RE: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure

2007-09-15 Thread Nakajima, Jun
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Nakajima, Jun wrote: The hypervisor detection machanism is generic, and the signature returned is implentation specific. Having a list of all hypervisor signatures sounds fine to me as we are detecting vendor-specific processor(s) in the native. And I don't

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
FUJITA Tomonori wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:14:21 +0200 (CEST) Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... And one more update: There is SAS too, ... + You need it + - for classic parallel SCSI hardware, + - for newer SCSI transports such as Fibre Channel, FireWire storage,

Re: [PATCH]: x86_64: Remove unnecessary cast in prefetch()

2007-09-15 Thread Serge Belyshev
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This can be fixed better by using gcc's __builtin_prefetch(). I changed it to just use that. Thanks. It seems like gcc 3.1/3.2 already supported it and that's the earliest gcc still supported so it can be used unconditionally. Hi! Will you submit this

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-15 Thread Prakash Punnoor
On the day of Friday 14 September 2007 Jon Ivar Rykkelid hast written: Hi, I'm getting inmore confident that the driver is the issue. (Or have anyone EVER been successful with the latest kernel/driver on this HW)? I don't have exaclty the same hw, but the same chipset and I don't have any

[PATCH] [Bug 9020] atomic_ops.txt has incorrect, misleading and insufficient information

2007-09-15 Thread Matti Linnanvuori
From: Matti Linnanvuori [EMAIL PROTECTED] atomic_ops.txt has incorrect, misleading and insufficient information about semantics of initializer, atomic_set, atomic_read and atomic_xchg. It also incorrectly implies that operations mentioned above are not actual atomic operations. Included is

VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?

2007-09-15 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, Mark Smith reported a OOM condition when he copies a large (46GiB) file from an NTFS partition (using the stock kernel driver) to /dev/ null (or to a file on ext3, same result). The machine this runs on has an i386 kernel with 12GiB RAM (yes this is not a typo it is 12GiB!). When

[PATCH] task containersv11 enable containers by default in some configs

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Jackson
From: Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Menage - in pre-container cpusets, a few config files enabled cpusets by default. Could you blend the following patch into your container patch set, so that cpusets continue to be configured by default for those same configurations? Thanks - pj.

Re: Why do so many machines need noapic?

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On 06 Sep 2007 13:31:50 +0200 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some systems lock up without the noapic option. Please find patterns: cpu type, chipsets, mainboard vendors etc. There are 48 bugs in bugzilla which mention noapic

Re: Two identical entries for rtc in /proc/devices

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:23:22 -0400 Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ls -li total 0 4026532007 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 6 18:18 nvram 4026532067 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 6 18:18 rtc 4026532067 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 6 18:18 rtc 4026532056 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure

2007-09-15 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: 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

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure

2007-09-15 Thread Avi Kivity
Nakajima, Jun wrote: To me this is the beginning of fragmentation. Why do we need different and VMM-specific Linux paravirtualization for hardware-assisted virtualization? That would not be good for Linux. The only way to have a single interface is if a central authority defines and

Re: sysfs change of input/event devices in 2.6.23rc breaks udev

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:24:04 -0400 Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/10/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 01:28:47AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 19:03, Kay Sievers wrote: On 9/8/07, Anssi Hannula [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sata scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:15:22 +0200 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:54:07PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:11:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Let's step back a moment and consider the actual scale and

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure

2007-09-15 Thread Avi Kivity
Zachary Amsden wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 16:44 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: So then each module creates a hypercall page using this magic MSR and the hypervisor has to keep track of it so that it can appropriately change the page on migration. The page can only contain a single

Re: cpuset trouble after hibernate

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:45:10 +0200 (CEST) Simon Derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Nicolas Capit wrote: Hello, This is my situation: - I mounted the pseudo cpuset filesystem into /dev/cpuset - I created a cpuset named oar with my 2 cpus cat

Re: [PATCH] alpha: convert to generic sys_ptrace

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 21:12:57 +0200 Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch converts alpha to the generic sys_ptrace. We use force_successful_syscall_return to avoid having to pass the pt_regs pointer down to the function. I think the removal of the assemly stub is correct, but

Re: [PATCH] alpha: convert to generic sys_ptrace

2007-09-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:11:50AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 21:12:57 +0200 Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch converts alpha to the generic sys_ptrace. We use force_successful_syscall_return to avoid having to pass the pt_regs pointer down to the

