Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 12:17:21AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > [ continued here from comment on patch 1] > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:34:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > /* softirq mask and active fields moved to irq_cpustat_t in > > diff -urpNa -X dontdiff > >

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 12:17:21AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > [ continued here from comment on patch 1] > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:34:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > /* softirq mask and active fields moved to irq_cpustat_t in > > diff -urpNa -X dontdiff > >

[PATCH] ahci: enable GHC.AE bit before set GHC.HR

According to the description of section 5.2.2.1 and 10.1.2 of AHCI specification rev1_1/rev1_2, GHC.HR shall only be set to ¡®1¡¯ by software when GHC.AE is set to ¡®1¡¯. Signed-off-by: Peer Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- linux-2.6.23-rc7/drivers/ata/ahci.c.orig2007-09-20

[PATCH] Introduce ext4_find_next_bit

Also add generic_find_next_le_bit This gets used by the ext4 multi block allocator patches. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h |2 + include/asm-generic/bitops/le.h |4 ++ include/asm-powerpc/bitops.h

[PATCH] ext4: Fix spare warnings

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ext4/inode.c |6 -- include/linux/ext4_fs.h | 16 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index a4848e0..307e240 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc6-mm1] - Panic in blk_rq_map_sg() from CCISS driver

On Thu, Sep 20 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > PATCH 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 - Panic in blk_rq_map_sg() from CCISS driver > > New scatter/gather list chaining [sg_next()] treats 'page' member of > struct scatterlist with low bit set [0x01] as a chain pointer to > another struct scatterlist [array]. The

Re: [PATCH] pktcdvd: don't rely on bio_init() preserving bio->bi_destructor

On Thu, Sep 20 2007, Laurent Riffard wrote: > Le 14.09.2007 21:04, Laurent Riffard a écrit : > > Le 14.09.2007 13:06, Jens Axboe a écrit : > >> On Fri, Sep 14 2007, Jens Axboe wrote: > >>> On Fri, Sep 14 2007, Laurent Riffard wrote: > Le 10.09.2007 22:19, Laurent Riffard a écrit : > >

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: failure to boot on HP nx6325, no sound when booted, USB-related WARNING

Linus Torvalds writes: > It would indeed be nice if we could just take CPU's down early (while > everything is working), and run the whole suspend code with just one CPU, > rather than having to worry about the ordering between CPU and device > takedown. That is certainly what we want to do

Re: Test harness in the kernel for new syscalls? [Was: Trace code and documentation (updated)]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:01:15 +0200 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 06:51:09PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:48:45PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > Well, this is kernel code - so util-linux is not the solution here > > > > obviously :) so kernel

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sounds doable, as long as you can cope with long command lines (which > shouldn't be a biggie). (If you've got a swapfile or parts of a swap > partition already in use, it can be quite fragmented). Hmm. This is an interesting problem. Sharing a

Re: [PATCH RESEND] 2.6.22.6 networking [ipv4]: fix wrong destination when reply packetes

I'm not sure why it's using rt_src here, but there are relevant cases that your description doesn't cover. For example, what happens if the source is not set in the original packet? Does NAT affect this? You quote RFC text for ICMP echo and the case where the receiving machine is the final

Re: [PATCH] Remove broken netfilter binary sysctls from bridging code

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Fannin) writes: > The netfilter sysctls in the bridging code don't set strategy routines: > > sysctl table check failed: /net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-arptables .3.10.1 > Missing > strategy > sysctl table check failed: /net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-iptables .3.10.2 >

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

[ continued here from comment on patch 1] On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:34:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > /* softirq mask and active fields moved to irq_cpustat_t in > diff -urpNa -X dontdiff linux-2.6.22-b-fixbarriers/include/linux/rcuclassic.h >

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:57:26 +1000 Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > On Friday 21 September 2007 11:41:06 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Friday 21 September 2007 11:06:23 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:24:34 +1000 Nigel Cunningham > > > <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH RFC 1/9] RCU: Split API to permit multiple RCU implementations

