Re: Average power consumption in S3?

2005-03-09 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:26 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Hi, I'm using an IBM Thinkpad X31. With stock 2.6.11 and the additional radeontool to power-off the backlight in suspend, S3 works very well and reliable. During S3 I've measured a power consumption of 1400 to 1500 mWh (using 512

Re: [patch 1/1] x86-64: forgot asmlinkage on sys_mmap

2005-03-09 Thread Andi Kleen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CC: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it should be there, please check better. It doesn't matter. asmlinkage is a nop on x86-64. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

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

2005-03-09 Thread Wen Xiong
Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:50:04AM -0500, Wen Xiong wrote: +/* Ioctls needed for dpa operation */ +#define DIGI_GETDD ('d'8) | 248 /* get driver info */ +#define DIGI_GETBD ('d'8) | 249 /* get board info */ +#define DIGI_GET_NI_INFO ('d'8) | 250 /* nonintelligent

Re: [PATCH] Support for GEODE CPUs

2005-03-09 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:01:09PM +, Alan Cox wrote: [snip] And I have each time pointed out it is wrong over time because a) Geode (Geode GX) runs -m486 code faster than -m586 b) Geode as a name also includes AMD Athlon Geode NX processors c) Geode GX does not need OOSTORE because the

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

2005-03-09 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:42:33AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unify the spinlock initialization as far as possible. Are you sure this is really the best

Re: [PATCH] rwsem: Make rwsems use interrupt disabling spinlocks

2005-03-09 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Your patch seems to have helped. I don't see the Oops anymore - my tests are still running (past 1 hour - it used to panic in 10 min). Thanks, Badari On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 04:12, David Howells wrote: The attached patch makes read/write semaphores use interrupt disabling spinlocks, thus

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [announce 7/7] fbsplash - documentation

2005-03-09 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Middeweken 09 März 2005 17:54, Jon Smirl wrote: framebuffer already has a class registered. check out /sys/class/grpahics. You should be able to just call request_firmware and have it download your image whenever you need it. It doesn't have to be firmware, request_firmware will download

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

2005-03-09 Thread Kilau, Scott
Hi Wendy, Greg, all, If IBM intends on our DPA management program to work for the JSM products, the ioctls are needed. DPA support is a requirement for all Digi drivers, so it would not be possible for me to remove them from my dgnc version of the driver. For the JSM driver, its up to you

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

2005-03-09 Thread Bodo Eggert
Bagalkote, Sreenivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . And since this is compile time system-wide property, I kept it as driver global. that step I don't understand... why is it a global *VARIABLE* if it's compile time system-wide property... I see your point! Are you saying I should use

[PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload

2005-03-09 Thread David Howells
The attached patch changes the key implementation in a number of ways: (1) It removes the spinlock from the key structure. (2) The key flags are now accessed using atomic bitops instead of write-locking the key spinlock and using C bitwise operators. The three instantiation flags

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

2005-03-09 Thread Bagalkote, Sreenivas
. And since this is compile time system-wide property, I kept it as driver global. that step I don't understand... why is it a global *VARIABLE* if it's compile time system-wide property... I see your point! Are you saying I should use if(sizeof(dma_addr_t)==8) instead of the

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

2005-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 09:56, Andi Kleen wrote: - It must be accepted to mainline. Strongly disagree. What if the mainline fix is a rewrite of the core API involved. Some times you need to put in the short term fix. What must never happen is people accepting that fix as long term. How about -

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-03-08 at 23:50, Lee Revell wrote: This only works because those OS'es come bundled with a toy softsynth. With ALSA, you either need a supported hardware wavetable synth (emu10k1) or a real soft synth like Timidity or Fluidsynth. CS4239 has a toy synth of sorts (its more doorbell

WDT on PCI

2005-03-09 Thread Devel
Hi all, i have a WDT-3 PCI watchdog card. It has also a serial port interface. All work fine with serial but on PCI i can't found the driver. If i do lspci i can't found nothing about WDT so i ask: If thereisn't the driver for a PCI card i can't have information from lspci? Thank and sorry for

