Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-11 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 3/11/07, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 11 March 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: Just to comment, I've been running one of the patches between 20-ck1 and this latest one, which is building as I type, but I also run gkrellm here, version 2.2.9. Since I have been running this

[PATCH]Replace 0 with NULL when returning a pointer

2007-03-11 Thread Cong WANG
Use NULL to indicate we are returning a pointer rather than an integer and to eliminate some sparse warnings. Signed-off-by: Cong WANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- drivers/kvm/vmx.c.orig 2007-03-11 21:41:03.0 +0800 +++ drivers/kvm/vmx.c 2007-03-12 14:25:11.0 +0800 @@ -98,7

[PATCH]Replace 0 with NULL when returning a pointer

2007-03-11 Thread Cong WANG
Use NULL to indicate we are returning a pointer rather than an integer and to eliminate some sparse warnings. Signed-off-by: Cong WANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c.orig 2007-03-11 21:41:23.0 +0800 +++ drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c 2007-03-12 14:26:17.0 +0800

Re: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29

2007-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 12 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: >Hi Gene. > >On Monday 12 March 2007 16:38, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I hate to say it Con, but this one seems to have broken the amanda-tar >> symbiosis. >> >> I haven't tried a plain 21-rc3, so the problem may exist there, and in >> fact it did for

Re: [PATCH] two more device ids for dm9601 usbnet driver

2007-03-11 Thread Peter Korsgaard
> "Jon" == Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, Jon> This patch for the linux-usb-devel tree adds two more Jon> product ids to the dm9601 driver. These ids were found on Jon> rebadged dm9601 devices in the wild. Jon> Signed-off-by: Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Peter

Re: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Of course I forgot to CC. :-) Quoting whole message for Justin. Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Linus. > > Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Paul Rolland wrote: >>> My machine is having two problems : the one you are describing above, >>> which is due to a SIL controler being connected

Re: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Linus. Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Paul Rolland wrote: >> My machine is having two problems : the one you are describing above, >> which is due to a SIL controler being connected to one port of the ICH7 >> (at least, it seems to), and probing it goes timeout, but nothing

Re: [patch 3/8] per backing_dev dirty and writeback page accounting

2007-03-11 Thread David Chinner
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:04:46PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: bugfix] > > Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Changes: > - updated to apply after clear_page_dirty_for_io() race fix > > This is needed for > > -

Re: Style Question

2007-03-11 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Mar 12 2007 13:37, Cong WANG wrote: > > > > The following code is picked from drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c: > > > > static struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu_load(struct kvm *kvm, int vcpu_slot) > > { > > struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = >vcpus[vcpu_slot]; > > > >

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-11 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
On 3/11/07, Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..snip..] | > To make the conversion we should consider renaming from | > current "Load alternate" to "Open config file..." | > and likewise "Save alternate" to "Save config file as..." | > | > Comments? | > | >Sam [..snip...] I think

Re: Style Question

2007-03-11 Thread Nicholas Miell
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 06:40 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Mar 12 2007 13:37, Cong WANG wrote: > > > > The following code is picked from drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c: > > > > static struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu_load(struct kvm *kvm, int vcpu_slot) > > { > > struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = >vcpus[vcpu_slot]; > > > >

Re: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29

2007-03-11 Thread Con Kolivas
Hi Gene. On Monday 12 March 2007 16:38, Gene Heskett wrote: > I hate to say it Con, but this one seems to have broken the amanda-tar > symbiosis. > > I haven't tried a plain 21-rc3, so the problem may exist there, and in > fact it did for 21-rc1, but I don't recall if it was true for -rc2. But >

Re: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29

2007-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 11 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: >On Sunday 11 March 2007 15:03, Matt Mackall wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:01:32PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: >> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:28:22PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: >> > > Ok I don't think there's any actual accounting problem here per

