Bug#970639: ZSWAP still considered experimental?

2022-05-31 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 31 May 2022 10:41:05 +0200 Diederik de Haas wrote: > In https://bugs.debian.org/970639 the request was made to enable ZSWAP. > > Upon it was (rightly) noted that zswap.rst contained this: > > Zswap is a new feature as of v3.11 and interacts heavily with memory > > reclaim. This

Bug#695182: [PATCH] Subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory

2013-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
. urgh, not that way. Let's do it properly: From: Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org Subject: page-writebackc-subtract-min_free_kbytes-from-dirtyable-memory-fix fix up min_free_kbytes extern declarations Cc: Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au Cc: Rik van Riel r...@redhat.com Cc: Wu Fengguang

Bug#695182: [PATCH] MAX_PAUSE to be at least 4

2013-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:07:34 +1100 paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: Ensure MAX_PAUSE is 4 or larger, so limits in return clamp_val(t, 4, MAX_PAUSE); (the only use of it) are not back-to-front. MAX_PAUSE is not used in this fashion in current kernels. (This patch does not solve the PAE

Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with partial workaround

2013-01-11 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:46:15 +1100 paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: ... I don't believe 64GB of RAM has _ever_ been booted on a 32-bit kernel without either violating the ABI (3GB/1GB split) or doing something that never got merged upstream ... Sorry to be so contradictory: psz@como:~$

Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with partial workaround

2013-01-11 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:51:35 +1100 paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: Dear Andrew, Check /proc/slabinfo, see if all your lowmem got eaten up by buffer_heads. Please see below: I do not know what any of that means. This machine has been running just fine, with all my users logging in here

Bug#504391: [PATCH] mmc: add module parameter to set whether cards are assumed removable

2009-11-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:44:36 + Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Some people run general-purpose distribution kernels on netbooks with a card that is physically non-removable or logically non-removable (e.g. used for /home) and cannot be cleanly unmounted during suspend. Add a

Bug#550010: [PATCH] hfsplus: Refuse to mount volumes larger than 2TB

2009-10-11 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:11:27 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: As found in http://bugs.debian.org/550010, hfsplus is using type u32 rather than sector_t for some sector number calculations. In particular, hfsplus_get_block() does: u32 ablock, dblock, mask; ...

Re: asm-{alpha,h8300,um,v850,xtensa}/param.h: unbreak HZ for userspace

2008-05-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 14 May 2008 13:05:31 +0200 maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: without it currently perl 5.10 doesn't build on alpha: perl.c: In function 'perl_construct': perl.c:388: error: 'CONFIG_HZ' undeclared (first use in this function) -

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8028] New: capi_{cmsg,message}2str not thread-safe; vulnerable to buffer overflow

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Morton
(cc's restored. Please don't do that) On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:30:35 + Ben Hutchings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 14:49 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:03:02 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8028

Bug#356458: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Bug#356458: linux-2.6: please include bigphysarea patch]

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
Ryan Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:09:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: I don't know what to suggest, really. I don't think that adding complexity to MM to support rare and broken hardware is likely to be welcome. Like I said, it's hardly rare hardware

Bug#356458: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Bug#356458: linux-2.6: please include bigphysarea patch]

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
Ryan Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:38:11AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: We already have infrastructure for managing and allocating large physically-contiguous hunks of memory: arch/*/mm/hugetlb.c. On x86 that operates in 2MB hunks (non-PAE) and 4MB

Bug#334113: [Security] kernel allows loadkeys to be used by any user, allowing for local root compromise

2005-10-18 Thread Andrew Morton
Horms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c: vt_ioctl(): line 377 /* * To have permissions to do most of the vt ioctls, we either * have * to be the owner of the tty, or have CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG. */ perm = 0;

Re: [Prism54-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/14] prism54: bring up to sync with prism54.org cvs rep

2004-05-27 Thread Andrew Morton
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis, you, or somebody should create a new patch series with just the critical fixes, NO WHITESPACE/FORMATTING CHANGES mixed in, and send those first. Whitespace changes are often nice, but they should be the very first patch[es] in the series. You