Networking problems with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread linux
probe at 0x220: 00 40 f6 24 34 08 Jan 30 21:26:37 cr753963-a kernel: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x220, using IRQ 5. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

DMA and my Maxtor drive

2000-10-20 Thread linux
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2.4.0pre9 and an analog joystick

2000-10-24 Thread linux
size 8 speed 917 kHz Oct 24 23:15:31 cr753963-a kernel: input0: Analog 2-axis 4-button joystick at gameport0.0 [TSC timer, 463 MHz clock, 1193 ns res] and I can't get any further :[ Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: 2.4.0pre9 and an analog joystick

2000-10-25 Thread linux
joydev Ok, I can get it to work with modules, but it will not work if it's directly compiled into the kernel, is this a known bug? Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://w

What's the status of kernel PNP?

2001-07-06 Thread linux
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Test - Please Disregard

2001-02-12 Thread linux
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Re: [patch] change futex_wait() to hrtimers

2007-03-14 Thread linux
, npollfds, 1) until the timeout really did expire. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.6.20.3 AMD64 oops in CFQ code

2007-03-22 Thread linux
chunk, algorithm 2 [6/5] [_U] bitmap: 149/164 pages [596KB], 1024KB chunk H'm... this means that my alarm scripts aren't working. Well, that's good to know. The drive is being re-integrated now. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

2.6.20.3 AMD64 oops in CFQ code

2007-03-22 Thread linux
[8025041e] system_call+0x7e/0x83 Code: 4c 8b ae 98 00 00 00 4c 8b 70 08 e8 63 fe ff ff 8b 43 28 4c RIP [8031504a] cfq_dispatch_insert+0x18/0x68 RSP 8100789b5af8 CR2: 0098 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: 2.6.20.3 AMD64 oops in CFQ code

2007-03-23 Thread linux
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Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v3

2007-02-22 Thread linux
it internally (to do async read-ahead or whatever) from a threadlet function. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v3

2007-02-22 Thread linux
; these are the cases where even a user-space longjmp-based thread library would context switch. - Context switches between threads in an application. The Linux kernel already optimizes out the MMU context switch in this case, and the scheduler already knows that such context

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-27 Thread linux
to disk. This caused annoying hiccups before the MS_ASYNC calls were added. I agree that msync(MS_ASYNC) has no semantics if time is ignored. But it's a useful way to tell the OS that the page is not going to be dirtied again. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Why is NCQ enabled by default by libata? (2.6.20)

2007-03-27 Thread linux
Here's some more data. 6x ST3400832AS (Seagate 7200.8) 400 GB drives. 3x SiI3232 PCIe SATA controllers 2.2 GHz Athlon 64, 1024k cache (3700+), 2 GB RAM Linux 2.6.20.4, 64-bit kernel Tested able to sustain reads at 60 MB/sec/drive simultaneously. RAID-10 is across 6 drives, first part of drive

Re: Why is NCQ enabled by default by libata? (2.6.20)

2007-03-27 Thread linux
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Re: Why is NCQ enabled by default by libata? (2.6.20)

2007-03-27 Thread linux
remember doing anything like that. What micro jumper? It's been a while, but I just double-checked the drive manual and it doesn't mention any jumpers. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: [PATCH] Add support for ITE887x serial chipsets

2007-03-27 Thread linux
Minor point: the chip part numbers are actually IT887x, not ITE887x. I STFW for a data sheet, but didn't have immediate luck. Does anyone know where to find documentation? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-27 Thread linux
* MS_ASYNC does not start I/O (it used to, up to 2.5.67). Yes, I noticed. See http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0602.1/0450.html for a bug report on the subject February 2006. That's why this application is still running on 2.4. As I mentioned at the time, the SUS says: (http

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-27 Thread linux
(2) too often. This is why we've been extending these things with linux-specific goodies which permit applications to actually tell the kernel what they want to be done in a more finely-grained fashion. Well, I still think the current Linux behavior is a bug, but there's a usable (and run-time

