Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.2 1/1] PCI Allow OutOfRange PIRQ table address

2005-03-10 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:29:35AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice work, I like it. You could make it even prettier: > diff -uprN -X dontdiff linux-2.6.11.2-vanilla/arch/i386/pci/irq.c > linux-2.6.11.2/arch/i386/pci/irq.c > --- linux-2.6.11.2-vanilla/arch/i386/pci/irq.c2005-03-10

[PATCH 2.6.11.2 1/1] PCI Allow OutOfRange PIRQ table address

2005-03-10 Thread jayalk
Hi Greg, PCI folk, In our hardware situation, the BIOS is unable to store or generate it's PIRQ table in the Fh-10h standard range. This patch adds a pci kernel parameter, pirqaddr to allow the bootloader (or BIOS based loader) to inform the kernel where the PIRQ table got stored. A

Re: 2.6.x.y gatekeeper discipline

2005-03-10 Thread Brian Gerst
DHollenbeck wrote: Where do you see that patch as being applied in the new .y stable series? Chris I got that patch description from here: When you go to http://kernel.org, and click on the stand alone " C " to the right of 2.6.11.2 It is a hyperlink to:

Re: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] code: hotplug/461

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 13:55 +0100, Knut J Bjuland wrote: > caller is arch_add_exec_range+0x49/0x6a > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > When booting linux 2.6.11 with preemetable enable I get BUG: using > smp_processor_id() in

Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload [try #3]

2005-03-10 Thread David Howells
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you want me to redo the patch? > > > > That, or a delta. At your convenience. A new patch is just as easy. There'll be one with you shortly. > What's your feeling on the stability Well... it boots:-) That involves creating and destroying

Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload [try #3]

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What's with the preempt_enable()/disable() added to __key_link()? It's not > > obvious what is being protected from what, and why. > > Ummm... Yes... They're probably not necessary. A wmb() may be

Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload [try #3]

2005-03-10 Thread David Howells
David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's with the preempt_enable()/disable() added to __key_link()? It's not > > obvious what is being protected from what, and why. > > Ummm... Yes... They're probably not necessary. A wmb() may be required after > the klist->nkeys++ to commit to

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:11, 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 already in

Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload [try #3]

2005-03-10 Thread David Howells
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's with the preempt_enable()/disable() added to __key_link()? It's not > obvious what is being protected from what, and why. Ummm... Yes... They're probably not necessary. A wmb() may be required after the klist->nkeys++ to commit to memory the

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

2005-03-10 Thread Christophe Saout
Am Dienstag, den 08.03.2005, 00:08 -0500 schrieb Kyle Moffett: > Did you include support for the new key/keyring infrastructure > introduced > a couple versions ago by David Howells? It allows userspace to create > and > manage various sorts of "keys" in kernelspace. If you create and >

[PATCH] AB-BA deadlock between uidhash_lock and tasklist_lock.

2005-03-10 Thread Robin Holt
We have uncovered a very difficult to trip AB-BA deadlock between the uidhash_lock and tasklist_lock. reparent_to_init() does write_lock_irq(_lock) then calls switch_uid() which calls free_uid() which grabs the uidhash_lock. Independent of that, we have seen a different cpu call free_uid as a

ITE8212

2005-03-10 Thread CaT
Well I got my ITE8212 today (only ordered it last night - whee) and here are the happy fun results. Basically the card shoved itself to the front of the queue, gave some weird errors on bootup and had no multisec set on the drives attached to it. I can boot the machine though and am using it right

Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload [try #3]

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The attached patch changes the key implementation in a number of ways: That worked. What's with the preempt_enable()/disable() added to __key_link()? It's not obvious what is being protected from what, and why. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

2005-03-10 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:59:43PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Ok, we have it working here on a similar machine with 2.6.11 and failing > in a similar way with bk which is why I asked ;) > > The bk problem is found & fixed here tho. I'll send a patch later, it's > a bug with ppc64

Re: inconsistent kallsyms data [2.6.11-mm2]

2005-03-10 Thread Paulo Marques
Paulo Marques wrote: [...] A simple and robust way is to do the sampling on a list of symbols sorted by symbol name. This way, even if the symbol positions that are given to scripts/kallsyms change, the symbols sampled will be the same. I'll do the patch to do this and send it ASAP. Ok, here it