Re: make menuconfig creates erronous config for 386

2005-03-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:15:19PM +0100, Gustav Lidberg wrote: Hi There is a bug in make menuconfig. If one chooses 386 or 486 for cpu type, CONFIG_X86_TSC=y is set in .config. This creates a kernel that is unbootable on 386. Testing shows that it worked in 2.4.19, but is broken from

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Greg, The st/ide-tape/osst llseek changes havent been applied for what reason? And what about the rest of fixups which Andrew sent you? I suppose they didnt pass the -stable criteria. Can you share your thoughts with the rest of us? On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:39:23AM -0800, Greg KH

[PATCH] 2.6.11-mm2 nobh support for ext3 writeback mode

2005-03-09 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Hi Andrew, Here is the simplified version of nobh support patch for ext3 writeback mode. I took out all the complicated logic and fallback to creating buffers in ext3_truncate_block_page() if needed. Looks sane ? Can you include it in -mm tree ? Thanks, Badari Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty

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

2005-03-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 12:44 -0500, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote: . And since this is compile time system-wide property, I kept it as driver global. that step I don't understand... why is it a global *VARIABLE* if it's compile time system-wide property... I see your point!

Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload

2005-03-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, David Howells wrote: The attached patch changes the key implementation in a number of ways: (1) It removes the spinlock from the key structure. (2) The key flags are now accessed using atomic bitops instead of write-locking the key spinlock and using C

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-09 Thread Jon Smirl
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:16:44 -0500, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Smirl wrote: Something in the last 24hrs in linus bk broke my ability to mount root: Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none Switching to new

Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

2005-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 17:09, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Alan Cox wrote: This patch was discussed previously and declared incorrect. Well, it was also declared as a don't care by Dave, I think, by virtue of nobody having ever complained. And in further discussion people

Re: I/O and Memory accounting...

2005-03-09 Thread Jay Lan
I thought you planned to read from CSA pacct file? Well, while we are in discussion of whether to merge and replace BSD accounting with CSA accounting, your proposed change will provide you data on charater I/O in a BSD pacct file. I supposed you do not need to have seperate fields on

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

2005-03-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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.

PATCH: 2.6.11-ac2

2005-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
2.6.11-ac2 o Merge 2.6.11.2 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann) including epoll error handling (Georgi Guninski) | Theoretically security o Fix a couple of pwc warnings(Alan Cox) o Ressurect epca driver

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

2005-03-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 09:56, Andi Kleen wrote: - It must be accepted to mainline. Strongly disagree. What if the mainline fix is a rewrite of the core API involved. Some times you need to put in the short term fix. What must never happen is people

Re: [patch 1/1] x86-64: forgot asmlinkage on sys_mmap

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:24, Andi Kleen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CC: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it should be there, please check better. It doesn't matter. asmlinkage is a nop on x86-64. Yes, otherwise nothing would work on x86-64 with mmap broken, but for

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

2005-03-09 Thread Greg KH
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 correct and tested. - It can not bigger than 100 lines, with context. This

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-09 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:03:59AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Hi Greg, The st/ide-tape/osst llseek changes havent been applied for what reason? And what about the rest of fixups which Andrew sent you? I suppose they didnt pass the -stable criteria. Can you share your thoughts

Re: [PATCH 2.6] Fix i2c messsage flags in video drivers

2005-03-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Jean Delvare ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, While working on the saa7110 driver I found a problem with the way various video drivers (found on Zoran-based boards) prepare i2c messages to be used by i2c_transfer. The drivers improperly copy the i2c client flags as the message flags,

Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload

2005-03-09 Thread David Howells
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The attached patch changes the key implementation in a number of ways: (1) It removes the spinlock from the key structure. (2) The key flags are now accessed using atomic bitops instead of write-locking the key spinlock and using C

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

2005-03-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
- Security patches will be accepted into the -stable tree directly from the security kernel team, and not go through the normal review cycle. Contact the kernel security team for more details on this procedure. This also sounds like a bad rule. How come the security team has more

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

2005-03-09 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:00:45PM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 09:56, Andi Kleen wrote: - It must be accepted to mainline. Strongly disagree. What if the mainline fix is a rewrite of the core API involved. Some times you need to put in the short term fix. What must never

2.6.Stable and EXTRAVERSION

2005-03-09 Thread Justin M. Forbes
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 other information to differentiate their kernel releases.

