Re: [IPV6]: Fix IPsec datagram fragmentation

2008-02-15 Thread David Stevens
I think the field name is kind of confusing here. It appears that local_df == 1 means allow fragmentation and local_df == 0 means don't fragment. But DF to me means don't fragment, as in IP_DF, so the field value is backwards from what I'd expect. And maybe that's what happened to in your patch,

[patch 0/2] [RESEND] s390: new qeth driver for 2.6.26

2008-02-15 Thread frank . blaschka
-- Hi Jeff, here is the patch on top of the ctc driver update. I included feedback from Paul McKenney and also a couple of minor fixes. Regards, Frank -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[PATCH] netconsole: avoid null pointer dereference at show_local_mac()

2008-02-15 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch avoids a null pointer dereference when we read local_mac for netconsole in configfs and shows default local mac address value. A null pointer dereference occurs when we call show_local_mac() via local_mac entry in configfs before we setup the

Re: [PATCH] netconsole: avoid null pointer dereference at show_local_mac()

2008-02-15 Thread David Miller
From: Keiichi KII [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:45:48 +0900 This patch avoids a null pointer dereference when we read local_mac for netconsole in configfs and shows default local mac address value. A null pointer dereference occurs when we call show_local_mac() via

[PATCH] plusb.c patched to support Belkin F5U258 USB host-to-host cable

2008-02-15 Thread tony_gibbs
Dear Dave, I have tried to make the changes I have been working on and testing with your help into a patch as attached. Please let me know what you think of it. Kind Regards, Tony --- Description: To make usbnet work with the Belkin F5U258 USB Host to Host cable, which contains

Re: [IPV6]: Fix IPsec datagram fragmentation

2008-02-15 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:05:32AM -0800, David Stevens wrote: For the future, maybe we should rename that, or reverse the sense of it (in v4 as well). :-) Yeah it really should be called local_mayfrag. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Make sure sockets implement splice_read

2008-02-15 Thread David Miller
From: Rémi_Denis-Courmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:53:34 +0200 Fixes a segmentation fault when trying to splice from a non-TCP socket. Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied, thank you. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

[PATCH] add macro for printing mac addresses

2008-02-15 Thread Bruno Randolf
is there any chance to include a macro like this for printing mac addresses? its advantage is that it can be used without the need to declare buffers for print_mac(), for example: printk(mac address: MAC_FMT, MAC_ADDR(addr)); Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [PATCH] add macro for printing mac addresses

2008-02-15 Thread David Miller
From: Bruno Randolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:48:05 +0900 is there any chance to include a macro like this for printing mac addresses? its advantage is that it can be used without the need to declare buffers for print_mac(), for example: printk(mac address: MAC_FMT,

Re: [PATCH 6/9] fs_enet: Be an of_platform device when CONFIG_PPC_CPM_NEW_BINDING is set.

2008-02-15 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi Scott, I apologize for bringing this after so much time. Hope the better late than never motto applies. On Friday 21 September 2007 00:01, Scott Wood wrote: The existing OF glue code was crufty and broken. Rather than fix it, it will be removed, and the ethernet driver now talks to the

Re: [PATCH] add macro for printing mac addresses

2008-02-15 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:48 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote: is there any chance to include a macro like this for printing mac addresses? its advantage is that it can be used without the need to declare buffers for print_mac(), for example: printk(mac address: MAC_FMT, MAC_ADDR(addr)); you

Re: tbench regression in 2.6.25-rc1

2008-02-15 Thread Eric Dumazet
Zhang, Yanmin a écrit : On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 07:05 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: Zhang, Yanmin a �crit : Comparing with kernel 2.6.24, tbench result has regression with 2.6.25-rc1. 1) On 2 quad-core processor stoakley: 4%. 2) On 4 quad-core processor tigerton: more than 30%. bisect

[PATCH] [XFRM] Add CONFIG_INET dependency to CONFIG_XFRM_STATISTICS

2008-02-15 Thread Johann Felix Soden
From: Johann Felix Soden [EMAIL PROTECTED] With INET=n and XFRM_STATISTICS=y I get the following build failure: net/built-in.o: In function `xfrm_init': (.init.text+0xcd7): undefined reference to `snmp_mib_init' Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Masahide NAKAMURA [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: export gpl (un)register_memory_notifier

2008-02-15 Thread Christoph Raisch
Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 14.02.2008 18:12:43: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:46 +0100, Christoph Raisch wrote: Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13.02.2008 18:05:00: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:17 +0100, Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: Constraints imposed by HW / FW: - eHEA has