[PATCH 2.6.11] fix: drivers/base/class.c

2005-03-10 Thread JustMan
fix: drivers/base/class.c Signed-off-by: Serge A. Suchkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -uNrp linux/drivers/base/class.orig.c linux/drivers/base/class.c --- linux/drivers/base/class.orig.c 2005-03-10 12:19:00.0 +0300 +++ linux/drivers/base/class.c 2005-03-10 13:59:27.0 +0300 @@

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> critical user data. > > In other words, it should work correctly or not at all. At the least this > should be a config option, like UNSAFE_TAPE_POSITIONING or some such. > And show the option if the build includes BROKEN features. That should put > the decision where it belongs and clarify the

Re: [PATCH] PCI: One more Asus SMBus quirk

2005-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:06:15AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:18:16PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > > Greg KH wrote: > > > > >ChangeSet 1.1998.11.27, 2005/02/25 15:48:28-08:00,

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 21:58, Kai Makisara wrote: > > While waiting for the application to be fixed, it was decided to restore > > the old behaviour of the tape drivers. > > Which means tar won't get fixed 8( Bet that's true. > > > I don't think

[bk pull] drm tree for 2.6.12

2005-03-10 Thread Dave Airlie
Hi Linus, The latest DRM tree is ready (bit late but I got there..), it contains updated radeon driver, splitting of drm structure to allow for multi-head (no drivers just internal structure changes, credits updates, static function updates and pci ids update. The patch is up at

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] fix call kobject_get_path() with zero kobject argument in drivers/base/class.c

2005-03-10 Thread JustMan
>The attached patch fix call kobject_get_path() with zero kobject argument. I'm sorry. My previous patch was incorrect. -- Regards, JustMan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

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

2005-03-10 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ronald, > I indeed don't test RC/MM kernels. I'm fairly happy with the current > driver status, so I'm not doing any active new development on it. I run > standard Fedora kernels with CVS of the driver (which is the same as > what's in 2.6.10). > (...) > My experience is not the same as

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

2005-03-10 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Hi Jean, thanks for the reply. On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Jean Delvare wrote: > I'm glad to learn you are testing things. Still the oops in saa7110 went > unnoticed for the past 3 months, so I guess that either you don't have > a DC10(+) in your test panel, or you did not test mm/rc kernels. I indeed

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

2005-03-10 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ronald, [Jean Delvare] > It is possible that people are able to get their board to still work > without my patch, if the chips were properly configured in the first > place and they don't attempt to reconfigure them (like norm change). I > don't know the chips well enough to tell how probable

[PATCH] 2.6.11-bk Stallion driver module clean up

2005-03-10 Thread Darren Williams
These two patches continue the work that Wayne Meissner started and are against the current bk tree. These patches allow the stallion driver to be built-in and loaded at boot time, the current #ifdef MODULE only allows the init code to be included if compiled as a module. Tested for compile,

Re: [Ipsec] Issue on input process of Linux native IPsec

2005-03-10 Thread Park Lee
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 at 16:15, David Dillow wrote: > xfrm_lookup() is only called for outgoing packets, > not for received packets. I don't think ping > replies (ICMP echo replies) will ever have a non- > NULL sk, as they are not associated with a socket. But, as we know, The Linux network

Re: [PATCH] PPC64 NUMA memory fixup

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I booted my new 720 on a kernel configured for NUMA, I received > the following during bootup: > > WARNING: Unexpected node layout: region start 4400 length 200 > NUMA is disabled > > This is due to memory 'holes' within nodes. If

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

2005-03-10 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2005-03-09T18:36:37, Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heartbeat is good for reliability, etc. WRT "getting paged-out" - > non-deterministic (things depend on time), right? Right, if we didn't get scheduled often enough for us to send our heartbeat messages to the other peers, they'll

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

2005-03-10 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 08:24 -0500, Joshua Jackson wrote: > On Monday 07 March 2005 4:49 pm, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > Unfortunately acrypto patch is more than 200kb, so neither mail list > > will accept it, so I've sent it in such form :) > > > > As per the FAQ, very large patches are often

