Re: laptop reboots right after hibernation

2007-12-05 Thread Kjartan Maraas
on., 05.12.2007 kl. 16.46 +0900, skrev Tejun Heo: Kjartan Maraas wrote: fr., 30.11.2007 kl. 19.39 +0900, skrev Tejun Heo: Kjartan Maraas wrote: on., 28.11.2007 kl. 10.09 +0900, skrev Tejun Heo: Kjartan Maraas wrote: I get this exact error message on a normal first time boot here. I'm

[PATCH] regression: bfs endianness bug

2007-12-05 Thread Al Viro
BFS_FILEBLOCKS() expects struct bfs_inode * (on-disk data, with little-endian fields), not struct bfs_inode_info * (in-core stuff, with host-endian ones). It's a macro and fields with the right names are present in bfs_inode_info, so it compiles, but on big-endian host it gives bogus results.

IO-APIC discrepency between x86 subarches

2007-12-05 Thread Jon Masters
Yo, Can someone tell me what the current collective thinking is about calling io_apic_sync during interrupt masking? This has changed several times recently, and is different between x86 IA32 and x86_64. As Ingo noted a long while back, it should be fine, but consistency is a nice thing. With

[patch 09/18] agp: alpha nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert AGP alpha driver from nopage to fault. NULL is NOPAGE_SIGBUS, so we aren't changing behaviour there. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/char/agp/alpha-agp.c | 17 - 1 file

[patch 11/18] ib: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert IB from nopage to fault. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_debug.h|4 +--

[patch 17/18] mm: remove nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Nothing in the tree uses nopage any more. Remove support for it in the core mm code and documentation (and a few stray references to it in comments). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

[patch 03/18] drm: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert drm from nopage to fault. Remove redundant vma range checks. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/char/drm/drm_vm.c | 131 +- 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 70

[patch 08/18] fb: defio nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert fb defio from nopage to fault. Switch from OOM to SIGBUS if the resource is not available. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt |6 +++---

[patch 06/18] ieee1394: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert ieee1394 from nopage to fault. Remove redundant vma range checks (correct resource range check is retained). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/ieee1394/dma.c | 39

[patch 01/18] ia64: ia32 nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert ia64's ia32 support from nopage to fault. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- arch/ia64/ia32/binfmt_elf32.c | 34 +++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 19

[patch 07/18] v4l: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert v4l from nopage to fault. Remove redundant vma range checks. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/media/video/videobuf-dma-sg.c | 20 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+),

[patch 12/18] usb: mon nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert USB mon driver from nopage to fault. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c | 16 +++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Index:

[patch 05/18] kvm: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert KVM from nopage to fault. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 38 +- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) Index:

[patch 13/18] alsa: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert ALSA from nopage to fault. Switch from OOM to SIGBUS if the resource is not available. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- sound/core/pcm_native.c | 59

[patch 10/18] sg: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert SG from nopage to fault. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 23 +++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/sg.c

[patch 15/18] alsa: usx2y nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert alsa usx2y driver from nopage to fault. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- sound/usb/usx2y/usX2Yhwdep.c| 21 - sound/usb/usx2y/usx2yhwdeppcm.c | 19 ++-

[patch 16/18] mm: special mapping nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert special mapping install from nopage to fault. This requires a small special case in the do_linear_fault calculation in order to handle vmas without -vm_file set. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- mm/memory.c | 10

[patch 02/18] relay: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert relay from nopage to fault. Remove redundant vma range checks. Switch from OOM to SIGBUS if the resource is not available. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- kernel/relay.c | 24

[patch 14/18] oss: via nopage

2007-12-05 Thread npiggin
Convert OSS via driver from nopage to fault. Remove redundant vma range checks. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.c | 28 +--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 19

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Subject: SCHED - Use a 2-d bitmap for searching lowest-pri CPU

