know how to solve is how to avoid counting twice (or more) memory used by

RE: exception Emask: 0x42 errors with 2.6.22.x and SATA drives

2007-08-27 Thread Dermot Bradley
I've added Jeff to CC in case he's interested about the workaround for this drive (I assume you're using the AHCI driver with your ATI controller). Yupe, using AHCI. I've just rebooted after adding that blacklist line to the kernel and recompiling but it doesn't seem to have taken effect:

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-27 Thread Jes Sorensen
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:01:55 +0200 But replacing the flawed KS list with one based on actual contributors, from the git logs as I proposed last week, doesn't seem silly. to some degree the KS list is based on that git logs thing ;) Yes, as well as 12 committee

Re: [Suspend2-devel] Problem with CFS V20 and Suspend2/tuxonice

2007-08-27 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 27 August 2007 13:41, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Same problem here: Core Duo, Kernel 2.6.22.5, Suspend 2.2.10, CFS v20.2. Me too for 2.6.22.5, TuxOnIce 2.2.10 and Centrino based notebook. possible bugfix below. Ingo Index:

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 27 August 2007 13:38, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Walker pisze: [snip] Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla?

Re: [PATCH 0/3] [RFC][PATCH] clustered writeback

2007-08-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 05:03:36AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:21:52 +0800 Because it does the work in small batches of 10 inodes, when the system has =10 dirty inodes, its behavior will reduce to: - do a full sweep *at once* on every 25s Which means the disk

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.23-rc NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2007-08-27 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On 21-08-2007 12:56, Karl Meyer wrote: fyi: I do not know whether it is related to the problem, but since using the version you told me there are these entries is my log: frege Hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin! ... BTW, I don't know wheter it's related too, but I think you should try

Re: [PATCH 0/3] [RFC][PATCH] clustered writeback

2007-08-27 Thread Chris Mason
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:03:36 -0700 Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:21:52 +0800 Because it does the work in small batches of 10 inodes, when the system has =10 dirty inodes, its behavior will reduce to: - do a full sweep *at once* on every 25s Which

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation

2007-08-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Does this make sense? Yes, this is a sensible optimization. But I think it may be better to make bootloader load kernel D directly into a specified memory location. For example, we can add a option to kernel command of grub. And, I think we

Re: [md-accel PATCH 16/19] dmaengine: driver for the iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx raid engines

2007-08-27 Thread saeed bishara
Hi Dan, +static dma_cookie_t +iop_adma_tx_submit(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx) +{ + + old_chain_tail = list_entry(iop_chan-chain.prev, + struct iop_adma_desc_slot, chain_node); + list_splice_init(sw_desc-group_list, old_chain_tail-chain_node); + + /*

Re: [md-accel PATCH 16/19] dmaengine: driver for the iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx raid engines

2007-08-27 Thread saeed bishara
Hi Dan, I think you have a bug in this function, the list_splice_init adds the new slots in the head of the chain_node, but you get the old_chain_tail (latest descriptor) from the tail of the chain!! +static dma_cookie_t +iop_adma_tx_submit(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx) +{ + +

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation

2007-08-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Does this make sense? Yes, this is a sensible optimization. But I think it may be better to make bootloader load kernel D directly into a specified memory location. For example, we can add a option to kernel command of grub. And, I think we can do more in bootloader. Such as

Re: Compiling 2.6.22.5 on Debian Etch (internal compiler error)

2007-08-27 Thread Renato S. Yamane
Renato S. Yamane escreveu: $ make xconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function ‘parse_dep_file’: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:399: internal compiler error: segmentation fault Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See

Re: NFS woes again Was: [linux-usb-devel] USB-related oops in sysfs with linux v2.6.23-rc3-50-g28e8351

2007-08-27 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 12:36 -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:14:38AM -0700, Bret Towe wrote: this sounds alot like the post i did yesterday titled 'nfs4 hang regression' i tracked it down to commit 3d39c691ff486142dd9aaeac12f553f4476b7a6 Yes, it certainly does -- all

Re: How to find out how many other processes share VM with $PID?

2007-08-27 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Monday 27 August 2007 13:13, Fengguang Wu wrote: Hi Denys, On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Hi, I was a bit frustrated by bad quality of memory usage info from top and ps, and decided to write my own utility. One problem I don't know how to solve is

Re: [PATCH] avoid negative shifts in radix-tree.c

2007-08-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 04:26:07PM +0200, Peter Firefly Lund wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED] only bcc'ed because it's subscribers only, Lameter addressed because I think he touched the code last, Velikov and Hellwig because they touched the code first.) The current code in __max_index() will shift

Re: [BUG] problem with nfs_invaildate_page

2007-08-27 Thread Trond Myklebust
It looks as if ecryptfs is dropping the page lock between the calls to prepare_write() and commit_write(). That would be a bug. Cheers Trond On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 16:43 +0900, Ryusuke Konishi wrote: Hi, I got the following BUG in nfs_inode_add_request() when I was using eCryptfs on NFS.

