Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (ckrm)

2005-07-18 Thread Hirokazu Takahashi
Hi, > > What, in your opinion, makes it "obviously unmergeable"? Controlling resource assignment, I think that concept is good. But the design is another matter that it seems somewhat overkilled with the current CKRM. > I suspect that the main problem is that this patch is not a mainstream >

Re: 2.6.13.3 flooding my logs

2005-07-18 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2.6.13.2 didn't do this, now I'm getting (from dmesg): > > PROTO=17 127.0.0.1:53 127.0.0.1:56872 L=56 S=0x00 I=40463 F=0x4000 T=64 > ip_local_deliver: bad skb: PRE_ROUTING LOCAL_IN LOCAL_OUT POST_ROUTING > skb: pf=2 (unowned) dev=lo len=56 > PROTO=17

RE: FC3 module sys_print how...

2005-07-18 Thread Mukund JB.
Dear Richard, I have tried your module to print message to the file in the kernel level. I am able to get it work till the initialization level. Later when I insert the card the system hangs. Please suggest me what could be the problem. Or is there a way to get all my LOG messages perfectly even

Re: 2.6.12-rc2 and as-iosched

2005-07-18 Thread Kenneth Parrish
Randy> Need more info. Greetings. :) CONFIG_HZ_ changes the block device elevator time-out values -- didn't see. - 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: MD sequential / parallel resync issue with DM devices

2005-07-18 Thread Michel Bouissou
Le Lundi 18 Juillet 2005 10:37, I wrote (on the evms-devel ML) : > > In kernel 2.4, MD thinks that all DM devices are "on the same physical > disk" (and issues a dummy warning about this), and it resyncs them > sequentially, which may or may not be optimal, but at least doesn't cause > any

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Richard J Moore
Tom Zanussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 14/07/2005 16:01:25: > The only things that are atomic are the counts of produced and > consumed buffers and these are only ever updated or read in the slow > buffer-switch path. They're atomic because if they weren't, wouldn't > it be possible for

Re: [-mm patch] EXIT_CONNECTOR and FORK_CONNECTOR must depend on NET

2005-07-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 10:48:20PM +0200, Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If you select some variable, you have to ensure that the dependencies of > the select'ed variable are fulfilled. Correct, thank you. I've add Guillaume Thouvenin (author) to Cc: list. > This patch fixes the

[RFC-2 PATCH 6/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds ability to clone a namespace that has shared/private/slave/unclone subtrees in it. RP Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/namespace.c |9 + 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+) Index: 2.6.12.work1/fs/namespace.c

[RFC-2 PATCH 5/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds ability to unmount a shared/slave/unclone/private tree RP Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/namespace.c| 68 +- fs/pnode.c| 112 ++ include/linux/fs.h|3 +

Re: PCMCIA_SOCKET unable to apply filter after Ram Upgrade

2005-07-18 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Frederic Gaus wrote: > Hi folks! > > I've recently done a RAM upgrade on my IBM Thinkpad R40 (2722). > > 1. Ram-Chip: pc2100 cl 2.5 512 MB > 2. Ram-Chip: pc2700 cl 2.5 1024 MB > > When booting with only one Chip inside, everything works perfecly. > (Never mind in which slot). But when using

[RFC-2 PATCH 4/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds ability to move a shared/private/slave/unclone tree to any other shared/private/slave/unclone tree. Also incorporates the same behavior for pivot_root() RP Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/namespace.c | 150 +++-- 1 files

[RFC-2 PATCH 1/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
This patch adds the shared/private/slave support for VFS trees. Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/Makefile |2 fs/dcache.c |2 fs/namespace.c| 98 +++ fs/pnode.c| 158

[RFC-2 PATCH 3/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds the ability to bind/rbind a shared/private/slave subtree and set up propogation wherever needed. RP Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/namespace.c| 559 -- fs/pnode.c| 416 +-

[RFC-2 PATCH 8/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
code Optimization for pnode.c fs/pnode.c | 478 - 1 files changed, 224 insertions(+), 254 deletions(-) Index: 2.6.12.work1/fs/pnode.c === ---

Re: Synaptics probe problem on Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi