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Gregory Haskins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current code use a linear algorithm which causes scaling issues on larger SMP machines. This patch replaces that algorithm with a 2-dimensional bitmap to reduce latencies in the wake-up path. hm, what kind of scaling issues - do you have any

drivers/net/iseries_veth.c dubious sysfs usage

2007-12-05 Thread Greg KH
In doing a massive kobject cleanup of the kernel tree, I ran across the iseries_veth.c driver. It looks like the driver is creating a number of subdirectories under the driver sysfs directory. This is odd and probably wrong. You want these virtual connections to show up in the main sysfs device

Re: [patch 03/18] drm: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:05:06AM +, Dave Airlie wrote: Convert drm from nopage to fault. Remove redundant vma range checks. Hi Nick, can you rebase against the -mm tree? or are you pushing this for before then? if so can you supply me a patch against -mm? I'm not sure where I

2.6.24-rc4-mm1: kobj changes fallout on powerpc

2007-12-05 Thread Olof Johansson
powerpc allyesconfig fails on the following two drivers (iseries_defconfig fails for the veth one): drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c: In function 'ehea_driver_sysfs_add': drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c:2812: error: 'struct device_driver' has no member named 'kobj' drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c:2815:

Re: [patch 03/18] drm: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread Dave Airlie
Convert drm from nopage to fault. Remove redundant vma range checks. Hi Nick, can you rebase against the -mm tree? or are you pushing this for before then? if so can you supply me a patch against -mm? The drm git tree has a new VM user for the memory manager.. Dave. Signed-off-by: Nick

[PATCH] no need to mess with KBUILD_CFLAGS on uml-i386 anymore

2007-12-05 Thread Al Viro
Now that X86_32 is provided on Kconfig level for uml-i386, there's no need to play with it explicitly on Makefile level anymore. Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/arch/um/Makefile-i386 b/arch/um/Makefile-i386 index 6729011..561e373 100644 ---

Re: [PATCH] as-iosched: fix write batch start point

2007-12-05 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:07:07PM +1100, Aaron Carroll wrote: New write batches currently start from where the last one completed. We have no idea where the head is after switching batches, so this makes little sense. Instead, start the next batch from the request with the earliest deadline

Re: broken dpt_i2o in 2.6.23 (was: ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory)

2007-12-05 Thread Anders Henke
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:30:54 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:11:55 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:04:03 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4

Re: [patch 1/3] bdi patches

2007-12-05 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:52 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: On Thursday November 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://programming.kicks-ass.net/kernel-patches/foo/ bdi-task-dirty.patch bdi-sysfs.patch bdi-min.patch bdi-max.patch Is my current rather experimental stack, I

[PATCH] as-iosched: fix write batch start point

2007-12-05 Thread Aaron Carroll
New write batches currently start from where the last one completed. We have no idea where the head is after switching batches, so this makes little sense. Instead, start the next batch from the request with the earliest deadline in the hope that we avoid a deadline expiry later on.

[PATCH] as-iosched: fix incorrect comments

2007-12-05 Thread Aaron Carroll
Two comments refer to deadlines applying to reads only. This is not the case. Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- block/as-iosched.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/as-iosched.c b/block/as-iosched.c index dc715a5..4513fc5 100644

[PATCH] remove nonsense force-casts from ocfs2

2007-12-05 Thread Al Viro
endianness annotations in networking code had been in place for quite a while; in particular, sin_port and s_addr are annotated as big-endian. Code in ocfs2 had __force casts added apparently to shut the sparse warnings up; of course, these days they only serve to *produce* warnings for

[PATCH] fcrypt endianness misannotations

2007-12-05 Thread Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/crypto/fcrypt.c b/crypto/fcrypt.c index d161949..a32cb68 100644 --- a/crypto/fcrypt.c +++ b/crypto/fcrypt.c @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ #define ROUNDS 16 struct fcrypt_ctx { - u32 sched[ROUNDS]; + __be32 sched[ROUNDS]; }; /*