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-27 Thread linux
Linux _will_ write all modified data to permanent storage locations. Since 2.6.17 it will do this regardless of msync(). Before 2.6.17 you do need msync() to enable data to be written back. But it will not start I/O immediately, which is not a requirement in the standard, or at least it's

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-28 Thread linux
, that seems (to me, at least) to obviously be the intended purpose of msync(MS_ASYNC). I wonder if there's any historical documentation describing the original intent behind creating the call. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Why is NCQ enabled by default by libata? (2.6.20)

2007-03-29 Thread linux
it's a big deal, as 32 (tags) x 128K (largest LBA28 write size) is 4M, only half of a typical drive's cache RAM. But it's possible that there's some difference. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: 2.6.20.3 AMD64 oops in CFQ code

2007-04-03 Thread linux
:57:58: disk 3, o:1, dev:sdd4 14:57:58: disk 5, o:1, dev:sdf4 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

2.6.24-rc6 oops in net_tx_action

2008-01-06 Thread linux
. Here's the kernel config: $ grep ^CONFIG /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_X86_32=y CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE=y CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST=y CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=y

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 oops in net_tx_action

2008-01-06 Thread linux
, but that was with X running so I couldn't see a console oops. But given that I installed 2.6.24-rc6 about 24 hours ago, that's a disturbing pattern. It is probably this one: http://marc.info/?t=11978279403r=1w=2 Thanks! I got the patch from http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdevm=119756785219214 (Which

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 oops in net_tx_action

2008-01-07 Thread linux
Thanks! I got the patch from http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdevm=119756785219214 (Which didn't make it into -rc7; please fix!) and am recompiling now. Jeff is busy so he's asked me to pick up the more important driver bug fixes that get posted. I'll push this around, thanks. Much obliged

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-19 Thread linux
, but I'd rather avoid having the prisoner link /jail/lib/libfoo.so (write returns EROFS) to /jail/usr/log where it's potentially writeable. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: [RFT] Port 0x80 I/O speed

2007-12-12 Thread linux
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Re: /dev/urandom uses uninit bytes, leaks user data

2007-12-15 Thread linux
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Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?

2007-10-28 Thread linux
GCC about a non-returning statement. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API

2007-09-24 Thread linux
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Re: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API

2007-09-25 Thread linux
the ambiguity is still useful. I was just saying that it can be pretty much anything withouyt confusing the casual reader. We're in violent agreement, I just didn't say it very well the first time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API (take 2)

2007-09-27 Thread linux
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2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?

2007-09-27 Thread linux
Uniprocessor Althlon 64, 64-bit kernel, 2G ECC RAM, 2.6.23-rc8 + linuxpps (5.0.0) + ip1000a driver. (patch from http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdevm=118980588419882) After a few hours of operation, ntp loses the ability to send packets. sendto() returns -EAGAIN to everything, including the 24-byte

Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?

2007-09-30 Thread linux
/0x74 filp: 442 get_empty_filp+0x44/0xcd ip_dst_cache: 421 dst_alloc+0x29/0x76 I'm backing out the ip1000a driver and seeing what happens. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?

2007-09-30 Thread linux
? rc8-mm1? rc8-mm2?? As I wrote originally, I got it from http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdevm=118980588419882 which was a reuqest for mainline submission. If there are other patches floating around, I'm happy to try them. Now that I know what to look for, it's easy to spot the leak before OOM. I

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread linux
Today, 26 april, is the *21*'th anniversary of nuclear explosion at Chernobyl's station (ex USSR). And linux 2.6.*21* is released. Nice! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-14 Thread linux
; they's use it! in good conscience. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-14 Thread linux
that the schedule works. But if the seed samples are correlated, it gets a lot trickier. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-14 Thread linux
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Re: Fortuna

2005-04-15 Thread linux
matter, and can be changed without affecting the subpool structure that is Fortuna's real novel contribution. That was just what Niels and Bruce came up with to make the whole thing concrete. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-15 Thread linux
*, but your code is going to get some extremely critical examination. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-16 Thread linux
changes as you like. (Search debian-legal for desert island test.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-16 Thread linux
you cited, and has been fixed. There's probably more discussion of the subject in linux-kernel around the time that change went in. Whether the goal is *achieved* is a different issue. random.c tries pretty hard, but makes some concessions to practicality, relying on computational security

