Re: 2.6.11-mm2 + Radeon crash

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:12 +0100, Christian Henz wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to try 2.6.11-mm2 for the low latency/realtime lsm stuff and > I've run into a severe > problem. > > When I try to start X, my machine reboots. The screen goes dark as > usual when setting the video mode, but then I get

Re: [Fastboot] [RFC] Kdump: Dump Capture Mechanism

Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Well this discussion has been going on for quite sometime now that > what's the best way to capture the dump? There seems to be two lines of > arguments. > > Export ELF view through /proc/vmcore > > This

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

On Wed, Mar 09 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:09:26 +0100, Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > probably not worth the bother, looks like barrier problems. get the > > serial console running instead and send the full output, I'll take a > > look in the morning. > > serial

64-bit resources?

Greg, I was wondering what the state of the change to 64-bit resources was? thanks - kumar - 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://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ

Re: [PATCH 2/2] No-exec support for ppc64

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:25 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:13:26PM -0600, Jake Moilanen wrote: > > diff -puN arch/ppc64/mm/hash_utils.c~nx-kernel-ppc64 > > arch/ppc64/mm/hash_utils.c > > --- linux-2.6-bk/arch/ppc64/mm/hash_utils.c~nx-kernel-ppc64 2005-03-08 >

Re: [Fastboot] Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

Dipankar Sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:17:49AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Beyond that I prefer a little command line tool that will do the > > ELF64 to ELF32 conversion and possibly add in the kva mapping to > > make the core dump usable with gdb. Doing

Re: [Fastboot] Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to fill the virtual addresses of linearly mapped region. That is > physical addresses from 0 to MAXMEM (896 MB) are mapped by kernel at > virtual addresses PAGE_OFFSET to (PAGE_OFFSET + MAXMEM). Values of > PAGE_OFFSET and MAXMEM are already known

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

Jes Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Convert /dev/mem read/write calls to use arch_translate_mem_ptr if > available. Needed on ia64 for pages converted fo uncached mappings to > avoid it being accessed in cached mode after the conversion which can > lead to memory corruption. Introduces

Re: huge filesystems

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:53:48AM -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: > My question is, what is the current status of huge filesystems - IE, > filesystems that exceed 2 terabytes, and hopefully also exceeding 16 > terabytes? people can and do have >2T filesystems now. some people on x86 have hit the

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:34:08AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:56:33AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and what ones are not, into > > > the "-stable" tree: > > > - It must be obviously

Re: bk commits and dates

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:47 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:41:59 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know if I'm the only one to have a problem with that, but it would be nice if it was possible, when you pull a bk

RE: Bug: ll_rw_blk.c, elevator.c and displaying "default" IO Sche dule r at boot-time (Cosmetic only)

Jens/Hari, The patch which you both supplied does solve the problem. I'd imagine this patch is probably not "critical" enough for a 2.6.11.x-series patch, but it would be nice to see this included in 2.6.12. Thanks! James Roberts-Thomson -- A synonym is a word you use if you can't

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:47 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: > > > > I confirmed that this occurs with the 2.6.11 code straight from > > kernel.org Here is an error from the bringup: > > So if 2.6.9 works, and 2.6.11 does not, can you check 2.6.10?

2.6.11-mm2 + Radeon crash

Hi, I wanted to try 2.6.11-mm2 for the low latency/realtime lsm stuff and I've run into a severe problem. When I try to start X, my machine reboots. The screen goes dark as usual when setting the video mode, but then I get a beep and I'm greeted with the BIOS boot messages. This happened 4/5

Re: [patch 1/1] unified spinlock initialization arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:12, Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:42:33AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Unify the spinlock initialization as far as possible. > Are

Re: bk commits and dates

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:28 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > I don't know if I'm the only one to have a problem with that, but it > > would be nice if it was possible, when you pull a bk tree, to have the > > commit messages for the

Page Fault Scalabilty patch V19 [0/4]: Overview

Changelog: V18->V19 Fall back to obtaining the page table lock before calling do_wp_page. Keep mark_page_accessed in do_swap_page and add SetPageReferenced in do_anonymous_page Diff against 2.6.11. V17->V18 Rediff against 2.6.11-rc5-bk4 V16->V17 Do not increment

netdev-2.6 queue updated

All the stuff that was waiting for Linus has been sent. Here's what's sitting around in the netdev-2.6 to "stew" for a bit: * wireless-2.6 tree (bk://gkernel.bkbits.net/wireless-2.6) * 8139cp updates * starfire update * 8139too iomap conversion * natsemi long/short cable option (no longer

