Re: [RFC v3 4/7] dmaengine: Add slave DMA interface

2008-02-13 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:21:41 -0700 Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 12, 2008 9:43 AM, Haavard Skinnemoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] +enum dma_slave_direction { + DMA_SLAVE_TO_MEMORY, + DMA_SLAVE_FROM_MEMORY, +}; Just reuse enum dma_data_direction from the

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-13 Thread Paul Jackson
Ok ... I read this patchset a little closer, and see a couple of items worth noting. The infamous unpublished (except to a few) patch I drafted on Christmas (Dec 25, 2007) basically added two new modes for how mempolicy nodemasks were to be resolved: 1) a static, no remap, mode, such as in this

Re: Aborted commands with arcmsr and 2xWD1500ADFD in RAID1

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
(cc's added) On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:44:08 +0100 Aron Stansvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello LKML. Under semi-high disk I/O (e.g. installing a compiled KDE), I get the following (accompanied by seconds of lock-ups on the machine): [ 7727.345183] arcmsr0: abort device command of scsi id

Re: [PATCH] exporting capability code/name pairs (try #4)

2008-02-13 Thread Kohei KaiGai
Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Kohei KaiGai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig index 25ffe1b..b79e830 100644 --- a/security/Kconfig +++ b/security/Kconfig @@ -91,6 +91,15 @@ config SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES If in doubt, answer N. +config

Re: [discuss] ide=reverse do we still need this?

2008-02-13 Thread Dirk GOUDERS
Hi, I'm reworking the pci device list logic (we currently keep all PCI devices in 2 lists, which isn't the nicest, we should be able to get away with only 1 list.) The only bother I've found so far is the pci_get_device_reverse() function, it's used in 2 places, IDE and the calgary driver.

Re: [PATCH - BUGFIX] Smack: Check for 'struct socket' with NULL sk

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:23:47 +0200 Ahmed S. Darwish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + BUG_ON(sk == NULL); + ssp = sk-sk_security; I'll remove the BUG_ON - the oops on the next line will provide us with just the same information. Thanks for the fix. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [PATCH] exporting capability code/name pairs (try #4)

2008-02-13 Thread Kohei KaiGai
Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:10:06AM +0900, Kohei KaiGai wrote: Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:42:09PM +0900, Kohei KaiGai wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -R /sys/kernel/capability/ /sys/kernel/capability/: codes names version

Re: Documentation about sysfs/procfs entries

2008-02-13 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:40:32PM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote: some questions: a. the list of parameters can presumably be extracted from existing file via procname search.not sure if it is correct (as per attached, complete?) I don't see anything attached :( b. what is the diff

Re: [discuss] ide=reverse do we still need this?

2008-02-13 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:54:55AM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote: Hi, I'm reworking the pci device list logic (we currently keep all PCI devices in 2 lists, which isn't the nicest, we should be able to get away with only 1 list.) The only bother I've found so far is the

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-13 Thread Jeff Chua
On Feb 13, 2008 3:54 PM, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:45:09 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Symptom is that the system shuts down normally and completely, it just does not power off. I've been struggling with an identically-manifesting regression

Re: [RFC] ext3 freeze feature

2008-02-13 Thread Takashi Sato
Hi, P.S. Oh yeah, it should be noted that freezing at the filesystem layer does *not* guarantee that changes to the block device aren't happening via mmap()'ed files. The LVM needs to freeze writes the block device level if it wants to guarantee a completely stable snapshot image. So the

Re: [PATCH] crypto: be*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-13 Thread Roel Kluin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] replace all: big_endian_variable = cpu_to_beX(beX_to_cpu(big_endian_variable) + expression_in_cpu_byteorder); with: beX_add_cpu(big_endian_variable, expression_in_cpu_byteorder);

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:40:21 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the hrtimer code is preparing an invalid ktime_t. Note that clockevents_program_event() actually fails when this happens - I am surprised that this is not causing observeable

[GIT]: Make LMB code sharable with sparc64.