Re: [patch 5/5] make st seekable again

2005-03-09 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:16:58PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kai Makisara [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently `tar' errors out if it cannot perform lseek() against a tape. Work around that in-kernel. Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL

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

2005-03-09 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:18:21PM -0500, Wen Xiong wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:47:22AM -0500, Wen Xiong wrote: +static ssize_t jsm_driver_debug_show(struct device_driver *ddp, char *buf) +{ + return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, 0x%x\n, jsm_debug); +} +static

Re: [patch 1/5] cramfs: small stat(2) fix

2005-03-09 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:16:54PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Eric Lammerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I stat(2) a device node on a cramfs, the st_blocks field is bogus (it's derived from the size field which in this case holds the major/minor numbers). This makes du(1) output

inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

2005-03-09 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Hi, We have a 8-way P-III, 16GB RAM running 2.6.8-1. We use this as our server to keep source code, cscopes and do the builds. This machine seems to slow down over the time. One thing we keep noticing is it keeps running out of lowmem. Most of the lowmem is used for ext3 inode cache + dentry

Re: PATCH: 2.6.11-ac2

2005-03-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Alan Cox wrote: 2.6.11-ac2 o Merge 2.6.11.2 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann) including epoll error handling (Georgi Guninski) | Theoretically security o Fix a couple of pwc warnings(Alan Cox)

Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

2005-03-09 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:55:27PM +, Alan Cox wrote: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code This patch was discussed previously and declared incorrect. The -init method call is missing in the base mtrr code. Should be reverted and/or fixed properly. Hi Alan - a

huge filesystems

2005-03-09 Thread Dan Stromberg
The group I work in has been experimenting with GFS and Lustre, and I did some NBD/ENBD experimentation on my own, described at http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/nbd.html My question is, what is the current status of huge filesystems - IE, filesystems that exceed 2 terabytes, and hopefully also

Re: [PATCH] ppc32: trivial fix for e500 oprofile build

2005-03-09 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:09:18PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: Andrew, Greg Here is a patch for the new 2.6.11 release tree and for Linus. Fix for trivial fix for 2.6.11 oprofile compilation on e500 based ppc. Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala [EMAIL

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

2005-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 09:34, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: Another idea would be to build a console is user space. Think of it as a full screen xterm. A user space console has access to full hardware acceleration using the DRM interface. Yep. And that's

Re: [patch 4/5] audit mips fix

2005-03-09 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:16:57PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Yoichi Yuasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.o arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c: In function 'do_syscall_trace': arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c:310: warning: implicit declaration of function

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

2005-03-09 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:42:31AM -0600, Kilau, Scott wrote: Hi Wendy, Greg, all, If IBM intends on our DPA management program to work for the JSM products, the ioctls are needed. Wendy, what is IBM's stance on this? DPA support is a requirement for all Digi drivers, so it would not be

Re: Reading large /proc entry from kernel module

2005-03-09 Thread Bob Bennett
Kristian Srensen ks at 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 - /proc/umbrella is of invalid size\n); return -EFAULT;

Re: [PATCH] rwsem: Make rwsems use interrupt disabling spinlocks

2005-03-09 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Hi, I am not sure if this is related to your patch. But I ran into BUG() with sysrq-t with your patch. Thanks, Badari BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1! Modules linked in: joydev sg st floppy usbserial parport_pc lp parport ipv6 ohci_hcd i2c_amd756 i2c_core

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

2005-03-09 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:00:45PM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 09:56, Andi Kleen wrote: - It must be accepted to mainline. Strongly disagree. What if the mainline fix is a rewrite of the core API involved. Some times you need to put in the short term fix. What must never

Re: [PATCH] rwsem: Make rwsems use interrupt disabling spinlocks

2005-03-09 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Well, aio-stress seems to run better with your patch (no Oops) but I think we still have a problem in AIO. It looks like aio-stress is stuck (unable to kill it). Here is the sysrq-t output: aio-stressD 8101be224970 0 15430 1 15429 (NOTLB) 8101be21bd58

