Re: PCI-Express not working/unuseable on Intel 925XE Chipset since 2.6.12-rc1[mm1-4]

2005-04-08 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 21:23 +0200, Jacek Luczak wrote: > Michael Thonke napisał(a): > > Hello Jacek, > > > > I finially got it working :-) my PCI-Express devices working now... > > I grabbed the last bk-snapshot from kernel.org 2.6.12-rc1-bk3 and et volia > > everything except the Marvell Yokon

Re: 'BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled' when umounting NFS volume

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Walker
I submitted a fix for this a while ago, I think .. interruptible_sleep_on()'s are broken .. Daniel On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:15, Lee Revell wrote: > Kernel is 2.6.12-rc1-RT-V0.7.43-05. > > BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled: umount/0x/20612 > caller is schedule_timeout+0x63/0xc0 > []

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc1-mm4] fork_connector: add a fork connector

2005-04-08 Thread Jay Lan
My workarea was based on 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 plus Guilluame's patch. Your patch caused 5 out of 8 hunks failure at connector.c and one failure at connector.h. Could you generate a new patch based on my version? A tar file of complete source of drivers/connector would work also. :) Thanks! - jay

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:15 -0500, K.R. Foley wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:22 +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: Our first victim!! :-) No kidding!? V0.7.44-02 does not even compile for me. It appears to be full of merge errors. I must be in the twilight zone

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:15 -0500, K.R. Foley wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:22 +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > > > >>>Our first victim!! :-) > >>> > >> > >>No kidding!? > >> > > > > > > V0.7.44-02 does not even compile for me. It appears to be full of merge > >

Re: [PATCH] s390: claw network device driver

2005-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >>As mentioned in the email, you want netdev, not linux-net... > > > > > >Just out of curiosity: why are there two mailing lists? Especially if > >one of them is the Wrong One. > > > > linux-net is mostly dead. I get the impression it is occasionally used > by users. > > netdev (as,

'BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled' when umounting NFS volume

2005-04-08 Thread Lee Revell
Kernel is 2.6.12-rc1-RT-V0.7.43-05. BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled: umount/0x/20612 caller is schedule_timeout+0x63/0xc0 [] dump_stack+0x23/0x30 (20) [] schedule+0xea/0x140 (36) [] schedule_timeout+0x63/0xc0 (64) [] interruptible_sleep_on_timeout+0x74/0xe0 (64) []

Re: Uncached stat performace [ Was: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. ]

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:11:51PM +0200, Ragnar Kj?rstad wrote: > It does, so why isn't there a way to do this without the disgusting > hack? (Your words, not mine :) ) inode sorting probably a good guess for a number of filesystems, you can map the blocks used to do better still (somewhat fs

Uncached stat performace [ Was: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. ]

2005-04-08 Thread Ragnar Kjørstad
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:39:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > One of the reasons I do inode numbers in the "index" file (apart from > checking that the inode hasn't changed) is in fact that "stat()" is damn > slow if it causes seeks. Since your stat loop is entirely > > You can optimize

Re: [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver

2005-04-08 Thread Kylene Jo Hall
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:14 -0500, Kylene Jo Hall wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 13:33 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 04:04:25PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Greg KH wrote: > > > >On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:02:24PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > > > >>Kylene Hall wrote:

[2.4] "Fix" introduced in 2.4.27pre2 for bluetooth hci_usb race causes kernel hang

2005-04-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
Hello. I have noticed a problem with a race condition fix introduced in 2.4.27-pre2 that causes the kernel to hang when disconnecting a Bluetooth USB dongle or doing 'hciconfig hci0 down'. No message is printed, the kernel just doesn't respond anymore. Seen in Changelog: Marcel Holtmann: o

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

2005-04-08 Thread Rich Walker
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:42:51PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 19:34 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : >> GFDL documentation will still be available in the non-free archive. > > Assuming you have an online connection and a