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] 32-bit pointers in x86-64

2007-12-05 Thread Andrew Pinski
On 12/5/07, Jan Beulich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Pinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25.11.07 19:45 On 11/25/07, Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7.1. Add __attribute__((pointer_size(XXX))) and #pragma pointer_size to allow 64-bit pointers in 32-bit mode and viceversa This is already there,

Re: What can we do to get ready for memory controller merge in 2.6.25

2007-12-05 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:11:14 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to post some patches below in the next week. - throttling the number of callers of try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() - background reclaim and high/low watermark. - some cleanups. I'd like to hold off

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-12-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 12:50 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: Intel's newest dual 10GbE NIC can easily (?) throw ~14M packets per second. (theoretical peak at 1514bytes/frame) Granted, installing such a device on a single

Re: [PATCH -v2] fix for futex_wait signal stack corruption

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a minor nit. Can we please use futex instead of fu ? I'm just envisioning the next union member named ba. Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please apply with the s/fu/futex/ change. This needs to go into stable .22/.23 as well.

[PATCH] netmos 9855 fix

2007-12-05 Thread chripell
Fixes wrong netmos 9855 serial port configuration. Generated on 20071205 against v2.6.21 Signed-off-by: Christian Pellegrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/parport/parport_serial.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/parport/parport_serial.c b

[PATCH] max3100 driver

2007-12-05 Thread chripell
This patch adds support for the MAX3100 SPI UART. Generated on 20071205 against v2.6.23 Signed-off-by: Christian Pellegrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/serial/Kconfig |7 + drivers/serial/Makefile|1 + drivers/serial/max3100.c | 960

Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86_64: define all _PAGE_* in terms of _PAGE_BIT_*

2007-12-05 Thread Joerg Roedel
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:07:54PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Joerg Roedel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:38:09PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Joerg Roedel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +#define _PAGE_PRESENT (_AC(1,UL)_PAGE_BIT_PRESENT) please run

Re: [PATCH] Updates to nfsroot documentation (take 2)

2007-12-05 Thread Andi Kleen
Amos Waterland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The difference between ip=off and ip=::off has been a cause of much confusion. Document how each behaves, and do not contradict ourselves by saying that off is the default when in fact any is the default and is descibed as being so lower in the

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

2007-12-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:54:52AM -0800, Ray Lee wrote: (Why hasn't anyone been cc:ing Matt on this?) I didn't because I am not a regularly enough visitor of this mailing list to know who is in charge of what. On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:41:25PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: A PRNG is clearly

Re: [PATCH] fcrypt endianness misannotations

2007-12-05 Thread David Howells
Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've checked it and it still works with this patch. Acked-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

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Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86_64: define all _PAGE_* in terms of _PAGE_BIT_*

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Joerg Roedel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, forgot to check the patches before submission. Will cleanup and resubmit soon. please if possible send a delta against x86.git, not a replacement patch. It's easier for the patchflow. Not sure I understand you right

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Re: Add LZO compression support to cryptoapi

2007-12-05 Thread Zoltan Sogor
Hi Herbert! Herbert Xu wrote: Hi Zoltan: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:44:07AM +0100, Zoltan Sogor wrote: I'm Zoltan Sogor at University of Szeged, Hungary, and we are working on new flash file system (UBIFS) cooperating with Nokia Corp. We would like to use cryptoapi in UBIFS

[patch 3/3] zfcp: Use device_driver default attribute groups.

2007-12-05 Thread Cornelia Huck
CC: Swen Schillig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_ccw.c | 14 -- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_ext.h |3 +-- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_sysfs_driver.c | 27 --- 3 files changed, 9

Patch submission question [not in the FAQ]

2007-12-05 Thread Gabriele Gorla
Hello, I have submitted a patch for the 3x- driver on alpha several months ago to both the driver maintainer and the linux-scsi mailing list. I have read all the FAQ and I tried to stick to the instructions to the letter. However the patch has been completely ignored. No reply, no comment, no

Re: [RFC v2] Documentation about unaligned memory access

2007-12-05 Thread Jan Kara
A minor typo: ... Avoiding unaligned accesses === The easiest way to avoid unaligned access is to use the get_unaligned() and put_unaligned() macros provided by the asm/unaligned.h header file. Going back to an earlier example of code that potentially causes

Re: [PATCH v2] Fix hardware IRQ time accounting problem.