2005-07-18 Thread Andrey Panin
On 199, 07 18, 2005 at 07:54:16AM +0200, Thomas Sailer wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 20:38 +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > Also try the usual options ("i8042.nomux=1" and "usb-handoff"). One or > > both may make the problem disappear. > > usb-handoff did it, thanks a lot! IIRC there was a

[RFC-2 PATCH 7/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
adds support for mount/umount propogation for autofs initiated operations, RP fs/namespace.c| 151 +- fs/pnode.c| 13 ++-- include/linux/pnode.h |3 3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-) Index:

[RFC-2 PATCH 0/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Enclosed 8 patches that implement shared subtree functionality as detailed in Al Viro's RFC found at http://lwn.net/Articles/119232/ I have incorporated all the comments received earlier in first round. Thanks to Miklos and Pekka for the valuable comments. Also I have optimized lots of code,

[RFC-2 PATCH 2/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds the ability to unclone a vfs tree. A uncloned vfs tree will not be clonnable, and hence cannot be bind/rbind to any other mountpoint. RP fs/namespace.c| 15 ++- include/linux/fs.h|1 + include/linux/mount.h | 15 +++ 3 files changed, 30

[ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.3 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc3

2005-07-18 Thread Peter Williams
This version contains minor bug fixes and improvements to spa_no_frills and zaphod schedulers including changes to the default configuration parameters for zaphod that take into account the results of tests using Con Kolivas's new (and very useful) interbench benchmark tool. A patch from

Re: Regarding KDB for REDHAT9.0

2005-07-18 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Monday 18 July 2005 01:59 am, Subbu's retarded company wrote: >SASKEN BUSINESS DISCLAIMER > This message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally Privileged > information. In case you are not the original intended Recipient of the > message, you must not,

[RFC] nodemanager, ocfs2, dlm

2005-07-18 Thread David Teigland
Some of the comments about the dlm concerned how it's configured (from user space.) In particular, there was interest in seeing the dlm and ocfs2 use common methods for their configuration. The first area I'm looking at is how we get addresses/ids of other nodes. Currently, the dlm uses an ioctl

Regarding KDB for REDHAT9.0

2005-07-18 Thread Subbu
Hi I have REDHAT 9.0 (kernel version 2.4.20-8) and i want to have KDB. please tell me which version of KDB i can use with redhat 9.0 and above mentioned kernel version. TIA Subbu "SASKEN RATED THE BEST EMPLOYER IN THE COUNTRY by the BUSINESS TODAY Mercer Survey 2004"

Regarding KDB for REDHAT9.0

2005-07-18 Thread Subbu
Hi I have REDHAT 9.0 (kernel version 2.4.20-8) and i want to have KDB. please tell me which version of KDB i can use with redhat 9.0 and above mentioned kernel version. TIA Subbu SASKEN RATED THE BEST EMPLOYER IN THE COUNTRY by the BUSINESS TODAY Mercer Survey 2004

[RFC] nodemanager, ocfs2, dlm

2005-07-18 Thread David Teigland
Some of the comments about the dlm concerned how it's configured (from user space.) In particular, there was interest in seeing the dlm and ocfs2 use common methods for their configuration. The first area I'm looking at is how we get addresses/ids of other nodes. Currently, the dlm uses an ioctl

Re: Regarding KDB for REDHAT9.0

2005-07-18 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Monday 18 July 2005 01:59 am, Subbu's retarded company wrote: SASKEN BUSINESS DISCLAIMER This message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally Privileged information. In case you are not the original intended Recipient of the message, you must not,

[ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.3 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc3

2005-07-18 Thread Peter Williams
This version contains minor bug fixes and improvements to spa_no_frills and zaphod schedulers including changes to the default configuration parameters for zaphod that take into account the results of tests using Con Kolivas's new (and very useful) interbench benchmark tool. A patch from

[RFC-2 PATCH 2/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds the ability to unclone a vfs tree. A uncloned vfs tree will not be clonnable, and hence cannot be bind/rbind to any other mountpoint. RP fs/namespace.c| 15 ++- include/linux/fs.h|1 + include/linux/mount.h | 15 +++ 3 files changed, 30

