Re: [Bug #14016] mm/ipw2200 regression

2009-08-27 Thread Zhu Yi
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 22:44 +0800, Andrew Morton wrote: It is perhaps pretty simple to make the second (GFP_ATOMIC) allocation go away. The code is already conveniently structured to do this: do { chunk = (struct fw_chunk *)(data + offset); offset

Re: [Bug #14016] mm/ipw2200 regression

2009-08-27 Thread Mel Gorman
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 05:11:29PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 22:44 +0800, Andrew Morton wrote: It is perhaps pretty simple to make the second (GFP_ATOMIC) allocation go away. The code is already conveniently structured to do this: do { chunk

Re: 2.6.31-rc7-git2: Reported regressions 2.6.29 - 2.6.30

2009-08-27 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:06:47 am Andrew Morton wrote: So in my tree I reworked it so that the new `force' arg gets passed through appropriately. It compiles cleanly but I'd suggest that Len simply drop misc:work_on_cpu-acpi and we send it back to Rusty for some rechecking (sorry). Sure. My

Re: 2.6.31-rc7-git2: Reported regressions 2.6.29 - 2.6.30

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Rusty, On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:23:20 +0930 Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote: Rusty/Len: please work out why the title for that patch went silly. git-quiltimport uses the patch names, and doesn't extract the title. I assume that's what Stephen uses. I didn't rename the patch

Re: [Bug #14012] latest git fried my x86_64 imac

2009-08-27 Thread Justin P. Mattock
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Justin P. Mattock wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of recent regressions. The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions from 2.6.30. Please

Re: [Bug #14012] latest git fried my x86_64 imac

2009-08-27 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday 27 August 2009, Justin P. Mattock wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Justin P. Mattock wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of recent regressions. The following bug entry

Re: [Bug #14012] latest git fried my x86_64 imac

2009-08-27 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:45:01 +0200 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Thursday 27 August 2009, Justin P. Mattock wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Justin P. Mattock wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: This message has been generated automatically as a

Re: [Bug #14012] latest git fried my x86_64 imac

2009-08-27 Thread Justin P. Mattock
Randy Dunlap wrote: On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:45:01 +0200 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Thursday 27 August 2009, Justin P. Mattock wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Justin P. Mattock wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: This

Re: 2.6.31-rc7-git2: Reported regressions 2.6.29 - 2.6.30

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:23:20 +0930 Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote: My linux-next repair job: OK, I've dropped these from my tree entirely to avoid more problems. Can you take them? They're not really at home in my tree.

Re: 2.6.31-rc7-git2: Reported regressions 2.6.29 - 2.6.30

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Andrew, Rusty, On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:36:53 -0700 Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:23:20 +0930 Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote: Can you take them? They're not really at home in my tree.

Re: 2.6.31-rc7-git2: Reported regressions 2.6.29 - 2.6.30

2009-08-27 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:43:51 pm Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi Rusty, On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:23:20 +0930 Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote: Rusty/Len: please work out why the title for that patch went silly. git-quiltimport uses the patch names, and doesn't extract the title.

Re: 2.6.31-rc7-git2: Reported regressions 2.6.29 - 2.6.30

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Rusty, On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:32:18 +0930 Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote: On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:43:51 pm Stephen Rothwell wrote: git quiltimport assumes mail-like patches, so it looks for From: and Subject: lines. I guess it could be made to use the first line of the

ipw2200: firmware DMA loading rework

2009-08-27 Thread Zhu Yi
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz reported an atomic order-6 allocation failure for ipw2200 firmware loading in kernel 2.6.30. High order allocation is likely to fail and should always be avoided. The patch fixes this problem by replacing the original order-6 pci_alloc_consistent() with an array of