relation between mmc_request, mmc_data and mmc_command

2007-12-24 Thread raki john
Hi All, what is the relation between mmc_request , mmc_data and mmc_command . (I am new SD driver development, and I am working on 2.6.22.1) when mmc core layer calls Host controllers request function (member of struct mmc_host_ops), it passes mmc_request structure to driver's request

Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG]

2007-12-24 Thread Grant Grundler
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 03:16:24PM -0500, Loic Prylli wrote: ... I just realized one thing: the bar sizing code in pci_read_bases() (that writes 0x in the bars) does not seem to disable the PCI_COMMAND_MEM/PCI_COMMAND_IO bits in the cmd register before manipulating the BARs. And it

Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG]

2007-12-24 Thread Grant Grundler
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:40:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: Sure, I realize this, but it solves the problem in one way for broken hardware, such that it at least allows it to work, right? It also provides a better incentive for the manufacturer to fix their bios, which as you are on-site at HP,

RE: [PATCH] msi: set 'En' bit of MSI Mapping Capability

2007-12-24 Thread Peer Chen
I feel it's dangerous to set the En bit on Intel platform, If the HT MSI En is set, the MSI should be expected to transform to HT INT message format. It may cause interrupt lost or hardware internal state machine failed depend on the hardware design. BRs Peer Chen -Original Message-

Re: [PATCH - SH/Dreamcast] CD-Rom (GD-Rom) support for the SEGA Dreamcast

2007-12-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 23 December 2007, Adrian McMenamin wrote: On 23/12/2007, Adrian McMenamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch adds support for the CD-Rom (the so-called GD-Rom) on the SEGA Dreamcast. The GD-Rom is based on the ATA-3 standard but implements a proprietary packet interface - the

Re: [PATCH] include/asm-m68knommu/: Spelling fixes

2007-12-24 Thread Greg Ungerer
Joe Perches wrote: Signed-off-by: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Greg Ungerer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/asm-m68knommu/bitops.h |2 +- include/asm-m68knommu/commproc.h|2 +- include/asm-m68knommu/delay.h |2 +- include/asm-m68knommu/m5249sim.h|

Re: [PATCH] msi: set 'En' bit of MSI Mapping Capability

2007-12-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Peer Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I feel it's dangerous to set the En bit on Intel platform, If the HT MSI En is set, the MSI should be expected to transform to HT INT message format. It may cause interrupt lost or hardware internal state machine failed depend on the hardware design.

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:04:41 -0500 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: 3) mmconfig might or might not be enabled, depending on which driver is loaded, whether it called an API or not. Even LESS testing by hw vendors than #2. Maybe even never

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Arjan van de Ven wrote: I can see the point of having a sysfs attribute to enable MMCONF from userspace, so that userland diagnostics tools can turn it on if they really really want to. (I'd make that printk a nice warning application XYZ is enabling extended config space for devize ABC so

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:54:30 -0500 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: I can see the point of having a sysfs attribute to enable MMCONF from userspace, so that userland diagnostics tools can turn it on if they really really want to. (I'd make that printk a nice

Circular locking dependency

2007-12-24 Thread Dhaval Giani
Hi, Just hit this on sched-devel. (not sure how to reproduce it yet, can't try now. I believe i can hit it on mainline as well as there is nothing scheduler specific). === [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.24-rc6 #1

[GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB updates

2007-12-24 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Linus, Please pull from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git master For two trivial driver fixes: - A fix at Kconfig to DVB_LGDT330X be selected on cx23885; - Some ivtv boards requres a longer i2c udelay for they to work. Cheers, Mauro. ---

Re: Correct use of __init and __devinit

2007-12-24 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 04:56:14PM +, Adrian McMenamin wrote: Could someone here help settle this argument? I have written a driver (for the CD Rom on the Sega Dreamcast). I have marked various initialisation functions - including probe() and the functions that it, and only it, calls, as

Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

2007-12-24 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 06:13:03AM -0500, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another year, another update! :) The kernel hacker's guide to git has received some updates: http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html one minor note: i would suggest using: $ git shortlog master..HEAD

Re: [patch 1/2] [RFC] Simple tamper-proof device filesystem.

