Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 28 of July 2005 21:16, Andrew Morton wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two problems with the compilation of arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c. Thanks. --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm3/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c 2005-07-28 21:05:53.0 +0200 +++

Re: kconfig: trivial cleanup

2005-07-28 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:56:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Replace all menu_add_prop mimicking menu_add_prompt with the latter func. I've had to add a return value to menu_add_prompt for one usage. I've rebuilt scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped by hand to reflect changes in the

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: I've verified now that all ATI R300+ chips have 10bit cmaps. These are pretty common so I'd be in favor of making this into a binary attribute where I can get/set the whole table at once. Given that OpenGL is already supporting 12 and 16 bits these tables

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Introduce a todo notifier in the task_struct so that a task can be told to do certain things. Abuse the suspend hooks try_to_freeze, freezing and refrigerator to establish checkpoints where the todo list is processed. This will break software suspend (next patch fixes and cleans up

[Patch 2.6.13-rc3-mm3]fs/reiser4/plugin/item/static_stat.c fix -Wundef errors in two files

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Sillik
This fixes -Wundef errors in: fs/reiser4/plugin/item/static_stat.c Nick Sillik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Nick Sillik [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urN a/fs/reiser4/plugin/item/static_stat.c b/fs/reiser4/plugin/item/static_stat.c --- a/fs/reiser4/plugin/item/static_stat.c 2005-07-28

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Jon Smirl
On 7/28/05, Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: I've verified now that all ATI R300+ chips have 10bit cmaps. These are pretty common so I'd be in favor of making this into a binary attribute where I can get/set the whole table at once. Given

Re: 2.6.13-rc3: swsusp works (TP 600X)

2005-07-28 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 28 of July 2005 23:36, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! If I don't eject the pcmcia card (usually a prism54 wireless card), swsusp begins the process of hibernation, but never gets to the writing pages part. Well, it really may be the firmware loading. Add some printks to

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Introduce a todo notifier in the task_struct so that a task can be told to do certain things. Abuse the suspend hooks try_to_freeze, freezing and refrigerator to establish checkpoints where the todo list is processed. This will

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Dirk
Michael Thonke wrote: Hello Andrew, here again I have two problems. With 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 I have problems using my SATA drives on Intel ICH6. The kernel can't route there IRQs or can't discover them. the option irqpoll got them to work now. The problem is new because 2.6.13-rc3[-mm1,mm2]

[2.6 patch] include/linux/blkdev.h: extern inline - static inline

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
extern inline doesn't make much sense. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm3-full/include/linux/blkdev.h.old2005-07-28 16:07:30.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm3-full/include/linux/blkdev.h2005-07-28 16:08:12.0 +0200 @@ -727,7 +727,7

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Introduce a todo notifier in the task_struct so that a task can be told to do certain things. Abuse the suspend hooks try_to_freeze, freezing and refrigerator to establish checkpoints where the todo list is processed. This will break software suspend (next patch

[-mm patch] drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.c: EXPORT_SYMTAB does nothing

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
There's no need to define something if it doesn't has any effect. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 10 Jul 2005 --- linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm1-full/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.c.old 2005-07-10 17:31:01.0 +0200 +++

[patch 2.6.13-rc3] sis190 driver

2005-07-28 Thread Francois Romieu
Single file patch: http://www.zoreil.com/~romieu/sis190/20050728-2.6.13-rc3-sis190-test.patch Patch-kit: http://www.zoreil.com/~romieu/sis190/20050728-2.6.13-rc3/patches Tarball: http://www.zoreil.com/~romieu/sis190/20050728-2.6.13-rc3.tar.bz2 Changes from previous version (20050722) o Add

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Jon Smirl wrote: Can you review this fix for the issues below? I fixed things to automatically adjust the number of entries to whatever fits in PAGE_SIZE. diff --git a/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c b/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c --- a/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c @@ -244,15

[PATCH] fix gconfig crash

2005-07-28 Thread Sam Ravnborg
From: Joachim Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I ran glade-2 on the glade file, fixed two missing stock icons and cleaned up the C code that inserts the single/split/full modes. The rest of the patch is minor cleanups only. I refrained from using all the included xpm icons in images.c (like qconf.cc

quick question; did usb hid change from .12 to .13-rc3 on x86_64?

