Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-02-23 Thread Paul Jackson
> So, I think such a fork/execve/exit hooks is harmless now. I don't recall seeing any microbenchmarking of the impact on fork/exit of such hooks. You might find such a benchmark in lmbench, or at http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/. -- I won't rest till it's the best ...

Re: Help enabling PCI interrupts on Dell/SMP and Sun/SMP systems.

2005-02-23 Thread Alan Kilian
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:46 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > Alan> pci_read_config_byte(dev, PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE, > &softp->interrupt_line); > Alan> request_irq(softp->interrupt_line, sseintr, SA_INTERRUPT, > "sse", softp); > > Don't do that. The kernel may need you to use a differe

Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 10:27 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > Thanks, your patch fixes the copy_pte_range latency. > >> > >>clear_page_range is also problematic. > > > > > > Yes, I saw that from your other traces too. I know th

Re: [rsbac] Thoughts on the "No Linux Security Modules framework" old claims

2005-02-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Amon, On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:19:16AM +0100, Amon Ott wrote: > > -> 5. Posix Capabilities Without Stacking Support > > > > I don't get the point of these claims. > > The LSM framework currently has full support for dynamic and > > logic-changeable POSIX.1e capabilities, using the capable()

Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x r8169 update

2005-02-23 Thread Francois Romieu
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > Agree it needs fixing, but I actually think the rx-offset stuff is more > urgent than this. For the future, it would be useful for both of us to > have separate r8169-fixes and r8169-cleanups queues. Do you have a synonym/pointer for the rx-offset stuff

Re: Ignored return value of __clear_user in fs/binfmt_elf.c?

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Machine is sparc64, bk of today, gcc-3.4.2-6.fc3 (Aurora Corona). First 2.6 > I try to build here, so it might be something known. > > Build fails due to -Werror with: > > include/asm/uaccess.h: In function `load_elf_binary': > arch/sparc64/kernel/..

Re: [PATCH] Always send siginfo for synchronous signals

2005-02-23 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Chris Wright wrote: >>/proc/N/status will tell you that a process has >>a signal pending, but it won't tell you how many are pending). >> >> > >Suggestion for good place to display that info? > > I guess another line in /proc/N/status: SigQue: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 123 0 0 1238 0 0 0 0 0 ... 0

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 03:10:38PM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I am having trouble getting recent -mm kernels to boot on my test box. > >>For 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 and 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 I get the following: > >> > >>VFS: Cannot open root d

Re: [PATCH] [i2c]: Fix some gcc 4.0 compile failures and warnings

2005-02-23 Thread linux-os
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Mickey Stein wrote: From: Mickey Stein Versions: linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk11, gcc4 (GCC) 4.0.0 20050217 (latest fc rawhide from 19Feb DL) gcc 4.0.x cvs seems to dislike "include/linux/i2c.h file" and others due to a current gcc 4.0.x change having to do with array declarations.

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I am having trouble getting recent -mm kernels to boot on my test box. > >> For 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 and 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 I get the following: > >> > >> VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or u

PPC RT Patch..

2005-02-23 Thread john cooper
Ingo, We've had a PPC port of your RT work underway with a focus on trace instrumentation. This is based upon realtime-preempt-2.6.11-rc2-V0.7.37-02. A diff is attached. To the extent possible the tracing facilities are the same as your x86 work. In the process a few PPC/gcc issues needed to

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:16:53PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Yes, that worked. 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 now boots OK, but hdb1 seems to be > > > missing. > > Looking at the IDE update in rc4-mm1: > > +void ide_init_disk(struct gendisk *disk, ide_drive_

Re: Help enabling PCI interrupts on Dell/SMP and Sun/SMP systems.