Re: Style Question

2007-03-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 12 2007 13:37, Cong WANG wrote: > > The following code is picked from drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c: > > static struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu_load(struct kvm *kvm, int vcpu_slot) > { > struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = >vcpus[vcpu_slot]; > > mutex_lock(>mutex); > if (unlikely(!vcpu->vmcs)) { >

Re: Style Question

2007-03-11 Thread Cong WANG
2007/3/12, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mar 11 2007 22:15, Cong WANG wrote: > > I have a question about coding style in linux kernel. In > Documention/CodingStyle, it is said that "Linux style for comments is > the C89 "/* ... */" style. Don't use C99-style "// ..." comments." > _But_

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-11 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 12 March 2007 15:42, Al Boldi wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Monday 12 March 2007 08:52, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > And thank you! I think I know what's going on now. I think each > > > rotation is followed by another rotation before the higher priority > > > task is getting a look in

Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

2007-03-11 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 06:02:31PM +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > On 10/03/07, Paul E. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:18:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:50:29 +0100 Michal Piotrowski > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Andrew

Re: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for ... 2.6.18.8 kernel

2007-03-11 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 12 March 2007 19:17, Vincent Fortier wrote: > > There are updated patches for 2.6.20, 2.6.20.2, 2.6.21-rc3 and > > 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 to bring RSDL up to version 0.30 for download here: > > > > Full patches: > > > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20-sched-rsdl-0.30.p >

Re: [PATCH] kthread_should_stop_check_freeze (was: Re: [PATCH -mm 3/7] Freezer: Remove PF_NOFREEZE from rcutorture thread)

2007-03-11 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 06:49:08PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, 3 March 2007 18:32, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > On 03/02, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:33:37AM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > On 03/02, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Null pointer in autofs4 (_spin_lock) in 2.6.21-rc2

2007-03-11 Thread Ian Kent
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 19:39 +0900, Ian Kent wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:12 +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 01:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:57:56 +0100 Thomas Renninger <[EMAIL > >

Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfs: use xfs_get_buf_noaddr for iclogs

2007-03-11 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:13:14AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > xfs_buf_get_noaddr. There's a subtile change because > xfs_buf_get_empty returns the buffer locked, but xfs_buf_get_noaddr > returns it unlocked. From my auditing and testing nothing in the > log I/O code cares about this

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-11 Thread Al Boldi
Con Kolivas wrote: > On Monday 12 March 2007 08:52, Con Kolivas wrote: > > And thank you! I think I know what's going on now. I think each rotation > > is followed by another rotation before the higher priority task is > > getting a look in in schedule() to even get quota and add it to the > >

Re: SATA resume slowness, e1000 MSI warning

2007-03-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
> Quoting Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: SATA resume slowness, e1000 MSI warning > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > OK I guess. I gather we assume writing read-only registers has no side > > effects? > > Are there rumors circulating wrt to these? >

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm2: drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c addr bogosity

2007-03-11 Thread Tony Breeds
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:14:29AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Good to use FIELD_SIZEOF(), Thanks. > but in general, we prefer to use it > directly, not in yet another wrapper. I left the item_{size,addr} in place as it seemed to make the item[] more compact. I'm

Re: [PATCH] [scsi]: Add offline state checking while dispatch a scsi cmd

2007-03-11 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:52:22 +0800 Joe Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The 2.6.9 base is very old in mainline terms. Are you sure the bug hasn't > > been fixed in mainline by other means? > > I cannot confirm if it have fixed in latest kernel, the server is a > production system, it's hard

Re: i.MX/MX1 SDHC fix/workaround of SD card recognition problems

2007-03-11 Thread Pavel Pisa
On Monday 12 March 2007 00:36, you wrote: > Pavel Pisa wrote: > > The SDHC controllers cannot process shorter transfers. > > They has to be handled as longer ones, but it such case CRC > > error is evaluated. There was a case in the code still, > > where this error is not ignored as it should to

