Re: Strange NFS write performance Linux-Solaris-10/VXFS, maybe VW related

2008-01-14 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message From: Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; spam trap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 12:11:08 PM Subject: Re: Strange NFS write performance

Re: [RFC, PATCH] watchdog on gpio

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Jan 10, 2008 10:11 AM, Marc Pignat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: watchdog driver for embedded systems with a supervisor watchdog (MAX823 or so) connected to a gpio. This is the platform_driver and needs platform_data for defining the gpio pin and the watchdog timeout. generic gpio watchdog is

Re: [patch] block: fix blktrace timestamps

2008-01-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jan 14 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because a perfectly working system is: a user's .config that worked before should work with the new kernel too not: a user's .config that worked before should work now too, with random

Re: [PATCH] adjust/fix LDT handling for Xen

2008-01-14 Thread Jan Beulich
Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11.01.08 18:28 Jan Beulich wrote: Don't rely on kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE) returning PAGE_SIZE aligned memory (Xen requires GDT *and* LDT to be page-aligned). Can kmalloc return non-page-aligned PAGE_SIZE allocations? Documentation says it's to return

Re: [PATCH] Remove timer frequency choice if tickless is enabled

2008-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
(lkml Cc:-ed) * Carlos R. Mafra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: choice prompt Timer frequency + depends on !NO_HZ default HZ_250 help Allows the configuration of the timer frequency. It is customary we are not there yet to be able to do this. With NO_HZ the tick is

Re: 2.6.24-rc7-rt1

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 15:54 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: OK, -rt2 will take a bit more beating from me before I release it, so it might take some time to get it out (expect it out on Monday). Ah, that reminds me (tests, yup) I still need the patchlet below to resume from ram without black

Re: [PATCH] x86: fix ioport unification on 32-bit [was: Re: hwclock failure in x86.git]

2008-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: thanks for tracking it down. I pulled that commit for now. But it would be nice to figure out what's going on there. Zach was right. The unification was broken for 32-bit; it was missing the actual

Re: [PATCH] Remove timer frequency choice if tickless is enabled

2008-01-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:25 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: (lkml Cc:-ed) * Carlos R. Mafra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: choice prompt Timer frequency + depends on !NO_HZ default HZ_250 help Allows the configuration of the timer frequency. It is customary we are not

Re: [PATCH 1/4] introduce __cpuinitconst

2008-01-14 Thread Jan Beulich
--- 2.6.24-rc7-initconst.orig/include/linux/init.h +++ 2.6.24-rc7-initconst/include/linux/init.h @@ -269,11 +269,13 @@ void __init parse_early_param(void); #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU #define __cpuinit #define __cpuinitdata +#define __cpuinitconst const #define __cpuexit #define

Re: [patch] block: fix blktrace timestamps

2008-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because a perfectly working system is: a user's .config that worked before should work with the new kernel too not: a user's .config that worked before should work now too, with random new kernel features enabled as well. the latter

Re: [RFC, PATCH] watchdog on gpio

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Jan 11, 2008 11:40 AM, Florian Fainelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you look into hooking into Wim's uniform watchdog driver : http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog-experimental.git;a=commit;h=732c54027e6c866f98857c4a6d1c6c466459dcd5 Maybe you can save some code

Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce memory and intra-node effects with large count NR_CPUs

2008-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patchset addresses the kernel bloat that occurs when NR_CPUS is increased. The memory numbers below are with NR_CPUS = 1024 which I've been testing (4 and 32 real processors, the rest possible using the additional_cpus start option.) These

Re: [PATCH] x86: refactor ioport unification

2008-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Refactor ioport unification to pull out common code. thanks, applied. Looks quite a bit more logical this way. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH 0/4] __cpuinitconst and __devinitconst

2008-01-14 Thread Jan Beulich
Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13.01.08 22:42 And I found another small buglet too. I hope to post a complete solution later today. The modpost bits turned out to take longer than expected so they are not done yet. The problem was the modpost structure were not prepared for adding such

Re: x86: Add the print code before the trapping instruction feature to 64 bit

2008-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: x86: Add the print code before the trapping instruction feature to 64 bit From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] The 32 bit x86 tree has a very useful feature that prints the Code: line for the code even before the trapping

