Re: simplify procfs code for seq_file instances

2018-04-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:23:04 +0200 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 09:57:50PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git proc_create > > > > > > I want to ask if it is time to start using poorman function overloading > >

Re: [PATCH 1/2] wd719x: Remove last declaration using DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE

2016-09-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 06:36:05 -0400 "Martin K. Petersen" wrote: > > "Joe" == Joe Perches writes: > > Joe> Convert it to the preferred const struct pci_device_id instead. > > Applied to 4.9/scsi-queue. That creates an ordering dependency

Re: Dirty/Writeback fields in /proc/meminfo affected by 20d74bf29c

2016-08-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 04:36:28 +0200 Tomas Vondra wrote: > Hi, > > While investigating a strange OOM issue on the 3.18.x branch (which > turned out to be already fixed by 52c84a95), I've noticed a strange > difference in Dirty/Writeback fields in /proc/meminfo depending on >

Re: [PATCH v2] byteswap: try to avoid __builtin_constant_p gcc bug

2016-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 03 May 2016 01:10:16 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote: > On Monday 02 May 2016 16:02:18 Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 02 May 2016 23:48:19 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote: > > > > > This is another attempt to avoi

Re: [PATCH v2] byteswap: try to avoid __builtin_constant_p gcc bug

2016-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 02 May 2016 23:48:19 +0200 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > This is another attempt to avoid a regression in wwn_to_u64() after > that started using get_unaligned_be64(), which in turn ran into a > bug on gcc-4.9 through 6.1. I'm still getting a couple screenfuls of things like

Re: mm: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail(page)) in mbind

2016-01-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:28:29 +0200 "Kirill A. Shutemov" wrote: > The patch below fixes the issue for me, but this bug makes me wounder how > many bugs like this we have in kernel... :-/ > > Looks like we are too permissive about which VMA is migratable: > vma_migratable()

Re: mm: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail(page)) in mbind

2016-01-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:28:29 +0200 "Kirill A. Shutemov" wrote: > Let's mark the VMA as VM_IO to indicate to mm core that the VMA is > migratable. > > ... > > --- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c > @@ -1261,7 +1261,7 @@ sg_mmap(struct file *filp, struct

Re: [PATCH] scsi: debug: fix type mismatch warning for sg_pcopy_from_buffer

2015-05-20 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 19 May 2015 23:22:39 +0200 Arnd Bergmann a...@arndb.de wrote: The recent change to mark the input argument of sg_pcopy_from_buffer had the unfortunate side-effect to cause a new warning in the scsi_debug code: drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c: In function 'do_device_access':

Re: [PATCH] scatterlist: enable sg chaining for all architectures

2015-04-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:56:16 +0900 Akinobu Mita akinobu.m...@gmail.com wrote: Some architectures enable sg chaining option while others do not. The requirement to enable sg chaining is that pages must be aligned at a 32-bit boundary in order to overload the LSB of the pointer. Regardless of

Re: [patch 069/104] lib/string_helpers.c:string_get_size(): remove redundant prefixes

2015-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:05:54 -0800 James Bottomley james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com wrote: @@ -42,31 +44,60 @@ void string_get_size(u64 size, const enum string_size_units units, [STRING_UNITS_2] = 1024, }; int i, j; - u32 remainder = 0, sf_cap; +

Re: [patch 069/104] lib/string_helpers.c:string_get_size(): remove redundant prefixes

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:25:08 -0800 James Bottomley james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com wrote: On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 15:01 -0800, a...@linux-foundation.org wrote: From: Rasmus Villemoes li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk Subject: lib/string_helpers.c:string_get_size(): remove redundant prefixes

Re: [patch 069/104] lib/string_helpers.c:string_get_size(): remove redundant prefixes

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:45:29 -0800 James Bottomley james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com wrote: ... I don't get it. As the man says, this is presently dead code and string_get_size() will need to be changed to work for disks larger than 2^64 bytes. That change may be to take a u128 or

Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] really large storage sectors - going beyond 4096 bytes

2014-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:30:19 -0800 James Bottomley james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com wrote: But this, I think, is the fundamental point for debate. If we can pull alignment and other tricks to solve 99% of the problem is there a need for radical VM surgery? Is there anything coming down