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-08 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:43:55 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: | On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:24:42PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: | > Adrian Bunk wrote: | > >[...] | > >>>On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: | > >> | > >>Hi Adrian, | > > | >... | > >Joerg's list of recursions should

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:38:09PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Does sorting by inode number make a difference? It almost certainly would. But I can sort more intelligently than that even (all the world isn't ext2/3). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: But as mentioned you need to _open_ each file (It doesn't matter if it's cached (this speeds up only reading it) -- you need a _slow_ system call and _very slow_ hardware access anyway). Nope. System calls aren't

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:24:42PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >[...] > >>>On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > >> > >>Hi Adrian, > > > >Hi Paolo, > > Paulo, please :) >... The second name I got wrong today... Sorry. >... > >Joerg's list of

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > It doesn't matter so much for the cached case, but it _does_ matter > > for the uncached one. > > Doing the minimal stat cold-cache here is about 6s for local disk. > I'm somewhat surprised it's that bad actually. One of the reasons I do inode

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Chris Wedgwood: >> It doesn't matter so much for the cached case, but it _does_ matter >> for the uncached one. > > Doing the minimal stat cold-cache here is about 6s for local disk. Does sorting by inode number make a difference? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > > But as mentioned you need to _open_ each file (It doesn't matter if it's > cached (this speeds up only reading it) -- you need a _slow_ system call > and _very slow_ hardware access anyway). Nope. System calls aren't slow. What crappy OS

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:03:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yes, doing the stat just on the directory (on leaf directories only, of > course, but nlink==2 does say that on most filesystems) is indeed a huge > potential speedup. Here I measure about 6ms for cache --- essentially below the

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Ok, but if you want to search for information in such big text files it slow, because you do linear search No I don't. I don't search for _anything_. I have my own content-addressable filesystem, and I guarantee you

[PATCH] Re: LIBATA AHCI engine timeout hang with ATAPI devices

2005-04-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Eric A. Cottrell wrote: Hello, I made the mistake of getting the Plextor SATA DVD Recorder with my new system not realizing that SATA support is just coming online. I want to turn this into an opportunity to make the Plextor work. Thanks to the IDE information pages I got a good start. I

Re: Linux Alpha port: kernel panik under moderate DISK IO conditions

2005-04-08 Thread Richard Henderson
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 04:57:11PM +0200, Rao Davide wrote: > My name is David Rao and I have an old alpha DS10 ds10 (ev6 > Tsunami-webbrick cpu) with internal HDU on a LSI controller and external > HSZ80 storage attached to a Qlogic. Well, the CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP driver isn't supported, and

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:08:28PM -0500, Franco Sensei wrote: >... > Actually changing a kernel results in creating a /lib/modules/version > directory, creating a heavy confusion for a user, especially when > compiling other modules outside the official kernel release: he juts > looses the

Re: PATCH add support for system on chip (SoC) devices.

2005-04-08 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:19:44PM +0100, Ian Molton wrote: > This allows common drivers used in different SoC devices to be shared in > a clean and healthy manner, for example, the MMC function on toshiba > t7l66xb, tc6393xb, and Compaq IPAQ ASIC3. Here's some comments on the patch itself.

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > Actually, I could probably make this *much* still faster with a > caveat. Given that my editor when I write a file will write a > temporary file and rename it, for files in directories where nlink==2 > I can check chat first and skip the stat of

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jon Smirl: > On Apr 8, 2005 2:14 PM, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>How do you replicate your database incrementally? I've given you enough >>clues to do it for "git" in probably five lines of perl. > > Efficient database replication is achieved by copying the transaction >

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:47:10AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Don't use NFS for development. It sucks for BK too. Some times NFS is unavoidable. In the best case (see previous email wrt to only stat'ing the parent directories when you can) for a current kernel though you can get away with

