Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 07 Aug 2005 12:36, christos gentsis wrote: [snip] > > > > I searched up google a bit and recieved some warnings about acpi causing > > problems, so I disabled that, but was still unsucessful in getting that > > to work. Please let me know if any other information is required. > >

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 13:36 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Erick Turnquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, I'm running an Athlon64 X2 4400+ (a dual core model) with an > > nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra on a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard and > > getting nasty messages like these in my dmesg: > >

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1

2005-08-07 Thread Avuton Olrich
On 8/7/05, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc5/2.6.13-rc5-mm1/ I probably don't need/want phy stuff anyhow, but when I tried it: Problem: drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_start_machine': : undefined reference to

Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. There are other fixes too, a number of them reverting (at least for now) patches that people had problems

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Erick Turnquist
> Some BIOSes do not lock SMM, and you *could* turn it off at the chipset > level. I don't see anything about SMM in my BIOS configuration even with the advanced options enabled... Turning it off at the chipset level sounds like a hardware hack - is it? The gettimeofday patch for 2.6.13-rc3

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: any update on the pcmcia bug blocking Audigy2 notebook sound card driver development

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:43 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Raymond Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I remember there's a kernel pcmcia bug preventing the development for > > the Audigy2 pcmcia notebook sound card driver. > > > > See > >

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: iptables DROP crashes the computer

2005-08-07 Thread Patrick McHardy
Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:12:00PM +0200, Espen Fjellvær Olsen wrote: > > >>After execing "iptables -A INPUT -j DROP" my computer crashes hard. It >>dosent hang immediately, but after a couple of seconds. >>The machine is an amd64, running a clean x86_64 environment. >>uname

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates "is deprecated" noise

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--"Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 11:07:59 -0700): > I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays: > > drivers/serial/8250.c:2651: warning: `register_serial' is deprecated > (declared at drivers/serial/8250.c:2607) > > Which is just:

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates "is deprecated" noise

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:07:59AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays: > > drivers/serial/8250.c:2651: warning: `register_serial' is deprecated > (declared at drivers/serial/8250.c:2607) > > Which is just: "EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_serial);" > > Sorry,

EXPORT_SYMBOL generates "is deprecated" noise

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays: drivers/serial/8250.c:2651: warning: `register_serial' is deprecated (declared at drivers/serial/8250.c:2607) Which is just: "EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_serial);" Sorry, but that's just compile-time noise, not anything useful. Warning on real usages

Re: Fw: Re: Elitegroup K7S5A + usb_storage problem

2005-08-07 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Alan, > > no. the stick doesn't have a write protection switch. > Once when i tried to copy a file to the mp3 player i got a new file there on > remount, > but it consisted of incorrect data. (so writing seemed to be possible and > just went

Re: Oops in 2.6.13-rc5-git-current (0d317fb72fe3cf0f611608cf3a3015bbe6cd2a66)

2005-08-07 Thread Ryan Anderson
(Snipping the oops down a bit in size) On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:08:05PM +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 11:56:30PM -0400 Ryan Anderson wrote: > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b > > EIP is at inotify_inode_queue_event+0x55/0x150 > >

VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise)

2005-08-07 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Hello, In january of this year I mentioned a problem with the Linux kernel driver for VIA Rhine ethernet chips. (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/15/47) In the mean time this bug was reproduced quite a number of times on my Fedora Core 3 (then)/4 (now) box (a VIA CL6000). An alternative driver by

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Tim Hockin
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 01:36:01PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Erick Turnquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, I'm running an Athlon64 X2 4400+ (a dual core model) with an > > nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra on a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard and > > getting nasty messages like these in my

Re: any update on the pcmcia bug blocking Audigy2 notebook sound card driver development

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Raymond Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I remember there's a kernel pcmcia bug preventing the development for > the Audigy2 pcmcia notebook sound card driver. > > See > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Creative_Labs#matrix > > Is there any new

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: iptables DROP crashes the computer

