Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3/jbd race: releasing in-use journal_heads

2005-03-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (let me know if the interface in the patch > I just posted seems like the right direction to use when we go for the > cleanup) Well what are the semantics? Pass in an inclusive max_index and the gang lookup functions terminate when they hit

Re: [patch] del_timer_sync scalability patch

2005-03-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When a potential periodic timer is deleted through timer_del_sync, all > cpus are scanned to determine if the timer is running on that cpu. In a > NUMA configuration doing so will cause NUMA interlink traffic which limits > the scalability of

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] connector: Add a fork connector

2005-03-07 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
Hello, This patch cannot be apply on a 2.6.11-mm1 because connector is missing in this release. The connector module should be back in the next kernel release. That's why it applies on a 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 tree. Also, there is a problem with the drivers/connector/connector.c file. The test

Re: pci_fixup_video() bogosity

2005-03-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 00:57 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:38:29 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > While working on writing a VGA access arbiter for kernel & userland, > > I wondered how to properly get my "initial" state at boot. For

Re: [PATCH 10/13] remove aggressive idle balancing

2005-03-07 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
Nick, On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:28:23PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > > We are resetting the nr_balance_failed to cache_nice_tries after kicking > > active balancing. But can_migrate_task will succeed only if > > nr_balance_failed > cache_nice_tries. > > > > It is

[PATCH] VGA arbitration: draft of kernel side

2005-03-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi ! Ok, so here is a first, totally untested draft for the kernel side of the VGA arbiter. BIG NOTE: It's really only the basic arbiter itself, which provides the API I drafted a bit earlier, with arch hooks similar to what Alan proposed, it does _NOT_ yet provides a userland interface (to a

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3/jbd race: releasing in-use journal_heads

2005-03-07 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:46:18PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > yup, looks like the same issue we hit in wait_on_page_writeback_range > > during AIO work - probably want to break out of the outer loop as well > > when this happens. >

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3/jbd race: releasing in-use journal_heads

2005-03-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > yup, looks like the same issue we hit in wait_on_page_writeback_range > during AIO work - probably want to break out of the outer loop as well > when this happens. The `next = page_index' before breaking will do that for us. > > How hard

[patch] del_timer_sync scalability patch

2005-03-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
When a potential periodic timer is deleted through timer_del_sync, all cpus are scanned to determine if the timer is running on that cpu. In a NUMA configuration doing so will cause NUMA interlink traffic which limits the scalability of timers. The following patch makes the timer remember where

dereferencing module-internal pointer in scripts/mod/file2alias.c

2005-03-07 Thread Dominik Brodowski
Hi, Is there any feasible way to dereference a pointer inside __mod_*_device_table which points to a string? e.g.: include/linux/mod_devicetable.h: struct pcmcia_device_id { ... const char * prod_id; ... } drivers/some/driver.c: static struct pcmcia_device_id

Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Trond Myklebust wrote: I also can't reproduce the problem on an older client running 2.4.21. Well, actually I tried harder with the 2.4.21 client and I obtained a similar effect: naraku:/pub/linux/distro/fedora-devel# ll ls: .: Stale NFS file handle

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Add a pair of rlimits for allowing non-root tasks to raise nice and rt > priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior. Originally written by > Chris Wright. It needs some dinking with because Ingo has been playing games in my resource.h. Here's the

Re: [ patch 4/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 05:46:51PM -0500, Wen Xiong wrote: > +static ssize_t jsm_driver_version_show(struct device_driver *ddp, char *buf) > +{ > + return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "jsm_version: %s\n", JSM_VERSION); Again, drop the "prefix:" from every sysfs file, it should not be there (the

Re: [ patch 6/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 05:48:56PM -0500, Wen Xiong wrote: > Since some tools in Digi company need these new ioctls to access device > driver. I still keep these new ioctls. What tools? What are they used for? Why do they need them? Why can't they just use the sysfs files? As the driver