[PATCH] Use ALIGN to remove duplicate code

2005-04-08 Thread Nick Wilson
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:50:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Nick Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The first patch adds a generic round_up_pow2() macro to kernel.h. The > > remaining patches modify a few files to make use of the new macro. > > We already have ALIGN() and

Re: [patch] bug fix in usbdevfs

2005-04-08 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:51:23PM -0500, Christopher Li wrote: > Hi, > > I am sorry that the last patch about 32 bit compat ioctl on > 64 bit kernel actually breaks the usbdevfs. That is on the current > BK tree. I am retarded. > > Here is the patch to fix it. Tested with USB hard disk and

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Well... it took me over 30 seconds just to 'rm -rf' the unpacked > tarballs of git and sparse-git, over my LAN's NFS. Don't use NFS for development. It sucks for BK too. That said, normal _use_ should actually be pretty efficient even over NFS.

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

2005-04-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 Ã 20:01 +0200, Adrian Bunk a Ãcrit : > > Because we already know that patents on MP3 decoders are not > > enforceable. Furthermore, the holders of these patents have repeatedly > > How do you know the patents aren't enforceable? Because decoding a MP3 is a trivial

RE: [patch] sched: unlocked context-switches

2005-04-08 Thread Luck, Tony
>tested on x86, and all other arches should work as well, but if an >architecture has irqs-off assumptions in its switch_to() logic >it might break. (I havent found any but there may such assumptions.) The ia64_switch_to() code includes a section that can change a pinned MMU mapping (when the

Re: kernel compile

2005-04-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 20:17 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:09:18PM -0400, Allison wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible to compile a 2.4.20 kernel on a 2.6 system ? > > And use the new image successfully ? > > It doesn't matter what the system you are compiling on is

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Jon Smirl
On Apr 8, 2005 2:14 PM, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do you replicate your database incrementally? I've given you enough >clues to do it for "git" in probably five lines of perl. Efficient database replication is achieved by copying the transaction logs and then

Re: [patch 3/8] lib/c: documentation strncpy()

2005-04-08 Thread Domen Puncer
this clarifys the documentation on the behavier of strncpy(). From: walter harms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- [Geez, again, next time i'll send them to myself first] kj-domen/lib/string.c |4 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN

Re: [-mm patch] x86_64: kill obsolete check_nmi_watchdog prototype

2005-04-08 Thread Mickael Marchand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Bunk a écrit : > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:14:19AM +0200, Mickael Marchand wrote: > >>... >>-> compiling 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 on amd64 : >> >>arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c:116: error: static declaration of >>'check_nmi_watchdog' follows non-static

Re: [PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users

2005-04-08 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 8 April 2005 10:48:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Next step for inter_module removal. This patch makes the code > > conditional on its last users and shrinks the kernel binary for the > > huge majority of people. > > If we do this, nobody

Re: kernel compile

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:09:18PM -0400, Allison wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to compile a 2.4.20 kernel on a 2.6 system ? > And use the new image successfully ? It doesn't matter what the system you are compiling on is running. > thanks, > Allison cu Adrian -- "Is there not

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-08 Thread AsterixTheGaul
Its a T41 "without p" :) On Apr 8, 2005 9:09 PM, Nish Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 7, 2005 11:28 PM, AsterixTheGaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > FWIW, I have the same problem on a T41p with 2.6.11 and 2.6.12-rc2, > > > except that neither returns from suspend-to-ram with

[-mm patch] x86_64: kill obsolete check_nmi_watchdog prototype

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:14:19AM +0200, Mickael Marchand wrote: >... > -> compiling 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 on amd64 : > > arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c:116: error: static declaration of > 'check_nmi_watchdog' follows non-static declaration > include/asm/apic.h:102: error: previous declaration of >

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > > Ok, but if you want to search for information in such big text files it > slow, because you do linear search No I don't. I don't search for _anything_. I have my own content-addressable filesystem, and I guarantee you that it's faster than