2005-02-23 Thread Roland Dreier
Alan> I ask the card which interrupt line it was given at Alan> boot-time: Alan> pci_read_config_byte(dev, PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE, &softp->interrupt_line); Alan> Then I request an IRQ: Alan> request_irq(softp->interrupt_line, sseintr, SA_INTERRUPT, "sse", softp); D

[BK PATCHES] 2.6.x r8169 update

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Any chance to convince the alien who took control of Jeff's libata queue to push: r8169: synchronization and balancing when the device is closed (1.1982.1.58 ?) Test case on current 2.6.11-rc4: - ifconfig ethX 10.0.0.1 up - ifconfig ethX down - ifconfig ethX 10.0.0.1 up -> Rx does not work any mo

Re: [PATCH] Always send siginfo for synchronous signals

2005-02-23 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Erm, this updated patch. J If we're sending a signal relating to a faulting instruction, then always generate siginfo for that signal. If the user has some unrelated process which has managed to consume the user's entire allocation of siginfo, then signals will start being delivered without

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 18:40, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 18:12, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:38, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > > > > > On 02.23, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Fabian Fenaut
Dmitry Torokhov a ecrit le 24.02.2005 00:40: On Wednesday 23 February 2005 18:12, Ed Tomlinson wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:38, J.A. Magallon wrote: On 02.23, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc4/2.6.11-rc4-mm1/ - Various fixes and

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could someone try this? Let's turn that into a real patch. --- 25/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c~ide_init_disk-fixWed Feb 23 16:24:44 2005 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c Wed Feb 23 16:24:55 2005 @@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ide_unr

Re: BUG: stallion module cannot register it's ISR in a 2.6.10 kernel on a FC3 system

2005-02-23 Thread Darren Williams
Hi Burn Could you try the attached patch It solved the same problem for me, it is NOT SMP safe due to cli() calls, though will run fine on your system. I have been running a console box for about 1mth non-stop with these applied. The patch does two things it allows the driver to be built-in and

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 : IDE crazy numbers, hdb renumbered to hdq ?

2005-02-23 Thread Matt Mackall
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:32:59AM +0100, Mathieu Segaud wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait derni??rement que : > > > Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> This kernel came up, but my boot script complained about no /dev/hdb3 > >> when trying to mount /var. > >> (I ha

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock

2005-02-23 Thread Jamie Lokier
Olof Johansson wrote: > How's this? I went with get_val_no_fault(), since it isn't really a > get_user.*() any more (ptr being passed in), and no_paging is a little > misleading (not all faults are due to paging). How ironic: I deliberately didn't choose "no_fault" because that function *does* tak

Re: fork/clone external to a process?

2005-02-23 Thread Dan Sturtevant
> gdb attach the vmware, then force it to call routine you preloaded... > > Or look at subterfugue. > Pavel Brilliant Pavel. Thank you. gdb works great. Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

2005-02-23 Thread David S. Miller
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:52:23 +1100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'd be pretty happy for you to queue this up with Andrew for > 2.6.12. Anyone else? No objections from me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, that worked. 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 now boots OK, but hdb1 seems to be > > missing. Looking at the IDE update in rc4-mm1: +void ide_init_disk(struct gendisk *disk, ide_drive_t *drive) +{ + ide_hwif_t *hwif = drive->hwif; + unsigned int unit

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 : IDE crazy numbers, hdb renumbered to hdq ?

2005-02-23 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:36:50PM +0100, Laurent Riffard wrote: > hey, what's this /dev/hds ? digging into /sys/block... > > ~$ ls -l /sys/block/hds/device > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 f?v 23 22:45 /sys/block/hds/device -> > ../../devices/pci:00/:00:04.1/ide1/1.1/ > > /dev/hdq should be

Re: Help enabling PCI interrupts on Dell/SMP and Sun/SMP systems.