2005-07-28 Thread David Ford
I've a quick question before I start digging through patches between .12 and .13-rc3, /dev/input/mice (usb mice) stopped yielding data. dmesg indicates removal/re-insertion of the device but no driver registers and nothing comes from /dev/input/mice. I have rc-3 on other machines and the

Re: 2.6.12: no sound on SPDIF with emu10k1

2005-07-28 Thread Thomas Zehetbauer
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 03:13 -0700, Avuton Olrich wrote: After upgrading to 1.0.9, I thought my emu10k1 board was broken until I toggled 'IEC958 Optical Raw' to Off. Many thanks, that did the trick! I have now tried to only load the emu10k1 driver modules and found that 2.6.12's ALSA is VERY

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:02:30PM +1000, Grant Coady wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:05:12 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here goes another -pre, after a long period. Breaks Toshiba laptop: hard lockup -- what is on screen is same as working dmesg up to point: host/uhci.c:

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Jon Smirl wrote: On 7/28/05, Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: I've verified now that all ATI R300+ chips have 10bit cmaps. These are pretty common so I'd be in favor of making this into a binary attribute where I can get/set the whole table at

[2.6 patch] net: Spelling mistakes threshoulds - thresholds

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
Just simple spelling mistake fixes. From: aruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-Off-By: Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 12 Jul 2005 This patch was sent by Baruch Even on: - 05 Apr 2005 ---

[PATCH] random : prefetch the whole pool, not 1/4 of it

2005-07-28 Thread Eric Dumazet
Hi Matt Could you check this patch and apply it ? Thank you Eric [RANDOM] : prefetch the whole pool, not 1/4 of it, (pool contains u32 words, not bytes) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.13-rc3/drivers/char/random.c 2005-07-13 06:46:46.0

Re: VIA PCI routing problem

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Bjorn Helgaas wrote: Can you try this: [...] If that doesn't help, remove it and see if this does: [...] Can you also include lspci output? Neither worked. I'll open a bugzilla and include lspci and dmesg there. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online

Re: [PATCH] random : prefetch the whole pool, not 1/4 of it

2005-07-28 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:26:11AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: Hi Matt Could you check this patch and apply it ? Thank you Eric [RANDOM] : prefetch the whole pool, not 1/4 of it, (pool contains u32 words, not bytes) You probably want r-poolinfo-poolwords as wordmask is off

Re: [ALSA PATCH] 1.0.9b+

2005-07-28 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 28 Jul 2005 18:25, Andrew Morton wrote: Jaroslav Kysela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus, please do an update from: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa.git ... 65 files changed, 5059 insertions(+), 1122 deletions(-) The git-alsa.patch in -mm

Re: VIA PCI routing problem

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Brown, Len wrote: Fix two systems, break another... Nick, can you open a bugzilla on this and put your lspci -vv and dmesg into it. Apparently the quirk is good for some machines and not as good for others and we need to get smarter about when to apply it. OK, done. I put it under ACPI

unmounting a filesystem mounted by /init (initramfs)

2005-07-28 Thread Rafael Espíndola
I am trying to build a system that uses a unionfs as root. The init script is based on the one used by gentoo and uses initramfs. The problem is how to remount the unionfs constituents read only during halt. cat /proc/mounts displays /dev/hda1 (ext2) mounted rw in /memory. The problem is that

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (ckrm)

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Jackson
Thanks for your well worded response, Shailabh. Others will have to make further comments and decisions here. You have understood what I had to say, and responded well. I have nothing to add at this point that would help further. -- I won't rest till it's the best ...

Re: Where's the list of needed hardware for donating?

2005-07-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Does a list exist describing the hardware needed or wished for to extend coverage for kernel development? I saw such a list at openbsd and thought it was a good idea. Heh, second zaurus for testing would certainly help ;-).

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: Dont fix it up. Remove the ealier patch. Oops. Do you happen to have patch relative to -mm or something? I'd prefer not to mess it up second time... Ok. I will make a patch against mm tomorrow. Patches are typically against Linus latest and if you

Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
What sort of workload needs SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE? SD_WAKE_AFFINE are not useful in conjunction with interrupt binding. In fact, it creates more harm than usefulness, causing detrimental process migration and destroy process cache affinity etc. Also SD_WAKE_BALANCE is giving us

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
George Anzinger george@mvista.com wrote: This patch adds a notify to the nmi watchdog to notify that the system is about to be taken down by the watchdog. If the notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the system is given a new lease on life. It looks sensible,

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: Jon Smirl wrote: On 7/28/05, Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: There are a couple of ways to fix this. 1) Add a check to limit use of the sysfs attributes

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: Dont fix it up. Remove the ealier patch. Oops. Do you happen to have patch relative to -mm or something? I'd prefer not to mess it up second time... Ok. I will make a patch against mm tomorrow.

