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

2005-03-10 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday March 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:00:51PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > On Tuesday March 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > So here's a first cut at how this 2.6 -stable release process is going > > > to work that Chris and I have come up with. Does anyone

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, John Richard Moser wrote: > A Linux specific binary driver format might be more useful, No, it wouldn't. I can use a source code driver on x86, x86-64 and PPC64 systems, but a binary driver is only usable on the architecture it was compiled for. Source code is way more

Re: IrDA patches for 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-10 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:23:39 -0800 Jean Tourrilhes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More trivial fixes in various places of the IrDA stack and > driver, no biggies. Freshly tested on 2.6.11, most have been on my web > pages for a while. > This should go in 2.6.12-rc1. All applied, thanks

[PATCH, RFC 1/3] Add sem_getcount() to arches that lack it

2005-03-10 Thread Jody McIntyre
parisc and frv define sem_getcount() in semaphore.h, which returns the current semaphore value. This is cleaner than doing atomic_read(), currently done in drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c and fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c, and will work on all architectures if sem_getcount() is added. This patch adds

[06/11] [TCP]: Put back tcp_timer_bug_msg[] symbol export.

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- This wrecks the ipv6 modular build for a lot of people. In fact, since I always build ipv6 modular I am surprised I never hit this. My best guess is that my compiler is optimizing the reference away,

Re: [PATCH, RFC 2/3] Use sem_getcount in ieee1394

2005-03-10 Thread Jody McIntyre
Convert 1394's node manager to use sem_getcount instead of nasty hack. Tested on parisc (where it eliminates a warning), ia64, i386. Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: 1394-dev/drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c ===

Re: [PATCH, RFC 3/3] Use sem_getcount in xfs

2005-03-10 Thread Jody McIntyre
Convert XFS to use sem_getcount instead of nasty hack. Should fix warning with XFS debugging on PARISC. Untested since there is no obvious way to turn on XFS debugging. Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: 1394-dev/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c

oops / 2.6.11 / run_timer_softirq (mountvirtfs)

2005-03-10 Thread jerome lacoste
On an VIA EPIA board, I got this single oops at boot. Wasn't stored on file so I had to take a screenshot with a digital camera. Basicallly goes along those lines: Process: S36mountvirtfs Call trace: run_timer_softirq+0x16f/0x200 __do_softirq do_softirq irq_exit do_IRQ

[07/11] ppc32: trivial fix for e500 oprofile build

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- 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 PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[09/11] r8169: receive descriptor length fix

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- The status and received packets indication in the Rx descriptor ring are not correctly reset when a descriptor is recycled. Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris

[03/11] drm missing memset can crash X server..

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- 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]>

Re: [PATCH] cpufreq 2.4 interface removal schedule

2005-03-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:32:00PM +, Linux Kernel wrote: > ChangeSet 1.1994.11.3, 2005/03/09 09:32:00-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [PATCH] cpufreq 2.4 interface removal schedule > > ChangeSet 1.1994.11.2, 2005/03/09 09:31:40-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [PATCH] Add 2.4.x

[01/11] fix amd64 2.6.11 oops on modprobe (saa7110)

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- This is a rewrite of the saa7110_write_block function, which was plain broken in the case where the underlying adapter supports I2C_FUNC_I2C. It also includes related fixes which ensure that different

Re: Someting's busted with serial in 2.6.11 latest

2005-03-10 Thread Steven Cole
On Thursday 10 March 2005 03:59 pm, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:40:11PM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: > > I'll test current bk tonight, but I don't see any recent fix to > > drivers/serial/8250.c when browsing linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.6. > > Ok, so Stephen's bug is already fixed.

[02/11] cramfs: small stat(2) fix

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- 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

[10/11] sis900 kernel oops fix

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- Backport of fix described below. From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix bug #4223. OK, this happened because we got preempted before sis900_mii_probe finished setting the sis_priv->mii.

BK update for NFS client 2.6.11

2005-03-10 Thread Trond Myklebust
Hi, Update of the NFS client. A lot of cleanups of the RPC auth code, but also a couple of notable new features: - flock support for NFS. - Improved ESTALE recovery (Chuck + Al Viro). - NFSv4 network partition recovery code - bugfixes. Cheers, Trond Please do a bk

Re: [06/11] [TCP]: Put back tcp_timer_bug_msg[] symbol export.