2005-02-23 Thread Robert Hancock
Alan Kilian wrote: Maybe that's it. I ask the card which interrupt line it was given at boot-time: pci_read_config_byte(dev, PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE, &softp->interrupt_line); Then I request an IRQ: request_irq(softp->interrupt_line, sseintr,

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11+ sata_qstor] libata: sata_qstor cosmetic fixes

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mark Lord wrote: Minor patch for new 2.6.xx sata_qstor driver attached, as per Alexey's fine-toothed comb! :) Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cool, I'll throw this into libata-2.6 soonish. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

2005-02-23 Thread Nick Piggin
Hugh Dickins wrote: I'm off to bed, but since your appetite for looking at patches is greater than mine, I'll throw what I'm currently testing over the wall to you now. Against 2.6.11-rc4-bk9, but my starting point was obviously your patches. Not yet split up, but clearly should be. Yeah you've s

Re: [PATCH] Always send siginfo for synchronous signals

2005-02-23 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Chris Wright wrote: > > >It's not quite inexplicable. It means that task has hit its limit for > >pending signals ;-) But I agree, this should be fixed. I think I had > >tested this with broken test cases, thanks for catching. > > > It's partic

Re: [PATCH] Replaces (2 * HZ) with DATA_TIMEOUT in /drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c

2005-02-23 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:42:32PM +, Telemaque Ndizihiwe wrote: > This Patch replaces "(2 * HZ)" with "DATA_TIMEOUT" which is defined as > #define DATA_TIMEOUT (2 * HZ) > in /drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c in kernel 2.6.10. > > Signed-off-by: Telemaque Ndizihiwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This has

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Brice Goglin
Dominik Brodowski a écrit : +pcmcia-bridge-resource-management-fix.patch is responsible for this "no resource available" message, because the other ones relate to other areas. This line from dmesg-2.6.11-rc4 is no longer present in -rc4-mm1: PCI: Transparent bridge - :00:1e.0 This is probably d

Re: msgsnd in module

2005-02-23 Thread Robert Hancock
Vijayalakshmi Hadimani wrote: Hi, I am inserting a module(device driver) using insmod. I want to send a message from this module to an user process. For this I used msgsnd with buffer in the call as a local variable. I am getting an error "EFAULT" for this call. However this did not happen w

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 18:12, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:38, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > > > On 02.23, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc4/2.6.11-rc4-mm1/ > > > > > > > > > - Various fixes and

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 : IDE crazy numbers, hdb renumbered to hdq ?

2005-02-23 Thread Mathieu Segaud
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait derniÃrement que : > Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> This kernel came up, but my boot script complained about no /dev/hdb3 >> when trying to mount /var. >> (I have two IDE disks on the same cable, and an IDE cdrom on another.) >> They are

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 04:42, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc4/2.6.11-rc4-mm1/ > > > - Various fixes and updates all over the place. Things seem to have slowed > down a bit. > > - Last, final, ultimate call: if anyone ha

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 : IDE crazy numbers, hdb renumbered to hdq ?

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Laurent Riffard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le 23.02.2005 21:12, Andrew Morton a écrit : > > Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>This kernel came up, but my boot script complained about no /dev/hdb3 > >> when trying to mount /var. > >> (I have two IDE disks on the same cable, and an

Re: OT: Why is usb data many times the cpu hog that firewire is?

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Motherboard is a biostar with nforce2 chipset, 2800xp cpu, gig of ram. I've recently made the observation that while I can view 30fps video from my firewire equipt movie camera with a minimal cpu hit of 2-3%, but viewing the video from a webcam on a usb 1.1 circuit

Re: [PATCH] Always send siginfo for synchronous signals

2005-02-23 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Chris Wright wrote: >It's not quite inexplicable. It means that task has hit its limit for >pending signals ;-) But I agree, this should be fixed. I think I had >tested this with broken test cases, thanks for catching. > > It's particularly confusing for users, because it's a per-user limit r

Re: Help enabling PCI interrupts on Dell/SMP and Sun/SMP systems.

