[PATCH] Use proper seq_file api for /proc/scsi/scsi

2005-04-07 Thread Hannes Reinecke
Hi all, /proc/scsi/scsi currently has a very dumb implementation of the seq_file api which causes 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' to return with -ENOMEM when a large amount of devices are connected. This patch impelements the proper seq_file interface which prints out all devices sequentially. The use of '

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-07 Thread Andrew Morton
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > (I don't do that for -mm because -mm basically doesn't work for 99% of > > the time. Takes 4-5 hours to out a release out assuming that > > nothing's busted, and usually something is). > > O

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With -mm we get those nice little automatic emails saying you've put > the patch into -mm, which removes one of the main reasons for wanting > to be able to get an up-to-date image of your tree. Should have done that ages ago.. > The other reason,

Re: [PATCH] i2c: new driver for ds1337 RTC

2005-04-07 Thread Ladislav Michl
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:23:11PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > ChangeSet 1.2331, 2005/03/31 14:08:02-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [PATCH] i2c: new driver for ds1337 RTC Hi, I know it is bad time to send any patches, but lets try anyway :) My embedded device is using DS1339 I2C RTC clock which diffe

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-07 Thread David Vrabel
Andrew Morton wrote: > David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> One feature I'd want to see in a replacement version control system is >> the ability to _re-order_ patches, and to cherry-pick patches from my >> tree to be sent onwards. > > You just described quilt & patch-scripts. > > The

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:11 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ weren't going to do it, but if you wa

Re: [PATCH] Dynamic Tick version 050406-1

2005-04-07 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> > > Here's an updated dyn-tick patch. Some minor fixes: > > > > Doesn't look so good here. I get this with 2.6.12-rc2 (plus a few other > > patches). > > Disabling Dynamic Tick makes everything happy again (it boots). > > > > [4294688.655000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference a

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-07 Thread Sergei Organov
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:42 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > PS. Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading > > up on "monotone". That seems to be the most viable alternative, but don't > > pester the developers so much that t

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-07 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > (I don't do that for -mm because -mm basically doesn't work for 99% of > the time. Takes 4-5 hours to out a release out assuming that > nothing's busted, and usually something is). On the subject of -mm: are you going to keep doing the BK

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-07 Thread Paul Mackerras
Andrew Morton writes: > The problem with those is letting other people get access to it. I guess > that could be fixed with a bit of scripting and rsyncing. Yes. > (I don't do that for -mm because -mm basically doesn't work for 99% of the > time. Takes 4-5 hours to out a release out assuming t

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:13 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > The main idea was to simplify userspace control and notification > system - so people did not waste it's time learning how skb's are > allocated > and processed, how socket layer is designed and what all those > netlink_* and NLMSG* mean

Bug in mm.h?

2005-04-07 Thread Leonid Podolny
I fail to understand whether the following is a bug. From what I see, if the page is reserved, page->count is not decreased. The order of the conditions should be reversed. >From mm.h: static inline void put_page(struct page *page) { if (!PageReserved(page) && put_page_testzero(page))

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1: ieee1394 process hang

2005-04-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having problems with 1394 in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1. When I connect my > Apple iSight camera, it is not detected; repeated > connections/disconnections don't help. When I tried to rmmod all the > appropriate modules (rmmod video1394 raw1394 ohci13

Re: Out of memory with Java 1.5 and 2.6.11.6

2005-04-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Robin Rosenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I see regular crashes with 2.6.11.6 (mandrake-patched) and Java 1.5.02 (01 too > btw, but not 1.4.2). Gentoo people report the same problem sugesting that it > may have appeared between 2.6.11.4 and 2.6.11.5. Sounds very unlikely, we didn't change

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-07 Thread Andrew Morton
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One feature I'd want to see in a replacement version control system is > the ability to _re-order_ patches, and to cherry-pick patches from my > tree to be sent onwards. You just described quilt & patch-scripts. The problem with those is letting ot

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 Ã 10:32 +0200, Olivier Galibert a Ãcrit : > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:17:15AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 Ã 10:04 +0200, David Schmitt a Ãcrit : > > > > > Then I would like to exercise my right under the GPL to aquire the source > > > code > > >