2008-02-13 Thread David Miller
As I mentioned to a few ppc folks at LCA08 I plan to use the LMB code from powerpc as a basis for NUMA support on sparc64. There are two changes. 1) Move arch/powerpc/mm/lmb.c to lib/lmb.c, put the main interface bits in include/linux/lmb.h, put arch-specific bits in asm/lmb.h and add

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: In general 2.6.25 if looking quite good on my desktop, but there's one important issue: the system no longer powers off after shutdown. This works fine with 2.6.24. I was wrong :-( I'd not really done any real wor under 2.6.25 yet, but now

Re: [RFC v3 5/7] dmaengine: Make DMA Engine menu visible for AVR32 users

2008-02-13 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:27:29 -0700 Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or just let the subsystem always be available. It used to be always available, but then it was changed. Assuming there was a reason for this change, I guess we don't want to change it back. Adrian had

[RFC] [PATCH] x86: Configure out compilation of Simple Boot Flag support

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Hi, The Simple Boot Flag specification support (in arch/x86/kernel/bootflag.c) is not really needed on embedded platforms, so it can probably be compiled out. Zwane Mwaikambo did a patch a few months (years ?) ago to configure out the compilation of that file, and I've updated the patch to recent

distributed module configuration [Was: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))]

2008-02-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
2) Let's move away from some/dir/{Kconfig,Makefile} schemes and instead have each thing have it's own Kconfig.foo or Makefile.foo that gets automatically sucked into the main directory Makefile or Kconfig using file globs or similar. So we could do: config foo tristate do

[PATCH REPOST] printk: fix possible printk buffer overrun introduced with recursion check

2008-02-13 Thread Tejun Heo
printk recursion detection prepends message to printk_buf and offsets printk_buf when actual message is printed but it forgets to trim buffer length accordingly. This can result in buffer overrun in extreme cases. While at it, make printk_recursion_bug_msg static and move static variables for

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:40:21 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the hrtimer code is preparing an invalid ktime_t. Note that clockevents_program_event() actually fails when this happens - I

Re: BUG: 2.6.25-rc1: iptables postrouting setup causes oops

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:46:01 +1100 Ben Nizette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On an AVR32, root over NFS, config attached, running (from a startup script): iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE Results in (dmesg extract including a bit of context for good measure):

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc1-git2: GDT SCSI: change drivers/scsi/gdth.c into using pci_get device

2008-02-13 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Wed, Feb 13 2008 at 2:17 +0200, James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 20:48 -0300, Sergio Luis wrote: reposting an updated version of it. Please check if it's ok. Looks fine, thanks! You added an extra space at the end of while ((pdev = pci_get_device(vendor,

Re: [GIT]: Make LMB code sharable with sparc64.

2008-02-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:41:20AM -0800, David Miller wrote: As I mentioned to a few ppc folks at LCA08 I plan to use the LMB code from powerpc as a basis for NUMA support on sparc64. There are two changes. 1) Move arch/powerpc/mm/lmb.c to lib/lmb.c, put the main interface bits in

Re: [git pull] x86 arch updates for v2.6.25

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Amit Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I remembers, Ubuntu uses klibc in initramfs, right? What version of klibc do you have? There was a bug in klibc that causes such behavior on PIE-randomization-enabled kernels, and has been fixed in klibc-1.45 by commit [1]. Please make

Re: [discuss] ide=reverse do we still need this?

2008-02-13 Thread Dirk GOUDERS
Hm, so, to summarize: - you needed this option many years ago to get a box to work properly - you don't need this today I would summarize: - ide=reverse solved certain problems and I am not sure if there are users who still need this option So, if the option went away, you

Re: Kernel Bug? Use of IRQF_SHARED + IRQF_DISABLED

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:19:03 +0530 Rajat Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Based on suggestion from Thomas Petazzoni, I'm moving this to LKML. This is regarding the following code in kernel/irq/handle.c. Consider the case of a shared IRQ line, where two handlers are registered such that

Re: Documentation about sysfs/procfs entries

2008-02-13 Thread Peter Teoh
On 2/13/08, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:40:32PM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote: some questions: a. the list of parameters can presumably be extracted from existing file via procname search.not sure if it is correct (as per attached, complete?) I don't

Re: [ata crash] Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc1

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw this one was featured in the weekly bug top 10.. it's a rather popular thing to happen. i didnt get very far with bisection. .23 definitely did not crash and booted up fine - but it produced the Bad IO ... messages - so my automated bisector