Re: [patch] block: fix blktrace timestamps

2008-01-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Folks, this is getting a little silly. Even if CONFIG_NO_HZ is new this is a an important regression, and yes we should avoid regressions wherever we can, and for such a quite important feature we should fix it. On the other hand blktrace is using the wrong interface, and it has been told

Re: [ipw3945-devel] [PATCH 2/5] iwlwifi: iwl3945 synchronize interruptand tasklet for down iwlwifi

2008-01-14 Thread Joonwoo Park
Joonwoo Park wrote: 2008/1/11, Chatre, Reinette [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:25 PM, Joonwoo Park wrote: What modification are you considering? Roughly, I'm considering make synchronize_irq() be moved into iwl_disable_interrupts() and fix iwl_irq_tasket not to call

Re: Netperf TCP_RR(loopback) 10% regression in 2.6.24-rc6, comparing with 2.6.22

2008-01-14 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:35 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: The regression is: 1)stoakley with 2 qual-core processors: 11%; 2)Tulsa with 4 dual-core(+hyperThread) processors:13%; I have new update on this issue and also cc to netdev maillist. Thank

Re: [PATCH: 2/2] [SERIAL] avoid stalling suspend if serial port won't drain

2008-01-14 Thread Pavel Machek
On Mon 2008-01-14 00:29:12, Russell King wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:17:21AM +, Pavel Machek wrote: On Tue 2008-01-08 11:57:03, Russell King wrote: + if (!tries) + printk(KERN_ERR %s%s%s%d: Unable to drain transmitter\n, +

Re: [RFC, PATCH] watchdog on gpio

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Cox
#include linux/gpio_wdt.h perhaps watchdog rather than wdt considering it's already linux/watchdog.h ? or _wdt/wdt_ like the rest of the watchdog code uses for watchdog names (wdt -watchdog timer). + case WDIOC_KEEPALIVE: + gpio_wdt_keepalive(wdt); +

Re: Netperf TCP_RR(loopback) 10% regression in 2.6.24-rc6, comparing with 2.6.22

2008-01-14 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:35 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: As a matter of fact, 2.6.23 has about 6% regression and 2.6.24-rc's regression is between 16%~11%. I tried to use bisect to locate the

Re: [rfc][patch] reimplement nopfn callers with fault

2008-01-14 Thread Jes Sorensen
Nick Piggin wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:40:10PM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote: Nick, Is this supposed to apply to the latest Linus tree? I applied it here and the mspec driver lights up in beautiful fireworks :-( I'll give the -mm tree a try next. Hi Jes, (reply to all this time). It is

2.6.24-rc7 lockdep warning when poweroff

2008-01-14 Thread Dave Young
Hi, When I halt -p, lockdep warnings triggered as following (hand copy): WARNING : at kernel/lockdep.c: 700 lookup_lock_class() snip lock_acquire cleanup_workqueue_thread workqueue_cpu_callback notifier_call_chain __raw_notifier_call_chain raw_notifier_call_chain __cpu_down disable_nonboot_cpus

Re: [RFC, PATCH] watchdog on gpio

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Jan 14, 2008 4:03 AM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static char banner[] __initdata = KERN_INFO PFX fixed %d.%03d seconds timeout (nowayout= %d)\n; this only gets used once in the init function ... having it be broken out like this is kind of silly Saves memory - you can't

Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce memory and intra-node effects with large count NR_CPUs

2008-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 32cpus1kcpus-before 1kcpus-after 7172678 Total +23314404 Total -147590 Total 1kcpus-after means it's +23314404-147590, i.e. +23166814? (i.e. a 0.6% reduction of the bloat?) or if it's

Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Cox
even when designed for Redmond products. I find it hard to believe that even they have their drivers do PCI config access via ports directly from the drivers, and especially in driver reference code... Microsoft may not but the standard of Taiwanese driver code (and by reference I mean

Re: [PATCH 0/4] __cpuinitconst and __devinitconst

2008-01-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:33:35AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13.01.08 22:42 And I found another small buglet too. I hope to post a complete solution later today. The modpost bits turned out to take longer than expected so they are not done yet. The

Re: 2.6.24-rc7 lockdep warning when poweroff

2008-01-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:04 +0800, Dave Young wrote: Hi, When I halt -p, lockdep warnings triggered as following (hand copy): WARNING : at kernel/lockdep.c: 700 lookup_lock_class() snip lock_acquire cleanup_workqueue_thread workqueue_cpu_callback notifier_call_chain