Re: sata scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Paul Rolland wrote: getting too much of No help text available usually results in people no more reading the help text. I assert that a Kconfig prompt (a visible Kconfig variable) _without_ help text is a bug. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--= - http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] alpha: convert to generic sys_ptrace

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:14:37 +0200 Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:11:50AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 21:12:57 +0200 Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch converts alpha to the generic sys_ptrace. We use

Re: [PATCH] Add a refcount check in dput()

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:13:19 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Menage) wrote: Add a BUG_ON() to check for passing an unreferenced dentry to dput(). This is analogous to the similar check in dget(), and will make reference-counting bugs in filesystems more immediately obvious. (I just

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:12:26 +0200 Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree with your concern, those numbers are quite silly. The chances of 99.8% of pages being free and the remaining 0.2% being perfectly spread across all 2MB large_pages are lower than those of SHA1 creating a

ELF randomization questions

2007-09-15 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Hello, I have a couple questions about the process stack randomization but I'm not sure who should be CCed for such questions. I submitted a patch to enable 'inside the page' stack randomization on MIPS few weeks ago and which has been now committed. But I noticed that this patch is actually

Re: Per option CFLAGS?

2007-09-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:30:21AM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: On 09/15/2007 01:13 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Rene Herman wrote: I have a single file foo.c that I want to generate two (ALSA) modules from, snd-foo2000.ko and snd-foo2001.ko, by compiling with either FOO2000 or FOO2001 defined.

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Consolidate host virtualization support under Virtualization menu

2007-09-15 Thread Alexey Eremenko
We turn Virtualization into a menu, not a config option, since it's actually only used as a menu. Then we move lguest under that menu. What about containerization bits ? IPC_Namespaces, *_Namespaces - I think we should evaluate adding them too to this menu. -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-15 Thread Manu Abraham
Hello Markus, Markus Rechberger wrote: The main discussion in this thread was about drivers in userspace are bad because the API will allow binary drivers. The guy who works for Hauppauge (again I also have good contacts at Hauppauge Europe) writes it's bad - for no technical reason.

Re: [PATCH] Move the definition of pr_err() into kernel.h

2007-09-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 12 2007 12:59, Stephen Hemminger wrote: Other pr_*() macros are already defined in kernel.h, but pr_err() was defined multiple times in several other places Signed-off-by: Emil Medve [EMAIL PROTECTED] pr_error seems better than pr_err Please add the full set: pr_alert

Re: [PATCH] pci: fix unterminated pci_device_id lists

2007-09-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 13 2007 02:42, Jeff Garzik wrote: Alexey Dobriyan wrote: -static struct pci_device_id rtl8139_pci_tbl[] = { +PCI_MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE_BEGIN(rtl8139_pci_tbl) {0x10ec, 0x8139, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, RTL8139 }, {0x10ec, 0x8138, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, RTL8139 },

include/linux/mutex.h file is unclear about software interrupts and mutex_trylock

2007-09-15 Thread Matti Linnanvuori
From: Matti Linnanvuori [EMAIL PROTECTED] include/linux/mutex.h file is unclear about software interrupts and the return value of mutex_trylock. Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.23-rc6/include/linux/mutex.h2007-09-09 09:55:34.917468000 +0300 +++

Re: x86 merge - a little feedback

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:14:22 +0200 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People do not expect code under arch/i386/ to be used by code under arch/x86_64/ and vice versa. [OT: it drives me batshit that we ended up including stuff in both directions] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Can LVM block I/O and hang a system?

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:09:14 -0400 Maurice Volaski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A working system begins hanging and it seems to be stuck on I/O processes that use ext3 partitions that are running on top of LVM. The system is AMD 64-bit running Gentoo. Kernel is Gentoo 2.6.22-r3 and LVM

Re: [PATCH] add consts where appropriate in sound/pci/hda/*

2007-09-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 14 2007 18:48, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Hi Takashi, There is a lot of data structures in that code, and most of them seems to be read-only. I added const modifiers to most of such places: textdata bss dec hex filename 106315 179564 36 285915 45cdb

Re: 2.6.22.6: kernel BUG at fs/locks.c:171

2007-09-15 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 07:22 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: On Friday 14 September 2007 16:02, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 09:51 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: On Thursday 13 September 2007 19:20, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: Dear all, I've just seen this in dmesg on a AMD K7

Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3

2007-09-15 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Pavel, On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 15:15 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Venki sent me an initial patch, but it has issues with the notify ordering. Find below my cache the broadcast flags version for testing. Hmmpf, the flag is still cleared when the cpu goes offline. Need to take a closer look.