Re: [PATCH] [scsi]: Add offline state checking while dispatch a scsi cmd

2007-03-11 Thread Joe Jin
> The 2.6.9 base is very old in mainline terms. Are you sure the bug hasn't > been fixed in mainline by other means? I cannot confirm if it have fixed in latest kernel, the server is a production system, it's hard to debug it and try reproduce. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [patch 2/3] fs: introduce perform_write aop

2007-03-11 Thread Mark Fasheh
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:25:41AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:33:01PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote: > > ->kernel_write() as opposed to genericizing ->perform_write() would be fine > > with me. Just so long as we get rid of ->prepare_write and ->commit_write in > >

Re: [PATCH v2] Bitbanging i2c bus driver using the GPIO API

2007-03-11 Thread Wu, Bryan
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 14:13 +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > This is a very simple bitbanging i2c bus driver utilizing the new > arch-neutral GPIO API. Useful for chips that don't have a built-in > i2c controller, additional i2c busses, or testing purposes. > Sorry for missing this hot

Re: [PATCH] Add nForce MCP61 support to i2c-nforce2

2007-03-11 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Petr, On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:00:03 +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote: Hello, patch below adds support for nVidia's SMBus adapter present on Gateway's GT5414E motherboard (ECS's MCP61 PM-AM). Patch is for current Linus's git tree. We already have a patch doing exactly

Re: Style Question

2007-03-11 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mar 11, 2007, at 21:32:00, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Mar 11 2007 21:27, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Mar 11, 2007, at 19:16:59, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Mar 11 2007 18:01, Kyle Moffett wrote: On the other hand when __cplusplus is defined they define it to the "__null" builtin, which GCC uses to

Re: Style Question

2007-03-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 11 2007 21:27, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Mar 11, 2007, at 19:16:59, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Mar 11 2007 18:01, Kyle Moffett wrote: >> > On the other hand when __cplusplus is defined they define it to the >> > "__null" builtin, which GCC uses to give type conversion errors for >> > "int

Re: Style Question

2007-03-11 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mar 11, 2007, at 19:16:59, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Mar 11 2007 18:01, Kyle Moffett wrote: On the other hand when __cplusplus is defined they define it to the "__null" builtin, which GCC uses to give type conversion errors for "int foo = NULL" but not "char *foo = NULL". A "((void

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] Resource counters

2007-03-11 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:00:15PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Herbert Poetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Linux-VServer does the accounting with atomic counters, > > so that works quite fine, just do the checks at the > > beginning of whatever resource allocation and the > >

Re: [PATCH] [scsi]: Add offline state checking while dispatch a scsi cmd

2007-03-11 Thread Joe Jin
> > This is a bug actually in the megaraid. Aha, I'll track it. > > And this is a direct command submission path: it already passed both > online check gates in this path *after* the device was offlined, so > adding a third won't fix this. Yeah, I have notice that, however, from the logs,

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/7] RSS controller core

2007-03-11 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 04:51:11AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:26:41 +0300 Kirill Korotaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:55:29 +0300 > > > Pavel Emelianov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>+struct

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Paul Rolland wrote: > > My machine is having two problems : the one you are describing above, > which is due to a SIL controler being connected to one port of the ICH7 > (at least, it seems to), and probing it goes timeout, but nothing is > connected on it. Ok, so that's

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/7] RSS controller core

2007-03-11 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 06:04:28PM +0300, Pavel Emelianov wrote: > Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 12:08:16PM +0300, Pavel Emelianov wrote: > >> Herbert Poetzl wrote: > >>> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:00:36PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:55:29 +0300 >

Re: irda rmmod lockdep trace.