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-16 Thread linux
that understanding the concept is pretty fundamental to any meaningful discussion of information-theoretic security. I stand by my comments above. Cool! So there's a problem to be solved! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-16 Thread linux
a little bit weaker than the above, and I have to figure out of the proof extends. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-16 Thread linux
. /dev/random will output once it has as many bits of entropy as you're asking for. If you do a 20-byte read, it'll output once it has 160 bits. If you do a 1-byte read, it'll output once it has 8 bits. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-17 Thread linux
it would take to do that kind of analysis. And given the variety of platforms that Linux runs on, it gets insane. Yes, it can be proved based on fluid flow computations that hard drive rotation rates are chaotic and thus disk access timing is a usable entropy source, but then someone installs a solid

Re: enforcing DB immutability

2005-04-20 Thread linux
[A discussion on the git list about how to provide a hardlinked file that *cannot* me modified by an editor, but must be replaced by a new copy.] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote all of: perhaps having a new 'immutable hardlink' feature in the Linux VFS would help? I.e. a hardlink that can only

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-02-02 Thread linux
in ip.h:ip_select_ident()) a workaround for a Microsoft VJ compression bug. The fix was added in 2.4.4 (via DaveM's zerocopy-beta-3 patch); before that, Linux 2.4 sent a constant zero as the IP ID of DF packets. See discussion at http://www.postel.org/pipermail/end2end-interest/2001-May/thread.html

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-01-31 Thread linux
could you please also react to this feedback: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=110698371131630w=2 to quote a couple of key points from that very detailed security analysis: I'm not sure how the OpenBSD code is better in any way. (Notice that it uses the same

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-10 Thread linux
I really got bored of this thread.Can you all question your self on thing? If someone starts reading right now the sources of the linux kernel will be able to understand every aspect and part of the code??? Do you understand every aspect? Is it still opensource or starts to be a closedsource

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-02-12 Thread linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (The homebrew 15-bit block cipher in this code does show how much the world needs a small block cipher for some of these applications.) Doesn't TEA fill this niche? It's certainly used for this in the Linux kernel, e.g. in reiserfs (although I have my doubts

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-02-12 Thread linux
linux It's easy to make a smaller hash by just thowing bits away, linux but a block cipher is a permutation, and has to be linux invertible. linux For example, if I take a k-bit counter and encrypt it with linux a k-bit block cipher, the output is guaranteed not to linux

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-13 Thread linux
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Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-22 Thread linux
separate. Works for me (test code below). The machine we plan to buy is a HP Proliant Xeon machine and I want to run a 32 bit linux kernel on it (the xeon we want doesn't have the 64-bit stuff yet) If you're working with 4GB data sets, I would recommend you think VERY hard before deciding

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc3a] i386: inline restore_fpu

2005-07-26 Thread linux
SMP thread-creation case would be to have a NULL value for the thread-to-CPU pointer and initialize the thread's CPU pointer to that, but that then complicates the UP case. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

mmap tricks and writing to files without reading first

2005-04-04 Thread linux
of it, but then I have to worry about the system page size (I'm not sure if the kernel will DTRT and not page in half of an 8K page if I writev() two 4K vectors to it), and it prevents me from using pwrite(). I haven't tracked down the splice() idea that sct mentioned in http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-02-27 Thread linux
, so if I am inferring incorrectly, I apologize. (And you can ignore the rest of this missive.) However, I did look carefully at an earlier patch that claimed to be a Linux port of some OpenBSD networking randomization code, ostensibly to make packet-guessing attacks more difficult. http

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-01-28 Thread linux
It adds support for advanced networking-related randomization, in concrete it adds support for TCP ISNs randomization Er... did you read the existing Linux TCP ISN generation code? Which is quite thoroughly randomized already? I'm not sure how the OpenBSD code is better in any way. (Notice