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:32:08AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: [nitpick and two part mail ] > > diff -urpNa -X dontdiff linux-2.6.22/include/linux/rcuclassic.h > linux-2.6.22-a-splitclassic/include/linux/rcuclassic.h > --- linux-2.6.22/include/linux/rcuclassic.h 1969-12-31

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9043] New: tty not printed to screen

On 9/20/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Please reply via emailed reply-to-all, not via the bugzilla web interface) > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:46:34 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9043 > > > >Summary: tty not printed

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

"Huang, Ying" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Index: linux-2.6.23-rc6/include/linux/kexec.h > === > --- linux-2.6.23-rc6.orig/include/linux/kexec.h 2007-09-20 11:24:25.0 > +0800 > +++ linux-2.6.23-rc6/include/linux/kexec.h

[RFC][PATCH] make mis-configured cpu hotplug safer

When we want to hot-add a new cpu, it should be on cpu_possible_map. On some archs, we have to specify additional_cpus= boot option. (x86_64, ia64, s390 seems to need this. others ?) If a user enable a cpu which is not counted as possible_cpu, the system will panic. This patch disables to

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc7 1/3] async_tx: usage documentation and developer notes

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:27:40 -0700 Dan Williams wrote: > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- Hi Dan, Looks pretty good and informative. Thanks. (nits below :) > Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt | 217 > + > 1 files changed, 217

[Fwd: [BUG:] forcedeth: MCP55 not allowing DHCP]

Apparently I posted this in the middle of an unrelated thread by mistake. If this is the third message you are getting in regard to this issue, sorry :( Just trying to get it in the right place. Original Message Subject:[BUG:] forcedeth: MCP55 not allowing DHCP Date:

Re: MAX_RT_PRIO - 1 Highest prio?

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 05:20:27PM -0600, Chris Rigg wrote: > Hello, Hi Chris, > > First, I'm assuming that if I want my task to have the HIGHEST priority in > the system (i.e. preempt any other task whenever it is put into the ready > queue (assuming I have preemption turned on/configured)),

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That's not true. Kexec will itself be an implementation, otherwise you'd end > up with people screaming about no hibernation support. There needs to be an implementation of hibernation based on kexec with return yes. > And it won't result in >

Re: [PATCH] binfmt_flat: minimum support for theBlackfin relocations

Jivin Robin Getz lays it down ... > On Thu 20 Sep 2007 11:03, David McCullough pondered: > > I would say that (a) is definately not the case. I am sure the BF guys > > will say they have been banging us on the head with changes for a long > > time and getting no where as we considered the

Re: [git] CFS-devel, group scheduler, fixes

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:40:55AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 21:48 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > I don't know if this is relevant, but 4294966399 in nr_uninterruptible > > for cpu#0 equals -897, exactly the negation of cpu1.nr_uninterruptible. > > I don't know if

Re: NFS on loopback locks up entire system(2.6.23-rc6)?

Thanks Trond, for clarifying this for me. I have seen similar behavior when a remote NFS server is not available. Many processes wait end up waiting in nfs_release_page. So, what will happen if the remote server is not available, nfs_release_page cannot free the memory since it waits on rpc

Re: Don't cross the (tty) streams

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:29:31PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Read the thread starting here: > . Thanks, Andreas. I tested it with /bin/echo instead of the built-in echo and the problem disappeared. Both machines were running

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

Hi. On Friday 21 September 2007 12:45:57 Huang, Ying wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 12:25 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Friday 21 September 2007 12:18:57 Huang, Ying wrote: > > > > That's not true. Kexec will itself be an implementation, otherwise you'd > > end > > > > up

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

"Huang, Ying" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This patch implements the functionality of jumping between the kexeced > kernel and the original kernel. > > A new reboot command named LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KJUMP is defined to > trigger the jumping to (executing) the new kernel and jumping back to > the