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-07 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/2005 03:49 PM, Chris Wright wrote: > * Clemens Schwaighofer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>2.6.11-ac1 >>>oFix jbd race in ext3(Stephen Tweedie) >> >>will that patch actually appear in 2.6.11.2? At least it

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Clemens Schwaighofer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > --On Monday, March 07, 2005 09:34:22 PM + Alan Cox > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >For a couple of reasons I've not yet merged Greg's 2.6.11.1 yet but this > >diff should actually apply to either right now. > > > >2.6.11-ac1 > >oFix

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:45:05PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > * Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:50:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Consider this a prod in the direction of those who were pushing > > > alternatives ;) > > > > I think Chris Wright's

Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Trond Myklebust
ty den 08.03.2005 Klokka 07:38 (+0100) skreiv Bernardo Innocenti: > Trond Myklebust wrote: > > ty den 08.03.2005 Klokka 05:53 (+0100) skreiv Bernardo Innocenti: > > > >>Appears to be a client bug. > > > > Why? > > Two clients started showing the problem after > being upgraded from FC2 to FC3,

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:50:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Consider this a prod in the direction of those who were pushing > > alternatives ;) > > I think Chris Wright's last rlimit patch is more sensible and ready to > go. And I think I may

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes. In kernel "damage control" is an optional extra not a necessity > > with this solution. Not so sure about with the RT LSB solution though. > > This has one advantage over RT LSM in that area, which is it places an > upper bound on the

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Peter Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > But the patch you describe still seems a little loose to me in that it > doesn't control both which users AND which programs they can run. > Although I suppose that can be managed by suitable setting of file > permissions? rlimits are typically

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.10 - direct-io async short read bug

2005-03-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Sébastien Dugué <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When reading a file in async mode (using kernel AIO), and the file > size is lower than the requested size (short read), the direct IO > layer reports an incorrect number of bytes read (transferred). > > That case is handled for the sync path in

Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Trond Myklebust wrote: ty den 08.03.2005 Klokka 05:53 (+0100) skreiv Bernardo Innocenti: Appears to be a client bug. Why? Two clients started showing the problem after being upgraded from FC2 to FC3, while the server remained unchanged. I also can't reproduce the problem on an older client running

Re: [PATCH] unified device list allocator

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:31:27AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:11:55PM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > - when called with the major argument as 0 it returns an unused major > > > number > > >from the top of the old 255 entries major list. This should be >

Re: [PATCH] unified device list allocator

2005-03-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:11:55PM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > > - when called with the major argument as 0 it returns an unused major > > number > >from the top of the old 255 entries major list. This should be replaced > >by a real dynamic dev_t allocator, similar to

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:30:57PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I think Chris Wright's last rlimit patch is more sensible and ready to > >> go. > > > > I must say that I like rlimits - very

Re: BUG: Slowdown on 3000 socket-machines tracked down

2005-03-07 Thread Ben Greear
Nick Piggin wrote: Ben Greear wrote: Nick Piggin wrote: Ben Greear wrote: In that case, writing the network only test would help to confirm the problem is not a networking one - so not useless by any means. It's not trivial to write something like this :) I'll be using something I already have.

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3/jbd race: releasing in-use journal_heads

2005-03-07 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
Just as an idea of what I meant (dug up an old WIP patch): --- radix-tree.c2004-04-01 10:32:15.384556136 +0530 +++ radix-tree.c.end2004-04-01 11:11:07.176069944 +0530 @@ -562,7 +562,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(radix_tree_gang_lookup); */ static unsigned int __lookup_tag(struct

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Peter Williams
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't object to rlimits per se and I think that they are useful but not as a sole solution to this problem. Being able to give a task preferential treatment is a permissions issue and should be solved as one. Having RT cpu usage

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:40:02PM +1100, Peter Williams wrote: > The granting of the ability to switch to and from RT mode should require > a means to specify which users it applies to and also which programs it > applies to. The RT rlimits mechanism doesn't meet these criteria. a) rlimits