2.6.12-rc2-mm1: ieee1394 process hang

2005-04-07 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
I'm having problems with 1394 in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1. When I connect my Apple iSight camera, it is not detected; repeated connections/disconnections don't help. When I tried to rmmod all the appropriate modules (rmmod video1394 raw1394 ohci1394 ieee1394), the rmmod command hung. Alt-Sysreq-t shows th

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:17:15AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 10:04 +0200, David Schmitt a écrit : > > > Then I would like to exercise my right under the GPL to aquire the source > > code > > for the firmware (and the required compilers, starting with genfw.c which >

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Plus, I'm still quite unsettled about the whole object lifecycle > > management, refcounting and locking in there. The fact that the code is > > littered with peculiar barriers says "something weird is happening here", > > and it remains unobv

Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

2005-04-07 Thread Magnus Damm
On Apr 7, 2005 4:23 AM, Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -#define module_init(x) __initcall(x); > > > +#define module_init(x) __initcall(x); __module_init_disable(x); > > > > It would be better if there is brackets around them... like > > > > #define module_init(x) { __initcall(

Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-07 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 12:30:49PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:17 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:42:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I don't see the conn

RE: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread David Schwartz
> Well whoever wrote that seems to have taken the stand that the > openfirmware package was were the firmware came from. The person > obviously made a lot of statements without bothering checking out the > real source. Well it didn't come from there, I got it from Alteon > under a written agreemen

Re: [PATCH] Dynamic Tick version 050406-1

2005-04-07 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Frank Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050406 14:16]: > Tony Lindgren wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Here's an updated dyn-tick patch. Some minor fixes: > > Doesn't look so good here. I get this with 2.6.12-rc2 (plus a few other > patches). > Disabling Dynamic Tick makes everything happy again (it b

Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:17 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:42:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I don't see the connector directory in the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 tree. So it > > > seems that you removed t

Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-07 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:42:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I don't see the connector directory in the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 tree. So it > > seems that you removed the connector? > > Greg dropped it for some reason. I think tha

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 Ã 10:04 +0200, David Schmitt a Ãcrit : > Then I would like to exercise my right under the GPL to aquire the source > code > for the firmware (and the required compilers, starting with genfw.c which is > mentioned in acenic_firmware.h) since - as far as I know - firmware i

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 00:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I don't see the connector directory in the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 tree. So it > > > > > seems that you removed the connector? > > > > > > > > Greg dropped it for some reason. I think that'

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-07 Thread Magnus Damm
On Apr 7, 2005 4:32 AM, David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Martin Pool wrote: > > > I haven't tested importing all 60,000+ changesets of the current bk tree, > > partly because I don't *have* all those changesets. (Larry said > > previously that someone (not me) tried to

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems we are holding the rsv_block while searching the bitmap for a > free bit. In alloc_new_reservation(), we first find a available to > create a reservation window, then we check the bitmap to see if it > contains any free block. If not, we wi

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Stas Sergeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ENTRY(sysenter_entry) > movl TSS_sysenter_esp0(%esp),%esp > sysenter_past_esp: > - sti > pushl $(__USER_DS) > pushl %ebp > + sti ah, yes, sysenter. SYSENTER creates a degenerate 'small' stackframe with an esp0 that is missing

Re: kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interupt

2005-04-07 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No, sorry, i have to run with bridging support other wise the guests(UML's) > wont be able to communicate with the outside world. Ok in that case, can you connect a serial console so that you can capture the entire output? Thanks, Zwane -

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:53 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I don't see the connector directory in the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 tree. So it > > > > seems that you removed the connector? > > > > > > Greg dropped it f

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread David Schmitt
On Thursday 07 April 2005 09:25, Jes Sorensen wrote: > [snip] I got it from Alteon > under a written agreement stating I could distribute the image under > the GPL. Since the firmware is simply data to Linux, hence keeping it > under the GPL should be just fine. Then I would like to exercise my ri

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:11 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ > > > weren't going to do it, but if you want to t

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I don't see the connector directory in the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 tree. So it > > > > seems that you removed the connector? > > > > > > Greg dropped it for some reason. I think that's best because it needed a > > > significant amount of rework. I'd

Informar al remitente

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Re: [patch 4/5] sched: RCU sched domains

2005-04-07 Thread Nick Piggin
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At a minimum i think we need the fix+comment below. Well if we say "this is actually RCU", then yes. And we should probably change the preempt_{dis|en}ables in other places to rcu_read_lock. OTOH, if we say we just want all running thr