Re: boot hangs with SMP, USB storage, and ACPI

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
(cc restored. Please always do reply-to-all) (linux-acpi cc added) On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:00:41 +0200 tx tox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Lip 2006, 00:41, Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try toboota 2.6.17 kernel compiled forSMP(hyperthreading), it hangs early in

Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?

2007-09-15 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 08:27 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Please, don't word wrap log-files, they're hard enough to read without it :-( ( I see people do this more and more often, *WHY*? is that because we like 80 char lines, in code and email? ) Anyway, looks like all of zone_normal is

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-15 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Prakash Punnoor wrote: I don't have exaclty the same hw, but the same chipset and I don't have any problems - even with the swncq patch applied. Do you have an hpet? If not, try booting with acpi_use_time_override. My system won't work with skipping the override. Hi , I reconnected and

[PATCH v2] Kconfig: Make MSI Laptop select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE instead of depend

2007-09-15 Thread Matej Laitl
From: Matěj Laitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] This simple patch helps users reveal this config option and makes MSI Laptop more coherent with other laptop extras found in misc devices. (this option was hidden until user says y to BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE under Graphics drivers) When at it, convert space

Re: [PATCH] add consts where appropriate in sound/pci/hda/*

2007-09-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:43:40AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Sep 14 2007 18:48, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Hi Takashi, There is a lot of data structures in that code, and most of them seems to be read-only. I added const modifiers to most of such places: textdata bss

Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:49:41 +0200 Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 15:15 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Venki sent me an initial patch, but it has issues with the notify ordering. Find below my cache the broadcast flags version for testing. Hmmpf, the

Re: 2.6.22.6: kernel BUG at fs/locks.c:171

2007-09-15 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 09:47 +, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 07:22 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: On Friday 14 September 2007 16:02, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 09:51 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: On Thursday 13 September 2007 19:20, Soeren Sonnenburg

Re: [PATCH] add consts where appropriate in sound/pci/hda/*

2007-09-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 15 2007 12:18, Sam Ravnborg wrote: textdata bss dec hex filename 106315 179564 36 285915 45cdb snd-hda-intel.o 2830512624 36 285711 45c0f snd-hda-intel_patched.o This is kinda odd. Why did the _text_ size increase by constifying? The data

Re: Problem: screen partially garbled in i830m (regression)

2007-09-15 Thread Michael Haas
Dave Airlie wrote: reply so far, that's why I'm posting to LKML this time. Short summary: 874808c6dd429f7431b906a32c7f78a68e7636af broke intel_agp.ko for me, I'm getting a garbled screen. Can you try the attached patch? Hello David, I haven't been able to try your patch yet. However,

Re: [RFC][PATCH] 9p: add readahead support for loose mode

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:02:40 -0500 Eric Van Hensbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + list_for_each_entry_reverse(tmp_page, page_list, lru) { + BUG_ON(count num_pages); + if (add_to_page_cache(tmp_page, mapping, + tmp_page-index,

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -62

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Let's cc the USB mailing list. On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:28:23 +0200 Christian Volkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I have an error message with 2.6.23-rc6. This did not happen with 2.6.22. Another one for Michal's dirt file. The kernel reports message like this: 3usb 1-1:

Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?

2007-09-15 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, Thanks for looking into this. On 15 Sep 2007, at 11:08, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 08:27 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Please, don't word wrap log-files, they're hard enough to read without it :-( ( I see people do this more and more often, *WHY*? is that because we

Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:08:17 +0200 Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 08:27 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Please, don't word wrap log-files, they're hard enough to read without it :-( ( I see people do this more and more often, *WHY*? is that because we like

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage

2007-09-15 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:16:03 +0200 Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FUJITA Tomonori wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:14:21 +0200 (CEST) Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... And one more update: There is SAS too, ... +You need it +- for classic parallel SCSI

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

2007-09-15 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:16:35 -0700 Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FUJITA Tomonori wrote: Can you try this patch (against 2.6.23-rc4-mm1)? From 592bd2049cb3e6e1f1dde7cf631879f26ddffeaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007

Re: x86 merge - a little feedback

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:29:53 +0900 Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I was the first one to do CONFIG_MMU=y/n in the same arch directory, since 2.5, I can tell you that that's simply crap. The only reason CONFIG_MMU=n gets broken all the time is because people don't think about it in

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-15 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:33:18AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: the clearest public analysis of the situation yet thank you. I've tried but I get too pissed. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Why do so many machines need noapic?