[PATCH 2/15] ptwalk: change_protection

Begin the pagetable walker cleanup with a straightforward example, mprotect's change_protection. Started out from Nick Piggin's for_each proposal, but I prefer less hidden; and these are all do while loops, which degrade slightly when converted to for loops. Firmly agree with Andi and Nick that

Re: make -j4 gets stuck w/ ccache over NFS - solved!

Hi Tridge, Greg, et. al.: I wrote, some months ago: > > I'm using ccache version 2.4 [1]. I just changed ~/.ccache to a symbolic > > link to a directory which is NFS mounted [2]. The kernel source itself is > > on a local FS. With the ccache suitably primed, when I do a kernel compile > >

Re: [PATCH libata-2.6] AHCI: fix fatal error int handling

Brett Russ wrote: I noticed that the AHCI CI (cmd issue) reg wasn't getting cleared after error ints resulting in no further commands being successfully issued to the port. This patch fixes. All that's really needed is the 1's complement but I also removed the disabling/enabling of the FIS_RX

Re: bk commits and dates

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:47 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:41:59 +1100 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know if I'm the only one to have a problem with that, but it > > would be nice if it was possible, when you pull a bk tree, to have the

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:25:56PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > BTW, Linus: Any chance you ever change something to version or > > extraversion in bk just after a release ? I know I already ask and it > > degenerated into a

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

http://localhost/blogAndi Kleen wrote: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and what ones are not, into the "-stable" tree: - It must be obviously correct and tested. - It can not bigger than 100 lines, with context. This rule seems silly. What happens

[PATCH 2/3] cciss: support for more than 8 controllers

This patch adds support for more than 8 controllers. If we run out of preallocated major numbers we dynamically allocate more. Please consider this for inclusion. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cciss.c | 36 +++- cciss.h |3 +++ 2 files

[SATA] libata-dev queue updated

Merged recent upstream changes into libata-dev queue. No new patches have found their way into libata-dev since last email. BK URL, Patch URL, and changelog attached. Note that the patch is diff'd against 2.6.11-bk6, which won't exist until four hours after this email is sent. Jeff

[patch] drm missing memset can crash X server..

Egbert Eich reported a bug 2673 on bugs.freedesktop.org and tracked it down to a missing memset in the setversion ioctl, this causes X server crashes... From: Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Nru a/drivers/char/drm/drm_ioctl.c

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

Christian Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, maybe a VM problem? That would be a good place to focus since > > I think we can be fairly certain it isn't a problem in just the > > networking code. Otherwise, my tests would show lower bandwidth. > > Thanks to your tests I am really

[PATCH 6/15] ptwalk: ioremap_page_range

Convert i386 ioremap pagetable walkers to loops using p?d_addr_end. Rename internal levels ioremap_p??_range. Don't cheat, give it a real (but inlined) ioremap_pud_range; uninline lowest level to help debug. Replace "page already exists" printk and BUG by BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins

Re: 2.6.x.y gatekeeper discipline

Where do you see that patch as being applied in the new .y stable series? Chris I got that patch description from here: When you go to http://kernel.org, and click on the stand alone " C " to the right of 2.6.11.2 It is a hyperlink to: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/cset/ Have

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:57:16PM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > Imagine we want to go from 2.6.11.3 to 2.6.12 The easiest way would be to keep a local fresh copy of 2.6.11 before applying 2.6.11.3 anyway. That would solve a) and b) even more easily. And yes, I find a) more logical. This is the

Re: Page Fault Scalability patch V19 [4/4]: Drop use of page_table_lock in do_anonymous_page

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > I still think it's a bad idea to add arbitary process size limits like this: The limit is pretty high: 2^31*PAGE_SIZE bytes. For the standard 4k pagesize this will be >8TB. > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_ATOMIC_TABLE_OPS > > +/* > > + * Atomic page table

Re: [PATCH] VGA arbitration: draft of kernel side

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 12:45 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > > Few coding style nitpicks follow. > > On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:11:59 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Index: linux-work/include/linux/pci.h > >

Re: [PATCH] Support for GEODE CPUs

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:59:26PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > If you build 486 it will still use the TSC because it is available (The > PIT is buggy but the kernel knows about that anyway and handles it). Hmm, I thought that was the whole point of the different cpu type choices in the kernel.