2007-03-11 Thread Samuel Ortiz
Hi Dave, On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:43:26PM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:54:36PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > modprobe irda ; rmmod irda in 2.6.21rc3 gets me the spew below.. > Well it seems that we call __irias_delete_object() from hashbin_delete(). Then

Re: _proxy_pda still makes linking modules fail

2007-03-11 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Andi Kleen wrote: > Hmm, it probably needs a EXPORT_SYMBOL. The previous change only > fixed the in kernel build. > > Does it work with this patch? > > -Andi > > Export _proxy_pda for gcc 4.2 > Gak. It seemed like such a good idea at the time. Rusty's pda->per_cpu patch will deal with this

Re: _proxy_pda still makes linking modules fail

2007-03-11 Thread Andi Kleen
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've heard that it now builds with gcc-4.2.0 snapshots. This is strange: > if the problem has been fixed for gcc-4.2.0, why doesn't it work for > gcc-4.1.2? arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S does contain _proxy_pda = 0; Hmm, it probably

[PATCH] MMC: Fix handling of low-voltage cards

2007-03-11 Thread Philip Langdale
Fix handling of low voltage MMC cards. The latest MMC and SD specs both agree that support for low-voltage operations is indicated by bit 7 in the OCR. The MMC spec states that the low voltage range is 1.65-1.95V while the SD spec leaves the actual voltage range undefined - meaning that there is

[PATCH] MMC: Consolidate voltage definitions

2007-03-11 Thread Philip Langdale
Consolidate the list of available voltages. Up until now, a separate set of defines has been used for host->vdd than that used for the OCR voltage mask values. Having two sets of defines allows them to get out of sync and the current sets are already inconsistent with one claiming to describe

Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - timerfd core ...

2007-03-11 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote: > You should probably make it behave like the other things that use > itimerspec, just to avoid confusion -- i.e. timers are relative by > default, there's a flag that makes them absolute, they expire when > it_value specifies, and repeat every

Re: [PATCH] MMC: Clean up low voltage range handling

2007-03-11 Thread Philip Langdale
Pierre Ossman wrote: > > We must not have the same specs. My simplified SD 2.0 physical spec > defines everything below bit 15 as reserved. I was a little unclear. Both specs define bit 7 as the low-voltage range but only the MMC spec defines the actual voltage. As such, there is no complete

[PATCH] cosmetic adaption of drivers/ide/Kconfig concerning SATA

2007-03-11 Thread Patrick Ringl
Hello, since Serial ATA has it's own menu point now, I guess we can change the description of the deprecated SATA driver as well, since the new S-ATA subsystem is not configured through a SCSI low-level driver anymore. The following patch is against 2.6.21-rc3: ---

RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels

2007-03-11 Thread Con Kolivas
There are updated patches for 2.6.20, 2.6.20.2, 2.6.21-rc3 and 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 to bring RSDL up to version 0.30 for download here: Full patches: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20-sched-rsdl-0.30.patch http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.2-rsdl-0.30.patch

Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - timerfd core ...

2007-03-11 Thread Nicholas Miell
On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 16:50 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: > You should probably make it behave like the other things that use > itimerspec, just to avoid confusion -- i.e. timers are relative by > default, there's a flag that makes them absolute, they expire when > it_value specifies, and repeat

Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - timerfd core ...

2007-03-11 Thread Nicholas Miell
On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 16:13 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > This patch introduces a new system call for timers events delivered > > though file descriptors. This allows timer event to be used with > > standard POSIX poll(2), select(2) and read(2).

[PATCH] [RSDL] sched: rsdl accounting fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Con Kolivas
Andrew the following patch can be rolled into the sched-implement-rsdl-cpu-scheduler.patch file or added separately if that's easier. All the oopses and bitmap errors of previous versions of rsdl were fixed by v0.29 so I think RSDL is ready for another round in -mm. Thanks. --- Higher priority

Re: [PATCH] MMC: Clean up low voltage range handling

2007-03-11 Thread Pierre Ossman
Philip Langdale wrote: > Clean up the handling of low voltage MMC cards. > > > The latest MMC and SD specs both agree that the low > voltage range is defined as 1.65-1.95V and is signified > by bit 7 in the OCR. An old Sandisk spec implied that > bits 7-0 represented voltages below 2.0V in 1V

[PATCH] BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO -> BUILD_BUG_OR_ZERO

2007-03-11 Thread Rusty Russell
BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO is named perfectly wrong, and BUILD_BUG_ON_RETURN_ZERO is too long. Flip three bits, and the name is much more suitable. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -r 6fb745a5bb51 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h --- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h Mon Mar 12

[PATCH] [REVISED] drivers/media/video/videocodec.c: check kmalloc() return value.