Re: [PATCH 0/4] __cpuinitconst and __devinitconst

2008-01-14 Thread Jan Beulich
The one thing that I'm not sure is really consistent yet wrt. the constification is that now you need to write e.g. static const char __cpuinitcdata example[]; and (accidentally) omitting the 'const' (as it's really an apparently redundant thing now) as in static char __cpuinitcdata

Re: [PATCH: 2/2] [SERIAL] avoid stalling suspend if serial port won't drain

2008-01-14 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:04:59AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: On Mon 2008-01-14 00:29:12, Russell King wrote: If you're suspending because your battery is almost dead what would you prefer - the system being prevented from suspending and losing complete power unexpectedly, resulting in

Re: Netperf TCP_RR(loopback) 10% regression in 2.6.24-rc6, comparing with 2.6.22

2008-01-14 Thread Zhang, Yanmin
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 11:21 +0200, Ilpo J�rvinen wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Ilpo J�rvinen wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:35 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: As a matter of fact, 2.6.23 has about 6% regression and 2.6.24-rc's

Re: [RFC, PATCH] watchdog on gpio

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Jan 14, 2008 4:29 AM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saves memory - you can't make inlined strings __initdata without breaking some compilers. So it is correct. you could make the same argument about all strings used in all __init functions. making a special case for this one

Re: [ipw3945-devel] [PATCH 2/5] iwlwifi: iwl3945 synchronize interruptand tasklet for down iwlwifi

2008-01-14 Thread Joonwoo Park
I'm so sorry for mangled patch. resending patch with preformat html from thunderbird. After disabling interrupts, it's possible irq tasklet is pending or running This patch eleminates races for down iwlwifi. Since synchronize_irq can introduce iwl_irq_tasklet, tasklet_kill should be called

Re: [RFC, PATCH] watchdog on gpio

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Cox
Saves memory - you can't make inlined strings __initdata without breaking some compilers. So it is correct. you could make the same argument about all strings used in all __init functions. making a special case for this one string is just confusing. this is also used from the *platfrom

Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce memory and intra-node effects with large count NR_CPUs

2008-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i.e. we've got ~22K bloat per CPU - which is not bad, but because it's a static component, it hurts smaller boxes. For distributors to enable CONFIG_NR_CPU=1024 by default i guess that bloat has to drop below 1-2K per CPU :-/ [that would still

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-14 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:15 +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: [...] ntpdate isn't run by any of the init scripts. ntpd is, but like I Yes, that is a usual bug/problem in common distributions[0] as there is no real guarantee that your clock is not far off. Add your timeservers in

Re: [PATCH 0/4] __cpuinitconst and __devinitconst

2008-01-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:25:54AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: The one thing that I'm not sure is really consistent yet wrt. the constification is that now you need to write e.g. static const char __cpuinitcdata example[]; and (accidentally) omitting the 'const' (as it's really an

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-14 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-01-14, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that is a usual bug/problem in common distributions[0] as there is no real guarantee that your clock is not far off. It isn't, right after boot. But while the system is on, it sometimes starts advancing very fast, 15min a day or so.

Re: [PATCH: 2/2] [SERIAL] avoid stalling suspend if serial port won't drain

2008-01-14 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:49:59AM +, Alan Cox wrote: Is printk() enough for 'we've just lost your data' condition? Maybe we should abort suspend if we can't drain fifo? No way. Think about this from a users' perspective. No one wants suspend to ram or hibernate functionality that

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-14 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:54:39AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: particular this bug is triggered because the dir mapping page has PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY set and PG_dirty cleared, staying in an inconsistent state. Just found that a deleted dir will enter that inconsistent state when someone

[RFC, PATCH, take 2] watchdog on generic gpio

2008-01-14 Thread Marc Pignat
watchdog driver for embedded systems with a supervisor watchdog (MAX823 or so) connected to a gpio. This is the platform_driver and needs platform_data for defining the gpio pin and the watchdog timeout. Signed-off-by: Marc Pignat [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Hi! Changes form take1: * corrected

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-14 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:48 +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2008-01-14, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that is a usual bug/problem in common distributions[0] as there is no real guarantee that your clock is not far off. It isn't, right after boot. But while the system is

