Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:20:01AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Does this report now win me the lucky draw, pretty please? ;) nah, you have to cc the acpi guys to get a prize ;) Thought so shortly, but missed it. Andreas, please do separately report that WOL problem too.. Local setup

Re: git guidance

2007-12-08 Thread Al Boldi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:56:21 +0300, Al Boldi said: It probably goes without saying, that gitfs should have some basic configuration file to setup its transparent behaviour But then it's not *truly* transparent, is it? Don't mistake transparency with some form of

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:20:01AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 11:12:57 +0100 Andreas Mohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ACPI Exception (exoparg2-0442): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index (0) is beyond end of object [20070126] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method

Re: RocketPort Linux driver errors on module reload

2007-12-08 Thread Jiri Slaby
On Oct 19, 2007 12:02 AM, Nick Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jiri Slaby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] And the last question, when do you expect/estimate this would happen? Jiri, To be honest, it would be hard to estimate at this point. I've discussed it with one of our software

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been fixed

Re: broken suspend (sched related) [Was: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1]

2007-12-08 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 12/08/2007 09:39 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately no change here. could you try to revert this change: -int softlockup_thresh = 10; +int softlockup_thresh = 60; i.e. change the value of softlockup_thresh back to 10. You should be able to

Re: [patch 07/18] v4l: nopage

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:15:54 +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static int +videobuf_vm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf) { struct page *page; - dprintk(3,nopage: fault @ %08lx [vma %08lx-%08lx]\n, -

Re: Possible EXT2 race

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 13:58 -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Dave Jones wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:15:42AM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: Dec 7 04:05:55 chaos kernel: sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Peripheral device write fault This sounds

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-12-08 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Ben Crowhurst wrote: Loïc Grenié wrote: 2007/11/29, Ben Crowhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? regards, BPC I have tried it in a toy kernel. Oskit style. The code reuse is very high specially with string ops and driver interfaces.

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Fabio Comolli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Subject : Battery shows up twice in kpowersave Submitter : Rolf Eike Beer [EMAIL PROTECTED] References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9494 Handled-By : Alexey Starikovskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patch

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 03:40 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Subject : leds: ledtrig-timer calls sleeping function from invalid context Submitter : Márton Németh [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9264 Handled-By: Richard Purdie

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 11:12:57 +0100 Andreas Mohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 01:36:31AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Subject : PATA scan: ACPI Exception AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT... is beyond end of object Submitter : Hans de Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [patch 07/18] v4l: nopage

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 10:15:08 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:15:54 +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static int +videobuf_vm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf) { struct page

Re: tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52, [2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23]

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 10:30:39 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject : tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52 kmap_atomic_prot() Submitter : Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] References :

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been fixed

Quotaon livelock

2007-12-08 Thread T T
Hi lkml, Enabling FS quotas can take up to several minutes to finish and depends on other users disk activity. This makes it a livelock (as it can be finished anyway). The problem described at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9520 Yes, if we need to enable quotas once in the system

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-12-08 Thread Pavel Machek
On Thu 2007-11-29 23:58:44, Andi Kleen wrote: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The simple case is open write cathedral and bazaar in some order close trap close - process - label eric_t open (eric_t) - SELinux no Anyone smart will then write it out of

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 01:36:31AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Subject : PATA scan: ACPI Exception AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT... is beyond end of object Submitter : Hans de Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9320 Handled-By :

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been fixed

Re: tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52, [2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23]

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject : tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52 kmap_atomic_prot() Submitter : Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/29/157

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been fixed

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1: undefined reference to `compat_sys_timerfd' on sparc64

2007-12-08 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
LD .tmp_vmlinux1 arch/sparc64/kernel/head.o: In function `sys_call_table32': arch/sparc64/kernel/head.S:(.text+0x224e0): undefined reference to `compat_sys_timerfd' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 argh, sorry, I am soo fed up with fixing that patch. ---

Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_clock

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2007 11:50, Nick Piggin wrote: I guess your patch is fairly complex but it should work I should also add that although complex, it should have a much smaller TSC delta window in which the wrong scaling factor can get

Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 03:03 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 22:55 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Kbuild now generates and installs modules.order along with modules. This patch updates depmod such that it sorts module list according to the file before generating output files.