2005-08-07 Thread Espen Fjellvær Olsen
On 07/08/05, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:12:00PM +0200, Espen Fjellvær Olsen wrote: > > > After execing "iptables -A INPUT -j DROP" my computer crashes hard. It > > dosent hang immediately, but after a couple of seconds. > > The machine is an amd64, running

Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Aug 7, 2005, at 03:51:07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Ah ! Interesting... I don't see why PREEMPT would affect radeonfb > > though ... Can you try something like wrapper radeon_write_mode() with > > preempt_disable()/preempt_enable() and tell me

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: oops when starting nscd on AMD64

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get the following Oops after trying to start nscd from YaST on an > Athlon64-based box > (compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y): > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0008 RIP: > {kmem_cache_alloc+232} > PGD

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: iptables DROP crashes the computer

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:12:00PM +0200, Espen Fjellvær Olsen wrote: > After execing "iptables -A INPUT -j DROP" my computer crashes hard. It > dosent hang immediately, but after a couple of seconds. > The machine is an amd64, running a clean x86_64 environment. > uname -a: Linux gentoo

Re: assertion (cnt <= tp->packets_out) failed

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
John Bäckstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone asked if I could try to trigger this assertion again, and I'm > afraid I probably cannot, I didnt do anything special at the time. But > I've got something even better for you all, got a BUG from something > tcp-related. Mind you, I am

2.6.13-rc4-mm1: iptables DROP crashes the computer

2005-08-07 Thread Espen Fjellvær Olsen
After execing "iptables -A INPUT -j DROP" my computer crashes hard. It dosent hang immediately, but after a couple of seconds. The machine is an amd64, running a clean x86_64 environment. uname -a: Linux gentoo 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 4 01:01:44 CEST 2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64

Re: Oops in 2.6.13-rc5-git-current (0d317fb72fe3cf0f611608cf3a3015bbe6cd2a66)

2005-08-07 Thread Alexander Nyberg
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 11:56:30PM -0400 Ryan Anderson wrote: > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b > printing eip: > c0188d15 > *pde = > Oops: [#1] > PREEMPT > Modules linked in: ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async ppp_generic slhc radeon > esp6 ah6

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Erick Turnquist
> It's most likely bad SMM code in the BIOS that blocks the CPU too long > and is triggered in idle. Might a BIOS flash help, or is this something that's there to stay? > No way to fix this, but you can work around it with very new kernels > by compiling with a lower HZ than 1000. Actually, it

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-07 Thread Danny ter Haar
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2.6.13-rc5 seemed to kill a scsi disk (sdb) for me, where 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 >> have no problems with the same disk. Sort of same with me: 2.6.12-mm1 runs for _weeks_ where others keep crashing: >The latest -git

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5

2005-08-07 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:12:21PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > Respin of the dynamic ticks patch for i386 by Tony Lindgen and Tuukka > Tikkanen > with further code cleanups. Are were there yet? Con, I am afraid until SMP correctness is resolved, then this is not in a position to go in

Re: [PATCH] tpm_infineon: Bugfix in PNPACPI-handling

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Marcel Selhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch corrects the PNP-handling inside the tpm-driver > and some minor coding style bugs. But the patch adds lots of new coding style bugs! > ... > @@ -356,24 +356,26 @@ static const struct pnp_device_id tpm_pn > {"IFX0102", 0}, >

DMA problem with kernel >2.6.10

2005-08-07 Thread andrea gelmini
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out the reason of my laptop problem. I beg your help to find the right way to debug it (I mean, I don't want to flood the mailing list with useless details, and so on). Well, let's try... Hardware: Toshiba

2.6.13-rc5-mm1: oops when starting nscd on AMD64

2005-08-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, I get the following Oops after trying to start nscd from YaST on an Athlon64-based box (compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y): Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0008 RIP: {kmem_cache_alloc+232} PGD 1501a067 PUD 1501b067 PMD 0 Oops: [1] PREEMPT CPU 0

Re: assertion (cnt <= tp->packets_out) failed

2005-08-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
Heikki Orsila wrote: > There were big changes in tcp_output.c between rc1 and rc2, and the > bug is triggered when using e1000 with rc2 or later. And because the > bug does not happen on skge (new sk98 driver) it makes me guess it's a > race condition of sorts.. I am surprised this bug wasn't