2005-03-10 Thread David S. Miller
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:20:14 + Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c 2005-03-09 17:20:38 -08:00 > > +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c 2005-03-09 17:20:38 -08:00 > > @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ > > > > #ifdef TCP_DEBUG > > const char tcp_timer_bug_msg[] = KERN_DEBUG

[05/11] Fix i2c messsage flags in video drivers

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- 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

Re: [AGPGART] Map the graphic card to the bridge its connected to.

2005-03-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 02:25 +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > ChangeSet 1.1982.82.19, 2005/02/22 21:25:33-05:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [AGPGART] Map the graphic card to the bridge its connected to. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > generic.c

Re: [stable] [00/11] -stable review

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wright
* Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If you wish to be a reviewer, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to add your name > to ITYM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [stable] [00/11] -stable review

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:15:25PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > * Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > If you wish to be a reviewer, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to add your > > name to > > ITYM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) Ick, yes, sorry about that... greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [06/11] [TCP]: Put back tcp_timer_bug_msg[] symbol export.

2005-03-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c2005-03-09 17:20:38 -08:00 > +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c2005-03-09 17:20:38 -08:00 > @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ > > #ifdef TCP_DEBUG > const char tcp_timer_bug_msg[] = KERN_DEBUG "tcpbug: unknown timer value\n"; > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcp_timer_bug_msg); > #endif not

Re: kernel BUG at drivers/serial/8250.c:1256!

2005-03-10 Thread Karol Kozimor
Thus wrote Russell King: > Ok, here's the patch. Please test and let me know if it resolves your > problem. Thanks. Oh, I thought I did reply to your previous mail. In case you didn't get it, yes, the patch fixes the problem. Thanks, -- Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To

Re: Fw: Anybody? 2.6.11 (stable and -rc) ACPI breaks USB

2005-03-10 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
Anything new about it? Can I provide more usefull info? Thanks, Grzegorz Kulewski On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:40:19 +0100 (CET) From: Grzegorz Kulewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Anybody? 2.6.11

Re: [PATCH 4/9] UML - Export gcov symbol based on gcc version

2005-03-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This patch is still wrong. Can't we just fix it by havign an alias for both names? It seems stupid to jump through hoops and worry about compiler versions, when afaik we could just do something like extern (...)

[11/11] [VIA RHINE] older chips oops on shutdown

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- Kernel 2.6.11, hardware is a MSI KT333-based board with an XP1800. I'm oopsing on shutdown on a machine that has a Via Rhine adapter in it: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address

[04/11] ppc32: Compilation fixes for Ebony, Luan and Ocotea

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Matt Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this patch fixes the problem, that the current kernel (linux-2.6.11-rc5) could not be compiled, when "support for early boot texts over serial port"

[08/11] PCI-E: fix hotplug double free

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- [PATCH] PCI: fix hotplug double free With the brackets missed out func could be freed twice. Found by Coverity tool Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg

[00/11] -stable review

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.11.3 release. There are 11 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a

Re: 2.6.11-mm2 vs audio for kino and tvtime

2005-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:44, Andrew Morton wrote: >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Greetings Andrew; > >g'day. > >> 2.6.11-mm2 seems to work, mostly. >> >> First, the ieee1394 stuff seems to have fixed up that driver, and >> kino can access my movie cameras video over the firewire

Re: Someting's busted with serial in 2.6.11 latest

2005-03-10 Thread Steven Cole
Russell King wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:50:49PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: 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. There was a problem with 2.6.11-bk1 which

Re: Someting's busted with serial in 2.6.11 latest

2005-03-10 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:40:11PM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: > Russell King wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:50:49PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > >>Some checkin since 2.6.11 has caused the serial driver to > >>drop characters. Console output is chopped and messages are garbled. >

Re: Someting's busted with serial in 2.6.11 latest

2005-03-10 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:40:11PM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: > I'll test current bk tonight, but I don't see any recent fix to > drivers/serial/8250.c when browsing linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.6. Ok, so Stephen's bug is already fixed. After testing the latest bk, if you find your bug isn't

Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order

2005-03-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Dave Hansen wrote: > > +extern void clear_pages (void *page, int order); > > extern void copy_page (void *to, void *from); > > +#define clear_page(__page) clear_pages(__page, 0) > > +#define __HAVE_ARCH_CLEAR_PAGES > > Although this is a simple instance, could this please be