Re: broken suspend (sched related) [Was: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1]

2007-12-08 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 12/07/2007 06:51 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for tracking it down. Does the patch below help? oops, that should be the patch below. Otherwise the watchdog kernel threads will just loop around. Ingo --- kernel/softlockup.c |9

Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 08:28 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: As I said, I don't think leaving duplicate lines in a file which will be installed, distributed and used widely is the RTTD. For what it's worth, I changed the module processing in depmod so that it doesn't output duplicate entries. Having

Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 22:55 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Kbuild now generates and installs modules.order along with modules. This patch updates depmod such that it sorts module list according to the file before generating output files. Modules which aren't on modules.order are put after modules

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:01:33 -0700 Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:09:43 + Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [cut] Now with MM kernels 2.6.24 rc1-4 the PCMCIA adapter works again, but I only

Re: [RFC] swap image signature check upon resume

2007-12-08 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:19:09PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: ... Well, there's a patchset in the current mainline that allows you to use arbitrary (sufficiently new) kernel to load the image and then restore the image kernel. So, you can hibernate 2.6.24-rc3 and use 2.6.24-rc2 to

Re: git guidance

2007-12-08 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Jakub Narebski wrote: Version control system is all about WORKFLOW B, where programmer controls when it is time to commit (and in private repository he/she can then rewrite history to arrive at Perfect patch series[*1*]); something that for

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been fixed

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 09:28:15 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Fabio Comolli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Subject : Battery shows up twice in kpowersave Submitter : Rolf Eike Beer [EMAIL PROTECTED] References :

[PATCH] mm/mmap: Remove sparse-warning (NULL as 0).

2007-12-08 Thread Richard Knutsson
Fixing: CHECK mm/mmap.c mm/mmap.c:1623:29: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer mm/mmap.c:1623:29: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer mm/mmap.c:1944:29: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Added by:

Re: HTC TyTN || (P4550) violates GPL?? Or maybe Qualcomm itself with MSM7200???

2007-12-08 Thread CIJOML
Dne so 8. prosince 2007 Mauricio Mauad Menegaz Filho napsal(a): 2007/12/7, CIJOML [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, ... Can anybody else confirm this and contact those companies for source codes? It seems that the sources are there: http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au/software/ Mauad Hi

iscsi project page changed

2007-12-08 Thread crquan
There's a merging news happened two years ago: http://www.open-iscsi.org/ Linux-iSCSI(sfnet) and Open-iSCSI projects merged!(April 11, 2005) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=111327337005048w=2 so the information should change, and there are needs about

[PATCH] kernel/params.c: Remove sparse-warning (different signedness).

2007-12-08 Thread Richard Knutsson
Fixing: CHECK kernel/params.c kernel/params.c:329:41: warning: incorrect type in argument 8 (different signedness) kernel/params.c:329:41:expected int *num kernel/params.c:329:41:got unsigned int * Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Compile-tested on x86 with

Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order

2007-12-08 Thread Alan Cox
it doesn't output duplicate entries. Having duplicates is not the right solution - especially modalias entries that depend entirely upon the file layout on disk when you run depmod against a kernel. Thanks for the ordering patches folks - a good idea! And as it happens just what I need for

Re: [PATCH] Fix lguest documentation

2007-12-08 Thread James Morris
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Sheela wrote: Share net is not supported , Rusty is an idiot . Signed-off-by: Sheela Sequeira [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reviewed-by: James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] - James -- James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 1/6] indirect: use asmlinkage in i386 syscall table prototype

2007-12-08 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
tor, 06 12 2007 kl. 15:20 -0800, skrev Zach Brown: call_indirect() was using the wrong calling convention for the system call handlers. system call handlers would get mixed up arguments. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/include/asm-x86/indirect_32.h

[PATCH] Fix lguest documentation

2007-12-08 Thread Sheela
Share net is not supported , Rusty is an idiot . Signed-off-by: Sheela Sequeira [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt index 7885ab2..722d4e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt +++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt @@ -109,10