Re: assertion (cnt <= tp->packets_out) failed

2005-08-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hang on a second, the original poster mentioned rc5. Is this really > pristine rc5 with the one netpoll patch? If so then it can't be the > patches we're talking about because they only went in days later. I produced a similar panic on rc2 and later (which

Re: [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc < 3.2

2005-08-07 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Monday 01 August 2005 01:36, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 00:26:07 +0200 > > > - my impression is that the older compilers are only rarely > > used, so miscompilations of a driver with an old gcc might > > not be detected for a

Re: assertion (cnt <= tp->packets_out) failed

2005-08-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
David S. Miller wrote: > I suspect this is a side effect of some changes Herbert Xu and > myself did to fix some other bugs. I think I crossed this bug independently today. I did some testing, and got kernel panics when uploading files with ftp on a gigabit lan. The error happens always at

Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> I'm having a similar issue with my shiny new 17" Powerbook G4. The > radeon chip works fine with framebuffer in 2.6.12.4 _with_ PREEMPT, > but not in 2.6.13-rc5 _with_ PREEMPT (configs are virtually identical). > I'll try your idea this afternoon when I get the chance. Note that PREEMPT is

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 02:29:16PM +, Parag Warudkar wrote: > > No way to fix this, but you can work around it with very new kernels > > by compiling with a lower HZ than 1000. > > John Stultz's timeofday patches seem to fix this lost ticks issue. You might > want to try them. > > (I too,

[-mm patch] drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c: fix compilation

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 01:42:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: >... > git-netdev-upstream.patch >... > Subsystem trees >... gcc 4.0 correctly rejects this code: <-- snip --> ... CC drivers/net/phy/phy_device.o drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c:659:

Re: [PATCH] 6700/6702PXH quirk

2005-08-07 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Saturday 06 August 2005 18:57, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 09:50:13AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:34:55PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > FWIW, compilers generate AWFUL code for bitfields. Bitfields are > > > really tough to do optimally,

any update on the pcmcia bug blocking Audigy2 notebook sound card driver development

2005-08-07 Thread Raymond Lai
Hi all, I remember there's a kernel pcmcia bug preventing the development for the Audigy2 pcmcia notebook sound card driver. See http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Creative_Labs#matrix Is there any new updates on the situation? Has the bug been fixed? or anyone

[-mm patch] more vr4181 removal

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 01:42:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: >... > +mips-remove-vr4181-support.patch >... > MIPS stuff >... Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/mips/Kconfig| 12 +--- arch/mips/Makefile

Re: Fw: Re: Elitegroup K7S5A + usb_storage problem

2005-08-07 Thread martin . maurer
Hi Alan, no. the stick doesn't have a write protection switch. Once when i tried to copy a file to the mp3 player i got a new file there on remount, but it consisted of incorrect data. (so writing seemed to be possible and just went wrong) (in that case the fat seemed to be damaged after i had

Re: Fw: Re: Elitegroup K7S5A + usb_storage problem

2005-08-07 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Martin Maurer wrote: > Hi Pete, > > when using ub with your patch i get a lot further: > the device is detected and uba+uba1 entries appear. > I can mount the device correctly. > Copying the files down and comparing them with the originals gives correct > results. > > but:

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Parag Warudkar
> No way to fix this, but you can work around it with very new kernels > by compiling with a lower HZ than 1000. John Stultz's timeofday patches seem to fix this lost ticks issue. You might want to try them. (I too, routinely get "lost ticks - rip is at acpi_processor_idle" messages which

RE: As of 2.6.13-rc1 Fusion-MPT very slow

2005-08-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 05:59 +, Holger Kiehl wrote: > Thanks, removing those it compiles fine. This patch also solves my problem, > here the output of dmesg: Well ... the transport class was supposed to help diagnose the problem rather than fix it. However, what it shows is that the original

Re: [patch] fix ucb1x00 support on collie

2005-08-07 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 04:42:45PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 03:46:17PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Collie is slightly strange; it does not seem to have proper ucb1x00 > > ID. With this patch, basic ucb support seems to work and I can get > > interrupts from battery.