2007-09-15 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Saturday 15 September 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: There are 48 bugs in bugzilla which mention noapic

Re: Why do so many machines need noapic?

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:58:27 +0200 Ingo Oeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 September 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: There are 48 bugs in bugzilla which mention noapic

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-15 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thursday 13 September 2007, Jason Dixon wrote: It boggles my mind that we can lie around complacently, arguing about   installer menus and taking the bait from trolls, while our freedoms are quickly eroding away.  The rights and recognition of one of our own developers (reyk@) have been

Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?

2007-09-15 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 11:50 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Hi, Thanks for looking into this. On 15 Sep 2007, at 11:08, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 08:27 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Please, don't word wrap log-files, they're hard enough to read without it :-(

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-15 Thread Prakash Punnoor
On the day of Saturday 15 September 2007 Jon Ivar Rykkelid hast written: Do you get the same error messages that I do if you're running without the acpi_use_timer_override (this is how it is spelled, isn't it) ? I don't remeber which messages I get, but for me the kernel didn't boot with

[Minor patch] Reduce __print_symbol/sprint_symbol stack usage.

2007-09-15 Thread Gilboa Davara
Hello all, In a small exchange in fedora-kernel-list [1] Eric Sandeen has pointed out a possible stack overflow... when CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW is enabled. (Though not limited to it) Code path is simple: do_IRQ detects a a near stack overflow condition and calls show_trace_log_lvl which, down

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:01:18PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: On 14 Sep, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:00:33PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Hi Stefan. Such a patch really calls for some minimal unifacation among the architectures. arch/alpha/Kconfig

Re: [PATCH] add consts where appropriate in sound/pci/hda/*

2007-09-15 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Saturday 15 September 2007 11:29, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Sep 15 2007 12:18, Sam Ravnborg wrote: textdata bss dec hex filename 106315 179564 36 285915 45cdb snd-hda-intel.o 2830512624 36 285711 45c0f snd-hda-intel_patched.o This is kinda

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -62

2007-09-15 Thread Christian Volkmann
Does the machine otherwise work OK? Yes, the USB is working fine for the easy things I do with it. Hmm, so I expect this 2.6.22 message: 6usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2 became this 2.6.23rc6 message: 3usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -62 and nothing is harmed. Andrew

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -62

2007-09-15 Thread Christian Volkmann
Second try to send, after I created postmaster on my domain. Just to ensure the CC-list works correct. Sorry for this double posting. 550-Postmaster verification failed while checking [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550-Called: 212.227.15.134 550-Sent: RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550-Response: 550

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

2007-09-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:12:26 +0200 Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree with your concern, those numbers are quite silly. The chances of 99.8% of pages being free and the remaining 0.2% being perfectly spread across all 2MB large_pages

Re: Why do so many machines need noapic?

2007-09-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:08:02AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: I believe that about two years ago we broke something which caused quite a large number of people to need noapic. Is that the case with any of your machines? Do you know if they run 2.6.ancient without noapic? My recollection is

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:01:18PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: drivers/Kconfig |4 drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 1589 -- drivers/scsi/Kconfig.lowlevel | 1578 + 3 files changed, 1588

Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

2007-09-15 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hi Jeff. On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Further TODO list includes: * implement optional saving of mirroring/linear information on the remote nodes (simple) * new redundancy algorithm (complex) * some thoughts about distributed

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
FUJITA Tomonori wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:16:03 +0200 Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or would be for newer SCSI transports such as Fibre Channel, FireWire storage, iSCSI, SAS, and more, be OK? scsi-ml has SPI, FC, iSCSI, SAS, and SRP transport classes (SRP is in scsi-misc

Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

2007-09-15 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hi Mike. On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:54:56PM -0400, Mike Snitzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This distributed storage is very much needed; even if it were to act as a more capable/performant replacement for NBD (or MD+NBD) in the near term. Many high availability applications don't _need_ all

Re: [PATCH] add consts where appropriate in sound/pci/hda/*

2007-09-15 Thread Andreas Schwab
Denys Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ELF is not as rigid as old a.out (which had only one text, one data and one bss segment per .o file IIRC), but size was born in a.out days, so it sort of translates ELF into a.out. Try size -A instead. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL