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 12:25 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Friday 21 September 2007 12:18:57 Huang, Ying wrote: > > > That's not true. Kexec will itself be an implementation, otherwise you'd > end > > > up with people screaming about no hibernation support. And it won't > > >

Re: [git] CFS-devel, group scheduler, fixes

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 21:48 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > I don't know if this is relevant, but 4294966399 in nr_uninterruptible > for cpu#0 equals -897, exactly the negation of cpu1.nr_uninterruptible. > I don't know if this rings a bell for someone or if it's a completely > useless comment, but

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

Hi. On Friday 21 September 2007 12:18:57 Huang, Ying wrote: > > That's not true. Kexec will itself be an implementation, otherwise you'd end > > up with people screaming about no hibernation support. And it won't result in > > the complete removal of the existing hibernation code from the

[PATCH RESEND] 2.6.22.6 networking [ipv4]: fix wrong destination when reply packetes

Hi, This is a resend of this patch with more details. I'd like it can be accepted this time. The problem: In icmp_reply and ip_send_reply function, we now use rt->rt_src as destination to send out packets. For packets received in loopback device, this is wrong sometimes. Here is an

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 11:57 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Friday 21 September 2007 11:41:06 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Friday 21 September 2007 11:06:23 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:24:34 +1000 Nigel Cunningham > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >

[PATCH] Remove broken netfilter binary sysctls from bridging code

The netfilter sysctls in the bridging code don't set strategy routines: sysctl table check failed: /net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-arptables .3.10.1 Missing strategy sysctl table check failed: /net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-iptables .3.10.2 Missing strategy sysctl table check failed:

[PATCH] make mv643xx_eth.c build again

The changeset to "Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects" forgot to change a function prototype in mv643xx_eth.c, and also introduced a typo that caused the driver not to build. Signed-off-by: Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This is build-tested only. diff -ru

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 09:42:44PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > On 9/20/07, Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/20/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:58:28 -0400 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Fannin) wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue,

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

Hi. On Friday 21 September 2007 11:41:06 Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Friday 21 September 2007 11:06:23 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:24:34 +1000 Nigel Cunningham > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Andrew. > > > > > > > > On Thursday 20 September 2007 20:09:41

Re: [PATCH -mm] Don't truncate /proc/PID/environ at 4096 characters

2007/9/19, James Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > + while (count > 0) { > + int this_len, retval; > + > + this_len = mm->env_end - (mm->env_start + src); > + > + if (this_len <= 0) > + break; > + > + if (this_len >

Re: [PATCH] binfmt_flat: minimum support for theBlackfin relocations

On Thu 20 Sep 2007 11:03, David McCullough pondered: > I would say that (a) is definately not the case. I am sure the BF guys > will say they have been banging us on the head with changes for a long > time and getting no where as we considered the changes to severe or out > of line. I don't

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:19:59 +1000 Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > On Friday 21 September 2007 11:06:23 Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:24:34 +1000 Nigel Cunningham > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Andrew. > > > > > > On Thursday 20 September

Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 15:49 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > Please test these two patches. > I updated them according to your comments. > > I've only tested patch #1. It worked after some minor modifications below. > > > > > > plain text > document > attachment > (linux-2.6.23- >

Re: X-freeze after clflush changes [Was: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1]

On 2007.09.21 00:10:26 +, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > Could you try current xf86-video-intel driver? just do > > git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel > > It works! yep, I also pushed a fix for G33 in xf86-video-intel when fixing the intel agp. So for G33 user,

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc7 2/3] async_tx: fix dma_wait_for_async_tx

Fix dma_wait_for_async_tx to not loop forever in the case where a dependency chain is longer than two entries. This condition will not happen with current in-kernel drivers, but fix it for future drivers. Found-by: Saeed Bishara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc7 3/3] raid5: fix ops_complete_biofill

ops_complete_biofill tried to avoid calling handle_stripe since all the state necessary to return read completions is available. However the process of determining whether more read requests are pending requires locking the stripe (to block add_stripe_bio from updating dev->toead).