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 11:10 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > However I am still worried that the rw lock will allow concurrent files > trying to lock the same window at the same time. Only one succeed > though., high cpu usage then. And also, in the normal case the > filesystem is not really full,

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-08 Thread Mingming Cao
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:40 +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 00:37, Mingming Cao wrote: > > > Actually, we do not have to do an rbtree link and unlink for every > > window we search. If the reserved window(old) has no free bit and the > > new reservable window's

[INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-08 Thread Franco \"Sensei\"
Hi. I'm new in the list... please excuse me, I'm probably naive. I'm using linux from 1997, and now I'm wondering why the kernel versioning system has been so strict. I've been following the thread ``RFD: Kernel release numbering'', but still I have some concerns... Earlier versions used the

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:46:40AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I can indeed stat the entire tree in that time (assuming it's in memory, > of course, but my kernel trees are _always_ in memory ;), but in order to > do so, I have to be good at finding the names to stat. I just tested this (I

Re: [PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users

2005-04-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > JÃrn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Next step for inter_module removal. This patch makes the code > > conditional on its last users and shrinks the kernel binary for the > > huge majority of people. > > If we do this, nobody

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

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:42:51PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 19:34 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > > When there are several possible interpretations, you have to pick up the > > > more conservative one, as it's not up to us to make the interpretation, > > > but

Re: [PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users

2005-04-08 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Next step for inter_module removal. This patch makes the code > > conditional on its last users and shrinks the kernel binary for the > > huge majority of people. > > If we do this, nobody

Re: init process freezed after run_init_process

2005-04-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> Make your own initrd and put a bash into it. Then start that, e.g. (for >> our linux live cd), initrd=initrd.sqfs root=/dev/ram0 init=/bin/bash > > I have tried these kernel parameters: > init=/bin/bash > init=/linuxrc > init=/init > init=/sbin/init > None works. What's the error message? >

Re: [PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users

2005-04-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Next step for inter_module removal. This patch makes the code > conditional on its last users and shrinks the kernel binary for the > huge majority of people. If we do this, nobody will get around to fixing up the remaining users. - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-08 Thread James Chapman
Ladislav Michl wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:08:46PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: Add support for DS1339. The only difference against DS1337 is Trickle Charge register at address 10h, which is used to enable battery or gold cap charging. Please note that value may vary for different batteries,

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:14:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > After applying a patch, I can do a complete "show-diff" on the kernel tree > > to see the effect of it in about 0.15 seconds. > > How does that work? Can you stat the entire tree

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

2005-04-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 Ã 19:34 +0200, Adrian Bunk a Ãcrit : > > When there are several possible interpretations, you have to pick up the > > more conservative one, as it's not up to us to make the interpretation, > > but to a court. > > If Debian was at least consistent. > > Why has Debian a

Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)

2005-04-08 Thread jdavis
Hello, I've created a pretty straight forward timer using setitimer, and noticed some odd differences between 2.4 and 2.6, I wonder if I could get a clarification if this is the way it should work, or if I should continue to try to "fix" it. I create a RealTime Thread( SCHED_FIFO,

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

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:22:00AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 23:07 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > > You are mixing apples and oranges. The fact that the GFDL sucks has > > > nothing to do with the firmware issue. With the current situation of > > > firmwares in

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: SQL Databases like SQLite aren't slow. After applying a patch, I can do a complete "show-diff" on the kernel tree to see the effect of it in about 0.15 seconds. Also, I can use rsync to efficiently replicate my database

[PATCH] Add Force Feedback interface to joydev

2005-04-08 Thread Anssi Hannula
This patch adds Force Feedback interface to joydev. I felt this necessary because games usually don't run as root while evdev usually can't be read or written by anyone else. Patch is against 2.6.12-rc2. If there is a reason this can't be applied or needs modifications, please say it :) If I

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Apr 7, 2005 6:54 PM, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I propose that everybody who is interested, pick one of the above projects > and join it, to help get it to the point of being able to losslessly import > the version graph. Given the importance, I think that _all_ viable >

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: SQL Databases like SQLite aren't slow. After applying a patch, I can do a complete "show-diff" on the kernel tree to see the effect of it in about 0.15 seconds. Also, I can use rsync to efficiently replicate my

Re: [PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users

2005-04-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:08 +0200, JÃrn Engel wrote: > Derived from a patch Arjan sent around. > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: Problem in log_do_checkpoint()?