Re: [patch 1/1] x86-64: forgot asmlinkage on sys_mmap

2005-03-09 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:24:00PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:24, Andi Kleen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CC: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it should be there, please check better. It doesn't matter. asmlinkage is a nop on x86-64. Yes,

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

2005-03-09 Thread Kilau, Scott
DPA support is a requirement for all Digi drivers, so it would not be possible for me to remove them from my dgnc version of the driver. requirement from whom and to who? The Linux kernel community? From our customers who are moving from other OS's to Linux, and expect DPA support to be

Re: 2.6.Stable and EXTRAVERSION

2005-03-09 Thread Chris Friesen
Justin M. Forbes 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 other information to differentiate

Re: [patch 1/1] x86-64: forgot asmlinkage on sys_mmap

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 20:34, Andi Kleen wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:24:00PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:24, Andi Kleen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CC: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it should be there, please check better.

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

2005-03-09 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:28:22AM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: * Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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

Re: 2.6.11 on AMD64 traps

2005-03-09 Thread Patrick McHardy
Michal Vanco wrote: I see this problem running 2.6.11 on dual AMD64: Running quagga routing daemon (ospf+bgp) and issuing netstat -rn |wc -l command while quagga tries to load more than 154000 routes from its bgp neighbours causes this trap: This patch should fix it. The crash is caused by stale

Re: [PATCH] rwsem: Make rwsems use interrupt disabling spinlocks

2005-03-09 Thread Andrew Morton
Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if this is related to your patch. But I ran into BUG() with sysrq-t with your patch. Thanks, Badari BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1! Modules linked in: joydev sg st floppy usbserial

[PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload [try #2]

2005-03-09 Thread David Howells
The attached patch changes the key implementation in a number of ways: (1) It removes the spinlock from the key structure. (2) The key flags are now accessed using atomic bitops instead of write-locking the key spinlock and using C bitwise operators. The three instantiation flags

Linux 2.4.30-pre3

2005-03-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, Here goes the third pre of v2.4.30. It contains a small number of scattered fixes, most notably e1000 update, a backport of v2.6's nForce override fix, and SATA update. The changes which broke tar --verify on tapes have been reverted. Please read the changelog for more details.

Re: p5ad2 motherboard sensors work

2005-03-09 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Christopher, Your patch allows finally for me to be able to monitor all my temps in my computer with an offset of 6. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/26/65 Thanks for the report! I'm glad to learn that someone actually used my w83627ehf driver :) Can you elaborate of the offset of 6? Thanks

Re: PATCH: 2.6.11-ac2

2005-03-09 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You know what would be really useful... if www.kernel.org listed the latest -ac patch as something current instead of 2.6.10-ac12, which was a great patch in its day, but hasn't been current for a while. In fairness, the -mm is out of date, too. Perhaps a bit of

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

2005-03-09 Thread Andrew Morton
Chen, Kenneth W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:28 PM But before doing anything else, please bench this on real hardware, see if it is worth pursuing. Let me answer the questions in reverse order. We started with running industry standard

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

2005-03-09 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:35:41PM -0600, Kilau, Scott wrote: As it stands today, your requirement appears to be that she needs to yank all diags ioctls and sysfs files before the driver can make it into the kernel sources. Not all sysfs files, sysfs files are fine, as long as they are

Re: 2.6.11-mm2 vs audio for kino and tvtime

2005-03-09 Thread Jean Delvare
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.) [Gene Heskett] /usr/pcHDTV3000/linux/pcHDTV-1.6/kernel-2.6.x/driver/bttv-i2c.c:362: error: unknown field `id' specified in initializer I've dropped the id

Log full of ing_filter: fixed ippp2 out ippp2

2005-03-09 Thread Kimmo Sundqvist
Hello Please cc all replies to me. After upgrading my little NATting firewall/router from 2.6.7-ck4 to 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 my /var/log/messages is 15MB in size and most of it looks like the text below. All traffic to the Internet seems to cause this. cat /var/log/messages | uniq |

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

2005-03-09 Thread Kronos
Il Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:46:20AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha scritto: One thing is: I don't have x86 hardware, or at least, nothing where I can have 2 VGA cards in (I may have access to an old laptop). So I'll need help testers at one point. It's your lucky day ;) I've just assembled