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc7 1/3] async_tx: usage documentation and developer notes

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt | 217 + 1 files changed, 217 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt b/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt new file mode 100644

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc7 0/3] async_tx and md-accel fixes for 2.6.23

Fix a couple bugs and provide documentation for the async_tx api. Neil, please 'ack' patch #3. git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop async-tx-fixes-for-linus Dan Williams (3): async_tx: usage documentation and developer notes async_tx: fix dma_wait_for_async_tx raid5:

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

Hi. On Friday 21 September 2007 11:06:23 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:24:34 +1000 Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Andrew. > > > > On Thursday 20 September 2007 20:09:41 Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Seems like good enough for -mm to me. > > > > > >

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:24:34 +1000 Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrew. > > On Thursday 20 September 2007 20:09:41 Pavel Machek wrote: > > Seems like good enough for -mm to me. > > > > Pavel > > Andrew, if

Re: [patch 4/4] Port of blktrace to the Linux Kernel Markers.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 05:13:28PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > +void blk_probe_disarm(void) > +{ > + int i, err; > + > + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(probe_array); i++) { > + err = marker_disarm(probe_array[i].name); > + BUG_ON(err); > + err =

Re: PROBLEM: System Freeze on Particular workload with kernel 2.6.22.6

Hi all, Thanks all. After lots of testing, I isolated the problem to one of the memory modules. Thought it might have been a kernel problem as I thought memtest should be exhaustive enough considering I ran it for so long, but apparently not... Even now, the bad module still does not show any

Re: [patch 1/4] Linux Kernel Markers - Architecture Independent Code

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 05:13:25PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > +/* > + * Sets the probe callback corresponding to one marker. > + */ > +static int set_marker(struct marker_entry **entry, > + struct __mark_marker *elem) > +{ > + int ret; > +

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1

Am 20.09.2007 22:25 schrieb Andrew Morton: > There was a locking imbalance in the IPC code. Do you have the fixes in > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc6/2.6.23-rc6-mm1/hot-fixes/ > applied? I hadn't. Now that I have, all the troubles are gone. X comes up

Re: [RFC][PATCH] page->mapping clarification [1/3] base functions

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:26:47 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > > Any comments are welcome. > > I am still a bit confused as to what the benefit of this is. > Honestly, I have 3 purposes, 2 for readability/clarificaton

Re: NFS on loopback locks up entire system(2.6.23-rc6)?

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 17:22 -0700, Chakri n wrote: > Hi, > > I am testing NFS on loopback locks up entire system with 2.6.23-rc6 kernel. > > I have mounted a local ext3 partition using loopback NFS (version 3) > and started my test program. The test program forks 20 threads > allocates 10MB for

Message codes (Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival)

* Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:15:47 -0700 * X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 [] >>*Shrug*. >> >>My problem is that switching off printk is the single biggest bloat > cutter >>in >>the kernel, yet it makes the resulting system very hard to support. It >>combines a big upside with a big

Re: Disk I/O degraded performance

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:09:12PM +0200, Ramon Chimeno wrote: > Hi all > > I migrated one of my server from kernel 2.6.18 to the latest 2.6.22 > and I experienced lower disk performance for processes that open file > with the O_DIRECT flag. > > I did a very simple test program that opens two

Re: Lossy interrupts on x86_64

On Thursday, September 20, 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 12:22 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > > Eeek, that sounds scary. Can you add "highres=off" as well ? > > > > FWIW I just tried your linux-2.6-hires tree with the attached > > config and still see the problem. It

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

Hi Andrew. On Thursday 20 September 2007 20:09:41 Pavel Machek wrote: > Seems like good enough for -mm to me. > > Pavel Andrew, if I recall correctly, you said a while ago that you didn't want another hibernation

NFS on loopback locks up entire system(2.6.23-rc6)?