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please tell me how I can figure out the order in which the individual patches in -mm have been applied? It's all in the series file: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm3/patch-series

Linux 2.6.13-rc4

2005-07-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
Hey everybody, as many of you are aware, we were talking (not enough) about the release process at LKS this year. This ain't it. This is just the regular old release process, with some LKS backlog put in for good measure. But the good news is, that I'll try the new release process after

Re: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Chen, Kenneth W wrote: What sort of workload needs SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE? SD_WAKE_AFFINE are not useful in conjunction with interrupt binding. In fact, it creates more harm than usefulness, causing detrimental process migration and destroy process cache affinity etc. Also

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Michael Thonke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here again I have two problems. With 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 I have problems using my SATA drives on Intel ICH6. The kernel can't route there IRQs or can't discover them. the option irqpoll got them to work now. The problem is new because

RE: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:35 PM Wake balancing provides an opportunity to provide some input bias into the load balancer. For example, if you started 100 pairs of tasks which communicate through a pipe. On a 2 CPU system without wake balancing, probably half of the

Re: v850, which gcc and binutils version?

2005-07-28 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Jan, Jan Dittmer wrote: Greg Ungerer wrote: If you care to try applying the uClinux patches, they should be available from (fill in $ver with 2.6.12-uc0 and $maj_ver with 2.6): http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/uClinux-$maj_ver.x/linux-$ver.patch.gz Greg, do you have any status

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread George Anzinger
Andrew Morton wrote: George Anzinger george@mvista.com wrote: This patch adds a notify to the nmi watchdog to notify that the system is about to be taken down by the watchdog. If the notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the system is given a new lease

[PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Bellon
If /etc/mtab is a regular file all of the mount options (of a file system) are written to /etc/mtab by the mount command. The quota tools look there for the quota strings for their operation. If, however, /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts (a good thing in some environments) the tools

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
George Anzinger george@mvista.com wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: George Anzinger george@mvista.com wrote: This patch adds a notify to the nmi watchdog to notify that the system is about to be taken down by the watchdog. If the notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the

Re: [PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Nathan Scott
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:03:02PM -0700, Mark Bellon wrote: The attached patchs modify the EXT[2|3] and [X|J]FS codes to add the The XFS component is incorrect, we're already doing this elsewhere (over in fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_bhv.c), so please drop this last part from your patch... diff -Naur

Re: [PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Bellon
Nathan Scott wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:03:02PM -0700, Mark Bellon wrote: The attached patchs modify the EXT[2|3] and [X|J]FS codes to add the The XFS component is incorrect, we're already doing this elsewhere (over in fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_bhv.c), so please drop this last part

Re: [PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Bellon
If /etc/mtab is a regular file all of the mount options (of a file system) are written to /etc/mtab by the mount command. The quota tools look there for the quota strings for their operation. If, however, /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts (a good thing in some environments) the tools

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Well if you want to go this way I can just drop the TIF_FREEZE stuff and use the patches-relative-to-mainline. I would appreciate that.\ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Mark Bellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If /etc/mtab is a regular file all of the mount options (of a file system) are written to /etc/mtab by the mount command. The quota tools look there for the quota strings for their operation. If, however, /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts (a

Re: [PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Bellon
Andrew Morton wrote: Mark Bellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If /etc/mtab is a regular file all of the mount options (of a file system) are written to /etc/mtab by the mount command. The quota tools look there for the quota strings for their operation. If, however, /etc/mtab is a symlink to

io scheduler silly question perhaps..

2005-07-28 Thread Dave Airlie
I have an embedded system which has two read-only flash devices (one a PIO ATA flash disk, and one MDMA capable flash) As I'm doing no writing in this system and most of my reads are sequential (streaming movies or images) would my choice of io scheduler be very important? Regards, Dave. --

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2/mm1 breaks DRI

2005-07-28 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 17:58, Ed Tomlinson wrote: I also use 2.6.13-rc3-mm1.  Will try with a previous version an report to lkml if it works. I just tried 13-rc2-mm1 and dri is working again. Its reported to also work with 13-rc3. Hmm no idea what could have

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:22:25 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Breaks Toshiba laptop: hard lockup -- what is on screen is same as working dmesg up to point: host/uhci.c: detected 2 port Same .config as for 2.4.31-hf3 or 2.4.32-pre1 http://scatter.mine.nu/test/linux-2.4/tosh/