Re: 2.6.11-rc5 and 2.6.12: cannot transmit anything - more info

2005-08-07 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Thursday 04 August 2005 23:45, Tommy Christensen wrote: > Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As reported earlier, sometimes my home box don't want > > to send anything. > > > > # ip r > > 1.1.5.5 dev tun0 proto kernel scope link src 1.1.5.6 > > 1.1.4.0/24 dev if proto kernel scope

Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 7, 2005, at 03:51:07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 19:38 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 00:03 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: My CRT is out of sync after radeonfb from 2.6.13-rc5 is initialized.

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-08-07 Thread Richard Purdie
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 08:17 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > > We know the the failure case can be identified by the > > cmpxchg_fail_flag_update condition being met. Can you provide me with a > > patch to dump useful debugging information when

[PATCH] mips: moreover remove vr4181

2005-08-07 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
Hi, We also need this patch for removing mips vr4181. Please apply. Yoichi Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urN -X dontdiff mm1-orig/arch/mips/Makefile mm1/arch/mips/Makefile --- mm1-orig/arch/mips/Makefile 2005-08-07 22:15:17.0 +0900 +++ mm1/arch/mips/Makefile

Re: assertion (cnt <= tp->packets_out) failed

2005-08-07 Thread John Bäckstrand
Someone asked if I could try to trigger this assertion again, and I'm afraid I probably cannot, I didnt do anything special at the time. But I've got something even better for you all, got a BUG from something tcp-related. Mind you, I am trying to find a possibly hardware-related issue here,

Re: [patch] fix warning in sa1100fb.c

2005-08-07 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 04:35:51PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Fix compile-time warning in sa1100fb.c I think it makes sense to change this to an inline function. Thanks for pointing this out. -- Russell King Linux kernel2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6

FYI: device_suspend(...) in kernel_power_off().

2005-08-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Early in the 2.6.13 process my kexec related patches were introduced into the reboot path, and under the rule you touch it you fix it it I have been involved in tracking quite a few regressions on the reboot path. Recently with Benjamin Herrenschmidt's removal of device_suppend(PMSG_SUPPEND)

[patch resend] w100fb: Update corgi platform code to match new driver

2005-08-07 Thread Richard Purdie
This patch moves the platform specific Sharp SL-C7x0 LCD code from the w100fb driver into a more appropriate place and updates the Corgi code to match the new w100fb driver. It also updates the corgi touchscreen code to match the new simplified interface available from w100fb. Signed-off-by:

[PATCH] net/ipv4 debug cleanup, kernel 2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
Here's a small patch to cleanup NETDEBUG() use in net/ipv4/ for Linux kernel 2.6.13-rc5. Also weird use of indentation is changed in some places. Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -urp linux-2.6.13-rc5-org/net/ipv4/icmp.c linux-2.6.13-rc5/net/ipv4/icmp.c ---

[PATCH] x86_64 Avoid some atomic operations during address space destruction

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
This turned out to be a huge win on 32-bit i386 in PAE mode, but it is likely not as significant on x86_64; I don't know because I haven't actually measured the cost. I don't have 64-bit hardware that I have the luxury of rebooting right now, so this patch is untested, but if someone wants to

Re: assertion (cnt <= tp->packets_out) failed

2005-08-07 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 02:06:53PM +0200, John B?ckstrand wrote: > > Yes, I have no other patches in, so if it was not in -RC5, I was not > running it. OK having looked at it briefly I have a hunch that it may be the fackets_out issue (when the effective MSS is reduced tcp_tso_acked may

[PATCH] tpm_infineon: Bugfix in PNPACPI-handling

2005-08-07 Thread Marcel Selhorst
Dear all, Changelog: This patch corrects the PNP-handling inside the tpm-driver and some minor coding style bugs. Note: the pci-device and pnp-device mixture is currently necessary, since the used "tpm"-interface requires a pci-dev in order to register the driver. This will be fixed within the

Re: [PATCH] ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU avoids dead code in __do_IRQ()