2005-02-23 Thread Robert Hancock
Alan Kilian wrote: kernel: SSE: Found a DeCypher card. kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt :13:03.0[A] -> GSI 36 (level, low) -> IRQ 217 The first message is in my driver after pci_find_device() The second is from when I do pci_enable_device(dev); Can you decode the mys

Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Nick Piggin
Hugh Dickins wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Lee Revell wrote: Thanks, your patch fixes the copy_pte_range latency. clear_page_range is also problematic. Yes, I saw that from your other traces too. I know there are plans to improve clear_page_range during 2.6.12, but I didn't realize that it had beco

[PATCH 2.6.11+ sata_qstor] libata: sata_qstor cosmetic fixes

2005-02-23 Thread Mark Lord
Minor patch for new 2.6.xx sata_qstor driver attached, as per Alexey's fine-toothed comb! :) Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cheers -- Mark Lord Real-Time Remedies Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux/drivers/scsi/sata_qstor.c.orig2005-02-16 20:31:57.0 -0500 +++ linux/dri

Re: accept() fails with EINTER

2005-02-23 Thread Robert Hancock
linux-os wrote: Trying to run an old server with a new kernel. A connection fails with "interrupted system call" as soon as a client attempts to connect. A trap in the code to continue works, but subsequent send() and recv() calls fail in the same way. Anybody know how to mask that SIGIO (or whatev

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It does not seem to be finding the keyboard at all... Can you confirm that Linus's tree is OK? You'd best use the patch at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/ to make sure you have the latest stuff. - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:38, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 02.23, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc4/2.6.11-rc4-mm1/ > > > > > > - Various fixes and updates all over the place. Things seem to have slowed > > down a bit.

Re: Help enabling PCI interrupts on Dell/SMP and Sun/SMP systems.

2005-02-23 Thread Alan Kilian
> Alan> kernel: SSE: Found a DeCypher card. kernel: ACPI: PCI > Alan> interrupt :13:03.0[A] -> GSI 36 (level, low) -> IRQ 217 > > If ACPI has set this device up to use interrupt 217, why are you > registering it on IRQ 5? > Peter, Maybe that's it. I ask the car

Re: [PATCH] [i2c]: Fix some gcc 4.0 compile failures and warnings

2005-02-23 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 05:57:14PM -0500, linux-os wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Mickey Stein wrote: > > >From: Mickey Stein > >Versions: linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk11, gcc4 (GCC) 4.0.0 20050217 (latest fc > >rawhide from 19Feb DL) > > > >gcc 4.0.x cvs seems to dislike "include/linux/i2c.h file" and ot

Re: Help tracking down problem --- endless loop in __find_get_block_slow

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
"Thomas S. Iversen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd be suspecting that the sector remapping is the cause of the problem. > > How is it implemented? > > Quite simple actually. You're most welcome to see the code, but I have > just done a test like the one below. Never mind the performance fi

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 : IDE crazy numbers, hdb renumbered to hdq ?

2005-02-23 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:36:50PM +0100, Laurent Riffard wrote: > Le 23.02.2005 21:12, Andrew Morton a ?crit : > >Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>This kernel came up, but my boot script complained about no /dev/hdb3 > >>when trying to mount /var. > >>(I have two IDE disks on the s

Xterm Hangs - Possible scheduler defect?

2005-02-23 Thread Chad N. Tindel
Hello- We have hit a defect where an exiting xterm process will hang. This is running on a 2-cpu IA-64 box. We have a multithreaded application, where one thread is SCHED_FIFO and is running with priority 98, and the other thread is just a normal SCHED_OTHER thread. The SCHED_FIFO thread is in

Re: [Patch 6/6] Bind Mount Extensions 0.06

2005-02-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> +++ > linux-2.6.11-rc4-bme0.06-bm0.01-at0.01-cc0.01-co0.01-xa0.01-ro0.01/fs/ext2/ioctl.c > 2005-02-19 06:32:05 +0100 > @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ int ext2_ioctl (struct inode * inode, st > case EXT2_IOC_SETFLAGS: { > unsigned int oldflags; > > - if (IS_RDONLY(ino

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 03:03:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> I am having trouble getting recent -mm kernels to boot on my test box. > > >> For 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 and 2.6.11-r