BUG/ spinlock lockup, 2.6.24

2008-02-15 Thread Denys Fedoryshchenko
Server crashed(not responding over network), last line over netconsole was Feb 15 15:50:17 217.151.X.X [1521315.068984] BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#1, ksoftirqd/1/7, f0551180 I have random crashes, at least once per week. It is very difficult to catch error message, and only recently i setup

Re: BUG/ spinlock lockup, 2.6.24

2008-02-15 Thread Bart Van Assche
2008/2/15 Denys Fedoryshchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have random crashes, at least once per week. It is very difficult to catch error message, and only recently i setup netconsole. Now i got crash, but there is no traceback and only single line came over netconsole, mentioned before. Did

Re: [PATCH 6/9] fs_enet: Be an of_platform device when CONFIG_PPC_CPM_NEW_BINDING is set.

2008-02-15 Thread Sergej Stepanov
Am Freitag, den 15.02.2008, 13:50 +0100 schrieb Laurent Pinchart: We're loosing the possibility of having MDC and MDIO on different ports. This is quite easy to fix for the non-CONFIG_PPC_CPM_NEW_BINDING case but I'm not familiar with OF bindings (yet) to fix the CONFIG_PPC_CPM_NEW_BINDING

Network namespace status

2008-02-15 Thread Daniel Lezcano
I receive some emails about the current status of the network namespace. I tried to synthesize this information and I uploaded it at: http://lxc.sourceforge.net/network_status.php I hope that can help. -- Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in

Re: Is netif_tx_lock() SMP PREEMPT safe?

2008-02-15 Thread Eric Dumazet
Marin Mitov a écrit : Hi all, As in: include/linux/netdevice.h (kernel-2.6.24.2) one finds: static inline void __netif_tx_lock(struct net_device *dev, int cpu) { spin_lock(dev-_xmit_lock); dev-xmit_lock_owner = cpu; } static inline void netif_tx_lock(struct net_device *dev) {

Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: Correctly obtain protocol information on transmit

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Auke Kok wrote: In reply to RE: [Fwd: [PATCH 2.6.25] ixgbe/igb: correctly obtain protocol information on transmit] from Andy Gospodarek: The driver was incorrectly looking at socket headers for protocol information, needed for checksumming offload. Fix this by not looking at the socket but

Re: [PATCH 2/2] e1000e: PCIe devices do not need to unset MANC_ARP_ENA

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Auke Kok wrote: From: David Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Users reported that ARP's were lost with e1000e. The problem is fixed by not enabling this manageability configuration bit. None of the release_manageability code is actually needed as the normal device reset during a shutdown returns

Re: [patch] Fix station address detection in smc

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Megahertz EM1144 PCMCIA ethernet adapter needs special handling because it has two VERS_1 tuples and the station address is in the second one. Conversion to generic handling of these fields broke it. Reverting that fixes the device.

[git patches] net driver fixes

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Process note: 'upstream-davem' continues the git history that began the previous push. This sometimes happens when I continue to commit locally, working in parallel while waiting for changes to hit Linus upstream. As current net-2.6.git appears to have the same commit ids that I submitted in

Re: [PATCH] e1000e: Fix CRC stripping in hardware context bug

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Auke Kok wrote: CRC stripping was only correctly enabled for packet split recieves which is used when receiving jumbo frames. Correctly enable SECRC also for normal buffer packet receives. Tested by Andy Gospodarek and Johan Andersson, see bugzilla #9940. Signed-off-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] igb: fix legacy mode irq issue

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andy Gospodarek wrote: I booted an igb kernel with the option pci=nomsi and instantly noticed that interrupts no longer worked on my igb device. I took a look at the interrupt initialization and quickly discovered a comment stating: DO NOT USE EIAME or IAME in legacy mode It seemed a bit odd

Re: [PATCH][AX25] mkiss: ax_bump() locking fix

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jarek Poplawski wrote: Hi, This is unchanged patch previously sent here for testing. I think it should be applied. Thanks, Jarek P. Subject: [PATCH][AX25] mkiss: ax_bump() locking fix According to one of OOPSes reported by Jann softirq can break while skb is prepared for

Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] igb: fix legacy mode irq issue

2008-02-15 Thread Kok, Auke
Jeff Garzik wrote: Andy Gospodarek wrote: I booted an igb kernel with the option pci=nomsi and instantly noticed that interrupts no longer worked on my igb device. I took a look at the interrupt initialization and quickly discovered a comment stating: DO NOT USE EIAME or IAME in legacy mode