[PATCH] printk: implement printk_buf overflow warning

2008-02-13 Thread Tejun Heo
printk silently truncates messages longer than 1024 - 1 bytes. Implement overflow detection and append $PRINTK_BUF_OVERFLOW$\n to truncated messages. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/printk.c | 15 --- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff

Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash

2008-02-13 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Wed, Feb 13 2008 at 9:06 +0200, Stefan Priebe - allied internet ag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I've tested this patch now - and it works fine. Now rmmod, halt and reboot also works. Stefan Priebe This is grate news Stefan. Thank you very much for all your time and effort, with

Re: [GIT]: Make LMB code sharable with sparc64.

2008-02-13 Thread David Miller
From: Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:57:35 +0100 Review had been easier if the patch was inlined. Sorry :) Can we plase have this changed to use: config SPARC64 + select HAVE_LMB And then in lib/Kconfig have +config HAVE_LMB + bool So we avoid

avoid overflows in kernel/time breakes my ondemand scheduler

2008-02-13 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Hello H. Peter, the patch avoid overflows in kernel/time makes the ondemand cpufreq scheduler unusable. It looks like the cpufreq scheduler takes minutes to react on load changes. I looked at the patch but did not found an obvious problem. Reverting this patch seems to fix the problem. Do

Re: distributed module configuration

2008-02-13 Thread David Miller
From: Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:04:51 +0100 On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:54:33AM -0800, David Miller wrote: Also, we need to make sure we can properly handle top-level container-like items. For example, where would menuconfigs like NETDEV_1 go if we adopt

Re: distributed module configuration

2008-02-13 Thread David Miller
From: Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:45:41 +0100 So we could do: config foo tristate do you want foo? depends on USB BAR module obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o foo-y := file1.o file2.o help foo will allow you to

latest list of unused Kconfig variables

2008-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
now that 2.6.25-rc1 is out, i can start updating the output from my scanning scripts. the first updated output is the list of currently unused Kconfig variables -- variables that are defined in some Kconfig file somewhere but appear to be entirely unused throughout the source tree. latest

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.25-rc1 does not boot on Alpha

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Bob Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't going to be terribly useful other than giving someone a heads-up there's a problem with something in 2.6.25-rc1 on the Alpha PWS 433au. I get the usual messages out of aboot, including aboot: zero-filling 210392 bytes at 0xfc776740

Re: latest list of unused Kconfig variables

2008-02-13 Thread Paul Mundt
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:56:34AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: latest output here, sorted by architecture: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Unused_CONFIG_variables as always, there will probably be some false positives for one reason or another. SH_SDK7780_STANDALONE

Re: [PATCH] gdth: convert to PCI hotplug API

2008-02-13 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 02/13/2008 12:49 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 143 +++- 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-) 06196f50915da97bb897495863f9f084d785c1e4 diff --git

Re: BUG: 2.6.25-rc1: iptables postrouting setup causes oops

2008-02-13 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:48:29 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:46:01 +1100 Ben Nizette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On an AVR32, root over NFS, config attached, running (from a startup script): iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

[PATCH 5/5] libata: make libata use printk_header() and mprintk

2008-02-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Reimplement libata printk helpers using printk_header, implement helpers to initialize mprintk and use mprintk during device configuration and EH reporting. This fixes various formatting related problems of libata messages such as misaligned multiline messages, decoded register lines with leading

[PATCH 4/5] printk: add Documentation/printk.txt

2008-02-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Add Documentation/printk.txt which explains printk, mprintk and their friends. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/00-INDEX |2 + Documentation/printk.txt | 724 ++ 2 files changed, 726 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

[PATCH 2/5] printk: implement [v]printk_header()

2008-02-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Implement [v]printk_header() which takes @header argument and automatically prints header in front of or indents multiline messages. For example, if @header is 7ata1.00: and the formatted message is 6line0\nline1\n, the following gets written to the console. 6ata1.00: line0 6ata1.00 line1 As