2005-04-08 Thread Badari Pulavarty
I get OOPs in log_do_checkpoint() while using ext3 quotas. Is this anyway related to what you are working on ? Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip: 801aeee1 *pde = 52b31001 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU:3 EIP:

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

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:54:40AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:31:36AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:05:05PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:56:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >... > > > > If your statement was

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:14:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > After applying a patch, I can do a complete "show-diff" on the kernel tree > to see the effect of it in about 0.15 seconds. How does that work? Can you stat the entire tree in that time? I measure it as being higher than that. -

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:22 +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > > Our first victim!! :-) > > > > No kidding!? > V0.7.44-02 does not even compile for me. It appears to be full of merge errors. I get these errors with "make oldconfig": HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf scripts/kconfig/conf -o

IDE_CS problems with Compact Flash

2005-04-08 Thread Vincent C Jones
Seeing strange results when using compact flash in a ThinkPad X31. Seems to work OK, but when the card is inserted or the system is booted with the card already inserted, I get a few hundred lines of complaint in the syslog. Prior to 2.6.12-rc2-mm2, I also had problems shutting down. Result would

VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (any progress?)

2005-04-08 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Hello, Did anyone make progress in the case of the VIA Rhine ethernet bug? It gives messages like: Apr 8 18:51:08 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x9 length 0 status 0600! Apr 8 18:51:08 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame cca77090 vs

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > > SQL Databases like SQLite aren't slow. After applying a patch, I can do a complete "show-diff" on the kernel tree to see the effect of it in about 0.15 seconds. Also, I can use rsync to efficiently replicate my database without having to

Re: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 23:28, Ingo Molnar wrote: > this one looks really clean. > > it makes me wonder, what is the current status of fusyn's? Such a light > datastructure would be much more mergeable upstream than the former > 100-queues approach. Inaky was telling me that 100

[PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users

2005-04-08 Thread Jörn Engel
Derived from a patch Arjan sent around. Jörn -- The cheapest, fastest and most reliable components of a computer system are those that aren't there. -- Gordon Bell, DEC labratories Next step for inter_module removal. This patch makes the code conditional on its last users and shrinks the

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Catalin Marinas
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which is why I'd love to hear from people who have actually used various > SCM's with the kernel. There's bound to be people who have already > tried. I (successfully) tried GNU Arch with the Linux kernel. I mirrored all the BKCVS changesets since

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Friday, 8 of April 2005 13:46, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Friday, 8 of April 2005 12:08, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm2/ > > > > > > - Although small, bk-audit.patch was causing conflits with a

re: x86-64 bad pmds in 2.6.11.6

2005-04-08 Thread Clem Taylor
Dave Jones reported seeing bad pmd messages in 2.6.11.6. I've been seeing them with 2.6.11 and today with 2.6.11.6. When I first saw the problem I ran memtest86 and it didn't catch anything after ~3hours. However, I don't see them when X starts. They tend to happen after a program segfaults:

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 1/4

2005-04-08 Thread James Chapman
Sorry for joining this thread late. Patches 1-3 are fine with me. /james Ladislav Michl wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:36:29PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Oops, you forgot to add a Signed-off-by: line for every patch, as per Documentation/SubmittingPatches. Care to redo them? Here it is (I'm sorry

Re: buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random problem on 2.6.12-rc1)