Re: UML/man: BLKGETSIZE takes a long, not an int

2007-08-27 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Hello Nicolas, I fear that my bug-report yesterday was very badly written, with me writing to the wrong mailing-list and all. I was saying: I found a type mismatch in UML that makes host block devices unusable as ubd devices on x86_64 and other 64 bits systems (segfault of the mm

Re: [PATCH][kprobes] support kretprobe-blacklist

2007-08-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 03:43:04PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: This patch introduces architecture dependent kretprobe blacklists to prohibit users from inserting return probes on the function in which kprobes can be inserted but kretprobes can not. I don't like this at all. If people want

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-27 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 26.08.2007 01:57 schrieb Randy Dunlap: On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:26:21 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 25.08.2007 02:38 schrieb Pallipadi, Venkatesh: Tilman: Can you configure CONFIG_CPU_IDLE in your config (under Power Management option) and double check that the frequency part works

Re: [2.6.23-rc3] NFSv4 client oops

2007-08-27 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:08 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: While upgrading nfs-utils on my NFSv4 file server (F7 x86-64 2.6.23-rc3), I got an oops on the NFSv4 client (FC6 x86-64 2.6.23-rc3), and communications stopped. I rebooted the client, and everything was fine again. Then, on the

arch_align_stack() seems useless

2007-08-27 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Hello folks, I recently pick up the implementation of arch_align_stack() from x86 architectures to make it available for mips. But now I just realised that this function seems useless because of the way it's used. Currently, this function seems to be only used to randomize the stack pointer

data disclosure in ioctl sg inquiry

2007-08-27 Thread Luciano Rocha
(Please keep me CC'ed. Thanks.) Hello, While testing the SG INQUIRY command to a locked hard drive, connected with USB, I noted that the command result included garbage that seemed part of some other's process memory. Like bash functions, command arguments, etc.. I make sure to memset the

Re: arch_align_stack() seems useless

2007-08-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:08:31 +0200 Franck Bui-Huu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and recently mips do that. Here is the code taken from exec.c which calls it: int setup_arg_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, unsigned long stack_top, int

Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/27/07, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 2007-08-27 12:43:50, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Trying to do few onlines/offlines reliably hangs my machine (thinkpad x60, i386 architecture). I just 3 cycles of on-line/off-line on 2.6.23-rc3 on ThinkPad x60s, and my system still

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 02:45 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Daniel Walker pisze: [snip] Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla? Yes, I have considered it. Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There is a regression field, but there are no difference between

Re: CFS review

2007-08-27 Thread Al Boldi
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you send the exact patch that shows what you did? On 2.6.22.5-v20.3 (not v20.4): 340-curr-delta_exec += delta_exec; 341- 342-if (unlikely(curr-delta_exec sysctl_sched_stat_granularity)) { 343://

Re: [TOMOYO 15/15] LSM expansion for TOMOYO Linux.

2007-08-27 Thread Paul Moore
On Friday, August 24 2007 8:58:28 am Kentaro Takeda wrote: LSM hooks for network accept and recv: * socket_post_accept is modified to return int. This has been discussed several times on various lists and is not considered an acceptable solution to blocking incoming stream connection

Re: [PATCH] SLUB: use have_arch_cmpxchg()

2007-08-27 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Pekka Enberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Mathieu, On 8/22/07, Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cons: - Does not help code readability, i.e.: if (have_arch_cmpxchg()) preempt_disable(); else local_irq_save(flags); Heh, that's an understatement, as

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, 27 August 2007 13:38, Michal Piotrowski wrote: [..] I can copy all regression reports into Bugzilla after each release. The unresolved ones, that is? Yes, exactly. If you can do that, it would be a very good thing, IMO.

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-27 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:12:56 +0200 Jes Sorensen wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:01:55 +0200 But replacing the flawed KS list with one based on actual contributors, from the git logs as I proposed last week, doesn't seem silly. I agree. to some degree the KS

[PATCH 1/2] ehea: propagate physical port state

2007-08-27 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
Introduces a module parameter to decide whether the physical port link state is propagated to the network stack or not. It makes sense not to take the physical port state into account on machines with more logical partitions that communicate with each other. This is always possible no matter what

[PATCH 2/2] ehea: fix last_rx update

2007-08-27 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
Update last_rx in registered device struct instead of in the dummy device. Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c

Re: [2.6 patch] remove securebits

2007-08-27 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:50:10PM -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote: FWIW, in the mm kernel, I've actually already removed them when one configures without capabilities.

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 02:45 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Daniel Walker pisze: [snip] Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla? Yes, I have considered it. Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There

[PATCH 3/3] KVM paravirt-ops implementation

2007-08-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig index f952493..ceacc66 100644 --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig @@ -237,6 +237,13 @@ config VMI at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module provided by the hypervisor. +config KVM_GUEST +

Re: [2.6 patch] remove securebits

2007-08-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:09:42AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:50:10PM -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote: FWIW, in the mm kernel, I've actually already removed them when one configures without capabilities.

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

2007-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Adrian Bunk, le Sat 25 Aug 2007 03:07:04 +0200, a écrit : If they remain in -mm for some time and people don't complain, well that's good too: at least we know how speakup may hook into the kernel when it gets merged. ... Without any users it's dead code noone uses, Not so much

[PATCH 2/3] Refactor hypercall infrastructure

2007-08-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
This patch refactors the current hypercall infrastructure to better support live migration and SMP. It eliminates the hypercall page by trapping the UD exception that would occur if you used the wrong hypercall instruction for the underlying architecture and replacing it with the right one

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:38 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Walker pisze: [snip] Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla?

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