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3/jbd race: releasing in-use journal_heads

2005-03-07 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
yup, looks like the same issue we hit in wait_on_page_writeback_range during AIO work - probably want to break out of the outer loop as well when this happens. >From the old changelog: >> >> wait_on_page_writeback_range shouldn't wait for pages beyond the >> specified range. Ideally, the

Re: [announce 7/7] fbsplash - documentation

2005-03-07 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 04:18:07 +0100, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dinsdag 08 März 2005 03:17, Michal Januszewski wrote: > > > +It's possible to set path to the splash helper by writing it to > > +/proc/sys/kernel/fbsplash. > > It should probably just use its own hotplug agent

Re: [PATCH] 2/2 Prezeroing large blocks of pages during allocation Version 4

2005-03-07 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Hi, Mel Gorman wrote: +#define BITS_PER_ALLOC_TYPE 5 #define ALLOC_KERNNORCLM 0 #define ALLOC_KERNRCLM 1 #define ALLOC_USERRCLM 2 #define ALLOC_FALLBACK 3 +#define ALLOC_USERZERO 4 +#define ALLOC_KERNZERO 5 Now, 5bits per MAX_ORDER pages. I think it is simpler to use "char[]" for representing

Re: [PATCH] unified device list allocator

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:56:27AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:50:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > register_blkdev only happens at module_init time (and in fact should go > > > away completely, so I'm not happy wit hthe surgey to keep it barely alive > > > at

Re: Atheros wi-fi card drivers (?)

2005-03-07 Thread Mateusz Berezecki
> A different one than the one that's supported by OpenBSD's reverse-engineered > HAL? I guess so :-) -- Mateusz Berezecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-07 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
--On Monday, March 07, 2005 09:34:22 PM + Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For a couple of reasons I've not yet merged Greg's 2.6.11.1 yet but this diff should actually apply to either right now. 2.6.11-ac1 o Fix jbd race in ext3(Stephen Tweedie) will

Re: [PATCH] unified device list allocator

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:33:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > + /* search for insertion point in reverse for dynamic allocation */ > > + list_for_each_prev(l, list) { > > hrmph. Any time we do anything in O(n) time, some smarty comes along

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Peter Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I think Chris Wright's last rlimit patch is more sensible and ready to > >>go. > > > > > >I must say that I like rlimits - very straightforward, although somewhat > >awkward to use

Re: setserial is lieing to us, how to fix?

2005-03-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 00:05, Alan Curry wrote: >Gene Heskett writes the following: >>I'm on the horn with another linux user, and we have a question re >> the setserial command. Its reporting the base baud rate, but not >> the actual. We need to know the actual settings in use at the >>

Re: pci_fixup_video() bogosity

2005-03-07 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:38:29 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ! > > While working on writing a VGA access arbiter for kernel & userland, > I wondered how to properly get my "initial" state at boot. For that, > I looked at how the new PCI ROM stuff does to find out who

Re: [PATCH] unified device list allocator

2005-03-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:50:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > register_blkdev only happens at module_init time (and in fact should go > > away completely, so I'm not happy wit hthe surgey to keep it barely alive > > at all) > > Is anyone working on that? I had a patch from a long time ago

Re: [PATCH] unified device list allocator

2005-03-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:33:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > + /* search for insertion point in reverse for dynamic allocation */ > > > +list_for_each_prev(l, list) { > > > > hrmph.

Re: [PATCH] (#2) radeonfb: PLL access workaround

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Airlie
> > > > Please test and let me know if it works. If it's fine, then it should go > > to -mm, and eventually after a while, to a 2.6.11.x update. > > > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've tested this on my M7 chips which hung on boot with radeonfb but no fbcon on

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't object to rlimits per se and I think that they are useful but > not as a sole solution to this problem. Being able to give a task > preferential treatment is a permissions issue and should be solved as > one. > > Having RT cpu usage limits