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-14 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It isn't, right after boot. But while the system is on, it sometimes starts advancing very fast, 15min a day or so. So why don't you fix it first? Correct system time is essential. I guess I would upgrade to some newer version, perhaps one which isn't

Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce memory and intra-node effects with large count NR_CPUs

2008-01-14 Thread Andi Kleen
i.e. we've got ~22K bloat per CPU - which is not bad, but because it's a static component, it hurts smaller boxes. For distributors to enable CONFIG_NR_CPU=1024 by default i guess that bloat has to drop below 1-2K per CPU :-/ [that would still mean 1-2MB total bloat but that's much more

Re: [PATCH: 2/2] [SERIAL] avoid stalling suspend if serial port won't drain

2008-01-14 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 01:40:16PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Alan Cox wrote: Is printk() enough for 'we've just lost your data' condition? Maybe we should abort suspend if we can't drain fifo? No way. Think about this from a users' perspective. No one wants suspend to ram or

Re: [PATCH 10/16] udf: create common function for changing free space counter

2008-01-14 Thread Jan Kara
On Sat 12-01-08 14:13:31, Marcin Slusarz wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:24:49AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: On Thu 10-01-08 23:06:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just

native_flush_tlb_others very nasty crash

2008-01-14 Thread Denys Fedoryshchenko
Hi I am having serious issue with one of servers. It is very difficult to reproduce bug, and also difficult to catch screen, cause server installed in rack in another country, and local staff had under hands only phone camera, and new messages was appearing non-stop on screen, so i had some

Re: [PATCH: 2/2] [SERIAL] avoid stalling suspend if serial port won't drain

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Cox
- what if its a port with 256 characters in the FIFO, and its programmed for 110 baud? - what if loopback isn't supported? - what if, while doing this operation, the remote end is sending characters because you can't deassert RTS? More importantly it is unlikely that serial state will or

Re: [PATCH 0/5] USB Kconfig: Reorganize USB Kconfig Menu

2008-01-14 Thread Al Boldi
Stefan Richter wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 01:20:46PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 06:40:38PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: Reorganize USB Kconfig Menu, and move USB_GADGET out into the Device Driver Menu. ?This helps the USB Kconfig Menu to

native_flush_tlb_others very nasty crash

2008-01-14 Thread Denys Fedoryshchenko
Hi Correction, it is appearing from 2.6.22, oldest kernel i found on server is 2.6.22. Older kernels i didn't try, and probably will be difficult to try. -- Denys Fedoryshchenko Technical Manager Virtual ISP S.A.L. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: [PATCH] Default keyboard LEDs

2008-01-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan Engelhardt, le Mon 14 Jan 2008 02:40:08 +0100, a écrit : On Jan 14 2008 00:52, Samuel Thibault wrote: In many cases, one prefers to have e.g. the NumLock on by default. In many cases, one doesn't want to have it by default, e.g. on laptops. Distributions actually have a very hard time

Re: Fix x86 32 bit FRAME_POINTER chasing code

2008-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's a 2.6.24.1 candidate i believe. We trigger plenty of various crashes during x86.git maintenance and others hit various crashes in -mm, so by the time .1 is released we'll have it in .25 and can backport it. Most folks/distros will update to

Re: [PATCH] Default keyboard LEDs

2008-01-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
H. Peter Anvin, le Sun 13 Jan 2008 19:50:34 -0800, a écrit : Actually, what would be perfect would be to use the configuration that the BIOS sets at boot by default. That is device-dependent, however. It is, but it can be read out either by INT calls at initialization time, or by reading

Re: 2.6.24-rc7 lockdep warning when poweroff

2008-01-14 Thread Johannes Berg
When I halt -p, lockdep warnings triggered as following (hand copy): WARNING : at kernel/lockdep.c: 700 lookup_lock_class() snip lock_acquire cleanup_workqueue_thread workqueue_cpu_callback notifier_call_chain __raw_notifier_call_chain raw_notifier_call_chain __cpu_down

Re: 2.6.24-rc7 lockdep warning when poweroff

2008-01-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 11:35 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: When I halt -p, lockdep warnings triggered as following (hand copy): WARNING : at kernel/lockdep.c: 700 lookup_lock_class() snip lock_acquire cleanup_workqueue_thread workqueue_cpu_callback notifier_call_chain