2007-12-05 Thread Frederik Himpe
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:51:44 +1100, Tony Breeds wrote: The commit fa13a5a1f25f671d084d8884be96fc48d9b68275 (sched: restore deterministic CPU accounting on powerpc), unconditionally calls update_process_tick() in system context. In the deterministic accounting case this is the correct thing

Re: [PATCH] as-iosched: fix incorrect comments

2007-12-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Dec 05 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:06:50PM +1100, Aaron Carroll wrote: Two comments refer to deadlines applying to reads only. This is not the case. Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Goodie, I'll

Re: [patch 04/18] uio: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:04:08AM +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: Am Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:15:51 +1100 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Convert uio from nopage to fault. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Nick, could you please add me to Cc: for UIO

Re: [patch 04/18] uio: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:15:51 +1100 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Convert uio from nopage to fault. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Nick, could you please add me to Cc: for UIO stuff: Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The patch itself looks alright to me, but I

Re: PS3: trouble with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP and kexec

2007-12-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Milton Miller wrote: On Dec 2, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Geoff Levand wrote: ps3_mm_add_memory:317: start_addr 74032000h, start_pfn 74032h, nr_pages 17000h 4swapper: page allocation failure. order:12, mode:0x80d0 Call Trace: [c6047820] [c000e700]

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] 32-bit pointers in x86-64

2007-12-05 Thread Jan Beulich
Andrew Pinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25.11.07 19:45 On 11/25/07, Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7.1. Add __attribute__((pointer_size(XXX))) and #pragma pointer_size to allow 64-bit pointers in 32-bit mode and viceversa This is already there, try using __attribute__((mode(DI) )). Hmm, unless this

Re: [Bug 9246] On 2.6.24-rc1-gc9927c2b BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 3d15b925

2007-12-05 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Tuesday, 4 of December 2007, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: hi, * Giacomo Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2.6.24-rc1-gc9927c2b BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 3d15b925 In last git, I see the following BUGs in

Re: [PATCH 01/28] blk_end_request: add new request completion interface (take 3)

2007-12-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Dec 04 2007, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote: Hi Boaz and Jens, On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:56:32 +0200, Boaz Harrosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +/** + * blk_end_request - Helper function for drivers to complete the request. + * @rq: the request being processed + * @uptodate: 1 for

[PATCH] regression: cifs endianness bug

2007-12-05 Thread Al Viro
access_flags_to_mode() gets on-the-wire data (little-endian) and treats it as host-endian. Introduced in commit e01b64001359034d04c695388870936ed3d1b56b ([CIFS] enable get mode from ACL when cifsacl mount option specified) Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git

Re: Does vger.kernel.org automatically drop spams?

2007-12-05 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:25:52PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: Hello. I posted a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11 hours ago, but it seems to me my message has not delivered yet. Usually it won't take 10 minutes to be delivered. So, I'm thinking my

Re: [Timers SMP] can this machine be helped?

2007-12-05 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: On Mon 2007-12-03 22:45:06, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: I compiled a .24-ish kernel for it with CONFIG_NO_HZ and CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS. To get the system boot at least sometimes I have to

[RFC PATCH 3/5] Add list_for_each_entry_reverse_from()

2007-12-05 Thread Bharata B Rao
Introduce list_for_each_entry_reverse_from() needed by a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/list.h | 13 + 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/list.h +++ b/include/linux/list.h @@ -562,6 +562,19 @@ static inline void

[PATCH] x86_64: some whitespace cleanups in paging code

2007-12-05 Thread Joerg Roedel
This patch does some whitespace cleanups in the paging code to fix some checkpatch.pl warnings of my formerly merged cleanup patches. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c|2 +- include/asm-x86/pgtable_64.h | 22 +++--- 2 files