Re: sysfs: spit a warning to users when they try to create a duplicate sysfs file

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Greg KH wrote: We want to let people know when we create a duplicate sysfs file, as they need to fix up their code. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/sysfs/dir.c |6 +- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c +++

[PATCH] ieee1394: nodemgr: fix leak of struct csr1212_keyval

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
csr1212_keep_keyval(kv) in nodemgr_process_root_directory was unbalanced if ne-vendor_name_kv already exists. This happens for example if eth1394 or raw1394 modify the local config ROM and it is parsed again. As a bonus, the attempt to add the vendor_name_kv sysfs attribute when it already

[PATCH] ieee1394: csr1212: proper refcounting

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Accesses to struct csr1212_keyval's reference counter have to be atomic and require proper barriers. Also, calls to csr1212_keep_keyval(kv) have to occur before kv is getting used. (We probably should convert refcnt to struct kref, but how to keep csr1212_destroy_keyval's implementation

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:24:17PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: ... # drivers/Kconfig +source drivers/scsi/Kconfig + menu Device Drivers source drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ source drivers/misc/Kconfig source drivers/ide/Kconfig

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage

2007-09-15 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:30:10 +0200 Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FUJITA Tomonori wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:16:03 +0200 Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or would be for newer SCSI transports such as Fibre Channel, FireWire storage, iSCSI, SAS, and more, be OK?

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-git1 -- termios *_1 compile failures on powerpc

2007-09-15 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:33:12AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: On 9/12/07, Andy Whitcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following commit just hit mainline and all my powerpc test boxes are failing during compilation: commit f629307c857c030d5a3dd777fee37c8bb395e171 tty:

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage

2007-09-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:14:21PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- And one more update: There is SAS too, and I forgot 'is' in on a disk which __ accessed via. drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 67 ++- 1

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-15 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 9/15/07, Mauro Carvalho Chehab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main discussion in this thread was about drivers in userspace are bad because the API will allow binary drivers. No. The focus is that userspace API is not needed at all, and the community believe that this is a regression from

Re: sata scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Stefan, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:25:39 +0200 Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Rolland wrote: getting too much of No help text available usually results in people no more reading the help text. I assert that a Kconfig prompt (a visible Kconfig variable) _without_ help

Re: [Minor patch] Reduce __print_symbol/sprint_symbol stack usage.

2007-09-15 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi, On 9/15/07, Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, In a small exchange in fedora-kernel-list [1] Eric Sandeen has pointed out a possible stack overflow... when CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW is enabled. (Though not limited to it) Yeah, I have experienced this phenomenon/problem

[git] CFS-devel, group scheduler, fixes

2007-09-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
The latest sched-devel.git tree can be pulled from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git people were busy sending patches, so there's lots of updates since the first announcement of the cfs-devel.git tree four days ago: include/linux/sched.h |

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-15 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: it gets me thinking. Some core developers who I met during the last few weeks (kernel summit, suse conference in czech) told me to go on with it actually because the final plan isn't that bad.. I was referring to your code you posted for

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: There should first be the lowlevel SCSI, SATA, USB etc. drivers, these drivers should select CONFIG_SCSI, and then the menu offering support for disk, CD,... ... If users who don't need it now enable CONFIG_SCSI (and drivers/ide/ usage is not that uncommon) that's a

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:14:21PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: + You need it + - for classic parallel SCSI hardware, + - for newer SCSI transports such as Fibre Channel, FireWire storage, +SAS, or iSCSI, + - for non-SCSI hardware which speaks

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 compile error for ppc 32

2007-09-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Like this? --- a/include/asm-powerpc/bitops.h~powerpc-lock-bitops-fix +++ a/include/asm-powerpc/bitops.h @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static __inline__ void set_bits(unsigned static __inline__ void __clear_bit_unlock(int nr, volatile

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-15 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: The main discussion in this thread was about drivers in userspace are bad because the API will allow binary drivers. The guy who works for Hauppauge (again I also have good contacts at Hauppauge Europe) writes it's bad - for no technical reason.