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2/mm1 breaks DRI

2005-07-28 Thread Dave Airlie
Hmm no idea what could have broken it, I'm at OLS and don't have any DRI capable machine here yet.. so it'll be a while before I get to take a look at it .. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if some of the new mapping code might have some issues.. Still happens with mm2. And mm3

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005, Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/uhci.c b/drivers/usb/host/uhci.c --- a/drivers/usb/host/uhci.c +++ b/drivers/usb/host/uhci.c @@ -2924,7 +2924,7 @@ static int alloc_uhci(struct pci_dev *de } /* Only

Re: [PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Bellon
Mark Bellon wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Mark Bellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If /etc/mtab is a regular file all of the mount options (of a file system) are written to /etc/mtab by the mount command. The quota tools look there for the quota strings for their operation. If, however,

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 question

2005-07-28 Thread AstralStorm
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:42:38 +0200 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm surprised that you are that much concerned about compile errors when using a kernel that might regularly exchange the contents of /dev/hda and /dev/null . These bugs don't happen too often in reality. Just please

Re: io scheduler silly question perhaps..

2005-07-28 Thread Nate Diller
Try benchmarking Anticipatory or Deadline against Noop, preferably with your actual workload. Noop is probably what you want, since there is not much use in avoiding large seeks. It could be though that request merging, which the non-noop schedulers all perform, willl cause Noop to lose. I

Re: Re: Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-07-28 Thread Rajesh Shah
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:45:49PM +0900, Rajat Jain wrote: Okay. I'm sorry but I'm not very clear with this. I'm just putting down here my understanding. So basically we have two mutually EXCLUSIVE hotplug drivers I can use for PCI Express: A hotplug slot can be controlled only by a single

PROPOSTA PARA DIVULGAÇÃO DE EMPRESA

2005-07-28 Thread expansao_infor
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Re: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Chen, Kenneth W wrote: Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:35 PM Wake balancing provides an opportunity to provide some input bias into the load balancer. For example, if you started 100 pairs of tasks which communicate through a pipe. On a 2 CPU system without wake balancing,

RE: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:25 PM Well pipes are just an example. It could be any type of communication. What's more, even the synchronous wakeup uses the wake balancing path (although that could be modified to only do wake balancing for synch wakeups, I'd have to be

Re: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Chen, Kenneth W wrote: Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:25 PM Well pipes are just an example. It could be any type of communication. What's more, even the synchronous wakeup uses the wake balancing path (although that could be modified to only do wake balancing for synch

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:31:58 -0700, George Anzinger george@mvista.com wrote: I have been doing some work on kgdb to pull a few of it fingers out of various places in the kernel. This is the final location where we have a kgdb intercept not covered by a notify. I like the idea, but the hook

FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

2005-07-28 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
Hi John Couple of months ago Joe Korty sent the attached proposal for a new interface and I was wondering if you could comment on it. The main user of this new inteface is to allow system calls to get time specified in an absolute form (as most of POSIX states) and thus avoid extra time

RE: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:46 PM I'd like to try making them less aggressive first if possible. Well, that's exactly what I'm trying to do: make them not aggressive at all by not performing any load balance :-) The workload gets maximum benefit with zero aggressiveness. -

Re: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Chen, Kenneth W wrote: Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:46 PM I'd like to try making them less aggressive first if possible. Well, that's exactly what I'm trying to do: make them not aggressive at all by not performing any load balance :-) The workload gets maximum benefit

Time Flies (Twice as Fast)

2005-07-28 Thread Kurt Wall
Hola, I have an eMachines T6212 Opteron system on which the system clock seems to run at ~twice the speed of the wall clock. The main board is an ASUS K8 of some description with at ATI SB400 southbridge and an ATI RS480 northbridge. Kernel version is 2.6.12.3. If I disable ACPI, the clock slows

[PATCH] remove i386 dynamic ticks ifdefs

2005-07-28 Thread Con Kolivas
Hi Tony I assume you're maintaining the dyn tick patches for i386 posted on the muru website as your email is listed there. I thought you might be interested in this patch for dyn-ticks which removes most of the #ifdefs out of common code paths as per linux kernel style and moves more code

Re: [ALSA PATCH] 1.0.9b+

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 28 Jul 2005 18:25, Andrew Morton wrote: Jaroslav Kysela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus, please do an update from: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa.git ... 65 files changed, 5059