Re: [Patch 2/6] Bind Mount Extensions 0.06

2005-02-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:11:29PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > > ; > ; Bind Mount Extensions > ; > ; This part adds the required checks for touch_atime() to allow > ; for vfsmount based NOATIME and NODIRATIME > ; autofs4 update_atime is the only exception (ignored on purpose) and that purpo

Re: [Patch 1/6] Bind Mount Extensions 0.06

2005-02-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:10:49PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > > ; > ; Bind Mount Extensions > ; > ; This part adds support for the RDONLY, NOATIME and NODIRATIME > ; vfsmount flags, propagates those options into loopback (bind) > ; mounts and displays them properly in show_vfsmnt()/proc wr

Re: Help enabling PCI interrupts on Dell/SMP and Sun/SMP systems.

2005-02-23 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Alan" == Alan Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan> kernel: SSE: Found a DeCypher card. kernel: ACPI: PCI Alan> interrupt :13:03.0[A] -> GSI 36 (level, low) -> IRQ 217 If ACPI has set this device up to use interrupt 217, why are you registering it on IRQ 5? -- Dr Peter Chub

Well, powersaving weirdness.

2005-02-23 Thread zhilla
Not the most clever subject, I agree :) hell, i'm not sure if this is a KERNEL bug. but it definitely is an annoyance, so... distro is slackware 10. i have a small script i run every time i connect to the internet (and i connect via dial-up when ) this is one command in the script: /usr/sbin/ntpd

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Steven Cole
Steven Cole wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am having trouble getting recent -mm kernels to boot on my test box. For 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 and 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 I get the following: VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1) Please append a correct "root="

ipt_owner panic on 2.6.10-1.12_FC2

2005-02-23 Thread Fredrik Tolf
Hi! On the Linux router I'm running, I use the ipt_owner iptables module, and since a few kernel versions back, I've begun getting kernel panics in the ipt_owner module. Unfortunately, the start of it coincided with a CPU upgrade of the router, so at first I thought it was a hardware failure. The

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Ammar T. Al-Sayegh
- Original Message - From: "Arjan van de Ven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ammar T. Al-Sayegh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:01 PM Subject: Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483! On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 16:45 -0500, Ammar T. Al-Sayegh wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15

Re: [Patch 4/6] Bind Mount Extensions 0.06

2005-02-23 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:45:37AM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > ty den 22.02.2005 Klokka 13:12 (+0100) skreiv Herbert Poetzl: > > > diff -NurpP --minimal > > linux-2.6.11-rc4-bme0.06-bm0.01-at0.01-cc0.01/fs/namei.c > > linux-2.6.11-rc4-bme0.06-bm0.01-at0.01-cc0.01-co0.01/fs/namei.c > > --- li

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:37:53AM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: > I copied a working .config from an earlier kernel(-rc3), and ran make > oldconfig, answering most of the new questions 'n'. Then you get into trouble with stuff under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Answering 'n' turns off stock functionality. Thoug

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Ammar T. Al-Sayegh
- Original Message - From: "Hugh Dickins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ammar T. Al-Sayegh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:31 PM Subject: Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483! On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Ammar T. Al-Sayegh wrote: Any suggestion on what else I can do to miti

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 02.23, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc4/2.6.11-rc4-mm1/ > > > - Various fixes and updates all over the place. Things seem to have slowed > down a bit. > > - Last, final, ultimate call: if anyone has patches in here which ar

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 : IDE crazy numbers, hdb renumbered to hdq ?