2005-08-07 Thread Karsten Wiese
Am Sonntag, 7. August 2005 13:07 schrieb Ingo Oeser: > Last argument: Many kernel developers -- including Linus -- > don't like "#if" in C files and prefer them in headers. > Their reasons might be similiar to my own. What about writing if(CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU(desc->status)) {

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread christos gentsis
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 16:02 +0900, Chris White wrote: > [Pre Note: please CC me all responses, thanks] > > Currently, I have a Logitech Quickcam Express webcamera. Unfortunately, it > seems to have issues getting assigned an address. I quote the following from > dmesg: > > usb 1-1.1: new

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Andi Kleen
Erick Turnquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I'm running an Athlon64 X2 4400+ (a dual core model) with an > nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra on a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard and > getting nasty messages like these in my dmesg: > > warning: many lost ticks. > Your time source seems to be

Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

2005-08-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-08-03 at 16:33 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > http://redhat.com/~teigland/gfs2/20050801/gfs2-full.patch > > http://redhat.com/~teigland/gfs2/20050801/broken-out/ > > I would suggest to not merge this before not all the code has not been > reviewed by some experienced linux developer

Re: overcommit verses MAP_NORESERVE

2005-08-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-08-06 at 20:52 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: > Why does overcommit in mode 2 (OVERCOMMIT_NEVER) explicitly force > MAP_NORESERVE mappings to reserve memory? > > My understanding is that MAP_NORESERVE is a way for apps to state that > they are aware that the memory allocated may not

Re: Getting rid of SHMMAX/SHMALL ?

2005-08-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-08-04 at 15:48 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Matti Aarnio wrote: > > > > SHM resources are non-swappable, thus I would not by default > > let user programs go and allocate very much SHM spaces at all. > > No, SHM resources are swappable. Large limits as oracle

Re: [PATCH] ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU avoids dead code in __do_IRQ()

2005-08-07 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi Karsten, On Sunday 07 August 2005 12:25, Karsten Wiese wrote: > With my proposal the > #if defined(ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU) > > #endif > lets readers of __do_IRQ() immediately grasp: > "this block might not be compiled / depends an ARCH" > And you'll get compile error's

Re: [PATCH] 5/8 Move descriptor table management into the sub-arch layer

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
Chris Wright wrote: * Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This change encapsulates descriptor and task register management. These will need some merging together, will take a stab tomorrow. --- linux-2.6.12-xen0-arch.orig/include/asm-i386/desc.h +++

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Move privileged processor operations to the subarch layer

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
Chris Wright wrote: * Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i386 Transparent Paravirtualization Subarch Patch #2 This change encapsulates CPUID and debug register accessors and moves them into the sub-architecture layer. This one looks to be a superset of Xen version: @@

Re: [PATCH] 8/8 Create MMU 2/3 level accessors in the sub-arch layer (i386)

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
Andrew Morton wrote: Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, I said ugly ones specificly. There's been some nice previous ones, >but most in this series (all the move of stuff to subarches) are rather >horrible and lack lots of explanation. > > All of my previous

Re: [RFC][PATCH] i386: Per node IDT

2005-08-07 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > Please note that entry.S:BUILD_INTERRUPT() also does this trick: > > pushl $nr-256; > > > > so it should be changed as well. > > I was making these changes and noticed that those were for the various SMP >

Re: [PATCH] ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU avoids dead code in __do_IRQ()

2005-08-07 Thread Karsten Wiese
Am Samstag, 6. August 2005 23:28 schrieb Ingo Oeser: > Hi Karsten, > > On Saturday 06 August 2005 18:14, Karsten Wiese wrote: > > From: Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > IRQ_PER_CPU is not used by all architectures. > > To avoid dead code generation in __do_IRQ() > > this patch

Re: [openib-general] Re: mthca and LinuxBIOS

2005-08-07 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 09:33:54PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > > ISTR making comments before about the offending patch on linux-pci mailing > > list. Is this the same patch that assumes pci_dev->resource[i] == BAR[i] ? > > I meant the patch assume 1:1 for pci_dev->resource[i] and BAR[i]. >