2007-12-24 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Hello. Serge E. Hallyn wrote: I apologize if I'm commiting a faux pas by asking this, but any chance of renaming this to something like strictdev or sdev, or at least with 'dev' in it somewhere? You are not commiting a faux pas. But, this naming is my personal feeling. ;-) You can see the

Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 24 of December 2007, Carlos Corbacho wrote: On Monday 24 December 2007 01:14:34 Linus Torvalds wrote: Side note: we could obviously undo the commit that triggered this for you [..] In other words, we'd have to go back to our original ordering, which Len said was fundamentally

Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: suspend broken on HP nx6325 due to cpufreq changes

2007-12-24 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:50:03 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: although it still is a bit flaky (it takes well more than 5 seconds to suspend and the sound adapter doesn't work right after the resume, but it starts to work again about 10s later). hm. There have been some suspend changes

Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: suspend broken on HP nx6325 due to cpufreq changes

2007-12-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 24 of December 2007, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:50:03 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: although it still is a bit flaky (it takes well more than 5 seconds to suspend and the sound adapter doesn't work right after the resume, but it starts to work again about

New UML-Based Virtual Network

2007-12-24 Thread clowncoder
Hello, If you need a little network to test some of the kernel's networking functions, there is a simple virtual network available at http://clownix.net (uml_clownix_net). Vincent Perrier Regards -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

[PATCH] cmd64x: fix hwif-chipset setup

2007-12-24 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
commit 528a572daea90aa41db92683e5a8756acef514c4 (ide: add -chipset field to ide_pci_device_t) broke hwif-chipset setup (it is now set to ide_cmd646 for CMD648 instead of CMD646). It seems that the breakage happend while I was moving patches around (cmd64x_chipsets[] entries for CMD646 and CMD648

Re: Possible fix for lockup in drop_caches

2007-12-24 Thread Richard Kennedy
On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 02:06 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:13:22 + richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fix lockup in when calling drop_caches calling /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches can hang due to a AB/BA lock dependency between j_list_lock and the

Re: [PATCH 4/4] usb: libusual: locking cleanup

2007-12-24 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:46:37 -0800, Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed you also have a spinlock held in usu_probe_thread(), the usu_lock.. That spinlock would preclude anything inside request_module() from sleeping.. The usu_lock is not held across request_module. In fact, it

[PATCH 1/38] arch/alpha: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 2/38] arch/ia64: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 3/38] arch/ia64/sn: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 4/38] arch/parisc: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

2007-12-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Dieter Ries wrote: Could you perhaps publish your reference list as kind of a christmas gift to all basic users like me? FYI, i'm typing in my own reference list as we speak here: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Git still quite a bit to go, but you can get the

[PATCH 5/38] arch/powerpc: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 6/38] arch/sparc64: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 7/38] arch/x86/ia32: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 8/38] arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 9/38] arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_{64,32}.c: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 10/38] drivers/atm: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 11/38] drivers/char/drm: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 12/38] drivers/char/ds1286.c: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 13/38] drivers/char/keyboard.c: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 14/38] drivers/char/rtc.c: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 15/38] drivers/infiniband: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[git patches] IDE fixes

2007-12-24 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
cmd64x regression bugfix, few obvious ide-cd fixes from the redux patch peries and ide-cd MAINTAINERS entry update (Borislav, welcome on board!). Oh yes, I would forget... Merry Christmas! Linus, please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6.git/ to receive the

[PATCH 16/38] drivers/md: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 17/38] drivers/media/dvb: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 18/38] drivers/media/video: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 19/38] drivers/net/appletalk: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 20/38] drivers/net: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 21/38] drivers/scsi: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 22/38] serial: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 23/38] usb/serial: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 24/38] fs/autofs: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 25/38] fs: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 26/38] init: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 27/38] kernel: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 28/38] mm: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 29/38] net/bluetooth: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 30/38] net/bridge: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 31/38] net/decnet: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 32/38] net/econet: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 33/38] net/ipv4: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 34/38] net/ipv6: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 35/38] net/irda: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 36/38] net/mac80211: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 37/38] net/sctp: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

[PATCH 38/38] sound: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // smpl @

Re: [PATCH 31/38] net/decnet: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:47:32 +0100 (CET)), Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. -

Re: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 - SCSI/blkdev probing hang

2007-12-24 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:22:12 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:57:45 -0500 Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 seems to have a hang related to the SCSI or block device probing code. It could be a scsi problem, or it could be all the

Re: [PATCH 3/38] arch/ia64/sn: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:18:56 +0100 (CET)), Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: diff -r -u -p a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c --- a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c 2007-11-12 10:35:56.0 +0100 +++

Re: [PATCH 15/38] drivers/infiniband: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:28:42 +0100 (CET)), Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: diff -r -u -p a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_mad.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_mad.c --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_mad.c 2007-10-22 11:25:09.0 +0200

Re: [PATCH 7/38] arch/x86/ia32: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 03:23:19PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. The old code was actually correct I think, but the change is