Re: programs vanish with 2.6.22+

2007-12-08 Thread Markus
I try that, but it will take a lot of time! Markus fre, 07 12 2007 kl. 23:52 +0100, skrev Markus: Well, now some windows vanished, but no additional messages were produced by kernel. When somebody could tell what I exactly need to do... would be nice. Or a hit, in what direction I

Re: lockdep problem conversion semaphore-mutex (dev-sem)

2007-12-08 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 00:02 +0100, Remy Bohmer wrote: Hello Peter, What specifically is wrong with dev-sem ? Nothing really, other than that they use semaphores to avoid lockdep :-/ I think I know how to annotate this, after Alan Stern explained all the use cases, but I haven't

Re: [git pull] x86/hrtimer/acpi fixes

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Fernando Lopez-Lezcano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 20:59 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, it doesn't still getting delay and xrun messages galore. Attached: configuration and dmesg output booting with

Re: broken suspend (sched related) [Was: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1]

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately no change here. could you try to revert this change: -int softlockup_thresh = 10; +int softlockup_thresh = 60; i.e. change the value of softlockup_thresh back to 10. You should be able to tweak this runtime as well, without patching the

Re: [PATCH] NLM: Add lockd reference counting and clean up lockd startup and shutdown

2007-12-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
+ mutex_lock(nlmsvc_mutex); + while (atomic_read(nlmsvc_ref) != 0) { might be better to do the refcounting outside the thread and use the kthread api, which is something we still need to do for lockd anyway. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

Re: programs vanish with 2.6.22+

2007-12-08 Thread Patrick Mau
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 01:25:21PM +0100, Markus wrote: Well, just tried it. Started a dozen konquerors and attached strace to everyone. When one disapeared, I only got a Process 9246 detached, nothing else is printed or written in the log. Markus Hallo Markus Whenever the connection to

[PATCH] NLM: Add lockd reference counting and clean up lockd startup and shutdown

2007-12-08 Thread Jeff Layton
When a lock that a client is blocking on comes free, lockd does this in nlmsvc_grant_blocked(): nlm_async_call(block-b_call, NLMPROC_GRANTED_MSG, nlmsvc_grant_ops); the callback from this call is nlmsvc_grant_callback(). That function does this at the end to wake up lockd:

Re: programs vanish with 2.6.22+

2007-12-08 Thread Markus
Well, just tried it. Started a dozen konquerors and attached strace to everyone. When one disapeared, I only got a Process 9246 detached, nothing else is printed or written in the log. Markus On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Markus wrote: Well, now some windows vanished, but no additional messages

[PATCH] ivtv: Some general fixes

2007-12-08 Thread Richard Knutsson
Fix warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer. Convert 'x y ? x : y' to use min() instead. Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Compile-tested on i386 with allyesconfig and allmodconfig. Resend, since the 'Remove a gcc-2.95

Re: programs vanish with 2.6.22+

2007-12-08 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:12:14 +0100 Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try that, but it will take a lot of time! Markus This problem remembers me something...

Re: [PATCH] NLM: Add lockd reference counting and clean up lockd startup and shutdown

2007-12-08 Thread Jeff Layton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 14:07:47 + Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + mutex_lock(nlmsvc_mutex); + while (atomic_read(nlmsvc_ref) != 0) { might be better to do the refcounting outside the thread and use the kthread api, which is something we still need to do for lockd anyway.

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: implement modules.order

2007-12-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 08:59:31AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:49:37PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: When multiple built-in modules (especially drivers) provide the same capability, they're prioritized by link order specified by the order listed in

Re: BUG fs/dcache.c:595 in 2.4.24rc3-git3 during NFS umount

2007-12-08 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 03 December 2007 16:23:58 Andi Kleen wrote: FYI Just saw this on a test system of mine running 2.4.24rc3 (+ some suse patches, but they're not changing anything near this AFAIK) Got it again after rebooting the system. Can this be made a 2.6.24 blocker or something? Admittedly

Re: scsi_wait_scan Kconfig option

2007-12-08 Thread Clemens Koller
Nick Warne schrieb: I am bringing this up again - primarily as I forgot about it after patching my build tree ages ago: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/27/68 Please see the patch I sent some days ago, which does the very same thing: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=119677244318528w=2 I would