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-07 Thread Helge Hafting
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:05:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > The two kernels have some config differences. The 2.6.13-rc5 kernel > > has ACPI+CPUFREQ configured, that the 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 doesn't have. > > That's a pretty big difference ;) >

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Ondrej Zary
Chris White wrote: > As far as the host goes, I have the following USB hosts: :00:11.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) :00:11.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) :00:11.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) The first is my builtin Intel USB

2.6.13-rc5-mm1

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc5/2.6.13-rc5-mm1/ (Grab it from http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-rc5-mm1.gz until the kernel.org mirrors catch up) - Added the git-scsi-iscsi.patch tree: iSCSI drivers (James Bottomley) - This kernel

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:11:12 +0900, Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did it work OK under a previous kernel version? If so, which? > > I haven't attempted that, but I'll probably give a 2.6.9/2.4 series > kernel a shot later on tommorow night. Does that thing work with Windows? I

Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 19:38 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 00:03 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > > My CRT is out of sync after radeonfb from 2.6.13-rc5 is initialized. > > > 2.6.12 does not show this behaviour. > > > > I'm

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc5] crc32.c typing error fix

2005-08-07 Thread Dominik Hackl
This patch fixes a typing error in lib/crc32.c which results in incorrect debug output. Signed-off-by: Dominik Hackl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc5.orig/lib/crc32.c 2005-08-07 09:25:00.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc5/lib/crc32.c2005-08-07 09:40:46.0

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Chris White
> Which kernel version? Yes, I was just about to slap myself for fogetting that, it's under greg-kh's 2.6.12.13 git repository sources. > Did it work OK under a previous kernel version? If so, which? I haven't attempted that, but I'll probably give a 2.6.9/2.4 series kernel a shot later on

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Pre Note: please CC me all responses, thanks] > > Currently, I have a Logitech Quickcam Express webcamera. Unfortunately, it > seems to have issues getting assigned an address. I quote the following > from dmesg: > > usb 1-1.1: new full speed USB

Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Chris White
[Pre Note: please CC me all responses, thanks] Currently, I have a Logitech Quickcam Express webcamera. Unfortunately, it seems to have issues getting assigned an address. I quote the following from dmesg: usb 1-1.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11 usb 1-1.1: device

Re: gcapatcch equivalent?

2005-08-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
My gcapatch workalike is git checkout -f mybranch git diff master..HEAD > patch Regards, Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer

2005-08-07 Thread Chris Wright
* H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I would like to strongly request one addition, however: please make it > so that a subarchitecture which is still a hardware architecture doesn't > have to redefine all of these every time. Yep, that's done. As long as the defaults are ok, the

[PATCH] make visual workstation subarch link again

2005-08-07 Thread Tom Duffy
This patch add stubs to allow the visws subarch to link again. Also needs Eric W. Biederman's patch adding machine_emergency_restart() and machine_shutdown() sent earlier today to link properly: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=112335772219837=2 Signed-off-by: Tom Duffy <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 3] sata: restore sg on setup failure

2005-08-07 Thread Tejun Heo
I forgot to restore sg->length on setup failure. This patch adds it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: work/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c === --- work.orig/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c2005-08-07

RE: As of 2.6.13-rc1 Fusion-MPT very slow

2005-08-07 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, James Bottomley wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 21:12 +, Holger Kiehl wrote: drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c:505: error: unknown field â..get_hold_mcsâ.. specified in initializer drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c:505: warning: excess elements in struct initializer

RE: As of 2.6.13-rc1 Fusion-MPT very slow

2005-08-07 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, James Bottomley wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 21:12 +, Holger Kiehl wrote: drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c:505: error: unknown field â..get_hold_mcsâ.. specified in initializer drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c:505: warning: excess elements in struct initializer

Re: [PATCH 3] sata: restore sg on setup failure

2005-08-07 Thread Tejun Heo
I forgot to restore sg-length on setup failure. This patch adds it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: work/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c === --- work.orig/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c2005-08-07

[PATCH] make visual workstation subarch link again

2005-08-07 Thread Tom Duffy
This patch add stubs to allow the visws subarch to link again. Also needs Eric W. Biederman's patch adding machine_emergency_restart() and machine_shutdown() sent earlier today to link properly: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=112335772219837w=2 Signed-off-by: Tom Duffy [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer

2005-08-07 Thread Chris Wright
* H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I would like to strongly request one addition, however: please make it so that a subarchitecture which is still a hardware architecture doesn't have to redefine all of these every time. Yep, that's done. As long as the defaults are ok, the subarch

Re: gcapatcch equivalent?