[RFC PATCH 5/5] Directory cache invalidation

2007-12-05 Thread Bharata B Rao
Changes to keep dirent cache uptodate. Dirent cache stored as part of topmost directory's struct file needs to be marked stale whenever there is a modification in any of the directories that is part of the union. Modifications(like addition/deletion of new entries) to a directory can occur from

[RFC PATCH 1/5] Remove existing directory listing implementation

2007-12-05 Thread Bharata B Rao
Remove the existing readdir implementation. Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/readdir.c | 10 + fs/union.c| 333 -- include/linux/union.h | 23 --- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 358 deletions(-)

[RFC PATCH 0/5] Union Mount: A Directory listing approach with lseek support

2007-12-05 Thread Bharata B Rao
Hi, In Union Mount, the merged view of directories of the union is obtained by enhancing readdir(2)/getdents(2) to read and merge the entries of all the directories by eliminating the duplicates. While we have tried a few approaches for this, none of them could perfectly solve all the problems.

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

2007-12-05 Thread Mike McGrath
Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:23:12PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:18:27PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: Matt Mackall wrote: which would have been in v2.6.22-rc4 through the normal CVE process. The only

Re: [patch 1/2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Markus Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Changes to the last version: - split implementation into two layers: ds/bts and ptrace - renamed TIF's - save/restore ds save area msr in __switch_to_xtra() - make block-stepping only look at BTF bit hm, i tried to merge your patches, but they were

[PATCH] exec: allow 2GB executables to run on 64-bit systems

2007-12-05 Thread Dave Anderson
When a executable that is greater than 2GB in size is attempted on a 64-bit system on a file system that calls, or uses generic_file_open() as its open handler, it fails with an EOVERFLOW erro. This patch adds a call to force_o_largefile() call in open_exec(), as done in sys_open() and

Re: Possible bug from kernel 2.6.22 and above, 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-05 Thread Jie Chen
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jie Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Holm Th??gersen wrote: ons, 21 11 2007 kl. 20:52 -0500, skrev Jie Chen: There is a backport of the CFS scheduler to 2.6.21, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/19/127 Hi, Simon: I will try that after the thanksgiving holiday to find

about mounting the sysfs

2007-12-05 Thread wit
Hi, I found the initialization code of the sysfs in version 2.6.22: int __init sysfs_init(void) { int err = -ENOMEM; sysfs_dir_cachep = kmem_cache_create(sysfs_dir_cache, sizeof(struct sysfs_dirent), 0, 0, NULL, NULL); if

Re: [RFC 1/4] dmaengine: Add slave DMA interface

2007-12-05 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:20:15 -0700 Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Haavard, Some (delayed) comments. Thanks for the feedback. A few questions: The one change that seems to be missing, at least in my mind, is extending struct dma_client to include details about the slave device.

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 kobject changes broken with hvcs driver on powerpc

2007-12-05 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 07:42:02PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Hi Andrew, The 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 kernel build fails with build failure, CC drivers/char/hvcs.o drivers/char/hvcs.c: In function ‘hvcs_open’: drivers/char/hvcs.c:1180: error: wrong type argument to unary exclamation mark

Re: [patch] ext2: xip check fix

2007-12-05 Thread Carsten Otte
Nick Piggin wrote: Am I missing something here? I wonder how s390 works without this change? -- ext2 should not worry about checking sb-s_blocksize for XIP before the sb's blocksize actually gets set. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext2/super.c

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: some whitespace cleanups in paging code

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Joerg Roedel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch does some whitespace cleanups in the paging code to fix some checkpatch.pl warnings of my formerly merged cleanup patches. thanks, applied. btw., if there's any file you are particularly interested in cleaning up as a whole, you can use

[PATCH 001/001] parport: Added support for the Quatech SPPXP-100 Parallel port PCI ExpressCard

2007-12-05 Thread Luís Mendes
From: Luís Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Added pci vendor id Quatech - 0x135c - to include/linux/pci_id.h Added pci device id for the Quatech SPPXP-100 ExpressCard - 0x278 - to include/linux/pci_id.h Modified drivers/parport/parport_pc.c to support the Quatech SPPXP-100 Parallel port PCI Expresscard