Re: Copyright / licensing question

2005-02-03 Thread linux
). The Linux kernel is clearly published, and while the second part is a little fuzzy (and I'm not eager enough to chase it back to original case law), I think the functional nature of software places it in the factual category. 3. The Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Taken Your publisher

Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather

2005-01-15 Thread linux
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Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than

2005-01-19 Thread linux
suggestions? Does userland need to fall back on read()/write() for a byte? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http

Re: Need better is_better_time_interpolator() algorithm

2005-08-25 Thread linux
the total overflow 32 bits. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: CCITT-CRC16 in kernel

2005-08-10 Thread linux
or 89 21 if *not* inverted.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: CCITT-CRC16 in kernel

2005-08-11 Thread linux
-length messages, it matters. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: CCITT-CRC16 in kernel

2005-08-11 Thread linux
try them both and see which works. However, if your hardware uses the opposite bit ordering within bytes, DO NOT ATTEMPT to fix lib/crc-ccitt.c. It will break all of the existing users of the code. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: CCITT-CRC16 in kernel

2005-08-12 Thread linux
I could find on the Web is like the linux kernel ccitt_crc. Go figure. Funny, I can find it all over the place: http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/group__avr__crc.html http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/checks.htm http://www.bsdg.org/SWAG/CRC/0011.PAS.html http://www.ethereal.com/lists

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-15 Thread linux
, for the copy_from_user source, prefetchnta is probably indicated. If user space hasn't caused it to be cached already (admittedly, the common case), we *know* the kernel isn't going to look at that data again. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: [PATCH] speed up on find_first_bit for i386 (let compiler do the work)

2005-07-29 Thread linux
to cold-cache code. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-29 Thread linux
+ include/asm-xtensa/mmu_context.h|6 ++ kernel/sched.c |9 - 25 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) I think this pretty clearly points out the need for some arch-generic infrastructure in Linux. An awful lot of arch hooks are for one or two

Re: How to get dentry from inode number?

2005-07-29 Thread linux
. Don't emulate it, or you will be lynched by a mob of angry kernel developers with torches and pitchforks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

Re: [PATCH] speed up on find_first_bit for i386 (let compiler do the work)

2005-07-31 Thread linux
; } while ((x += CHAR_BIT * sizeof *b) size); return size; } Do we actually store bitmaps on 64-bit machines with 32 significant bits per ulong? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: Why is Memory split Kconfig option only for EMBEDDED?

2006-12-09 Thread linux
space and the kernel address space must both fit into the 4G linear virtual address space provided by the x86 architecture. Normally, Linux divides this into 3G for user virtual memory and 1G for kernel memory, which holds up to 896M of RAM plus all memory-mapped

Re: [PATCH] WorkStruct: Implement generic UP cmpxchg() where an

2006-12-10 Thread linux
is a fair price to pay for avoiding another layer of abstraction (a.k.a. obfuscation). And it lets you optimize them better. I apologize for not having counted them before. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH] WorkStruct: Implement generic UP cmpxchg() where an

2006-12-11 Thread linux
better. I apologize for not having counted them before. I also disagree that the architectures don't matter. ARM and PPC are pretty important, and I believe Linux on MIPS is growing too. Er... I definitely don't see where I said, and I don't even see where I implied - or even hinted

Re: [PATCH 2/3] ensure unique i_ino in filesystems without permanent

2006-12-12 Thread linux
. (You'll also need to add a #include stdbool.h, unless you expand the bool, false and true macros to their values _Bool, 0 and 1 by hand.) --- linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h.super 2006-12-12 08:53:34.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h2006-12-12 08:54:14.0 -0500 @@ -1879,7

SCHED_FIFO system()

2008-01-17 Thread linux
recognize this or similar situations? Cheers // Matias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling

2007-02-03 Thread linux
have an atomic flag that would avoid blocking to preallocate the additional kernel thread! Then you'd really be guaranteed no long delays, ever. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: [PATCH 2/3] [CRYPTO] Add optimized SHA-1 implementation for i486+