2005-02-23 Thread Laurent Riffard
Le 23.02.2005 21:12, Andrew Morton a écrit : Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This kernel came up, but my boot script complained about no /dev/hdb3 when trying to mount /var. (I have two IDE disks on the same cable, and an IDE cdrom on another.) They are usually hda, hdb, and hdc. MAKEDEV h

Re: Thoughts on the "No Linux Security Modules framework" old claims

2005-02-23 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
El mié, 23-02-2005 a las 14:07 -0800, Crispin Cowan escribió: > If that is what you meant, then we had no issue. > > It looked like you were referring to Immunix because, in the quoted > text, one paragraph only discussed Immunix (by name) and then the > subsequent paragraph just said "them" and

Re: [patch -mm series] ia64 specific /dev/mem handlers

2005-02-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> + page = pfn_to_page(p >> PAGE_SHIFT); > + /* > + * On ia64 if a page has been mapped somewhere as > + * uncached, then it must also be accessed uncached > + * by the kernel or data corruption may occur > + */ > +#ifdef A

Re: Help enabling PCI interrupts on Dell/SMP and Sun/SMP systems.

2005-02-23 Thread Alan Kilian
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Dick Johnson wrote: > > callpci_enable_device(dev) > ... before you use the IRQ in dev->irq. > > The reported IRQ is bogus until you make that > call. It's a reported BUG, probably won't > ever get fixed because it's considered a > fe

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Francois Romieu
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > - Last, final, ultimate call: if anyone has patches in here which are 2.6.11 > material, please tell me. Any chance to convince the alien who took control of Jeff's libata queue to push: r8169: synchronization and balancing when the device is closed

Re: Help tracking down problem --- endless loop in __find_get_block_slow

2005-02-23 Thread Thomas S. Iversen
Something has caused the page at offset 51 (block 102) to have buffer_heads for blocks 128 and 129 attached to it. Ok. I'd be suspecting that the sector remapping is the cause of the problem. How is it implemented? Quite simple actually. You're most welcome to see the code, but I have just done a

Re: Thoughts on the "No Linux Security Modules framework" old claims

2005-02-23 Thread Crispin Cowan
Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote: El mié, 23-02-2005 a las 13:37 -0800, Crispin Cowan escribió: Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote: You are confused. It is Secure Computing Corporation that holds patents that threaten SELinux http://www.securecomputing.com/pdf/Statement_of_Assurance.pd

Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:03 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks, your patch fixes the copy_pte_range latency. > > > > clear_page_range is also problematic. > > Yes, I saw that from your other traces too. Heh, sorry, that one was a dupe... I

Re: More latency regressions with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02

2005-02-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 20:53 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > Please replace by new patch below, which I'm now running through lmbench. > > That second patch seems fine, and I see no lmbench regression from it. Should go into 2.6.11, right? Lee - To unsub

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

2005-02-23 Thread Steven Cole
Andrew Morton wrote: Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am having trouble getting recent -mm kernels to boot on my test box. For 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 and 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 I get the following: VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel

[PATCH] [i2c]: Fix some gcc 4.0 compile failures and warnings

2005-02-23 Thread Mickey Stein
From: Mickey Stein Versions: linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk11, gcc4 (GCC) 4.0.0 20050217 (latest fc rawhide from 19Feb DL) gcc 4.0.x cvs seems to dislike "include/linux/i2c.h file" and others due to a current gcc 4.0.x change having to do with array declarations. Example error msg: include/linux/i2c.h

Re: Thoughts on the "No Linux Security Modules framework" old claims

2005-02-23 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
El mié, 23-02-2005 a las 13:37 -0800, Crispin Cowan escribió: > Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote: > You are confused. It is Secure Computing Corporation that holds patents > that threaten SELinux > http://www.securecomputing.com/pdf/Statement_of_Assurance.pdf > > Immunix has never threatene

Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly)

2005-02-23 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Roland Dreier schrieb: > Prakash> If I am not totally mistaken this is not gcc4 friendly > Prakash> code. (lvalue thing...) > > Actually you misread the code slightly. It's a little subtle, but > code like > > *(__le32 *)prd = cpu_to_le32(len); > > is not using a cast as an l

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Nick Warne
> But not all cases could be accounted in that way. If you > report back that memtest86 ran cleanly... Hugh, Nothing to do with the 'problem' in this thread, but an aside that is perhaps relevant. On my main gateway, I couldn't get any kernel greater than 2.6.4 to run without an 'oops' after