[RFC PATCH 2/5] Add New directory listing approach

2007-12-05 Thread Bharata B Rao
Another readdir implementation for union uounted directories. Reads dirents from all layers of the union into a cache, eliminates duplicates, before returning them into userspace. The cache is stored persistently as part of struct file of the topmost directory. Instead of original directory

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Re: [PATCH 3/3] Subject: SCHED - Use a 2-d bitmap for searching lowest-pri CPU

2007-12-05 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Wed, Dec 5, 2007 at 6:44 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Gregory Haskins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, that said, Steven's testing work on the mainline port of our series sums it up very nicely, so I will present that in lieu of digging

Does vger.kernel.org automatically drop spams?

2007-12-05 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Hello. I posted a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11 hours ago, but it seems to me my message has not delivered yet. Usually it won't take 10 minutes to be delivered. So, I'm thinking my messages was dropped. Does vger.kernel.org have spam filter and

[PATCH] fix group stop with exit race

2007-12-05 Thread Oleg Nesterov
do_signal_stop() counts all sub-thread and sets -group_stop_count accordingly. Every thread should decrement -group_stop_count and stop, the last one should notify the parent. However a sub-thread can exit before it notices the signal_pending(), or it may be somewhere in do_exit() already. In

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-05 Thread Bob Tracy
Current progress: 11 revisions left to test. The current partial git bisect log is available per Ingo's suggestion on bugzilla. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9457 -- Bob Tracy | They couldn't hit an

Re: laptop reboots right after hibernation

2007-12-05 Thread Kjartan Maraas
on., 05.12.2007 kl. 16.46 +0900, skrev Tejun Heo: Kjartan Maraas wrote: fr., 30.11.2007 kl. 19.39 +0900, skrev Tejun Heo: Kjartan Maraas wrote: on., 28.11.2007 kl. 10.09 +0900, skrev Tejun Heo: Kjartan Maraas wrote: I get this exact error message on a normal first time boot here. I'm

Re: [build bug] undefined reference to `dib3000mc_get_tuner_i2c_master'

2007-12-05 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Qua, 2007-12-05 às 11:33 +0100, Jiri Kosina escreveu: On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: Hmm, seems like -common part contains also code that is not completely common to all the modules. How about this? that does the trick and 2.6.24-rc4 now builds boots fine with that

[PATCH 6/9] remove unused macro

2007-12-05 Thread Glauber de Oliveira Costa
Mr. Grep says warn_if_not_ulong() is not used anymore anywhere in the code. So, we remove it. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/asm-x86/system_64.h |2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/asm-x86/system_64.h

[PATCH 4/9] remove references to cr8 register

2007-12-05 Thread Glauber de Oliveira Costa
As pointed out by Andi, linux never really uses this register so saving and restoring is not really necessary. This patch removes all references to it. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_64.c |1 - arch/x86/kernel/suspend_64.c |

[PATCH 5/9] unify paravirt parts of system.h

2007-12-05 Thread Glauber de Oliveira Costa
This patch moves the i386 control registers manipulation functions, wbinvd, and clts functions to system.h. They are essentially the same as in x86_64. With this, system.h paravirt comes for free in x86_64. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/asm-x86/system.h

[PATCH 1/9] remove volatile keyword from clflush.