[RFC-2 PATCH 0/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Enclosed 8 patches that implement shared subtree functionality as detailed in Al Viro's RFC found at http://lwn.net/Articles/119232/ I have incorporated all the comments received earlier in first round. Thanks to Miklos and Pekka for the valuable comments. Also I have optimized lots of code,

[RFC-2 PATCH 7/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
adds support for mount/umount propogation for autofs initiated operations, RP fs/namespace.c| 151 +- fs/pnode.c| 13 ++-- include/linux/pnode.h |3 3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-) Index:

Re: Synaptics probe problem on Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi

2005-07-18 Thread Andrey Panin
On 199, 07 18, 2005 at 07:54:16AM +0200, Thomas Sailer wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 20:38 +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Also try the usual options (i8042.nomux=1 and usb-handoff). One or both may make the problem disappear. usb-handoff did it, thanks a lot! IIRC there was a patch which

[RFC-2 PATCH 8/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
code Optimization for pnode.c fs/pnode.c | 478 - 1 files changed, 224 insertions(+), 254 deletions(-) Index: 2.6.12.work1/fs/pnode.c === ---

[RFC-2 PATCH 3/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds the ability to bind/rbind a shared/private/slave subtree and set up propogation wherever needed. RP Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/namespace.c| 559 -- fs/pnode.c| 416 +-

[RFC-2 PATCH 1/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
This patch adds the shared/private/slave support for VFS trees. Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/Makefile |2 fs/dcache.c |2 fs/namespace.c| 98 +++ fs/pnode.c| 158

[RFC-2 PATCH 4/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds ability to move a shared/private/slave/unclone tree to any other shared/private/slave/unclone tree. Also incorporates the same behavior for pivot_root() RP Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/namespace.c | 150 +++-- 1 files

Re: PCMCIA_SOCKET unable to apply filter after Ram Upgrade

2005-07-18 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Frederic Gaus wrote: Hi folks! I've recently done a RAM upgrade on my IBM Thinkpad R40 (2722). 1. Ram-Chip: pc2100 cl 2.5 512 MB 2. Ram-Chip: pc2700 cl 2.5 1024 MB When booting with only one Chip inside, everything works perfecly. (Never mind in which slot). But when using both, I get

[RFC-2 PATCH 5/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds ability to unmount a shared/slave/unclone/private tree RP Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/namespace.c| 68 +- fs/pnode.c| 112 ++ include/linux/fs.h|3 +

[RFC-2 PATCH 6/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds ability to clone a namespace that has shared/private/slave/unclone subtrees in it. RP Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/namespace.c |9 + 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+) Index: 2.6.12.work1/fs/namespace.c

Re: [-mm patch] EXIT_CONNECTOR and FORK_CONNECTOR must depend on NET

2005-07-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 10:48:20PM +0200, Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you select some variable, you have to ensure that the dependencies of the select'ed variable are fulfilled. Correct, thank you. I've add Guillaume Thouvenin (author) to Cc: list. This patch fixes the

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Richard J Moore
Tom Zanussi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 14/07/2005 16:01:25: The only things that are atomic are the counts of produced and consumed buffers and these are only ever updated or read in the slow buffer-switch path. They're atomic because if they weren't, wouldn't it be possible for the

Re: MD sequential / parallel resync issue with DM devices

2005-07-18 Thread Michel Bouissou
Le Lundi 18 Juillet 2005 10:37, I wrote (on the evms-devel ML) : In kernel 2.4, MD thinks that all DM devices are on the same physical disk (and issues a dummy warning about this), and it resyncs them sequentially, which may or may not be optimal, but at least doesn't cause any problem. In

Re: 2.6.12-rc2 and as-iosched

2005-07-18 Thread Kenneth Parrish
Randy Need more info. Greetings. :) CONFIG_HZ_ changes the block device elevator time-out values -- didn't see. - 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: FC3 module sys_print how...