Re: [PATCH] Fix lguest documentation

2007-12-08 Thread Rusty Russell
On Saturday 08 December 2007 23:19:58 Sheela wrote: Share net is not supported , Rusty is an idiot . Signed-off-by: Sheela Sequeira [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: ICH9 Core2 Duo - kernel crash

2007-12-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Pavol Cvengros wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Pavol Cvengros wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 21:15:53 Bill Davidsen wrote: Pavol Cvengros wrote: Hello, I am trying LKML to get some help on one linux kernel related problem. Lately we got a machine with new HW from Intel. CPU is Intel

Re: scsi_wait_scan Kconfig option

2007-12-08 Thread Nick Warne
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:11:44 +0100 Clemens Koller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Warne schrieb: I am bringing this up again - primarily as I forgot about it after patching my build tree ages ago: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/27/68 Subject: Re: Fw: scsi_wait_scan Kconfig option Date:

[PATCH] PLIP driver: convert killed_timer_sem to completion

2007-12-08 Thread Matthias Kaehlcke
PLIP driver: convert the semaphore killed_timer_sem to a completion Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- diff --git a/drivers/net/plip.c b/drivers/net/plip.c index 57c9866..fee3d7b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/plip.c +++ b/drivers/net/plip.c @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ static const char

[PATCH] Fix casting on architectures with 32-bit pointers/longs.

2007-12-08 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
tor, 06 12 2007 kl. 15:20 -0800, skrev Zach Brown: The following patches are a substantial refactoring of the syslet code. I'm branding them as the v7 release of the syslet infrastructure, though they represent a signifiant change in focus. My current focus is to see the most fundamental

Re: tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52, [2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23]

2007-12-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 10:30:39AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject : tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52 kmap_atomic_prot() Submitter : Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] References :

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the mainline

[PATCH] 3W RAID drivers: memset not needed in probe

2007-12-08 Thread Denis Cheng
the memory return from scsi_host_alloc is alloced by kzalloc, which is already zero initilized, so memset not needed. Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c |2 -- drivers/scsi/3w-.c |2 -- 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_clock

2007-12-08 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 08 December 2007 16:33:27 Ingo Molnar wrote: * Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2007 16:13:41 Ingo Molnar wrote: * Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: ... thanks. I do get the impression that most of this

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-08 Thread Mark Lord
Francois Romieu wrote: Holger Hoffstaette [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] Maybe turning off sendfile or NAPI just lead to random success - so far it really looks like tso on the r8169 is the common cause. TSO on the r8169 is the magic switch but the regression makes imvho more sense from a VM pov:

Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_clock

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: ... thanks. I do get the impression that most of this can/should wait until 2.6.25. The patches look quite dangerous. .. I confess to not really trying hard to understand everything in this thread, but the implication seems to be

Re: lockdep problem conversion semaphore-mutex (dev-sem)

2007-12-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 13:16 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 00:02 +0100, Remy Bohmer wrote: Hello Peter, What specifically is wrong with dev-sem ? Nothing really, other than that they use semaphores to avoid lockdep :-/ I think I know how to annotate this,

Re: [PATCH][AT91] Fix compile error for at91rm9200 in latest git

2007-12-08 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:14:29AM +0100, Jan Altenberg wrote: Hi all, Your patch looks correct, and seems to be the only obvious chunk that's missing. So, I'll ack it FWIW ... usual policy for these patches is to go through Russell. You can add my Ack for what it's worth. OK,

Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi3945/4965 - fix rate control algo reference leak

2007-12-08 Thread Mark Lord
Zhu Yi wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:39 +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: From: Cyrill Gorcunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH] iwlwifi3945/4965 - fix rate control algo reference leak .. Any chance of getting LEDs support re-added to this driver, perhaps in the 2.6.25 timeframe? With that

Re: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 15s! [swapper:0]

2007-12-08 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Dec 8, 2007 10:47 AM, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does the patch below help? But the root cause is likely some timer problems - do you get consistent results from: Haven't yet tried the patch - will try a little later. while :; do time usleep 111; done or do these