2007-12-05 Thread Glauber de Oliveira Costa
the p parameter is an explicit memory reference, and is enough to prevent gcc to being nasty here. The volatile seems completely not needed. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/asm-x86/system_32.h |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Re: Possible bug from kernel 2.6.22 and above, 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-05 Thread Jie Chen
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jie Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the moment you saturate the system a bit more, the numbers should improve even with such a ping-pong test. You are right. If I manually do load balance (bind unrelated processes on the other cores), my test code perform as well as it did

Re: [PATCH] bw-qcam: adds parameter aggressive to skip passive detection and directly attempt initialization

2007-12-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:14:13 -0800 Brett T. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- diff --git a/drivers/media/video/bw-qcam.c b/drivers/media/video/bw-qcam.c index 5842352..b74a9cb 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/bw-qcam.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/bw-qcam.c @@ -82,11 +82,16 @@ OTHER

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Union Mount: A Directory listing approach with lseek support

2007-12-05 Thread Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 20:07 +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: In this approach, the cached dirents are given offsets in the form of linearly increasing indices/cookies (like 0, 1, 2,...). This helps us to uniformly define offsets across all the directories of the union irrespective of the type of

Re: [PATCH] x86: apic: Export symbols for extended interrupt LVT functions

2007-12-05 Thread Robert Richter
On 05.12.07 08:51:02, Arjan van de Ven wrote: which kernel code is using or going to use these export? For IBS it is Perfmon. See here: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/eranian/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7caef3e19d17349f869884f5adf7c9823e32ade7 MCE export has been added for consistency

Re: [PATCH] UML - change sigcontext fields to match x86

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: git-x86, in commit 70aa1bd3839e3ec74ce65316528a82570e8de666, changed a lot of the sigcontext field names. This patch changes UML usage to match. thanks, we indeed missed those. Should we carry this in x86.git, or would you like to carry this in your

Re: [patch 12/18] usb: mon nopage

2007-12-05 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:15:59 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Convert USB mon driver from nopage to fault. if (offset = rp-b_size) - return NOPAGE_SIGBUS; + return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; chunk_idx = offset / CHUNK_SIZE; pageptr = rp-b_vec[chunk_idx].pg;

Re: Possible bug from kernel 2.6.22 and above, 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-05 Thread Eric Dumazet
Ingo Molnar a écrit : * Jie Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just ran the same test on two 2.6.24-rc4 kernels: one with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED on and the other with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED off. The odd behavior I described in my previous e-mails were still there for both kernels. Let me know

[patch 2/2] man: man pages for ptrace BTS extension

2007-12-05 Thread Markus Metzger
Resend using different email client Changes to the last version: - ported to v 2.68 Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index: man-pages-2.68/man2/ptrace.2 === ---

Re: [PATCH] bw-qcam: adds parameter aggressive to skip passive detection and directly attempt initialization

2007-12-05 Thread Brett Warden
On Dec 5, 2007 9:37 AM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I would suggest that aggressive may not be the best term - I'm not such of a good one however - skip_passive ? How about force_init? -- Brett Warden -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 + mdadm 2.6.2-2 + Auto rebuild RAID1?

2007-12-05 Thread Nix
On 1 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt uttered the following: On Dec 1 2007 06:19, Justin Piszcz wrote: RAID1, 0.90.03 superblocks (in order to be compatible with LILO, if you use 1.x superblocks with LILO you can't boot) Says who? (Don't use LILO ;-) Well, your kernels must be on a

[PATCH 07/20] drivers/edac/: use LIST_HEAD instead of LIST_HEAD_INIT

2007-12-05 Thread Denis Cheng
single list_head variable initialized with LIST_HEAD_INIT could almost always can be replaced with LIST_HEAD declaration, this shrinks the code and looks better. Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/edac/edac_device.c |2 +- drivers/edac/edac_mc.c |2 +-

[PATCH] drivers/base: use LIST_HEAD instead of call to INIT_LIST_HEAD in __init

2007-12-05 Thread Denis Cheng
LIST_HEAD has been widely used, so switch to this simpler method. Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/base/attribute_container.c |9 + drivers/base/base.h|1 - drivers/base/init.c|1 - 3 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 10

Re: [PATCH] USB: option: Bind to the correct interface of the Huawei E220

2007-12-05 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2007 17:34:23 schrieb Pete Zaitcev: Looks good to me, shorter than my patch, has no duplication, allows to use the storage, looks like a winner. Unfortunately, it leaves ub for dead, Is that new? How could ub do this up to now? Regards Oliver

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