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

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 21:00 +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 have any > > problems/issues/questions with this? > > One

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

2005-03-10 Thread Neil Brown
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 have any > problems/issues/questions with this? One rule that I thought would make sense, but that I don't see listed

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-03-10 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > The short term fix is probably to put back the preempt_disables, the long > term is to get rid of these stupid bit_spin_lock busy loops. > Doing a quick search on the kernel, it looks like only kjournald uses the bit_spin_locks. I'll start converting

RE: [PATCH][2.4.30-pre1] preliminary fixes for gcc-4.0

2005-03-10 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:50:11 +0100, Mikael Starvik wrote: >>+#if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR >= 96) > >Should be __GNUC_MINOR__ Thanks, I'll fix that. /Mikael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

toshiba ACPI /proc interface nonresponsive (>2.6.9)

2005-03-10 Thread Florian Leuthner
Hi, I can cat e.g. /proc/acpi/toshiba/lcd, but I cannot echo into it, there is no error message or log entry whatsoever (not a permissions issue, other ppl are experiencing the same btw). It's a toshiba satellite 5200-701 (european model, AFAIK) with a more-or-less bleeding edge gentoo install.

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

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:09:55AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > In general to solve it one has to increase /proc/sys/vm/freepages > > > a lot. > > > > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes > > Oh yes, I still

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-03-10 Thread Steven Rostedt
Hi Ingo, I notice a problem with the bit_spin_locks that would probably explain the kjournald latency problems. I'm working on a custom kernel based on your's and I needed to temporarily remove the scheduler_tick from update_process_times to implement some special scheduling needs. This caused

Re: [PATCH] random: Create new rol32/ror32 bitops

2005-03-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > --- a/include/linux/bitops.h 2005-03-08 12:05:59 -08:00 > +++ b/include/linux/bitops.h 2005-03-08 12:05:59 -08:00 > @@ -134,4 +134,26 @@ > return sizeof(w) == 4 ? generic_hweight32(w) : generic_hweight64(w); > } > > +/* > + * rol32

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

2005-03-10 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Hi Jean, I'm sorry for a late reply, mail is (still) misbehaving. I hope this arrives at all... On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jean Delvare wrote: > It is possible that people are able to get their board to still work > without my patch, if the chips were properly configured in the first > place and they

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

2005-03-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > 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

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

2005-03-10 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:09:55AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In general to solve it one has to increase /proc/sys/vm/freepages > > a lot. > > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes Oh yes, I still have the old 2.2 name in my finger tips (never understood

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

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In general to solve it one has to increase /proc/sys/vm/freepages > a lot. /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes > It would be nice though if the VM tuned itself dynamically to a lot > of GFP_ATOMIC requests. And maybe if GFP_ATOMIC was a bit more aggressive >

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Mario Holbe
Jason Luo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical > memory? can do? how to do it? The ftape utils have a tool called swapout which tries to 'free' large chunks of memory which then can be allocated by the ftape module loaded subsequently. I

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-10 Thread Tupshin Harper
Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 22:22, CaT wrote: Argh! Ok. I guess I shouldn't've just bought the card based on this driver then so that I could better debug my problems with my promise cards. 8( Its good hardware. It does lots of neat things providing you run -ac anyway. The raid1

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

2005-03-10 Thread Andi Kleen
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christian Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > So, maybe a VM problem? That would be a good place to focus since >> > I think we can be fairly certain it isn't a problem in just the >> > networking code. Otherwise, my tests would show lower

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:49:20PM +0800, Jason Luo wrote: > A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous > memory for DMA. ick? it can't do scatter-gather or anything sane? > it's driver in windows can do it. windows can get 200MB of memory on a running system relaibly?

