ChangeSet 1.2039, 2005/03/09 10:21:52-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] aoe status.sh: handle sysfs not in /etc/mtab
Suse 9.1 Pro doesn't put /sys in /etc/mtab. This patch makes the
example aoe status.sh script work when sysfs is mounted but `mount`
doesn't mention sysfs.
aoe status.sh: handle
Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
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.
ChangeSet 1.2037, 2005/03/09 09:32:00-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] cpufreq 2.4 interface removal schedule
Even though these 2.4. interfaces are already gone in Dave Jones' cpufreq
bitkeeper tree, here's a patch which properly announces it in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt:
Add
Today at 04:57:37 pm, I wrote:
>Earlier today, I reported "PPPD fails on recent 2.6.11-bk". I've narrowed
>the problem down to between 2.6.11 and 2.6.11-bk1.
>
>I get this with 2.6.11-bk1: (two attempts)
>
>Mar 9 16:34:32 spc pppd[1142]: pppd 2.4.1 started by steven, uid 501
>Mar 9 16:34:32 spc
ChangeSet 1.2054, 2005/03/09 15:39:09-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] sysdev: remove the rwsem usage from this subsystem.
If further finer grained locking is needed, we can add a lock to the
sysdev_class to
lock the class drivers list. But if you do that, remember the global list also
is
ChangeSet 1.2049, 2005/03/09 09:59:49-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] sysdev: make system_subsys static as no one else needs access to it.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
drivers/base/sys.c |2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -Nru
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 example, if Jeff commited a patch from somebody in his netdev tree 3
weeks ago, and you pull
ChangeSet 1.2046, 2005/03/09 09:52:48-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] Driver core: add "bus" symlink to class/block devices
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:53:44PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Add a "bus" symlink to the class and block devices, just like the "driver"
> and "device" links. This may be
ChangeSet 1.2039, 2005/03/09 09:32:38-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] class core: export MAJOR/MINOR to the hotplug env
Move the creation of the sysfs "dev" file of a class device into the
driver core. The struct class_device contains a dev_t value now. If set,
the driver core will create the
ChangeSet 1.2035, 2005/03/09 09:31:21-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] Kobject: remove some unneeded exports
kobject_get_path and kobject_rename are only used by the sysfs core code
and not aren't really driver-ish code. Remove the unused exports
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL
ChangeSet 1.2038, 2005/03/09 09:32:19-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] driver core: Separate platform device name from platform device number
Separate platform device name from platform device number such that
names ending with numbers aren't confusing.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[EMAIL
"Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is all real: real benchmark running on real hardware, with real
> result showing large performance regression. Nothing synthetic here.
>
Ken, could you *please* be more complete, more organized and more specific?
What does "1/3 of the
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, and I don't know if that is specifically
> the case now, but I keep
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:51 -0600, Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote:
> Seems with 2.6.11 the sym53c8xx kernel module incorrectly identifies the
> cache being misconfigured on a p630 (ppc64, POWER4+). 2.6.9 correctly
> brings up this adaptor as does AIX with absolutely no indication of a
> misconfigured
"Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:45 PM
> > >
> > > > Did you generate a kernel profile?
> > >
> > > Top 40 kernel hot functions, percentage is normalized to kernel
> utilization.
> > >
> > > _spin_unlock_irqrestore
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
Andrew, please apply.
Allow userspace programs on ppc64 to use the (privileged) mfpvr
instruction to determine the processor type. At the moment it
emulates the instruction to provide the real PVR value, though it
could be made to lie in future if for some reason we wish to restrict
what CPU
Chen, Kenneth W wrote on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 5:45 PM
> Andrew Morton wrote on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 5:34 PM
> > What are these percentages? Total CPU time? The direct-io stuff doesn't
> > look too bad. It's surprising that tweaking the direct-io submission code
> > makes much
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, linux-os wrote:
> We need to retain the spin_lock_init() because not all spin-locks
> are allocated at compile-time. They might be allocated from kmalloc()
> on startup, probably in a structure, along with other so-called
> global data.
Not to worry my good man, it's not
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Exuberant ctags can tag file names too. I find this extremely useful
when browsing kernel source, and so would like to share it with
everyone. (You can now type ":tag oprof.c" for example, and jump to the
file with that name.)