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Brice Goglin
Dominik Brodowski a écrit : +pcmcia-bridge-resource-management-fix.patch is responsible for this "no resource available" message, because the other ones relate to other areas. Yes, good catch, reverting it makes PCMCIA work again. Let me know if you want me to test some patches. Thanks, Brice - To

Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly)

2005-02-23 Thread Roland Dreier
Prakash> If I am not totally mistaken this is not gcc4 friendly Prakash> code. (lvalue thing...) Actually you misread the code slightly. It's a little subtle, but code like *(__le32 *)prd = cpu_to_le32(len); is not using a cast as an lvalue. It's dereferencing a cast an

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 16:45 -0500, Ammar T. Al-Sayegh wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Ammar T. Al-Sayegh wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I recently installed Fedora RC3 on a new server. > >> The kernel is 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp. The server > >> crashes every few days. When I examine /var/

tun/tap(bochs) on AMD64

2005-02-23 Thread Thomas Zehetbauer
Hi, I am trying to get bochs to use tun/tap on x86_64, strace reveals the following problem: open("/dev/net/tun", O_RDWR)= 7 ioctl(7, TUNSETIFF, 0x7fffe6c0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) I wonder if this a tun/tap or a bochs problem. Any clues? Tom -- T h o m a s Z e

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock

2005-02-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Olof Johansson wrote: > > How's this? I went with get_val_no_fault(), since it isn't really a > get_user.*() any more (ptr being passed in), and no_paging is a little > misleading (not all faults are due to paging). Applied with minor cosmetic changes. I'm like a dog who li

[PATCH] A few more sparse fixes

2005-02-23 Thread Peter Hagervall
Remove the sparse warnings about using plain integer as NULL pointer in the following files: arch/i386/oprofile/backtrace.c drivers/char/isicom.c drivers/char/drm/radeon_state.c drivers/mtd/maps/nettel.c drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c drivers/serial/8250_early.c fs/reiserfs/namei.c Sig

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (compile stats)

2005-02-23 Thread John Cherry
Linux 2.6 (mm tree) Compile Statistics (gcc 3.4.1) Web page with links to complete details: http://developer.osdl.org/cherry/compile/ KernelbzImage bzImage bzImage modules bzImage modules (defconfig) (allno) (allyes) (allyes) (allmod) (allmod) ---

[PATCH] fix posix-timer initialization

2005-02-23 Thread Roland McGrath
> The problem arises from code touching the union in alloc_posix_timer() > which makes firing go non-zero. When firing is checked in > posix_cpu_timer_set() it will be positive causing an infinite loop. > > So either the below fix or preferably move the INIT_LIST_HEAD(x) from > alloc_posix_timer()

[reiserfs] 100% cpu consum - normal?

2005-02-23 Thread Nico Schottelius
Hello! I once again tried reiserfs, this time on my ibook: ei ~ # mkreiserfs -V mkreiserfs 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com) ei ~ # uname -a Linux ei 2.6.10 #5 Sun Feb 6 17:26:47 CET 2005 ppc 750CXe PowerBook4,1 GNU/Linux If I tar xf $big_tar (speaking about the gcc-source), my system hangs: - no

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Ammar T. Al-Sayegh
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Ammar T. Al-Sayegh wrote: Hi All, I recently installed Fedora RC3 on a new server. The kernel is 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp. The server crashes every few days. When I examine /var/log/messages, I find the following line just before the crash: Feb 22 23:50:35 hostname ker

[PATCH] process-wide itimer typo fixes

2005-02-23 Thread Roland McGrath
Thanks for finding that. Ack! I did a quick merge of my well-tested patches with the cputime_t stuff, and apparently didn't do quite as much testing as I thought I did. There was a little query/replace error in my per-process-itimer-cpu patch now in -mm. Your patch is necessary but not sufficien