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

On 2005-03-08T22:25:29, Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's (or at least was up until today) an ongoing discussion on our > mailing list at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/open-iscsi. The > short and long of it: the problem can be solved, and it will. Couple > simple things we

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:25:56PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > BTW, Linus: Any chance you ever change something to version or > > extraversion in bk just after a release ? I know I already ask and it > > degenerated into a flamefest,

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 21:58, Kai Makisara wrote: > While waiting for the application to be fixed, it was decided to restore > the old behaviour of the tape drivers. Which means tar won't get fixed 8( > I don't think implementing proper read-only lseek for tapes is worth the > trouble (reliable

[PATCH 1/3] cciss: new controller support

This patch adds support for 2 new SAS controllers due out this summer. It also bumps the version to 2.6.6. Please consider this for inclusion. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Documentation/cciss.txt |2 ++ drivers/block/cciss.c | 14 ++

[PATCH 3/3] cciss: per disk queue support

This patch adds per disk queue functionality. It seems that the 2.6 kernel expects a queue per disk. If you have multiple logical drives on a controller all of the queues actually point back to the same queue. If a drive is deleted it blows us out of the water. We hold the lock during any queue

Re: [patch] drm missing memset can crash X server..

* Dave Airlie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Egbert Eich reported a bug 2673 on bugs.freedesktop.org and tracked it > down to a missing memset in the setversion ioctl, this causes X server > crashes... > > From: Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

1/3 swsusp: use non-contiguous memory on resume

Hi! The following patch is designed to fix a problem in the current implementation of swsusp in mainline kernels. Namely, swsusp uses an array of page backup entries (aka pagedir) to store pointers to memory pages that must be saved during suspend and restored during resume. Unfortunately, the

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

Linus Torvalds wrote: There are certainly sym changes in there too since 2.6.9, let's see if James or Willy have any suggestions. It might not be ppc64-specific. Linus I have tried with 2.6.10, this appears to fail as well. Unfortunately I don't have console access right now

[Patch] resume PIT

[PATCH] resume PIT for x86_64 Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -BruN 0/arch/x86_64/kernel/i8259.c 1/arch/x86_64/kernel/i8259.c --- 0/arch/x86_64/kernel/i8259.c2005-03-07 23:29:42.0 +0800 +++ 1/arch/x86_64/kernel/i8259.c2005-03-09 12:53:10.0

Re: [PATCH] Add 2.4.x cpufreq /proc and sysctl interface removal feature-removal-schedule

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:34:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > ChangeSet 1.2036, 2005/03/09 09:31:40-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [PATCH] Add 2.4.x cpufreq /proc and sysctl interface removal > feature-removal-schedule > > Add 2.4.x cpufreq /proc and sysctl interface removal > to the

Re: [Fastboot] Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 07:17 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:00 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > That sounds good. But we loose the advantage of doing limited debugging > > with gdb. Crash (or other analysis tools) will

sata_sil & Seagate HD solution

Hi all, I recently bought a computer with a Silicon Image 3512 SATA chipset and a 200GB Seagate ST320082 hard drive without knowledge that these two pieces of hardware don't play nicely. However, I called Seagate tech support and they told me that upgrading my bios would fix the problem.

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

On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 22:00, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Which is? That's you're so special you don't need to care about the > workflow the ordinary humans have created? I don't see the connection between your comment and the thread sorry. If I send it all to Andrew what will happen. Andrew can

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 22:22, CaT wrote: > Argh! Ok. I guess I shouldn't've just bought the card based on this > driver then so that I could better debug my problems with my promise > cards. 8( Its good hardware. It does lots of neat things providing you run -ac anyway. The raid1 performance is

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

Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:53, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >Solaris, which does forcedirectio as a mount option, actually > > > > will do buffered I/O on the trailing part. Consider it

Re: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel

"Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Did you generate a kernel profile? > > Top 40 kernel hot functions, percentage is normalized to kernel utilization. > > _spin_unlock_irqrestore 23.54% > _spin_unlock_irq 19.27% Cripes. Is that with