I previously sent a patch which naively just appended an "--extra=+f"
Hi,
Here are two debugfs fixes. They have been in the -mm releases for a
while.
Please pull from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/2.6.11/debugfs
Individual patches will follow, sent to the linux-kernel list.
thanks,
greg k-h
fs/debugfs/file.c |4 ++--
1 files changed, 2
Seems with 2.6.11 the sym53c8xx kernel module incorrectly identifies the
cache being misconfigured on a p630 (ppc64, POWER4+). 2.6.9 correctly
brings up this adaptor as does AIX with absolutely no indication of a
misconfigured cache.
Doing a simple diff I see ALOT of changes between 2.6.9 and
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:14:36PM -0800, Nick Stoughton wrote:
> On Linux, the link() system call does not dereference symbolic links
>
> This behavior does not conform to POSIX
>
> Most Unix implementations behave in the manner specified by POSIX. One
> notable exception is Solaris 8 (I don't
ChangeSet 1.2043, 2005/03/09 09:51:50-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] i2c: class driver pass dev_t to the class core
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c |9 +
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 8
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 console boot output attached.
>
> --
> Jens Axboe
ChangeSet 1.2037, 2005/03/09 10:12:56-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] tpm_msc-build-fix
With older gcc's:
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c:238: unknown field `fops' specified in initializer
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c:238: warning: missing braces around initializer
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton wrote on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:45 PM
> >
> > > Did you generate a kernel profile?
> >
> > Top 40 kernel hot functions, percentage is normalized to kernel
> > utilization.
> >
> > _spin_unlock_irqrestore23.54%
> > _spin_unlock_irq 19.27%
>
>
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 really ugly for higher values of N.
bzcat ../patch-2.6.nn.[0-9].*|patch
Andrew Morton wrote on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 5:34 PM
> What are these percentages? Total CPU time? The direct-io stuff doesn't
> look too bad. It's surprising that tweaking the direct-io submission code
> makes much difference.
Percentage is relative to total kernel time. There are three
For people who is dying to see some q-tool profile, here is one.
It's not a vanilla 2.6.9 kernel, but with patches in raw device
to get around the DIO performance problem.
- Ken
Flat profile of CPU_CYCLES in hist#0:
Each histogram sample counts as 255.337u seconds
% time self cumul
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 17:02 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:39:44 +1100
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > There are some other bugs introduced by set_pte_at() caused by latent
> > bugs in the PTE walkers that 'drop' part of the address along the way,
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 feature-removal-schedule.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ChangeSet 1.2040, 2005/03/09 10:22:12-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] aoe: drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c cleanups
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This patch contains the following cleanups:
> - make the needlessly global struct aoe_fops static
> - #if 0 the unused global function
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Maw, 2005-03-08 at 17:25, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
>> ChangeSet 1.2030, 2005/03/08 09:25:05-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [PATCH] make st seekable again
>>
>> Apparently `tar' errors out if it cannot perform lseek() against a tape.
>> Work around
ChangeSet 1.2041, 2005/03/09 09:33:17-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] class_simple: pass dev_t to the class core
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
drivers/base/class_simple.c | 21 ++---
1 files changed, 2
The attached patch fix call kobject_get_path() with zero kobject argument.
This situation take place for example in unexpected disconnection of USB
devices such as GPRS modem.
(in my case it is Motorola C350 mobile phone modem)
Mar 6 00:55:52 toshiba kernel: <6>usb 2-1: USB disconnect,
Jesse Barnes wrote on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 3:53 PM
> > "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
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:39:44 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are some other bugs introduced by set_pte_at() caused by latent
> bugs in the PTE walkers that 'drop' part of the address along the way,
> notably the vmalloc.c ones are bogus, thus breaking ppc/ppc64 in
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 14:33, Jean Delvare wrote:
>Hi Gene, Andrew, all,
>[Gene Heskett]
>
>> /usr/pcHDTV3000/linux/pcHDTV-1.6/kernel-2.6.x/driver/bttv-i2c.c:36
>>2: error: unknown field `id' specified in initializer
>
>I've dropped the "id" member of struct i2c_client, as it were
> useless.
Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> @@ -197,13 +197,14 @@
> { .list = LIST_HEAD_INIT(port->list),
> .wait_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0),
> .has_connection = 0,
> - .sem =
ChangeSet 1.2048, 2005/03/09 09:53:28-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] kset: make ksets have a spinlock, and use that to lock their lists
Do this instead of using the rwsem of a subsys.
Smaller, faster, and I'm trying to get rid of the rwsem in the subsys.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
ChangeSet 1.2035, 2005/03/09 10:20:37-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] AoE warning on 64-bit archs
I just accidently built AoE on x86-64 and it emits a warning
due to conversion of types of different size, trivial fix:
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg
Andi Kleen wrote on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 3:23 PM
> > 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 spot syndrome with timer based
> > profile on ia64.
ChangeSet 1.2036, 2005/03/09 10:12:38-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] tpm: fix cause of SMP stack traces
There were misplaced spinlock acquires and releases in the probe, close and
release
paths which were causing might_sleep and schedule while atomic error messages
accompanied
by stack
Hi,
Here are some driver core and kobject/kref updates for 2.6.11. They
have all been in the -mm releases for some time now. There is also a
documentation update for the schedule removal feature list.
Please pull from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/2.6.11/driver
Individual patches will
ChangeSet 1.2052, 2005/03/09 15:06:02-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] kmap: remove usage of rwsem from kobj_map.
This forces the caller to provide the lock, but as they all already had one,
it's not a big change.
It also removes the now-unneeded cdev_subsys. Thanks to Jon Corbet for
ChangeSet 1.2045, 2005/03/09 09:52:29-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] driver core: clean driver unload
Get rid of semaphore abuse by converting device_driver->unload_sem
semaphore to device_driver->unloaded completion.
This should get rid of any confusion as well as save a few bytes in the
ChangeSet 1.2036, 2005/03/09 10:20:56-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] aoe: add documentation for udev users
add documentation for udev users
Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt | 13
ChangeSet 1.2034, 2005/03/09 15:24:27-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] debugfs: fix bool built-in type.
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 changed, 1 insertion(+), 1
ChangeSet 1.2042, 2005/03/09 09:51:30-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] usb: class driver pass dev_t to the class core
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
drivers/usb/core/file.c |9 +
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+),
Hi,
Here are some AOE driver fixes and documentation updates. These have
all been in the -mm releases for a while.
Please pull from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/2.6.11/aoe
Individual patches will follow, sent to the linux-kernel list.
thanks,
greg k-h
Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not convinced about the practicality of converting all static
initialisations to code-based initialisations though
This is the first one I recall seeing. All the other conversions were
replacing
static
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 14:33, Jean Delvare wrote:
>Hi Gene, Andrew, all,
>[Gene Heskett]
>
>> /usr/pcHDTV3000/linux/pcHDTV-1.6/kernel-2.6.x/driver/bttv-i2c.c:36
>>2: error: unknown field `id' specified in initializer
>
>I've dropped the "id" member of struct i2c_client, as it were
> useless.
ChangeSet 1.2053, 2005/03/09 15:35:31-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] sysdev: fix the name of the list of drivers to be a sane name
Heh, "global_drivers" as a static...
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
drivers/base/sys.c | 16
1 files changed, 8
ChangeSet 1.2050, 2005/03/09 10:00:20-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] kref: make kref_put return if this was the last put call.
This is needed for the upcoming klist code from Pat.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
include/linux/kref.h |2 +-
lib/kref.c |
Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Do not use the page_table_lock in do_anonymous_page. This will significantly
> increase the parallelism in the page fault handler in SMP systems. The patch
> also modifies the definitions of _mm_counter functions so that rss and
> anon_rss
> become
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005, Paul Jarc uttered the following:
> "George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs
>> back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and
>> mplayer with 2.6.10, now too.
>
> The /proc/kmsg
This patch merges now-identical page table walking and flushing code that
had been duplicated in skas and tt modes. The differences had been the
low-level address space updating operations, which are now abstracted away
in the respective do_ops functions.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 14:33, Jean Delvare wrote:
>Hi Gene, Andrew, all,
>
>(Gene, note that I cannot write to you directly because Verizon are
>idiots. Let's just hope you'll read that.)