Re: [PATCH 1/1] remove cpqarray from mainline kernel

2013-10-17 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:52:26 -0500 Mike Miller mike.mil...@hp.com wrote: cpqarray hasn't been used in over 12 years. It's doubtful that anyone still uses the board. It's time the driver was removed from the mainline kernel. The only updates these days are minor and mostly done by people

Re: [PATCH] block: Fix possible sleep in invalid context

2013-07-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 20:58:35 +0530 Sujit Reddy Thumma sthu...@codeaurora.org wrote: When block runtime PM is enabled following warning is seen while resuming the device. BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at .../drivers/base/power/runtime.c:923 in_atomic(): 1,

Re: [PATCH] block: Fix possible sleep in invalid context

2013-07-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:24:11 -0700 James Bottomley james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com wrote: --- a/block/blk-core.c~block-fix-possible-sleep-in-invalid-context-fix +++ a/block/blk-core.c @@ -3159,15 +3159,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_pre_runtime_resume); */ void

Re: [PATCH 1/1] cciss: add cciss_allow_hpsa module parameter

2013-04-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:49:37 -0500 Mike Miller mike.mil...@hp.com wrote: Add the cciss_allow_hpsa modules parameter. This allows users to use the hpsa driver instead of cciss for older controllers. Tested with 3.9.0-rc7 in combination with the bug fix submitted Tuesday. My apologies for not

Re: [Patch 1/1] cciss: bug fix, prevent cciss from loading in kdump kernel

2013-04-17 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:59:06 -0500 Mike Miller mike.mil...@hp.com wrote: Patch 1/1 If hpsa is selected as the Smart Array driver cciss may try to load in the kdump kernel. When this happens kdump fails and a core file cannot be created. This patch prevents cciss from trying to load in this

Re: [Patch 1/1] cciss: bug fix, prevent cciss from loading in kdump kernel

2013-04-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:59:06 -0500 Mike Miller mike.mil...@hp.com wrote: Patch 1/1 If hpsa is selected as the Smart Array driver cciss may try to load in the kdump kernel. When this happens kdump fails and a core file cannot be created. This patch prevents cciss from trying to load in this

Re: [PATCH -mmotm] scsi: fix the wrong position of the comment

2013-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:22:47 + James Bottomley jbottom...@parallels.com wrote: [missing SCSI cc added] On Sun, 2013-03-10 at 17:09 +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote: This fixes the wrong position of the comment introduced by scsi-rename-random32-to-prandom_u32.patch in the -mm tree.

Re: [PATCH][SCSI] hptiop: Support HighPoint RR4520/RR4522 HBA

2012-10-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:28:54 +0800 HighPoint Linux Team li...@highpoint-tech.com wrote: Support HighPoint RR4520/RR4522 HBAs which are based on Marvell Frey. Signed-off-by: HighPoint Linux Team li...@highpoint-tech.com Documentation/scsi/hptiop.txt | 69 ++- drivers/scsi/hptiop.c

Re: next-20120925: BUG at drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:640!

2012-09-25 Thread Andrew Morton
(cc's added) On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:06:37 +0400 Dmitry Monakhov dmonak...@openvz.org wrote: Seems like barriers are broken again kernel BUG at drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1180! invalid opcode: [#1] SMP Modules linked in: coretemp kvm_intel kvm crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel

Re: [PATCH] fcoe: Remove redundant 'less than zero' check

2012-07-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 07:52:25 -0700 Robert Love robert.w.l...@intel.com wrote: strtoul returns an 'unsigned long' so there is no reason to check if the value is less than zero. strtoul already checks for the '-' character deep in its bowels. It will return an error if the user has provided

Re: arcmsr areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:35:31 +0100 (CET) Nikola Ciprich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: Hi Andrew, thanks a lot for reply, I'm attaching requested information. please let me know if You need more information/testing, whatever. I'll be glad to help

Re: arcmsr areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load

2008-02-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:20:12 +0100 (CET) Nikola Ciprich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've found strange problem either in arcmsr driver, or maybe in areca-1660 card... When system on SAS discs RAID connected to areca-1660 card gets under heavy I/O load, it gets unusable after some time.

Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi fixes for 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:31:02 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot here, since I am the original author of mvsas, but... Should we be adding new drivers during -rc? I'm

Re: LSI Logic MegaRAID SATA 150-4 / LSI Logic New Generation RAID Device Drivers (MEGARAID_NEWGEN) problems (megaraid abort: scsi cmd:14600, do now own)

2008-02-22 Thread Andrew Morton
(cc's added) On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:09:22 -0500 David M. Strang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings - A couple months back I purchased a LSI Logic MegaRAID ATA 150-4 controller, as well as 3 Seagate 500GB SATA-II hard drives to use in my system. Previously, I was using a pair of

Re: [PATCH 1/1] cciss: procfs updates to display info about many volumes

2008-02-19 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:48:18 +0100 Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 11 2008, Mike Miller wrote: Patch 1 of 1 This patch allows us to display information about all of the logical volumes configured on a particular without stepping on memory even when there are many

Re: gdth new set of patches for 2.6.24 stable

2008-02-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:46:03 +0200 Boaz Harrosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... All my testers have reported back that with these 5 patches applied they can now run with a 2.6.24 kernel the same way they ran before. However there is that reported issue, with the dma_free_coherent WARN_ON

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: [GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.25-rc1

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:02:44 -0600 James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one's not too bad given the number of patches we had in the merge window. We have the advansys fix, a gdth severe problem fix (wouldn't scan any devices) a bug fix series for lpfc and a few other odds and ends.

Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.25-rc1

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:11:53 -0600 James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mptbase-reset-ioc-initiator-during-pci-resume.patch Fixes suspend/resume on all of Darrick's MPT cards. I first merged it in September 2007. Patch presented by LSI but has gone back with comments Five

Re: [patch 02/13] git-scsi-misc gdth fix

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:27:33 +0200 Boaz Harrosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 05 2008 at 9:53 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 12:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:45:47 +0400 Dave Milter [EMAIL

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

2008-02-07 Thread Andrew Morton
implementations popping up etc. From: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Convert SG from nopage to fault. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Douglas Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 23

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9901] New: kernel panic in stex modules (?)

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:40:15 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9901 Summary: kernel panic in stex modules (?) Product: IO/Storage Version: 2.5 KernelVersion: 2.6.24 Platform: All

Re: Kernel Panic in MPT SAS on 2.6.24 (and 2.6.23.14, 2.6.23.9)

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:04:26 +0100 Maximilian Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! While installing my new firewall I got the following kernel panic in the MPT SAS driver which I need for the disks. The first kernel I bootet was 2.6.23.14 which did panic so I tried a 2.6.24 which panics,

Re: [patch 08/13] sg: nopage

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:53:21 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Convert SG from nopage to fault. Please give this some additional attention. We'd like to remove vm_operations_struct.nopage() altogether and we can't do that while it's hanging around in

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

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:16:51 -0600 James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:40:56 -0600 Subject: [SCSI] enclosure: add support for enclosure services The enclosure misc device is really just a library providing sysfs

Re: [patch] pci: pci_enable_device_bars() fix

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:57:36 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: so please tell me Jeff. If Greg, who is the super-maintainer of your code area, and who deals with your code every day and changes it every minute and

Re: dmesg spam

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:24:55 +0100 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: With latest -mm, running fc8 I am getting this in the logs, ^^^ = SCSI/libata cc:ing Jeff once per second. sr0

Re: dmesg spam

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:21:54 -0500 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Bottomley wrote: The message comes from sr_ioctl.c:sr_do_ioctl(). Which means some user level application is poking the drive with a command that's returning NOT_READY. Apparently it will shut up if quiet is

Re: dmesg spam

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:44:18 -0600 James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:24 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: James Bottomley wrote: It's here in sr_ioctl.c: Ah, indeed. My grep-fu sucks today. I'm not averse to simply nuking the printk ... it's probably

dmesg spam

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Morton
With latest -mm, running fc8 I am getting this in the logs, once per second. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make

Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 Build Failure on scsi driver

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:45:39 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, The kernel build fails with following error drivers/scsi/aha152x.o: In function `aha152x_host_reset_host': /home/kamalesh/scrap/linux-2.6.24-rc8/drivers/scsi/aha152x.c:1324: multiple definition of

Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 Build Failure on scsi driver

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:07:27 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, Patch from Tejun Heo fixes the aha152x.c build failure, and following second part of the build failure, is still occurring. drivers/scsi/fdomain.o:(.data+0x0): multiple definition of

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9752] New: getting FAULT code message at startup in mpt fusion scsi driver

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:30:11 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9752 Summary: getting FAULT code message at startup in mpt fusion scsi driver Product: SCSI Drivers Version: 2.5