Re: [patch 1/1] unified spinlock initialization arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:52:24PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:12, Russell King wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:42:33AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Cc: , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/sunhme.c: make a struct static

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 09:36:18 +0100 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch makes a needlessly global struct static. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks Adrian. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

[PATCH 3/9] UML - "Hardware" random number generator

This implements a hardware random number generator for UML which attaches itself to the host's /dev/random. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.11/arch/um/Kconfig_char === ---

Re: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel

On Wednesday, March 9, 2005 3:23 pm, Andi Kleen wrote: > "Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just to clarify here, these data need to be taken at grain of salt. A > > high count in _spin_unlock_* functions do not automatically points to > > lock contention. It's one of the blind

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

Christian Schmid wrote: H can you try to following just to exclude some theories: Run it with 4000 sockets and then do the following on the server-machine: dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1M count=1024 dd if=/dev/zero of=file2 bs=1M count=1024 dd if=/dev/zero of=file3 bs=1M count=1024 cat

Re: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote Wednesday, March 09, 2005 6:26 PM > > What does "1/3 of the total benchmark performance regression" mean? One > > third of 0.1% isn't very impressive. You haven't told us anything at all > > about the magnitude of this

Re: sched_setscheduler and pids/threads

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 15:12 +1100, Dave Airlie wrote: > In 2.6 all my threads appear as a single PID,if I use chrt -p > will it set the scheduling priority for my main thread or for all > threads in the application? For just the main thread (or the thread of whatever PID you give). You need to

Re: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel

On Wednesday, March 9, 2005 3:23 pm, Andi Kleen wrote: > "Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just to clarify here, these data need to be taken at grain of salt. A > > high count in _spin_unlock_* functions do not automatically points to > > lock contention. It's one of the blind

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:06:31PM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:39:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > And to further test this whole -stable system, I've released 2.6.11.2. > > It contains one patch, which is already in the -bk tree, and came from > > the security team

3/3 swsusp: enable resume from initrd

Hi! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When using a fully modularized kernel it is necessary to activate resume manually as the device node might not be available during kernel init. This patch implements a new sysfs attribute '/sys/power/resume' which allows for manual activation of software resume.

RE: [ANNOUNCE][PATCH 2.6.11 2/3] megaraid_sas: Announcing new mod ule for LSI Logic's SAS based MegaRAID controllers

> >Even for kernels with a 64bit dma_addr_t you can get 32bit dma >addresses >only. As a start check whether the pci_set_dma_mask for the 64bit mask >failed - in that case you can always use 32bit SGLs. > Please help me understand: If dma_addr_t is 64 bit, I will get 64bit addresses in

[PATCH 7/9] UML - Speed up tlb flushing

This patch optimizes tlb flushing in a couple of ways to reduce the number of system calls made to the host in order to update an address space. Operations are collected, and adjacent ones which can be merged, are. This includes consecutive munmaps, mprotects with the same permissions, and mmaps

[PATCH 5/9] UML - change semaphores to completions

From: Esben Nielsen One of the problems was use of direct architecture specific semaphores (which doesn't work under PREEMPT_REALTIME) and in places where a quick (maybe too quick) look at the code told me that completions ought to be used. Therefore I changed two semaphores to completions which

RE: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: Also, I'm rather peeved that we're hearing about this regression now rather than two years ago. And mystified as to why yours is the only group which has reported it. 2.6.X kernel has never been faster than the 2.4 kernel (RHEL3). At one point of time,

Re: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.xkernel

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (I've seen a 50% performance hit on 2.4 with just a thousand or two threads compared to 2.6) Was that 2.4 kernel a vendor kernel with the O(1) scheduler? no, a kernel.org kernel. the 2.6 kernel is so much faster for

sched_setscheduler and pids/threads

Hi all, I'm a bit confused over 2.6 threading with respects to real time scheduling settings... In 2.6 all my threads appear as a single PID, if I use chrt -p will it set the scheduling priority for my main thread or for all threads in the application? Can I used the thread IDs from

Re: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel

"Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote Wednesday, March 09, 2005 6:26 PM > > What does "1/3 of the total benchmark performance regression" mean? One > > third of 0.1% isn't very impressive. You haven't told us anything at all > > about the magnitude of this