Got it, & can't argue with that label. Some of the labels I've
applied to them are even more
Fix a typo in the hostfs setgid code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6.11/arch/um/include/kern.h
===
--- linux-2.6.11.orig/arch/um/include/kern.h2005-03-08 20:13:55.0
-0500
+++
On Linux, the link() system call does not dereference symbolic links: if
oldpath is a symbolic link, then newpath is created as a new hard link
to the same symbolic link file. (In other words, newpath is also a
symbolic link to the same file that oldpath refers to.) E.g. (using
shell commands to
>From Bodo Stroesser, mostly:
Gets rid of all inclusions of {sys,linux,asm}/ptrace.h since their effects
and contents are somewhat distro- and architecture-dependent.
arch/um/sysdep/ptrace_user is now responsible for providing the system's
ptrace interfaces to UML.
As such, it is a purely
The init function called by gcc when gcov is enabled is __gcov_init or
__bb_init_func, depending on the gcc version. Anton is using 3.3.4 and
seeing __gcov_init. I'm using 3.3.2 and seeing __bb_init_func, so we need
to close that gap a bit.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index:
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:40:09PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Ok, I now saw that you call call_usermodehelper with wait==1. Why is that
> necessary? If you don't wait there, you don't need any hacks around the
> console semaphore, because the helper will simply wait for change_console
> to
> If atomic64_t is available on all 64 bit systems then its no problem.
Most of them have it already. parisc64/ppc64/sh64 are missing it,
but I assume they will catch up quickly.
-Andi
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On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 16:03, Steven Pratt wrote:
> Ram wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 11:08, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> >
> >..snip...
> >
> >
> >
> >>@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ page_cache_readahead(struct address_spac
> >>}
> >>
> >> out:
> >>- return newsize;
> >>+ return ra->prev_page +
>> >
>> >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
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 1Gbps:
I am getting right
su den 27.02.2005 Klokka 16:22 (+0100) skreiv Andreas Gruenbacher:
> vanlig tekstdokument vedlegg (nfsacl-solaris-nfsacl-workaround.patch)
> If the nfs_acl program is available, Solaris clients expect both version
> 2 and version 3 to be available; RPC_PROG_MISMATCH leads to a mount
> failure.
On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 23:26, David Vrabel wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > - If you can't turn it off use solid areas of colour to speed the system
> > up (The hardware uses RLE encoding to reduce ram fetch bandwidth)
>
> How much of a difference does the compression make to performance?
Depends on
Earlier today, I reported "PPPD fails on recent 2.6.11-bk". I've narrowed
the problem down to between 2.6.11 and 2.6.11-bk1.
I get this with 2.6.11-bk1: (two attempts)
Mar 9 16:34:32 spc pppd[1142]: pppd 2.4.1 started by steven, uid 501
Mar 9 16:34:32 spc pppd[1142]: Using interface ppp0
Mar
* Justin M. Forbes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> With the new stable series kernels, the .x versioning is being added to
> EXTRAVERSION. This has traditionally been a space for local modification.
> I know several distributions are using EXTRAVERSION for build numbers,
> platform and assorted
Tony Luck wrote:
> Setting CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y I see (the "" pieces are actually
> each a single ASCII '\0' character):
Tony,
Can you try the patch below? (inspired by a patch from Tom Zanussi -
gotta give credit where credit is due... :-)
This solves the problem for me but I'd like
Ram wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 11:08, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
..snip...
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ page_cache_readahead(struct address_spac
}
out:
- return newsize;
+ return ra->prev_page + 1;
This change introduces one key behavioural change in
page_cache_readahead(). Instead of returning
Some checkin since 2.6.11 has caused the serial driver to
drop characters. Console output is chopped and messages are garbled.
Even the shell prompt gets truncated.
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On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 11:08, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
..snip...
> @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ page_cache_readahead(struct address_spac
> }
>
> out:
> - return newsize;
> + return ra->prev_page + 1;
This change introduces one key behavioural change in
page_cache_readahead(). Instead of
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:11:02PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On St 09-03-05 09:52:46, Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > >which is a patch against the 2.6.11.1 release. If consensus arrives
>
From: Klaus Ita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
subject says all, patch still applies.
#signed-off-by: maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --unified --recursive --new-file linux-2.6.9/drivers/block/as-iosched.c
linux-2.6.9_klaus/drivers/block/as-iosched.c
--- linux-2.6.9/drivers/block/as-iosched.c
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Atomic operations may be enabled in the kernel configuration on
> > i386, ia64 and x86_64 if a suitable CPU is configured in SMP mode.