Re: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 15s! [swapper:0]

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Parag Warudkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [c0438293] tick_broadcast_oneshot_control+0x10/0xda [c0437ce2] tick_notify+0x1d4/0x2eb [c04281bc] get_next_timer_interrupt+0x143/0x1b4 [c06058a1] notifier_call_chain+0x2a/0x47 [c04345c0] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x17/0x1a [c043781e]

Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_clock

2007-12-08 Thread Mark Lord
Ingo Molnar wrote: ... thanks. I do get the impression that most of this can/should wait until 2.6.25. The patches look quite dangerous. .. I confess to not really trying hard to understand everything in this thread, but the implication seems to be that this bug might affect udelay() and

[PATCH] PPP synchronous tty: convert dead_sem to completion

2007-12-08 Thread Matthias Kaehlcke
PPP synchronous tty channel driver: convert the semaphore dead_sem to a completion Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp_synctty.c b/drivers/net/ppp_synctty.c index f0c6a19..f7472c8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp_synctty.c +++

[patch 4/4] Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig

2007-12-08 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Move the instrumentation Kconfig to arch/Kconfig for architecture dependent options - oprofile - kprobes and init/Kconfig for architecture independent options - profiling - markers Remove the Instrumentation Support menu. Everything moves to General setup. Delete the

Re: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 15s! [swapper:0]

2007-12-08 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Dec 7, 2007 9:56 PM, Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks pretty much like the problem I was solving yesterday. Parag, can you please try Linus latest and please check whether there is a stack trace with clockevents_program_event on the top in your dmesg. Just booted with

Re: [patch 1/2] Kprobes: Indicate kretprobe support in arch/arch/Kconfig

2007-12-08 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:17:10 +0530 Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch adds CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES to the arch/arch/Kconfig file for relevant architectures

[patch 1/4] Create arch/Kconfig

2007-12-08 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Puts the content of arch/Kconfig in the General setup menu. Linus: Should it come with a re-duplication of it's content into each architecture, which was the case previously ? The oprofile and kprobes menu entries were litteraly cut and pasted from one architecture to another. Should we put

[patch 0/4] Instrumentation menu removal, against 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 (mmotm)

2007-12-08 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Hi Andrew, This time I am taking no chance : The instrumentation menu removal patchset here applies against 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 _and_ against mmotm (dated : stamp-2007-12-05-15-24) without problem. We should hopefully be able to stop racing against other architecture specific fixes done underneath.

Re: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 15s! [swapper:0]

2007-12-08 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Dec 8, 2007 10:10 AM, Parag Warudkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 7, 2007 9:56 PM, Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks pretty much like the problem I was solving yesterday. Parag, can you please try Linus latest and please check whether there is a stack trace with

Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_clock

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2007 16:13:41 Ingo Molnar wrote: * Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: ... thanks. I do get the impression that most of this can/should wait until 2.6.25. The patches look quite dangerous.

Re: broken suspend (sched related) [Was: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1]

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/08/2007 09:39 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately no change here. could you try to revert this change: -int softlockup_thresh = 10; +int softlockup_thresh = 60; i.e. change the value of

Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_clock

2007-12-08 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 08 December 2007 16:13:41 Ingo Molnar wrote: * Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: ... thanks. I do get the impression that most of this can/should wait until 2.6.25. The patches look quite dangerous. .. I confess to not really trying hard to

[patch 3/4] Add HAVE_KPROBES

2007-12-08 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Linus: On the per-architecture side, I do think it would be better to *not* have internal architecture knowledge in a generic file, and as such a line like depends on X86_32 || IA64 || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || AVR32 really shouldn't exist in a file like

[patch 2/4] Add HAVE_OPROFILE

2007-12-08 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Linus: On the per-architecture side, I do think it would be better to *not* have internal architecture knowledge in a generic file, and as such a line like depends on X86_32 || IA64 || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || AVR32 really shouldn't exist in a file like

Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_clock

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i cannot see how. You can verify msleep by running something like this: while :; do time usleep 111000; done you should see a steady stream of: real0m0.113s real0m0.113s real0m0.113s (on an idle system). If it