2005-07-18 Thread Mukund JB.
Dear Richard, I have tried your module to print message to the file in the kernel level. I am able to get it work till the initialization level. Later when I insert the card the system hangs. Please suggest me what could be the problem. Or is there a way to get all my LOG messages perfectly even

Re: 2.6.13.3 flooding my logs

2005-07-18 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Ralf Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2.6.13.2 didn't do this, now I'm getting (from dmesg): PROTO=17 127.0.0.1:53 127.0.0.1:56872 L=56 S=0x00 I=40463 F=0x4000 T=64 ip_local_deliver: bad skb: PRE_ROUTING LOCAL_IN LOCAL_OUT POST_ROUTING skb: pf=2 (unowned) dev=lo len=56 PROTO=17

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (ckrm)

2005-07-18 Thread Hirokazu Takahashi
Hi, What, in your opinion, makes it obviously unmergeable? Controlling resource assignment, I think that concept is good. But the design is another matter that it seems somewhat overkilled with the current CKRM. I suspect that the main problem is that this patch is not a mainstream kernel

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-18 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: That's like scratching your left ear with your right hand -- broadcasting that external timer interrupt in the first place is more straightforward. If you want to exclude CPUs from the list of receivers, just use the logical destination mode

shared subtrees implementation writeup

2005-07-18 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Thanks for the writeup, it helps to understand things a bit better. However I still don't understand a few things: Section 1. mount: to begin with we have a the following mount tree root / / \ \ \ / t1 t2 \ \

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS cannot open a root device

2005-07-18 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Sunday 17 July 2005 22:46, Fawad Lateef wrote: I saw this prob when my boot device/partition in the bootloader config was wrong or the filesystem of my root partition is not compiled as a kernel image rather compiled as module, so plz try to solve this prob by selecting your desired

Re: [PATCH] signed char fixes for scripts

2005-07-18 Thread Paulo Marques
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:14:43PM +, J.A. Magallon wrote: On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: [...] This time I did not break anything... and they shut up gcc4 ;) Thanks. Can you please resend with proper changelog and signed-off-by. Diff should be done on top of latest

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-18 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: Well.. I tried a patch to do the broadcast thing couple of months ago and failed to convince everyone :(. I must have missed the patch -- but was the change unconditional or affecting only broken systems? And how such systems were determined?

Re: Increasing virtual address space of a process, by treating virtual address's as offsets in secondary memory.

2005-07-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-07-18 at 10:12 +0530, vamsi krishna wrote: I was searching a lot about work on this, and found your reply where you say that we can increase the virtual address space by mmaping and munmaping programatically ourself. Its something a few giant applications do with data sets and the

Re: 2.6.12 hangs on boot

2005-07-18 Thread Alexander Y. Fomichev
On Saturday 25 June 2005 02:20, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Alexander Y. Fomichev wrote: I've been trying to switch from 2.6.12-rc3 to 2.6.12 on Dual EM64T 2.8 GHz [ MoBo: Intel E7520, intel 82801 ] but kernel hangs on boot right after records: Booting processor 2/1 rip

Re: [PATCH] signed char fixes for scripts

2005-07-18 Thread Paulo Marques
Paulo Marques wrote: Sam Ravnborg wrote: [...] Also this patch seems relative small compared to the others floating around to cure signed warnings in scripts/ Does this really fix all of them or only a subset of the warnings? Well, current -linus already has a patch from me to change the

Re: RT and XFS

2005-07-18 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Daniel Walker wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 12:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PI is always good, cause it allows the tracking of what is high priority , and what is not . that's just plain wrong. PI might be good if one

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1

2005-07-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I'm getting this (on ppc32, though I don't think it matters): CC drivers/video/chipsfb.o drivers/video/chipsfb.c: In function `chipsfb_pci_suspend': drivers/video/chipsfb.c:465: error: invalid operands to binary == drivers/video/chipsfb.c:467: error: invalid operands to

Re: [PATCH] Preserve hibenate-system-image on startup

2005-07-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! We are now investigating fast startup/shutdown using 2.6 kernel PM functions. An attached patch enables kernel to preserve system image on startup, to implement Snapshot boot[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Conventionally system image will be broken after startup. Snapshot boot uses

Re: [RFC][PATCH - 1/12] NTP cleanup: Move NTP code into ntp.c

2005-07-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This patch moves the generic NTP code from time.c and timer.c into ntp.c. It makes most of the NTP variables static providing more understandable interfaces like ntp_synced() and ntp_clear(). Since some of the newly made static variables are used in arch generic code, this