> > Generic atomic definitions for ptep_xchg and ptep_cmpxchg
> >
From: Bodo Stroesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
fix_range_common and flush_tlb_kernel_range_common don't work correctly,
if a PGD (or PUD or PMD) is not present and start_addr (resp. start) is not
aligned to a PGD boundary (or PUD or PMD boundary).
Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:38:42PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > 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.
> >
> > What are you trying to
On Wed, 10 Mar 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > If atomic64_t is available on all 64 bit systems then its no problem.
>
> Most of them have it already. parisc64/ppc64/sh64 are missing it,
> but I assume they will catch up quickly.
Changing the type for the countedrs is possible by only changing the
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:17:10PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > > If atomic64_t is available on all 64 bit systems then its no problem.
> >
> > Most of them have it already. parisc64/ppc64/sh64 are missing it,
> > but I assume they will catch up
Hugh Dickins wrote:
This patch is the odd-one-out of the sequence. The one before adjusted
copy_pte_range from a for loop to a do while loop, and it was therefore
simplest to check for lockbreak before copying pte: possibility that it
might keep getting preempted without making progress under
On Wed, 10 Mar 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Changing the type for the countedrs is possible by only changing the
> > definition of MM_COUNTER_T in include/sched.h. I would prefer to wait
> > until atomic64_t is available on all 64 bit platforms before making that
> > part of this patch.
>
> Well,
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:11:57PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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
"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs
> back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and
> mplayer with 2.6.10, now too.
The /proc/kmsg problem happens because the kernel now checks for
permission at
* Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> The current kernel (and all before as far as I can see) have a problem
> with the file system limit handling. The behavior does not conform to
> the current POSIX spec.
> It might also be that some
Alan Cox wrote:
There are a few Geode tricks to know for performance
- If you can't turn it off use solid areas of colour to speed the system
up (The hardware uses RLE encoding to reduce ram fetch bandwidth)
How much of a difference does the compression make to performance?
- The onboard audio is
"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 spot syndrome with timer based
> profile on ia64. There are
* Jean Delvare ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > Are people reporting this as a problem?
>
> Not that I know. For adv7175 it couldn't be reported so far anyway
> because people would hit the oops in saa7110 before (same board: DC10+,
> oops fixed in a different patch).
Heh, right.
> It is
On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 20:45, James Simmons wrote:
> Thank you. We need some kind of basic console in the kernel. I'm not the
> biggest fan of eye candy. So moving the console to userspace for eye candy
> is a dumb idea.
Thats why moving the eye candy console into user space is such a good
idea.
Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Atomic operations may be enabled in the kernel configuration on
> i386, ia64 and x86_64 if a suitable CPU is configured in SMP mode.
> Generic atomic definitions for ptep_xchg and ptep_cmpxchg
> have been provided based on the existing xchg() and
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:47:27PM -0500, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote:
> >
> >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.
> >
>
>
Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm not convinced about the practicality of converting all static
> initialisations to code-based initialisations though
This is the first one I recall seeing. All the other conversions were replacing
static spinlock_t lock =
Tony Luck wrote:
>>Here's a little patch which is useful for showing timing information for
>>kernel bootup activities.
>>
>>This patch adds a new Kconfig option under "Kernel Hacking" and a new
>>option for the kernel command line. It also provides a script for
>>showing delta information.
>
>
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:44:01PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> But it risks code drift like we had in 2.4 with older kernels
> having more fixes than the newer kernel. And that way lies madness.
I believe it's going to work like this:
* simple fixes are submitted to Linus and -stable, and are
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 16:17, Bob Bennett wrote:
> Kristian SÃrensen cs.aau.dk> writes:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I have some trouble reading a 2346 byte /proc entry from our Umbrella
> > kernel module.
> >
> > if (count != UMB_POLICY_SIZE) {
> > printk("Umbrella: Error -
Greg KH wrote:
For the JSM driver, its up to you whether you feel its needed or not.
However, I would like to mention that the DIGI drivers that currently
reside in the kernel sources *do* reserve that ioctl space,
and is acknowledged by "Documentation/ioctl-number.txt":
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