Re: [PATCH] resync ATI PCI idents into base kernel

2005-03-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:50:19PM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > ChangeSet 1.1982.132.7, 2005/03/07 13:50:19-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [PATCH] resync ATI PCI idents into base kernel > > > > pci_ids.h | 11 +++ > 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+) > > > diff

Re: [PATCH] unified device list allocator

2005-03-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:33:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > + /* search for insertion point in reverse for dynamic allocation */ > > + list_for_each_prev(l, list) { > > hrmph. Any time we do anything in O(n) time, some smarty comes along

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add a pair of rlimits for allowing non-root tasks to raise nice and rt > priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior. Originally written by > Chris Wright. > > Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this too looks good to me. Acked-by:

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Peter Williams
Andrew Morton wrote: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think Chris Wright's last rlimit patch is more sensible and ready to go. I must say that I like rlimits - very straightforward, although somewhat awkward to use from userspace due to shortsighted shell design. Does anyone have serious

Re: [PATCH] Restore PWC driver

2005-03-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:26:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Ick, Alan, couldn't you have had the decency to run this through the USB > developers, and at least pinged me on it? Especially due to all of the > hate-email I have gotten over this driver in the past. > > As it is, the coding style

Re: [PATCH] unified device list allocator

2005-03-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > + /* search for insertion point in reverse for dynamic allocation */ > +list_for_each_prev(l, list) { hrmph. Any time we do anything in O(n) time, some smarty comes along with a workload which blows us out of the water. Although it's hard to

Re: [PATCH] Restore PWC driver

2005-03-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:26:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > So, who's going to fix up: Add: - the sparse warnings. to that list. Oh, and those sparse warnings show that this driver is now completely broken on big-endian boxes. So, who should I be bouncing the emails that I'm about to

Re: NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Trond Myklebust
ty den 08.03.2005 Klokka 05:53 (+0100) skreiv Bernardo Innocenti: > Appears to be a client bug. Why? -- Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Jack O'Quin
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I think Chris Wright's last rlimit patch is more sensible and ready to >> go. > > I must say that I like rlimits - very straightforward, although somewhat > awkward to use from userspace due to shortsighted

Re: [PATCH] Restore PWC driver

2005-03-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:49:40PM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > ChangeSet 1.1982.132.4, 2005/03/07 13:49:40-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [PATCH] Restore PWC driver > > PWC has a new maintainer (Luc Saillard) and also the various contentious > binary hooks

RE: [ACPI] s4bios: does anyone use it?

2005-03-07 Thread Li, Shaohua
Hi, >> > >> > Is there single user of s4bios? It used to work for me 4 notebooks >> > ago, but I never really used it. >> >> I don't have anymore my toshiba laptop where S4 bios was first >> implemented. >> >> > I think I'm the only person that ever >> > seen it working, but I could be wrong. >>

[PATCH] unified device list allocator

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Mackall
(This patch is against -mm1, which has different locking than mainline) This patch introduces a simple allocator for tracking reservations of block and character device ranges. After poking around, I came to the conclusion that we can't avoid having a separate data structure for reservations vs

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Jack O'Quin
> * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Still. It seems to be what we deserve if all that fancy stuff we have >> cannot address this very simple and very real-world problem. Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > please describe this "very simple and very real-world problem" in

Re: [0/many] Acrypto - asynchronous crypto layer for linux kernel 2.6

2005-03-07 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mar 07, 2005, at 15:37, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: I'm pleased to announce asynchronous crypto layer for Linux kernel 2.6. It supports following features: - multiple asynchronous crypto device queues - crypto session routing - crypto session binding - modular load balancing - crypto session

Re: setserial is lieing to us, how to fix?