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-07 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:40:23AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > > On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:39:11 +0400, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote: > > > > > http://bazaar-ng.org/ > > > > I'd like bazaar-ng to be considered too. It is not ready for adoption > > yet, but I am

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-07 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:51 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Linus, > > > That "individual patches" is one of the keywords, btw. One thing that BK > > has been extremely good at, and that a lot of people have come to like > > even when they didn't use BK, is how we've been maintaining a much finer

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-07 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 09:36 +0200, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote: > Hi Evgeniy, > > I forgot to put you in the CC of the email so I'm forwarding a post > about the connector sent on lkml. Ok, I'm in. > Best regards, > Guillaume > email message attachment, "Forwarded message - Re: connector is > mi

Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

2005-04-07 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Magnus Damm wrote: > On Apr 6, 2005 4:28 PM, Malcolm Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Magnus Damm writes: > > > And I guess the idea of replacing the initcall pointer with NULL will > > > work both with and without function descriptors, right? So we should > > > be safe on I

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-07 Thread Jan Hudec
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:42:08 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > PS. Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading > up on "monotone". That seems to be the most viable alternative, but don't > pester the developers so much that they don't get any work done. They are > already

Re: [PATCH] Re: clock runs at double speed on x86_64 system w/ATI RS200 chipset (workaround for APIC mode?)

2005-04-07 Thread Andi Kleen
> > I'm still seeing 'APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)' messages from time to time. Thanks for the analysis. The clear_IO_APIC_pin looks quite hackish, I am not sure I want to put that into the mainline kernel. The APIC errors are also suspicious. I don't want to blacklist ATI from just a single repor

Re: [BUG mm] "fixed" i386 memcpy inlining buggy

2005-04-07 Thread Paolo Bonzini
The only thing that would avoid this is to either tell the compiler to never put esi/edi in memory (which I think is not possibly across different versions of gcc) or to always generate a single asm section for all the different cases. Use __asm__ ("%esi") and __asm__ ("%edi"). It is not guarante

Re: [patch] sched: consolidate sbe sbf

2005-04-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > What do you think of the following patch? I won't send the > whole series again, I'll queue them up with Andrew if you > think this one looks OK (which is the only major change). this one looks good too. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PR

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> Sven Luther wrote: >> Yep, but in the meantime, let's clearly mark said firmware as >> not-covered-by-the-GPL. In the acenic case it seems to be even >> easier, as the firmware is in a separate acenic_firmware.h file, >> and it just nee

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: >> Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the >> percieved problem, or the ones discussing it. Matthew> Actually, there are some legitimate problems

Re: [patch 5/5] sched: consolidate sbe sbf

2005-04-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We could just do a set_cpus_allowed, or take the lock, > set_cpus_allowed, and take the new lock, but that's probably a bit > heavy if we can avoid it. In the interests of speed in this fast path, > do you think we can do this in sched_fork, before th

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-07 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:42 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > PS. Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading > up on "monotone". That seems to be the most viable alternative, but don't > pester the developers so much that they don't get any work done. They are > already aware

Re: [patch 5/5] sched: consolidate sbe sbf

2005-04-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > >One problem I just noticed, sorry. This is doing set_cpus_allowed > >without holding the runqueue lock and without checking the hard > >affinity mask either. > > > > Err, that is to say set_task_cpu, not set_cpus_allowed. y

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:21:05PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven Sven> wrote: >> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 12:09 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: >> >> please take this discussion elsewhere. Also please never cc three >> such Sven> Ok, can you please

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-07 Thread Mickael Marchand
Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm1/ > > - x86 NMI handling seems to be bust in 2.6.12-rc2. Try using > `nmi_watchdog=0' if you experience weird crashes. > > - The possible kernel-timer related hangs might possibly be f

Re: [patch 4/5] sched: RCU sched domains

2005-04-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At a minimum i think we need the fix+comment below. > > Well if we say "this is actually RCU", then yes. And we should > probably change the preempt_{dis|en}ables in other places to > rcu_read_lock. > > OTOH, if we say we just want all running thre

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Re: [patch 1/5] sched: remove degenerate domains

2005-04-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] Although I'd imagine it may be something distros may want. For > example, a generic x86-64 kernel for both AMD and Intel systems could > easily have SMT and NUMA turned on. yes, that's true - in fact reducing the number of separate kernel packa

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