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 acpi compile problems

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Florian Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i get this warnings when compiling: CC drivers/acpi/utilities/utalloc.o drivers/acpi/utilities/utalloc.c: In function `acpi_ut_create_caches': drivers/acpi/utilities/utalloc.c:107: warning: passing arg 3 of `acpi_ut_create_list' from

Not boot with kernel 2.6.13-rc4 in emachines

2005-07-28 Thread Jesus Delgado
Hi all: Im try the tests with kernel 2.6.13-rc4, compile ok, boot when reboot the system not boot, try disable vga, acpi=off, etc, both not boot any more. Use FC4, with kernel all series 2.6.12.xxx working and boot OK. Any idea? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: include-linux-blkdevh-extern-inline-static-inline.patch added to -mm tree

2005-07-28 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
On 7/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patch titled include/linux/blkdev.h: extern inline - static inline has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is include-linux-blkdevh-extern-inline-static-inline.patch ... From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: sync_tsc fix the race (so we can boot)

2005-07-28 Thread Eric W. Biederman
yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have some problem with this patch. YH On 7/28/05, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean solve the timing problem for 2 way dual core or 4 way single core above? As best as I can determine the problem is possible any time you have more than 2 cpus (from

[ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.24

2005-07-28 Thread Con Kolivas
Interbench is a Linux Kernel Interactivity Benchmark. Direct download: http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/interbench/interbench-0.24.tar.bz2 Web: http://interbench.kolivas.org Changes: 3 new loads were added: Gaming benchmark: This simulates an unlocked frame rate cpu intensive 3d gaming environment.

Re: [PATCH 0/23] reboot-fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! So unless you are really ambitious I'd like to take device_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) out of the reboot path for 2.6.13, put in -mm where people can bang on it for a bit and see that it is coming and delay the merge with the stable branch until the bugs

Re: [PATCH 0/23] reboot-fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I always thought that device_shutdown is different phase -- the one with interrupts disabled... At the end of device_shutdown interrupts are disabled because we shutdown the interrupt controllers. I don't think we have a phase where the interrupts are

Re: [PATCH] kdump: Save parameter segment in protected mode (x86)

2005-07-28 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ack. This is a simple fix to a very practical problem, for using the kernel from a reserved area of memory. Vivek Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: o With introduction of kexec as boot-loader, the assumption that parameter segment will always be loaded at lower address than kernel and will

Re: [2.6 patch] net: Spelling mistakes threshoulds - thresholds

2005-07-28 Thread David S. Miller
From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:04:10 +0200 Just simple spelling mistake fixes. From: aruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-Off-By: Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] The include/net/tcp.h part of this patch no longer

Syncing single filesystem (slow USB writing)

2005-07-28 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Mandrake always mounted USB sticks with sync option; it was effectively noop except for a patch that implemented limited dsync semantic. Now, when full sync support for FATis in kernel, moutning with sync became real pain. Writing speed dropped from 3MB/s to 30KB/s in my case (and I am not

Re: 2.6.13-rc3: swsusp works (TP 600X)

2005-07-28 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
So, in short, problem is that if you leave prism54 card in, even with module removed, swsusp hangs, right? Right, in some circumstances. To narrow them down I spent many hours rebooting into combinations of runlevels and loaded modules. It is reproducible even in single-user mode. The

Re: Syncing single filesystem (slow USB writing)

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrey Borzenkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake always mounted USB sticks with sync option; it was effectively noop except for a patch that implemented limited dsync semantic. Now, when full sync support for FATis in kernel, moutning with sync became real pain. Writing speed dropped

Re: Linux 2.6.13-rc4 (snd-cs46xx)

2005-07-28 Thread Cal Peake
Hi, Getting this nastiness when probing snd-cs46xx: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000a75a8 printing eip: c01afe52 *pde = Oops: [#1] Modules linked in: snd_cs46xx gameport snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore

2.6.8 - 2.6.11 (+ata-dev patch) -- HDD is always on

2005-07-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
I've been running debian stable with 2.6.8 kernel but due to recent failure of the SATA harddrive I've decided to upgrade to 2.6.11 + libata patch (2.6.11-libata-dev1.patch.gz) and recent smartmontools After everything worked out and I decided to rest in piece but I've found that HDD LED light

Re: Syncing single filesystem (slow USB writing)

2005-07-28 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
On Friday 29 July 2005 07:50, Andrew Morton wrote: Andrey Borzenkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake always mounted USB sticks with sync option; it was effectively noop except for a patch that implemented limited dsync semantic. Now, when full sync support for FATis in kernel, moutning