2007-06-11 Thread linux
at a time just before each of the 20 round groups. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH 2/3] [CRYPTO] Add optimized SHA-1 implementation for i486+

2007-06-11 Thread linux
%ecx pushl %eax jne 1b addl$4*86,%esp ret .size sha_stackwipe, .-sha_stackwipe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G

2007-06-12 Thread linux
support. Enabling this also disables the (expert use only) CONFIG_VMSPLIT_[23]G_OPT options. Does that seem reasonably user-oriented? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: [PATCH] random: fix folding

2007-06-12 Thread linux
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Re: [PATCH 2/3] [CRYPTO] Add optimized SHA-1 implementation for i486+

2007-06-13 Thread linux
return 0; } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

msleep(1000) vs. schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ+1)

2007-06-17 Thread linux
(), a lovely example of calling schedule_timeout() without set_current_state() first.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http

2.6.22-rcX Transmeta/APM regression

2007-06-27 Thread linux
] init_transmeta+0x1d5/0x230 SS:ESP 0068:c030fed0 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: 2.6.22-rcX Transmeta/APM regression

2007-06-27 Thread linux
VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M [1002:4c52] (rev 64) $ grep ^CONFIG /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_X86_32=y CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST=y CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y

Re: 2.6.22-rcX Transmeta/APM regression

2007-06-29 Thread linux
suspend (and resume) for me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.6.22-rcX Transmeta/APM regression

2007-06-30 Thread linux
Responding to various proposed fixes: Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c === --- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c @@ -734,8 +734,11 @@ void mtrr_ap_init(void

A simpler variant on sys_indirect?

2007-06-30 Thread linux
ideas, but they're not obviously bad ones, to me. Is it worth looking for synergy between various indirect system call ideas? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: increase Linux kernel address space 3.5 G memory on Redhat Enterprise

2007-05-08 Thread linux
Hi: I am running Redhat Linux Enterprise version 4 update 4 on a dual-core 4G memory machine. There are many references on the web talking about increasing default user address space to 3.5 G however lacking specific instructions. My questions: 1. What is the specific steps to be done

Re: Why can't we sleep in an ISR?

2007-05-14 Thread linux
Sleeping in an ISR is not fundamentally impossible - I could design a multitasker that permitted it - but has significant problems, and most multitaskers, including Linux, forbid it. The first problem is the scheduler. Sleeping is actually a call into the scheduler to choose another process

swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20

2007-05-04 Thread linux
I'm not used to seeing order-0 allocation failures on lightly loaded 2 GB (amd64, so it's all low memory) machines. Can anyone tell me what happened? It happened just as I was transferring a large file to the machine for later crunching (the sgrep program is a local number-crunching application

Re: [ 000/103] 3.10.3-stable review

2013-07-24 Thread linux
--- Total builds: 64 Total build errors: 3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [ 00/45] 3.0.88-stable review

2013-07-27 Thread linux
should be made by Sun Jul 28 20:54:53 UTC 2013. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.0.88-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. We have additional build failures

Re: [ 00/59] 3.4.55-stable review

2013-07-27 Thread linux
should be made by Sun Jul 28 20:48:22 UTC 2013. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.4.55-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. Cross platform build looks good

Re: [ 00/79] 3.10.4-stable review

2013-07-27 Thread linux
should be made by Sun Jul 28 20:45:08 UTC 2013. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.10.4-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. Cross build is ok: Total builds: 64

Re: [Qemu-devel] Commit 34b9c07a3 (microblaze: Disable stack protection from bootloader) causing qemu crash

2014-02-10 Thread linux
with qemu. This is part of my sanity tests of upcoming -stable kernel versions. It will have to wait until tonight, though - my home internet connection is down and I can not connect to the system right now. Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (max6650) Rename the device ids to contain the hwmon suffix

2014-02-10 Thread linux
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Re: [PATCH 01/17] Documentation: i2c: describe devicetree method for instantiating devices

2014-02-10 Thread linux
Quoting Wolfram Sang w...@the-dreams.de: Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang w...@the-dreams.de Cc: devicet...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org --- Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices | 34 +++-- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions

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