Re: [PATCH] Make sure sockets implement splice_read

2008-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Rémi_Denis-Courmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:53:34 +0200 Fixes a segmentation fault when trying to splice from a non-TCP socket. Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied, thank you. That's also a stable

[PATCH 3/3] Add IPv6 Support to TCP SYN cookies

2008-02-15 Thread Glenn Griffin
Support IPv6 syncookies Signed-off-by: Glenn Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/net/tcp.h| 10 ++ net/ipv4/syncookies.c|9 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |1 + net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c |2 + net/ipv4/tcp_output.c|1 + net/ipv6/Makefile|1 +

Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: export gpl (un)register_memory_notifier

2008-02-15 Thread Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 14:22 +0100, Christoph Raisch wrote: A translation from kernel to ehea_bmap space should be fast and predictable (ruling out hashes). If a driver doesn't know anything else about the mapping structure, the normal solution in kernel for this type of problem is a multi

Re: [PATCH] (02/14/08 Linus git) Smack unlabeled outgoing ambient packets - v3

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Moore
On Friday 15 February 2008 12:38:49 am Casey Schaufler wrote: From: Casey Schaufler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets by specifying an ambient label that is applied to incoming unlabeled packets. Because the other end of the connection may dislike

[PATCH 1/3] Support arbitrary initial TCP timestamps

2008-02-15 Thread Glenn Griffin
Introduce the ability to send arbitrary initial tcp timestamps that are not tied directly to jiffies. The basic conecpt is every tcp_request_sock and tcp_sock now has a ts_off offset that represents the difference between tcp_time_stamp and the timestamp we send and expect to receive. This has

pull request: wireless-2.6 'fixes' 2008-02-15

2008-02-15 Thread John W. Linville
Dave, A handful of (mostly) fixes for 2.6.25. Also included are b43 patches and their b43legacy counterparts that only add some debugging output that should aid in diagnosing problems with those drivers. Let me know if there are problems! Thanks, John --- Individual patches are available

[PATCH] (02/14/08 Linus git) Smack unlabeled outgoing ambient packets - v3

2008-02-15 Thread Casey Schaufler
From: Casey Schaufler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets by specifying an ambient label that is applied to incoming unlabeled packets. Because the other end of the connection may dislike IP options, and ssh is one know application that behaves thus, it

Re: BUG/ spinlock lockup, 2.6.24

2008-02-15 Thread Denys Fedoryshchenko
This server was working fine under load under FreeBSD, and worked fine before with other tasks under Linux. I dont think it is RAM. Additionally it is server hardware (Dell PowerEdge) with ECC, MCE and other layers, who will report about any hardware issue most probably, and i think even better

[PATCHv2] [XFRM]: Speed up xfrm_policy and xfrm_state walking

2008-02-15 Thread Timo Teräs
Change xfrm_policy and xfrm_state walking algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n). This is achieved adding the entries to one more list which is used solely for walking the entries. This also fixes some races where the dump can have duplicate or missing entries when the SPD/SADB is modified during an

Re: [PATCH] Make sure sockets implement splice_read

2008-02-15 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le Friday 15 February 2008 18:30:11 Andi Kleen, vous avez écrit : David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Rémi_Denis-Courmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:53:34 +0200 Fixes a segmentation fault when trying to splice from a non-TCP socket. Signed-off-by: Rémi

Re: BUG/ spinlock lockup, 2.6.24

2008-02-15 Thread Jarek Poplawski
Jarek Poplawski wrote, On 02/15/2008 09:21 PM: Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote, On 02/15/2008 08:42 PM: ... I have similar crashes on completely different hardware with same job (QOS), so i think it is actually some nasty bug in networking. Maybe you could try with some other debugging

Re: [PATCH] (02/14/08 Linus git) Smack unlabeled outgoing ambient packets - v3

2008-02-15 Thread Casey Schaufler
--- Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 February 2008 12:38:49 am Casey Schaufler wrote: From: Casey Schaufler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets by specifying an ambient label that is applied to incoming unlabeled packets.

Re: [PATCH] (02/14/08 Linus git) Smack unlabeled outgoing ambient packets - v3

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Moore
On Friday 15 February 2008 4:00:26 pm Casey Schaufler wrote: --- Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 February 2008 12:38:49 am Casey Schaufler wrote: From: Casey Schaufler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets by specifying an

Re: [PATCH] Make sure sockets implement splice_read

2008-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
Rémi Denis-Courmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Friday 15 February 2008 18:30:11 Andi Kleen, vous avez écrit : David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Rémi_Denis-Courmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:53:34 +0200 Fixes a segmentation fault when trying to splice from

[PATCH 2/3] Enable the use of TCP options with syncookies

2008-02-15 Thread Glenn Griffin
Allow the use of extended tcp options when syncookies are in use and the client supports tcp timestamps. The general concept is to encode the tcp options as the initial timestamp that we send to the requestor in our synack. We can then decode the timestamp echo reply value on the returning ack.