2007-03-11 Thread Amit Choudhary
Description: Check the return value of kmalloc() in function videocodec_build_table(), in file drivers/media/video/videocodec.c. Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/media/video/videocodec.c b/drivers/media/video/videocodec.c index 290e641..f2bbd7a 100644 ---

Re: Style Question

2007-03-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 11 2007 18:01, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Mar 11, 2007, at 16:41:51, Daniel Hazelton wrote: >> On Sunday 11 March 2007 16:35:50 Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> > On Mar 11 2007 22:15, Cong WANG wrote: >> > > So can I say using NULL is better than 0 in kernel? >> > >> > On what basis? Do you even

Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - timerfd core ...

2007-03-11 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > This patch introduces a new system call for timers events delivered > though file descriptors. This allows timer event to be used with > standard POSIX poll(2), select(2) and read(2). As a consequence of > supporting the Linux f_op->poll subsystem,

Re: [PATCH] fix read past end of array in md/linear.c

2007-03-11 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday March 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:52:04PM -0800, Andy Isaacson wrote: > > Index: linus/drivers/md/linear.c > > === > > --- linus.orig/drivers/md/linear.c 2007-03-02 11:35:55.0 -0800 >

[patch 8/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - timerfd wire up x86_64 arch ...

2007-03-11 Thread Davide Libenzi
This patch wire the timerfd system call to the x86_64 architecture. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi - Davide Index: linux-2.6.20.ep2/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S === --- linux-2.6.20.ep2.orig/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S

[patch 7/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - timerfd wire up i386 arch ...

2007-03-11 Thread Davide Libenzi
This patch wire the timerfd system call to the i386 architecture. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi - Davide Index: linux-2.6.20.ep2/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S === --- linux-2.6.20.ep2.orig/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S

[patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - timerfd core ...

2007-03-11 Thread Davide Libenzi
This patch introduces a new system call for timers events delivered though file descriptors. This allows timer event to be used with standard POSIX poll(2), select(2) and read(2). As a consequence of supporting the Linux f_op->poll subsystem, they can be used with epoll(2) too. The system call is

[patch 2/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - signalfd core ...

2007-03-11 Thread Davide Libenzi
This patch series implements the new signalfd() system call. I took part of the original Linus code (and you know how badly it can be broken :), and I added even more breakage ;) Signals are fetched from the same signal queue used by the process, so signalfd will compete with standard kernel

[patch 9/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - timerfd compat code ...

2007-03-11 Thread Davide Libenzi
This patch implement the necessary compat code for the timerfd system call. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi - Davide Index: linux-2.6.20.ep2/fs/compat.c === --- linux-2.6.20.ep2.orig/fs/compat.c 2007-03-11 14:28:48.0

[patch 4/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - signalfd wire up x86_64 arch ...

2007-03-11 Thread Davide Libenzi
This patch wire the signalfd system call to the x86_64 architecture. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi - Davide Index: linux-2.6.20.ep2/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h === --- linux-2.6.20.ep2.orig/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h

[patch 3/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - signalfd wire up i386 arch ...

2007-03-11 Thread Davide Libenzi
This patch wire the signalfd system call to the i386 architecture. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi - Davide Index: linux-2.6.20.ep2/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S === --- linux-2.6.20.ep2.orig/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S

[patch 5/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - signalfd compat code ...