Re: [PATCH] megaraid: fix section mismatch

2008-01-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:33:16 -0800 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change megaraid_pci_driver_g variable name so that it matches the modpost whitelist that allows pointers to init text/data. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1a8e30): Section mismatch:

Re: [PATCH] megaraid: fix section mismatch

2008-01-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:45:35 -0600 James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 16:10 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:33:16 -0800 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change megaraid_pci_driver_g variable

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove Adam Fritzler, update his email address in other sources

2007-12-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:48:03 -0800 Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back to Adam Fritzler... ... diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index ee909f2..449ec7f 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -1124,6 +1124,9 @@ S: 1150 Ringwood Court S: San Jose, California 95131 S: USA +N:

Re: [patch 18/30] scsi/qla2xxx/: possible cleanups

2007-12-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:20:04 -0800 Andrew Vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: Could you drop this patch from your queue. I'll carry it in my tree (along with additional code removals) for 2.6.25 submission. I'll normally carry patches

Re: [PATCH 1/3] cciss: export more attributes to sysfs (repost)

2007-12-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:17:44 -0600 Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patch 1 of 3 Sorry to take so long to repost. This patch exports more attributes to /sys so we can work work better with udev. Some distros use unique_id among other attributes. This patch attempts to provide that

Re: 2.6.24-rc5: tape drive not responding

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:25:51 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:05:51 -0500 John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ 215.007701] sym1: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=1128 SBCL=ae [ 215.008145] sym1: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1

Re: INITIO scsi driver fails to work properly

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:39:47 +0200 Filippos Papadopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have got an INITIO 9100 UW SCSI Controller with an IBM IC35L036UWD210-0 scsi hard disk on a 32 bit x86 system. Currently i have SUSE 10.1 (Kernel 2.6.16). I tried to install OpenSUSE 10.3 (kernel

Re: 2.6.24-rc5: tape drive not responding

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:02:02 -0500 John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to confirm, the propsed patch to st.c fixes the issue with 2.6.24-rc5 as well at 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 with access to my DLT tape drives. err, what patch to st.c? So it seems that 2.6.24 (and presumably 2.6.23?) need

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove Adam Fritzler, update his email address in other sources

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:12:06 -0800 Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam isn't a maintainer anymore. His old email address bounces. Update to new email address. On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:03:48PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: You seem to have an old email address in the linux-kernel

Re: [patch 18/30] scsi/qla2xxx/: possible cleanups

2007-12-14 Thread Andrew Morton
] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew, Could you drop this patch from your queue. I'll carry it in my tree (along with additional code removals) for 2.6.25 submission. I'll normally carry patches until they turn up in a subsystem tree or mainline and will drop them

Re: QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ?

2007-12-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:09:41 + Mel Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (13/12/07 14:29), Andrew Morton didst pronounce: The simple way seems to be to malloc a large area, touch every page and then look at the physical pages assigned ... they now mostly seem to be descending

Re: QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ?

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:09:59 +0100 Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, it's a vm issue, cc linux-mm and probable culprit. I have tens of thousand backward pages after a boot - IOW, bvec-bv_page is the page before bvprv-bv_page, not reverse. So it looks like that bug got reintroduced.

Re: QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ?

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:15:06 -0500 James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 14:02 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:09:59 +0100 Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, it's a vm issue, cc linux-mm and probable culprit. I have tens

Re: QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ?

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:30:00 -0500 Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the commit that causes the regression: ... --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -760,7 +760,8 @@ static int rmqueue_bulk(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order, struct page *page =

Re: [PATCH] fix page_alloc for larger I/O segments

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:40:09 -0500 Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And here is a patch that seems to fix it for me here: * * * * Fix page allocator to give better change of larger contiguous segments (again). Signed-off-by: Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ---

Re: [PATCH] fix page_alloc for larger I/O segments (improved)

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:57:29 -0500 James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 19:46 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: Improved version, more similar to the 2.6.23 code: Fix page allocator to give better chance of larger contiguous segments (again). Signed-off-by: Mark

Re: broken dpt_i2o in 2.6.23 (was: ext2 check page: bad entry in directory) (fwd)

2007-12-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:58:41 +0100 Anders Henke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to let you now that my boxes are running a 32-bit kernel, so the 64-bit-uncleanliness shouldn't apply to my boxes; however, http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/linux/dpt_i2o-64bit-2.6.23.patch fixed the