[PATCH] fs_enet: Don't call phy_mii_ioctl() in atomic context.

2008-02-15 Thread Scott Wood
The lock acquisition in fs_ioctl() does not appear to actually be necessary, and thus is simply removed. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This fixes the following bug: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-February/051564.html drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c |7

[PATCH 2/2] Remove MAC_FMT

2008-02-15 Thread Joe Perches
MAC_FMT is no longer used Signed-off-by: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/include/linux/if_ether.h b/include/linux/if_ether.h index e157c13..7a1e011 100644 --- a/include/linux/if_ether.h +++ b/include/linux/if_ether.h @@ -130,7 +130,6 @@ extern ssize_t sysfs_format_mac(char *buf, const

RE: [PATCH] fs_enet: Don't call phy_mii_ioctl() in atomic context.

2008-02-15 Thread Rune Torgersen
Scott Wood wrote: The lock acquisition in fs_ioctl() does not appear to actually be necessary, and thus is simply removed. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This fixes the following bug: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-February/051564.html

[PATCH] net/8021q/vlan_dev.c - Use print_mac

2008-02-15 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 02:58 -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Bruno Randolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:48:05 +0900 is there any chance to include a macro like this for printing mac addresses? its advantage is that it can be used without the need to declare buffers for

e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-02-15 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello, I can't login to one of our servers and just got this in an ipmi sol session: [18169.209181] e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang [18169.209183] Tx Queue 0 [18169.209184] TDH e3 [18169.209185] TDT e3 [18169.209186]

Re: [PATCH] (02/14/08 Linus git) Smack unlabeled outgoing ambient packets - v3

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Moore
On Friday 15 February 2008 4:00:26 pm Casey Schaufler wrote: --- Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 February 2008 12:38:49 am Casey Schaufler wrote: ... you shouldn't fix-up the return value from netlbl_sock_setattr(). It only returns an error when there really is an error,

Re: BUG/ spinlock lockup, 2.6.24

2008-02-15 Thread Jarek Poplawski
Jarek Poplawski wrote, On 02/15/2008 10:03 PM: ... ...On the other hand this: Feb 15 15:50:17 217.151.X.X [1521315.068984] BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#1, ksoftirqd/1/7, f0551180 seems to point just at spinlock lockup, so it's more about the full report. I wonder if this patch to prink

[PATCH] igb: fix legacy mode irq issue

2008-02-15 Thread Auke Kok
From: Andy Gospodarek [EMAIL PROTECTED] I booted an igb kernel with the option pci=nomsi and instantly noticed that interrupts no longer worked on my igb device. I took a look at the interrupt initialization and quickly discovered a comment stating: DO NOT USE EIAME or IAME in legacy mode It

Re: [PATCH] (02/14/08 Linus git) Smack unlabeled outgoing ambient packets - v3

2008-02-15 Thread Casey Schaufler
--- Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yerk. I can put that fix into my tree, but my patch without the correction makes sockets behave very badly. I can't have people using it without Pavel's fix. Any notion on the plans to get that in? FYI, it looks like Linus just tagged -rc2 and

Re: [PATCH] [XFRM] Add CONFIG_INET dependency to CONFIG_XFRM_STATISTICS

2008-02-15 Thread David Miller
From: Johann Felix Soden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:08:43 +0100 From: Johann Felix Soden [EMAIL PROTECTED] With INET=n and XFRM_STATISTICS=y I get the following build failure: net/built-in.o: In function `xfrm_init': (.init.text+0xcd7): undefined reference to

Re: tbench regression in 2.6.25-rc1

2008-02-15 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:21:48 +0100 On linux-2.6.25-rc1 x86_64 : offsetof(struct dst_entry, lastuse)=0xb0 offsetof(struct dst_entry, __refcnt)=0xb8 offsetof(struct dst_entry, __use)=0xbc offsetof(struct dst_entry, next)=0xc0 So it should be

Re: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-02-15 Thread Kok, Auke
Bernd Schubert wrote: Hello, I can't login to one of our servers and just got this in an ipmi sol session: [18169.209181] e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang [18169.209183] Tx Queue 0 [18169.209184] TDH e3 [18169.209185] TDT

Re: BUG/ spinlock lockup, 2.6.24

2008-02-15 Thread Jarek Poplawski
Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote, On 02/15/2008 08:42 PM: ... I have similar crashes on completely different hardware with same job (QOS), so i think it is actually some nasty bug in networking. Maybe you could try with some other debugging options? E.g. since lockdep doesn't help - turn this off.