2005-03-07 Thread Alan Curry
Gene Heskett writes the following: > >I'm on the horn with another linux user, and we have a question re the >setserial command. Its reporting the base baud rate, but not the >actual. We need to know the actual settings in use at the moment for >a serial port. How can we discover this? stty

Re: [announce 7/7] fbsplash - documentation

2005-03-07 Thread Matan Peled
Arnd Bergmann wrote: Nothing about the init command seems really necessary. Why not just do that stuff from an /sbin/init script? I'm not a kernel hacker by any definition, but I'm pretty sure its neccasery because we want it to be done before /sbin/init is ran, AKA hide the kernel messages :)

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:32:50AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:28:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > please describe this "very simple and very real-world problem" in simple > > > > terms. Lets make sure "problem"

Re: [RFC][PATCH] PCI bridge driver rewrite (rev 02)

2005-03-07 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mar 07, 2005, at 19:20, Adam Belay wrote: 6.) Open Firmware * I don't know much about it, but I believe it does do similar things to ACPI. * Hopefully it uses EISA ids, but not really sure. If not, it wouldn't be included. OpenFirmware is very similar to ACPI,

NFS client bug in 2.6.8-2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Hello, This problem was previously described by Neil Conway. All relevant information here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/10/97 I still see this very same problem on 2.6.11 vanilla and in Fedora/RawHide hernels. It has haunted me for a couple of months on several Fedora clients. Strangely, a

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:32:50AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:28:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > please describe this "very simple and very real-world problem" in simple > > > terms. Lets make sure "problem" and "solution" didnt become detached. > > > > >

Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11-mm1, updated

2005-03-07 Thread Robert Love
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 04:40 +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Why do you need the classdevice? I'm really not too eager about adding > tons of new misdevices now that we can route directly to individual majors > with cdev_add & stuff. Especially when you're actually relying on class > device

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think Chris Wright's last rlimit patch is more sensible and ready to > go. I must say that I like rlimits - very straightforward, although somewhat awkward to use from userspace due to shortsighted shell design. Does anyone have serious objections

setserial is lieing to us, how to fix?

2005-03-07 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I'm on the horn with another linux user, and we have a question re the setserial command. Its reporting the base baud rate, but not the actual. We need to know the actual settings in use at the moment for a serial port. How can we discover this? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four

pci_fixup_video() bogosity

2005-03-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi ! While working on writing a VGA access arbiter for kernel & userland, I wondered how to properly get my "initial" state at boot. For that, I looked at how the new PCI ROM stuff does to find out who owns the memory shadow at c, and found it quite bogus. >From what I see, the code is only

Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11-mm1, updated

2005-03-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> > this one seems totally unrelated. > > Eh? We did not add that. ;) Sorry, I thought I saw a + somewhere there at the beggining of the line, my fault. > > Should probably use the /dev/mem major. > > Hrm, should we? > > Also, the memory class stuff is all local to mem.c. For example, I >

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:50:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > So I still have the rt-lsm patch floating about, saying "merge me, merge > me!". I'm not sure that the world would end were I to do so. > > Consider this a prod in the direction of those who were pushing > alternatives ;) I

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:28:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > please describe this "very simple and very real-world problem" in simple > > terms. Lets make sure "problem" and "solution" didnt become detached. > > > > Well others can do that better than I but I'd describe it as > > - Audio

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > next we > > > $CAPABILITY for $FOO and we're headed straight to interface-hell. > > > > "interface hell"? Wow. > > > > Still. It seems to be what we deserve if all that fancy stuff we have > >

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > next we > > $CAPABILITY for $FOO and we're headed straight to interface-hell. > > "interface hell"? Wow. > > Still. It seems to be what we deserve if all that fancy stuff we have > cannot address this very simple and very real-world problem.