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:49 +0800, Jason Luo wrote: > thanks! > A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous > memory for DMA. > it's driver in windows can do it. so custom ask us to support it. > are there a way although it'is unpopular? not really unless your card can do

Re: 2.6.11-mm2 vs audio for kino and tvtime

2005-03-10 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Gene, > > I've dropped the "id" member of struct i2c_client, as it were > > useless. Third-party driver authors now need to do the same. > > Aha! As in just 'dd' any line containing the .id in vim? Exactly. Don't kill all lines with .id though, only the i2c_client id was dropped, and there

Re: [PATCH] Reduce cacheline bouncing in cpu_idle_wait

2005-03-10 Thread Andi Kleen
Zwane Mwaikambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andi noted that during normal runtime cpu_idle_map is bounced around a > lot, and occassionally at a higher frequency than the timer interrupt > wakeup which we normally exit pm_idle from. So switch to a percpu > variable. Andi i didn't move things

RE: [PATCH][2.4.30-pre1] preliminary fixes for gcc-4.0

2005-03-10 Thread Mikael Starvik
>+#if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR >= 96) Should be __GNUC_MINOR__ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikael Pettersson Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:29 PM To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject:

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Jason Luo
thanks! A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. it's driver in windows can do it. so custom ask us to support it. are there a way although it'is unpopular? On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:16:34 -0800, Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10,

Re: [PATCH] clean up FIXME in do_timer_interrupt

2005-03-10 Thread George Anzinger
Ok, here is a patch. See what you think. This patch assumes that Lee's patch has been merged (although it eliminates all of it). George George Anzinger wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 12:58 -0800, George Anzinger wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 02:28 -0800, George

Re: 2.6.Stable and EXTRAVERSION

2005-03-10 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:53, 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

Re: Patch to enable the USB handoff on Dell 650

2005-03-10 Thread Andrey Panin
On 063, 03 04, 2005 at 12:17:40 -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:18:47 +0300 Andrey Panin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > +++ linux-2.6.11-rc2-lem/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c 2005-01-31 > > > 20:42:16.163592792 -0800 > > > > +static __init int enable_usb_handoff(struct

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

2005-03-10 Thread Itsuro Oda
Hi, Using ELF format to construct dump information (registers, physical adress range, and physical memory etc.) is OK. It's not bad idea. But it is not necessary to indend to use a particular analysis tool. Do simple. Thanks. -- Itsuro ODA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [patch 11/16] Solaris nfsacl workaround

2005-03-10 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:56, Trond Myklebust wrote: > 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

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:10:18PM +0800, Jason Luo wrote: > Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical > memory? can do? how to do it? Not easily no. Do you really need this? What kind of hardware is this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

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

2005-03-10 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 20:52 +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > Are you sure this is really the best option in this instance? > > Sometimes, static data initialisation is more efficient than > > code-based manual initialisation, especially when the memory > > is written to anyway. > Agreed,

Re: 2.6.11-mm2 + Radeon crash

2005-03-10 Thread Christian Henz
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. I'm in the > > process of building 2.6.11.2 to see if the crash occurs there. > > So ?

Re: 2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Stefano Rivoir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm2/ > > Hi Andrew > > With 2.6.11-mm series, "acpi_poweroff called" problem is back again (it > disappeared in 2.6.11-rc-mm and actually never

Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Jason Luo
Hi, Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical memory? can do? how to do it? thanks! Jason - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-10 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 17:51, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 07:26, CaT wrote: > > > Carried over from 2.6.10-ac > > > > BTW. What's the probability of the ITE driver making it into the stock > > kernel? > > I have given up caring about the base kernel IDE code. I've tried to get >

Re: 2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-10 Thread Stefano Rivoir
Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm2/ Hi Andrew With 2.6.11-mm series, "acpi_poweroff called" problem is back again (it disappeared in 2.6.11-rc-mm and actually never happend in Linus' tree). So when you shutdown, you have to unplug

Re: 2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-10 Thread Stefano Rivoir
Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm2/ Hi Andrew With 2.6.11-mm series, acpi_poweroff called problem is back again (it disappeared in 2.6.11-rc-mm and actually never happend in Linus' tree). So when you shutdown, you have to unplug

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-10 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 17:51, Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 07:26, CaT wrote: Carried over from 2.6.10-ac BTW. What's the probability of the ITE driver making it into the stock kernel? I have given up caring about the base kernel IDE code. I've tried to get stuff

Re: 2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Stefano Rivoir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm2/ Hi Andrew With 2.6.11-mm series, acpi_poweroff called problem is back again (it disappeared in 2.6.11-rc-mm and actually never happend in Linus'

Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Jason Luo
Hi, Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical memory? can do? how to do it? thanks! Jason - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

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

2005-03-10 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 20:52 +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: Are you sure this is really the best option in this instance? Sometimes, static data initialisation is more efficient than code-based manual initialisation, especially when the memory is written to anyway. Agreed, theoretically, but

Re: 2.6.11-mm2 + Radeon crash

2005-03-10 Thread Christian Henz
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. I'm in the process of building 2.6.11.2 to see if the crash occurs there. So ?