Re: [PATCH 4/9] UML - Export gcov symbol based on gcc version

2005-03-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:16:02PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > 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

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

2005-03-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> /* Free memory returned from module_alloc */ > diff -puN arch/ppc64/mm/fault.c~nx-kernel-ppc64 arch/ppc64/mm/fault.c > --- linux-2.6-bk/arch/ppc64/mm/fault.c~nx-kernel-ppc642005-03-10 > 13:54:14 -06:00 > +++ linux-2.6-bk-moilanen/arch/ppc64/mm/fault.c 2005-03-10 13:54:14 >

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

2005-03-10 Thread Jake Moilanen
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:15:34 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > >

Re: [BK PATCHES] kbuild updates

2005-03-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:58:04PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >... > Full list below - the most important stuff: >... > o Use -Wno-pointer-sign for gcc 4.0 >... > Except a few trivial things it has been in -mm for a while > with no comments. If this is the same version as in 2.6.11-mm2 (you

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.x --- early boot code references check_acpi_pci()

2005-03-10 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > For x86 (and friends) ACPI_BOOT=y (always) and this code wants to call > check_acpi_pci(). > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > = arch/i386/kernel/earlyquirk.c 1.1 vs edited = > --- 1.1/arch/i386/kernel/earlyquirk.c

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:42 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > People are still e-mailing me about this? You really expect to post something that inflammatory and have the emails stop after a few hours? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: kernel BUG at drivers/serial/8250.c:1256!

2005-03-10 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:37:20PM +, Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:09:46AM +0100, Karol Kozimor wrote: > > I've finally got around to test latest kernels and managed to find a bug in > > the serial subsystem, which happens during suspend. > > Yes, serial_cs is claiming

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

2005-03-10 Thread Jake Moilanen
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:22:13 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olof Johansson) wrote: > 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. > Here's the revised user & base support for no-exec on ppc64

Re: 2.6.11 low latency audio test results

2005-03-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 08:27 -0600, K.R. Foley wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > > Of course all of the above settings provide flawless xrun-free > > performance with 2.6.11-rc4 + PREEMPT_RT. > > > > The above mentioned patch will apply (and build and run) just fine to > 2.6.11 if you fix the

RAID1 not save my system in case disk failure

2005-03-10 Thread Tomasz Kłoczko
Short description: I just observe some not good consequences of disk failure in system with mirrored devices. After dropping I/O operations on disk chained to RAID1 device not all meta device are degraded. After this I observe system freezes for long time. Few times system completly hangs.

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Chubb wrote: >>"John" == John Richard Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > John> I've done more thought, here's a small list of advantages on > John> using binary drivers, specifically considering UDI. You can > John> consider a

Problem with 2.6.11-bk[3456]

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Clayton
Hi, Got a problem here with the last few Linus -bk releases. 2.6.11-bk2 is running fine. 2.6.11-bk3 - 2.6.11-bk6 has the following problem: Everything is fine while the machine is booting. However as soon as X starts up the screen goes blank as normal but stays blank, no gdm login screen and

Re: 2.6.11-mm2 + Radeon crash

2005-03-10 Thread Christian Henz
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:14:53 +0100, Christian Henz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:49:02 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:12 +0100, Christian Henz wrote: > [...] > > > Everything works nicely on 2.6.10 and earlier kernels.

Re: [PPC64] Allow emulation of mfpvr on ppc64 kernel

2005-03-10 Thread Ingo Oeser
David Gibson wrote: > 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

Netfilter ipt_hashlimit

2005-03-10 Thread Russell King
With current-ish Linus 2.6 BK, I'm seeing this: net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_hashlimit.c:96: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `DECLARE_LOCK' net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_hashlimit.c:96: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_hashlimit.c: In

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

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
"Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let me work on the readv/writev support (unless someone beat me to it). Please also move it to the address_space_operations level. Yes, there are performance benefits from simply omitting the LFS checks, the mmap consistency fixes, etc. But

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

2005-03-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 11:05 -0600, Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: > 2.6.10 seems to have a different kernel panic which I'm investigating > (could be a problem with my ramdisk as it happens in my linuxrc). So > long story short the 2.6.10 sym driver looks ok. Can you try 2.6.11 with the 2.6.10 sym