Re: [PATCH 1/2] massive code cleanup of sys_msync()

2008-01-14 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Substantial code cleanup of the sys_msync() function: 1) using the PAGE_ALIGN() macro instead of manual alignment; 2) improved readability of the loop traversing the process memory regions. Thanks for doing this. See comments below. Signed-off-by: Anton Salikhmetov [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCH] Re-organization of PIDMAP_ENTRIES macro expansion

2008-01-14 Thread Ratnadeep Joshi
This patch tries to re-organize the macro expansion of PIDMAP_ENTRIES (possibly) to a more clear one. Thanks, - Ratnadeep Joshi diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h index 1689e28..06e3e99 100644 --- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h +++

Re: 2.6.24-rc7 lockdep warning when poweroff

2008-01-14 Thread Johannes Berg
The warning that triggered (lockdep.c:700) means that one class (key) was used with more than one name. Right. Looking at cleanup_workqueue_thread(), the lock_acquire() there works on wq-lockdep_map, and that is only initialized at one spot: __create_workqueue_key(), thus it stands to

Re: Netperf TCP_RR(loopback) 10% regression in 2.6.24-rc6, comparing with 2.6.22

2008-01-14 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:44:40AM +, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: I tried to use bisect to locate the bad patch between 2.6.22 and 2.6.23-rc1, but the bisected kernel wasn't stable and went crazy. TCP work between that is very much non-existing. Make sure you haven't switched between

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Driver for WM97xx touchscreens in streaming mode on PXA2xx systems

2008-01-14 Thread Marc Kleine-Budde
reMark Brown wrote: Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Mike Arthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Stanley Cai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Russell

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-14 Thread Christer Weinigel
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:57:09 +0100 Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:48 +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2008-01-14, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that is a usual bug/problem in common distributions[0] as there is no real guarantee that

Re: [i2c] [PATCH] update module-init-tools to support the i2c subsystem

2008-01-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Jon Smirl wrote: On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:26:07 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:14:14 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.24-rc7, intel audio: alsa doesn't say a beep

2008-01-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:11:20 -0500, Daniel Hazelton wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008 04:41:21 Harald Dunkel wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: At Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:02:53 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: Hm... Just to be sure, try the patch below. It's a clean up

Re: [PATCH for git-x86] Export native_read_tsc

2008-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otherwise modular tcrypt, kvm-intel have unresolved symbols. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c === --- linux.orig/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c +++

Re: [RFC, PATCH, take 2] watchdog on generic gpio

2008-01-14 Thread Florian Fainelli
Hi Marc, Le lundi 14 janvier 2008, Marc Pignat a écrit : +static int gpio_wdt_keepalive(struct gpio_wdt *wdt) +{ + gpio_set_value(wdt-pdata-pin, 0); + gpio_set_value(wdt-pdata-pin, 1); + return 0; +} I would like this function to be supplied by the platform_data structure

man-pages-2.76 is released

2008-01-14 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Gidday I've released man-pages-2.76. This release is now available for download at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages Changes in this release can be seen at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html#release_2.76 A

[PATCH for git-x86] Export native_read_tsc

2008-01-14 Thread Andi Kleen
Otherwise modular tcrypt, kvm-intel have unresolved symbols. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c === --- linux.orig/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c +++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c @@ -200,3 +200,5

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-14 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 13:11 +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2008-01-14 10:57 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: That leads to the question why the clock starts to run like crazy at some time so that `ntpd` can't cope with it. I do wonder whether the PSU could've been causing it. Now that

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-14 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2008-01-14, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But for normal PCs, I don't know how much the quality of a PSU is relevant for the speed of the clock. Can you test with a different PSU? I am testing right now. After all I had to get a new PSU, the old one being as dead as a rock. But

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-14 Thread Joerg Platte
Am Montag, 14. Januar 2008 schrieb Fengguang Wu: Joerg, this patch fixed the bug for me :-) Fengguang, congratulations, I can confirm that your patch fixed the bug! With previous kernels the bug showed up after each reboot. Now, when booting the patched kernel everything is fine and there is

Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce memory and intra-node effects with large count NR_CPUs