Re: [RFD] FAT robustness

2005-07-18 Thread Paulo Marques
Hiroyuki Machida wrote: [...] Q3 : I'm not sure JBD can be used for FAT improvements. Do you have any comments ? I might not be the best person to answer this, but this just seems so obvious: If you plan to let a recently hot-unplugged device to be used in another OS that doesn't

Commands available for [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-07-18 Thread bug-wranglers+owner
Hello, There exists the following options: To unsubscribe send a mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest of this list send a mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the nomail version of this list send a mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The nomail version of a list means that

Re: RT and XFS

2005-07-18 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:56:58AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: This reminds me of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt . That no one should really be dependent on a particular kernel API doing a particular thing. The kernel is play dough for

Re: [patch 2.6.12 (repost w/ corrected subject)] pci: restore BAR values in pci_enable_device_bars

2005-07-18 Thread Grant Grundler
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:46:20PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 01:29:54AM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:26:37PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: + /* Some devices lose PCI config header data during D3hot-D0 Can you name some of those

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3-mm1] connector: fix missing dependencies in Kconfig

2005-07-18 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
Hello Andrew, This patch fixes missing dependencies in drivers/connector/Kconfig file. We have to ensure that the dependencies of the selected variable are fulfilled otherwise it can produce some undefined references during the kernel compilation. This problem was reported by Adrian Bunk.

2.6.13-rc3 from today: No Toshiba ACPI module load?

2005-07-18 Thread Horst von Brand
I'm getting: # modprobe toshiba_acpi FATAL: Error inserting toshiba_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.13-rc3/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.ko): No such device This is definitely a Toshiba M30 notebook with this. On bootup I see: ACPI: RSDP (v000 TOSHIB) @ 0x000f7a10

Re: 2.6.12 hangs on boot

2005-07-18 Thread Andi Kleen
Can you please test if this patch fixes it? -Andi Don't compare linux processor index with APICID Fixes boot up lockups on some machines where CPU apic ids don't start with 0 Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c

ANNOUNCE: Driver for Rocky 4782E WDT and pls help

2005-07-18 Thread Gyorgy Horvath
Hi out there, I am VERY SAD to announce a new driver for the watchdog on Rocky 4782E2V processor card. The architecture is very close to Acquire WDT. Effectivelly one or two additional line is needed, that allow programming the timeout and properly kick the dog. Writing a byte with the number

Re: [PATCH] Re: relayfs documentation sucks?

2005-07-18 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 21:45 +0200, bert hubert wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 10:43:40AM -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: It is racey - in this mode, there's nothing to keep the kernel from writing as much as it wants before the user side has a chance to read any of it. The only way this can be

Re: Volatile vs Non-Volatile Spin Locks on SMP.

2005-07-18 Thread Joe Seigh
Joe Seigh wrote: For synchronization you need memory barriers in most cases and the only way to get these is using assembler since there are no C or gcc intrinsics for these yet. For inline assembler, the convention seems to be to use the volatile attribute, which I take as meaning no code

[patch] I-pipe 2.6.12-v0.9-02

2005-07-18 Thread Philippe Gerum
The interrupt pipeline patch v0.9-02 has been released, fixing a latency spot and a bug in the deferred printk() mechanism. A split version of the patch for x86, ppc32 and ia64 is available here: http://download.gna.org/adeos/patches/v2.6/ipipe/split/ Patch sequence to build a Linux 2.6.12

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 10:52 -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: - overwrite mode can be implemented via the buffer switch callback The buffer switch callback is already where this is handled, unless you're thinking of something else - one of the first checks in the buffer switch

Re: 2.6.12-rc2 and as-iosched

2005-07-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 18 2005, Kenneth Parrish wrote: Randy Need more info. Greetings. :) CONFIG_HZ_ changes the block device elevator time-out values -- didn't see. I cannot reproduce here with cfq and HZ == 250, the jiffies - msec conversions are working fine. Please provide a proper bug

[PATCH] Add missing tvaudio try_to_freeze.