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-15 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 9/15/07, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: it gets me thinking. Some core developers who I met during the last few weeks (kernel summit, suse conference in czech) told me to go on with it actually because the final plan isn't

Re: [2.6.22.5] irq X: nobody cared but X is successfully used by libata

2007-09-15 Thread ポール・ ロラン
Hello, Just to let you know that this seems to be over in 2.6.23-rc6. Don't know exactly what fixed it, but it is no more present in my bootlog, with or without the irqpoll option. Nice job, Regards, Paul On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 08:59:23 +0200 Paul Rolland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Tejun,

Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3

2007-09-15 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 03:18 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:49:41 +0200 Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dropped the timekeeping.c hunks because they are an older version of timekeeping-prevent-time-going-backwards-on-resume.patch which I already had. Err, no.

Re: [PATCH] add consts where appropriate in sound/pci/hda/*

2007-09-15 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Saturday 15 September 2007 13:40, Andreas Schwab wrote: Denys Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ELF is not as rigid as old a.out (which had only one text, one data and one bss segment per .o file IIRC), but size was born in a.out days, so it sort of translates ELF into a.out. Try

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:20:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: There should first be the lowlevel SCSI, SATA, USB etc. drivers, these drivers should select CONFIG_SCSI, and then the menu offering support for disk, CD,... ... If users who don't need it now enable

2.6.23-rc6 : crash with RTL8187 USB

2007-09-15 Thread ポール・ ロラン
Hello, Each time I add the support for this piece of hardware, I have a crash during the boot process. Serial console gives the attached boot message... Linux version 2.6.23-rc6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12)) #1 SMP Sat Sep 15 15:02:47 CEST 2007 Command

Re: increase AT_VECTOR_SIZE to terminate saved_auxv properly

2007-09-15 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:00:57PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: include/asm-powerpc/elf.h has 6 entries in ARCH_DLINFO. fs/binfmt_elf.c has 14 unconditional NEW_AUX_ENT entries and 2 conditional NEW_AUX_ENT entries. So in the worst case, saved_auxv does not get an AT_NULL entry at the end. Is

Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3

2007-09-15 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 03:18 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git;a=shortlog;h=for-2.6.23 That patch fixes the resume-from-ram and suspend-to-ram regressions on the Vaio. I dropped the timekeeping.c hunks because they are an older

Re: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-09-15 Thread Steve Wise
Roland Dreier wrote: I was about to post v2 of my patch to avoid port space collisions with the native stack. Can we get that 2.6.24? It is high priority IMO. I've tried to solicit review on it, but I think folks are reluctant... ;-) I would like to get this in, but I'm still at

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-15 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Everyone knows that there are some issues even some internal ones which I'm not part of. With respect to your kernel-userspace API for xc3028, you made something that seemed to be a dream: there's a consensus: not a single developer believed that this is the better way; nobody seems that this

Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH v2] iw_cxgb3: Support iwarp-only interfaces to avoid 4-tuple conflicts.

2007-09-15 Thread Steve Wise
Sean Hefty wrote: The iWARP driver must translate all listens on address 0.0.0.0 to the set of rdma-only ip addresses for the device in question. This prevents incoming connect requests to the TCP ipaddresses from going up the rdma stack. I've only given this a high level review at this

rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

2007-09-15 Thread Eric Valette
First let me start by a thanks: it was the last piece of my P5W de luxe machine based that has not its driver from stock kernel. It works like a charm when used as a module: lsusb Bus 005 Device 001: ID : Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 004 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:20:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: It still doesn't entirely clarify whether users need sd, sr, st, and whether thy need sd for the disk with root filesystem. If you want to do it in a really perfect way, help texts aren't the solution.

Re: sysfs change of input/event devices in 2.6.23rc breaks udev

2007-09-15 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Saturday 15 September 2007 04:05, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:24:04 -0400 Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/10/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 01:28:47AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 19:03, Kay

Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

2007-09-15 Thread Robin Humble
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: It is my hope that you will put your skills towards a distributed filesystem :) Of the current solutions, GFS (currently in kernel) scales poorly, and NFS v4.1 is amazingly bloated and overly complex. I've been waiting for years for

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

2007-09-15 Thread Eric Valette
Eric Valette wrote: I can probably take a picture of the backtrace if you want. Just saw that just above my message in the LKML web interface, someone posted a backtrace. Mine is different but at least, we are at least two to have the crash. -- eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-15 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 9/15/07, Mauro Carvalho Chehab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone knows that there are some issues even some internal ones which I'm not part of. With respect to your kernel-userspace API for xc3028, you made something that seemed to be a dream: there's a consensus: not a single developer

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