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

2007-12-08 Thread Kay Sievers
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 23:05 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: Kay Sievers wrote: Is the udev daemon (still) running while it fails? Yes, and there's something else I forgot to mention that may be significant... For the bad case, in addition to udevd, ps -ef shows a sh -e /lib/udev/net.agent running

Re: [patch] x86: scale cyc_2_nsec according to CPU frequency

2007-12-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 15:52:06 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Guillaume Chazarain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:55:25 +0100, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ??crit : Firstly, we dont need the 'offset' anymore because cpu_clock() maintains offsets

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc4] proc: Remove/Fix proc generic d_revalidate

2007-12-08 Thread Shane
On Dec 7, 2007 11:25 PM, Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ultimately to implement /proc perfectly we need an implementation of d_revalidate because files and directories can be removed behind the back of the VFS, and d_revalidate is the only way we can let the VFS know that this has

Re: lockdep problem conversion semaphore-mutex (dev-sem)

2007-12-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 18:11 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: It must be the locking in __driver_attach(), taking dev-parent-sem then taking dev-sem .. Assuming those are different structures, why does lockdep trigger? They aren't different, parent is a struct device again. It's different

Re: programs vanish with 2.6.22+

2007-12-08 Thread Markus
Well, no I am not the same markus. And I found that before, but I thought it was something about cfs and imo that made it into linus-tree in .23 not .22. But I should perhaps try to change my name, perhaps that fixes it -.- Markus PS: am currently doing a bisect, thats really bad: third bisect

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

2007-12-08 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:37:57AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: BTW, You may be better off using uuidgen -t to generate the UUID in the smolt RPM, since that will use 12 bits of randomness from /dev/random, plus the MAC, address and timestamp. So even if there is zero randomness in

Re: lockdep problem conversion semaphore-mutex (dev-sem)

2007-12-08 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 09:06 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 18:11 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: It must be the locking in __driver_attach(), taking dev-parent-sem then taking dev-sem .. Assuming those are different structures, why does lockdep trigger? They

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

2007-12-08 Thread Mike McGrath
Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:37:57AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: BTW, You may be better off using uuidgen -t to generate the UUID in the smolt RPM, since that will use 12 bits of randomness from /dev/random, plus the MAC, address and timestamp. So even if there is zero

Re: broken suspend (sched related) [Was: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1]

2007-12-08 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 12/08/2007 04:24 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: i'm wondering why it had no effect now - the new code is in essence a NOP over what we had. Maybe a dumb question. Why those changes in process_32.c in the patch and not in process_64.c? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: lockdep problem conversion semaphore-mutex (dev-sem)

2007-12-08 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 08:53 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 13:16 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 00:02 +0100, Remy Bohmer wrote: Hello Peter, What specifically is wrong with dev-sem ? Nothing really, other than that they use semaphores

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

2007-12-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:32:04PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:37:57AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: BTW, You may be better off using uuidgen -t to generate the UUID in the smolt RPM, since that will use 12 bits of randomness from /dev/random, plus the MAC, address

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

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 12:32 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:37:57AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: BTW, You may be better off using uuidgen -t to generate the UUID in the smolt RPM, since that will use 12 bits of randomness from /dev/random, plus the MAC, address and

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

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 11:43 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:32:04PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:37:57AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: BTW, You may be better off using uuidgen -t to generate the UUID in the smolt RPM, since that will use 12

Re: tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52, [2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23]

2007-12-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Matt Mackall wrote: Avoid calling page allocator with __GFP_ZERO, as we might be in atomic context and this will make thing unhappy on highmem systems. Instead, manually zero allocations from the page allocator. I think this is fine, but didn't we fix the warning

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

2007-12-08 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:33:57AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: Huh? What's the concern? All you are submitting is a list of hardware devices in your system. That's hardly anything sensitive We actually had a very vocal minority about all of that which ended up putting us in the

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

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 12:49 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:33:57AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: Huh? What's the concern? All you are submitting is a list of hardware devices in your system. That's hardly anything sensitive We actually had a very vocal minority

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