Re: [PATCH][2.4.30-pre1] preliminary fixes for gcc-4.0

2005-02-23 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Adrian Bunk writes: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:28:58PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Here is a preliminary set of patches to allow gcc-4.0 (20050130) > > to compile the 2.4.30-pre1 kernel. I make no claim that the patches > > are complete, but they have been tested successfully on i386

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Jeff Garzik wrote: You should add this to your procmailrc :) # Nuke duplicate messages :0 Wh: msgid.lock | $FORMAIL -D 32768 msgid.cache That has the nasty side-effect of spreading messages for a single discussion amongst many different mailboxes depending on whi

Re: Thoughts on the "No Linux Security Modules framework" old claims

2005-02-23 Thread Crispin Cowan
Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote: Also, it was a pretty good thing from them this piece of work. Think that they investors may dislike the model they followed when the merge happened, anyways, and as an example, I pretty ignore those patents claims,for example, think that Type Enforcement (TE)

Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

2005-02-23 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Ammar T. Al-Sayegh wrote: > > I recently installed Fedora RC3 on a new server. > The kernel is 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp. I can't really speak for Fedora RC3 kernels, perhaps there's some special patch in there that happens to trigger it for you, but certainly there have been occas

Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly)

2005-02-23 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Alexey Dobriyan schrieb: > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 21:57, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>+ addr = sg_dma_address(sg); >>+ *(u64 *)prd = cpu_to_le64(addr); > > > *(__le64 *) prd > > >>+ prd += sizeof(u64); > > >>+ len = sg_dma_len(sg); >>+ *(u

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:42:33AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: >... > bk-kbuild.patch >... This adds -Wno-pointer-sign to the main Makefile a second time. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkne

Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly)

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Thanks. All this stuff was minor, so I'll wait until 2.6.11 release to update. I forwarded the qstor stuff to maintainer Mark Lord. Jeff - 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][2.4.30-pre1] preliminary fixes for gcc-4.0

2005-02-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:28:58PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > Here is a preliminary set of patches to allow gcc-4.0 (20050130) > to compile the 2.4.30-pre1 kernel. I make no claim that the patches > are complete, but they have been tested successfully on i386 (multiple > boxes), x86-64, and

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Dominik Brodowski
Hi, On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:20:09PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: > Andrew Morton a écrit : > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc4/2.6.11-rc4-mm1/ > > I can't get PCMCIA to work anymore since rc4-mm1. > It was working great with rc4 and rc3-mm1. > > PCMCIA loa

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rogério Brito wrote: On Feb 20 2005, Folkert van Heusden wrote: My linux laptop says: irq 5: nobody cared! (...) Does anyone care? :-) Well, I'm getting similar stack traces with my system and those are sure scary, but it seems that my e-mails to the list are simply ignored, unfortunately. I poste

[patch 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 2/2] r8169: factor out some code.

2005-02-23 Thread Francois Romieu
Factor out some code Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -puN drivers/net/r8169.c~r8169-460 drivers/net/r8169.c --- a/drivers/net/r8169.c~r8169-460 2005-02-23 21:35:28.715271999 +0100 +++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c 2005-02-23 21:35:28.720271177 +0100 @@ -495,6 +495,13 @@

[PATCH] drivers/net/wan/z85230.c

2005-02-23 Thread tom watson
While working on a driver for z85230 based board I noticed what looks like it could be a problem. If the interrupt handler is handling an interrupt on port b and an interrupt comes in for port a, it seems to me that the port b handler would be called instead of the port a handler, and possibly

Tulip (DFE-570tx) & keyboard lockup in 2.6.9 and other 2.6 kernels.

2005-02-23 Thread Ben Greear
I finally had some time to debug this one a little more thoroughly. On two different machines (Shuttle SB61G1) I get the same results, so I do not believe it is bad hardware... The bug is as follows: I have 1 4-port tulip NIC in the machine. If I generate traffic between two interfaces, it runs f

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