2005-07-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. The .c gives Gerd Knorr as the maintainer of this file, but no email address. The MAINTAINERS file doesn't have his name or make it clear who owns the file. I haven't therefore been able to cc the maintainer. Tvaudio lacks a refrigerator call. This patch fixes that. Regards, Nigel

[PATCH] Convert refrigerator() to try_to_freeze()

2005-07-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. This patch removes the few remaining direct invocations of the refrigerator in 2.6.13-rc3. In drivers/media/video/msp3400.c, it also shifts the call to after the remove_wait_queue; this seems to be the more appropriate place. Regards, Nigel Signed-off by: Nigel Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH] try_to_freeze call fixes.

2005-07-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi all. Here are fixes for four try_to_freeze calls that are still (incorrectly) using a parameter after the recent try_to_freeze() changes. Regards, Nigel Signed-Off by: Nigel Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] mips/kernel/irixsig.c |2 +- mips/kernel/signal32.c |2 +- sh/kernel/signal.c

LZF Cryptoapi support.

2005-07-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi again. Here's another resend, this time adding an lzf cryptoapi module. LZF is a very fast compressor which typically achieves approximately 50% compression on a suspend image. The original author (Marc Alexander Lehmann) donated it to Suspend2. I have converted it to cryptoapi with a recent

[PATCH] Fix cryptoapi deflate not handling PAGE_SIZE chunks.

2005-07-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi Herbert. Here's a resend of a patch I'm using in Suspend2's new cryptoapi support, which is needed for us to successfully compress pages using deflate. It's along the lines of the existing fix in the decompression code. Regards, Nigel diff -ruNp

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: I'm actually very much against this. Looking at a point of view from the logdev device. Having a callback to know to continue at every buffer switch would just be slowing down something that is expected to be very fast. What exactly would be

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1

2005-07-18 Thread Joseph Fannin
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 09:32:49PM -0400, wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:36:53AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ +suspend-update-documentation.patch +swsusp-fix-printks-and-cleanups.patch

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Zanussi
Hareesh Nagarajan writes: Tom Zanussi wrote: Roman Zippel writes: Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Tom Zanussi wrote: The netlink control channel seems to work very well, but I can certainly change the examples to use something different. Could you suggest

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 16:16 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: I'm actually very much against this. Looking at a point of view from the logdev device. Having a callback to know to continue at every buffer switch would just be slowing down

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Roman Zippel wrote: The point is to design a simple and flexible relayfs layer, which means not every possible function has to be done in the relayfs layer, as long it's flexible enough to build additional functionality on top of it (for which it can again provide some library functions).

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Zanussi
Steven Rostedt writes: On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 10:52 -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: - overwrite mode can be implemented via the buffer switch callback The buffer switch callback is already where this is handled, unless you're thinking of something else - one of the

RE: how to be a kernel developer ?

2005-07-18 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi I want to join the Kernel community and help in developing Linux kernel, I'm good in C,Perl and not that good in C++ is there any How-To page in how to help or how to join ? since I want to start in basic things I can tell you one thing for sure. And that is that you will need to read

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Disk tests should be at a fixed rate, not all you can do. That's NOT realistic. Not true; what you suggest is another thing to check entirely, and that would be a valid benchmark too. What I'm

Avoiding BIGMEM support programatically.

2005-07-18 Thread vamsi krishna
Hello All, I have a program working fine on a 2.6.xx-smp kernel, and the program crashes on the same version kernel with bigmem i.e (2.6.xxx-bigmem). I also found that for a same executable on bigmem kernel the virtual address's of '_start' and '_etext', seem to vary in every new run. Is there

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: What exactly would be slowed down? It would just move around some code and even avoid the overwrite mode check. Yes, you're adding a jump to another function via a function pointer, that would kill the cache line of execution, to avoid a

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Karim Yaghmour wrote: I guess I just don't get the point here. Why cut something away if many users will need it. If it's that popular that you're ready to provide a library function to do it, then why not just leave it to boot? One of the goals of relayfs is to

Re: [PATCH] no more need to check for NULL before calls to crypto_free_tfm

2005-07-18 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:32:27AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-orig/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c 2005-06-17 21:48:29.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc3/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c 2005-07-16 23:35:55.0 +0200 @@ -227,14 +227,14 @@ cryptoloop_ioctl(struct

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-18 Thread K.R. Foley
Karsten Wiese wrote: Am Samstag, 16. Juli 2005 19:15 schrieb Ingo Molnar: * Karsten Wiese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have I corrected the other path of ioapic early initialization, which had lacked virtual-address setup before ioapic_data[ioapic] was to be filled in -51-28? Please test