2005-08-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
My gcapatch workalike is git checkout -f mybranch git diff master..HEAD patch Regards, Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Chris White
[Pre Note: please CC me all responses, thanks] Currently, I have a Logitech Quickcam Express webcamera. Unfortunately, it seems to have issues getting assigned an address. I quote the following from dmesg: usb 1-1.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11 usb 1-1.1: device

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Pre Note: please CC me all responses, thanks] Currently, I have a Logitech Quickcam Express webcamera. Unfortunately, it seems to have issues getting assigned an address. I quote the following from dmesg: usb 1-1.1: new full speed USB device using

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Chris White
Which kernel version? Yes, I was just about to slap myself for fogetting that, it's under greg-kh's 2.6.12.13 git repository sources. Did it work OK under a previous kernel version? If so, which? I haven't attempted that, but I'll probably give a 2.6.9/2.4 series kernel a shot later on

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc5] crc32.c typing error fix

2005-08-07 Thread Dominik Hackl
This patch fixes a typing error in lib/crc32.c which results in incorrect debug output. Signed-off-by: Dominik Hackl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.13-rc5.orig/lib/crc32.c 2005-08-07 09:25:00.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc5/lib/crc32.c2005-08-07 09:40:46.0

Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 19:38 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 00:03 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: My CRT is out of sync after radeonfb from 2.6.13-rc5 is initialized. 2.6.12 does not show this behaviour. I'm out of town

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:11:12 +0900, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did it work OK under a previous kernel version? If so, which? I haven't attempted that, but I'll probably give a 2.6.9/2.4 series kernel a shot later on tommorow night. Does that thing work with Windows? I strongly

2.6.13-rc5-mm1

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc5/2.6.13-rc5-mm1/ (Grab it from http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-rc5-mm1.gz until the kernel.org mirrors catch up) - Added the git-scsi-iscsi.patch tree: iSCSI drivers (James Bottomley) - This kernel

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Ondrej Zary
Chris White wrote: As far as the host goes, I have the following USB hosts: :00:11.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) :00:11.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) :00:11.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) The first is my builtin Intel USB

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-07 Thread Helge Hafting
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:05:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The two kernels have some config differences. The 2.6.13-rc5 kernel has ACPI+CPUFREQ configured, that the 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 doesn't have. That's a pretty big difference ;) Sure.

Re: [openib-general] Re: mthca and LinuxBIOS

2005-08-07 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 09:33:54PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: ISTR making comments before about the offending patch on linux-pci mailing list. Is this the same patch that assumes pci_dev-resource[i] == BAR[i] ? I meant the patch assume 1:1 for pci_dev-resource[i] and BAR[i]. not that

Re: [PATCH] ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU avoids dead code in __do_IRQ()

2005-08-07 Thread Karsten Wiese
Am Samstag, 6. August 2005 23:28 schrieb Ingo Oeser: Hi Karsten, On Saturday 06 August 2005 18:14, Karsten Wiese wrote: From: Karsten Wiese [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRQ_PER_CPU is not used by all architectures. To avoid dead code generation in __do_IRQ() this patch introduces the macro

Re: [RFC][PATCH] i386: Per node IDT

2005-08-07 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Oleg Nesterov wrote: Please note that entry.S:BUILD_INTERRUPT() also does this trick: pushl $nr-256; so it should be changed as well. I was making these changes and noticed that those were for the various SMP interrupts so they are

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Move privileged processor operations to the subarch layer

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
Chris Wright wrote: * Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i386 Transparent Paravirtualization Subarch Patch #2 This change encapsulates CPUID and debug register accessors and moves them into the sub-architecture layer. This one looks to be a superset of Xen version: @@

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