Re: broken dpt_i2o in 2.6.23 (was: ext2 check page: bad entry in directory) (fwd)

2007-12-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:43:42 +0100 Anders Henke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 12.12.2007 schrieb Miquel van Smoorenburg: On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 03:38 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:58:41 +0100 Anders Henke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to let you

Re: [PATCH acs_ame scsi driver 000 of 1] Introduction

2007-12-11 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:01:48 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More hm. It was from [EMAIL PROTECTED] which perhaps means that some attempt to recall it was made. Oh well. argh. [EMAIL PROTECTED] really is our Jeff's email address. And I went and cc'ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] on my

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

2007-12-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:07:08 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tracy) wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: commit 6f37ac793d6ba7b35d338f791974166f67fdd9ba Merge: 2f1f53b... d90bf5a... Author: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Nov 14 18:51:48 2007 -0800 Merge branch 'master

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and excessive block IO errors

2007-12-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:44:45 + Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if this problem has been addressed already. I read some about the fast-fail issues and this may be related? On nearly all my USB block devices, I have been getting zillions of I/O errors. But they aren't

Re: BUG 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 -- Boot still hangs w/ async scsi scan

2007-12-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:14:22 -0500 Lee Schermerhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 13:20 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:36:39 -0500 Lee Schermerhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As reported here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsim=119645761124683w

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

2007-12-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 18:16:12 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tracy) wrote: OK. Finally have this thing painted into a corner: git has identified 6f37ac793d6ba7b35d338f791974166f67fdd9ba as the first bad commit. From git bisect log, this corresponds to # bad:

Re: everything in wait_for_completion, what is my system doing?

2007-12-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:44:54 +0100 Bernd Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after scsi-recovery a system here went into some kind lock-up, everything seems to be in wait_for_completion(). Please see the attached blocked_states.txt and all_states.txt files. This is 2.6.22.12, I can easily find

Re: BUG 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 -- Boot still hangs w/ async scsi scan

2007-12-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:36:39 -0500 Lee Schermerhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As reported here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsim=119645761124683w=4 against 24-rc3-mm2, I'm still seeing the hang on my HP ia64 NUMA platform under 24-rc4-mm1 with async scsi scan enabled. I'm still

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

2007-12-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:49:37 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c | 132 ++- drivers/scsi/dpti.h|9 ++ 2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-) I've done the following: -untared a clean

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

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:31:50 +0100 Anders Henke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On November 28 2007, Anders Henke wrote: As everything is reported as being zero is quite odd an Jan took a guess that it might be block-layer or driver-related, I've assumed that the driver is responsible for this;

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

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:04:03 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:57:38 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:31:50 +0100 Anders Henke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On November 28 2007, Anders Henke wrote: As everything

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

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:30:54 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:11:55 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:04:03 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:57:38 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3-git2 softlockup detected

2007-12-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:58:06 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:00:47 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:39:29 -0500 Kyle McMartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:35:33AM

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

2007-11-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:30:01 +1300 Michael Cree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Tracy wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Could be something change in sysfs. Please double-check the config options, make sure that something important didn't get disabled. Here's hoping someone else is seeing

[patch] SCSI: early detection of medium not present, updated

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Morton
the bug described at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8904 Needs some TLC. Perhaps urgently. Cc: Albert Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alan Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3-git2 softlockup detected

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:39:29 -0500 Kyle McMartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:35:33AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ten million is close enough to infinity for me to assume that we broke the driver and that's never going to terminate. how about this? doesn't break

Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm2: Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00\nend_request: I/O error

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:01:31 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reliably spams dmesg with end_request() horrors. This happens when git starts checking out linux tree to fresh ext2 partition. Disk is several month old and there were no prolems with, say, 2.6.24-rc3: [

Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm2: Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00\nend_request: I/O error

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:14:21 -0700 Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 01:40:36PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:01:31 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reliably spams dmesg with end_request() horrors. This happens when git

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ide-scsi: use print_hex_dump from linux/kernel.h

2007-11-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:16:13 +0800 Denis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: these utilities implemented in lib/hexdump.c are more handy, please use this. ... --- a/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c @@ -242,16 +242,6 @@ static void idescsi_output_buffers (ide_drive_t

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9462] New: Adaptec AHA-7850 with MOD drive: Hard lockup with new Adaptec driver