[PATCHSET] printk: implement printk_header() and merging printk, take #3

2008-02-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, all. This is the third take of implement-printk_header-and-mprintk patchset. Changes from the last take[L] are... * Now header is printed on every line of a multiline message. If the header ends with ':' followed by spaces. The colon is replaced with space from the second line. *

[PATCH 1/5] printk: keep log level on multiline messages

2008-02-13 Thread Tejun Heo
When printing multiline messages, printk() resets log level to default_message_loglevel after the first line. This changes log level unexpectedly when printing multiline messages. For example, libata error messages are printed like the following. 3ata8.00: cmd

[PATCH 3/5] printk: implement merging printk

2008-02-13 Thread Tejun Heo
There often are times printk messages need to be assembled piece by piece and it's usually done using one of the following methods. * Calling printk() on partial message segments. This used to be quite common but has a problem - the message can break up if someone else prints something in

Re: [RFC v2 PATCH] RTTIME watchdog timer proc interface

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:41:42 -0800 Hiroshi Shimamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Hiroshi Shimamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Introduce new proc interface for RTTIME watchdog. It makes administrator able to set RTTIME watchdog to existing real-time applications without impact. $ echo 1000

[libata-dev #upstream-fixes] pata_legacy: don't call ata_host_detach() after initialization failure

2008-02-13 Thread Tejun Heo
ata_host_detach() detaches an attached port and shouldn't be called on a port which hasn't been attached yet. pata_legacy incorrectly calls ata_host_detach() on unattached port after initialization failure causing oops. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alan Cox [EMAIL

Re: Kernel BUG at fs/mpage.c:489

2008-02-13 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 20:01, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:26:27 +0100 Bart Dopheide [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:05:45PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: :)On Wednesday 13 February 2008 08:50, Alan Cox wrote: :) Almost certainly a hardware fail of some

Re: [PATCH] ufs: [bl]e*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-13 Thread Roel Kluin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: replace all: big/little_endian_variable = cpu_to_[bl]eX([bl]eX_to_cpu(big/little_endian_variable) + expression_in_cpu_byteorder); with: [bl]eX_add_cpu(big/little_endian_variable, expression_in_cpu_byteorder); you may

Re: [GIT-PULL] UBI updates

2008-02-13 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
Artem Bityutskiy wrote: Linus, please pull from git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6.git master to receive few UBI updates and fixes. Artem Bityutskiy (2): Documentation: add UBI sysfs ABI docs UBI: be verbose when debuggin is enabled S.Çağlar Onur (1): UBI: silence

Re: Kernel BUG at fs/mpage.c:489

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:24:03 +1100 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW is it really true that the buffer can never be locked by anything else at this point? It has been for the past five or six years. With the page locked, nobody else can get at that page. What about

Re: pci_get_device_reverse(), why does Calgary need this?

2008-02-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:16:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: Why does the calgary driver need this? Can we just use pci_get_device() instead? Why do you need to walk the device list backwards? Do you get false positives going forward? It's not strictly needed, we used it for symmetry. Feel

Re: [RFC PATCH] RTTIME watchdog timer proc interface

2008-02-13 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 14:21 -0800, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote: Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 13:44 -0800, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote: Hi Ingo, I think an interface to access RLIMIT_RTTIME from outside is useful. It makes administrator able to set RLIMIT_RTTIME watchdog to

Re: stuck with 2.6.23.14 on x86_64

2008-02-13 Thread Fabio Coatti
Alle martedì 12 febbraio 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki ha scritto: On Tuesday, 12 of February 2008, Fabio Coatti wrote: Alle martedì 12 febbraio 2008, Randy Dunlap ha scritto: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:03:41 +0100 Fabio Coatti wrote: Hi all, I'm stuck in a weird situation: I'm unable to go

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, you wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:45:09 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Symptom is that the system shuts down normally and completely, it just does not power off. I've been struggling with an identically-manifesting regression on one of my test

Re: [libata-dev #upstream-fixes] pata_legacy: don't call ata_host_detach() after initialization failure

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ata_host_detach() detaches an attached port and shouldn't be called on a port which hasn't been attached yet. pata_legacy incorrectly calls ata_host_detach() on unattached port after initialization failure causing oops. Fix it. thanks, i'll try