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread Peter Chubb
> "John" == John Richard Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I've done more thought, here's a small list of advantages on John> using binary drivers, specifically considering UDI. You can John> consider a different implementation for binary drivers as well, John> with most of the same

[PATCH] 2.4.x --- early boot code references check_acpi_pci()

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wedgwood
For x86 (and friends) ACPI_BOOT=y (always) and this code wants to call check_acpi_pci(). Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = arch/i386/kernel/earlyquirk.c 1.1 vs edited = --- 1.1/arch/i386/kernel/earlyquirk.c 2005-02-18 06:53:58 -08:00 +++

[PATCH] rol/ror type cleanup

2005-03-10 Thread Matt Mackall
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:33:29AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > `unsigned int', while we're at it? Minor type cleanup. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: bk/include/linux/bitops.h === ---

select() doesn't respect SO_RCVLOWAT ?

2005-03-10 Thread Felix Matathias
Dear all, I am running a 2.4.21-9.0.3.ELsmp #1 kernel and I can setsockopt and getsockopt correctly the SO_RCVLOWAT option, but select() seems to mark a socket readable even if a single byte is ready to be read. Then, a read() blocks until the specified number of bytes in SO_RCVLOWAT makes it

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 People are still e-mailing me about this? Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:24:15PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > >>I've done more thought, here's a small list of advantages on using >>binary drivers, specifically considering

[BK PATCHES] kbuild updates

2005-03-10 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Linus. Please pull latest kbuild patches. Full list below - the most important stuff: o default value for INSTALL_PATH set to /boot o Use -Wno-pointer-sign for gcc 4.0 o arch/i386: make install no longer check vmlinux o Introdude KBUILD_NOCMDDEP Except a few trivial things it has been in -mm

Re: ITE8212

2005-03-10 Thread CaT
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:51:35PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2005-03-10 at 12:28, CaT wrote: > > hda: max request size: 128KiB > > hda: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24321/255/63, BUG > > hda: cache flushes not supported > > hda:hda: recal_intr: status=0x51 {

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

2005-03-10 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Andrew Morton wrote on Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:31 PM > > > Fine-grained alignment is probably too hard, and it should fall back to > > > __blockdev_direct_IO(). > > > > > > Does it do the right thing with a request which is non-page-aligned, but > > > 512-byte aligned? > > > > > > readv

Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order

2005-03-10 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:35 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > +#ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_CLEAR_PAGES > + if (!PageHighMem(page)) { > + clear_pages(page_address(page), order); > + return; > + } > +#endif > + > for(i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++) >

Re: [stable] [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x net driver oops fixes

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Chris Wright wrote: > >* Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > >>This will update the following files: > >> > >>drivers/net/sis900.c| 41 + > >>drivers/net/via-rhine.c |3 +++ > > > > > >The

Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x net driver oops fixes

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:31:12PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:25:48PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > > * Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > This will update the following files: > > > > > > drivers/net/sis900.c| 41

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:24:15PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > I've done more thought, here's a small list of advantages on using > binary drivers, specifically considering UDI. You can consider a > different implementation for binary drivers as well, with most of the > same advantages. >

Re: XScale 8250 patches cause malfunction on AMD-8111

2005-03-10 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:05:06PM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:31:48PM +, Russell King wrote: > > > Good catch, thanks. I'd preferably like to see Chris Wedgwood test > > this before applying it - I'm sure it'll fix his problem as well, > > but I'd like to be

[PATCH] realtime-preempt: update inherited priorities on setscheduler

2005-03-10 Thread Scott Wood
The following patch (against realtime-preempt v0.7.39-02) makes setscheduler calls behave properly with respect to priority inheritance. If a task's priority is raised, it will be propagated to tasks on which it is blocked. If it is lowered, it will check whether there's a higher priority that

Re: Problem with PPPD on dialup with 2.6.11-bk1 and later; 2.6.11 is OK

2005-03-10 Thread Stephen Hemminger
> Stephen Hemminger also wrote: (Someting's busted with serial in 2.6.11 latest) > >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. > Searching lkml archive, I found: >

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

2005-03-10 Thread Pavel Machek
On Mon 07-03-05 23:30:57, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I think Chris Wright's last rlimit patch is more sensible and ready to > >> go. > > > > I must say that I like rlimits - very straightforward, although

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

2005-03-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > 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. You don't