2005-04-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:04PM +0200, Simon Derr wrote: > I enabled the debug messages in random.c and I think I found the problem > lying in the IA64 version of fls(). Good catch. > It turns out that the generic and IA64 versions of fls() disagree: > > (output from a small test program)

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-08 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ladislav, > (...) (And in ideal world > firmware (such as U-Boot, RedBoot, etc.) should set this register). Thanks for pointing the obvious out to me. You convinced me, this simply doesn't belong to the kernel. So your patch is not needed. I would still welcome a patch documenting the fact

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-08 Thread Paulo Marques
Adrian Bunk wrote: [...] On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: Hi Adrian, Hi Paolo, Paulo, please :) Paolo is Spanish (or Italian), whereas Paulo is a Portuguese name. [...] I think most will agree that the second piece of code is more "readable". In this case yes (but it

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Why not to use sql as backend instead of the tree of directories? Because it sucks? I can come up with millions of ways to slow things down on my own. Please come up with ways to speed things up instead.

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.6] Add power cycle to ipmi_poweroff module

2005-04-08 Thread Corey Minyard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The message handler and si are already using /proc/ipmi/. The patch code simply reuse it. By the way, shouldn't we be using sysfs? Yes, we should. There's not much sysfs support in the ipmi driver yet; a patch to add class stuff is in the mm kernels, but nothing for

[PATCH] Fix reloading GDT on ACPI S3 wakeup

2005-04-08 Thread Juerg Billeter
Hi This patch - based on http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=110055503031009=2 - makes ACPI S3 wakeup work for me on a ThinkPad T40p laptop with a SMP kernel. Without it only UP kernels work. I've been using the patch for three months now without any issues. The ACPI resume code

RE: [PATCH 2.6.11.6] Add power cycle to ipmi_poweroff module

2005-04-08 Thread Shawn Starr
Shouldn't IPMI be using /sys instead /proc? I thought we're trying to cleanup /proc? --- List: linux-kernel Subject:RE: [PATCH 2.6.11.6] Add power cycle to ipmi_poweroff module From: Date: 2005-04-08 15:53:54 Message-ID: [Download message RAW] The message

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> And rw locking is much better for concurrency, so > we might be able to hold it over the whole bitmap search rather than > taking it and dropping it at each window advance. rw locks only help if readers are 10x more common than writers generally speaking. They are quite expensive locks, so

RE: [PATCH 2.6.11.6] Add power cycle to ipmi_poweroff module

2005-04-08 Thread Chris_Poblete
The message handler and si are already using /proc/ipmi/. The patch code simply reuse it. By the way, shouldn't we be using sysfs? As for separating from power_off, it just seem so simple to integrate the power cycle command into the power_off code. It could definitely be a separate module.

Re: [patch 2/8] correctly name the Shell sort

2005-04-08 Thread Horst von Brand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > As per http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/shellsort.html, this should be > referred to as a Shell sort. Shell-Metzner is a misnomer. > Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Why not use the sort routine from

Re: [BUG] 2.6.12-rc1/rc2 mouse0 became mouse1

2005-04-08 Thread Ali Akcaagac
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:13 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Input devices names are not guaranteed to be stable, they get them in > order of their registration and therefore can change based on config, > order in which modules are loaded and changes in other modules. In > this case shift was

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Here's a partial solution. It does depend on a modified version of > cat-file that behaves like cat. I found it easier to have cat-file > just dump the object indicated on stdout. Trivial patch for that is included. Your trivial patch is

Re: Timestamp of file modified through mmap are not changed in 2.6

2005-04-08 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> Timestamp of file modified through mmap are not changed in 2.6 (even > after msync()). Observations on 2.4 and 2.6 kernels: > - on 2.4, timestamps are altered a few seconds after the program exits. > - on 2.6, timestamps are never altered. > > Is this behaviour a normal behaviour ? > >

Re: Oops with "linux-2.4.29"