2007-11-27 Thread Andrew Morton
(switched to email - please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the bugzilla web interface) On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:11:02 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9462 Summary: Adaptec AHA-7850 with MOD drive: Hard lockup with new

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3-git2 softlockup detected

2007-11-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:59:00 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, (cc linux-scsi, for sym53c8xx) Soft lockup is detected while bootup with 2.6.24-rc3-git2 on powerbox I assume this is a post-2.6.23 regression? BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 11s! [insmod:375] NIP:

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3-git2 softlockup detected

2007-11-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:47:19 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:59:00 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, (cc linux-scsi, for sym53c8xx) Soft lockup is detected while bootup with 2.6.24-rc3-git2

Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1

2007-11-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:55:41 +0100 Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:39:08 +0100 Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some warnings on each SCSI disc: ... [ 30.724410] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access SEAGATE ST318406LW

Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:39:08 +0100 Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some warnings on each SCSI disc: ... [ 30.724410] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access SEAGATE ST318406LW 0109 PQ: 0 ANSI: 3 [ 30.724419] scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 [ 30.724435]

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9405] New: iSCSI does not implement ordering guarantees required by e.g. journaling filesystems

2007-11-19 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:44:01 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9405 Summary: iSCSI does not implement ordering guarantees required by e.g. journaling filesystems Product: IO/Storage Version:

Re: [PATCH 2/3] cciss: add support for blktrace

2007-11-19 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:07:17 -0600 Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patch 2 of 3 This patch adds support for the blktrace utility. Please consider this for inclusion. Seems there was already a call to blk_add_trace. This patch adds ifdef's and includes the header file. Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH 1/3] cciss: export more sysfs attributes

2007-11-19 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:03:07 -0600 Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patch 1 of 3 This patch creates more sysfs attributes to be exported by cciss. Hopefully we can work better with udev. Please consider this patch for inclusion. It would be appropriate if the changelog were to describe

Re: [PATCH 3/4] scsi_data_buffer

2007-11-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:59:30 +0200 Boaz Harrosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In preparation for bidi we abstract all IO members of scsi_cmnd, that will need to duplicate, into a substructure. - Group all IO members of scsi_cmnd into a scsi_data_buffer structure.

Re: [PATCH 3/4] scsi_data_buffer

2007-11-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:40:42 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:06:52 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:59:30 +0200 Boaz Harrosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In preparation for bidi we abstract all IO members

Re: Add ACCUSYS RAID driver for Linux i386/x86-64

2007-10-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:17:49 +0800 Peter Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Morton Thanks for your doing. We modified source code as your requested. If you have any comment please let me know. Do you need RAID HBA to test at this stage? If yes, Which address can i ship RAID HBA for you?

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI pieces for the merge window

2007-10-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:28:10 -0400 James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so it's no secret that I'm the last of the subsystem maintainers whose day job isn't working on the linux kernel. For the record, lots of subsystem maintainers are privateers. goes through the git trees I am not

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI pieces for the merge window

2007-10-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, James Bottomley wrote: OK, so it's no secret that I'm the last of the subsystem maintainers whose day job isn't working on the linux kernel. If you want a full time person, who did

Re: stex driver panic in kernel 2.6.23

2007-10-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:59:30 -0700 Ed Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The shared tag issue was not fixed yet. Kernel panic happened while running I/O test in kernel 2.6.23 (information attached). After applying the patch I posted (or the version James modified), panic disappeared. Switch back

Re: [PATCH 1/4] [SCSI] ips: remove ips_ha members that duplicate struct pci_dev members

2007-10-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:48:26 -0400 (EDT) Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drivers/scsi/ips.c | 178 this driver seems a bit of a basket case :( What's going on here? scb-dcdb.cmd_attribute =

Re: oops in lbmIODone, fails to boot [Re: 2.6.23-mm1]

2007-10-19 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:57:54 +0900 Mattia Dongili [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 09:31:26PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/ Hey there!! fails to boot here with this friendly oops: http

Re: [PATCH] Make advansys depend on CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS

2007-10-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:20:17 -0700 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:04:31 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: At least for now. Please explain why in the changelog (what changelog?). E.g.: so that make allmodconfig on powerpc will have a better chance of

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?)

2007-10-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:37:44 +1000 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would an oom-kill-someone-now sysrq be of help, I wonder? Is already there: sysrq-f. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-scsi in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

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