Re: XScale 8250 patches cause malfunction on AMD-8111

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:31:48PM +, Russell King wrote: > Good catch, thanks. I'd preferably like to see Chris Wedgwood test > this before applying it - I'm sure it'll fix his problem as well, > but I'd like to be sure. Yes, this appears to work correctly for me. I see it's merged so

Re: dm-crypt vs. cryptoloop reminder

2005-03-10 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:32:13PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > 2.6.3-mm1 'dm-crypt vs. cryptoloop' discussion was some time ago, it is > > > time to bring this up again: > > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/2433 > > > > Are you a troll? > > > > This is not something to be quoted by

[Fwd: Re: binary drivers and development]

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Forwarded Message > From: John Richard Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Diego Calleja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: binary drivers and development > Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:14:27 -0500 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > >

Re: [PATCH] 0/2 Buddy allocator with placement policy (Version 9) + prezeroing (Version 4)

2005-03-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Dave wrote: > Shouldn't a particular task know what the policy should be when it is > launched? No ... but not necessarily because it isn't known yet, but rather also because it might be imposed earlier in the job creation, before the actual task hierarchy is manifest. This point goes to the

Shared memory

2005-03-10 Thread Bloch, Jack
Under a 2.4 Kernel, a maximum of 2GB shared memory was allowed to be attached to by each process. Is this still the same under a 2.6 Kernel? Is this configurable? Please CC me on any responses. Thank's in advance Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: [RFC][SPARC64][kernel 2.4] __show_regs() calls to printk()

2005-03-10 Thread David S. Miller
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:19:24 +0100 (MET) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Therefore, it uses 84 caracters per line, but the VT100 has only 80, so we > are using two lines instead of only one, shortening the content of the > (eventual) Oops one could sent. Nobody really cares, and

[PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order

2005-03-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
The zeroing of a page of a arbitrary order in page_alloc.c and in hugetlb.c may benefit from a clear_page that is capable of zeroing multiple pages at once. The following patch adds a function "clear_pages" that is capable of clearing multiple continuous pages at once. This used to be part of

Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x net driver oops fixes

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:25:48PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > * Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > This will update the following files: > > > > drivers/net/sis900.c| 41 + > > drivers/net/via-rhine.c |3 +++ > > The via-rhine fix is

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread linux-os
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Nate Edel wrote: From: "Arjan van de Ven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Luo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. (or want to reserve memory at the boot commandline and then do really really evil hacks) Such

Re: [stable] [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x net driver oops fixes

2005-03-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Chris Wright wrote: * Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This will update the following files: drivers/net/sis900.c| 41 + drivers/net/via-rhine.c |3 +++ The via-rhine fix is already in the stable queue. But the sis900 oops fix does not apply

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

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
"Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Losing 6% just from Linux kernel is a huge deal for this type of benchmark. > People work for days to implement features which might give sub percentage > gain. Making Software run faster is not easy, but making software run slower > apparently

Re: [PATCH] 0/2 Buddy allocator with placement policy (Version 9) + prezeroing (Version 4)

2005-03-10 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:11 -0800, Paul Jackson wrote: > Dave wrote: > > Perhaps default policies inherited from a cpuset, but overridden by > > other APIs would be a good compromise. > > Perhaps. The madvise() and numa calls (mbind, set_mempolicy) only > affect the current task, as is usually

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stop mailing me, I lost interest when I figured out nobody else cared. Diego Calleja wrote: > El Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:24:15 -0500, > John Richard Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > [...] > >> - Smaller kernel tree > > [...] > >> - Better

Re: [stable] [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x net driver oops fixes

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This will update the following files: > > drivers/net/sis900.c| 41 + > drivers/net/via-rhine.c |3 +++ The via-rhine fix is already in the stable queue. But the sis900 oops fix does not apply to the

netdev= kernel boot commands and the Intel e1000 nic

2005-03-10 Thread Alex Upton
Hello All, For about 3.5 days now I've been trying to swap eth0 and eth1 devices through use of the netdev kernel boot switch. The scenario: We have a system with onboard NICS and a PCI Intel e1000 Fiber NIC installed. This particular system by default forces the NIC inside the PCI slot to

[RFC][SPARC64][kernel 2.4] __show_regs() calls to printk()

2005-03-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, in the file arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c, the function __show_regs() prints the content of the registers four by four, but every register's content needs 16 caracters to be printed; the name of the register needs 4 caracters; and one caracter is needed to separate this value from the