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

2005-03-09 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:39:36PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: 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

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

2005-03-09 Thread Andrew Morton
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 like a bounce buffer. That way they don't DMA the trailing data and succeed the I/O. The I/O returns actual bytes

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

2005-03-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
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 atomic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL

Page Fault Scalability patch V19 [1/4]: pte_cmpxchg and CONFIG_ATOMIC_TABLE_OPS

2005-03-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
The current way of updating ptes in the Linux vm includes first clearing a pte before setting it to another value. The clearing is performed while holding the page_table_lock to insure that the entry will not be modified by the CPU directly (clearing the pte clears the present bit), by an arch

Page Fault Scalability patch V19 [3/4]: Drop use of page_table_lock in handle_mm_fault

2005-03-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
The page fault handler attempts to use the page_table_lock only for short time periods. It repeatedly drops and reacquires the lock. When the lock is reacquired, checks are made if the underlying pte has changed before replacing the pte value. These locations are a good fit for the use of

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-09 Thread szonyi calin
--- Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 00:25 +0100, szonyi calin wrote: --- Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Taking into account that nobody responded on lkml nor on alsa (the message was awaiting modderator aprouval on alsa-devel) i don't think i will

[patch] consolidate interrupt-related constants

2005-03-09 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Attached patch moves the three interrupt-related constants, namely SA_PROBE, SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM and SA_SHIRQ, from the arch-specific headers to the generic header linux/signal.h. Now, as the interrupt handling code was recently consolidated, it looks likely that the related flags have to be

Re: Linux 2.4.30-pre3

2005-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
o Cset exclude: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20041125155150|65356 o Allow lseek on SCSI tapes o Allow lseek on osst to keep tar --verify happy This seems odd since the scsi tape drives don't support lseek and the driver changes to correctly block it were part of the security fixes for

Page Fault Scalability patch V19 [2/4]: Abstract mm_struct counter operations

2005-03-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
This patch extracts all the operations on rss into definitions in include/linux/sched.h. All rss operations are performed through the following three macros: get_mm_counter(mm, member) - Obtain the value of a counter set_mm_counter(mm, member, value) - Set the value of a

[BK PATCHES] 2.6.x net driver oops fixes

2005-03-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please do a bk pull bk://gkernel.bkbits.net/net-drivers-2.6 This will update the following files: drivers/net/sis900.c| 41 + drivers/net/via-rhine.c |3 +++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) through these ChangeSets:

Re: 2.6.11 on AMD64 traps

2005-03-09 Thread Michal Vanco
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 20:45, Patrick McHardy wrote: Michal Vanco wrote: I see this problem running 2.6.11 on dual AMD64: Running quagga routing daemon (ospf+bgp) and issuing netstat -rn |wc -l command while quagga tries to load more than 154000 routes from its bgp neighbours

Re: 2.6.11 on AMD64 traps

2005-03-09 Thread Patrick McHardy
Michal Vanco wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 20:45, Patrick McHardy wrote: This patch should fix it. The crash is caused by stale pointers, the pointers in fib_iter_state are not reloaded after seq-stop() followed by seq-start(pos 0). Well. Trap vanished after applying this patch, but another

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

2005-03-09 Thread James Simmons
On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 09:34, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: Another idea would be to build a console is user space. Think of it as a full screen xterm. A user space console has access to full hardware acceleration using the DRM interface. Yep. And

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-09 Thread Steven Cole
Jon Smirl wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:16:44 -0500, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Smirl wrote: Something in the last 24hrs in linus bk broke my ability to mount root: Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none Switching to

Re: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug

2005-03-09 Thread jerome lacoste
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:43:33 +0100, Udo van den Heuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On my firewall (VIA EPIA CL-6000 with VIA Rhine network chips running FC3 and custom kernels) I see messages like: Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jon Smirl wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:16:44 -0500, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Smirl wrote: Something in the last 24hrs in linus bk broke my ability to mount root: Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none Switching to

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-09 Thread Jon Smirl
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:31:10 -0500, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, there are no changes in libata from bk4 to present. The only thing I see in the -bk4-bk5 increment diff that's immediately noticeable is the barrier stuff. bk4 works bk5 is broken Where are these *.key files?