2008-01-14 Thread Andi Kleen
i think this patchset already gives a net win, by moving stuff from NR_CPUS arrays into per_cpu area. (Travis please confirm that this is indeed what the numbers show) Yes that is what his patchkit does, although I'm not sure he has addressed all NR_CPUS pigs yet. The basic idea came out

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 12:30 +0100, Joerg Platte wrote: Am Montag, 14. Januar 2008 schrieb Fengguang Wu: Joerg, this patch fixed the bug for me :-) Fengguang, congratulations, I can confirm that your patch fixed the bug! With previous kernels the bug showed up after each reboot. Now,

Re: [PATCH 1/2] massive code cleanup of sys_msync()

2008-01-14 Thread Anton Salikhmetov
2008/1/14, Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Substantial code cleanup of the sys_msync() function: 1) using the PAGE_ALIGN() macro instead of manual alignment; 2) improved readability of the loop traversing the process memory regions. Thanks for doing this. See comments below.

Re: [PATCH 2/2] updating ctime and mtime at syncing

2008-01-14 Thread Anton Salikhmetov
2008/1/14, Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2645 Changes for updating the ctime and mtime fields for memory-mapped files: 1) new flag triggering update of the inode data; 2) new function to update ctime and mtime for block device files; 3)

Re: 2.6.24-rc7-rt1

2008-01-14 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 3:27 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 15:54 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: OK, -rt2 will take a bit more beating from me before I release it, so it might take some time to get it out (expect it out on

Re: [PATCH 1/7] driver-core : add class iteration api

2008-01-14 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:47:54 +0800, Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Minor style suggestion (same for class_find_child): +struct device *class_find_device(struct class *class, void *data, +int (*match)(struct device *, void *)) +{ + struct device *dev;

Re: [PATCH] Fix private_list handling

2008-01-14 Thread Jan Kara
On Fri 11-01-08 15:33:54, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:21:31 +0100 Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu 10-01-08 16:36:35, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:55:13 +0100 Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, sorry for the previous empty

Re: [RFC, PATCH] watchdog on gpio

2008-01-14 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:45:25 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is no hard requirement anywhere that says platform resources must be in the board resources file. marking the functions as __init instead of __devinit will basically cause a kernel crash if someone tries to use

Re: [RFC, PATCH] watchdog on gpio

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Jan 14, 2008 7:14 AM, Haavard Skinnemoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is no hard requirement anywhere that says platform resources must be in the board resources file. marking the functions as __init instead of __devinit will basically cause a

Re: [PATCH 01/10] x86: Change size of APICIDs from u8 to u16

2008-01-14 Thread Mel Gorman
On (13/01/08 10:34), [EMAIL PROTECTED] didst pronounce: Change the size of APICIDs from u8 to u16. This partially supports the new x2apic mode that will be present on future processor chips. (Chips actually support 32-bit APICIDs, but that change is more intrusive. Supporting 16-bit is

Re: unify pagetable accessors patch causes double fault II

2008-01-14 Thread Andi Kleen
Subject was wrong of course -- it was a recursive oops, not a double fault. Sorry for the inaccuracy. Hopefully it can be fixed soon because it inhibits further testing here. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [Bluez-devel] Oops involving RFCOMM and sysfs

2008-01-14 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:05:19 +0800, Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 12, 2008 7:09 AM, Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:11:17AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: For bluetooth device_move, the only child device of hci_conn dev is the rfcomm tty_dev. How

Re: [RFC, PATCH] watchdog on gpio

2008-01-14 Thread Johannes Weiner
Hi, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wonder if we could design a printk designed for __init functions to address this in a clean fashion. #define init_printk(fmt, __VA_ARGS__) \ do { \ static const __init char __fmt[] = fmt; \ printk(__fmt , ## __VA_ARGS__); \ } while

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-14 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So why don't you fix it first? Correct system time is essential. I've tried tuning it with adjtimex and everything, and sometimes it works for days, but then just suddenly the clock starts advancing. Nothing will make it work reliably if the system

Re: Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi_osi=Linux

2008-01-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: Userspace is in a better position to make this determination. Of course, That's fine with me. this also means not passing the Linux OSI to the firmware. Our hardware interaction is sufficiently in flux that any attempt to work around it in the

Re: 2.6.24-rc7-rt1

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 07:13 -0500, Gregory Haskins wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 3:27 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 15:54 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: OK, -rt2 will take a bit more beating from me before I release