2005-04-08 Thread Steffen Moser
Hi Marcelo, * On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 05:20 PM (-0300), Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > This looks like corruption - ext3_get_block() jumps to a bogus function > which contains bogus instructions. Like if ext3_get_block() had been > overwritten with junk data. Thank you very much for your quick

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-08 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Apr 7, 2005 11:28 PM, AsterixTheGaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWIW, I have the same problem on a T41p with 2.6.11 and 2.6.12-rc2, > > except that neither returns from suspend-to-ram with video restored on > > the LCD. I believe I was able to get video restored on an external CRT > > in

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.6] Add power cycle to ipmi_poweroff module

2005-04-08 Thread Corey Minyard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below is a patch to add "power cycle" functionality to the IPMI power off module ipmi_poweroff. A new module param is added to support this: parmtype: do_power_cycle:int parm: do_power_cycle: Set to 1 to enable power cycle instead of power down. Power cycle

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-08 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
> Our first victim!! :-) > No kidding!? > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 20:06 +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: >> > >> I'm having plenty of this on boot, on my SMP/HT desktop (P4/x86), while >> running RT-V0.7.44-01 (SMP+PREEMPT_RT): >> >> BUG: kstopmachine: RT task yield()-ing! >> >> See sample

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Paulo Marques
Jan Dittmer wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: create-a-kstrdup-library-function.patch create a kstrdup library function create-a-kstrdup-library-function-fixes.patch create-a-kstrdup-library-function-fixes Oops, forgot to include slab.h. I guess the other #include's were including it somewhere down

Re: PATCH add support for system on chip (SoC) devices.

2005-04-08 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 8, 2005, at 9:19 AM, Ian Molton wrote: Hi. This patch add support for a new 'System on Chip' or SoC bus type. This allows common drivers used in different SoC devices to be shared in a clean and healthy manner, for example, the MMC function on toshiba t7l66xb, tc6393xb, and Compaq IPAQ

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Alexander Nyberg
fre 2005-04-08 klockan 03:08 -0700 skrev Andrew Morton: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm2/ > I got this running ./runltp -x 2, can't recall this happening before. It bothers me a bit as it's a GFP_KERNEL allocation and there's lots of swap

Timestamp of file modified through mmap are not changed in 2.6

2005-04-08 Thread Xavier Roche
Timestamp of file modified through mmap are not changed in 2.6 (even after msync()). Observations on 2.4 and 2.6 kernels: - on 2.4, timestamps are altered a few seconds after the program exits. - on 2.6, timestamps are never altered. Is this behaviour a normal behaviour ? Program example to

Re: PATCH add support for system on chip (SoC) devices.

2005-04-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:19:44PM +0100, Ian Molton wrote: > Hi. > > This patch add support for a new 'System on Chip' or SoC bus type. Hi Ian. A few general comments. 1) Please add kernel-doc style comments for all exported functions 2) Keep source within 80 coloumns 3) Do not use extern in

[PATCH 2.6.11.6] Add power cycle to ipmi_poweroff module

2005-04-08 Thread Chris_Poblete
Below is a patch to add "power cycle" functionality to the IPMI power off module ipmi_poweroff. A new module param is added to support this: parmtype: do_power_cycle:int parm: do_power_cycle: Set to 1 to enable power cycle instead of power down. Power cycle is contingent on

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-08 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 00:37, Mingming Cao wrote: > Actually, we do not have to do an rbtree link and unlink for every > window we search. If the reserved window(old) has no free bit and the > new reservable window's is right after the old one, no need to unlink > the old window from the

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc2]: ppc32: Fix a problem with NTP on !(chrp||gemini)

2005-04-08 Thread Tom Rini
The following problem was found by Giovambattista Pulcini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who also provided a partial patch, and this has been verified by our time guru Gabriel Paubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The problem is that in do_settimeofday() we always set time_state to TIME_ERROR and except on two

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