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread George Anzinger
Keith Owens wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:31:58 -0700, George Anzinger george@mvista.com wrote: I have been doing some work on kgdb to pull a few of it fingers out of various places in the kernel. This is the final location where we have a kgdb intercept not covered by a notify. I like

Re: 2.6.8 - 2.6.11 (+ata-dev patch) -- HDD is always on

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: I've been running debian stable with 2.6.8 kernel but due to recent failure of the SATA harddrive I've decided to upgrade to 2.6.11 + libata patch (2.6.11-libata-dev1.patch.gz) and recent smartmontools After everything worked out and I decided to rest in piece but I've

Re: 2.6.13-rc3: swsusp works (TP 600X)

2005-07-28 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Perhaps the patch from Daniel Ritz to free the yenta IRQ on suspend (attached) will help? Alas, when I went to apply it, patch said it was already there, and sure enough 2.6.13-rc3-mm2 does have it. One approach is to find out why PCMCIA cannot remove the socket power when using cardctl eject

Re: Linux 2.6.13-rc4 (snd-cs46xx)

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Cal Peake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Getting this nastiness when probing snd-cs46xx: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000a75a8 ... EIP is at sub_alloc+0x42/0x170 ... [c01afff8] idr_get_new_above_int+0x78/0x120 [c01b010f] idr_get_new+0x1f/0x50 [c017d409]

Re: include-linux-blkdevh-extern-inline-static-inline.patch added to -mm tree

2005-07-28 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
On 7/29/05, Coywolf Qi Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patch titled include/linux/blkdev.h: extern inline - static inline has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is

Re: 2.6.12-rc6-mm1

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Dominik Karall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2005 13:29, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc6/2. 6.12-rc6-mm1/ After looking in my dmesg output today, I saw following error with 2.6.12-rc6-mm1, maybe it's usefull to

[RFC][PATCH] libata ATAPI alignment

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
So, one thing that's terribly ugly about SATA ATAPI is that we need to pad DMA transfers to the next 32-bit boundary, if the length is not evenly divisible by 4. Messing with the scatterlist to accomplish this is terribly ugly no matter how you slice it. One way would be to create my own

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:16:56 -0700, George Anzinger george@mvista.com wrote: Keith Owens wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:31:58 -0700, George Anzinger george@mvista.com wrote: I have been doing some work on kgdb to pull a few of it fingers out of various places in the kernel. This is the

Re: 2.6.12 hangs on boot

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Alexander Y. Fomichev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G' day 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 6000 rsp 8100023dbf58 Initializing CPU#2 (

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had though that too, but it does not allow recovery (i.e. lets reset the watchdog and try again). die_nmi() returns to nmi_watchdog_tick(), nmi_watchdog_tick does the reset and continues. Patch below. Hmm.. just looked at traps.c. Seems

NLS for HFS and mount tool.

2005-07-28 Thread Pavel Fedin
I've got no reply so i resend this letter. Roman, i'd like to finish the work and would like to ask you what is wrong with your version of the NLS support for MacHFS. I expected it to appear in v 2.6.12 but there's no it. I would like to proceed basing on it if you insist. Also i would like

Re: isa0060/serio0 problems -WAS- Re: Asus MB and 2.6.12 Problems

2005-07-28 Thread Michael Krufky
Andrew Morton wrote: Michael Krufky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am cc'ing your message to Vojtech Pavlik, the INPUT DRIVERS kernel maintainer. Vojtech, I figured these should be sent to you. If I am wrong, please redirect them to the correct person / list and let us know. Thank you.

Re: Time Flies (Twice as Fast)

2005-07-28 Thread Olivier Fourdan
Kurt Did you try with the no_timer_check boot option? HTH Olivier. On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 22:03 -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: Hola, I have an eMachines T6212 Opteron system on which the system clock seems to run at ~twice the speed of the wall clock. The main board is an ASUS K8 of some

Re: isa0060/serio0 problems -WAS- Re: Asus MB and 2.6.12 Problems

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Michael Krufky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sadly, I must report that yes, the problem still intermittently occurs in 2.6.13-rc4 :-( I'm the one that tested on the Shuttle FT61 Motherboard. Never has a problem in windows and never in 2.6.11 and earlier. I first noticed this problem

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Martin J. Bligh
- There's a pretty large x86_64 update here which naughty maintainer wants in 2.6.13. Extra testing, please. Is still regressed as of 2.6.12 for me, at least. Crashes in TSC sync. Talked to Andi about it at OLS, but then drank too much to remember the conclusion ... however, it's still

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