Re: Fwd: Issue with arm-devel tree

2008-01-14 Thread Andre Haupt
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 02:54:49PM +, Russell King wrote: It might be a good idea if there was some co-ordination with people involved in the duplicate include removal work... Sorry for the inconvenience! I did not realise that Lucas was working on this and hence missed his patches. Best

Missing 'warned = 1' in your latest linux-2.6 commit

2008-01-14 Thread Hartkopp, Oliver (K-EFE/E)
Hi Len, in two cases you just introduce the 'warned' variable but do not set them to '1' after the printk() which is the intetion to print it just one time. Namely in pnpacpi_parse_allocated_ioresource() and pnpacpi_parse_allocated_memresource() the 'warned = 1' is missing.

Re: [RFC, PATCH] watchdog on gpio

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Jan 14, 2008 7:49 AM, Johannes Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wonder if we could design a printk designed for __init functions to address this in a clean fashion. #define init_printk(fmt, __VA_ARGS__) \ do { \ static const __init char

Re: [PATCH 002 of 6] md: Fix use-after-free bug when dropping an rdev from an md array.

2008-01-14 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:28:44PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: On Monday January 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I'll see what I can some up with. How about this, against current -mm On both the read and write path for an rdev attribute, we call mddev_lock, first checking that

Re: [RFC, PATCH, take 2] watchdog on generic gpio

2008-01-14 Thread Marc Pignat
Hi Florian! On Monday 14 January 2008, Florian Fainelli wrote: ... I would like this function to be supplied by the platform_data structure because as I mentioned before, not all GPIO connected watchdog will simply need a single bit to be toggled, but also sometimes a full GPIO line. I

Re: HPET timer broken using 2.6.23.13 / nanosleep() hangs

2008-01-14 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Andrew Paprocki wrote: I started debugging a problem I was having with my sky2 network driver under 2.6.23.13. The investigation led me to find that the HPET timer wasn't working at all, causing the sky2 driver to not work properly. Simple example:

Re: unify pagetable accessors patch causes double fault II

2008-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject was wrong of course -- it was a recursive oops, not a double fault. Sorry for the inaccuracy. Hopefully it can be fixed soon because it inhibits further testing here. no context. Your first mail did not seem to make it to lkml. (yet)

Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in

2008-01-14 Thread Tony Camuso
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:29:23 -0500 Tony Camuso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . There is no need to provide different PCI config access mechanisms at device granularity, since the PCI config access mechanism between the CPU and the Northbridge is opaque to the

Re: [PATCH 2/2] updating ctime and mtime at syncing

2008-01-14 Thread Miklos Szeredi
2008/1/14, Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2645 Changes for updating the ctime and mtime fields for memory-mapped files: 1) new flag triggering update of the inode data; 2) new function to update ctime and mtime for block device

Re: [PATCH 2/2] updating ctime and mtime at syncing

2008-01-14 Thread Miklos Szeredi
More fun, it would require marking them RO but leaving the dirty bit set, because this ext3 fudge where we confuse the page dirty state - or did that get fixed? That got fixed by Nick, I think. The alternative to marking pages RO, is to walk the PTEs in MS_ASYNC, note the dirty bit

[PATCH] fs/binfmt_elf.c: spello fix

2008-01-14 Thread Ohad Ben-Cohen
s/litle/little Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/binfmt_elf.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index f0b3171..5465c63 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static int

Re: [PATCH x86] [15/16] Force __cpuinit on for CONFIG_PM without HOTPLUG_CPU

2008-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:12:59PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Technically you are the one who has to deal with problems in your patches, not the people pointing at the problems. If you believe that my

Re: unify pagetable accessors patch causes double fault II

2008-01-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 02:06:20PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject was wrong of course -- it was a recursive oops, not a double fault. Sorry for the inaccuracy. Hopefully it can be fixed soon because it inhibits further testing here. no

Re: [PATCH 002 of 6] md: Fix use-after-free bug when dropping an rdev from an md array.

2008-01-14 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:59:39PM +, Al Viro wrote: I really don't like the entire scheme, to be honest. BTW, what happens if you try to add the same device to the same array after having it kicked out? If that comes before your delayed kobject_del(), the things will get nasty since

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