2007-03-11 Thread Davide Libenzi
This patch implement the necessary compat code for the signalfd system call. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi - Davide Index: linux-2.6.20.ep2/fs/compat.c === --- linux-2.6.20.ep2.orig/fs/compat.c 2007-03-11 14:28:28.0

[patch 1/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - anonymous inode source ...

2007-03-11 Thread Davide Libenzi
This patch add an anonymous inode source, to be used for files that need and inode only in order to create a file*. We do not care of having an inode for each file, and we do not even care of having different names in the associated dentries (dentry names will be same for classes of file*).

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-11 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 12 March 2007 09:29, bert hubert wrote: > Con, > > Recent kernel versions have real problems for me on the interactivity > front, with even a simple 'make' of my C++ program (PowerDNS) causing > Firefox to slow down to a crawl. > > RSDL fixed all that, the system is noticeably snappier.

Debugging x86_64 apic & bootup problems on the Cray XD1

2007-03-11 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
I am attempting to make a 2.6.20 kernel boot on a Cray XD1 node with a Mellanox InfiniBand card installed, however both the ancient supplied cray 2.6.5 suse derivative, and a 2.6.20 kernel I just booted fail on APIC initialization. Below is a diff of boot-up logs from a node without the mellanox

Re: [PATCH] MPT FUSION: Delete unused header files.

2007-03-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:55:54 MDT, Eric Moore said: > > With respect to mpi_log_fc.h - this defines the loginfo for fibre channel > protocal. This is a easy lookup to for LSI Logic customers to better > understand the kind of errors returned from firmware, and help reduce number > of support

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-11 Thread bert hubert
Con, Recent kernel versions have real problems for me on the interactivity front, with even a simple 'make' of my C++ program (PowerDNS) causing Firefox to slow down to a crawl. RSDL fixed all that, the system is noticeably snappier. As a case in point, I used to notice when a compile was done

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > > Nope... I tried several patches from Tejun, and also some > that Jeff posted > > to linux-ide, but no luck. The only way to have this DVD-RW > working is to > > use irqpoll on the command line... > > So it has *never* worked? That's what I'm trying to see - you had a > "before" and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-11 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 12 March 2007 08:52, Con Kolivas wrote: > And thank you! I think I know what's going on now. I think each rotation is > followed by another rotation before the higher priority task is getting a > look in in schedule() to even get quota and add it to the runqueue quota. > I'll try a

Re: Keyboard stops working after *lock [Was: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1]

2007-03-11 Thread Jiri Slaby
Jiri Slaby napsal(a): Jiri Kosina napsal(a): Hmm, strange, I did bet that this would have solved the problem, as the code is for sure bogus and could be causing these kinds of problems (I Hmm, so I'll check this out again to eliminate human factor. verified. --

[PATCH] drivers/media/video/se401.c: check kmalloc() return value.

2007-03-11 Thread Amit Choudhary
Description: Check the return value of kmalloc() in function se401_start_stream(), in file drivers/media/video/se401.c. Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/media/video/se401.c b/drivers/media/video/se401.c index 7aeec57..006c818 100644 ---

Re: Style Question

2007-03-11 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mar 11, 2007, at 16:41:51, Daniel Hazelton wrote: On Sunday 11 March 2007 16:35:50 Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Mar 11 2007 22:15, Cong WANG wrote: So can I say using NULL is better than 0 in kernel? On what basis? Do you even know what NULL is defined as in (C, not C++) userspace? Think

[PATCH] [REVISED] drivers/media/video/stv680.c: check kmalloc() return value.