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:50:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > So I still have the rt-lsm patch floating about, saying "merge me, merge > > me!". I'm not sure that the world would end were I to do so. > > > > Consider this a prod in the

Re: Page fault scalability patch V18: Overview

2005-03-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Darren Williams wrote: > Pid: 362, CPU 0, comm: kscrubd0 > psr : 121008022038 ifs : 8308 ip : [] > Not tainted > ip is at scrubd_rmpage+0x61/0x140 Would you try the new version on oss.sgi.com please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

[PATCH] (#2) radeonfb: PLL access workaround

2005-03-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:59 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Hi ! > > So you remember all those weird lockups at boot that happened in late > 2.6.11-rc with radeonfb. I posted a "workaround" which just moved code > around a bit and it appeared to work. I finally got some real infos > about

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:50:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > So I still have the rt-lsm patch floating about, saying "merge me, merge > me!". I'm not sure that the world would end were I to do so. > > Consider this a prod in the direction of those who were pushing > alternatives ;) It's

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-07 Thread Andrew Morton
So I still have the rt-lsm patch floating about, saying "merge me, merge me!". I'm not sure that the world would end were I to do so. Consider this a prod in the direction of those who were pushing alternatives ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

status of network swapping in linux?

2005-03-07 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
(please CC, not on the list.) Hi all, I have an embedded machine that needs a _tiny_ little bit more memory for some of its tasks than it has. Unfortunately, it does not have an IDE or USB controller, but it does have a 10/100 and three gigabit ethernet interfaces. There have been a number of

Re: [uml-devel] Re: Partial fix! - Was: Re: [BUG report] UML linux-2.6 latest BK doesn't compile

2005-03-07 Thread Blaisorblade
On Saturday 05 March 2005 20:45, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Yes. I finally found a way to get it to compile. Compiling without > > TT mode and WITHOUT static build it still fails with the same problem > > (__bb_init_func problem I already reported). But compiling without TT

Re: [patch 1/1] fix syscallN() macro errno value checking for i386

2005-03-07 Thread Blaisorblade
On Sunday 30 January 2005 19:30, jerome lacoste wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:00:22 +0100, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sünnavend 29 Januar 2005 02:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Cc: David Howells <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: adds the S_PRIVATE flag and adds use to security

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jeffrey Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This patch adds an S_PRIVATE flag to inode->i_flags to mark an inode as > > filesystem-internal. As such, it should be excepted from the security > > infrastructure to allow the filesystem to perform

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:16:10 +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote: > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > >At Fri, 04 Mar 2005 22:16:03 +0100, > >Pierre Ossman wrote: > > > > > >>It seems I spoke too soon. The defaults picked by the driver are > >>actually fine. It seems to be alsactl store/restore that did

Re: [uml-devel] [BUG: UML 2.6.11-rc4-bk-latest] sleeping function called from invalid context and segmentation fault

2005-03-07 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 21:41, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Friday 18 February 2005 16:33, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 19:35 +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > > On Monday 14 February 2005 12:48, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I get a few Debug messages

Re: [PATCH] whitespace cleanups for fs/cifs/file.c

2005-03-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Mon, 7 March 2005 03:28:46 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > > Ironically, the whitespace patch gets the small things right, but misses > > on the big readability issues, such as cifs_open() being 220 lines long > > and having a _really_ hard time

Re: [PATCH] whitespace cleanups for fs/cifs/file.c

2005-03-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Mar 07, 2005 10:26 +0100, Edgar, Bob wrote: > > I lurk on the list and didn't comment last time but there is one aspect > > of this patch that I think is "bad" style. The function declaration should > > not be on the same line with the type. Why?

Re: [announce 7/7] fbsplash - documentation

2005-03-07 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Dinsdag 08 März 2005 03:17, Michal Januszewski wrote: > +It's possible to set path to the splash helper by writing it to > +/proc/sys/kernel/fbsplash. It should probably just use its own hotplug agent instead of calling the helper directly. > +Splash protocol v1 specified an additional

Support HPET with a single timer for system time

2005-03-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
This patch removes the check for the existence of multiple HPET timers. It allows the use of HPET with only a single timer for system time if HPET_EMULATE_RTC is not set. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index:

[42/many] arch: um config

2005-03-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
--- ./arch/um/Kconfig~ 2005-03-02 10:38:09.0 +0300 +++ ./arch/um/Kconfig 2005-03-07 21:30:55.0 +0300 @@ -289,6 +289,8 @@ source "crypto/Kconfig" +source "acrypto/Kconfig" + source "lib/Kconfig" menu "SCSI support" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Missing include file in linux/ixjuser.h