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:10:18PM +0800, Jason Luo wrote: Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical memory? can do? how to do it? Not easily no. Do you really need this? What kind of hardware is this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [patch 11/16] Solaris nfsacl workaround

2005-03-10 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:56, Trond Myklebust wrote: 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

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

2005-03-10 Thread Itsuro Oda
Hi, Using ELF format to construct dump information (registers, physical adress range, and physical memory etc.) is OK. It's not bad idea. But it is not necessary to indend to use a particular analysis tool. Do simple. Thanks. -- Itsuro ODA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Patch to enable the USB handoff on Dell 650

2005-03-10 Thread Andrey Panin
On 063, 03 04, 2005 at 12:17:40 -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:18:47 +0300 Andrey Panin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++ linux-2.6.11-rc2-lem/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c 2005-01-31 20:42:16.163592792 -0800 +static __init int enable_usb_handoff(struct dmi_blacklist

Re: 2.6.Stable and EXTRAVERSION

2005-03-10 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:53, 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

Re: [PATCH] clean up FIXME in do_timer_interrupt

2005-03-10 Thread George Anzinger
Ok, here is a patch. See what you think. This patch assumes that Lee's patch has been merged (although it eliminates all of it). George George Anzinger wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 12:58 -0800, George Anzinger wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 02:28 -0800, George

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Jason Luo
thanks! A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. it's driver in windows can do it. so custom ask us to support it. are there a way although it'is unpopular? On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:16:34 -0800, Chris Wedgwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005

RE: [PATCH][2.4.30-pre1] preliminary fixes for gcc-4.0

2005-03-10 Thread Mikael Starvik
+#if __GNUC__ 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 __GNUC_MINOR = 96) Should be __GNUC_MINOR__ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikael Pettersson Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:29 PM To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH][2.4.30-pre1]

Re: [PATCH] Reduce cacheline bouncing in cpu_idle_wait

2005-03-10 Thread Andi Kleen
Zwane Mwaikambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andi noted that during normal runtime cpu_idle_map is bounced around a lot, and occassionally at a higher frequency than the timer interrupt wakeup which we normally exit pm_idle from. So switch to a percpu variable. Andi i didn't move things to

Re: 2.6.11-mm2 vs audio for kino and tvtime

2005-03-10 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Gene, I've dropped the id member of struct i2c_client, as it were useless. Third-party driver authors now need to do the same. Aha! As in just 'dd' any line containing the .id in vim? Exactly. Don't kill all lines with .id though, only the i2c_client id was dropped, and there are

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:49 +0800, Jason Luo wrote: thanks! A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. it's driver in windows can do it. so custom ask us to support it. are there a way although it'is unpopular? not really unless your card can do

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:49:20PM +0800, Jason Luo wrote: A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. ick? it can't do scatter-gather or anything sane? it's driver in windows can do it. windows can get 200MB of memory on a running system relaibly?

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

2005-03-10 Thread Andi Kleen
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian Schmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, maybe a VM problem? That would be a good place to focus since I think we can be fairly certain it isn't a problem in just the networking code. Otherwise, my tests would show lower bandwidth.