Re: [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver

Greg KH wrote: diff -Nru a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c 2005-03-09 16:40:26 -08:00 @@ -0,0 +1,697 @@ +/* + * Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corporation + * + * Authors: + * Leendert van Doorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + *

Re: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel

David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (I've seen a 50% > performance hit on 2.4 with just a thousand or two threads compared to > 2.6) Was that 2.4 kernel a vendor kernel with the O(1) scheduler? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

[PATCH 6/9] UML - Remove build dependency on perl

To quote .config into config.c for building the result into the code, use sed instead of perl, as requested by one "embedded" UML user (which notes that perl is a big requirement, while busybox provides sed which is used in this patch). I've tested that there are only cosmethical differences in

Re: [PATCH 0/15] ptwalk: pagetable walker cleanup

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 22:05 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Here's a cleanup of the pagetable walkers, in common and i386 code, > based on 2.6.11-bk5. Mainly to make them all go the same simpler way, > so they're easier to follow with less room for error; but also to reduce > the code size and speed

[PATCH] USB: move usb core to use class_simple instead of it's own class functions.

ChangeSet 1.2051, 2005/03/09 12:17:18-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] USB: move usb core to use class_simple instead of it's own class functions. This is needed if the class code is going to be made easier to use, and it makes the code smaller and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Greg

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

So, maybe a VM problem? That would be a good place to focus since I think we can be fairly certain it isn't a problem in just the networking code. Otherwise, my tests would show lower bandwidth. Thanks to your tests I am really sure that its no network-code problem anymore. But what I THINK it

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

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 14:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:53, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Solaris, which does forcedirectio as a mount option, actually > >

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

Christian Schmid wrote: Yes, 2.6.11. I have tuned max_backlog and some other TCP and networking related settings to give more buffers etc to networking tasks. I have not tried any significant disk-IO while doing these tests. I finally got my systems set up so I can run my WAN emulator at full

Re: bk commits and dates

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:41:59 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if I'm the only one to have a problem with that, but it > would be nice if it was possible, when you pull a bk tree, to have the > commit messages for the csets in that tree be dated from the day

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: > > I confirmed that this occurs with the 2.6.11 code straight from > kernel.org Here is an error from the bringup: So if 2.6.9 works, and 2.6.11 does not, can you check 2.6.10? And perhaps hunt it down even more, to a -rc release? > sym0: No

RE: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel

Andrew Morton wrote Wednesday, March 09, 2005 6:26 PM > What does "1/3 of the total benchmark performance regression" mean? One > third of 0.1% isn't very impressive. You haven't told us anything at all > about the magnitude of this regression. 2.6.9 kernel is 6% slower compare to distributor's

[PATCH] tpm_atmel build fix

ChangeSet 1.2038, 2005/03/09 10:13:15-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] tpm_atmel build fix drivers/char/tpm/tpm_atmel.c:131: unknown field `fops' specified in initializer drivers/char/tpm/tpm_atmel.c:131: warning: missing braces around initializer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL

[PATCH] aoe: update documentation for udev users

ChangeSet 1.2037, 2005/03/09 10:21:15-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] aoe: update documentation for udev users Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ed L Cashin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> +if=A0test=A0-z=A0"$conf";=A0then >>

Re: bk commits and dates

Two's company ... On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:41, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > While we are at such requests ... > > When you pull from one of the trees, like netdev, the commit messages > are sent to the bk commit list with the original date stamp of the patch > in the netdev tree. > > For

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Are you sure it's plain 2.6.11 and not some bk clone of after 2.6.11 was released ? Ben - I am in the process of downloading a clean tarball from kernel.org to be 100% certain. I confirmed that this occurs with the 2.6.11 code straight

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:38:42PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: >> > > Fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash - is a feature that allows >> > > displaying images in the background of consoles that use fbcon. The >> > > project is partially descended from bootsplash. >> > >> >

[PATCH] videodev: pass dev_t to the class core

ChangeSet 1.2044, 2005/03/09 09:52:10-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] videodev: pass dev_t to the class core Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/media/video/videodev.c | 11 +-- 1 files changed, 1

Re: bk commits and dates

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I don't know if I'm the only one to have a problem with that, but it > would be nice if it was possible, when you pull a bk tree, to have the > commit messages for the csets in that tree be dated from the day you > pulled, and not the day