Re: [PATCH] 0/2 Buddy allocator with placement policy (Version 9) + prezeroing (Version 4)

2005-03-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Dave wrote: > Perhaps default policies inherited from a cpuset, but overridden by > other APIs would be a good compromise. Perhaps. The madvise() and numa calls (mbind, set_mempolicy) only affect the current task, as is usually appropriate for calls that allow specification of specific address

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:24:15 -0500, John Richard Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: [...] > - Smaller kernel tree [...] > - Better focused development [...] > - Faster rebuilding for developers It can be done without UDI. > - UDI supplies SMP safety Well designed drivers don't have SMP

Re: driver compile parse errors for RHEL4

2005-03-10 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:25:34AM -0800, Anil Kumar wrote: > The errors are as follows: > > drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg_print.c:23: error: parse error before '(' > token > drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg_print.c:40: error: parse error before '(' > token >

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:43:57AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Can the lseek be restricted to seek from 0 to 0 (or even * to 0 aka rewind)? > This would re-enable tar and probably other applications depending on this > API while not giving them false positives. This would be good only if we

Re: [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver

2005-03-10 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Thursday 10 March 2005 02:42, Greg KH wrote: > [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver > +static ssize_t tpm_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip, const char *buf, > + size_t bufsiz) > +{ > + u32 count; > + __be32 *native_size; > + > + native_size = (__force

Re: Someting's busted with serial in 2.6.11 latest

2005-03-10 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:50:49PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > 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. There was a problem with 2.6.11-bk1 which should now be

Re: [PATCH] silence sort(..., swap) warning on ia64

2005-03-10 Thread Matt Mackall
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:18:35AM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > Not tested but seems plausible :-) Yep, this was pointed out to me yesterday. > -static void swap_ex(void *a, void *b) > +static void swap_ex(void *a, void *b, int _unused_size) -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our

[CRASH] kernel 2.4.27 on sparc64 SMP (Ultrasparc I)

2005-03-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, We had yesterday a crash of our Linux sparc server. Here is the machine's uname -a : Linux ensilinx6 2.4.27 #2 SMP dim nov 14 18:58:56 CET 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux Here is the content of the screen I found today : 0 i1: i2: 0001 i3:

Re: [9/many] acrypto: crypto_lb.c

2005-03-10 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: --- /tmp/empty/crypto_lb.c 1970-01-01 03:00:00.0 +0300 +++ ./acrypto/crypto_lb.c 2005-03-07 20:35:36.0 +0300 @@ -0,0 +1,634 @@ +/* + * crypto_lb.c + * + * Copyright (c) 2004 Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + */ + + +static

[PATCH] char/tpm: use msleep(), clean-up timers, fix typo

2005-03-10 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:42:01PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > 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

driver compile parse errors for RHEL4

2005-03-10 Thread Anil Kumar
Hi, I am getting parse errors when I try to build aic7xxx( Adaptec SCSI controller) driver for RHEL4. I am using my own build enviroment (I mean Makefiles, scripts) to build this. #gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/adaptec/build/gcc343-32bit/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.3/specs Configured with:

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

2005-03-10 Thread Christian Schmid
Attached an image here so you can see whats happening. One pixel are 2 seconds. You can see a small speed-up before the slow-down. This is where I changed lower_zone_protection from 1024 to 0. So it seems its speeding up until the memory is full. Then it drastically slows-down until I set it to

[SATA] libata-2.4 backport queue updated

2005-03-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Updated libata 2.4.x branch to 2.4.30-pre3. Patch URL, BK URL, and list of changes attached. Jeff BK users: bk pull bk://gkernel.bkbits.net/libata-2.4 Patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.4.30-pre3-libata1.patch.bz2 This will update the

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Nate Edel
From: "Arjan van de Ven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Luo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. (or want to reserve memory at the boot commandline and then do really really evil hacks) Such as booting the machine with "mem=(real

Re: bk commits and dates

2005-03-10 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, Mar 10, Tom Rini wrote: > I've just been using sort by arrival as an imperfect, but still mostly Just procmail the stuff, if bk cant do it. :0 f * ^X-my-mailinglist-tag: bk-commits-head.vger.kernel.org | formail -i "Date: `env TZ=UTC date -R`" This doesnt

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