Re: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-02-15 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Saturday 16 February 2008, Kok, Auke wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: Hello, I can't login to one of our servers and just got this in an ipmi sol session: [18169.209181] e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang [18169.209183] Tx Queue 0 [18169.209184]

Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 'fixes' 2008-02-15

2008-02-15 Thread David Miller
From: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:17:51 -0500 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git fixes Pulled and pushed out. If you haven't noticed, I'm going to try and keep my net-2.6 tree from rebasing for a while and see how well

Re: [git patches] net driver fixes

2008-02-15 Thread David Miller
From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:03:14 -0500 Please pull from 'upstream-davem' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-davem Pulled and pushed out. As I mentioned to John Linville just now, I'm going to try and keep

Re: [git patches] net driver fixes

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Miller wrote: From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:03:14 -0500 Please pull from 'upstream-davem' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-davem Pulled and pushed out. As I mentioned to John Linville just now, I'm

[PATCH] (02/15/08 Linus git) Smack unlabeled outgoing ambient packets - v4

2008-02-15 Thread Casey Schaufler
From: Casey Schaufler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets by specifying an ambient label that is applied to incoming unlabeled packets. Because the other end of the connection may dislike IP options, and ssh is one know application that behaves thus, it

Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove rcu_assign_pointer(NULL) penalty with type/macro safety

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:00:24 -0800 Paul E. McKenney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! This is an updated version of the patch posted last November: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20071201.003721.cd6ff17c.en.html This new version permits arguments with side effects, for example:

Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove rcu_assign_pointer(NULL) penalty with type/macro safety

2008-02-15 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:40:24PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:00:24 -0800 Paul E. McKenney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! This is an updated version of the patch posted last November: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20071201.003721.cd6ff17c.en.html

Re: [PATCH] [XFRM] Add CONFIG_INET dependency to CONFIG_XFRM_STATISTICS

2008-02-15 Thread Masahide NAKAMURA
Saturday 16 February 2008 08:24, David Miller wrote: From: Johann Felix Soden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:08:43 +0100 From: Johann Felix Soden [EMAIL PROTECTED] With INET=n and XFRM_STATISTICS=y I get the following build failure: net/built-in.o: In function

Re: include/linux/pcounter.h

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
- First up, why was this added at all? We have percpu_counter.h which has several years development invested in it. afaict it would suit the present applications of pcounters. If some deficiency in percpu_counters has been identified, is it possible to correct that deficiency rather

Re: [PATCH] (02/15/08 Linus git) Smack unlabeled outgoing ambient packets - v4

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Moore
On Friday 15 February 2008 6:24:25 pm Casey Schaufler wrote: From: Casey Schaufler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets by specifying an ambient label that is applied to incoming unlabeled packets. Because the other end of the connection may dislike

[RFC] Best method to control a transmit-only mode on fiber NICs (specifically sky2)

2008-02-15 Thread Kyle Moffett
Hi, The company I'm working for has an unusual fiber NIC configuration that we use for one of our network appliances. We connect only a single fiber from the TX port on one NIC to the RX port on another NIC, providing a physically-one-way path for enhanced security. Unfortunately this doesn't

Re: [PATCH] (02/15/08 Linus git) Smack unlabeled outgoing ambient packets - v4

2008-02-15 Thread Casey Schaufler
--- Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 February 2008 6:24:25 pm Casey Schaufler wrote: From: Casey Schaufler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets by specifying an ambient label that is applied to incoming unlabeled packets.

Re: [RFC] Best method to control a transmit-only mode on fiber NICs (specifically sky2)

2008-02-15 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Kyle Moffett wrote: Hi, The company I'm working for has an unusual fiber NIC configuration that we use for one of our network appliances. We connect only a single fiber from the TX port on one NIC to the RX port on another NIC, providing a physically-one-way path for enhanced security.

Re: RESEND, HTB(?) softlockup, vanilla 2.6.24

2008-02-15 Thread Jarek Poplawski
Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote, On 02/13/2008 09:13 AM: It is very difficult to reproduce, happened after running about 1month. No changes done in classes at time of crash. Kernel 2.6.24 vanilla Hi, I could be wrong, but IMHO this looks like stack was overridden here, so my proposal is to