Hi, I am testing NFS on loopback locks up entire system with 2.6.23-rc6 kernel. I have mounted a local ext3 partition using loopback NFS (version 3) and started my test program. The test program forks 20 threads allocates 10MB for each thread, writes & reads a file on the loopback NFS mount.

Re: 2.6.20 (XFS? related) crash after uptime of > 180 days during apt-get dist-upgrade on Debian Testing

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 04:47:38AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > >Including the XFS mailing list in here too because it may be an XFS bug > >looking at the call trace. > > > >System: Debian Testing > >Kernel: 2.6.20 > >Config: Attached > > > >I was

Linux-kernel win free lifetime membership

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Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 19:28 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > You convert printk(KERN_INFO, blah) to pr_INFO(blah)? more or less. printk(KERN_INFO foo) to pr_info(foo) printk(KERN_EMERG foo) to pr_emerge(foo) etc. > I'm not finding pr_INFO with a grep on the files in > 2.6.23-rc7. I haven't

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/6] lockdep: validate rcu_dereference() vs rcu_read_lock()

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:31:35PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 9/19/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:29:09 -0400 "Dmitry Torokhov" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 9/19/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 19 Sep

[PATCH][VER 4] mspec: handle shrinking virtual memory areas

Stress testing revealed the need for (yet more) revision. sorry. This is a revision of Andrew's mspec-handle-shrinking-virtual-memory-areas.patch Version 4: clear/release fetchop pages only when vma_data is no longer shared The vma_data structure may be shared by vma's from multiple tasks,

Re: [PATCH] PHYLIB: IRQ event workqueue handling fixes

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:38:19 +0100 (BST) "Maciej W. Rozycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keep track of disable_irq_nosync() invocations and call enable_irq() the > right number of times if work has been cancelled that would include them. > > Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <[EMAIL

Re: Problems with 2.6.23-rc6 on AMD Geode LX800

Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 09/20/2007 08:32 AM, Joerg Pommnitz wrote: >> Hello all, >> yesterday I tried to boot a kernel built from the current wireless-dev git >> tree (ath5k branch) >> on a MSEP800/A board (see http://www.milesie.co.uk/pdf/MSEP800.pdf). The >> board >> contains an AMD Geode

Re: [PATCH -mm] Don't truncate /proc/PID/environ at 4096 characters

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:35:29 +0100 "James Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: James Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > /proc/PID/environ currently truncates at 4096 characters, patch based on > the /proc/PID/mem code. patch needs to be carefully reviewed from the security POV (ie:

Re: X-freeze after clflush changes [Was: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 06:31:14PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 01:03:04AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > It's broken for me. > > > > > > 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: solid lock on X shutdown (noticed when upgrading) > > > -rc4-mm1: solid lock on X shutdown, random solid locks

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: failure to boot on HP nx6325, no sound when booted, USB-related WARNING

On Thursday 20 September 2007 17:55, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > (Btw, the above commit message points to just my response with a testing > > patch to the real email: the actual explanation of the INSANE ordering is > > from Len Brown in > > >

Re: [PATCH 4/11] eCryptfs: Replace encrypt, decrypt, and inode size write

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Halcrow writes: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:46:26PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > (from ecryptfs_encrypt_page()): > > > + enc_extent_virt = kmalloc(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, GFP_USER); > > > > I'd have thought that alloc_page() would be nicer. After all, we _are_

Re: X-freeze after clflush changes [Was: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 01:03:04AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > It's broken for me. > > > > 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: solid lock on X shutdown (noticed when upgrading) > > -rc4-mm1: solid lock on X shutdown, random solid locks about > > once every four hours > > -rc6-mm1: solid

Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

On Thursday 20 September 2007 5:14:25 pm Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:58 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > Given that there are about 60,000 printks in the kernel (and that's > > not counting wrappers like dprintk() and other locally-defined > > functions and macros) it would be a huge

Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Uninitialized Block Groups

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:25:31 -0700 Avantika Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In pass1 of e2fsck, every inode table in the fileystem is scanned and > checked, > regardless of whether it is in use. This is this the most time consuming > part > of the filesystem check. The unintialized

Re: [patch 00/11] Text Edit Lock for 2.6.23-rc6-mm1

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:06:01 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are the text edit lock patches ported to 2.6.23-rc6-mm1. I think I'll duck these one more time. There was a bit of followup and for now I'd prefer to concentrate on obviously-safe stuff and stabilisation of

Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

On Fri, September 21, 2007 01:18, Rob Landley wrote: > On Thursday 20 September 2007 4:26:13 pm Indan Zupancic wrote: >> A quick scroll through a vmlinux binary shows that there are quite a >> lot areas consisting only of some repeated pattern. Mostly 0x00, but >> also 0x90 and ".GCC: (GNU)

Re: X-freeze after clflush changes [Was: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1]

> It's broken for me. > > 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: solid lock on X shutdown (noticed when upgrading) > -rc4-mm1: solid lock on X shutdown, random solid locks about > once every four hours > -rc6-mm1: solid lock on X startup >+your patch: screen goes black, turns off and on

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc6 Resending] NETWORKING : Edge Triggered EPOLLOUT events get missed for TCP sockets

--- Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's not what POLLOUT means in the Unix meaning. POLLOUT indicates the > ability to write, and it is not meant as to signal every time a packet > (skb) is sent on the wire (and the buffer released). Aren't they both the same ? Everytime an

Re: Processes spinning forever, apparently in lock_timer_base()?

On 09/20/2007 06:36 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > So the question is, why do we have large amounts of dirty pages for one > disk which appear to be sitting there not getting written? > > Do we know if there's any writeout at all happening when the system is in > this state? > > I guess it's

Re: Processes spinning forever, apparently in lock_timer_base()?

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:04:38 -0400 Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Can we get some kind of band-aid, like making the endless 'for' loop in > >> balance_dirty_pages() terminate after some number of iterations? Clearly > >> if we haven't written "write_chunk" pages after a few

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc6 Resending] NETWORKING : Edge Triggered EPOLLOUT events get missed for TCP sockets

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Nagendra Tomar wrote: > > --- Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Looking back at it, I think the current TCP code is right, once you look > > at the "event" to be a output buffer full->with_space transition. > > If you drop an fd inside epoll with

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc6 Resending] NETWORKING : Edge Triggered EPOLLOUT events get missed for TCP sockets

--- Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately f_op->poll() does not let the caller to specify the events > it's interested in, that would allow to split send/recevie wait queues and > better detect read/write cases. > The detection of a waitqueue_active(->sk_wr_sleep) would

Re: X-freeze after clflush changes [Was: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1]

> > But now I'm talking about another issue -- a regression since rc4-mm1, > > where X > > server is unable to bind agp memory (those x logs above). The clflush issue > > has > > solved andi in > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/19/334 > > recently > > Tried that, my laptop still bricks the instant

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: failure to boot on HP nx6325, no sound when booted, USB-related WARNING

On Friday, 21 September 2007 00:05, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Linus, > > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And I think that's a damn reasonable thing to agree on: timers (and > > anything else that CPU shutdown/bringup could *possibly* care about) > > should be

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: failure to boot on HP nx6325, no sound when booted, USB-related WARNING

Thomas, On Thursday, 20 September 2007 23:53, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Rafael, > > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 23:45 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > We disable everything in device_suspend() > > > > No, we don't. sysdevs are _not_ suspended in device_suspend(). > > They are suspended in

Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

On Thursday 20 September 2007 4:26:13 pm Indan Zupancic wrote: > On Thu, September 20, 2007 22:38, Rob Landley wrote: > > I've been playing with an idea for a while to improve the printk() > > situation, but it's a more intrusive change than I've had time to bang > > on. > > > > Right now, the

Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:58 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > Given that there are about 60,000 printks in the kernel (and that's > not counting wrappers like dprintk() and other locally-defined > functions and macros) it would be a huge task to examine the code > and differentiate strings that really

RE: [Celinux-dev] Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:celinux-dev- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Landley >Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 3:02 PM >To: Alexey Dobriyan >Cc: Michael Opdenacker; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CE Linux Developers List; >linux kernel >Subject: [Celinux-dev] Re:

Re: X-freeze after clflush changes [Was: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1]

On 09/20/2007 11:24 AM, Zhenyu Wang wrote: > On 2007.09.20 17:33:45 +, Dave Airlie wrote: >>> Maybe you are rather interested in these dmesg lines: >>> Linux agpgart interface v0.102 >>> agpgart: suspend/resume problematic: resume with 3D/DRI active may lockup >>> X.Org >>> on some

Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

On Thursday 20 September 2007 4:58:54 pm Tim Bird wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > So instead of: > > printk(KERN_NOTICE "Fruit=%d\n", banana); > > It would now be: > > printk(KERN_NOTICE, "Fruit=%d\n", banana); > > > > Change the header from: > > #define KERN_NOTICE "<5>" > > to: > >

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc6 Resending] NETWORKING : Edge Triggered EPOLLOUT events get missed for TCP sockets

--- Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking back at it, I think the current TCP code is right, once you look > at the "event" to be a output buffer full->with_space transition. > If you drop an fd inside epoll with EPOLLOUT|EPOLLET and you get an event > (free space on the output

Re: Processes spinning forever, apparently in lock_timer_base()?

On 09/20/2007 05:29 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:07:15 -0400 > Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 08/09/2007 12:55 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: >>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:59:43 +0200 Matthias Hensler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at

Re: X-freeze after clflush changes [Was: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:42:29AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > The code is broken anyways. If you free pages without flushing > > them first some other innocent user allocating them will end up > > with possible uncached pages for some time. > > > > Does this simple patch help? > > > > I've

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: failure to boot on HP nx6325, no sound when booted, USB-related WARNING

Linus, On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > And I think that's a damn reasonable thing to agree on: timers (and > anything else that CPU shutdown/bringup could *possibly* care about) > should be considered core enough that they had better be on the >

Re: [PATCH 8/11] eCryptfs: Convert mmap functions to use persistent file

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:50:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:50:16 -0500 Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +ecryptfs_copy_up_encrypted_with_header(struct page *page, > > + struct ecryptfs_crypt_stat *crypt_stat) > > +{ ... >

Re: [Celinux-dev] [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

On Wednesday 19 September 2007 4:28:05 pm Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:03:09 -0700 > > Tim Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Recently, the CE Linux forum has been working to revive the > > Linux-tiny project. At OLS, I asked for interested parties > > to volunteer to become the

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: failure to boot on HP nx6325, no sound when booted, USB-related WARNING

Rafael, On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 23:54 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Hmm. This is close to the ordering we have in STR too. > > > > I have some dim memory of there being some ACPI reason why it had to be > > done that way. > > Yes. We're executing _INI from the CPU initialization code and

Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

On Thu, September 20, 2007 22:38, Rob Landley wrote: > I've been playing with an idea for a while to improve the printk() situation, > but it's a more intrusive change than I've had time to bang on. > > Right now, the first argument to printk() is a loglevel, but it's handled via > string

Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

Rob Landley wrote: > So instead of: > printk(KERN_NOTICE "Fruit=%d\n", banana); > It would now be: > printk(KERN_NOTICE, "Fruit=%d\n", banana); > > Change the header from: > #define KERN_NOTICE "<5>" > to: > #define KERN_NOTICE 5 > > Then you can change the printk guts to do something

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: failure to boot on HP nx6325, no sound when booted, USB-related WARNING

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > (Btw, the above commit message points to just my response with a testing > patch to the real email: the actual explanation of the INSANE ordering is > from Len Brown in > > >

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