Re: [PATCH 15/38] drivers/infiniband: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / µÈÆ£±ÑÌÀ wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:28:42 +0100 (CET)), Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: diff -r -u -p a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_mad.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_mad.c ---

Re: [PATCH 20/38] drivers/net: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:40:06 +0100 (CET)), Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: diff -r -u -p a/drivers/net/cassini.c b/drivers/net/cassini.c --- a/drivers/net/cassini.c 2007-10-22 11:25:14.0 +0200 +++ b/drivers/net/cassini.c 2007-12-23

[PATCH] x86: Cosmetic fixes fault_{32|64}.c

2007-12-24 Thread Harvey Harrison
First step towards unifying these files. - Checkpatch trailing whitespace fixes - Checkpatch indentation of switch statement fixes - Checkpatch single statement ifs need no braces fixes - Checkpatch consistent spacing after comma fixes - Introduce defines for pagefault error bits from X86_64 and

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-24 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 02:22:10AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: The phrase all or none specifically describes the current practice in arch/x86/pci/mmconfig_{32,64}.c whereby a PCI bus always has one, and only one, access method. So the problems you describe are unrelated to all or none as I

Re: [git patches] IDE fixes

2007-12-24 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
[ added Linus to Cc: ] On Monday 24 December 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: cmd64x regression bugfix, few obvious ide-cd fixes from the redux patch peries and ide-cd MAINTAINERS entry update (Borislav, welcome on board!). Oh yes, I would forget... Merry Christmas! Well, I

Re: [PATCH 0/3] PM: Do not destroy/create devices while suspended

2007-12-24 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, Some device drivers register CPU hotplug notifiers and use them to destroy device objects when removing the corresponding CPUs and to create these objects when adding the CPUs back. Unfortunately, this is not the right thing to do

Re: [PATCH 7/38] arch/x86/ia32: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 03:23:19PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. The old code

Re: [PATCH 4/4] usb: libusual: locking cleanup

2007-12-24 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 06:12 -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:46:37 -0800, Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed you also have a spinlock held in usu_probe_thread(), the usu_lock.. That spinlock would preclude anything inside request_module() from sleeping..

Re: [PATCH 1/38] arch/alpha: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Julia Lawall
Please ignore this patch, in which I have found an error. julia On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A

Re: [Bug 9528] x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-24 Thread Robert Hancock
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Carlos Corbacho wrote: Fix suspend-to-RAM on nForce 4 (CK804) boards by increasing PCIBIOS_MIN_IO. Fixes kernel bugzilla #9528 Problem: Linus' patch (52ade9b3b97fd3bea42842a056fe0786c28d0555) to re-order suspend (and fix fall out from Rafael's

Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG]

2007-12-24 Thread Robert Hancock
Loic Prylli wrote: I just realized one thing: the bar sizing code in pci_read_bases() (that writes 0x in the bars) does not seem to disable the PCI_COMMAND_MEM/PCI_COMMAND_IO bits in the cmd register before manipulating the BARs. And it seems nobody else ensures they are disabled at this

Re: [PATCH 30/38] net/bridge: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

2007-12-24 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:45:32 +0100 (CET) Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic

Re: [PATCHv2] powerpc: DBox2 Board Support

2007-12-24 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sunday 23 December 2007, Jochen Friedrich wrote: This patch adds device tree source, default config and setup code for DBox2 devices. Cool stuff. I used to have one of these boxes myself, maybe I should get one again when it's hitting mainline. Is this already a complete port, or do you

Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Well, having considered that for a longer while, I think the AML code is referring to a device that we have suspended already, and since it's in a low power state, it just can't handle the reference. If that is the case, we'll have to find

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Definitely. So, two questions: What's the preferred way to deal with the desire to view extended config space with lspci -vvvxxx? Well, there's two issues right now with MMCONFIG - we've hit various bugs in it. The bugs are admittedly very rare,

Re: [PATCH] slub: /proc/slabinfo ABI compatibility

2007-12-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: Pekka, i stuck your patch into the x86.git random-test-grid, and it found the following build error after a few iterations: mm/slub.c: In function 's_show': mm/slub.c:4188: error: implicit declaration of function 'count_partial' find the

Re: Build breakage on powerpc with 2.6.24-rc6-mm1

2007-12-24 Thread Olof Johansson
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 08:49:12PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: Hi Greg, do you even build with your patches applied? For the power architecture, no, I do not. I used to, but my cross-build box died and I haven't taken the time to set it all up again. Crosstool makes it really easy. It's

Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers)