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-10 Thread Tupshin Harper
Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 22:22, CaT wrote: Argh! Ok. I guess I shouldn't've just bought the card based on this driver then so that I could better debug my problems with my promise cards. 8( Its good hardware. It does lots of neat things providing you run -ac anyway. The raid1

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Mario Holbe
Jason Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical memory? can do? how to do it? The ftape utils have a tool called swapout which tries to 'free' large chunks of memory which then can be allocated by the ftape module loaded subsequently. I don't

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

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general to solve it one has to increase /proc/sys/vm/freepages a lot. /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes It would be nice though if the VM tuned itself dynamically to a lot of GFP_ATOMIC requests. And maybe if GFP_ATOMIC was a bit more aggressive and

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

2005-03-10 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:09:55AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general to solve it one has to increase /proc/sys/vm/freepages a lot. /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes Oh yes, I still have the old 2.2 name in my finger tips (never understood why these

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

2005-03-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Alan Cox wrote: 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

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

2005-03-10 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Hi Jean, I'm sorry for a late reply, mail is (still) misbehaving. I hope this arrives at all... On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jean Delvare wrote: It is possible that people are able to get their board to still work without my patch, if the chips were properly configured in the first place and they

Re: [PATCH] random: Create new rol32/ror32 bitops

2005-03-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: --- a/include/linux/bitops.h 2005-03-08 12:05:59 -08:00 +++ b/include/linux/bitops.h 2005-03-08 12:05:59 -08:00 @@ -134,4 +134,26 @@ return sizeof(w) == 4 ? generic_hweight32(w) : generic_hweight64(w); } +/* + * rol32 - rotate

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-03-10 Thread Steven Rostedt
Hi Ingo, I notice a problem with the bit_spin_locks that would probably explain the kjournald latency problems. I'm working on a custom kernel based on your's and I needed to temporarily remove the scheduler_tick from update_process_times to implement some special scheduling needs. This caused

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

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:09:55AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general to solve it one has to increase /proc/sys/vm/freepages a lot. /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes Oh yes, I still have the old 2.2 name

toshiba ACPI /proc interface nonresponsive (2.6.9)

2005-03-10 Thread Florian Leuthner
Hi, I can cat e.g. /proc/acpi/toshiba/lcd, but I cannot echo into it, there is no error message or log entry whatsoever (not a permissions issue, other ppl are experiencing the same btw). It's a toshiba satellite 5200-701 (european model, AFAIK) with a more-or-less bleeding edge gentoo install.

RE: [PATCH][2.4.30-pre1] preliminary fixes for gcc-4.0

2005-03-10 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:50:11 +0100, Mikael Starvik wrote: +#if __GNUC__ 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 __GNUC_MINOR = 96) Should be __GNUC_MINOR__ Thanks, I'll fix that. /Mikael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-03-10 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: The short term fix is probably to put back the preempt_disables, the long term is to get rid of these stupid bit_spin_lock busy loops. Doing a quick search on the kernel, it looks like only kjournald uses the bit_spin_locks. I'll start converting

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

2005-03-10 Thread Neil Brown
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 have any problems/issues/questions with this? One rule that I thought would make sense, but that I don't see listed is:

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

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 21:00 +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 have any problems/issues/questions with this? One rule that I

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

2005-03-10 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 08:24 -0500, Joshua Jackson wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 4:49 pm, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Unfortunately acrypto patch is more than 200kb, so neither mail list will accept it, so I've sent it in such form :) As per the FAQ, very large patches are often best

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

2005-03-10 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2005-03-09T18:36:37, Alex Aizman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heartbeat is good for reliability, etc. WRT getting paged-out - non-deterministic (things depend on time), right? Right, if we didn't get scheduled often enough for us to send our heartbeat messages to the other peers, they'll evict

Re: [PATCH] PPC64 NUMA memory fixup

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I booted my new 720 on a kernel configured for NUMA, I received the following during bootup: WARNING: Unexpected node layout: region start 4400 length 200 NUMA is disabled This is due to memory 'holes' within nodes. If such holes

Re: [Ipsec] Issue on input process of Linux native IPsec

2005-03-10 Thread Park Lee
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 at 16:15, David Dillow wrote: xfrm_lookup() is only called for outgoing packets, not for received packets. I don't think ping replies (ICMP echo replies) will ever have a non- NULL sk, as they are not associated with a socket. But, as we know, The Linux network

[PATCH] 2.6.11-bk Stallion driver module clean up

2005-03-10 Thread Darren Williams
These two patches continue the work that Wayne Meissner started and are against the current bk tree. These patches allow the stallion driver to be built-in and loaded at boot time, the current #ifdef MODULE only allows the init code to be included if compiled as a module. Tested for compile,

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