2007-03-11 Thread Amit Choudhary
Description: Check the return value of kmalloc() in function stv680_start_stream(), in file drivers/media/video/stv680.c. Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/media/video/stv680.c b/drivers/media/video/stv680.c index 6d1ef1e..f35c664 100644 ---

Re: SwSusp to disk doesn't work - Try 2

2007-03-11 Thread Thomas Meyer
Thomas Gleixner schrieb: On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 22:09 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: update_sched_domains detach_destroy_domains [waits here] --> synchronize_sched (==synchronize_rcu) Well, I think the call to wait_for_completion() does not return,

Re: Keyboard stops working after *lock [Was: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1]

2007-03-11 Thread Jiri Slaby
Jiri Kosina napsal(a): On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: - /* make sure the unused bits in the last byte are zeros */ - if (count > 0 && size > 0) - data[(offset+count*size-1)/8] = 0; - No, this doesn't help -- -rc3-mm2 minus this behaves exactly the same. -rc3

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-11 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 12 March 2007 05:11, Al Boldi wrote: > Al Boldi wrote: > > BTW, another way to show these hickups would be through some kind of a > > cpu/proc timing-tracer. Do we have something like that? > > Here is something like a tracer. > > Original idea by Chris Friesen, thanks, from this post:

Re: SwSusp to disk doesn't work - Try 2

2007-03-11 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 22:09 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > update_sched_domains > > > detach_destroy_domains > > >[waits here] --> synchronize_sched (==synchronize_rcu) > > > > > Well, I think the call to wait_for_completion() does not return,

Re: Keyboard stops working after *lock [Was: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1]

2007-03-11 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > - /* make sure the unused bits in the last byte are zeros */ > > - if (count > 0 && size > 0) > > - data[(offset+count*size-1)/8] = 0; > > - > No, this doesn't help -- -rc3-mm2 minus this behaves exactly the same. > -rc3 without this patch

Re: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online are missing

2007-03-11 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/11/07, Giuliano Pochini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since 2.6.20 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online isn't there anymore. The directories exist, though. I also tested linux-2.6.21rc3. I had a look at the archives and I found nothing about the removal of that file, which is still documented

Re: [PATCH] Use more gcc extensions in the Linux headers

2007-03-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:50:37 +1100, Rusty Russell said: > Well, this is what I sent to Linus and Andrew (many thanks to those who > made appropriately whimsical *or* useful comments): Ahh.. much better - it's now a form that even I can get my brain wrapped around :) pgpkbTo4rWBle.pgp

Re: Keyboard stops working after *lock [Was: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1]

2007-03-11 Thread Jiri Slaby
Jiri Kosina napsal(a): On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Jiri Kosina wrote: If this is present also in vanilla and not only in -mm, could you please try reverting commits 4237081e573b99a48991aa71364b0682c444651c and d4ae650a904612ffb7edd3f28b69b022988d2466 and let me know if the situation gets any better?

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online are missing

2007-03-11 Thread Giuliano Pochini
Since 2.6.20 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online isn't there anymore. The directories exist, though. I also tested linux-2.6.21rc3. I had a look at the archives and I found nothing about the removal of that file, which is still documented in Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt. I don't know if other

Re: Null pointer in autofs4 (_spin_lock) in 2.6.21-rc2

2007-03-11 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 19:39 +0900, Ian Kent wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:12 +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 01:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:57:56 +0100 Thomas Renninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > I saw this happening

[PATCH] Initialise SAK member for each virtual console to prevent oops

2007-03-11 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch initialises the SAK member of the vc_cons variable on all virtual terminals, not only the first one. This prevents an oops when trying Sysrq-C on e.g. the second virtual terminal: kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue.c:212! invalid opcode: [1] SMP CPU 0 Modules linked in: i915

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-11 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 13:20 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > I'll boot up nosmp and report back Hohum. nosmp doesn't boot (locks after ide [bla] IRQ 14), will recompile UP in the A.M. and try again. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [PATCH] Initialise SAK member for each virtual console to prevent oops

2007-03-11 Thread Bernhard Walle
* David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-11 21:52]: > > + /* INIT_WORK(_cons[currcons].SAK_work, vc_SAK); */ > > The code is commented out, so it won't do anything. Sorry, you're right. I commented the line out just to generate again the oops message to write the patch description

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy!