2007-12-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: tends to work reasonably well for a quick overview, but yes cat was nicer for humans. Until you start to wonder what the heck :a-136 is: /sys/slab/:a-136/objs_per_slab: 30 Sigh... That is why there is a slabinfo tool that does all the

Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers)

2007-12-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: Christoph, i'd like to apologize for all overly harsh words i said. (and i said quite a few :-/ ) Looks like a bad interaction due to overload, vacation, flu epidemic hitting me and family and also Christmas coming up so that I could not do my usual

Re: tlb_finish_mmu() bogisity

2007-12-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: What did you intend here? s///, perhaps? I think that thing is bogus in other ways. It plays games with needs_flush, just because it seems to want the generic code to then call check_pgt_cache(), not because it actually wants any flushing to

Re: Strange Panic (Deadlock)

2007-12-24 Thread Jarek Poplawski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, On 12/24/2007 07:18 PM: Hello again. Its bug depend to http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4aae07025265151e3f7041dfbf0f529e122de1d8 ? Hello Vyacheslav! I wonder why do you think there is such a dependency, and why do you

LINUX kernel 2.6.23: bug in CIFSSMBSetEA

2007-12-24 Thread Oleg Gvozdev
Hello In fs/cifs/cifssmb.c, in CIFSSMBSetEA (...) function wrong counting of var exists. EXISTING CODE: pSMB-DataCount = sizeof(*parm_data) + ea_value_len + name_len + 1; MUST BE: pSMB-DataCount = sizeof(*parm_data) + ea_value_len + name_len; REASON: sizeof(*parm_data) counts 1 byte from

Re: [PATCH] slub: /proc/slabinfo ABI compatibility

2007-12-24 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Dec 24, 2007 9:12 PM, Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... What is the combination of config variables that causes this? I moved the count_partial function in mm in order to make the merge of slab defrag easier. I think it's CONFIG_PROC_FS without CONFIG_SYSFS. -- To

[PATCH] PNP: add all PNP card device id's as individual aliases

2007-12-24 Thread Kay Sievers
From: Kay Sievers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PNP: add all PNP card device id's as individual aliases The current PNP combined card + devices module aliase can never ever match anything, because all these values are never available all at the same time to match a module. Instead of adding the

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-24 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 10:51:22AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: The *second* problem is entirely a kernel internal issue. It's the one that causes us the biggest issues right now, but it's also the one that will not impact user space at all once if is fixed. So once we do the *early*

Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-24 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Monday 24 December 2007 18:34:21 Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Well, having considered that for a longer while, I think the AML code is referring to a device that we have suspended already, and since it's in a low power state, it just can't handle

Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-24 Thread Robert Hancock
Carlos Corbacho wrote: On Monday 24 December 2007 18:34:21 Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Well, having considered that for a longer while, I think the AML code is referring to a device that we have suspended already, and since it's in a low power state, it

lockdep warning with LTP dio test (v2.6.24-rc6-125-g5356f66)

2007-12-24 Thread Erez Zadok
Setting: ltp-full-20071031, dio01 test on ext3 with Linus's latest tree. Kernel w/ SMP, preemption, and lockdep configured. Cheers, Erez. === [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.24-rc6 #83

Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers)

2007-12-24 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:21:14AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: That is why there is a slabinfo tool that does all the nice formatting. Do a gcc -o slabinfo Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c Then run slabinfo instead of doing cat /proc/slabinfo So two questions: why isn't -f the

Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-24 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Monday 24 December 2007 22:40:46 Robert Hancock wrote: The ACPI spec has the following to say about the _PTS method: The platform must not make any assumptions about the state of the machine when _PTS is called. For example, operation region accesses that require devices to be configured

Re: ip neigh show not showing arp cache entries?

2007-12-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:28:49AM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: I've included the traces below, they're pretty long. I don't know enough about the netlink format to trace the responses, but I did notice one interesting thing. In the ip neigh show case the bond2 entry isn't printed out,

ACPI: _PTS ordering needs fixing for pre ACPI 3.0 systems (was: Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM)

2007-12-24 Thread Carlos Corbacho
Adding Linux-ACPI to CC. On Tuesday 25 December 2007 00:03:25 Carlos Corbacho wrote: According to the earlier versions of the ACPI spec, Linux is doing the wrong thing - we should call _PTS() before we start powerding down devices, or notifying device drivers to start suspending. So, my

Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers)

2007-12-24 Thread Andi Kleen
And is /sys/slab guaranteed to be a stable and permanent interface if the SLAB Debugging feature and stable and permanent just don't fit together. It's like requesting stable and permanent sysrq output. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

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