Re: [PATCH 2/2] No-exec support for ppc64

Hi, On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:13:26PM -0600, Jake Moilanen wrote: > diff -puN arch/ppc64/mm/hash_utils.c~nx-kernel-ppc64 > arch/ppc64/mm/hash_utils.c > --- linux-2.6-bk/arch/ppc64/mm/hash_utils.c~nx-kernel-ppc64 2005-03-08 > 16:08:57 -06:00 > +++

Re: [PATCH 1/2] No-exec support for ppc64

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:08:26PM -0600, Jake Moilanen wrote: > No-exec base and user space support for PPC64. Hi, a couple of comments below. -Olof > @@ -786,6 +786,7 @@ int hash_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, > pte_t old_pte, new_pte; > unsigned long hpteflags, prpn; >

[PATCH] Add SuperHyway bus subsystem

ChangeSet 1.2027.3.1, 2005/03/09 12:14:18-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Add SuperHyway bus subsystem Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/sh/Makefile |6 drivers/sh/superhyway/Makefile

[PATCH] class: add a semaphore to struct class, and use that instead of the subsystem rwsem.

ChangeSet 1.2055, 2005/03/09 15:41:29-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] class: add a semaphore to struct class, and use that instead of the subsystem rwsem. This moves us away from using the rwsem, although recursive adds and removes of class devices is not yet possible (nor is it really known

[PATCH] aoe: fail IO on disk errors

ChangeSet 1.2038, 2005/03/09 10:21:33-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] aoe: fail IO on disk errors This patch makes disk errors fail the IO instead of getting logged and ignored. Fail IO on disk errors Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL

[PATCH] block core: export MAJOR/MINOR to the hotplug env

ChangeSet 1.2040, 2005/03/09 09:32:58-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] block core: export MAJOR/MINOR to the hotplug env Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/block/genhd.c | 53

[BK PATCH] Add Superhighway bus support for 2.6.11

Hi, Here is one changeset that adds superhighway bus support to the 2.6.11 kernel. It has been in the -mm releases for a while. Please pull from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/2.6.11/sh Individual patches will follow, sent to the linux-kernel list. thanks, greg k-h

[PATCH] debufs: make built in types add a \n to their output

ChangeSet 1.2033, 2005/03/09 15:24:07-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] debufs: make built in types add a \n to their output Thanks to Alessandro Rubini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for pointing this out. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fs/debugfs/file.c |2 +- 1 files

[PATCH] floppy.c: pass physical device to device registration

ChangeSet 1.2047, 2005/03/09 09:53:08-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] floppy.c: pass physical device to device registration With this patch the floppy driver creates the usual symlink in sysfs to the physical device backing the block device: $tree /sys/block/ /sys/block/ |-- fd0 |

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:46:29AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think you need both x.y.z=>x.y.z.N and x.y.z.N-1=>x.y.z.N patches. My > > systems which are following the -stable will just need the most recent, > > but doing x.y.z-1=>x.y.z.N gets

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Are you sure it's plain 2.6.11 and not some bk clone of after 2.6.11 was released ? Ben - I am in the process of downloading a clean tarball from kernel.org to be 100% certain. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

[PATCH] tpm-build-fix

ChangeSet 1.2039, 2005/03/09 10:13:34-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] tpm-build-fix drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c: In function `show_pcrs': drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c:228: warning: passing arg 1 of `tpm_transmit' from incompatible pointer type drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c:238: warning: passing arg 1 of

[BK PATCH] Add TPM driver support for 2.6.11

Hi, Here are a few changesets that add support for TPM drivers. These patches have all been in the -mm releases for a while now. Please pull from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/2.6.11/tpm Individual patches will follow, sent to the linux-kernel list. thanks, greg k-h

[PATCH] Reduce cacheline bouncing in cpu_idle_wait

Andi noted that during normal runtime cpu_idle_map is bounced around a lot, and occassionally at a higher frequency than the timer interrupt wakeup which we normally exit pm_idle from. So switch to a percpu variable. Andi i didn't move things to the slow path because it would involve adding

[PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver

ChangeSet 1.2035, 2005/03/09 10:12:19-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver This patch is a device driver to enable new hardware. The new hardware is the TPM chip as described by specifications at . The TPM chip will enable

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