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jon Smirl wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:16:44 -0500, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Smirl wrote: Something in the last 24hrs in linus bk broke my ability to mount root: Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none Switching to

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

2005-03-09 Thread Brett Russ
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 b/c this isn't

Re: PATCH: 2.6.11-ac2

2005-03-09 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 9 of March 2005 20:31, Jason Lunz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You know what would be really useful... if www.kernel.org listed the latest -ac patch as something current instead of 2.6.10-ac12, which was a great patch in its day, but hasn't been current for a while. In

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
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 that in-kernel.

Re: Linux 2.4.30-pre3

2005-03-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:40:00PM +, Alan Cox wrote: o Cset exclude: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20041125155150|65356 o Allow lseek on SCSI tapes o Allow lseek on osst to keep tar --verify happy This seems odd since the scsi tape drives don't support lseek and the driver

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 (hence the lack of the longer review cycle). It's available now in the normal kernel.org places:

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-09 Thread Matt Mackall
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 (hence the lack of the longer review cycle). It's available now in the

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-09 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Mar 09 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:31:10 -0500, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, there are no changes in libata from bk4 to present. The only thing I see in the -bk4-bk5 increment diff that's immediately noticeable is the barrier stuff. bk4 works bk5

Re: inconsistent kallsyms data [2.6.11-mm2]

2005-03-09 Thread Paulo Marques
Paulo Marques wrote: [...] Can you send me privately a tar.bz2 containing your .config, .tmp_kallsyms1.S and .tmp_kallsyms2.S so I can try to figure out what's going on? Ok, after some investigation into the files I was able to find out the problem. scripts/kallsyms.c uses a subset of the

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

2005-03-09 Thread Joel Becker
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:53:48AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Suparna Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If writes/truncates take care of zeroing out the rest of the sector on disk, might we still be OK without having to do the bounce buffer thing ? We can probably rely on the

2.6.x.y gatekeeper discipline

2005-03-09 Thread DHollenbeck
I had hoped that the proper discipline in rejecting non-critical patches would have pertained. I remain unconvinced that the .y releases are anything but noise that should have been kept elsewhere. After reading through a patch summary, I see this as typical: --

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

2005-03-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:28:22AM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: * Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One rule I'm missing: - It must be accepted to mainline. This can violate the principle of keeping

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-09 Thread Randy.Dunlap
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 (hence the lack of the longer review cycle). It's available

linux dvb alps_tdlb7 removed

2005-03-09 Thread Peter Waechtler
With version 2.6.10 the driver for the tuner frontend from ALPS TDLB7 was removed. Why do you think that this is a dead file? While I'm happy with the work you do for dvb on Linux, and I want to thank you for this anyway, my TV does not work anymore! :( I use a TechoTrend Premium card with

Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

2005-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 19:09, Andries Brouwer wrote: The moment you report that the follow-up patch is fine, we can remove the #if 0 and insert the initcalls instead. So, all is well today, and we are waiting for your report. Ok works for me. I'll let you know ASAP. - To unsubscribe from

Memory Ready Queue Management Algorithm

2005-03-09 Thread maria belliti
Hello, I wish to be personally CC'ed the answers/comments posted to the list in response to this post I can't trace any reference addressing how the memory associated queue is managed? Please check slide 13 from this link: http://engr.smu.edu/~kocan/7343spring05/slides/chapter07.ppt i mean

Re: [PATCH] rwsem: Make rwsems use interrupt disabling spinlocks

2005-03-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Ingo, we already have a touch_nmi_watchdog() in the sysrq code. It might be worth adding a touch_softlockup_watchdog() wherever we have a touch_nmi_watchdog(). or add touch_softlockup_watchdog to touch_nmi_watchdog() instead and rename it tickle_watchdog() overtime. - To unsubscribe

Re: 2.6.x.y gatekeeper discipline

2005-03-09 Thread Chris Wright
* DHollenbeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [PATCH] drivers/net/via-rhine.c: make a variable static const This patch makes a needlessly global variable static const. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

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

2005-03-09 Thread Badari Pulavarty
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 like a bounce buffer. That way they don't DMA the trailing data and

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