2005-03-07 Thread Fredrik Tolf
Hi! There's a problem in the include/linux/ixjuser.h file. It uses the __user macro, but doesn't include the linux/compiler.h file. This doesn't seem to be a problem for the kernel (I'm guessing since some other file includes compiler.h), but it makes a difference when compiling user-space

[5/many] acrypto: crypto_conn.c

2005-03-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
--- /tmp/empty/crypto_conn.c1970-01-01 03:00:00.0 +0300 +++ ./acrypto/crypto_conn.c 2005-03-07 21:11:01.0 +0300 @@ -0,0 +1,160 @@ +/* + * crypto_conn.c + * + * Copyright (c) 2004 Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * + * + * This program is free software; you can

[5/5] bd: script for unbinding any filters

2005-03-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
./ubd unbind dev /dev/bd0 filter acrypto ./ubd unbind dev /dev/bd0 filter xor ./ubd unbind dev /dev/bd0 filter fd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[29/many] arch: ia64 config

2005-03-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
--- ./arch/ia64/Kconfig~2005-03-02 10:38:26.0 +0300 +++ ./arch/ia64/Kconfig 2005-03-07 21:27:38.0 +0300 @@ -417,3 +417,5 @@ source "security/Kconfig" source "crypto/Kconfig" + +source "acrypto/Kconfig" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

[27/many] arch: h8300 config

2005-03-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
--- ./arch/h8300/Kconfig~ 2005-03-02 10:38:17.0 +0300 +++ ./arch/h8300/Kconfig2005-03-07 21:27:13.0 +0300 @@ -191,4 +191,6 @@ source "crypto/Kconfig" +source "acrypto/Kconfig" + source "lib/Kconfig" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

2005-03-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:13:23 +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote: > > Lee Revell wrote: > > >So is there a bug or not? Mark seems to be the only one affected. > > > >It's important to follow up, because these so-called "ALSA regressions" > >are generating bad press. > > > >Lee > > > > > > > I can

[??/many] list of files to be sent in a next couple of e-mails with small description

2005-03-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
announce - asynchronous crypto layer announce files - file with this cruft bench - acrypto benchmark vs cryptoloop vs dm_crypt iok.c - userspace application which uses ioctl based acrypto access ucon_crypto.c - userspace application which uses direct process' VMA access acrypto_Kconfig.patch -

Re: [2.6.11 Permedia-2 Framebuffer] driver broken (?).

2005-03-07 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
Hello, Jim On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Jim Hague wrote: > On 05-Mar-2005 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Worked on 2.6.10-rc2. With 2.6.11 during boot upon switching to fb, text > > becomes orange, penguins look sick (not sharp). X starts and runs normal > > (doesn't use fb), switching to vt not

[16/many] acrypto: crypto_user.h

2005-03-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
--- /tmp/empty/crypto_user.h1970-01-01 03:00:00.0 +0300 +++ ./acrypto/crypto_user.h 2005-03-07 20:35:36.0 +0300 @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +/* + * crypto_user.h + * + * Copyright (c) 2004 Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * + * + * This program is free software; you can

[26/many] arch: frv config

2005-03-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
--- ./arch/frv/Kconfig~ 2005-03-02 10:37:54.0 +0300 +++ ./arch/frv/Kconfig 2005-03-07 21:26:53.0 +0300 @@ -498,4 +498,6 @@ source "crypto/Kconfig" +source "acrypto/Kconfig" + source "lib/Kconfig" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

[30/many] arch: m32r config

2005-03-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
--- ./arch/m32r/Kconfig~2005-03-02 10:37:30.0 +0300 +++ ./arch/m32r/Kconfig 2005-03-07 21:27:51.0 +0300 @@ -364,4 +364,6 @@ source "crypto/Kconfig" +source "acrypto/Kconfig" + source "lib/Kconfig" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

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