Re: 2.6.12-rc2 and as-iosched

2005-07-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 18 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Jul 18 2005, Kenneth Parrish wrote: Randy Need more info. Greetings. :) CONFIG_HZ_ changes the block device elevator time-out values -- didn't see. I cannot reproduce here with cfq and HZ == 250, the jiffies - msec conversions

Re: [patch] I-pipe 2.6.12-v0.9-02

2005-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 July 2005 09:41, Philippe Gerum wrote: The interrupt pipeline patch v0.9-02 has been released, fixing a latency spot and a bug in the deferred printk() mechanism. A split version of the patch for x86, ppc32 and ia64 is available here:

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Zanussi
Roman Zippel writes: Hi, On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Karim Yaghmour wrote: I guess I just don't get the point here. Why cut something away if many users will need it. If it's that popular that you're ready to provide a library function to do it, then why not just leave it to boot? One

Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 2/4]delayed allocation for ext3

2005-07-18 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jul 17, 2005 10:40 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: @@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ struct ext3_inode { #define EXT3_MOUNT_BARRIER 0x2 /* Use block barriers */ #define EXT3_MOUNT_NOBH 0x4 /* No bufferheads */ #define EXT3_MOUNT_QUOTA 0x8 /* Some

Re: ANNOUNCE: Driver for Rocky 4782E WDT and pls help

2005-07-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-07-18 at 15:08 -0700, Gyorgy Horvath wrote: - Half of the RAM were stolen from Linux. (mem= kernel parameter) This range was requeset_mem_region-ed, then ioremap-ped for bus mastering DMA transfer. Actually 30 M is used. Did you make sure none of that

Re: VIA KT400 + Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = IRQ trouble

2005-07-18 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Michel Bouissou wrote: I'm afraid I won't have time for this today. It's already more than 11 PM here and I'm leaving early tomorrow for travel... I will be travelling this week also. That's okay, there's no hurry. But AFAIR, when I performed previous tests, I had

2.6.12.3/2.6.13-rc3 BUG REPORT - x86_64 with hyperthreading

2005-07-18 Thread Maxim Kozover
Hi! I tried 2.6.12.3/2.6.13-rc3 compiled for x86_64 on Supermicro dual Xeon with hyperthreading enabled and the kernel gets stuck when trying to initialize the second CPU. CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 1024K using mwait in idle threads. CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0

Re: how to be a kernel developer ?

2005-07-18 Thread Andrew Ruder
Alejandro Bonilla wrote: This exact question is made at least every 15 days. Did you google? You will need to make that your Home Page. And after that, make your first google search kernelnewbies. - Andrew Ruder - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

2.6.12.3 ompilation errors with linux1394.org rev.1315

2005-07-18 Thread art
2.6.12.3 ompilation errors with linux1394.org rev.1315 []$ make make modules .. LD drivers/ieee1394/built-in.o CC [M] drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.o drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c: In function ‘hpsbpkt_thread’: drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c:1035: error: too few

Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Gooch
Greg KH writes: I do care about this, please don't think that. But here's my reasoning for why it needs to go: [...] - original developer of devfs has publicly stated udev is a replacement. Well, that's news to me! - policy in the kernel. Like sysfs :-) -

Re: shared subtrees implementation writeup

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 04:06, Miklos Szeredi wrote: Thanks for the writeup, it helps to understand things a bit better. However I still don't understand a few things: Section 1. mount: to begin with we have a the following mount tree root

Re: [PATCH 8/8] pci and yenta: pcibios_bus_to_resource

2005-07-18 Thread Grant Grundler
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:21:38AM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: In yenta_socket, we default to using the resource setting of the CardBus bridge. However, this is a PCI-bus-centric view of resources and thus needs to be converted to generic resources first. Therefore, add a call to

Re: Fix missing refrigerator invocation in jffs2.

2005-07-18 Thread Jörn Engel
On Mon, 18 July 2005 14:14:53 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: Here's a patch to fix a missing refrigerator call in jffs2. ^ You should shorten the description by one letter, roughly. ;) Signed-off by: Nigel Cunningham [EMAIL

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