[PATCH] udf: Fix readdir on UDF

2008-02-13 Thread Jan Kara
Patch cleaning up UDF directory offset handling missed modifications in dir.c (because I've submitted an old version of the patch :() leading to broken readdir. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/fs/udf/dir.c b/fs/udf/dir.c index

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] x86: Configure out compilation of Simple Boot Flag support

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Petazzoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_BOOT, acpi_parse_sbf); + acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_BOOT, sbf_acpi_parse); no strong feelings if the ACPI guys ack it - but i suspect the renaming of the function from acpi_parse_sbf to sbf_acpi_parse was

2.6.25-rc1: volanoMark 45% regression

2008-02-13 Thread Zhang, Yanmin
volanoMark has 45% regression with kernel 2.6.25-rc1 on my both 8-core stoakley and 16-core Tigerton. I used bisect to locate below patch. commit 58e2d4ca581167c2a079f4ee02be2f0bc52e8729 Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100 sched: group

[PATCH] x86: EFI runtime code mapping enhancement

2008-02-13 Thread Huang, Ying
This patch enhances EFI runtime code memory mapping as following: - Move __supported_pte_mask _PAGE_NX checking before invoking runtime_code_page_mkexec(). This makes it possible for compiler to eliminate runtime_code_page_mkexec() on machine without NX support. - Use set_memory_x/nx in

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-13 Thread David Rientjes
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Paul Jackson wrote: The infamous unpublished (except to a few) patch I drafted on Christmas (Dec 25, 2007) basically added two new modes for how mempolicy nodemasks were to be resolved: 1) a static, no remap, mode, such as in this present patchset, and 2) a cpuset

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:40:21 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the hrtimer code is preparing an invalid ktime_t. Note that

Re: Kernel BUG at fs/mpage.c:489

2008-02-13 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 20:32, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:24:03 +1100 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW is it really true that the buffer can never be locked by anything else at this point? It has been for the past five or six years. With the page locked,

Re: [build bug] sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c: In function 'snd_opl3_find_patch': sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c:308: error: 'OPL3_PATCH_HASH_SIZE' undeclared (first use in this function) sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c:308: error: (Each undeclared

[patch 2/2] x86, ptrace, man: corresponding man pages

2008-02-13 Thread Markus Metzger
Man pages describing the user API of the ptrace BTS extensions. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index: man/man2/ptrace.2 === --- man.orig/man2/ptrace.2 2008-02-13 09:35:47.%N +0100 +++ man/man2/ptrace.2

Re: currently active Linux kernel versions

2008-02-13 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would suggest stable - N-1 for most usages. 2.6.24.y is open, 2.6.23.y is supposed to be good. The advantage when you proceed like this is that you can jump from an older kernel to a

Re: [git pull] x86 arch updates for v2.6.25

2008-02-13 Thread Amit Shah
On Feb 13, 2008 2:26 PM, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Amit Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I remembers, Ubuntu uses klibc in initramfs, right? What version of klibc do you have? There was a bug in klibc that causes such behavior on PIE-randomization-enabled

[PATCH] kbuild: allow to specify a custom revision for .deb packages

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
From: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Allow to specify a custom revision for the generated .deb package by exporting the environment variable KERNELDEBREVISION. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb index ba6bf5d..2577dec 100644

Re: [PATCH 00/18] ide: warm-plug support for IDE devices and other goodies

2008-02-13 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 01:30:03PM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:49:05PM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:40:43PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 01:44 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: - couple of

Re: [PATCH] gfs2: be*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-13 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, Now in the GFS2 -nmw git tree. Thanks, Steve. On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 00:06 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] replace all: big_endian_variable = cpu_to_beX(beX_to_cpu(big_endian_variable) +

Re: [PATCH] quota: le*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-13 Thread Jan Kara
On Wed 13-02-08 00:06:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] replace all: little_endian_variable = cpu_to_leX(leX_to_cpu(little_endian_variable) + expression_in_cpu_byteorder); with:

Re: [PATCH] enclosure: add support for enclosure services

2008-02-13 Thread Luben Tuikov
--- On Tue, 2/12/08, James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize for taking so long to review this patch. I obviously agree wholeheartedly with Luben. The problem I ran into while trying to design an enclosure management interface for the SATA devices is that there is all