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Jackson
Sam, responding to Herbert: > > from my personal PoV the following would be fine: > > > > spaces (for the various 'spaces') > >... > > container (for resource accounting/limits) > >... > > I like these a lot ... Hmmm ... ok ... Let me see if I understand this. We have actors, known

Re: [PATCH] MPT FUSION: Delete unused header files.

2007-03-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Eric Moore wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:57:35PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > Delete apparently unused header files. > > > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > --- > > > > drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_inb.h| 221

Re: SwSusp to disk doesn't work - Try 2

2007-03-11 Thread Thomas Meyer
Milan Broz schrieb: Thomas Meyer napsal(a): Rafael J. Wysocki schrieb: On Sunday, 11 March 2007 21:23, Milan Broz wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki: Ah, NO_HZ. Thomas Gleixner's address added to the Cc list. short printk trace enable_nonboot_cpus

Re: SwSusp to disk doesn't work - Try 2

2007-03-11 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 11 March 2007 21:57, Milan Broz wrote: > Thomas Meyer napsal(a): > > Rafael J. Wysocki schrieb: > >> On Sunday, 11 March 2007 21:23, Milan Broz wrote: > >> > >>> Rafael J. Wysocki: > >>> > Ah, NO_HZ. Thomas Gleixner's address added to the Cc list. > > >

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Add ability to keep track of callers of symbol_(get|put)

2007-03-11 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Andrew Morton > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Add ability to keep track of callers of > symbol_(get|put) > Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:09:38 -0800 > >> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:31:35 -0200 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> From: Trent

Re: [QUICKLIST 0/6] Arch independent quicklists V1

2007-03-11 Thread David Miller
From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:09:23 -0800 (PST) > Page table pages have the characteristics that they are typically zero > or in a known state when they are freed. This is usually the exactly > same state as needed after allocation. So it makes sense to

Re: SwSusp to disk doesn't work - Try 2

2007-03-11 Thread Milan Broz
Thomas Meyer napsal(a): > Rafael J. Wysocki schrieb: >> On Sunday, 11 March 2007 21:23, Milan Broz wrote: >> >>> Rafael J. Wysocki: >>> Ah, NO_HZ. Thomas Gleixner's address added to the Cc list. > short printk trace > > enable_nonboot_cpus > _cpu_up

Re: [PATCH] Initialise SAK member for each virtual console to prevent oops

2007-03-11 Thread David Miller
From: Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:41:38 +0100 > This patch initialises the SAK member of the vc_cons variable on all virtual > terminals, not only the first one. No it doesn't > --- linux-2.6.21-rc3.orig/drivers/char/vt.c > +++ linux-2.6.21-rc3/drivers/char/vt.c

Re: SwSusp to disk doesn't work - Try 2

2007-03-11 Thread Thomas Meyer
Rafael J. Wysocki schrieb: Okay, but could you please compile the kernel without NO_HZ and retest? Sure. But i get the same behaviour: Mar 11 21:42:07 [kernel] processor ACPI0007:00: freeze Mar 11 21:42:07 [kernel] button button_power:00: freeze Mar 11 21:42:07 [kernel] acpi

Re: [PATCH] MPT FUSION: Delete unused header files.

2007-03-11 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:55:54 -0600 > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:57:35PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > Delete apparently unused header files. > > > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > --- > > > >

Re: Style Question

2007-03-11 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 11 March 2007 16:35:50 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Mar 11 2007 22:15, Cong WANG wrote: > > Another question is about NULL. AFAIK, in user space, using NULL is > > better than directly using 0 in C. In kernel, I know it used its own > > NULL, which may be defined as ((void*)0), but it's

[PATCH] two more device ids for dm9601 usbnet driver

2007-03-11 Thread Jon Dowland
This patch for the linux-usb-devel tree adds two more product ids to the dm9601 driver. These ids were found on rebadged dm9601 devices in the wild. Signed-off-by: Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/usb/net/dm9601.c |8 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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