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-02-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:28:43PM -0500, Pete MacKay wrote: We're using the wm9712 codec with the sound/soc/pxa code configured in and came across this build error: Which kernel version are you building against? I've been testing with v2.6.24 (and have just updated to v2.6.25-rc1 which is

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:19:14AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: We usually get this warning today in -mm. We don't always - and I'd say in terms of ARM it would be extremely rare. The sysfs API changes at the start of the last merge window is one example of this. I had everything nicely prepared in

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] x86: Configure out compilation of Simple Boot Flag support

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Le Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:29:58 +0100, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : no strong feelings if the ACPI guys ack it - but i suspect the renaming of the function from acpi_parse_sbf to sbf_acpi_parse was unnecessary? I rename acpi_parse_sbf() to sbf_acpi_parse() because the function was

Re: distributed module configuration

2008-02-13 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:54:33AM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:45:41 +0100 So we could do: config foo tristate do you want foo? depends on USB BAR module obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) +=

Re: 2.6.25-rc1: volanoMark 45% regression

2008-02-13 Thread Balbir Singh
Zhang, Yanmin wrote: volanoMark has 45% regression with kernel 2.6.25-rc1 on my both 8-core stoakley and 16-core Tigerton. I used bisect to locate below patch. commit 58e2d4ca581167c2a079f4ee02be2f0bc52e8729 Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008

Re: [ata crash] Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc1

2008-02-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Ingo Molnar wrote: On a second attempt to boot the same bzImage, another ATA related weirdness showed up: [8.226144] Calling initcall 0xc09f3d8e: isapnp_init+0x0/0xf() [8.232017] Bad IO access at port 0x0 (outb(val,port)) [8.232799] [ cut here ] [

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:51:52PM +, Alan Cox wrote: We could simply decide that API changes affecting more than one subsystem Must Be Serialized(tm). Explicitly. As in any such change is posted Welcome to dreamland. The only way I can get serial changes done is to wait months and

Re: Upgrade to 2.6.24 breaks NFS service

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
(cc linux-nfs) On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:58:03 + Nix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded from 2.6.23.10 to 2.6.24.2 yesterday, and found NFS service failing. To be specific, all locks were blocking forever, with an endless flood of Feb 12 22:53:10 loki notice: kernel: statd: server

Re: [PATCH][BLUETOOTH] add HCI_BROKEN_ISOC for 0e5e:6622 (bugzilla #9027)

2008-02-13 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi, This patch fix bugzilla #9027. ``Syslog flooded with hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for unknown connection handle 92 message see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9027 when we get the content of /proc/bus/usb/devices for this one. Do you have the manufacturer name of it

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:16:53PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: I was amazed at how slow stgit was when I tried it out. I use git-quiltimport a lot and I don't think it's any slower than just using quilt on its own. So I think that the speed issue should be the same. I like using guilt because I

Re: [PATCH] x86: pit_clockevent can be static

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Harvey Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: arch/x86/kernel/i8253.c:98:27: warning: symbol 'pit_clockevent' was not declared. Should it be static? yeah. Thanks Harvey, applied. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash

2008-02-13 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Tue, Feb 12 2008 at 19:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gdth _exit would first remove all cards then stop the timer and would not sync with the timer function. This caused a crash in gdth_timer() when module was unloaded. del_timer_sync the timer before we delete the cards.

Re: [build bug] sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c

2008-02-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:25:33 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c: In function 'snd_opl3_find_patch': sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c:308: error: 'OPL3_PATCH_HASH_SIZE' undeclared (first use in this function)

Tests of undefined CONFIG variables.

2008-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i've also updated the list of what i call badref CONFIG variables -- that is, tests of CONFIG_ variables that appear to be undefined anywhere in a Kconfig file (which typically represents a meaningless test, naturally). http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Badref_CONFIG_variables rday --

Re: [PATCH] x86: include prototype for no_broadcast in mach-default/setup.c

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Harvey Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fixes sparse warning: arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c:19:5: warning: symbol 'no_broadcast' was not declared. Should it be static? hm, this patch causes a build failure: In file included from arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c:13:

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:50:51PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: I can run the numbers, but almost every one of those changes has at least 2 signed-off-by: on them, so they should all be being reviewed properly. Good joke.. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

Re: [git pull] CPU isolation extensions (updated)

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Max Krasnyansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo said a few different things (a bit too large to quote). [...] And at the end he said: Also, i'd not mind some test-coverage in sched.git as well. I far as I know do not mind does not mean must go to ;-). [...] the CPU isolation related

[PATCH] pcmcia: ipwireless depends on NETDEVICES.

2008-02-13 Thread Paul Mundt
ipwireless (added by 099dc4fb62653f6019d78db55fba7a18ef02d65b) is clearly a net device: drivers/built-in.o: In function `ipwireless_ppp_start_xmit': /home/pmundt/devel/git/sh-2.6.25/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/network.c:165: undefined reference to `skb_under_panic'

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Catalin Marinas
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 21:16 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: I've never been very happy with stgit because of past experiences which has scarred me when it got get confused and lost my entire patch series (this was before git reflogs, so recovery was interesting). It got much better now :-). We

Re: [ALSA] HDA: no sound in headphone-out caused by commit f889fa91ad47e (2.6.25-rc1 regression)

2008-02-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:57:46 +0100, Matej Laitl wrote: On Tuesday 12 of February 2008 19:24:35 Matej Laitl wrote: Yes, this slightly better patch applied on top of your first patch against hda_codec.c did the trick, but with some side-effects: (...) Now I just found that the new

[drivers/video/sis/init301.c] SiS_Pr-ChipType = SIS_661 not evaluated twice

2008-02-13 Thread Roel Kluin
Not sure whether this is important, but in drivers/video/sis/init301.c:1557: if((SiS_Pr-ChipType = SIS_661) || (SiS_Pr-SiS_ROMNew)) { SiS_Pr-SiS_LCDTypeInfo = (SiS_GetReg(SiS_Pr-SiS_P3d4,0x39) 0x7c) 2; } else if((SiS_Pr-ChipType SIS_315H) || (SiS_Pr-ChipType = SIS_661)) {

Re: [ALSA] HDA: no sound in headphone-out caused by commit f889fa91ad47e (2.6.25-rc1 regression)

2008-02-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:24:35 +0100, Matej Laitl wrote: So there are now 3 vol controls that affect both speakers and headphones: * Master (which appeared somewhere between 2.6.24 and .25-rc1), when set to zero, the sound is still audible in speakers and headphones This must be the

Re: [PATCH] gdth: convert to PCI hotplug API

2008-02-13 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Wed, Feb 13 2008 at 1:49 +0200, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 143 +++- 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-) snip below is the same exact patch

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Catalin Marinas
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 22:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote: Ted's description matches mine (keep quilt tree in git, edit changelog entries, rebase on newer kernel versions, etc.) I can go into details if needed. I added some time ago patch history tracking in stgit and you can run stg log [--graphical]

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-02-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:58:50PM +, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: You used platform_device_register, but should be using platform_device_add, otherwise you get barfs with 2.6.25-rc1 (device is initialized twice). Also Thanks for that. I feel like I should knock up a patch to clarify the

Re: [GIT PATCH] split up feature-removal-schedule.txt

2008-02-13 Thread Pekka Pietikainen
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:02:15PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: This changeset does just that. Turns out that this makes things more readable, as it's easier to look at a list of filenames for things than picking through a 300 line text file. Hmm.. While you're at it, would it make sense to encode

Re: [PATCH -mm v4 6/9] atmel_serial: Split the interrupt handler

2008-02-13 Thread michael
Hi, All works now for me with preempt-rt. The problem is using hrtimer. I think that hrtimer are executed with interrupts disabled so, if this happen when I must receive a char, i have an overrun. The only solution was the dma support to serial device. Regards Michael -- To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] [1/2] CPA: Fix set_memory_x for ioremap v2

2008-02-13 Thread Andi Kleen
The so-called significant restructuring took a mere 2 hours, which is probably less than the time consumed in this thread. Hmm, it doesn't do what I meant and I don't think you solved the problem. You still check against the vaddrs which won't work for ioremaps or fixmap (and thus not fix the

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